men - hofreps - 1970

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

There is a duty among just men to disobey an unjust law. [More…]
In this country men of high courage are serving gaol sentences because they have disobeyed this law in the belief that it is unjust. [More…]
How many young men are serving 2-year gaol sentences because they refuse to be conscripted to serve in Vietnam. [More…]
What additional number of men who served in (a) Boer War and (b) the First World War would become eligible for benefits under the plan. [More…]
Why is a basic salary of only $107 1 -$1180 per annum paid to qualified New Guinean tradesman when the actual salary and allowance for expatriate tradesmen working in New Guinea is $3660-$3949 per annum for single men, with an additional allowance of $360 per annum for married employees. [More…]
How many young men have (a) failed to register under the National Service Act, (b) been prosecuted for failing to register, (c) been (i) fined and (ii) gaoled for refusing to register and (d) refused to pay a fine imposed. [More…]
I have informed him that my department has been in consultation with the Public Service Board to do whatever it can to have the salaries increased and the conditions improved, lt is a matter for concern, and my department and I are doing ail we can to try to rectify the matter. [More…]
These men have to be trained. [More…]
Will he consider the establishment of an independent public service college, open to all officers of the Commonwealth Public Service, for the purpose of providing a wide range of management training courses, the object of the training being to ensure that, through careful selection for promotion, the senior positions in the Service are ultimately filled by men who are most highly qualified in an administrative and managerial capacity. [More…]
As I indicated when announcing the decision to publish the birthdates drawn in future national service ballots, publication was not previously undertaken because this had been considered contrary to the interests of the men who were affected by the ballots. [More…]
It is, however, clearly in the public interest that the fullest possible information about national service and the arrangements adopted, consistent with security requirements and the interests of the men affected, should be publicly available. [More…]
Will the Minister give similar thought to our young men and women who, through conscience, do not wish to join a trade union or to pay a political levy? [More…]
I should not like this occasion to pass without registering on behalf of my Party, the Australian Country Party, that we wish to join with the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in the expression of deep concern and deep sympathy in respect of those who have lost their lives, those who have suffered, and in particular the families and relatives of the men involved in this tragedy, and at least to have the survivors and dependants understand that all Parties in the Commonwealth Parliament have expressed deep distress and sympathy. [More…]
He in fact does speak for the whole of the Parliament and the people we represent in referring to this tragedy, the most serious that Australia has had in industry for half a century. [More…]
Men will always be enterprising and adventurous. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the fact that national servicemen serving in Papua and New Guinea, Singapore and Malaysia, if injured whilst not on duty, are not entitled to Commonwealth compensation and that some are up for heavy medical and surgical expenses after discharge? [More…]
Will he endeavour to have this position corrected, having regard to trie fact that these men are in such areas’ at the direction of the Army? [More…]
Let me say quite clearly that if an officer had asked a battalion whether the men in the battalion wished to serve in the battalion or did not wish to serve in the battalion and then posted them according to their wishes as opposed to posting them according to the training which they had had, their abilities and the requirements of the Service he would be acting, as I am advised by the Chief of the General Staff, contrary to Army policy. [More…]
Did Lieutenant-Colonel Scott recently ask all members of the battalion, and national servicemen in particular, whether they were willing to serve in Vietnam? [More…]
Did between 60 and 80 of the men indicate unwillingness to serve in Vietnam? [More…]
Have these men been transferred to noncombatant roles in the unit and will not now be going to Vietnam? [More…]
Is it a fact that 50 clerks in the stores section of the Royal Australian Air Force Base at Williamtown went on strike on Thursday, 24th August 1970 over pay claims; if so, will the Minister give an assurance that no disciplinary action and no charges will be brought against these men. [More…]
men have been reposted within Australia in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
How many (a) officers and (b) men have been reposted within Australia in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
Is it a fact that one effect of the Commonwealth’s submissions to the Arbitration Commission on the subject of equal pay has been to produce the result that nursing aides qualify for equal pay because the work is done by both men and women, but that qualified nursing sisters do not qualify for the male wage because their work is regarded as an exclusively female occupation. [More…]
What percentage of men examined for national service in each year since 1965 failed to meet the required medical or psychological standards for Army service. [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…]
In the light of the gratifying and intelligent response of 18, 19 and 20 year old men and women to the opportunity to exercise their right to vote - for the first time in Australia - in Saturday’s elections in Western Australia., can he say when the Government expects to make a decision on giving these people votes in Federal elections? [More…]
In view of the fact that such age groups are those most affected not only by the Federal Government’s defence and foreign policies but also by such policies as recruitment for the Public Service and quotas and fees for higher education, will he give an assurance that such legislation is passed before the next elections for this House? [More…]
Are official records available to show the names and addresses of all men required to register for national service. [More…]
There is a range of official records which include men of national service age though no one set of records comprehends all men. [More…]
Investigations have shown that the great majority of men register at the required time. [More…]
Some others who fail to do so subsequently register eithervoluntarily or when requested to do so by my Department. [More…]
Up to 31st December 1970, 589.635 men have registered for national service and 961 have been fined for failure to register. [More…]
Having said in my earlier speech that I was in favour of the reports of the Public Accounts Committee and this statement being debated at the same time, I wonder whether I might suggest to the previous speakers that if they speak again they may be interested in arguing why the amounts in the statements of the Advance to the Treasurer were in fact included rather than why there were expended. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), himself a former distinguished member of the Public Accounts Committee and perhaps one of the most informed men in this chamber on matters of public finance generally, kept himself within those bounds. [More…]
How many men were balloted in for liability to be examined for national service training in each year since 1965. [More…]
The purpose of the ballot is to determine those registrants who remain liable for service subject to the provisions for exemption or indefinite deferment and to their meeting the standards of fitness for Army service. [More…]
Other men may also be liable for service irrespective of the result of the ballot, viz. [More…]
The statistics below comprehend all men who in the particular period became liable for service. [More…]
and (2) Men who applyfor exemption from the liability to render military service on the grounds of conscientious beliefs they claim to hold may, upon hearing and determination of their application by a court: [More…]
The following table sets out the position with regard to men who have applied for total exemption since the inception of the present national service scheme: [More…]
Estimates vary from a figure of 165,000 (given by Mr H. M. Pritchard of the Economics Department, University of Sydney and contained in a paper read to the 29th International Congress on Alcoholism and Drugs of Dependence held in Sydney, February 1970), to an estimated 258,000 given by the alcoholism clinic, St Vincents Hospital, Melbourne. [More…]
The clinic found that of these approximately 215,000 were men and approximately 43,000 women which would indicate that about 5 per cent of men and about 1 per cent of women in Australia suffer from alcoholism. [More…]
How many (a) men and (b) women are employed in each division of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Is it a fact that Australian military forces are said to be in Vietnam and men are conscripted for service so that there may be free elections in South Vietnam and so that the people of South Vietnam may have the government of their choice? [More…]
If so, is it also a fact that every Australian citizen is entitled to the same rights in the election of his or her government? [More…]
The greatest example of hypocrisy of which I think any group of men would be capable is the operation that honourable members opposite use as regards the pensioners. [More…]
What they do - I was referring to this clinical operation - is to propose an amendment to increase the pension by Si or $2 a week. [More…]
They could make the amount S20 because they know that the amendment will not be carried. [More…]
What do they do after the amendment is defeated? [More…]
They say: ‘This Bob Katter, this so-called advocate for the pensioners, voted against the amendment’. [More…]
This Government does not automatically provide a pension for the wife of a person who is forced into retirement at a particular age. [More…]
I have brought before him cases of migrants who have come to this country on the sponsorship of their children who have migrated here in earlier years and who have married and assumed responsibilities as family men. [More…]
Migrants in this category might come here at the age of 62 years and, after working for 3 years, are forced into retirement. [More…]
What does this Government do for them? [More…]
The Minister and the ‘ Government will do nothing to help them. [More…]
At this particular time in our history the Aus- tralian Government should be endeavouring to promote international relations on a higher plane with all countries, particularly those with whom we have very good trade relations. [More…]
Last week in Canberra there appeared before the court 2 men who had journeyed across from Western Australia last January and had exploded 1 or 2 bombs at a foreign embassy in Canberra, causing extensive damage. [More…]
I would like to mention one or two points. [More…]
I refer tonight to the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) who mentioned what seemed to me to be fictitious points. [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…]
Your Excellency, 1 have the honour, with reference to our conversation yesterday, to confirm the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support, to serve, with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Viet Nam. [More…]
The Opposition rejects national service, but realising its forlorn hope of electoral success has introduced this Bill to provide alternative civilian service and to amend existing provisions relating to conscientious objection. [More…]
Equally, it appears improbable that a civilian alternative would be generally acceptable to men who may refuse to serve. [More…]
Technically the proposals do not meet the fundamental criteria of constitutionality, conformity with international conventions which Australia has ratified, equity in relation to serving men and the need not to undermine the basic purpose of the present national service scheme, which is to provide the Army with the number of men required and, of course, with the range of skills needed. [More…]
Be that as it may, the Government still intends to continue with conscription. [More…]
These 12 young men whom I have named will be threatened with 2 years gaol for their defiance. [More…]
But the Government may use the severity of a 2-year sentence to keep the fear of gaol before young men. [More…]
It is not necessary to continue conscription which disrupts young men’s lives and restricts their freedom. [More…]
I ask the Government not to proceed with convicting these young men and sending them to gaol. [More…]
I ask it to release the 2 young men who are now in gaol. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) who is the responsible Minister under the National Service Act, said in this House the other day that he cannot release these 2 young men, and he put the onus on to the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood). [More…]
But we know the Government can do this; we know that the Prime Minister can; we know that the Cabinet can, and we know that this Parliament can. [More…]
I ask the Government to release these young men and not to proceed with prosecutions which in peace time when this country is not threatened put young men in gaol. [More…]
It is time that the spirit of withdrawing troops from Vietnam was extended to these 2 young men in gaol so that they may return to their homes, not before Christmas but by next week, lt is not difficult to release them from gaol. [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…]
These young men have taken a strong moral position against conscription as such as well as against the Vietnam war. [More…]
I have said before and I say it directly to the Ministers who are here now that the young men whom I know are not pacifists. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the report in The Australian on 6th March 1971 of a claim by Mr R. J. Scammell, Director of the Schutt Flying Academy in Victoria, that the Government was making it difficult for young men from Malaysia and Singapore to train as commercial pilots in Australia because they found it difficult to get student visas to enter Australia. [More…]
If so, can he say whether, of 12 young men in those 2 countries who originally were interested in pilot training, 10 withdrew, one has had his application for a visa rejected, and one is still awaiting a decision on his application for a visa. [More…]
Is the Government acting to discourage young men in Singapore and Malaysia from coming to Australia to train as pilots. [More…]
The estimated additional cost involved in paying age pension free of means test to women over 60 years and men over 65 years of age after the rates proposed in the Social Services Bill (No. [More…]
Before commencing my remarks on the legislation before us, I would like to associate myself with the remarks of the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) in congratulating the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie) on his 25 years of service to this House. [More…]
If my 5 years’ experience with him is any indication I can well understand why he is one of the most respected men in the Opposition. [More…]
I feel it is necessary - this interests you particularly, Mr Deputy Speaker - to refer to some comment which was made by the honourable member for Capricornia (Dr Everingham). [More…]
I make this comment for this reason. [More…]
Since he has reclassified and tabled the letters to and from the Premier of South Vietnam on 29th April 1965 concerning the Australian offer of an infantry battalion of 800 men with some 100 personnel in logistic support to serve with United States forces (Hansard, 18th August 1971, page 230 and 19th August 1971, page 314), will he now reclassify and table the text of the communications about May 1962 concerning the dispatch of a group of Australian military advisers (Hansard, 25th September 1970, page 1754). [More…]
Have steps been taken to preserve by magnetic tape the many other oral historical records of the many ageing Aboriginal men and women who live in the Northern Territory, which would otherwise be lost if not recorded. [More…]
In view of the apparent lack of security at the Williamstown Dockyard and other naval establish ments, which has been mentioned by the Minister, and the fact that new naval ships are under discussion, why does not the Government make a clean sweep of personnel at the Dockyard and employ men who are not security risks? [More…]
If this cannot be done, why should this equipment be produced in Australia? [More…]
Australian working men, even if only to the plaudits of a few of his friends overseas. [More…]
It is not Army practice to charge men suffering from sunburn with having a self inflicted wound. [More…]
Is it the practice of Army authorities to charge men suffering from sunburn with having a self inflicted wound. [More…]
If so, (a) what are the possible penalties involved, (b) how many men have been charged for this offence in the last 12 months, (c) how many have been convicted and (d) what penalty was imposed in each case. [More…]
What assistance is this Government prepared to give in regard to that? [More…]
We on this side of the Houe have not heard Government supporters say any more than what is referred to in the narrow confines of the Bill. [More…]
We have not heard anybody as yet from the Government side - 1 hope and sincerely trust that the Minister for Primary Industry will do so in concluding the debate - spell out something that ought to be done in the long term future of the industry. [More…]
What I am suggesting is that the Minister take advantage of the advice of the experts he mentioned a few moments ago by way of interjection. [More…]
He has the whole of his Department, almost an empire of advisers. [More…]
These men are knowledgable and expert and I only hope that the Government will act on the very good advice that they give from time to time instead of considering that such advice should be used only in the narrowest of political terms, as we have seen in the measure that was the subject of a ministerial statement a while ago in this place. [More…]
If so, has it been made known to him or the Commission that views of these men towards the Australian Labor Party and its policies are well known and much resented. [More…]
The following table shows the numbers of men prosecuted for failure to register since the inception of the scheme. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister a question which refers to yesterday’s unemployment figures which show that more than one in 3 of the unemployed are under 21 years of age - 36,540 in number - and that of that number 9,769 were school leavers who still had not found their first job. [More…]
I ask: Has the Government decided to take any special steps to deal with this situation which is so discouraging to these young men and women and so burdensome to their parents on whom they are still dependent? [More…]
Since our commitment of forces to South Vietnam four servicemen, two Army soldiers and two RAAF officers, have been posted as missing. [More…]
The two Army men have been presumed dead. [More…]
I am of the opinion, rightly or wrongly, that in the past some judgments in the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission have been given by men who themselves, their spouses or other members of their families have been shareholders in an interested party to the award. [More…]
I think the Government should give some consideration to my suggestion. [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…]
They think it is humorous that a lot of men are out of work and prices in all north Australian towns are higher than they should be because goods have to come by road instead ot by ship. [More…]
that these men . [More…]
will have restored to them very quickly wage and salary equity …. We trust that the necessity for this action will not be of long duration and that very quickly what these men are entitled to in terms of work value will quickly and fully be restored to them. [More…]
The papers we are ordering to be printed are the last will and testament of the Treasurer (Mr Snedden). [More…]
These papers record the results of monumental failures and in particular the results of the monumental blunder of last year’s Budget. [More…]
The same Treasurer who has produced the worst unemployment since 1962 and who produced the Budget strategy deliberately designed to create that unemployment asks us now in these papers to accept that his Budget strategy this year is the best that can be devised for this nation. [More…]
Will it get the 112,000 acknowledged unemployed men and women promptly back to work? [More…]
How many additional men who served in (a) the Boer War and (b) World War I would become eligible for benefits under the plan. [More…]
I believe that the 2 problems mentioned by the honourable gentleman are different and each of them requires a different remedy. [More…]
In fact, it was due to the maintenance men belonging to the metal industries going on strike to achieve increased wages. [More…]
I will ensure that this matter is taken up by my colleague, the Minister for National Development, who will let the honourable member have an answer. [More…]
Skilled men are paid the rate for their skill; and as Australia’s expanding economy needs many skills, they get a good rate. [More…]
We have decided to abolish the means test within the next 3 years for age pension eligibility for residentially qualified men and women aged 65 and over. [More…]
I believe that the matter is proceeding satisfactorily and I hope that the men will go back to work soon. [More…]
Each of these men has to answer that charge, particularly the honourable member for Newcastle who has been totally wrong in every statement he has made in this House. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister also note that the Deputy Prime Minister, in a statement in support of his candidate in the electorate of Angas, stated that the Country Party stands for the abolition of the wine tax in its entirety? [More…]
In view of these statements by the 2 men on either side of him will the Prime Minister agree that the wine tax should go? [More…]
What number of (a) indigenous men, (b) expatriate men, (c) indigenous women and (d) expatriate women are (i) sponsored by the Administration at each tertiary institution in Papua New Guinea and (ii) assisted to attend tertiary institutions in Australia. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister any certain information to give this House and the nation in relation to the actual charges laid against these men, the time and manner of their trial, whether the accused were permitted legal representation in their defence, the type and circumstances of their custody, the nature of their interrogation before trial and why the Australian Government was not informed of this event? [More…]
As far as I can tell, that is the position, unless the Prime Minister is not giving this House the information that I feel he would give if he espoused open government. [More…]
April concerning the execution of 3 men holding Australian citizenship? [More…]
Why did he use the term merely ‘in April’ in a Press statement when asked when the Australian Government first knew, rather than the actual date? [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: When did he first learn and how did he learn that Senator Murphy had been informed on 9th April of the intended Yugoslav Government’s statement of 12th April concerning the execution of 3 men holding Australian citizenship? [More…]
Today we are discussing the matter of a number of Australian citizens who have been subjected to arrest and harassment by the Yugoslav Government. [More…]
Included in those citizens are 3 Australians who have been killed by the Yugoslav Government. [More…]
For all we know, and for all the Government has found out, it may well have been judicial murder by the Yugoslav Government. [More…]
These men were tried, not arrested, during the term of the present Government, not the previous Government. [More…]
If so, will he urgently arrange for tradesmen to go in and, with the willing assistance of the Roper River men, erect the houses and prevent further damage to these much needed dwellings. [More…]
If the ship does sail to the zone, can the Minister give an assurance that the men who volunteered to make the trip will be fully protected against the dangers of radiation and its consequences? [More…]
Yet when the Grassy port was mentioned the honourable member said: ‘Oh, that was mine.’ [More…]
Yet they are the guilty men. [More…]
I shall draw the attention of the Minister for Primary Industry to the question and ask him for a more detailed answer in relation to the actual number of men and women employed. [More…]
What was the original justification for paying age pensions to women at 60 and men at 65. [More…]
The Invalid and Old-age Pensions Act 1908 provided for pensions to be paid to both men and women at the age of 65 years. [More…]
It provided also that at a time to be proclaimed, namely, when finances permitted, women were to be granted pensions at the age of 60 years. [More…]
This was implemented by the Fisher Government from 15 November 1910. [More…]
History does not specifically reveal the reason for granting pensions to women five years earlier than men. [More…]
Is the Treasurer aware of reports from Kalgoorlie, which appeared in the ‘West Australian’ of yesterday, 12 September, of the sacking of 30 men by a Kalgoorlie mining company, North Kalgurli Mines Ltd, and the review of development plans by the largest miner on the goldfields, Kalgoorlie-Lake View, both of which actions are said by the companies to be the direct and immediate result of the Treasurer’s Budget decisions affecting gold mining? [More…]
Continuing enquiries have been made through diplomatic and official sources but have failed to produce information about the fate of the missing men. [More…]
There was tremendous Commonwealth and State co-operation, initiated and developed by the honourable member for New England during his most auspicious term as Minister for Primary Industry, between the Commonwealth and other practical men in the Queensland Parliament to ensure that some practical steps were taken to eradicate tuberculosis and brucellosis. [More…]
When the Australian Government allocated funds for sewerage works it took into consideration the pressure on resources of both men and materials. [More…]
Therefore we set a target of $30m for the whole of Australia but we also took into consideration that if both men and materials were available to carry out works at a cost in excess of $30m, more finance would be made available by the Australian Government. [More…]
We will try to meet the target date of 1978 set by the Prime Minister but the State authorities have agreed that probably it will take until 1980 or the early 1980s to achieve our aim because of the pressure on resources, both men and materials. [More…]
This motion attacks the very fundamentals of our society. [More…]
It denies the rights of the small men of this community the opportunity to earn a wage which might be reasonably negotiated according to the provisions of the present Constitution. [More…]
It denies members of this Parliament the opportunity to debate the issue. [More…]
No longer is there to be in the hands of the Government of this country a rationale which relates to a commonsense approach to the ‘business management of Australia. [More…]
Did the Yugoslav Ambassador call on him on 16 August 1973 and advise him that the Yugoslav Government will make available details of the trials in Yugoslavia’ of eight men who held Australian citizenship. [More…]
Let me give one example of these little men they seek to defend. [More…]
A gentleman named Mr McNamee was asked some questions, because he was one of these little men. [More…]
What action has he taken to implement the recommendations of the report of the working party on homeless men and women which he received on 4 July 1973. [More…]
I am pleased that the honourable member for New England dwelt on the members of the present Ministry because later on in this speech I intend to devote a little of my time to the exmembers of the Ministry on the other side of the Parliament. [More…]
Then I will ask for the fair minded judgment of all the people of Australia to see whether the guilty men who sit on the other side are not responsible for the situation in Australia today not the brilliant men who today lead this country from these front benches. [More…]
I would think it would be clear, even to Sir William Dargie, that the present Government has done more in its term of office than preceding governments did in any decade. [More…]
Sir William Dargie was the adviser to preceding governments for 20 years. [More…]
He has been notably disaffected because he has had to give way to other views and to younger men. [More…]
Has the Government decided to give any compensation to men who were jailed for offences under the National Service Act. [More…]
If so, (a) what form did, or will, that compensation take and (b) how many men are involved and for what categories of injury. [More…]
Naturally his request will be fulfilled because when legal men of his great capacity put these matters forward we always like to give them the consideration to which they are entitled. [More…]
Is it a fact that 25 cadets and midshipmen in the Royal Australian Navy had their appointments terminated on 28 September this year? [More…]
Is it true that in 10 years time, when, as the Minister has stated, a threat to Australia’s security could well be imminent, these cadets would have been executive officers in the naval forces but for the termination of their appointments? [More…]
Is it also correct that the Navy has been instructer.1 that its establishment is to be reduced this year by 80 officers and 1,180 men? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the low morale that the actions of this Government have created in the defence forces in general and the Navy in particular? [More…]
I think that the honourable member would like to go back to a situation of conscripting the youth of this country - to a situation where young men who have reached the age of 20 years are selected by means of a ballot with a marble drawn out of a barrel to be conscripted into the armed forces of this country. [More…]
I certainly do not intend to launch an attack upon members of the medical profession, the majority of whom are dedicated men and women for whom I have the highest regard. [More…]
It is unfortunate that, in some areas, some medical practitioners have become party to distorting the Labor Government’s health scheme. [More…]
When will financial and other assistance be provided to homeless men and women. [More…]
What action has been taken on the report of the working party on homeless men and women which he received more than 8 months ago. [More…]
I am advised by the Board that it intends, as part of its monitoring of equality of opportunity for men and women in the Service, to add to its list of regular statistical bulletins one on the employment of women. [More…]
This bulletin, the first of which is expected to be released shortly, will contain a variety of information, including details of Second Division offices occupied by women. [More…]
It is a fact that because of the escalation in costs that has been associated with this project since its inception, including years before this Government took office, there has been an approach to me by the Acting Minister for Conservation, Marine and Aboriginal Affairs, Mr Camm, who is the Minster for Mines and Main Roads in the Queensland Government. [More…]
The honourable member may not know that some months ago the Government made an emergency grant of $300,000 to keep men at work on certain aspects of the completion of the Monduran Dam. [More…]
I can say to the honourable member that the letter from the Queensland Government has been received. [More…]
It is under consideration by the Government. [More…]
Have the men so charged been discharged from the Navy and no other action taken. [More…]
What remedial treatment has been provided for these men while still in the Navy or after discharge. [More…]
We have been responsible in our approach and as responsible men we want to see the immediate flow of funds to the States for urgent road works and we ask those reasonable men on the Opposition side to have the same spirit. [More…]
I also understand that the Board intends as part of its monitoring of equality of opportunity for men and women in the service to add to its list of regular statistical bulletins one on the employment of women. [More…]
This bulletin, the first of which is expected to be released shortly will contain a variety of information including details of second division offices occupied by women. [More…]
1 ) A total of about SO men will be employed. [More…]
-A lot fewer Labor men beacuse the Labor men were even more convinced than the Opposition’s lot that they would hear nothing worth hearing and they did not come in at all. [More…]
Enema by Anthony Lovejoy (b) Below the Navel by King Carol, (c) Sensual Appetite by Pierre Duval, (d) Felicity’s Trip by Jeremiah Stone, (e) Inside Linda Lovelace by Linda Lovelace, (f) Adultery without Men by Ann Harris and (g) The Coming of a Woman by Alistair Hunt. [More…]
Certainly it will not cause a fever of excitement up and down the country, but it is yet another step towards the building up of that international community whereby men seek to settle their arguments in a peaceful way, where arbitrament by force is abandoned, and the conference table and the adjudication of the arbitrator are accepted. [More…]
The industry will supply him with X number of names of good men, true men, all wool growers themselves from around Australia. [More…]
I do not accuse him of lying because I think he is just repeating Cabinet propaganda which has been falsely put about for a malicious purpose and I instance that Senator James McClelland, the new Minister, used this to a friend of mine in King’s Hall and the Press men from Mr Murphy’s office have been saying the same kind of thing - [More…]
Is the Treasurer fully aware of the great social hardship which his policy of unemployment has caused throughout the Australian community? [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…]
-One of the lamentable aspects of a lack of leadership amongst the Federal non-Labor parties is that they have abdicated the responsibility of leading those non-Labor forces to the State non-Labor leaders, and the particularly unfortunate aspect of this matter is that they place that leadership in the hands of 4 men, at least three of whom are quite lunatic in their approach to politics. [More…]
Why editors must continually attack members of Parliament I do not understand. [More…]
I can appreciate that at times we are deserving of critical comments, but the volume of work in recent years has increased dramatically. [More…]
As the Minister told the House the other day, in 1944 members of Parliament were given their first secretary. [More…]
In conclusion, I say to the person who wrote this editorial, which reeks of misunderstanding, that if he walks into the Press Gallery and Press offices upstairs he will find that most of the Press men, his colleagues here in Canberra, complain about the fact that they can no longer keep up with the volume of work. [More…]
What is the percentage break-down for degree and diploma courses undertaken by men and women in Australian tertiary institutions? [More…]
The Government’s program for abolishing the means test on age pensions for men and women aged 65 and over is being implemented in three stages. [More…]
I want briefly to give my support to the legislation and, in so doing, to extend my compliments to this very skilled Commission which was set up in 1957 by Sir Robert Menzies to plan, develop and construct the city of Canberra as the national capital. [More…]
The record of the National Capital Development Commission has been almost without equal in the world. [More…]
It is a body of very highly skilled and dedicated men and women. [More…]
I believe that the amendment to the legislation is timely. [More…]
The particular problem at Cobar relates to the pay-off of a number of men. [More…]
My department has just completed an analysis of the problems facing the mine and I have asked for an interdepartmental committee to examine as a matter of urgency the possibility of a reference to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
Can he say what percentage of men over 60 years of age are now ex-smokers. [More…]
and (2) The latest figures on the smoking habits of Australians are contained in the results of the National Survey (financed by my Department) of a random sample of 6000 Australians taken during June and July 1974. [More…]
Figures for men over 60 years of age who are ex-smokers are included. [More…]
With his death China lost one of her great leaders and the world lost one of this century’s outstanding men. [More…]
This Government came to power by a conspiracy, cunningly conceived and crudely carried out. [More…]
It was fostered by malice and bias, nurtured in the lap of lies and brought to fruition on the shoulders of unblushing and blatant perjury on the floor of this national Parliament. [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…]
When the Australian people become enlightened as to the political trickery and subterfuge of the Government, its members and its policies, they will regret their decision on 13 December last. [More…]
Their fellow travellers- the front men, the apologists sitting on the Opposition benches nowstand up and scream ‘reactionary’ when one raises this point. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, Lord Casey, Baron of Berwick, lived in the electorate of Holt, which I represent, and he too served 2 governments and 2 parliaments. [More…]
I realise that the electors of Holt would like me to say on their behalf today that the loss of Lord Casey to the Australian Parliament, to this nation and to world affairs has been a tragedy. [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…]
As he lived in the electorate of Holt, on behalf of the people of that electorate I would like to express to Lady Casey and her family our sense of loss and our respect for one of Australia’s finest and most famous men and certainly a world diplomat. [More…]
The guilty men opposite who are trying to interject know that the Governor-General has come out of his closet on this question of the corruption of youth. [More…]
Are50 per cent of employable Aboriginal men unemployed in the Northern Territory. [More…]
-I rise to pay compliment to the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) for arranging a very novel situation tonight in which the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Road Safety went to Yass and talked at first hand with the truck drivers. [More…]
Tonight we had the opportunity to see these men in action, to find out their problems and to ask them at first hand exactly how they feel about road safety and heavy duty vehicles. [More…]
I end on the note that the Government members could not be enthused by this statement because they know that the tide is turning. [More…]
All these things have added up to a completely incompetent economic management of this country over the last 12 months by these men who grabbed for power on the excuse that they could manage the economy better. [More…]
This statement by the Prime Minister which is meant to hoodwink this country into believing that they have done so is completely pathetic. [More…]
-I ask the Minster for Defence: Is it a fact that the Government is preparing to re-introduce compulsory military service, both for men and for women? [More…]
-The parliamentary system that we have in this country is one of particular pride and privilege to every member who serves in this House. [More…]
But to see the parliamentary system that has been with us since Federation abused and dragged through the mud constantly and continuously brings contempt upon the House. [More…]
We, as members of this House, should hang our heads in shame that we allow a colleague to get up in this House not once, not twice, but constantly and use parliamentary privilege to grind defenceless men into the ground. [More…]
How long must Australians suffer the lack of adequate companies and securities legislationlegislation that would prevent men such as Mr Gruzman, the Bartons and the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Baume) abusing the public trust? [More…]
Do women have the same access to unemployment benefit as men under existing legislation? [More…]
The prohibition by the Russians against the importation of Kosher unleavened bread which is the basic sacramental item in the observance of the Passover will be condemned by all men of peace and goodwill. [More…]
If there were any doubts in the minds of the peoples of the world who may have been confused by the avalanche of Russian propaganda that may have descended upon them from time to time referable to their treatment of Soviet Jews, I say to them here at least for public scrutiny is real, outward, solid and unmistakable evidence of an unremitting and devilish desire to crush the Jewish people. [More…]
Women, as well as men, must undergo a proper test to be eligible for unemployment benefit, but I do not want to go into the detail of the answer at this stage. [More…]
All people who apply for social service unemployment benefit must undergo a work test. [More…]
The Mascot CES office estimated that 3/ per cent of the men registered and 50 per cent of the women are migrants. [More…]
The manager of the Leichhardt office said that migrants take being without a job harder than most, and added: ‘We’ve had some of the men crying on the counter’. [More…]
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the unemployment rates for recently arrived migrants- those arriving since 1968- is almost 50 percent higher than for people born in Australia. [More…]
At all the inner Sydney CES offices, over 75 per cent of the males registered and over 90 per cent of the women registered are unskilled or semi-skilled workers. [More…]
I am aware of the dispute the honourable gentleman mentions which, as he says, is a demarcation dispute between the Transport Workers Union and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
Officers of my Department have been in regular contact with the Australian National Line on this question. [More…]
Firstly, it accepts that it has a responsibility in trying to resolve within the union movement demarcation disputes. [More…]
Secondly, its policy is that in relation to trade with Tasmania the union movement should try to see that disputes are settled with the minimum possible disruption. [More…]
However, in view of the honourable member’s question I will get in touch with the ACTU to remind it of its policy in relation to demarcation disputes and Tasmania and to point out that, as I understand it, the actions of about eight men are threatening the trade of a whole State and are putting at risk the jobs of hundreds of their fellow unionists. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
He will remember that two days ago, first the Minister representing the Minister for Social Security and then the Prime Minister himself, said that the Minister would be having some discussions with the National Labour Consultative Council before the Minister for Social Security made her statement on proposals that special benefit or unemployment benefit payments should not be made to persons who have been refused work by employers because of electricity restrictions, and other proposals that unemployment benefit should not be paid to young men and women who leave school this year before schools resume next year. [More…]
In the last decade, the Soviet Union has expanded its armed forces by 1 million men. [More…]
To the contrary, Soviet military might has grown, and by no means merely in the Pacific: The Warsaw bloc’s massive expansion in men and arms has become the source of daily palpitations within the NATO command. [More…]
Russia’s continual fossicking around for new footholds in the Pacific, the lack of progress in the Soviet-US talks on demilitarising the Indian Ocean and the growing Soviet-Cuban involvement in Africa, especially the Horn, all offer genuine cause for concern. [More…]
They are great ‘I men’. [More…]
-I would not like to let pass the occasion of the retirement from this House of the former honourable member for Werriwa, the former Prime Minister of this country and the person whose memory has been revered by the people in Australia, particularly for the measures which he introduced for the period between 1972 and 1975. [More…]
Unfortunately, the Honourable E. G. Whitlam, Q.C, did not return to the Parliament for the commencement of this parliamentary sitting. [More…]
It is to the credit of Mr E. G. Whitlam, Q.C, that by diligence, by forthrightness and by good government during the period that he was Prime Minister he placed many measures on the statute books of this country which will possibly be better recognised after he has died and is gone. [More…]
It is amazing to me that the Press of this country can pillory such good men as John Curtin, Joseph Benedict Chifley and Edward Gough Whitlam. [More…]
It is not often that I rise to speak in the adjournment debate. [More…]
I have known both of the men named for some 30 odd 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…]
I am concerned because this affects not only the two gentlemen concerned but also their families and the whole parliamentary institution which all of us believe in so much. [More…]
As my friend the honourable member for Moore, Mr John Hyde, said to me earlier tonight, parliamentary privilege is not a licence to slander. [More…]
This Mr Doug Jennings from Victoria, has used the parliamentary system to blacken the names of two people in whom I have the greatest faith. [More…]
I say that of Clyde Holding even though he is on the opposite side of the Parliament to me as I say it about Phil Lynch. [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…]
Whilst I hope that the committee will have on it a representative of the views of the honourable member for Swan, I hope also that it will not be made up entirely of men with views similar to those of the honourable member. [More…]
I conclude by making a plea to the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and others who will decide on the appointment of suitable people to the committee that they put aside their own personal prejudices and views and appoint a balanced committee which can review the Act with the balance that Australia craves at this time. [More…]
-by leave-I rise in support of the honourable member for Canning (Mr Bungey) who is the Chairman of the Public Works Committee and to indicate to this House that there is complete and utter unanimity on the part of members of that Committee in urging the expenditure of a further $330,000 to provide a heated, covered swimming pool for the use of the personnel at Bonegilla military establishment. [More…]
The pool will be every bit as much a pan of the training of the young men and women who are in camp there as is any other facility there. [More…]
1 ) What is the estimated additional cost to the Commonwealth Government of lowering the age of eligibility for pen- .sions for men to (a) 64, (b) 63, (c) 62, (d) 61 and (e) 60 years. [More…]
How many additional men would be expected to claim a pension in each age category. [More…]
Whilst it is fair to say that the Budget is good for pensioners, ex-service men and women, Aboriginals, wage earners and business, above all it is especially good for Tasmania. [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…]
What developments have taken place since 20 February 1979 regarding the Government’s intentions to send an Army unit of 300 men to the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Namibia. [More…]
The Government which rules Australia at the moment is comprised of a group of smallminded and feeble men, dedicated to doing nothing of any significance. [More…]
On any question of debate in this House the Government comes in and pours the bucket on the Whitlam Labor Government of 1972 to 1975. [More…]
It is time that something was said about the positive things that the Government of 1972 to 1975 managed to achieve. [More…]
This, of course, is a most complex situation which does not lend itself to simple elaboration, but if one assumes that the pull factors, that is, the conditions in Australia, have remained constant, some of the factors which have influenced British thinking in relation to the downturn would be marginal improvement in economic conditions in Great Britain, the prospects of Britain’s entry .into the European Economic Community, a very good summer in Britain in 1969 and the difficulties which many British people who wish to come to this country are experiencing in selling homes quickly. [More…]
Certainly the Government is concerned at any diminution in the assisted migration programme from Great Britain because British migration has been, and we would wish it to continue to be, the cornerstone of our immigration programme. [More…]
I point also to the fact that there has been a major uplift in our expenditure on funds on television advertising and general printing in Britain, and that we are providing additional resources, by way of counselling, to professional workers and single men and women. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government thinks it is teaching a Westminster system. [More…]
If the Government wants to do the job on Westminster lines, it really should do it by providing for ministerial responsibility to Parliament. [More…]
Whilst I do not want to refer to it any further, there is also in the system of Papua and New Guinea a dash of the Swiss arrangement in that Ministers are elected trans-party in the House of Assembly. [More…]
But this system is inevitable if, while the Government says it is assisting the Territory towards a Westminster system, it is in fact discouraging parties and especially Opposition parties. [More…]
1 want to stress the .point on the education that the Government thinks that it is giving. [More…]
For 80 years before Papuan and New Guinean eyes, whether demonstrated by the Germans or by ourselves, the model of government they have seen is a governor or administrator exercising absolute power. [More…]
At this stage when we imagine we are stepping forward towards the Westminster system, we have an explicit statement of the responsibility of Ministers to the Administrator in his Executive Council. [More…]
lt is no wonder that men like John Guise say: ‘What we want is a presidential form of government*. [More…]
That in fact is the form of government they have had. [More…]
The Administrator and the Governors in the past, choosing their advisers, corresponded very much more closely to an American president choosing his cabinet from outside Parliament or Congress than they ever did to a British Prime Minister with a parliamentary Cabinet within the Westminster system. [More…]
The applicants, the Association of Professional Engineers of Australia, the Professional Officers Association and the Association of Architects Engineers Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia, had every reason to expect that there would be substantial increases awarded over and above the Board’s interim increases. [More…]
If one looks at the figures and sees the number of professional engineers in the United States of America, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United Kingdom and compares them on a pro rata basis with the number of engineers in Australia, one cannot help but realise that we are drifting into a serious and dangerous position, because this is a young and developing country which needs these highly trained professional men more than any other country needs them. [More…]
We treat them in a way that is literally driving them out of the country in order to obtain better treatment elsewhere. [More…]
If the Government did not endorse the Public Service Board’s earlier opposition to negotiation it should say so. [More…]
If the Government did not endorse the Board’s subsequent agreement to grant increases it should say so. [More…]
If, after the election, the Government did not pressurise the Commission into rubber-stamping the Board’s decision it should say so. [More…]
If the Government is brazen enough to deny that, directly or indirectly, it pressurised the Commission that is its business, but I am one of those people who agree with the many thousands of professional men who will not accept the Government’s denial. [More…]
He would not lightly make such a statement. [More…]
He alleged that the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, composed of three men who, under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act, are entitled to the right, style and privilege of judges - who are regarded as judges in their actions, their responsibilities and their independence - was submissive to political pressure. [More…]
He alleged also that the Government applied that political pressure. [More…]
I think he has disclosed to the nation what would be the attitude of the Australian Labor Party to independent judicial commissions if it were in government. [More…]
He would not for a moment refrain from attempting to apply political pressure to those independent bodies. [More…]
I am glad to say that such is the quality and the integrity of the men who constitute those commissions that they would tell him where to go. [More…]
These men who have been so traduced by the honourable member are men whom I happen to know personally - whom I have known for a number of years and before whom I have appeared. [More…]
Anybody who knows them would, when an attack of this type is made upon them, feel a duty to disclose to the House and to anybody listening to the debate or anybody who wishes to report it, that they are men of character, chosen for their character. [More…]
He had only one case, and that was that these men were subjected to political pressure and that they are not independent. [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…]
made this statement in this Parliament on several occasions to the previous Minister for Repatriation. [More…]
This Government is asking men to fight and die in Vietnam at this moment. [More…]
It says it is necessary to conscript men in order to protect this country. [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…]
1 repeat what I have said before in this Parliament: Some of these Repatriation Tribunals ought to be tossed out lock stock and barrel because their members have become case hardened. [More…]
If some of the ex-servicemen serving on Tribunals have become case hardened the Government should put a few civilians on them who might be more sympathetic to people like Mr Medlyn who have given their all in the service of this country. [More…]
I know he is a sympathetic person and that naturally he must be guided by what his departmental officials or his tribunals put forward. [More…]
in the Royal’ Prince Alfred Hospital suffering, the intense pain and agony associated with this kind of an ailment yet he is getting nowhere with the Repatriation Department. [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…]
National Service Act 1951-68, men who have rendered continuous full-time service in the permanent forces of Australia or in the naval, military or air forces of a country other than Australia are granted recognition of such service in determining their national service liability. [More…]
This is a further example of the Government’s complete disregard of the Australian shipbuilding industry which, at the moment, is going through a crisis in respect of continuity of employment in the shipyards. [More…]
There must be a continual nin of employment in shipyards in order to hold the specialised type of workers. [More…]
From my own experience I know that men engaged in the shipbuilding industry must understand and be fully conversant with that industry. [More…]
In the list of speakers for today were some men whose remarks I appreciate and for whom I have a high regard, such as the honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Collard) and the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Hansen). [More…]
It is quite obvious that in future the Labor Party is going to ignore men who. [More…]
Its main industries are Bradford Cotton Mills, which employs 1,800 men and women. [More…]
Other establishments in the Maitland area include many clothing factories which employ 416 people: engineering works, 300; brick and tile works, 140; timber and hardware business, 157; and a very big stainless steel works, 150. [More…]
The total number of men employed at these works is in the vicinity of 650. [More…]
The value of these shipments is expected to be in the vicinity of $220m. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry and others in his Department are endeavouring to expand the old established market of the United Kingdom and also increase exports to Japan. [More…]
He has announced that as from 1969 exporters will be required to earn their entitlement to the United States market by the sale of meat to other markets. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry, the Government, the Australian Meat Board and exporters have all played their part in making these additional exports possible. [More…]
When I first came to the Parliament about 10 years ago it was just after the Sharpeville incident and I remember listening to members from both sides of the House talking with authority about South Africa. [More…]
I thought to myself what magnificent speeches they were making and what knowledgeable and great men they must be. [More…]
I will accept that also, lt is approximately 10 years since I came into the Parliament; at times it seems like 100 years. [More…]
I thought to myself: ‘There are the men who have stood and gained office and who now come to represent the people in their electorates’. [More…]
In conclusion 1 want to say that 1 have been in this Parliament for 10 years. [More…]
I have seen some great, honest and courageous men in this place, but I feel that democracy will work and continue only as long as there are people who are prepared to query occasionally a decision of the Executive and stand up in this House and say: ‘I represent the people, not just a party or a power combine.’ [More…]
If this Parliament does not concern itself occasionally with the rights of individuals then ultimately individuals in Australia may not count. [More…]
If I do not remain in this Parliament 1 will have enjoyed being here; I hope, however, I will be here in future Parliaments, and I am afraid I will continue to be reasonably independent, but that will be my responsibility. [More…]
The Parliament meets again this week after the longest actual recess in its history. [More…]
lt is a new Parliament. [More…]
It has more new members than any Parliament since 1949 when, of course, the Parliament was nearly doubled. [More…]
There has been a greater change in representation than in any Parliament in our history. [More…]
The changes are the results of retirements, electoral redistribution and, above all, electoral retribution. [More…]
This afternoon four recruits to the Parliament made their maiden speeches. [More…]
Two of them are seasoned parliamentarians from the Legislative Assembly of New South Wales. [More…]
Two are younger men of very great promise. [More…]
Whatever our politics may be in this place we can all be proud of belonging to a body which attracts men of this capacity and with this dedication. [More…]
By comparable world standards, higher income earners and companies are not highly taxed; but by such standards, our lower and middle earners - the genuine modest and middle earners, not the $16,000 a year men - are among the highest taxed in the world. [More…]
The whole case for conscription in Australia rests on a single simple assertion by Sir Robert Menzies in 1964 that it was impossible to raise men in the required numbers in a full employment economy. [More…]
The Government refuses to contemplate even the suggestion that the initial volunteer period might be reduced to 2 years, though the present Min- ister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) throws out the suggestion that the period of service for conscripts might be reduced to 18 months. [More…]
In such words, and in such a fashion, do we decree that men shall still be sent to die - not for a cause, not for a reason, not for a crusade, not for wives or families or country, but so that ‘some’ may be ‘scheduled for such withdrawal’ at ‘some stage’. [More…]
The fact is that all the important steps Australia has taken in the political development of New Guinea have been basically decisions made in Canberra, not in Konedobu. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) verv accurately pointed out yesterday that the people of New Guinea, including its political leaders, are suffering verv grievously by confusion deliberately spread bv expatriates, including officials, as to the real meaning of terms like self-government and independence. [More…]
Invariably one finds that men who will at first express doubt as to their readiness for self-government wi’l nonetheless agree with local control of every item forming the structure of government. [More…]
In other words they want selfgovernment and they want it now. [More…]
The Australian Labour Party was founded by men who strove for the wider horizons of education, the principle of loyalty to their fellow workers and their community, the need for associations to achieve these purposes and concepts of justice and democracy for every individual. [More…]
Here, however, as exemplified by the Government’s programme outlined in His Excellency’s Speech, the overriding consideration is the financial relationship. [More…]
The sordid aspects of this financial relationship in recent years have degraded our parliamentary institutions in the public eye. [More…]
In his speech tonight the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) made comments on many of the details of this relationship. [More…]
Every defect in State government policy or administration is excused by reference to lack of Commonwealth finance. [More…]
The blame for the inbuilt inequalities in the State education system, brought about by the purchase of facilities and equipment on the iniquitous subsidy system which forces parents to pay heavily and means that areas of greatest need are those least able to obtain these extras, is placed on a parsimonious Federal Government, and perhaps with partial justification. [More…]
This stands, even when exorbitant prices for school sites and expensive building contracts are revealed and subsidies to privileged private schools to the detriment of Government schools are realised. [More…]
Can we in this Parliament say: ‘It is a well-known fact, etc. [More…]
’, and then convict this man in this Parliament which creates the laws under which men are tried. [More…]
It is this Parliament which determines the law of the land. [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…]
This is the Government of the country. [More…]
This is the Parliament of the country. [More…]
I would suggest to the honourable member for Hunter that perhaps if he had consulted with men who had been prisoners of war in the Korean theatre when Mr Burchett went there - and the honourable member for Hunter implies that he was merely doing his duty as a foreign correspondent - he may get a different attitude. [More…]
The members of the government of Rhodesia are violating their oaths of allegiance to the Crown and are in a state of rebellion against the Crown. [More…]
But three key figures - the emissary to Portugal, the emissary to South Africa and the head of the Rhodesian Department of External Affairs - hold Australian passports. [More…]
But I want to know on what ground this Government issues passports to men who, on its own theory, operate on Australian passports as emissaries of a regime which is in a state of rebellion against the Crown. [More…]
But there is another matter, that is, the inconsistency of the Government’s attitude in these matters. [More…]
My friend, the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), referred to three people who operate for the Rhodesian Government. [More…]
As far as I can see, we have a duty in relation to Rhodesia to comply with the requirements of the situation vis a vis royalty, the Crown, British action and the United Nations decisions on these matters. [More…]
Although we have given some sort of lip service to these requirements as regards sanctions and so on, when it comes to the question of Hawkins, Knox and O’Donnell, we have forgotten those requirements and have issued them with passports. [More…]
I do not mind the Government issuing Hawkins, Knox, and O’Donnell with passports, but if it issues them with passports it should issue Burchett with a passport. [More…]
If the principle of freedom of issuing passports is sound for these other men. [More…]
If Burchett’s passport had expired, it should be stated publicly that the passports of those three men have also expired and that they have no right to re-enter Australia. [More…]
We are talking about people, about men women and children, about families living in rural towns and directly concerned with the profitability or otherwise, with the economic viability or otherwise, of this great industry which has sustained Australia for so many years. [More…]
I turn now to possibly one of the most important aspects of government affairs in this country. [More…]
In the next few months a decision may be reached in respect of an agreement to extend over a period of 5 years, but it may be that at the end of 5 years a Labor government will be in office and so the whole pack of cards falls to the ground. [More…]
The agreement may not last for 5 years. [More…]
Set out in that constitution as an ideal was the inalienable right of all men to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. [More…]
I am in sympathy with what I consider their general outlook on life; that is a society with the vision of freedom, of spontaneous co-operation and of men’s conscious selfdetermination. [More…]
One of my great disappointments is that many of them are unable to see that today this country, and for that matter even more so the United States, are to the ‘left’ of the United Soviet Socialist Republics and of China as of today. [More…]
Antiauthoritarianism, the right to dissent, the possibility of being able to change the governments, the general level of civil liberty are the issues which should be the main internal concern of the ‘left*. [More…]
To me it is a shocking indictment that men carrying out the principles laid down by the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal are at present in Australian gaols. [More…]
We heard from fine old men their expressions of disgust at the support that the Leader of the Opposition had given to this group. [More…]
It is only since the election defeat of my predecessor that we have had more fully disclosed the Prime Minister’s grasp of the importance and place of the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
Firstly he caused the portfolio to become available by following the practice of Robert Gordon Menzies of removing from Parliament men of superior talents so that his own hold on the leader ship might be protected. [More…]
Now, having lost his Minister because of the Government’s vulnerability in this area, the portfolio is slid up the scale as a sop to the dispossessed former Treasurer, who is now the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon). [More…]
In other words, the Prime Minister uses this all important portfolio at his whim with no regard for the effect on the Department or its morale. [More…]
It is because of the way in which the Department is used as a pawn in the Prime Minister’s game of chess with the nation’s departments and because of the Government’s lack of suitable men, following the practices of Menzies and the right honourable gentleman, that I believe the people of Forrest have expressed their concern by defeating the former Minister for External Affairs. [More…]
However in saying that I must hasten to add that they have at the same time indicated that they no longer support the bungling defence and foreign policies of this tired, divided, lost and hapless coalition, but instead have consciously opted for a united, positive, virile and progressive movement, which does have due regard for the importance of external affairs and defence, including, I am sure, the posting of career diplomats to all embassies and consulates. [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…]
They have expressed their abhorrence of our Vietnam involvement and their dismay at the fact that, to appease certain pressure groups in the community, the Government should make criminals of otherwise law abiding citizens and unnecessarily disrupt and destroy the lives of fine young Australian men. [More…]
Sir, I want to impress upon the Government that there is urgent need for resolute Government action in the area of the Forrest electorate; action along the lines of the dairy rationalisation scheme which was to have been implemented 3 years ago but which still is only talked about; action to implement a sound wool selling scheme; action to find new markets for our fruit and potato growers; and action to bring new confidence into the region. [More…]
If the Government is not going to give a lead to the farmers in my electorate in order to assist them to stay in the industry then it should provide rehabilitation schemes similar to that which operated after the last war to provide the nation with the tradesmen and professional men that it needed. [More…]
I believe that the Government should have enough courage to act in the present circumstances and to make secret ballots compulsory in all union affairs, under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
It would destroy a dictatorship much more ruthless and far less human than any dictatorship of the right wing, lt would eliminate immediately much of the present industrial unrest through which thousands of men are thrown out of work and women and children are going without proper food and clothing merely to satisfy a foreign philosophy. [More…]
At long last the primary producers are coming out and backing the men who have been fighting for them for years. [More…]
I still wait for the day when those freedom fighters on the other side of the House, who believe that the things which they see in the Liberal Party’s platform are dinkum, true and beyond criticism and that they ought to stand up for them, will cross the floor, on an issue such as the one we are discussing or on other issues when the gag is applied, and show some of that intestinal fortitude which they like to drag out of the young men of Australia while they sit home safely week by week. [More…]
I should like to hear from the Minister a good explanation why the amendment will not be accepted. [More…]
in the Parliament, at some time Parliament will have to consider re-siting aerodromes in Australia, but at this stage the Government should be not only investigating where aerodromes should be sited but also giving the proposed Committee, which has many knowledgeable men on it, the opportunity to investigate sites. [More…]
Irrespective of what recommendations the Committee may make concerning the technical aspects of noise, it should be able to ascertain whether aerodromes are in the right position or whether they should be re-sited to remove many of the aspects of airport operations that are distressing people. [More…]
Parliament - to see if we could get the maximum possible confusion - to look at the effects of pollutants from aircraft operations. [More…]
Then we could receive three separate sets of recommendations. [More…]
Alternatively, we could allow the one committee, composed of men who are very quickly becoming conversant with the various problems associated with aircraft noise and operations, to look at all the problems and bring back recommendations which could form guidelines in the future for this Parliament and of which the Department of Civil Aviation could take note. [More…]
I hope the Department would take note of them. [More…]
The arguments against selective conscription have been put in this House many times. [More…]
These basic arguments have been reinforced by the economic arguments against conscript forces put forward by the Gates’ Commission. [More…]
Men are forced to serve in the military forces at artificially low rates of pay. [More…]
There are costs borne by young men who are not conscripted but who arrange their lives in response to the possibility of being called up. [More…]
Sir, in summary, those conscripted by the Australian Government or who volunteer because they may be called up are paying a hidden tax. [More…]
Because young men are coerced into service at pay levels well below what would be required to induce them to volunteer, the whole structure of service pay is distorted. [More…]
The supply of conscripts can be varied according to demand by the Government. [More…]
They are controlled artificially by a Government which pays lip service to the free play of supply and demand. [More…]
With this very effective tool always at its disposal there is no need for the Government to concern itself with better pay and conditions for servicemen or with improving techniques of recruiting. [More…]
With community feelings running contrary to the law what is the position of the law enforcement agencies? [More…]
It may be stressing the obvious but nonetheless it seems essential to say that policemen are men before they are policemen. [More…]
They are related to, associated with, responsible for pregnant women no more or less often than any other male in the community. [More…]
One has to assume that policemen are no less aware of abortionists than any other males in the community. [More…]
Clearly there are many policemen who know about abortionists but who clearly have not done anything about enforcing the law in relation to abortionists. [More…]
It has not been proved that any have taking bribes and at the same time they important fact is that most of the police who must know about abortionists have not been taking bribes and at the same time they have not been implementing the law. [More…]
I suggest that they have not implemented the law because they are normal, warm, compassionate men. [More…]
Due to the fact that women demand the right to have an abortion they will inevitably find some way to achieve this in certain circumstances. [More…]
If a legally qualified medical practitioner is not available some women will attempt to induce an abortion on themselves or they will persuade their husbands to try or they will go to some neighbour or backyard abortionist. [More…]
To all this is added the increased risk of infection, severe illness, permanent damage or even death for some women when the operations are performed in poor surroundings or by unqualified people. [More…]
To cap it all the community is dismayed by the hypocrisy at all levels and views the law enforcement agencies with scorn, ls it any wonder that the young despise law and order? [More…]
Many men and women in the community break the law not because they are promiscuous and irresponsible but because they are married, over stressed and desperately seek abortions as the only way out in a perfectly respectable family situation where an unexpected pregnancy threatens the health or welfare of the mother and her whole family. [More…]
I could number hundreds of families which made no effort in either war but who, while our men were away, feathered their nests and are now very wealthy. [More…]
We would like to have every lad involved but because of lack of instructors and the necessary equipment it is not possible at this stage. [More…]
Had the psychological war not broken in America and Australia the war in Vietnam would have been over and our men would have been back home. [More…]
Many clergymen and the like were hoodwinked and unwittingly succumbed to the advice of these other people. [More…]
Because of their pioneer stock and the great difficulties that they have had to surmount over the years, it is not customary to see our men of the land distressed at the way things are going. [More…]
The Government is not responsible for overproduction in Australia. [More…]
No wonder we beard statements such as that from Mr Toua Kapena who is the Ministerial Member for Labour. [More…]
He said: ‘Mr Whitlam has varied his statements to suit his purpose’. [More…]
Honourable members can make their own judgments of this man who regards himself as the alternative Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
No wonder that our friend, Oala Oala-Rarua - who was a leader of the trade union movement in Papua-New Guinea - told the Leader of the Opposition when he was leaving Port Moresby that he had stirred up trouble and that he could pack up and go home. [More…]
He has been charged with one of the most difficult of tasks, that of trying to bring a fragmented people - 2 million of them with 700 different languages and dialects - into some form of cohesion. [More…]
I am sure that there will be more people paying tributes to him than to the Leader of the Opposition at this very moment. [More…]
Among the indigenous leaders are some very intelligent and able men. [More…]
They recognise that they have tremendous problems. [More…]
They have been searching for answers, and I believe that the Australian Government has been sincerely trying to help them find the answers. [More…]
I believe that the decision to give the Ministerial members the day to day responsibility for the operations of their departments is a wise one. [More…]
The RSL there protested strongly that it had heard little from the Government. [More…]
It had seen little action from the Government in support of the troops - in support of their comrades in South Vietnam. [More…]
I am not criticising the Attorney-General for this because I can understand his problem, but surely to goodness if we expect men to go to Vietnam to fight for this country, each and every one of us, whether we agree with the war or whether we agree with the issues or not, has to see that they are supported. [More…]
Instead of saying that the troops should not mutiny, the Government should introduce a policy that will ensure that calls for mutiny in the future are outlawed in this country. [More…]
I refer him particularly to his statement on Sth March, which appears on page 193 of Hansard, in which he gave the reasons why a person whom government supporters had declared in the most smearing way to be guilty of treason could not be prosecuted under the law as it stands. [More…]
It is a public and national scandal that men are in gaol for not registering for national service because they do not want to serve in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
Demonstrations against the war have been stopped in the most vicious way by the Government, which is endeavouring to suppress the dissent against the war that exists in the community. [More…]
Yet persons can commit acts of treason against our servicemen in Vietnam and can evidently go completely free. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General whether he will give u.s the benefit tonight, completely free of charge, of his knowledge of the law, of which he boasts so much in this Parliament. [More…]
I hope that those rebels opposite who want to take a rise out of the Government will do so during the course of this Parliament. [More…]
If honourable members opposite do not like what the Government is doing, let them vote against the Government and so defeat it. [More…]
That will be the test of whether or not they believe in the policies that are being followed by the Government. [More…]
He has an amazing arrangement with the Government. [More…]
He can say anything he likes outside the House as long as he votes with the Government inside the House. [More…]
I would like to see him vote with the Opposition on this matter so that men can be released from gaol and justice can be given to those people fighting against an undeclared war. [More…]
These people want to stand by these young men - just a handful of young men - whom the Commonwealth is putting in gaol for their conscientious beliefs either as complete conscientious objectors against war or as conscientious objectors against a particular war. [More…]
We know the treatment that the Government handed out to young men such as William White, Simon Townsend and John Zarb. [More…]
They are great young men of our era. [More…]
We should hold them up as young men to be given great respect because they are fighting for conscience and human dignity. [More…]
Those young men whose principles will not permit them to register under the present National Service Act and who refuse to be coerced into any war which they believe to be immoral and unjust, have my wholehearted support, encouragement and aid. [More…]
Therefore, while young men may serve two years gaol because they have the courage to defy conscription and oppose the Vietnam war, I am compelled to stand with them. [More…]
That is not an easy statement to sign. [More…]
I signed this statement of defiance. [More…]
I know that it is not easy to make a statement such as that. [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…]
These young men, who have read about and given thought to the Nuremberg trials, have said: ‘1 will not be a party to such an action’. [More…]
I have tried to put myself in the position of these young men. [More…]
It is not an easy decision to make, lt is not easy to find the courage to stand up against the establishment. [More…]
I think we should give such a man encouragement. [More…]
1 ask the Attorney-General why he does not prosecute the 8,000 men who have signed the act of defiance? [More…]
Men have been convicted under section 7a of the Commonwealth Crimes Act. [More…]
Although these men have been fined most of them have refused to pay the fine, with a few exceptions. [More…]
Why does not the Attorney-General see that they get 25 days gaol in the same way that the Government gave Brian Ross 2 years in Sale gaol? [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…]
Why does the Government treat one person in the community differently to others? [More…]
I thought that under the law all men were equal; that no preferences were shown. [More…]
This is the point that concerns me about the Government: It is playing ducks and drakes with the law. [More…]
The Government is still putting young men in gaol for 2 years. [More…]
Why will not the Government prosecute the 8,000 men I referred to? [More…]
It does not do so because if it did the number would grow to 80.000, then to 800,000, and the Government knows that it would have trouble on its hands. [More…]
Unhappily, as I have mentioned to the House before, the sacredness of these sites is also bound up with their secretness so that they are unknown to people who are not initiated. [More…]
Let me say in regard to these sites that it will be our policy not only to preserve them but, insofar as it can be done, to preserve their sacred character, namely their secret character, and that while there are living men to whom these things are important, the beliefs of those living men should not be violated in any way if it can be helped. [More…]
For example, last Saturday week the 8th Battalion lost 8 men killed and 15 men wounded. [More…]
Since then another 6 men have been killed or have died of wounds and much larger numbers have been wounded. [More…]
In view of the fact that the United States of America is in the process of withdrawing - and consequently its casualties are markedly declining - will the Minister inform the leader of the Australian Task Force that he does not support the leader’s statement of last week in which he said: Now is the time to hit the enemy harder’? [More…]
Furthermore will the Minister inform the House of the action he is prepared to take in order to ensure that Australian casualties are reduced and, if possible, eliminated pending an alteration in the Government’s present callous policy of refusing to take immediate action to limit our commitment progressively? [More…]
These are all top men. [More…]
They are men who have been able to obtain senior positions with the Commonwealth or the States on their merits. [More…]
Contrary to the usual procedure on the Australian mainland when officers of the law are charged with a serious offence and are usually suspended - this is the usual practice in police forces - one of these men was allowed to continue in his employment and in fact accompanied the Leader of the Opposition and his group about the Territory, and the other one, it was reported, although suspended, was allowed to use an Administration vehicle to move around Rabaul taking photographs which allegedly were sold to some newsagency. [More…]
Is this the sort of thing that the Government is upholding and trying to defend this morning? [More…]
They are trying to defend a situation where one of the patrol officers before the court on a serious charge was allowed to continue in his employment in an official capacity and the other, although suspended, was allowed to move about the Territory in an Administration vehicle making money for himself for some commercial purpose. [More…]
I would regard any breach of it during the lifetime of men to whom these things are of significance as being reprehensible. [More…]
He accused the Australian Government of adopting a callous and indifferent attitude to civilians in Vietnam. [More…]
I saw what the Communists are doing to innocent men, women and children in that country, and as a Christian I was proud of what the Australians are doing to protect the South Vietnamese people from Communist attacks. [More…]
As I said earlier, some 87% of the population is now under Government control. [More…]
There is no problem in recruiting men into the South Vietnamese forces. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the encouragement, the development of the creative talent that we have is a responsibility that we all must share. [More…]
I believe that if a nation is to be judged by posterity, if it is to be critically examined by historians, then the contribution we now make will be vital for the place we hold in an enlightened and cultural environment. [More…]
Communication between men, whether by sound or picture, lifts us from the commonplace. [More…]
Let us use the talent and marshal the energy to provide information and communication with our fellow men. [More…]
But I do have some feeling about the Australian defence forces and when month after month goes by and year after year passes and there are tragic episodes and incidents which lose young Australian lives; when the Army in Vietnam shoots up its own men and the Commander says: ‘No, there will not be any inquiry, it is just one of the fortunes of war;’ what have we come to? [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…]
They were a fine crowd of men. [More…]
One is this: It has been well stated by spokesmen for the Government that no immediate threat to Australia exists. [More…]
We are entering a new era in relation to defence procurement and manufacture. [More…]
Sweden, with less than two thirds of our- population, is capable of making the whole of its defence requirements. [More…]
After all, what does our present defence procurement amount to in terms of military hardware? [More…]
Australia has the men and the technology to make the whole of its defence requirements. [More…]
We will need to do this to conserve foreign exchange because of the pace at which this Government is attacking and destroying the economy of Australia. [More…]
I ask: How many young men and women say that they regretted their time in the Services? [More…]
Those young people I know who return from the Services seem twice the size they were previously, both physically and mentally. [More…]
Under such a universal training scheme as I propose provision could be made for overseas service in order to assist our neighbouring countries in the development of their own programmes. [More…]
There could be service aimed at assisting our own development. [More…]
I am sure that if such a universal scheme were implemented we would have no shortage of keen and partly trained men and women to meet the requirements of our armed forces as well as having many others left over who could make an impact on the world, especially the South East Asian region. [More…]
If these men had known the violence of this cyclone they would have beached their boats. [More…]
I personally know some of the men who were killed. [More…]
If we look at the movement of population within Papua and New Guinea, such as the movement of the Sepiks to Gazelle, which has caused some resentment, we see that the movement has always been for the convenience of the planters. [More…]
What baffles us is his application of this idea to the appointment of two lecturers. [More…]
Two men are involved and we cannot see the application of an immigration policy to their appointment. [More…]
According to the Press, the Administration in Papua and New Guinea had no objection to either of the men, since they had the qualifications sought by the University, and that the Administrator supported the applications. [More…]
If the Administrator could not give permission for the University to renew one appointment and to make another then the level of governmental power which he exercises must be very low indeed. [More…]
We of the Opposition are disturbed at the attitude that appears to have been shown in this matter; we are disturbed at the damage that has taken place to the reputations of these two men; we are disturbed at the unintelligibility of renewing Mr Idris’s permit for 1 year only when the University has reappointed him for 3 years; and we are disturbed about the use of expressions such as ‘immigration policy’ and ‘it is an obligation on Australia, as the trustee, not to saddle Papua and New Guinea with problems of Australia’s making’. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister has been unjustly dealt with in Press comments and perhaps those were not his explanations at all but we of the [More…]
It is to amend the Social Services Act in relation to certain married persons suffering illness or infirmity and it provides for the payment of pensions at standard rates or single rates instead of married rates to aged couples who lose the economies of living together by reason of failing health. [More…]
I suppose some of us married men could not concede that we enjoy the economies of living together, but nevertheless there is a fair case to be made out along the lines that when an aged couple separate for reasons of sickness there is likely to be an additional financial burden. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Mitchell if he is implying that the amount of money involved does not justify too much speech making in this Parliament. [More…]
The Government is categorising a section of society instead of having a wide and extensive scheme to cover all aged and sick people, to give them all benefits, whatever category it might say they are in. [More…]
But in the most mean and contemptible way the Government has put them into sections and categorised them simply because of their disabilities, their want and their need. [More…]
Yet we are now living in the 1970s and men have landed on the moon. [More…]
The Minister, in his second reading speech, gives the record of the Government. [More…]
I can only say we’ve just got rid of the 36 faceless men stigma to be faced with the 12 witless men. [More…]
Affairs Committee says: ‘An Australian Labor Government will direct the Army to bring home without delay the conscripted men who are already there, acting with full regard to the safety of the Australian Forces’. [More…]
It will bring home the conscripted men, but it does not worry about our flank being exposed to the Vietcong. [More…]
Members of the Parliament are said by the Press to be cowardly. [More…]
Most of the men who go overseas say: ‘If the Government, with the information it has, says that I should go, I will go and do my 2 years.’ [More…]
They come back with immense experience and with a knowledge of what it is like to serve Australia. [More…]
Parliamentary reform rates so high in my priorities not because it is an end in itself but because it is a means to an end. [More…]
1 deplore the fact that when my own political party, the Australian Labor Party, is kept out of power for so long by a government coalition of so-called Liberal Party, Australian Country Party aud Australian Democratic Labor Party interests using, let us admit it, so often fear and smear tactics, imputing a lack of patriotism and engaging, as we saw tonight, in other untruthful methods to gain their ends, the needs of the people suffer so. [More…]
When policy items find their way from the rank and file in unions and sub-branches through our State conventions and Federal Conferences into the platforms of our Party, woe betide those of us who are the elected representatives in this Parliament if we ignore those policy items. [More…]
There are too many in our community who have been hoodwinked by the emotionalism of such false phrases as ‘faceless men* and do not understand the great value of this structure. [More…]
Although there will always be room for improvement, and although we shall ever strive for this improvement, I believe that in my political party we do make an honest attempt to involve the ordinary citizen in the decision making processes. [More…]
How many men are working at two jobs? [More…]
How many men are working 60 hours a week? [More…]
We must not forget that this Government has been in office for 20 years. [More…]
In the last couple of years the Government has boasted about the increasing number of women in the work force. [More…]
The shortsightedness of the Government’s policy was borne out by the headlines in this morning’s newspapers. [More…]
The number of unfilled jobs has increased by 6% while the unemployment figure has fallen by 10%. [More…]
Is this Government doing anything about child endowment? [More…]
Yet the illegal entry of drugs into our country is another problem altogether and one which could be effected quite simply by callous, brutal and determined men. [More…]
I do not think I need enlarge on the fact that our tremendous length of coastline could assist this operation. [More…]
I know that our health authorities and our customs authorities have already launched a nationwide campaign against drug abuse, but I am firmly of the opinion that, with our scattered population, it is physically impossible for our Federal authorities and our State Health and Police Departments to cover every avenue which this illegal traffic may flow through. [More…]
There are some people, including men with medical knowledge, who state that marihuana should be legalised. [More…]
Even some of our own countrymen, including two of our senators, believe that it would not be harmful to legalise this drug. [More…]
I find it rather dimcut to understand how New Guinea and men having target practice can come into a debate on the suspension of Standing Orders. [More…]
from personal observation and from mixing with bank managers, professional men and agents that in some areas properties are selling for below the Valuer-General’s valuation. [More…]
I mention this because of remarks I have heard in this House. [More…]
Roy was very outspoken on a number of matters but the hatchet men finally got him. [More…]
I have what is purported to be an extract from the letter he wrote to his superiors, whom he described as the 12 witless men. [More…]
These people are in the organisations outside the parliamentary Party. [More…]
These are the 12 witless men. [More…]
The organisations are fearful that any measures which this Government might bring down will discriminate against such children and prevent them from receiving the benefits to which they are entitled, forcing the organisations to rely heavily on public subscriptions. [More…]
This has been a government of discrimination - discrimination against migrants, discrimination against the farmer, discrimination against the worker, discrimination against the pensioner and discrimination in the matter of defence. [More…]
Fancy this Government saying anything about defence. [More…]
If it were true in 1963 that Australia urgently needed the Fill, the present ministry must be the most guilty collection of men ever to sit on the Treasury bench - even more guilty than the Tory Government, if 1 may so describe it, which was in office at the outbreak of the Second World War. [More…]
Government supporters have often alleged that the Labor Party was not interested in the defence of this country until Russia became involved in the war. [More…]
Government supporters have criticised the Fortress Australia concept. [More…]
How many Government supporters know how the votes were cast in the election of their Prime Minister? [More…]
We are led to believe that only 3 men saw the completed ballot papers. [More…]
Subjects of great moment were either not mentioned or glossed over with a lot of pious platitudes. [More…]
The blame must lie fairly and squarely on the shoulders of the Government. [More…]
Government supporters, both personally and collectively, are the guilty men. [More…]
The article alleges that the Australian Government has for the past 2 to 3 years had men involved in the war in Laos and that it would probably deny this emphatically. [More…]
It alleges further that it is well known among foreign correspondents and military commentators that mercenary troops have been working in Laos for the past few years. [More…]
The article states that when on leave these mercenaries hang out in the tenement flats of Earls Court, London, waiting for their next job. [More…]
Is it possible for such a damaging nation wide strike, affecting all sections of the community - not just the families directly involved - to be called without reference to the men themselves? [More…]
It almost gets down at some stage to their being ticket of leave men. [More…]
There are few people who feel no compassion for the handicapped child - for the child who, because of severe physical disability or mental retardation, may be denied the joys of childhood, the .adventures of adolescence and the experience of taking his place in the society of his , fellow men. [More…]
Social activities, holidays and often employment, as well as ordinary domestic living,, frequently have to be adjusted to meet the needs of the son or daughter who cannot become part of the normal family group. [More…]
The British survey found that 95% of old people - these people were defined in the research in much the same way as we define them; that is, as being men over 65 years of age and women over 60 years of age - thought that it was a good idea; 65% said that they personally would gladly use such a service. [More…]
The ones who were not prepared to use it - and the number of men and women was equally divided approximately between the two sexes - gave reasons of independence, pride, shyness or, in some cases, physical disabilities. [More…]
I ask the Minister to give serious consideration to reviewing this interpretation before the Bill is passed by another place and include in it service pensioners, that is, those men who are entitled to the age pension when they turn 60 years of age. [More…]
I agree that it may well be that at times men and women may prefer to meet at such centres rather than have the meals delivered to their homes. [More…]
I assure the honourable member for Newcastle that it will be interpreted by the Government in the most liberal fashion. [More…]
This also is within the sights of the Government in bringing this measure forward. [More…]
Jim Fraser surpassed in each of these aspects of life the rigorous standards that should be imposed on all men. [More…]
He was a true Labor man as his parliamentary life has shown. [More…]
My question, which I address to the Prime Minister, is supplementary to the question asked by the honourable member for Bennelong in regard to war service homes.In reply to the honourable gentleman, the Prime Minister said that $50m had been spent on war service homes this year. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that the report this financial year of the War Service Homes Division discloses that the income the Government receives from war service homes is in excess of $70m? [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Will he make money available immediately from war service homes revenue or instruct the Commonwealth Bank to make bridging gap loans available to these young men so that they may get a home without suffering the infringement of these exorbitant usurers rates to build a home? [More…]
The simple, blunt truth is that the Minister and his Government, and particularly its leaders, rubbish negotiations - whether they are ‘one-sided’ proposals from the Pathet Lao or, to quote the Prime Minister, these things called peace talks in Paris’ - because of an attitude of mind which represents a hankering for vanished supremacies, a nostalgia of a distinctly racist cast. [More…]
If, conceivably, a European area were involved in the kind of protracted and selfdestructive conflict that we now see in our area, that we have seen for a quarter century now, in Indo-China, this Government would urge and encourage every move in the United Nations to stop it, on any terms at all. [More…]
1 know that this attitude is not confined to supporters of the war; I know there are opponents of the war, and particularly of Australia’s commitment to it, whose real objection is that we should be concerned in killing men or being killed by men of a different colour - because they are a different colour. [More…]
But it is only in the present government that such people are part of, or have access to, the decision-making processes of this country. [More…]
It is all very well for the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to give us 7 columns in Hansard under the heading ‘Strategic Assessment’, which was more geography than strategy. [More…]
In the General Assembly, Australia, Portugal and the United States alone voted against the declaration that the Geneva Convention outlawed chemical and biological agents of warfare which poisoned or killed men, animals or plants. [More…]
I agree with the Minister that the 3 factors he mentions - British withdrawal, the role of Japan and the Nixon doctrine - are 3 of the most significant factors in determining Australian foreign and defence policies. [More…]
And yet, in such a situation, the linch-pin of our defence policy is a battalion - 1,000 men - in Singapore. [More…]
Yet these Australian Liberals - these little frightened men who proclaim their proprietorial interest in the American alliance - are prepared to see this war go on and on, have twice sabotaged American initiatives to end it, have resented or resisted any moves to stop it, whatever the cost to America’s real strength and purpose in the world. [More…]
100 - Equal Remuneration 1951 - which provides that ratifying countries shall, by means appropriate to the methods in operation for determining rates of remuneration, promote and, in so far as is consistent with such methods, ensure the application to all workers of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, has been ratified by the following countries: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Byelorussia, Central African Republic, Chad, China, Colombia, Congo (Kinshasa), Costa Rica, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Dahomey, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Finland, France, Gabon, Federal Republic of Germany, Ghana, Guatemala, Republic of Guinea, Haiti, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Ivory Coast, Japan, Jordan, Libya, Luxembourg, Malagasy Republic, Malawi, Republic of Mali, Mexico, Mongolia, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Panama, Paraquay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Rumania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Spain, Sweden, Syrian Arab Republic, Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, U.S.S.R., United Arab Republic, Upper Volta, Yugoslavia. [More…]
Committee of Experts on the Application of Conventions and Recommendations has given a very wide interpretation to the concept of ‘work of equal value’, applying it not only to women doing the same work as men or like work and doing the same range and volume of work and under the same conditions, but also to quite unlike types of work. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he can assure the House that the financial difficulties faced by men who have been widowed and have the care of children are still being actively considered by the Government. [More…]
The Government is prepared to send young men to Vietnam. [More…]
It can find money to send men to Vietnam but when those men return the Government cannot make money available to them for homes. [More…]
This Government should meet its responsibilities and - make money available. [More…]
We are asking the Government to make money available now. [More…]
On the one hand he supports the farmers and on the other he conscripts young men and sends them to Vietnam, but he will not support the proposal to make money available so that they can get a housing loan when they return. [More…]
The base of war service home loans should not be restricted, as it has been restricted by the Government, but should be broadened. [More…]
The Division is a fine instrumentality. [More…]
.We have admiration for the officers and men who work in the Division and we support the principle of war service homes, but the Labor Party wants to see a broadening of the scope of the Division. [More…]
We want to restore to all ex-servicemen the right which they held until 1951 to .transfer mortgages to the Division. [More…]
We want the Division to take a more liberal attitude towards the granting of a second war service loan to exservicemen who are forced to change their place of residence due to illness or the requirements of their employment. [More…]
A Labor government will grant to all regular soldiers, whether they served overseas or not, the right to a war service loan. [More…]
A Labor government will grant to all British and allied exservicemen now residing’ in Australia the right to purchase or build a home with a war service loan. [More…]
A Labor government will grant a war service loan to all members of the Citizen Military Forces who have served for 6 years. [More…]
The facts show in today’s circumstances we have carefully protected the interests of ex-servicemen. [More…]
It might even be argued that the present scheme weighs the scales against young men now marrying who are not eligible for a war service homes loan. [More…]
The Opposition may be happy to forget its record in the field of housing for ex-servicemen when it was in office. [More…]
The present Government does not need to do so. [More…]
This huge sum, together with the favourable terms on which loans are provided and the efficient administration of the scheme, surely represents a record of achievement which the Opposition should commend rather than criticise when it raises this matter. [More…]
As to the talk about Chowilla being gone forever, I have never heard of such pessimism from men who say that they are fighting for their State. [More…]
I might even support the building of Chowilla at a later stage but I will not support it when honourable members say that the Government must build Chowilla first and that ii it does not it must not build Dartmouth. [More…]
I am not reading my speech; I will read from a speech made by the former Minister for National Development. [More…]
We were very fortunate tonight in that we heard from the former Minister and also the present Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz). [More…]
These men have had great experience and they are dedicated to national development within Australia. [More…]
Honourable members opposite, even in their wildest flights of political expediency, would not say anything against these men. [More…]
I am strongly supporting the amendment moved by my Opposition colleague, the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson). [More…]
Also, I shall be supporting his amendments at the Committee stage if this amendment is not successful at the second reading stage. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by the honourable member for Dawson at this stage because I am appalled at the shallowness of the knowledge of our requirements and capacities in the matter of water conservation. [More…]
We have questions unanswered to such an extent that reasonable men cannot come to rational decisions as to where the next development should be. [More…]
In particular, it is being used, as we have seen tonight, by the Labor members both here and in South Australia as a vehicle to gain government in that State without the slightest concern for the wellbeing of the people who live in South Australia and who leave the negotiations for adequate water supplies in the hands of their political representatives, hoping that they are men of integrity. [More…]
In summation of the points I wish to make, I want to appeal to the Minister for National Development in the first instance to deal with the serious doubts and questions that have been raised at this third reading stage. [More…]
Also, on the Government side there are men who I know must be deeply concerned about the points that have been made. [More…]
I know politically this might be all right but I am sure that speaking from the point of view of the greatest good to the countryside, he would review that statement quietly and say: ‘Of course- [More…]
But it is to be found in the practice of British parliaments. [More…]
If a member in the Parliament is taking such a course of action as to prevent the operation of Parliament, it is recognised that Mr Speaker may invoke any course that he chooses to bring about a state of affairs in which the Parliament can resume operations. [More…]
What was the only remaining course available to Mr Speaker to remove such a member and to allow Parliament to resume? [More…]
But let us never forget that these gentlemen opposite, these members of the Australian Labor Party, produced a state of affairs where, for the purpose of enabling Parliament to proceed with its business at that time, there remained no alternative but to bring the police into the House of Representatives. [More…]
lt would be incredible if, on the resumption of the House today, the Parliament were not to express in the strongest possible terms its condemnation of those who were responsible for this unbelievable and unprecedented state of affairs. [More…]
Should not the 50 or 60 men who incited him, encouraged him and were prepared to protect him be apologising also? [More…]
The fact is that the Leader of the Opposition, who seeks to be the Prime Minister of Australia, took no steps whatsoever to uphold the dignity and authority of Parliament. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister is the maker of men. [More…]
He wants to get away from the attacks being made on the Gorton Government and the Gorton Ministry. [More…]
He wants to get away from anybody raising in this Parliament something which cannot be said in public - that is, what he thinks of the Minister for External Affairs (Mr McMahon) and what that Minister thinks of him. [More…]
Let us have a look at the Government opposite. [More…]
Are you going to create an army to control Parliament? [More…]
Are you going to use force in this Parliament by vote and set up an army of some kind? [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…]
Will protests on this side of Parliament be described as anarchy? [More…]
I think the public is entitled to know whether this Government is going to introduce physical threats and force in order to try to subject this Opposition to its kind of rule in the Parliament. [More…]
To me it is a matter for regret that sitting on that side of Parliament are men who call themselves democrats. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister told the Liberal Party that, if the former Treasurer were elected to the Prime Ministership he would walk out on the Government. [More…]
Honourable members know as well as I that sitting behind the present Prime Minister in this place are men whose knives are a foot long and they are just waiting to see when they can get him. [More…]
This motion has been moved against the Leader of the Labor Party in an endeavour to distract public attention from the people who are struggling along in Government and completely betraying all the principles of democracy in this country. [More…]
He was the leader of a band of people who had been kicked out of the Parliament. [More…]
1 say as a fact that this Party here and in another place will fight tooth and nail for the restoration of democracy in this Parliament. [More…]
If the Government, with its slender majority for the time being of 7 or 8, thinks that it can whip into submission the members on this side of the House by the ruthless use of the gag and the threat of police action, it has another think coming. [More…]
The Labor movement in this country will forever fight for the things that are democratic, be they demonstrations against Vietnam or injustices to those on the farms who are demonstrating today. [More…]
But above all else in this Parliament we will fight for a restoration of democracy against the type of leadership that the Leader of the House gives to this Parliament. [More…]
We will fight for it in the face of whatever our enemies on that side of the Parliament might do to destroy it. [More…]
Since that time he has appeared to be rather shamefaced every time that I mention this matter, but it is a fact that this did occur. [More…]
I recall another occasion when he showed his great respect for law and order by dressing up a platoon of servicemen under his command. [More…]
He dressed them up as tramway men, marched to the Redfern Police Station, got alongside each police officer, pulled a gun and said: ‘You are under arrest’. [More…]
Of course procedures should be inviolate but how often do we find traditions - using the word ‘traditions’ in place of the word ‘procedures’ - being trampled on by this Government? [More…]
This is not a Parliament. [More…]
This is not even an imitation of a Parliament. [More…]
Tt is just an instrument to be used as a rubber stamp for a handful of arrogant, ignorant men who sit in the Cabinet and make the laws. [More…]
Surely if this is the action of a leader of a party, if this is what he wished to achieve last night and this is what he organised, how can we or how can the public, however dissatisfied it may be with the Government at the moment, accept this type of behaviour in a parliament as that of the alternative government of Australia. [More…]
These men have been fighters in this Parliament. [More…]
These men were tough Opposition operators in their heyday before they became tired and dejected. [More…]
But whatever they did in the House they did within the Standing Orders and within the dignity of Parliament. [More…]
What concerns me more than anything else is that if what went on last night, which the Leader of the Opposition claims to have organised, is to be the standard in the Parliament in future this Parliament and democracy are finished. [More…]
Is the Government afraid to debate the matters that we bring forward? [More…]
Does not the question raised by the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) only this week dealing with war service homes concern hundreds of men in the community who have a desire to provide homes for their families? [More…]
For one obvious reason: The subject was an embarrassment to Government supporters who sit behind the Minister and they wanted to clamp down on it for the same reason that they wanted to clamp down on the debate taking place last night. [More…]
Yesterday they wanted to push through a Bill because it was a Wednesday, when the proceedings of the House are not broadcast, so that it could be thrown into the Senate today, when the proceedings of the Senate are not broadcast and the people of South Australia could not listen to the debate and learn why they should defeat the present Steele Hall Government in South Australia. [More…]
I came into this Parliament, Mr Speaker, with perhaps the idealistic notion that a parliamentarian had one of the higher vocations of life. [More…]
I thought that we came here to represent our fellow men. [More…]
Senator McKellar was much better known in the day to day affairs of the Parliament in another place than in this House. [More…]
Under him - I think it must be acknowledged - no department more promptly and sympathetically acknowledged representations. [More…]
It was not an easy portfolio at a time when costs in health and living were rising and men on repatriation benefits were suffering the pinch of fixed incomes or only spasmodically assisted incomes. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware that one of the largest mines in Kalgoorlie, employing between 400 and 500 men, closed down recently? [More…]
Is he also aware that another company employing approximately the same number of men has announced in today’s Press that it intends to close down? [More…]
Is he further aware that other mines employing between 1,500 and 2,000 men may be obliged to close down in the nol: too distant future? [More…]
Does the right honourable gentleman realise that only a small number of the men displaced could be absorbed into the nickel industry, that no other large scale employment is available locally and that further mine closures will cause widespread suffering and seriously affect the district generally? [More…]
Will he treat this matter as serious and urgent and immediately arrange for officers of the appropriate departments to visit Kalgoorlie to ascertain what financial or other assistance is required to ensure the survival of the gold mining industry and to preserve the livelihood of the people concerned? [More…]
In approaching this problem, one must first consider what conduct is permissible in a democratic society on the part of those who wish to see a change in Government policy or a change in the law. [More…]
In a parliamentary democracy, any attempt to change the law should be made within the framework of the law. [More…]
If men are given an effective means of attempting by 1 peaceful processes to secure majority acceptance of their political views, anyone with a concern for the preservation of true freedom should see to it that those means are used to the exclusion of others. [More…]
We well know his statements and we well know the resolution passed by that meeting. [More…]
The resolution urged national servicemen to lay down their arms in mutiny against the heinous barbarism perpetrated in our name upon innocent aged men, women and children. [More…]
The comment of the chairman of that meeting. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, thinking at the time that it was best to promote the view of moderation in the community had this to say in a letter of 18th December 1969, when commenting upon a statement by the secretary of the West Australian Branch of the Australian Labor Party: [More…]
Men were expelled for tolerating and assisting in this kind of campaign. [More…]
It is clear that much of the disaffection in Thailand towards the United States has been related to irresponsible statements on the part of a number of United States senators. [More…]
The change in attitudes of men such as Thanat Khoman has been related to statements by United States senators. [More…]
Some people seem to think that democracy is just Parliament alone. [More…]
They seem to think that all the ordinary citizen has to do is to vote once every 2 or 3 years and then leave everything to the Constitution and to those who happen to be elected to Parliament. [More…]
Parliament is not democracy. [More…]
What has to be done is not merely to refuse to talk politics or religion, as is almost the general custom, to vote once very 2 or 3 years and leave everything to those who win seats in Parliament. [More…]
This is the way to make Parliament a hollow ritual and a fraud, which it has recently been called by leading journalists who observe its proceedings. [More…]
This is the way to make it a fossilised institution and into a talking shop - or, even worse, into a talking shop which is hamstrung by rules and gagged by men who seek to run it as if it were a government department, a factory or a departmental store. [More…]
He said that he had not signed the document. [More…]
He will appear at the demonstration outside Parliament House. [More…]
Mr Stone, the Secretary of the Trades Hall Council, has told him to take his cotton picking fingers out of it and to leave decent Labor men and decent unionists alone. [More…]
It was interesting to hear the statements of the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes), the person responsible for law and order in Australia. [More…]
The honourable member for Parkes, the present Attorney-General, is a well-known hawk, as are the two honourable gentlemen opposite who have supported him in this debate. [More…]
They are men who have stood for the escalation of the war in Vietnam. [More…]
If this Government is so concerned about the question of violence here in Australia and about demonstrators, what about the men who are dying in Vietnam? [More…]
Probably some of the most barbaric actions ever perpetrated in the name of a government are being performed in Vietnam. [More…]
This is the sort of inhuman action that this Government supports. [More…]
The American forward air command is made up of men who fly in helicopters and who play the role of God. [More…]
They see a movement on the ground and they call in bombers to strafe the area. [More…]
If it is the right of the farmers to walk down the streets of Melbourne to seek economic justice - and I support them - surely it is the right of men who feel appalled that their Government is supporting actions in Vietnam which are equal to the Nazi atrocities in the Second World War to demonstrate? [More…]
Why should not young men, old men, people of all ages and of all fields of political thought have the right to demonstrate by marching through the same streets? [More…]
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the nation’s greatness. [More…]
But the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested. [More…]
I must indict my own government for allowing this deceit to be perpetrated and spread abroad. [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…]
Perhaps the subjects they chose are an indication of the attitudes which they have brought into this Parliament. [More…]
In fact he said that just men have a duty to disobey an unjust law. [More…]
There is a very real relationship between what I am saying and this Moratorium because many good solid Labor men throughout the length and breadth of my electorate are bewildered; they cannot understand this new Labor Party. [More…]
It was the marching down the street with the names of these young men and the burning of a registration card in the city of Melbourne. [More…]
But a few days before the event I was turning the pages of a Melbourne newspaper and on page 3 or 4 I saw that 2 more young men had been killed in Vietnam. [More…]
The mothers of those young men will weep and the fathers will be sorrowful; people will be regretful and we will get on with business as usual.’ [More…]
I believe that is a fundamental principle of Australian political life and society. [More…]
We associate as free men. [More…]
I believe that the challenge of a modern democratic society is this: The government has to be responsive and responsible to the governed. [More…]
We are not happy about the North Vietnamese Government. [More…]
We are not happy about most governments. [More…]
Our men are sent there by the actions of this Parliament and a Government which gets its charter from its membership of this Parliament. [More…]
If it is good enough for the men of commerce to use the streets for their purposes, for the newspapers to sell their wares, for the farmers to march down, and for the people of Australia to stand still on them or march down them on the two historic days of each year, Armistice Day and Anzac Day, it is good enough at some time for private people, calling on the conscience of the nation, to demand the same right. [More…]
Why is it that these matters must be left to governments? [More…]
Mr Wentworth exhausted his great powers of invective in denouncing the new party of reformers as Socialists, Communists, uprooters of law and order and everything else for which a vile name can be found though it included many of the most respectable men in the country. [More…]
If we are going to be attacked, as some people continually tell us is likely, the Government is more guilty than ever because it has not provided this country with a replacement aircraft for the Canberra bomber, which is almost as old as I am. [More…]
The Government is the guilty party in that regard. [More…]
What play on the letting of Australian contracts the Minister for Defence made in his recent statement in this House. [More…]
In spite of the so-called overfull employment position, there are in South Australia industries that one could regard as defence industries which have been laying off men during the last couple of weeks. [More…]
Of all men between 40 and 60 years with no evidence of coronary disease at the present time, 1 in 14 will develop the condition within 6 years. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party do not seem to understand the fundamental reasons for the introduction of the homes savings grant scheme. [More…]
The best feature of the scheme is that it provides encouragement to young people to save as soon as they start work or as soon as they get their money box. [More…]
Both young women and young men are encouraged to think of their future. [More…]
This Bill is an encouragement and an invitation to them to save and to plan for their future because the grant is made according to their savings. [More…]
I know what the Government is doing about it. [More…]
I do not think it is realistic at all and the Government should have another look at this. [More…]
There are thousands of young men in Australia whose future income is assured by the very nature of their employment. [More…]
The loan is insured through the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation - another magnificent institution set up by this Government. [More…]
This is the result of the insurance scheme which was set up by this Government to protect buyers and building societies and to enable buyers to bridge the deposit gap. [More…]
Men returning from the war purchased this land at very low cost and this is an area which would have gradually improved. [More…]
Approximately 3,000 men have been working in the mines, and a very substantial number of them are permanent residents of Kalgoorlie, or would be permanent residents while the mines continued to operate. [More…]
The only alternative will be for the breadwinner to leave his family in Kalgoorlie and go elsewhere to obtain employment. [More…]
For most this will mean a distance of several hundred miles between their home and family and their place of employment. [More…]
Nickel mines will not generally employ the number of men that gold mines do; so more nickel mines will need to be established. [More…]
it is not a simple matter of men transferring from one type of mining to another. [More…]
This concerns not only Burns Philp but other companies which are operating services between New Guinea and Australia and are using cheap labour and are working men in conditions which are well and truly below those applying to Australian seamen. [More…]
Indeed it will be clear - and I recommend to the union that it look at the transcript of today’s proceedings before Mr Senior Commissioner Taylor m regard to the forthcoming national wage case, where the representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions made it clear that the A.C.T.U. [More…]
did not want the issue of equal pay for men and women or the abolition of interstate differentials decided at or even during the national wage cases which are going to commence on 6th August; they wanted those issues decided separately and later than that [More…]
New South Wales has 6 men to patrol an area in excess of 300,000 square miles. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) accepted the proposals but indicated that during the course of the debate the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) would move an amendment, which was subsequently moved. [More…]
That destroys completely the false impression created at the commencement of the speech of the honourable member for La Trobe, when he said that the Opposition accepted in their entirety the proposals of the Leader of the House. [More…]
If somebody in the Navy is sacked, the honourable member would wreck the Government. [More…]
When we want to protest against men dying in Vietnam - he could not care if troops died there year in and year out - he would do nothing about it. [More…]
1 remind the honourable member for La Trobe that some months ago the Minister circulated a document setting out the proposed sitting days of this Parliament. [More…]
Honourable members, as was their right, took the opportunity to make certain commitments. [More…]
When men want to protest against troops being sent to war - a war in which we should not be engaged - that is anarchy of the worst type and no member of Parliament should join in that protest.I have never heard such hypocrisy in my life as that advanced by the honourable member. [More…]
If honourable members read that newspaper they will see that as a member of the Parliament and a responsible person interested in ensuring non-violence I took action to lead the men away from the barricades. [More…]
Charges have been made by the Government that this Moratorium, to which we have lent our name, is trying to create mob violence outside of the Parliament. [More…]
This was a remarkable departure from the traditional practice, which has been that only the Prime Minister clears statements on foreign 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…]
When, with the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), I visited the men whom the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) with his characteristic looseness called ‘those extremists’ on their prison farm at Keravat - I refer to Melchior To Mot, Damien Keruku and Daniel Rumet - 1 was reminded irresistibly of what Lord Attlee said concerning certain colonial leaders: ‘1 hear that they are in prison. [More…]
If there was anyone whom I thought would be future Prime Ministers or leaders of Papua and New Guinea it was the three men we visited in prison. [More…]
But these were elements in the Administration that seem to have been determined to blame the Mataungan leaders when their position was not known. [More…]
Now Mr Justice Minogue, speaking of two of the other men we visited, has said that they were denied counsel; that they were denied witnesses; that certain evidence should have been admitted; that they were denied the right to cross-examine witnesses, and that their trial was a miscarriage of justice and it should be quashed and a new trial held. [More…]
But the Supreme Court of the Territory has said in effect that the courts of law discriminated against the men whom we saw because of their miscarriages of justice and denials of natural justice. [More…]
I say to the Government: Get a defensible, intelligent and justified political relationship with the Mataungan leaders and stop lying about them. [More…]
These men’s case has never been refuted. [More…]
The Mataungan position was simply that the Tolai people handed over to the Gazelle Council, when it was a native council, the management of their economic resources because under the laws only the local councils could borrow from the banks. [More…]
Therefore when expatriates came onto the Council and it was made multiracial it automatically involved management of their economic resources by Europeans, including Europeans who had always been opposed to their cocoa projects which upset them. [More…]
If the Government does not believe in their case, for heaven’s sake state what it is and do not misrepresent it when you are trying to refute it. [More…]
I would not like it to be thought that anything I have said is critical of the officers of the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
Indeed, I think that all of us who have been abroad have the very highest opinion of these intelligent, dedicated and educated men. [More…]
They are men who present the very best image that Australia can possibly have. [More…]
Indeed, I would greatly regret seeing any lowering of standards in the Department. [More…]
On the contrary, service in the Department should be a career that will attract the very best people that we have in this country, and this depends so much on the conditions of service and the work which they have to do. [More…]
What a condemnation from the Deputy Leader of the Country Party in Victoria of the men who sit in the corner here. [More…]
When one looks at that situation - the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) will agree with me - it is shocking that in this country men will not go broke quietly because of the bankrupt policies of the Country Party and the Liberal Party. [More…]
Is this not a shocking thing in view of the harmony and the goodwill that seemed to exist between these people in days gone by in this Parliament? [More…]
I would like to direct the attention of the House, particularly the Government, to a problem which is being raised at every opportunity by telephone, by letter and by every other means. [More…]
I refer to the guidance which is urgently desired by wheatgrowers in relation to what the Government expects them to do in the 1970-71 season. [More…]
Men and machinery have been standing by to put in the 1970-71 crop. [More…]
and (2) Presumably the honourable member is referring to the men who fail to comply with a call-up notice and who are liable on conviction to imprisonment if they refuse to enter into a recognizance to obey a further notice or if enlisted fail to render the service for which they are liable. [More…]
If the honourable member is referring to the most recently published poll on national service the proposition considered by the sample of people interviewed concerned men who refuse to register for national service and which one among four alternatives was favoured. [More…]
Seventy-two percent of the sample which considered the proposition chose alternatives which would compel men who refused to register to render service of one form or another for 2 years. [More…]
As to the fire protection measures adopted at the Whyalla shipyard of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, might I say that all the men who were involved in the fire acted, I believe, very admirably on the night of the fire. [More…]
The nature of this fire was such that it would need to have been contained at the very moment it started or it would have been beyond the capacity of any fire fighting installation, no matter how large it was, to control it when we bear in mind such things as the explosion of propane gas, the explosion of oxy-acetylene cylinders and the other inflammable material that necessarily lies around the hull of a big ship which, by its very shape, causes a profound draught that serves very much to accelerate the force of the fire. [More…]
Mr Norquay said today that income tax concessions for primary producers were never intended to reduce or avoid income tax by prosperous business or professional men. [More…]
Farmer organisations were anxious to remove any element of abuse. [More…]
That was a comment made by the men of the Edenhope Agricultural Bureau. [More…]
During the depression, about 1930, when it was said: ‘Grow more wheat’, and when that wheat was grown it could not be sold at anything like the price that was promised, those men growing that wheat did not move off the land at that stage. [More…]
One honourable member tried to suggest that Sydney businessmen and primary producers are different kinds of persons. [More…]
They are different only with regard to the environment in which they live and work. [More…]
But the main thing that the Government should do is to create values on what has been done in the past on sales. [More…]
I now want the Government to carry on with the procedure. [More…]
I say that the Government should still go oh with the system because it will find that values have dropped considerably and primary industry will benefit. [More…]
Not only are the volume, complexity and range of the work of the Parliamentary Draftsman increasing, but the importance of his role to the Parliament and the community is also affected by the increasing recognition of administrative law as a distinct branch of our law. [More…]
Departmental officers, and even Ministers, who are responsible for the general policy of a Bill, are not always alive to the considerations relevant to maintaining the rule of law and the proper regal relationship between the government and the citizen. [More…]
In these and the like matters, departments and Ministers are dependent on guidance from the draftsman, and the work of the Parliament itself is greatly affected by the knowledge, experience and integrity the draftsman brings to this task. [More…]
It is essential that the Office have on its staff men of the ability and the standing necessary to perform this role. [More…]
These are aspects of the Bill which 1 certainly commend myself. [More…]
In the first place 1 refer to clauses S and 6 because I feel that by examining these clauses one can see in part the very substantial problems that the parliamentary drafting service in this country has had to overcome. [More…]
I say that because those clauses relate to both the terms and conditions of employment of the Parliamentary Counsel, and the salaries and allowances subject to which the officers will be employed. [More…]
The clauses, of course, provide that the terms and conditions of appointment and the salaries will be as determined by the Governor-General, it would seem to me - and I put it to the House for its consideration - that it is more likely than not that there will still be problems in attracting to the parliamentary drafting service able and capable men. [More…]
As 1 said, as a whole the Bill is very commendable. [More…]
When it becomes operative it will lead to a very positive improvement in the Commonwealth parliamentary drafting situation. [More…]
I ask the Government to consider 2 other matters which might lead to an improvement in the system of parliamentary drafting. [More…]
That is the difficulty of attracting good able men into the service. [More…]
I suggest that the Government could at least give consideration to offering scholarships to law students at the stage when they are pursuing their coarse, when they are undergraduates - scholarships which will tie them to the service of the Crown as lawyers. [More…]
It would not automatically follow, of course, that they would go into the parliamentary drafting service but such positions could be held out to them, together with other incentives, as a possible place for them to practise, and to practise the talents they had acquired. [More…]
I do not know whether the Government has considered this idea but it is one which I ask it to consider. [More…]
It seems to me to be a possible way of attracting more men into the service. [More…]
In addition I ask the Government to consider the possibility of giving some Commonwealth assistance to a postgraduate training scheme which would itself improve the quality of parliamentary drafting. [More…]
There is no reason why an examination could not be made of this situation in order to determine whether such a postgraduate training scheme could be established, for the very reason that parliamentary drafting itself is such a fine art. [More…]
1 ask the Government to consider that suggestion also, bearing in mind the possibility that that may attract more men to the service and may make the service more successful than it is at present. [More…]
The Parliamentary Draftsman is, as we have heard from other honourable members tonight, one of the most important men in the country. [More…]
The public can be put to much trouble and expense by legislation without ever realising that the trouble and expense have come about, not through Parliament, not through the Minister and not through the Department, but through a lack of skill and knowledge on the part of the Parliamentary Draftsman or through some strange notion that he may have entertained. [More…]
I have heard it suggested that the Parliamentary Draftsman is far more important than a judge who, after all, decides particular cases only on the law as it stands. [More…]
The Parliamentary Draftsman is in substance in a position to alter the law. [More…]
I have been so busy during the last 3 or 4 weeks trying to cope with a drafting problem with the assistance of Mr Kolts of the parliamentary drafting section of the Attorney-General’s Department that I have not been able to give detailed study to other Bills at least now I am in a position where I can start to see over the top of the job that is in front of me. [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…]
Indeed, because of the way in which Australian art on display overseas has been handled by the Department of External Affairs, with no qualified persons to promote the displays the result has been that the exhibitions were pretty much a shambles. [More…]
At some displays in London and Japan trained men were in charge of the exhibitions and there was a fair degree of success. [More…]
There were no seriously incorrect weather forecasts during Cyclone ‘Ada’ which resulted in boats being taken to sea and men losing their lives. [More…]
We hope that we will have men running the Corporation, and film producers making films, who will help to build this country’s image in the world in the very best sense. [More…]
The national Government’s long delay in coming into this field with the sinews of war - that is, finance - has enabled overseas film producers to export their films to Australia in their hundreds and thousands over the last 6 decades. [More…]
This was an outstanding film as was ‘Forty Thousand Horsemen’, which was produced by Charles Chauvel. [More…]
The films that were mentioned by the honourable member for Kennedy, such as ‘Bellbird’, ‘Homicide’ and, of course, Division 4’ - the latest advent in this field -and ‘Showcase’ have shown that we have the talent in Australia to produce documentaries or short continuing stories week by week. [More…]
It is time that we gave a publicity boost to this beautiful land of ours with its vastness, its grandeur, its beauty, its colour, its vigour, its varieties, its history, its customs, its humour, its uniqueness, its music, its adventure, its rawness, its beautiful women and its sports-minded men. [More…]
Our women are the most beautiful in the world; 1 married one of them. [More…]
While in our homes we can see men walking on the moon at the actual time that it is happening through the miracle of television. [More…]
While on the matter of standards and the past I hope that our womenfolk keep on looking at those ancient films, those made 10 or 20 years ago, and continue to wear mini skirts. [More…]
Why not choose one of these men, offer a top salary and invite him back to become the leading personality in this Corporation? [More…]
Following a review of the situation in Vietnam which led to the earlier United States decisions to reduce the level of its forces by 115,000 by the middle of this month, President Nixon yesterday announced his decision to introduce a new and long range programme of United States troop reductions involving the withdrawal of 150,000 men over the next 12 months. [More…]
On 16th December last I announced the Government’s decision that when the military situation in Vietnam permitted a further substantial withdrawal of allied troops, then some Australian units would be included in the numbers scheduled for withdrawal. [More…]
Since then we have, with South Vietnam and the other allies, continued to keep developments and prospects in Vietnam under close study. [More…]
The Communist side maintains its intransigence and continues to set its face against a negotiated settlement. [More…]
Following consultations with the Vietnamese Government, we have decided to provide a number of small mobile Army teams, totalling some 130 men. [More…]
We are also developing a further proposal that Australia provide instructors and other assistance to a South Vietnamese training centre for junior leaders - leaders of the popular forces and regional forces - planned for establishment on the site which will be vacated by the Australian battalion to be withdrawn from Vietnam. [More…]
I was not able to study it because of a breach of the understanding which applies when leave is to be given for ministerial statements. [More…]
The understanding is that leave will be given to Ministers to make statements if the statement is given to the Opposition 2 hours beforehand. [More…]
If there had been any consultation previously this statement could have been prepared many hours ago. [More…]
Furthermore, if the Government had had a responsible anticipation in this matter, which concerns not only thousands of Australian men in Vietnam but also families in Australia and the whole standing of this country, then better preparation would have been given. [More…]
I think that the suggestion of phasing down the’ Australian contribution of infantrymen and artillerymen and people driving tanks which is somewhere around 8,000 - not quite 8,000 men - I think the suggestion of phasing that down is scarcely tenable. [More…]
There is indeed only one bright fen lure in the whole of that commitment and that is the conduct of the men of the armed forces themselves. [More…]
In the light of the undertakings given by the Prime Minister last year and in the light of his statement tonight it is intolerable that they should be called upon for further sacrifices in so discredited and disastrous a cause. [More…]
It depends on whether honest men are on the gate. [More…]
The Minister for the Navy is in complete conflict with a well established practice of the Government. [More…]
There are 11 industry advisory committees, covering the various sections of industry, which the Government has set up and to which it resorts for advice. [More…]
I mentioned earlier Sir John Allison’s Queale Memorial Lecture in Adelaide in the early part of the last decade. [More…]
In it Sir John Allison clearly indicated that there was much benefit for the Government to gain by having these people, who were experienced in business and had pecuniary interests within industry, advising the Government. [More…]
As 1 said a moment ago, there are several aspects of this whole incident that need clearing up. [More…]
First of all we have to bear in mind that the workmen finished work on this ship at 3 o’clock on the Saturday afternoon. [More…]
There are very strong rumours prevalent at the moment - in fact 1 have heard very strong reports - to the effect that the fire was noted at about 9 p.m. Six men had been working on the ship approximately 30 minutes to an hour before Stannard’s tug crew noted that the ship was on fire. [More…]
I ask: How would it be possible for a fire on a ship out in the open, as the ‘Amanda Miller’ was, not to be sighted by the watchmen on duty that night long before it was sighted? [More…]
We must remember that the men finished work at 3 o’clock in the afternoon, and it was not until 9 or 10 o’clock at night that the fire was noted. [More…]
If the watchmen were carrying out their duties at hourly or 2-hourly intervals - I believe in this case they made 2-hourly inspections - why was the fire not noted long before it was? [More…]
Where you have men working with electric welding and where they have oxy-acetylene burning and where there are hot sparks flying everywhere there is an ever constant danger of a fire. [More…]
What I want to know is: Was there a fire attendant on the ship while it was under construction, and did that fire attendant carry out a close inspection of the ship for at least 1 hour after the men ceased work? [More…]
Furthermore, are watchmen’s duties so substantial - as we often find they are in these places - that they have time only to race from point A to point B, from point B to point C, and from point C to point D, put their key in the clock and then race on to the next point; that they have not time really to have a look around to see whether there are fires or anything else requiring their attention? [More…]
Were they located in a position, as I believe they were on this occasion, where the firemen could not get near them because of the nature of the fire? [More…]
How often is the equipment tested? [More…]
When was the equipment which was used on this occasion last tested to ascertain whether it was serviceable and in a fit condition to fight a fire such as this one? [More…]
Why were so many of 4,Ar bottles stored around the ship in such large quantities that when the fire broke out they became a hazard to the men fighting the fire? [More…]
What alternative arrangements had the company made to fight a fire during the period when that fire unit was out of action? [More…]
What alternative arrangements had it made? [More…]
BHP used the town fire brigade that night for only one reason, that is, that the men on that fire brigade were volunteers. [More…]
Because of the type of men they are, they were prepared to go out and give a hand because there was a fire under way. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that there was no equipment with which to extinguish the blaze. [More…]
There was just no equipment there. [More…]
The men were trying to fight the fire with inadequate facilities. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Shipping and Transport: When is this Parliament going to be advised of what happened there? [More…]
The other matter 1 want to mention is that there have been in this House tonight statements made by the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) about some of my colleagues on this side of the House, relative to our attitude to Vietnam and those issues that have been raised in this chamber concerning the so-called Moratorium Day that is apparently about to be staged in Australia. [More…]
I do not speak in the House very often on this subject simply because it does not happen to be my ministerial responsibility, but I assure honourable members and others in the chamber that I, like many of my colleagues - indeed, all my colleagues on this side - believe that it is tragic that an insidious propaganda campaign is undermining the minds of men and women in the Australian community against what we see as the absolutely essential necessity for a defence effort which is capable of preserving this country for the future. [More…]
We believe that the commitment of Australians to the assistance of countries in South East Asia will preserve what wc have here today not just for today but for the future and will give to those who live in Asia some opportunity of enjoying a better way of life than they would hope to enjoy under Communism. [More…]
In normal working hours a few hundred men would have been working on this ship. [More…]
The fact that the men had knocked off at 3 o’clock on the Saturday afternoon does not come into this matter. [More…]
Normally, if a fire starts as a results of a particular set of circumstances, such as sparks hitting an oxy hose, there is a fire within the bowels of the ship where this equipment is. [More…]
If the fire suddenly gets out of control, with hundreds of men inside the ship, the fire fighting equipment is just not good enough. [More…]
I think the men of the Whyalla fire unit did a magnificent job. [More…]
We should also look at the attitude of the South Australian Government to fire fighting equipment, because too many of the big towns in South Australia rely on voluntary fire brigades. [More…]
We would hope that the South Australian Government has learned a lesson from what happened here and that it will go into the whole question of fire protection in country towns and try to bring in an improved system of fire protection. [More…]
There may be 200 to 300 men inside a ship, and if something goes wrong, as is quite possible - it has happened plenty of times before - and the fire fighting equipment is not there, there can be deaths. [More…]
But the fact is that the Department refuses to make this confession and I ask why. [More…]
It would be a simple matter for the Department to say as a matter of procedure: ‘We do not provide Australian citizenship to people who belong to this political party’. [More…]
We do not want a remote bureaucracy making some sort of vague assessment and giving some sort of vaguely worded decision on the rights of a person within the community. [More…]
The Minister for Immigration (Mr Lynch), the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) or any other Minister in the Government - not even that great democrat who looks after the Department of External Territories - has not a right to deprive a person of citizenship in this country if he meets normal requirements and standards which are not regarded as illegal if they are held by other Australian citizens. [More…]
Mr Vorstman fulfils these requirements in every regard. [More…]
There ought to be a clear statement as to why this man and other men in his situation have their applications rejected. [More…]
I repeat again and again that if we fall behind in our balance of trade and balance of payments, which we have done to the extent of 16,000m in the last 10 years, then we will be due for a terrible depression and gross unemployment. [More…]
What has saved us in the last 10 years in regard to our balance of payments has been capital inflow of more than $6,000m because of opportunities in spheres other than the rural sphere. [More…]
They are men of tremendous courage, men of great strength, who live with their first class wives in very tough conditions. [More…]
20 men lose their employment. [More…]
If 20 men lose their employment, some of the shops, motor traders and other employers each might put a chap off. [More…]
Geelong Teachers College are prevented, for obvious reasons, from attending some classes which are conducted in men’s toilet areas. [More…]
It all began in the latter part of last year when the most distinguished men in the industry, whom I will name shortly, came down here and received a herring from the Treasurer (Mr Bury). [More…]
These men included the President of the UGA - this is on the grazing side, I will admit - Councillor Behan, whose names are bywords and traditional in Queensland and who have proven their worth, Johnny Henssler the current President of the Central and Northern Graziers Association, and Fred [More…]
Tritton, who is the best known identity in northern Australia for his contribution to primary industry, to the grazing industry - and, I might mention, to the grain growing industry. [More…]
These men were not seeking headlines because of attacks on the Government all the time. [More…]
Out of all this activity has come the announcement which was made today. [More…]
We would have liked the announcement to have been made earlier. [More…]
Of course, we would like to see the wheels of government turn far more quickly, but at least we have got somewhere today. [More…]
The Country Party has nothing to be proud of in giving support to measures of this kind only at the very last moment and in the most essential of circumstances. [More…]
Nine hundred members of the Country Party at a conference in Warrnambool a few days ago - I suppose 900 would be the whole party in Victoria - said that the front line troops in the Parliament were not carrying out their responsibilities to the primary producers of this country. [More…]
They likened these men to front line troops. [More…]
When all is said and done half the Government is not interested in the primary producers. [More…]
Very few primary producers are represented by the Liberal Party in the Parliament. [More…]
It is nice to see the Country Party, which does not take the initiative, compliment a Liberal Prime Minister upon doing something for the primary producers that its Ministers and others have not done. [More…]
More in sorrow than in anger 1 join with those Country Party representatives at Warrnabool who have condemned their front line troops for their inadequacy and incompetency in representing country interests in this Parliament. [More…]
At the same time [ commend that great band of Labor men who have come to the Parliament from rural areas - the honourable member for Dawson, the honourable member for Riverina, the honourable member for Darling (Mr FitzPatrick) and members from other States - who will give real leadership to the country people and who will bring stability back to rural industry and withstand the criticisms falsely levelled against them by those in the Parliament who are sent here to represent, country interests but who do nothing but criticise the efforts from this side of the Parliament to provide that security and stability. [More…]
It is a concept for the funding of health protection in Australia and it is the sort of proposal which would be accepted by any reasonably minded and responsibly directed government. [More…]
They have higher skills than most other professional men, because they have to study for the longest period required of any professional person in the community. [More…]
It is too much, under the Australian scheme which the conservative Government operates, to expect them to go into poorer areas and carry the cost and the risk burden of operating there. [More…]
I feel that his statements often have obviously been briefs from the Voluntary Health Insurance Council, a pressure group financed by some of the larger funds. [More…]
One of the most depressing and yet interesting aspects of the defence of the Government’s scheme and the attacks on Labor’s plan has been the faceless men preparing handouts for the Minister and the AMA. [More…]
Most prominent amongst these men in New South Wales have been Mr Cade and Mr Turner, tsars of the Medical Benefits Fund of Australia Ltd and the Hospitals Contribution Fund of Australia, respectively. [More…]
This is what is wrong with the young men of today and their university training: They are not prepared to accept responsibility. [More…]
This aspect is very confusing at the moment. [More…]
Because a government appoints a committee or asks a committee to investigate a particular matter, it does not mean that the government has to accept any or all of the recommendations of the committee. [More…]
The Government has an understanding and an appreciation of the total position. [More…]
The Government must always retain the right to accept or reject all or any of the recommendations made by the committee. [More…]
I would anticipate in any particular sphere that a government would be mindful of the knowledge of the men who have been on that committee, whatever the subject matter may have been that it was investigating. [More…]
However, having made those comments I want to repeat that the Government will have to keep a close watch on the operations of this legislation when it becomes law. [More…]
It should remember that criticisms of the Bill and suggestions for amendment have come from responsible men and their professional organisations and that in particular they have drawn attention to the possibility of general practice suffering from the operation of the legislation. [More…]
But the Government must continue to examine closely the workings of the scheme, any excessive use of specialists that appears and the recruitment of young graduates into general practice. [More…]
If this were not a parliamentary occasion, 1 would be tempted to reply to them with an unparliamentary 5-letler word because their claim is undoubtedly all balderdash. [More…]
For centuries, from the most ancient times, many doctors whether ‘medical men or medicine men’, to use that wonderful distinction for which we are indebted to Professor Trendall, have been accustomed to receive payments from third parties for the treatment rendered to patients. [More…]
In Greece it was from the community; in Rome from the army; in medieval rimes from the feudal lord, lt is only since the times of the Mercantilists that a majority of doctors like other traders have started to demand payments on the nail for goods provided over the counter. [More…]
I must admit that I was never offered such goods in replacement of the fee. [More…]
but I often received gifts in addition to the fee in gratitude for the treatment that a family doctor can give. [More…]
But what criteria are used to make those judgments? [More…]
How many United States Secret Service men or women were in Australia during the visit of the Vice-President of the United States. [More…]
Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to statements made by the Leader of the Opposition in the Victorian Parliament, Mr Holding, when speaking to a learned body in Victoria known as the Fabian Society? [More…]
In particular did the Attorney-General note that Mr Holding said that a State Labor government would ‘confuse and confound’ the Federal Government by paroling men now in prison for breaches of the National Service Act? [More…]
If so, under what arrangements are they so confined? [More…]
What would be the consequences in the enforcement of Commonwealth laws should there be a Labor government in Victoria which released on parole persons convicted of breaches of the National Service Act or any other Commonwealth law? [More…]
1 know it is a joint committee and it is the responsibility of this Parliament to accept its report as it accepted the Aircraft Noise Committee’s report. [More…]
On page 14 of the Committee’s report reference is made to the fact that there is a noise problem and that the Department of Air is considering that problem. [More…]
The Department is going to proceed with the construction of sleeping accommodation for 306 service personnel. [More…]
Surely .the problem involved cannot be treated with the contempt with which the Committee is dealing with it or the Department is dealing with it at this stage. [More…]
These men are entitled to the consideration of this Parliament so that adequate soundproofing of their accommodation can be provided. [More…]
The accommodation recommended is for all ranks. [More…]
Surely these men are entitled to adequate protection against noise, which at this stage is not going to be reduced but will continue to be increased, as we realise when we know that 43 Macchi aircraft arc based at Pearce. [More…]
These men are entitled to some consideration by this Parliament. [More…]
It is for this reason that I have moved my amendment so that the sections of the report dealing with accommodation can be referred back for further consideration. [More…]
I am not saying that the Department cannot go on with all the other things that have been decided upon in regard to the technical improvement at Pearce. [More…]
The Department can go ahead with these matters. [More…]
There are reports available today to the Department of Air showing how it can soundproof buildings. [More…]
There is information available to the Department of Air so that at least it can act with some regard for the men who are in its service and who are signed up for periods of 6 years - men who are the frontline troops of this country. [More…]
1 ask the Government to accept the amendment. [More…]
If the amendment is forced to a vote I ask honourable members to vote to support it so that the people for whom they express concern so often in this place will be looked after. [More…]
One of the essential requirements in establishing an Army or Air Force base - any Service base - is that reasonable housing for the personnel of the base be provided as quickly as possible. [More…]
This means that married men are separated from their families. [More…]
I appreciate what the Government has done. [More…]
I appreciate particularly the work that the Minister for Health has done in bringing this legislation before the Parliament. [More…]
But I think it is fair to say that the Minister and the Government have endeavoured as far as possible to learn from the spokesmen, or the supposed spokesmen anyway until a fairly recent time, of the medical profession. [More…]
lt was not until certain details of the scheme were announced in the prime statement of the Minister on 4th March of this year that sections of the medical profession became concerned as to certain of the detail in the proposed legislation. [More…]
How many men who are members of certain groups, organisations or trade unions do not attend the meetings of those bodies and say, when a decision is made which they think is wrong, that they were not consulted? [More…]
But I think that it also should be remembered that whilst on the other side of the House the Opposition may have professional men - doctors - in its ranks, those men now are members of a party and as members of Parliament it is not necessarily their professional opinions which will carry the day. [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 is the general practitioner who knows the circumstances of a family and the background of the children’s health, and who has treated that family for years and knows the ailments from which members of that family suffer. [More…]
All along the line the Government at this stage is finding that the costs are increasing and that its judgment on this issue is such that it knows not where it is going end is entirely dependent now on the good will of the doctors. [More…]
That is, with the exceptions of my distinguished colleague the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) and other notable medical men in the ranks of the Labor Party. [More…]
As the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds) said a few moments ago, that would cover only 77% of the fee. [More…]
Under this miserable Bill the Government is allowing only $3m for the poorer section of the community in subsidy of medical and health benefits. [More…]
What about the men on low wages? [More…]
What about men on wages of $30 or $40 a week who constantly have to have medical consultations? [More…]
Everyone knows that the Government does not know from one day to the next whether or not doctors intend to increase their fees. [More…]
After 20 years in office not only has the Government not got stability of medical fees, but every day of the week they rise and the Government has no control over them whatever. [More…]
When honourable members opposite and members of the Australian Medical Association attacked the scheme, men prominent in economics and finance came forward to say that the scheme could be successful. [More…]
A Labor government will establish a system of universal health insurance. [More…]
Instead of criticising Labor’s proposals honourable members opposite should recognise the wasteful expenditure in which they will involve the country under the Government’s proposal - a proposal on which there is no guarantee of co-operation from the medical profession. [More…]
It does not matter whether you have a socialised scheme or a private enterprise schemePeople are entitled to medical attention, but they are not getting it under this Government’s scheme. [More…]
Everybody on this side of the chamber and everybody who supports our troops in South Vietnam and the move by United States troops into Cambodia desires peace, but there must be agreement between both s:des before peace can be attained. [More…]
Any action that we take that gives the impression that we are weakening in our stand serves as encouragement to those people who desire peace on the terms of complete surrender of the West. [More…]
I appreciate that some honourable members opposite were in the Services during World War II, as were some Government supporters. [More…]
I have in mind the Prime Min ster (Mr Gorton), the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz), my colleague the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull), who is the Country Party Whip, and others. [More…]
Can anybody honestly say that these men do not want peace? [More…]
Does anyone believe that these men would want to sacrifice lives unnecessarily? [More…]
No-one mentioned Clapp or Ward or Chifley in any of the festivities on 23rd February last and this was an unpardonable oversight. [More…]
I wish to put on record the barest truth about the Indian-Pacific Railway and the part played by those whose names I have mentioned and those associated with them. [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…]
It was Clement Attleee. [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…]
But this is not true, not only of most honourable members opposite but of almost all of them, because frankly I think they are, within the circumscribed limits of their political philosophy, fair men and I am asking them to be tolerant men. [More…]
After all, everything Hitler did was right because he had the backing of the law of his country and everything that the valiant freedom fighters in Hungary and Czechoslovakia did was wrong and they were condemned because what they did conflicted with the tenets of the oppressive establishment which was in control of the affairs of those countries. [More…]
The point that 1 made in my last speech in an adjournment debate, which was not very long ago, was that just men have the duty to break an unjust law when that is the only way to get that unjust law changed and particularly when breaking that law does less harm than the law itself is doing. [More…]
The documents of Vatican II say that governments have a responsibility to give the right of alternative service to any person who cannot in conscience take part in a war. [More…]
Not one member opposite supported the Opposition’s move to have such an amendment made to the National Service Act. [More…]
They all voted against that amendment where we specifically asked for the very thing that Vatican II asked for - a civil alternative to military service on conscientious grounds. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side bring up some quibble about somebody who sits down in a street for a couple of hours and might block a bit of traffic. [More…]
We fixed our names to a statement in defiance of the National Service Act. [More…]
We have asked young men to do the same; that is, young men who are asked against their conscience to take part in an unjust war. [More…]
I think I should read parts of it to the House to show what type of honourable member it is who has just attacked members of the Labor Party, people who fight for democracy in this country, prominent church men, editors of Catholic newspapers and others as being Communists and supporters of a fifth column in this country. [More…]
Already a minister of religion has taken out a writ against the honourable member for outrageous and libellous statements. [More…]
Today the honourable member listed amongst those whom he said were in the fifth column myself and other honourable members on this side of the Parliament who support the Moratorium. [More…]
He said he had brought back legislation to introduce into this Parliament. [More…]
I challenge him to stand in this Parliament, introduce that legislation and show whether he believes in what he said and whether he is a full supporter of democracy or a straight out supporter of Fascist causes and all they stand for. [More…]
I regret I have to say these things but far be it from me to sit in this Parliament and hear Labor members, good Australians, church men and other prominent citizens attacked by this honourable member who in every way is espousing the cause of Fascism, in fighting which countless thousands of men died in the last great conflict. [More…]
That is why today I place on record my opposition to the statements of the honourable member for Boothby. [More…]
The proposed Moratorium would play a part in undermining Australia’s security and is a betrayal both of our national interest and of our young men on the battlefield. [More…]
But by inference I am accusing men like the honourable member for Boothby of dragging Australia’s name internationally in the dirt by his idiotic statements overseas. [More…]
Sir Arthur Lee has accused men who have a record as good as he has of betraying the country. [More…]
I place the records of these men on the line as being as good as anybody’s - even as good as the President of the RSL, no matter what it was like. [More…]
Without any equivocation whatsoever I regard this statement as a persona] insult. [More…]
Let us examine some more of the statement made by Sir Arthur Lee. [More…]
What happens to these young men who wish to acquire a home through the War Service Homes Division after being sent by this Government to Vietnam is ironical. [More…]
That is the reason why I moved my amendment to the motion for the second reading of the Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]
In its amendment the Opposition is asking the Government to make available immediately finance to all successful applicants for war service home loans and not make them wait 6 months. [More…]
The figures I stated represent the average cost of land in those areas yet the maximum loan provided by this Government for war service homes is only $8,000. [More…]
We hear honourable members on the Government side speaking in this place about sending young Australians to Vietnam. [More…]
Four hundred young men have been killed and over 2,000 have been maimed. [More…]
It is time this Government stopped talking hypocritically not only about war but about what happens when these young men return from war. [More…]
The paradox for me is this: I know many members of the Australian Labor Parly and many men particularly in the trade union movement who not only know Communism well but also hate Communism. [More…]
They are men whom I like and men whom I trust. [More…]
But only disaster can follow a programme where men like these are continually and increasingly either being found to be expendable or are forced into positions where they have to go along with the latest Communist offensive. [More…]
I not only believe them to be false, however, but I go even further and say that they have been fraudulently made and documented and sold to tens of thousands of Australian people in publications which all too often bear the imprimatur of leading clergymen, parliamentarians, professors, professional men and others who ought to occupy positions of responsibility and trust. [More…]
The great majority of these antiGovernment booklets that have appeared on Vietnam use a very telling witness. [More…]
They claim that the government of South Vietnam knew that if it dared to hold such elections then the vote for a Communist country under the leadership of Ho Chi Minh would be overwhelming. [More…]
Their key witness, the man they quote, is General Eisenhower, and they say that his statement was something like this: [More…]
If the object of the exercise is to prevent confusion arising from the expression of different viewpoints, then all views which differ from those of the Administration and the Government must be suppressed. [More…]
The uncertainty we found was not about the question of the readiness of New Guinea for self-government and independence, not about the timetable that might be applied by this Government or by a Labor government, but about the role in terms of money and men that Australia would be willing to provide for a self-governing New Guinea and subsequently an independent New Guinea. [More…]
It is astonishing and disturbing how widespread is the impression that independence, self’government even, will mean an end to Australian help in money and men. [More…]
Indeed, only recently he used this fear to stifle critical Press comment in Australia and in the Territory itself. [More…]
If the people of Australia fail to appreciate where their true interest Tes in our future relations with an independent New Guinea, then it will be because of our failure as members of Parliament to rise to our responsibilities. [More…]
It is beyond question that aid in men and money to New Guinea will not only continue but will increase, probably for the rest of this century. [More…]
The Labor Party has clearly accepted this obligation for any government that it may form in the future. [More…]
The Government parties should lose no time in giving such assurances because it is in this area that the most damaging uncertainty exists in the Territory. [More…]
To emphasise the solemnity and sincerity of our undertaking, we have suggested that Australian assistance should be made part of treaty arrangements between the constitutional government of an independent New Guinea and the Government of Australia. [More…]
The discontent among permanent overseas officers is manifesting itself in frequent resignations of competent men, generally low morale, which will be attested to by any perceptive visitor who travels in the Territory. [More…]
I again repeat that the Australian people must come to know of this pernicious association with the Labor Party in this Parliament and of the influence that the Labor Party seeks to bring upon this Parliament. [More…]
It is time for the Labor men who are for Australia and for our troops to stand up and dissociate themselves from this pernicious campaign. [More…]
Men of good will and intelligence are to be found on both sides of (lie debate. [More…]
Indeed, in view of the complexity of the problems of Vietnam it is better to say that nien of good will and intelligence are lo be found in every position in the multi-dimensional continuum of possible views about Vietnam. [More…]
I would like to make some small mention of the medical profession, perhaps at some slight risk. [More…]
It now appears however that the medical profession, which is comprised very substantially of men of goodwill and men of hard labour, has not been as cohesive a trade union as in fact we suspected it was. [More…]
It may be somewhat salutary to mention that in very few, if any, other countries of the world does the medical profession enjoy such prestige and even mystique as it does in Australia. [More…]
At the same time - I would like to make my position clear - I do not for a moment suggest that the role played by medical men in the country is not one which is almost without peer and which is above the level of importance of any other calling. [More…]
Surely, the Parliament has justification for hoping that these wielders of the scalpel would also have incisive minds, that they would be men able to cut quickly to the core of concern in this debate, namely, the welfare of the people of Australia, the welfare of the patients. [More…]
By proposing his amendment that a national health insurance commission financed from graduated contributions would pay for medical and hospital services for all Australians more equitably and economically than the health benefits plan as proposed in this Bill, the honourable member for Oxley is rehashing his leader’s confidence trick of the last election. [More…]
The front men were 2 Melbourne economists, Messrs Deeble and Scotton. [More…]
I will certainly check on their authority to assist ex-servicemen from Vietnam. [More…]
The honourable member can rest assured that if any restriction is placed on these committees it will certainly be removed as it relates to the men who have served in Vietnam, if that is possible within the Government’s general policy. [More…]
Honourable members may recall that the other day I asked the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes) whether his attention had been drawn to statements made by the Leader of the Opposition in the Victorian Parliament, Mr Holding, when he addressed the Fabian Society. [More…]
Apparently Mr Holding said - and so far he has not denied it - that if a Labor government were elected into power in Victoria he, as Premier, would parole those people who are now in prison in that State as a result of a breach of a Commonwealth law - the National Service Act. [More…]
This is an indication of the sort of lawlessness which is appar ently in store for the Victorian people if the Labor Party does form a government in that State. [More…]
It is disgraceful that a potential Premier of a State should indicate that he would parole these men irrespective of the fact that they were given a fair trial and convicted of an offence under Commonwealth law. [More…]
This problem, which evoked a comment from the Prime Minister was brought to public notice in the city of Sydney by no less a body than the local surf life saving club which when examining the marine pollution of the Maroubra beach and the off-shore area had discovered it was the most polluted beach area. [More…]
Those young men - and I pay them a tribute - brought to the notice of the people in the area, the Premier of the State and no less a person than the Prime Minister that something should be done about it. [More…]
The Kitchen is designed for 25 men and the remaining facilities are designed for 15 men for later expansion to 25 men when necessary. [More…]
The existing officers’ mess is of temporary wartime construction and is designed for only 5 men. [More…]
On completion of the new officers’ mess the existing mess will be utilised as an annex to the existing sergeants’ mess which is also seriously overcrowded until replacement permanent facilities are provided. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government is one of the biggest, if not the biggest, employers of labour in Australia. [More…]
It employs some 320,000 men and women. [More…]
Only one other government at that time had the same provision but very few employers, if any, provided for 3 weeks annual leave then. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has allowed the annual leave provisions applicable to o its employees today to remain exactly whore they were in 1901. [More…]
A New South Wales Labor government introduced 4 weeks annual leave for all State government employees. [More…]
A South Australian Labor government introduced 4 weeks annual leave for its daily paid employees. [More…]
Although the Government seeks to explain this away by saying that this is because they work round the clock, it is true nevertheless that the shift conditions in that respect are exactly the same now as they were before. [More…]
Still’ the Government refuses to do anything about increasing annual leave for its employees to 4 weeks. [More…]
Nothing has been done by this Government to meet the changes in prices, lt has done nothing at all to see that wage rates of Commonwealth employees contain a fair share of the increase in national productivity. [More…]
The Government has done nothing to provide appropriate recompense for the proper and just evaluation of skill and responsibility involved in the tasks that are being performed for the Commonwealth, lt has done nothing to provide for equal pay. [More…]
Indeed, the Government has done its very best to prevent that by putting to the Arbitration Commission a 9-point formula which makes it virtually impossible for a woman to get the full rate of pay if she is doing work that is not normally done by men, such as the work of a triple certificated nursing sister. [More…]
A women who looks after the cleaning of toilets can get the male rate because males are employed in looking after toilets. [More…]
But a woman who is employed as a lavatory attendant in a ladies convenience cannot get it because men are not employed as lavatory attendants at a ladies convenience. [More…]
So runs the stupid reasoning of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The reason for this is that men cannot do it. [More…]
The reason that there are no male triple certificated nurses is that men cannot become and are not suitable to become triple certificated nurses. [More…]
They do not have the ability to do that work as well as women. [More…]
Men do not have the ability, as women have, to be in charge of child minding centres. [More…]
The Government grasps this slender, miserable reed and says: ‘For these reasons we will not give women the full adult male rate’. [More…]
The Government in fact refuses to give equal pay to women employed by Commonwealth Hostels Ltd who, according to the Arbitration Commissioner, were entitled to it. [More…]
Again, the Commonwealth Government appealed to the Commission against that decision. [More…]
I am still waiting for the Minister to give an answer to my question as to whether the Government gives to women employed by the Commonwealth Public Service a cheaper rate of board and lodging than that for men at the Macquarie pentagon and the various other hostels that it owns. [More…]
I am waiting for the Minister to explain how it is that men and women have to pay the same fares. [More…]
Why has the Government not dispensed with the need for a 2-year phasing-in period? [More…]
Even the female Hansard reporter is not being paid the male rate, and nobody is saying that she is not as capable as the men who work alongside her. [More…]
Is it fair to that iittle lady who sits there and takes the shorthand notes for Hansard reports as well as the men do? [More…]
- and I am quoting the men themselves. [More…]
Every member of the Hansard staff to whom I have spoken tells me that she takes the debates as well as any male employee does; yet the Government, because of its miserable penny pinching attitude, has decided that it will not give her the full male rate. [More…]
What about the female officers in charge of the Parliamentary Offices in the capital cities? [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…]
This Government seizes every opportunity to take from its female employees every cent it can, at the same time looking after its own members very nicely, with their VIP aircraft and their big daily allowances, which Ministers seem to help themselves to with great gusto whenever they get the opportunity. [More…]
It is about time the people of Australia rose up and told this Government, which pretends to represent the people, the thinking of the Commonwealth of Australia. [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…]
The kind of discrimination and prejudice involved in this particular clause will not be an encouragement to them. [More…]
Certainly it will not be an encouragement to the many patients who will require the services of an ophthalmologist. [More…]
The clause under discussion gives no encouragement to people who might be in fairly necessitous circumstances to go along and receive such eye treatment from highly qualified people. [More…]
These doctors are medical men with at least 6 years of undergraduate training plus at least 4 years of postgraduate training. [More…]
The Government is denying these people the freedom to prescribe glasses without in some way deterring the patient. [More…]
There are about 25 or 30 oral surgeons in Australia, and I do not think it will be very difficult for the Department, if necessary, or somebody else to say whose patients are to be eligible and to bring out a specialists list. [More…]
The patients of those with the medical qualifications will receive the benefits but not the patients of the other men, who may have things referred to them by the first group because some people are regarded as being better at it than others. [More…]
The patients of those men without medical qualifications will be denied benefit. [More…]
Men of good will and intelligence are to be found on both sides of the debate. [More…]
Indeed, in view of the complexities of the problems of Vietnam it is better to say that men of good will and intelligence are to be found in every position in the multi-dimensional continuum of possible views about Vietnam. [More…]
The likely result of different policies that might be attempted: For instance, leaving substantial forces in Vietnam for an indefinite period, Vietnarnising the war, trying to force a coalition government with the NLF on the South Vietnam government, withdrawing totally and absolutely, are all exceedingly difficult to weigh and assess. [More…]
The elderly people I speak of are mainly those who reared their families during the depression years; who, because of circumstances beyond their control, fought every inch of the way for years in order to feed, clothe and educate their children in a world that at that time was sick with poverty; who, many times denied themselves food so that their children could eat: who would have given anything within their power to have owned their own homes; and who worked 44, 48 and more hours a week at their jobs to earn a meagre living - and when I say worked, I mean worked, not just filled in the hours, because at that time there were 6 men ready to fill 4 men’s jobs. [More…]
I know many men who displayed exceptional courage during World War II, but I know many more men and women who displayed even greater courage during the depression years; for their type of courage was both physical and moral, and the odds against them were consistently present. [More…]
Our development as a nation is expanding as never before, and will continue to expand. [More…]
All this is good and full credit should be given to the Government for reaching this desirable state, but what of the old timers who helped up reach this situation? [More…]
Some 12 months ago when I mentioned this to an officer of the Department of Social Services he said that there was nothing to stop the wife from working. [More…]
Honourable members can believe me when I say that after such a task I was not the happiest of men. [More…]
The care of our aged people is a government responsibility and the present Government is to be commended for the assistance it has provided so far - assistance such as medical service and free medicine, cuts in television and radio licence fees and telephone accounts, reduced fares on pub’ic transport and the easing of the means test. [More…]
I now direct the attention of honourable members back to 1963, the year of the charge against the Labor Party Executive of having 36 faceless men and the year in which President Kennedy of the United States of America was assasinated. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies, who was then Prime Minister, saw fit to go before the people of Australia and to lie to them in a most blatant fashion. [More…]
In this place today I heard a question directed to the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who said in reply: ‘It is the policy of the Government’. [More…]
I say to him that if that is the policy of the Government, it needs to have a long hard look at its policy. [More…]
I have said before in this House, and I repeat for the benefit of honourable members opposite, that if they had any shred of feeling at all they should get out of this establishment when the House is in recess and look at the poverty that they have inflicted and continue to inflict on many members of the community. [More…]
I ask them to consider the miserly amount of money that the Government pays to a widow with a couple of dependent children and to consider the educational needs of the children and the pittance that the Government keeps them on. [More…]
You dodge your responsibility as men and you dodge your responsibility as politicians. [More…]
and (2) I am not aware that any undue concern is being caused to men, or the close relations of men who are referred to a consulting specialist by an examining Medical Board, nor should there be. [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…]
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…]
This advice is repeated in the official notice sent to him by my Department. [More…]
Of course, this area provides a superior anchorage and it may be used as a base for men on leave. [More…]
In that connection, I woul’d press the Government for a steady growth of this base so that it will become a significant naval base sooner than the 10 years which has been suggested. [More…]
A sense of urgency needs to be imposed by the Government to ensure their earliest possible construction. [More…]
No doubt the Government is considering this matter but I hope it wilt come to an early conclusion about the need for air strike capacity. [More…]
Going back into the pas[, 1 remember listening to some of the defence spokesmen for the Opposition, in particular the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) assuring us when he came back from one of his many travels - I think it was through Mongolia and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - that Australia could defend itself, that if the Australian militia were recruited it could put men around the periphery of Australia and that it could withstand the might of any attacking force. [More…]
The statement received headlines in the Press. [More…]
I am not putting the case for the Government in support of it but I am putting the argument that the Deputy Leader of . [More…]
We are not given any assistance to investigate the position of these men or to investigate whether they are carrying out their specific functions, even by perusal of their articles of association because we are not allowed to know what those articles of association are. [More…]
The Government believes in conscription. [More…]
1* conscripts men to fight; it conscripts people into the medical benefits funds. [More…]
Notwithstanding this, the Government seeks to deny contributors the knowledge they desire about those who run the funds. [More…]
The Minister would have adopted a much fairer attitude if he had accepted the amendment moved by the honourable member for Kingston, which seeks not only the provision of information already required to be provided by the funds but also additional information. [More…]
The present members so appointed are men cf great distinction and reputation in their respective fields. [More…]
The recommendations of the Committee can involve very serious financial and other implications to persons and companies. [More…]
The amendment could result in a situation in which men in the medical, pharmacological and pharmaceutical fields with the necessary attainments and professional standing would not be willing to serve on the Committee. [More…]
For that reason the Government does not propose to accept the amendment. [More…]
I suspect that is true because we spend singularly little on any sort of research, in including clinical research, and the correlation of data to allow proper judgment. [More…]
I am not trying to cast any doubts on the quality of the men involved. [More…]
Dairy farmers with small holdings have no cushion of wealth to protect themselves from the impact of the drastic changes through which the industry is going, nor in most cases can they offer sufficient security to enable the farmer to borrow for farm development. [More…]
Farmers are being forced out of the industry and in many cases, these men have had to sell at sacrifice prices. [More…]
Faced with this situation there are a number of courses open to the Government and the industry. [More…]
The third way is to adopt arrangements specifically designed to alleviate the marginal farm problem. [More…]
At present the Commonwealth offers rural retraining for national servicemen. [More…]
There is sound justification for providing this facility for young men whose careers have been interrupted by the need to undertake service in the defence forces. [More…]
It is by no means clear that such an additional benefit should be offered to men who are changing civilian employment. [More…]
At the same time the Government is currently giving attention to the question of vocational training, especially in regard to industrial trade training, and I am willing to look at this question again as experience accrues in the operation of the marginal dairy farms reconstruction scheme. [More…]
Surely this is a matter that ought to cause men who enter this Parliament from business circles to hesitate, because it seems to me to be a normal business practice that the more you develop the less you should depend upon the money of other people. [More…]
Let us keep in mind, too, that the most respectable of stockbrokers throughout Australia - men such as Sir Ian Potter and Mr Staniforth Ricketson - are aligned … in opposing this indiscriminate inflow of foreign investment. [More…]
lt is my view after discussion with eminent legal men that the Bill has been carefully drawn for the purposes of assisting the advancement of trade and commerce. [More…]
We know that this Parliament is covered under section 51 of the Constitution as regards constitutional power. [More…]
The legislation cuts across - and let us be clear on this - the whole structure of conservative thought that has governed this Government for the past 20 years. [More…]
It is a challenge to the establishment. [More…]
These are some of the problems that confront this Government. [More…]
Of that amount $l,386m has been sent overseas and the remainder has been reinvested within their establishments in this country to earn bigger and better profits. [More…]
Again, some Australian manufacturing companies enter into agreements with foreign companies for the manufacture under patent of certain goods in this country. [More…]
This practice is growing, as I will show in a few moments. [More…]
In 1951 payments remitted overseas for the use of foreign patents amounted to $3m, as they did in 1952 and 1953. [More…]
From that time there was a gradual upward trend in the amount of payments remitted overseas and in 1968 the figure reached $64m. [More…]
I remind him that men of such high standing as Sir Harold Raggatt, a former Secretary of the Department of National Development, was reported in the Australian’ as far back as June 1965 to have said: [More…]
The Opposition would have the Corporation under direct government control. [More…]
The Opposition would do away with the expertise of experienced men such as the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey) mentioned when he spoke of qualifications. [More…]
So we differentiate very clearly between qualified directors and government control, government interference, the dead hand of a Socialist empire trying to dictate to this Corporation for its own political advantage. [More…]
I will not go into their qualifications because they are referred to in the Bill and were mentioned in the Minister’s second reading speech. [More…]
However I am vitally interested in the fact that the majority of directors of the Corporation should be properly qualified men of stature. [More…]
I hope to see on the board men whose names are household words - the Vernons the Simpsons, the Mcclellands, the Darlings - men of status and experience in their own fields. [More…]
In my view, and I hope in the Government’s view, the success of this scheme will depend completely on the quality of the part time directors. [More…]
Finally, I ask the Government to take into consideration some remarkable figures that have been prepared by the Returned Services League of Australia showing the erosion that has occurred in the compensa tion value of pensions over the last 20 years. [More…]
I believe that the Government, which is constantly voicing its concern for the men who are fighting for this country, should take the opportunity before the Budget is presented to rectify the situation. [More…]
This Government is a government of double standards. [More…]
It is completely out of touch with the realities of the problems confronting certain sectors of the public because Government supporters, in the main, come from and represent the privileged part of our society. [More…]
How can men who have never had to live a lite consistent with the life of the majority of the people of the Commonwealth know what it is to live in substandard conditions? [More…]
What possible concept have Government supporters of the plight of the people that the Government has forced to live in such conditions? [More…]
I conclude by stating that the Government is discriminating against most of the people by ignoring their needs, their welfare, their protection, their health and their security and imposing at the same time a taxation burden from which the country gets scant and reluctant government benefit. [More…]
1 ask: Has he received reports that a leading university physician has recommended regular psychiatric examination of politicians? [More…]
Has Australia signed a document which states that war begins in the minds of men and it is in the minds of men that peace must be constructed? [More…]
He is the most experienced counsel in this Parliament. [More…]
The then AttorneyGeneral accompanied the Minister for National Development to the meeting on 26th September. [More…]
The Minister for Education and Science is one of the guilty men in that Cabinet. [More…]
He is one of the men who has been shown to have brought dishonour on this Government. [More…]
Then we are told that when on one occasion I said ‘this’, it did not refer to off-shore mining legislation, but that what it referred to was administrative arrangements or the issuing of titles. [More…]
Could anyone think that when J said: ‘We will have a further meeting’, I would have called together the 6 State Mines Ministers, who are very busy men, only to discuss the issuing of some title. [More…]
Does anyone think that I would have taken it to Cabinet if what I meant by this was only the issuing of a title or further administrative arrangements? [More…]
lt was perfectly clear in my mind, and I believe it was perfectly clear in the minds of the State Mines Ministers, that what I was referring to was further discussions on off-shore oil legislation, and there was a need for further discussions because, as the then Attorney-General has said, we were hoping for a joint arrangement under which we would legislate from the 3-mile mark and the States would have a similar type of legislation up to the 3-mile mark. [More…]
Hence the Government is in the dilemma in which it is at the present time, with Ministers rushing around trying to persuade the recalcitrant members of their own Party to support them, or at least not to abstain from voting, and sending out urgent messages for men who have gone off to other places to come back by air. [More…]
It is one that J believe is a complete travesty of parliamentary procedure. [More…]
This Government is not prepared at this stage to put this matter to a vote. [More…]
The honourable member for Chisholm knows that this amendment has been moved by one of the most reputable men in this Parliament and in Australian politics. [More…]
But we on this side of the Parliament do not. [More…]
It is interesting today to hear the Government saying how it has honoured its obligations to the States in this matter, but at this very moment in the Prime Minister’s (Mr Gorton) office the terms of surrender are being drawn up. [More…]
Ere this day is over the Prime Minister and his Party will stand in this Parliament and capitulate in line and in proof of the statements made by the honourable member for Farrer. [More…]
So little is known within the Government about what the Prime Minister is doing that not even the next Minister who is going to talk will know what is happening until he sits down and finds out that everything he said was wrong under the terms of surrender. [More…]
From one end of this country to the other at this moment the telephone lines are burning and men are getting onto planes. [More…]
Liberals are being recalled from everywhere because the Government is in danger. [More…]
The Opposition supports the honourable member for Farrer, not because we like him but because we on this side of the Parliament are men of integrity and honour. [More…]
The Labor Party, in government and in opposition, honours its obligations to the people of Australia. [More…]
Today the Parliament is held up for a full day because a dispute which should have been settled with honour and integrity in the Party room has been brought into the Parliament as the Prime Minister, too blind to see and to realise that his honour is at stake, refused to fight this matter where it should have been fought. [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…]
I hope that ere this day is out the Government will be out of office following the carriage of a resolution that stands for the very principle of democratic government. [More…]
A government ought to be out of office once it loses its honour and integrity, when it will not honour its obligations, when it endeavours to force legislation through in the manner that this Government does, when it throws out of office men of reputation and integrity because they differ from the Prime Minister and when its members and supporters bring the bickerings from their Party meetings into the public place. [More…]
I hope this motion will be carried in order to vindicate the honourable member for Farrer - in order to vindicate all who support integrity and honesty in government - and, at the same time, for once in a while give this country a chance to get going. [More…]
He turned his great talents to arguments designed to confuse and confound. [More…]
He comes into this House as one of the men with the greatest proven intellectual capacity. [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…]
The issue here is that this Government has no honour. [More…]
We have just listened to the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen) enter a debate in a low key in which he used words like ‘ambiguity’ and ‘misunderstanding between friends’, made passing reference to what he called the Labor Party’s view on co-operative federalism’ and defended what happens when a government changes. [More…]
He did not address himself to many people in the Parliament. [More…]
In fact, he addressed himself to a small number in this House about whom he and the Government are concerned. [More…]
I came, indeed, to join with men of goodwill to strengthen the entire fabric of administration and upgrade it in the interests of the nation. [More…]
An attempt has been made to make this a purely personal issue between 2 men. [More…]
One was the relations between a Minister representing the Government and the States in the matter of off-shore mining legislation. [More…]
It is so absurd that no Minister could run his department on such a basis, no person could look after a family on such a basis, and no person could have relations with others in a community on such a basis. [More…]
These are 7 men of at least some probity. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government recognised a moral obligation. [More…]
The judgment of men of probity, of intelligence and of balance also is that promises were not kept. [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…]
We now have a motion and an amendment before the House. [More…]
The motion was moved by the Opposition as a motion of no confidence in the Government, the strongest and most fundamental motion that can he moved against a government in a parliament. [More…]
We have an amendment which is presumably something less than that, and which was described by the Leader of the House (Mr Snedden) a few minutes ago as not black but purple. [More…]
The amendment is not a vote of no confidence in the Government hut it is a censure of the Government. [More…]
The House has an alternative now, either to vote for no confidence in the Government or to vote for an amendment which is a significant criticism of the Government and a significant censure of the Government. [More…]
The amendment was moved by the Government itself. [More…]
After a debate that has been over 12 hours in duration we now have the Government moving a censure of itself. [More…]
We have the Government moving an amendment which is a very significant criticism of itself. [More…]
The motion of want of confidence was accepted this morning by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) as a motion of censure against the Govern men t and he said he would meet it head on. [More…]
Somewhere about August of last year in a case that did not have anything in particular to do with this series of discussions - a case that was mentioned by the honourable member for Farrer last Friday - 2 judges indicated that the Commonwealth had authority from the low water mark out indefinitely. [More…]
But the honourable member for Farrer, the former Minister for National Development, had given an undertaking to the State Ministers for Mines that was based upon a different policy. [More…]
He had given what we claim to be a commitment. [More…]
just a change of policy; not a change of commitment, not a breaking of any undertaking, not a breaking of any promise to the State Ministers - a change of policy. [More…]
They were committed to him because they thought that what he said to the State Ministers was the Government’s policy at the time and was a commitment, surely, in anybody’s language. [More…]
But then along came the clever men who suggested some semantic differences. [More…]
They have moved an amendment and have said that this was not a change of commitment, it was a change of policy. [More…]
The gentlemen who apparently were taking strong positions during the course of the day have gone to water. [More…]
I submit that the former Minister for National Development made a commitment to the State Ministers, and this they understood. [More…]
It was a commitment that there would be a division of responsibility between the 2 sets of government. [More…]
That was the policy of the Government up to mat point. [More…]
A commitment was made on that policy as clearly as a commitment has ever been made on any policy. [More…]
Of course, the judgment has to be made on this matter and I would not expect political supporters whose retention of their seats depends upon backing their party to allow these things to have the faintest influence upon their decisions, even when they take self-righteous positions on moral grounds, or on always being independently minded men, as the honourable member for Chisholm (Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes) does. [More…]
Australia’s development in the last decade has been marked by rapid industrial growth. [More…]
The discovery of these reserves is the work of men of vision. [More…]
It is a remarkable record of achievement by private enterprise both in Australia and overseas. [More…]
Al] this has been helped by the initiative of the Government in devising effective policies and providing facilities for development: encouraging confidence in the development of Australia. [More…]
Not enough credit is given to the Government in this regard. [More…]
An entirely new era in Australian industrial development is dawning, founded on a sound industrial base that has been already achieved. [More…]
The opportunity is now with us to develop industries to world stature and competitiveness by achieving higher levels of processing of Australian raw materials by associated industries and the full development of Australian inventiveness. [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…]
In the 19th century it was mechanisation - machines took the place of men’s hands. [More…]
Now we are getting automation where machines are taking the place of men’s minds. [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…]
On this side of the House we believe that these aims of industrial development, hand in hand with desirable social changes and the preservation of the environment, can be achieved only by democratic socialism. [More…]
Are these earnest men who have suddenly awakened to the dangers in this proposal? [More…]
The answer would be over on the other side of this chamber, because they are the men who have sworn to socialise the means of exchange and their enthusiastic reception of this legislation is almost the kiss of death, not only to this matter but to the future, to competitive strength and to the kind of energy that is generated by competition, business and the enormous thrust of the great mining companies. [More…]
None of this great boom that has taken place in Australia would have occurred if that alternative government were sitting on this side of the House because anybody who had any prospects of iron ore and the rest of it would know that that government would steal it from them by nationalisation of the means of distribution, production and exchange. [More…]
Do these men know nothing about it? [More…]
There is a general provision in the taxation law which covers both men and women without discrimination as to sex. [More…]
However, as the honourable member for Shortland mentioned by way of interjection, he asked me a question along similar lines last week. [More…]
Almost daily there is some new development in Mount Isa. [More…]
My remarks apply almost exclusively to areas where you have sudden and dramatic development. [More…]
These men do not have large financial resources. [More…]
He is a wonderful man and he is assisted by other wonderful men. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, 1 thank the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes) for having made this statement which I sought during question time after the statements by Dr Gunther were reported in the Press. [More…]
Allegations of the nature which are the subject of the Minister’s statement must always be taken seriously. [More…]
Dr Gunther is one of the few men of authority in the Territory who can speak freely. [More…]
He stated that the day before the Committee arrived in Wobang a local kiap had told the people that if self government came all white men would leave. [More…]
The Government’s general attitude to the Territory is consonant with such expressions of opinion. [More…]
They are now to rise to the equivalent of those of city members under the catch as catch can basis of adjustment. [More…]
If it is the view of the Government that electorate allowances are to be paid on an area basis, or even on a population basis, senators are entitled to the highest rate of all, whereas they have climbed only to the lowly status of a city representative. [More…]
The Government cannot have it both ways. [More…]
It is reasonable to say that all senators, as they are dedicated and sincere men, devote their energies to giving effective representation to the people of their State. [More…]
Men of education and quality, but without private means, would be deterred from entering public life. [More…]
Parliament would be composed of men of wealth, persons subsidised by and acting as mouthpieces of vested interests, and men whose capacities were so low that they could not obtain well-paid positions in private life. [More…]
If 1 support the move of the Government ‘to build a naval base in Western Australia’, or it may be ‘to build a harbour in Queensland’, I have a responsibility to endeavour to see some of these things in order to ensure that my vote is being rightly placed. [More…]
My bank manager insists on asking mc why he should maintain me in Parliament. [More…]
If you are the Minister for the Army it is not loo much trouble to go somewhere to look at some Army installation - perhaps to visit an entertainment unit consisting of 4 men and receive a full travelling allowance and free accommodation. [More…]
I am suggesting that they be encouraged now to have a look at the treatment works at Malabar, evaluate if they can the problem that is already there, and warn the Government, whether it be State or Federal, what will be the problem in the future unless some effective treatment is encouraged at both the secondary and tertiary levels. [More…]
We want these scientific men employed now. [More…]
The suggestion that the solution is merely to discharge the effluents into the marine environment is no longer tenable. [More…]
There must be a better method for the treatment of sewage. [More…]
It can no longer be disposed of by discharging it into the marine environment. [More…]
With the future of Botany Bay involved now is the last opportunity to suggest to the Commonwealth that it encourage this group of scientists to have a look at this problem and report to this Parliament if need be. [More…]
In closing the debate perhaps I might refer to the fact that the Prime Minister in farewelling Her Majesty the Queen at the Sydney Airport announced the creation of Queen’s fellowships in marine science to commemorate Her Majesty’s visit, lt might be convenient if I now give honourable members a few more details about these fellowships which will be under the administration of myself and of my Department. [More…]
They will be tenable at the Australian Institute of Marine Science, the James Cook University of North Queensland, or at an other Australian university or research establishment on the recommendation of the Australian Institute of Marine Science. [More…]
Until the Institute is established in its final form the Interim Council will be the one to advise on these fellowships, to allow flexibility in selecting the best men available the stipend and allowances will be offered at 2 levels. [More…]
And these men arc distinguished by a certain sanity, which, to be sure, may in part bc the product of social and political experience, but is assuredly in part due to the type of education that the English receive in school and college. [More…]
I should like to commend, if that is necessary, the Government for taking on this follow-up proposition in relation to these 2 halls of residence. [More…]
Despite the fact that there are elements in the community who consider that universities get perhaps more than their just due and that the ultimate provision of full time accommodation for university students is something which perhaps we could do better without, I commend the present trend. [More…]
It is interesting to mention some relevant figures in relation to trends in Australia and elsewhere. [More…]
The remainder, roughly 19% of the men and 13% of he women, were living at home. [More…]
The men’s hall of residence, Hytten Hall, has expanded very considerably in recent years under the very able wardenship of a longstanding colleague of mine. [More…]
The only women’s hall of residence is one which is not of the university but has long been associated with it. [More…]
Until the recent advent of a rather small Catholic women’s college, again off campus, this was the only accommodation available for female students. [More…]
So the proposition that there should be a women’s hall of residence - the direct female counterpart of Hytten Hall - is to be commended, lt is very much in demand and will be amply and properly used when the time comes. [More…]
Under this Bill $47,241 is being provided for the women’s hall of residence at the University of Tasmania and $454,930 for the Roberts Hall at Monash University. [More…]
The underprivileged student with a real desire to equip himself for his chosen profession - the type of person who eventually becomes one of our most valued professional men - does not have the means to live at a university college. [More…]
I think we should remember that these halls provide more than just living quarters for young men and young women who attend these universities. [More…]
I am proud of these 4 men and the fifth, Tony Abrahams, who did not take part in the interview because he was in England. [More…]
However, with the establishment of the steel works in Whyalla and with greatly increased production there was a change in the attitude of BHP. [More…]
My authority for that statement is a BHP official. [More…]
Men arc continually working on it and trying to maintain it to a standard which is safe for motorists. [More…]
I am not sure of the times, lt is marvellous the job those men were able to do between the passage of those 2 trains. [More…]
So I suggest to the Minister that serious consideration be given to the employment of the present Commonwealth Railways staff to do the track laying. [More…]
I feel that the Federal Government would do well to confer with State governments in regard to the psychological equipment and special training that are needed for people who have to go into these areas. [More…]
As I have said, this change has sometimes resulted in quite tragic consequences, particularly in the case of young men. [More…]
1 do not want by remarks to be misconstrued for one moment, but the most recent addition to my State of Queensland in the educational field has been the estab lishment of a teachers training college in the city of Townsville. [More…]
I have a great sentimental and geographical attachment to Townsville and I very proudly regard it as my capital. [More…]
I mention this to bring out a particular point. [More…]
The demands of a teachers training college are such that we try to attract to them people who are particularly familiar with the environment or particularly suited to specialise in a particular environment. [More…]
I refer to the women in the community, in particular the married women. [More…]
The figures will probably show that there are 40,000 more young men in the Australian universities this year than there are young women. [More…]
Yet young women have the same intellectual capacity, social characteristics and so on as their brothers. [More…]
But they have been drop-outs, not because of any lack of intellectual capacity but simply because they happened to be women. [More…]
They were preceded by similar generations of women who may well be 30 years or 40 years of age but who could well be offered university training at this stage. [More…]
In some circumstances you could give so much that the material resources and the resources of manpower to erect colleges in the 3 year term could not cope with the amount given There is a limitation on what can be realistically, properly and reasonably used by the States, having regard to their plans, resources, materials and men available. [More…]
We can pity Mr Holding and the Federal Leader of the Labor Party in their battle with the left wing Victorian State Executive because they believed that they had won their argument. [More…]
Honourable members can imagine the panic in Mr Holding’s office when, on the afternoon of the policy speech, newspaper men drew their attention to what the ALP Executive had done. [More…]
The fact is that this Parliament and its machinery is geared to debate generalities on the second reading of a Bill, rather than to examine its specifics in the Committee of the whole. [More…]
This is inherent in the nature of Parliament in a 2-party system. [More…]
The Parliament is, properly and necessarily, the forum of the parties as much as the instrument of the Executive Government. [More…]
There will be many circumstances in which one or other type of committee is most suitable or acceptable; but as a basic way of reforming the machinery of this Parliament, to secure the best use of our best men, I am convinced that we should increasingly turn to joint standing committees. [More…]
They should be joint to avoid buck-passing and confrontation between the Houses and duplication of witnesses and work; they should be standing to secure prior and continuing information on relevant subjects and follow-up on recommendations and reports. [More…]
Only joint standing committees can become a regular part of the work of the whole Parliament, rather than an ad hoc addition to the work of part of it. [More…]
The only sure way to secure a vote on the establishment of a select committee is to move an amendment to a Bill; in that event the mover is accused of delaying the Bill. [More…]
It has been a considerable disappointment to me that Labor efforts to secure Senate select committees since 1967 have succeeded in only one case - on health costs - and that committee led to the Nimmo Committee. [More…]
Some Senate select committees - for example, those on road accidents and television production in Australia - have had cavalier treatment from Governments. [More…]
At the next Senate election, and at the House of Representatives elections, I shall propose joint standing committees - for example, on Aboriginals, science and technology, health, education and welfare and technical change as my Party’s platform ordains, and, as I have often advocated, on such matters as law reform, Commonwealth-State agreements and New Guinea. [More…]
The fundamental purpose of committees is to secure more and better information for members and to ensure more and greater participation by members. [More…]
We would show scant confidence in ourselves, and the parties we belong to if we appeared to believe that better information and more participation would not lead to better government, and better parties, as well as a better Parliament. [More…]
Anybody associated with the sugar industry in the Burnett area knows full well of the tragedies of sugar farmers over the years, particularly in the Wallaville and Gin Gin areas where men in some years have not received one cent by way of income because sugar crops - one of the toughest crops of all - have failed to produce sufficient on some farms to harvest a stick. [More…]
1 will be very interested to hear any arguments put forward against this proposal. [More…]
The only thing I. have against this scheme, and it is not an argument, is thai in terms of priorities we should be considering this project with other projects, but at the moment this is the only scheme under consideration. [More…]
I am pleased to follow 2 prominent men who have made a substantial contribution towards development in Australia in recent times. [More…]
I refer to the previous Minister for National Development, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn) and his chief and most able adviser, the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson). [More…]
Both these men have very forcibly put forward the case on the economics of this scheme. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson has moved the following amendment: [More…]
Gordon Chenery, and the team of fellows who got together, organised their community and showed the Government that they really meant business. [More…]
People can get determined and quite emotional’ and present a very determined front but if they do not have a case to present to the Government then their actions are pretty futile. [More…]
Not only did these men have a case but they prepared it magnificently and most constructively. [More…]
I might say that the men who have called for a stop to water conservation - a moratorium on dam construction as they have called it - would be the first to howl if they got up in the morning, went to their bathrooms and turned on taps which did not produce some water. [More…]
The additional military assistance teams will in fact total about 1 30 men. [More…]
Did these men extend open invitations to Press organisations to send their representatives with them? [More…]
He was accompanied on that visit both by some of his colleagues and by some newspaper men. [More…]
I have no knowledge whatsoever of how he went about inviting either his colleagues or his newspaper men. [More…]
I do not know how he went about choosing or issuing invitations to these newspaper men who went with him on that occasion. [More…]
In any event, I did quite a bit of reading in the public library in Brisbane, and one of the most influential documents I read was a report on this subject by the British Ministry of Social Welfare. [More…]
This report established - and this is particularly important to people in the Labor movement because we represent these people - that there is a definite correlation between retirement and an upsurge in mortality among men within 18 months of retirement. [More…]
Within 18 months of retirement there is a very marked upsurge on the graph of mortality amongst men. [More…]
It is in this regard that I want to pay a tribute in the national Parliament to the great work being performed by Dr Brian Dickens and the Board of Directors of the Westhaven Association, to the staff of Westhaven - Mr Tom McCann, who is the Superintendent, Mrs Amitzbol and Mrs Wrigley - to the teachers Mrs Honfi, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Austin and Mrs Blakemore, and to the Matron Mrs Donnelly. [More…]
I mention these people by name in this national Parliament because 1 think that their names should be recorded because of the great work they are doing in this centre. [More…]
1 would also like to refer to the splendid work that is being done by the men and women of the whole district in supporting this great complex in the city of Dubbo. [More…]
Today Westhaven, as 1 said earlier, is a very large regional complex able to cater for a great number of children and adults, both male and female, who are either physically or mentally handicapped. [More…]
The growth of these services is due to the dedicated workers for Westhaven - the outstanding local public support, the support from service clubs and other allied groups in Dubbo and throughout the Central West and the support that the Slate and Commonwealth governments have given this establishment over recent years. [More…]
In addition, as an example of the co-operation that has been developed in New South Wales between the statutory and voluntary agencies, the Department of Education has established an OF school for 48 moderately handicapped children, some of whom are accommodated in the Westhaven children’s hostel. [More…]
Since 1964 the Association has received $28,728 from the New South Wales Government by way of capital subsidy towards the establishment of its hostel and extension of the school while the Commonwealth Government, through the Department of Social Services, has provided $41,877 towards its farm project and $18,674 for equipment used in its sheltered work programme. [More…]
At present application has been made to the Federal authorities for further capital assistance, including $15,500 for extensions to the hostel and for certain equipment and $18,000 towards the extension of the sheltered workshop. [More…]
Just recently the Association has entered into an arrangement with the Department of the Interior to buy land adjoining the hostel. [More…]
When those who were perhaps slightly mentally retarded - and this country is full of such people today - went to school, because of some mental disability they were put down as dunces and placed at the bottom of the class. [More…]
One has only to reflect - and I was Minister for the Army for 8 years - on the enormously high percentage of young men in this country who cannot pass an examination that a normal child of 10 could pass. [More…]
1 mention these matters to place emphasis upon the range of the problem of people who suffer from some handicap. [More…]
I do not believe that the public at large or, indeed, governments reflect sufficiently on this or are even aware of the extent of the problem. [More…]
Then there are the mentally handicapped. [More…]
I do not propose to mention all of them, but if honourable members study this subject they will find that there is an enormous number of disabilities ranging from the incurable through those who are wholly or partially disabled to those who are affected in a slight way. [More…]
It is much more difficult to raise money for children who are mentally handicapped, or for an organisation such as the Hanover Centre, which works for derelict men, or for alcoholics,’ Mr Scott says. [More…]
-I did read these particular statements; in fact, I have become a compulsive reader of any statement on education. [More…]
The 6 State governments which are responsible very largely in this field and the Commonwealth Government are not likely to be stampeded by Press reports of the views of transient visitors from different educational systems. [More…]
On the other hand I would say that there is no closed mind either of my colleagues in the States or of myself on the issues which have been raised by these men. [More…]
One of the difficulties in this field is that there has not been enough basic research giving us the facts on which sound judgments can be based about changes of this type. [More…]
When the Prime Minister, in his policy speech last year, announced the establishment of an advisory committee on development and research in education this gap was seen as capable, we hoped, of being filled, and I am currently working on the establishment of this committee which will be recommending the initiation or support of basic research. [More…]
If one visits the cathedrals erected in Britain and throughout western Europe in mediaeval times one can well understand from the effigies and sarcophagi that formerly men took longer to develop and when developed were smaller than men are now. [More…]
And in cold figures - as well as in cold stone in mediaevaltimes - the statistics demontrate quite clearly that over the last 100 years men and women have been maturing at a younger age. [More…]
By any standards men and women are as mature at 18 years now as they were at 21 only a generation ago. [More…]
They practise a knowledge of the performing andplastic arts at a much younger age than men and women did a generation ago. [More…]
I do not want to canvass the validity of Government policy on Vietnam and on conscription - my own views are well enough known, I trust - but it is sufficient to say that it is because people in these age groups are inevitably involved in these 2 issues that they are stirred up. [More…]
Whether we think that they are right or wrong, the fact is that the young people, men and women of 18, 19 and 20, are much more critical these days. [More…]
The Government has always had as its objective to draft into military service young men at the age of 20. [More…]
The Opposition has as its paramount objective to draft into citizen rights and responsibilities young men and young women at the age of 18. [More…]
It is only obstinacy on the part of the Government, or dilatoriness or sloth which is responsible for the delay. [More…]
As a matter of fact, what we are asking for is this: That a legal anachronism, a feudal anachronism, some 900 years old should be removed for all time as a permanent insult to the young men and young women of this country. [More…]
Old men create wars and send young men to fight them. [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…]
We need these young men and young women to be inducted into full citizenship. [More…]
They are entitled to express their views and to express them not outside Parliament but inside it and to have their representatives here because there is a definite younging of the population in Australia. [More…]
A definite need exists today for the young to be able to enter this Parliament and to express freely their grievances. [More…]
The day has passed when people can insist that young, mature, physically capable, mentally alert Australians should be treated as infants at law until the age of 21. [More…]
In the countryside at the moment, a great deal of complaint has been made about the state of the rural economy. [More…]
But the state of the rural economy and, of course, the hardships being suffered are attributable directly to the decisions of government. [More…]
I am suggesting that the Government can catch up on a decision that was made in error and in panic by doing the one thing that is open to it clearly and simply at this time in relation to the 1969-70 crop. [More…]
These men are not game to deliver because they are not sure what they will get for it. [More…]
These men are not game to deliver their wheat because they do not know whether they should give it to the Board. [More…]
If these men do not receive money for what they deliver, they will be out of business. [More…]
The New South Wales Minister for Agriculture used the term that there were no guilty men among the wheat growers. [More…]
Well, let me say that if there were no guilty men among the wheat growers we must recognise the fact that whatever operations they undertook they undertook with the support of banking institutions, public and private, and private enterprises which operate to service them with money. [More…]
I for one - and I am sure there are very many other people with me - am very grateful that we have at this lime, and this will be in retrospect without the slightest shadow of doubt, a Government and a Minister who that have an understanding of and sympathy for primary producers and that encouraged them 10 go on in spite of the criticism received. [More…]
He handled one of the most difficult jobs that ever a Minister has had to handle in this Parliament. [More…]
He has done so with great credit to himself and to the Government. [More…]
It was a good thing also that we had in the Australian Wheatgrowers Federation men of similar calibre. [More…]
As Senior Vice-Pres dent he contributed very considerably to the sound policy that was recommended lo the Government by the Federation. [More…]
1 am of the opinion that the men in the Wheatgrowers Federation are dedicated to the proposition that wheat growers should get the best deal that this country can give them. [More…]
Every member of the Country Party represents a rural constituency I was amazed to see the men who were put up by the [More…]
But men up and down this country- [More…]
They are men who have been up against droughts, floods, bad seasons, surpluses in good seasons and these sorts of things. [More…]
I would be tremendously happy if it was economically practicable to pay $1.10 per bushel. [More…]
By the way, the honourable member went into the Mallee to help 2 Labor men in the recent Victorian State elections. [More…]
Both men were soundly thrashed. [More…]
He had some of these very men at Barham to ask me questions. [More…]
in thi* Parliament, called Mr Anthony a messenger boy. [More…]
The statement I made was delivered at a big wheal growers meeting. [More…]
I attended the big wheal growers meeting in Bendigo - and I can say this tonight because the debate is on the subject of wheal - and I suggested thai it was of no use sending men to see the Minister for Primary Industry, the Treasurer (Mr Bury) or the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) separately. [More…]
If I were lo draw up a list of members of Parliament for whom I have great admiration and regard al the highest possible level. [More…]
Secondary industry in this country has been built up to provide employment for Australians so that they may help to build this nation and strengthen the home market. [More…]
I think one of the elements of democracy is that everyone has to be criticised. [More…]
But I find it rather unfortunate when criticism is levelled at the men in the wheat industry who have battled to try to find answers to their problems. [More…]
But just at this time of crisis the wheat industry has been able to produce men of great substance to give this sort of leadership. [More…]
I sometimes feel very sad that the wool industry is not as united as the wheat industry in the moments of crisis that it is going through at the moment. [More…]
If we have a disunited industry, industry divided by States there would be little likelihood of getting the support of the 6 State governments which is absolutely vital if we are to have a stabilisation scheme or some form of quota deliveries. [More…]
We could not even maintain an Australian wheat board without the unanimous co-operation of the State governments. [More…]
Within a period of 6 weeks we had the acceptance of the entire industry, all State governments and the Commonwealth Government, to the largest orderly marketing arrangement that this country had ever seen, which imposed a discipline on wheat growers right across the country. [More…]
realising the importance of having the arrangement accepted because without it there would have been ultimately absolute chaos and ruin in the industry. [More…]
These men accepted the calf. [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…]
So the Government has decided to do this at the request of the industry. [More…]
Japan is becoming a good outlet for our dairy products, thank goodness, but we have to keep the social fabric, we have to keep this farming fabric going, because these farmers are the men who have for 200 years supported our export income and have produced the character that is Australian. [More…]
There is some complementary legislation in New South Wales which refers to this dairy industry authority. [More…]
A couple of Labor men were there. [More…]
It is most depressing that the Government has had to bring in these Bills now and for us to have to support them. [More…]
The authoritative economic bulletin ‘Building Outlook’ last week added strength to the black outlook for home building in Western Australia, lt stated: lt is now expected that the remaining 8 months of 1970 will see continued falls in the number of dwellings commenced, taking the level to around 2,500 units for the December quarter. [More…]
lt is still not too late to take some definite action to give relief, lt is still not too late to remove the increase in interest rates before new agreements to purchase are entered into, before building society loans are revised, before further building companies collapse to add to the number which already have gone into bankruptcy and before the building industry slows up lo such a degree that it will take a major collapse to bring action by the Government for relief. [More…]
The National President of the Housing Industry Association, one of the top men representing the industry, had this to say: [More…]
The Opposition is trying to get this Government to assist an industry which is ‘ not a minor one of insignificant consequence. [More…]
Over the years it has employed 18,000 or 19,000 men and women. [More…]
The peak level of employment at the various establishments operated by de Havilland is about 5,000. [More…]
The Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation today is employing some 2,700 men and women. [More…]
The same thing can be said about the Government Aircraft Factories. [More…]
The aircraft industry has the ability to produce, yet the Government is doing nothing about it. [More…]
April of the sending by the Territory of Papua and New Guinea Administration of police reinforcements to quell fights at the copper mining project on Bougainville refer to happenings on and before 11th April involving some 22 men or to later happenings. [More…]
Because of the difficulties involved in the work the Warmaram requested assistance from the Government in money and kind. [More…]
The various Government Departments have agreed to allow these men to participate in this mission. [More…]
These members are not representatives of the Government - they are just a group amongst the whole Tolai people. [More…]
I believe that this situation should be very closely examined al all government levels. [More…]
By derivation civilised men are those who live in cities; pagans are those who live in the country’. [More…]
The first is the comment by him to which I have referred and the second is the fact that he stood in front of this House and addressed 1,200 people under 2 Vietcong flags. [More…]
As the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said, it is one of the most involved and confused Acts ever introduced into this Parliament and on many occasions over the years I, like other honourable members, have had to go to Treasurers to ask their advice, to ask for an explanation, to ask them in some way to help me go through the mire of sections and counter sections which are in the Act, in order to arrive at a clear understanding as to the entitlement of a soldier or an ex-soldier, but to no avail. [More…]
I am not referring to the present Treasurer (Mr Bury) because 1 have not yet tested him, but previous Treasurers when confronted, have almost said - I do not attribute this as a direct statement to them - that they did not understand the Act and for goodness sake get in touch with the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board which would endeavour to sort it out for me. [More…]
I think also that this has been one of the reasons why many regular servicemen have decided to get out earlier than they might otherwise have done. [More…]
They have been greatly frustrated by being unable to understand exactly what their entitlements are under the Act and exactly what their rights are in the event of some malady or disability overtaking them. [More…]
This applies particularly to the class C area in which men have just not known whether they were coming or going and just what their entitlements were. [More…]
Many a father, completely disgusted with the treatment he received under the scheme, has discouraged sons who perhaps may have wished to enter the regular Services. [More…]
There are other anomalies in the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
Men who have given 30 or more years service and who wish to resign, whether their reasons are personal or otherwise, should he entitled to do so and to receive a reasonable pension. [More…]
I would like to think that the House was unanimous in agreeing that something needs to be done to investigate the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act with a view to drawing up clearer and more precise legislation so that every soldier will know exactly where he stands and what his future is. [More…]
I will have great pleasure in supporting the amendment of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition that a joint committee of both Houses of the Parliament be set up to investigate the Act and all its ramifications, and I am quite sure that there are others who feel as I do. [More…]
The other point I would like to make is that in the Army, for instance, there are 38 people of general rank - lieutenantgeneral, major-general and brigadier - for a Service of 48,000 men. [More…]
The Department of Works, for instance, has 47 people in the Second Division with a staff of some 6,000. [More…]
Top servicemen on an average do not quite reach the same status and pay as the top people in the Commonwealth Public Service do. [More…]
Their Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund does not operate with the same security as the Superannuation Fund. [More…]
I can think of no reason at all why we should not have a simple schedule of contributions and payments out such as one finds in the appendices to the Superannuation Act. [More…]
[ remind honourable members that this Fund has been afflicted not only with a search after amendments but also an administrative complacency which has dogged it down the years. [More…]
They are men of different character. [More…]
May I make this further point: There will .be no inducement for anyone to stay with this new Corporation either from the point of view of security or from the point of view of possessing a challenging job. [More…]
Many men joined the Snowy Mountains Authority and took far less money than they could earn in private enterprises because they were seized with the magnificent concept of this great water conservation and electricity scheme. [More…]
Nothing challenging or inspiring to the enthusiasm of men is to be found in the very minor task which has been allotted to the new Corporation. [More…]
They had to carry out design work well ahead of the particular segment of the scheme. [More…]
In trying to cushion this tapering off, the Government has done all in its power to give these people other tasks to perform. [More…]
I think it is to the credit of the Government that it has found not only in Australia but also overseas opportunities for these men to engage their skills and to have some opportunity of carrying forward into the future their great capacity in this important field of conservation and construction, lt is naturally disappointing to them that they do not have something comparable with the Snowy Mountains scheme to which to turn. [More…]
I express the hope that the new Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation will be engaged by State governments and will be brought into use to a far greater extent than has thus far been envisaged. [More…]
There are further fields of endeavour for men of the capacity of these men who have been engaged on the scheme in the past. [More…]
If the States will see the value of the service that can be rendered by the Corporation, it will be a useful thing for Australia and for the governments jointly. [More…]
Working in co-operation, they will see the value of some teamwork but they will not interfere one with the other in their particular approach to the requirements of the respective parts of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme is the largest developmental project ever undertaken in Australia’s history. [More…]
The speed and efficiency of its construction and the expertise of the men attached to the Snowy Mountains Authority have received world wide acclaim. [More…]
The former Minister for National Development, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), has been extremely vocal in both the achievements of the Authority and, more particularly, its destiny. [More…]
He made a Press statement on this issue on 1st June 1967. [More…]
He made ministerial statements in this House on 28th November 1968 and 28th August 1969. [More…]
He made his last statement on 11th October 1969. [More…]
I would like honourable members to note particularly the former Minister’s statement on 11th October. [More…]
How many of the available beds at each institution are available for (a) patients from Vietnam, (b) the Regular Army, (c)ex-service men and women and (d) war widows. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Authority’s success is derived in no small measure from its esprit de corps and it is this esprit de corps which this Government, through the agency of the Minister for National Development and his precedessor is determined to destroy. [More…]
It is demonstrably true that men are by their very nature creative beings who derive satisfaction from the willing performance of productive activities and there is no doubt that work on the Snowy Mountains scheme, by virtue of its national importance, by virtue of the magnitude of the tasks undertaken and by virtue of the inherent challenge to those in both higher and lower echelons, inspired the work force, just as their success inspired the Australian people. [More…]
It is little wonder then that this Government quickly recognised, as even the meanest talent would, that the dismemberment of this great [More…]
The Government and the then Minister must have been encouraged by a report in the ‘Australian’ newspaper of 10th June 1967 by Mr Anthony Curtis who found unrest and apathy as the men from the Snowy faded away. [More…]
Mr Curtis wrote that the men of the Snowy: . [More…]
were washed up as a construction force, but ‘elements’ of their investigation, design and scientific services staff, plus a few administrators, would still have a job. [More…]
According to Mr Curtis the questions the men from the Snowy were asking were: Who will form the elements?’ [More…]
Tn my view both these bodies of professional men are equally trained in the task of refraction. [More…]
The ophthalmologist is a specialist in the recognition and treatment of eyes diseases. [More…]
But it has to be recognised that the optometrist as part of his studies is also trained to notice the signs of what may possibly be eye conditions requiring medical treatment and either advise the patient to consent to see an eye specialist or be himself in touch with an ophthalmologist to arrange for him to have a look at that condition. [More…]
However, the point I rose to make was that while national health benefit should undoubtedly be provided for refraction, and while I believe the Government made a very serious mistake way back in 1952 in deciding that no benefit should be paid for refraction either to ophthalmologists or optometrists, 1 also believe that the only proper remedy is for an equal provision to be made for both groups of professional men in this respect. [More…]
I am very concerned at the statement by the Minister, that even if the Senate’s requests in this respect were effected there would still be financial discrimination against the patients of optometrists. [More…]
This leads me to hope that in the review of the ancillary services that the Minister has promised to make he will bring to the Parliament a proposal which will grant equal financial benefits without discrimination as between the patients of ophthalmologists and optometrists in the matter of refraction. [More…]
If this comes about it will be a very happy ending to what has been a long drawn out argument. [More…]
Clause 21 obviously is to give powers to the Corporation in the fixation of salaries and conditions of employment of officers and employees. [More…]
It has been repeated time after time at both the second reading stage and this stage of the Bill that the intent of the Government’s policy is that the Corporation is to function as a commercial undertaking. [More…]
To inflict upon this Corporation the fixation of its salaries and conditions of employment by the Public Service Board cuts right across the whole concept of its being a commercial undertaking. [More…]
If one looks at it broadly on the question of rates of pay or salaries and conditions of employment there is no problem insofar as contracts for work affect Commonwealth, State, local or semi governmental authorities because the salaries and conditions of employment are on a parity at these levels. [More…]
But surely the Government has taken into consideration that when we go from these areas into the areas outside of government we find in the fields of private enterprise and particularly in the field of private consultants in this country that they are not inhibited by rates of pay or conditions of employment to attract the highest professional men. [More…]
This subject has been referred to by the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) and I want to mention it briefly. [More…]
Acknowledgement of the inspiration to launch the Snowy Mountains scheme has been made on several occasions by Sir William Hudson who was the first Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority. [More…]
Sir William Hudson paid a very warm tribute to a body which has not been mentioned in this debate. [More…]
I want, to mention it briefly. [More…]
The body 1 refer to is the Murrumbidgee Valley Water Users Association, lt included men of all parties, lt included men of great vision. [More…]
It included Australians who deserve a page in the history of the nation and a mention in the records of this Parliament. [More…]
Recently when he was accorded an his retirement :i valedictory by the Mumimbidgee Valley Water Users Association, he paid tribute to the inspiration that came from that valley giving birth to this great scheme. [More…]
The men who conceived this scheme were great men indeed. [More…]
I might say (hat this and the other amendments are merely attempts by the Opposition at this time to patch up what is regarded as a very unwholesome measure marking the end of one of the greatest national enterprises that we have had. [More…]
In conclusion I would just say that on the change of Government the amendments we are moving tonight will not be needed because the great authority will be reconstructed as the major water development authority of this nation to take us into the new century. [More…]
I do not intend to go into the subject tonight but what I would like to say is that while I appreciate the many potential advantages of such an authority if all the potential benefits are to be realised the management of the authority wil’l have to be of the very highest standard. [More…]
I hope that if such an authority is formed every possible effort will be made to get the most able men in Australia to run it. [More…]
It will need men with a wide knowledge of business and marketing techniques and, as a wool grower myself, it would not worry me if they came from outside the industry. [More…]
I support the moves for the establishment of a single selling authority with the necessary powers to administer the marketing and distribution of the entire Australian wool clip. [More…]
At a mass meeting in Moree on 21st March of the wool growers of New South Wales, which has been the key State over the years so far as the wool marketing controversy is concerned, it was decided to recommend this system of selling to the various primary producer organisations in New South Wales. [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference has adopted this recommendation. [More…]
I suggest that this authority must appoint a board of management consisting of the best business brains available, whether they be from this country or outside it. [More…]
They need not necessarily be wool growers, but they must bc men whose business judgment and management have been proved. [More…]
This board of management must be responsible for the day to day disposal of our wool clip. [More…]
Why should they be exposed to speculators, manipulators, pie buyers, and the countless number of middle men and hangers-on? [More…]
We need a firm single seller, not 105,000 fragmented wool growers buckling under huge overdrafts and having to take for their wool what they are offered on their sale day. [More…]
Why should a few men benefit at the expense of thousands? [More…]
I am not having a shot at the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony), just because he appeared with men from Russia on a television programme last night. [More…]
There should be no argument on that score. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have tied the Government to the Conference Line. [More…]
Nobody should quarrel with that statement. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labour and National Service whether the Government regards the engineering profession as vitally important to the national economy. [More…]
Can the Minister indicate before Parliament enters the recess what steps are being taken to avert the industrial action now threatened as a last resort by this most responsible body of professional men? [More…]
Labour is attracted by high pay and bonuses, but because of the unsuitable climate, the high cost of living and isolation, men are quick to leave even though it means a drop in wages. [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…]
It has been said that, at the present time, the situation is changing and that a lot of business men would not wish to buy into land. [More…]
I wish to raise a grave issue which, if it is indicative of how young men are treated in the Services, merits full investigation. [More…]
If the facts that I will mention are indicative of the general situation is it any wonder that there is dissatisfaction in the Services? [More…]
Ulm, P. G. Taylor and other crew members who flew in this aircraft on their pioneering world flight with little more to assist them than instinct, sheer courage and a display of great pioneering spirit - a far greater achievement than landing the first men on the moon. [More…]
DoI answer them that it is the cowardice of men too proud to admit to a horrible tragic error? [More…]
I just mention these variables in passing. [More…]
1 am quite certain that everybody learns by mistakes and that the administrators of the war service settlement scheme have also learnt by the mistakes which they have made. [More…]
Just after the War there was a tremendous amount of emotional pressure exerted on governments to settle people on the land. [More…]
On the one hand there were the ex-servicemen returning to civilian life who wanted a piece of land. [More…]
Tremendous pressure, particularly in New South Wales, was applied on governments to cut the land up as fast as was possible so as to get those men and their families on the land. [More…]
One basic fact which must be learnt from any closer settlement scheme whether i. be a war service or civilian scheme is the great need for financial equity. [More…]
This is something which all governments and all political parties should heed. [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…]
The only people who ploughed were farmers, not graziers or cattle men. [More…]
This then became the commercial answer to the experimental tests. [More…]
It showed quite conclusively that the development of this type of soil under those conditions was a most successful operation. [More…]
Immediately after the war, because of pressure from the Returned Services League bodies, other local organisations and men who had come back from the war and were anxious to get on to settlement blocks, the settlement authorities were inclined to let them go on to these areas before they were fully developed and ready for the settler. [More…]
We know in our own case how the settlement authorities approached the settlers and practically gave them unlimited advances for improvements to the properties. [More…]
These should have been carried out by the settlement authorities before the settlers were allowed to go on to the blocks. [More…]
We find now that these unlimited advances are a rope around the neck of the settlers when they come to settling up, when they are anxious to get the option price and to find out what they owe the settlement authorities in order to gain ownership nf the property. [More…]
I will refer to some cases in which these people have received tremendous bills :n relation to these advances. [More…]
The responsibility should not really belong to the settler; it should be wholly and solely the responsibility of the settlement authorities, because after all they are the people who made the mistake of allowing these people to go on to the blocks well before the blocks were properly developed. [More…]
I live in an area which was developed largely after World War L on the basis of soldier settlement. [More…]
It is an area of development based on irrigation, it provides many lessons as to what can be done to make soldier settlement more effective and more efficient. [More…]
There was the concept of specialised training which was so necessary for the men who were to go onto farms. [More…]
There was the selection of an elite corps of men who were sent to Californian irrigation areas to learn some of the advanced techniques which we d’d not have in Australia at that lime. [More…]
There could be many good lessons to be learned, but there were also many difficulties that arose due to economic conditions and also because it was a great experiment in arid zone development - perhaps the greatest experiment in arid zone development that we have had. [More…]
Since World War II there has been further settlement of ex-serv cemen in that area and in the south. [More…]
Perhaps the outstanding example of land settlement in the past 2 decades has been the Coleambally area. [More…]
I want to make some reference to that development as I feel it offers lessons from which we can all learn. [More…]
When wc think back and realise that it is only perhaps in the past 20 years that we have gained knowledge and understand ng of the soil pH we can see how serious errors in assessment of soil suitability could easily have been made. [More…]
Coleambally is moving forward and in that area today one can learn lessons of a technical and administrative nature, lessons that are needed to be learnt about closer settlement. [More…]
Even today in Canberra there are lessons to be learnt at an exhibition at the Monaro Mall where one can see the story of soldier settlement. [More…]
A very fine exhibition of soldier settlement products and its epic is on display from the Murrumbidgee. [More…]
Young men who have returned from Vietnam have settled there. [More…]
It is intimated to him that $6,000 closer settlement loans are available. [More…]
These young men have served and have done the job required of them. [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 man is then able to go to private bodies and obtain plant and equipment. [More…]
He thinks to himself: ‘The State Government of New South Wales has approved me, the private instrumentalities have approved me and my application has been confirmed.’ [More…]
He has some equity to offer, although not much, so he thinks surely the Commonwealth Government will play its part. [More…]
As security is required he offers a mortgage over his plant and equipment and a bill of sale over his farm. [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…]
Therefore, I ask the Minister to examine the cases to see whether the Commonwealth can match the confidence in the young men concerned that has already been shown by the State and also by the private sector. [More…]
This is just one aspect of the settlement concerned. [More…]
The State insists that by thus guaranteeing the general public against books not too rugged for grown men and women in order to shield juvenile innocence, it is exercising its power to promote the general welfare. [More…]
The incidence of this enactment is to reduce the adult population of Michigan to reading only what is fit for children. [More…]
I understand that in New Zealand there is an interesting arrangement. [More…]
The tribunal consists of 5 men and the chairman is a barrister or solicitor of the Supreme Court. [More…]
Because of this provision it was not necessary to provide for an exhaustive list in the Bill at this point of lime, lt is agreed that the first amendment proposed relating to the investment of reserves would add to the value of the report which will be tabled in the Parliament and for this reason the Government is willing to accept the amendment. [More…]
However, while if is the Government’s intention to exert close supervision of the activities of registered organisations, the second amendment goes further than can reasonably be tolerated in our society. [More…]
lt is a serious and unwarranted intrusion into the private affairs of the directors of the funds who are public spirited men working, in large part, in a voluntary capacity. [More…]
I cannot state too strongly the Government’s opposition to and rejection of this amendment. [More…]
This amendment is partially related to funds reserves. [More…]
I am reminded that the honourable member for Barton (Mr Reynolds), when this Bill was before the House on a previous occasion, raised in a very trenchant manner the question of the timetable proposed by the Government for its undertaking in respect to a review of the various services or a review of the possibility of bringing into the national health scheme those services which are paramedical in nature. [More…]
should like to take this opportunity to say ro the honourable member that the Government is sincerely undertaking this review as a matter of urgency. [More…]
Also, consideration must be given to the means by which it would be most desirable to bring these matters into the national health scheme, should the Government eventually decide to do so. [More…]
1 can say, however, that we are giving a great deal of time to the matter and I shall take the curliest opportunity to put the results of this review before the Government so that it may decide ils attitude to this possible expansion of the national health scheme. [More…]
I wish to say a few words to support the amendment that has been discussed, and to oppose the amendment that has been moved by the Minister. [More…]
What people do not realise or what the Government refuses to realise is that the real mystery men on the Australian business scene are the directors of the health and medical’ benefit organisations. [More…]
In this Parliament I have mentioned the case of Mr Huxley, who is now serving 20 years hard labour as a result of a $5.5m fraud to which he pleaded guilty. [More…]
As the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) has said, they are faceless men. [More…]
1 believe that the Government has a responsibility to endorse this amendment. [More…]
The very fact that this particular section has been taken out in its entirety proves that pressure has been exerted from some source or other to protect the faceless men of the business or medical world, namely, the directors of these organisations. [More…]
If the directors were elected by a vote of the people concerned and if we knew who they were, we would probably know their qualifications for the job and the ramifications of their investments before they stood for election. [More…]
We are not told anything about them and, although millions of dollars are being invested, the Government refuses to write into legislation this amendment as a safeguard for the public and for contributors’ funds. [More…]
I can see no justifiable reason for this amendment not being adopted and, like honourable members on this side of the chamber, I will be interested to hear the Minister make an explanation in regard to it. [More…]
Does the Minister criticise those Liberal State governments who apply a similar rule to those men giving very substantial voluntary service in local government? [More…]
Does he criticise his colleagues in those parliaments for preserving the rule that such voluntary workers must reveal any direct or indirect interest they have in organisations with which their voluntary bodies - municipal councils or shire councils - deal? [More…]
This has been going on for many years and has been the subject of all-party inquiries in various States which have invariably confirmed the opinion that where public money is involved and where men are giving voluntary services there must be a protection in relation to any direct or indirect interest that any of the men serving in a voluntary capacity might get out of it. [More…]
It is difficult for us on this side of the chamber to appreciate the Minister’s weak arguments. [More…]
Why, even men who work in voluntary capacities on hospital boards of management, if they so much as have the slightest commercial interest in any contract for food or other supplies for that hospital for which they work voluntarily immediately declare their interests, walk out of meetings on such matters and take no part in such discussions. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that when we first suggested this amendment in this place the Government said it would be intolerable because people would never go on a committee if their names and their qualifications were made public and people could get at them. [More…]
But I submit that he has made a concession in this House, to the Senate, to this Opposition and to the people who are saying; We should know not only their names but also their reasons as reasonable, scientific and experienced medical men. [More…]
If these reasons are not forthcoming we can only assume that the Government has some reason for hiding them*. [More…]
It was not until the report of the Committee of Economic Enquiry - the Vernon Committee - that there appeared the theme of analyses made by men like Dr Harris, skilled in the technique of measuring the effects of tariff. [More…]
Other men, such as members of the Vernon Committee, with the assistance of the Tariff Board, made certain measurements which rather startled the Australian public. [More…]
Since that time, particularly after a former Prime Minister rubbished the Vernon Committee report, the Government and other people continued this trend of probing more and more into what lies behind the principle of protectionism. [More…]
Perhaps it is not fair to expect the Opposition or those who are advising it on this matter to be able to do in 9 weeks that which the Government has taken 9 years to do. [More…]
After all, the Secretary and President of the ACTU are both extremely busy men. [More…]
This does not allow justice to be done on a matter that is so vital to the interests of over 300,000 Commonwealth employees and also national servicemen militia and men serving in certain sections of the forces. [More…]
standards of benefits provided in some of the Slate legislation, applies also to our national servicemen and to members of our militia and our Regular Army. [More…]
That is before (he servicemen go overseas or after they return. [More…]
It is ridiculous that men training for wars, who are subject to greater dangers than they would meet in their ordinary working life, should come under the provisions of the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act. [More…]
These men could be training with live ammunition or operating tanks. [More…]
The Department of Civil Aviation should be making this decision. [More…]
The Opposition, as honourable members are aware, wanted to increase the Committee’s terms of reference so that it could come up with a recommendation. [More…]
There are a lot of experienced men on the Committee and they have been inquiring into these problems. [More…]
However, instead, the matter is in the hands of the Department. [More…]
We know how often government departments shelve things and keep them out of sight until such time as the Government finally makes a decision, whether favourable or unfavourable. [More…]
As the position stands at the moment it is my humble opinion that the only solution for the people of Sydney is to get Mascot out of the way. [More…]
I refer to the matter of permanent employment of waterfront labour at ports throughout Australia. [More…]
I understand that Whyalla is to be granted a system of permanent employment in the very near future and that discussions are taking place at Darwin in regard to this matter. [More…]
Permanent employment should have been granted to Townsville, Hobart, Burnie and Bundaberg in the last 2 years because they are ready for it. [More…]
The Department of Labour and National Service has been a little lax in not having brought this legislation down and had decisions made about the introduction of permanent employment. [More…]
The introduction of permanent employment and the establishing of the Stevedoring Industry Council are commendable. [More…]
The proposed scheme can bring about some degree of permanency of employment and stability for the men and for the industry. [More…]
Previously if a dispute arose ofttimes the men went on strike. [More…]
I should like to see the Stevedoring Industry Council or the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority examine, or, if need be, some separate organisation created to examine and investigate the whole ramifications of the waterfront today, not only on the basis of employment but also on the basis of the organisation of the industry, the provision of machinery, the organising of ports and the development of ports. [More…]
At the present time in Australia 44 different port authorities conduct their affairs on the basis of the development, construction and provision of wharfage and all the other matters. [More…]
I should like to see a number of these authorities eliminated or a central authority, such as the Stevedoring Industry Council, created by the Government to do this job. [More…]
During the last 5 years 4,704 men have left this industry. [More…]
Some investigation should be undertaken by the Department of Labour and National Service or some other responsible body associated with the industry to find out just what is happening. [More…]
In the last report of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority reference is made to the amount of time lost by men in the industry. [More…]
Stevedoring Industry Authority is critical of the trade union movement for taking strike action I feel that it should also try to rectify the situation to which I have just referred. [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…]
If they had been reclined it would have eliminated one of the features of waterfront employment that needle men in the industry or. [More…]
Men do not want to work under unsafe conditions and frequently they have to take the action of stopping work to get these defects remedied. [More…]
We accept the position that when permanency is introduced into a port there are problems associated with it, but if it is adequately planned in advance and men are acquainted with what their position will be many of the problems associated with redundancy can be overcome. [More…]
However there seems to be a contradiction in that statement when it is compared with the roneod copy of the Minister’s second reading speech in which he said: [More…]
Organised labour commenced from that point of time. [More…]
The union has indeed been, in the eyes of our political opponents, an extremely boisterous and militant union, because the people now on the Government benches have never endeavoured to understand the waterfront industry and its problems. [More…]
Under this system men were given favours by bosses because they were prepared to settle a bar score for the bosses or were prepared perhaps to pay other bills that the bosses would run up generally in waterfront business houses. [More…]
During the course of the late 1930s men throughout Australia who had been subjected to these intolerable conditions realised that they had little to lose by taking the form of action that they did take in the late 1 930s and early 1 940s. [More…]
They demanded such things as a rosier system that had as its purpose the taking away from the bosses, the foremen and the bulls of the industry the right to he rc-employ-sd day after day whereas their fellows in the industry were getting no monetary return whatsoever. [More…]
From this state of affairs grew the combined action of union men who expressed themselves in a very militant fashion. [More…]
During the early 1940s, after the Treasury bench here was vacated by the political opponents of the trade union movement generally, the Stevedoring Industry Commission was set up. [More…]
Also there were representatives of the trade union movement - namely of the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I did not in any way criticise it for the form of action it was forced to take to ensure that its members would not return to a form of the treatment after the cessation of hostilities that had been imposed on them for many scores of years. [More…]
However, there were many conditions that the union saw fit to act against, such as men working around the clock continuously - working on the job for scores of hours, almost, at a time. [More…]
But the conditions could not be obtained without head on clashes with management and the like. [More…]
I come lo the 1960s When the Waterside Workers Federation and the trade union movement on the waterfront were attacked viciously on disciplinary measures. [More…]
Breaches or alleged breaches by nien, including foremen and supervisors, in the main capital city ports, were reported. [More…]
These men were marched up before the Authority and were suspended for 1 day, 2 days, 4 days, or even up to 3 weeks. [More…]
In 2 ports in Australia, sonic 5,000 or 6.000 members - a paltry number of men - could be out on strike because of some intolerable condition of employment that affected you and me. [More…]
With measures such as these being imposed upon workers in the industry, how could the Government and others concerned hope to achieve industrial peace in this field in Australia? [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…]
That was the thinking of members of the Government some of whom, unfortunately, are still here. [More…]
In considering student numbers, the Committee was inhibited by the lack of precise information about the Government’s plans for a tri-Service college. [More…]
Unfortunately, it is not possible to consider this in the absence of the long-mooted report on the Government’s plans for such an institution. [More…]
It is vaguely suggested that young men who want to be Citizen Military Forces officers could find this attractive. [More…]
On the extension of the curriculum, the Committee recommends the setting up of courses in psychology, languages - particularly Asian languages - and military law. [More…]
However, 1 criticise the Government, which is calling upon shop stewards to play this very important role now required of them, for not taking steps to protect them adequately from victimisation when carrying out their job. [More…]
The unfortunate thing is that when a shop steward does that, the employer may accuse him of being a stirrer and agitator when in point of fact he is merely acting as spokesman for the men with whom he :s working. [More…]
Because so many shop stewards have been dismissed for merely doing what the agreement now asks them to do, they are loath lo carry out their functions fearlessly, as they ought to be free to do. [More…]
1 believe the Government was gravely remiss in failing to attend to section 5 of the Act. [More…]
It is not that the Government does not know about it. [More…]
I now take the case of the Building Workers Industrial Union v. Clements Langford Ltd. A union representative had been dismissed for informing the timekeeper that he was leaving the job for a short time, on the ground that his action was contrary to a company rule that no employee must leave a job without the permission of the foreman. [More…]
What a terrible thing it is for these wild, red blooded men of spunk to be abusing each other. [More…]
They are all grown up men who will not be regimented like poorly paid mercenaries who are made to act at though they are robots. [More…]
Of course the employees will do things which the employers are pleased to condemn as indiscretions and misconduct, but why should an employer see a union delegate doing these things and not be able to see the other 400 or 500 men who are also doing the same thing? [More…]
The minimum rate was the lowest rate at which an employer could employ men but the whole area beyond the minimum wage was open to bargaining between employers and men. [More…]
1 was struck on a visit to Sweden a few years ago by the actual arrangements inside the factory I saw. [More…]
One only has to visit an industrial establishment in my own electoral district to see that conditions in such places are to our shame, as is the case in most of Australia. [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…]
I could take some honourable members opposite to visit some similar establishments. [More…]
Even at election times the way in which the management treats its workers is manifest. [More…]
When I turn up at a large industrial establishment to a political meeting called by the shop stewards I find the men who do the work and make the profits for the employers have to sit outside on the ground and in the dust, I am affronted on their behalf and on behalf of the community. [More…]
If a fire were to break out as a result of these men having worked there earlier in the day surely a 25 knot wind which blew sometime during the afternoon and which changed direction sometime between 3 p.m. and 9 p.m. could have flared up a flame. [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 will admit that fire fighting equipment was available at the Whyalla shipyard. [More…]
That is mentioned in the report, and I accept it as a fact. [More…]
But the point is that trouble occurs after men cease work. [More…]
If a fire begins while men are on the job they can see it and put it out very quickly. [More…]
But what I am saying is- that the blame for this fire should and must not be sheeted home to the men who were working in the shipyard. [More…]
But did these men do that sensible and logical thing? [More…]
picked up the Security Officer, drove to a Security Store to pick up some fire fighting equipment, then drove to the Shipyard Main Gate where they were let into the Shipyard by the Main Gate Watchman at aproximately 9.50 p.m. [More…]
Let us forget for a moment that boilermakers and I are members of the one union, but at least I know a little bit about shipbuilding. [More…]
The blame has to be sheeted home to the employer for having failed to lay down a system of inspection which would require the night watchman to go over the ship not once but continually after the men had finished work. [More…]
I have fished at night in the State Dockyard after men have finished work. [More…]
Other men also have fished there at night. [More…]
I hope that the workmen on the job, the boilermaker and the apprentice, will not be blamed. [More…]
I give credit to BHP because none of the men lost time as a result of the fire. [More…]
Those who could not be employed usefully in the shipyard were transferred to another part of the company’s establishment - the steelmaking section - and in this way continuity of employment was ensured. [More…]
Were any men working on the slipways between 3.30 p.m. and the time the fire was reported; if so, what work were they doing. [More…]
No men were working on the forward part of the ship after 3.30 p.m. [More…]
There were five men working until 625 p.m. at the after end, about 300 feet from where the fire started. [More…]
These men were positioning and securing a prefabricated unit which had not been completed by 3.30 p.m. [More…]
National Union of Australian University Students on 23 April 1970, in which it Ls stated that instructors at Canungra revealed incidents where troops drewlots to determine who would have the pleasure of disposing of 2 wounded Viet Cong discovered after battle, an officer paid his men a dollar for every enemy killed, and other associated attitudes were mentioned. [More…]
How many houses are rented from the Victorian Housing Commission by officers and men of the AHQ Survey Regiment at Bendigo. [More…]
How many officers and men own homes or are purchasing homes in the Bendigo area. [More…]
How many officers, men, and members of the Womens Royal Auxiliary Army Corps are employed at the AHQ Survey Regiment at Fortuna, Bendigo. [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…]
He was well known as a fearless fighter for the causes he espoused, and in the party room and in the Parliament he was articulate, dogged and outspoken. [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…]
He devoted 43 years of his life to service in Parliament: 21 years in this House and before that 22 years as a member of the Victorian Legislative Assembly. [More…]
He was also an ever-ready advocate for the welfare of servicemen. [More…]
The mere presence of men like the former honourable member for Chisholm, retaining full vigour to the very last, tended to obscure how very many years, indeed generations, have passed since the rise of his generation - the generation of Anzacs. [More…]
He was the last of this Parliament’s original Anzacs. [More…]
Now only the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen), the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Irwin) and Senator Hendrickson remain of the scores of members of the national Parliament who had enlisted in the first Australian Imperial Force. [More…]
When one recalls Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes’ manner, style, fitness - even his features and physique - one gains a little insight into what manner of men those were who, in the words of Clemenceau, ‘astonished Europe by their valour from the very beginning’. [More…]
There could have been no 2 men more opposed and who more relished the give and take of opposing; but those of us who were here well remember, and those on this side remember with particular appreciation, the unstinted tribute the late member paid to Mr Ward for his pioneering work on rail standardisation. [More…]
In that great work Wilfrid Kent Hughes, as Minister for Transport in the Victorian Parliament, played an equally notable part. [More…]
I know that 1 say on behalf of every backbencher on either side of the House that Bill Kent Hughes had the amazing ability to be with all men of whatever age. [More…]
I should like to say, on behalf of Bill Kent’ Hughes and all those men like him: Do not just praise my name; remember some of the things that I stood for; remember some of the messages I endeavoured to give you’. [More…]
By that I mean not the host of the warmonger but the host of men who have served their country gallantly. [More…]
rise to speak for myself and the Government Members ExServicemen’s Committee of which Sir Wilfrid was the Chairman. [More…]
Sir Wilfrid rose above the trivialities and pettiness of life and lived on a higher plane than most, but always for the betterment of his fellow Australians. [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…]
We are better men for having been associated with him. [More…]
1 did not meet him again until 1958 when I entered this Parliament. [More…]
We travelled together to represent this Parliament in April 1.968 at a War Graves Commission ceremony in Ambon, Indonesia, where a great number of our comrades were buried. [More…]
1 always found that the men who knew him during the War respected him and had a great feeling for him. [More…]
This is a strange thing about the Parliament. [More…]
In recent years there has been a change in attitude towards the adoption of measures restricting night work by women. [More…]
on “Women Workers in a Changing World” in 1964 contended that the traditional measures adopted with the objective of protecting the health of women workers may now be discriminatory rather than protective. [More…]
No evidence has been produced to show that night work is a health hazard to women or that it is more harmful to women than to men. [More…]
Gordon House supplies cheap accommodation to many homeless men, and it is estimated that, usually about 20% of them are ex-servicemen. [More…]
No statistics are kept, but very few patients are referred to Gordon House on discharge from hospital, accommodation there being usually arranged by Hanover Centre (a counselling centre for homeless men) or by the patients themselves. [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…]
What was seen at that meeting was the importance of involving youth in the affairs of society and the importance of seeing that parliament was able to incorporate the needs of youth without at the same time completely altering the parliamentary democratic system. [More…]
These are matters which, I think, are important to all members of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and particularly to us in Australia. [More…]
I am vehemently opposed to any alteration in the sitting times of this House. [More…]
I have every respect for the men who dedicate themselves to the Public Service. [More…]
Parliament is being progressively downgraded. [More…]
If we were to probe into the fundamental philosophy today of civil servants, not only in Canberra but in most countries, it would be: ‘Parliamentarians come and go, but we continue forever till the day of our retirement’. [More…]
The honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory (Mr Enderby), who has just been elected to the Parliament, has realised what has hit him like an avalanche. [More…]
In terms of enrolments I represent the third largest electorate in Australia. [More…]
With men, women and children, and about 40,000 unnaturalised migrants, I have problems. [More…]
Already in my term in the Parliament I have had 2 secretaries crack under the strain, and I have to nurse the third one along or she will crack too. [More…]
I feel that I would be supported in my remarks by such men as the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Webb). [More…]
Men such as the honourable member for Stirling probably arrive home on [More…]
When I think of sittings since I came here, when the Chifley Government was in office and whilst this Government has been in office, the main thing I think about is the late nights. [More…]
I find the young men are the first to go to sleep in this House so do not blame the old men. [More…]
But 1 turned the page of the report and found that this is subject to what the Government may decide to do. [More…]
It could decide to sit, not till 10.30 p.m. hut till 5 o’clock in the morning because at 10.30 p.m. or 11 p.m. the question relating to the adjournment of the House would be put and if the Government wanted to carry on it could negative the question and the House would continue to sit just the same as ever. [More…]
The views put forward by the honourable member for Chifley (Mr Armitage) and the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) are the views of men who have been here for a long time. [More…]
Perhaps this type of policy characterises all their contributions to the Parliament. [More…]
I hope that the Leader of the House (Mr Snedden) at 11.27 p.m. will see fit to call it quits for tonight to avoid many of the things honourable members have been complaining about, such as staying up late, and set a good example on the second night of the parliamentary sitting, because everyone has made up his mind anyway. [More…]
The House in my opinion will become more effective only when the members of the Parliament decide that they have a responsibility and are prepared to accept that responsibility whatever their Party. [More…]
I think one of the things that has been proved tonight, as the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) illustrated, is that, when members of Parliament are allowed to get up and speak on an issue without being bound by Caucus or by some decision from somewhere else, even perhaps by some other men, the Parliament is able to get down to a discussion and is perhaps able to reach a solution that may be to the betterment of the people of this country. [More…]
I think those problems will be solved only when members of Parliament, including myself, decide that they have a right and responsibility to act on certain issues, perhaps above and beyond the decisions of Caucus. [More…]
If the position is as stated, will he take appropriate steps to ensure that all employers under Commonwealth jurisdiction provide respirators that will properly filter out the invisible as well as visible asbestos fibres floating in the atmosphere in ail places of work where men are required to handle asbestos. [More…]
Men’s and boys’ knitted shirts. [More…]
What are the qualifications of the Army counsellors who interview these men. [More…]
The establishment was increased quite considerably. [More…]
Yet, these men rightly were demanding their leave and said that there would be a strike of meat inspectors right across Australia if something was not done about the situation. [More…]
Earlier, the House will remember, the Prime Minister announced that the 8th Battalion and some supporting elements would be withdrawn in November, or before if circumstances made it possible, and that the 8th Battalion would not be replaced. [More…]
The 8th Battalion, in total about 900 men, will be withdrawn in November, as the Prime Minister indicated. [More…]
The Prime Minister announced also the development of training assistance for the South Vietnamese armed forces. [More…]
The first will be mobile advisory training teams of about 7 men who will work with regional force or popular force companies in the location of those companies to help them and to assist in raising their standards. [More…]
I cannot recall a national strike since a Labor government sent troops onto the coalfields. [More…]
The ACTU Executive is composed of men many of whom I have thought to be responsible trade unionists who were interested in the future of Australia. [More…]
I expect that the responsible men on the ACTU Executive will make perfectly clear what they want, because I am sure they recognise that if there is to be a strike the basis of the strike will be that workmen are complaining about costs or something of that kind. [More…]
add: ‘and in relation to the whole defence force (i) pay and allowances of all personnel, (ii) provision for the retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of service men.’ [More…]
We need to discuss the situation referred to in part (ii) of the motion, namely, provision for retraining of officers and men. [More…]
We should discuss part (iv) of the motion relating to educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
That a Joint Select Committee be appointed to inquire into and report upon the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits legislation . [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) moved an amendment to extend the inquiry by that committee into the DFRB legislation. [More…]
in relation to the whole defence forces (i) pay and allowances for all personnel, (ii) provision for retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
We do not have very many select committees in this House and the men who have particular competence in Service matters might well wish to serve on 2 such committees. [More…]
No one can dispute that it is an urgent matter when sailors do not present themselves at their posts, when senior RAAF officers presumably release confidential documents, when the Services are not building up their numbers and officers are resigning in record numbers. [More…]
There are more fundamental reasons. [More…]
Australian parliaments never have been the great forums of the nation, attracting the best people and the most influential people in the country, such as happens, for example, in the House of Commons in England. [More…]
Because of our history the quality of our parliaments has suffered. [More…]
Because of geography, because people have to spend their time in Canberra, busy men cannot afford to be members of this Parliament and spend all their time here. [More…]
Busy and influential men can spend part of their time in the House of Commons at Westminster and give of their expertise and at the same time attend to their business. [More…]
But we have a bush capital in Australia and therefore a bush parliament. [More…]
In the middle of the last century they were clerks, but today they are very able men who are also politicians assisting their Ministers. [More…]
The result is that the Ministry and the Public Service are running the country and the Parliament has become perhaps one of the least important forums in which great matters are debated. [More…]
The quorum rule in this place is used only rarely and it has been used for harassment by the Opposition. [More…]
I have never heard a supporter of the Government in the years I have been here call for a quorum. [More…]
I have respect for all of my colleagues in this Parliament. [More…]
We have a remarkably efficient Parliament and a wonderful lot of intelligent, active and dedicated men in it. [More…]
I speak from experience and I am proud of the standard of the members of this Parliament. [More…]
This will not appear as news in the Press but if I said that I despised the members of this Parliament that would be a Press headline. [More…]
If that motion is carried, how are we to attend to the parliamentary work associated with debates and carry out our jobs as members of committees? [More…]
Heads of departments would be invited to give to those committees ‘ their views on various Bills coming before the Parliament. [More…]
Those men would be brought from their offices to this building. [More…]
They are busy men. [More…]
It would be utterly ridiculous and an insult to heads of departments called to the House to assist us. [More…]
He believed deeply in truth and justice and mercy among men. [More…]
I ask the Minister for the Interior a question concerning the enrolment of 18, 19 and 20 year-old men and women. [More…]
My question does not ask him to announce the Commonwealth Government’s policy but raises the administrative consequences of State government policies for the Commonwealth Electoral Office, which compiles the electoral rolls for most of the States. [More…]
I ask him: How long would it take to include these younger citizens on the electoral rolls for any State where they are given adulthood rights and a vote for the more numerous house of the State Parliament and where, under section 41 of the Constitution, they cannot be prevented from voting at elections for either House of this Parliament? [More…]
In an effort to protect local book manufacturers who faced unfair competition from overseas - particularly from low cost Asian countries - the Government took the unprecedented step of legislating for a book bounty. [More…]
One of the prime reasons for my speaking today on the bounty on books produced for private enterprise or for Commonwealth and State governments is that Australian artisans are still well behind overseas countries in the production of books printed in multi-colour. [More…]
Australian printers get the black and white printing work but the work that is interesting to highly trained men - that is, the production of multi-colour books - will still go overseas simply because wages in Australia are so high for these artisans compared with wages paid for similar work overseas. [More…]
The 900 men to be withdrawn will have received no dispensation, although it was the Prime Minister who raised the hope that their term of service in the war zone would be cut. [More…]
The Government has made no attempt to explain or to justify the decision to keep the Battalion in Vietnam for the full term. [More…]
It was just, as clear from the Prime Minister’s statement, since he had specifically referred to the 8th Battalion, that the phased withdrawal into which he had been forced would begin before the expiry date for the withdrawal of the Battalion from Vietnam. [More…]
The 900 men to be withdrawn will have received no dispensation, although it was the Prime Minister who raised this hope. [More…]
The Government has therefore made no attempt to explain or to justify the decision to keep the Battalion in Vietnam for the full term. [More…]
Certainly this failure to set a firm withdrawal date and the vagueness of the Prime Minister’s statement have been felt by the troops in Vietnam. [More…]
The report stated that it had been widely anticipated by 5,300 men at Nui Dat that an early date for the Battalion’s withdrawal would bc set at its fourth battalion parade. [More…]
Now the Minister for Defence has made the bald statement that it will nol be back before mid-November. [More…]
The troops qf the 8th Battalion will be kept in Vietnam to the last possible moment. [More…]
This would leave around 250,000 men in Vietnam by next April - about 45% of the peak build-up reached in 1968. [More…]
According to present plans the Americans will have at least 50,000 of these men home by the middle of October. [More…]
Unless there is a swift reappraisal by the Government the pace of the American withdrawal may be so swift that the Government will be caught up willy-nilly in a whirl of events beyond its control. [More…]
Even on the level of cynical calculation it is the Government’s duty to explain to the Parliament and the people what it intends for the Australian Task Force. [More…]
The events of the past few months have been marked by a callous indifference to the impact of the withdrawal announcement on the men in Vietnam, and in particular on the members ot the 8th Battalion in Vietnam. [More…]
The Government’s intentions must be made perfectly clear to these men. [More…]
The 1 million men in the South Vietnamese armed forces have been improving their capabilities and accepting additional obligations, especially in the last 18 months. [More…]
But we want a peace which does not deny what decent men stand for. [More…]
We well know that there are risks in regionalism and involvement. [More…]
This is the background and the basis of our original commitment in Vietnam and our involvement in the region, as it has been over recent years and as it is at the present time. [More…]
Quite obviously and quite clearly in the changing circumstances of Vietnam the commitment and level of our forces there remains under constant review. [More…]
But there is no decision at the moment to make any change from the policies announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton). [More…]
Men in our community have, through turmoil and tears, built our reputation as a staunch and reliable ally. [More…]
It must always be remembered that in Australia, perhaps more than in most countries, our fighting men and ex-servicemen have always been held in the highest esteem. [More…]
These are the figures for single men. [More…]
The benefit for family men on comparable incomes is lower. [More…]
A Liberal Budget indeed - divisive, disruptive, sectional, the true child of the most divisive government this nation has had since the 1920s. [More…]
The defence appropriation makes it quite clear that the Government will not this year be making adequate provision to ensure that Australian armed forces will attract and retain men in sufficient numbers to reach the targets the Government itself has set. [More…]
So let us look at the Government’s economic policies whichever way we will, we come to the same result: Misallocation of resources and mal-distribution of wealth or, in ordinary terms, inefficiency and injustice. [More…]
There is throughout the community a very deep resentment against this particular Budget but even that is part of a more deeply felt resentment and uneasiness that has been growing throughout the community for the past 2 years or more. [More…]
This feeling is compounded by the knowledge that we are an exceedingly wealthy nation and yet the ordinary men and women, much more the very large under-privileged sections - 1 million of them - are convinced that they are not getting a fair share. [More…]
The level of unemployment is three times that existing in Australia. [More…]
In some provinces more men have departed from the work force than exist in the work force at the moment. [More…]
Canada’s social system and level of social services would not be tolerated for one moment in this nation. [More…]
He should appreciate that other men who have had the responsibility of economic management know that stability is important. [More…]
He should recall the history, for example, of Dr Schacht and how the disintegration of his society wrecked his economic management. [More…]
He should know how in recent times the disintegration of French society wrecked President dc Gaulle’s economic management. [More…]
The second aspect of the complaint is that the problem can be evaded if there is not a progressive system of taxation, lt can be evaded if there is high and increasing indirect rates of taxation which fall on families and on working men irrespective of income. [More…]
Having said that, this simply means that the Government this year is going to obtain into its coffers rather less than it has in previous years. [More…]
The expectations for Government revenue are down compared with previous years. [More…]
This Budget par excellence is the first for a long time which illustrates the simple principle that a government cannot pay out what it does not receive. [More…]
Some of their front men bombarded every member of Parliament here with letters seeking taxation concessions. [More…]
They even persuaded a number of union secretaries to write to every member of Parliament. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition and his front bench conned these men into pressing for these concessions. [More…]
One can only reply in this way to union secretaries who have written those letters: lt is rather surprising that men representing workers on rather humble wages because their awards do not provide for particularly high remuneration should say that the thing they wanted most was tax concessions. [More…]
However, the police were told that they must stand by and look the other way when the law was flagrantly, deliberately and provocatively broken by men led by the Leader of the Opposition and some of his cohorts. [More…]
The time has come when the elected Government must take a firm stand against these law breakers. [More…]
We are the people who represent the citizens of this country and it is up to us to ensure that the Government takes strong action. [More…]
We will have 95% of the people with us if such action is taken by the Government. [More…]
The Federal Government should have the courage to introduce legislation to compel all trade union elections to be conducted by a compulsory secret ballot under the supervision of the Commonwealth Electoral Office. [More…]
His ignorance is vast but in this field it is tremendous. [More…]
They are not men charged with crimes based on the colour of their skin. [More…]
.1 was saying that these men are not charged with crimes based on the colour of their skin. [More…]
They are violent men intent on seizing power by acts of terrorism on their own countrymen. [More…]
I should like to see our Government encourage the British in their negotiations with South Africa on the Simonstown Agreement. [More…]
The ridiculous arms embargo placed on South Africa by the British Socialist Government is a serious breach of that Agreement and of direct concern to Australia and other countries dependent on the Cape route for trade and communications. [More…]
The final matter with which I wish to deal specifically is the reduced amount of income available to most family men. [More…]
The Government seems to think that wage and salary earners could stop asking for wage and salary increases tomorrow with impunity. [More…]
For example, the increase in interest rates two or three months ago has meant to a person buying a house through a co-operative housing society a direct increase in repayments in excess of $1 a week on most loans around the $8,000 mark. [More…]
The Government seems to think that wage and salary earners should be benevolent about losing this amount of money and say: ‘It is bad luck. [More…]
They cannot cut back their spending by $1 a week, because they have commitments to meet. [More…]
Their commitments include the education of their children, looking after the health and welfare of their families, paying off their homes and providing their families with what most Australians would consider to be the standard of living to which they are entitled. [More…]
Wage and salary earners have commitments to meet which cannot be reduced by, say, $1 a week. [More…]
I believe that the establishment of an Australian wool marketing authority independent of the Australian Wool Board and under the management of top men chosen because of their proven commercial, technical and financial judgment will result in a new confidence and a higher level of prosperity in this industry. [More…]
I was pleased when the Treasurer announced that this matter was receiving urgent consideration by the Government. [More…]
They want effective government They want a government which will govern and deal with the basic problems of this nation. [More…]
They want effective and just arbitration in the matter of wages and salaries, not the irksome delays in hearing cases and handing down judgments. [More…]
These men comprise the managerial class. [More…]
They are the heads of government departments, main roads authorities, power stations and factories. [More…]
They are the leaders of men but for 2 years their case was before the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Then the Public Service Board made a recommendation to the Commission and within a couple of months the Commission handed down a judgment in keeping with the Public Service Board’s recommendation. [More…]
The engineers, the men to whom we look to control industry, to give leadership and direction and to plan this country’s affairs were treated in a shocking and shameful way. [More…]
I am tired of the plunder of Australia, this treasure chest, by foreign companies which owe little or no allegiance to the men and women who have made this country. [More…]
I refer to local government and the burden of debt which is increasingly adding a load to ratepayers. [More…]
The local government of our country provides an outstanding service. [More…]
Through local government communal facilities, parks, playgrounds, sewerage, roads, footpaths, day nurseries and libraries are provided. [More…]
What is the sad story of local government? [More…]
Local government debts have increased by 900% and semigovernment debts have increased twelvefold. [More…]
This staggering financial burden being borne by local government is being transferred to the men, women and children in our community and is expressed in increased rates. [More…]
I put it to the Government that it is about time that local government, which takes such an important part in the affairs of government in our country, was given its rightful role. [More…]
What humanity is revealed towards the men who have served so well. [More…]
The whole field of social welfare is a monumental failure. [More…]
The Budget has been put together by a group of men who are dispirited and disillusioned, desperate and defeated, lacking in purpose and totally devoid of humanity. [More…]
The whole sorry document reveals their anaemic approach to social services and social welfare. [More…]
The welfare of primary industry has for too long been ignored by this Government and primary producers are to stage a protest march in Canberra. [More…]
One can now visualise the scene in this hallowed capital, this sanctified ground of Parliament. [More…]
One can visualise the Deputy Prime Minister, the Leader of the Country Party, the champion of primary industries, and the Minister for the Interior (Mr Nixon), complete with police photographers, recording a dossier on their traditional supporters outside this Parliament. [More…]
What double standards these men have. [More…]
Mr STEWART (Lang) 14.401-1 must express my amazement at the speech we have just heard from the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden), who is one of the senior men in the [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…]
My one regret is that greater assistance was not given to men and women in the much lower income brackets. [More…]
Yet the Government has been boasting about it and saying what it has done for the people. [More…]
We have listened in recent days to a campaign being built up by this Government to create the impression that there is a need for legislation on law and order in this country. [More…]
We have listened in this place this week to the vilification of one of the best men in the trade union movement. [More…]
We have heard statements about the kind of individual he is. [More…]
All I want to say is that the trade union movement is fortunate that it has as the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions a person of the calibre of Bob Hawke. [More…]
We see the Leader of the Opposition working so closely with those he described only one or two years ago as the witless men. [More…]
Through specific purpose payments of a revenue nature we have entered the university field and have increased our payments from $8m in 1954 to $57m now. [More…]
We have entered the field of colleges of advanced education, made research grants, given assistance to independent schools, tuberculosis hospitals, blood transfusion services, housekeeper services, home care services, senior citizens centres, paramedical services, and to deserted wives and have provided for Aboriginal advancement. [More…]
With specific purpose payments of a capital nature we have provided finance for teachers colleges, pre-school teachers colleges, science laboratories, technical training, school libraries, senior citizens centres, nursing homes and dwellings for aged pensioners. [More…]
I could go on and on to men tion other areas of assistance, f refer to social services and supplementary assistance to aged and invalid pensioners. [More…]
We have lost 238 regular soldiers and 168 national servicemen, a total of 406 men whose lives will never be restored and whose place in the work force and in the community can never be replaced. [More…]
Other casualties until 3rd April this year were: battle casualties, 1,134 regular soldiers and 827 national servicemen: non-battle casualties; 400 regulars and 200 national servicemen; a total of 2,560 men. [More…]
At 31st December 1969 2,112 servicemen from Vietnam were on pensions. [More…]
An amount of $100,000 a year is to be paid in pensions to men whose lives have been ruined or who will suffer from some form of disability throughout their lives. [More…]
I contend that this is something which the Liberal Party Government has entered into purely for domestic reasons. [More…]
The Libera) and Country Party Government entered into this war purely for election purposes. [More…]
The cost of it has been tremendous. [More…]
The cost of national service to this country has been $3m per year - a total cost to the present of $18m - plus the loss to the labour force of those men who have been conscripted into the Army. [More…]
One must take into account that these men were trained, at universities for professions and for trades and were taken out of them just when they were ready to put into practice the things they had been taught. [More…]
This must be of tremendous cost to Australia and it demonstrates the need for a new approach. [More…]
In 1963-64 some 68% of Navy men re-enlisted. [More…]
In 1963-64 the Army had a reenlistment rate of 60%. [More…]
In 1963-64 the Air Force had a re-enlistment rate of 61%. [More…]
Not only have I shown, that the Government has mismanaged this country but that there has been flagrant misspending of funds. [More…]
The matter I wish to raise concerns 6 men who are at present in Long Bay Gaol following a conviction for contempt of court. [More…]
The sentence of 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour was passed on 17th August in the Magistrate’s Court in Sydney in which the 6 men were appearing on a charge of trespassing on private property, that being the private property of the Attorney-General. [More…]
1 ask the Attorney-General to try to do this in spite of his personal involvement in this case. [More…]
The Magistrate then proceeded to sentence the men to 14 days’ imprisonment with hard labour. [More…]
It should be noted that the magistrate failed to extend to the men an adequate opportunity to obtain legal advice and that the men were not remanded on the charge. [More…]
On Thursday, 20th August, a request was made to Mr Justice Taylor that the case be heard by the Court of Appeal of New South Wales on the grounds that the men had been denied natural justice and that their actions did not constitute in law contempt of court. [More…]
On Monday, 24th August, the court declined to order the release of the men. [More…]
There has been a severe denial of justice to these men. [More…]
Meanwhile, the men were and are still in Long Bay Gaol. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General to put aside his own emotional involvement in this case. [More…]
Does the Commonwealth Government regard matters of property and taxation as more important than the liberty of the individual? [More…]
The answer to such situations is not increasing repression, or what the Government likes to call ‘law and order’, but to give equal justice to all citizens. [More…]
Six men have been imprisoned without remand and without representation on grounds which one judge has considered at least open to question yet their application for leave to appeal further has been denied. [More…]
While 2 judges are hearing tax matters and 4 others are hearing nothing 6 men remain in gaol. [More…]
One does not hear this from those who are staunch and true Labor men but from those of the new ilk who are now flirting with those who have no time for law and order and who in fact in this particular case said that they did not recognise the jurisdiction of the court and that as far as they were concerned- [More…]
We find that a political party goes as far as to raise in the national Parliament the rights of these particular men. [More…]
I think that these men are not concerned about their rights. [More…]
In September 1969 in Adelaide, 6 masked men entered a national service registration office during the lunch time break. [More…]
This is the sort of thing that these honourable gentlemen opposite are supporting. [More…]
On 25th April 1970, in Hobart, 27 shots were fired into a Department of Labour and National Service building. [More…]
Why does it not want to get away from the selling of wool to China - its Communist enemy, as it says - which shoots down Australian fighting men in Vietnam? [More…]
Why does it not want to get away from thousand and one other things like the gaoling of men who oppose the war in Vietnam, as mentioned by the honourable member for Kingston (Dr Gun) a few moments ago? [More…]
The Government should be revealed to the people for what it is. [More…]
The law and order specialists on the Government side, under another name, are the people who believe in suppression of the rights of the individual, suppression of the right to dissent and the gaoling of people who do not agree with them. [More…]
The gaols of this country have men in them today simply because they protested against legislation which the vast majority of Australians do not countenance. [More…]
I hope that the Government accepts the challenge of the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in respect of this Budget. [More…]
1 have no doubt that if such an election took place the Labor Party would have so many members on the Government side of the House that it would be one of the most historic victories of our time and one of the greatest. [More…]
I ask him: Do you believe in men going to gaol without a trial, as they do in Rhodesia? [More…]
Do you believe in the suppression, the treatment and the torture that comes to them? [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…]
Tonight you must sit there with pride knowing that you are not associated with these people, free as you are from the contamination of the policies which they espouse in this Parliament. [More…]
I knew that something must have been on because I saw that the galleries were filled with pressmen. [More…]
Knowing that the honourable member for La Trobe was going to speak I knew that the pressmen would not have come in unless they were asked to do so. [More…]
So I say to Government supporters: If you do not want us to know that something is on, never put up the honourable member for La Trobe because he is the best indication that something is coming along. [More…]
Now, under the guise of restoring law and order, the Government is seeking to have re-elected a government the people do not want. [More…]
I cannot help noticing that at last the Country Party - or at least half the coalition parties - has awakened to what the Government is doing to this country. [More…]
Is it a matter of guns, men to be imprisoned without trial and all those things? [More…]
The malicious methods that were used to character assassinate Mr Ben Chifley are well known, although possibly not to many of the younger members of this Parliament. [More…]
He was one of the greatest men Australia ever produced. [More…]
The premise upon which he offered the criticism of me seemed to be that 6 men were committeed to goal by a magistrate for contempt of court because they raised clenched firsts in court - the honourable member for Kingston seems to think they did it as a mark of respect - were treated unjustly by the magistrate and that their appeal to the court of appeal, which was rejected, should have succeeded. [More…]
Last night he came to me in my office - I was pleased to see him - and he expressed his concern about the fact, so he alleged, that these 6 men in goal for contempt of court had been unable to get their case dealt with by a Full Bench of the High Court in the short time remaining between their application to the court by filing papers and the termination of their sentence. [More…]
young men for whom he was concerned, for some reason, was that their proper course, if they wanted to get out of gaol before the termination of their sentences, was to apply to the Minister in New South Wales - and I named him - who is responsible for recommending to the Governor of New South Wales how the prerogative of mercy shall be exercised. [More…]
I made it perfectly plain to the honourable member, as I make it plain to the House tonight, that the offences for which these men are in gaol are State offences. [More…]
He has brought the matter up to make cheap political capital and because he is in sympathy with the unlawful and violent activities of these men who disgraced the court and the name of justice and who were rightly sent to gaol for a gross contempt. [More…]
Honourable members might be interested to know some of the details of the difficulties experienced in removing the oil which, in fact, involved some 40 to SO men with spray emulsifiers. [More…]
I might add that as a result of the ‘Oceanic Grandeur’ grounding last year in Torres Strait it has been found that there are some deficiencies in the implementation of a programme for the cleaning up of spillage, although in general the very effec tive operation of that campaign is a tribute to the men who work in the Commonwealth and State departments concerned. [More…]
I would throw the Budget at honourable members opposite if such action were not unparliamentary. [More…]
If honourable members opposite think that the 12 wise men in the Cabinet paid proper and due regard to the need in the social services sector, I am amazed. [More…]
Into whichever field the Government has gone it has introduced discrimination and double standards. [More…]
Many honourable members on the Government side have said that increased costs have been the result of wage increases, but the Government has budgeted for further wage increases in the next 12 months. [More…]
But honourable members opposite have not said one word about the increased prices charged by the Broken Hill Proprietary Company Ltd. Four men sat around a board table in Australia, on this occasion, under some overseas influence and perhaps dominance for that matter, and decided to increase the cost of their products, which will increase the costs of this country. [More…]
I do not know why they make their pleas when increased cost is never recognised by the Government parties. [More…]
The Government extracts the most by taxing the smaller pleasures of the battlers. [More…]
Railways, local government, etc. [More…]
I suppose there are more land sharks in this Government than in any other government in Australia. [More…]
The Government should have maintained a continuing interest in this area. [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…]
It was a terrible thing that the Minister could not use sufficient persuasion to convince 7 men out of 12 that something ought to be done in regard to the matters to which I have referred. [More…]
lt seems to me that after waiting, listening and almost becoming bored while waiting, something about the wine excise imposed by the Government would have been said. [More…]
I merely mention it to draw to the attention of the House and of whoever may be listening that that is the thinking of the Liberal Party. [More…]
He endeavoured to wriggle out of that statement later in the evening but as far as I am concerned he referred in this chamber to pensioners as bums. [More…]
But their experience, apparently, evokes no interest with this Government. [More…]
Incidentally, in case there are terrible satanic concepts of Socialism being built up in the ignorant and emotional attitudes of some, may I point out that the success of Japanese planning is probably best borne out by its influence on private business, on the decisions of private business men. [More…]
Whereas in the early 1960s about 60% of large companies were using the Japanese Government’s plans as guidelines for their long range plans, by the late 1960s more than 80% were using them. [More…]
If these policies of deficit financing had been initiated around the world then the great depression, the tragic underemployment of men and resources, would not have been experienced - at least with the same intensity as was experienced in the 1930s. [More…]
Therefore, if economic policy is based on overall trends and we are to rely only on blunt stop and go policies, as is the policy of the present Liberal-Country Party Government, South Australia will be particularly hard hit. [More…]
If the present policies are to be persisted with for heaven’s sake let us have some special Commonwealth Government measures in South Australia to see that once again a tragic waste of men and resources does not take place there. [More…]
Indeed, instead of having these special measures in recent years, instead of placing more Commonwealth investment in South Australia to offset the generally restrictive Commonwealth policies, the Commonwealth Government has slowed down its capital expenditure in that State. [More…]
Already Chrysler Australia Ltd has cut its production and General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd is not replacing men who leave it - to mention just two of our large Adelaide employers. [More…]
I have already congratulated the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) on the moves he has made in relation to the men who have served in Vietnam. [More…]
We have a tremendous responsibility to these men and I believe that there must be further investigation and consideration of repatriation assistance for them. [More…]
I would like to refer to the comments made by members of the Australian Labor Party and some trade union leaders - I say some because there were many decent, sensible, intelligent union men who did not go on strike last Tuesday - in support of the strike called by the Australian Council of Trade Unions as a protest against the Budget. [More…]
The hypocritical attitude of the Australian Labor movement was evidenced in the fact that it called on ,his strike - and a few of the members of the ALP here supported it - knowing that the strike would have no benefit, knowing that it was completely and absolutely a political trick and realising - or they should have realised - that it would also make a contribution to increase costs. [More…]
The desolution of men’s spirits dried by the crippling drought which has gone on for years is reflected wherever one goes in this immense country. [More…]
Mr Hawke gets tremendous publicity for his trade union meetings which, as I mentioned earlier, are run from the top table. [More…]
The men in the trade union hall and those members who are not present would not vote for this kind of radical militancy because they know that the minute a Labor Government gains power Australia will be in an impossible situation. [More…]
I am referring not only to social service pensioners but also to those men and women who have served their country in two world wars and in other wars in which we subsequently have been involved and who receive this same measly increase of 50c a week. [More…]
People who are unfortunate enough to be receiving the sickness benefit for more than 6 weeks will now receive an additional $5.50 a week and an entitlement to a supplementary allowance if they pay rent. [More…]
I believe that the Government has miscalculated the degree of concern in the Australian community for people on pensions, people on small incomes from superannuation and people on fixed incomes. [More…]
The Government has concentrated on tax concessions; it has granted concessions to people with annual incomes up to $32,000. [More…]
The Prime Minister in his policy speech said that his Government would bring in income tax concessions for people on low and middle incomes, it is interesting to see that the Prime Minister has extended the concessions as far as people on $32,000 a year. [More…]
1 would have hoped that the Government would have made meaningful concessions to people earning, say, under $5000 a year. [More…]
It could have done this, because the commitment that the Prime Minister made in his policy speech was to bring about tax reforms over a 3 year programme. [More…]
Surely it would have been much better to make more modest concession in the income tax of people on over $10,000 a year and to put more value into social service payments. [More…]
I would like to mention 2 cases in the social services field. [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…]
When we get a drought situation such as exists today in western Queensland, north western New South Wales and throughout the Northern Territory there should be some way - I do not think it is beyond the power of our legal people and legislators to work out the appropriate ways - by which unemployment benefit can be paid to people in rural industries. [More…]
Surely it should be possible to do something for the men on the land who are normally self employed but who by virture of the drought are not earning anything and who also by virtue of the drought are not able to dispose of their properties or the other assets that they have. [More…]
Unless improvements to Service pay and conditions are made quickly, there will be hundreds of officers and enlisted men voting with their feet and returning to civilian employment. [More…]
This is one of the lethal after-effects of conscription; a Government can ignore Service pay and conditions if it has the national service machinery geared and well-oiled. [More…]
It is also one of the consequences of the commitment to a bad war and the pointless luxury of stationing Australian troops in Singapore. [More…]
Older men cannot be retrained to catch up, and they have to face this fact. [More…]
When one appreciates that there are almost as many people in the single city of Tokyo as in the whole of Australia, that the United States of America pours more into the Vietnam war in 12 months - S29,000m according to a recent, official statement - than our economy is capable of generating in a year - our gross national product last year was $27.000m - one understands how relatively scarce our economic resources are and why we cannot afford to squander them. [More…]
Yet with peculiar complacency the Government distributed $470m last year as direct financial props of various forms to shore up several sectors of primary, secondary and tertiary industry. [More…]
These payments were in the form of subsidies, bounties, tax concessions, etc., and they gorged nearly 7 per cent of total Budget outlay. [More…]
Indisputably some of this expenditure can be justified, but little real economic justification has been given for any of it by the Government. [More…]
No-one disputes that it keeps men and capital employed in industry of some form, but the real question is: Are the men and capital used in the most efficient manner? [More…]
This conservative national Government sturdily averts its face from the just claim of the Aboriginal to land rights. [More…]
Only in South Australia indeed, and then only under a Labor Government, have land rights been granted to Aboriginals. [More…]
We deny this fundamental entitlement to the Aboriginal, whom our forefathers dispossessed without compensation, in doing so often abusing the Aboriginal women, murdering the men and corrupting and cruelly destroying the Aboriginal’s culture and self respect. [More…]
Today, as if our past were not enough, we dispossess him of his reserve land to make way for international mining giants who plunder his land for enormous profit, at best conceding a minute payment to the Aboriginal. [More…]
Only this week 1 heard my colleague the honourable member for Calare (Mr England) mention this state of affairs in his electorate. [More…]
In these country towns many businesses, including stores, machinery houses, garages, steel fabricators and machinery manufacturers have financed farmers lo their maximum limit and have had occasion to retrench staff, including qualified men such as mechanics and machinery experts. [More…]
Many of them are leaving these towns for city employment and, I regret to say, possibly will be lost to these towns forever. [More…]
I with some of my colleagues have brought this matter to the attention of the Government and the Parliament so that, when assistance is asked for by the States, the Cabinet and the Government will be fully aware of the situation existing in many country towns. [More…]
The Federal Budget was one of the most unsympathetic documents and completely without feeling for human beings, I believe it was a mathematical calculation come hell or high water.’ [More…]
It placed a greater burden on people not causing the inflation - the primary producers, the store keepers, the professional men in rural communities, and anybody depending on them. [More…]
There are not dozens, there are not scores, there are not hundreds, but there are thousands of men in my constituency on no better wages than that. [More…]
Shame on the Government which tolerates such conditions and shame on any Minister who denies to any worker the right to fight for a decent fair go in Australian terms for himself. [More…]
Constitutionally it has full economic powers and this Government has in actual fact no very direct control over it. [More…]
But the Government can lean very heavily on it and in recent months we have had quite an amount of leaning by spokesmen for the Government, including even the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton), in suitable post-prandial orations as to what could and ought to be done, and the mailed fist is being shown. [More…]
It is the letter of abuse at the size of parliamentary pensions compared with social service pensions. [More…]
1 make 2 points: Firstly, members of parliament subscribe heavily to their so-called pension - more than SI, 100 a year goes directly out of each member’s own pocket; secondly, members of Parliament for the most part have about the most precarious job in the country, and there are many, many capable men and women who refuse to consider leaving a secure job for the chances of politics. [More…]
Everyone remembers that the Government some years ago made much ado about its generosity in increasing the allowable income for single pensioners to the princely sum of SIO, and for married couples $17 per week. [More…]
This Government of robber barons has, I am loath to say, stolen a substantial portion of the staff of life from these pensioners. [More…]
And these, Mr Speaker, are the very attributes which Charles Dickens, for instance, found so distasteful in men of their class more than a century ago. [More…]
I know many people personally in my electorate of Batman who are suffering the ill-effects of the short-sighted policies of this Government. [More…]
They are working men and women who have precious little to show for a life-time of hard work, and small business and professional people, plagued by the constant fear of being denied assistance because they have been able to save some of their hard-won earnings, and on the basis of the new Treasurer’s Budget for the immediate future these people are condemned to further suffering. [More…]
Clearly this Government has got itself into a position from which it cannot extract itself even if it wanted to. [More…]
Clearly the affairs of the living environment of our people are going to have to wait for a Labor Government in Canberra. [More…]
If there is any consolation in this budget it is the public admission of disinterest in and utter contempt for the needs of our people, which can only hasten the day when even the men men of property - the supporters of this Government - will welcome a Labor Government so that we can tackle the problems of nation building that have been so neglected since the days of Ben Chifley. [More…]
The Corns need no actual party represenatives in Parliament. [More…]
He is the willing tool of men such as the would-be dictator, the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, whose previous effort, the nation-wide Budget strike, was as unsuccessful as his efforts on an Australia-wide basis in connection with the moratorium. [More…]
We are capable of taking steps now to ensure our own survival and I call on this Government to take positive action to reject the Australian Labor PartycumCommunist bid to take over this land for which we fought and worked hard - I know some Opposition members have too - just when it is on the threshold of developmental success. [More…]
I call on this Government to show the strength of spirit which was so evident in the past in pushing men over the Blue Mountains and across the Continent and which motivated the men who fought and died from Galipolli through France, Korea, Malaya, New Guinea and Vietnam on sea, land and in the air, that we might live in our own country free from the domination and in the manner we wish. [More…]
The foreign policy of this Government and the national service system have made service in the Australian forces abhorrent to many good Australians who might otherwise be willing to serve. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory, the most recent advocate of national service in this place, said, I think, that all young men should do 2 years service. [More…]
How many servicemen would that give us? [More…]
About 120,000 men come into the national service age group every year. [More…]
Therefore, after a couple of years we would have 250,000 men. [More…]
This is a tremendous waste of manpower, administration and everything else. [More…]
Of course, honourable members on the Government side say: ‘It is good for them; they will get their hair cut.’ [More…]
The Government should say what sort of defence Services Australia wants. [More…]
It should say how many men it wants in them and it should set out their tasks. [More…]
Therefore the Government should recast the defence Services and the national service system. [More…]
The system is an infliction on our young men. [More…]
Young men turning 19i years of age are faced with travel restrictions. [More…]
I only hope that in this session of Parliament we can repeal it and recast the defence system. [More…]
I think that the majority of honourable members would agree with me about that premise - if we came to a simple straight vote on capital punishment, for instance. [More…]
I believe there flows from that a further principle that no Government has the right to use another country’s territory for its own military or political objectives. [More…]
Without writing a guarantee for the South Vietnamese Government, which in fact has a large number of men under arms and a very large police force and which is fighting what seems to me to be a war of attrition against the flow of supplies to the North Vietnamese forces, it cannot be beaten to its knees by the North Vietnamese forces. [More…]
When will the Government enforce the restrictive trade practices legislation? [More…]
When did the Government enforce the Broadcasting and Television Act? [More…]
So much for the hypocrisy of the law and order men. [More…]
I rise more in sorrow than in anger, more in disappointment than in happiness, when I see the decay of a once great Australian Labor Party. [More…]
One has to admire the honesty, sincerity and integrity of these great men of the old Labor Party. [More…]
I refer to such men as Ted Peters. [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…]
He was one of the greatest men in the 1st Australian Imperial Force. [More…]
1 am terribly sorry to see that the men who have rendered great service to the Labor Party have only a few short years in which to retain their seats because with the effluxion of time they will be wiped out. [More…]
I am at a loss to know why the Government has sought to ban this man from entering Australia. [More…]
the Government must have mixed him up with somebody else. [More…]
I know that all negroes look alike, but I think that the Government has carried it a bit far. [More…]
It must have mistaken him for H. Rap Brown or Eldridge Cleaver, men who are known to have praised violence. [More…]
Is the Minister for Defence aware that the United States Army has an official known as the SergeantMajor of the Army who acts as an ombudsman to investigate complaints of servicemen about pay and conditions of service? [More…]
ls the Minister also aware that this official investigates hundreds of complaints each year in acting as an effective link between the men in the field and the defence machinery? [More…]
The honourable member spoke also about bringing our servicemen home from Vietnam. [More…]
After all, the decision to reintroduce national service was taken because Australia must have national service to meet the commitments that it has made. [More…]
At the request of the South Vietnamese, the Australian Government agreed to join with the Americans in attempting to defend South Vietnam and to preserve the independence of that young country. [More…]
This was done because it was impossible to recruit into the Australian Regular Army the number of men required in order to carry out that promise. [More…]
Therefore, the young men of Australia were called upon to serve in the Army under the terms of the National Service Act. [More…]
It is a scheme designed to fill the gaps in the numbers of men required to meet our commitment in South Vietnam. [More…]
It is the result of a decision made by a properly elected government. [More…]
Some members of the Opposition, including the honourable member for Wills, have encouraged young men, in the name of Australia, to disobey this law. [More…]
The Government has been properly constituted and it has made its decision in the proper way. [More…]
Surely there is nothing unreasonable in the young men of any country being called upon to defend their country. [More…]
People are mostly concerned with how it affects them personally, but the Opposition must not take it to mean that if people are dissatisfied with one or more matters contained in the Budget they are dissatisfied with the Government. [More…]
So would everybody else on both the Government and Opposition sides. [More…]
But this is a Budget which has been prepared by the Government. [More…]
While people may be concerned with how it affects them personally, that is not to say that they disagree with the Government. [More…]
It is merely a statement by an elected government to show its programme for the year - what it intends to do and how it proposes to get the money to carry out that programme. [More…]
It is an honest judgment of what the Government considers best for the country as a whole. [More…]
I do not think it could be said that members of the Government or the Cainbet are men who are prepared to do dishonest things. [More…]
The Government must take responsibility for the conduct of the country’s affairs. [More…]
The Government must ensure that rewarding employment is available for the citizens. [More…]
We have a condition of full employment, which indicates that in the past the Government’s judgment on this matter has been good. [More…]
Tt is the responsibility of the Government to ensure development and progress for the future benefit of all. [More…]
They are men and women of experience. [More…]
I put that proposal to the Government as my first priority. [More…]
The arrogance of this Government, particularly the Executive, with only a couple of hours of debate remaining before a vote is taken on the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam), is shown by its adjourning the Budget debate so that a statement, for which we have been waiting years, could be made. [More…]
One can ask why the Opposition allowed the Government to make the statement. [More…]
The Government is so arrogant that if the Opposition had not given it the right to make the statement it would have made it outside by way of a Press statement. [More…]
This Executive treats the Parliament as a rubber stamp and it is about time honourable members on both sides of the House stood up to the arrogance of the Executive. [More…]
The question that he and other Government members should examine is why over such a wide spectrum, from airline pilots to garbage men, people with diverse ways of life are striking for economic justice. [More…]
The right honourable member for Fisher who has been either a supporter of the Government, a member of the Ministry or a member of the Cabinet could not help but cry buckets of tears the whole time he was talking about conditions in this country. [More…]
Even though spokesmen from the building industry last April and even before April had given proof that there was no strain on men and materials in the home building sector of the building industry in 1970, he proceeded to place the crunch on the home building sector, contrary to the views he expressed in September 1965. [More…]
Mt GARLAND (Curtin) [3.46]- Since this debate allows comment on any topic, I propose to address myself to foreign affairs and its effect on this country. [More…]
continue because of the deep differences between Government and Opposition in this House. [More…]
They include security for its people to enjoy a high standard of living with truly satisfying lives in the widest sense and to contribute significantly to the world’s less developed nations in every way - by general aid, education, food and contributing to international law and order, by resisting aggression, and influencing to the extent we are able truly peaceful co-operation between nations, based on justice, truth and mercy among men. [More…]
That country has a standing army of 3,000,000 men - about 150 divisions - and 2,500 aircraft, a greatly expanding military capacity in socalled conventional and nuclear weapons, with ICBM’s by 1972, soon sufficient to threaten major powers. [More…]
It must be scrapped quickly by the Australian Government. [More…]
But the Government, torn apart by the influence of powerful vested interests spearheaded by the middle men, the brokers and the private bankers, refuses to act despite the national urgency. [More…]
There is also movement between Wattie Creek and the Wave Hill welfare settlement. [More…]
Those with a continuous attachment to Wattie Creek seem to number from IS to 20 men and their wives and children. [More…]
Some of the men are beyond working age. [More…]
An unknown factor is how many people might be attracted to move permanently from employment on the surrounding cattle properties to Wattie Creek if a cattle project for the Aboriginal people were started there, ft is quite fanciful to think that a cattle property of 500 square miles in that country could support an Aboriginal community at Wattie Creek at a reasonable standard of living. [More…]
Government measures for Aboriginals are sometimes criticised as demoralising hand-outs. [More…]
I want to ask the Parliament whether it really considers that 50c is enough? [More…]
Of course, these men were struggling. [More…]
Yet, the Parliament gave them an increase of $115 a week or $17.10 a day. [More…]
I am intrigued by the Country Party, which is a remarkable body of men. [More…]
But now they oppose the single marketing authority which ;s recommended by the Australian Wool Industry Conference, and they have given way to the Liberal Party on rural policy. [More…]
As we walk around the passages of Parliament House we hear members of the Country Party whispering about these dreadful sinister Liberals and saying how they are undermining the Country Party. [More…]
Aid is intended to foster development. [More…]
In assessing the contribution to development we recognise that aid is at best a supplement. [More…]
The aid we give to assist development can supplement a country’s limited capital resources, and the supply of its technical skills. [More…]
But it is only one of the elements in the process of development. [More…]
Nor is development necessarily a painless process. [More…]
But if aid donors do not help, the consequences can well be the failure of the economic policies of governments in the less developed countries and such failure means continuing poverty. [More…]
It can help train some of the men. [More…]
Too often the process of development involves changes of the foundations on which the building stands - quite often it involves changes in the basic values of society. [More…]
The honourable member for Lilley knows that the Liberals are trying to stir up dissent in the ranks of the Moratorium supporters and then to blame the sponsors of the Moratorium for anything that happens, when underground men may be responsible for it. [More…]
He confiscated property, he imprisoned and murdered his political critics and he trampled on the basic and fundamental civil liberties of the German people. [More…]
That is what the honourable member for Lilley and some of those who sit with him in this Parliament today would do if they could. [More…]
The honourable member for Boothby knows that that is the position in Rhodesia today, and he wants to introduce similar legislation into this Parliament. [More…]
I have a pamphlet here which is headed ‘Menzies SS-Men Manhandle Liberal Senator’s Daughter’. [More…]
Is it not amazing when we remember that the Government sells wheat to China. [More…]
It has the fundamentals of Hitler’s policy. [More…]
At that rally will be men whose opposition to Communism is known from one end of Australia to the other. [More…]
We must look at it in this way because the Government says that we are fighting for freedom in Vietnam. [More…]
Even the Philippines, which had 2,000 men in Vietnam on construction work, has withdrawn its forces. [More…]
It is this Government which has betrayed our young men. [More…]
The Government is responsible for the deaths of more than 400 young men who have perished in Vietnam and over 2,000 who will carry injuries for the rest of their days. [More…]
I was indeed proud of that statement, as I have been proud of the record of my colleagues who have struggled for peace and freedom in Vietnam. [More…]
The spurious motion that has been moved this morning by a lowly back, bencher opposite is a disgrace to his Party and to this Parliament. [More…]
I would like to compliment the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) on the clarity of his contribution to this debate and to take up one or two of the points that have been mentioned, notably that made by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron), who saw fit to talk of the traditions of Westminster but told us only half the story. [More…]
1 believe that all members of the House have received from the Leader of the House (Mr Snedden) a table showing comparable quorums in other parliaments of the world. [More…]
I am afraid that I do not have the document with me now but we know that other leading parliaments have quorums of as little as 5 per cent or 6 per cent of their membership. [More…]
We have been shown the great spectre of a handful of men who have been elected to this place passing important legislation. [More…]
All I can say is that it will be a much larger handful than is found in most other parliaments. [More…]
My first point is that there is no magic about any proportion of a body of men forming a quorum. [More…]
There is no saying that the number will stay as it is under this Government or any other. [More…]
These days there are desperate men in the Liberal Party. [More…]
They might say: ‘Let us have a very quick meeting of the Parliament’. [More…]
1 merely make the point that, if the quorum is reduced to as low as 25, that will be one of the most dangerous procedures ever introduced in this Parliament, it will bring executive government to the Parliament and anything will be able to be done quite constitutionally. [More…]
In its recent Budget the Government has introduced legislation to reduce income tax on lower and middle income earners. [More…]
No government should be proud to admit that it fixes the salary of the elected represenative of the people in this Parliament at a level which must, by the Government’s own definition, be regarded as a low income. [More…]
Several weeks ago this Government granted to 2 former GovernorsGeneral pensions of $7,500 per annum each. [More…]
They were both dedicated men who rendered great and meritorious service to this country. [More…]
The reason given in the Press for this action was that both men were, to some extent, in financial difficulties. [More…]
By the time the pension from this Government is added he will be earning very rauch more. [More…]
As I have said, no-one could begrudge this pension to these 2 gentlemen but I do point out the comparison of what they receive to members’ salaries. [More…]
Members of Parliament should be, and most are, full time members of Parliament. [More…]
They should never be placed in the position of trying to make ends meet by taking other positions because if they do their parliamentary duties will suffer. [More…]
I would also like to make a statement about the standing committees that have been referred to by other speakers today. [More…]
The subjects of these committees will be foreign affairs and defence; finance and trade; health and welfare; primary industry and national development; transport and communications; education, science and arts; and legal, home and internal territory affairs. [More…]
These committees would be so constituted that the top men in various departments would be called upon to give evidence and to produce facts and figures so that the committees might better be able to analyse and dissect the legislation that comes down from the Government. [More…]
I am very much afraid that this setup could be far too cumbersome for our Parliament. [More…]
It would be a tremendous strain on the heads of departments who would be invited over here one day to give evidence to the House of Representatives committee and perhaps on the next day to give evidence to the same committee operating in the Senate. [More…]
I just want to say one or two things regarding the estimates for the Parliament. [More…]
The history of this country shows that since federation 70 years ago some wonderful men, by their wisdom and by what they did in this House, did much to build this nation. [More…]
I atn of the opinion that a parliament is only as good <is the members who are elected to it, who sit in the Parliament, who speak on different subjects and who meet in the Party rooms. [More…]
When I first came to Canberra I thought I would find some wonderful men here, and I did. [More…]
For a democracy to operate the Parliament of the Commonwealth must consist of men from all walks of life. [More…]
It has been said that a member of Parliament received a certain salary and then the public servant received a rise, lt was said that the member’s salary should somehow be tied to the public servant’s salary, which meant that we would get a rise, too. [More…]
It has been said that certain men in the Public Service are receiving more than their masters. [More…]
The public servants are public men in public offices and as such are greatly appreciated. [More…]
The Country Party’s policy, which I support, is to keep inflation down as much as possible because men in the great primary producing industries do not have the protection of the tariffs or the protection of arbitration courts basing salaries on what the industry can afford Let us not forget that in 98 per cent of arbitration cases it is secondary industry that benefits. [More…]
There are so many papers, books and statements to read, the chances are that I would not have had the opportunity, nor would other honourable members, to read Hansard closely to find out what has happened. [More…]
This country would be bankrupt in less than a week while Parliament was sitting, for the simple reason that when it came to increasing pensions everybody who wanted to please his constituents would vote for it, and when it came to reducing taxation all honourable members would be voting on the one side of the House. [More…]
The eleventh place was created on this occasion because two men tied for tenth place in the Caucus ballot. [More…]
I had the opportunity to see at first hand the members there - the congressmen, members of the House of Representatives and senators - and to see for myself their ability and intelligence, which, indeed, they have, though much to the contrary is written of them. [More…]
I found them - both men and women - to be most interested in Australia and in our policies and development. [More…]
Government to Government negotiations are in themselves not good enough for Australia’s interests. [More…]
I hasten to add that this is in no way a criticism of the contacts between the United States Government and our representatives through the Department of External Affairs and the Department of Trade and Industry. [More…]
But they are hedged by protocol and must contract the United States government in an official capacity. [More…]
Our members, in talking as politicians to politicians with an understanding of government, politics and the representational aspects of political life whether it be arranged by tours, discussions or even seminars and the provision of reciprocal invitations, could certainly cut down misunderstandings and better their knowledge. [More…]
I have heard, as no doubt all honourable members have, references made by these people to Australia from time to time which show basic misunderstandings of Australia’s attitudes and values and our determination on matters which we think are fundamental. [More…]
As a consequence, one of the major car manufacturing companies in South Australia, after waiting a few weeks to ascertain whether its fears regarding the finance squeeze were justified, cut its production schedule by roughly the same proportion as the fall in the daily total market rate and retrenched some ISO men. [More…]
At the moment neither of the 2 major companies in South Australia is replacing labour wastage through retirements, deaths, etc., and this alarming situation prevailed even in the field of skilled tradesmen. [More…]
In other words, the recruitment of labour for the present and the immediate future has ceased in the motor industry in South Australia. [More…]
The third area that I wish to talk about - I will not have time to deal with the 4 matters I want to mention - concerns assistance to industry where increases this year in terms of percentage over the last financial year amount to 42 per cent. [More…]
We find in the mining industry that there are tremendous shortages of labour. [More…]
All sections of the Parliament realise that one of our prime purposes is to ensure that labour is employed in this country. [More…]
Yet the mining industry, in which wages are so high and where there is plenty of overtime and plenty of good work for men who are willing to work, is one of the few industries in this country which can compete with overseas industries on an export basis. [More…]
I mention the economic importance of these operations to this area because the railway line which runs from Melba Siding near Zeehan through Rosebery and Guilford Junction to Burnie had to be reconstructed and rehabilitated. [More…]
This plant employs 100 men full time. [More…]
A greater number of men had to be employed in the handling of the pyrites at the mines at Queenstown and at Rosebery. [More…]
This, of course, keeps the railway fettlers and maintenance men employed. [More…]
I well recall General Ridgway telling me after a hearing one day that if we sent 2 million men into the Vietnam area, they would be swallowed up. [More…]
The Communists are engaged in strategies which are directed at the minds of men. [More…]
Then there was a stable South Vietnamese Government with no more than 300 or 400 American advisers. [More…]
One of the things the Government has to start asking itself is not whether a foreign policy is antiCommunist but whether it is effective. [More…]
If all the Government asks of a foreign policy is that it be anti-Communist then I would point out that Hitler had an anti-Communist foreign policy and it spread Communism all over Eastern Europe. [More…]
This is not the kind of approach to make to this question because there is such a consideration as the minds of men. [More…]
Does the Government honestly think that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics regrets the presence of American troops in Vietnam? [More…]
Does it honestly think that the Chinese Government regrets the presence of American troops in Vietnam? [More…]
If the Government believes this, then its evaluation of the situation is far too simple. [More…]
The Chinese have not the slightest regret at the presence of American troops in Vietnam any more than the Communists in the French Chamber of Deputies had any regret when they voted with the ultra-right to overturn Mendes-France so that he would not give independence to Algeria. [More…]
What the Government has produced in South East Asia is extended disaster; so please spare us this denunciation of Sihanouk. [More…]
The Government under Sihanouk stood on a tight rope. [More…]
That began the whole process of the undermining of the stability of the Cambodian Government. [More…]
It is about time we stopped just talking in terms of what someone is doing in a Moratorium or what someone said and tried to look at what determines the changes in the minds of men. [More…]
We have to ask: Is our policy effective in turning the minds of men? [More…]
It can very definitely be done by military policy, lt was Clausewitz who said: ‘The aim of war is to change the will of the enemy, government and people’. [More…]
The purposes of the Soviet Union in Czechoslovakia were evil and anti-freedom; but its action was carried through swiftly and effectively, and the minds of men have forgotten it. [More…]
In this battle for the minds of men, which is the essential thing, we need to look at the realities of Communist policy. [More…]
1. want to speak about an island fortress which has more armed men to the square mile than any other country in the world, including Vietnam. [More…]
While returning from London, where I attended a parliamentary conference in June, I had 3 days on the island of Cyprus in the Mediterranean as a guest of the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
My main purpose was to visit the 50 Australians in the seventh voluntary contingent of Australian policemen who have gone to this troubled island to help keep the peace and make the peace in a very strategic spot in world affairs. [More…]
This was a great experience for me, and right at the start I want to say what a magnificent job our Australian policemen are doing on that island under United Nations jurisdiction. [More…]
There are 21,000 armed men on Cyprus. [More…]
The police force, which is unarmed, is made up of 175 men from [More…]
The other armed men on Cyprus are the 500 armed Turkish national soldiers and the 700 armed national Greek soldiers from the mainland. [More…]
As an Australian I was proud to meet these men who volunteered for this difficult task of being at the hub of the peace keeping operations on this island. [More…]
We should be proud of our men on Cyprus. [More…]
In Australia’s police contingent there are 3 or 4 men from South [More…]
It is a magnificent body of men. [More…]
In the last 12 months the military force on Cyprus has been reduced by about 700 men. [More…]
It appears to me, from studying the situation while I was there and talking to all the top men on the United Nations side as well as on the police force side, that in the next 12 months there could be a reduction in the military forces and an increase in the police forces on this island because of the splendid work done by the unarmed civil police from the 4 nations that I have mentioned. [More…]
They are guarded by Turkish armed men. [More…]
The hills all around Kyrenia have armed men stationed at strongpoints - both Greeks and Turks. [More…]
Is the honourable member suggesting that we equate the victims of an armed conflict between 2 armies with the deliberate murder of women and children in an orphanage to prevent a democratic election? [More…]
He went into this kind of logic, and I hope that in reflection as he reads what I have to say, as I hope he will, he will think better of the logic and the morality of this statement. [More…]
He said that it is better, in winning a political or ideological battle for the minds of men, to have the brutal suddenness of Russian’s invasion of Czechoslovakia than the 10 years of drawn out bloodshed in Vietnam. [More…]
When a statement was made on this side of the House a while ago the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Birrell) interjected and said: Well, it is about time then that we withdrew our troops from South Vietnam if the Vietnamese are getting as strong as they are.’ [More…]
I believe that we now have, thanks to the fact that the Americans went there and thanks to the fact that the Australians, the South Koreans, the Filipinos and so many other nations who have committed themselves in different ways assisted this regime, a nation standing on its feet with an army of more than 1 million men well armed and trained with another 3.5 million men in its reserves, regional forces and home guard. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle also asked whether our policy is effective in changing the minds of men. [More…]
1 hope that the Government will not act lightly in cutting down the number of troops in that Province because we are about to mount there one of the finest examples of rural reform that I have seen in the area - and I have see a lot in many visits to South Vietnam in the past. [More…]
These men have no responsibility to the electorate and this is why the Leader of the Opposition is reluctant to put forward any positive policy. [More…]
The Liberal Party’s policy is determined by faceless men who meet behind locked doors. [More…]
The great weaknesses in the Government’s policies in relation to this part of the world are the different values which it ascribes to those countries. [More…]
If it is true that the presence of North Vietnamese troops in South Vietnam represents China sweeping down between the Indian and Pacific Oceans, as we were told by former Prime Minister Sir Robert Menzies, it is no less true that the presence of North Vietnamese troops in Laos and Cambodia poses a similar threat to Australia. [More…]
But the Government has not seen fit to involve itself in the affairs of those countries, not because the troops of North Vietnam are not there but because the forces of the United States are not officially there in the way they have been present in South Vietnam. [More…]
In other words, the Government’s policy towards those countries shows inconsistency. [More…]
I refer not only to exporters, but also to the cattlemen, the legislative councillors, the Press and I am sure some of the senior men in the Administration. [More…]
The North Australian Cattlemen’s Association is on record as stating that it will call for a Legislative Council inquiry into the scheme, and I believe that that inquiry will be supported by all. [More…]
Does he remember my asking him last session whether he knew that it was generally feared by country people that men, and even Ministers, who voluntarily drive around in black cars may be soft in the head? [More…]
The people who live in those areas know that climatic conditions are pretty hard and the men working on the airstrip will experience hard conditions during the day. [More…]
Now we see that the Department of Works has agreed that air conditioning is necessary in post offices in the north. [More…]
It is a great pity that air conditioning was not recommended for the houses built for the Learmonth project. [More…]
I appreciate that what is done for the American community is not the responsibility of this Government. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who recently visited Brisbane and spent some 3 hours just outside my electorate with a number of men who are in this category, is very sympathetic. [More…]
in my first year in this Parliament in 1967 I commenced a crusade to increase the maternity allowance. [More…]
The present Government contribution for a single child is $30. [More…]
If a person is unlucky enough or lucky enough to have twins the payment is only $40: it is not doubled, If a person has triplets the payment is not trebled. [More…]
I note that the Minister is acknowledging my plea; I hope that his action will go further than a mere acknowledgement. [More…]
This building was acquired with Government assistance under the Aged Persons Homes Act and it will in the very near future be opened by the Minister for Social Services. [More…]
This building was bought with a Government subsidy of about two-thirds of the total cost. [More…]
In the last 16 years this Government has enabled and encouraged private organisations, including church organisations, to go out and with Government assistance enter upon similar ventures. [More…]
I know that the Opposition believes that the Government should do this sort of thing on its own but this raises a difference in political philosophy - the difference between socialism and the promotion of free enterprise and initiative. [More…]
Earlier this year, the Australian Government voted to provide, over 3 years, $53. [More…]
In addition to this material aid that I have outlined, earlier this year the Government sent an 8-man delegation to Indonesia to find out more about how we could assist that country and understand its present situation. [More…]
This delegation saw the heads of all Indonesian departments. [More…]
It interviewed also the Indonesian Foreign Minister, the Indonesian Minister for Trade and the Governor of Djakarta as well as port officials, health directors, military governors and business men. [More…]
What manner of men are they who speak in that way? [More…]
Who are the men of violence in this Parliament? [More…]
What about capital punishment itself? [More…]
It is with regret that I raise a matter, but I feel it is a matter that should be raised in this Parliament because, although it relates to only one instance, it applies to the broader field of tourist bus traffic as a whole. [More…]
The matter to which I wish to refer is a tragic accident on 13th August at 3.30 a.m. when a Cobb & Co. bus crashed off the road some 11 miles south of Bulahdelah killing the driver and 3 servicemen. [More…]
I believe that another one of the servicemen in the bus passed away later on. [More…]
So all told 5 men lost their lives in the accident. [More…]
As I stated, it occurred at 3.30 a.m. at a time when the temperature was pretty low and when, I would say, all the men in the bus were asleep. [More…]
I have seen the bus and the whole of one side, where the men would have been sitting in their seats, has been ripped out. [More…]
I would like the Minister for the Army to advise honourable members, including myself, why that bus was transporting members of the forces - I believe both national servicemen and permanent servicemen were on the bus - at half-past three in the morning. [More…]
Yet the Army saw fit to transport young men at that time. [More…]
The New South Wales Police Department did not proceed further. [More…]
The thing which concerns me is that the men driving these buses, in Accordance with the New South Wales Motor Traffic Act, are able to drive for 5 boors before they get a break of half an hour, then travel another 5 pours before they get another break of half m hour. [More…]
These are the circumstances under which the Department of the Army is permitting its servicemen to be carried at ungodly hours such as 3.30 a.m. Those are the points that I would like clarified. [More…]
These are the type of buses which the Department of the Army is permitting servicemen to be carried in at the time 1 referred to and which I consider to be most unsatisfactory. [More…]
If these men are to be transported in buses they should at least be transported at a time when people can reasonably be expected to keep awake, and that is in daylight hours and not around midnight or in the early hours of the morning in circumstances which I consider are most unsatisfactory and conducive to accidents. [More…]
Single aged persons - that is, residents of Australia aged 65. years or more for men and 60 or over for women - previously paid no tax if their taxable income did not exceed $1,300. [More…]
The second benefit arises from adjustments to the ‘shading-in’ arrangements, which are designed to ease the change from complete exemption to tax at normal rates. [More…]
Although at times we may be disappointed by some of the decisions on war pensions given by the tribunals because they are not in favour of the ex-servicemen we are given some encouragement because we are told that these men have the right of appeal. [More…]
I have found that the officers of the Department are most helpful in the advice that they tender and that they assist the men to get justice. [More…]
It is practically impossible for those men to obtain evidence now. [More…]
The Government has gone a certain way towards meeting the improvements suggested by the Returned Services League of Australia. [More…]
I appeal to the Government to give consideration to the plight of the 11,000-odd veterans of the First World War. [More…]
I thank the Government for the increases that it has granted, especially in the total temporary incapacity pension. [More…]
I trust that when similar legislation is being considered next year the Government will have gone much further towards meeting the improvements suggested by the RSL. [More…]
I appreciate the attention given by the Repatriation Department to the exservicemen that 1 represent. [More…]
From the head of the Department in Victoria, the Deputy Commissioner, down through the different grades of people I have met, they have treated the men I have taken to see them with the greatest courtesy. [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…]
Generally speaking I say definitely that I want the Repatriation Department and the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) to watch closely over these men coming back from Vietnam. [More…]
A lot of us know what jungle fighting is like and these men should get the best possible deal.I do not mean that they should get a better deal than the men who served in the two World Wars or other smaller conflicts. [More…]
I compliment the Minister for the work he has already done. [More…]
I believe he is ardently working to give the ex-servicemen whom he represents as the Minister for Repatriation the best possible deal that this country can give them. [More…]
Nothing is more justified than giving those men and women who served this country in its dire need the best deal that Australia can give them. [More…]
We owe them the privilege of being members of this democratic Parliament. [More…]
I wish to refer to this serious point: One of the most fundamental features of our law is that a person charged with a serious criminal offence is entitled to a preliminary hearing of the evidence that is to be brought against him so that he may know what it is and test it by cross-examination. [More…]
Last year some young men were charged in the Court of Petty Sessions of the Australian Capital Territory with rape. [More…]
This Government, through its Attorney-General’s Department, decided that this procedure- [More…]
We have a highly moralistic criminal law and a long tradition of using it as an instrument for coercing men towards virtue. [More…]
It is a singularly inept instrument for that purpose. [More…]
It is also an unduly costly one, both in terms of harm done and in terms of the neglect of the proper tasks of law enforcement. [More…]
I want to raise on behalf of a number of ex-servicemen the matter of extending the appeals system to ex-servicemen who were convicted by courts-martial prior to the establishment of the appeals court in 1955. [More…]
There are still many exservicemen, particularly those who served in World War II, who feel aggrieved by the wrongful convictions they sustained in what they felt were unfair trials. [More…]
Many of the persons who were trying these men were inexperienced in the law. [More…]
The war and its whole environment engendered a certain amount of emotion and prejudice which could have only harmed the functioning of many a courtmartial. [More…]
Those affected in a vast number of instances were young men. [More…]
They were men of immaturity. [More…]
I remember one member of the Government of that time, who has since died, relating an incident involving a British soldier. [More…]
They are experienced legal men. [More…]
Ultimately, I suggest, the Government brought pressure to bear and the 3 charges were dismissed without the cases being heard. [More…]
The bringing into existence in 1955 of an appeal tribunal indicates the need, even at this belated state, to extend the opportunity for appeals back to those men. [More…]
I hope that the AttorneyGeneral and the Government will, even at this belated stage, give some consideration to the extending back of appeal rights to those aggrieved ex-servicemen. [More…]
As most honourable members would know, the art of karate is now being taught in Western Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland, and I might say, is a rapidly growing sport attracting some of the nation’s finest young men and women to its ranks. [More…]
Earlier this year Australia was invited to attend and participate in the first world championship tournament to be held in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, next month. [More…]
Whilst the tournament is being organised by the Federation of All Japan Karate Do Organisations, it has the firm support of the Japanese Government in that the Japanese Ministry of Education, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Transport and the Metropolitan Government of Tokyo are assisting the Japanese body in the organisation of the world tournament. [More…]
If these services were not in operation many members of this place, besides a lot of business men in country areas, would have great difficulty in travelling and being able to carry out their duties. [More…]
I believe that the establishment of an Australian wool marketing authority independent of the Australian Wool Board and under the management of top men chosen because of their proven commercial, technical and financial judgment will result in a new confidence and a higher level of prosperity to this industry. [More…]
Of course, the generalised reason for a single authority is the fragmented nature of the industry compared with the giants in the manmade fibre world. [More…]
The Wool Board has concentrated on a reserve price and supply management. [More…]
But what was the Minister’s reply when he was asked by a Riverina delegate to the annual State conference of the Country Party at Griffith whether he was sympathetic to growers who had been forced by Government policy to sell wheat on the black market? [More…]
He has been backed by only one voice in this Parliament - that of the honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt) who wanted members to turn informer on their constituents and report them to the Government for selling outside the Board. [More…]
The guilty men are not the growers but the Minister and the Government who had money to take in and pay for the wheat within their own ration but refused to do it. [More…]
So the crisis in the countryside has been contributed to by the Government’s decision on wheat. [More…]
Australian House and Garden’, ‘Australian Country’, ‘Tailor and Men’s Wear’, the Textile Journal of Australia’, ‘Wheels’, Australian Outdoors’, ‘Seacraft’ and Flair’. [More…]
That is a rather cruel and ruthless statement, nonetheless it is a fair one, but the people they represent did not get what they deserved. [More…]
The people were betrayed because these men had promised that if they were elected to government they would ensure that the value of the currency was restored and maintained. [More…]
When I look across at the Country Party benches today I think of men such as Sir Earle Page, Tom Paterson, Percy Stewart, who represented the seat later represented for some time in this House by the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull), and W. G. Gibson. [More…]
These were men of political independence and courage. [More…]
I disagreed with many of their policies and many of the things they did but at least they were men who would stand up for what they believed and they would fight for the people whom they came into this Parliament to represent. [More…]
What member of the Country Party is prepared to go to that meeting and say: ‘We must be prepared to retrace our steps and we must separate ourselves from this Liberal Government which is promoting inflation and ruin in country districts throughout the whole of Australia’? [More…]
In making this remark I am quoting practical men to whom I have been speaking. [More…]
While that argument is going on a meat works worth millions of dollars could be de-listed. [More…]
But I say again that what we need is a restoration of confidence and we need men with courage and foresight. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise. [More…]
Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned - [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned - [More…]
I have seen what I am told is an official transcript put out by the Leader of the Opposition, indicating that the Leader of the Opposition had made statements along these lines, the statements being that he would advise young men- [More…]
I would like to make it clear that at the time that an attempt was made to impose censorship on what I was saying I had made no comment at all. [More…]
What I was doing was discussing a document put out, and the facts in that document are of relevance. [More…]
In this document, this official transcript, there is no doubt that it is a fact that the Leader of the Opposition does say that he advises young men to register for national service, to serve in the Army, but to refuse to obey orders when they are in the [More…]
The real point is that he is urging young men in Australia’s armed forces to refuse to obey proper lawful commands of the forces in which they are serving. [More…]
That being so, I think it is no wonder that he has gone to such lengths this morning to try to prevent those facts being brought out in this Parliament for people to hear. [More…]
There were thousands of men very seriously troubled about this question. [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…]
The reasons I gave for this advice to men who conscientiously objected to the Vietnam war was this: one could not say that at all times and in all places conscription was immoral. [More…]
If members of the Caucus, for instance, were members of the Labor governments in Sweden, Switzerland, Israel or Singapore at the present time they would support conscription in the circumstances in which those countries find themselves. [More…]
There are many young men in this situation, hundreds of young men who object to the Vietnam war. [More…]
I suggested that Australia should appoint for a start at least three accredited and efficient salesmen of high integrity to go overseas and move from trade post to trade post trying to co-ordinate the work of trade commissioners in finding markets and selling Austraiian goods. [More…]
Such men have proved to be very valuable in private enterprise. [More…]
If stock agents, for instance, have stock for sale in New South Wales or Victoria they send their men round to the different branches to find out what they have for sale and also to find buyers. [More…]
As I have said before, trade commissioners are not necessarily good salesmen. [More…]
I have personal knowledge of two young men who, because of their university degrees, were recently appointed to a certain position that had to do with primary industry. [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…]
1 believe that Australia should appoint salesmen. [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…]
Therefore these men continually travelling and working in conjunction with Australian trade representatives all over the world would pay their way. [More…]
We hear arguments here all the time that make me very tired. [More…]
I have not heard of yoting men marching in places that I represent, such as Mildura. [More…]
It has been said that for every ten men who can stand adversity only one can stand success. [More…]
They are nearly all young people who should be studying to fit themselves to represent this country in the way we expect them to when the Government pays so much for their education. [More…]
With very big machines two or three men can do what it took 22 or 23 men to do in the days of the horse and the slower machines. [More…]
Employment is not to be found in the country areas. [More…]
The reason for the problems in our rural, industries today is that the Government has not recognised that in almost every sphere of primary industry the grower is not getting sufficient return. [More…]
In the last few weeks Government members have been prone to regard wages as being a dirty word and profits, irrespective of who gets them and at what scale, is the magic word. [More…]
Government members have condemned the Australian Council of Trade Unions and trade unions generally for rises in costs and for the resultant shortcomings in the primary industries but they know as well as I do. [More…]
that the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd board of 5 or 6 men created the higher cost factor for primary industries and not the trade union movement. [More…]
There is also a higher proportion of young married women not staying in the schools. [More…]
If they are not staying why are not enough men being recruited into teaching? [More…]
We now have 90,000 Government school teachers and by 1975 we will need 152,000. [More…]
Indeed, the survey adds again the tantalising and cryptic little statement that it will be necessary to recruit teachers from non-local sources. [More…]
It is a most disastrous and disgraceful document. [More…]
I call upon the Commonwealth to do what it can to give the money that is needed for investment in state education. [More…]
Women do not get the same go from the education system as do young men. [More…]
We believe that education has too low a priority in the considerations of this Parliament and, generally speaking, in the social and economic structure of Australia. [More…]
Over the last few years there was a wastage of 81,000 young men and 34,000 young women in our universities. [More…]
About 46,000 or 47,000 young women who are the equals of their brothers in social background and intellectual attainment are deprived of a university education not because of their intellectual incapacity but because they happen to be women. [More…]
With a university education women can solve many of the shortages at the intellectual and professional levels. [More…]
But it has been a good administration and the public servants are, in the main, men and women dedicated to the job that they are doing. [More…]
A considerable emphasis is placed today on economic development, lt may be that this should have come earlier. [More…]
Our problems thus lie in many areas but, in broad terms, the problems are: First, economic development; secondly, political education; thirdly, development of a national outlook; fourthly, the training, at least, of top level public service administrators; and, fifthly, ensuring participation in business by indigenes. [More…]
Indigenous participation in business is difficult obviously because this again is a new concept to so many indigenes but also because it does go against the interests - or, at least, the short term interests - of overseas companies and small business men. [More…]
They are successful farmers, business men and traders. [More…]
But they have problems because they are paying heavy taxes and are not very happy about paying taxes for the development of people on the mainland, for whom they do not have a great deal of sympathy. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned - [More…]
That they welcome the statements by the honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned - [More…]
Mr Speaker, the House is discussing a motion to take note of a statement issued by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
Both the implications of the content of that statement and the implications of the fact that it was made by him have, I believe, national significance for in that statement he advises young men not to obey the provisions of the law as they at present stand and he advises young men who are soldiers to disobey a military order and to refuse to go to a theatre of war to which their unit may be posted, if they claim to have conscientious reasons for not going to that theatre of war. [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…]
And therefore, Mr Speaker, the implications of this statement, as I see them, are firstly, a direct attack upon the rule of law as it operates in this country now; and secondly, the counselling of a course of action which would make the operations of an army with a content of national servicemen quite impossible in any theatre of war. [More…]
Now it is quite clear from -the statement made by the Leader of the Opposition that he is talking about the advice he gives to young men before they register. [More…]
They come along to him - the statement makes it clear -and say: ‘What should T do?’ [More…]
At least it does not appear to be the advice from the statement that he has made in this House. [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…]
One knows that in the end result if it is followed out it would lead to severe punishment to young men which could have been avoided had they been given the proper advice and it will lead, while the law stands as it is, to the impossibility of using the armed troops of Australia in the field. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) is under censure from the Government for a reason that has nothing to do with what he said or with the effect of what he said. [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…]
The Leader of the Opposition was talking not about young mcn who do not object to the war in Vietnam or to people in general but about young men who already object to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
He has no room for conscience because he imagines that he and his Government and the forces behind it are so ultimately democratic that there is no need or room for conscience in Australia. [More…]
What did the Leader of the Opposition say he would tell these men? [More…]
No doubt that is how members of the Government parties look at it. [More…]
Could they tell these young men to put aside their consciences altogether? [More…]
Men who know nothing of conscience could do that easily. [More…]
No doubt that is what members of the Government parties would do - they who have amongst them many who are young enough to volunteer for Vietnam but do not. [More…]
Yet, on the contrary, they force other young men into the military service against their consciences or into gaol for long months for judges to find and report that they should never have been there at all. [More…]
It may be difficult for Liberals to understand that there are thousands of young men who are convinced in their opposition to the blood bath in which Australia is involved in Vietnam; who are opposed to conscription for that purpose and to every aspect of the Government which enforces it upon Australia, and who will have nothing to do with the Citizens Military Forces. [More…]
The CMF is no alternative for boys in this position and anyone who, like the Leader of the Opposition, has talked to them knows that the CMF is no alternative for them because they will not have anything to do with the military service which is tied to this blood bath for which members on the Government side are all responsible. [More…]
If they do not know that they do not know the young men with whom we are dealing and that is the whole point of the submission I am making. [More…]
They know nothing of these young men in their cynical detachment and their superior positions. [More…]
Which of us would risk his popularity with the boss or his prospect of promotion or his job, let alone 2 years imprisonment in one of these inhuman piles of stone we call gaols? [More…]
Unless we can understand the position of these people we have no right to enter judgment upon them. [More…]
These young men, and many , thousands more, believe the war in Vietnam is the instrument of death for the people of Vietnam and an instrument of moral degradation for us. [More…]
All our measures in Vietnam have been sabotaged because the regimes there were, nml are, composed of men who are members of, or allied with, mandarin families that hold title to properties they have no intention of renouncing. [More…]
The loud little handful - as usual - will shout for the war - for someone else to go to the war, but nol for them to go to the war - a few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen and at first will have a hearing and be applauded, but it will not last long; those others will outshout them- as the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr McEwen) will try to outshout me in a few minutes - and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. [More…]
Men are already being imprisoned in Australia really for their political beliefs. [More…]
If the people are apathetic, silent and quiet, law and order is nothing but the fiat of those in authority for the time being and this Government wants law and order to be the fiat of itself in office for the time being. [More…]
It is how kind and considerate men are able to authorise the bombing and burning of civilians, the extermination of populations, of cities, towns and villages and the detention and torture of people for long periods without trial or who are willing to support, as this Government is willing to support those things. [More…]
We are told that the Prime Minister, the Attorney-General, the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer (Mr Bury) are kind and considerate men. [More…]
But in all this what is needed to rid ourselves of silence and apathy and involvement by our silence in immoral policy. [More…]
We must seek to advise young men, when they are convinced that they must break the law to end the war in Vietnam or to end conscription, that they must act not by violence but by persuasion, no matter how long it takes. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has tried to advise young men, who find that they cannot carry out the law to which they have a conscientious objection, how best they can do that with least injury to themselves and least disturbance to the community. [More…]
He has accepted a responsibility that has to be accepted by somebody, because there are hundreds and perhaps thousands of young men in this position. [More…]
In contrast to that, all the Government wishes to do is to put these young men into gaol and to discover 11 months later that they had a conscientious objection for which they should never have been put there in the first place. [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…]
The titular head of the Australian Labor Party has given frightful advice to young men who are concerned about military service. [More…]
The philosophy which he has enunciated in terms of military responsibility dovetails, complements completely and is a twin to the definition of power as demonstrated by the honourable member for Lalor. [More…]
I merely want to examine within this context an attitude of cowardice and I want a- cowardice qc it applies In advice of this type, lt is not said that the advice to young men is to break the National Service Act. [More…]
What is said is that these young men should place themselves in jeopardy in a military situation. [More…]
He has used a glib tongue to secure his own position in this respect while he prods and pushes young men to thwart military justice. [More…]
This comes not merely from a member of Parliament who is not trained in the law, as most of us are not still, but it comes from a sort of Sydney silk. [More…]
Other men have been able to exploit contradictions and even state contradictions. [More…]
He has enjoyed the confidence of his fellow men in every sphere in which he has worked. [More…]
His reputation, his family and his personal conduct is above reproach, but that does not prevent the members of the Government from stooping to this vile attack upon his loyalty to Australia. [More…]
But whatever is or has been said there are few if -ny of the Government members who can face the world with a clearer conscience or steadier eye. [More…]
The cause of most of the troubles in Australia at the moment in relation to defence and law and order is the fact that conscription was introduced in 1964. [More…]
The Government is now reaping the effects of a political action that was taken in 1964. [More…]
We unanimously believe that the nation’s interests will be better served by an all-volunteer force, supported by an effective stand-by draft, than by a mixed force of volunteers and conscripts; that steps should be taken promptly to move in this direction; and that the first indispensable step is to remove the present inequity in the pay ot men serving their first term in the armed forces. [More…]
The Labor Opposition says that if the Government cared to make an attempt to recruit volunteer forces, to serve in Vietnam if necessary, it would be able to do it. [More…]
In 1964, a matter of 10 or 12 days before conscription was announced by the then Prime Minister, the Minister was travelling around the country saying that the introduction of national service training was against the unanimous advice of the Government’s military advisers. [More…]
The Government has to admit that its introduction was a political decision. [More…]
The Government has got into difficulty with it. [More…]
The war in Vietnam is curtailing the recruitment of young men into our Regular forces because of the fact that the Army is made up of volunteers and conscripts. [More…]
These are some of the things that the Government should look at. [More…]
Ali members of the Opposition are called upon frequently to give advice or assistance to young men who have been called up, are about to be called up or are about to register for national service training. [More…]
The troubles it has created are the responsibility of the Government and until conscription is abolished these troubles will continue and, indeed increase. [More…]
I had to take my 2 cut lunches at the behest of the Government of the day to the Belmore drill hall on 29th December 1941. [More…]
Most of the men behind me have no objection to conscription when Australia is in dire need, but while members opposite are playing politics with the lives of our young fellows in Vietnam in an undeclared war we are against conscription. [More…]
That was nothing more than a red herring to take the minds of the people and of the members of this Parliament off the matter that we are discussing. [More…]
As the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) has said, the amendment moved by the Opposition has allowed those honest Labor men who are uncomfortable to come in now and vote for it whereas otherwise they would have had to vote in support of their leader. [More…]
I regret, and I am sure he regrets, that he did not make statements on what happened in Caucus. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition gave a Press conference on the Macquarie radio network again supporting law and order and again encouraging the young men in Vietnam who serve this country. [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…]
I fear the trouble is that some of the men from Vietnam who are now in uniform are bringing discredit on the Police Force. [More…]
What a magnificent statement to make about young men who have served this country in Vietnam. [More…]
When you look at it that is a wise statement from that intelligent Minister for the Navy. [More…]
After all, who are we to take notice of the men who know him or those of us who put up with his ravings here? [More…]
The men who know him understand him. [More…]
He has given advice to people who are now being conscripted under this Government for a war in which this nation should never have been engaged. [More…]
He has given a lead to young men who are expected to die in the paddy fields of Vietnam in a war that this Government put on for dollars instead of for the salvation of Australia. [More…]
The Government wanted trade and commerce and all these things, and men are dying there for them. [More…]
Boys are being conscripted at a time when the Government knows our security is not in danger and when Americans walk past them in thousands on their way home leaving Australians to die and fight their battle. [More…]
Men who go into it are liable for service there. [More…]
So that type of argument cannot be put up. [More…]
Let us have a look at the Government that says it will maintain law and order and which criticises the Leader of the Opposition for this judgment. [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…]
Other members of the Ministry who have not fulfilled this requirement are the Postmaster-General (Mr Hulme), the Minister for Education and Science (Mr N. H. Bowen), the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes), the Minister for Social Services, the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) and the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) - a collection of law breakers impressing law and order on the community. [More…]
Now, because the Government is in disarray, it is hammering at the Opposition on this issue. [More…]
If we pick out some other pictures taken at the front of Parliament House what do we see? [More…]
The absurdity of the Government’s allegation is shown by the fact that in these pictures which were taken - quite wrongly by the News and Information Bureau for political purposes - we find the personal assistant to the Prime Minister, Mr W. Arthur, shown with demonstrators carrying placards saying: ‘Abolish conscription’; ‘Withdraw all troops now’; ‘Withdraw support for the Saigon regime’. [More…]
If the Vietcong flag had been carried past them at a given lime, under the Government’s regulations they ought to be doing time because they are Vietcong spies or something to that effect. [More…]
I have here a picture of the Leader of the Opposition with the secretary to one of the most prominent Government members. [More…]
If Labor men are guilty because a flag happens to be in the same city as they are, why should the Liberal Party escape its responsibilities in this matter? [More…]
If men are to be condemned for this type of thing, the sooner we get rid of security police and the Government that tolerates this conduct at demonstrations, the better it will be for democracy in this country. [More…]
Does he think he should continue to sign trade agreements with the Soviet bloc when his Party holds this point of view? [More…]
We on this side think we should trade with everybody, but on the other side of the Parliament members condemn the people with whom they trade and condemn us on this side by implying that we are allied with those people. [More…]
I mention these matters in order that the honourable member for La Trobe may learn well that greater men than he in this Parliament have made accusations about the affiliations of other honourable members and later have had to apologise. [More…]
Anyhow, if he were, what would this Government do about it? [More…]
Men at Garden Island and members of the Royal Australian Air Force mutinied recently, but nobody has been hanged from the yardarm. [More…]
I believe the Government stands condemned for its guilt by association conduct and for its taking of photographs which have been brought into this Parliament by fanatics in order to bolster up a dying administration. [More…]
I hope that the Leader of the Opposition and other members on this side of the Parliament will speak again against the most infamous war of our time, that is, the war in Vietnam. [More…]
We on this side of the Parliament stand firmly behind him in his campaign to end conscription and to make sure that boys will not be dragged from their homes to fight for a cause which has no connection with this country. [More…]
The Government is responsible for the disunity that exists in the community because of the Vietnam war, from which our troops should be withdrawn immediately. [More…]
1 commend the Leader of the Opposition on the attitude he has taken. [More…]
They are of no credit to the Government. [More…]
As the Leader of the Labor Party he was putting the view to the Caucus that the advice to be given to young men who objected to the Vietnam war was that they should disobey and defy military authority, put in the mildest terms, that they should break the law. [More…]
Applying this as he did in one sense to hundreds of men and in another to thousands of men, an advice to break the military law is advice to mutiny. [More…]
That is the policy line that the Leader of the Opposition advocated, that young men who say that they hold a conscientious belief in respect of the Vietnam war, should be advised to break the law. [More…]
This Labor Party is the alternative government of Australia. [More…]
If it were to become the government, the logic of its present position is that even if it, in government, made laws, it would allow people to break them if they so desired. [More…]
Yet that is the proposition that the Leader of the Opposition put to the Labor Caucus whose members would compose the alternate government and which is advocated in this place where the parliamentary Labor Party decides its policies. [More…]
He himself says that he is advising young men to defy and to disobey the military law. [More…]
That is a lawyer’s way of putting it The plain fact is that he was inciting young national servicemen to mutiny. [More…]
young men holding this view and this is the advice which apparently privately and certainly now publicly he is offering to them: If you are called up go into the Army and after you are in the Army then disobey the military law.’ [More…]
I suppose one could go through the history books and discover many instances of individuals who have advocated anarchy or mutiny or treason, but I would say that this surely must be the first time in history when, in a democratic country, the leader of a party which regards itself as close to being in a position to form a Government elected by democratic process has advocated a course of disobedience of and disregard for the law. [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…]
The only possible conclusion is that he has in bad faith ignored the alternatives available to the young men. [More…]
Why did the Leader of the Opposition choose to ignore the legal alternative to service in Vietnam and, as a lawyer, a Queen’s Counsel, an officer of the courts, give advice to young men to break the law? [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…]
On one occasion he said hundreds and on another occasion thousands of men who are called up do not want to serve in Vietnam. [More…]
So his advice would result in hundreds or thousands of young men going to gaol, because this is the penalty for defying the military authority. [More…]
The only possible explanation for his giving this advice is that he is planning to use these young men to cause political embarrassment to the Government. [More…]
He is advocating that hundreds of young men should go to gaol to their shame. [More…]
This would be a liability for him to carry forever when he seeks employment. [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…]
The Leader of the Opposition is knowingly condemning these young men for the rest of their lives so that he may gain political advantage. [More…]
It is embarrassing to the Government to have one man in gaol because he takes this stand. [More…]
It would be superb, it would be perfect, from the point of view of the Labor Party if the Leader of the Opposition could put hundreds of men into gaol and blame the Government for it. [More…]
Perhaps he would become Prime Minister through the sufferings of these men and through blemishing their characters for the rest of their lives. [More…]
There is only one possible answer and that is that this Parliament should show that it will not condone this conduct by lawmakers in advocating law breaking. [More…]
This gentleman, who legitimately seeks to be Prime Minister - it is a proper ambition for him to lead his party into office - should never have turned to such a contemptible device as to steer hundreds of young men towards imprisonment so that the Government may be embarrassed and he may have political advancement. [More…]
How strictly does the Government enforce this unconscionable, contemptible law at this stage? [More…]
A free pardon is given to people like Mr Zarb and Mr Ross when the law becomes too uncomfortable for the Government to enforce. [More…]
There are 2,400 or more men under investigation for suspected breaches of the National Service Act at this moment. [More…]
We all know that for political reasons the Government has not ventured to prosecute all those who are conscientiously opposed to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
If we had won a majority of the seats in this House last October - under any other electoral system in the world we would have done so - this law would have been amended to provide in those cases where there was a need for conscription that at least there would be, as every church in this country has advised, exemption for those with a conscientious objection to a particular war. [More…]
Even under this electoral system we would have had a majority of seats in this House if votes had been available to men and women of 18, 19 and 20 years of age - a reform in relation to the introduction of which members on the other side have so long stalled. [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…]
Of course one goes through the details of the Citizen Military Forces and deferment and exemption. [More…]
I have said to such men that they should comply with the law for as long as far as their consciences will permit. [More…]
I know the rigours of the treatment they get there. [More…]
This is the toughest treatment that one could get in Australia. [More…]
It is not easy advice to give to men. [More…]
I represent, and have for years represented, a greater number of serving officers and men than any honourable member in this Parliament. [More…]
I know what they want to have this Parliament to do and an Australian government to do if we are to have a volunteer Army as we have a volunteer Air Force and a volunteer Navy. [More…]
They are frustrated at the complexities of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund. [More…]
They are incensed at the dalay in upgrading pay and allowances for servicemen. [More…]
They are outraged when every supporter of the Liberal and Country Parties votes against the establishment of a parliamentary committee to investigate their pay and allowances. [More…]
I see these men, their wives and their children. [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…]
I know the problems of young men and the problems of their parents and sweethearts under the National Service Act as it is administered. [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 know the consequences of the advice I give but I will not turn the other cheek when men and their parents seek my advice as to how their consciences can be affected by this monstrous law. [More…]
It is not even in the rules and regulations of this Parliament. [More…]
It can be introduced, amended Or repealed by ministerial fiat, by a mere instruction in writing. [More…]
There is one very clear way in which we can test the credibility of this Government. [More…]
I have spoken at a fair number of these meetings in condemnation of the theory that there can be victory for any side in Vietnam - North, South, Vietcong or Thieu Government. [More…]
I condemn the notion that there can be or should be victory for the Vietcong just as I have exposed the fallacy of the idea that there can be victory for Saigon - a regime which has had more outside military assistance, men, material and money than any government in history, and which says that it still cannot even maintain its urban enclaves without a continuation of such assistance. [More…]
Men went to the war to get out of their obligations. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned. [More…]
Yet the best the Government could dredge out was this not in the least incriminating shot and the Government was afraid to mount its case without resorting to darkroom dishonesty. [More…]
With all of the photographers at its disposal - the News and Information Bureau, the police in Canberra and Press men - all the Government could produce was one photograph which, as I have already pointed out to the House, had been doctored by the News and Information Bureau to meet the wishes of the Government. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition made this perfectly clear in a number of strong statements over the weekend. [More…]
It is specifically spoken around here by Press men attached to various newspapers that it is well known that the Prime Minister’s Press Secretary was asked to ask the News and Information Bureau to get a photograph of Mr Whitlam speaking under a Vietcong flag. [More…]
There was an occasion when the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) went into public and did not himself say that returned servicemen from Vietnam in the police Force were thugs but relied on quoting an anonymous and unknown police officer who is alleged to have said it to him. [More…]
It would have the same result, and since no individuals were mentioned must result in the smearing of all men in the New South Wales Police Force who have returned from Vietnam. [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…]
The Leader of the Opposition is not only prepared to offer this advice but is even prepared to attack en masse young men in the police force - he did not say all of them, merely that there are some of them - who have returned to Australia having rendered service to this country in Vietnam. [More…]
The motion is an attempt to divert attention from advice given by the Leader of the Opposition to young men to break the law - to join the Army and to refuse to obey a legal order, thus placing themselves in serious danger of punishment - rather than giving them the proper advice that they should, if they have conscientious objection to going to Vietnam, join the CMF and so be excused. [More…]
If the Minister is so sensitive let him not pour out his filth in this Parliament from time to time. [More…]
The Minister objects but members from his side of the Parliament have defamed and maligned decent men inside and out side the Parliament. [More…]
Do you believe that communist-inspired mobs should not be permitted to roam our streets, insulting eur righting men and waving enemy flags? [More…]
Do you believe that the Vietnam war should be won by determined action, like sending anticommunist forces into North Vietnam to give the Reds a dose of their own medicine, and not be allowed to drag on year after year while our young men are being killed and wounded? [More…]
If it is good enough for honourable members opposite to say that because a Vietcong flag is waved within 2 miles of the Leader of the Opposition he supports that type of conduct, it is good enough for me to label all Government supporters as Nazis because of the fact that they are supporting Nazi policy from one end of Australia to the other. [More…]
I raise that argument to show the stupidity and falsity of what honourable members opposite are endeavouring to do because a flag has been presented. [More…]
Is he entitled to try to frame men? [More…]
Why, men are serving life sentences in gaol for framing people. [More…]
He advised young servicemen to mutiny. [More…]
The question whether the Leader of the Opposition advised men to mutiny is certainly another and a more serious matter. [More…]
He advised young men to mutiny. [More…]
This is the alternative Prime Minister setting the stage where, if he were Prime Minister, he would accept as a matter of course mutiny by servicemen. [More…]
I made that statement on Monday morning on arrival in Melbourne. [More…]
The very significant parts of my statement were not in the Melbourne ‘Herald’. [More…]
I rang through to my office on getting to Melbourne and instructed my Press Secretary to put a copy of my statement in the Press Gallery so that everybody would know what I said. [More…]
The simple fact is this: On Friday the alternative Prime Minister - it hurts me to call him that but he is still the Leader of the Opposition - was discredited; totally and completely discredited for the advice he gave to our military men during the caucus meeting. [More…]
He was totally and completely discredited not only in this Parliament but in the eyes of the people of Australia, and he knows it. [More…]
It stands on the record that the Leader of the Opposition wants national servicemen who are in Vietnam to mutiny. [More…]
These are great men in our community. [More…]
But to degenerate the Parliament by this petty pemlance and individual attacking is not good enough. [More…]
We should end this debate which was deliberately inaugurated by the Government on Thursday, 24th September, by a series of dummy questions and a series of matters that were personal. [More…]
Then, why did he advise young Australian men to desert if required to fight the Vietcong? [More…]
Why did he call men who fought the Vietcong thugs’? [More…]
Why did he call on servicemen in the face of the Vietcong at this moment to refuse to fight? [More…]
But they were desperate men indeed. [More…]
So that is perhaps why we have been faced with this farcical situation today, why the work of Parliament has been set aside for today; why the most serious processes of Parliament have been prostituted to try to provide a smokescreen over the actions of the Leader of the Opposition who, on his own admission, has gone out to advise young men to ignore the decisions of this Parliament, to flout the provisions of Acts democratically enacted by the Parliament for the nation’s defence, to scorn the law enforcement bodies and especially those in them honourably discharged from the Queen’s service and to advise the troops in the field in the face of the very enemy, to refuse to continue to fight. [More…]
Members of the Government talked the Bill out. [More…]
On that notorious one day sitting, the 26th November last, my Deputy again gave notice of the same Bill, lt lapsed, of course, when the Parliament was prorogued. [More…]
There are 2 members of the Presbyterian Church in the Government Parties in this House. [More…]
Their Church is committed to this principle and in fact now to the abolition of conscription but these guilty men with all their lay and clerical colleagues have combined to smother a debate on this matter of conscience. [More…]
Mr Speaker, have yourself described as words, that, although not unparliamentary, are words that should not have been used here. [More…]
But the modesty which he put up at first and which fell now comes to the fore, because to pursue his aim of becoming Prime Minister above all things he is prepared to encourage young men to submit themselves to punishment and to public rejection. [More…]
In other words, the clear statement is there: He advised young men in Vietnam to disobey orders. [More…]
He seriously elevated the likelihood and severity of punishment which would flow from it. [More…]
In order to pursue his aim to be the Prime Minister as he so frequently says, the Leader of the Opposition is prepared to submit young men to that sort of compunction. [More…]
We have brought the issue back to where it belongs - the irresponsibility of the Leader of the Opposition who is recklessly willing to encourage men to submit themselves to severe punishment, to the condemnation of their fighting comrades, and in the process to elevate himself to the post that he so dearly wants. [More…]
Not only would he sacrifice these young men to the fate that he encourages them to seek; he would also sacrifice the public servant - unknown and in globo - whom he condemns for something which has not been quite clearly put to us. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor with his great organising capacity had taken over the Moratorium movement in order to make it a success. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor invited to Australia to join in that Moratorium representatives coming from the foes of our fighting men and at that time the Leader of the Opposition rejected him in grandiloquent terms. [More…]
And what tremendous support it was. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition must live with his statement and it will be judged continually into the future for its intrinsic merit or lack of it. [More…]
Condemnation will flow or encouragement will flow. [More…]
I make a subjective judgment that it will be condemnation by the public and that it will not be encouragement. [More…]
I believe that the debate on the estimates for the Department of Health is the right occasion to discuss the war budget for the following reasons: On 1 5th May last the Minister for Health offered me the services of a very able psychiatrist to advise me on the psychiatric difficulties of policy makers as contributory causes of war. [More…]
As no further initiative came from him, I telephoned his parliamentary office to arrange an interview with the very able psychiatrist. [More…]
1 did not pursue the matter because I feet that the Minister does not take seriously the preamble to the United Nations Economic Social and Cultural Organisation Charter, which states that as war begins in the minds of men it is there that the foundations of peace must be constructed. [More…]
I will do that briefly, as I did at the beginning, by saying that the biggest deficiency in the estimates for the Department of Health is the lack of money to do what is essential to this nation to restore health and to promote health. [More…]
The biggest public health problem is the act of war in the minds of men, particularly in the minds of honourable members who make the policies of this Government. [More…]
In one of the most urbanised nations in the world we need to be guardians against further destruction of our environment. [More…]
In’ this discussion I do not want to deal with the pollution of our environment: I intend to deal with that aspect when we are debating the estimates for the Department of National Development. [More…]
But I want to deal with the destruction of our environment by machines made by man, such as the bulldozer. [More…]
It makes the most difficult of men bearable. [More…]
Mount Wilson is a place which we may have to retain for posterity, and the fund that I recommend could be used for this purpose. [More…]
Most of them are created or at least purchased by Pitt Street farmers - business and professional men - using the cost of creating these farms as a deduction from their taxable income. [More…]
The Commonwealth is subsidising the destruction of our environment. [More…]
In many cases the governments are purchasing farms and allowing them to revert to their natural environment. [More…]
The matter to which I refer is the manner in which this Government, in my opinion, has deliberately stalled so as to stop a completely Australian owned company from establishing an Australian tanker fleet whereby the Australian oil industry could be completely free and independent of foreign ownership. [More…]
The object obviously was that, by having 2 ships built in the one mould, the company would save a lot of money in the development of the laying out of the ship and that by providing the men on the job with knowledge of the mistakes they might make on the first ship they would be enabled to avoid these mistakes on the second order. [More…]
I did pick up one or two matters that he mentioned. [More…]
It is most difficult in any of the capital cities to find good tradesmen to employ. [More…]
Every builder is experiencing difficulty in getting the kind of men he wants - men capable of doing the job. [More…]
This was mentioned also by the 3 Labor speakers. [More…]
The honourable member for Stirling (Mr Webb) mentioned it and I think that the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) spoke of the long waiting list for Housing Commission homes in the various States. [More…]
I was most interested in his statement that he wanted a fair democratic system for voting and his criticism of the first past the post system. [More…]
If he is consistent in his argument he must on his own premise argue that one vote one value is also stupid and unfair. [More…]
Before the estimates for the Department of the Interior were announced a special report of the Director of Meteorology on cyclone ‘Ada’ was made available to members of the Parliament and to the Press. [More…]
1 commend that report to all honourable members. [More…]
The Bureau has carried out painstaking research into the causes and effects of the cyclone and has made recommendations as to the remedies to meet problems relating to the cyclone. [More…]
Mr Shields, are to be commended for the work which they have done. [More…]
Both of these men on the instruction of the Minister went into the north of Queensland. [More…]
I hope that other departments will follow the example which has been set here. [More…]
When a disaster occurs they should send their technical men into the field so as to gain knowledge and experience of the disaster. [More…]
I ask the Minister to look at the technical men whom he has got handling this expansion in the mining industry. [More…]
We are watching a little miracle when we see men who, having been made homeless, again pull their world together sufficiently to try to make another home for themselves, like the Gurindji at Wattie Creek. [More…]
The major reasons can be found in the distortions of Australia’s development. [More…]
We are the most lopsided nation in the world, and for 20 years we have been bringing men and machines into the cities and creating overcrowding in an empty continent. [More…]
Migrants are being poured into the metropolitan complexes with a reckless disregard to the quality of life and to the balanced development of the nation. [More…]
But it is not the central issue with what I am here at this moment to do - to represent the constituents of Evans and the Party for which I stand. [More…]
The implication was made last night that because there was another Presbyterian clergyman and myself in this place and the subject of national service was being discussed, in some way we were guilty men - to use the words of the Leader of the Opposition - because we had not adopted the Labor Party’s altitude to the subject of conscription for national service. [More…]
He has to take cognisance of this fact, and being a Christian does not excuse him from the ordinary obligations of men and of members of a state or society. [More…]
This Government - the lawfully elected Government of this state - has maintained and stated that it believes that national service is essential in the national interest to maintain the Army at the level required now and in the future, and the majority of the Australian community would appear to share this view. [More…]
We cannot have security treaty arrangements unless those with whom we are partners know that we have and will maintain sufficient armed forces to honour those obligations. [More…]
So each year for some years past there have been 2 national service registrations in which a total of 100,000 men, in round figures, are required to register for national service. [More…]
Approximately 6 weeks after the close of the registration period a ballot is conducted to select sufficient men who remain liable for service to ensure that a call-up of a mere 8,400 fit men for the Army each year takes place. [More…]
Of some 530,000 men registered to date, 43,000 have been called up and enlisted in the Regular Army while a further 12,000 have decided, at the time of their registration, that their service should be through the avenue of the Citizen Military Forces as an alternative to full time national service. [More…]
It is a society in which young men everywhere have unprecedented opportunities to earn large salaries while they are still teenagers. [More…]
Yet in this society it is fondly expected by our opponents that young men would volunteer in sufficient numbers to take upon themselves the onerous duties of national service for national defence. [More…]
It has been proved to be not so, and the Government has been forced, in honouring its obligations and its duties both to this country and our allies, to legislate for compulsory national service. [More…]
It relates to an amendment of the regulations by the Government, which I personally welcome. [More…]
We have seen circumstances in the past where courses of study undertaken by young men, for various reasons - perhaps because of the length of their course of studies, perhaps because of tragedies in their families or an inability to continue a course for a year or so, perhaps due to failure in a year - have gone beyond that point where, if they were to continue and complete the course, they would be able to complete their military obligations before reaching 26 years of age. [More…]
So the amendment to the regulation has been introduced to assist such students, particularly those who are undertaking lengthy courses of study. [More…]
This, in my view, is a sensible and generous attitude on the part of the Government. [More…]
1 have here a document titled ‘The Ins and Outs of Conscription’ which sets out to give a framework for those who seek to avoid military service. [More…]
The nub of the matter is that the Government has made provision for the exemption of genuine young men - people who are students and those who have no real objection to military service and are prepared to follow through their . [More…]
If this is the suggestion behind the Opposition’s proposal, as I believe it to be, then all I can say is that it is exposed as being on all fours with many other arguments that we have heard in this place or have been reported in the Press and quoted in this place. [More…]
These highly trained and skilled men cannot negotiate over-award salaries. [More…]
A further cause for alarm at the sharp drop in salaries and status of these men is the key role of professional engineers in the modern technological society. [More…]
He said further that the Government has paid attention to the training of engineers, technologists and technicians through the setting up of colleges of advanced education. [More…]
In the Prime Minister’s view, this would provide enough engineers for Australia’s technological development. [More…]
These men are in great demand because of the mining boom. [More…]
The Arbitrator in his judgment recognised the special circumstances of geoscientists and said that the Public Service Board might find it necessary to give further attention to their salary rates. [More…]
Some of these men resigned; others decided to wait and see whether the scientists case gave them a greater measure of wage justice. [More…]
The hopes of these men have been sadly dashed; it seems now that there will be a wave of further resignations from the Bureau’s already depleted strength. [More…]
In rising to speak to the estimates for the Department of Labour and National Service, I wish to confine my remarks to one section of the Department’s responsibilities; that is, national service. [More…]
I want to make a very strong plea to the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden) and the Government to consider very seriously the desirability of introducing universal national service. [More…]
I was one who accepted the present ballot system as being the only answer initially when we did not have the necessary instructors, equipment or accommodation for our young men. [More…]
To send untrained men into battle is little short of murder. [More…]
I have seen young men, little more than boys, sent into action against trained opponents. [More…]
It might even make men out of members of the Opposition who are so voluble, if they had 6 months of Army training. [More…]
I do not know whether it would be possible to make men out of some of them at all. [More…]
We have had servicemen in Vietnam, Malaysia and other areas of Army service sufficiently long now to provide at least a nucleus of trained instructors which could quickly be built up to give adequate instruction to our young men for 6 months in each age group. [More…]
Another problem mentioned was accommodation. [More…]
I do not believe that the young men of today are any less hardy than their fathers or their grandfathers were. [More…]
I do not think it would hurt our young men today, lt might do them quite a lot of good. [More…]
There can be no better demonstration of collective idiocy than that simple statement of belief. [More…]
The honourable member would bring all the young men into the Army for 6 months. [More…]
How many men would he get for universal national service? [More…]
How many men were born 20 years ago? [More…]
He would take about 120,000 men who come into that age category each year and put them through the collective machine to paint stones outside an officers mess or to peel spuds in the cookhouse. [More…]
At the 1966 census there were 436,709 men, including Liberals, between the ages of 20 and 24 years. [More…]
After the honourable member had been running his apparatus for a little while he would have nearly 1 million men under arms. [More…]
When is he going to start on his colleagues in the Liberal Party-Country Party Government who are of military age group and who are spending their time in this place sending young men to a war to which they will not go themselves? [More…]
When will he start on a couple of Government members in the Ministry who were of the military age group when the war in Vietnam started? [More…]
I believe that national service, as it is presently conducted, is a national confidence trick; that it is an exer cise in national humiliation; that it is a piece of collective immorality; and that it is a selective injustice perpetrated upon a group of young men who cannot answer for themselves. [More…]
Young men of the 25 years to 40 years age group who have come into this Parliament have been elected on tickets favouring the perpetuation of the war in Vietnam and on the continuation of the national service system. [More…]
I do not disrespect these young men. [More…]
On the other hand, the ballot box by which we select men to be the political sacrifice for the political gimmickry of honourable members opposite, is an exercise in collective immorality. [More…]
Can anybody say that there is anything moral about this system of selecting young men to be sacrificed in the battlefields of Vietnam or that, if they fail to answer the call or if they defy it with an exercise of moral courage which always surprises me in the young, we have not indulged in national immorality? [More…]
I believe, are abdicating their duties to the young men of Australia. [More…]
Everybody over the age of 25 years who votes for this Government in support of national service is abdicating his or her responsibility and is exercising national selfishness. [More…]
But for the people in the tram to object to being inconvenienced by these young men, some of whom will be sent to war, is . [More…]
When I think of the great mass of our community of 12 million or so people calling on the 40,000 young men who have been called up so far to do their duty while they carry on with their business as usual I wonder what has happened to the morality and sense of values of this country. [More…]
After the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) went out in the front of Parliament House last week and addressed the people - thousands of people around Australia are grateful to hint for the courageous stand he has taken on this issue- I walked back into Parliament- House. [More…]
Two young women said to me as I was coming through the door-: You ought to be leaving them’. [More…]
J looked a bit askance because I do not pass that sort of judgment on people. [More…]
In the last 5 years about 42,000 young men of 20 years of age or thereabouts have been called up. [More…]
Some- of the young -men who have been called- into our armed Services and sent to war have been crippled for life. [More…]
In other words, these young, men have been conscripted into a lifetime of poverty because somebody blundered some years ago in relation to a matter of national policy. [More…]
Some young men are being imprisoned. [More…]
It is, of course, a very divisive issue.- If the Government had any real conscience . [More…]
I know of countless young men who now scorn the Services - not for the past but for the present - because the national service system has made service in the Australian Army obnoxious to them. [More…]
Government. [More…]
We have to find an alternative method of recruiting men to our Services. [More…]
There were restrictions upon the enjoyment of life while others went off to war. [More…]
Some 40,000 young men in the last 5 years have gone into the services. [More…]
I have previously .in this Parliament called for national service and when I say national service’ I mean that the young people after leaving school should join the Army where they can be trained. [More…]
The young men would be trained in the Army. [More…]
It would do today’s young men and women nothing but good to come under Army discipline. [More…]
Another dispute which occurred just recently concerned men engaged on the building of the oil tanker ‘Amanda Miller’. [More…]
the job, a feeling of resentment was built up among employees, as a result of which there was a” strike which lasted for 3 weeks or a month. [More…]
The dispute was put into the hands of a conciliation commissioner who refused to hear the case until the men went back to work. [More…]
When they had returned to work he dealt with the matter and granted ship repair rates to the men working on that job. [More…]
Until a few months ago even local government was under some control by the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. Whyalla was controlled by a special commission that was set up to manage the town. [More…]
It covered the age group of men from 14 to 60 years at the time in varying degrees of service. [More…]
In 1943 the Labor Government expanded that by a special Act to include service beyond Australia. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a 5-year study by the Goals of Engineering Education Committee of the American Society for Engineering Education, which concluded that to train properly an engineer in a greater social consciousness with depth of scientific and technical knowledge and the ability to manage men, engineering graduates needed at least 1 year of graduate study in addition to the normal 4-year course. [More…]
1 would ask that the Prime Minister should use another form of communication by himself to the 6 State Premiers asking them to expedite the legislation which all of them have promised to give votes and adult rights to men and women at. [More…]
I know from the Prime Minister that the Minister’s Department acted in accordance with the Government’s policy in issuing Australian passports, since the unilateral declaration of independence, to 3 men who were born in Australia but who now serve the Rhodesian Department of External Affairs in Salisbury, Pretoria and Lisbon. [More…]
There can be no doubt that in almost all cases those who apply for conscientious objector status are men of principle. [More…]
Such a person would make a simple assessment of his chances under the Act and take to his heels. [More…]
Quite shameful attempts have been made by supporters of the Government, particularly the Treasurer, (Mr Bury) to link evaders with genuine conscientious objectors. [More…]
Also, of course, as was said quite rightly in this House today, in all of its attacks the Opposition recklessly disregards and indeed abandons any thought for the probity of our commitment in Vietnam. [More…]
It recklessly disregards that matter, uncaring as to the outcome of it both for our own commitment or for the welfare of the South Vietnamese people and their capacity to choose their own solutions. [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…]
Feeling so lonely, as he must, because of the irresponsibility of the statements, he is making an attempt, today to hide the statements behind a selective objection proposal so that the whole of his Party can say: “Yes, we are for selective objection.’ [More…]
He will then, by some illogical process, argue that the whole of his Party supported those statements. [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…]
Obviously, as my colleague the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden) has pointed out, this is a device to get the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) off the hook for an irresponsible and outrageous statement he made some time ago, a statement of advice to young men that they join the Army, as I recall it, but that later they refuse to serve. [More…]
This has been brought about because we have been free to pursue our policies and our democratic government without fear of threats. [More…]
Now we have the whole of the Australian people behind us, and this is their concern, under the system of representative government we have inherited from Great Britain. [More…]
What would our reputation with the allies be if our men could choose to opt out of a particular war? [More…]
Young men entering the CMF as an alternative to national service have no legal guarantee that their names will not go into a ballot. [More…]
How absurd all this denunciation and recrimination against my Party is when one considers that even in the Cabinet itself and even in the Government parties there is concern about the Act and in particular the situation of young men who conscientiously object to this war and who reject any participation in its prosecution. [More…]
The motion before the House gives clear indication that it is the view of the Opposition that in the case of any war men who have no conscientious objection to war as such or to bearing arms should be allowed to say: Although I have no conscientious objection to war I have some conscientious objection to going to some particular theatre of war or to fighting in some particular place.’ [More…]
What we have been listening to is an attempt to excuse the inexcusable and to justify the unjustifiable - that being a statement by the Leader of the Labor Party to the young men of this country that he would advise them to join the Army and to disobey the law. [More…]
Let us consider the whole sequence of events: The demand for withdrawal, without conditions, back in 1967; then the claim that the United States as well as ourselves were immoral in being in Vietnam; then the advice to young men to join the armed forces if they had to but to refuse to obey an order when they were in that situation; and now a demand, because a great new peace initiative has been made by President Nixon, but not accepted, that because that initiative has been made we should at once withdraw all our troops before there has been any acceptance of negotiations and certainly before those negotiations have been brought to a conclusion which can give to the people of South Vietnam that self-determination for which we have been fighting since the beginning of the war and which, in statement after statement since 1967. has been made clear on behalf of various Prime Ministers of this Government. [More…]
The portent of his article is that it is his belief that the Government has misjudged the total tempo of the economy and whilst there may be inflationary trends, nevertheless there are signs of declining economic activity relative to the total population and the total activity. [More…]
As some of my colleagues already know, there has been a dreadful impact as a result of the farming situation upon the sale of tractors in our economy, leading to a decline in the industrial area of Sunshine in Victoria where some hundreds of men have been laid off since the beginning of this year. [More…]
Even now the number of men employed is continuing to reduce further. [More…]
I do not know what the Government expects the men in this country to do. [More…]
I know at least one member in this Parliament who is apparently suffering from the effects of this Government’s policy and is growing a beard. [More…]
There is a need for the Government to do more detailed planning and to have more detail of the types of roads which can be constructed to prevent accidents. [More…]
Recently I spoke during the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the House about a bus capsize on the Newcastle-Bulahdelah Road. [More…]
Five men were killed in that accident - 4 national servicemen and the driver. [More…]
Similar accidents could be prevented if adequate safety measures were employed by the Government and by road constructing authorities as a whole. [More…]
This Government is one of the greatest creators of inflation, with its never ending increases to the tax spiral costs which must be paid by someone. [More…]
Perhaps the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) will assure the House that this increased revenue will go back in full to the States for road maintenance and will not add to the S800m Treasury surplus alleged earlier in the debate so that State Ministers, in particular the responsible Western Australian Minister, will stop gaoling businessmen in the form of truck owners who happen to have a bad run and cannot pay the fines imposed by the special courts appointed to deal out this so-called justice. [More…]
Other men are waiting to go to gaol because they just cannot pay the $1 for % fines and costs accruing from the imposition of a Government tax which should not exist and which exists only because enough money is not granted to the States to maintain their road systems. [More…]
I have quoted in this House before the famous line of T. S. Eliot: ‘All men are ready to invest but most men expect dividends’. [More…]
1 ask this categorically of the Government: First, which does it think will be the sort of interest which will avail itself of the convertible note? [More…]
lt seems to me that these things are fundamental in the proposition. [More…]
In addition, of course, the Government’s spending, which is only possible because of taxation, has resulted in a number of benefits to individuals in the community. [More…]
I think those comments put the matter into context in economic terms. [More…]
This Bill changes an individual’s tax rates in the fasihon that I have mentioned. [More…]
lt increases company tax by 2] per cent on all levels, lt increases substantially the age allowance made to women over 60 years of agc and men over 65 years of age to a point where a person entitled to an age allowance can earn a net income - that is, income less deductions - of $1,326 a year before any taxation is payable. [More…]
But the Government has the responsibility for the economy of this country. [More…]
Quite an achievement. [More…]
We hear the argument raised from time to time: Where is the money coming from to make concessions? [More…]
How much, I might reasonably ask, is left of the 10 per cent reduction that the Government proposes to give in view of anticipatory price rises’ which have been current since the Budget was introduced and prior to any relief that will operate, I assume from 1st October. [More…]
At the same time the Government can very conveniently make its sales tax retrospective in its incidence to 18th August last. [More…]
Let us take the year 1968-69 when the total pay-as-you-earn tax and other tax on men with annual incomes - businessmen, farmers and the like - was $2,379m. [More…]
The Government is giving back $280m of that amount. [More…]
To compound the offence we find that for the current year the Government intends to take $3,035m by way of taxation from those people receiving an annual income or those who pay as they earn. [More…]
With one hand the Government gives but with the other hand it takes back even more. [More…]
It has put off 500 men out of 2,500 employees. [More…]
Out of a work force of 2,500, 500 men have been dismissed. [More…]
These men are not necessarily all skilled workers; but, nevertheless, most of them are men with families. [More…]
The International Harvester Co. of Australia Pty Ltd in Geelong has been forced to sack 300 men. [More…]
For example, the sacking of 300 men in Geelong will affect their families and in turn will create a slackening in demand with grocers, butchers, bakers or whoever the supplier may be. [More…]
In view of the fact that it is a component of rural industry and that the crisis in the countryside has now spread to the cities, we should place it on record in this debate that the Australian agricultural machinery industry faces the retrenchment of 14,000 men this year as a result not only of imports but of the continuing rural crisis. [More…]
It led the world in its evolvement of new machine parts, new machines and new approaches. [More…]
I was very interested to hear the 2 Labor men speak on this subject tonight. [More…]
But they have said nothing about what the Government has done to try to overcome the problem. [More…]
So when the Government said that the advance would be $1.10 a bushel on all quota wheat grown in the coming harvest, would that not have helped the tractor people? [More…]
I am very happy to find 2 Labor men speaking so favourably of the primary industries. [More…]
I cannot understand how men who come in from the countryside in crisis can turn their backs on people of good will who are doing their best. [More…]
Several weeks ago in Tasmania there was a case of certain men in, I think, Burnie, who for certain reasons, wished not to join a union. [More…]
Here we have 2 men who purport to be responsible people and whom I would describe by saying that truculence is a characteristic of small people. [More…]
They try to draw a comparison and to say that if we are fair dinkum we on this side of the House ought to be taking a different attitude from the one that we take concerning conscientious objection on the part of those whom this Government wishes to send to be slaughtered with resultant sorrow to widows and mothers. [More…]
Anyone on the Government side who still continues to believe that there i* a need for us to be in Vietnam is somewhat foolish. [More…]
I and this fine body of men behind me in the Country Party believe that these advances are justified. [More…]
If a time comes when quotas disappear and we return to normal and we find that an amount of $300m or $400m is owing by the wheat growers for these advances on wheat that was not sold, then I believe that whatever government is in office should wipe the slate clean. ] [More…]
However, in the implementation of these regulations there is no consultation with this union. [More…]
Men have lost patience with the industry and have sought work elsewhere. [More…]
I would like to refer to an advertisement which appeared in the Melbourne ‘Sun* on 3rd October 1970 which offered employment to mutton chain slaughtermen and butchers. [More…]
This advertisement specified the wage these men would receive and offered a 7-hour day. [More…]
Advertisements such as this one can be seen day after day. [More…]
Wage justice has not been given to these Commonwealth Government employees, yet the Government can afford to bring 50 inspectors from New Zealand at a cost, most probably, of $65,000. [More…]
Yet in the face of this turmoil and unrest, and in the face of the exodus of meat inspectors from the industry, the Government brings men from New Zealand and employs them at a salary which is much lower than that paid to their Australian counterparts. [More…]
The effect of all this was to cause deeper resentment in the already resentful ranks of the meat inspectors. [More…]
It was al the best a pleasant paid holiday for the men from New Zealand. [More…]
There is further concern in the ranks of the Commonwealth meat inspectors, lt has arisen from a rumour which is circulating that the Government is considering a dilute plan for the industry, using the farmers and farm workers who have lost their farms or employment due to the crisis in the wheat and wool industries. [More…]
If the Government is prepared to work men for years without allowing them to take recreation leave and to pay wages which are far below those paid to municipal meat inspectors and to workers on the beef and mutton chain and which are even below the wages paid to women in the packing shed who, with a little overtime, can earn more than the meat inspector, and in addition to those anomalies, to work men for 8 hours without a meal break, then I say that chaos, resignations and disruption must continue to be the lot of the employer and employee in the meat industry in Australia. [More…]
It is also a fact that the Government has no chance of getting these men to return to their former occupation unless it has the courage and foresight to pay the wages and provide the conditions which will make the industry attractive enough for these men to return to it. [More…]
I maintain that the Government has an obligation to those 74 or so men who lost their jobs. [More…]
There is something wrong in his Department. [More…]
The Minister ought to read through the reports and the matters of conflict mentioned by my friend the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson). [More…]
The men who occupy it sleep without clothing because they lack control of the organs of their body during the night. [More…]
The third reason is that, unlike other media which do not depend on the Government for a franchise to communicate with the public, there is a limited number of television channels available. [More…]
I believe that the last 2 reasons apply equally to commercial television for there too is a substantial public interest involved and Parliament must, with others, ever concern itself with the public interest. [More…]
lt must be granted that there are great technical difficulties in reporting politics - the actions of men and the issues and ideas - to the Australian community. [More…]
Yet we know that it must be done - and with detachment, objectivity and fairness which alone brings out the truth, and alone gives the reputation of integrity essential to that trust on which people anxiously rely from national television. [More…]
This is a clear commitment and we stand by it. [More…]
The Minister and the Government know full well that Australia will not reach the national quota this year, for the second year in succession, yet they persist in heaping misery and restriction on wheat growers. [More…]
They are the guilty men who have caused the crises in the countryside and they are trying to hide their guilt by hurling abuse at the Opposition. [More…]
The ACT offers a unique opportunity to any Australian government to break new ground; to be a pioneer in education and research; to lead the way instead of merely drifting along and occasionally being forced to do something to meet a sudden and seemingly unforeseen contingency. [More…]
Such a contingency is the recent refusal of the South Australian Government to continue to staff Commonwealth schools in the Northern Territory. [More…]
That forced the Commonwealth Government suddenly to set up a Commonwealth teaching service, but without any carefully thought out plan to further the Commonwealth educational services. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has thrown away a wonderful opportunity. [More…]
lt was partly because the Government knew that it would be embarrassed by the States if it did make any progress in education that it decided to do nothing. [More…]
Students who are really young men and women are required to attend a school as a kind of child minding centre, with no teachers to instruct them. [More…]
As requested by the Minister for Defence during the course of the inquiry, to inquire into and report on any existing specific allowances intended to cover financial costs which from time to time fall upon service men and service women when meeting Service requirements. [More…]
In making recommendations, the Committee of inquiry should have full regard to the national requirement to attract and retain men and women with needed qualities, skills and experience for the armed forces, (viii) In making its recommendations upon the system of emoluments the Committee of inquiry should have it as an objective that emoluments payable to the members of the regular armed forces should be readily com. [More…]
The Government has made clear its belief that there is a need to continue the national service scheme. [More…]
It is fundamental to the Government’s position that all servicemen and servicewomen should be adequately recompensed for the service they give. [More…]
The Government’s decision to appoint a Committee of Inquiry further demonstrates the Government’s determination upon this matter. [More…]
I am very much alive to other aspects which have a marked impact on servicemen and their families. [More…]
A high level interdepartmental committee including uniformed representatives has been established to give high priority to this task. [More…]
When it has completed its work I will be submitting recommendations to the Government. [More…]
Yet a further matter which is under close and active consideration is the effects of frequent reposting of servicemen in the form of family disruption and interruption to children’s education. [More…]
The Government’s objective is to develop further the defence force Australia requires and in the words of the terms of reference ‘to attract and retain men and women with needed qualities, skills and experience for the Australian forces’. [More…]
The Committee of Inquiry will make its contribution to that end in a situation of formidable competition from civilian employment. [More…]
That all words after That’ be omitted with a view to inserting the following words in place thereof: ‘this House is of opinion that, instead of the proposed committee, a joint select committee of both Houses be appointed to inquire into and report upon the Australian Defence forces in relation to (i) pay and allowances of all personnel, (ii> provision for the retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for .the children of servicemen’. [More…]
For quite a period now the Opposition has been condemning the Government for the inferior conditions of service for our men in the fighting forces. [More…]
Today in the statement of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) we have a confession of guilt. [More…]
There is nothing like an impending election to flush out a little action from an otherwise tardy Government when the rights and entitlements of sections of the community are concerned. [More…]
He has no intention of allowing anything that will embarrass the Government, as undoubtedly it would as a result of the quite unjustified treatment of and discrimination against our fighting men, to be released to the public. [More…]
How can one possibly expect that the men of our fighting services will receive any justice from him when he says that one of the main points of this committee of inquiry will be to investigate pay conditions, and when only yesterday in the House of Representatives he damned the suggestion of the Labor Party that our fighting men were entitled to better pay and conditions than they have at present. [More…]
The Minister indicated in his statement in the House yesterday that only if we have a pool of unemployed can we attract people to join the defence services. [More…]
If he argues that better pay and conditions will attract only the underprivileged of the community - this statement appears at page 2200 of Hansard - what sort of people does he argue will be attracted now to the defence Services when the pay and conditions are so gravely inadequate and totally unacceptable to the men of the fighting Services? [More…]
I reject his statement. [More…]
It is totally unworthy of the Australian Minister for Defence to regard the men of the fighting Services in this way. [More…]
The effect of this defenceless neglect by the Conservative Federal Government is dramatically revealed by its failure to meet recruitment targets; its unsuccessful, albeit expensive policy of seeking to pilfer manpower from the ranks of Britain’s Services; and the dismayingly high and rapidly increasing resignation rate of commissioned officers below retiring age. [More…]
In 1969-70 the recruitment target set for Australian defence forces was 2,864. [More…]
The actual level reached was 758; that is, recruitment was nearly 75 per cent down on the projected goal. [More…]
The Army gain to personnel strength of 462 men was less than a third of the intake target set. [More…]
The Navy’s extremely modest recruitment target was still 25 per cent down on its enlistment goal. [More…]
This comes about as a result of the inertia of the Conservative Federal Government towards a long overdue policy of improvement in conditions of service. [More…]
For the first half of this year overall recruitment has achieved only one-quarter of the target set. [More…]
There is patently no abatement, indeed only aggravation of this serious problem. [More…]
As Royal Australian Air Force officer strength alone is more than 440 down on quota, the meaninglessness of the overseas recruitment programme in comparison to need is forcibly illustrated. [More…]
On the face of it, recent pay increases plus general conditions and benefits for married men seemingly make engagement in the British Services a superior proposition to the rundown in conditions of service in Australia. [More…]
These men are resigning their commissions before reaching retiring age, through utter disgust and frustration with the conditions under which they labour and which, in many unhappy respects, affect their families. [More…]
Even more startling is his declaration that this organisation should have a strength of 40,000 to 50,000 men to fulfil a meaningful role in our defence arrangements. [More…]
Additionally, the practice is causing widespread resentment among career officers who find that the truncated training of CMF officers place the CMF officers on the same footing as 4-year trained Duntroon graduates. [More…]
A Labor government would promptly act to establish wage justice for our servicemen. [More…]
It has pledged itself also to: Provide War Service home entitlements to all servicemen after 2 years regular service or 6 years of CMF service; minimise the incidence of postings so as to give more stability to home life; provision of health services from the Repatriation Department to servicemen and their dependants; scholarships to children whose education would be disrupted otherwise by shifts; availability of adequate life assurance and elimination of special loading charges which currently penalise our fighting men: injuries sustained other than on active service would be covered by the Repatriation Act and not the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act which is less generous; and non-contributory pensions to all exservicemen to replace the present costly, unwieldly and unintelligible DFRB contributory system. [More…]
I suspect, however, that the Government intends to do very little, especially as the Minister has prejudged the case for salary increases in his statement in this House, which is frankly offensive to the righting men of Australia [More…]
The table below gives an indication of executive salaries in private industry, the public service and the -army, along with an indication of the number of men controlled by industry and army executives as a base figure. [[More…]](https://historichansard.net/hofreps/1970/19701016_reps_27_hor70/#subdebate-21-0)
Thus a comparison of different salaries paid to executives with control of equal numbers of men is possible. [More…]
The Commonwealth Public Service ‘equivalent status’ is that normally regarded as operative in the defence group of departments. [More…]
In making recommendations, the Committee of Inquiry should have full regard to the national requirement to attract and retain men and women with needed qualities, skills and experience for the Armed Forces. [More…]
This man has an entitlement to speak on behalf of Service personnel. [More…]
His background, his service to this country, his undoubted patriotism and the knowledge which he can bring to bear on this subject justify his participation in the debate, given the fact that the Government advised the Opposition that we would be entitled to three spokesmen. [More…]
It is no excuse on the part of the Government to try to skid out of its responsibility because it has had a dishing at the hands of the Opposition in this debate. [More…]
We are flattered to think that the Government concedes by implication that two Opposition spokesmen to its three spokesmen is more than an equal battle. [More…]
Government supporters want to depart the battlefield in haste and with a lack of dignity. [More…]
We ask them to act as men of integrity and as men who honour their commitments and to. [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…]
At the outset I should say that I and all members of my Department share the sense of loss felt by the dependants and relatives of the men killed in this awful tragedy. [More…]
I have spoken to officers in my Department and told them to see what can be done by us in any way to assist in the rapidity of the settlement of the claims. [More…]
This was a matter, which, of course, concerned other governments. [More…]
I therefore suggested to all State governments that action should be taken so that in all cases dependants of workers killed here could be paid compensation in overseas countries. [More…]
There was a general warmth of response by the Stats governments but many of them had legislation which was built on the basis of reciprocity. [More…]
The test that some of the State governments had was: If an Australian worker were killed in a foreign country would his dependants in Australia receive compensation? [More…]
I was at pains to point out that this was a circumstance where I fell reciprocity should not be the test and that in fact payments ought to be made to the dependant wherever that dependant was, regardless of reciprocity. [More…]
My recollection is - it is some time since I have looked at this matter - that all State governments have indicated a willingness to do this but that this will require amendments to their Acts. [More…]
The way in which the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) finished his speech is indicative of the attitude of the Opposition to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, lt does not escape anybody’s notice that the oil industry decision was given last Friday and that the national wage case is to commence tomorrow. [More…]
It is an attitude which has been forced upon it by the trade union movement and particularly by the powerful trade union muscle men who want to see the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission destroyed. [More…]
One will find members of the Australian Labor Party, in debates in this House, asking the Government to force the Public Service Arbitrator or the Public Service Board to award specific conditions or specific wage rates. [More…]
What I mean by industrial muscle men are the union leadern possessed of that power. [More…]
It is harmful to workers because the major vice of inflation is its redistribution of assets and real wages without the persons who formerly possessed assets or real wages being able to fight against the movement of the inflation which that brings. [More…]
The United States has a citizen air force where citizen airmen fly jets and transport planes. [More…]
They are respected servicemen. [More…]
One has the impression that men who are part-time soldiers are under valued because service with them is a lesser career for their officers. [More…]
I say this particularly taking into consideration that in the Sydney terminal alone in the last 12 months approximately 1 million tons of cargo in containers were put through by 168 men. [More…]
If this work had been handled by the conventional method of shipping, approximately 750 to 850 men would have been required. [More…]
Whilst there may have been a very minute increase in their wages, there certainly has been a very substantial turnover in tonnage per employee on the waterfront when 168 men can handle 1 million tons by the containerisation method when, under the old method, 750 to 850 men were required to handle a similar amount. [More…]
The Minister referred to seamen’s wages. [More…]
When one takes into consideration the fact that a ship of the type of the ‘Australian Endeavour’ carries about 13 seamen, it will be apparent that wage increases are not having the effect on freight costs which the Minister would have us believe. [More…]
Once again it is the old story of wages disputes, and the activities of seamen and wharfies bringing about these increases. [More…]
When we compare the Australian Endeavour’, a ship of some 25,000 gross tons and 13 men, with a small ship like the ‘Kabbarli’, a cargo ship of 2,983 gross tons and 13 to 14 seamen which operates on the west coast, it can be seen that there is quite a substantial difference in the matter of wages. [More…]
So the first point I want to make in support of the statement which my colleague, the Minister for Trade and Industry, has propounded is that because there has been a move into new forms of cargo handling there has been a considerably greater reduction in the impact of cost movements than would otherwise have been the case. [More…]
Of course there has also been a saving because fewer men are employed on the specialised vessels and fewer men are required to handle them in port. [More…]
This is how one must assess the way in which efficiency in cargo handling can be translated into onward freight rate movements. [More…]
United States servicemen can shop much more cheaply within the military system than Australian military men. [More…]
There is also a much broader range of amenities available from Service clubs in the United States than from comparable messes at Australian Army bases. [More…]
1 do not know how he can reconcile his mercenary arguments with the fact that much of the officer cadres of the Australian forces come from traditional military families. [More…]
These men come from fairly affluent families; they could not bc described as under-privileged or lacking in education. [More…]
The Minister also overlooks the fact that a majority of servicemen join up for one simple reason - they like the life. [More…]
But they are men, both officers and other ranks, capable of finding job satisfaction and fulfilment in the Services. [More…]
There is the other angle that young men often use the Services as a vehicle for job training. [More…]
These have been tactfully handled by senior officers in these Services; the men involved also have heaved with restraint once their initial protest was made. [More…]
The point is that there should be some machinery for conveying genuine grievances regarding pay and conditions to the senior ranks of the Services and to the Service departments. [More…]
But it is very sound advice to warn servicemen to be on the alert if they are going to live in an area in which every serviceman is vulnerable through propaganda, rumours, physical attacks, acts of terrorism, the throwing of grenades, attacks by snipers and the use of knives. [More…]
The best way in which to help Vietnam, the country where these men are serving, is to stay alive. [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…]
I welcome the Minister’s statement of this matter. [More…]
The Minister and the Government Parties still refuse to trust members of the Services and of the Parliament as sufficiently responsible to engage in a Parliamentary inquiry. [More…]
They have voted against my Deputy’s motions to have parliamentary committees inquire into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and into (i) pay and allowances for all personnel, (ii) provision for retraining of officers and men, (iii) housing and (iv) educational facilities for the children of servicemen. [More…]
Last month every member of the Liberal and Country Parties voted against my Deputy’s motion to appoint a committee to inquire into and make recommendations on all aspects of the provisions and operation of the Repatriation Act. [More…]
The Government’s failure to recruit and retain sufficient men for the profession of arms is due to its refusal to acknowledge that the Armed Forces are one of the nation’s essential occupations. [More…]
Anybody who knows and represents the officers and men of our Armed Services knows that their complaints do not solely or mainly arise from their pay and allowances. [More…]
The Minister for Housing (Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin) told me last Friday that the number of applications lodged with the Service Departments for dwellings, mostly housing commission dwellings, lodged with the service departments by serving members of the forces in the last financial year was 11,337 - 1,269 more than the previous year - and that the number of the applications outstanding at the end of June was 4,794 - 692 more than a year earlier. [More…]
A serviceman whose overseas service has qualified him for a war service home can still not secure an advance for a second home or transfer the balance of the advance for his home to a second home, however frequent or distant his subsequent postings may be in the Services or whatever the place and nature of his employment after service. [More…]
Above all, if we want men and their families to be happy in the Service we must recognise their preoccupation with the circumstances in which they will find themselves when, at a mature age, they embark on a civilian life, usually in competition with younger breadwinners. [More…]
They are entitled to a more enduring advantage from their years of service than they can get from the archaic and restrictive provisions of the Repatriation, Commonwealth Employees Compensation, Defence Forces Retirement Benefits and War Service Homes Acts. [More…]
Accordingly the Gorton Government will continue to evade its responsibilities to provide conditions in our armed forces appropriate for an essential occupation and wilt cling to a system which is socially divisive, grossly unfair and economically wasteful. [More…]
National Service Call Applies to Men in Vietnam’. [More…]
First, it is not the procurement of material which is the great issue in the Australian defence system, but the procurement of men. [More…]
He can rise at any moment and he can talk until some time after midnight, but he will not explain it to us. [More…]
What has the Government done to the citizen forces? [More…]
The moment we introduced that system we killed the spirit of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
The moment we reduced the Citizen Military Forces to a funk hole for argument in this Parliament we killed the spirit that makes the Citizen Military Forces what they ought to be. [More…]
The Government has done all sorts of things to the armed Services. [More…]
That is why young men do not join the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
The commander of the 5,300-strong Australian task force in Vietnam said today the life of his men would be much tougher after the withdrawal soon of a third of his infantry. [More…]
As we debate the estimates for the Department of Defence we know that Australian men and women at this time are serving in a very commendable manner in areas not only within Australia but also outside Australia. [More…]
This, notwithstanding the statement in the Budget that it will be next financial year before we feel the full impact of expenditure on the major capital equipment projects for the Services which were announced not only in the Budget last year but in the speech of the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in March. [More…]
He could not trust the Minister to defend the Service, if this was what he wanted him to do, so LieutenantColonel Forward stepped in and assumed the right to be what some Army men try to be, that is, politicians and political personalities at the same time as being serving members in our Forces. [More…]
The admiral spoke the truth and he was called to order in this Parliament. [More…]
This man, one of the leading Navy men of the time, contravened the regulations and he was pulled into line. [More…]
With due respect to the Minister for the Army, who is not the brightest - he is a long way ahead of the Minister for the Navy - he has crawled to LieutenantColonel Forward in- this Parliament because he could not bring himself to. [More…]
1 point this out tonight to show there is one law for the Labor Party and another law for the Government. [More…]
If they want to be in politics let them stand for Parliament. [More…]
Let them take their choice: They are either in the Army, Navy or Air Force or they are in the Parliament. [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…]
But the loss is even greater than this, because these men are highly skilled and highly competent. [More…]
They are men who develop specialised expertise in a field which cannot be gained anywhere else in the community, and through the way in which their welfare is being indifferently regarded by the Government they are being pressured out of the Service. [More…]
So we are losing more than $56,000 worth of training in these men because for every year, every week, every minute they are training they are improving their skills and their efficiency as officers in the defence of this country. [More…]
So we are losing a tremendous amount of capital assets, if we want to look at it in this way, and the Government for a long time has stood by rather indifferently. [More…]
In the year that has just gone by alone the recruitment target was 2.000 down on the target level the Government had set. [More…]
What has happened to the defence Services under this conservative Government in Canberra? [More…]
It is clearly inconsistent with the role of patriots in the defence of the defence services and the fighting men of this country. [More…]
Just how patriotic is the Government in representing the interests of our defence personnel? [More…]
Increases in pay concern the Government because the underprivileged and the lesser educated will come in. [More…]
Apparently the Government wants to gear the intellectual level of members of the defence Services to that of junior Ministers of the Services. [More…]
It wants to avoid embarrassment for the Ministers. [More…]
If in fact the Government- argues that increased pay and improved conditions will attract this sort of person, what sort of person is presently being attracted to the defence Services? [More…]
The Government must suspect that the people in the Services at the present time are of an inferior standard, to that of which the Minister speaks. [More…]
the members must accept but which also offer .sufficient inducements to attract above average1 young men to the service as a career. [More…]
I presume the honourable member is referring to a Press report which appeared I think, on Saturday that on Friday the Narcotics Squad of my Department arrested 6 men in Sydney and that at the same time over 2 million doses of amphetamines were recovered. [More…]
The question whether one or more of the men are well known Sydney criminals is something which, I believe, it would be improper for me to comment on at this stage. [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…]
Also, young men leave home and can afford to set themselves up in a house. [More…]
I have said before in this House that there is only one real problem in housing - and to the credit of the honourable member for Reid, he mentioned it - and that is the provision of suitable housing for the low income group in the community. [More…]
I think it is obvious that there is a need to shift the emphasis away from commercial building and industrial building and to use in home building the men and resources available. [More…]
In Malaysia the Government has withdrawn our ground forces from Malaysia further away from the only possible threat that there could be on the Thai-Malaysian border and dropped them into 2 barracks in Singapore which are 12 miles apart. [More…]
The Government has not told us what the arrangements will be. [More…]
When speaking earlier in this debate I listed a series of questions, but the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and other Ministers have refused point blank to comment on them. [More…]
When are we going to sign a status of forces agreement? [More…]
Half of our RAAF fighter force is stationed there and the Malaysians know that this Government cannot station half of our fighter force back in Australia. [More…]
What an indictment of our defence planning when we just do not have the facilities to accommodate all our Mirage squadrons in Australia. [More…]
It is about time this Government adopted a far more responsible attitude to the men of the armed Services and the equipment that we have purchased. [More…]
I found it interesting to hear the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown) putting forward his arguments, particularly as 1 agree with him in part when he said that he believes that we should be looking for China to recognise and protect the neutrality of South East Asian countries. [More…]
I believe that all countries should aim to protect and recognise the neutrality of other countries and that they should allow them to choose the type of government they want. [More…]
1 believe also- thai it the figure he gave was correct and the Chinese are spending about $US200m a year in assisting those countries around her, this amount pales into insignificance when compared with the $US2,500m a day which the Americans have been pouring into Vietnam in weapons and men as a result of its rejection of an election to enable the people of Vietnam to chose their own government. [More…]
But in speaking on the estimates for the Defence Services I want to devote my observations to the very important question of pay and conditions of our servicemen, because I recognise that the morale and well being of servicemen is fundamental to the adequacy of our defence system. [More…]
If men are dissatisfied with their conditions of employment you cannot expect to get the best from them. [More…]
The whole foundation of a defence system rests on the men and women who through their dedication to the service of their country provide the manpower to handle the sophisticated weapons system without which our whole expenditure would be valueless. [More…]
On the same page is an account of 2 men who pleaded guilty to five charges of breaking and entering. [More…]
Both these latter men had previous convictions and currently were serving 18 months on probation. [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…]
1 think this requires no further comment, except that this was an extract from the local paper of the one day of my life I have spent at Townsville. [More…]
I have no doubt his electors will give him the treatment he deserves ;n 1.972. [More…]
The Limbunya men were told to go to the Wave Hill station to join the men who were on strike. [More…]
Several stockmen worked off Camfield which, once again, is a property adjacent to Wave Hill. [More…]
I just mention that as being a strange coincidence because the honourable member for Brisbane said that they organised it themselves, so I do not know what Manning was doing there. [More…]
Another strike organiser apparently drove down the bitumen, the Stuart Highway, and managed to talk some Newcastle Waters men into going on strike, and also a few at Brunchilly. [More…]
Despite the fact that there was much organisation by such men as Manning and others such as Hardy, Gibbs and Ward, of whom honourable members opposite have no doubt heard, of the 200 stations in the area only 6 were affected, and certainly not all the Aboriginals on those 6 stations took strike action. [More…]
The main point of my remarks tonight is that there should be sufficient skilled and dedicated men who are willing to lead - and I do not say this lightly - and assist the Aboriginals to learn to run their own enterprises. [More…]
I want to mention again the class of person who could assist and who is of necessity urgently needed to help Aboriginals develop their own resources within the Territory. [More…]
They would need to have trmendous guts and determination for living in and developing the country. [More…]
He would need to have endless patience to carry on teaching and developmental work for other people over many years. [More…]
If they are to be of any use they must be the top men in their trades. [More…]
I do not think that any one of these sort of people would fall within the category of the men who should be in the Territory assisting Aboriginals to run their enterprises. [More…]
These men would have to be hard working, sincere and prepared to live in the country for a long time. [More…]
I would recommend to honourable members that they take some interest in the National Library which is now becoming one of the world’s largest and more important institutions. [More…]
Recently Sir Harold White retired from the post of National Librarian and was replaced by our former Parliamentary Librarian, Mr Alan Fleming. [More…]
They are both excellent men. [More…]
We have now Mr Les Moore as our Parliamentary Librarian. [More…]
But 1 take this opportunity to invite any members of the Parliament who wish to look over the National Library or find out something about it to do so. [More…]
The other point is that one of its most urgent functions is to supply this Parliament with facilities when it wants them. [More…]
This reasoning assumes that an employer would have to employ additional men in exact proportion to the extra leave granted, whereas in point of fact everyone who understands administration theory knows that this is not correct. [More…]
I would like to leave this aspect for a moment and return to the first of the two points that I said I wished to raise in respect of this matter. [More…]
The University of Melbourne Appointments Board earlier this year published a survey of professional incomes in Victoria. [More…]
That survey contains some very interesting and useful information illustrating the relative position of engineers in respect to other professional men. [More…]
From the analysis that the Appointments Board made one can see that only 8 per cent of the dentistry profession earn under $6,000 a year and that 60 per cent of the members of this profession are earning $10,000 a year or over. [More…]
Then we come to the engineering profession which is the third last category on the list of the numerous professions examined by the Appointments Board. [More…]
It is only in two other professions - the professions of agricultural science and social work - that there is a lower percentage of men employed who are earning a salary of $10,000 a year or over. [More…]
I would have thought that those figures by themselves illustrate the first proposition I wish to make, that when we consider the importance of engineers to the industrial development and progress of Australia and the salaries they are receiving, which are set out in surveys such as the one I have just mentioned and others, we must agree that the salaries are lower than they should be. [More…]
In passing I should comment that it would be very much simpler if this had not come under the Repatriation Act at all. [More…]
The Service pension is given to returned men and women who are aged 60 or 55 years respectively. [More…]
If a person, by his endeavours, is able to invest money, the income he derives from that investment is subjected to the means test. [More…]
According to figures that have been made available by the Repatriation Department for the 1970-71 Budget, about 30 per cent of all TPI pensioners qualify for a part social services pension. [More…]
I know of some men who are very comfortably placed but because of their war disabilities they get this pension. [More…]
At the other end of the scale, however, there are men who, because of their disabilities, have not been able to make a place for themselves in civilian life - and this applies to the TPI pensioner and the 100 per cent rate pensioners as well - and build up an income that will maintain them adequately. [More…]
Referring to national servicemen, he said that national service had made criminals out of people who would otherwise have gone through the whole of their lives with unblemished records and would have been a credit to this country. [More…]
I wish to be dissociated from that sentiment. [More…]
In my view, those young men are very much a credit to their country. [More…]
We are behind in these matters in a relative sense, so far as world endeavour is concerned, and we ought to seek to get the best of men’s experience in this field. [More…]
1 have been concerned to learn that there are so few professional people, such as social workers and the like, engaged in the departments that are sensitised to human relations. [More…]
I believe that there are 50 or 80 - I cannot remember the number, but it does not matter - social workers employed in the Department of Social Services. [More…]
There are some social workers employed in the Department of Immigration and in the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
Admittedly they are subsidised by the Government, but 1 believe that it should be the Government’s responsibility to provide Government homes for these old people. [More…]
I suggest that the Government could make allocations to the States for the purpose of establishing homes, similar to the Lidcombe Old Men’s Home. [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…]
or to buy a garment for himself. [More…]
This is a scandalous state of affairs, ls it any wonder that those people, destitute and desperate, sick and aged and alone, have lost faith in the Government and the protection that it should give to them. [More…]
If any justification is needed for a pensioners’ little budget it is outlined in this letter in clear and unmistakable language and in a way which indicates the sincerity of this wide range of people who feel interested enough at this stage to do something for the pensioners whom the Government has neglected. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that he should take notice of what has been written by men in a position to know, all of whom would be on substantial salaries and realise how difficult it is to make ends meet particularly if people are only pensioners. [More…]
The Government is not negotiating in these mailers with amateurs or altruists. [More…]
It is negotiating with men who have grown up in the toughest of all areas of commercial endeavour. [More…]
Persons well versed in the affairs of the overseas shipping trade entertain serious doubts about the Government’s capacity to hold its own under these conditions. [More…]
They - question whether the Government will be any more successful in ito dealings with the shipping magnates than it waa on an earlier occasion with the armaments magnates. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned - [More…]
What I am saying is that I believe the Government is responsible for this bombing. [More…]
I think the Government has been soft on these Yugoslav terrorists. [More…]
He said: ‘These are fine men; they are great migrants to Australia and it is great to have them’. [More…]
The Joint Parliamentary Committee on Public Works has just returned from evaluating the proposed port development plans estimated to cost $19m. [More…]
It has available the men who can do the work and who can make Darwin the most important port in this area. [More…]
If this were not so why should such a body of men act so consistently against both their own interests and those of the community they serve? [More…]
Some 8 items have been referred to the Government for approval by the Committee this year to a value of approximately $50m. [More…]
1 turn to the Department of Works itself. [More…]
From top to bottom the Works Establishment in the Northern Territory carries out so much of the work performed and supervises sub-contractors. [More…]
The Department has ils own planners and its own engineering division. [More…]
Might I commend the Department on the first rate job that its employees do under fairly basic conditions. [More…]
When it comes to turning in a good job, these men cannot be faulted. [More…]
I have seen them out on the Barkly Highway in a temperature of 110 degrees in the shade pouring tar on a bitumen road. [More…]
I commend these men on their work. [More…]
I also believe that the Department should not be retrenching employees but should be carrying out a programme of expansion. [More…]
If this were done we would find that the employees of the Department would be a body of contented men. [More…]
They would also be a body of efficient men, even more efficient than they are now. [More…]
We know that at defence establishments there is always a contingent of Department of Works employees, and the volume of work rises and falls from time to time. [More…]
In these circumstances, and with present planning, it is difficult not to have to retrench from time to time, but I believe that there should be some more wide ranging plan for Department of Works employees so that when jobs are completed on defence establishments, whether they be at Puckapunyal, Williamtown air base, the Singleton Army camp or somewhere else, the employees can be transferred to other work in the regions. [More…]
They would then never have to fear unemployment. [More…]
They should be like permanent members of the Services who know that when they finish one job they will still have security and permanency of employment. [More…]
I may be asked where else these men could be employed. [More…]
There are plenty of urgent public works, particularly in the Newcastle region with which I am particularly concerned, that the Commonwealth should undertake but which are too big for local government authorities and even State governments. [More…]
I might mention, for instance, the Swansea Channel which provides an inlet and outlet for the beautiful waters of Lake Macquarie. [More…]
Protests have come from organised bodies, local government authorities and the State Government. [More…]
If the money had been allowed to accumulate and spent on one attack on the problem perhaps the banks of the channel could have been protected for all time by reinforcement and the siltation prevented. [More…]
There would be no authority more capable of doing this work, in my opinion, than the Commonwealth Department of Works. [More…]
I hope that the charter of the Department of Works can be expanded so that when a job is completed in a particular area the men employed on it can be transferred to other important public works such as the one I have just referred to. [More…]
1 believe the Government should consider expanding the activities of the Department of Works to enable that Department to carry out projects such as I have already suggested. [More…]
The Perth airport, I believe, has been extended and improved facilities are being provided at the Wagga defence establishment. [More…]
Millions of dollars are about to be spent on the provision of new barracks and amenities for sailors at HMAS ‘Cerberus’. [More…]
One of the basic recommendations was that the Aborigines Welfare Board should be abolished. [More…]
Therefore, it was recommended that the Board should be abolished. [More…]
It was coincidental that at about the time the report of this all party joint committee was presented to the Parliament the Aborigines Welfare Board embarked on some improvement projects - and I am speaking from only personal experience here– at least in one quarter of New South Wales. [More…]
Those officers were particularly outstanding and dedicated men. [More…]
Those officers gave much personal encouragement and assistance to Aboriginals. [More…]
There is a need to provide bousing where there is employment available to the men. [More…]
There will be a need for understanding and patience on the part of employers in taking the men into employment. [More…]
This would help to give them more incentive to remain in employment, to give their children something better to come home to, to give them the opportunity to come home to families of which the father is in employment and is able to feed them well and therefore make them healthier, stronger and more resistant to disease. [More…]
Some cruel judgments have been made of the Aboriginals in Western Australia - and 1 suppose this goes for the eastern States as well. [More…]
On some of the reserves in Western Australia these conditions are almost beyond imagination and they are provided mainly by the Western Australian Government In fact, I have figures here that show that the Western Australian Government up until recently has been spending from $200,000 or $250,000 up to $700,000 a year on reserves. [More…]
Provision must be made to train the women who have not lived in a home before so they will know how to act as a wife and housekeeper and how to look after the home. [More…]
Encouragement must be given to the men to remain in . [More…]
employment and settle in places where employment is available and to which they want to go. [More…]
Then we have to see that they are enabled to pay rent at a level they can afford, that they are shown the basic requirements of hygiene and nutrition so that their children may have an opportunty of taking their rightful place within the schools and later within society. [More…]
I believe that this can be illustrated by making a comparison with other towns where there are no reserves, where the men are in employment and, interestingly enough, remain in employment in the one job, and where they have been given the opportunity of paying rent and living in a housing commission home as is the case in my home town of Bunbury, Western Australia. [More…]
The men remain in employment and the children attend school. [More…]
This is in contrast to those other places I have mentioned where there are reserves and where people do not have the same opportunities to take up employment and to live in decent housing. [More…]
The men found employment and remained in employment. [More…]
They have paid the rent and have remained in employment. [More…]
Men once proud - now sit idle or drag rakes over yards which do not need raking because it was said they could not be given food without earning it. [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…]
Usually such demands are accompanied by claims for increases in wages or improvements in conditions. [More…]
I think about 2,500 men were involved. [More…]
Another item in its platform says that the Parliament should have the power to award conditions by legislation. [More…]
So the combination of the two would - but for constitutional reasons, I hope - empower a Labor Government to provide a 35-hour working week. [More…]
After the contribution of the previous speaker, the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Snedden), I would not blame honourable members or, indeed, other people listening to this Parliament today, if they felt that the subject under discussion had become so camouflaged as to no longer be recognisable. [More…]
It is the failure of the Government to protect the Australian consumers and export industries from rapidly increas ing prices and to apply and to extend the Trade Practices Act. [More…]
However, he has not failed to include among those whose standard of living is suffering badly because of the inaction of the present Government, all of those on fixed incomes and those whose incomes are increased very slowly, sometimes after long delays and after previous damaging increases in prices. [More…]
These are the people whom we, on the Australian Labor Party side of the House, for humanitarian and many other reasons, are proud to champion as, indeed, we are proud to represent all men of good will who are prepared to seek to remedy hardships and injustices, whether or not those hardships and injustices apply to themselves. [More…]
I comment on that point. [More…]
Now that they know, following my query to the Minister, there is no time limit on the expenditure of the money, many of these men have taken another look at the matter and are now saying that they should have a pipe scheme rather than an open channel scheme. [More…]
Less equipment would be required by farmers. [More…]
With the channel scheme dozens of bridges would have to be built over the top of the channels at the expense of the farmer, and it would be a very expensive scheme for these men. [More…]
The Government gave careful consideration to the composition of the Commission and concluded that in the interests of efficiency it was necessary to keep the membership as small as possible, consistent with the need to obtain an adequate range of skills relevant to the work of the Commission. [More…]
I am sure that it will be agreed that every endeavour must be- made to secure for the Commission men of the highest expertise and ability. [More…]
The Government recognises the importance of maintaining a close liaison between the Commission and the Australian Wool Board because of the relationship between the functions of the 2 bodies. [More…]
Will he ensure that Australia enjoys full reciprocity for our cultural output, including the right of our artists to fulfil engagements in the supplying country, by examining the flow of foreign cultural imports such as the book ‘Portnoy’s Complaint’, the record ‘Let me make you baby’ and the television programme ‘Dust Bin Men’. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned - [More…]
In this Parliament from time to time expressions of opinion are given from the Government side about how difficult the Stevedoring industry is. [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…]
The Government’s record over the last 20 years towards this great industry can only be described as deplorable. [More…]
The wool industry, without a shadow of a doubt, is the most efficient export industry Australia has had since it was settled by white men. [More…]
The Government should recognise that it should accept some criticism with respect to the wool industry. [More…]
I wish the members of it well in the tremendous task which lies ahead of them. [More…]
This is a great challenge, and a challenge worthy of the best men in Australia. [More…]
Let us make absolutely sure that we get these men and put them to work as soon as humanly possible. [More…]
The Minister will appoint 7 men to the Commission. [More…]
If they control the Commission they will safeguard their S600m, kill any significant enterprise, and kill hope for the growers of any decentralised development across the countryside. [More…]
I feel that the Government may have shown some of its real dedication - against opposition. [More…]
The Government bulldozed the appointment of 2 overseas brokers’ representatives to the Wool Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation. [More…]
It would be easily within the power of this Government to pay the cost of an interest holiday for wool growers and then for the next few years to pay the difference between 8 per cent interest and 3 per cent interest. [More…]
1 have not heard one Country Party member threaten the Government that unless it takes that course he will withdraw his support from it. [More…]
The men who are the alleged representatives of the wool growers and the primary producers have been silent when it comes to the question of threatening the Government with the loss of their support unless it will provide the cash assistance that these primary producers must have to stay upon their holdings. [More…]
That would mean the closing down of country towns and men walking off their farms and joining the ever increasing trek for employment at the factory. [More…]
They are part of the protective system of this country which has enabled secondary industry and the employees of secondary industry to maintain Australian standards of living while the standards of the rural producers, under their benighted leadership in this Parliament, have constantly fallen. [More…]
The wife of one of these men will have to return to school teaching. [More…]
The next poster gives details of woollen family garments. [More…]
The next poster is also suitable for displaying in a store that sells men’s woollen garments, but the remaining 2 posters are quite useless for a men’s store. [More…]
We must thank officers of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics who did much to assist Sir John Crawford and others in preparing the recommendations. [More…]
1 want to pay tribute also to 2 other men. [More…]
The first is Mr Wallace of the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]
Finally, the man who made it possible to introduce this legislation into the House so quickly is Mr Comans, the Parliamentary Draftsman. [More…]
All honourable members will remember the statement made by the Minister last week that we were having great difficulty in preparing legislation which could be introduced before the House rose for the Senate elections, and we were concerned about that. [More…]
I am sure that it is only because of the efforts of men like Mr Comans that it is possible to present this legislation now. [More…]
I compliment all those people who have contributed in some way or other in bringing this legislation forward. [More…]
I make no apologies at all for that statement. [More…]
Despite the fact that we have some very important and smart men within the wool industry, I do not believe that they are the salesmen for whom we are looking. [More…]
That is the Government’s attitude towards the appointment of members of the Commission. [More…]
I believe that the people who will be appointed to the Commission will be men who have had experience of auctions and of selling. [More…]
He is a tremendous influence and force in the Australian wool industry. [More…]
There are few men who are more misunderstood and more unfairly criticised than is Sir William Gunn. [More…]
He has done a tremendous amount of work for the wool industry in establishing the International Wool Secretariat and in developing programmes for promotion and research. [More…]
At the beginning of this year he, on his own initiative, formed the advisory committee of the Australian Wool Board which represented all sections of the Australian wool industry which got together and put up the basic elements of a single wool marketing authority. [More…]
1 mentioned in my second reading speech the enormous and fantastic job done by Sir John Crawford in preparing a report on a single wool marketing authority. [More…]
The Government Members Committee, which consists of members of both the Australian Country Party and the Liberal Party, was constantly in touch with me, making suggestions and recommendations. [More…]
Great play was made particularly by members of the Australian Country Party of the need to appoint to the Commission men of the best calibre, I cannot help but refer to the almost parrot-like remarks made by the honourable member for Hume (Mr Pettitt). [More…]
But as nobody in the Parliament takes him seriously, it does not really matter what he says. [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…]
What is necessary is to pick the men of highest qualification and experience to be on the Board. [More…]
So, I am afraid that I have to reject the amendments that have been proposed. [More…]
Mr Gullett said the two buyers, men of repute and of conservative outlook, had asked to see him about 5 weeks ago. [More…]
The wool men and the wool industry contribute $800m to our export income. [More…]
But the 80,000 wool men are at the mercy of the bankers, wool buyers, overseas manufacturers and pastoral firms. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned- [More…]
If so, does that issue carry a statement purporting to have been made by certain persons including four members of this Parliament and one member of another Parliament, which pledges sanctuary to all young men who defy the National Service Act courageously’ as referred to in the article? [More…]
Has the Attorney-General made any investigations to determine whether the publication of that statement is an offence under Commonwealth law? [More…]
If it appears that an offence has been committed will prosecutions be launched against the persons, including the members of Parliament, who have purportedly made this statement? [More…]
by leave) - I join the Chairman of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Air craft Noise in expressing my appreciation to the members of the staff of the Committee, to those men who were so cooperative and helpful to members of the Committee, including myself. [More…]
We had as good a team of men working with us as it was possible to get together. [More…]
The further point I want to make is that the Department of Civil Aviation should demand that airline operators compel their employees to wear protective equipment when working on ;t tarmac adjacent to aircraft. [More…]
In contrast those men who work on a tarmac and are adjacent to aircraft should be compelled by their employer or union - this applies both ways - to wear protective apparel to prevent permanent damage being occasioned to their hearing. [More…]
Now that we have completed our work I think it would be advisable perhaps to form some sort of mutual admiration society and express complimentary remarks about those people who have been associated with the Committee. [More…]
I compliment also Mr Jack Rose. [More…]
Mr Keith Leonard and Mr Gross from the Department of Civil Aviation were always willing to assist. [More…]
They are intelligent and informed men and we congratulate them on their work. [More…]
To use the vernacular, what a bunny the Government would be if it built great expensive airstrips and then aeronautical engineers came out with a vertical takeoff aircraft. [More…]
1 endorse the remarks made by my colleagues that the Department of Civil Aviation officials have shown great courtesy and are skilled and dedicated men. [More…]
We must accept this testimony on oath from men of great integrity and learning. [More…]
Already 2 young men have been to see me asking whether it will come on today or whether it will come on tomorrow because they are vitally interested in it. [More…]
If one goes back to the original enactment of the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1967, one sees the way that the purposes of the College were then spell out. [More…]
Its functions were set out in this way, and they are still in this form: to conduct … an institution for the provision of education and training of such kinds, and in such departments of science, technology, arts, administration, commerce and other fields of knowledge or of the application of knowledge, as the Council with the approval of the Minister, determines or as the Minister requires, and, in particular, education and training appropriate to professional and other occupations requiring advanced education; [More…]
D. students at the University of New South Wales indicating that they expect to make the grade but that no employment opportunities are available for them. [More…]
They wonder why so much money is being spent on science when our top men in this field who are about to graduate are not able to find opportunity for employment because they are classified as being in the ‘employee status’ which most of them are as scientists. [More…]
I understand that negotiations have been under way between the representatives of the men on lightships and lighthouses and the Public Service Board. [More…]
People in merchant ships have had their increases for some time now whereas negotiations are still going on between the Public Service Board and the unions representing these men. [More…]
The work that these men do requires special skills. [More…]
So when one compares these figures it is easy to understand, as 1 said a moment ago, why there is so much discontent and dissatisfaction amongst these men. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will at least pay heed to what these people have been saying to his Department and to what I have been saying here tonight and that is that serious consideration will be given to setting an early date for lifting the salaries of these men up to what they should be. [More…]
(a) and (b)- 1st July 1965 to 30th June 1966-387 officers, 5.363 men 1st July 1966 to 30th June 1967-516 officers, 6,207 men 1st July 1967 to 30th June 1968-470 officers, 6,124 men 1st July 1968 to 30th June 1969-632 officers, 6,674 men 1st July 1969 to 30th June 1970-653 officers, 8,076 men [More…]
Ensure that the curricula of schools under its control and of other educational institutions include teaching of the scientific facts about race, that invidious distinctions about peoples are not made in textbooks and in classrooms, that all material susceptible of leading to racial discrimination and prejudice is eliminated from textbooks and that instructors are taught the value of principles of equality and dignity of all men. [More…]
Article 119 of the Treaty which member countries of the European Economic Community signed in Rome in 1957 provides that each Member State shall ensure and maintain the application of the principle of equal remuneration for equal work as between men and women workers. [More…]
‘Remuneration’ is defined in the Article as meaning ‘the ordinary basic or minimum wage or salary and any additional emoluments whatsoever payable directly or indirectly, whether in cash or in kind, by the employer to the worker and arising out of the worker’s employment’. [More…]
Equal remuneration without discrimination based on sex means ‘(a) that remuneration for the same work at piece-rates shall be calculated on the basis of the same unit of measurement; and (b) that remuneration for work at time-rates shall be the same for the same job’. [More…]
The College will be administered by the Young Men’s Christian Association. [More…]
They are men of great competence and calibre. [More…]
It is a tribute to them that they have effectively done all that they could in the circumstances about putting a useful case to the Public Works Committee and to this Parliament. [More…]
I hope however that we do not engage in this impetuous decision-taking in the future and that we have more regard for the preservation of environment, ecology and the best interests of the Australian people when we take into account the serious matters which concern us about defence. [More…]
I think it ought to bc salutary for us in the Parliament to consider what we are doing in that regard. [More…]
Over half a million young men have registered to serve. [More…]
There can be a lot of arguments against any sort of student deferment. [More…]
I am not putting those arguments forward but they do highlight the inequitable nature of the whole system which is now before the House. [More…]
For instance, as far as statistics show at the moment, and statistics are notably inadequate in all these areas, probably less than 2 per cent of sons of working class people get to a university and only about 10 per cent of university students come from working class areas, lt would be of great advantage to us, for instance, to know how many students per head of population in the universities of Melbourne come from the municipalities I represent, Brunswick and Coburg, and how many from, say, Balwyn and Kew. [More…]
The odds are that there are more students from Balwyn and Kew in the university and more young men from Brunswick and Coburg in the Army because few of them can be deferred as students. [More…]
There are some men who are liable to render service and not eligible for extended deferment but who might avoid call up until they pass the age of 26 when liability for service would cease. [More…]
The Regulations have been amended so they will be liable to serve until the age of 30. [More…]
By the time men reach the age of 26 the odds are that they are married. [More…]
The young men there are only 5 or 6 years younger than he is but all their experience in life is completely different. [More…]
But having said that, I realise that the Government has been elected and re-elected on the proposition that it supports conscription, that it supports national service, and I think that we in the Opposition have to make the National Service Act as pleasant as possible from the point of view of the people who are affected. [More…]
Dealing with the specific regulation which we seek to disallow today, I should like to address myself to the point made by the Minister in the explanatory notes which accompanied the amendment to the regulation. [More…]
It is pointed out that the regulations now cover men who have not been called up before 26 years of age, for example, because they may have been seeking to evade their obligations and to escape detection. [More…]
Thirdly, men may transfer from one course of training to study another, necessitating a longer period for eventual completion. [More…]
These people may be young men who have failed in a year. [More…]
But the officers in the Department do not make the judgment as to whether deferment should be granted for student continuation. [More…]
Fifthly - and here are some more of these ‘silvertails’ we are protecting, according to the honourable member for Wills - we have young men undertaking their courses on a part time basis who cannot undertake them on a full time basis because they do not have the financial resources to do it. [More…]
The illogicality of his argument is manifest. [More…]
The sort of courses where people are deferred for this reason and who will now be able to complete their training include - and I want honourable members opposite to listen to these ‘silvertails’: Fitters, toolmakers, draughtsmen, laboratory technicians and technicians who have completed apprenticeships or courses of training and are now doing a diploma of mechanical engineering. [More…]
On the argument of the honourable member for Wills, we should not let those ‘silvertails’ have the benefit of this. [More…]
Other examples are printers, electricians, fitters and radio technicians who have completed apprenticeships and who are now doing higher trade certificates; electronic technicians proceeding to a certificate in electrical engineering: building industry employees pursuing certificate courses in building technology, bricklayers, foremen builders, etc. [More…]
; draftsmen proceeding to diplomas in architecture and civil engineering; metallurgists, industrial chemists and laboratory technicians proceeding to diplomas of science; and men pursuing various degrees including dentists, teachers, doctors, computer programmers, finance officers and bank officers. [More…]
There are 7,712 students who are being considered for deferment as students. [More…]
Only 144 of them have prolonged their deferment by undertaking post-graduate studies. [More…]
There are 5,612 trainees who are being considered for deferment as trainees. [More…]
There are 1,000 registrants at the moment who want deferment and in whose interest it is essential that this regulation survive. [More…]
If this regulation does not survive these young men will have to be called up into the Army before they complete their training. [More…]
What sort of men are they? [More…]
accepting that national service exists, would want these young men to be able to complete their training before they entered the Army. [More…]
It will benefit them for their future to complete their training now and it will benefit them for their reestablishment. [More…]
It must also be militarily highly undesirable for such a person to land into a platoon of young men of 20 years of age who have different attitudes and different aspirations. [More…]
His contributions to the International Sugar Agreement, the International Wheat Agreement and, of late, to the International Grains Arrangement which for the first time included the Food Aid Convention, are giving benefit to people all over the world. [More…]
Only those who have sat in the Cabinet room with him know of his tremendous capacity to influence other men in what I believe is the right decision. [More…]
Looking back over a period of Cabinet discussions, as a member of the Government I am grateful that John McEwen has been there to guide us in making the right decisions. [More…]
When the skein of events became tangled it was to his clear brain and logical thinking that men turned. [More…]
or a lot of other fool questions that men ask sometimes for he was a man of action. [More…]
People say that gold statues of such men should be placed before every school of learning throughout the world. [More…]
We have any amount of men who can translate 1 language into another and solve all sorts of intricate problems but we have so few men of action, men who, metaphorically speaking, can carry a message to Garcia. [More…]
John McEwen is one of those men. [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…]
He is one of the few men to stride across the political stage who has risen almost above party politics, not in our eyes but certainly in the eyes of the Australian people. [More…]
On behalf of the newer members in this House, I thought that I should wish him well in his retirement. [More…]
Before resuming my seat I would like to comment on the very generous things said of me by honourable members. [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…]
They are very, very great Australians; they are 2 very able and dedicated men. [More…]
I pay this tribute to those men and to the many other officers who have been my advisers through the years. [More…]
How many (a) officers and (b) men have been reposted within Australia in each of the past 5 years. [More…]
Have any of the men rejected for CMF service been called-up for national service. [More…]
What are the overtime rates of pay forthese men. [More…]
Field-Marshal Viscount Slim was one of the .great men of our time and, if I might personally say, I think he was the. [More…]
He was a self-made, man, a completely competent man, who reached the zenith of accomplishment in his profession. [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…]
He was walking up the front steps of Parliament House and photographers were trying to get a photograph of him. [More…]
Senator Ormonde had especially strong links with the New South Wales coal community, which has sent a remarkable group of men to this Parliament, of whom two became leaders of the Australian Labor Party - Charlton and Evatt. [More…]
His colleagues in the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party will miss, among his other qualities, his fund of good humour and his irrepressible wit with which he often modified those tensions which, once upon a time, arose at our meetings. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent lo all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned- [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and thai, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned- [More…]
This amendment adds clause 17. to the Bill. [More…]
I shall make a few comments although I believe a statement was circulated to honourable members at an earlier- point of time. [More…]
a consideration of the amendment the statement was circulated. [More…]
In the past, it has been the practice to have summonses for offences relating to unlicensed broadcastand television receivers served on defendants by members of the State police forces, but for some time there have been indications that, in some States at least, there was dissatisfaction with this arrangement. [More…]
Some State Ministers in charge of police have taken the view that the service of summonses is not a proper police function and that it diverts trained men from more responsible activities. [More…]
In considering means of effecting service of these summonses, consideration has been given to amend ments made to the law of most of the States during recent years with the object of relieving the police of the need to serve all summonses. [More…]
Between 1962 and 1967 the laws in force in most of the States were amended to enable summonses for relatively minor offences to be served by post. [More…]
Men gave as their reasons for nonattendance having to work too hard, laziness, overtime and fatigue. [More…]
Women said that they were too busy at home or had family responsibility. [More…]
The migrants that I have mentioned must have an earnest desire to learn the language. [More…]
I wonder whether any investigations have been made concerning what percentage of migrants in this category, or men and women over school age, really want to learn the language, and what is their intellectual capacity. [More…]
The Minister has yet to state what effect the scheme will have on those I have mentioned and how many he expects will take advantage of it. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, I believe that this problem could be overcome in respect of the men by their employers accepting more responsibility and enabling the men to attend classes in working time. [More…]
To my mind the incentive scheme, in the case of adult men particularly, would appear to be the logical and practical way of achieving the best results. [More…]
In practically all of the schools that I have mentioned one of the most pressing problems with non-English speaking migrant children is that there is a complete lack of contact with their parents. [More…]
This is particularly so with women who do not have the same opportunities as men. [More…]
Another is conducted at Enterprise, the migrant hostel in my electorate, butI am thinking mainly of the non-English speaking migrant women. [More…]
We should nol fall for the trap of believing that all foremen or shopkeepers are necessarily Anglo-Saxon or that they all have a very fine command of the English language and no knowledge of any other language. [More…]
The incentive has to be found to encour age migrant women, migrant men and their children to learn the English language. [More…]
I listened very carefully to what the honourable member said and as far as I could understand that was his reason for opposing the amendment. [More…]
Those of us who live in the capital cities know that there is no shortage of development of real estate in the inner city areas. [More…]
There seems to be no shortage of men, money or materials for the erector of large multi-storey office blocks in prime locations in prime business sectors, but these things never seem to be available for the construction of a hospital or another classroom for a school. [More…]
The argument that these things can be made available in one quarter but not in another does not hold water. [More…]
Professor Connell strongly recommended the introduction of day classes for mothers, the expansion of pre-embarkation and on-ship courses and semi-intensive part time courses for all migrants wishing to help themselves integrate into their new country. [More…]
Already professional men receive allowances while undertaking courses. [More…]
Australia should not be party to discriminatory treatment in favour of those who have already received a better education in their home country. [More…]
I am not challenging his version; legal men may do that if need be. [More…]
Mr Lewer, in his judgment, had this to say: [More…]
The Whyalla Aboriginal Association approached the Commonwealth for a grant to erect a hostel for working Aboriginal men at Whyalla. [More…]
The South Australian Department of Aboriginal Affairs advised that the YMCA had constructed a hostel at Whyalla which could cater for Aboriginal working men. [More…]
There are no plans to erect other hostels for Aboriginal men in the northern Spencer Gulf area of South Australia. [More…]
The training of Aboriginal men and women is the responsibility of the Welfare Division of the Northern Territory Administration within the Department of the Interior. [More…]
One of the functions of the Welfare Division is to provide for the welfare and advancement of Aborigines in the Northern Territory and to carry out its functions the Division is staffed with experienced and qualified officers. [More…]
Indeed it will be clear - and I recommend to the union that it look at the transcript of today’s proceedings before Mr Senior Commissioner Taylor in regard to the forthcoming national wage case, where the representatives of the Australian Council of Trade Unions made it clear that the A.C.T.U. [More…]
did not want the issue of equal pay for men and women or the abolition of interstate differentials decided at or even during the national wage cases which are going to commence on 6th August; they wanted those issues decided separately and later than that. [More…]
and (2) The National Service Act imposes a universal liability on men in the relevant agegroup to register for national service when required to do so. [More…]
Except in the case of men absent from Australia at that time, this is in the half year in which they reach 20 years of age. [More…]
Men liable to register who fail to do so at the required time are not eligible to be included in the ballot and are liable to prosecution. [More…]
In each year since the inception of the present national service scheme proceedings for failure to register have been initiated against the following numbers of men: [More…]
How many of those men recruited from overseas armed services are still serving with the Australian Services. [More…]
How many prosecutions have been authorised to date of young men failing to register under the National Service Act and how many are pending decision on the same offence? [More…]
Since the inception of the scheme about 600.000 men have registered and very few have been prosecuted. [More…]
Just what that body is I do’ not” know but it seems to make public statements. [More…]
I have no doubt that the honourable member would know all about it and indeed would give as much comfort as he could to members of that union who are encouraging other people to break the law and risk prosecution and imprisonment, and that is not a responsible act of any member of this Parliament. [More…]
But there are other numbers which are frequently put about and it is most important to understand in relation to this that the vast majority of young’ men do register in accordance with ‘their obligation. [More…]
There are periodic checks ‘made by my Department to see whether people subject to registration have failed to register. [More…]
.to register even if it is unlikely that he will be called on for service because, for., instance, he is medically unfit and appears to be medically unfit or he is mentally retarded. [More…]
They put an administrative burden on the Department butI want to make it perfectly clear that every case is pursued to see whether there is an obligation to register. [More…]
All this practice will do is place an added burden on officers in my Department. [More…]
A great number of people who fail to register subsequently register either voluntarily or at the prompting of my Department. [More…]
I used to receive letters from young men who would write to me, sometimes in offensive language and sometimes in very polite language, and say that they would refuse to register or comply in any way. [More…]
These fit young men, the pride of all who know them, go where this Government sends them hoping, of course, to return. [More…]
Fortunately, with medical care and the close attachment of his family he has been reared to young manhood only to be conscripted in this time of peace to lie sent overseas. [More…]
He is constantly afraid that some error in medical advice or treatment will be made in an emergency and he will receive a drug which is dangerous to him. [More…]
If the Government must conscript our young nien, at least make sure that their medical conditions will not react if in an emergency they receive treatment in the form of a drug to which they are allergic. [More…]
I am sure that not all the opposing armies would be able to provide the proper treatment for our young men, should their medics be the only ones available. [More…]
The nation should grieve that after 21 years of Liberal-Country Party government pleas such as those that have been made in this chamber today are now required to be made for the men and women who have served this country so well on rural holdings, maintaining the economic life of this country, in this instance 1 think that the saying too little too late should be repeated. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has left most of the details to State authorities. [More…]
There are depressed conditions throughout the country but this Government has over the years remained unmoved. [More…]
In strikes at Kwinana last year it was possible to say that some men were being paid $90 a week. [More…]
The result is thousands of men and women sitting in skyscraper offices exchanging pieces of paper at an ever increasing rate and hoping to God that the nation’s productivity is adequate to keep them in a style to which they are accustomed now. [More…]
If it is noi, the Government’s solution is simply: Sell a bit more of the nation to bridge the gap. [More…]
Why does the Government not attack inflation where it begins, within the monopoly and oligopoly sector of our community? [More…]
This is the sector which really controls the destiny of the men sitting opposite. [More…]
It is the monopoly control of this country which is controlling our future development. [More…]
To hear Government supporters speak on this issue anyone would think that the Australian Labor Party had been in office for 20 years. [More…]
The guilty men sit on the Government side of the Parliament. [More…]
The Government had to change the name of the currency to get away from the promise because it has not been fulfilled to this day. [More…]
However, some men fail to meet the standards of fitness required by the Army. [More…]
Others such as Ministers of Religion or men whose conscientious beliefs have been determined by a court, may be granted exemption from the liability to render service under the relevant provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
Other men may be granted indefinite deferment because they are married before call-up action for their age-group commenced. [More…]
Men who fail to register at the required time and who do not fall within any of the above groups may be called up irrespective of the result of the ballot and men who are balloted out may volunteer for service. [More…]
In addition men who choose not to be included in the ballot at the time when they are required to register but instead undertake to render alternative service in the Citizen Forces, may be called up for national service if they do not comply with their undertaking. [More…]
The following table shows the percentages of men examined who have not been accepted for national service for medical, educational or psychological reasons in each year since 1965. [More…]
Has the normal intake of school leavers been accepted into the Public Service this year, or will the burden of the cut in employment be thrown on to this class of person? [More…]
Have the young men who would normally be accepted as apprentices and trainees in the various Commonwealth Government Departments, such as the Department of the Navy, the Department of Supply and all the other departments which normally take a substantial number of apprentices and trainees each year, been denied the opportunity to receive skilled training? [More…]
Can the Prime Minister give us any details of the types of people who have been debarred from employment in the Commonwealth Public Service? [More…]
We want men who are not able to compete openly in the intense cut-throat conditions of open competition. [More…]
When, we consider the domestic side of operations we cannot forget men such as Mr McEvoy and members of the Queensland Cane Growers Association. [More…]
These men do a tremendous job. [More…]
I think that when we consider an agreement of this nature it is interesting to look at some of the standards which have been created in this great industry. [More…]
I refer to the tremendous contribution which this industry has made towards the settlement and development of the northern part of this continent and particularly the north coast of Queensland. [More…]
That is a total of 445 young men who have lost their lives in Vietnam in the last 5 or 6 years and 2,198 men have been wounded. [More…]
On any kind of a statistical analysis it means that of those young men who were sent overseas between 20 and 40 of them will lose their lives in action. [More…]
I would estimate that about 100 to 150 of those men will be wounded and perhaps about 10 to 20 will be totally and permanently incapacitated due to their war service. [More…]
I believe this is the ultimate act of cynicism that this Government has perpetrated. [More…]
All the evidence is that the Western alliance or call it what you will - our association with the Americans in this matter and the New Zealanders - is withdrawing from the field in Vietnam yet in this crucial moment Australia is prepared to dispatch another 30 or 40 young men to their death and perhaps somewhere between 100 and 120 who will be seriously wounded. [More…]
1 would like the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) to give us a guarantee that he is turning his attention to the Service to find out why this is happening, lt is a terrible tragedy that our men are being shot by their fellow soldiers. [More…]
I hope that in the very near future - now, for that matter - the Government will announce a withdrawal timetable for our forces in Vietnam. [More…]
On the basis of the last 4 or 5 years, between 20 and 40 young men in that battalion will be killed before their year of service is over; from 100 to 150 of them will be wounded; and perhaps 15 to 20 of them will be maimed for life. [More…]
family there can be no question of exemption for men because a brother has already been called up to render service. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that tks concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is ev’,i and ought to be condemned. [More…]
Not only are sickness and unemployment benefits defective in terms of purchasing power but they enforce a degenerating cycle of social behaviour which is crippling to human resources. [More…]
The loss of self-respect, the degrading environment in which too many of these beneficiaries find themselves unavoidably moving as a result of their circumstances, are counterproductive to their speedy return to health or to the workforce. [More…]
A paper delivered at a seminar, The Cost of Sickness and Unemployment’, at the University of Sydney on 3 May, 1969, by John de Hogg, an economist, directed biting criticism at the way in which dole’ experiences sear, personalities, leaving men useless, shuffling hulks. [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…]
I disagree with the Minister, as does the Community Standards Organisation, when he argues that ‘the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms’. [More…]
We are here with a mandate or a warrant or a fiat to do no more than to reflect in government action and in legislation what it is that the community as a whole at a particular time consider desirable or necessary for a government to do. [More…]
I think that a responsible government and a responsible member of Parliament should have regard to this basic proposition when he considers his place In the Parliament or the Government’s place as a government: What is it that communities want when they send members to this Parliament? [More…]
What is it that they want from a government when they elect it? [More…]
As I said, what they want is no more and no less than an adequate and proper reflection in government action and in legislation of those community standards and attitudes that prevail at any given time. [More…]
The community’s standards test was the roost prominent and most substantial aspect of censorship men tioned by the Minister in his very commendable statement; that is, the general attitude that a government has an obligation and should try to assess the community’s standards at a given time and adequately reflect them in the censorship law and in the manner in which censorship law is administered. [More…]
She may have overheard it because I often use it in the presence of men. [More…]
The community does have standards even though men may scoff at them, may try to deride them, and may try to reduce their importance. [More…]
The men who write the books to which my colleague the honourable member for Hindmarsh referred tonight are obviously perverts themselves. [More…]
He says that they must not see violence and must be protected from it, but he is one who consistently votes to send our young men to the battlefields where the most extreme examples of violence can be seen. [More…]
The control of Minsec has been in the hands of a group of young men of considerable brilliance. [More…]
The honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin), who is a former officer of the Taxation Office, drew on his previous knowledge to inform the Committee of one or two problems which he saw in the Taxation Office, particularly in regard to the investigators of that Department. [More…]
These people, of whom he was once one, are a very important pari of the Taxation Office, but there is an arrangement whereby every year when taxation returns are coming in very heavily and the Department has difficulty in issuing the refunds for which taxpayers are clamouring, the Department, if hard-pressed, transfers investigation officers from their normal duties to checking returns. [More…]
The Commissioner of Taxation would like to have more of those men. [More…]
Basically he made a plea for members of Parliament I to take a great deal more interest in the details of public finance. [More…]
The Press is the normal mode of control of public funds, government and most other things. [More…]
This Parliament should indeed be grateful (o those members of the Public Accounts Committee who devote so much time to this work. [More…]
These are the two reasons why this Government, dominated by big business, refuses to take action. [More…]
Its whole concern in the Parliament seems to be with these limited drugs which it appears to be promoting. [More…]
If the Government is fair dink uni about the health of Australians it will do something about tobacco and alcohol, lt has leads from America and Britain, and the latest medical reports from Britain show a staggering picture. [More…]
More than 20,000 men aged between 35 and 64 years are dying each year from smoking. [More…]
The Australian Government should follow the decision of the Government of the United States of America to ban all cigarette advertising on television and radio. [More…]
At the same time the American Government is compelling al) tobacco companies to print health warnings on cigarette packs. [More…]
The Australian Government should be disturbed at the incredible growth of smoking in our primary and secondary schools. [More…]
The British report indicates that medical men are deeply concerned that at the age of 15, there are just as many girl smokers as boy smokers and that the intake of alcohol has also shown a tremendous increase at this age. [More…]
I find it incredible that the Government can spend day after day attacking marihuana, LSD, cannabis and other drugs and yet say not a word about the most important problems in Australia today in the fields of alcohol and tobacco. [More…]
In answer to a question last week the Minister for Labour and National Service said that 1,113 cases of men who failed to register for national service had been taken to court since 1964. [More…]
In any case, the number of men who have been prosecuted for the three offences - failure to register, failure to attend for medical examination and failure to answer callup - would amount to a very significant total that has seriously embarrassed the Government. [More…]
But what is more significant than the number of men who have been prosecuted for these three offences is the number of men who have not been prosecuted for these three offences. [More…]
As I said, I have a photostat copy of a document which the Minister may verify in due course as being genuine or not. [More…]
I repeat that it is headed ‘Department of Labour and National Service, National Service Statistics, Defaulters Summary of Offences as at 31.12.70’. [More…]
The total of those who have failed to register is shown on this document as being 43,960. [More…]
1 have also tables showing the number of men who failed to register, those who failed to attend for medical examination, and those who failed to obey the call-up notice, as at 31st December 1970. [More…]
The important thing about this table, I think, is that of the 43,960 men who have failed to register since the National Service Act began to operate, 23,435 were shown by inquiries to reveal no default. [More…]
How can it be that inquiries have revealed that 23,435 of the 43,960 men who have failed to register have revealed no default? [More…]
I ask the Minister why it was that such a large number of those who failed to register, 23.435 have been held by his Department to constitute no default. [More…]
What characteristic was there in these men who failed to register that constituted no default? [More…]
Most of the young men and their parents to whom 1 talk are most concerned that this is an automatic offence. [More…]
Yet the statistics show that of the 43,960 men who failed to register 23,435 were found after inquiry to represent no default. [More…]
The next category that I think requires examination is that of explanations accepted by the Registrar, and of the 43,960 men who failed to register 8:374 gave explanations that were accepted by the Registrar. [More…]
But the next important point arising from the tables I have here is that of the 43,960 men who failed to register 2,888 have been under investigation for less than 3 months. [More…]
As the honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) has mentioned there are as many persons who have been under investigation for more than 3 months for failing to register as we have troops in Vietnam. [More…]
It seems to me, when we consider that 11,000 men out of 43,000 have been under investigation or are under investigation for failing to register - 7,200 of them for more than 3 months - to suggest that there are quite a number of these cases that the Government does not want to proceed with. [More…]
The mere 1,113 who have been prosecuted seems to me to be a very unlucky small number selected perhaps for the purpose of intimidating others to register whereas the Government really does not want to* indicate to the public that as many have failed to register as this document shows. [More…]
As I said, this is probably not a secret document. [More…]
It is headed ‘Department of Labour and National Service - National Service Statistics’. [More…]
Perhaps the Government does not want the public to know about these figures. [More…]
There is nothing strange in the concept of civic action being undertaken by engineers, members of the medical corps and other servicemen when there are no fighting troops in the area. [More…]
If we get to that stage, as I hope and as we plan, some might make a judgment that these things ought to be done entirely by civilians but if it is done in part by the civil affairs unit and by Australian soldiers undertaking these tasks, that also is something that I believe this House should applaud. [More…]
For our part we on this side are determined to try to achieve a peace that does not deny or shame what decent men everywhere stand for. [More…]
We are asking our men to try to achieve an objective which successive South Vietnamese regimes have failed to do and that is to achieve the loyalty of the people they are supposed to represent. [More…]
Civil aid to Vietnam has been just as much a public relations exercise as the force commitment of the so called free world. [More…]
United States administrations, in justifying the commitment and particularly in justifying it to the American people, have gone to great lengths to encourage countries within their sphere of influence to make contributions. [More…]
We all know that the commitment of Thai, Philippine and Korean forces was made on one basis, that is. [More…]
1 can remember seeing when I was in the Department of Foreign Affairs a multitude of pamphlets and publications on the free world’s contribution to the effort and 1 also recall a statement that the Government of Honduras, for example, had provided drugs and medical aid. [More…]
A large group of people had gone to hand over this token gift of drugs, and I would like to read the statement subsequently made by the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. [More…]
Then there is the continuing drain on the Australian people and Australia’s resources resulting from our commitment. [More…]
The point at issue is the Government’s failure to inform the Parliament on the future of the Australian Task Force and to inform the Parliament about any part of it. [More…]
At the present moment it is costing about $42m a year just to have the forces there. [More…]
No estimates have been placed before the Parliament of what our commitment actually costs. [More…]
In the costs that have been placed before the Parliament, that has not been admitted. [More…]
What does it cost to maintain men in the field in such a situation? [More…]
It will probably cost Australia somewhere between S170m and $200m per annum for our commitment in Vietnam. [More…]
I place this matter before the House because I believe it is important for the Australian people to understand that the commitment in Vietnam is not simply 7,000 or 8,000 men. [More…]
The commitment is not just $42m a year extra. [More…]
A study of the defence system shows that the rising costs in the defence bill have been pretty well contemporaneous with the Vietnam commitment. [More…]
I congratulate my colleague the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), who made the valid argument that it does not necessarily follow that all industries should be discouraged from using the investment allowance. [More…]
If they are industries which are in the national interest, which are expanding in a worthwhile area and which are able to increase employment and create greater efficiency, why should they not be looked at when determining priorities? [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports mentioned the aircraft industry. [More…]
This was a very valid point, hecause the aircraft industry in Melbourne is using machines to produce high grade and intricate toolmaking equipment. [More…]
By the use of those machines tools and equipment are now being produced in 16 hours as against 160 hours previously. [More…]
The industry is deploring the fact that it is not given sufficient encouragement. [More…]
If it were given encouragement the industry could reduce costs and it would be able to employ more men than the 1,500 employed at present. [More…]
Surely these are factors that this Government, which is interested in private enterprise, might look at. [More…]
We were faced with the prospect of dismissing 1,000 men or of increasing the cost of electricity. [More…]
At that time the Government decided that to save its failing loan market it had better increase interest rates. [More…]
The honourable member for KingsfordSmith (Mr Lionel Bowen) said that in 1962 we had an unemployment total of 150,000. [More…]
But nevertheless we were endeavouring to make certain that men in this country who wanted work could get work and that is what this type of legislation did for the manufacturing industry. [More…]
So we gave this incentive on plant and also on complex equipment associated with the manufacturing industry. [More…]
The comments in the Budget papers gave me, and certainly gave manufacturing industry in this country, a feeling that this sort of legislation would be retained for many years to come. [More…]
Good work has already been done in Australian universities, and public interest in the problem has been stimulated by nongovernmental bodies such as the Australian Crime Prevention, Correction and AfterCare Council and the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology. [More…]
But the resources of government are needed if real progress is to be made. [More…]
Here the Commonwealth believes, and the States agree, that the Commonwealth has an Australia-wide co-ordinating role so that the problem can be tackled on a national basis and the available .resources of men and money can be applied to the task in the most effective way. [More…]
The Defence Act applied to cadets and it has continued to apply to cadets ever since, although it has applied to a dwindling body of young men. [More…]
Whether or not that was valid is a dry argument. [More…]
I am sure that this would be the view of every member ot the Parliament who has had the opportunity of any association or link with the Navy League. [More…]
The tremendous sense of enterprise and goodwill which this body of people has shown in Australia to young men is something that I should like to acknowledge in the most complete sense. [More…]
These people have gone out of their way to ensure that young boys who are interested in ships and in the Navy are given every encouragement. [More…]
The young men who will serve in the Naval Reserve Cadets from now on will be assured of 2 things. [More…]
They will be assured of the abiding interest of the Naval Board and of the country in their existence, and 1 believe they will also be tremendously sustained by the genuine and most warmhearted interest shown by those who have been associated with the Navy League. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
Another short term instrument which the Government is using- is the appeals - I make the point that they are appeals md not instructions - to overseas investors not to invest in commercial buildings. [More…]
The Government has suddenly realised that the criticism which has come from this side of the House for a long while- I . [More…]
The fact is that the full utilisation and possibly over utilisation of men and resources in the building industry has been brought about by the excessive boom in commercial building. [More…]
It has suddenly been found that a great deal of the capital from overseas is going into commercial buildings and this is causing, as the Government says, the over-utilisation of men and resources within the building industry. [More…]
But the Government will not take any action and will not use any of the powers which it has at present. [More…]
Finally, we have an appeal for a reduction in public investment. [More…]
Surely this is the very sector which experts - if one can call them that - the various authorities, members on this side of the House and people throughout the country have been pointing out for some time is most in need of more public investment, not less. [More…]
There is a great need for schools, for local government works and for hospital works. [More…]
Without warning men employed by the New South Wales Government rapped on his door, handed him a document, told him that his home had been resumed by the New South Wales Government and that from that moment he was no longer the owner but a tenant and that within 3 weeks he and his family must be out with all their possessions. [More…]
The second matter concerns the payment of unemployment benefits. [More…]
The men are members of the Amalgamated Meat Industry Employees Union and they are employed at abattoirs. [More…]
For one reason or another - either because of drought or because of rain following a drought when animals are not being made available for purchase by the buyers of meat works - these men are being stood down. [More…]
The men do not receive notice a week or two beforehand that they will not be required to work. [More…]
When these men found that employment was not available for them for the remainder of a week they registered for unemployment benefits. [More…]
He has informed me that the reason for the rejection of their applications was that it is an essential requirement for the grant of unemployment benefit that the applicant be unemployed and, further, that the applicant must be prepared to accept employment. [More…]
These men have been prepared to accept employment provided it is of a short-term nature. [More…]
Some of these men have worked for almost 20 years with the one firm and if they accepted another job it would mean the termination of their employment with the loss of entitlements that have accumulated during their service with the abattoirs. [More…]
1 agree with the Minister that there is a requirement that an applicant for unemployment benefits must be unemployed and that his unemployment must not be due to his being a direct participant in a strike. [More…]
He must have taken reasonable steps to get work and must have registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
If these men were not actually working they would be entitled to unemployment benefits. [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…]
These cases are not dissimilar to the position of waterside workers who, before the payment of appearance money, were required to report as available for work when a ship came into port or when other work was available for them. [More…]
Employees at abattoirs also are required to make themselves available and, because of the entitlements that they have accumulated during their years of service, they naturally want to make themselves available provided their term of unemployment is not lengthy. [More…]
The employer does not lose because the men are available and he has a hold over them. [More…]
The Department of Social Services does not lose because it refuses to recognise them as unemployed at present, and rightly so. [More…]
But the men and their families are certainly losing because of their refusal to take another job- which would mean termination of their present employment and loss of accumulated entitlements. [More…]
Is he aware that large numbers of people are being dismissed and laid off in Canberra as a result of the Government’s decision to limit and restrict public spending in Canberra? [More…]
Is he aware that in one industry alone building contractors have laid off more than 100 men and that many of these men are breadwinners and that their families are without income or support? [More…]
Is he also aware that many contractors are now without work and that this is causing financial hardship because they are unable to meet financial commitments on their equipment? [More…]
Is he aware that the retrenchments in the Public Service have caused many young people to be laid off and have their permanency examinations postponed indefinitely and their future careers prejudiced? [More…]
Certain men in the United States have suggested for years that the people of North Vietnam should be bombed back to the Stone Age. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister of Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned- [More…]
Looking at the problem from a national point of view, the Government is robbing some areas of South Australia of the possibility of getting water by squandering millions of dollars on a short term plan which it cannot get out of now. [More…]
It has led men into a situation where it now has to do something to protect them, their wives and families and their properties. [More…]
At the same time it is only because of the Government’s gross and utter neglect that this situation exists to-day. [More…]
I had been attacked by both these men. [More…]
Is that what these men born to rule were reduced to? [More…]
There was the issue of Cabinet responsibility; responsibility by the Cabinet to the Parliament and by every member of the Cabinet to every other member of the Cabinet, the Gorton Cabinet, the McMahon Cabinet. [More…]
But there was another thing, still more serious I think, in the statement by the honourable member for Wannon last week. [More…]
It reports to him and that organisation also can report to the Prime Minister or to the Minister for Foreign Affairs - the three men involved in this matter. [More…]
The only charitable conclusion we can draw is that the honourable member for Wannon knew it was futile to take this momentous issue to Cabinet, that he believed Cabinet was so supine, so irresponsible, that he could achieve nothing there, and that the Cabinet would not act to safeguard civilian authority. [More…]
Yet the same men now form the McMahon Cabinet. [More…]
I take it that he will now revive his opposition to the Australian Industry Development Corporation - the McEwen bank. [More…]
One would assume that he will further delay in this Parliament votes for men and women of 18. [More…]
Again it is suggested that the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Hughes) is in jeopardy, ls this also a reason for the visit to Queensland - for the matters upon which there has been dispute between the Gorton Government and the Bjelke-Petersen Government, concerned Aboriginals and off-shore mining? [More…]
To deliver an opinion is the right of all men; that of constituents is a weighty and respectable opinion, which a representative ought always to rejoice to hear, . [More…]
But authoritative instructions, mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience - these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution. [More…]
The major purpose in national development is that Australia should contribute to creating a sane world, and that Australia should contribute much more significantly to this by assisting other nations more than it has up to the present time. [More…]
Both the former Prime Minister and the former Minister for Defence were men who had a potential of compassion and a breadth of vision who could have played a part together in achieving this, but not if they were pulling apart. [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…]
To Sir Frank Packer the Government of the Commonwealth is another one of his personally owned projects, like the yachts ‘Gretel’ or Dame Pattie’ in the fight for the Americas Cup. [More…]
He laid down guidelines for foreign investment in Australia. [More…]
There are men in this House who have made $2m in an afternoon on the stock exchange ?nd who join in lecturing trade unionists on the need to have respect to productivity and to seek in wages only what they earn. [More…]
He asserts that major elements of the task force were out of the province they were assigned to defend and that the next year, as a consequence, many men were killed unnecessarily in the minefields. [More…]
He summed up his article with two devastating sentences which must necessarily have forced the former Prime Minister to object, unless an indictment of the Government is to be accepted as a truthful statement. [More…]
Time does not permit more than a mere mention of the schisms of right and left in the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Then, of course, during an election campaign it is London to a brick that somebody will make a most damaging statement. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition is a practised giver and receiver of the shock announcement during an election campaign. [More…]
The conduct of industrial relations by a Labor government would be quite impossible. [More…]
If it attempted responsibility it would tear off massive pieces of the flesh of its support - the trade union movement. [More…]
It gives support, more especially when strikes are politically based, for which there can be no settlement. [More…]
When did the Opposition argue positively for the training of men and women to realise their skill potential so that they can find work satisfaction and contribute more to the community, or for management skill which is an integral part of an efficiency drive? [More…]
At the very time that our men are dying in battle against Red Chinese troops, so we are saying, the honourable member says that he is prepared to sell on such markets. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee consistently attacks the Labor Party in this Parliament, but it was the Labor Party which stabilised the wheat industry and other rural industries in days gone by. [More…]
Our farmers were broke until the Curtin and Chifley Governments came into office. [More…]
Now he is like a worn out old tomcat in government and is not prepared to attack. [More…]
African Government. [More…]
endeavouring to impress upon the South African Government and many of the South African people that this is not a wise policy. [More…]
Certainly the actions of men like Bishop Crowther will not help to solve the problem. [More…]
I suggest that he should look at men like Sobers and Conrad Hunte, two men who are respected in the community, in world affairs and in the national scene, and who advocate a solution to this problem which is completely and absolutely opposed to what is proposed by this so-called bishop. [More…]
Sometimes it may be serving an immediate purpose to the people on strike, but it does immense social and industrial damage and therefore it is not a weapon that should be acceptable to the public in general. [More…]
If there is a commercial dispute - as apparently there is - it ought to be resolved in a commercial manner, not by depriving this community of the production of the men on strike and not by depriving the families of the men on strike of their income which is so necessary to maintain their standard of living. [More…]
The wool industry at the moment is living in hope - hope for an improved trading position in textiles throughout the world and therefore for better prices; hope for reductions in costs as a result of the quickest possible introduction of new handling and selling techniques through objective measurement. [More…]
He said not a word about the tremendous effort made by all sections of the wool trade to modernise the wool selling system by objective measurement. [More…]
Many dedicated and very experienced men are giving generously of their time and talents to help to solve these tremendous problems. [More…]
The Government has seen to it that adequate finance is available for their work and in my opinion their efforts provide the most promising line of investigation for the future of the industry. [More…]
growers appreciate the actions of the Commission and the Government on their behalf. [More…]
Is it any wonder that each of the men I have spoken about - as honourable members will note from the date this is the first time I have cited their cases - arrived independently at the conclusion that there was no future for him in the police force? [More…]
Surveys conducted by the Victoria Police Association reveal that the 130 policemen of all ranks who resigned in 1970 now earn on an average $800 a year more than their police pay. [More…]
At this rate of expansion it will take 46i years to acquire the extra 2,000 officers recommended by the St Johnston report. [More…]
For all its shortcomings this Bill marks a breakthrough in Commonwealth commitment to the control of crime. [More…]
Australians do not need enactment of new Federal political laws but enforcement of existing State criminal laws. [More…]
The States do not need Federal laws to supplement their own: they need Federal assistance to enable their own police forces to carry out their own laws. [More…]
Like the Army the police force is an essential occupation and like the Army it will be unable to attract and retain men in sufficient quality and numbers unless it is treated by governments as an essential occupation. [More…]
Like the Army, it will be unable to attract and retain men in sufficient quality and numbers unless it is treated by governments as an essential occupation with wages, conditions and opportunities provided accordingly. [More…]
It cost the Victorian Government $500,000 to train the J 30 police who resigned last year ahead of time. [More…]
The Commonwealth can help the States provide proper career opportunities for the men and women in their law enforcement services; it can help the States provide the highly extensive, and expensive, communications and computer techniques and equipment needed by modern law enforcement services as the Federal Administration already does in the United States. [More…]
The establishment I have in mind houses about 1,400 people, not all necessarily under the conditions I have described. [More…]
The situation is not an indictment of the prison warders. [More…]
Why is not more money allocated by the Government for research? [More…]
Young men are committed here for what might be termed minor offences but they are thrown in with hardened criminals.’ [More…]
In the Parliament with which I was formerly associated we of the Opposition set up a committee to take evidence. [More…]
Every official in the Prisons Department was told that he would be ill advised to talk to us. [More…]
They are convinced that they have reached the bottom of the barrel after treatment in an animal-like society. [More…]
They have to fight to survive and to prevent themselves from being destroyed as men. [More…]
It is a complete farce and cannot be considered as effective treatment. [More…]
It could well be due to a bad home environment. [More…]
Perhaps better child endowment should be given in that particular case because if the youngster has talent he should be encouraged. [More…]
Any prison officer will tell us that he will get much more out of the men if he is allowed to talk to them. [More…]
Policemen in our society have to be seen as more than mere law enforcers, lt is true that they have to perform this task, but they also have to be top administrators. [More…]
A policeman who is in charge of a district probably has 200, 300 or 400 men under him. [More…]
He has to handle the delicate field of civil liberties, which calls for an open mind and a flexible sense of judgment and, most of all, a great deal of restraint. [More…]
The policemen of today are asked to do all sorts of difficult things for most of which they are not trained, such as working as a literary, artistic and cultural censor in our community. [More…]
We do not train our law enforcement officers to do these things. [More…]
What we really need is to have a great deal more money poured into an educational programme so that these men will be able more successfully to do their jobs. [More…]
The sorts of things which ought to be covered in these courses are police science, police administration, correctional administration, law, criminalistics, penology, criminology, urban affairs, public administration, political science, behavioural science, economics, business management and computer or systems science. [More…]
For instance, public opinion polls indicate that only 64 per cent of Australians compared with 82.7 per cent of the people in Great Britain respect their policemen. [More…]
On looking at the 1968 annual report of the New South Wales Police Force I discovered that 23 men had been commended for bravery. [More…]
Some of the finest men I know in various walks of life are those who have had little if any formal education. [More…]
I refer to men who knock about shearing sheds and mustering camps and who have had no opportunity to go through a silver tail existence. [More…]
To my mind, these are some of the finest men and I recall them with the utmost affection. [More…]
One of the most moving experiences 1 have ever had was to visit the graveyard of the old penal settlement at Norfolk Island. [More…]
It is a chilling experience, on that beautiful landscape, to look at the headstones of those wretched men, the so-called incorrigible criminals, men who had been brutalised by savage repression, deprivation and physical hardship. [More…]
Doubtless the captors and tormentors, such as the succession of prison governors, regarded themselves as good Christians. [More…]
I wholeheartedly support the Attorney-General in his statement that this cost must be reviewed not only from the aspect of loss of Government expenditure but also from the aspect of the tragic waste and loss of human resources. [More…]
Dedicated men in this field have been and still are making great personal sacrifices to preserve the safety and security of the individual in society. [More…]
There is not one police force in this country that is not in need of more men, there is not one police force that is not in need of better accommodation, and not one police force is not in need of more specialised equipment. [More…]
I am the first to admit (hat wages alone are not the only problem in relation to recruitment or the retention of personnel. [More…]
What is needed above all is that the Commonwealth Government must now grant greater financial assistance to the States to enable such police forces to have sufficient funds to overcome these problems. [More…]
The men and women employed in these controlling departments are fully conscious of the need for better facilities and equipment and for modern buildings. [More…]
My next point is that the Opposition should be asking itself a third question - whether it is right that, when men are called out on strike, no regard should be paid to the welfare of their families, who have to do without the take-home pay and consequently must live in a state of distress while the strike continues. [More…]
These are all questions that the Australian Labor Party has not faced up to and has not answered, but this Government is looking carefully at each one of them. [More…]
I hope that when the discussions with him have been completed a more sensible attitude will be taken by the trade union movement. [More…]
These men had a grasp of the problems of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Businessmen and tank sinkers are wondering what they are going to do with the men who have stood four square with them year after year. [More…]
The local authorities are wondering how they are going to maintain employment in these areas. [More…]
These Ministers are threatened men. [More…]
They may well joint the long list of ex-Ministers “in this Parliament who almost outnumber -the people who are on the front bench. [More…]
In fact I was told last night by a Government supporter that only 6 people are certain to be in the Ministry when it is announced, and they are the 5 Country Party Ministers and the Prime Minister. [More…]
Consequently, government has gone by the Board. [More…]
Let us have a look at the threatened men in the Government. [More…]
I am told that the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) may be departing from the Ministry shortly, as may be the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme), the Minister for Works and Minister in Charge of Tourist Activities (Senator Wright), the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock), the Minister for the Navy (Mr Killen), the Minister for Social Services, the Treasurer (Mr Bury), the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) and the Attorney-General (Mr Hughes). [More…]
That brings me back to the point I mentioned before, namely, that no member of the Liberal Party, except the Prime Minister, is certain to remain in the Ministry. [More…]
It is interesting to look at some of the prospects for replacements. [More…]
For instance, there is the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns), who said that he would not serve under the previous Prime Minister ‘even in the lowly position of Deputy Government Whip’. [More…]
Consequently, this week government has gone by the board. [More…]
Is it not dreadful that with men dying in Vietnam, pensioners in this country practically starving and the economy gone to ruin, so we are told, Ministers are not interested in any of those matters; they are only interested in whether they will survive? [More…]
Of course, everybody in the Government ought to be worried at this time. [More…]
Imagine what would have been said on the other side of the Parliament if that had happened on this side. [More…]
To get back to my original theme, nobody knows what the Ministry of this country is and nobody knows what is going on in the mind of the Prime Minister regarding who will govern the country; but everybody understands that under the present set-up of the Liberal Party there is destruction and ruin for the present Prime Minister because he cannot trust the men about him. [More…]
The Government almost needs a special back bench for ex-Ministers. [More…]
This is the situation among the members of the Government and that is why I rose today to expose it. [More…]
I think we have a high society government now and a low political one. [More…]
All the women’s magazines tell us what has happened in the Liberal Party. [More…]
Subsequently the company announced that it was not prepared to reinstate the men as inspectors as in future the work was to be carried out by people on a different classification. [More…]
The company said that the men could apply for work in a month’s time when they could be re-employed but, if so, it would be in a different classification. [More…]
Eleven men are then dismissed and by a curious coincidence the company announced that the inspectors’ work is to be discontinued anyway. [More…]
Now that these men are out of work and the company is applying its stand over tactics an extremely serious situation has arisen. [More…]
This situation came about after the company made public statements last week that the vehicles were being adequately inspected. [More…]
The matter has now been set down for arbitration but there appears to be no sense of urgency - on the part of the Government. [More…]
The Minister should know that a resolution was passed condemning the Federal Government for the lack of sufficient people on the Commonwealth Arbitration Commission to deal with urgent cases such as these as quickly as it should. [More…]
I would have thought that the principal role of the Minister of Labour and National Service and the Government would be to safeguard the security of every wage and salary earner. [More…]
The matter of the safety of motor vehicles corning off the assembly line should be enough to shake the Government from its torpor. [More…]
But if that is not enough, men are out of work and job security is under threat. [More…]
I am one of those members in this House - I have no doubt that the opinions I express are shared by most honourable members - who believe that the Army Cadet Corps and the Air Force Cadet Corps in Australia have provided a useful, indeed an important, nucleus of young men for the permanent Army, the Air Force or the Navy. [More…]
If correct, it would not indicate to me an excessive allocation of resources to wealthier schools at the expense of open units which all young men with an interest in maritime life can join. [More…]
The first is to give young men who are interested in the sea, and the Navy, in particular, some knowledge of the subject. [More…]
If service at” sea is not truly repre sented - and the sea is a harsh task mistress - we may achieve many dissatisfied recruits and this in the long run will be harmful to both the individuals and the Service departments. [More…]
At the moment I understand that 15 per cent to 20 per cent of sea cadets apply to join the regular Navy and about half that number are accepted. [More…]
Although the Navy League is not mentioned in the amendment we are considering, the future of the Navy League must be of great importance to this House. [More…]
At present there are 39 sea cadet units with 300 officers and instructors and 2,000 cadets, In a country such as Australia we should have many more units to cater for young men who could be interested in this Service. [More…]
The establishment of new units is not easy. [More…]
It requires the dedicated efforts of a committee ,of volunteers, the attraction of suitable instructors and the enlistment of local youths. [More…]
Ensure that the curricula of their schools and of other educational institutions include teaching of the scientific facts about race, that invidious distinctions about peoples are not made in textbooks and in classrooms, and that all material susceptible of leading to racial discrimination and prejudice be eliminated from textbooks; ensure teaching the instructors the value of principles of equality ‘ and dignity of all men; [More…]
The sailors’ clubs at HMAS ‘Flinders’ also provide for these young men. [More…]
Strike action by approximately 140 members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association employed at the Morwell, open cut did take place on 23rd March and: continued until 12 noon on 26th March. [More…]
I understand that the men concerned were dissatisfied with a recent decision by Conciliation Commissioner Brack to increase.. their site allowance by $1.25. [More…]
Clearly the facts of the situation are these: As a consequence of this irresponsible action by a .very small number of men in one of this country’s major industrial plants some 200,000 workers were thrown out, of work with a loss in wages of approximately $4m and a loss in production exceeding $12m. [More…]
In addition the men concerned dishonoured an agreement made on their behalf and for a period of 3 days were apparently prepared to go their own way regardless of the consequences. [More…]
It was not productive as far as the men were concerned. [More…]
I might say that Commisioner Brack has agreed to re-open the hearing on the site allowance, on an application by the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association, and that hearing will take place shortly. [More…]
The Research Committee will comprise 4 representatives of the Australian Dried Fruits Association, 2 representatives of packers of dried fruits, 3 representatives of the Australian Agricultural Council, one Representative of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and one representative of the Department- of Primary Industry. [More…]
This will be, a, well balanced Committee with men pf practical experience of the problems relating to specific areas and industries. [More…]
The men on this Committee will be experienced in the production and marketing of dried fruits, both domestically and overseas. [More…]
The Committee will also have the assistance of fundamental and applied scientists. [More…]
One function of the Committee will be ,to receive applications from various institutions such as universities in Australia and from people concerned with production or with scientific research into dried fruits, including fundamental, applied or technical research. [More…]
Selected combat and supporting forces of the Army task force,- including the tank squadron, totalling about 650 men; . [More…]
2 Canberra : Bomber Squadron involving 280 men; . [More…]
Some aircraft of the; Caribou transport squadron and about 44 men [More…]
The reductions are therefore to be spread over the 3 Services ,’and will have the effect of reducing the tol al Australian personnel by about 1 ,000’ ‘men: The Australian forces then remaining in South Vietnam will comprise 6,000 men compared with a peak of 8,000 ‘in 1968-70. [More…]
The units and personnel, involved in these reductions will be withdrawn gradually over a period of 4 months to 6 months, commencing in May. [More…]
This timetable will permit detailed adjustments to be made between the Australian, South Vietnamese, and United States military, authorities in relation to the security requirements of the areas involved. [More…]
Events in South Vietnam,., to which our own fighting men made such a notable contribution, have made these withdrawals possible and they are entirely in accordance with the policy of the Government as announced in Parliament. [More…]
No doubt the Government and forces of the Republic may from time to time suffer military setbacks, and the continuance of the war against aggression will be a heavy burden upon them. [More…]
But perhaps more than ever before, the Government of the Republic acknowledges that getting on top of the internal threat to security and the development of progressive government in the provinces are tasks best performed by themselves once a sufficient degree of security from massive external attack has been established. [More…]
The Australian Government will continue to assist the Republic of Vietnam, though the character of our assistance will progressively change. [More…]
Other forms of civil aid and civic action will be examined by the Government. [More…]
As to the future of our forces in Vietnam, the Government will keep the matter under constant review, bearing in mind the security of our own forces and our obligations to the Government of the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
by leave - The new Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), is the last of Australia’s leading guilty men of Vietnam. [More…]
With the Postmaster-General (Sir Alan Hulme), he alone survives of the Menzies Government which committed Australia to this disastrous, divisive war. [More…]
He and Sir Keith Holyoake are the only heads of government who have participated at every stage in the escalation of the war. [More…]
The small engine is the tendency of certain business men to increase their profit margin - that is, to increase their prices faster than their costs. [More…]
The big engine is the tendency of workers to demand over-award payments, beyond the increase in net productivity. [More…]
The reason why the extra profit margin must be considered the ‘small’ engine, and over-award payments the ‘big’ engine is purely one of figures; as a component of total prices it is much the more substantial. [More…]
The diverging distance between the 2 lines on this graph largely represents over-award payments. [More…]
Would it be too much to suggest that the rises in real wages awarded by the Arbitration Court are more responsibly based than the system of ad hoc over-award payments? [More…]
I believe therefore that it is in the interest of the young men themselves that their training should extend to the senior ship of our squadron. [More…]
If this were not so - in other words, if we were to exercise racial discrimination and say that young men who are training for a Naval career should not have available to them experience in our senior ship - we would lay ourselves open to an entirely different line of criticism. [More…]
I must say that I do not see why any real objection should be taken to the training that was afforded to these young men in this case. [More…]
It would need to be a scheme which would not breach the International Labour Organisation’; Conventions on forced labour which, as the House would appreciate, have been ratified by the Australian Government. [More…]
Finally and one of the most significant criteria which I believe ought to be referred to in this House, it certainly must not erode the primary function of national service which is, of course, to provide the Army with the number of personnel it requires to carry out the defence obligations imposed upon the armed services by this Government and to provide the Citizen Military Forces with sufficient reserves of trained men who will be available for use in a defence emergency. [More…]
What I am saying to the House is that the mind of the Government is not closed but it ought to be borne in mind that this is a most complex issue. [More…]
I will, of course, look at any recent representations that have been made, but I will do so in the context of the very considerable difficulties that this Government has faced in endeavouring to apply itself to the question of a civilian option. [More…]
1 cannot credit that initiatives adequate to meet the problem of pollution will be forthcoming from a body dominated by men such as the Premiers of Victoria and Queensland. [More…]
I want to deal with some philosophical aspects of our environment. [More…]
The real problem is whether sufficient numbers of men will realise that they are needed on a spaceship in time to save it. [More…]
As in an Apollo space craft, we are locked in a limited space with limited resources of energy, air, water and nutriments. [More…]
The space craft has a limited capacity to renew these resources of energy, air, water and nutriments. [More…]
At the moment the situation is equivalent to 11 astronauts crammed into an Apollo capsule designed to hold 3 people, and that is the predicament of spaceship earth. [More…]
It is accepted by reasonable men that the task of fighting pollution and preserving the environment cannot be met by our State governments, which are in chaos in every department. [More…]
Our national Parliament and Government have to lead us - not hide or pass the buck - out of this chaos. [More…]
family men, are dying younger. [More…]
Quite regularly we hear of men who have passed away in their thirties from such things as coronary occlusions. [More…]
In a case such as this I cannot do other than to make a special appeal for this Parliament to look very carefully at the civilian widow’s pensions. [More…]
Can we have confidence in a Minister for Social Services who has no appreciation of the improvement in world wide conditions in the last 20 years and who uses as a comparison the immediate postWorld War period. [More…]
This post-war period which he uses as a base comparison was a time when this country had to sacrifice and work to make up for the ravages of war on our economy and the wastage of men and resources that occurs during such wars - men and resources that could have taken this nation to great heights in the 1940s if there had been no war. [More…]
Before I refer to the Jetair company I want to talk about 3 men - A. Barton, J. Bovill and R. A. Rydge. [More…]
These 3 men - I ask the House to note their names, Barton, Bovill and Rydge - are directors of a number of public companies, including Bounty Oil, Westmoreland Minerals and Harbourside Oil. [More…]
That for some time past the attention of the said Club has been directed to the needs of benevolent institutions for additional accommodation and equipment to cater for the numbers of destitute or near-destitute men. [More…]
women and children of all age groups. [More…]
Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that the House of Representatives will initiate or concur in appropriate legislation for the purpose of (1) making grants suitable to the financial needs of benevolent institutions for additional accommodation and equipment of a capital nature and the estimated costs of same, in particular for destitute or near-destitute men, women and children of all age groups, and for those in a nonpensionable age category and (2) enabling financial grants of a supplementary nature to be made for maintenance costs of an urgent nature in such institutions. [More…]
I want to summarise broadly the arguments I have advanced. [More…]
The loading of electorates due to the 20 per cent variation under the Electoral Act demands redress because Parliament represents people, not acres, trees and animals. [More…]
Population is the basis on which boundaries should be decided because men, women and children of all ages and all nations present as many problems as those eligible to vote. [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…]
The wage level of these men was reduced, and that was all right with the Government. [More…]
We have the cheapest steel and we have some excellent men working in our shipyards. [More…]
The Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay) will find, as he grows older in his new post, how much better we could build our ships and repair our ships if we did not have to put up with ridiculous arguments in the shipyards which do nothing but reduce productivity, lt is argued there that one group cannot do this and another group cannot do that. [More…]
There is a unique opportunity open to Australia if we could get together and work with a will, if management and men could recognise that the only way in which to get a bigger cake and for the worker to get a bigger share of it is not to sit around arguing with each other and continuing the tragedy pf the class war. [More…]
There are people who say that our side of politics wants to see a pool of unemployment so that people will he forced to work. [More…]
You do not have to have a pool of unemployment in order to make people work well. [More…]
If all our people had that general feeling, and adopted it as a general concept, we would not need to worry so much about men getting a fair share. [More…]
I would like to comment briefly on a couple of points made by the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly). [More…]
He reduced the problem to its simplest terms by making a plea to the Australian work force not to strike and not to engage in silly arguments, as he calls them. [More…]
I would not challenge in any way his argument about the need for an increase in national productivity and a greater share of the increased cake going to labour. [More…]
The corollary is that: men should work without striking and rely on the good offices of their employer to reward them for their work. [More…]
This Bill seeks to increase pensions by 50c a week as from 1st April 1971. lt should not be necessary to make such an obvious statement as that, but it is made necessary by the extraordinary performance of the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) prior to the suspension of the sitting and in view of the remarks of every other Government supporter who has participated in the debate so far. [More…]
Apparently their remarks were aimed at converting the debate into a discussion of what the age pension should have been under the Chifley Government in 1949. lt seems to be believed by the Government supporters that if they can show that the Chifley pension was no good then theirs must be all right. [More…]
This is such a grotesquely illogical proposition that I wonder how grown men could put it forward, but it has been put forward during this debate. [More…]
At the moment people retire at certain arbitrary ages - men at 65 years and women at 60 years. [More…]
I think it is wrong to have this arbitrary age for retirement. [More…]
1 am sure that unless I do something about it in the Parliament tonight 1 shall be waiting another 18 months. [More…]
The subject I am concerned with is the long service, leave conditions of men who are employed by civilian contractors undertaking work for the Army at Mob Siding at Seymour. [More…]
About 8 or 9 men are being denied their right to long service leave because of the procrastination of the Government. [More…]
The problem is that they are civilian tradesmen and workers who are engaged in repair work on certain types of military vehicles at Seymour. [More…]
The de facto situation is that these men are really employees of the Australian Army, but the de jure situation is that they are employed by a civilian contractor to whom the Army lets its contracts. [More…]
The employees feel very strongly about the fact that they have given years of service to the Army and the fact that they have nominally been employed by a succession of civilian contractors, which disqualifies them from entitlement to long service leave. [More…]
Under normal circumstances they would be entitled to long service leave, but because the contracts which are let out to civilian contractors do not extend for this period of time these men cannot take their long service leave because there is nobody to pay them. [More…]
Some 40 to 50 men are involved here and there would be a similar situation in other parts of Australia. [More…]
At least 8 or 9 of the men whom I represent are now due for long service leave but they cannot take it because, although there is nothing to disqualify them formally and legally, nobody yet has accepted responsibility for paying them for their long service leave. [More…]
I regard this as an example of bad government and maladministration by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The representations have been dragging on for about 3 years and still the people whom I represent have received no justice, lt is about time the Government got down to looking at this case and started negotiating to give satisfaction to the people employed at Seymour. [More…]
This decision was given early in December 1970, which means that an additional 4 weeks have to be added to the 16 weeks that I mentioned. [More…]
The decision was not sprung on the Department of Air at the last moment. [More…]
The Department has known about it for as long as everyone else in private industry has known about it. [More…]
1 would also like to draw attention to the difference in wages received by men in the Services and men who are employed by private airlines. [More…]
The men in the Services perform almost identical work and work which is of a more skilled nature than men employed by the private airlines. [More…]
I refer to leading aircraftsmen with the classification of air frame fitter, engine fitter and electrical finer who are on a base rate of 60.41 per week. [More…]
However, both married and single men receive a uniform allowance of $1.96 a week. [More…]
After 5 years service he receives an increment of $1.50 a week. [More…]
This increment is paid for every 5 years of service. [More…]
Therefore, after 20 years service he will receive total increments of $6 a week. [More…]
I am comparing 2 classifications of men who are doing identical work. [More…]
The men who work in private industry are licensed. [More…]
They receive licenses which are issued by the Department of Civil Aviation which allow them to perform this basic work. [More…]
This means that the work that is performed by both the men in the Services and men in private industry is of an identical standard. [More…]
In fact, today we find that most of the men working in private industry who are members of the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers Association are former service mechanics, air frame fitters, engine fitters and electrical fitters. [More…]
Private industry is drawing its recruits from the Services because of the discontent that has arisen from the bad pay that servicemen receive. [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 question of overtime is serious because the fact that men are taking time off in lieu or are losing it altogether does not show up the shortage in personnel and the amount of time which is being worked outside normal hours. [More…]
Therefore, the work which is being carried on in the RAAF should be done at reasonable times in the hours in which men are required to work. [More…]
Is Mr Laurie Carmichael, Assistant Federal Secretary of the Amalgamated Engineering Union, said to be the inspiration behind this movement which is organised on the basis of shop committees? [More…]
Is strike action by the shop committees in conflict with the policy of the individual trade unions and the trade union movement within Australia? [More…]
What action has the Australian Council of Trade Unions taken to curb this strike programme which could throw many thousands of men out of work? [More…]
Services and other establishments. [More…]
The Oxford History of England - one could almost say that this qualifies in some way the Minister’s speech - states that apparently Parliament had accepted literally Cromwell’s statement that the Army would disband immediately upon the order of the 2 Houses. [More…]
Apparently the Minister for Defence this morning expects us to believe that by his simple assertion of the fact that parliamentary control is effectively exercised through the present Ministry we should believe this is so. [More…]
The Minister spoke about a system which involves $ 1,200m a year and which intimately controls the lives of 130,000 Australian servicemen, mostly young men. [More…]
The same also goes for the collapse of Army morality in Vietnam at the moment. [More…]
When we hand over the young men of Australia we hand over our most precious trusteeship. [More…]
Three young men have been charged with murder. [More…]
The fact is that we have handed to him the most precious trusteeship in our community - young Australian men - and if he is the responsible person he cannot lay the blame for their actions or what happens to them on the Chief of the General Staff. [More…]
It think it “is quite laughable that the Australian Labor Party should produce a motion of this nature and make allegations of the character which have been made by the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) as to the performance of men in the Australian armed forces, their responsibility to ministerial responsibility - [More…]
If one looks at successive Labor policy statements one can see that what the Labor Party is trying to do is directly opposed to the tenet of maintaining the morale of the Australian armed forces. [More…]
It is utterly laughable to see the Party, which so frequently in public and in private puts forward this sort of tenet, coming into the House today and suggesting that the actions of this Government in trying to ensure that there is a realistic defence ‘effort and in trying to ensure that the security pf Australia and Australians is preserved is in any way being lessened by the actions of individual members of the Cabinet. [More…]
I think we have been most fortunate in the calibre of the men we have bad to serve us as Ministers for Defence and as Ministers for the individual armed services. [More…]
The Government must have the morale and strength of the nation behind it and it does not have them. [More…]
Have members of the Government ever spoken to the men on the ships to find out what they think of the defence policy of this Government? [More…]
The men on the ships say that they are. [More…]
The Government will be saturated: with their complaints because it has done nothing for them. [More…]
They say: ‘We have to sack men. [More…]
What about the morale of those people who now say: ‘Look, we have 1,500 men employed and we may have to sack 1,000 because no more defence orders are being, received.’ [More…]
We say it is because the Government is so divided. [More…]
Talk to the backbone of the defence of this country, the men in the Services. [More…]
Do they respect the Government? [More…]
Because the Government has not given them leadership, it has not given them incentive and it has not given them their due for what they think they have contributed to this country. [More…]
The Government’s real ‘ intelligence in the Department of Supply could do much for defence but if is discouraged. [More…]
The Government cannot claim that it has a defence policy simply because it allocates one-seventh of the Budget to defence. [More…]
It would be more important to give it to the troops, much more important to build up their morale, very important to give it to the intelligence in the Department of Supply to design equipment such as the Ikara missile. [More…]
The men concerned say they were there because of the Senate election. [More…]
The Government will not have any real defence unless there is loyalty and team work among its own members. [More…]
I do not think that can happen within the Government but it can happen within the Parliament. [More…]
Perhaps it should be left to a joint parliamentary committee to assess the difficulties and perhaps to advise certain Ministers of the things we know about. [More…]
The Government will fail unless it listens to what the men in the Services say. [More…]
The Government has no authority nor is it entitled to expect it in the future. [More…]
This, of course brings us to the second role I mentioned earlier, namely that of implementation. [More…]
However, once the decision has been taken it is implemented with the same dedication as is applied to the implementation of any other decision. [More…]
One which occurred before I took the Army portfolio - it has been commented upon in this House - is that of the location of the task force base at Townsville. [More…]
In spite of the loction being different from that originally recommended by the Army, honourable members who have visited Townsville will know how effectively the Army has implemented the Government’s decision to locate the task force base in this area. [More…]
It has been suggested that the Army paid little or no heed to directives, went its own wilful way, determining policy for itself with no cognisance of Government wishes. [More…]
1 have traversed briefly some of the current issues, but before concluding 1 want to make it absolutely clear that the Government has the utmost confidence in the loyalty and the devotion of the armed Services. [More…]
At the levels of policy formulation which we have discussed here, able, experienced and dedicated men are involved who, whether they be military or civil, press their views with the utmost vigour without, however, affecting their mutual respect. [More…]
It would be a sorry day if this were not so and if a Minister was surrounded by a clique of sycophantic yesmen. [More…]
It is known by the overwhelming majority of those in this Parliament that this situation does not exist today. [More…]
A further request made by the national executive of the Returned Services League - not a difficult, request to fulfil in view of the declining numbers involved - was that all returned servicemen from the First World War should be given free medical and hospital treatment. [More…]
The number of ex-servicemen in this category is declining. [More…]
What does the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) think about the request from the national executive of the RSL for free medical and hospital services for these men? [More…]
The basis of an amendment moved on a number of occasions by honourable members on this side of the chamber has been that returned servicemen from the First World War and the Boer War should have free medical and hospital services. [More…]
The request is that disabilities suffered by these men should be treated in all circumstances, whether they are war caused or not. [More…]
Be that as it may, and despite the knocking that the Repatriation Act gets from various people, be it known unto all men that it is the greatest Repatriation Act in the world. [More…]
The appointment of a royal commission or a select committee automatically means that strong political influences are introduced. [More…]
I consider that the Government should review these pensions. [More…]
Nothing is too good for our returned servicemen or the widows of men who died fighting for their country. [More…]
I recommend that an independent inquiry be held into this matter. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) stated that a fundamental review of pensions was in progress. [More…]
My final comment is that the Government can look at its overall performance in the field of repatriation with a certain amount of pride, but it must not be so unrealistic as to believe that it has by any means achieved perfection. [More…]
For that reason, the Repatriation Commission is examining the repatriation system, lt is important that the Government and the taxpayers should continue to appreciate that the ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen who served the country so well in time of danger and threat to our existence are entitled to retain a special place in the community. [More…]
Because of the 26-year period since the last major involvement of Australia in war - that is, in a numerical sense - and because of our relative security at the moment there- is a, perhaps understandable, tendency for people to attach less importance than they have previously to the debt we undoubtedly owe to the members of our fighting forces - men and women, past and present. [More…]
Since November 1964, when the National Service Act was introduced, more than 43,000 young men . [More…]
Although a large number of young men have failed to register only a small handful have been gaoled. [More…]
The Government has prosecuted only a few. [More…]
The Government has been particularly careful not to broaden the application of punitive action which would create dissension among a large section of people. [More…]
Had the Government enforced the law by prosecuting more than 40,000 men there would have been a greater outcry. [More…]
1 wish to speak on behalf of one of the few men who have been prosecuted. [More…]
The callousness of this Government disturbs me. [More…]
Not one member of the Government or supporter of the Government in this House has shown any concern about the conscription of young men to the bottomless pit of [More…]
They were showing contempt for the National Service Act and for Australia’s involvement in Vietnam. [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…]
to such an immoral war as the war in Vietnam, which this Government is forcing . [More…]
young men to do?’ [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…]
The Government knows the horrible record that both it and the United States have in Vietnam. [More…]
They know that public opinion in this country and in the United States is against involvement in the Vietnam war. [More…]
The Australian Government knows that the United States will withdraw from Vietnam and that we have to get our men out. [More…]
It is about time that this Government started to act sanely and to treat our young men with some civility and decency and not gaol them for 2 years, particularly when they are young men of the calibre of Mr Mullins. [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…]
I think the honourable member would agree that at the present moment any aircraft in service of which I have ever heard is vulnerable to ground fire, anti-aircraft fire, SAM missiles or fire from the ground of one kind or another. [More…]
The concept of the Fill as in the configuration in which it has been ordered by Australia renders it less vulnerable to such fire than almost any other aircraft known because of its capacity to fly at very low levels at high speeds and follow the terrain by the electronic instruments inside it. [More…]
However, in the matter of ail these weapons of war constant experiment is going on and constant attempts to improve the operations of whatever weapon it may be. [More…]
1 can say only that attempts at improvements are constantly being undertaken and that at the moment 1 believe that most military men will agree that the FI 1 1 is less vulnerable than other aircraft to anti-aircraft fire because of the reasons I have given. [More…]
I could well have read out the headlines from newspapers at least twice a year for the last 10 years or even 20 years of this Liberal-Country Party Government to illustrate the same sort of sorry story of a lack of planning, consultation and machinery. [More…]
We refer to a lack of machinery for Government consultation and public information on Commonwealth, State and regional finances and functions. [More…]
I assert that this is not nearly as effective as some formality in these arrangements. [More…]
Busy men otherwise neglect the necessary communication. [More…]
Is there anyone who will suggest that the head of the Commonwealth-States section of the Treasury and the State undertreasurers are not busy men? [More…]
I would now like to come to the subject of productivity and refute some of the arguments that have been put by honourable members opposite. [More…]
There is twice as much coal being produced in this country today as previously when more than twice the number of men worked in the industry. [More…]
What does this Government do? [More…]
The difference between Government thinking and Opposition thinking is that the Opposition thinks that mcn should benefit from the machines, and not big business interests. [More…]
Men should profit from the machines. [More…]
The honourable gentleman referred to the Government’s appointees to the Commission. [More…]
If that is the case the honourable member, in my view, stands condemned for insulting the integrity of the men who sit on the Commission. [More…]
As to those sections of the honourable member’s question relating to submissions made by this Government in relation to matters before the Commission, let me simply say this: The Government has in past years made representations before the Commission which it believed it appropriately ought to make in relation to the general operation of the economy and matters which it considers to be in the public interest. [More…]
The honourable gentleman can be assured that this Government will continue to place before the Commission whatever submissions it considers to be appropriate. [More…]
It will be a matter for the Commission to make its own judgment concerning those matters which this Government places before it just as it is a matter for the Commission to make its own judgment on matters which other bodies place before it. [More…]
Other men are quoted in this same newspaper as saying that they are quite hopeful that once you establish favourable customer supply relations you are then in a position to expect to do future business. [More…]
The law of Australia, as it stands, is adequate to deal with those matters, lt is enforcement that is at fault. [More…]
Why is it that governments have not prevented these attacks? [More…]
Why is it that they have not brought men to book for such attacks? [More…]
The law of the land is sufficient to bring the men to book. [More…]
It had as members not only 2 QCs but 2 men from the outer Bar and a solicitor. [More…]
The only possible demonstration in these 2 circumstances are on matters where the Federal Government’s policy has stirred people up. [More…]
One cannot expect men and women of 18, 19 and 20 years of age to respect laws which they abominate. [More…]
The States do not need Federal laws to supplement their own, they need Federal assistance to enable their own police forces to enforce their own laws. [More…]
Like the Army, it will be unable to attract and retain men of sufficient quality and in sufficient numbers unless it is treated by governments as an essential occupation with wages, conditions and opportunities provided accordingly. [More…]
The Commonwealth can help the States provide proper career opportunities for the men and women in their law enforcement services. [More…]
It can help the States provide the highly expensive communications and computer techniques and equipment needed by modern law enforcement services, as the United States does and as Canada does. [More…]
While modern communications might have shrunk the world into a global village, mass complex public and private organisations have necessarily tended to remove from men much of their own government. [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…]
For instance, the mass media, by playing up the big and the dramatic and the distant, can force politics to be more and more a distant and threatening spectacle, but by bringing the people and local councillors as well as local members of Parliament together on talk-back and current affairs programmes to talk about the things which matter most to people they can communicate creatively-. [More…]
Government itself has to use general rules to cover cases, but the more the decisions can be made where the people are the better for government and the people. [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…]
Our governments have achieved a great deal in the field of education but there is a danger of education becoming a duty almost like the draft. [More…]
Surely when men are being interviewed for jobs the first question should be whether they could do the job well and not whether they have received a certain paper qualification from somewhere or other. [More…]
In everything we do in government today we need to balance the rational solution, which the knowledge of experts seems to dictate, against the dictates of the hearts and minds of individuals. [More…]
Power in Australia is held by those few hundred men of wealth who own or manage the great business corporations. [More…]
Members of Parliament, leaders of churches, professors of universities and heads of public services are little more than vassals of these men of power in industry, finance and the mass media. [More…]
They have formed or picked up their conviction-:, and, what is of more consequence, their prepossessions, in early manhood, which is the one period of life when men are easily impressed wilh new ideas. [More…]
It is an outmoded theory that one can, by suggesting the imposition of a monetary penalty or imprisonment, condition the minds of men. [More…]
This Government has never had enough courage to suggest there should be a referendum on this issue at which these young men would have a chance to exercise their rights, particularly if the voting age was reduced to 18. [More…]
But no, honourable members opposite are the old men of the situation. [More…]
These young men are entitled to demonstrate. [More…]
The Government is applying that kind of penalty now. [More…]
It should remember that the young men are the young men of the present and the legislators of the future. [More…]
The Government should not be passing laws simply because there is an assembly of people which gets itself into this predicament. [More…]
It is well to remember some of the recent discussions in the New South Wales State Parliament. [More…]
He was one of the young men agitating against people having a meeting in the Sydney University. [More…]
We should look at young men as young men and look at their rights. [More…]
The Government should not pretend that now for the first time it has discovered some defect in the law and that it will now be able to teach the lesson, wield the baton and prevent this happening again. [More…]
We on this side of the House look at the matter from the point of view of the trade union movement. [More…]
We have the penal clauses legislation about which there are arguments. [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…]
Perhaps he could explain how taking these young men to court is in fact an exercise of the power of the Commonwealth over the naval and military defence of Australia. [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…]
The honourable member for Boothby and his Party have degraded this country in the way in which they have taken on young men such as young Martin and all the others. [More…]
I say to honourable members opposite: What manner of men are you? [More…]
What kind of laws are these for this Parliament to pass? [More…]
I ask the House to consider carefully this question of penalties and the way the courts are to implement these penalties. [More…]
I have only one or two other comments to make. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) in a typically well reasoned speech - it was much better reasoned than many of the speeches of his colleagues - drew our attention to the fact that a great deal of legislation in England over the years has been conducted by men of ageing character - certainly by older men. [More…]
I am taking this action with the consent of these men in the nope of obtaining a beneficial reexamination of the allocating of assistance, and the men whose names I shall give deserve commendation for allowing their cases to be presented publicly in the interests of -wool growers as a whole. [More…]
I have had the opportunity also of consulting Messrs F. J. Dunstan and H. B. Bradley of Blaxland, Mawson and Rose, solicitors, of Cooma, who have gone to considerable trouble - in fact a great deal of trouble - to supply fully information sought from growers by the Department of Primary Industry, but who have nevertheless seen many of the applications still rejected. [More…]
This is in accordance with the original announcement by the Department that to qualify there had to be a decline of at least 8 per cent in the 1970 wool income as compared with that of 1969. [More…]
For example, the men working at the timber mill owned by the co-operative and those in the shop and other related businesses would be affected. [More…]
These men have been- involved- in. [More…]
The fact that some of these men are on reduced pay does not strike me as being purely coincidental. [More…]
As a result of the imprisonment of those women for 14 days for a trivial, insignificant offence, as far as I could discover - and nothing that the Minister has said today in any way contradicts that - I decided that from the point of view of civil rights and civil liberties this was going too far. [More…]
A citizen should have the right to band out a piece of paper in the office of the Department of Labour and National Service where thousands of young men are compelled to go against their will and register for national service, a service with which they do not agree. [More…]
For 2i hours I and four others proceeded to hand out those pieces of paper in the office of the Department of Labour and National Service, in the hall leading into that office, in and around the lift, on other floors, outside in front and in every part of the building. [More…]
As far as I can make out, we did exactly what those 5 women did. [More…]
It refers to 34,000 young men - not a few - who have failed to register for national service. [More…]
The figures I have mentioned in my question on notice, which the Minister has failed to answer for weeks and weeks, indicate that of the 34,000 who failed to register 23,000 were found after inquiry to have committed no offence. [More…]
Another 8,000 were found after investigation to have explanations that were accepted by the Government. [More…]
What an enormous field of discrimination, choice and selection there is in the Government’s application of selective malice, as the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) put it today. [More…]
Applications for training will be invited from men and women who, as a result of technological change introduced directly . [More…]
They are not even up to the standard of Pontius Pilate whose famous moral judgment at least was based on what he believed the people wanted. [More…]
All the moral leaders in our community have criticised the National Service Act because it imprisons young men who refuse to fight in an undeclared foreign war that they believe to be immoral, unjust, dirty and repugnant. [More…]
But the powers of this Parliament extend to the protection of the representatives of other countries in Australia, and the premises they occupy, wherever they may be in Australia. [More…]
Accordingly, the improvements which this Bill makes in Commonwealth law need to be applied also to the protection of the representatives of other governments, and their premises. [More…]
More than 250 men and women are in fact performing consular functions in Australia. [More…]
But I also respect the consciences of the men who say that by breaking that law and taking the consequences they are not, as the ‘Australian Law Journal’ claims, putting themselves beyond the law’s authority. [More…]
The legislative process will work only when enough of the people are enough aroused to change the government to a government which will change that oppressive, totalitarian and tyrannous law. [More…]
On this occasion some 6 masked men entered the office during lunch time. [More…]
He made references of a personal nature to you, Mr Speaker, concerning matters which had nothing whatsoever to do with this House and, having made them, men said: ‘Of course, we are not going to refer to this matter. [More…]
He stated that the atmosphere of trust and respect which had been evident up to 15 months ago has been dissipated and that you, Mr Speaker, have shown partiality towards Government members. [More…]
I am sure most honourable members in the House, including those of the Opposition, would completely refute this statement. [More…]
I certainly do on behalf of all honourable members on the Government side because if there is anyone who has set himself out to be completely impartial in his attitude to his high duties in this House it is you, Mr Speaker. [More…]
I feel and I fear that among the newer members of Parliament there are just a few who do not regard this institution with a sufficient degree of respect. [More…]
Perhaps they have not talked to some of the more senior members of the Parliament about times gone by and perhaps they have not yet absorbed sufficient of the atmosphere and tradition of Parliament. [More…]
The vast majority of members of this Parliament are men of good, sound commonsense. [More…]
They are men of responsibility regardless of Party affiliations. [More…]
I am speaking in terms of Parliament and respect for the Chair which represents the authority vested in the Parliament through the Crown. [More…]
We have a duty to express our indignation at the conscription of young men like Geoffrey Mullen. [More…]
Therefore I will not submit to the dictates of this Government. [More…]
I know that there are men of good will on the other side of the House. [More…]
In the United States Government there are divisions but in this Parliament not one supporter of the Government and not one member of the Government has ever expressed criticism in this House of Government policy in this regard. [More…]
When we talk of duties that men have 1 remind the House of the duty that we have to speak out against the Kon Sons in Vietnam because this is involved with the legislation on law and order that we are now discussing. [More…]
We have a duty to speak out against the tiger cages in which the Government in Vietnam, which we support, has kept people chained up like animals. [More…]
To say that the fragmentation bombs being used in Vietnam are not linked with this legislation is utter hypocrisy. [More…]
Let me return to the question of locking up young men and intimidating them. [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…]
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…]
I am thinking of men like the simple member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly), whose simplicity is becoming rather too obvious. [More…]
Freedom of assembly in this country is on sufferance of the Government, State or Federal, which has power to cut it down or destroy it at any minute. [More…]
There is enough power in the law for a police state to be established in this country if the will of the Government and the circumstances appropriate for it were there. [More…]
I know more about the way the law is applied than quite a number of legal men who only come into the courts long after the incident has occurred and who have probably never in their lives witnessed the occurrence at the time it occurred. [More…]
Surely the honourable member for Moreton is not implying that because this happens in South Australia it is a contention against my argument. [More…]
I am astonished an disappointed that men such as the 2 legal gentlemen who are sitting opposite me think that Australia does need this sort of law. [More…]
Many things could be said about that, but 1 shall have to leave other comments on this provision to honourable members who will follow me in the debate. [More…]
For example, if a group of 500 people are taking part in a demonstration and 2 of them are involved in unlawful violence or unlawful damage, is that sufficient reason for a police officer to break up the assembly and deny the rights of 49S other men? [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…]
It is in the interests of both those who are affected and the men who meet their obligations that investigations should be carried out vigorously and with the thoroughness and care essential in the circumstances. [More…]
Some men register late, for example, because they were in hospital at the lime their age-group was required to register, others would be in prison and there are the mentally retarded. [More…]
Where no mitigating circumstances exist, however, and the men failed to register at the proper time they are denied the benefit of the ballot. [More…]
In addition, particularly where the men have registered only after coming to the notice of the Department or have refused to register at all, they are also liable to prosecution for their offence.’ [More…]
The great majority of men register as required. [More…]
During the last 3 years to the 31st December last when those opposed to national service have been most vocal: a 311,853 men registered for national service; my Department does not maintain comprehensive records of the number of cases where it had come to notice that men appear not to have registered or have not registered at the proper time, whether as a result of the men registering late voluntarily, its own systematic detection activities, or otherwise. [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…]
5,039 men. [More…]
Of this number 684 men were prosecuted and convicted for failure to register, 43 cases were dismissed and in 33 the prosecution was withdrawn. [More…]
Again the great majority of men attend for medical examination when required to do so. [More…]
Over the past 3 years to the 31st December last 66,780 men had been medically examined. [More…]
50 men, or less than 0.1 per cent. [More…]
Men who have been medically examined and found to be fit. [More…]
Some men do not attend on the date set down for their call-up because, for example, of illness, family death or other unavoidable causes. [More…]
In these cases arrangements are made for their enlistment at a later date. [More…]
Other men at the last minute apply for recognition as conscientious objectors or seek deferment on the grounds of exceptional hardship and are subsequently granted exemption or are enlisted. [More…]
Men who refuse to attend for call-up normally have at least two opportunities to consider their situation and report for service. [More…]
At each of the stages of medical examination and call-up, particular consideration is given to men who have indicated that they may hold conscientious beliefs which could entitle them to exemption from national service but have not applied themselves. [More…]
They are considered for referral under the provisions which the Government introduced last August. [More…]
If such men are granted exemption, no further action is taken, otherwise prosecution proceeds as it does in other cases where reference is not warranted.’ [More…]
Over the past 3 years of the national service scheme to the 31st December last: 25,487 men have been called up and enlisted; 11 men have been convicted of refusal to obey a call-up notice to render service; there were 59 cases involving refusal to obey a call-up notice to render service which were not finalised at 31st December. [More…]
These include cases where prosecution proceedings bad been approved or commenced and men were awaiting hearing of cases for exemption on the grounds of conscientious beliefs. [More…]
What evidence is there to suggest that the scheme was (a) welcomed by men seeking retraining and (b) successful. [More…]
What other schemes are currently (a) operating to retrain farmers wishing to leave the land and (b) under consideration for retraining men from the primary industries. [More…]
Provision is made for referral to a consulting specialist or obtaining evidence of past medical treatment in any case where the Board considers this desirable. [More…]
Men who have not satisfactorily completed the 9th year of schooling are also required to undergo tests of literacy and mental ability. [More…]
With some men it is possible to notify them of the result within 48 hours. [More…]
On the other hand where specialist examinations are involved or there is a need to obtain evidence of past medical treatment the period may extend to some weeks depending on the availability of a specialist in the particular field of medicine or the time required to obtain the necessary information. [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…]
As to the second part of the question relating to over award payments or the wage drift, these factors mainly are induced as the result of strike action by the employees. [More…]
But when men go out on strike and it is not so much a question of the profitability of the company that is involved but, in fact, its viability or its very existence we can understand why employers have frequently to capitulate to unjustified wage claims? [More…]
One of the things I suggest to the Department of Trade and Industry is that it should give consideration to something that was done with great success in other spheres in the United States during the regime of President Kennedy. [More…]
The President found that among the captains of industry and the enterpreneurs in the United States there were men who were prepared to put their know-how at the disposal of the nation for $1 a year. [More…]
Therefore I want to commend to the Department of Trade and Industry and to the Minister the thought that he investigate the possibility of enlisting Australian entrepreneurs who are ready and able to serve to better the trade operation of the nation by becoming dollar a year men for a year. [More…]
If such a proposition were put up I believe that such men would respond to it. [More…]
I commend the three.. [More…]
Another indication of the growing Vietnamese capacity is the announcement by the Korean Foreign Minister, Mr Choi, on 19th April of his Government’s decision to withdraw in the near future one of the Korean divisions from Vietnam leaving about 34,000 men there. [More…]
In his announce ment the Korean Foreign Minister laid particular emphasis on the progress of pacification and the build-up of the combat capabilities of Vietnamese forces. [More…]
President Nixon’s refusal to set a terminal date for the total withdrawal of American forces from South Vietnam is fully supported by the Australian Government. [More…]
One of the contradictions of our age is that people are ever mme aware of the sufferings of their fellow men, but at the same time feel more inadequate and frustrated when it comes to helping them. [More…]
They have suffered for that belief, given of themselves in working for the brotherhood of men: People of awesome courage and moral integrity: People who because of what they are, what they believe, are now imprisoned, exiled, banned, under house arrest. [More…]
They have no voice - the Government has seen to that. [More…]
Camus’ description fits them admirably: indomitable men devoted to the unconditional defence of liberty’. [More…]
His call to us follows: ‘we must tell them they are not alone, their action is not futile, there always comes a day when the palaces of oppression crumble, when imprisonment and exile comes to an end, when liberty catches fire . [More…]
I hope to be in a position by early January to refer the recommendation of the Department of Civil Aviation to Cabinet for a decision and for consultation with the various State governments.’ [More…]
I should men tion that the Minister said that when he referred the matter to Cabinet he hoped that he would have it down to a smaller list - what I call the short short list. [More…]
I think the Parliament is entitled to some explanation from the Minister for Civil Aviation (Senator Cotton) or his representative in this chamber of just what is happening with Qantas today. [More…]
What is the real reason for this decision to terminate the services of so many highly skilled trained men in Qantas? [More…]
Thousands of dollars have been poured into the training of these men, but what has happened to them? [More…]
For some considerable time the management of Qantas has been begging the flight engineers and pilots to try to persuade any of their friends overseas who are anxious to come to Australia to do so. [More…]
Is it a fact that Qantas and the Federation of Airline Pilots cannot reach agreement on conditions applicable in the industry, particularly when the jumbo jets begin to operate? [More…]
Is it because of the fact that Qantas has no experienced men to operate the jet that it has now taken other measures to bring about a settlement of the dispute? [More…]
I am advised that Qantas invited the union representatives to meet it in Qantas House at 10.30 a.m. At the same time a meeting of the aircrews and the men involved was held at Mascot. [More…]
So it is obvious that this was a carefully prepared plan by the management of Qantas, designed in such a way that everything went like clockwork at the one time. [More…]
One could never show a finer sen timent. [More…]
Many young people now regard the men who fought at Gallipoli and even those who fought in the Second World War as just being very foolish to do these things. [More…]
We would not be in peaceful occupation of Australia, nor would I have the opportunity of speaking in this Parliament at the present time had it not been for the sacrifice of the men to whom we pay homage on Anzac Day. [More…]
When you are paying homage - and I hope you will be- to the men who died on Gallipoli and, of course, the men who served in all the fields of war - in the -air, on land and under the sea - I trust you will realise and try to make others realise that but for the sacrifices that were made by those Australians we would not be in peaceful occupancy of this country now. [More…]
At this stage I can say generally that I am hopeful that the dispute will be resolved towards the end of this week, but I make this comment without any form of guarantee. [More…]
My final observation is that it is to be regretted, as I am sure honourable gentlemen on both sides of the House will agree, that virtually a considerable part of the economic life of Australia has ground to a halt or been held to ransom by what can be regarded only as the irresponsible action of a very small number of men - 800 I think. [More…]
I know men who came through the depression, men who have weathered the storms, who are unable to weather this storm and are leaving their properties. [More…]
There is not the slightest doubt that what I have said about the Kerang rookery should be supported by many members of this Parliament for the simple reason that, according to this professor and to other, men, nowhere in the world will one find rookeries for the breeding of ibises as spectacular as those at Kerang. [More…]
When I put a question to the Minister for Education and Science (Mr Fairbairn) in his capacity as Minister in charge of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, it was pointed out that there is a tremendous number of grasshoppers in certain areas and that no matter what number of ibises were put into these areas they could not eat all the grasshoppers. [More…]
That is so, but ibises moving across the paddocks can eat grasshoppers before they get on the wing; when grasshopper are at a stage of development before they do the damage. [More…]
I was very pleased to see the great roll up of ex-servicemen in Anzac Day marches throughout Australia. [More…]
I am sorry that, chiefly because of inclement weather, marches were not held in certain areas. [More…]
On Anzac Day we commemorate the deeds of those men who fought in war. [More…]
These men seek world domination. [More…]
Such men have been defeated by our fighting men in conjunction with servicemen from other free nations throughout the world. [More…]
We pay tribute to those men and women who served Australia so greatly. [More…]
So, to those young men and others who talk about peace, I say that we are peaceful. [More…]
Therefore, we must be proud of our great nation and of our servicemen and servicewomen who have gone overseas ‘on active service’ during periods of war. [More…]
We have often heard of our servicemen and women being ‘on active service’. [More…]
They are staffed mainly by young men doing their training at the hospitals and wanting to earn a little bit extra. [More…]
The comments on Rhodesia and the situation that has developed there in recent years - the criticism that has been made of Mr Smith and some of his leaders in Rhodesia - in most cases are made by people who are completely unaware of the situation and of the attendant responsibilities, lt was my privilege to do a period of service in Rhodesia under the Empire Air Training Scheme and there I received the. [More…]
Of course, we also know that there were men and women of Rhodesia who served in the Services in the defence of those things that we held dear in those times. [More…]
Unfortunately, these men show a complete lack of appreciation of the situation and close their eyes to the reality of it instead of facing up to it. [More…]
Does the same argument that they use in favour of talking to Red China not work in relation to talking to the South Africans? [More…]
Does the argument they use in relation to visits by the Moscow soccer team and the Moscow circus work in exactly the same way as the visit of these other teams? [More…]
The arguments they use against South Africa are opposite to the arguments they use in support of everything they want to put forward. [More…]
Let us look behind their arguments to see what are their motives. [More…]
I suggest that members of the Labor Party - not the honourable member for Sturt and the honourable member for Robertson but the men who have been solid members of the Labor Party - have a look to see what is behind the attitude of the Leader of the Opposition and the actions he takes. [More…]
What tremendous influence the left must have on this Leader of the Opposition, as was seen and shown in the debate on the Public Order (Protection of Persons and Property) Bill, when all members of the left wing spoke out against the legislation that was being put through. [More…]
It can safely be said that if the gold mines at Mount Magnet and Norseman close down practically every person in those towns - not only the mine workers but the shop assistants, the business men and everyone else - will have to move. [More…]
Whether the Government will compensate them for the loss of their houses or business places is another question that the Government will have to face up to if it continues with the decision to close down the mines. [More…]
I shall now refer to some estimates that have been compiled from the census of 1966 and very recent local authority statistics which show how employment and population in the Kalgoorlie area alone will be affected if the gold mines close down in the near future. [More…]
I would ask supporters of the Government to study these figures and at the same time bear in mind what could properly be referred to as their Govern.cent’s promise that in phasing out the gold mining industry it would ensure that there was no disruption in either the population or the economy. [More…]
They are highly trained men and they do a tremendous job in this Parliament. [More…]
They are not over paid, and I would not for one moment suggest that they are. [More…]
It is with a great deal of reluctance that I commence my few words on a personal note. [More…]
So I now propose to make a few comments in regard to this same gentleman. [More…]
Men like the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) have been consistent and completely honest in their convictions. [More…]
Because there is this fragmentation of extension services it often happens that research will run a long way ahead of extension. [More…]
I have said in other places at other times in relation to the recognition of the work of extension people that some national attempt should be made to draw together the fragments of extension. [More…]
I have submitted that the establishment of a national academy of extension would go a long way to provide the recognition and the status for an extension officer that is at present enjoyed by a research officer. [More…]
I think that if we could apply ourselves to this we would keep in extension services many men who are being lost to administration. [More…]
However, I am disturbed by the fact of these 2 instances although, putting them in proportion, there are hundreds of young men of this age - they are between 151 and 161 years of age when they join for a year - in residence at any one time and one must naturally expect that there will be scuffles from time to time. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mr Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned- [More…]
Whether or not this be true, it is correct to say that the company certainly did commence an era of development, unprecedented in the region, which led to Australia’s passing from a net importer to a net exporter. [More…]
Land was acquired in the nearby township of Zeehan, and the construction of housing and single men’s and staff quarters, of a very high standard, was commenced. [More…]
There has been a spectacular increase in the treatment rate over the past 10 years at Renison, rising from about 100 tons per day, 10 years ago, to 1,200 tons per day now-an increase of 1,100 per cent. [More…]
Production will increase still further with developments and the expansion programme currently in hand. [More…]
It issued its prospectus in 1966 and commenced to build the township of Luina in the rain forest at a cost of over $2m. [More…]
Further houses are planned for a work force which averages 230 to 250 men. [More…]
A sum of $8&m was spent on mine development, and further development is being undertaken to step up the rate of treatment and recovery of the tin concentrates. [More…]
It is anticipated that both treatment and recovery rates will stabilise in June of this year, when Cleveland NL will be producing 140 tons of tin per monthly period of 28 days. [More…]
Here again the standard of housing, amenities, roads and streets, accommodation for. [More…]
single men. [More…]
provided by the company, and, above .all,’ the very fine community spirit in this new town - in the treatment of new arrivals and the assistance given to those in need, as only two examples - stand out worthy of the highest commendation. [More…]
The Jeremiahs, the old men of the Parliament - those who know nothing of what modern methods can do - will say that this cannot be done. [More…]
I will leave such as the honourable members for Wakefield, Corangamite, Angas and McMillan to advance the argument that it cannot be done and that we cannot afford it. [More…]
I will leave the Jeremiahs and the old men of the Parliament to do that. [More…]
But there has never been an advance in social welfare, or in public economic management that such members have ever received in any other way. [More…]
General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd employs perhaps 100,000 men; I do not know exactly how many people work for that company. [More…]
If the Government is going to work along those lines and judge an industry purely and simply on whether it is mathematically a high rate industry or a low rate industry, it will be in a lot of trouble. [More…]
We have to take into consideration the fact that the Tariff Board consists of a group of men - usually it is only 2 men - who examine an industry and who are required to come up with some sort of a recommendation. [More…]
I do not want to bring the cherries argument into the debate tonight because that argument has been well and truly settled, but it is obvious that the Board’s endeavours in this case have been misdirected. [More…]
1 will conclude by saying that it is not my function to advise the Government. [More…]
The Government has a highly skilled, highly trained and very competent body of men in the Taxation Office whose duty it is to advise the Government. [More…]
It is not for me as a member of the Opposition to suggest these procedures to the Government. [More…]
If the Treasurer and the Government are sincere in these matters they have only to ask these skilled officers in the Taxation Office. [More…]
I hope that as this particular taxation avoidance device is now being closed, although 7 years too late, the Government will not restrict itself to that. [More…]
There are undoubtedly some abuses, but nevertheless we as a Party are by instinct, by tradition, by policy and by persuasion a Party of protection, as is every other worthwhile trading nation in the world, particularly every nation which has industrial developmental aspirations. [More…]
Australian industry can be said to have really commenced with the men who were attracted to Victoria in the days of the gold rush. [More…]
That being so I am very strongly opposed to any modification of the minute protection which we have and which we need and which is a matter that vitally concerns the employment of some 3,000 men in my city. [More…]
There was an appeal on the ground that this was an experimental purchase - indeed, it was a prototype. [More…]
As this agreement operates at the moment, if the British Board of Trade had said that it could provide this machine in the United Kingdom, although the crop was not even grown there, our innovator would have had to pay up the 7i per cent. [More…]
That is part of the 30 per cent cost impost brought about by the operation of a system based not on production, not on men employed, not on a real and valid industry, but simply on the say-so of the Board of Trade and a clerical officer. [More…]
What additional number of men who served in (a) the Boer War and (b) World War I would become eligible for benefits under the plan. [More…]
In the old days we used to see drums, bags, bundles and boxes stacked on the wharf, with cranes on top of ships and men running everywhere - or walking everywhere, perhaps I should say. [More…]
We have seen a tremendous speed-up in the handling of cargo. [More…]
The Australian National Line has been a pioneer in the development of the roll-on roll-off ship. [More…]
After the King and the Church had been subject to the New Model Army they did not want literate lower order men. [More…]
I think that the lack of technical education in the United Kingdom, or its late development, steadily dragged Britain back after 1851. [More…]
A brilliant book is out which consists of a whole series of quotations which one would think were a current commentary on England, such as the Consul in Switzerland reporting that 3,000 salesmen from Germany and other countries had gone through the country selling goods but only 28 salesmen had come from Britain and none could speak the languages. [More…]
One would think it was the current lament of the 1970s. [More…]
Finally, I should like to express the Government’s respect and admiration of the work of the voluntary organisations in the pre-school field, There is a tradition throughout Australia of community involvement in this area of education, not only of parents interested in having a kindergarten available for their own children but also of many men and women giving freely time and money so that kindergartens are available in areas where need is great. [More…]
I believe that Australia is very much lacking in the capacity to get the best out of workmen of a basically skilled nature by their fellow workmen who are in a position of some authority and leadership. [More…]
Therefore, anything we do in this sphere towards creating a greater pool of skills among the substantially working tradesman type of population from which can be drawn - and with greater possibility - good men to lead in these fields, T think, will be something very well done. [More…]
So much of the responsibility must then reside with the Federal and State governments. [More…]
The physically handicapped are trained and placed in employment separately from the technical training area. [More…]
So many men whose performance at school had been poor, given war service and 3 or 4 years more maturity, came back, matriculated and did excellent university courses. [More…]
Immediately before the introduction of the permanent employment scheme a uniform charge of 48c was levied on each man-hour worked by waterside workers in the industry. [More…]
Before the implementation of the National Conference scheme waterside workers who were available for work but not required to work received attendance money paid by the Authority from the proceeds of the charge. [More…]
On the introduction of permanent employment it was recognised that waterside workers on weekly hiring under the Conference arrangements would be in a similar situation in being available for work but on occasions not required to work. [More…]
The men concerned do not lose by this because they are on a weekly wage. [More…]
Insofar as the employer was concerned it was decided that, whereas in previous circumstances attendance money would have been paid, the employer should be reimbursed from the charge for full shifts paid for when there was no work for the men. [More…]
Attendance money payments continue as before for waterside workers who are not engaged on weekly hire and who are defined as classes B and C waterside workers. [More…]
They are needed to restore the financial position of the Authority in order to meet its commitments from the charge revenue and recoup the short-fall in the Long Service Leave Fund which has been eroded since mid 1969 in the ways in which I have just outlined. [More…]
The increases now needed have come about because of the accumulation of arbitrated decisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, other changes in wage rates and conditions of employment awarded with the consent of the stevedoring industry employers and the increased incidence of occasions when there is no work for the men. [More…]
Put another way, if an employer because of stevedoring contract commitments worked his men on average in excess of 37.4 hours per week the effective hourly rate of charge from the weekly levy of $17.55 would be less than 50c per manhour. [More…]
The proposed change in the class A charge from a man-week to a man-hour basis has been recommended by the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour. [More…]
Because of the proposed conversion of the class A charge to a man-hour basis the Stevedoring Industry Charge Assessment Bill also provides for consequential amendments to the principal Act to exclude the levying of the charge on specified manhours paid for by the employer but not actually worked by his waterside workers. [More…]
These paid hours are almost entirely in respect of awarded annual and sick leave entitlements and shifts where waterside workers were available for work but not required to work. [More…]
Anzacs including men of the 1st AIF who had lived in these areas for years were entitled to anything that they could get from the increased value of their land but the go-getters came in, bought the land and fleeced the public of their money. [More…]
I believe that this Parliament should represent people from all walks of life. [More…]
We should have farmers, lawyers, doctors and dentists, but to the best of my knowledge there is not one architect or one town planner in the Parliament In my movements and in my role as Secretary of the Labor Party’s Caucus Committee on Housing, Urban Development and Decentralisation, and because of the interest I have had in this matter for many years, I have been fortunate to meet many fine men - men such as Don Gazzard and George Clarke who are well known in Sydney for their work for the State Government. [More…]
There are also men like Ian McKay who works for the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
Recently I noticed that a Mr Gillies made a first class statement, which was headlined in the ‘Australian’. [More…]
I think he used some words which probably are not parliamentary. [More…]
I support the Labor Party’s amendment. [More…]
The Opposition feels that this ought to be done in regard to the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement. [More…]
The Government does not have to dictate anything to the States, which have sovereign rights. [More…]
State governments are made up of good men and true who have regard for public welfare. [More…]
If the Government gives them a decent enticement and if it shows that it has some ideals and objectivity about the public interest it will find that every Premier and State Housing Minister will respond. [More…]
The Government has the prerogative under section 96 of the Constitution to make funds available. [More…]
It is time that the Government made its allocations in regard to the Commonwealth-State Housing Agreement with the objective of achieving standards. [More…]
It concerns some 60 men of the Lithographic Squadron of the Army Headquarters Regiment of the Survey Corps, which is located at Bendigo, Victoria. [More…]
These men have suffered 3 years of unjustifiable discrimination at the hands of this Government because of its delay in making pay rises through . [More…]
This procrastination by the Government seriously jeopardises the morale of the Squadron by creating dissatisfaction and unrest. [More…]
It has already given rise to an outbreak of what could only be called industrial action in civilian terms when frustration over the Government’s refusal to meet their pay claims led to a . [More…]
Since then the Government has still refused to take action to remedy the one simple cause of resentment. [More…]
It could be remedied immediately if the Government had any sense of responsibility and any sense of the injustice which the men of the Lithographic Squadron feel so acutely. [More…]
I want to stress to the Minister for Defence (Mr Gorton), the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock), the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Government as a whole that any continued inaction on their part will lead to a continuing decline in morale, and that the possibility of stronger industrial action cannot be ruled out unless the Government wakes up to itself. [More…]
I wish to inform the Government that the men’s feelings of alienation and their feelings of neglect by the Government have resulted in continued low levels of production by these men and have caused daily discussion amongst the men as to what sort of action they should take to publicise their grievances. [More…]
The possibility of joining up with the trade union movement as a means of advocating their needs and defending their interests has been only one of the less drastic possibilities among the measures that the men are frequently considering. [More…]
I raise this matter tonight on behalf of men who are denied any other avenue of drawing public and Government attention to their situation. [More…]
These are responsible, dedicated and loyal men who have made the Army their life, but Army regulations deny them any means of drawing Government attention to their position, other than through the normal military channels, and these have quite clearly been futile. [More…]
They have a just claim and the Government ought to be showing the same sense of responsibility and loyalty to them as they have shown to the Army. [More…]
I have already given to the Government ample warning of the situation in the Squadron. [More…]
The dissatisfaction of these men arises from the failure of the Government to grant pay increases through providing additional pay groupings. [More…]
Two other units in the Survey Regiment were granted pay increases through additional pay groupings in 1969 and these were made retrospective to March 1968, when changes in the system of Army group pay were introduced. [More…]
Although the lithographic pay claims were lodged before the due date, the men received neither a pay increase nor retrospectivity. [More…]
The result is that lithographic pay is low by comparison with that of civilians with similar skills, by comparison with that of other and less skilled personnel such as drivers and clerks, and also by comparison with that of cartographic and topographic personnel of the same Regiment. [More…]
The events that led up to the go-slow in December flowed from the unbelievable confusion and evasion resulting from the Army’s embarrassment as being unwilling or unable to tell the men what the actual situation was with regard to their pay claims. [More…]
On 11th September 1970 the men of the Squadron were told at Bendigo that a second level of pay had been approved for personnel of certain categories and that a third level was under consideration for those who had passed the advanced course. [More…]
In December 1970 the men were considering industrial action. [More…]
The Government may shudder at those words, but that was the reality of what the men were contemplating. [More…]
My information is that the men were informed in Bendigo that the reason for the rejection by the Army of this pay increase was that the Army wanted retrospectivity to 8th August 1969 while the Treasury was prepared to grant it only to October 1970. [More…]
The facts of this situation have never been fully revealed to the men. [More…]
This information, when it was passed on to the men of the Lithographic Squadron, came as a real smack in the face and depressed their morale to rock bottom. [More…]
I pointed out that the dissatisfaction in the squadron was known to the Directorate of the Survey Corps, and I said that I thought it should also be known to the Government. [More…]
The long and unjustifiable delay of the Government in dealing with these pay claims is the sole cause of the very serious dissatisfaction and unrest within the Lithographic Squadron at Bendigo. [More…]
Unless speedy action is taken to finalize the situation of nay, I believe that the declining morale will lead to industrial action, such as a stopwork, as the only means of impressing upon the Government the grievances of these men. [More…]
I am informed that a pay claim submission has been with the Government for over eighteen months, since June 1969. [More…]
It was announced to the lithographic personnel on 11th September this year that pay increases had been approved by Treasury, and that the men were due to receive them in five to six weeks after that date. [More…]
Three months have now passed, and the men still have not received them or any indication of what the pay rises actually are. [More…]
That is some admission for a Minister of the Crown to have to make about the men he is responsible for. [More…]
If they have still not been informed they had better make further inquiries, because it did take place For 3 days last year men stood around, depressed and idle, and the processes involved in map making came to a virtual standstill. [More…]
At long last this letter gave the seal of ministerial certainty to what the men had feared, although it was in direct contradiction to what the men had been told by their officers in Bendigo. [More…]
The Minister for the Army said in his letter that pay increases have not been approved for lithographic tradesmen categories, that there was certainly no foundation to the allegations that the Army rejected pay increases for these employments, and that in fact retrospective pay increases were originally sought by his Department. [More…]
How can the Government’s procrastination which has gone on now for 2 years - 3 years if one includes the period for which the pay would have been retrospective - be justified? [More…]
Why should men have to tolerate this sort of misgovern ment? [More…]
Firstly, the objection that the linking of lithographic pay with the Graphic Arts Award cannot be an objection to raising pay for service lithographic personnel because the fact is, I am informed, that the Government Printer, whose system of pay rates is the basis of service lithographic pay rates, is paying above award rates. [More…]
Secondly, while statements by the Ministers have clarified the state of pay claims, these statements have also restored the frustration and hopelessness that were removed when, after the go-slow, action was taken to bring the men’s grievances to the attention of the Government. [More…]
Thirdly, the pay claims submission has been in process for 2 years, and including the year 1968, to which it was hoped pay would be made retrospective, the men have now been waiting for 3 years. [More…]
The Government’s record is already notorious because of the industrial action taken by Navy and Air Force personnel last year. [More…]
Unless the Government desires to damage its reputation even further amongst servicemen ft should remedy the injustices of the lithographic personnel immediately. [More…]
If it cannot do that, it should at the very least make a statement as to when the men can expect improvements in their pay. [More…]
It was the very inadequacy of Service pay, its inconsistency within the Services, and especially its inadequacy by comparison with superior pay for men with comparable skills and frequently with lesser responsibilities in civilian life, that has caused increasing resignation rates and declining re-engagement rates in the Services. [More…]
It was this situation of dissatisfaction within the Services which erupted last year in 2 successful resorts to industrial action by Navy and Air Force personnel and which forced the Government to establish the Kerr Committee of Inquiry into Service pay and conditions last year. [More…]
But there are many men in the Services who will not wait until the Kerr Committee makes ils report and until the Government decides - if it does - to implement the Committee’s recommendations. [More…]
Many servicemen want action on their pay and conditions now. [More…]
The case of the men of the Lithographic Squadron in Bendigo is one such case which has every reason to demand an instant remedy.. [More…]
Whilst I personally regret the number of men stood down, with the resultant loss of income for their wives and families, I feel that the whole dispute is a result of the fact that in this case, as in other cases involving BHP at Whyalla, it is the company itself that does not believe in accepting umpire’s decisions, as employees are asked to do. [More…]
Therefore, in conclusion, I urge the Government to use its influence with this company in order to have it alter its attitude, which creates so much discontent, and, by doing so help to create the peaceful industrial relations it so often expresses as its desire. [More…]
The BHP employees of Whyalla are normal men and would respond to a bit of decent treatment instead of the high handed treatment they now receive. [More…]
Of course the publicity men are working full blast, but they can only provide palliatives at best. [More…]
Il is something more fundamental that is required now. [More…]
When I was first made aware of the payment required for the 4 jumbo jets, the immediate thought that came to my mind was: Can we get out of the deal? [More…]
It will require all the wisdom and understanding of the biggest business men in Australia to see us through, this period. [More…]
Maybe it is a phenomenon that has come about and, just as locusts come and locusts go, it will disappear. [More…]
These men who served their country so well were the nucleus of the air crews that have brought such praise and admiration from people throughout the world for’ the great service they have built up and fr the great organisation of Qantas. [More…]
Therefore I believe, as I have said briefly in this House before, that in terms of maintaining and sustaining university teachers of high quality training and achievement, it is more important to pay competitive salaries at the bottom of the lecturer scale than to grant grandiose salaries - adequate salaries cannot be denied, but certainly inflated salaries should not be contemplated - at the top levels. [More…]
I do not believe that we will lose, by the brain drain, international competition or whatever else it may be called, our top men who have become integrated and au fait with the system and who like their work, as almost universally they do. [More…]
So if in the future any variation or rearrangement is to be made of the salary structure for universities, my strong plea is that we ensure that the bottom level salaries are at least competitive with those paid in alternative forms of employment, whether that employment be in industry, with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial [More…]
The honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) referred to the positions dealt in this Bill - the senior academic staff - as being perhaps more than any others positions of conscience, in other words, that men in those positions could please themselves to a large extent whether they did a conscientious job, just how big a part they played in voluntary activities outside the regulations laid down and so on. [More…]
To my mind there is one job even more dependent on the conscience of the person concerned whether he works hard or whether he loafs, and that is the job held by a member of Parliament in a safe seat [More…]
He has been put in gaol by honourable members on the Government side. [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…]
The stupidity of this Government is illustrated by the fact that, although 43,000 young men have refused to register for national service since 1964, only a handful have been prosecuted while the slate has been wiped clean in respect of 23,000. [More…]
This shows the hypocrisy of this Government. [More…]
The conflict on medical standards came to a head last week when the army refused to induct four young men approved by the department. [More…]
I hope that report is correct because this year alone the cases of 4 young men who had been accepted by the Department of Labour and National Service and ultimately rejected by the Army have been referred to me. [More…]
I had taken up their cases with the Department of Labour and National Service before they had been inducted but after they had been passed as medically fit. [More…]
His doctor has said that the court proceedings themselves will have an extremely detrimental effect upon his health. [More…]
The Army cannot need people who are so ill and so unfit for Army service, and yet apparently the Department of Labour and National Service persists in having them inducted into the Service. [More…]
The Department of Labour and National Service should apply the same medical standards to men being inducted as conscripts as are applied to those men who are inducted as permanent servicemen. [More…]
I believe that conscription is iniquitous and should not be introduced into any country except in a time of extreme emergency as was done by the Curtin Government during the Second World War. [More…]
I agree with those members of the Opposition and of the community who suggest that perhaps the best course for young men to take is to not comply with the Act and to refuse to register. [More…]
I think we would be better training men for the service of peace than for the service of war, and that we should do all we can to humanise our people and not to dehumanise them. [More…]
I think that it is a waste of human resources that we take some of the best trained men of our community at a time when they are about to apply those things they have learnt at universities, teachers’ colleges and in their trades and professions and put them into the forces to carry out tasks which are altogether different. [More…]
It is correct that the Department of the Army and the Department of Labour and National Service should come to an agreement about what the medical standards should be. [More…]
What number of (a) indigenous men, (b) expatriate men, (c) indigenous women and (d) expatriate women are (i) sponsored by the Administration at each tertiary institution in the Territory of Papua New Guinea and (ii) assisted to attend tertiary institutions in Australia. ‘ [More…]
I think it is regrettable in a democracy that a new Prime Minister sees fit to quell rebellion at Government expense. [More…]
I think it is shocking that he will not announce his Ministry while the Parliament is sitting. [More…]
I can only describe this action - I hate to use the word here - as a despicable approach to democracy in this place, and I think the Government deserves to be condemned for it. [More…]
I have shown the type of Minister we have and the type of men who might come into the Ministry; to say the least, it is a frightening position. [More…]
I think that the Government and the people will suffer, and Australia certainly deserves a change of Government. [More…]
The appointment of Assistant Ministers is not a new proposition. [More…]
The last time this proposition was raised in Ibis Parliament, it came from the then Prime Minister. [More…]
It is a proposition about which the present Prime Minister has indicated that he does not think the Constitution would allow these men to be paid. [More…]
Are the men to be appointed to these positions to be men of ability - extremely difficult to find on the Government side? [More…]
Will they be any improvement on the incumbents of the front bench at this stage? [More…]
For instance, imagine if appointments are open to the Country Party and the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) is appointed. [More…]
Can honourable members imagine anything worse happening in a democratic parliament? [More…]
Why should not honourable members on the Opposition side of the Parliament desire to know from the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) who will be appointed? [More…]
But if it is not men such as the honourable member, who will be appointed? [More…]
That is one of the reasons why the Opposition has moved this amendment. [More…]
If the Government has a defence of the proposals, if they are sound and constitutionally based, if men are to be appointed who can add to the lustre of the Government, if such be possible, why is it that the Leader of the House gags this debate again and again? [More…]
Why is it that the members on the Government side do not rise in their places to express their points of view? [More…]
The only aspirant for a position who spoke today was the Deputy Government Whip, the honourable member for “ Angas (Mr Giles). [More…]
That is the only contribution made from the Government side today. [More…]
In other words, Government members are not prepared to defend the policy and the change that is. [More…]
If they will not defend the policy why should it be accepted by honourable members on this side of the Parliament or by the people of Australia? [More…]
He entered Parliament in 1949 and became a Minister in 1951. [More…]
He has never been a real member of Parliament; he has always been an executive instrument of some kind. [More…]
They were not parliament men. [More…]
There are 65 or 66 members in the 2 Government parties. [More…]
I believe it will bring a greater degree of stability and so eliminate many of the strikes which, from a union point of view, were necessary in the past to maintain the wages and conditions of men who worked on the waterfront. [More…]
Most of the money referred to in the Bills has been eaten up in providing for one of the major proposals in the agreement, namely, that relating to redundancy. [More…]
Today 168 men are employed at the White Bay container terminal in Sydney. [More…]
In the past 12 months they handled about H million tons of cargo, lt is difficult to arrive at an exact figure of how many men would have been employed if that amount of cargo had been handled by conventional methods, but in the old days of conventional shipping somewhere between 700 and 800 men would have been fully employed for 12 months to handle H million tons of cargo. [More…]
Honourable members can see that there has been a major change in the industry and that men employed on the waterfront are entitled to the conditions and concessions which have been granted to them. [More…]
The first coal loader that was introduced in the river was of only minor consequence, but the second major coal loader installed in the coal loading basin has meant a considerable reduction in the employment of men. [More…]
In the old days before coal loaders were installed about 800 men were employed on loading ships with coal. [More…]
In 1970 the number of men was reduced to 130 and in that year they loaded 7,032,000 tons of coal. [More…]
0 men handled 2,545,000 tons of coal. [More…]
He gave a clear analysis of just where the money came from originally, the way in which it has been disposed of and the necessity for the increased charges which have been recommended in these Bills. [More…]
As to the number of voluntary redundancies, somewhere in the vicinity of 344 men have voluntarily agreed to leave this industry. [More…]
The cost of voluntary redundancies amounts to $137,778 for long service leave; $407,226 for severance pay and $366,406 for pension fund payments, a total of about $911,410. [More…]
The payment of this money has been necessary to persuade men to leave this industry. [More…]
I think some men have made quite satisfactory arrangements. [More…]
Redundancy payments have in a number of cases persuaded men that now is an opportune time for them to get out of the industry. [More…]
If it is necessary to make these men redundant they have to be paid and the industry as a whole should be prepared to bear the cost involved. [More…]
Originally that port had a total employment of about 900 waterside workers and about 800 men handling coal. [More…]
When we realise that the number of employees has been reduced from about 1,700 to about 450 I think it is time for us to stop and have another look to determine whether a situa tion is being created whereby men are being pushed out of the industry - persuaded to leave the industry - or whether a natural wastage is being allowed to occur to the extent that the work force at that port is far too small in number. [More…]
Since the introduction of the quota of 450 men there have been serious labour shortages in the Port of Newcastle. [More…]
I think one of the worst labour shortages was in January this year when there was a shortage of 257 men, which is more than half the employee quota. [More…]
This is a matter which the Government should take into consideration. [More…]
I hope that the Government is satisfied that the quota system is in the best interests of the stevedoring industry in the handling of cargo in the ports of Australia. [More…]
1 hope that the permanent employment scheme will continue to operate successfully. [More…]
Whilst the present system of permanent employment on the waterfront is a great incentive to the men I think that one of the reasons why port employee quotas have been reduced is because the waterside workers now have a greater incentive to get in and do the job. [More…]
Now that there is permanency there is an incentive for the men to get in and do the job. [More…]
What is happening now b that the men go on to do the job and - to use the phrase of the men on the job - they get stuck into it and clean it up as quickly as they can in the knowledge that when the job is’ finished their shift is over. [More…]
These costs, as I said, have been reduced ia many cases but I issue the warning that employee quotas should be closely examined to ensure that ships are not allowed to lie idle in port for too long now that there is a greater throughput by the men on the job. [More…]
Is it any wonder that workers have to take the extreme action of calling a stoppage when employers and the Government are not prepared to confer on these things? [More…]
I attended a meeting and listened to the propositions put forward by the responsible union against the shipowners’ intention to make redundant some 100 men. [More…]
Finally after negotiations had taken place the number was reduced to 50 men. [More…]
Then the union had to take action to preserve the employment of 50 of its members. [More…]
On the question of redundancy, I think it is absolutely stupid and ridiculous to lay off 100 men and expect the other members of that branch of the union to go on working overtime. [More…]
A strong and efficient public service is essential if Papua New Guinea is to have meaningful selfgovernment. [More…]
1 think this is where we come to what is perhaps one of the most important problems facing New Guinea today concerning its progress along the road to selfgovernment and self-development, and that is the need to spell out very clearly indeed without any equivocation the future provisions for the expatriate officers who will become redundant as indigenes are trained to take their place. [More…]
Perhaps the strongest plea came from members of the Pangu Party who told me that nothing could be more important to the future success of self-government in the Territory than the retention of experienced, efficient and dedicated expatriate officers. [More…]
Many of these men have had 20 years service and may have 15 or 20 years more service to give to the community. [More…]
Any money spent in guaranteeing their future security should be considered as an extremely worthwhile investment for Australia. [More…]
I know the Government is aware oi this and is taking action, but I believe this question is one of extreme urgency. [More…]
We believe that they heed to face this fact It is for this reason, although we do not propose any amendment, that we will vote against this clause. [More…]
We believe that would get the number of educated men info the House who might have some contribution to make from that point of view, but as we also believe that this is really resting on a form of illusion we intend to vote against the clause. [More…]
We learnt from the Press recently that it is costing us $100,000 a year for mistakes that are made by the Department of Labour and National Service in inducting into the Army men who are not medically fit and who then have to be released by the Army. [More…]
We learn that we are paying $100,000 a year in repatriation benefits to men who are wounded in Vietnam and who will continue to draw benefits for the rest of their lives because of the wounds they have suffered. [More…]
Honourable members can take it as they like, but those men who have engaged in primary industry were, like myself, born in the country and not in the city. [More…]
Many of those who could be ineligible to receive any assistance under the rehabilitation section of the scheme will be men such as new land farmers who, just a few years ago, were encouraged by people holding responsible positions to open up new country or to take up farming properties in areas recently thrown open for selection. [More…]
The Western Australian LiberalCountry Party Government was one which gave such encouragement and threw the land open. [More…]
I am sorry that they are not in the House at the moment. [More…]
Perhaps this is not surprising because I note that on the Government side 2 Liberal members will speak before a Country Party member enters the debate. [More…]
As a result of that, coupled with actions such as the throwing open of large areas of land by the Liberal-Country Party Government of Western Australia, many men such as share farmers, farm employees and others were encouraged to branch out on their own, and that is actually what happened. [More…]
Despite the fact that such encouragement was given, despite the fact that this Government and State Liberal governments were largely responsible for so many people getting into difficulties, those are the very people who could not obtain a reasonable wheat quota and who now are to be denied any worthwhile assistance under this scheme. [More…]
It provides a blueprint which, if implemented, will make possible the phasing out of 120,000 farmers in this decade. [More…]
The measure affects 1 million Australian men, women and children. [More…]
For the past 2 years I have been receiving letters, and applications have been made, on the basis of repeated statements from every member of the Government from the Prime Minister down - both of them - that help would be forthcoming for the rural sector. [More…]
The health of many farmers will be endangered, as men who sold out a few years ago or who let their sons carry on the farm now find themselves back on the farm facing health troubles, financial nightmares and work without reward. [More…]
These are the men who will be phased out of production under this scheme but who do not want to be phased out. [More…]
The Government regards these men as expendable. [More…]
The scheme will make many big farmers bigger and will kill off thousands of small men who will be forced by banks, hire purchase firms and pastoral companies to sell out and get out. [More…]
No other honourable members have mentioned this fact yet. [More…]
For instance, this Government thinks that under this Bill it is Father Christmas, but it is not. [More…]
Fancy the Government making a profit out of the loan which it is to make available to help these men. [More…]
I believe too that a new development of farmer organisations in a 50/50 business partnership with the Australian Council of Trade Unions should be examined further in the fields of food and fruit processing. [More…]
The men in between are getting the fat and the profits out of his production. [More…]
to (6) Men write to me or my Department regarding different aspects of their national service liability, including some who notify their refusal to comply with their obligations. [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…]
Men who state that they refuse to comply are no* less entitled to a detailed explanation of their position, including the alternatives which are open to them, than are others. [More…]
The question of prosecution of men who fail to comply with provisions of the National Service Act was dealt with in my answer to Question No. [More…]
The overwhelming majority of men have honoured, and are honouring, their obligations from registration through to serving in the national interest if required. [More…]
At the same time the Government recognises its duty of protecting and maintaining their interests by ensuring that national service obligations are not avoided. [More…]
How many men were (a) examined and (b) rejected as medically unfit in each centre in each of those years. [More…]
and (2) Medical examinations for national service purposes are arranged at many centres throughout Australia having regard to the availability of doctors, the facilities necessary to ensure accurate determination of fitness for service and the numbers of men to be examined in the area in the particular series of examinations. [More…]
Men are directed to attend at the centre most convenient to them at the time. [More…]
In remote areas, special arrangements are frequently made to ensure the least inconvenience to the men concerned. [More…]
Thus all men resident in a specific place would not necessarily always be examined at the same centre. [More…]
Men who are temporarily absent from their homes, especially students, would often be examined away from home. [More…]
However, as to the number of men rejected on medical grounds generally, I would refer to my reply to Question No. [More…]
The Minister hinted that a re-training scheme will be introduced by the Government at some future date. [More…]
Men aged about 42 or 43 years have complained to me that they have found it very hard to obtain a position. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that if a re- training scheme is introduced, some heed should be taken of the reference by the honourable member for Bradfield to servicemen. [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…]
I know that the Government parties have worked intensely, untiringly and unceasingly over the last few months to find a solution to this most complex problem. [More…]
It is most encouraging to find that our Liberal colleagues - men who normally would not be expected completely to understand the disastrous situation which exists in these areas - now are fully aware of the position. [More…]
Do you not think it is an intolerable situation and an astonishing thing that 60 men such as those opposite should stay here and behave like this while the tinpot tyrant has gone home to bed? [More…]
How many men would it take to do this in Australia? [More…]
The honourable member for Isaacs (Mr Hamer) mentioned this a little in his speech. [More…]
Men in a small way of business must .be as free to succeed as men in a big way of. [More…]
When servicemen are overseas they are covered by the Repatriation Act, but it is our view that they should be covered by the Repatriation Act once they eater the Services. [More…]
It ii ridiculous that men who may be training for war and who before they actually go overseas are subjected to quite a number of dangers that they would not meet in their ordinary working life should come under the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act and not under the provisions of the Repatriation Act. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act was originally framed for those engaged in civil employment and not for men who may be in the Army or undergoing national service. [More…]
Let me refer to servicemen who are sent to non-war zones outside Australia, such as Singapore, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea and other places. [More…]
Servicemen are sent to these areas where motor vehicle and third party insurance does not apply. [More…]
These men go to these places under directions from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Let me refer to another section of servicemen - men who have been accepted by the Services, who have passed the medical test and who at a later date suffer from a condition which is diagnosed as congenital although they did not know of it as such. [More…]
The medical officers who examined these men did not find congenital situations at the time, and when these men meet with accidents and suffer greatly they are not compensated under the Compensation (Commonwealth Employees) Act. [More…]
Then there is the matter of interest rate and government guarantee in the fund. [More…]
What types of benefits should be provided in a retirement scheme? [More…]
Should they cover health, invalidity, retrenchment, reemployment and so on? [More…]
Should the retirement benefit be related directly to salary? [More…]
At what age should retirement benefit be available for men and women? [More…]
How should retirement benefits vary in relation to age at retirement? [More…]
Should employees be able to elect for various levels of retirement benefit? [More…]
Also there is the adjustment of benefit and contributions with increases in salary. [More…]
They have done a particularly fine job in making repayments. [More…]
But now, in 1971, a situation has developed which touches on a key community in New South Wales - a fine community of men, women and children who are involved in the cannery. [More…]
I am sure that the honourable member for Murray will develop that theme but let me get on with my theme in relation to the Leeton cannery which is covered by the amendment. [More…]
Loan funds to pay fruit men. [More…]
He must have a good bed somewhere in this establishment because he was not in the chamber. [More…]
The point I wish to make is that the Government has not been supported tonight by the Liberal Party members of the coalition on this issue. [More…]
The amendment does not in any way detract from the fact that the Opposition is not opposing this measure. [More…]
There was never anything stabilised in the rural industry till a Labor government came to office under Chifley. [More…]
Guaranteed markets, stabilised prices and prosperity for country people was the policy of the Chifley government. [More…]
All Australia could then see that it is time that it elected Labor Party men in country seats instead of Country Party people. [More…]
It was sacking men. [More…]
If those men were sacked - I have not checked on this-and were not given employment elsewhere, would this Government introduce a measure in this House to provide the payment of some remuneration to these men? [More…]
The Government adopts 2 standards and it will continue to adopt 2 standards. [More…]
The Government is so inward looking that it will turn a circle and fall over within it. [More…]
I understand that the manager of this concern spoke to some people in Adelaide because of the fact that the factory could collapse and go completely out of production and that the Government has apparently had a look at the situation and made certain recommendations. [More…]
I understand that certain new machinery and what-have-you was to be introduced, but no mention is made of this in the Bill before the House. [More…]
I would like to point out that the measure we are concerned with is an advance to a State governmentit is not an advance to a private company. [More…]
I understand that on a number of other occasions, particularly in circumstances where there has been distress of one sort or another, similar Bills have been introduced for payments to State governments, which, of course, administer the payments and make the loans available, as in this instance, to the particular individuals or organisations. [More…]
The terms of the repayments are, of course, set out in the schedule to the Bill. [More…]
In other words, it is not a measure that is intended to assist the big men. [More…]
I am sure that if in the ‘Daly Daily’ or the Grayndler Gaiety’ there was a column which took count of deserving causes there would be room for the very deserving fruit growers of the Murray Valley, who, in the circumstances of mismanagement and over-supply in past years, would have been denied any opportunity of being paid for their fruit. [More…]
They were given very profound examination by the Victorian State Government as a result of which a request was put to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
men, not now covered by the pensioner medical service, with a medical and hospital benefit organisation for the year 1971-72. [More…]
Can he say what is the cost, and who pays the cost, of (a) training an ambulance bearer in Sydney, (b) wages of (i) ambulance men and (ii) trainees, (c) capital equipment and annual depreciation of an ambulance and (d) non-capital running costs per mile of an ambulance. [More…]
How many officers and men are actually engaged in each case. [More…]
What is the shortage of officers and men. [More…]
Were these men detained in RAAF custody until a court martial was convened to try them on 21st July 1970. [More…]
Was the matter then referred to the convening authority and the threat of a further court martial held over the men for another 11 days until 18th August 1970 when the Department informed the press that no further proceedings were contemplated. [More…]
Is it a fact that these men were not officially notified of the intention of the Department not to proceed against them until they received a letter dated 10th December 1970 signed by the Secretary, Department of Air. [More…]
Has the Department of Air subsequently refused to compensate these men for loss of wages incurred from the time of their arrest until the conclusion of the proceedings. [More…]
This was during the week when there were many rumours that the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury), the former Foreign Minister, would be relieved of his post and yet the right honourable gentleman volunteered the statement that there was no truth in these rumours. [More…]
There were 200 gentlemen at this dinner. [More…]
There are scores of men in this chamber who know that he was spreading that rumour before and that the rumour was correct. [More…]
There are 100 businessmen and journalists around Australia who could give evidence that they received calls from the Prime Minister at that time. [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…]
They are the men who will not be contributing to the Liberal Party funds for the next election, whenever it comes. [More…]
We have reached this incredible stage where a government has a vested interest in the bad that can happen in a. country aud has actively and openly encouraged the bad to happen. [More…]
There is no future for such a government. [More…]
There is no future for a nation governed by such a government. [More…]
There are men on the other side who know very well and who feel very deeply the truth of what 1 am now saying. [More…]
The other Ministers whom the present Prime Minister has dismissed are men of considerable skill, as anybody in this chamber would acknowledge and as anybody knowing the courts would also acknowledge. [More…]
What these men have said in public is the view of increasing numbers of Liberal supporters in this country. [More…]
They know quite well that under this Prime Minister their Party as well as this country is going from bad to worse, and they realise that the only way to sweep out the men of the past, to sweep out the ideas of the past, is for them to go into opposition. [More…]
I put it that there are men in this chamber on the Government side who realise that to have an election now. [More…]
for the Opposition to become the Government and for the Liberal Party to go into opposition, is the best chance of having a proper cohesive government in this country. [More…]
I want it to have a new lease of life because 1 recognise the significance to our community and our nation of the other partner in our 2-party system of government. [More…]
We cannot continue with a Government which desires disaster. [More…]
Let me mention one or two facts. [More…]
Not one of the statements that the honourable gentleman made about me is true in substance. [More…]
The men to whom I was clerking. [More…]
Sir Norman Cowper and Mr Arthur Hemsley, asked me to sign the document. [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…]
The other important unfinished business in this Department is the reforms flowing from the recommendations of the Kerr Committee. [More…]
Some of the recommendations of the Committee’s interim report were accepted by the right honourable member for Higgins and are contained in the Budget. [More…]
Now this whole process of improving pay and conditions has been thrown into jeopardy by the appointment of a new Minister. [More…]
The Kerr Committee was initiated by one Minister who should have been permitted to oversee it and supervise the introduction of its recommended reforms. [More…]
The effect of these rapid changes must be to confuse the processes of reform in the defence administration and in the pay and conditions of servicemen. [More…]
It will do nothing to stop the haemorrhage of officers and skilled men from the armed Services. [More…]
In short, I believe that both men - the right honourable member for Higgins, for reasons he has given, and the Prime Minister, for reasons he has given - were compelled to act as they did. [More…]
He is brutal in his treatment of those who cross him and power-hungry in his dealings and manipulations of men and events. [More…]
When we look at the sorry sordid sight that fails to grace the benches opposite one is able to understand why the Government has lost all sense of direction. [More…]
It is more like a tin of worms or a bag full of cats than a Cabinet of responsible men. [More…]
If he takes the view that his attitude is to be vindicated, that he is right and we are wrong, that he is better fitted and equipped to serve this country then let him answer such questions as these: Did he and his Party not go through the turbulence of the 36 faceless men while waiting outside the hotel? [More…]
What was it that possessed the honourable gentleman to describe his own Federal Executive as witless men? [More…]
In general these are the rates applicable to single men living in service quarters. [More…]
Married men receive further allowances totalling $712 per annum, and in addition all members receive uniform allowance, free medical and dental attention and other benefits. [More…]
Finally, I should like to take this opportunity of commending the excellent work which Mr Justice Kerr and his Committee have carried out to the present time. [More…]
The unqualified acceptance by the Government of all the recommendations made by the Committee in relation to other ranks pay is a demonstration both of confidence in the Committee and the Government’s determinnation to provide financial and other conditions of service sufficient to attract and retain men and women with the needed qualities, skills and experience for the Australian Forces. [More…]
Is the Minister for Trade and Industry aware that 150 men are being retrenched at the Associated Pulp and Paper Ltd mill at Burnie in Tasmania and that ils subsidiary at Ballarat in Victoria is reducing its working week from 7 days to 5 days because of lack of orders due to imports from overseas? [More…]
Will the Minister make urgent inquiries into the rate of imports and the landed costs of writing paper and printing paper, both coated and uncoated, from overseas countries to see whether action by the Government to protect the local industry is warranted? [More…]
In conclusion, will the Minister initiate a campaign through all Government departments and instrumentalities to buy Australian made products, as was done 10 years ago, in an attempt to assist the paper industry in this country? [More…]
I am not aware that men have been put off at the various mills to which the honourable member referred. [More…]
When I returned from a recent trip to various countries I stated that if Australia was to maintain its high standard of living and its high rate of development it would have to become more dependent than ever on rapid industrial expansion. [More…]
Industrial development in this country will depend upon our manufacturers being able to produce high quality products efficiently and meet the best of competition around the world. [More…]
In the statement that he made this afternoon the Minister informed the House that the decision to build a nuclear power station at Jervis Bay was taken late in 1968. [More…]
The amendment moved by the Opposition last year was a genuine attempt by the Opposition to clear up some of the doubts that existed in the minds of not only honourable members on this side of the House but also noted scientists outside the Parliament - men with reputations in the field of atomic science, physics and other related matters. [More…]
The Opposition moved an amendment in the debate on the Estimates in order to give the Government an opportunity to examine thoroughly the economics of the introduction of nuclear power in Australia, particularly as it had been estimated by Sir Philip Baxter, the Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, that by the year 2000 something like $5,000m would have been spent on nuclear power stations throughout Australia. [More…]
In the statement that he made today the Minister suggested that the deferment was on economic grounds. [More…]
Tn a statement on 1st June 1971 he said: [More…]
The major portion of our defence manpower is obtained by volunteer recruitment. [More…]
Fully trained former national servicemen in the Reserve are of particular significance. [More…]
Reviewing the situation the Government has concluded that there can be some reduction in the number of men serving full time in the Army. [More…]
The Government accordingly proposes to reduce the full time strength of the Army by some 4,000 in the immediate future. [More…]
The present total liability of 5 years’ service for national servicemen will remain unchanged. [More…]
National servicemen will be required to serve only 18 months full time. [More…]
There will be complementary reductions in the period of part time service in the Citizen Forces which is at present available as an alternative to full time national service. [More…]
These men will now normally serve a period of 5 years in the Citizen Forces. [More…]
The number of men to be called up each year under the national service scheme, about 8,000, will be unchanged. [More…]
At present, with 2 years’ full time service, this means a total of some 16,000 full time national servicemen in the Army at any one time. [More…]
With only 18 months’ full time service, the number of full time national servicemen serving in the Army at any one time will fall to about 12,000. [More…]
The Government will review force levels as necessary as part of the 5-year defence rolling programme. [More…]
It is important against the strategic outlook for the 1970s and the 1980s to have the right balance of equipment and men in the defence forces as a whole. [More…]
Close attention will continue to be given to all practicable means of increasing voluntary recruitment. [More…]
Before the introduction of national service in 1964 there were improvements in pay but their effect on recruitment was only marginal. [More…]
Since then there have been substantial improvements not only in pay but in other conditions of service, for example, the provision of many more married quarters and much improved barrack accommodation. [More…]
The Government’s establishment of the Kerr Committee, and the decisions it has already taken on the findings of that Committee, are further important steps. [More…]
The Government will continue to ensure that conditions of service in our armed forces are as attractive as they can reasonably be with the aim of ensuring that the proportion of volunteers will be as large as practicable. [More…]
Despite all the evidence of the Gates Commission which reported to President Nixon, and despite the followup articles and investigations by academics, journalists and many military men in Australia on this issue, we still persist with the divisive, expensive, extravagant and wasteful system of national service in Australia. [More…]
If we had decent conditions not only for the officers and men of our armed forces, particularly the Army, but also for their families and their dependants, if we were to see that while they were in the forces and when they got out when they were still young and active they had conditions as good as their civilian contemporaries, we would be able to have a volunteer Army of sufficient size and we would be able to retain those senior NCOs and those junior officers whom we cannot conscript. [More…]
The cost of giving decent conditions for men of the armed forces, for their dependants, and for both when those mcn resign or retire would be very much less than the cost of continuing the system of national service. [More…]
According to Government logic this gives the green light for the 2 battalions and other units still in Phuoc Tuy to be withdrawn. [More…]
After 6 years of commitment, the spending of more than S200m and the loss of some 460 men killed and 2,200 wounded the war is almost over for Australian servicemen. [More…]
I agree wilh what has been said about reducing the period of national service training to 18 months because when an army is brought home it is not always easy to keep the men fully occupied for 2 years. [More…]
When members opposite suggest, as did the Leader of the Opposition, that the national servicemen will be given war service homes and given this and that - they are to be given gold swords and gold spurs - all I can say is that this has never been done in the past by any Labor government. [More…]
We on this side of the House have said that the Government should never have sent troops there, that there is no possible solution to the political problems of this part of the world through Australian military action, and that it would only be by diplomatic initiative that we would make any sensible contribution. [More…]
I have said in this House often, and I say again, that in this kind of conflict Australia’s only possible military contribution has been the sacrifice of helpless young men who have been grabbed up and carted off and dealt with as if they were so many cattle or shuffled like so many cards by the people opposite who are completely insensitive to every human feeling. [More…]
As I said earlier, and as has been demonstrated often in the past, the Government acts only if America acts and if America is going home Australia is prepared to go home. [More…]
So it is an act of complete national immorality to retain the young men in Vietnam. [More…]
For every hour they are there, those 5,000, 6,000 or 7,000 men are in mortal peril. [More…]
Together with my colleague, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, I say that if the Government is going to bring them home the only moral action is to bring them home now. [More…]
Five hundred young men have been killed. [More…]
Those of them who were young national servicemen taken in at the age of 20 and who are totally incapacitated and are now living on repatriation benefits were conscripted into a lifetime of poverty. [More…]
The Prime Minister said that he is going to reduce the full time strength of the Army by 4,000 men and that the period of national service will be reduced to 18 months. [More…]
I believe it is completely uneconomic and I am supported in that view by a recent publication of the ‘Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence’.I will not read it all as I have only a few moments left, but it is an article written by a Mr McGurr. [More…]
It states: The Report of the Gates Commission points out that the budget cost of paying men in military employment is not necessarily the real cost to the nation. [More…]
What right has he to sacrifice some young men for whatever his idea of security might be? [More…]
If we are short of policemen we do not call people up to be policemen. [More…]
Let us examine for one moment Australia’s strategic situation. [More…]
Really the people who are paying the bill are the young men who are called up. [More…]
I have gone to meetings of the Draft Resisters Union - good solid young men who are struggling with their consciences. [More…]
I will not support the foreign policies of this Government.’ [More…]
I see these young men at these meetings, always on their own. [More…]
The Australian Government decided to do that. [More…]
The honourable mem ber for Wills referred to the great suffering and disabilities which have been inflicted on Australian servicemen in Vietnam. [More…]
Let him put the blame where it lies, on the Communist Government of North Vietnam. [More…]
There would have been no need for our forces to go there to defend South Vietnam but for the aggression of the Communist Government of North Vietnam. [More…]
The honourable member for Wills also wanted to know what right this Government had to call up young men for national service. [More…]
In addition, it is important to mention that very effective work has been carried out in South Vietnam in the field of civil aid. [More…]
Officers and men have conducted English classes for adults and children. [More…]
Experimental farms have been established to assist in diversification in agricultural programmes sponsored by the South Vietnamese Government. [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…]
We have to examine whether it was worth maiming nearly 2,500 of our young men. [More…]
These are the things we have to examine, as the United States of America is examining its cost of 50,000 United States lives and S 125,000m since involvement and, worst of all - I say this as an Australian - the deaths of over 1 million Vietnamese. [More…]
Was our involvement in Vietnam worth it? [More…]
The great crime of the United States Government - the Government of the most powerful nation on earth - is that it has inflicted over 10.000 million tons of TNT on the people of Vietnam. [More…]
Those men, many of them in the Pentagon lusting for power, wanted to bomb these people back to the Stone Age. [More…]
In fairness to the United States, because there is something great in that nation, not only the students, academics and people from all walks of life but also parliamentarians from both sides of the Congress have examined their guilt, and 58 per cent of the American people have said that it was immoral that the United States should have involved itself in Vietnam at all. [More…]
Parliamentarians from both sides of the fence, Republicans and Democrats alike, have condemned the barbarism and the action of the United States Government, whether it be a Democrat or Republican administration, in Vietnam. [More…]
But I ask: Has the Australian Government examined its guilt? [More…]
Why is it that in this country businessmen, newspaper men, students and academics can examine their guilt and say that they were wrong, but not the parliamentarians. [More…]
It has been put on public record by men such as Dean Rusk and Cabot Lodge that the United States both privately and publicly put pressure on their NATO and SEATO allies to give them military support in Vietnam, but they all refused except the Australian Government and a few lonely New Zealanders. [More…]
We did so because we believed that this commitment would act as an insurance policy. [More…]
This Government has to examine whether that insurance policy has paid off. [More…]
I say to every member of the Government that he will have blood on his hands for the rest of his life. [More…]
Every Prime Minister, every member of the Government, every member of the Liberal and Country Parties since we became involved in Vietnam will be remembered by me because of his lack of moral courage. [More…]
They all have blood on their hands because they committed young men to Vietnam as a very doubtful insurance policy. [More…]
The Government had built up some mythical fear that the Asian hordes would come down and threaten us in the future. [More…]
We might then find that the stupidity of our involvement in this cesspool of Vietnam, this quagmire of Vietnam, has not only cost us the lives of men but has threatened our financial resources. [More…]
1 ask the Government to examine its guilt, its stupidity and blundering in becoming involved in this cheap and degrading insurance policy. [More…]
It is gambling with the lives of our young men. [More…]
Why has this Government adopted a monolithic approach? [More…]
Why has not one supporter of the Government questioned whether the Government’s policies on Vietnam have been wrong? [More…]
Why has not one supporter of the Government had the courage to speak out publicly against the Government’s policy? [More…]
Why have honourable members opposite been so monolithic in their support when in the United States both Republicans and Democrats alike have opposed their Government’s policy, whether it be Democratic policy or Republican policy? [More…]
The Government should at least start to examine the failure of its policies. [More…]
If it does not there is no hope for it, for the people or for honourable members opposite as parliamentarians. [More…]
Mr Speaker, 1 wish the Government had brought our men out of Vietnam earlier. [More…]
I was a Minister in a wartime government that conscripted kids and other people to fight for the defence of this country and I would agree to that policy being adopted again if this country were threatened with an invasion by people who were near our shores. [More…]
I am glad that I have lived to be a member of this Parliament still when the final chapter on that awful Vietnamese encounter is about to be written. [More…]
From my own experience there and from seeing many of the refugees in the camps, I have no doubt about the truth of that statement and the fact that the situation cannot but deteriorate. [More…]
This question is causing tremendous political friction between the refugees and the West Bengalis. [More…]
The presence of a great number of additional men is flooding the labour market. [More…]
This can only cause a tremendously explosive political situation. [More…]
This creates a tremendous problem for India because these refugees are entering an area of India which is in many ways an industrial area. [More…]
There has been great unemployment. [More…]
So we have this situation of the young men going off to join the independence army of Bangla Desh. [More…]
They are sending out teams to say to the refugees that their present situation is in no small measure brough about by the fact that the Government of India has not recognised Bangla Desh. [More…]
One of the results of this is that there is practically no wool content in most of the fashion goods which are currently available in the shops for either men or women. [More…]
Good quality woollen garments are just not available in any quantity. [More…]
What was the total number of young men who (a) registered, (b) volunteered for Citizen Forces training as an alternative to national service training and (c) were finally inducted into national service training each year during which the current national service training scheme has been in operation? [More…]
What is the estimated number of men who were eligible to register for national service training who in fact failed to register? [More…]
How many men in each State sought exemption from national service training on conscientious grounds and how many of them were granted exemption? [More…]
The argument of the Army has always been that 2 years were needed because it took 1 year to train a soldier thoroughly. [More…]
With Vietnam over the Government could not be expected to find in the twinkling of an eye another war for these yoting men in their second year. [More…]
The obvious solution for the Government, given its commitment to selective national service, would have been on the lines suggested by the honourable member for Wannon - to cut national service from 2 years to 1 year and double the call-up. [More…]
It is disputable whether there was ever any real need to call up men for longer than 12 months, even on the Government’s own terms. [More…]
These reservations are not confined to the Government; they are held by important sections of the Labor movement. [More…]
The first is the limited number of young men involved. [More…]
There are suitable outlets for the limited number of young men who decided to choose alternative civilian service in accordance with the dictates of their conscience. [More…]
For example the non-combatant element of the Army could be extended to provide jobs of a civilian nature for some of these men. [More…]
Another alternative would be suitable work within the Commonwealth and State public services or Territory administrations relevant to the aptitude, skill and education of men who want to opt for this type of alternative. [More…]
The second reason why I think objections to alternative service are overstated is that the pay rates of servicemen are moving much closer to civilian pay rates. [More…]
Pay differences between civilians and servicemen will always be a contentious matter but this should not arise in a future alternative scheme if the Kerr Committee does - as I am sure it will - an effective job. [More…]
Overtime would be paid if the area of employment meant extra hours of work. [More…]
This shows that 9 out of 10 applicants for total exemption have been granted that stutus There may have been improvements in the interpretation and administration of these provisions in the past 2 years, but the fact remains that under the present Act young men can still be gaoled for 2 years for refusing to comply with the Act in any way. [More…]
As the honourable member for Grayndler interjects, this is a shocking indictment of the Government. [More…]
It is a shocking judgment of a society that bases its legislation on a democratic principle. [More…]
It is no good saying that these men ought to apply for conscientious objector status. [More…]
The Department of Labour and National Service has the discretionary power to treat them as conscientious objectors and refer them to the courts for determination of their status. [More…]
Where young men refuse to comply with the Act in any way and the Department refuses to use its discretionary power, then the odium of a 2-year gaol sentence remains. [More…]
No-one can presume to judge the consciences of these young men. [More…]
They may be people with subtle shades of conscientious objection beyond the Department’s ability or willingness to comprehend. [More…]
At the moment 2 young men are in gaol for taking their conscientious objection to national service to the utmost extent. [More…]
He said in a typed statement which he distributed to his friends before the court case - I quote from the Adelaide Advertiser’: [More…]
At a time when the end of the Vietnam war is in sight it is monstrous that 2 men who pushed their objection to the war to the hilt should remain in prison. [More…]
There is no need for the Government to pursue its vindictive course against these men at a time when the folly of its Vietnam commitment is clearly exposed. [More…]
It will remain a permanent blot on this Government that for purely political reasons it consistently refused to give conscientious objector status to young men who were prepared to defend their country but could not in conscience accept the Vietnam commitment. [More…]
This amendment which is proposed for the Bill would allow a much more flexible operation of the provisions of the Act. [More…]
Immediate implementation of this policy would mean a substantial reduction in the size of the Australian Army to less than 30,000 men. [More…]
The Government’s decision and consistent policy to maintain national service on a continuing basis is a policy which is in the best interests of the defence security of Australia and is certainly a policy which has been endorsed by the majority of Australians, as evidenced in continuing gallup polls which have taken place on this subject in recent years. [More…]
This therefore is one of the major areas of disagreement between the Government and the Opposition in terms of defence. [More…]
It is not enough to say that should the need for defence arise the men and capability will be forthcoming or, as is sometimes suggested, that a reservoir of men established by a short term of basic training could be brought to the necessary level of proficiency in sufficient time. [More…]
I think that we should remember here that we are talking about a situation where one-third of the Army would require replacement, not what can be done to increase the Army’s numbers by a few men to make things appear in a better perspective. [More…]
As I said at that time, any civilian alternative would need to meet a number of quite fundamental criteria. [More…]
The alternative open to all men which the Bill proposes would involve the Government in exceeding its constitutional powers. [More…]
It would amount to direction of manpower which constitutionally the Government can assume only in time of declared war. [More…]
Men would need to be provided with suitable working opportunities in lieu of full time military service though, no doubt, some men would find work on their own. [More…]
In either case, it would need to be acceptable to the Government. [More…]
The men would be required to carry out efficiently the work which they are undertaking and to be subject to the same penalities which apply to men who fail to render the military service required of them. [More…]
Thirdly, in terms of criteria, there must be equity vis-a-vis the overwhelming majority of men who undertake the military service for which they are liable. [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…]
The Opposition’s proposal could achieve this objective only by balloting in and calling up an additional number of men. [More…]
The first is that substantial numbers of young men are defaulting from their obligations under the Act. [More…]
The facts indicate that’ the’ overwhelming majority’ of men arc complying with the obligations required of them from the period of registration through to that of actual service. [More…]
During the last’ year, 1970-71, compared with 107,000 men who registered, 1,924 - or fewer than 2 per cent - were denied the benefit of the national service ballot because they failed to register at the proper time. [More…]
Moreover, to impute to all these men opposition to national service as the main reason for their failure would be. [More…]
In the same period more than 8,200 men were called up and enlisted. [More…]
Fewer than I per cent, some 62 men, failed to report without reasonable excuse. [More…]
And to underline the point, some 750 men - or 9 per cent of those called up - actually volunteered for service. [More…]
Furthermore, only a minority of men who have refused to report for service have gone to gaol, a fact which is not widely appreciated when this matter is discussed in the general community. [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…]
Two men who refused to seek recognition as conscientious objectors were referred to the courts by the Minister, and established that they were entitled to exemption. [More…]
Two men who had previously refused to attend for medical examination and had been convicted of that offence, including serving of 7 days imprisonment, underwent a medical examination and were found not to meet the Army’s standards of fitness. [More…]
Two men were prosecuted for refusal to report. [More…]
One man was granted 5 months temporary deferment by the courts on the grounds of exceptional hardship. [More…]
Of the 19, 2 men persisted in their refusal to honour their obligations under the Act. [More…]
They were dealt with according to law and were sentenced upon conviction to a period of imprisonment equivalent to the period of national service for which they were liable. [More…]
- fewer than 1 per cent failed to report for service, and 2 out of 19 men who failed to report and whose cases were finalised were imprisoned. [More…]
By contrast, 9 per cent of the men called up and enlisted were volunteers. [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…]
The second assumption underlining a civilian alternative is that it would be acceptable to men who refused to serve. [More…]
Indeed, let me say here on this particular point that if the statements of a number of men concerned are taken at their face value, few of them would do so because it is clear, according to officers of my Department who have studied the text of these statements, that they are apparently opposed to conscription per se. [More…]
I might briefly mention here the proposals in the Bill to amend the procedure for prosecution of men who fail to report 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…]
This is doubly so if one has regard to the Prime Minister’s statement of last evening concerning withdrawal of the Australian troops from Vietnam, because our involvement in Vietnam has been the primary ground for seeking selective objection. [More…]
For my own part, I do not propose to traverse these earlier debates but I wish to briefly refer to a recent judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States of America which has created considerable interest in this country. [More…]
The judgment of the court pointed out that selective objection may be found more in political considerations and non conscientious beliefs than otherwise. [More…]
The bench also pointed to the effect which recognition of selective objection could have on other men who agree with the particular objector at all points, but nevertheless would not seek exemption or assert their selective objection because they held themselves bound by democratic processes under which the Government has decided that the objections raised to the particular conflict should be overridden. [More…]
Arrangements for hearing conscientious objector issues need to be acceptable to the men concerned, the organisations, groups and individuals, such as legal representatives and, of course, the community generally. [More…]
Furthermore, under the new arrangements established places of hearing are available in all major population centres generally convenient to applicants and their witnesses. [More…]
Approximately 80 per cent of men who apply for total exemption are successful and are being granted the exemption they seek by the courts. [More…]
These factors, I believe, make it clear that there is no need to amend the present position. [More…]
Indeed, what the Opposition proposes would be less advantageous for the reasons which I have mentioned. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition raised with me in speaking to this debate and in introducing the Bill the question of the release of the 2 men who are currently in gaol for failure to render service. [More…]
I remind the Opposition that both of these men had a clear liability to undertake national service. [More…]
I remind the Opposition also that neither of the 2 men concerned has, in fact, claimed exemption as a conscientious objector. [More…]
I simply make a statement here to members of the Opposition to make the point clear: As Minister for Labour and National Service I have no power to release young men from gaol. [More…]
But if the Opposition is indicating that the position of either of these men has changed- [More…]
He has given no consideration to the real defence of the nation and has made no attempt to understand the moral issues or the position in which the young men to whom he was referring find themselves. [More…]
One of the deep arguments that I have with my friends opposite is that they have not made any efforts to get hold of young men aged 20 and 21 and get into their minds to understand the moral and spiritual stand they are taking. [More…]
It seems that on this issue the Government and its members, through party discipline, have erected a barrier. [More…]
So in the time I have left to me this morning I can speak only in a kind of parliamentary shorthand. [More…]
The present scheme of national service as implemented is capricious in the extreme. [More…]
It selects men by chance - by birth dates drawn by ballot. [More…]
What right has the Government to play God with some young men’s lives and take away their freedom, whether it be by putting them in gaol or by putting them into the Army? [More…]
Is not this what the Government is doing? [More…]
Is not this what is being said when it allows 90 per cent of Australia’s young men to remain at home and says to the other 10 per cent: ‘You have no freedom. [More…]
I know that so many young Australian men take more or less the position that I do. [More…]
I know dozens of these young men. [More…]
Deep in the heart of these young men is the very spirit that this nation needs in its defence, and the present situation is most distressing. [More…]
I say that the Government has no right to dispose of the lives or freedom of any individual or collection of individuals. [More…]
Members of the Government Parties take refuge in anachronisms and generalities. [More…]
However, I would ask the Government: Why were 20-year olds chosen for national service? [More…]
Was it because the Government regards a 20-year old as the most efficient soldier? [More…]
I am not suggesting that these young men have not been turned into efficient soldiers, but it is well known that a person does not acquire in his late teens the spiritual, moral and physical strength needed of soldiers. [More…]
If the Minister wanted the best 9 battalions he could get, would he choose his men as they are chosen for national service? [More…]
But these young men are picked because they are the cheapest. [More…]
It is damn nonsense in anybody’s language; it is an act of incredible folly: it is an act of great injustice to a team of young men. [More…]
I for one believe deeply that the community has abdicated its responsibility to the young men of Australia. [More…]
If the Government has the guts, the strength and the nerve and believed in its policy, it should perhaps call up 25-year-olds. [More…]
The best we can do is to attempt to mitigate the hardship of the young men of Australia. [More…]
I have been to the court on a number of occasions when these young men have been there. [More…]
It would do him good if he went into court to see what happens to the young men and whether the principles of law, as he understands them, are applied. [More…]
These young men are absolutely, totally and completely helpless in the grip of the law. [More…]
The Minister says that these young men have not honoured their obligations. [More…]
We want the cases of young men like Mullen and Martin reconsidered absolutely. [More…]
I think it is a disgrace that these two men are in prison. [More…]
The High Court of Australia has ruled that a case does not need to be on indictment. [More…]
I have the honour to refer to your letter of today’s date confirming the Australian Government’s oiler to send to Vietnam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support to serve wilh United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
1 wish to confirm my government’s acceptance of this offer and to request the dispatch of this force to Vietnam on the basis which we discussed. [More…]
I have the honour, with reference to our conversation yesterday, to confirm the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support, to serve with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Viet Nam. [More…]
I have the honor to refer to your letter of today’s date confirming the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support to serve with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic nf Vietnam. [More…]
There are 2 things that I wish to say at the outset about the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
One is that I would like to see more men handle the Foreign Affairs portfolio. [More…]
That statement appears rather thoughtless, I suppose, of the stability of the Department, but at least it would be of benefit to the Government. [More…]
I remember going to hear my predecessor, the former honourable member for Forrest, speak at a public meeting on the subject of our involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
I asked him whether the figure I have just quoted or figures similar to those were correct when he used the argument that we were in Vietnam because China was involved. [More…]
That was at a time when the United States of America had sent 125,000 men 7,500 miles across the sea to within tens of miles of the Chinese border to fight. [More…]
At the same time, the South Vietnam Government has announced that it would consider the possibility of holding elections right across the country to elect a government for the re-unified Vietnam. [More…]
The denial of elections was the very cause for our involvement in the first place. [More…]
where the American Government was advised not to be drawn into it, we arrived at the point from which we departed with the following result: The Vietnam war has cost the United States close to $200,000m. [More…]
It has cost the United States 44,000 men killed in action and 7,600 aircraft lost, he United States has dropped 5.5 million ions of bombs, or twice the total amount of United States bombs dropped in World War II. [More…]
Both men expounded the view that they regarded Formosa as an integral part of China. [More…]
So the United Sta’.es moved to assert aid to other nonCommunist governments around the perimeter of Asia should they be attacked, and those governments included Formosa and IndoChina. [More…]
I have the honour to refer to your letter of today’s date confirming the Australian Government’s offer to send to Vietnam an infantry battalion of 800 men. [More…]
The Minister for the Army may have been afraid of losing his standing as one of Australia’s best groomed men. [More…]
This debate has been an interesting one for this Parliament and it will be for the benefit of Australia. [More…]
The Australian people as a whole sighed with relief at the Government’s decision to withdraw Australian troops from Vietnam. [More…]
I want to make some reference to the remarks of some Government supporters who still cling to the hawkish line in international affairs. [More…]
This afternoon the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) appeared to have some feeling of repentance at the Government’s action in connection with conscription. [More…]
It was only a matter of time before this Government would change its policy on conscription because public opinion polls have shown a swing against the Government from month to month because of its continued policy on conscription. [More…]
The honourable member for Lyne said that not only had members of the Opposition placed a great strain on the Government in connection with its Vietnam policy but that other honourable members had felt the same way. [More…]
The honourable member, like other honourable members on the Government side, has never had the courage to stand and denounce the Government as did the late Senator Hannaford, who resigned from the Libera] Party because of the Government’s Vietnam policy. [More…]
The Government is positively defensive in regard to its South East Asian policy and particularly its nonrecognition of the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
The Government is concerned at its loss of substantial wheat sales to China. [More…]
I have heard Government supporters say that they would not sell any wheat to China; that they would sooner let the people of China starve. [More…]
That is a ridiculous statement to make when one looks at our wheat sales to China. [More…]
This Government is worried because of the crisis which exists in the rural industry. [More…]
One of the most talented men in the Department of Foreign Affairs resigned and wrote a book on Tibet entitled ‘In Fear of China’. [More…]
Whilst overseas I also attended a meeting of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development at which Australia was invited to become a member. [More…]
At that meeting it was agreed to establish a high-level study group consisting of a small number of very experienced and skilled men to prepare a study on the whole future of world trade. [More…]
We would expect the study group to report its findings within a year or so and this should be a blueprint towards the future development of international trading relations. [More…]
This, of course, echoes the Leader of the Opposition who said that when young men were told to go to Vietnam they should refuse to obey. [More…]
Therefore, tonight he has given expression in this Parliament to the thoughts that he would have loved to express in the caucus, but was not game to express. [More…]
Tonight in this Parliament he has tried to impress everybody under the silly impression that the Prime Minister picks men on ability. [More…]
We gave the opportunity to the greatest rebels of our time the other night in this Parliament - the former Prime Minister, the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Hughes), and the honourable member for Moreton - Killen the magnificent. [More…]
These men who can vote as they like, do what they like, speak as they like, of course as long as they do not vote the Government out, sat there silently and swallowed the words they had uttered all the week. [More…]
We have so many Ministers in this Parliament that we have a first, second and third eleven. [More…]
This Government does not muck around. [More…]
We on this side of the Parliament do not know to whom we should address questions for the simple reason that we think the former Prime Minister is much brighter than the present one. [More…]
This is the Party that tells us in this side of the Parliament what we are tied down to. [More…]
From what I can gather from the public, the Government could do with another half dozen. [More…]
Why would not the Government want to get away from this background? [More…]
This is the Government which is supposed to be running the country. [More…]
The Prime Minister does not want men of ability, and the public should realise it. [More…]
Yet despite, this situation the Government seeks the confidence of the people and attacks members of the Opposition as being disunited and for sticking to party policy. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that on the Government side of the Parliament there is dissension of a kind that has not been heard of before. [More…]
Quite honestly I did not think I would ever have to say this, but the former Prime Minister must have had a good look around him and said: T could not get anywhere with these men; it is better to get away’. [More…]
Honourable members opposite coined a phrase about the 36 faceless men at the time when the F111 aircraft were ordered in 1963. [More…]
But if ever the phrase about faceless men can be brought home and used correctly, it can be applied to honourable members opposite today. [More…]
In this chamber last night honourable members opposite referred to the question of national development. [More…]
The Government is spending thousands of millions of dollars on defence, but we are the most defenceless area in South East Asia. [More…]
In addition to that, the Government has been so hypocritical that it does not matter. [More…]
The Government will not increase the subsidies for beds in nursing homes. [More…]
It ought to accept some responsibility in this area, but not one cent has been provided in the Budget by the guilty men opposite for increased subsidies for beds in nursing homes. [More…]
I say to them: Any one of those State governments which has accepted the responsibility on behalf of the Federal Governmentto go cap in hand to the farmers in respect of the rural reconstruction scheme has indeed been foolish. [More…]
It should have pinpointed the blame to the guilty men sitting in this chamber. [More…]
He goes on to say that it is important that Ministers should be directly answerable to Parliament for the administration of their departments. [More…]
You should, and I know that you will, think long and very carefully over this proposal that is now being imposed upon the Parliament. [More…]
I believe that the Parliament itself cannot take this thing lightly. [More…]
Precedents set by laymen become the accepted law of the country. [More…]
This precedent is making a law and if you make a law now that will permit the appointment of Assistant Ministers who will be members of the Executive Council, there ls nothing to stop the present Prime Minister appointing another 6 next month, another 6 the month after and another 6 the month after that. [More…]
What is there to stop the Prime Minister appointing every person sitting on the Government benches as an Assistant Minister? [More…]
They will not hold an office of profit under the Crown, but they will be members of the Executive Council and will be permitted, subject to the Minister’s delegated authority, to make appointments and to give effect to the decisions that would normally be carried out by the Minister. [More…]
This, I believe, is such a serious matter that the people of Australia will expect the Parliament to first clear the decks before it goes on with this proposal. [More…]
I would hope that honourable members will think as though they arc Australians - not Labor Party supporters, Liberal Party supporters or anything else - and remember that this is just one step closer to the demise of parliamentary democracy in Australia. [More…]
I hope that the motion for the suspension of Standing Orders will be carried, at least so that the Parliament can speak and decide what will have to be the order of the day. [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…]
If the Parliament has not the courage to act, it is ultimately your duty to ignore and to refuse to accept these men as Assistant Ministers, acting in the same way as Archie Cameron did. [More…]
The one thing for which Archie Cameron will be remembered, more than for anything else, when historians get down to the job of appraising his work as Speaker, will be the way he stood up to Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
If Archie Cameron could stand up to Sir Robert Menzies I know that you, Sir, will find no difficulty in standing up to this little fellow. [More…]
This is my simple point: I do not want to be forced into the position of voting for the suspension of Standing Orders simply because no assurance is given that these people will not be sworn in until the Parliament has had an opportunity to debate the matter. [More…]
Assistant Ministers, if we are to have them, obviously should be young men with a prospect at some stage of going into the Ministry, this being a kind of apprenticeship. [More…]
I speak only because I believe that Parliament should fully discuss this whole question in the light of what the Government can say about the need for these people, their functions, how they can be integrated into the system having regard to constitutional difficulties and so on. [More…]
When these matters have been cleared by debate I would be happy for appointments to be made, if the House is in favour of this being done, but not that they should be sworn in this afternoon and the debate come on perhaps by Christmas time. [More…]
I do not think that this is the way that things ought to be done in a Parliament that takes itself seriously. [More…]
It is heavily weighted in favour of the rich wool producer at the expense of those wool producers who need help and who have a legitimate claim to help and financial assistance because of the disastrous rural policies of this Government. [More…]
The Opposition fully acknowledges the urgency of providing financial assistance to the wool industry, but it will support only a proposition which distributes government or public moneys to those producers who genuinely need help. [More…]
The present proposal of the Government is a living example of the injustice and inequity of Liberal-Country Party philosophy, blatantly giving money to the rich and deliberately discriminating against the small farmer or the big farmer who genuinely needs help. [More…]
I will not and I believe that my Party, the Australian Labor Party, will not be a party to giving public finance to men whose gross incomes are in the vicinity of S50.000, $100,000 or more per annum. [More…]
Even in this House we have men who arc reputed to be millionaires, who have assets worth millions and who will receive financial assistance under this proposal. [More…]
A person who runs 50,000 head of sheep, for example, would get $27,000 in cash under this agreement. [More…]
The subsidy will not amount to $60tn as the Government is trying to hoodwink the people into believing. [More…]
The Government should give Her Majesty’s Opposition’s shadow cabinet some assistance before it creates these new positions of Assistant Ministers. [More…]
I am reminded by one of my colleagues that when the present Leader of the House was a Parliamentary Secretary the newspapers at the time carried a cartoon that very admirably portrayed him. [More…]
The appointment of Assistant Ministers will make an absolute farce of the Parliament. [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…]
Mr Speaker, all 1 did was to repeat that the Prime Minister is known by Press men as ‘Billy the leak’. [More…]
He was known by this title because of the fact that when he was not the Prime Minister it suited him to telephone members of the Press and consequently it is now those Press men who are making the accusations, not me. [More…]
Provided they do not receive any emolument it is my opinion that they would not. [More…]
Perhaps that is simplifying it unduly but that, broadly, is basically and fundamentally the proposition. [More…]
I do not think that they would be prevented from receiving a reimbursement of their out-of-pocket expenses. [More…]
Indeed, the practice of this Parliament since federation has been consistently to appoint men to such an office. [More…]
It has not always had the same name, but if honourable members were to take the trouble of referring to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Handbook they would find that in Labor administrations and in administrations of this side of the House Assistant Ministers, Honorary Ministers and Ministers without Portfolio have been appointed. [More…]
It does not detract from this criticism one whit to say that the Attorney-General’s Department may have each case processed first by, say, the New South Wales Parole Board because our prisoners go to New South Wales. [More…]
The decision to adopt, reject or vary any recommendation that might be made by the New South Wales Parole Board would still be an administrative decision made ‘by an anonymous public servant here in Canberra. [More…]
I hasten to add that I believe that the officers of the Attorney-General’s Department are all hard working and dedicated men. [More…]
How many of these people were (a) men and (b) men accompanied by their families? [More…]
by leave - I desire to make a brief statement explaining to this House why, as a member of the Committee of Privileges, I abstained from voting on this occasion. [More…]
Two very prominent legal men were invited to advise the Committee on the evidence before it which we were considering, but they expressed completely opposite opinions. [More…]
Firstly, 1 would not pay a fine because 1 think that a law which threatens people with punishment if they dare to air their grievances in court is an unjust law. [More…]
They even tried to conceal him by dressing 5 other young constables of similar size and colouring in civilian clothes and making me pick him out of a group of young men seated in the court. [More…]
What the legal men ought to do is get down to earth and stop living up in the clouds. [More…]
I placed a question on notice to find out what were the actual ratio of days of imprisonment to fine or debt in each State. [More…]
After 22 years of Government he still wants to kick the Communist can and after so long his Government on negative policies of hysteria, still wants to stir up this attitude of personal abuse. [More…]
He said his Government would not be a satellite of any power, but every person, even school children, in this country know that this Government has been a satellite of the United States of America in regard to its policy towards Vietnam. [More…]
Does the Prime Minister want to forget the statement a former Prime Minister, Mr Harold Holt, at a time when he was in the Government, who said: ‘All the way with LBJ’, and who committed the Australian Government in Vietnam? [More…]
Of course, that commitment, that insurance policy, has cost nearly 500 young Australian servicemen their lives, over 2,500 young men have been maimed and over $200m of Australian taxpayers’ money has been spent, and the present Prime Minister who was a member of that Government talks with hypocrisy and says that he does not want to be a satellite of any power. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said when he was in China that if the Australian Government established diplomatic and normal relations with China he felt Australia would receive a fair share of the China wheat market. [More…]
In the event of the People’s Republic of China being admitted to the UN, I take it that the Nationalist Chinese Government on Taiwan will be expelled. [More…]
It will be a matter for negotiation between the People’s Republic of China in Peking and for the Chiang Kai-shek Government on Taiwan. [More…]
But does the Minister for Foreign Affairs deny that at the Cairo Conference of 1943 men of the callibre of Churchill, Roosevelt and Chiang Kai-shek agreed that Taiwan was a province of China? [More…]
Has this Government now repudiated Roosevelt, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek? [More…]
Who are honourable members on the Government side to determine that there are two Chinas? [More…]
What special, god-like authority have honourable members on the Government side? [More…]
They know, in fact, that the People’s Republic will be recognised as the rightful Government of China and will take its place in the Security Council. [More…]
Yet this is the attitude taken by the Government of the day. [More…]
It is a government of hypocrisy. [More…]
There has to be a face saving formula, whether it be for the Government of the United States of America or the Australian Government. [More…]
The Government is trying to find this formula. [More…]
I would bc one of the first people to recognise the dogma of the Chinese Government in Peking. [More…]
I said: ‘There are men in the United States who want to use atomic and nuclear weapons against you’. [More…]
He is a man of stature in the Chinese Government. [More…]
Both of these Australian Labor Party men smugly proclaimed that, because of the Government’s China policy, $10On worth of wheat has not been sold. [More…]
Should the representatives of Australia have to behave like a mob of oily kowtowing menials who are prepared to sell out their trading partners, allies and friends for a political advantage, which is what it would be? [More…]
The amendment moved by the honourable member for Wills goes a step further. [More…]
It foreshadows that the Parliament will sit on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday and also that the time of sitting will be limited at night. [More…]
I think this is a sensible proposal, not only for the more elderly members of the Parliament - I think most of us sitting here today are very young men - but also for the staff and for the effective working of the Parliament. [More…]
For example, the Hansard staff has to work many hours after honourable members leave the Parliament. [More…]
The attendants will not leave the Parliament until an hour after its rising, and have to start work an hour before Parliament commences. [More…]
Sometimes I feel ashamed of the conditions under which we ask members of the staff in this Parliament to work. [More…]
The Treasurer’s blindness is the less excusable because he had the benefit of advice from the Economic Section of the Ministry of Labour and National Service and appeared to accept its point of view when he was Minister for that Department only 5 short months ago. [More…]
If the ministerial convulsion of recent months and weeks achieves nothing else, it should wipe away some of the mystique of government - the myth that the Liberal Party has some magic skill or insight denied to lesser men. [More…]
The Government has a Public Service, available to any government. [More…]
The real art, rapidly being lost by this Government, is selecting and applying the expert advice a government receives. [More…]
Then in May there was the decision of the faceless men of the Liberal Party, their Federal Council, in favour of an investigation of a scheme. [More…]
He rebuked his own Minister for mentioning national superannuation while Cabinet was undecided. [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…]
Yet these men run in tandem in so many other ways. [More…]
After all, a whole new philosophy is proposed within the industrial movement in Australia. [More…]
But these 2 gentlemen run in tandem. [More…]
And yet these men run in tandem. [More…]
After inducing their supporters to respond actively in relation to the sporting tour both of these gentlemen found it necessary to go overseas at the same time - to lead their supporters to the barricade and go away. [More…]
Perhaps the Leader of the Oppostion is himself as terrified of the current President of the ACTU as are most Australian working men. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition spent very little time dealing with the welfare provisions in this Budget, and well he might because within those economic constructions the welfare provisions have been real; they have Men generous and they have been just. [More…]
The attitudes to family welfare, almost not mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition, in view of his adoption of a new, strange family code at Launceston, are well understood. [More…]
Tell that to the businessmen and the consumers of Hobart, and see how much they are convinced about Mr Hawke’s strike-solving actions. [More…]
Tell the men about the promise of no further dis.sention or involvement in these strikes, especially when 2 weeks later the next strike occurred. [More…]
Leader of the Opposition said tonight that the policies of the Government have split Australia into 3 parts. [More…]
The Government keeps referring to excessive demand. [More…]
One town has abandoned its annual show and in the football State of Victoria one proud little community for the first time in this century could not find enough young men to field a football team. [More…]
Unemployment is rising. [More…]
There is a stream of rural refugees to the city and those who remain in some of the rural areas struggle on unemployment benefits which are 20 per cent of the average weekly income. [More…]
While many roads remain dust tracks dotted with pot holes in many places in rural Australia able bodied willing young men are condemned either to subsist on 20 per cent of their usual pay, stand in the sun on the street corner and do nothing or head for the city. [More…]
One builder in a small western town who used to have 50 men working for him had one left when I last called, and he was weeding the garden. [More…]
All maintenance work has stopped and no improvements are contemplated or possible. [More…]
Secret ballots would replace the disruptive dictators who are in control of many unions with men of sound commonsense and moderate views who would be prepared to sit down and discuss matters with management in a sensible manner to the benefit of all concerned. [More…]
We need to have men of practical experience, brought up in commerce and industry appointed to senior positions in this Commission in which there are now too many theorists who have never had to battle - either as the lower wage earners or in management. [More…]
In summing up, I would stress the most urgent areas in which the Government must act quickly and effectively. [More…]
Firstly, it must reaffirm in the most determined and unfaltering manner the Government’s determination to govern. [More…]
The Government must appoint to the Commission men of wide practical experience in industry and commerce in place of some of the impractical professional theorists who are now there. [More…]
Fourthly, the Government must press on with an immediate and urgent review of all tariffs, with a balanced regard for efficiency and necessary protection for fully efficient industry. [More…]
Lastly, the Government must treat as a matter of utmost urgency the provision of long terra rural loans at reasonable rates of interest with terms of up to 30 years. [More…]
No doubt the Budget is so poor that Government supporters must spend their time talking about unions. [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…]
1 refer to the pensioner and the part pensioner who sees the application of the means test continuing to their detriment. [More…]
This Budget has finally convinced me that pensions must be taken out of the auspices of Parliament altogether and placed in the hands of an independent tribunal which will give proper consideration to the needs of these people and not take into consideration whether it is an election year or not. [More…]
I already have a number of them in my electorate and they are doing the most menial jobs. [More…]
These men are the most insecure of all sections and they will be the worst hit by increases of unemployment in the future. [More…]
The farmers in the most pathetic situation are those who have sold properties to families or others who have been unable to meet their commitments. [More…]
This Budget offers no relief to them so they continue to compete in the employment field and perhaps help this Government achieve its purpose of a pool of unemployed to suppress wages. [More…]
But I remind the House tonight that there are at least 2 young men in Australian gaols who are in fact political prisoners. [More…]
I think that this Government should release these 2 young men. [More…]
Therefore this Parliament should call on the Government to release these 2 young men from gaol. [More…]
We know that since national service was introduced some 43,000 young men have failed to register but only a handful of men have had action taken against them. [More…]
This Government has been particularly careful not to affect too many people by its actions in order to lessen the repercussions against it. [More…]
Apart from Charles Martin and Geoffrey Mullen there are at present 12 young men who have refused to comply with the National Service Act. [More…]
Summonses have been served on them as conscription resisters, and within a few months there could be in fact 14 young men being held in prisons in Australia. [More…]
The 12 young men to whom I refer are Paul Fox, Ian Turner, Tony Dalton, Michael Hamel Green, Karl Armstrong and Laurie Carmichael from Victoria, Peter Hornby, Jerry Gilling and Mike Matteson from New South Wales, Robert Hall from South Australia, Garry Cook from Western Australia and Steve padgan from the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It seems to me that, in the 1970s, these young men should not be threatened with gaol because they have taken a moral stand and refused to be conscripted to serve in a war such as the Vietnam war. [More…]
In fact, I would have tried to get the call after the honourable member spoke had I not expected the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock), who was at the table, at least to show concern for this matter and tell us the Government’s view on these 2 young men, Geoffrey Mullens’ and Charles Martin, who are in gaol. [More…]
Some Budgets try to be all things to all men. [More…]
Business men are able to carry on providing people with services and are able to make a reasonable degree of profit. [More…]
th, town business men cannot carry on. [More…]
1 should like to touch, for a moment, on proposals put forward by the Labor Party in connection with the stabilisation of the wool industry and the deficiency payments. [More…]
In short, the ultimate physical product of economic life is garbage and the mental and muscular exhaustion of men. [More…]
He has used his own money, received from compensation payments, to help develop a workshop for the physically handicapped at Mount Gambier. [More…]
He assisted with the establishment of a youth club at Salisbury. [More…]
He was the President and Chairman of Welfare of all branches of ‘Shiralee’ the association for divorced, separated and deserted men and women. [More…]
The Government has wisely given defence an important priority in the Budget. [More…]
A vote of $ 1,252.4m has been allocated to this Department. [More…]
It is good to see the Government expending more money on defence measures - in men, materials and equipment - because Australia is a very fine country and one that would be a rich prize for any invader. [More…]
No government can sit idly by and allow such a valuable industry to die. [More…]
Apart from the loss of export income earned by the industry, this drop in sales has had a serious financial effect on primary producers and has caused loss of farm employment with a serious consequent effect on the country towns and the business people who live there and service these areas. [More…]
These country towns have been built up over a number of years with men specialised in the agricultural and allied industries. [More…]
Now, with the recession in the surrounding countryside, these men are going off to Sydney and other cities and the country towns are becoming denuded of their very valuable expertise. [More…]
It will be very difficult to get such men back into the country areas. [More…]
So the Government in its investigation and examination of this industry has, in our opinion, very wisely decided to provide a deficiency payment scheme to ensure a price of 36c per lb for greasy wool. [More…]
This will help bring stability back to the industry, and although short of the industry recommendation of 40c per lb will restore confidence and financial stability to the industry. [More…]
Most wool men are situated in areas where they cannot diversify and this makes it all the more necessary for assistance to be given to them. [More…]
In the classic statement of the Social Demo cratic view of equality R. H. Tawney demonstrated that in industrial society most men are destined to be life-long wage earners. [More…]
I find great difficulty in believing that this Government is really interested in curbing inflation. [More…]
The reality is that men cause wage increases, and men cause price increases - the former in search of justice and dignity for themselves and their families and the latter in search of dominance and privilege. [More…]
I should like to see a policy of cooperation between the Commonwealth Government, State governments and local governments so that public works undertaken by Commonwealth, State and local governments can be accelerated in these areas where there is unemployment, so that men can find employment opportunities. [More…]
1 should like to see State governments embark on a campaign of building and development programmes, for example, building school libraries. [More…]
Recently the Victorian Government announced that it will be building more Housing Commission homes in the Bendigo area, but I believe that the rate of construction should bc accelerated in this very critical situation. [More…]
My attention has been drawn to the cases of 2 young men who seek discharge from the Navy. [More…]
For obvious reasons their names will not be mentioned. [More…]
However, the Minister for the Navy (Dr Mackay) who is present in the chamber will know who they are, because correspondence has been exchanged in relation to both of these young men. [More…]
The short reply to this could be that we cannot have enlisted men telling the Navy how it should be run. [More…]
I wonder whether perhaps that may not be an improvement. [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…]
I believe that the son is most anxious to leave the Navy because of his disillusionment. [More…]
However, his application for discharge was refused and he has resigned himself to remaining in the Navy for the balance of his term of engagement. [More…]
The most obvious point arising from both of these instances is that the Navy now has at least two young men who will be unwilling participants in one branch of our armed Services. [More…]
Both of them see their term of engagement as almost prison sentences. [More…]
The problems of both men are similar. [More…]
They enlisted at an early age for a long period and they have no hope of terminating the arrangement. [More…]
1 suggest that the term of engagement is far too long when it is related to the tender ages of the applicants. [More…]
If it is felt that there is a need for servicemen to give notice before a premature discharge is granted, why cannot a serviceman give a year’s notice of his intention to seek a discharge and leave the Service? [More…]
Why in 1971 do we still have to lay claim to the bodies of servicemen? [More…]
If servicemen are anxious to leave the Service, the problem cannot be solved simply by refusing to let them go, because some of them will go, anyhow, and those who stay wil be very disgruntled servicemen. [More…]
The poposition was put to me that as it costs a great deal of money to train servicemen, they should not be allowed to leave the Services easily. [More…]
I regard that argument as being both dishonest and immoral. [More…]
I trust that the Government will consider a review of the circumstances that surround the length of engagement for naval service and that it will endeavour to provide a method by which the 2 young men I have mentioned, and others like them, may be able to obtain a discharge - qualified if you like - and so prevent frustrations which are now being suffered. [More…]
The 2 boys mentioned both entered the Navy under different schemes. [More…]
From the dates mentioned by the honourable member I think that the second lad who joined at 18 years of age also joined before it was decided that there should be an optional discharge for young men if they had been in the Navy for sufficient time to enable them to assess whether they considered they would like to make the Navy their career. [More…]
This provision also applies to members of the Women’s Royal Australian Naval Service and others such as technical recruits who enter HMAS Nirimba’. [More…]
It is true at the present time that a large number of these young men do see as they become older greater opportunities outside for what they consider to be personal advancement than they would have if they remained in the Service. [More…]
In a condition of full employment this is understandable but at the same time I am aware of the fact that under different economic conditions it is quite conceivable that young men would be grateful to have guaranteed security for a considerable period. [More…]
Nevertheless the fact remains that there are young men in the Service who are unhappy and do not feel that they can settle down. [More…]
I am looking forward to seeing the document ‘SAILSTRUC ‘70’ brought before the Naval Board. [More…]
It is no longer easy to assume that young men of 154 and 164 can make up their minds to commit themselves for 12 years’ service and, even though we are pressing that people are adults at 18 years, nevertheless they can at that age sign on for 9 years. [More…]
It is true that an additional payment is made to submarine personnel in the Navy because of the hard lying conditions and that this payment may be extended to personnel on other vessels. [More…]
We expect to have a submission from it which will materially affect all the wages and conditions of men in the Service. [More…]
I expect that I will be able to make some further announcement on this matter in the next few months. [More…]
On the matter of work I just want to make the point that we as members of Parliament are understaffed. [More…]
When I was in the United States last year I checked the staffing arrangements very carefully. [More…]
Yet the moment any salary rises for members of Parliament in Australia are mentioned or even dreamed about there are critical editorials in newspapers throughout the country. [More…]
Every time we increase expenditure to try and make ourselves more effective as members of Parliament the Press immediately starts a campaign against us and it is completely outrageous and completely mindless and without any knowledge of what goes on in other countries. [More…]
So I make the plea that the Government should have a look at the staffing position again, particularly for our front bench members. [More…]
I assume that the new Assistant Ministers will get a secretary - I guess that is understandable - and I think that our men on the front bench deserve secretarial help with all the work they have to do. [More…]
Budgets never meet all of our requirements. [More…]
I do not suppose that this Budget has met all of my requirements. [More…]
No budget can meet the multitudinous demands that people put on the Government of the day. [More…]
The Government has the responsibility to analyse, to assess and to determine our economic programmes and development. [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…]
Looking at the Prime Minister’s programme for this year honourable members will see that the Government has pruned it heavily. [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…]
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…]
The customs tariff proposals which 1 have just tabled relate to a proposed amendment to the Customs Tariff 1966-1971. [More…]
My colleague the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) earlier this afternoon gave honourable members details of the Government’s decision in relation to the Tariff Board’s reports on knitted outer garments and shirts. [More…]
In addition, import restrictions on knitted coats, jumpers, cardigans, sweaters and the like and men’s and boys’ knitted shirts will be reintroduced from tomorrow 8th September on the same bases as those applying previously. [More…]
As indicated by my colleague, the Government expects other tariff changes could well be introduced before the expiry of the 18 months. [More…]
I commend the proposals. [More…]
The Government is conscious that its policy in this area not only affects the oil companies per se, but thousands of smaller business men and employees engaged in marketing and distribution. [More…]
It would be unthinkable if the Government did not act in accordance with the law and its declared policies when alleged unfair practices are brought to its notice. [More…]
The Government has done this in invoking the Customs Tariff (Dumping and Subsidies) Act. [More…]
This has been the keynote of the Government’s economic policy for a long period of time, and I believe that it has paid handsome dividends to Australia. [More…]
In a moment I wish to say something about a positive method of combating this inflation. [More…]
First of all, may I make a reference to expenditure in the public sector and the community’s desire to see an effective review of government departments aimed at increasing efficiency. [More…]
I am sure that the Government is aware of this desire. [More…]
They are men of great ability and integrity. [More…]
We are fortunate to have men of the calibre that we have as the heads of our various government departments. [More…]
They are men with a great sense of responsibility. [More…]
Indeed, he is one of the most distinguished men in Australia and one of the outstanding financial and ecoomic brains that this country has produced. [More…]
Is this movement from Parliament to the media a good or a bad thing, that is, that media personalities or those who employ them should replace members of Parliament as the tribunes of the people? [More…]
As far as members of Parliament are concerned, admittedly we are a dull bunch compared with the clever and well remunerated young men on the television screen, or the pundits of the Press. [More…]
What is the alternative - that Parliament moves to the media? [More…]
In the case of other matters in relation to which policies have not yet been decided a Minister is obviously very greatly handicapped and he will look like a bumbling fool compared with these bright young men. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 195’1 -1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
Have approximately 50 per cent of these men applied for a free discharge or a transfer back to the fleet? [More…]
Will the Minister define whether these men are only an auxiliary unit or a permanent unit? [More…]
Finally, what are the reasons for the downgrading of this branch of the Service in the new wage structures and for the loss of other privileges that men in this branch previously held while members of the fleet? [More…]
1 have visited Williamstown on several occasions and have talked with the shop committee and other representatives of the men. [More…]
I am surprised that the implementation of the Kerr report should have occasioned the kind of discontent that the honourable member has mentioned. [More…]
A team is currently visiting each of the ships and establishments to inform personnel at both the officer and the sailor level of the changes that have been made. [More…]
As I said when I first commenced to speak, not only did we deal with the questions of social objectives and the lack of the Government’s foresight in planning in relation to these important matters, but we also spelt out the failure of the Government to plan in relation to the security of this country. [More…]
Naturally I have had to draw comparisons between what the Government is spending on defence procurement and what it is spending on Service pay and conditions. [More…]
The comparison shows at once that there has been a failure on the part of the Government to plan and look ahead and to accept the proposition, which was inevitable, that there would be a need to increase the pay and allowances for men in the armed forces. [More…]
That Committee had an opportunity to investigate the present rates of pay and the conditions which apply to those serving in the ranks of the armed forces, lt quite properly brought back recommendations for increased rates of pay. [More…]
It is the local governments, which in the majority of instances, as we know, comprise men and women working in the honorary capacity of aldermen and councillors, which must bear the brunt of disapproval and not the State and Federal governments, which in my opinion should share the blame if there is any blame to be directed. [More…]
I know that local government is the responsibility of State governments but I feel that we as a Commonwealth should accept some of this responsibility by including some contribution to local government finances in the annual reimbursement grants to the States. [More…]
It is worth noting that while the demands on local governments for works, services and amenities are growing at a tremendous rate there has been no corresponding expansion in the range of revenue fields that are available to councils. [More…]
To meet these requirements local governmets have had to double their loan indebtedness over the last few years. [More…]
I think it is bordering on the idiotic to imagine that land rates alone can provide the necessary funds for local authorities to meet their repayments and other commitments. [More…]
The Treasurer, in his address, stated that the Government was anxious to ensure that those whose need was greatest should receive prime consideration. [More…]
In the main these are men and women who have served their country well over a lifetime and just when their need is greatest they have been forgotten by, their Government. [More…]
In view of the statistics from the Government’s own department how can anyone suggest that high wages are the major cause of inflation when the true fact is that the workers’ share of the economy is less than it was 15 years ago? [More…]
lt is worth recording that the honourable member for Hume called for the sacking of members of ‘he Arbitration Commission and their replacement by other men. [More…]
I would remind him that every current member of the Commission with the exception of one was appointed by his own Government and during my time in this place every new appointment has been greeted with acclaim from Government supporters. [More…]
Government supporters still continue to mislead the public on the concept of wages and prices. [More…]
The true facts of course are that decisions of wage tribunals in Australia are based, in the main, on the wage applying at the time of the nearing and its relativity to the appropriate price index, with in some cases a further minute upward adjustment covering any increase in the gross national product. [More…]
In point of fact in most decisions of the Court where it awards a wage increase it makes a reference in its judgment that the increase so decided is one that, on the evidence before it, should be able to be absorbed by the employer without increasing costs. [More…]
Rejection of the application mentioned above was due to the fact that the applicant did not meet the academic requirements for entry to the local airline. [More…]
As the other interested young men cannot be identified, 1 cannot comment on their reasons for withdrawing. [More…]
The main reasons for not granting approval for students to train as pilots in Australia have been lack of demand for the training in their homelands or failure to meet the academic standards required for subsequent employment with local airlines. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951- 1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the Government’s decision to reduce the period of full-time national service from 2 years to 1 8 months, as announced by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on 18th August. [More…]
National ser vice has been and continues to be a significant element of the effort expended to ensure the maintneance of an effective defence capability in this country. [More…]
Adopted at the end of 1964, its immediate purpose was to increase within an acceptable time span the essential strength of our Army from its then low level of 23,000 men to a level that would be adequate to allow the Army to fulfil its role in national defence. [More…]
Subsequent developments have fully vindicated the Government’s judgment. [More…]
Since the introduction of national service the increase in the volunteer element of the Australian Regular Army has been at an average rate, in round terms, of 1,000 men a year resulting in a strength of some 28,000 men at 30th June 1971. [More…]
In this same period the national service scheme has provided more than 51,000 men. [More…]
More than one-third of the Army has comprised national servicemen. [More…]
A secondary objective of the national service scheme is the encouragement of stronger Citizen Forces to ensure the support that the regular forces will require in time of a defence emergency; to this end men can elect at the time of registration for national service to undertake part-time service in the Citizen Forces as an alternative to full-time national service. [More…]
At 30th June last more than 12,000 men were serving part-time in the Citizen Forces as an alternative to national service and almost 2,000 had already completed their Citizen Force obligations, normally extending over 5 or 6 years. [More…]
Equally relevant in any realistic and complete assessment of the contribution of national service to our defence manpower is the position of our reserve forces. [More…]
Fully trained former national servicemen on the Army Reserve total some 21,000 men, or over 70 per cent of the total strength of the Reserve. [More…]
In summary, 51,000 national servicemen have been called up and enlisted; they have comprised more than one-third of our fulltime military forces. [More…]
Thirty-five per cent of the Citizen Military Forces are national service optees and over 70 per cent of the Army Reserve are fully trained ‘ former national servicemen. [More…]
Nonetheless, the majority of Australians continue to support it and this includes the vast majority of those affected directly by the requirement it imposes for compulsory military service. [More…]
As at 30th June 1971 6 men had been imprisoned for failure to report and render service and 96 other men had failed to report and render service and their cases had not been finalised. [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…]
This compares, as 1 have said, with 51,000 men called up and enlisted. [More…]
But as against this, 9 per cent of the national servicemen who were called up and enlisted were volunteers. [More…]
They sought to be enlisted as national servicemen and were accepted. [More…]
The Government and the Opposition both accept compulsory military service in principle. [More…]
Where the Government and the Labor Party differ, however - and differ markedly - is as to the circumstances in which compulsory service may be necessary. [More…]
The Government, however, has adopted a more flexible approach than would be possible for a Labor government encumbered as it would be by dogma imposed on it from outside. [More…]
As the Prime Minister said recently, the Government continues to stress the importance of volunteers as the basis of our armed forces. [More…]
However, if Australia’s defence manpower requirements cannot be met by volunteers, any Government would invite condemnation of its policies if it were to refuse to require men to serve, for this would entail dependence on an Army of inadequate strength. [More…]
No responsible Government could act in this manner. [More…]
The Labor Party policy apparently presupposes that the men which it would hastitly draft in an emergency could be trained to the necessary proficiency in a sufficiently short time. [More…]
I only mention in passing that in practice specialists of the number and range which a modern Army demands often take considerably longer than this to train before they can serve in a complete capacity. [More…]
The Labor Party is committed, after abolishing national service, and I quote recent comments by the Deputy Leader, to ‘take appropriate measures to build strong forces by forming a volunteer Army*. [More…]
One would have expected an alternative government to adopt a more responsible attitude to the need for continuing defence of national security and to ensure that it was, in fact, achieving strong forces through the measures it would take to attract volunteers before it placed our defence interests in jeopardy. [More…]
Moreover, any judgment cannot rest solely on any short-term trends. [More…]
Such an approach is completely unacceptable to this Government and, I believe, to the people of Australia. [More…]
The Government for its part is not prepared to place Australia’s defence effort at risk in a dubious exercise of this type. [More…]
Nor is it so foolhardy as to believe that we can train men for a few months, then conscript them in an emergency and that all will be well. [More…]
That the overall framework within which defence manpower requirements are determined should change is inexorable. [More…]
And while it is now judged that the full-time strength of the Army can be reduced by some 10 per cent by reducing the period of full-time national service, national servicemen will still represent some 30 per cent of the total Army manpower, 12,000 out of a force of 40,000. [More…]
The reduction in the number of men serving fulltime in the Army will not diminish the reserve of more than 20,000 fully trained men that national service maintains in the community; indeed the number will increase. [More…]
The Government recognises that. [More…]
The Government has plenty of money for everything but what should be its first priority. [More…]
The Government has plenty of money to send men to Vietnam to take part in a war in which they should never have been engaged. [More…]
The Government has spent a lot of dollars in putting a water spout in Lake Burley Griffin which shoots water 400 feet into the air. [More…]
Last year the Government gave $27m to the pensioners by way of benefits and it gave $100m to 100,000 wool growers. [More…]
That is where the Government’s priority lies. [More…]
In the limited time left to me in this debate 1 want to make a few comments in regard to this very important legislation. [More…]
Any government, from whichever side of this House it comes, that does not give to these people an equitable pension to enable them to live with a measure of security and comfort in this day and age is not fulfilling its national responsibilities. [More…]
Regrettably I say to the Minister for Social Services, who has the best intentions in the world, that you have failed because of the gloomy collection of men behind you in the Ministry who do not witness the plight of the pensioners. [More…]
That is why the Minister finds it difficult, because these are the types of men the Liberal Party puts in the Ministry. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
In view of the fact that Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd, paper manufacturers in Tasmania, have put off today 113 men at its Wesley Vale plant, in addition to 150 men at its Burnie plant - as was referred to by my colleague the honourable member for Braddon 3 weeks ago - ‘because of lack of orders due to imports of paper, can the Minister assist this company by restricting imports of foreign paper? [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition studies my report to the House he will see tha t it indicated that in the meantime the Government will do quite a lot to help the film industry. [More…]
Not only is the Film Development Corporation doing much to help viable films on a commercial basis but the Government also is helping through the Experimental Film Fund and the training scheme to provide talented young men and women in this field with training opportunities. [More…]
I believe that a great deal will be done to honour our promises in the film industry until such time as the Government has extra funds available for the school. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition studies my report he will see that the Government has provided opportunities for many talented people and that the film industry is developing quite well. [More…]
I believe that the Government has made the right decisions for the time being. [More…]
The honourable member can be his own expert on defence but certainly this Government would not want to follow his prognostications. [More…]
I simply say to him, firstly, that the 3 men currently serving a term of imprisonment are so serving because they are in default of the law. [More…]
They acted in default of the legislation passed by this Parliament which, I lave no doubt, is overwhelmingly supported by the Australian people. [More…]
This gives these men a total pension of$23.20 a week. [More…]
The Government may claim it is assisting the areas of greatest need; this claim would have some validity if regular increases had been made in the general rate pension. [More…]
The Government has adopted a highly selective approach; certainly these unfortunate men with the injuries listed under the Fifth Schedule deserve the increase they got. [More…]
It goes part of the way towards helping to alleviate the damage caused by war to men’s minds, bodies and souls. [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…]
A great number of these men, but for 7 days leave annually or evacuation from the war zone because of injury or of wounds, suffered this veritable hell for the whole period from 1914 to 1918. [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…]
Over the years I have been able to assist many returned servicemen, more particularly those who were gassed but who continued on duty. [More…]
By 1917-18 the whole of northern France, especially around Villers.Bretonneux, Albert, Armiens and Amentiers and even the dugouts in which these men slept, was impregnated with gas. [More…]
The improvements to the pensions and allowances will benefit the more seriously disabled ex-servicemen, the widows and the children. [More…]
The Bill provides for an increased payment to exservicemen who are totally incapacitated, to those who have related disabilities or tuberculosis, to those whose incapacity allows them to work only intermittently, to those who need the assistance of an attendant, to those who have lost a limb or an eye and also to war widows. [More…]
This demonstrates again the Government’s sincerity in regard to Service personnel. [More…]
Its treatment of ex-service men and women is better than, if not superior to, the treatment afforded to ex-service men and women by most other countries. [More…]
I am pleased that the Government has decided to set up an independent committee of inquiry into all phases of repatriation. [More…]
The Government, in reply to the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said it is not responsible for the grading or reclassification of repatriates. [More…]
This is done by the boards and tribunals and although at times we feel very dissatisfied with their assessment of some of these people whom it endeavours to assist from time to time, the Board and tribunals are composed of men of great reputation, of great honour and of great capacity. [More…]
RSL presents its war compensation plan to the Ex-servicemen’s Committee of the Federal Cabinet. [More…]
It goes to the highest body in this Parliament, to specially selected members of the Cabinet, men who are exservicemen themselves and who should have some understanding of the rigours of war. [More…]
He spoke of the tribulations of war and of the need to understand those tribulations and the pressures that are on servicemen when they are in conflict. [More…]
The payments that are made to our totally and permanently incapacitated ex-servicemen are to compensate them for their war injuries and their lack of earning capacity. [More…]
These men are entitled to maintain their standard of living and are justified in requesting a pension equal to the average minimum wage. [More…]
Australia, should have been granted by this Government. [More…]
The figures that I have quoted clearly indicate that the Government has neglected these men who are suffering and have suffered from the war injuries that they received. [More…]
The payments thai we are talking about are war compensation payments. [More…]
They have nothing to do with an assessment of an amount on which somebody should be living. [More…]
It is important that the men in need receive assistance. [More…]
I believe it is quite wrong that the unfortunate Digger who does need a service pension should have his repatriation war compensation payment included in his income for means test purposes. [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…]
TPI organisations and everybody else making representations to the Government on repatriation matters should be on the basis that a means test for a service pensioner should be along the same lines as that applied to applicants for an age pension. [More…]
Those people do need the extra payments. [More…]
If the TPI pension and all other compensation payments were not regarded as income they would be able to get the service pension when in need of it. [More…]
The Returned Services League has submitted to all members of Parliament that 2 principles should underlie repatriation legislation. [More…]
The League asserts firstly that the very nature of life in the armed forces, especially in time of war, set apart as it is from other types of employment, ought to lead to appropriate compensation measures, medical treatment and rehabilitation as a compensation for such service. [More…]
It asserts secondly, and I believe quite rightly, that a firm commitment was made by this nation to ali men and women who went to serve in the nation’s defence. [More…]
The commitment was that they would receive proper treatment should they need it after their service. [More…]
I shall not go into all the figures that have been mentioned this afternoon. [More…]
The RSL also suggested informally to us - I am referring to the Labor Party’s ex-servicemen’s committee - that there ought to be a review of the Repatriation Board’s practice. [More…]
It suggested that the functions of the Board ought to be strengthened, and I heartily agree with that sentiment. [More…]
The RSL said that the Board, if it rejects an ex-serviceman’s claim for war compensation, should give reasons for the rejection, and I am sure that that sentiment would be popular with every exserviceman in Australia. [More…]
One of the things that particularly impress me is the fact that these young men returning from service in Vietnam, where they have chanced their lives in the defence of Australia - whatever we might have thought personally about their involvement in Viet nam - complain bitterly about the inadequate rehabilitation treatment that has been provided for them. [More…]
Other aspects of their rehabilitation which were raised by Mr Hines have been mentioned already by my colleague the honourable member for Lang. [More…]
Therefore, I will vote strongly in support of the amendment. [More…]
How many (a) men and (b) women were (i) deported or (ii) required to leave in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
The following table shows the number of (a) men and (b) women who were deported during each of the last 5 financial years: [More…]
But the people who use hotel and motel rooms very largely are those people moving around on a casual basis, perhaps travellers or business men of all sorts, who have to go to some area for some particular purpose. [More…]
In these areas men and their families live in half a galvanised iron shed. [More…]
These men represent the hard, rugged, down to earth Australian characteristic which could well be lost over the next 25 years unless these problems are attended to. [More…]
The rest of the galvanised iron shed is used to store their equipment, their implements, their seed and so on. [More…]
I am concerned about the very limited choice of suppliers available to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [More…]
Plesseys appears to occupy a pre-eminent position in the contract arrangements that are now entered into by the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
I have placed on the notice paper a series of questions relating to the contracts that the Postmaster-General’s Department enters into. [More…]
I will reserve judgment until that information is available. [More…]
But I, along with my colleagues on this side of the House, share some concern about a company which is a major contractor to the Government and which has on its board of directors - one is a managing director - 2 men who were formerly very closely associated with the Postmaster-General’s Department, namely a former PostmasterGeneral and a Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs and who, through some quirk of fate, find themselves in a position to arrange contracts with the Department. [More…]
In speaking tonight I wish first to pass some words of praise to the PostmasterGeneral (Sir Alan Hulme) for the job he has done for Australia since being elected to this Parliament in 1949. [More…]
He has been Postmaster-General since the federal election in 1963 and over those 8 years has directed his Department through a period of massive growth. [More…]
It is amazing when one considers that all of those people - men, women and children - who live in my constituency could be employed in some manner by the Australian Post Office. [More…]
I do not believe that any department which has a staff of 1 10,000 people or a projected staff of 115,000 people can be totally efficient administratively. [More…]
I suggest this, bearing in mind that there are thousands upon thousands of dedicated men and women employed in the Australian Post Office. [More…]
I am not suggesting that the PostmasterGeneral’s Department is a huge, inefficient machine. [More…]
But I am suggesting that perhaps it is time that there was some independent inquiry, just as one has been set up to inquire into the Repatriation Department, quietly to look at the methods it uses. [More…]
It does not matter how good the men at the top may be. [More…]
There is always room for improvement. [More…]
I feel that with the rapid escalation of postal rates over the years the time has come when the Government and the people of Australia must take a good look at what is happening. [More…]
I am only echoing here the sentiments of the people. [More…]
But I hope that I see a cessation of this rate of increase and that I will not be called upon again in the future to pass remarks of condemnation of this Department. [More…]
The way to prune that dead wood and to make the Department even more efficient is a challenge which lies in the future for the Government and for the Department. [More…]
I believe that the Australian Broadcasting Commission should be used more to advertise government matters. [More…]
The ABC should show the advertisements now shown on commercial television stations. [More…]
While many members of this Parliament have been seeking decentralisation of industry, greater incentives are necessary. [More…]
I remind members of the Country Party that no subsidies were paid at that time when the men had to find jobs in other industries after spending a life time in coal mining. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 ls arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
Is it true that 40 or more of the staff in the Engineers Department of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department in Cairns are to be transferred to a southern city? [More…]
Does he realise the position of these men and their families in having to sacrifice their homes at forced-to-sell prices so that they can purchase homes, if possible, at their new destinations? [More…]
I desire to ask the Prime Minister a question which is in part supplementary to that asked by the. [More…]
Is lt a fact that this could open the way for a possible confrontation between the two men similar to that between the gaoled Mujibur Rahman which led to military action and open rebellion in East Pakistan? [More…]
I ask the right honourable gentleman: Has he any information of further developments in this matter? [More…]
It comprises busy men, and men connected with local government, from 4 electorates: Calare, Darling, Gwydir and Riverina. [More…]
They referred to deficiency payments for wool; to the ‘rural crisis’ - and I am using their words; and to the need for the provision of more funds for the rural reconstruction scheme, for long term finance, for rehabilitation, for assistance to local government for the relief of unemployed persons in their areas, and for assistance with rating, tariff, freight and inflation. [More…]
Unemployment exists; it is not yet big in rural areas, but it does not have to be big in country towns to have a substantial effect on the economy of those towns. [More…]
For me the most exciting event has been the long overdue recognition that the Tariff Board is a body of men who knew what they were talking about and that the recommendations made in their annual reports were matters of substance and vital to the wellbeing of the Australian economy. [More…]
1 welcome with open arms the decision of the Government to implement the Board’s recommendation that there be a general review of the whole tariff structure. [More…]
I plead that economies on Government spending be not used as an excuse and a subterfuge to delay further and frustrate this essential basic economic reform. [More…]
I note the departure from the political scene of the high priest of protection and the general acceptance of the abandonment of the futile philosophy of protection all around. [More…]
It is very interesting to hear the questions and answers in this place on unemployment. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition forecast an unemployment figure of 100,000 in the speech in which he moved this amendment. [More…]
This statement caused Government members to engage in the favourite pastime of ridiculing the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
The unskilled manual worker is a pretty good barometer for the employment field. [More…]
Taking the statistics for Victoria and comparing the position in July 1970 with the position in July 1971, we find that in 1970 in the unskilled manual category there were 303 vacancies for men and 2,483 men seeking those vacancies; or 8 men seeking each job. [More…]
In July 1971, there were only 176 vacancies but 3,279 men were seeking them. [More…]
In other words, 18 men were looking for each job that was available. [More…]
The figure of 8 men a job in 1970 had risen to 18 men a job in 1971. [More…]
In July 1970, there were 3 men seeking each job in the Commonwealth. [More…]
Nine men were seeking each job. [More…]
Another facet overlooked by Government supporters is the industrial accidents that take place. [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…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
Is the Government aware that there is mounting agitation among the churches, voluntary agencies and certain sections of the public concerning the Australian Government’s small contribution to the refugee problem in India? [More…]
This catastrophe is the greatest human disaster this century and the people of Austrafia are demanding that the Government come to the assistance of these impoverished people in a more sacrificial way. [More…]
That is evident from a fast commenced by 3 young men on the steps of the Melbourne General Post Office. [More…]
As Australia prides herself as a free peaceloving country which is ever ready to come to the assistance of people in times of need, is it the intention of the Government to provide assistance commensurate with the size of this catastrophe? [More…]
Also, as it is costing the Indian Government $100m a month to maintain the refugees will the Minister bring this matter before Cabinet with a view to providing an immediate grant of $10m in cash and and material aid to help relieve the suffering and human indignity of some 8 million East Pakistani refugees? [More…]
Indeed I think all parties to the dispute, apart from the PREI, agree that the terms of settlement were reasonable and fair. [More…]
Fortunately I learnt just a few moments ago that Mr Justice Franki has instructed the PREI that its members must return to work. [More…]
I can only hope that on this occasion - it is about the fourth occasion - they do return to work, because if they do not return to work the ANL will have no option but to stand all men down and tie the ships up. [More…]
The annual reports of the Director for Social Services, in which there are quite valuable statistics, show that there is a higher proportion of ladies reaching 60 and men reaching 65 years who qualify automatically for the pension than was the case some years ago. [More…]
The price paid is unnecessary unemployment. [More…]
Official figures issued after the Budget showed the average weekly earnings for men in the June quarter at the smallest rate of quarterly growth for 2 years. [More…]
Unemployment in Tasmania has risen to 1.69 per cent, the highest level in Australia. [More…]
Nearly 3,000 are out of work at the moment. [More…]
Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd, the biggest paper manufacturers in Tasmania, has sacked 263 men in the space of some 3 weeks. [More…]
The unfortunate thing about this matter is that he has brought under suspicion innocent men who are loyal and true to the oath that they took as public servants. [More…]
The whole comment of the honourable member for Sturt was based on that sort of premise. [More…]
If men like Klass and Ryan are correct Pine Gap is a defence base. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Government to the serious situation which has developed in the vehicle building industry in South Australia. [More…]
This situation has arisen from the announcement of the retrenchment of a large number of tradesmen. [More…]
A total of 450 tradesmen are to be retrenched from the plants of General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd and 179 from the plants of Chrysler Australia Ltd. [More…]
It is true that the tradesmen at the Chrysler plants have been offered work on the production line and that more or less the same thing has happened at the plants of General Motors-Holden’s, or rather there will be vacancies which they do expect some of the retrenched tradesmen may be able to take up. [More…]
Even assuming that these men will be able to take up positions on the production line it will still mean a considerable reduction in their take home pay and a considerable under-utilisation of skilled manpower. [More…]
There is another matter which is terribly important and about which the Government has done nothing. [More…]
If men are eventually to be redundant in the car industry we cannot just shrug our shoulders and say too bad’. [More…]
It is certainly my understanding that the facts concerning the retrenchments at General Motors-Holden Pty Ltd and Chrysler (Australia) Ltd at their South Australian plants have been accurately stated by the honourable gentleman, but I say to him in quite clear terms that it is not correct at all to say that the Government has been inactive in seeking to provide solutions to the problems that have occurred in those 2 industrial establishments. [More…]
Immediately the news was made public, officers of my Department were in contact with the plants concerned. [More…]
The men were interviewed and every effort has been made by the Commonwealth Employment Service in Adelaide to effectively place the men who have lost their jobs because of the retrenchment programme. [More…]
1 understand that at present a number of the men concerned - 1 cannot quote the figures at this stage - have accepted offers from both companies of production line work; that a number of them have been referred to other employers and have been placed by the Commonwealth Employment Service; and that a number of others have moved from their previous places of residence. [More…]
The final point I want to raise is in support of the Ipswich District Development Board. [More…]
This is an association of people headed by Mr Peter Ives, its manager, and is dedicated to the economic development of the city of Ipswich and the surrounding district. [More…]
The Development Board believes that if the Commonwealth Government was prepared to offer special tax concessions for decentralised development in places such as Ipswich the city of Ipswich would have a much stronger local economy. [More…]
Admittedly they are producing more coal than ever before but the fact is that there are far fewer job opportunities for these men. [More…]
A similar situation has arisen in the Railway Department because of technological change. [More…]
There is very little opportunity for job absorption in the Railway Department in that city. [More…]
In addition there has been a rundown in the woollen textile industry, again because of a number of developments - changing demand and improved efficiency leading to a fewer number of mills operating in Australia with a greater turnover and so on. [More…]
Minister, requested the Commonwealth Government to ‘arrange for troops to parade the City and take positions’ at specified locations, as a ‘precautionary measure designed to make an impression and to have a strong force of men available at suitable points ready for instant use if the situation should demand their being called upon in the regular manner’. [More…]
-I rise to second the amendment moved by the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson). [More…]
This statement made today by the Minister was without prior warning although 1 did have a little message in regard to it - I thank the Minister for that - shortly before it was presented to the House. [More…]
I repeat that the context of this statement has to be rejected because the context of it is completely inadequate. [More…]
One of the things that must be said is that this statement and scheme comes forward at a time of national scandal of unemployment. [More…]
Even in the most prosperous rural centres at the present time there are reports of a 50 per cent rise in unemployment. [More…]
We have the situation in country towns, including some towns which 1 represent, where young men are ready, willing and able to undertake employment but they are denied the opportunity. [More…]
We have the situation of family men having to evacuate like refugees moving to the city because of the rural situation created by decisions of this Government. [More…]
I did not mention his name. [More…]
The purpose, of course, was the purpose of men of bad will, that is, the purpose of causing a breakdown in the institutions and causing anarchy; and the poor idealistic, wellmeaning young people are the only ones who suffer. [More…]
As I have said in this House time an again, the survival of the wool industry was not just a matter of concern for the wool grower and all who depend on him, not just a matter of an exodus from dozens of inland towns throughout Australia, and not just a matter of personal tragedy to those graziers, small businessmen, shearers, station hands and others who pioneered and stood fast with this industry and poured into the Treasury billions of dollars, establishing the financial lifeblood which made, sad to relate, wealthy men of many who have never seen this country and who would not know a min min light from a jackaroo. [More…]
Many of our graziers and farmers, particularly in the newly settled brigalow areas - young men with young families - are told that it might be 2, 3 or 4 years or longer before they have a telephone. [More…]
The city of Mount Isa is bursting with development, providing this nation with employment for thousands of our people and producing wealth which is greatly assisting Australia to balance its Budget, yet we find the unbelievable situation where businesses cannot get off the ground because once again those prepared to invest in and provide services for our community are told that they cannot get a telephone in the foreseeable future. [More…]
I have quoted from the comments. [More…]
He has the responsibility to speak up for these men written about by the right honourable member for Higgins or say whether he endorses what the previous leader has said. [More…]
How long can a country tolerate a government with a former Prime Minister sitting on the back bench undermining morale and plotting like MacArthur for his return to the corridors of power while the Prime Minister does nothing about it? [More…]
They are the statements of the former Prime Minister about his own ministerial colleagues. [More…]
What a comment that is. [More…]
There isn’t someone who is a natural leader of men who is around mc with the necessary experience and technique.’ [More…]
When the Leader of the Opposition spoke on the Budget on 24th August and forecast an unemployed work force of some 100,000 men and women early in the new year, the Prime Minister, speaking 14 days later, pooh poohed this forecast and said that it was just another one of the flights of imagination of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
He has already stated that the Government will watch the position but that it will not do anything about it at this time. [More…]
This is typical of the attitude that was adopted by Sir Robert Menzies, and by the present Prime Minister when he was a Minister in the Menzies Government of 1961-62-63, when a Budget similar to this one was brought down in order to create unemployment as part of a policy of alleged devaluation. [More…]
At that time we saw one of the worst examples of unemployment in this country since the hungry thirties. [More…]
Much has been said about men who work in government instrumentalities such as railways, bus services and sewerage services who have taken strike action in recent months. [More…]
Could it not be that because of the attitude of governments throughout Australia today those men have lost patience with the arbitration system and have had to take this type of action in order to get wage justice? [More…]
I suggest that this is the real reason why men have taken strike action. [More…]
Whenever our men have gone overseas they have never gone on a quest in search of gain. [More…]
Young people in this country today do not realise the debt they owe to the men who gave us the freedom to be in this Parliament today, talking as I am doing and as other honourable members have done on matters concerning this Budget and other subjects which are of vital importance to Australia. [More…]
I said ‘If you do not do something and give a bit of assistance and Hitler gets over here with his men, you will be in a chain gang down near the wharf or somewhere’. [More…]
And ships, by thousands, lay below, and men in nations; - all were his! [More…]
When our men went overseas they were described as being on active service. [More…]
Yet, competent and efficient men ia this district are to be compulsorily removed to Rockhampton on the departmental pretext of achieving greater efficiency and economy. [More…]
The figure of 25 contained in the Postmaster-General’s statement must have been worked out by a computer. [More…]
I believe that is only fair because most of the men, perhaps, have mortgaged their lives and future. [More…]
Many of them would have put their wives’ savings into the purchase of houses and the development of the blocks. [More…]
The Minister in his statement said: [More…]
If 35 men are transferred from one of the local headquarters this in itself might mean that, taking into account wives and children, 100 people move out of the area, with resultant loss to that district. [More…]
As I have said before, it is amazing to me that this Government which stands - or is supposed to stand - for decentralisation is deliberately bringing in a policy which will lead to centralisation; it is deliberately moving people out of country areas to the cities. [More…]
The honourable gentleman who asked this question referred to the fact that these men have held the law in contempt, and of course they have. [More…]
I make it clear to the House that it is the firm intention of the Government that those who default from the law should, in fact, be punished by the law. [More…]
Regarding the several gentlemen who have appeared on television recently, I believe that at present 12 warrants have been issued for some of them and for some other persons and it is the intention of the Attorney-General, who is primarily responsible in this matter, to make certain that the law is obeyed and that the warrants are executed at the earliest opportunity. [More…]
Of course the gentlemen concerned seek opportunities to propagate their views and to act in a propagandist manner. [More…]
They deliberately call for imprisonment but the fact is that when a search is initiated they never intend to allow apprehension at the particular places at which they advertise their availability. [More…]
The Government views this matter most seriously and I can say on behalf of myself and the AttorneyGeneral that every effort will be taken to ensure that those who default from the law are dealt with by the law, firstly, on the basis of the principle which is involved and, secondly, in fairness and in equity to the vast majority of young Australians who are prepared to honour their obligations. [More…]
A group of responsible men from different States and diverse fields met on a pressing urban problem. [More…]
Would it have been determined by some Minister for Urban Affairs and Environment? [More…]
The honourable member for Reid would love to have control of the whole of the environment and be advised, as he said, by a public servant here in Canberra. [More…]
1 do not think that the honourable member for Reid has really read or understood the report of the Australian Institute of Urban Studies, because basically it was not a centralised document. [More…]
I refer to page 53 of the document which contains a series of 7 proposals. [More…]
I will reiterate the principles which guided the men who produced this task force report on land development. [More…]
In 1964 when conscription was introduced we had an all-volunteer army of 23,000 men. [More…]
Now we have 44,000 men made up of 28,000 volunteers and 16,000 conscripts. [More…]
However, with Vietnam over, the Government finds it can cut the Army by 9 per cent to 40,000. [More…]
He said that the volunteer element of the Army had been increasing in round terms at around 1,000 a year. [More…]
This had produced a strength of some 28,000 men at 30th June this year. [More…]
There seems no reason why, even under present Government policies, net recruitment should not continue al this rate or even higher. [More…]
At present recruitment rates, which have many deficiencies, the need for conscripts would be progressively eliminated over 12 years. [More…]
That is to say, without any positive initiative by the Government or action beyond what it is doing now, the conscript element would fade away. [More…]
These are the men who are absorbed in the administration and training of the conscript element of the Army. [More…]
I do not know what percentage of the present force is absorbed in this way but any reasonable assessment would be at least 5 per cent. [More…]
An all-volunteer army of 37,000 to 38,000 men would have the same effective fighting strength’ as a mixed force of 40,000 volunteers and conscripts. [More…]
However, the Minister made much of the fact that 4,000 fewer men were needed now because of the changed situation from that which existed in 1964, when national service was introduced. [More…]
To quote the Minister’s jargon: “That the overall framework within which defence manpower requirements are determined should change is inexorable’. [More…]
If this is the case, then there is no reason why these requirements should hot change again in the next few years. [More…]
Accordingly, there is no reason why, once the dust settles from Vietnam, a peak requirement of 36,000 or even 32,000 may not be the norm of Army manpower requirements. [More…]
At the moment we just do not know what impact higher pay and better conditions would have on the flow of volunteers to the Army. [More…]
We do know on figures used by both the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Minister for Labour, and National Service that in the difficult period from 1964 to 1970, net recruitment to the Army was at the rate of 1,000 a . [More…]
Even in a period of relative affluence and high employment, even with a rejection rate of 2 in 3, even with Government discouragement of volunteers, it was possible to increase the strength of the volunteer component from 23,000 to 28,000 men. [More…]
Moreover traditional patterns of labour and employment are changing and contracting. [More…]
This made the point that employment prospects on the land are diminishing. [More…]
There is no reason why the Army with its emphasis on out-door life should not be appealing to workers who are forced off the land, particularly as better pay and conditions flow from the recommendations of the Kerr Committee. [More…]
There seems, also, to be a real need for re-assessment of selection standards; the Army may no longer be able to enjoy the luxury of the high rejection rate it now applies. [More…]
If large numbers of men were to be trained quickly in response to such a threat it would matter very little that there were a few thousand conscripts in the ranks. [More…]
Nor would it be of vital significance that there were men on the reserve who had been trained as conscripts some years earlier. [More…]
In any case even with trained men who had served 2 years as conscripts the rate of retention of military training would not be particularly high. [More…]
I do not think anyone would seriously suggest that these men, now in their early and mid-thirties, could be recalled now in response to a threat and turned into effective fighting units in anything less than a year. [More…]
For any major threat to Australia what the Minister calls the defence preparedness provided by a few thousand conscripts in the Army and the pool of trained men on the reserves would not be a decisive factor. [More…]
Consequent on the acceptance or rejection of this fundamental amendment the Opposition will move 4 other amendments. [More…]
The second amendment is designed to incorporate a new section into the Act which would establish a new procedure for dealing with conscientious objection cases. [More…]
The third amendment relates to the paroling of perons serving terms of imprisonment under the National Service Act either now or in the future. [More…]
At present young men gaoled under the National Service Act are denied the provisions for parole given offenders against federal law by the Commonwealth Prisoners Act of 1967. [More…]
This amendment would enable these young men to be considered for parole according to the law in the State in which they are imprisoned. [More…]
Right to parole is at present denied to young men imprisoned for offences against sections 51 and 51 a of the National Service Act. [More…]
The final amendment is designed to secure the release of the 3 men at present in prison under the Act - Charles Martin in Adelaide, Gary Cook in Perth, and Geoff Mullen in Sydney. [More…]
If carried the amendment will end their terms of imprisonment from the implementation of the Act. [More…]
These basically are the amendments that will be moved by the Opposition if the first amendment fails, that is, the amendment the Opposition believes should be carried to repeal this Act by 1st January 1972. [More…]
What magnificent speeches made by men who were looking after and at that stage debating the defence of Australia. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition is regarded by honourable members opposite - and I think by very few other people - as the Minister for Defence in a Labor government. [More…]
The Labor Party is saying that we do not need conscription; it proposes to move an amendment which states that conscription should be cut out in January of next year. [More…]
He would be lucky to get 3 battalions, and possibly that would not cover the artillerymen, the signallers and the other forces which are necessary in a brigade group. [More…]
If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition contends that this nation at this time should have an Army comprising this number of men, I think he is unaware of the situation which is confronting us. [More…]
Then there is Australia’s commitment to Malaysia and Singapore, and the validity of her policy of forward defence where nations wish the support which this can give. [More…]
We think that you have got to form a regional agreement, that you have to undertake your own defence. [More…]
There is a great similarity between the speeches being made by leading Labor men today and the speeches which were made back in 1938 when, as I said before, the Labor Party voted against and spoke against any form of preparedness and any improvement of the Army and the defences of this country. [More…]
Both the national servicemen and the regular servicemen are happy and they have proved how effectively the system can work. [More…]
At the present time we have an army of about 40,000 men. [More…]
With conscription we have also behind us a reserve force of about 40,000 men who have done their 2 years service. [More…]
There are many things I would like to say about our requirements for defence. [More…]
We have commitments under the Nixon doctrine to do more for our own defence. [More…]
The days have gone when we could have an army of 28,000 men because we knew that any instant we could have the United States of America or the United Kingdom with us. [More…]
We hope and we feel confident that the United States will honour her commitments. [More…]
I tremble at the thought of any situation that could arise in which perhaps there would be a delay in this aid coming to us and the whole continent of Australia and our other commitments were supported and defended by a brigade group of 3 battalions and an army of 28,000 men. [More…]
1 do hot support the amendments proposed by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
There is an obligation on the young men of this country to stand for the defence of this country and be prepared to play their part. [More…]
I am sure that, if it comes to an election, whatever other failures the Government may have the people of Australia will respond to that one challenge. [More…]
The primary amendment moved by the Opposition would have the effect of concluding the national service scheme and I think it is fair to say that that is the major object of the Opposition in this debate. [More…]
I believe it is academic to argue whether a professional army of 28,000 men is as effective as or more effective than an army consisting of 28,000 professional soldiers and 12,000 national servicemen who, if the former Prime Minister’s words are to be believed, have an effective service life of 6 months. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe has suggested that China has the atomic bomb and therefore it is necessary to have 12,000 extra men. [More…]
I am not exactly sure how 12,000 national servicemen will stop atomic weapons from being utilised or being effective in a war. [More…]
I am quite sure that if we did face a situation in which China had the transport capacity to challenge Australia in a war 12,000 men would not make a great deal of difference. [More…]
There appears to be on the Government side some suggestion that 20-year olds have a moral obligation to serve in the armed forces because the defence of the country is involved. [More…]
If morality is the question then where is the morality in choosing a significantly small proportion of the community to carry the entire burden of defence or, as the honourable member for La Trobe put it, effective defence because - if his speech means anything - we have ineffective defence’ if we have only 28,000 men. [More…]
It is necessary, according to the Government, that 12,000 young men should spend 18 months in the Army in order to provide us with effective defence. [More…]
In normal circumstances we can expect, especially with young men who are seeking promotion in the major companies and in fields of business, that other people who have not had to take up service will have had the opportunities during those 2 years and will have taken the advancement which should have been available to the national servicemen. [More…]
I have a case before me at the moment of a young man who has recently commenced operating a one-man business. [More…]
He has been called up for national service, and irrespective of what deferments he obtains and how long they extend the penalty for serving will be the destruction of his business forever - not just for a few weeks, but forever - because there is no way in which he can serve 18 months and still carry on his business. [More…]
There is also some serious lack of morality in a situation in which we call on young men to train to kill their fellow human beings, not in defence of their country but in defence of the political policies of the government of the day. [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…]
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…]
Unfortunately we have had foisted upon us policies which have now proven not to have been in the best interests of Australia but which have created a situation which is one of the most divisive in Australia’s political history, which have created extreme bitterness among large sections of the Australian community - I suggest needlessly - and which the Government now proposes to continue but with a reduction of the national service period by 6 months not because it believes that 2 years is not necessary, not because it believes that 13 months is the ideal period, but because its budgetary requirements demand that the period of 2 years becomes 18 months. [More…]
So we can assume that we are in fact not calling men up to provide balanced sections of the Army but for the single purpose of providing the people who will do the shooting and be shot at. [More…]
Apparently the Regular Army is the train-, ing, background and logistic support for national servicemen who, in the effective 6 months period which they will serve will be asked to carry any future defence of Australia. [More…]
That is the import of what the honourable member for La Trobe said, and it is the only judgment which can be made of his statements. [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…]
These men have to face extremely unsympathetic courts. [More…]
I suggest to some Government supporters who believe that it is easy to be a conscientious objector that they should see some of the treatment which it meted out to some of these men in the courts after they have refused to undergo national service. [More…]
We have heard this from Government supporters, one of whom was the honourable member for La Trobe who was most definite on this point. [More…]
Although there are in excess of 100 minor wars going on in the world at the moment, it is a time of relative peace. [More…]
I do not believe thai the prime objective of any government should be to convict people for their beliefs or to make it impossible for people to practice their beliefs. [More…]
I believe that the prime objective of any government should be to cater for these beliefs when they are genuinely held. [More…]
It is also true that because of the operation of the conscientious objection provisions in this Bill there are numerous young men who will not even attempt to claim conscientious objection because they know the type of hearing they will get before the courts. [More…]
This situation is wrong and I believe that this Government should deal with it in a far more sympathetic manner. [More…]
It is my belief that in the preparation of its Budget the Government has proved beyond all doubt the lack of need for a continuation of the National Service Act. [More…]
The provisions of this Act have had the effect of reducing the morale of the men in the Citizen Military Forces almost to nil because of the lack of opportunities and lack of importance given to that Service. [More…]
This Act has bad the effect of reducing recruitment for the Regular Army. [More…]
The next point I should like to mention is that concerned with the actual forming of the armed forces - the way we raise our armed forces. [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…]
The Labor Party hopes that nothing will happen in the intervening period, either in the sense of an emergency in raising and training armed men in 6 months, or, in the sense of the long term, the 12 years it will take to raise our forces to an adequate level. [More…]
Members of the Opposition referred to the possibility of raising the required number of men quickly. [More…]
On many occasions they have mentioned the report of the Gates Commission in America relating to relying on a higher rate of pay to attract more men into the services. [More…]
As the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) has reminded us, the unemployment situation in America is very different to our own. [More…]
One of the points made in the Gates Commission report was that an effort should be made to raise the service pay to a level commensurate with civilian equivalents. [More…]
The reserves, which, I regret, have been referred to in somewhat disparaging terms, constitute another 20,000 men who have been recently fully trained and who are able to be called up immediately. [More…]
Since the inception of the national service scheme a further 30,000 men have returned to the community, having passed completely through the training system. [More…]
They would be available as trained men who would need’ very little refresher training. [More…]
These men are all of military age. [More…]
In the Australian community we have a reservoir of approximately 50,000 men who are fully trained and able to serve this country in time of national emergency. [More…]
We all hope that there will be no sudden emergency, but, in contrast to the Australian Labor Party, this Government has been prepared to institute policies which will not make Australia rely on pious hopes. [More…]
As a result of the national service scheme there are 50,000 fully trained men in the Australian community. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has made it abundantly clear that if it came to power it would not accept advice coming from men having the highest standards of professional military competence that we have in this country. [More…]
We make no apology for having in the community 50,000 trained men whom we otherwise would not have. [More…]
He said that we took a position which was anti-Australian and he suggested that many of the young people who object to national service today have as their purpose the overthrowing of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
But no nation is an island and this country has commitments. [More…]
It has international commitments to the United Nations. [More…]
Whilst our attitude to some of these situations may be different from that of the Government parties, no member of this House can say that the Labor Party has ever deserted its responsibilities in regard to any of our treaty commitments. [More…]
One of the criticisms that we make of the present Government is that in its commitment to Vietnam - quite frankly, we have never agreed with the commitment to Vietnam in the way in which the Government members have spelt it out - no young person in this country has ever been given the opportunity to volunteer to serve in Vietnam. [More…]
In the early 1950s young men were invited to enlist to serve in Korea. [More…]
The National Service Bill which is before the House is necessary to implement the Government’s decision to reduce the period of national service training from 24 months to 18 months. [More…]
National service was introduced to ensure that the level of Army manpower was maintained at a strength consistent with our defence requirements and, of course, with the population of this country. [More…]
While the Bill provides for a reduction in the time to be served in the Army by a national serviceman it will not reduce the reserve of over 20,000 trained men whom national service has made possible and who are available in the event of an emergency arising in the defence of this country. [More…]
Again this is the reason for our national service requirements. [More…]
We want to have an effective and sufficiently strong force operating and to have trained men in reserve so that at a time when they might be required - we hope the situation will not arise - they will be available. [More…]
As has been pointed out the national service scheme has provided more than 50,000 trained men. [More…]
At 30th June last 12,000 men were serving part time in the CMF as an alternative to national service. [More…]
There is no doubt that in a country where good opportunities are readily available for the future of the young men of that country there is less attraction to an army career. [More…]
So one of the reasons why there has not been the number of volunteers going into the Army in Australia has been the great opportunities that are available to young men in this country and this has been brought about by the sound and progressive policies that have been constantly followed by this Government. [More…]
The Government has had a policy of full employment and when one compares Australia with other countries where perhaps a greater number of volunteers are available it will be seen that the reasons why they are available are because of the unemployment level and because the opportunities for them were not there to the same extent as they have been in this country. [More…]
I suppose it would be possible that if a Labor government was returned to the treasury bench - I hope this will not happen - it could get sufficient volunteers in time because its policies would not provide the employment opportunities that exist now. [More…]
This may be one way a Labor government could increase the number of volunteers. [More…]
The Government has adopted this measure as a means by which the numbers can be provided and because the experts who have considered it felt it was the fairest way of providing the number of young men required to keep the Army manpower up to the desired level. [More…]
The Government does not desire to disrupt the careers of young men any more than is absolutely essential to maintain adequate numbers in our defence forces. [More…]
It has made provision for young men to continue their studies until they reach degree standard. [More…]
In addition to that the Government now recognises that present circumstances allow a reduction in the period of service from 24 months to 18 months and this is what this Bill is designed to bring about. [More…]
The honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) said it was simply a matter of the Government not being able to finance the present national service programme. [More…]
That is an absurd suggestion because there would be no doubt that this Government on its record down the years has ensured that priority in expenditure was given to maintaining an adequate defence for this country. [More…]
The honourable member also said that a professional Army of 28,000 men - I think that was the number he mentioned - would be more effective than the Army under the system that is operating now but he entirely overlooks the great value of the reserves that are provided under this system. [More…]
He overlooks the ‘ fact which was mentioned by the honourable member for Brisbane that we do not want to tend young men into Army service who are untrained. [More…]
1 might mention that although the term of service has been reduced from 24 months to 18 months, the period on active reserve has been increased from 3 years to 3i years. [More…]
These men are still available if required in any emergency. [More…]
Turning again to the Citizen Military Forces, it is a very effective and very essential part of our defence forces and does provide an alternative for those young men who do not want to serve in a ?articular war and who do not want to undertake ordinary national service training and perhaps be sent overseas. [More…]
It provides this avenue particularly for young men in rural industries at a time when the engagement of labour is not economically possible in rural areas. [More…]
When we are dealing with questions involving servicemen, as we are doing this evening, I think it is always sad to listen to the speeches of honourable members opposite who are obviously armchair generals. [More…]
They fight the wars all over again, they beat the tubs, they play the bugles and they call to arms those men who will have no say in what is to happen to them. [More…]
The honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) made a comment about the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) who made the statement that there was no immediate threat of danger to Australia for at least 10 years. [More…]
Once again he beat the dram and called men to arms, lt seems that this same honourable gentleman is always calling on people to serve their country, to .join the armed forces, but he never makes much of a showing when it comes to what might be called after sales service; when those who have served their country and have been through the agonies of war return. [More…]
This was an Executive decision taken by this guilty Government to commit others - not the Executive, mind you - to go and die for the cause. [More…]
In the sixth decade of the 20th century young men had the temerity to ask: What cause? [More…]
However, the young men of this country had become more knowledgable. [More…]
They questioned the morality and the legality of the action taken by the LiberalCountry Party Government and stayed away from recruiting centres in droves. [More…]
The intelligent action by these young men embarrassed the bloodthirsty men who had taken the action to commit them. [More…]
When young men thought about the futility of the situation and refused to volunteer the men with bloodstained hands who called themselves the Government then decided to force men to go, and conscription for active service returned to Australia. [More…]
In 1964 Australia was not under threat of invasion, even though the Darcy Meanswells of this country tried to convince us we were, and not all able-bodied men were conscripted. [More…]
Only those young men who were born on a day to be determined by lot were conscripted. [More…]
Those young men, and those not so young, who would defend their country against an aggressor but who could not convince themselves that they should be involved in the rape of Indo-China were denied the reasonable and acceptable defence of a conscientious objection to immorality. [More…]
Last year I was in Indonesia with a parliamentary delegation which included members of the Government parties and the other Party in the other place - I believe that is a nice way of referring to it. [More…]
It seems to me that there is a certain arrogance expressed not only by the Government but on occasions by some Government supporters. [More…]
The Indonesian general -gently and kindly reminded us that they had 6 million men under arms and that they did not really require the services of the Australian army to defend Indonesia. [More…]
This is the sort of numbers game that Government supporters play and this is the sort of arrogant attitude that the Government and Government supporters adopt towards this whole question of defence. [More…]
When we in the Labor Party speak of raising an Australian army we do not mean, as was suggested tonight, that we would try to encourage unemployed men - and the people who are unemployed are the sons of workers - to join the army and that if they did not join we would conscript them. [More…]
When we speak about defence we speak not only about those men who make up the numbers of the armed forces. [More…]
This Government is very nggardly and very remiss on the whole question of defence and one of these days it will find the problem wrapped right round its neck. [More…]
So while this Government and its supporters stand up and talk about how they are taking the initiative and using all of their resources to develop the armed forces which will protect Australia, they are leaving us in a position in which - God forbid that it should happen again - the next time a destroyer gets sunk half the Royal Australian Navy will go to the bottom of the sea. [More…]
This is the sort of defence policy that this Government is obviously trying to prop up and the only purpose of national service training is to prop up a defence system that is badly calculated and quite wrong. [More…]
For this reason young men are taken - [More…]
Following withdrawal of our combat forces from South Vietnam we can reduce our full time Army from 44,000 to 40,000 men. [More…]
Every year since 1967 some 8,000 national servicement have been added to the Regular Army Reserve after 2 years service. [More…]
This has meant already an increase of 40,000 in the numbers of fully trained and experienced men available. [More…]
The first would have been disastrous by preventing us meeting our commitments and depriving us of a steadily increasing strength of trained exservicemen. [More…]
It would require the call-up of men in excess of our needs. [More…]
It would also be wasteful economically by diverting from their normal occupations many men for whom there would be no worthwhile military tasks. [More…]
There must be a balance and the numbers called up each year have been assessed on the highest professional military judgment as those required to meet known military needs. [More…]
National service as implemented has been an outstanding success in achieving its purpose. [More…]
National servicemen have been integrated completely into the Army. [More…]
They receive the same conditions of service as regular soldiers, their training is identical and national servicemen are indistinguishable from other members of the Army. [More…]
Many national servicemen have been trained as specialists in various fields, and every effort is made to make full use of civilian acquired skills where compatible with military needs. [More…]
As at 30th June 1971 6 men had been imprisoned for failure to report and render service and 96 others had failed to report and render service. [More…]
These minuscule figures compare with 51,000 young men called up and enlisted. [More…]
As the Prime Minister said in the House on 18th August, the Government will review force levels as necessary as part of the 5-year defence rolling programme. [More…]
It is important against the strategic outlook for the 1970s and the 1980s to have the right balance of equipment and men in the defence forces as a whole. [More…]
Close attention will continue to be given to all practicable means of increasing voluntary recruitment. [More…]
It has been mentioned that Australia has a total of about 85,000 in the armed services, which is about 3.5 per cent of men of military age in Australia. [More…]
This can be compared with France, which has 5.2 per cent of military aged men in the armed services, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics which has 6.9 per cent, the United States of America which has 8.5 per cent and Canada, which has 2.3 per cent. [More…]
Canada’s percentage is somewhat less than our percentage, but, as someone has already mentioned, Canada is in the shadow and umbrella of the United States and although it is a Pacific power, it does not seem to have made any attempt to take any active part with its services in the Pacific area. [More…]
Comparisons are also made, as I mentioned, with the United States where the Gates Commission has proposed abolition of compulsory fulltime service by 1973. [More…]
The legislative power to call up men for service remains operative in the United States and has just been reconfirmed by Congress. [More…]
The level of unemployment in the United States over recent years has averaged’ 4.4 per cent and has reached 6 per cent. [More…]
Further, the main recommendation of the Gates Commission was that pay of recruits be increased from the existing level to about 60 per cent of comparable civilian pay up to civilian pay standards. [More…]
In Australia, servicemen’s pay, including the pay of national, servicemen, is already aligned with civilian pay scales with a loading to compensate for the , particular conditions of service life/ [More…]
The Government has taken all steps possible within reasonable limits to attract volunteers to the Services. [More…]
Further substantial pay increases have been announced recently and these will have a positive effect on improving recruitment and reengagement rates. [More…]
More married quarters are being built, or houses acquired, each year for servicemen. [More…]
Living quarters for unmarried servicemen are being improved and those now being built are of a very high standard of design and comfort. [More…]
Postings, particularly for men with families, are being reduced to a minimum necessary for service needs, and this situation will improve further when the unavoidable turbulence caused by unaccompanied service in Vietnam has gone. [More…]
More attention is being paid to variety in diet, the irksome irritations of service life are being removed, and modern amenities are being provided at all bases. [More…]
Over the time span covered by national service the strength of the volunteer element of our Services has been increased by over 13,000, some 5,000 of this number being in the Army. [More…]
Many of these are, or will become, long-term career servicemen. [More…]
The Government is not complacent. [More…]
Servicemen and servicewomen rightly have a high standing in the community. [More…]
It cannot be assumed however that there is a simple elasticity of supply of volunteers and that the numbers coming forward will increase in direct proportion to improvements in pay conditions. [More…]
There are many alternative employments available for our young men, and in a peace situation there are not the strongest motives to join the Services. [More…]
Although there is a steadily increasing strength of volunteers, national servicemen, even at the reduced number of 12,000, will still comprise some 30 per cent of the total Army manpower of 40,000! [More…]
This is a gap that cannot now be bridged by voluntary recruitment. [More…]
National Service must remain with us if we are to maintain an Army to meet all assessed military requirements. [More…]
We had the best record of any nation of conscripting and volunteering men to serve in the defence of freedom. [More…]
This Government is doing this. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has told us that students can get a deferment. [More…]
Certainly they can get a deferment. [More…]
If he had men trained and with certain skills who would be useful in the defence of this country he knew what those skills were. [More…]
But this Government says: ‘One in all in’, with one very curious exception which I will come to shortly. [More…]
However, in the meantime I want to refer to the young men who were mentioned in the speech of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) and whom our amendments have been designed to relieve. [More…]
I do not have time to read statements by all of them. [More…]
However, honourable members opposite should listen to some of these people instead of making grand statements such as that made by the Minister for Defence who said that opposition to the call-up has not been shown by those affected directly. [More…]
But most of all the National Service Act corrupts young men (and it is no Socrates). [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…]
The Government says that this is not a matter of conscience. [More…]
It says that these young men can easily go into the Citizen Military Forces if they want to escape going to Vietnam. [More…]
The Government, says the Minister for Defence, has taken all reasonable steps to make it possible for people to avoid service in Vietnam by deferring callup and by resettlement loans, etc. [More…]
Why do they not have deferment and resettlement loans? [More…]
If it is true that the Government is quite happy for all these young men to go into the Citizen Military Forces and not to enter the serving forces overseas, why then is it necessary to have so many extra young men in the Army? [More…]
I am a little perturbed by a statement made by the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) who said . [More…]
that this exemption provides for rural people because it allows them to fulfil their commitment under the Act while still working on the home territory, on the farm. [More…]
The reason I am particularly disturbed - and I cannot give names in the Parliament because I have no documentary evidence - is that I have had reports from a rural area. [More…]
But now, when the Vietnam commitment is terminating, why is it necessary to inject emotion almost to the point of prejudice into a debate upon a great national issue. [More…]
The national issue for the consideration of this House tonight is very pertinently pointed up by the principal amendment which is proposed by the Opposition to this Bill. [More…]
The Opposition proposes to insert clause 3a by way of amendment in the Committee stage of the Bill. [More…]
For a moment let us examine the full implications of that proposal. [More…]
I am glad to say that I have heard no-one on the Opposition side of the House maintain the proposition in this debate that an army of 28,000 men is sufficient to cope with the potential risks which we as a nation ought to cope with or be prepared to cope with. [More…]
During the course of this day I have heard no-one from the Opposition benches propose that it would be a safe or a good thing to reduce the Army from its present size of 44,000 men to only 28,000 men. [More…]
I can well understand that good judgment would predispose members of the Opposition against advancing any such argument. [More…]
Yet the indisputable fact is that if the amendment which is proposed as representing the cornerstone of the Opposition’s attitude towards this great matter of national service were carried, the effect would be that whereas on the 31st December 1971 the size of the Australian Regular Army would be 44,000 men, on the 1st January 1972 it would be reduced to 28,000 men - a number of men which the Opposition, by concession, admits would be inadequate for our defence purposes. [More…]
I ask the Opposition: Can it point to the logic of moving an amendment which would reduce the size of the Army overnight between New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? [More…]
It ignores the work of the Government in improving conditions of housing and conditions of service. [More…]
It ignores the decision of the Government to appoint the Kerr Committee and the many major recommendations that have been implemented to improve pay and conditions of service in the Army, Navy and Air Force. [More…]
The defence advisers of the Government presumably go along with the idea - I have no doubt of this - that we can get by for the lime being with an Army of 40,000 men instead of an army of 44,000 men. [More…]
Four thousand mcn will be released for more productive employment in the national interest. [More…]
Four thousand men will be released from the bondage of conscription, for it is a form of bondage but it is a form of bondage that the national interest unfortunately dictates should be imposed. [More…]
is very difficult to restrain one’s emotions when one’s fellow men and pregnant women are being stabbed and massacred, as was reluctantly shown by newspapers in the early stages of the Vietnam war. [More…]
I say sincerely that the Government is ashamed of its conscription laws. [More…]
I suppose one can forgive the Government for trying. [More…]
The great white father, Menzies, Ming the Merciless, in 1964 introduced conscription into this Parliament. [More…]
When vigorously challenged by the then honourable member for Yarra, Menzies, our former Prime Minister, said it was only 36 Army instructors. [More…]
But the Australian Government saw fit to introduce conscription for a civil war in Vietnam. [More…]
If the Australian people choose some of their fellow men and force them to become soldiers, then it does not matter whether this system is supported by a majority or a minority of the people. [More…]
National Service has been and continues to be a significant element of the effort expended to ensure the maintenance of an effective defence capability in this country. [More…]
Adopted at the end of 1964, its immediate purpose was to increase within an acceptable time span the essential strength of our Army from its then low level of 23,000 men to a level that would be adequate to allow the Army to fulfil its role in national defence. [More…]
The Vietnamese people have nothing against us, but we are forced by this Government through this tyrannical legislation, to go to Vietnam and to kill married and single people who are fighting for a better way of life in their own country. [More…]
It is to the utter disgrace and shame forever of every member of the Government who supported this legislation which provides for conscription for Vietnam. [More…]
The Minister has proclaimed himself to be the national gaoler of men who love freedom. [More…]
The Government does not want men to have the freedom that they demand. [More…]
It is not the Government’s place to give people freedom; it has to guarantee that the people can retain their freedom. [More…]
I do not know whether they have read just one comment made by Lord Birkenhead in 1928 when he told the British Cabinet: ‘We have 10 years to prepare for war’. [More…]
Because of that statement the British dropped their aggressiveness and their preparedness. [More…]
We had the Battle of Britain in which a handful of men went up and were shot out of the sky. [More…]
I would suggest that if honourable members opposite want to make sweeping statements that no-one from the other side of the fence ever gave distinguished service for their country they should visit the Australian War Memorial and have a look at the photographs of 2 Victoria Cross winners, men who were idolised by the rank and file of inland Queensland and men who I am proud to say - one of them is now dead - came from the electorate of Kennedy. [More…]
Both those men were sheep breeders. [More…]
One of the great things about national service is that it produces fine men. [More…]
I have seen young men go away from my own home town of Cloncurry - young men who have been drifting along out of work and who looked as though they had a pretty poor future - and come back as proud young men, straight as a die, with this wonderful training behind them. [More…]
Even if national service achieves nothing else it gets these young men off the streets and gives them a chance in life that they would not otherwise have. [More…]
I again say that if this Government were to abandon one iota of the firm stand it has taken in regard to the defence of Australia it would deserve to go put of office. [More…]
House have been charged with having no regard or little regard for the men in the Services of this country. [More…]
I want to say at the outset that I in common with my colleagues on this side of the House have nothing but the highest respect for the men who have fought for this country in the various wars in which it has been involved. [More…]
In contrast to honourable members opposite we on this side believe that those men acquitted themselves’ well in a war in which we should never have been involved. [More…]
The question is not one of the conduct of our men in Vietnam. [More…]
The question is the conduct of this Government in sending them there and maintaining them in Vietnam, and most especially the attitude of the Government in introducing conscription and allowing conscripts to be sent to that war, some to be injured and some to be killed. [More…]
This country has a phobia in that we have been afraid of invasion ever since settlement in 1 788. [More…]
Most of the men who are inducted into the forces are tradesmen or professional men. [More…]
Apparently they must also be exceedingly fit, since 70 per cent of men called up are rejected on the ground that they are medically unfit. [More…]
Young men called up for national service would be better employed in the teaching profession, medical profession or other professions and trades, rather than wasting their time in Australia, if they are not sent overseas, or being exposed to the risk of being maimed or killed in Vietnam in a war that is indefensible and in which we should never have been involved. [More…]
I believe that national service is unjustifiable on the ground of the waste of the talents of the men involved in it. [More…]
I believe that if we open this Parliament every day with prayers and if we adopt these trappings we . [More…]
should apply more of the Christian spirit in our outlook and approach to life and’ try to find how it can be practically applied to bring about” conditions in which peace will prevail and in which men will learn to live together. [More…]
The Government has this responsibility and, because war is not imminent in the foreseeable future, now is an ideal time for us to be spending some of the money, which we are now spending on defence and wasting in other areas, to bring about conditions of peace. [More…]
He apparently was defeated at Calvary and yet, if the Christian faith is correct, He rose triumphant over the worst that could be done to Him and came back to make a new faith out of 11 men who had wilted and failed at the time of his arrest. [More…]
I hope that, in the future, we shall see governments in this world spending as much on trying to bring about the conditions in which peace will prevail as they spend at present on preparations for war. [More…]
1 believe that patriotism which is born of the love of all men ought to be something to which we should aspire rather than that narrow patriotism of love of nation to which we are born. [More…]
I believe that patriotism to one’s nation is important but that it is secondary to our love of all men and our love to the world as a whole. [More…]
It is unjustifiable on economic grounds, on the ground of the suffering it causes to people, on the ground that it takes from our nation men who are in the position where they can use their newly attained skills in trades and professions and on the ground of the suffering it brings to the few families that are involved. [More…]
I hope that our amendment will be accepted, or failing that, that within the next 12 months we will see supporters of the Liberal-Country Parties on the Opposition benches and members of the Opposition on the Government benches. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military setvice under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
The Government and its military advisers are doing everything possible to ensure a safe withdrawal. [More…]
Following the Government’s decision on the withdrawal of Australian forces from Vietnam, plans for the withdrawal were developed by the commander of the Australian Forces in Vietnam under the direction of the Australian Chiefs of Staff. [More…]
These plans take into account the parallel planning by the South Vietnamese authorities for the redeployment of Vietnamese forces as appropriate in order that the South Vietnamese forces may assume in the very near future full operational responsibility for the security of Phuoc Tuy Province. [More…]
Opposition members seem to think that the men are just coming home from a trade union picnic or something and that the Government can give details of exactly where every units is going to be, how many will be there and at what time they will move out. [More…]
At this very moment there is awaiting consideration by the House an amendment moved by the Opposition which, if carried, would immediately reduce the size of the army from 44,000 to 28,000 men. [More…]
The purpose of this amendment is to secure the release from gaol of the 3 young men who are presently serving sentences for their refusal to take part in the Vietnam conflict. [More…]
The 3 young men are Charles Martin, who was sentenced to 2 years gaol on 25 th September 1970; Geoffrey Mullen, who was sentenced on 22nd March; and Garry Cook, who was sentenced as late as 27th August 1971, 9 days after the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) made his formal announcement in this Parliament of Australia’s withdrawal from Vietnam. [More…]
The sheer fact that these men are prepared to serve 2 years in gaol must surely provide ample evidence of the conscientious nature of their objection to serving in Vietnam. [More…]
Indeed, the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock), as reported in the Australian’ on 25th September of this year, has said that no national serviceman has been posted to Vietnam since the final withdrawal announcement if he has objected to the assignment. [More…]
How then can anyone be kept in gaol for objecting to the same assignment? [More…]
It would be an unhappy conclusion to Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam conflict if 2 young men remained in gaol after the last troops had returned from Vietnam. [More…]
At a time when the end of the Vietnam war is in sight it is monstrous that 2 men who pushed their objection to the war to the hilt should remain in prison. [More…]
There is no need for the Government to pursue its vindictive course against these 2 men at a time when the folly of the Vietnam commitment is clearly exposed. [More…]
If this amendment is defeated, probably it will not be the last occasion. [More…]
I believe that this war is drawing to an end so far as the Australian commitment is concerned. [More…]
It would be morally wrong for this Government to leave these 3 young men in gaol when the Australian commitment has ended in Vietnam. [More…]
The purpose of this amendment is to seek the release of these 3 young men. [More…]
Again I believe in all conscience that the Government ought to accept this amendment, do the honourable thing and release these 3 men from gaol. [More…]
I cannot restrain myself from rising to speak on this amendment which seeks the release of the only 3 out of many thousands of conscientious objectors to the war in Vietnam who are being used as an example by this Government and who are languishing in gaol at this very time as we debate this legislation. [More…]
This would not apply to the other 2 men whom the Deputy Leader of the Opposition mentioned. [More…]
I consider that my letter to the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) was an application to the GovernorGeneral of Australia for the release of Charles Martin as from last Monday, which was the 1-year anniversary of his being imprisoned, and the fact that this Government advised the Governor-General not to accede to that application is nothing more than a piece of vindictiveness. [More…]
Shouldn’t we all, twenty-year-olds to sixtyyearolds, men and women, be conscripted, if anyone is? [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…]
I believe he has the right to be heard in this chamber if there is such a thing as freedom of speech left for these young men in this country. [More…]
Obviously the purpose of this amendment is to release from prison 3 men who quite obviously have proven beyond all reasonable doubt their conscientious objection to the National Service Act. [More…]
The penalty of 2 years imprisonment, being reduced to 18 months, is an extremely severe penalty and one which is comparable with penalties for some of the major crimes in our community. [More…]
In considering this clause I would ask the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) to inform the House, now or on the third reading of the Bill, what the situation is with these young men who are serving prison sentences and whom we are asking to be paroled, with regard to any future application they make to join the Commonwealth Public Service or any State Public Service. [More…]
Are they to be considered as common criminals and to be denied the right of access to employment because they have had a conscientious objection to a piece of legislation which is seriously objected to by a very substantial portion of the Australian population? [More…]
If in fact, as appears to be the case at this stage, these young men are for the rest of their lives to be denied access to employment in the Commonwealth Public Service and other areas where a criminal record - this is what they have been provided with - is a bar to future employment then it is up to the Government, before we conclude the Committee stage of the Bill, to inform the House so that the Committee stage can be adjourned and consideration can be given to this point. [More…]
Once they have served their sentence and been released from prison - as we are asking for in this clause - then their record of imprisonment should be completely wiped clean. [More…]
I ask the Minister to tell us before we conclude the Committee stage whether these men are to be denied access to the Commonwealth Public Service because of their incarceration and because of their conscientious objection. [More…]
If this is so, will he agree to the Committee stage of the Bill being adjourned so that amendments can be brought forward to ensure that their criminal records are completely wiped clean and they will be fully entitled to the privileges of citizenship of this country? [More…]
Apropos of the point which has just been raised by the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes), I am not certain of the position which he has queried and neither are the officers of my Department at this stage, but the matter will certainly be checked and I will advise the honourable gentleman tomorrow. [More…]
I do not suggest for one moment that that in itself should be any reason why the clauses cannot proceed and the Bill be adopted by the House if that is the wish of the House. [More…]
At this stage of the debate I simply want to emphasise that, from the inception of the present national service scheme, there has been a direct and equivalent relationship between the penalty for the offence of failure to render service with the military forces as required and the period of service for which men are liable. [More…]
The announcement of the reduction in the period for full time service did not of itself provide grounds for the immediate and unconditional release of the 2 men imprisoned at that time, that is at 1 8th August. [More…]
They were in default of their obligations under the National Service Act passed by this Parliament. [More…]
The announcement concerning the reduction of the period of service did not mean that national servicemen serving in the Army, who were subject to the decision that the period of national service should be reduced from 2 years to 18 months, should immediately be relieved of any further liability to render service. [More…]
Nor, in the view of the Government, can any valid conclusion be drawn on the premise that men in prison at that time for their failure to render service should have been eligible for release on an immediate and unconditional basis. [More…]
The amending legislation provides for 3 men now in prison. [More…]
From the date of commencement of the operation of the Act they will be eligible for release upon completing 18 months imprisonment less the normal remissions for good behaviour. [More…]
It might be observed that the decision of the Parliament, of course, should not properly be anticipated. [More…]
Moreover, the announcement of the reduction to 18 months full time service did not mean that men serving in the Army who had completed or would shortly complete 18 months service should immediately be discharged, and they, unlike Mr Martin, are men who have undertaken the obligation required of them. [More…]
At this stage there is no question of discharging men who in the normal course of events have undertaken their commitments in relation to the Act. [More…]
The Government fails to see any reason why those persons who are serving a term of imprisonment should, in a sense, be advantaged as against those who have been prepared to undertake service in accordance with the Act. [More…]
I remind the Opposition of the very large number of young men who have been prepared so to serve. [More…]
If the persons who are currently serving in accordance with their obligations are not to be released immediately I do not see any reason why those who are serving a term of imprisonment should be advantaged in relation to them. [More…]
I mention therefore that they cannot be discharged until after the Bill becomes law, and then not immediately. [More…]
As to the other 2 men, if there had been any significant change in their position as a result, for example, of the announcement to withdraw from Vietnam as would allow them to render national service, then their position would be considered. [More…]
To summarise, it is the contention of the Opposition that the 3 men currently serving terms of imprisonment for failure to render national service should be released immediately. [More…]
In the view of the Government there is no basis for their immediate release at this point of time. [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…]
For the other 2 men, the legislation provides that they will be eligible for release upon completing 18 months imprisonment less such remissions as are applicable m their particular cases in the States in which they are detained. [More…]
The men were properly convicted and sentenced for the offences for which they were committed. [More…]
I do not for one moment doubt the genuine nature of the motivations which have prompted the comments made by members of the Opposition but I make it clear to them that the Government is not in accord with the particular clause that they seek to have inserted and therefore rejects it. [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…]
I really cannot understand why the Opposition has gone to such pains in preparing an amendment to this very simple Bill, which seeks to reduce the period of service required of a national serviceman from 2 years to 18 months and to reduce the strength of the defence forces from 44,000 to 40,000. [More…]
Almost since the First World War the Labor Party has been endeavouring at all times to prevent the recruitment and existence of an army of the required strength to defend Australia. [More…]
I do not know why the Labor Party has gone to such an enormous amount of trouble to assist 0.8 per cent of the young men who are called up for national service. [More…]
Many great soldiers when they returned to Australia seemed to be submerged in the Australian Labor Party, which was not particularly concerned about defence or, for that matter, the terms and conditions of service under which men of the defence forces served. [More…]
It maintains that we can call up men and within 6 months train them to defend Australia. [More…]
What a stupid statement. [More…]
Any government responsible for the defence of Australia must be in a position of preparedness to meet any situation that may arise. [More…]
I support the Bill and oppose the proposed amendment. [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…]
On the basis of these statements I decided to speak in the debate. [More…]
The Bill basically is an amendment to the National Service Act io reduce (lie period of military service for national servicemen in Australia from 2 years to 18 months. [More…]
To date 51,000 national servicemen have been called up to fulfil, as the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) says, our role in national defence. [More…]
The national defence the Minister speaks of is the Australian commitment to Vietnam. [More…]
When, with Australia on a peacetime footing, hundreds of Australian boys have had their lives dislocated and 300 young men have died in an undeclared war, because the Australian Government offered to support various regimes in South Vietnam that purported to be governments we have a very serious position indeed. [More…]
It was revealed in this House a couple of weeks ago that the only correspondence from the South Vietnamese Government which led to our involvement in Vietnam was an acceptance of the Australian offer of military assistance. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) said that Australia’s offer had been made after negotiations with the South Vietnamese Government, but that is pure conjecture. [More…]
I think everyone would believe that the Australian Government offered assistance to the regimes of South Vietnam after pressure from the American Johnson Administration. [More…]
I think everyone is aware of the fact that President Thieu rushed through a constitutional amendment that virtually forced every other candidate for the presidency of South Vietnam out of the field. [More…]
This is the Government we have been defending. [More…]
For this the guilty men who sit opposite have sent 300 Australian boys to their death. [More…]
It is because of this lack of policy that we had to conscript boys and the guilty men opposite have sent 300 Australian boys to their death. [More…]
As I said, this Government has been manipulated by a South Vietnamese President who introduced a constitutional amendment that forced every other candidate out of the presidential field. [More…]
So what sort of Government have we defended in Vietnam? [More…]
What sort of Government will we leave and how can Australia rely on that Government when we know that it is not securely based and does not have the popular support of the people? [More…]
I think the whole National Service Act was a response to political pressure from the United States and it is an Act that destroys the Government’s credibility in the eyes of the Australian people. [More…]
It would be worse to be unprepared than to have men trained and ready to defend our country. [More…]
The inference was that the likes of honourable members on his side of the House, the workers and the sons of workers, as they purport to be, are the men who are sent to risk their lives whereas the likes of honourable members on this side of the House sit at home and direct them in what to do. [More…]
He should check the Service records of Government supporters against those of Opposition members. [More…]
He has worked very hard on the land, he has fought very hard for his country and now he is in Parliament, still fighting for his country. [More…]
He said that Australia had 28,000 men under arms. [More…]
What he did not mention was the question that was asked every day while I was in Djakarta: What is Australia doing about the downward thrust of Communism? [More…]
National service has supplied Australia with 51,000 men in the military forces and a total of 21,000 fully trained men in the reserve forces who could be called up to undertake short refresher courses and to serve Australia in time of need. [More…]
If the proposed amendment was carried the size of the Australian Army would be reduced by one-third. [More…]
They would not consider an army of 23,000 men to be adequate, and yet speaker after speaker has denounced the National Service Bill, which is the means employed to get sufficient numbers. [More…]
So I reject the proposed amendment wholeheartedly. [More…]
There were a few other alterations to the Act mentioned in the Minister’s second reading speech but that is the major one. [More…]
Far from being penitent over the loss of about 470 Australian lives and the wounding of 4,000 or more, Government supporters are saying that their sending of these young men to war has been vindicated. [More…]
This legislation is the follow-on from the introduction of conscription in 1964 for the commitment to the war in Vietnam entered into by this country. [More…]
It was because of the ‘all the way with LBJ’ policy enunciated by this Government that it was committed to conscription. [More…]
As the Minister stated, at this stage 16,000 conscript national service trainees comprise a large proportion of the 44,000 men in the Army. [More…]
The real reason for the introduction of conscription in the first place, apart from our commitment to Vietnam, was not that it was ever necessary but that it was the easy way out for the Government and the easy way for the Army authorities to pick the best out of the young men of this nation. [More…]
Australians should never forget that this Government, which said that our security and future independence was challenged by the menace from the north - and Vietnam was cited as an example - saw fit to call up only a section of the 20-year olds of this country and place on them the full responsibility for the defence of this nation. [More…]
At a time when the Government said that this country was in real danger it thought so little about it that it said ‘business as usual at home’, yet 10 per cent of those of 20 years of age had their names drawn out of a barrel in a lottery which became known as the lottery of death. [More…]
This was opposed by the Labor Party - to its credit - right from its inception and when we become the government next year national service training will be abolished and we will raise a volunteer army to defend this country, an army with adequate pay and conditions and all that goes with it. [More…]
As honourable members well know the Government at this stage does not seem to want volunteers in the Army. [More…]
I think about 70 per cent of the young men called up are rejected because the Government looks for men with the physical condition of Olympic athletes. [More…]
Even though the Government says it is withdrawing the men from that area, unfortunately 5 died a few days ago and 25 were injured. [More…]
How true was the Deputy Leader of the Opposition in that statement. [More…]
Why were men conscripted to fight in the paddy fields of Vietnam and other places? [More…]
At the same time, with double standards, the Government conscripted the elite of Australian manhood to fight in Vietnam for a cause which the Government said endangered our future but which the whole world now knows was not the position at all. [More…]
For instance, we have found that had it not been for this Government offering troops to the South Vietnamese Government, Australia would never have been involved in the war. [More…]
The policy of this Government became ‘All the way with LBJ’ and Australia found that it was committed because it was felt that in a time of crisis the United States of America might come to our aid. [More…]
Today, the United States Government in every aspect of its policy is showing how much it thinks of Australia’s support in Vietnam. [More…]
Senator Fulbright visited Australia and said that he did not know we had men in Vietnam, although 8,000 of our men were faced with the prospect of death. [More…]
Is this not a tragic commentary on this Government? [More…]
Is it not a shocking thing and a scandal that men are in gaol today as a result of this policy? [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has refused to agree to an amendment which would have released some of these men from gaol. [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…]
Yet these men rot in gaol while the Government boasts of how successful its war has been and how it is reducing the term of national service. [More…]
This is nothing short of a national scandal and the Government deserves to be condemned for it. [More…]
There has been no contrition from Government supporters. [More…]
Every one of them has told us how it is necessary to defend the country, what the Government is doing as a government and what Labor would not do. [More…]
Even during the last 4 years when the Government said it had a reasonable amount of stability, there have been 4 Ministers for Defence. [More…]
The Government consistently tells us how much it is spending on defence, how much it has boosted up the amount allocated in the Budget for national service training and all these kind of things. [More…]
It took the Government a long time to provide the adequate pay and conditions which have just been announced for certain sections of the Services. [More…]
There would be no need for conscription at any time if adequate benefits were given to men in the Services, who are prepared to fight for the country and to be available in peace or war. [More…]
Yet the Government took the cheap way out and today, to its eternal discredit and in the face of public opinion, it does not admit that it was wrong to commit troops to Vietnam. [More…]
The whole world knows the Government deserves to be condemned for that action. [More…]
I do not know of any section of society in this country which supports our continued commitment to Vietnam. [More…]
In America there have been violent demonstrations against America’s involvement in this conflict. [More…]
We in this part of the world - the only nation which was prepared to support America - are now treated as though we had no men there at all. [More…]
As an article in one paper recently said - about 400 deaths later, 4,000 wounded men later and some years after the first entry of Australian troops to Vietnam - it is realised that we should never have been there. [More…]
However, if honourable members opposite support the amendment which will be moved by the Opposition, national service will be terminated completely in the not too distant future. [More…]
No Minister of this Government should sleep peacefully at night while men languish in gaol because they would not go to a war which has no support in this country or anywhere else in the world. [More…]
No government deserves the support of the Australian people when it conscripts young men to fight in a war, not because it felt the nation wanted them there but because it was following blindly the foreign policies of another country. [More…]
Whether Government supporters like it or not, the Prime Minister of Australia hedged at all questions about invitations to participate in the Vietnam war, but when the correspondence was revealed, it boiled down to that well known phrase ‘They had their arm twisted’. [More…]
When its arm was twisted, the Government agreed to accept the offer to go into Vietnam. [More…]
Because of this, men have died in Vietnam. [More…]
Men who have been conscripted have died in the paddy fields of Vietnam and today their families mourn them, no doubt with pride, because they gave their all. [More…]
But the tragedy is that these men should never have been there at all. [More…]
Other men have been wounded and maimed for life because of this conflict in which Australia should never have been engaged. [More…]
While the Government talks of reducing the period of national service and of withdrawing our troops from .Vietnam, men still languish in gaol. [More…]
This is a shocking policy to be followed by any government. [More…]
The Government deserves to be condemned and in the Committee stages the Opposition will confront the Government with important amendments to the National Service Act. [More…]
This will give the Government an opportunity to make some recompense for what it has brought to this country because of the conflict in Vietnam. [More…]
I was present in the House on the night when the Australian Labor Party opposed the conscription proposals of this Government to meet our involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
I am proud of my Party and it is to its eternal credit that it has stood firm on this issue right through, despite bitter attacks from the Government. [More…]
The Labor Party’s opposition to Australia’s commitment of forces to Vietnam has been vindicated in every way. [More…]
I rise to protest against the action of the Government in continuing to gaol young men who defy the Government’s efforts to conscript them to serve in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
I relate some aspects of the attitude of the Government and its organisations towards Geoffrey Mullen. [More…]
Although I specifically asked the Minister to give consideration to this case no consideration was given to it because the Government has no feelings in this regard. [More…]
One would think that, as it is now bringing troops back from Vietnam because of public opinion and world pressure, the Government would release the 3 young men who were gaoled because they had the moral courage to stand up against the Government’s policy of conscription. [More…]
The Department of Labour and National Service knows that at least 43,000 young men in this country have failed to comply with all the details of the National Service Act, but only a handful of them have been prosecuted. [More…]
One would think that these young men would be released from gaol now that we are withdrawing from Vietnam. [More…]
The Government apparently wants to act according to what is called the letter of the law. [More…]
The Government is a government of hypocrisy. [More…]
Was its heart bleeding for the young men who were killed in Vietnam last week? [More…]
An indication that the Government is a government of hypocrisy is that it could not care less that the lives of 500 of our young men were lost in Vietnam because the Government wanted a cheap insurance policy. [More…]
I am sick to death of the hypocritical attitude of this Government which is putting young men in prison. [More…]
In fact, it is snooping around looking for other young men to put into gaol. [More…]
I understand that for 3 days it was chasing young men in melbournetotry toputthem ingaol. [More…]
It must have cost the Government thousands of dollars in attempting to apprehend just a few men. [More…]
Why does the Government persecute just a few young men? [More…]
Why does it want to persecute these young men who have had the moral courage to stand up against the authorities and the establishment? [More…]
These young men have been treated by this Government in a way which is contrary to the way in which they should be treated. [More…]
The Government should show some sympathy and understanding because of the blunders it has made. [More…]
What has the Government done? [More…]
It has committed crimes on 500 young men. [More…]
As the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) has done, I ask the Government now to release Charles Martin who has served a gaol term of 18 months. [More…]
Why does the Government keep him in gaol? [More…]
The Government says: ‘No, we must keep to the letter of the law’. [More…]
There have been 500 young men sacrificed and the maiming of another 2,500 young men. [More…]
This has happened because of the blunders and stupidity of this Government. [More…]
After all these long years of pleading, making requests and issuing challenges to the Government to look at its guilt, I am asking it now to stop persecuting a few men. [More…]
I ask it to do the decent thing and release these young men from gaol. [More…]
But again, as the honourable member for Berowa has pointed out, not one has gone so far as to say that an Army of the present volunteer element, 28,000 men, would meet our defence requirements. [More…]
But despite this, the Opposition proposes that the national service scheme should be discontinued from 1st January next year - that is, within a period of 3 months - which would precisely reduce the Army to the volunteer element, an immediate reduction of 30 per cent. [More…]
The major component of the manpower necessary to achieve national security objectives, of course, is obtained by volunteer recruitment. [More…]
On the other hand, the men needed to maintain the essential strength - and I say this quite bluntly - of a standing army in peace time have to be obtained by other means to ensure an army of the size we need. [More…]
It will also provide adequate reserves, subject to immediate call-up for a period of 3 years, of men fully trained and able to take their place in an operational unit. [More…]
Therefore I cannot see how the Opposition which has neglected to vote against the motion for the second reading of this Bill can bring forward this amendment which is completely unacceptable to the Government. [More…]
I suggest that this continuing programme - and I stress the word ‘continuing* which has an element of guarantee in it - of maintaining an army of adequate size, giving encouragement to the Citizen Military Forces, establishing adequate reserves subject to immediate call-up and providing a further reservoir in the community is an immeasureably superior system and gives immeasureably greater security to this country than rh; Opposition’s system which as I read it is one of panic call-up in times of emergency and panic training to get men called up to adequate standards. [More…]
There can be no comparison between the 2 general approaches of the Government and the Opposition and I therefore have no hesitation in rejecting this amendment. [More…]
F believe that there was no need for the National Service Act in the first place because the Government should have encouraged people to volunteer. [More…]
We heard the argument year after year in this place that people would, not volunteer for the Army. [More…]
The fact is that there would be very few men willing to sacrifice the chance of getting more money in industry by joining the forces and the pay. [More…]
conditions and amenities in . [More…]
Does the Government put money before human life? [More…]
Some people were allowed to go about their ordinary way of life making huge profits, but what about the men who were losing their lives, and what about their parents? [More…]
The Prime Minister who was originally responsible for the introduction of this legislation, Sir Robert Menzies, was given the opportunity at the second referendum to vote no, and he did vote no. [More…]
But the Government did not give the young boys of 20 or then parents the opportunity to say whether or not they wanted to go to the war. [More…]
I believe that one of the gravest mistakes that has ever been made by any government since federation was that men were conscripted to be sent overesas in an undeclared war. [More…]
It has been said in this chamber that the men who have been sent over to Vietnam are being brought back to Australia and they will be back here by 1st January next year. [More…]
The honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) said that in the Second World War the men with the least education and the men who could hardly pass the aptitude test were often the best soldiers. [More…]
I know this because I was in close touch with many of the men in the campaigns. [More…]
I say the honourable member’s statement was completely wrong. [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…]
When our men have gone overseas they have never gone on a quest in search of gain nor to invade weaker nations in lawless rage of conquest. [More…]
He is in a position now to feel that certain young men in gaol should have their freedom. [More…]
This nation is supposed to be tremendously prosperous. [More…]
Everybody must know that there is a boom in the cities where most of the young .men seem to have congregated in a conglomeration of population. [More…]
They fell because the luxury that they were enjoying made them forget the things that build men and nations. [More…]
I hope I have made it clear that I am opposed to the amendment because, after all. [More…]
But the Labor Party wants to wipe out all training for young men. [More…]
If an enemy came to this country and the young men had had no training whatever they would be slaughtered. [More…]
He knows what happens to men in armies who are not trained. [More…]
I do not think for one moment that any member of the Opposition does not want to see Australia prosperous. [More…]
We are moving these amendments in Committee so that those gallant men on the Government side who have conscripted young Australians to that bottomless pit of human suffering which is Vietnam and who were responsible for the deaths of 500 young men in thai country may have the opportunity to cross the floor and end this immoral act. [More…]
I am asking Government supporters to come over and vote with us on this amendment that has been moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
We know the freedom and democracy that existed in South Vietnam where most of these young conscripts went, where 500 young men lost their lives and where 2,500 young men were maimed. [More…]
I do not know why he has not been able to look within his conscience, as d’d Senator Hannaford, and see the immoral act of the Government which he support1!. [More…]
But why is it that not one member of the Conservative element of this Parliament can say: ‘Look, we were wrong.’? [More…]
We have to go into the State legislatures and come into this Parliament and let these men know of their guilt. [More…]
The honourable member for Corangamite asked why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition mentioned the inquiry by Mr Justice Kerr into Service pay rates. [More…]
He mentioned it for this reason: We say that conscription was never necessary. [More…]
The Government went about this in haste, lt did not try to establish good wages and conditions for servicemen. [More…]
This is why the Deputy Leader of the Opposition mentioned the Justice Kerr inquiry. [More…]
If young men enlist in the Army, why should they not be entitled to war service homes? [More…]
If the Government implemented the proposals of the Australian Labor Party and provided suitable pay, conditions and amenities to members of the armed services, conscription would be unnecessary. [More…]
However, the Government decided to take the easy way out. [More…]
There is an old cliche, ‘Diggers for Dollars’, and the Government had to take out what was called a cheap insurance policy. [More…]
It thought that if it conscripted young men and sent them to Vietnam to stand by Australia’s ally, the United States, and Australia was ever attacked, then the United States would come to our aid. [More…]
At no stage - I did not hear the honourable member for Reid or the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) say it - has the Opposition propounded or dared to- propound the idea that a defence force or a regular army of only 28,000 men is adequate for our present purposes. [More…]
The Government’s present stand is that we can live - 1 doubt whether we can live for very long - with an Army of 40,000 men. [More…]
The Opposition is adopting a curious and inconsistent stance, for it has moved in this Committee an amendment, the immediate effect of which, on 1st January 1972, would be to decrease at one fell blow the size of the Australian Regular Army from 40,000 men, which my friend the Deputy Leader of the Opposition says is not enough, to 28,000 men. [More…]
I will maintain as long as I am in this place that in present circumstances it is the only viable option open to a responsible government. [More…]
With all respect to the men of great sincerity on the other side of the House who hold a contrary view, I would characterise this amendment as basically irresponsible. [More…]
My contribution to this debate is to indicate support for the amendment moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) and to place on the record of the Parliament some of the nauseating features that lead me to be vigorously opposed to conscription. [More…]
Any tendency I once may have had to support national service I can assure the House I have entirely abandoned because of the manner in which tha Government has used national service trainees in this barbaric war in South East Asia. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) suggests that often men of lower education make the best soldiers. [More…]
A person with a better schooling often concentrates on his own enrichment. [More…]
I said: ‘You cannot divide the fighting qualities of the men of the AIF into the highly educated or the poorly educated. [More…]
There is no proof whatsoever that the majority of national servicemen who go to Vietnam are the sons of so-called workers. [More…]
It is a political argument. [More…]
I know many blokes who have gone to Vietnam who are the sons of, if you like, rich men. [More…]
Surely one cannot say that in a nation such as ours an Army of 40,000 men is very great. [More…]
One cannot say that in the circumstances which could confront us in this area an Army of 40,000 men is overstrong. [More…]
I oppose the amendment. [More…]
In fact, this Bill will reduce the strength of the permanent Army by 4,000 men. [More…]
It was done to fit into the Budget strategy of the Government. [More…]
The honourable member for La Trobe said that an army of 28,000 men does not represent an army of 28,000 fighting men. [More…]
I suggest that the additional 12,000 national servicemen do not represent 12,000 additional fighting men. [More…]
He made it quite clear that the anticipated training period of men called up would be 6 months. [More…]
So the proposal in this Bill to reduce by 6 months the period of national service in fact reduces by 50 per cent the effective period of service which these men will serve in the Army - unless, of course, “the former Prime Minister and other honourable members opposite have deliberately misled us since the Bill was first introduced. [More…]
If the Government’s own figures are correct, then there is a difference of 6,000 effective national servicemen, not 12,000. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee (Mr Turnbull) said that the Army makes men out of these young people. [More…]
It deprives the nation of the skills which it needs in order to satisfy by the easiest possible means the requirements of our defence forces. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to provide attractive conditions of service, such as housing and other facilities which are necessary. [More…]
Men are entitled to speak for themselves. [More…]
The amendment provides an opportunity for the Government to remove from the statute book an abhorent piece of legislation which is a denial of the freedom which we suggest we defend. [More…]
I suggest that Government members should seriously consider my proposition. [More…]
I believe the Church ought to set up a standard other than that which is generally accepted in the community and I believe that if this amendment is carried it will help to bring about this situation. [More…]
On those grounds and because there is adequate provision within the Act, on the ground of conscientious objection, for men who are in religious orders or who are training for religious orders to establish that they hold conscientious objection, the same as any other citizen in the community may, I believe that this provision ought not to remain in the Act. [More…]
The amendment I have moved on behalf of the Opposition can be considered in 2 parts. [More…]
I have of course moved for these provisions on 2 other occasions in this Parliament. [More…]
The Opposition proposes 2 amendments to the principal Act and if these amendments are accepted by the Government they will almost certainly remove a great deal of the agony and divisiveness that has accompanied the question of conscientious objection since national service was introduced by this Government. [More…]
Briefly the first part of this amendment proposes that there should be the right for a person in this country who has a conscientious objection to a particular war to express that objection. [More…]
I concede at this stage that our first amendment was defeated and that if accepted it would have had the effect of repealing the principal Act from 1st January 1972. [More…]
As this amendment has been defeated I believe it is now the responsibility of the Opposition to put forward the amendments which we have put before this Parliament on other occasions and which we believe would improve the principal Act if they were accepted. [More…]
Therefore I return to the first pan of the amendment which concerns conscientious objection and conscientious objection to a particular war. [More…]
Every honourable member in this Parliament is fully aware of the circumstances that have surrounded the cases that have been dealt with in the courts whereby young men have been imprisoned. [More…]
Honourable members who have spoken tonight, particularly from this side of the chamber, have referred to those young men who are now imprisoned as a result of their conscientious objection, but in particular as a result of their conscientious objection to a particular war. [More…]
There will be an opportunity at a later stage to deal with these 3 cases because I propose to move a further amendment which would provide for the release of those young men who are now imprisoned because of their conscientious objection. [More…]
In at least 2 of these cases the young men stated their conscientious objection to conscription particularly on the basis of the Vietnam war. [More…]
It was quite clear from the statement which was made by one of these young people and which appeared in the Adelaide ‘Advertiser’ that he had a conscientious objection to the Vietnam war. [More…]
We believe that it is a principle that ought to be accepted by any democratic government that if the right of conscientious objection is to be recognised there ought to be the opportunity for a person to express his objection to a particular war. [More…]
I reiterate what I said a few moments ago in relation to the divisiveness that has been created in this country as a result of the treatment of those who wanted to express their conviction and opposition to conscription and who refused to accept the law of this country because they had an objection to a particular war. [More…]
I am most dubious whether in such a context there would be the same degree of acceptability for the proposed process as there is now among the men affected, the organisations, groups and individuals who are interested in this matter, and in the community generally for the current provisions. [More…]
The amendment also has the avowed purpose of giving a uniform and consistent approach to conscientious objection over the whole of Australia, but it is proposed to have one commissioner in each State and so the possibility of variability in the approach adopted with regard to applications from different States is far from being precluded. [More…]
In summary then, under the present arrangements the purposes underlying the amendment are in practice already well met. [More…]
This is not the approach of the Government to what is a most serious matter. [More…]
They apparently would place their faith - and the fate of the men involved - in a procedure which has shortcomings without consideration being given to all of the problems which are subject to easy identification. [More…]
Certainly what is proposed by the Opposition is not acceptable to the Government. [More…]
It is like a pay back; it is like a threat; it is like a barbaric form of retribution; it is like the Government saying to the young men in advance: ‘Here is a law. [More…]
However, rather than give these offenders treatment similar to that given to other Commonwealth prisoners or because they, might be acting out of the highest motives, allow them to be given some preferential treatment - as might well be the case because the magistrate might be influenced in that way - the Government says: ‘No, we will write into this statute a mandatory, strict, rigid sentence for the period he was supposed to serve in the armed forces’. [More…]
Why did the Government do this except in terrorem, to frighten them, to put the fear of hell into these young people. [More…]
It is an indication of the degree to which the Government has failed that so many young men have not been frightened by this legislation but have stood up and been counted, and have these young men who have been named in this House tonight. [More…]
All this amendment seeks to do is to put these young men on the same level as any other Commonwealth prisoner. [More…]
Or is it that the Government does not trust the magistrates either? [More…]
So the Government takes it out of the magistrates’ hands and out of the hands of the district or county court judges and says: ‘The sentence shall be 2 years; take it or leave it.’ [More…]
This is all this amendment seeks to deal with. [More…]
The basic wage for an ordinary plantation labourer is $WS1.00 per day ($A1.25) for men or $WS0.80 ($A1.00) for women. [More…]
Rates for foremen range from$WS1.50 ($A1.86) to$WS2.00 ($ A 2.50) depending on size of plantation and duties. [More…]
There has been no change whatsoever in Government policy on this matter. [More…]
The situation referred to applied merely to one final movement of 84 men who were being sent to Vietnam for an extremely, short period. [More…]
It does not mean that there has been any change in Government policy generally. [More…]
He said also that American cattle men do not object to third grade beef being imported into the United States of America. [More…]
But they have been against imports of Australian best beef and have been lobbying in the Parliament to stop the importation of Australian beef. [More…]
I have seen some of these tins of Paraguayan meat before - someone drew my attention to it - and I believe it is being brought in as an experiment. [More…]
In this way, more meat will be sold and the cattle men and the nation will benefit. [More…]
The Minister should think how guilty he and the men behind him are for the suffering they are bringing to the people of my district and surrounding districts. [More…]
Is the Acting Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that 3 men, Paul Poernomo, Steve Rooney and Geoff Evans, have commenced a fast outside Parliament House? [More…]
Their aim is to highlight the desperate plight of some 9 million East Pakistan refugees in India and millions of displaced persons in East Pakistan, most of whom face famine conditions and ultimate death unless large scale assistance is provided by foreign governments. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House whether the Commonwealth Government is prepared to make a more sacrificial contribution of $10m to help to alleviate the plight of these impoverished people? [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…]
They cannot very well put men off if sales decrease; they cannot very well turn down the wheel to limit production. [More…]
Trees have been planted and their is investment in an area which is subject perhaps to 25 years of production. [More…]
If any reason is needed in anybody’s mind as to why this scheme which we are discussing tonight should be introduced, let us remember that a lifetime of investment and savings by some people has been put into this form of production, und it is neither lightly turned off nor does one lightly liquidate or cast aside savings or investment of a lifetime. [More…]
We have in our Dockyard a great preponderance of men who are loyal and extremely capable. [More…]
I have delighted recently in going to presentations of awards to apprentices who I believe, have given evidence that their capabilities are equal to those of any other young men of this group in the world. [More…]
However, security relating to new naval construction is a matter of concern, as I said recently, because ali reports indicate that there are in the Dockyard a number of men whose allegiance would be to the Communist Party as well as to this country. [More…]
When we see events such as Australia being embarrassed by having to bring Centurion tanks back to Australia by means of the shipping of another nation because our own waterside workers refuse to unload tanks not going to Vietnam but coming back to add materially to the defence capacity of this country, I believe there is added reason for concern at the presence in our work force of men who openly claim to be and are leaders of the Communist movement. [More…]
If this is not so, then there are certainly industrial reasons why it should have to be demonstrated that the work performance of these men was not acceptable. [More…]
Of course, this is related to the fact that there exist overall necessities for the operations ‘ of our fleet and the men and equipment which will be provided for the base. [More…]
The whole progress of this operation is taking place, I believe, completely satisfactorily and 1975 should see the base fit for operation in the first phase of its development. [More…]
Apart from the economy and efficiency that can be obtained by the means mentioned, a single marketing authority could also speak for the entire industry with a single voice and, as the Government has said again and again, this is just what it likes to see and hear. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Australian Wheat Board has been outstandingly successful, when Government political policies have not obstructed it, in its consolidation of existing overseas markets and in its search for new markets. [More…]
South Africa and New Zealand have learned only too well the costly lessons of having multitudes of middle men between the producer and the purchaser. [More…]
I would like to quote from the Courier Mail’ of yesterday an article headed ‘Wool Men Stay Out’. [More…]
The labour force at the 3 Tasmanian fruit ports was augmented by. [More…]
264 seasonal transferees at Hobart, 32 at Beauty Point and 6 at Port Huon; and at Port Huon was further increased by the recruitment of 62 men. [More…]
This is clearly indicated by this report to the Government from one of its instrumentalities. [More…]
So we see the hypocrisy and absolute stupidity of the remarks of honourable members on the Government side who have endeavoured to confuse apple growers on the matter of their conscience. [More…]
Why does not the Government, out of the goodness of its heart if it is fair dinkum, give consideration to granting to Tasmanian apple growers the direct benefits that flow from the rates of work performed in the apple ports of Tasmania? [More…]
What is wrong with the Government applying that principle and giving that benefit to Tasmanian apple growers who ship their apples through ports which in a sense have become specialised in shipping apples abroad as com pared with what happens in Melbourne or Adelaide where the shipping of apples is interwoven with the shipping of wool, dried fruits and what have you? [More…]
Men have to discontinue loading apples and load dried fruit or something else and then return to loading apples later on. [More…]
There are not 24 men working down below in a ship’s hold as there were 3 years ago. [More…]
There are lucky to be 2 men working down below now. [More…]
There are not 3 deck men on a ship any more: there is one and sometimes there are 2. [More…]
This gives tremendous savings. [More…]
We must look at the figures relating to the number of men employed today as against the number employed 3 years ago. [More…]
At this time when the House is considering the estimates for the Parliament I think it is appropriate that we should take a look at the manner in which the Parliament is and has been working over a number of years. [More…]
After 70 years of operation it is time for reflection upon the present structure of the Parliament of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The strength and influence of the mass media, the top heavy structure of the Liberal Party especially during the second Menzies period and the relative electoral weakness of the Australian Labor Party in the 1950s have led to a denigration of the standing of the Parliament in the nation’s affairs. [More…]
Members of the Government parties are forced to accept decisions to which they are opposed because of their loyalty to their leader or party. [More…]
The fact that the Prime Minister has the sole right to choose who will exercise the effective power of government divorces the Parliament from any area of control over the day to day decisions of the government. [More…]
Men of ability are excluded because they will not crawl or because their policies or personalities clash with those of the Prime Minister of the day. [More…]
Once Cabinet decides to proceed with legislation, no matter how controversial or complicated, it will be rammed through the Parliament with little regard for the ideas or wishes of honourable members. [More…]
Important amendments to major Bills have been avoided by the use of the guillotine to prevent voting and adequate debate. [More…]
So there is a big concern among the ordinary men and women and the children of our community to see that we retain some control over our own resources. [More…]
I thought that the national Parliament would be interested to know just how deep and widespread that interest is. [More…]
I have also, as you know, Mr Speaker, asked whether provision could be made for the young men carrying out the same very worthwhile cause to be informed of the facilities that could be made available to them so as to minimise the difficulties that they might face during the vigil that they are conducting outside Parliament House. [More…]
In America at the moment there is considerable debate on the medical care of veterans wounded in Vietnam. [More…]
The point is that many of these men would not have survived in earlier wars. [More…]
Because of fast evacuation by helicopter, new drugs, new medical techniques it is now possible for men with enormously devastating wounds to survive. [More…]
Thb means that one in three of these seriously injured men will automatically be a TPI pensioner. [More…]
The other 19 men listed under these schedules are not automatically described as TPI pensioners in the same way. [More…]
We should accept the fact that the Vietnam war will produce a greater proportion of TPI pensioners than any war in Australia’s history, lt is then our duty to evaluate techniques for rehabilitation and re-establishment. [More…]
In Canberra the Department of the Interior is to provide a $9,000 housing loan - this loan will be available under the recent Budget to people who are married, engaged or have dependants and who can meet various other conditions such as working in the Australian Capital Territory and being in regular employment. [More…]
If applicants are unable to meet the financial’ requirements of a 10 per cent equity in the house and the ability to make repayments, the Department will still give the loan provided a suitable guarantor can be found. [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, generally speaking, the story in the case of single women or men is always the same. [More…]
Whether it be in regard to Canberra’s Department of the Interior, the savings banks or the terminating building societies throughout Australia, women are discriminated against. [More…]
However, this figure includes young men and women who would as yet be financially unable to be interested in acquiring a house. [More…]
Indeed, some women, especially those without children, may prefer to live in a flat rather than a house because flats tend to be more available closer to their employment and require less maintenance. [More…]
We are debating the estimates for the Department of the Treasury, and in the short time of 10 minutes at my disposal I want to deal with 3 subjects. [More…]
It is a decline which could be prevented if the Government were prepared to grant just that little bit of extra help which would not only bring about an increase in production but also, much more importantly, would mean that many more men would be employed and many more families would be retained in or attracted to the areas concerned. [More…]
It is a normal procedure in estimates debates for the Minister in charge of the particular department or his representative to answer any queries, suggestions or criticisms offered by honourable members during the course of the debate. [More…]
Because of its value m the employment field, the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) should also be very vitally interested in ensuring the continuation of the industry. [More…]
In that regard I would like to point out that the deterioration now being experienced in the world market for aluminium has brought a report from Alcoa of Australia Ltd showing that between now and July of next year that company will be retrenching at least 1,500 men from its projects in West: ern Australia alone. [More…]
I would mention that in the United Kingdom - we claim to model ourselves on the Parliament of Westminister which of course we do not - not only is there a Public Accounts Committee but also an Estimates Committee. [More…]
That Parliament seems to think that the 2 functions arc not one but separate functions. [More…]
That Parliament has, of course, a number of other committees but it also has many more members. [More…]
The principal function of the Public Accounts Committee is to ensure that when Parliament votes a specific sum of money for a particular purpose the Public Service does in fact use that money for that purpose and no other. [More…]
To my mind this is a separate question altogether and one of tremendous importance to us. [More…]
We would be wiser men if we knew. [More…]
But out in the wide open spaces - what I would call the better Australia; that part outside the metropolitan area - there are men who require assistance urgently. [More…]
This Government is most anxious to help those men to the best of its ability and for the good of the economy of this nation. [More…]
This talk about the Government being to blame does not ring true to me. [More…]
It must be remembered that this Government has been in office for 22 years. [More…]
The primary producers, the secondary industry employees and the merchants - and these people are not foolish - would have put this Government out of office a long time ago if it had been in the best interests of this country. [More…]
I do not say that all these people have always been satisfied with this Government, but they have had a look at this alternative government - the Opposition - and in terror they have said We do not want that Party in office.’ [More…]
The present government is the best available and we must stick to it. [More…]
The country and city representatives in this Government will fight for what is best for the people of Australia. [More…]
There were plenty of cheap motor cars and all the other products that one could want, but men were unemployed and nobody had the money to buy them. [More…]
There is a lot more to that statement but other Opposition speakers have mentioned the threat to the motor industry and other industries where men will be paid off unless those industries are protected and unless the Government adopts a firm line. [More…]
Industry naturally assumes that the great deal of evidence, including confidential evidence, given to the members of the Board will later be studied, sifted and analysed by those same men with the assistance of the staff of the Board. [More…]
Industry would believe that at the end of the line the members of the Board reach conclusions, formulate recommendations and present a report which is the product of their own work. [More…]
The picture that I get is that, after a public hearing, the members of the Board concerned go about their other activities, their other business, hear other inquiries, inspect factories and, in due course, they then consider the draft reports and recommendations that finally reach them and that have been prepared by the Chairman and the staff of the Board. [More…]
As 1 understand it, these Board members know little or nothing about what has happened in connection with an inquiry between the close of the hearing and the submission of them to draft reports and recommendations. [More…]
This is why some of them did not know that people outside the Tariff Board had been called in to work on the reports and recommendations. [More…]
1 have heard that one Board member who feels very strongly about this matter did not, simply for reasons of embarrassment, join those who expressed a dissenting opinion. [More…]
The embarrassment was caused by the fact that he had signed a Tariff Board report on a very important subject, and that that report had yet to be tabled- [More…]
The Tariff Board is trying to destroy the employment of men and women in my electorate. [More…]
I did not like a comment that was made by the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) when he said that within a few hours of the report being presented I knew what was going on. [More…]
I have been taking an interest in Tariff Board reports for the last 10 years, and I did not like that comment from my side of the chamber. [More…]
I sincerely hope that the Government will reconsider this matter and realise that it must ensure that this public utility provides the service that it is supposed to provide. [More…]
It is equally ridiculous that a place such as Mount Druitt, which has the biggest Housing Commission development in New South Wales - 8,000 houses are being built there - will have no official facilities but only non-official facilities provided. [More…]
In the past I have written to the Department and asked why it is taking this step. [More…]
In those areas mail men are not handling the mail; mail contractors are handling it. [More…]
I repeat that this is in the biggest Housing Commission development area in New South Wales. [More…]
There are some other points I. would like to mention but I appreciate that 1 have not sufficient time to deal with them all. [More…]
I do not think there would be any opposition from the Police Force if it was suggested that its members should come out of these courts and be replaced by civilian attendants and civilian prosecutors from the office of the Crown Solicitor, the Attorney-General’s Department or some other prosecuting section that could be created to perform this function. [More…]
I do not think there would be any real opposition from the Police Force to this suggestion because it knows that it buys into trouble and disputes because of the role its men are required to play in these courts. [More…]
Looking back, when this Government so correctly brought in its austerity campaign, if you like to call it that, 6 months ago it was right, for instance, that we should expect the State governments, whose level of expenditure had not been affected, to do something about looking at their own economies. [More…]
One matter about which I would like to tell this House very briefly, a matter which concerned me very much at the time, is the sort of matter that State governments must be aware of and must try to remedy. [More…]
The Department of Works in its full glory, armed with many people, trucks and facilities, came to the school to patch up a tank. [More…]
It took down a tank that perhaps was only 10 feet high and 3 feet in diameter and put up a tank which was 4 feet high and 8 feet in diameter, or whatever the measurements were. [More…]
The men had to lift the old tank off and empty it and weeks went by during which time there was no water laid on at the school. [More…]
I might mention that it was not the Commonwealth Department of Works which was involved. [More…]
I find this situation extremely difficult to understand because here are 2 capable, responsible and learned men in important executive positions advocating the establishment of such a research centre but we cannot proceed with such an important project because finance is not readily available to commence it. [More…]
I make this statement in view of the fact that it is widely accepted that urgent attention should be paid to the maintenance of our rural industries. [More…]
In this respect the research work that is performed by the Ingham Research and Promotion Bureau is to be commended and the Bureau congratulated for its efforts. [More…]
But the personnel with the requisite knowledge are available in the Department of Education and Science and their knowledge should, in my opinion, be utilised without any further loss of time. [More…]
I mention time specifically because given time there is no doubt that we as a people, with the resources available to us, could achieve anything that we desire. [More…]
We will recognise the problem if we talk about 3 men in a space ship. [More…]
The honourable member for Prospect was trying to bolster his Party’s candidate at the expense of the reputation, and the correct version of the story, of one of central Australia’s most respected men and, let me say, a returned soldier. [More…]
Anyone in Alice Springs could have told him that, but I say that it did not suit the honourable member’s campaign argument to find this out. [More…]
The medical superintendent at the Alice Springs hospital was at a loss to understand such an attack on one of the most cooperative and conscientious station men in central Australia. [More…]
Another reason is that the 2 men - the manager of Napperby station and the Australian Country Party candidate - are both distinguished local citizens and ex-servicemen. [More…]
Last week 1 raised the matter of service men who will be returning home from Vietnam being assured of being home with their families at Christmas. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) has assured the House that these men will be home by 25th December, for which assurance I thank him. [More…]
I turn to one other aspect of servicemen in Vietnam - that is, the small group who will be left behind in Vietnam for Christmas. [More…]
Due to their small numbers and the restricted nature of their duties, it would not be impossible for the Government to arrange Christmas leave in Australia for these men. [More…]
There was a call from the Government side to honour these servicemen from Vietnam with a parade. [More…]
I feel that instead of having parades and eulogies spoken on their behalf a gesture more >n keeping with their service would be to allow all servicemen the opportunity of celebrating the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam by being in Australia. [More…]
I feel that very few people in Australia would criticise the Government or the Treasury for making this humane gesture. [More…]
The distress of the servicemen and of their families must be no less than the distress of people who would have been affected before the Minister’s assurance was given in the House. [More…]
1 urge all mothers and wives of the men in 4 RAR to unite and force the Federal Government to rectify this blunder. [More…]
It cannot be argued that the small group of men in Vietnam cannot be dispensed with because, in fact, there is fear for their safety. [More…]
Let us ensure their safety and the happiness of them and their families by extending the Minister’s assurance to those servicemen who are left in Vietnam. [More…]
That means only one thing, that men coming out of Vietnam with that withdrawal will not be travelling by train on Christmas Day; they will be with their families, if this can possibly be arranged. [More…]
It is true that aircraft are used in this defence manoeuvre for bringing these men out. [More…]
These men will be flown out to Australia from Vietnam by the means which I have just described, and the Army has undertaken that all these men who are coming out by these means will be able to be with their families by Christmas - unforeseen circumstances excepting. [More…]
There is every indication that the promise will be kept and that the men coming out in this main force withdrawal will be with their families by Christmas. [More…]
The other point, to which the Minister has not referred, relates to the small number of men who will be required to remain behind. [More…]
If my memory is correct, this has been described as a necessary factor to safeguard the remaining equipment and other logistic support material that will be left behind in the area prior to its shipment to Australia. [More…]
I do not think that purpose would be achieved if, as was suggested tonight, the men were flown home for Christmas and then, as I understand the suggestion, flown back again to carry on guarding this material until finally it is shipped to Australia. [More…]
We would have liked to have had all the men home. [More…]
But those men, of course, will be withdrawn as soon as it is physically possible to withdraw them. [More…]
I ask the Minister to have a look at this type of agreement that is coming up for more than review so far as this industry is concerned. [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…]
Would the Government put legislation on the books for compulsory retirement because of a redundant situation? [More…]
Would it retire men at 60 years of age- [More…]
I have had a close look at it, but I believe that it refers only in general terms to numbers and that it does not refer to actual detailed movements of Australian troops. [More…]
I am informed by my department that there is, in fact, no censorship in Vietnam but that what happens is that correspondents are accredited by the South Vietnamese Government and by the United States Government. [More…]
particularly at a time like this they should make every effort to see that no information is given which could lead in any way to endangering the lives of Australian men in that area. [More…]
The total cash payment to be made by this Government only to those interests to which I have referred is equivalent to the total income tax paid by 2,000 married men and their families earning the average Australian wage. [More…]
I believe that the Government is guilty of gross deceit and even political fraud. [More…]
The Opposition fully supports the payment of this oneyear cash grant to those bona fide wool growers who have a genuine need of financial assistance to overcome a desperate financial position. [More…]
I believe that the only way to do it is to have a very strong single statutory marketing authority which would bring under one strong management the management of wool in Australia and our woollen interests overseas. [More…]
We should have competent men running a statutory authority, negotiating shipping rates, writing contracts in the currency most favourable to Australia, actually owning the wool, entering into bilateral agreements with foreign countries by going directly to Russia, China or some other place and trying to sell the type of wool that those countries want. [More…]
If a panic started in the wool industry through trustee companies or some other companies starting to put the pressure on and to foreclose, we would see a run in this country, because of the tremendous debt structure, which would parallel what happened in the depression. [More…]
I turn now to the question of the guarantee payment of 36c a lb. [More…]
‘The Country Party stands firm on 40c’ and ‘If you do not do this we will sack you if you do not sack the Government’ - these were the fighting words across the countryside. [More…]
Again, the headlines proclaimed: ‘Wool men demand action’ and ‘End the coalition’. [More…]
The assets are there, the management is sound but because, in one instance anyway, there were difficulties caused by Government resumptions for other purposes, the whole enterprise finds itself caught up in the rural recession and a vicious credit squeeze. [More…]
Well, he has seen the error of that and he has changed it, and I compliment him on that. [More…]
But here we have a scheme that will not save some of the strongest men in the industry, let alone the struggling wool grower. [More…]
Where has the movement been? [More…]
The big movement has been the increase in non-cellulosic fibres at the expense of cotton - not wool but cotton. [More…]
At last we have had something better from the Government - and I am still speaking about reconstruction. [More…]
It provided for a living allowance of $46 a week, free training and the payment of a subsidy to employers for those men who have to learn while employed on the job. [More…]
One of the problems in the past has been that wool has been used for garments for which it did not give complete satisfaction. [More…]
The synthetics have made wool socks acceptable to women who objected to the darning and men who did not like the holes. [More…]
We ought to establish some sort of lecture system so that these men could be invited to come out for a day or two and have explained to them the qualities of wool and be imbued with the spirit that the selling of wool is in the long term interests of themselves and this country. [More…]
What happens is that these people will approach a customer - and I have seen it happen constantly in stores - who is looking at 3 garments. [More…]
The natural thing to do is to select the most favourable features of the garments. [More…]
He mentioned a wealthy husband and wife team who received the maximum $1,500 each while the neighbouring soldier settler who was struggling and paying $800 a year rent received nothing. [More…]
Sheep men were endeavouring to stay afloat by getting bigger only to find themselves with more work, more debt and no assistance while those lucky enough to be able to , shift from unprofitable sheep to highly profitable cattle all received the $1,500. [More…]
This secures the bales ready for shipment. [More…]
We do not have a dozen men handling the load and stacking it. [More…]
Only 4 men are employed on the job. [More…]
Where we used to have some 30 men loading wool in single bale lots which were put into a vessel 6 at a time the number of men required to handle the job now is perhaps down to as low as 4. [More…]
Imagine the wage cost of employing 30 men, and look at the tremendous saving that is now being achieved. [More…]
The point that strikes me is that the Government is prepared to spend a vast amount of money, willingly and without hesitation, in the development of the Northern Territory but what the Aboriginal people need is leadership. [More…]
The Government should be looking towards the training of men and women, particularly men, to lead the Aboriginal people. [More…]
This is essential for development of their character and to bring themselves on. [More…]
But they need people with a tremendous dedication to lead them. [More…]
The Aboriginal people need men of character, determination and ability to lead them. [More…]
I commend the Government for its expenditure in the Territory for the advancement of Aboriginals but I believe the Government should establish some sort of training course to find leaders for these people. [More…]
They must have tremendous determination and be able to see the light at the end of the pipe and not many people can see it. [More…]
My point is that the Government is backing, with a lot of money, all these enterprises running through the top end of Arnhem Land from Yirrkala and we have to have practical men who will go there and help the Aboriginals. [More…]
The honourable member has never done anything effective in this Parliament about such instances. [More…]
He is simply using the Parliament as a talking shop so that he can be reported in his local paper. [More…]
The same statement applies in respect of nearly every other social issue that faces this country. [More…]
One would think that it was something that the astronauts had to bring back with moon rocks, judging by the way in which it is used for social enterprises by this Government. [More…]
Nearly 4i years ago the people of Australia said emphatically that the constitutional authority for the advancement of the Aboriginal people should lie squarely on this Parliament. [More…]
I regard both as sympathetic men, but sympathy is not enough. [More…]
The action that is needed is of the kind that, when the Minister wants to do something in this Parliament or in the Party room, will ensure that he is supported by people such as the honourable member for Herbert. [More…]
From statements made in the Queensland Parliament it is pretty obvious that the ketch ‘One and All’ was indulging in trade. [More…]
It had a crew of 7 - 6 men and a young woman of 21 years of age or thereabouts. [More…]
Some 3 years ago when debating an amendment to the Navigation Act I drew the attention of the Government to the exemption at that time of pleasure craft from its provisions. [More…]
The newsletter quotes an estimate made by the Royal College of Physicians that there is an annual death toll in Great Britain of 27,500 men and women, aged 35-65, from the ‘burning of tobacco’, which figure is considerably less than the overall figure given by the Chief Medical Officer of Health, Sir George Godber, of 100,000 deaths annually. [More…]
Will the Postmaster-General assure the House that consideration will be given to the claims of members of the postal services for appointment to the position of Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs? [More…]
I know that the Postmaster-General is aware that many great men as administrators in the Post Office started off in the ranks as telegram delivery boys. [More…]
Board to make a survey of the engineering sections of the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
I would say that most of the men conducting the survey would have no experience in the workings of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [More…]
Having obtained their opinions, the Government then looked at management practice, and those 2 things have been taken into account. [More…]
The chambers of commerce, the unions, and the staff associations knew little or nothing about the reorganisation of this section of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department until it was announced here. [More…]
If my memory serves me correctly, the Assistant Minister assisting the PostmasterGeneral (Mr Robinson) let the cat out of the bag in a country area 2 or 3 days before the Postmaster-General had an opportunity to announce the decision in this Parliament. [More…]
Typically, the statement made today and the statement made on 16th September demonstrate the attitude of doing everything without consultation with the men and women who are working in the Post Office or in a government department and of making a decision without telling or without consultation. [More…]
A few moments ago I referred to participation by Aboriginals in activities in their own areas. [More…]
When planning is being undertaken for the Aboriginals it should be done in consultation with the local Aboriginal councils which comprise men who are highly intelligent, who have the confidence of people in the area and who understand and live with Aboriginals in the area. [More…]
For goodness sake, let the Government take advantage of their knowledge. [More…]
If this is done we will see the genuine advancement of our Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Government looks, however, to other sections of the film and television industry to share more actively with the Corporation the development of an effective Australian industry. [More…]
The Experimental Film Fund has, until recently, been the responsibility of the Australian Council for the Arts. [More…]
It was partly with these new responsibilities in mind that the Government has decided to add to the Interim Council 2 men long experienced in radio, television and film making. [More…]
Their knowledge will be, I am sure, of great value in helping us to promote plans for the development of the film industry. [More…]
Will we have to sacrifice the lives of some of our young people conscripted under the National Service Act to suppress a population aroused by such incredible actions as this Government’s decision to make separate wage systems for Papuans and New Guineans and expatriates? [More…]
According to Mr Warren Dutton, the member for North Fly when opening the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly ‘This system has saved the Australian Government more than $100m’. [More…]
This decision alone has caused more harm and more division between races than any other decision that has been made by the Government. [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…]
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…]
1 have only a limited time in which to men tion these. [More…]
This has been mentioned by the honourable member for North Sydney (Mr Graham). [More…]
Young people are initiated at an early age so that they change from young children to men. [More…]
Wealthy professional men and business men boost the price of land. [More…]
A tremendous job has been done in Papua New Guinea over the years by cooperation between the New Guinea people and the Australian Government. [More…]
I cannot too highly commend the Minister for his cool direction, despite unfair and unjust criticism, in a very difficult situation. [More…]
If they try to go back to the village, they are considered ‘big-heads’ by the older men and so a great body of them simply wander around the towns such as Port Moresby, Rabaul, Lae and Hagen with nothing to do. [More…]
To put it another way, there is a massive unemployment problem in the Territory; and is it any wonder that the result is stoninga of Europeans, crime, vandalism and great discontent? [More…]
Nevertheless we are talking about the lives of people who in some cases have worked decades in the Territory and from my observations, whatever the observations of honourable members opposite might be, these men have had an almost universal dedication to the task in hand. [More…]
They have in mind, of course, the model of the British treatment of Britain’s former colonial servants who were given very good treatment indeed. [More…]
It has been spelled out increasingly over the years, so that it is not quite the situation that the people have suddenly been confronted in the space of a year or two with a rush of nationalist movement. [More…]
I was alarmed to get correspondence from missionaries in the Bougainville area whom I respect speaking about the position of migrant workers who have been taken from other parts of Papua New Guinea to work for construction companies which have been carrying out construction ancilliary to the development of the mining areas there. [More…]
It is pretty well known in this House that people who originally said many years ago - and did not say it as a Black Power slogan either, but as a genuine conviction - ‘black is beautiful’, are the people of Buka and Bougainville, who are the blackest people in Papua New Guinea and have the habit of calling the browner people of other areas ‘red men’. [More…]
The unemployed who have come from other areas and are living in shanty towns developing in the Bougainville area are not terribly liked by the indigenous people of the locality and are referred to as “red men’. [More…]
This tension that has developed there, according to my missionary informants, seems to be causing further receding of whatever little sentiment there was on the island of Bougainville for national unity. [More…]
This body of men has made a most admirable contribution to the Territory. [More…]
These few Australians brought law and order and government to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A few Australians went into that primitive and hostile country with a few policemen and native carriers and, with a minimum loss of life, brought control to the country and a better life to its people. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
Is it correct that when inducted into the Army these men travelled by aeroplane from Perth to Melbourne? [More…]
If so, why cannot arrangements be made to have them flown back to Perth on their return to Australia? [More…]
Will the Minister arrange for aeroplane travel from Sydney to Perth in future so that Western Australian soldiers will not be disadvantaged, particularly in view of the question asked in this place the other day requesting that these men be brought back home in time for Christmas Day? [More…]
The Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) is one of the most skilled men in public life in defusing an issue or making anything sound flat, but he has not reconciled us to this proposition. [More…]
Mr WHITLAM (Werriwa - Leader of the Opposition) - by leave - The debate has enabled us to be much clearer on both sides as to what the Government has in mind about its business, but I cannot give the assurance that my Party would allow a debate to be commenced and to be concluded on the matters which are on today’s blue sheet showing the provisional programme. [More…]
The Parliament should be able to be followed by the public and conducted by men in better condition than they will be after 11 p.m. [More…]
I suppose that delay in the implementation of this scheme has caused the increase in costs. [More…]
The preservation of this timber provides a tremendous amount of work for the Hickson’s Timber Impregnation Co. [More…]
This is an illustration of what can happen when money is spent on development in a State. [More…]
This project will employ approximately ISO men who are at present unemployed, and this will of course be of great benefit to the economy of the State. [More…]
The Parliament has been sitting since yesterday afternoon but the Treasurer has not uttered one word concerning what he intends to do about the economy. [More…]
The unemployment figure will exceed 100,000 by this Christmas. [More…]
If the figures concerning wage and salary earners were related to the fact that the great percentage of them are married, it would be realised that 300,000 to 400,000 men, women and children will be on the dole within the new few months, yet the Government refuses to do anything about it. [More…]
No Government supporter, certainly not the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth), who is now lounging back in his seat and wearing a pale pink tie, has suggested increasing the amount of weekly payment to those men, women and children who will be out of work and idle as a result of the Government’s inattention, inactivity and almost stupidity. [More…]
Has the Government given any consideration to the high rates of interest that these people must pay on their mortagages? [More…]
The Government should show the same consideration for these people as it shows tor other sections of the community. [More…]
He has made some criticism of his Government from time to time and of its attitude to his own Department. [More…]
If he has the courage of his convictions why does he not move in this House to correct the ills of which he accuses his Government? [More…]
He is, of course, following the line that his colleagues have followed for so many years in respect of almost every aspect of policy that I have ever mentioned. [More…]
United States Withdrawals from South Vietnam - President Nixon announced on 7th April 1971 that a total of 265,000 men would have been withdrawn from Vietnam by 1st May 1971, and that a further 100,000 were to be withdrawn between 1st May and 1st December 1971. [More…]
That the National Service Act, under which young men who have objections to participating in the Vietnam war, are gaoled, should be repealed; and [More…]
That Geoff Mullen, and other young men currently in gaol for refusing to fight in Vietnam, should be immediately released. [More…]
The Maritime Services Board moved very promptly to overcome the pollution problem caused and sent a helicopter, 6 boats fitted with boom sprays and a team of men to treat the area. [More…]
The article reminded its readers that 822 men had died in this disaster, and the inference was obvious and powerful. [More…]
In compiling his report the Judge has carried out faithfully my requirement - not so much as to assess HMAS ‘Leeuwin’ or its role in junior recruit training as to investigate fully and impartially the prima facie evidence relating to a number of unfortunate incidents. [More…]
The Commodore is, I hope, compensated by the greater privileges and pleasures of his successful endeavours which see the vast majority of young men emerge every year disciplined, enthusiastic and mentally and physically fitted for service of their country. [More…]
It is not merely important that officers should be thoroughly trained; it is now very important that the whole personnel of the Navy should be regarded as a highly expert body of men. [More…]
HMAS Leeuwin’ is devoted to producing a highly expert body of men and I believe it is doing this in a highly expert way. [More…]
He has made a study of the industry and is probably one of the best versed men in the waterside industry in Australia. [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…]
If it was good enough for them, in the port of Darwin and in other ports, to still charge the Australian public or the shippers - call them what you like - what the traffic would bear, although for a great number of years they had got more than their pound of flesh from the sweat of the men employed in the industry under some of the most deplorable and shocking industrial conditions in the 1930s, it was good enough for a conscientious trade union official from Darwin to Cairns to Carnarvon to stand up before his membership and say: ‘Compulsory redundancy, no. [More…]
Ab inducement to retire, yes’. [More…]
I say that because the negotiations that have been going on will continue on the basis that the 2-year period for the first agreement is now about to expire and the agreement has to be renewed. [More…]
There is a similar situation now arising in spite of the large percentage of men who have left a great number of ports because of the same factors - technological change and whathaveyou. [More…]
In the port of Adelaide, for instance, it could be that 150 men will have to go perhaps before the next conference gets off the ground. [More…]
If the conference is able to sit down - not without argument and not without disagreement - and consider the points that are involved in inducing people to leave the waterfront, well and good. [More…]
It could be that in considering the inducement to go there may well have to be an offer of a monetary sum over and above, as it ought to be, the figure that was reached in 1967, 1968 and so on. [More…]
But I am concerned - and I would hope the Minister for Labour and National Service also is concerned, in the interests of the port of Darwin and other ports of the Commonwealth - that the Minister would not in any way suggest, through his department, through the Cabinet or the Government that he should interfere with these bona fide negotiations that will ensue. [More…]
On the credit side the Government can, of course, be comforted by the fact that it has only to look at the overall increasing amount of cargoes that have been handled in Australia - taking into consideration our trade trump, as it were - and relate it to the number of men who are employed and it will immediately see that there is benefit in consultation rather than disputation. [More…]
The figures for the port of Adelaide today, as I understand them - and no doubt also for the port of Darwin - are such as to warrant some serious thought on the part of the Government. [More…]
We have a situation in the port of Adelaide with a little over 1,155 men where we want to get rid of 100 of them. [More…]
So what particular age group can we look at to which we can offer an inducement to retire? [More…]
We find that there are some 30 men aged 61 years, 25 aged 62, 22 aged 63 and approximately 20 aged 64. [More…]
These are the men one can concentrate on and look to for an early retirement if they are given an inducement to leave the industry without picking on the fellows, as the Stevedoring Industry Act provides, who came in last and therefore have to go first. [More…]
So we remove the young men from the industry, because the Government considers that to be the proper way to carry out this measure. [More…]
The figures will show, as I said earlier, that young men are the smallest percentage of the work force in many of the ports, and possibly in Darwin, and we are removing from the industry the fit men we want to retain. [More…]
In the early 1960s there was insufficient consultation and every time the employers introduced a new mechanised method which would have had as its purpose a reduction in the number of men employed in the industry there was a natural labour resentment to this because it was putting them on the scrapheap. [More…]
I do not know whether the honourable member for Griffith was a member of the House at the time - I am not sure about that - but the Government created a hostage system on the waterfront in the mid 1960s. [More…]
It took half a dozen men who had some quarrel - in conformity with section 23a, if the hon ourable member wants to refer to that provision - and set them aside from other men and said that they had to stay out. [More…]
People were made industrial hostages with the most vicious support of this Government. [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…]
I was utterly amazed to find that last year the United Nations committee dealing with the environment had not discussed de-urbanisation as such. [More…]
So I would reiterate that these are 2 fields which the Federal Government could perhaps look into. [More…]
It is all very well to say that these are the responsibilities of the State governments. [More…]
But I think that the Federal Government always has the responsibility of- taking the initiative. [More…]
I think the men are separated from the boys in the case of Ministers who are prepared to do this. [More…]
Fortunately, in our ranks at the moment we have outstanding people who are capable of doing this. [More…]
It is perfectly clear, and undeniable, that these men played a leading role in the formulation of the policy on immigration, a policy on which they want an inquiry and a policy that was adopted by the Launceston Conference only weeks ago by 44 votes to one. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler (Mr Daly) is another one of the old solid genuine Labor men. [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…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
That they welcome the statement by the Honourable the Minister for Customs and Excise, Mi Chipp, that the concept of censorship is abhorrent to all men and women who believe in the basic freedoms and that, as a philosophy, it is evil and ought to be condemned. [More…]
Is he aware that the significant weakening of the nickel market has caused both potential and active nickel producers to substantially delay and reduce their labour requirements? [More…]
Has the discussion regarding additional financial assistance to keep the gold mining industry active taken place between the appropriate Ministers as promised by the Prime Minister on the 24th day of August last and if so what is the Government’s intention in that respect? [More…]
Finally, if no decision has been reached, will the Acting Prime Minister treat the matter with the urgency and take the action it demands so as to avoid the serious economic and population disruption which must occur when some 1 , 500 men are thrown out of work? [More…]
In answer to the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) I think the most appropriate comment would be that which appeared in the ‘Sun Herald’ on Sunday when, summing up a week’s frenetic journalistic attention to this problem, the report stated that it could see little harm in the exercise of the rock filling being dumped in this particular locality and that surely conservationists ought to have a sense of proportion. [More…]
Indeed, young men have lost their lives because of enemy attacks in Sydney Harbour. [More…]
This debate has been quite an interesting one in many respects because members of the Opposition, in citing the opinions of experts to back up their contention that there should not be a tactical trainer at South Head, have quoted at length 2 men, one from the State Planning Authority and another who is an expert on parks and wildlife. [More…]
Whilst we will not lay all the sins of the Government, of commission and omission, on the honourable member’s broad shoulders, by the same token, we can attribute a good deal of the trouble in relation to the gross inequity of the present income tax scales to the former Treasurer and the honourable member’s current master, the Artful Dodger, alias the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), because throughout the years the people have been progressively inflated from the lower income groups into the higher tax brackets. [More…]
Unskilled workers are now paying the rates of tax which operated for middle class tradesmen and professional men 15 years ago, and in turn middle class income earners are paying rates of tax which were considered appropriate to those in the highest income groups some 15 years ago. [More…]
The power that this Parliament possesses today is utterly inadequate for the responsibilities which are cast upon it and it seems to me to be in the nature of a massive charade that the Parliament is asked to deal with disputes in this sector of ‘he economy or in this part of the continent when in essence and in truth the Parliament has no power. [More…]
May I turn to the difficulty which is aroused by the failure of the Parliament to confer on its bodies the power to pass a common rule. [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…]
I compliment the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) on the contribution he has made. [More…]
What he has said is of vital importance to this nation, and unless we heed the words of men like the honourable member for Moreton this country will get further and further into the morass that is now threatening to engulf the whole of our industrial relations. [More…]
The Council has a long history and has been officered by some sincere and intelligent men. [More…]
Perhaps holding executive membership of the Australian Democratic Labor Party would not be common, but certainly dropping out from the priesthood and other institutions is very small peas as an allegation about somebody who is fully employed in the interests of his fellow working men. [More…]
Rural issues aside, I suppose that wages and industrial unrest probably are the most mentioned matters in this House. [More…]
Whenever another Government inspired crisis looms the blame is placed on demands for wage increases, the high wages now being paid and/or industrial unrest. [More…]
The fault is laid always at the door of that curse of the non-working class, the trade union movement. [More…]
The spirit of the Conservatives who schemed, legislated, bullied and bludgeoned in an endeavour to prevent men from organising themselves for their mutual benefit is embodied in those honourable members sitting opposite on the Government side of the House tonight. [More…]
Men cannot be expected to work under unsafe or unhealthy or even uncomfortable conditions, lt should be remembered that it is estimated that 14,000 industrial accidents occur each working day. [More…]
It is beyond my comprehension why the Government wants to aggravate the situation by imposing penal provisions on workers who withdraw their labour. [More…]
This can only mean further unemployment in my electorate where most of the timber is milled. [More…]
The railways also are taking men off as steam is phased out completely and dieselisation is brought in. [More…]
There is a good deal of uncertainty and anxiety in my electorate - in common with other electorates - and yet we see no Government action being implemented to try to avoid the terrible social distress that is caused by unemployment. [More…]
I would say that 95 per cent of the people who are unemployed do not desire to be unemployed because there can be no more demoralising experience than that of being unemployed, and especially is this so when unemployment benefits arc so poor and so degrading. [More…]
As a result of a previous debate in this chamber when I mentioned this matter, the Minister for Labour and National Service directed a letter to me in which he requested specific instances where there may have been grounds for justifiable complaint. [More…]
Seme of the boys who went to Vietnam and who have returned to Australia in military caskets took out insurance policies to cover hire purchase commitments on motor vehicles so that if anything happened to them their parents would not have the burden of making repayments on the hire purchase agreements. [More…]
Because these men were killed in Vietnam the . [More…]
The Government has not honoured its promises in this regard to the men it sent to Vietnam. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
What a humiliating situation for this great leader of men who leads the nation and who has colleagues in the Cabinet who like him so much to know that the Minister directly responsible for this matter had not brought it to his attention. [More…]
The Acting Prime Minister spoke a few moments ago of the Cambodians request as a relatively minor matter. [More…]
A relatively minor matter cost 500 men their lives in Vietnam and it inflicted upon 3,000 men wounds from which they may never fully recover. [More…]
The conflict in Vietnam came out of a relatively minor commitment of 30 men. [More…]
The statement today by the Acting Prime Minister indicates that the commitment into which this Government has entered may throw this nation into a conflict similar to the one in Vietnam about which the Australian people feel very seriously and for which they condemn this Government. [More…]
The Minister today reiterated the statement as it was given to the Government. [More…]
The Government operates in a funny way. [More…]
There was no exchange of documents. [More…]
A letter written in French which nobody could understand started our commitment to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
But there happened to be a long weekend and, as this Government does not work much anyhow at any time, nobody dealt with it until after the 8-hour day holiday. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) said, it would be a great thing if we were mobilising men for war and the Liberal-Country Party Government would not work between Saturday and Tuesday if a holiday intervened! [More…]
There is no doubt that it was not a novel request; it was a request for the involvement of men in a conflict which could well start, as I said earlier, another Vietnam. [More…]
Irrespective of whether the Minister for Defence is personally responsible, it is his duty to take the responsibility for the actions of his departmental officers in not bringing this matter to the attention of the Prime Minister. [More…]
What kind of Government do we have which tolerates the handling of important events in this manner? [More…]
And another one ought to be sacked - everybody in the Parliament knows that. [More…]
Proof of the prime muddling of this Government in respect to defence is the fact that the Prime Minister did not know what was happening in regard to a request for the commitment of men to a war. [More…]
The Opposition does not ask the Minister to head the Government. [More…]
That is why this motion has been put to the Parliament today. [More…]
That statement of the right honourable member for Higgins is a condemnation of the Minister from his own side of the Parliament. [More…]
If any evidence were needed to bear out the substance of that statement it is the matter we are discussing today of the dilatory approach made to the Prime Minister on this great issue. [More…]
I am in complete agreement with what the Leader of the Opposition and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Barnard) have said on this matter today. [More…]
One would have thought that some of the men who march arm in arm with the Prime Minister, talking to him now and again on all issues and sitting in Cabinet with him, would have mentioned this matter to him. [More…]
The Government’s proposals may well usher in another tragedy for this country. [More…]
Thirty men committed in Vietnam ushered in that great conflict, as I mentioned earlier. [More…]
Thirty men initially and 8,000 men ultimately have gone into that country. [More…]
Into the bargain, the Government introduced conscription to maintain forces in a foreign country. [More…]
Has the Government not learnt anything about this matter? [More…]
America did not even tell us when it was pulling out of Vietnam, and this Government is again committing troops. [More…]
Has the Government not learnt one thing about this? [More…]
It is on the edge of another volcano in committing men to Cambodia. [More…]
Troops should not leave the country, as the Government wants them to do, to fight in foreign battles. [More…]
This commitment that the Minister has entered into may well be the thin end of the wedge in respect to these matters. [More…]
Are these men hypocrites? [More…]
Secondly, there is the concern that we have shown and everybody feels and the community is sharing with us on the confusion between the various departments. [More…]
What is so depressing about today’s exercise and the operations of departments and Ministers over the last few months is that in fact the Minister accepts no responsibility. [More…]
For the last week he has been attempting to lay the blame upon his Department. [More…]
These men who have been Ministers in this community for many years are the people who are on trial. [More…]
I refer to the Foreign Minister (Mr N. H. Bowen), the Minister for Defence, the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Government itself. [More…]
We had a commitment to South Vietnam made in broken French in a broken down Vietnamese cafe and now we have a low key commitment. [More…]
Just what do we mean by a ‘low key commitment’? [More…]
How can we have a small matter when we are talking about men’s lives and war? [More…]
The behaviour of the Government there has become undemocratic and 1 believe that the Australian Government ought to make it clear to the Khmer Republic that we do not like the abolition of the National Assembly. [More…]
It is almost like the failure of the Queensland Government to have elections when vacancies occur in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
The first reaction of this Government in any international situation has always been to reach for the sword. [More…]
We had 100 men in training teams. [More…]
By 1967 we had committed RAAF bombers; our commitment had grown to 6,300. [More…]
We are supposed to be scaling down but we have accepted a completely new commitment. [More…]
Having put in the first small team you end up with defence forces to protect them - 200 or perhaps 300 men. [More…]
This Minister of State, I have the honour to inform this House, has a record in peace and war that will stand comp”ison with any of the great men who occupied their places in this House. [More…]
A hint of this was given, but not until many years later, in a statement which was issued on 29th September 1968 by the then Minister for the Army, Mr Lynch, in which he revealed that in 1964 tie role of the Australian training team ‘became far more active’. [More…]
This is the sort of involvement in which we found ourselves. [More…]
We have gone from instructors to advisers to participants to combatants and 8,000 Australian men have served in South Vietnam because of this one tiny step which was taken back in 1962. [More…]
In support of the amendment and dealing with the first part of it which concerns substantial co-production procedures, might I say that the Australian aircraft industry today is in a serious state! [More…]
For example, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation 12 months ago had an employment level of 2,550 men. [More…]
At this moment that level is down to 2,050 men and 300 men have been laid off since March this year. [More…]
To give a comparison, not of war time years but of recent years, in 1967-68 the Corporation’s peak level of employment was 3,500 and this was at the time of the building of the Macchi trainer. [More…]
So since 1967-68 the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation has laid off almost 1,500 men. [More…]
As at January this year the Government Aircraft Factory had 2,090 on its books but at the moment it has 1,960. [More…]
The last lay off was of 30 men during September and no new employees are being taken on. [More…]
The Factory’s employment peak during the construction of the Mirage between 1966 and 1967 was 2.800. [More…]
De Havillands, the other large aircraft construction establish.lishment, has not been replacing any labour over recent years. [More…]
At the present time the Royal Australian Air Force has made a decision on an advanced trainer, the Hawker Siddeley 1182, which should be a replacement for the Macchi trainer which will go out of service some time late in the 1970s. [More…]
The Royal Australian Air Force and the Australian aircraft industry have been negotiating with the British in an endeavour to come to an arrangement regarding the building of these aircraft in Australia. [More…]
But just as the Government will not make a decision on Project N, it will not make a decision on the advanced trainer and so give the Australian aircraft industry an opportunity to enter this field and to gain the necessary knowledge. [More…]
Here is an opportunity for us to make an arrangement between the Royal Australian Air Force and Hawker Siddeley so that these aircraft can be built two-thirds in England and one-third in Australia. [More…]
This would provide a production line and continuity of employment. [More…]
But the important point is that the men working in the industry would become more knowledgeable. [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…]
As regards the employment of labour, it is ironical that this debate is taking place tonight, because at 5 p.m. today the services of all Qantas pilots and cadet pilots who were under suspension were terminated. [More…]
The services of all these men who have spent years with Qantas have been terminated. [More…]
I want very quickly to touch on this point and to give honourable members some examples of men who have been employed in this industry for years, not necessarily by Qantas but by the airline industry and its associated industries and in the RAAF. [More…]
The engineers have campaigned everywhere to try to obtain other employment. [More…]
They had to enter into an agreement which provided that unless they worked with Qantas for 5 years after they finished their cadetship they were liable to pay a bond of $2,000. [More…]
Yet these young men, who have made a career with Qantas, finished their employment with Qantas at 5 p.m. today. [More…]
In my mind all this stems from bad management by Qantas. [More…]
In April of this year all these men were told that they would be laid off. [More…]
The taxpayers’ money is being employed and therefore it is mandatory upon these gifted, dedicated men who have served this country with great honour and integrity and who today head Qantas to maintain a standard comparable to that maintained by similar people throughout the world. [More…]
They are competing against their own types throughout the world and, believe me, competition is tough when you live at a pedal extremity of Asia where the civil aviation environment has to be measured in thousands of people and thousands of flights per annum. [More…]
The restaurant had a calendar issued by Qantas Airways Ltd on display and with a burst of, I suppose, brash enthusiasm I said: ‘My father was one of the small group of men who got together and kicked this airline off’. [More…]
They maintain that they were not able to get Qantas actively involved because there was the dead hand of government. [More…]
The letter was written to me on behalf of a pilot constituent of mine who said: ‘I have been given a notice of retrenchment. [More…]
Australia has established every major air route in the world with men like Kingsford-Smith and Ulm. [More…]
What will the Government tell these young Australians who ask: ‘What is our future? [More…]
What can the Government say? [More…]
‘You have the wrong Government’. [More…]
Some retrenchments - 130-odd men already and another 60 to get the axe and there is no future plan. [More…]
What about the men who are there now? [More…]
It is one in which their own future could well be affected if the Government continues to look at the airline in the way it has. [More…]
In his letter he says that he is hopeful now that the new charter arrangements will give the company a viability which will make a significant contribution and perhaps increase revenue. [More…]
Is it not a little late when we are now debating this matter in a climate in which men are already being dismissed and further retrenchments are in the offing? [More…]
However, I would point out that Qantas has at its own expense purchased 21 Boeing 707 aircraft which can be converted in 2 hours to defence capability aircraft, that is, aircraft capable of carrying tanks, guns and men. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based on arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
Because I mentioned a figure of 120,000 unemployed by the New Year which could involve between 300,000 and 400,000 men, women and children, he put up the false argument that this figure is excessive because most of the unemployed people would be school leavers. [More…]
When we have the situation of a family man being thrown out of employment that is bad enough. [More…]
Is it not right that the Government is sitting on $630m or $650m? [More…]
Why does it not allow that money to work for the community instead of sitting over there on the Government benches in a stupid fashion and saying- [More…]
The shipowners, according to the best information available from the Department of Shipping and Transport, are not prepared to lay them up. [More…]
This elemental sulphur is being landed at fantastically cheap rates. [More…]
Surely the Government ought to protect local industry. [More…]
It is different when one speaks to the men employed at Nairne and to the men employed at the sulphuric acid plant in South Australia. [More…]
What is to happen to wives and families of men who are thrown out of workin these 2 industrial areas? [More…]
If the Minister cops it one day he may realise what his Government is inflicting on other people because of its shortsightedness. [More…]
I say to the Minister in all sincerity that one of the results of unemployment is that children are uneducated. [More…]
The Government does not provide anything for children who are over 16 years of age when a man has been sacked. [More…]
Apart from all this, the acid plant itself employs 100 men in full-time employment and the weekly salary of its work force is an important factor contributing to the economic well-being of the town of Burnie. [More…]
I want to sum up very quickly before I refer to the question of compensation if the bounty payments are suspended. [More…]
Its figures are unrealistic now wilh the transformation that has taken place in the industry, with the very low costs of elemental sulphur from overseas and the low freight cost to get it here. [More…]
South Australia, which employs 75 men. [More…]
It is supported also by Nairne Pyrites Pty Ltd of Brukunga, South Australia, which employs 60 men. [More…]
For that reason the Minister should give the House an explanation of why the Tariff Board has apparently reversed its earlier decision and why the Government does not intend to honour the obligation which it has to these companies. [More…]
These companies have spent money and have worked according to plan in the development of their industries. [More…]
The honourable member for Braddon has said this is a deliberate attempt to virtually bankrupt a viable company in Australia and to deliberately put men and their families on the labour market. [More…]
This action is being taken by a government that calls itself a LiberalCountry Party government. [More…]
There can be no argument about that whatsoever. [More…]
The Government acted on that decision taken by the Tariff Board but the Board has now gone back on its word, or its assumptions. [More…]
I should say, but there is absolutely no reason whatsoever why the Government should follow the Tariff Board report when the decision taken in 1967 was followed with a recommendation made in good faith. [More…]
It is a disgrace in terms of policy to bankrupt deliberately the companies manufacturing pyrites and sulphuric acid thereby putting men and their families on the labour market. [More…]
That being so, we look to the day, not in the very far future either, when the men from the north of England - from the black country - who will be displaced and disgusted by Britain’s entry into the Common Market, will come here. [More…]
They will be men skilled in metallurgy, engineering and shipbuilding. [More…]
They are the men we will need to provide the nucleus of Australia’s world leadership in metallurgy, general industry and steel fabrication. [More…]
There is a good future for Australia but it will never be achieved in the hands of this Government because its only policy is to cash it in, ignoring the future and never at any cost to plan. [More…]
Planning is a dirty and obnoxious word to this Government. [More…]
I want to point out as quickly as possible, having promised the Minister that 1 would not exhaust my full 10 minutes in this debate, that over a period of 20 years the New South Wales State Government will receive from the Clutha company, which has aroused so much indignation in all decent thinking Australians, an amount: of $100m in royalties for the coal exported by the company when it is in full operation at the shipping port of Wollongong, should the present intended plan of Clutha come to fruition. [More…]
That is a fair bit of money, but the New South Wales Government, having agreed to the plan with Clutha will not receive any more than the original figure of $100m in royalties. [More…]
The principal owner of this company is Mr Daniel Ludwig, one of the world’s richest men. [More…]
I have noted that Clutha is at present retrenching men from one of its coal mines in central Queensland. [More…]
-] address my remarks to the estimates of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet with particular reference to the Ministers of State, Leaders of the Opposition and parliamentary parties and staffs. [More…]
We have an amazing situation in the Parliament at the present time. [More…]
We have had criticism in this Parliament about the Australian Labor Party being controlled by faceless men, but there is now in the Parliament an invisible .Cabinet consisting of the Assistant Ministers. [More…]
What standing have they in the Parliament? [More…]
They have no special seating arrangements in this Parliament. [More…]
They are invisible men with invisible tasks and achieve invisible results. [More…]
Is it not time the Parliament was told precisely what their activities are, what they do, what they are being paid, what they are here for, where they are located and where they can be seen? [More…]
Honourable members opposite can never deny that statement for the simple reason that nobody knows precisely what they are doing and where they are going. [More…]
But at least their appointment was historic. [More…]
Is it not amazing that nobody has mentioned them since they have been appointed? [More…]
Therefore, why would one bother asking questions of invisible men? [More…]
The situation is that the administration of the Government is top heavy. [More…]
It is a national scandal to think that we have in this Parliament honourable members about whose activities we know nothing. [More…]
Let us take, for example, the appointment of the honourable member . [More…]
Evidently the appointment left him speechless because he has not said anything since his appointment. [More…]
I do not mind telling honourable members that not only did members of the Opposition get a hell of a shock out of the appointment but it also almost frightened us to death. [More…]
But surely the nation and the Parliament are entitled to know what the Assistant Ministers are doing. [More…]
Members of the Opposition would like to think that the honourable member for Moreton and others who were deposed from the Ministry suffered some great loss, but when one considers that they are too good for the Ministry and not good enough for Assistant Ministers it makes one wonder whether there is something wrong on the other side of the Parliament. [More…]
He never bothered to ask in Vietnam why the Cambodians want the men this Government has promised to them. [More…]
The Government has appointed Assistant Ministers to stand in for the Ministers who are away and to help the Ministers who are here, but in actual fact what are they doing? [More…]
I also believe, and this is why I am speaking tonight, that we do not really pay enough attention to the actual managerial function of this Parliament in its application to its executive function in running the Australian nation. [More…]
I think that also was what my colleague from Dawson was saying; that the Minister for Primary Industry had such an important managerial, executive and policy making function that it was a full time job not just for him but probably for a number of men. [More…]
We are discussing the Department of the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. [More…]
In other circumstances it might be desirable for him to be absent, and with the sort of Prime Ministerial leadership we are getting it might be better if he stayed absent, but the facts are that at this moment the Parliament is meeting and I doubt if his contribution to the nation’s welfare by his absence overseas warrants his being away from the Parliament when it is meeting. [More…]
I put the point that when the Parliament is in session, in general the membership ought to be here, in particular the Ministry, because its members are the executive members of this Parliament and they are the people who must answer. [More…]
I wonder what members on the Government side or the public would think if it was suddenly suggested that Ansett Airlines of Australia should be merged with the Royal Australian Air Force or that the Peninsular and Orient Line should be merged with the Navy. [More…]
I think these propositions are comparable to a proposal to merge a government defence operation with a private company. [More…]
There are very strong feelings among the employees of the Government Aircraft Factories because quite obviously they have a great deal to lose by such a merger. [More…]
It has been suggested by the men concerned that men are being downgraded in the Government Aircraft Factories in preparation for their being offered lower rated jobs in the proposed merged company. [More…]
It has even been suggested in some quarters that the arrangements for this merger were signed in 12th October this year. [More…]
Whether this is true or false, the men on the job believe it to be true, and this is a serious thought. [More…]
As I said, the important thing is, firstly, the morale of the men concerned. [More…]
1 have a letter which has been circulated to every member of the Parliament. [More…]
It is of some length and was written by a joint committee of Government Aircraft Factories personnel. [More…]
It was circulated so that their views could be readily known to members of Parliament. [More…]
However, like myself, he has attended a number of meetings of employees at both the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and the Government Aircraft Factories which dealt with the proposed mergers. [More…]
There are a number of questions which have been raised and which are still of real concern to the men concerned. [More…]
The third point I want to mention briefly in the very few minutes left to me is the matter of conscription. [More…]
Of course, these people are in the Government parties in this country at the moment. [More…]
Under conscription men are inducted into the military forces without regard either to their civilian productivity or their personal preferences. [More…]
Time is against me and 1 am sure that, with his immense sense of charity, he will understand that. [More…]
The light destroyer programme in Australia has been started off by an immensely talented and dedicated band of Australians. [More…]
They are a superb bunch of men. [More…]
A government decision is required. [More…]
In this matter time is very much against the Government and very much against the country. [More…]
All one has to do is go to Jane’s Fighting Ships’, see when the ships were launched, make appropriate adjustments and reach the conclusion that the late 1970s will be a very critical time indeed. [More…]
I do not envy the Government in having to make a decision on this, but if we are to be committed to the DDL project simpliciter then it will call, as the honourable member for Wentworth said, for the diversion of immense resources to sustain the project. [More…]
Sir, was there a request from the Cambodian Government to our Government to train their men in South Vietnam? [More…]
In 1968 the Citizen Military Forces consisted of 35,762 men. [More…]
I think this drop perhaps can be put down partly to the fact that the Government has been shadow boxing with defence. [More…]
I would urge the Government to look at this matter very closely. [More…]
In my judgment this is arrant and utter nonsense. [More…]
I accept the statement of the President of the United States of America, just as the leaders of the Australian Labor Party accepted statements of one of his predecessors almost 30 years ago. [More…]
From that day to this, such statements have meant that the men and women of the [More…]
As I have only about 45 seconds remaining, I shall say this: I am in favour of the warships for the fleet; I am in favour of better aeroplanes for the Air Force; I am in favour of more and more Australians being put into uniforms and taught to be able to stand up straight and be men. [More…]
This all points to the need for modern, up to date management concepts in the administration of our Services. [More…]
Interestingly enough, the former Defence Secretary also referred to the ‘quasi monastic life’ led by military men separated in their training and everyday living apart from the ordinary flow of community life. [More…]
These men are living in military establishments divorced from contact with community life. [More…]
He thought that this in the long run would make for a better serviceman and would be more beneficial for his all round development. [More…]
Are many of our young men who go into the defence forces being essentially undertrained and underemployed? [More…]
Roy Forward of the University of Queensland has pointed out that 4 times as much time is spent on conscripts entering and leaving the Army, 4 times as many conscripts need training and 4 times as many Regular Army men are needed to train them. [More…]
There are many opportunities for diversion for our young men today and if we wish to attract these young men into the CMF, with the CMF being a worthwhile additional interest for them, we have to match these other civilian interests for spare time diversion by making such training worth their while. [More…]
I feel that the employers of young people could assist tremendously in this regard if the situation were properly explained to them so that if necessary the small amount of additional time off from work to meet a CMF training requirement could be granted. [More…]
If it was properly explained to the employer that the younger members of his staff would be trained in personnel management, control and administration, which would assist tremendously in building up their confidence to face the future, at no expense to the employer, 1 feel that the employer would become a willing partner with the Army in assisting to build up the CMF both in numbers and efficiency. [More…]
A number of my constituents have been alarmed to find that the Department of the Army does not in fact intend to ensure that all troops are home from Vietnam prior to Christmas, as was the impression given in the initial announcements. [More…]
It has been estimated that up to 1,000 servicemen could remain in Vietnam, lt is up to the Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) to spell out what is to happen to these men so that they and their families can plan for the future. [More…]
Surely with an expenditure such as that envisaged in these estimates it would not be impossible for the Minister to assure the Committee that the maximum number of men will be returned home - even if it means a return trip for some. [More…]
Honourable members and the public need to be more fully informed of these matter by statements in the Parliament, not in pronouncements made at a luncheon or Press conference in the United States of America or in the United Kingdom, which has been the recent practice of our absent Prime Minister (Mr McMahon). [More…]
Let the Government put first loyalty to the Australian public and the State governments. [More…]
Prior to conscription the volunteer army consisted of about 33,000 to 34,000 men. [More…]
In a field force of 19,000 there would be approximately 5,500 infantrymen. [More…]
1 wish him well, and I have no doubt that all of those good men who sit opposite and who are interested in adopting a compassionate and humane approach to life would agree with me. [More…]
I regret that these asides by the Leader of the Opposition and the honourable member for Oxley have prevented me altogether from speaking about the Repatriation Department which I still regard as one of the great magnanimous departments in this country, a tribute to governments over a long time, and I even include in that favourable remark governments of the political persuasion of my colleagues opposite. [More…]
Service pensions and allowances are provided for those who served in a theatre of war - to men aged 60 and to females aged 55 - or who are permanently unemployable or who suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis and who can satisfy a means test. [More…]
Provision also is made for a comprehensive medical service, for rehabilitation training for disabled members and for national servicemen, widows and children. [More…]
The effectiveness of the repatriation system is maintained through regular reviews by the Government, quite apart from the independent committee which it has set up, to ensure that pension rates are maintained at a proper level and that new benefits are introduced as required to meet particular needs. [More…]
I refer now to the onus of proof provision which applies to servicemen claiming pensions. [More…]
I make a plea for those men who were gassed in the First World War. [More…]
It has been extremely difficult for them over the years to establish the fact that they were slightly gassed during the war because it took some years before the effects of gas were felt by these men. [More…]
During my service and many years with the Returned Services League I have found that it has been very difficult to prove that men were suffering from the effects of gas to which they were exposed during the war. [More…]
On some occasions by going through the men’s record of service I have found, in their paybooks, notations which have enabled me to gain TPI pensions for them. [More…]
If these men had been able to prove earlier that they had been slightly gassed and had continued on duty they would have received the TPI pension some years before they did. [More…]
There was a time when because of cheap shipping freights the costs in the top end were comparable, but this is not so today, because costs have been forced up by the men who are handling the cargoes on the wharf. [More…]
Therefore, this should be remembered by the men who are going slow on the wharves. [More…]
Briefly I would like to mention some opinions held by Australian Labor Party visitors to the Northern Territory on what I have trying to achieve - and I am trying to achieve something - since they have been coming up there. [More…]
I would like to ask what these parliamentarians have done for pensioners in their own electorates. [More…]
But these men just come up and knock a fellow who has been trying for years to do something for Northern Territory pensioners. [More…]
We are debating the estimates for the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
As I said, there was a violent disagreement between the 3 men who submitted the majority report and the 2 men who submitted the minority report. [More…]
The men who submitted the minority report believed that the fairness of the interest charges imposed upon the Post Office was in grave doubt. [More…]
When 1 look at the present accounts of the Post Office and the papers wilh which I have been furnished by the Legislative Research Section of the Parliamentary Library, I find that 90 per cent of the money required to run the Post Office was financed by the Australian people from taxation. [More…]
The capital invested in the Post Office, together with some payments which were made to the States when we took over in 1901, amounts to $2,484,331,130. [More…]
I repeat that the Government has soulless accountants, men who put the machine before their hearts and minds. [More…]
I am sorry to do this to the Postmaster-General because he may not be running the Department in the next 10 years but I propose to fight to have this system stopped. [More…]
I saw a statement the other day that said decentralisation was occurring. [More…]
Surely this Parliament should not make a contribution to cutting down the post offices in small towns and villages. [More…]
The little post offices with telephone boxes outside which are being closed in some small suburbs are being run by some of the best men we have in the country - the non-official postmasters. [More…]
They make a tremendous contribution to the welfare of the country and to the interests of the people. [More…]
One depressing aspect of recent times has been the deterioration in the service given by the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
This is the age in which we can send men to the moon. [More…]
All this seems to stem from the unhappy financial arrangements where costs and prices have skyrocketed and spiralled and charges have been increased. [More…]
Charges have been increased in every facet of the Postmaster-General’s Department, such as postage stamps, telephone charges and the installation of telephones. [More…]
These charges have over the years continued to increase and correspondingly the quality of the service given by the Department has deteriorated. [More…]
The closure of these post offices is most unfortunate because it damages the quality of the service that has been given by this Department. [More…]
I do not want to cast any reflection on those people associated with the Department who have to work to a very strict budget. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the officers generally in the Department for their civility and courtesy in dealing with members of the public, including members of this Parliament. [More…]
These men should be praised for their efforts and I do so in this debate. [More…]
One of the features of the Department of Shipping and Transport about which I am concerned is the updating of the Navigation Act. [More…]
There have been minor amendments to the Navigation Act but no real effort has been made by this Government to tackle the problem of reviewing and updating the Act. [More…]
When there were some major amendments to the Act back in 1967, the then Minister for Shipping and Transport, Mr Freeth, gave members of the Australian Labour Party who interviewed him at that time an assurance that within a short time there would be a complete review of the Navigation Act. [More…]
That was 4 years ago and still no proposal has been brought before the Parliament to update the Navigation Act. [More…]
At that conference numerous papers were presented by men who were well and truly experienced in the field of transport. [More…]
Under the heading of ‘Need to Update Legislation’ - this was only one section with which he dealt - Mr Patterson went to great lengths and into detail to explain and almost to plead with the Government to do something about updating the Navigation Act. [More…]
I have spoken several times in this House about the importance to industry of restoring the 20 per cent investment tax allowance. [More…]
A 24,000 ton cellular vessel on European scales requires 28 men, compared with 35 men under Australian conditions. [More…]
Now that we have withdrawn from Vietnam, honourable members opposite lack that argument. [More…]
On the other side of this chamber there are men who are typical Labor men and who were trained by the old Labor Party. [More…]
This country is urgently in need of men, and I think that the following poem could be applied to the present situation and leaders of the nation: [More…]
God give us men! [More…]
Men whom the lust of office does not kill; [More…]
Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; [More…]
Men who possess opinions, and a will; [More…]
Men who have honour; men who will not lie, [More…]
I rise to speak in this debate on the estimates for the Department of Foreign Affairs and to note, with approval, an increase of approximately $8.5m in the appropriation over last year’s expenditure, making an estimate for this year, 1971-72, of $89,913,000. [More…]
I refer to the speech made by my friend the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James) and to tell him how impressed I was with the expression in the last part of his speech, that Australia needed leadership from men with strong wills, clear hearts and honour; men not prone to prevarication. [More…]
Two of these countries are members of the 5-power defence arrangement. [More…]
So we must consider the effect of that arrangement on our near neighbours, the most important of which, to my way of thinking, is Indonesia. [More…]
This was demonstrated recently by the visit of an Indonesian airliner of sorts which came over to Darwin with a team on board to explore the possibility of commencing some sort of civil air service between our 2 countries. [More…]
J noticed they had some difficulty in starting the motors, but still they are men of great initiative and no doubt could have overcome this. [More…]
We do not export arms to them, although with the number of men they have under arms they could probably use quite a lot of our small arms, ammunition and military hardware of that description. [More…]
The number at the moment is very small but I cannot see any reason why we cannot escalate this exchange of Army personnel because, after all, we are on their doorstep. [More…]
So I would urge the Government to make strong efforts to build up this area of trade. [More…]
I have met several of these men in Indonesia. [More…]
We lay no claims to any other men’s lands. [More…]
I am amazed to think that a responsible body of learned professional men - apparently motivated by their own political narrowness - should think that members of any parliament would be dictated to in that sense by their political affiliations. [More…]
I think that the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) is to be commended for being able to substantiate, to an extent, th: work of the Committee. [More…]
In aviation circles this is regarded as a text book for men learning and operating 727 aircraft. [More…]
In regard to air feeder services, there is not a member in this House representing a rural electorate who has not had the experience of very enthusiastic men coming forward and putting themselves in hock to get hold of an aircraft and gradually build up what they think will be a contribution to people in country areas. [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…]
What is the Development Bank for? [More…]
It is for development. [More…]
My goodness, if the provision of an air service to a country centre is not part of the general mosaic of development then what is? [More…]
He was referring to an area in which the Government proposes to spend $44m this year. [More…]
That project represents a one-eyed approach because it does not really benefit a whole area as does the programme of the Department of Works for the Northern Territory. [More…]
This Department has shown a most responsible attitude towards its job this year. [More…]
I congratulate the Department, its Minister (Senator Wright), its planners and the men who work for it both inside the Northern Territory and in other areas on their performance in the last year and on the fact that their plans envisage the spending of this increased amount of money in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I note that the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) in the report presented on his Department mentions that the amount of $308m spent by the Department last financial year was a record. [More…]
The appropriation for this financial year for this Department exceeds that amount. [More…]
I commend the Department for its encouragement and acceptance of an increased number of cadets who undertake university and technical studies at the expense of the Department. [More…]
It is apparent that in this sector involving the training of young men, and women perhaps, the Department of Works has not suffered the cut backs that are apparent in other branches of the Public Service. [More…]
The medical people would not have recommended this great speed-up in the programme and the extra time that was thereby available on the surface of the moon unless this sleep pattern had been greatly improved. [More…]
But I point out that that pattern was for athletes, men in top line medical condition. [More…]
The scheme is part of a comprehensive range of repatriation benefits for Australian ex-service men and women and their dependants. [More…]
It will directly benefit eligible persons by reducing the amount they would otherwise have to provide from their own funds or from supplementary borrowings. [More…]
The Government sees this Bill as a necessary measure to step up the war against those enemies of society who are prepared to seek wealth through the misery and degradation of their fellow men. [More…]
Law enforcement must play an important role in the control of drug abuse, but it is not in itself a solution to the problem. [More…]
No matter how active the Government is, how efficient our law enforcement agencies, how effective our education programmes, the answer to the problems of drug abuse lies with the community itself. [More…]
I commend the Bill to honourable members. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system based upon arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
For that reason I say that there is an urgent need for the Tariff Board, under instructions from this Government, to have a look at exactly what is happening. [More…]
In my own area there are 19,000 men employed in the steel industry and all honourable members have seen reports in the Press of what is happening. [More…]
is, of course, dictated by an outside body not responsible to the electorate - the famous 36 faceless men - although I believe they have added 11 faces to this body, or perhaps 12 if we count the 2 faces of the Leader of the Opposition on this issue. [More…]
A prominent member of the Labor Par’y front bench has recommended that we should withdraw from all military alliances, including the ANZUS alliance, and retreat into isolationism. [More…]
The former Secretary of the Labor Party in Victoria - a member of the group which advised Australian troops in Vietnam to mutiny - has recommended that Australia cut back its defence expenditure. [More…]
Every Minister of the Government can stand on his head from today until tomorrow exhorting us to be confident and collectively they will still not counterbalance the one minute that it took the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd yesterday to announce that an extra 200 men will be stood down. [More…]
That, bluntly, is the nature of things; and the Government ignores it at the peril of us all. [More…]
Even our anachronistic unemployment benefit is relevant in this area because how can one conscientiously spend one’s savings without some more reasonable emergency support than we now have? [More…]
The current unemployment benefit is anachronistic for 2 reasons. [More…]
In the second place it is wrong in principle because it is based on the philosophy that in a full employment economy the only people out of work are either loafers or people who are just spending a couple of days in between voluntarily changing jobs. [More…]
The loafer argument should, by agreement- - [More…]
It had been accepted in some quarters that quite a number of men from Kalgoorlie mines would be able to obtain work at the Western Mining Corp. Ltd nickel mining project at Kambalda, some 30 miles out. [More…]
If this is so, then we can forget Poseidon as being an alternative source of employment for some time to come. [More…]
Now 1 turn to the effect the closure of the goldmines would have on the cities of Kalgoorlie and Boulder where at present there is a population of well over 20,000 people, lt would be very difficult to arrive at a reasonably reliable estimate of what the population drop could be unless one had access to what were the family responsibilities of the men and women working for the goldmining industry and elsewhere in those towns. [More…]
That is the rather grim situation which the people on the goldfields of Western Australia face at the moment. [More…]
Another group of undeserving poor who receive little, or rather, no assistance from State housing authorities are ‘skid row’ style single men. [More…]
State housing authorities have a general policy of not providing assistance to single people below pensionable age; even if they did accept single people below that age, they would still exclude ‘derelict’ single men on social grounds. [More…]
On the size of this problem, one finding reveals that there are approximately 2,500 such single men in Melbourne at any one time, for example. [More…]
These men are often quite literally homeless, apart from an occasional night in a shelter for homeless men. [More…]
He went on to say that terminating building societies had a vital interest in the new financial arrangements which were being discussed in regard to housing. [More…]
Mr Knowles, and the many public spirited men and women who have formed terminating building societies, can rest assured that the Commonwealth Government will continue to ensure that they’ have access to funds through the home builders account. [More…]
The high cost of land in my own State of New South Wales - I can only speak about that State - was brought about by an Act of Parliament passed by a Labor government in 1951 which gave effect to the Cumberland County Council scheme, which was later superseded by the State Planning Authority, lt is to the everlasting disgrace of the present Liberal Government in New South Wales that it has perpetuated this wretched piece of legislation which is the basis for the high price of land in New South Wales. [More…]
Anzacs and men of the 1st and 2nd Australian Imperial Force were robbed of their birthright. [More…]
In that State single accommodation is provided for single women after a long waiting period, but lack of finance prevents such accommodation being provided for single men. [More…]
This Government should give consideration to that point and should provide additional funds for accommodation for single men. [More…]
The Federal Liberal Government’s credit squeeze of 1970 dealt a severe blow to housing in Western Australia. [More…]
I appreciate that the Queensland Government, like all other State governments, has its resources strained almost to breaking point. [More…]
Whatever be the reason and whatever be the necessary financial arrangement. [More…]
I imagine that my comments would apply to many other States. [More…]
During last week when the House was not sitting I went along the railway line in part of my electorate, and I was appalled at the conditions under which some of those men had to exist. [More…]
I said: ‘If you do, use my name as commending your strike action’. [More…]
There are numerous steel houses, built during the Chifley Governm nt period of office, much to the chagrin of the conservative elements of the building industry, and of course there is the Victorian Housing Commission’s Holmesglen factory for the production of concrete houses. [More…]
I believe that this factory previous y employed 400 men but now has only 80 on its staff. [More…]
This Government should insist that the Holmesglen enterprise should not only be extended to provide low cost housing, but should also be permitted to compete with private enterprise in all aspects of building. [More…]
Is it a fact that unemployed men aged 48 years and over applying to the Commonwealth employment offices for employment are being told that owing to their age there is little hope of work being found for them unless they have special qualifications? [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…]
The feeling among wine men from the Hunter Valley in my electorate to the Barossa Valley in South Australia is that the Government should not have imposed an excise tax on a rural industry which has shown prospects of high profitability and, above all, great export potential. [More…]
This has been the tendency of previous governments throughout Australia, of whatever political complexion. [More…]
In speaking to this resolution, with which I believe every member of this House would wish to be associated, can I say that the men and women of our 3 Services carried out their assignment in Vietnam in the best tradition of the Australian Armed Forces. [More…]
The young Australian servicemen in Vietnam proved to be among the finest ambassadors we could have had in such a difficult and complex situation. [More…]
By their respect for local customs, by their cheerful assistance to the people in the wide ranging humanitarian civic action tasks, our servicemen earned great goodwill for Australia among the people of South Vietnam. [More…]
They are among the finest young men and women that Australia has ever sent overseas to an operational area. [More…]
This is a view wholeheartedly supported by this Government, by our allies and by the Australian people, lt was a sad day for many South Vietnamese when the Australians finally left. [More…]
In the matters of fighting spirit and constructional ability, you are probably among the greatest of men. [More…]
You have not only fought but you have used your skilled hands to transform swamps into housing areas, you have turned jungle into prosperous villages, everywhere that you have applied your skill you brought vast improvements. [More…]
It has always carefully distinguished between the policies of the Government and the implementation of those policies by men doing their duty in the field in Vietnam. [More…]
Undoubtedly errors of military judgment were made in Vietnam; this happens in all wars and military leaders must expect this sort of criticism. [More…]
The welfare problems created by these peculiar features of Vietnam have produced immense problems in the United States. [More…]
Because of the nature of operations in Vietnam, many Australian soldiers were maimed by these mines; many young men will not be able to participate in an active working life because of these wounds. [More…]
These are matters which will require careful and compassionate consideration from the Government. [More…]
To a much greater extent than other wars the permanently maimed from Vietnam are very young men; often only in their early 20’s. [More…]
This means that a greater percentage of young men have been denied productive working lives because of Vietnam. [More…]
The presence of a high percentage of national servicemen in the Vietnam combat units has ensured this. [More…]
There is little point in the Parliament paying lipservice to the sacrifices of our troops in Vietnam if this expression is not translated into measures for the effective care and rehabilitation of those veterans. [More…]
In particular the anguish of those young men who will be dented satisfying professional or family lives because of Vietnam must be given special consideration. [More…]
In outandout hawkishness and callous disregard for human suffering the Australian Democratic Labor Party has even exceeded the Government. [More…]
There is a little more hope for (he present Government. [More…]
It seems that at long last it has recognised the futility of military involvement in Indo China, but it has hesitated about putting its doubts into effective action. [More…]
Nobody will quarrel with the sentiments of this resolution; surely gallantry is not the issue. [More…]
it was thrown at German positions in the Somme and 60,000 men went down every day and nobody broke discipline. [More…]
Merely to commend the gallantry of the soldiers on the Somme, who probably attained a height of bravery never attained in human history before or after, is not to have said the last thing about the strategy and tactics of Field Marshal Haig at the Somme. [More…]
We hope that the Government’s words about its appreciation of the ex-servicemen of Vietnam will be matched by its repatriation generosity. [More…]
If it is in the form of war service homes, we hope that the Government will make new adjustments about the price of land and about the cost of building a house. [More…]
We hope that, in the inflationary situation, it will take a look at the inadequacy of the pensions for meeting the kinds of costs that men rehabilitating themselves into the Australian community today will be called on to meet. [More…]
The motion was passed by the Senate but not without a great deal of political comment which had nothing to do with its meaning. [More…]
In my comments I do not intend to demean the sentiments contained in Senator Gair’s motion by indulging in political dogmas and so attempting to obtain some cheap political advantage out of what is a sincerely expressed tribute to the men and women of our fighting forces for their efforts in Vietnam. [More…]
As Minister for Repatriation I have the ministerial responsibility for the Department which over the last SO years has administered the legislation covering the whole spectrum of the entitlements, including medical treatment, of ex-servicemen and women who have served Australia in various conflicts. [More…]
It is mainly in this capacity that I want to associate myself and the Government with this well deserved tribute which was expressed by Senator Gair yesterday in the Senate. [More…]
I appreciate being able to join with others in paying a tribute to the men and women of our armed Services who have fought in Vietnam. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that it is a humbling experience to meet young men who have been wounded, some very severely, in the Vietnam conflict. [More…]
Of course, there have been some unhappy moments with these young men, but broadly speaking their cheerfulness and acceptance of their disabilities have been an inspiration and are to their everlasting credit. [More…]
At the moment there are 24 ex-Vietnam personnel receiving the special rate of war pension. [More…]
Although I, with other members on this side of the Parliament, agree with what has been said in respect of the gratitude given to the men who have given their lives, some of them conscripted, which does not detract in any way from their magnificent courage, on an occasion like this one cannot help but place on record the condemnation of the Government that puts us into a conflict in which Australia should never have been involved. [More…]
From the very commencement of this unfortunate, cruel and wicked war in Vietnam members on this side of the Parliament stood firm in their opposition to it because we knew the sacrifices many would be called upon to make, sacrifices that would bring suffering not only to the Vietnamese people but also to countless thousands of Australian homes. [More…]
Some members of this Party more than others were singled out for special mention and in a debate of this nature today I do not think it would be proper for me to pass by the opportunity to mention 2 members on this side in particular, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren), who stood up to a terrific battering as to their integrity, loyalty and courage from honourable members opposite because of their opposition to this conflict. [More…]
In the main they were no different from most members of the Labor Party but today they must feel, with the Government withdrawing and with the position in South Vietnam worse than it was before this conflict started, satisfaction to know that their courage in opposing this Government’s involvement of Australian men in the war in Vietnam has proved to be justified. [More…]
fs it not tragic that while we are withdrawing from Vietnam and when we are realising the failure of that conflict this Government is keeping men in gaol, men who conscientiously refused to serve there and have proved how sincere they are by going to gaol for periods of up to 2 years? [More…]
As we know, the Government was conned into entering this conflict. [More…]
To the eternal discredit and shame of those who have run this country for 20 years 473-odd Australians lie dead today and almost 3,000 men have been maimed and wounded in a conflict in which we should never have been engaged and in which honourable members opposite know we were never invited to participate by the South Vietnamese. [More…]
Therefore today there is a measure of hypocrisy about the Government. [More…]
The Government is not thanking and expressing its gratitude to those who served and the relatives of those who lost their lives. [More…]
As the honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley) said, the Government never even thought of giving them any thanks and if the DLP had not sponsored the motion it would not have been brought on here today. [More…]
The Government has not brought it on out of gratitude to those who deserve it. [More…]
Right down the line the Government’s altitude on the Vietnamese war has been contemptible, un-Australian and disloyal to the Australians who were called to serve there. [More…]
To think that the Government introduced conscription to back up its plans after having its arm twisted is a disgrace to government in this country. [More…]
The guilty men sit on the other side of the House. [More…]
We were committed to blindly following American policy by that historic statement of ‘All the way with LBJ’. [More…]
But the day of reckoning has come and today this Government must acknowledge that it has failed in South Vietnam. [More…]
Why, even now the Government wants to slide both ways in respect of the amendment we have moved. [More…]
The weak excuse given by the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) in respect of this matter was that what is contained in the amendment was not what the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) said about Indo-China. [More…]
Does that mean that the Government is going to commit Australian troops to the paddy fields of Indo-China and other places in the future? [More…]
We believe the Prime Minister has given an assurance to this Parliament that they will not be committed to Indo-China in the future. [More…]
Let us again look at the situation in which these men were involved in Vietnam and what the Government is thanking them for today. [More…]
Everyone on that side of the Parliament and everyone throughout this nation knows that never has this country been more divided by a conflict than it has by the Vietnamese war. [More…]
Demonstrations throughout the nation by people from all walks of life indicated that they realised the falsity of the Government’s charge that Australia’s security was involved in Vietnam. [More…]
Only at the point of the political gun, as it were, has this Government been prepared to acknowledge that it should pull out of that conflict, so determined was it to go alt the way with LB J, as it has said. [More…]
Therefore today as we pay a tribute to the valour of those who served, as we pay a tribute to those who suffer today, to the relatives of those who did not come back, let us ponder from our own position in this Parliament what our guilt is in involving these men and their dependants in this conflict which was never a declared war, in which our security was never endangered and for which we are suffering today. [More…]
I cannot help but think that at the very height of this conflict when our men were dying and suffering in Vietnam members of the Australian Country Party sat in the corner and sold their wool to troops which they said were fighting against Australian troops. [More…]
The Country Party was prepared to trade with the enemy at a time when our men were dying there. [More…]
In this respect there are guilty men on that side of this House and they should not sleep too easily when these issues are being debated. [More…]
But let me summarise by saying that it is regrettable to think that after 30,000 men have served there, many of whom were killed or injured, it has been left to the Australian Democratic Labor Party to bring forward a motion of gratitude which this Government could not amend or alter but which it blindly supports because it never even thought of it. [More…]
I cannot blame him, I suppose, because he is merely getting into line with the majority on that side of the Parliament. [More…]
Above all else let us never again in this Parliament be a party in any shape or form to the commitment of Australian troops to a conflict such as Vietnam - a useless and cruel war which, as 1 said, has been responsible for suffering and conflict throughout the world, for demonstrations and for the dividing of nations. [More…]
From one end of the world to the other it has been responsible for dragging Australia’s name into the mud, not for the valour of the men who served there but because of our stupidity in going into that conflict. [More…]
We are paying credit to the men of the Royal Australian Navy who served in the Vietnam theatre, and to the members of the Australian Regular Army, the national servicemen, the members of the Royal Australian Air Force and the nursing sisters who served in that area, lt is to them and to them alone that this Parliament on behalf of the people of Australia, whichever way they vote, is giving credit and thanks. [More…]
The men of our services have been awarded 4 Victoria Crosses, 32 Distinguished Service Orders, 8 Distinguished Service Crosses, 75 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 50 Military Crosses, 1 George Medal, 3 Distinguished Service Medals, 37 Distinguished Conduct Medals, 9 Distinguished Flying Medals and 77 Military Medals. [More…]
These men are looking on you today and I am sure they would never have been prouder than they are at this moment.’ [More…]
The men of this battalion have served their country and, as 1 have said, have served with distinction. [More…]
Great traditions have been established for those men who will come after them. [More…]
The honourable member for Grayndler said that we have repudiated and have left a stain on the reputation of Australia in South East Asia, but these men have been the greatest ambassadors this country has ever had. [More…]
In fact, in 1.950-51 in the rosy early days of the crusading Liberal Government, the maximum loan was $5,500. [More…]
The Government says that its heart is bleeding for ex-servicemen and that it wants to make a contribution particularly to those young men who have just returned from Vietnam. [More…]
I might mention in respect of the total number of men from all States who served in Vietnam the greatest percentage come from my own Stale of New South Wales. [More…]
But what is this Government, whose heart is bleeding for them and which expresses great sympathy, doing for them? [More…]
This Government is a lazy and a tired government after 22 years of administration. [More…]
1 feel sick - I do not want to use the word ‘embittered’ - when I see the hypocrisy rolling from that side of the House in expressions of sympathy for young servicemen from Vietnam. [More…]
It riles me, feeling as I do about this Government. [More…]
Where are those men who wore their RSL badges with pride? [More…]
I listened to the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) speak of his sympathy for men returning from conflict. [More…]
We should have waited until all of our servicemen were home before we started saying some of the things that we said this afternoon. [More…]
The Government has adopted a petty and pedantic attitude in these matters. [More…]
There has not been an original idea from the Government on the provision of war service homes for many years. [More…]
In fact, we say that its benefits should be available to all servicemen - the members of the permanent forces who indicate their willingness to get to war and to accept a military career. [More…]
What would be wrong with extending the scheme to include all national servicemen - the young men of our country? [More…]
1 have already indicated that the war service homes scheme is not costing the Government anything; in fact the Government is making money out of it. [More…]
What is wrong with making the scheme an enticement to young men of this country to serve in the forces? [More…]
The provision of benefits such as this could be one of the attractions to entice young men to make a career in the Services. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that it should earnestly consider these proposals. [More…]
men with a home. [More…]
The idea of the scheme was to enable ex-servicemen to obtain homes. [More…]
In a great number of cases the first home provided to an exserviceman meets his lifetime requirements But difficulties do occur especially in providing extensions to a home and adding sewerage and other amenities that become available. [More…]
Allowing for the increases in management and control we should consider the needs of the ex-serviceman who. [More…]
at this time, wants to extend his home or to add a few amenities. [More…]
I know that acceptance of the need to meet these requirements would create extra work within the Division but I think that, rather than cause these people either to pay off the war service home loan or to obtain a second mortgage, it would be far preferable for the Division to supply this money. [More…]
After all, these men have done a lot for Australia and, although they are not as highly regarded today as they once were, I still hope that this Parliament will revere them and acknowledge that, but for their deeds, we would not be living in the affluent society in which we live today. [More…]
I was disgusted to hear the statements that were made in this House today when we were trying to honour our men who served in Vietnam. [More…]
Honourable members opposite spoke in a mean and despicable fashion and moved an amendment to the motion by which we were trying to give honour and thanks to those men who fought for us on Vietnam. [More…]
Yes, I am proud that I supported our Vietnam commitment. [More…]
The time will come when many of the doves who opposed this commitment will be regarded as traitors to Australia and to the free world. [More…]
I am indicating some of the errors that are appropriate to be mentioned. [More…]
We must have an addiction for the truth, lt is the Government’s desire to have that addiction on this occasion. [More…]
This Bill will be well received, lt will assist many men who desire assistance under it. [More…]
He said that the Housing Loans Insurance Corporation might be given special permission to undertake insurance on second mortgage loans taken out by men who negotiated an advance under this Bill. [More…]
If a person wants a house above normal standard either in size or equipment inside it is will run to $20,000 in Melbourne. [More…]
We are making them for servicemen. [More…]
They are driven to the housing commission type of housing which, adequate as it is through most of Australia tor what one might call average housing, does, not supply any of the individual requirements of the citizen. [More…]
Moreover, this is the day upon which we passed a resolution of gratitude to the men who went to Vietnam. [More…]
We know of course the Government’s tears of gratitude meant nothing at all and that this is just a political gimmick. [More…]
If the Acting Minister for Primary Industry, my friend from Orbost, who also sends young men to gaol and leaves them there, particularly his own constituents, instead of going to wars himself [More…]
Today a motion was moved that this Parliament express its gratitude to those soldiers who served in Vietnam. [More…]
The narrowness with which those men are treated on their return from Vietnam is appalling. [More…]
I will deal with that matter when speaking to a later amendment. [More…]
I want to deal with the narrowness with which the Government, of which you are a supporter, Mr Chairman, treats members of the Services, for instance those naval personnel who serve on the troop ship HMAS ‘Sydney’. [More…]
Even though many of these men have paid many visits to Vietnam, because they did not stay a sufficient time within a danger area they are excluded from the war service homes scheme. [More…]
The Government is concerned with getting men for its armed forces on the cheap, as the honourable member for Barton has just pointed out. [More…]
What would an extension of the benefits of the war service homes legislation mean to this Government? [More…]
Those who have spoken in this debate would know only too well that, as the honourable member for Reid has pointed out in a very competent address to this Parliament on this legislation, this Government is now making a profit out of those who accept their entitlement under the war service homes legislation. [More…]
I hope some time later this night on a further amendment to be able to present to the Parliament the figures which show that this Government is now making a profit out of the war service homes legislation. [More…]
I do not blame the departmental officers for this state of affairs because I know that the Department of Housing administers the War Service Homes Act with a great deal of humanity and sincerity. [More…]
Many provisions contained in this Act shall apply to ex-servicemen in this country to guarantee to them assistance under the war service homes legislation, but such provisions have been curtailed because the Minister has issued a ministerial direction. [More…]
The Minister knows that these are dealt with in the Act and its benefits should be extended to ex-servicemen but, because of ministerial direction, ex-servicemen are denied these opportunities. [More…]
The amendment suggested by the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) does not meet the objections I have in mind. [More…]
I am wondering whether 1 can persuade the Minister for Housing (Mr Kevin Cairns) to give us, the Committee, an undertaking, to use words which are well known in this place, to have another look at this proposal and, if need be, move an amendment to the Bill in the Senate. [More…]
I shall tell the Minister my objections to the present arrangement. [More…]
I have known men who have been to Vietnam in “Sydney5 on 2 or 3 occasions but who have no entitlement to the war service homes advantages. [More…]
An able seaman in ‘Sydney’ is not in a position to say to the Naval Board: ‘If I served on HMAS ‘Perth’ off the coast of Vietnam 1 would have an entitlement but because 1 serve in ‘Sydney’ I do not have an entitlement’. [More…]
The amendment before the Committee is an attempt to provide for members of the forces the benefits of war service home finance. [More…]
I think that it is reasonable and proper that a Government which, over a considerable period, has consisently claimed that the rights of exservicemen should be paramount, has claimed also that it is not easy or not possible to maintain a volunteer army, and has based its case before the electorate on this type of platform should accept the amend men! [More…]
Women have had less of a fair go than have young men: people in industrial areas have had fewer opportunities than those in nonindustrial areas; people in country districts have had much less access to higher education than those in a city; people in Victoria had much less access to higher education than people in New South Wales; and Aboriginal people have still not achieved the same equality or anywhere near it. [More…]
No honourable member on this side of the House would say that he knows the absolute answer but it is our belief that by the time a person is 17 or 18 years of age he should be beyond depending on the charity of his parents if they are rich or, if they are poor, on the charity of the government: and because of what will happen to that person and what he will do for the community the Government should supply him with an adequate living allowance. [More…]
We do this for teacher students without any qualification or means test and we do it for hundreds of men who are in the Service academies. [More…]
Various instrumentalities, private and public, support students very substantially. [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, time will not permit me to say all I wanted to, but I do hope that the Government will do all in its power in relation to these matters. [More…]
I was somewhat bewildered last week when I asked the Parliamentary Library for a copy of Judge Levine’s summation to the jury. [More…]
However, I am grateful that Judge Levine replied promptly to my wire today and is making his summation to the jury available to members of the Parliament per medium of the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
Many honourable members of this Parliament exemplify the highest conduct in the medical profession and I certainly do not want to denigrate that decent section of the medical profession who honour their oaths and obligations to society in such a self sacrificing way. [More…]
But I believe that the ghouls should be exposed and the honourable men should be applauded. [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…]
Deferments are accordingly reviewed annually and notices are sent out at the beginning of the year to those who have previously indicated their intention of continuing in order to obtain details of their progress and reenrolment. [More…]
The grant of further deferment is notified progressively, as this advice is received. [More…]
In 1971, notices were sent out about 2 months later than previously so that the young men concerned would not be asked to obtain the necessary information from education institutions while they were partly closed during the long vacation. [More…]
The answer to the honourable member’s question is as follows: (1), (2) and (3) The Prime Minister announced the reduction in the period of full-time national service on 18th August and at the same time that men who opt for service in the Citizen Forces as an alternative to full-time service would normally serve for 5 years. [More…]
It was the Government’s decision that men serving in the Army and in the Citizen Forces at the date of the announcement should benefit from these changes. [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…]
On being notified that they have no further national service obligations men serving in the Citizen Force are bound only by the terms of their current engagement in those Forces. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
We know that this Government introduced conscription because it argued that it could not get a sufficient number of men into the Service in order to meet its commitments. [More…]
The Government said that the only way in which it could get a sufficient number of men into the Services was by introducing conscription. [More…]
Of course, the Gates Commission, which was established by President Nixon, stated quite openly that the Australian Government should have improved the rates of pay and conditions of service of Australian servicemen and conscription was not necessary. [More…]
Therefore, the Opposition gives to those 2 gallant honourable gentlemen the opportunity to do the right thing and vote with the Opposition. [More…]
We are asking them now to come across and vote for the amendment moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
We hope that when the division is taken both honourable gentlemen will be voting with this side of the House. [More…]
I am confident that something will be done for the regular servicemen. [More…]
As Chairman of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Committee, I am conscious that there is a requirement to do something for them and it should be done. [More…]
However, now that the Government has offered to give consideration to setting up a scheme - not under the war service homes legislation but a separate scheme for the regular Services - 1 am prepared to accept it and no crocodile tears from the honourable members for Reid (Mr Uren), Lang and Wills, those men of violent, great and distinguished courage in this chamber, are likely to get me to change my mind. [More…]
If the honourable member for Moreton is sincere he should move an amendment precisely along the lines he advocates. [More…]
I have always felt that the honourable member has believed in what he has said in this Parliament but there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that he is splitting straws over this amendment. [More…]
The honourable member for Herbert knows full well that there arc men in Townsville who have been in the war zone. [More…]
There is a serious anomaly in the Act in this connection and the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) has moved that this anomaly be removed and constructive legislation implemented. [More…]
It is quite clear that at the Lavarack Barracks and the Air Force base in Townsville there are many men who are being discriminated against under this legislation. [More…]
We flew aircraft within the borders of Vietnam but we art not entitled to war service home loans under this Government’s disgraceful legislation.’ [More…]
Anybody would think, in view of this Government’s pinch penny attitude towards this legislation, that these are grants; they are interest bearing loans and the Government will get the money back with a profit. [More…]
One only has to look at the revenue which the Government earns from war service home loans today to see that this is really an investment on the part of this nation. [More…]
He has a lot of people in Townsville at the Lavarack Barracks and the Air Force base who are watching this legislation very carefully because many of them are being discriminated against by this Government. [More…]
What this Government has to do is amend the Act constructively and eradicate this blatant discrimination against servicemen, particularly those in the area about which I have been speaking, who have as much right to the provisions of the War Service Homes Act as many ex-servicemen who already have a loan or who are in the process of getting one. [More…]
There are very many essential occupations in this community which are short of enough men or women. [More…]
There is only one occupation in this country for which we impose compulsion, namely, service in the Army by men. [More…]
During my comments I spoke of men from HMAS ‘Sydney’ who had served in Vietnam and who had been excluded from a war service homes entitlement because hey had not remained long enough in a war area. [More…]
In other comments I set out the Labor Party’s broad policy for improving the conditions of regular servicemen. [More…]
It was only when the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) was talking that the honourable member for La Trobe intimated that, if we amended our amendment in a certain way. [More…]
We know that this Government brought in conscription because it said it could not get a sufficient number of recruits into the permanent forces. [More…]
When the Gates Commission, which President Nixon set up to inquire into all aspects of abolishing conscription in the United States, examined the Australian position it found that if ample incentives had been offered to Australians to join the armed forces it would not have been necessary to implement conscription in Australia to get a sufficient number of men into the Services. [More…]
We are saying that it is about time the Government woke up. [More…]
lt is about time that it gave better conditions to the Australian servicemen. [More…]
It is about time that those brave heroes on the back benches on the Government side who talk about blood and guts and who glorify war did something about improving conditions for those men who want to join the permanent military forces. [More…]
We have given them another opportunity to support our amendment. [More…]
The same amendment was moved in November 1968. [More…]
We know that at least 2 members on the Government side have awakened from their slumber. [More…]
Eligibility under the War Service Homes Act in times of wars is related to enlistment for active service and in times which are not times of general conflict it is related to participation in warlike activities in certain zones. [More…]
This touches, of course, the point made by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) when he referred to certain naval men and air force men who have gone to Vietnam or who have gone to areas in which conflict is taking place and who under the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act do not qualify for certain repatriation benefits and for certain war service homes benefits. [More…]
The nub of that comment is clearly contained in section 4 of the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act. [More…]
That Act declares what is a special area in relation to which special duty may be performed by men of the forces who go to that area. [More…]
As was pointed out - it was pointed out quite clearly - this is a wider proposition than one which is merely related to the War Service Homes Act which we are considering this afternoon and is a different proposition from that which is related to the amendment proposed to this clause. [More…]
The Government rejects the amendment which has been proposed by the Opposition for several reasons, lt is quite clearly contrary to the philosophy of the Act as it has existed for many years. [More…]
That philosophy was administered effectively under Labor governments as well as under conservative governments. [More…]
The Government desires that those eligible persons who are applicants now under the Act be protected. [More…]
If an amendment such as the one which was nominated were passed those men would not be protected. [More…]
We have given an assurance that the Government will look to see what can be done concerning home ownership activities of regular servicemen. [More…]
This is being done and I know that this assurance will receive the goodwill of those honourable members on the Government side who have expressed concern over this matter. [More…]
But above all the Government rejects the’ amendment because it is desired that the Bill be passed with the benefits contained in it for those people who traditionally are applicants for war service homes approvals. [More…]
We suggest that if the Bill were widened in the way suggested by the Opposition the benefits which can accrue under the legislation would be emasculated quite significantly, and the Government is opposed to that situation. [More…]
Today Australia faces not only inflation but also unemployment and it is unemployment and not inflation that is likely to get worse. [More…]
As the Treasurer told us, the Government still assumes that inflation is the only problem and that there is no problem of unemployment. [More…]
The Government takes this position because it needs inflation for its election policy. [More…]
As the Treasurer has just shown us, the Government is not here for the purpose of analysing the economy to arrive at a policy which will be in the best interests of the Australian nation; it is here to use the economy for political purposes. [More…]
Anyone who knows where the Government is going knows precisely what it is doing. [More…]
However, it is not inflation but recession and unemployment that must be dealt with now. [More…]
We are in a man-made recession and the men who have made that recession are members of the McMahon Government. [More…]
The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission has already introduced equal pay for men and women doing the same or substantially the same work. [More…]
I have just returned from my electorate where I obtained the latest statistics and the latest reports from the trade union movement and the men themselves on the true position in the City of Greater Wollongong. [More…]
The Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, whatever its faults in terms of employment may be, exercises an equal role in the Australian economy. [More…]
If the Minister for Labour and National Service were to come with me and meet the Federated Ironworkers Association of Australia, the Amalgamated Engineering Union, the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia and the rest of the major trade unions in the area; if he were to come along and see the management of Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd, the management of Mount Keira colliery, and the management of Scarborough colliery; if he were to see the tally clerks at Port Kembla and the 16,000 tons of Japanese steel that is being landed there; if he were to come along to John Lysaght (Aust) Ltd and M. M. Pty Ltd, the copper wire and tube mill people, and ask them how many men they propose to retrench; if he were to make similar inquiries at Stewarts and Lloyds (Aust) Pty Ltd, at David Brothers Pty Ltd, at B. [More…]
They are worthless: they are nothing more than a monthly aberration of the true position with regard to unemployment in Australia today. [More…]
At the moment a deputation of the New South Wales coal owners is overseas trying not only to get a better price for their products but to make sure that delivery of contracted supplies will be accepted. [More…]
In addition the Minister should go to other collieries such as Coalcliff Colliery and see how many men will be retrenched there because of the curtailment of the steel companies’ purchases of coal. [More…]
As for the Minister for Labour and National Service claiming any credit for employment, he will be the villain of the piece. [More…]
Before this Parliament rises he will be giving notice to the House of proposals for the alteration of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act designed deliberately to exacerbate industrial turmoil in Australia, because this Government has a vested interest in industrial turmoil to save its own miserable hide. [More…]
Government action is demanded. [More…]
The union moves to save men’s jobs. [More…]
The Federated Ironworkers Association has called on the Federal Government to stop all imports of steel. [More…]
This is the responsibility of the Government. [More…]
The Government can throw all its sacred principles of free trade to the wind. [More…]
It is the fundamental responsibility of any government - whether it is Liberal, Labor or of any other political persuasion - to safeguard the industry and to safeguard the jobs of the men in it. [More…]
I speak for those men and I am here to fight for them and for their rights. [More…]
Let the Government take heed of what I say, be warned and act accordingly. [More…]
If we relate the $233m worth of imports of iron and steel products into Australia to the value of ingot steel production, we find it is equivalent to about 31 million tons or about 6 months’ employment lost to the Australian workers, thanks to the stupidity and the crass ignorance of this Government and those who are responsible for safeguarding our trading position. [More…]
There has been a significant drop in the number of houses and flats which have been commenced in the first 6 months of 1971. [More…]
Motor vehicle production is down; agricultural machinery production particularly is well down; cement production is down; Broken Hill Proprietary Co. Ltd steel production is down; the production of chemicals is going down and the production of fertilisers is going down, yet this is the economy which the Government maintains is on an even keel, is right and is viable. [More…]
The Treasurer and other speakers from the Government side have made a great play about foreign investment. [More…]
I should have thought that they would have heeded the warnings of men like Sir Ian Potter against this mad inflow of foreign capital in the last 12 months. [More…]
This is something to which I believe the Government should give the highest priority. [More…]
It is impossible to find out from any official document put out by the Treasury details in relation to the motivation of this money which is coming into Australia. [More…]
Government supporters speak in terms of our healthy balance of payments but surely the reserves are increasing because of the rush of this foreign money or this hot money into Australia? [More…]
A most remarkable statement was made today by the Minister for Trade and Industry and Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony), who talked of the achievements of his Government in the field of primary industry. [More…]
The Government still believes in the auction system. [More…]
It is tied hand and foot to the private banks, to the hire purchase companies and to the pastoral houses and it dare not give the auction system away, because if this were done, it would immediately and ruthlessly dismiss these middle men who are the friends of the Government and who actually finance the Government. [More…]
One cannot convince one primary producer in Australia, particularly if he is concerned with wool, that this Government has done a good job in primary industry. [More…]
For that reason, I wholeheartedly support the motion moved by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), condemning this Government for its failure in economic policies [More…]
Of course, the Premiers of New South Wales and Tasmania realise how bad things are when companies in large provincial centres based on rich Australian resources of coal, iron and bauxite are putting off men and when people are being laid off in the steel industry and the aluminium industry. [More…]
Is he also aware that the Australian Workers Union has declared black the wool shorn by these men if they are not members of the Union, which means that the settlers affected are facing grievous financial problems? [More…]
The fact that we have men at these trade posts does not mean that they are good salesmen. [More…]
I have often complained that many of these men have been appointed because of their academic qualifications. [More…]
When I refer to efficient and accredited salesmen, I am referring to men who know Australia, the products we sell and the quality of those products, and who could speak on them. [More…]
What he forgot to tell us is this: The scheme is so blatantly biased against the work force in the country that the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) refuses to allow a statement on it to be debated in the House. [More…]
Also, people such as shearers, fencers, dam sinkers, men who work for the councils and so on are completely excluded from the Gov ernment’s retraining scheme. [More…]
We have a problem, for example, in parts of Queensland in the meat and sugar industries where there is a high rate of seasonal unemployment year in and year out. [More…]
Unless families move out of the areas and go fruit picking or whatever it may be, they remain on the dole for 6 or 7 months of the year and simply receive the unemployment benefit. [More…]
The great majority of men and women who receive the unemployment benefit want to work. [More…]
One of the best ways of giving them work is to provide funds to local authorities or semi-government authorities which can supply employment for them. [More…]
Most of these people are unskilled and they could be employed on road development, drainage, sewerage, bridging or maintenance, whatever it might be. [More…]
The first is the future of the hard-core island people who make their home on Cape Barren Island and will not leave it despite the lack of employment opportunities. [More…]
The number of families on Cape Barren Island varies from month to month because of regular movement between the island and Tasmania. [More…]
But there is a hard core of about 60 men, women and children who could be described as permanent dwellers on Cape Barren Island. [More…]
Many of the young Aboriginal men and women - particularly the young men who normally would have been employed in the pastoral industry - are now coming to the large cities of Queensland and the capital city of Brisbane seeking work. [More…]
This has added a new dimension to the problem. [More…]
There are 3 environments, and I propose to deal briefly with each. [More…]
The first concerns settlements and communities. [More…]
Of course, this has been the long term responsibility of State Governments. [More…]
Queensland has new legislation which was brought in late one week and rushed through the Parliament early the following week against the background of a demonstration by a number of unemployed Aborigines who were led by officers of the Aborigines and Islanders Tribal Council. [More…]
It is a sad thing that this legislation was not brought down in circumstances which would have enabled the whole range of people interested in Aboriginal welfare - no less the Aborigines themselves - to express their views on the legislation in order that whatever emerged from the Queensland Parliament might be the best possible legislation. [More…]
The legislation is an improvement in many ways, but in other ways it does not go far enough. [More…]
There have been improvements in the physical environment on the settlements. [More…]
The teaching staffs in the schools are better than they were because they are officers of the Queensland Department of Education. [More…]
think that is at Yarrabah - is there a school teacher who meets the requirements of proper training as a pre-school teacher. [More…]
Unfortunately with the development of mining and the get-rich-quick possibilities that mining offers, and the whole nature of the mining industry, there tends to be less responsibility towards the people than perhaps was taken in the past. [More…]
I do not romanticise the planters of the past or the present, but a lot of those Were men or thorough responsibility towards their people, and some are today. [More…]
Superior expatriate housing undoubtedly provokes jealousy and resentment, lt is very important that the Administration should rapidly improve the housing of civil servants, the police and others who are employed. [More…]
This improvement has been effected by the Army. [More…]
It has recognised that the presence of European style housing has created new ambitions and the Army has tried to satisfy them for its men. [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…]
Over the years a number of nien experienced farmers who have set their families up, have come to me saying that they would like to give service somewhere but they cannot get appointments because they do not have the necessary qualifications, yet some youngster, who has come out of university with no idea of practical problems, secures a position. [More…]
The practical men could have been used to apply scientific findings in helping the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 was impressed by the emphasis given by members - again not only by Ministers but also by men like Michael Somare - to the need for good government, for law and order and loyalty to their own Ministers, their own people and their own local governments, wherever they might be. [More…]
I heard a speech made by the Assistant Treasurer, Mr 0ala Oala-Rarua, at the opening of a Lysaght factory in which he said that if this nation is to develop and to get the support of outside nations that is necessary for their development, they must have stable government, peace and stability at home. [More…]
I believe that during this transition period we should make every effort to retain the better types of experienced expatriate officers who are in Papua New Guinea standing alongside those who are being trained to take over responsible positions, lt is important that we do everything we can to retain these men who have given so much and who so thoroughly understand the position; they should be kept in the field. [More…]
As I have said before in this House, we should look upon anything we spend to satisfy the really able and dedicated men as an investment in the future public relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea, lt must be realised that Australia’s responsibility in Papua New Guinea is a very real one indeed, lt is of vital importance to us for many reasons. [More…]
Australia has done a tremendously good job; do not let anybody say that this is not so. [More…]
There are some very able men amongst the Papuans and New Guineans but they are in the minority. [More…]
So far we have travelled successfully along the road to ultimate selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
If we do it could be to the great detriment of both nations. [More…]
These are very intelligent men and they want the opportunity, I would say, to run their own regions. [More…]
I am on a commitment to speak for only a few minutes and I will close. [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…]
If I say Mr Maloat moved an amendment I am right. [More…]
Honourable members here know nothing about these matters because they were not mentioned in the second reading speech of the Minister. [More…]
The Government can solve the problems and it would be to its credit if it did so as the people want it done. [More…]
There is great uncertainty as to what the Government intends to do about the code. [More…]
I would like to illustrate that statement in this way. [More…]
that the code had been prepared by eminent men. [More…]
Eminent men outside this House do not make our laws. [More…]
The great virtue of the committee system, as I see it, is that we put together a number of men of goodwill and good intent - and I believe that is what we all are in this place. [More…]
When we put these men of goodwill and good intent together in this sort of situation where they are presented in a different milieu altogether with facts from highly qualified witnesses drawn from the length and breadth of Australia and from all sections of society in Australia which have people who wish to be represented, we find that members sit down; reflect, digest and seek to extract the hard, essential and valuable essence of the issues with which they are dealing. [More…]
This has been a general experience of the committee system in Parliament. [More…]
It occurred to me that erudite men such as the people who prepared submissions to the Wolfenden Committee with respect to those cases I mentioned and such eminent, respected and responsible men as these church leaders would scarcely be the people who would easily make this, to me, radical sort of decision. [More…]
Just as the Government has failed to understand and solve industrial relations in the past, so it will fail in the future should the people of Australia be foolish enough to re-elect this inept and indecisive Government at next year’s election. [More…]
The Government has always displayed a general disregard for the welfare of the 4i million men and women employees of the nation’s workforce. [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 Government does not seem to realise that when sales tax is increased the price of the goods affected is increased not only by the full amount of the sales tax but also by an additional mark up for profit. [More…]
For 22 years this Government has maintained its stubborn indifference to the inflationary effect of resale price maintenance. [More…]
He was referring to men on the low wage level - and unemployment, which is more difficult to meet. [More…]
I remind him that the 40-hour week, paid annual leave, paid sick leave, payment of full wage compensation during incapacity, paid public holidays and long service leave were secured originally because of strike action. [More…]
The Arbitration Court acted only after the men were able to prove that they were strong enough to secure these benefits without arbitration. [More…]
How can the Government seek to impose upon the court the proposition about which it is now talking? [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…]
Since the High Court judges do not know very much about the law in some respects, because they will turn the law upside down every now and again, how on earth can the Government expect them, even if they did have arbitral powers, to decide what the economic consequences of a decision of the Commission might be? [More…]
Or does the Government intend that the Commission shall take as conclusive evidence of truth everything that the Government says about the economic consequence of a decision. [More…]
Is the Government saying: ‘If you do not agree with what our counsel submits is the economic position your action will be ultra vires the Act and therefore will have to be set aside’? [More…]
Just how does the Government intend to use this strange power it is now talking about? [More…]
They forget that when men cease work their wages also cease. [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…]
There has always been a deep seated conviction in communities which call themselves civilised that in the last resort men should be free to refuse to work under conditions that are repugnant to them. [More…]
All over the world, where any love of liberty survives the despotic tendencies of feudalism or monopoly capitalism, men cherish the right to throw down their tools in protest against some grievance too great to be borne by free men. [More…]
I wonder what he thinks of the law that is now proposed by this Government. [More…]
So intense is this sentiment in the United Kingdom and in the United States that organised labour there will have no part in the system of compulsory arbitration which has become so remarkable a feature of the Australian way of life. [More…]
The right of men to leave their jobs is a test of freedom. [More…]
Men strike because tyranny and injustice have not yet disappeared from human affairs - they have merely shifted the venue - and because the spirit of freedom still lives and will not yield even to the law when the law becomes an instrument of class oppression. [More…]
The reason seems to be that the employer usually needs no Court to enable him lo reduce wages - he has simply to refuse to give employment at wages which he thinks to be too high. [More…]
He said that the minimum rate was the lowest rate at which an employer could employ men, but the whole areas beyond the minimum wage was open to bargaining between employers and men. [More…]
and (2) For various reasons men may fail to report for national service on the date requiredbut may subsequently comply with the appropriate provision of the National Service Act. [More…]
In the most recent Review of the National Service Scheme, which I released last year, 1 noted that in the 12 months to 30th June 1971, only, 2 men had persisted in their refusal to comply and had been sentenced to imprisonment. [More…]
In the subsequent 6 months to 31st December 1971, only 1 man refused to comply and was sentenced to imprisonment. [More…]
(3), (4) and (5) The circumstances in which men become liable to prosecution were set out in answer to Senate Question No. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for the millions of our fellow men suffering in refugee camps in India and we, citizens of the suburb of Fawkner in the State of Victoria, ask our Government to: [More…]
This is not fiction, lt is documented fact. [More…]
I want to refer to some comments I made when a reporter from the ‘Australian’ newspaper rang mc in Queensland recently. [More…]
I want to refer to the comments made by Dr Ribush in an article that he wrote for the ‘Australian Medical Journal*. [More…]
The honourable member for Prospect mentioned this a little while ago. [More…]
Dr Ribush made the statement that he knew of 20 or 30 doctors who were smoking pot, or marihuana, f do not know what has happened about this in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
1 say with respect to the Minister that the first thing that should happen is that Dr Ribush should be interviewed perhaps by some officers of the Department of Customs and Excise. [More…]
With all due respect to the medical men and associated professional men in the ranks of the Opposition, why should they have some particular form of protection? [More…]
Dr Ribush, as I have stated outside this House, should give his full co-operation to have this whole matter investigated, firstly by the Department of Customs and Excise, secondly by the Queensland police or the police in whichever State these people ara smoking this stuff, and thirdly by his own Medical Association. [More…]
It is alleged that the constant smoking of marihuana will create in young men impotency, and if anything this should frighten them off. [More…]
In young women it is alleged that there can be difficulties with childbirth and that there can be malformations and other side effects. [More…]
It is a wonder that 15 per cent of smuggled drugs are confiscated when we consider the way in which our customs men handle people. [More…]
It found that heart and chest diseases were more common among men but that women were much more prone to chronic liver disease and brain damage. [More…]
They- have to be taken away from the group before any endeavour is made at treatment. [More…]
Nevertheless, of the 105 cases involved in this experiment only 40 were what might be termed ‘pushers’. [More…]
If we are to help the police of this nation, more money should be provided to enable them to have a look at the intelligence with which they must be involved to do battle with the syndicates which are working with a lot of undercover men and a lot of money. [More…]
When the Parliament reassembles in the new year figures will be available from the State penitentiary to show that there is probably more drug addiction within the walls of that penitentiary than anywhere else. [More…]
1 come to the point of the amendment: It is no good stating that a 310,000 fine will be imposed and that there will be a 4-year term of imprisonment. [More…]
A person can be placed in an environment where he becomes completely addicted and cannot be got out of it. [More…]
On the internal side, if we are going to be realistic, we must first of all accept the fact that if the CMF is to attract and hold young men, it must be seen to be modern in its outlook. [More…]
CMF, like other voluntary organisations in the community, is competing for its members with a great number of alternatives and distractions open to young men now. [More…]
The Minister for the Army (Mr Peacock) has made a generally sound and sensible assessment of the present state of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
There is general agreement that the CMF is facing a period of extreme pressures. [More…]
This has been to some extent the result of an end to the Vietnam commitment. [More…]
Quite a number of the new recruits were not bona fide militia men; they were able to take advantage of the CMF to avoid the impact of selective conscription on their lives. [More…]
It was a sane and rational course for young men to take, but of course they were not motivated to serve in the CMF. [More…]
But with the Vietnam commitment out of the way this component should be much smaller. [More…]
Aside from these objections, which are the basis of Labor Party standpoint on conscription, it would not be practicable even on the Government’s terms to extend conscription in this way. [More…]
The theory of selective conscription is that it picks young men by random sample and brings them together in consolidated units for training. [More…]
Besides, as the Minister has pointed out, the only areas where recruitment. [More…]
However, it is up to the Minister to clarify exactly how these sub-units are to be manned and whether the Government has any intention of extending conscription in this way. [More…]
It was based on a CMF of 50,000 men, a target which seems unrealistic without conscription. [More…]
In the main the concept of the ready reaction force is a good one, if it is followed through with vigour by the Government. [More…]
Everybody - from our legal men and everybody - is quite bewildered and staggered at this having happened. [More…]
The people who really suffered in this case were not the members of the Government parties but the members of the Opposition. [More…]
When it is the responsibility of the Government te run the House, why should members of the Opposition be defamed by a statement which was untrue and falsely represented and one in relation to which the Committee has found those responsible for its publication guilty of a breach of privilege? [More…]
Let me say to the Committee that I think it is a pretty shabby state of affairs when after deliberations that lasted, 1 understand, for more than 30 hours, a decision was reached when some members could not possibly .be present because of their commitments. [More…]
Surely when men’s liberties are at stake it is good enough to expect that a committee meeting will be called al a time when all its members can be present so that all who have heard the evidence can deliberate on the issues that have to be decided. [More…]
Let me say in summary that I hope the House will give consideration to reviewing the procedures involved in the trying of men when their liberty could be at slake in certain circumstances. [More…]
There is room for improvement in these procedures. [More…]
Having read closely every vestige of the evidence in this case, and backed up by long experience in this Parliament, 1 say that the findings of this Committee are correct, and if we adopt the motion moved by the Leader of the House it will be one of the greatest discredits ever brought on this national Parliament. [More…]
I would not care whether they were members of the Liberal Party, the Labor Party or the Country Party; the statement was made that men walked out. [More…]
In my view that sentiment is appropriate here and should be adopted in order to maintain a reasonable perspective. [More…]
According to the record, we had 9 grown men attending umpteen meetings and spending hundreds of man-hours of labour producing a report 1 inch thick and 205 pages long. [More…]
It was about a statement by a journalist that a number of Australian Labor Party members walked out during a quorum when the accepted fact is that they did not. [More…]
We have spent time enough on this both in the Committee and in the Parliament and. [More…]
Firstly, 1 think that the money should be used to relieve unemployment. [More…]
Therefore, under this measure we should be able to give him some relief and some employment. [More…]
For instance, men could be employed in building up tourist facilities and for local government projects. [More…]
What does he expect men such as the man who walks into the chamber now, the Prime Minister, to do? [More…]
The Prime Minister sneaks into the chamber - and I say it to him while he is sitting in the chamber - interrupts the debate and makes a snap statement. [More…]
Somebody winds him up, he unwinds in this House for 10 or 15 minutes on a. statement such as the one he made a while ago, and then he clears off again until somebody else winds him up by mentioning trade unions or something of that nature. [More…]
I want to turn specifically to the statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on 26th October when he announced on page 6 of that statement that the Government had decided to add 2 new members to the Interim Council, namely, Mr Hector Crawford and Mr Len Mauger. [More…]
But for the life of me I cannot imagine - in fact it defies any logical explanation - why the Prime Minister should appoint these 2 men to the Interim Council when in point of fact both of them may well be opposed to the entire concept. [More…]
Mr Crawford is on public record as saying that he considers the establishment of such a school an extravagance and unnecessary. [More…]
Crawford and Mr Len Maugher, 2 experienced men recommended to the Government by the Interim Council. [More…]
The Council will now seek the co-operation of those interested in connection with this review, and, as soon as the Government receives its report, it will consider the most appropriate way in which it might act to assist the industry in this important area. [More…]
The Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) mentioned this. [More…]
That is the view of Hector Crawford who it seems is one of the men who has been given the prime responsibility of reviewing the whole thing. [More…]
For a start, film and television are meritocracies - forms of expression that need new people as surely as agriculture need new crops or Parliament needs new members. [More…]
Another mysterious feature of this announcement is that no reference is made to the formation of the mobile army training teams which were to be formed for service in Vietnam as the Task Force withdrew. [More…]
This was announced by the Former Prime Minister in his statement in April last year. [More…]
According to the right honourable member for Higgins, these mobile teams would bear the brunt of Australian participation with 130 men formed into mobile training groups to Ii ase with and train regional and popular forces in the field. [More…]
The next reference I have been able to find to the mobile training team was in an article in the Melbourne ‘Age’ on 16th October last year when it was claimed that these 130 men would be divided into 15 mobile training teams. [More…]
There has been no further mention by either Government or Press of these 15 ‘phantom’ mobile training teams. [More…]
In a total commitment of 150 men with 30 earmarked for training Cambodians, a team at Van Kiep, a cadre providing advisory and training assistance to territorial forces and a number of engineers, it is not possible to get 130 men organised into 15 mobile training teams. [More…]
The only assistance that we are giving is a small cadre of men, professional soldiers who like that profession, who are giving some training in Vietnam to selected Cambodians. [More…]
Are we providing them with any equipment? [More…]
1 do not think that anybody will argue with the tremendous benefits which have accrued to those fortunate areas in the country with the advent of television. [More…]
While I am on my feet I would like to pay a tribute to the work force of engineers and other staff of the Postmaster-General’s Department who have worked continuously, one might say, over the years on the installation of television stations in the remote areas of Australia. [More…]
These men are a dedicated band. [More…]
I think they deserve commendation. [More…]
1 know that these men, particularly the engineers working in remote areas, are often frustrated by the lack of services and the delays in providing equipment from overseas. [More…]
It is not the work force that is the problem, but the delays in providing equipment. [More…]
Those who succeed him will be all the better men and all the better servants of this institution because he, by his example and his precept, has inspired them. [More…]
We thank him too for the valuable contribution that he has made to the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association and the support and advice that he has given to members of this Parliament when they have gone overseas to attend various conferences. [More…]
Mr Turner is held in extremely high regard at these conferences and he would be looked upon as one of the most knowledgeable and most experienced men throughout the Commonwealth countries. [More…]
I wish them a long and a happy life in their retirement and express our gratitude for the very valuable service Mr Turner has given to this Parliament and to Australia. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition mentioned - -quite rightly so - that probably all of us have been to see Mr Turner in his office and have come away wiser men. [More…]
However, being one of the deputy chairmen, I appreciate the fact that Mr Turner has always exhibited complete non-partisanship in his position. [More…]
However, I can assure you Mr Speaker, that on all occasions, irrespective of who breaks a standing order, Mr Turner has always advised the occupant of the Chair of the standing order, whether he be a Government member or a member of the Opposition. [More…]
It all sounds very dreadful and makes these people look as though they are men of extreme dedication in the face of what must be great trials and tribulations and not a little bit of distress. [More…]
J have here a report on the Parliamentary Salaries and Allowances Act. [More…]
It was recommended to be increased, in the report of Mr Justice Kerr, to $34,650, $5,550 extra. [More…]
He is one of the men who said: ‘I want my extra $5,550. [More…]
But these great men, these mcn of high principle - the Treasurer who lectures us will lead the Government into the courts to argue against the national wage case for workers - these are the men who refuse to give up a few thousand dollars and live on their $30,000 and yet they clamour for people in this country to accept wage restraint. [More…]
This is the situation we face today and this is the Government that seeks to lead this country. [More…]
1 have never seen in all my years in this Parliament such a docile and incompetent Prime Minister, a hand picked Ministry, yes men to the core, prepared to sacrifice completely all the interests of the people of this country. [More…]
In this Parliament the Speaker is not immune from opposition in his electorate. [More…]
There are many personal reasons why, whilst we disagree politically with vigour, we do respect each other as men. [More…]
I am certain that there are no 2 men in this place who could so well resolve those differences, and this applies to both. [More…]
We must be extraordinarily difficult people to work with due to the times and the tempo at which we work and we really are very well served by the men and women who work in this building and who work beside the members of Parliament. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I will make my comments brief. [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…]
I am asking the Government to give special consideration to releasing him by Christmans. [More…]
In his statement, Professor Berndt spoke of Aboriginal men and women ‘dazed and staggering, lying inert, yelling, quarrelling and fighting.’ [More…]
What the honourable member for Bradfield has said is true and I hope the Parliament and the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts (Mr Howson) will read what he said and do something about the intoxication of Aborigines and the profit motive behind the sale of liquor to Aborigines. [More…]
The Marys, wives or gins and their children remain outside the liquor store while the men in ignorance exhaust the social service payments that the Government makes to them. [More…]
I will not detain the Parliament any longer and I conclude by again congratulating the honourable member for Bradfield for bringing this matter forward. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report by Professor Berndt, a Western Australian anthropologist, of the social behaviour of Aboriginal men and women since a liquor store opened on a mining lease at East Alligator River crossing late in 1969 despite objections by the adjoining mission and the Aborigines, and of his claim that the mission would soon be forced to close unless immediate action was taken. [More…]
How many men enlisted in (a) the first AIF and (b) the second AIF. [More…]
Statistics held show that 416,809 men and women enlisted in the first AIF. [More…]
What would be the cost of providing a full pension for (a) all men over the age of 63 and all women over the age of 60 and (b) all men over the age of 70 and all women over the age of 65. [More…]
If so, is it possible that within a few months there could be 14 young men held as political prisoners in Australian prisons because of their moral stand against conscription. [More…]
The cases of the men named are at various stages. [More…]
The 14 men mentioned by the honourable member breached the law of the land. [More…]
However, as evident from (2) above, some men of their own accord end their non-compliance and no question of their imprisonment then arises. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
I had an opportunity in particular to look at the factory there, to acknowledge to the men the high quality of the work they do and to examine their particular problems. [More…]
I and the officers of my Department are doing everything possible in order to remain competitive and to maintain as great a work load as possible. [More…]
It refers to the Government’s inconsistency. [More…]
I will come to that in a moment. [More…]
What leadership did he give in Victoria during the State Electricity Commission workers’ strike when hundreds of thousands of men were out of work? [More…]
Price increases are only the measurement of the excess when it has passed through from excess wage increases to increased costs. [More…]
Men’s jobs depend upon tariff policy. [More…]
If the Opposition is going to play with the security of men employed by companies, by the potential selective withdrawal of tariffs, and if it is going to change tariff policy and tell the Tariff Board what to do, it should expose this in detail. [More…]
It is true that there is an arbitrary method of selective disqualification, but there is no wages policy involved in it at all, for the Parliamentary Labor Party has no wages policy. [More…]
The Government must take full blame for the present galloping inflation. [More…]
It is the Government - the coalition in power that has access to Treasury papers and control of the legislative machinery of the country - which solely is responsible for what has gone wrong. [More…]
The Government cannot blame the Labor Party. [More…]
So, is it not time that the Liberal and Country Party Government was made to stand up and take the full share of the blame that rightly is placed upon its shoulders? [More…]
The Government cannot claim any longer that it is the kind of government that can handle inflation. [More…]
The present galloping inflation proves that it is not a government which is capable of handling the situation. [More…]
Therefore, it cannot blame the electorate at the end of this year when the electorate decides to elect a new government to replace the present tired, inept and lazy men who now purport to be the government of this rich young country. [More…]
If we want to avoid heavy unemployment in Australia, it is essential to avoid the position where men like Mr Hawke, who is under such a heavy obligation to his Communist sponsors, without whose votes he could never have been elected as President of the ACTU, could control an Australian government. [More…]
Since Mr Hawke already controls the Labor movement, this underlines the national necessity of keeping Labor out of office for the benefit of those who might otherwise be unemployed. [More…]
Money can be used to extend one’s personality: for instance, men pour money into such virility symbols as costly and powerful cars, and women buy such symbols of sexuality as lavish clothes.’ [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…]
It is a snare set for the unemployed by mean-hearted men. [More…]
A food budget of $18.50 to $19 a week would leave about $16 to $16.50 a week from the proposed unemployment benefits for a family of husband, wife and 2 children. [More…]
The Federal Government’s decision to spend $2.25m per month over the next 18 months on public works in rural local government areas is a rate of $5 19,000 a week. [More…]
At the present minimum award wage rate this would provide direct employment for about 7,500 men after allowing for 33 per cent of this sum to be spent on materials, etc. [More…]
At the current male average earnings rate it would provide direct employment for less than 4,000. [More…]
Although there are multiplier effects of such expenditure, the adequacy of such limited action in the face of an expected rise in registered unemployment of 30,000 males and 15,000 females must be questioned. [More…]
We ought to have a high level of benefits to discourage the using of humans - men, women and youngsters - as sacrificial offerings to mollify the economic gods of the Government when they express their wrath. [More…]
That is, we must make it too expensive for the Government to treat wage and salary earners so cruelly and unfairly. [More…]
We must pay unemployment benefits at the end of the first week of unemployment at an agency, and we must pay the fares of people who have to make any required trips to and from the employment agency. [More…]
We must develop immediately a national personal and family emergency assistance scheme so that people will not be crippled and thrown into personal bankruptcy, a scheme to keep them in times of persona] financial crisis of the nature caused by relative poverty and unemployment. [More…]
There must be a rehabilitation training scheme for the broader category of people who are the problem unemployment people - not the sort of people who have been thrown into unemployment through the illconceptions of the Government’s current economic policy. [More…]
Case (Australia) Pty Ltd, John Deere Ltd and others have had to restrict their activities and put off men because of agricultural conditions. [More…]
When we compare these figures which the Minister has included in the Bill with unemployment benefits in other countries, our figures compare more than favourably. [More…]
I deplore statements of this nature. [More…]
Men who make such statements are doing a disservice to this great country and it is a shame that such statements are ever made. [More…]
Opposition to become the Government. [More…]
A Labor government would mean that some honourable members on the other side of this House would become Ministers. [More…]
The mass media - newspapers, television and radio - are publishing sensational and emotional news, sometimes completely unscrupulously, to attack the Government on the question of unemployment. [More…]
Every day we hear commentators who are not very particular about the facts. [More…]
I do not want to dwell on the subject of Mr Hawke whom I consider to be one of the most dangerous men in Australia. [More…]
We have the spectacle of young matriculants of the high schools lining up at the unemployment office. [More…]
In my own case I have a considerable number of these young men and women come to me looking for jobs. [More…]
But it is sad and depressing to see them on the threshold of their employment opportunities deprived of a start in their first job and forced to line up for a handout in j 972. [More…]
This Government has to bear the responsibility for that. [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…]
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…]
It is a sad commentary that half of the registered unemployed - close to 70,000 people - are school leavers and other juniors, which is the way in which they are described in official documents. [More…]
Australia has 6.7 million voters, so the 18 to 20 year age group represents a little more than 10 per cent of the existing enrolment. [More…]
An extension of the electoral franchise to include this group would cause the Government to he more sensitised to its needs. [More…]
It is amazing that this Government is prepared to give young men and women between 18 and 20 years of age only $11 a week after depriving them of employment. [More…]
These young people are subjected to many injustices and hardships and the reduction of the voting age probably would cause the Government to be more sensitive to many of the problems which these people are experiencing. [More…]
Although there are many things that I should like to say on this occasion, I conclude by drawing attention to the fact that no longer at Commonwealth employment offices are people told when they seek a joh that employments benefits are available to them. [More…]
Only a few weeks ago the Treasurer said that the Budget had achieved the Government’s aim of providing more flexibility for employers in their selection of labour. [More…]
He might more appropriately have said ‘creating a pool of unemployment’. [More…]
It is humiliating that men in order to feed their families are directed to dig weeds out of gutters in the streets. [More…]
A little more money should have been expended in developing employment opportunities in country areas, particularly permanent employment, so that people there could be employed in jobs to which their qualifications entitle them. [More…]
Additions were made from time to time of elements from all 3 services to a peak strength of a little over 8.000 men by 1967. [More…]
In accordance with the Prime Minister’s announcement of 18th August 1971. withdrawal of Australian Force Vietnam is now proceeding. [More…]
The Philippines’ deployments to Vietnam began in 1966, when a civic action force and an engineer battalion totalling some 2,000 men arrived in South Vietnam. [More…]
In the case of registrants serving in the Citizen Forces verification was required from individual units that the men had served efficiently for the required period in fulfilment of their obligation. [More…]
There was no ‘delay’ in the application of the changes in the scheme to men serving in the Citizen Forces. [More…]
The enabling legislation already referred to was treated as a matter of priority by the Parliament. [More…]
In summary the changes in the scheme were applied to men then serving as quickly as the necessary prerequisites permitted. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon the arbitrary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
The Minister for the Interior (Mr Hunt) has spoken of the achievements on behalf of the Aboriginal people, but he glossed over the matter. [More…]
He spoke as though it is desirable in any community to take the young men and women away a” a tender age because the Government of the country is not prepared to do for Aboriginal people what it does for white people in every State. [More…]
Work being scarce in the immediate area, men must travel some distance for work, the larger Post Office at Sussex Inlet- [More…]
Archbishop Mannix was a good friend of the Labor Party in the early days of the Curtin Government. [More…]
The Menzies Government had interned 2 men, Ratliff and Thomas, on the grounds that they were Communists and Dr Evatt, then AttorneyGenera), released them. [More…]
I did not know that at that particular time, but, of course, the professional Communophobes - if there are any students of English left in the chamber they will know what I mean - wanted to attack the Labor Government for that action. [More…]
The efforts that were made in some particular regions to get a condemnation by the Roman Catholic Church of what Dr Evatt had done failed because Dr Evatt announced that he had received a message from Dr Mannix saying that he approved of the Labor Government’s action. [More…]
Of course one could not condemn the Labor Government unless one had the signature of Daniel Mannix and that was never obtained. [More…]
I want the country to know that 3 men who have been pestering, opposing and demonstrating against the Australian Labor Party for the last 30 years dodged military service - even though I was responsible for it - and others had to take their place. [More…]
1 hate the fact that these people who benefited from an act of generosity on the part of the Curtin Labor Government lived to become vicious opponents of the Labor Party in the Vietnam war and supported the conscription of Australians to fight in that filthy, immoral, indefensible, genocidal civil war. [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…]
Philippines deployments of ground forces commenced in 1966 when a civic action force and an engineer banalion totalling some 2,000 men arrived in South Vietnam. [More…]
Thailand committed six transport aircraft to Vietnam in 1965 and followed with combat elements of the Black Panther Division which reached a peak force level of 11,250 in February, 1969. [More…]
Withdrawal of the force commenced in 1971 and by 30th September, 1971, the force level was estimated to have reduced to 6,300. [More…]
Apart from the six transport aircraft the Thai deployments were combatant forces. [More…]
Today 1 want to speak more especially abou: servicemen, whether they be permanent servicemen or national servicemen. [More…]
If these men meet with an injury when they are off duty they are not covered bv Commonwealth workers compensation, and it would appear that in some of these countries there is no availability of third party insurance and personal accident insurance. [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…]
Again, according to the regulations, men should never be discharged until the medical profession can bring them to a state as near to physical perfection as it possibly can. [More…]
I appeal to the Government to give consideration to this wonderful body of men. [More…]
All these men of whom I am speaking served their country willingly. [More…]
Since 1948 official British unemployment figures have been entirely based on the number of people registered at the employment exchanges as out of work. [More…]
But the 1966 10 per cent sample census showed that about 23 per cent of unemployed men and well over 40 per cent of unemployed women in good health did not register their unemployment. [More…]
I appeal to the genuine Labor men - there are not too many of them left now as we are getting so many of the new academics on the other side who have an entirely different approach - to see that this white-anting of what was a once great Party is stopped. [More…]
I appeal to them to cease supporting the attitude of creating unemployment for political ends. [More…]
By promoting frivolous rolling strikes and go-slow policies the left wing element is trying to promote misery and want, because that is the only way that they will be able to succeed. [More…]
This is a country with untold resources and tremendous opportunity. [More…]
It is surrounded by a tremendous potential market. [More…]
It is in a situation that was created by this Government in 1961 and created by it again in the last 2 years. [More…]
The Government knows perfectly well the position of that State. [More…]
It seems to me that the Cabinet, the 13 guilty men, is reluctant to move with any degree of progress because it has made an assessment, if not an analysis, that it is not time for it to worry abou* the ills of the country. [More…]
The Budget no doubt will be a Budget designed to hoodwink the people and to make false issues out of real issues, and the Government hopes :o be swept back into office in that way. [More…]
A union demarcation dispute involving 15 men could cost 900 others their jobs at the Lysaght’s Westernport steelworks. [More…]
Car men plan action strikes. [More…]
This cannot be brought about by political action or by trying to gain kudos and advantage to elect a government which is more likely, if it were elected, to be controlled by the trade union movement and the radical wing of it than it is by the Parliament. [More…]
Let me cite the situation in respect of employment. [More…]
There is no doubt that pockets of unemployment exist in specific industries in this country. [More…]
The Government has increased unemployment benefits paid each week, and I support that. [More…]
If one were to go to the seaside resorts and surf beaches to see those riding on surf boards during the school and university holidays, one would find that most of those people had registered for unemployment in the nearest township and were reporting once a week. [More…]
I was at a meeting last week in Lilydale at which a timber manufacturer and I were talking about unemployment. [More…]
He said: ‘1 had somebody sent over from the Ringwood employment office. [More…]
That person returns to the employment office and says that the employer did not want him and collects another week’s unemployment benefit. [More…]
I know of a timber factory in Abbotsford where 2 advertisements were placed in a newspaper purely for hands to be employed in the factory. [More…]
In this case there were 12 replies to the advertisements. [More…]
He said that they were not very good but that he put on two men. [More…]
This is a situation which I think exists in certain areas at the moment. [More…]
We know that contained in the figures that have been announced there are a certain number of people who are disabled, who are fringe cases as to whether they should receive an invalid pension or unemployment benefits. [More…]
Also included in this bracket are a large number of married women. [More…]
These women have had jobs and should be entitled to have jobs. [More…]
But I do not suggest, and I do not think it can be suggested, that overall these women are the breadwinners of Australia. [More…]
I would like all employers, employees, the Opposition and the Government to recognise that we have a problem, ft can be overcome. [More…]
But it will be overcome only while both sides are prepared to act for the betterment of the country and not for individual gain. [More…]
It is significant that until men and women are suffering the Government does not bother about unemployment relief. [More…]
It was only in 1962, when the Government went within one seat of defeat because of (he unemployment situation, that it increased unemployment benefits after a period of 4 years. [More…]
There was no increase in unemployment benefits between 1949 and 1952. [More…]
Another 5 years elapsed before there was another increase in unemployment benefits, and then another 4 years elapsed before a further increase was given. [More…]
Then there was a gap of 7 years before there was a further increase in unemployment benefits, and then the increase was given only because the Government was frightened of defeat. [More…]
Why would not men strike when everything they want at the present time is increasing in price because of the recent price increase made by BHP? [More…]
These are the facts behind the present unemployment situation. [More…]
Men strike today because they cannot live under the economic policies to which this Government is giving effect. [More…]
Prices are high because of the actions of those who exploit and profiteer - companies like BHP and others which are the darlings of this Government. [More…]
For the Government to say that the Labor Party seeks to get into office through exploiting the unemployment position is scandalous and contemptible in the extreme. [More…]
No-one seeks government on the basis of poverty. [More…]
All that we on this side of the chamber seek to do is to sheet home to the Government its responsibilities in the field of economic policy which has caused the present state of affairs. [More…]
What we on this side of the chamber seek to do is to maintain what the Chifley Government established in this country - full employment. [More…]
Until it was defeated that Government maintained full employment. [More…]
What that Government created has now been destroyed by the present Government, and I will tell honourable members why it has been done, lt has been done because the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) said: ‘Men are working harder today. [More…]
There are more men outside the gates looking for jobs than there are jobs.’ [More…]
The vicious pattern of tory governments of past generations is as existent within the confines of this Government as it was in any of its infamous predecessors. [More…]
For honourable members opposite to criticise men who strike for justice, men who in many instances, by resorting to strike tactics, were responsible for many of the reforms which people in Australia enjoy today, does little credit to the Government. [More…]
They have not lost any opportunity in the post-war years to take every possible advantage of international trading agreements or arrangements to get out and sell their products. [More…]
Co. Pty Ltd and Thomas Borthwick and Sons (Australasia) Ltd. We must accept the fact that they are highly efficient and have top men trained in their particular specialist fields. [More…]
I forgive him, of course, because he must be one of the guilty men if these things are not corrected. [More…]
Therefore I invite him, if he has views which are nef in accord with those of the Government, to fight for those views. [More…]
We will give hint every support and encouragement to stand with the independent Australian dairy industry. [More…]
I had better not name the men but one can read their articles in various publications attacking rural industries. [More…]
We have heard some pious comments about great jobs being done. [More…]
It is because we have not got the trained men and because we believe in some outdated theory that we must put producers on to boards. [More…]
People talk all this rubbish instead of referring to the important things, such as efficient marketing, delivery, adequate payment, packaging, promotion and advertising. [More…]
I am advancing the argument that our markets will be greater than our production. [More…]
Conditions in industry are so good that young men will not milk cows on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning and afternoon. [More…]
The men who go to India tell me that a milk plant should be established in India. [More…]
The Department of Customs and Excise is looking at this situation to see whether any harm is being’ done to the Australian cheese industry. [More…]
I invite honourable members to come with me and see some of the men who are making this cheese and how they are living. [More…]
The argument is put that we have to learn. [More…]
I think the answer would be when it is a Defence forces retirement benefit. [More…]
A peculiar set of circumstances prevails in that servicemen pay into the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund and if they retire or become ill before completing 20 years service they are graciously awarded a pension. [More…]
The pension is suspended, but the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Board kindly remembers that such men do not cease to have a right to a pension. [More…]
Of course, it places many ex-servicemen who are living in Service homes in great difficulties. [More…]
But when the ex-servicemen are assessed in category B or category A they receive a pension which is suspended immediately they earn two-thirds of the Service salary. [More…]
Can he say whether the members of this group who presume to give the Government their unsought advice on the question of defence are men who have never seen service in any war and have sons who have avoided service in Vietnam. [More…]
Yesterday the Prime Minister issued a lengthy statement on the communique from President Nixon and Premier Chou En-lai. [More…]
Part of the statement complimented the President on a visit unprecedented in itself and in its bold disregard of established practice. [More…]
America has won immense kudos by a direct approach at head-of-Government level to a traditional and very bitter foe. [More…]
In saying this I do not intend to be disparaging of the Kibel brothers who seem to have been the Government’s main emissaries to China in the past few months. [More…]
I am sure they are worthy men who have acted to the best of their ability in the Australian interest. [More…]
But other nations of the world of no greater status or significance than Australia are approaching China at head of Government or senior diplomatic level. [More…]
However, apart from the superficial flights of fancy, let us be clear that there are in the Australian Labor Party some determined Socialists - I believe sincere men - and 1 want to have something to say about their decisive effect on Labor’s economic plans in the future, should this country be so unfortunate as to find itself with a Labor Government. [More…]
I think this is important because these men would have their way and the present leadership is far away from acknowledging that Socialism would result. [More…]
There is no absolute certainty of future events, but there are economic facts, realities and good judgments by men of experience which can be and have been applied in the interest, not just of short term gain, but in the middle and long term to help create a more secure Australia. [More…]
In a consideration of the economic aspects of inflation, employment and economic growth, there is one clear fact which is that only by an increase in productivity can the national economy increase and only by increasing the size of the national cake will there be more to cut up. [More…]
That is why it is so evil for members of the Labor Party and trade union officials to encourage men into a ‘class war’ level of thinking creating disruption, lower incomes and dissatisfaction on the part of people both with their work and the part it plays in thenlives. [More…]
Intelligent men learn from experience of socialism what a frightful failure it is. [More…]
Now people are squealing because a few men are being put off. [More…]
Industrial disputes stultify development, job opportunities and so on. [More…]
Look at the frightful problems that have been caused in Tasmania by shipping disputes involving men in the ‘Trader’ class vessels that go to Tasmania. [More…]
These all affect employment. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions has recognised the need to honour industrial agreements. [More…]
It has said in clear and unequivocal terms that any union that makes an agreement under the auspices of the ACTU will be expected to carry it out and the ACTU will use the full moral sanctions of the entire trade union movement against any union official who seeks to break or repudiate an agreement made under the auspices of the ACTU. [More…]
That is a far more effective sanction than anything that can be written into any Act of Parliament, and it leaves only one way in which the agreements can be repudiated and that is if, at the level of the factory floor, the men themselves decide to repudiate the agreement in defiance of the ACTU and of the union secretaries who signed the agreement. [More…]
When thai is done - when they act in defiance of an agreement which they themselves have ratified, there is nothing wrong with the union writing into the agreement penalties for repudiation of it. [More…]
Unions already have agreements with penalties written into them. [More…]
It is true that the ACTU can prevent penalties from being written into agreements made under its auspices but it cannot, and neither can any government prevent a union from writing in penalties provided that it has the sanction of its members to do so. [More…]
Many units represent men who have kids to feed and wives to keep. [More…]
To talk about statistics in terms of unemployment as though one is talking about units of cheese or plastic is to show a complete and utter disregard for the position of human beings. [More…]
I say that if the present trend continues the situation could easily be reached where unemployment will increase at the rate of 190,000 persons a year. [More…]
Once the downturn gets fully under way that increase in unemployment will grow worse. [More…]
In an earlier debate today the seasonally adjusted figures for unemployment were cited. [More…]
That figure was supplied by the Bureau of Census and Statistics in conjunction with the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
At that date vacancies as a proportion of unemployment were down to 37.6 per cent. [More…]
As recently as October 1970 vacancies as a proportion of unemployment reached 115.7 per cent. [More…]
That is just one indicator of the seriousness of unemployment in this country today. [More…]
But it is not enough for somebody such as myself, as a part of the alternative government of this country, to talk about the wrongs of the present Government’s policies. [More…]
Earlier today we debated a motion that the House take note of a statement on the economy made by the Treasurer last Thursday. [More…]
In that debate it was indicated that a viable alternative policy is being put forward by the alternative government of this country. [More…]
That policy is not one of creating unemployment in order to cure inflation. [More…]
It believes in long term planning so that business men in the private sector as well as the many different areas of the government sector know what the overall aims of the central government are. [More…]
No evidence has been brought forward by the speakers on the Government side as to which company is in fact going to employ more men because of this legislation. [More…]
That is true, because it is not until April of next year that the tax assessment for BHP based on the year ended 30th June 1971 will become payable. [More…]
How is it going to affect BHP’s investment policies right now, by giving this investment allowance and by making more of this handout available? [More…]
Another argument against allowing a merger with CAC, with CAC being the dominant partner, is that the Government would relinquish all capacity in the crucial area of aircraft production. [More…]
No matter how dedicated the private companies in the industries are, there could be circumstances which would dictate curtailment or even abandonment of aircraft design and production. [More…]
This might not correspond with our defence requirements or the national interest. [More…]
Another argument is whether it is desirable to have a monopoly of weapons production in the hands of private industry. [More…]
Labor Party policy is quite explicit on this point - that the Commonwealth Government should control all weapons and munitions manufacture. [More…]
At a time when the Parliament is paying increasing attention to the extent of overseas ownership of Australian assets, do we want to hand over the aircraft industry in toto to overseas control? [More…]
Project N has the potential to be a good money-spinner if the Government can formulate effective marketing policies for it. [More…]
The present combined workforce of the 2 plants is about 3,800 men. [More…]
lt is estimated that a merger could cut this workforce to 3,000 or 3,500 men- that is, up to 800 jobs would be lost. [More…]
If the GAF were merged with the CAC it would stand to lose more of its workforce by retrenchment. [More…]
These officers must be protected and their entitlements must be assured. [More…]
As we well know, the present problem is that the defence aircraft industry, which includes the 3 establishments I have referred to, employs some 7,000 men and the industry includes maintenance as well as the capacity of the commercial airlines. [More…]
At the moment all over the world it is in a trough. [More…]
We are in a stage of lowered capacity and work load brought about by the fact that the need for aircraft which have been assembled or manufactured here - the Macchi and Mirage; the big jobs of the past - is no longer there and until replacement aircraft come along to increase the work load there must be a period of diminished activity. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that no tremendous interest is being shown in this matter by a great number of members of the Opposition. [More…]
But I think it is my duty as a Minister involved in this area to say that I have found in the ranks of the alternative government a dilemma on this matter. [More…]
I believe that the left wing members of the Opposition are opposed to defence expenditure but that they realise that to cut it off would result in men losing their jobs and that they do try to have a bit each way. [More…]
There are many debates in this chamber on foreign affairs and, according to the official spokesmen for the Australian Labor Party, there is no threat or likely threat to Australia. [More…]
It is providing employment for approximately 6,600 men and women, very highly skilled people, who cannot be replaced overnight. [More…]
All that it requires is a continuity of employment and a continuity of orders. [More…]
Therefore, if it receives them from the Government - it is the Government that can provide this work - the industry can continue to expand and prosper and provide this country with a very important defence industry. [More…]
Not only is there a problem with actual retrenchments of men and reduced work load but also there is a real problem that Australia has to face on top of those matters and that is the loss of technology, the loss of design staff and inadequate tooling in these factories. [More…]
The specialist technology on plastics and metallurgy is going right past the Australian aircraft industry because there is not a work load to sustain development in these things. [More…]
With tooling there should have been a switch across to digital computer machine operated tooling equipment. [More…]
I think that there have been only 2 additions of this type of plant to the major elements of the industry in Melbourne and the rest of it has just been turret lathes and this type of equipment. [More…]
With this equipment we can never be competitive and we find that with offsets we will become less attractive to overseas industries because we will not have the capacity to take on the work they may offer. [More…]
I am grateful to the honourable gentleman for raising in this House what we on this side of the Parliament know to be a matter of very great importance at the present time. [More…]
The position is clear as far as the Government is concerned. [More…]
What concerns the Australian people, 1 believe, is not what this Government stands for but what have been widely reported to be the opinions of the Leader of the Opposition on this matter. [More…]
What the Leader of the Opposition means by that statement is certainly not clear to me or to honourable members on this side of the House. [More…]
What has been said by the Opposition, if correctly reported, is an affront to those men - the vast majority - who have served, those who are serving and those who will continue to serve in the future. [More…]
Has he noted that the Australian Medical Association has roundly condemned and repudiated this outrageous attempt by 1,000 medical men, who have been educated at public expense, to exploit the poorer sections of the community? [More…]
Normally, perhaps a question of this kind could properly be ruled out of order; but when by the conduct of the person concerned and of other persons the question has been made relevant to the business of this House, as it has been by urgency motions on notice and by other statements made on many occasions by the Minister concerned and by others on his side of the House - I submit that there is a strong case for ruling that a question asked about that conduct is in order. [More…]
They have done this by calling into question the conduct of other people, by describing young men who resist the draft as ‘draft dodgers’. [More…]
Those young men who resist the draft are not draft dodgers. [More…]
The draft dodgers are in this House - men who have a responsibility. [More…]
No-one is facing the draft more thoroughly than those who have been willing to face 2 years imprisonment and now a shorter term. [More…]
A resolution from the ALP Launceston Conference in 1971 stated that 2 men whose names were given are ‘Due to face court proceedings on Friday. [More…]
18th June for breaches of the National Service Act which could result in 2 year terms of imprisonment’. [More…]
He has a Bill in his own name on the notice paper to amend the National Service Act. [More…]
The matter was debated at some length in this House and throughout the nation in September 1970 and they were the very serious statements made by the Leader of the Opposition in which he indicated that his view was that in certain circumstances young men subject to the National Service Act should not obey the law. [More…]
The Department of Labour and National Service believes that thousands - answers would indicate tens of thousands - of young men have been in breach of the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
The Government and the [More…]
What is the sanction which rests upon the Government? [More…]
To some honourable gentlemen what I am about to say may seem irrelevant. [More…]
One of the most compassionate men in the whole of the English speaking world was Edmund Burke. [More…]
He said: ‘I know of no means whereby you can present an indictment against a whole people.’ [More…]
The whole of the philosophy of Burke and the whole of his life were given over to trying to destroy the arbitrament of force in the conduct of human affairs. [More…]
I ask honourable members to reflect upon that statement: ‘I know of no means whereby you can present an indictment against a whole people.’ [More…]
It goes to the very fountainhead upon which parliamentary democracy either nourishes or founders, because if a government seeks to legislate not in keeping with the views of the electorate the electors will impose their sanction. [More…]
It is of no avail for him to resort to semantic argument as to whether it is a crime in the sense of a crime against the person or whether it is a form of public mischief. [More…]
This is what the Parliament has decided. [More…]
Yet in the eyes of the Government he stands already judged and convicted. [More…]
This is the most evil feature of the Government’s attitude to this case - that it has prejudged the case and presumed guilt. [More…]
It should not be necessary to remind supporters of the Government that the function of this Parliament is to make the law, not interpret it judicially. [More…]
Yet this is what the Government is doing in the case of Mr Johnston and other young men sought by the Commonwealth Police under similar warrants. [More…]
It is even more objectionable that the Attorney-General and his Government should try to prejudge issues of conscience. [More…]
It is quite clear, again as has been stated on this side of the House by the Leader of the Opposition, that the Government has not sought to apprehend thousands of other young Australian who could be charged in the same way as Mr Johnston is now being charged by this Government. [More…]
The Government does not want to find them. [More…]
Until this is done the Government has no right to brand unconvicted people as lawbreakers. [More…]
I commend his interest in the principles of the Bill, even if he has come to it rather late in the life of this Parliament. [More…]
I do not recall him taking interest in the projected amendments when they were put to the House. [More…]
In particular, it was intended to provide a civilian alternative to 2 year gaol sentences for young men whose conscience compelled them to go to the limit in defiance of the National Service Act by not complying with the Act in any way. [More…]
Unfortunately these gentlemen could not impress the merits of their case on the Government. [More…]
The Bill was drafted in terms which it was thought would be acceptable to reasonable Government supporters. [More…]
Despite the moderation of the amendments and the valuable reforms they were intended to achieve, the Bill was rejected by the Government. [More…]
He has also stressed the wretched nature of the National Service Act and that it will be one of the first tasks of the next Labor Government to repeal this repugnant legislation. [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…]
If men of previous generations had not broken laws for conscientious reasons we would not be sitting here in this Parliament. [More…]
Infringement of law for conscientious reasons has been one of the main forces motivating human progress. [More…]
At a time when it is inevitable that the National Service Act will be repealed and the Government’s justification for national service has disappeared, these cases should be looked at with some sympathy and tolerance. [More…]
Of course these young men should not be put above the law. [More…]
But nor should they be put before the law and this is what the AttorneyGeneral and the Government are moving to do. [More…]
This is why I put it to the House that the honourable member for Diamond Valley is in gross error in referring in his motion to breaches of the law of this Parliament. [More…]
I have here a wellprepared submission prepared on behalf of the men’s shirt industry. [More…]
Why does the Labor Party not mention this? [More…]
People do not even think these things out for the simple reason that it suits Labor, because if some industry is highly or excessively protected., the unions immediately get busy and lodge with the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission a claim for a rise in the wages of the men who are working in that industry. [More…]
The industry which has a tremendous tariff protection and is making big profits can pay handsomely. [More…]
I cannot imagine any body of twelve or fourteen men getting around a table and deliberating on some of these items. [More…]
It does not matter whether we are for or against a proposal or whether an increase or decrease in tariff is recommended. [More…]
We accept the recommendation unless we have a lobby such as we had in the case of cherry processing. [More…]
We took a great interest in cherry processing and the Government changed its mind because we were able to follow the logical argument that if a particular type of cherry processing were stopped, it would have an effect on the employment, community and business leaders that would be felt right through the local economy. [More…]
In philosophies unfortunately men are unpredictable. [More…]
We, as members of Parliament, should know this and we should not be too compassionate about others. [More…]
Time and again members are thrown out of Parliament and have to adapt themselves to something else. [More…]
It is most uncomfortable and they may not be as well off doing something else, especially as at that time they may be middle-aged men. [More…]
But I am sure that the Opposition would not suggest that nobody should be thrown out of his job in Parliament, because if that were so, if we all insisted that we should continue to be employed in this occupation forever, the Opposition would be permanent and I do not think it would agree with this proposition. [More…]
The burden of my address tonight is that the steel industry in Australia has lost a golden opportunity with the recent price rise to take advantage of a similar monetary adjustment. [More…]
Where there may formerly have been a labour force of 18,000, another 2,000 or at the outside 3,000 men will be associated with the 60 per cent increase in production. [More…]
Let us not forget this: The international currency adjustments have not been finalised. [More…]
In fact, all the signs are there ot a looming further major adjustment, particularly as between Japan and the US. [More…]
That adjustment can also work to our competitive advantage. [More…]
This will be our opportunity because if we take a longer term view - I recognise that there are problems regarding employment in Australia today - with Britain entering the European Economic Community there will be considerable unemployment in the north of England. [More…]
I was reared with the sons and grandsons of men of Northumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Yorkshire and those from the valleys of Wales and the Clydeside - men from the black country; men who know and think steel, heavy engineering, ship building and all the other associated industries. [More…]
There will be 10 or 12 million of those men who will be displaced with the acute competition that is already occurring in Europe. [More…]
It will be one of the functions of a Labor government to see that we get them here because our future lies in the upgrading and the general beneficiation of our mineral wealth. [More…]
I do not want unduly to delay the House, but I wish to refer to the unemployment situation in my constituency. [More…]
In my electorate we have the unenviable distinction of having 3,000 registered unemployed - 1,800 men and 1,200 women. [More…]
There has not been the comparable and balanced growth of secondary industry of the types which would provide employment, in particular for women. [More…]
Those people have come to find themselves literally trapped in a situation where there was no alternative employment. [More…]
As for supplementing their family income by their wives going out to employment, that employment does not exist except in the textile field. [More…]
Some honourable members opposite are continually casting aspersions at members of the Opposition because of our attitude to some of the legislation introduced by this Government in its term of office, and particularly in the late 1950s and 1960s. [More…]
I have checked copies of Hansard and have found that they are 2 members who have supported the Government continually in sending young men of this country to Vietnam, while they themselves have not the courage of their convictions. [More…]
He has supported legislation to send young men to Vietnam. [More…]
I do not say a word about those who do not participate in the denigration of these young men. [More…]
7 have said consistently that while certain honourable members use their political power to pursue young men in this way I will do everything that my position offers to pour my scorn and contempt upon them, not for anything personal and not for personal cowardice but for the simple immorality of their action. [More…]
He went for a seat in the Queensland Parliament because he knew he would never win one in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
He has fragmented the Labor Party in Queensland which is completely topsy turvy because of him. [More…]
If you ask any good Labor men in Queensland they will whisper to you quietly - because they are frightened of losing their endorsement - that Burns is a - it starts with ‘B’ also. [More…]
One day he was saying that they were witless men; the next day he was accepting his orders from those witless men. [More…]
Every time the Labor Party is in trouble he gets up, screams, yells and carries on, and his own Party sits back in horror and disappointment but cajoling and egging him on. [More…]
I am quite sure that, come the next election, the honourable member for Sturt, like many other members of the Opposition, will be back where he came from and this Parliament will again be blessed with men of ability and discretion. [More…]
Has the United States Navy reduced its Australian workforce by some 70 men at the North West Cape base in Western Australia? [More…]
Would those hours of overtime by some 200 workers be equivalent to the hours the 70 displaced men would have worked on a normal 40 hour a week basis? [More…]
Is the Navy acting on any recommendations of the Government in regard to its unemployment policy, and if not can the Prime Minister give any other explanation for its unreasonable attitude? [More…]
Will the Prime Minister immediately request the United States Navy to employ additional men rather than requiring a deliberately depleted workforce to work excessive overtime? [More…]
It has been extremely carefully calculated that as a result of the policy followed by the New South Wales Liberal and Country Party Government approximately 65,000 men, women and children have been retained in New South Wales country areas who otherwise would have had to find job opportunities and housing facilities in metropolitan areas. [More…]
That illustrates the difference between what the present New South Wales Government has done since 1965 and what the previous Labor Government did in the preceding 24 years. [More…]
Following the election of a Liberal and Country Party Government in New South Wales, that Stale was the first to appoint a Minister for Decentralisation and Development, the honourable John Fuller. [More…]
What a tremendous step it was in fulfilling a Country Party objective. [More…]
But these matters are not being discussed, nor has this Government ever taken the opportunity to strike a blow with cheaper charges in the country districts. [More…]
The Postmaster-General’s Department, with its infamous policy of rising costs and charges which are a burden on everybody who lives in the country, makes it almost impossible for any enterprise to keep in constant communication with its main offices in the capital cities and in other centres. [More…]
The Postmaster-General’s Department, by a reduction in telephone charges, could make a worthwhile contribution. [More…]
If the Government were serious about national, balanced development of this country on a regional basis, the PostmasterGeneral’s Department could come to the fore and make a contribution in this field. [More…]
The Postmaster-General’s Department constantly complains about the shortage of equipment. [More…]
What does it do about producing the equipment? [More…]
Surely there are in the country empty factories and factory space, and men with the capacity to produce the sorts of things that are required. [More…]
The honourable member for Dawson made a special feature of saying that he did not agree with the proposition that men out of employment and wanting employment had to go here, there and everywhere round the country seeking work. [More…]
He said that even if they did get employment :t should be nearer their permanent location. [More…]
I point out to him that the last Labor Prime Minister in this Parliament, the right honourable Ben Chifley, made a feature of this very point. [More…]
It is recorded in Hansard that he said that when the employment position is somewhat difficult men have to move about to get work; they cannot expect to stay in one place. [More…]
He said that if work was not available in the area where formerly they had employment they had to move about and get work where it was available. [More…]
If any honourable member likes to challenge it I can find exactly where this statement appears in Hansard and when Mr Chifley said it. [More…]
I recollect the statement quite clearly. [More…]
It is not often that we get a chanceto examine schemes of the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
The employment training schemes have given us a rare opportunity to look at a Liberal-Country Party Government in practice and what we have seen in this case is a complete failure. [More…]
I intend to speak mostly about the employment retraining scheme for workers displaced by technological change. [More…]
As the Opposition has pointed out on a number of occasions, there is a need for a lot of attention to be given to the problems of re-education for workers made redundant, but this present so-called scheme of the Government is nothing but a hollow gesture. [More…]
For the benefit of those who are not already aware of the fact, I point out that I have received the astounding information from the Minister for Labour and National Service that a total of 2 people throughout Australia are receiving help under this employment re-training scheme and, furthermore, that a further 2 people have been approved for training assistance in the near future. [More…]
Surely this must be the greatest fraud ever inflicted on the working men and women of Australia. [More…]
I referred in this Parliament in the last Budget session to particular problems in the vehicle building industry. [More…]
The effect of this has been to reduce the need for certain tradesmen within the industry, tradesmen such as pattern makers and tool makers. [More…]
I would have thought that these men would have benefited from re-training. [More…]
I would have thought also that they would have come within the definition of those displaced by technological change; yet these men are not eligible. [More…]
The car companies made a decision about new models which led to retrenchments. [More…]
But the Government says that this is not technological change. [More…]
Men have lost their jobs and they need assistance. [More…]
I raised this last year in the Parliament and in reply the Minister said: [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…]
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…]
This is what men on the production line get. [More…]
So when his pay was reduced he could not meet his commitments and he had to sell his house. [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…]
But, no, the Government’s magnanimity has extended to providing help to 2 people with the promise of help to 2 more. [More…]
The Minister no doubt will say that many of the men who have been displaced have found placement in other forms of employment. [More…]
Chrysler Australia Limited, which has a plant in my electorate, has re-trained non-tradesmen who are now doing tradesmen’s work. [More…]
However, this does not negate the fact that there are many instances of men who were receiving tradesman’s pay being put on the production line or out of work altogether. [More…]
They are very much worse off and are excluded from this scheme because of the deliberate cynical policy of this Government. [More…]
Last month’s employment figures, although revealing a sharp decline in the number of unfilled jobs, nonetheless showed that there are 42,860 unfilled vacancies at a time when the total number of registered unemployed stands at 130,233. [More…]
Lack of proper training is the only thing that compels 42,860 Australian men and women to remain unemployed. [More…]
Does the Minister seriously suggest that the majority of the 130,233 who are now registered for employment prefer the miserable $17 a week unemployment sustenance to the opportunity of training for the 42,860 unfilled jobs that are still available? [More…]
Does his own statement last week that only 4 out of 600 applicants for specialist training scholarships were successful not prove the falsity of his suggestion? [More…]
The Government has done a tremendous amount to assist those people who want to stay on the land. [More…]
Many of these young men are taking advantage of this assistance. [More…]
What has been the result of the Government’s first steps to impose quotas in 1969 and the way in which they have been established? [More…]
They have caused widespread hardship, a loss of confidence and credit restrictions and, for the most part, have penalised the honest men. [More…]
Those who disregarded the Government have fared the best. [More…]
The corporations with huge quotas - the big men - have had no real worries. [More…]
Others have ignored the Government and made long term arrangements to trade outside of the Wheat Board. [More…]
- since the Government launched its wheat rationing. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party was the first to introduce the wheat stabilisation plan which has been continued by successive Liberal-Country Party Governments, the last of which is in office now. [More…]
Its problems have been aggravated not so much by over production by what we call the established wheat farmer but by the new men who went into the industry in recent years because of the stabilised price, the guaranteed returns and the security that they gave. [More…]
Let me have men about me that are fat. [More…]
Sleek headed men and such as sleep o’ night. [More…]
Yon Cassius has a lean and hungry look: He thinks too much: Such men are dangerous. [More…]
Caesar realised the wisdom of having men around him who were fat or corpulent. [More…]
The Prime Minister has heeded the words of Shakespeare, as instanced by his Minister foi the Navy (Dr Mackay), the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) and the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), to mention just a few who, whilst not being unduly obese, incline that way. [More…]
There are 2 situations at Garden Island Naval Dockyard at the present moment that are causing some concern. [More…]
It so happens though that both arise out of demarcation issues, that is, areas of dispute between unions rather than between management and unions. [More…]
Management, because of bans called on work, decided to try to act in a conciliatory way and held conferences with the men concerned but apparently this only produced the result that normal work was then refused by the men. [More…]
In one of the situations management has adopted the attitude towards the shipwrights involved of informing them that if they will not undertake normal work there will be no continuation of their pay. [More…]
This is the current situation in that union at the moment. [More…]
I do not refer now to the men who are involved in the demarcation dispute but simply those who refused to undertake their normal duties when requested to do so by management. [More…]
When these men were told that there would be no pay for no work they walked off the job. [More…]
Unhappily there is this situation at the naval dockyard which is causing disquiet at the moment. [More…]
In view of some of the comments which I shall make later criticising this Government very strongly I should like to take this opportunity to congratulate the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on standing firm on the question of a family unit tax and putting the blame completely on the Treasurer (Mr Snedden). [More…]
I think that some men weaker than the Prime Minister may have gone out of their way to protect the Treasurer with some feeling that they should stand by the Treasurer or maybe even communicate with him and find out what the Treasurer actually said on Monday night, but not the Prime Minister. [More…]
Under this scheme the doctors, whether they are the most honourable men in the world or not, have a vested interest in people being sick. [More…]
I commend to everybody the Australian Labor Party proposals for providing an integrated health service on a salaried basis. [More…]
Control of aged people’s homes is limited to approved organisations, such as religious, charitable and benevolent societies and ex-servicemen’s bodies, municipal councils and similar bodies. [More…]
Homes for the aged must be used exclusively for the aged - for men aged more than 65 years and women more than 60 years. [More…]
This is a dangerous thing for the people of Australia to come up against because the Labor Party is not applying itself in the same way as I believe the Government wishes to apply itself to education. [More…]
There is a great divergence of opinion on the approach to education between the Government and the Labor Party. [More…]
The Government believes in a true democratic approach. [More…]
The Government believes that education should aim to make good citizens, loyal citizens and able citizens - to make men and women who appreciate the need in our society of high moral values, respect for each other, respect for the rights of others and for the dignity of the individual. [More…]
The Government stands for more local and decentralised control of education but the Opposition - the Labor Party - has always stood for centralised control, not only in education but in everything it does. [More…]
Can he say whether the Labour Department in the United States of America releases figures of jobless rates for many groups in the labour force such as teenagers, adult men, married men, adult women, married women, black workers and white workers. [More…]
Section 3: Misconduct in action by other officers and men; [More…]
The honourable member did in his statement in Asia, and that is what this debate is about. [More…]
In Asia it matters, quite simply, that we care and that we are prepared to put our men and money where our hearts are. [More…]
The honourable member opposite harped on one of the themes used by honourable members opposite for the last 20 years - put our men and our money where our mouths are. [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…]
The real problem of the people of Malaysia and Singapore is that they cannot take the Australian Government seriously. [More…]
The people of Singapore and Malaysia can be assured only that perhaps they can get some commitment from us by our having a physical presence on the spot. [More…]
On Monday the ‘Sun’ published an attack, which I can only describe as ill-balanced, claiming that the Navy, with the Army, had ducked for cover on this issue, that indeed they should have sent platoons of men to search the shores, and implied that these devices came from HMAS ‘Sydney’. [More…]
I contradicted this statement emphatically, saying that the Navy had had no information from the civil authority and, had it been requested to assist, as in the past it would have spared no effort to mount the search and try to lessen the danger. [More…]
This means that there will be 2 boss’s men on the promotions appeal board as against one representative of the employees. [More…]
It is recommended to the Minister and to the Government that the independent chairman might well be a judge. [More…]
What sort of men will be recruited to the Service to pass on concepts and notions of . [More…]
How are we to recruit these men when we have a system like this. [More…]
Many of them went to these fabulous places I have mentioned. [More…]
This is a tremendous advantage because hitherto men and women have lost’ seniority in transferring from one service to another. [More…]
What are the age limits for appointment? [More…]
Men are being appointed to positions and we want to know the real facts of the matter. [More…]
(c) (ii) states: the qualifications required to be possessed before appointment and the period, if any, within which the qualifications or any of them must have been obtained; [More…]
He knows very well that in no case was there more than a few days of unemployment relief involved. [More…]
They want more of the strikes in which key men come out, as they did at Yallourn, and disrupt industry. [More…]
They are now looking forward, through their contacts with the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the trade union movement, to other strikes of this character being fomented and brought forward. [More…]
What they are seeking is a situation where these strikes can be successful because the strikers and other people concerned will be financed by unemployment relief. [More…]
Let me say quite clearly and definitely that it is the Government’s policy that public money should not be used to finance strikes. [More…]
At present the honourable member knows very well indeed that, as was shown at Yallourn, the technique is to take out a few key men and throw hundreds of thousands out of work in Victoria. [More…]
This was done quite deliberately in the hope that the Government would finance the strike and make it possible for the strikers to continue, and to bring down the economy of Victoria, New South Wales or wherever it might be. [More…]
How could they really be worried about these payments which are in respect of only a day or so? [More…]
What they are worried about is what they are plotting for the future and what they know the trade union movement is plotting for the future. [More…]
I had previously pointed out how belated and dilatory was the Government’s approach to this question of social services not only for migrants but also for Australian bom men and women who choose to live overseas and who thereupon lose the social benefits which they had earned by working and, therefore inevitably, by paying taxes in Australia. [More…]
I want to conclude by reference to the Government’s begruding approach in this matter. [More…]
Infiltration by land and sea from North Vietnam was steadily increasing and the Communists were able to bring together concentrations of up to 1,000 men for attacks on government forces. [More…]
The Australian training team which was built up in time to a strength of 222 men, served with very great distinction in nearly all provinces and made a material contribution to the improvement in the operational effectiveness of the Vietnamese armed forces. [More…]
The initial battalion group, comprising about 1,500 men, arrived in South Vietnam in May 1965. [More…]
The South Vietnamese still face a considerable communist military threat, and the North Vietnamese continue to infiltrate men and supplies on a comparatively large scale. [More…]
Our soldiers, sailors and airmen brought great credit to themselves and to their country. [More…]
As President Thieu said in speaking to the Fourth Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment, on board HMAS Sydney’, just before their departure last December, the men of the Australian force are entitled to the gratitude of free men everywhere. [More…]
The Australian nation owes its deepest gratitude to its fighting men who served in Vietnam. [More…]
He has traced the growth of an Australian commitment from the initial training team of officers and warrant officers despatched to Vietnam in June 1962. [More…]
Each accretion to this basic force has been carefully listed - the Caribou transport aircraft, the initial battalion group, the transfer to Phuoc Thuy province and the addition of other aircraft and naval elements. [More…]
The final force approached 10,000 men, quite a considerable contribution to what the Minister for Defence describes as a limited war. [More…]
In effect all that remains of the Australian commitment is an Army Assistance Group. [More…]
If those gentlemen had a background in industry they would know that most of the problems in industry are solved by the men on the floor of the factory and not by the managers who sit in offices. [More…]
If he cares to read up on this subject and if he reads the same documents as I have read he will find that the lack of productivity in this country is not due to the working people; it is due to very poor management. [More…]
Management in Australia compares very poorly with that in other countries. [More…]
In it we have a breach of an undertaking by the Minister The second reading speech commenced with a distorted misrepresentation of the purposes of the Bill. [More…]
Men of the Minister’s standing lay down that they should work to regulations. [More…]
The families of workers certainly do not want to see their men on strike in any way whatever because strikes bring severe hardships to many people. [More…]
In this area it is the responsibility of the Government to see that legislation is brought down to deal with the situation. [More…]
Undoubtedly this dispute, which extended over some 2i months caused considerable inconvenience not only to the Postmaster-General’s Department from which it emanated but also to members of the public and to the men in the Postmaster-General’s Department themselves. [More…]
Almost certainly the imposition of those bans resulted in substantial delays in the settlement of the union claims. [More…]
In fact, the comments of the Public Service Arbitrator when he got into the act and made a decision on the industry allowance application, which was at the foot of the matter, would seem to bear out my contention. [More…]
This afternoon it was mentioned that 4 switchboard operators would not turn on the switches at the Sydney Mail Exchange. [More…]
The 2,750 people who came to work could not operate that day and it cost the Australian taxpayers - the people who pay the bills all the time- $50,000 for the 24-hour stoppage which was caused by 4 men. [More…]
He mentioned that BHP increased its basic prices by 5.3 per cent. [More…]
They are not all bosses, businessmen and managers; they are workers. [More…]
What does the Government give on long term loan issues? [More…]
The Government gives 6 per cent or more on government bonds. [More…]
men and the women who pay the bills. [More…]
I believe that some of the management in Australia is poor but by the same standard I believe that in certain industries Australian management standards are equal to those in the rest of the world. [More…]
In the motor industry, in the electronic industry and elsewhere, management in Australia is as good as and in some cases better than it is in other parts of the world. [More…]
He does not know that I came from the floor of a shop; 1 served my apprenticeship as an electrical fitter and I know what the men are thinking about. [More…]
As I read the Bill, I assess that this is what it will do: The arbitrator appointed by the Public Service Board can stand down officers or employees involved in the dispute or who cannot be gainfully employed as a result of the dispute; he can apply the principles as was mentioned earlier of no work, no pay where officers or employees refuse to do all the duties they are required to do; he can direct organisations to withdraw bans or stoppages; and, he can amend the terms and conditions of employment of the particular class of officers or employees in an effort to overcome the cause of the industrial situation. [More…]
In other words, all we are asking of the Commonwealth Public Service employees is to go to an arbitrator and not to use this standover bludgeon tactic that has been used recently; not to keep going to the Public Service Board or to the directorgeneral of the department and saying: Unless we get this or unless we get that there will be no more work done in this particular minor section of our activity’. [More…]
a 24-hour stoppage at the Sydney Mail Exchange simpy because 4 men would not go to work. [More…]
The honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) was bang on when he said that the blame for the unrest and the trouble which the Government blames on the unions should be laid right at the door of the Government. [More…]
I heard one Government speaker saying that it was the fault of the union bosses. [More…]
It is somehow thought they can be manipulated or used by the men they elect and put into office. [More…]
The figures relating to industrial disputes which have been men tioned by speakers from this side of the House do not require repetition at this stage. [More…]
But clearly the Government has a responsibility to the Australian people to ensure that the major public services which are provided through the Commonwealth Public Service are not subject to direct interference by industrial action, such action at the present time being in circumstances which cannot be the subject of action within the existing provision. [More…]
It is my view that the business acumen of the management of Qantas today is very much in keeping with those give-away postcards. [More…]
It is time the management was replaced with men who possess some semblance of initiative and drive. [More…]
If the management of Qantas had been aggressive and awake in this changing world, I believe that such ventures as Qantair would today be a reality and not just a forced and hurriedly conceived dream written on paper. [More…]
But please let us place at the head of Qantas younger and progressive men who have grown up in a world which has prepared them to tackle this aggressive airline industry. [More…]
I can only advise him to look at what all those men with shovels are doing behind him. [More…]
I ask the Minister for National Development whether he is aware that the South Clifton and North Bulli collieries owned by Clutha Development Pty Ltd are closing down, with notice being given to 280 men, thus, in conjunction with the Excelsior mine closing off, probably forever, the production of millions of tons of coal? [More…]
Perhaps one might say that Australia has been less unfortunate than the United States in that I know of only 4 Australians, that is 2 soldiers missing presumed dead, and 2 Air Force personnel missing, who would fall into the category covered by the proclamation, while the Americans have over 1,600 servicemen and about 50 civilians in that category. [More…]
One would hope that the appeal made by the President of the United States, which I believe has the support of all men of goodwill throughout the world, will have some effect on the intransigent attitude of the North Vietnamese. [More…]
In South East Asia the impact of subversion and insurgency has been restricted by massive sacrifices of men and material on the part of many countries - not least the states of Indo-China under attack from North Vietnam. [More…]
But the elimination of both subversion and insurgency continues to demand, in at least 6 countries, very great efforts on the part of the governments concerned. [More…]
But when men take up arms to destroy a government or to render ineffective the administration of wide areas of a country it is a practical fact that one of the means which the government concerned will employ to suppress this violence will be military. [More…]
We speak in this Parliament with only limited information. [More…]
Whereas TAA has to give a detailed balance sheet of its year’s operations to this Parliament, as laid down under the original Act, its rival airline has no such obligation. [More…]
The Parliament never receives a balance sheet of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd. Nobody except its top executives and shareholders has any idea how its airline operations finish up each year. [More…]
How can a government assess accurately the expenditure or nature of its assistance to an airline which makes no public or parliamentary announcement of its balance sheet? [More…]
Surely the Government must be working largely in the dark in assessing any sort of assistance to Ansett Airlines. [More…]
Where public moneys are spent, where Government sponsorship is given, the full facts should be available to the people and the Parliament. [More…]
Private enterprise cannot afford to be so private that no-one but the top men knows what is going on. [More…]
It began to send men and arms, in a trickle for well over a year, and it endorsed the military action being taken by the guerillas in the South. [More…]
General Westmoreland said that the electronic battlefield was a war in which machines replaced men. [More…]
The truth is that the automated electronic war is not an effective substitute for men on the ground. [More…]
The statement which we are discussing represents an attempt by the Government to rewrite its version of the Vietnam war. [More…]
It is a pathetic attempt by the Government to justify its criminal intervention in someone else’s civil war. [More…]
The guilty men are trying to rewrite history. [More…]
Let me assure the Government that Australians will remember for a very long time the hysterical attempts in the 1966 election campaign to construe the civil war in Vietnam as part of a Chinese policy of territorial expansionism. [More…]
During a recent visit to Australia General Westmoreland, the Chief of Staff of the United States Army, paid tribute to Australian fighting men. [More…]
One such cause I have referred to on a previous occasion but I believe it is worthy of further mention because to me it represents an illuminating example not only of the basic quality of the Australian soldier and his training but also of the general high standard of morale that has existed throughout our force in Vietnam. [More…]
That our operations were successful and that we achieved the goals set down for us was due to the thorough training of officers and men and the professional application of tried and proven doctrine and, of course, the top quality initiative in the soldier himself. [More…]
There is no specific mention of herbicides or defoliants in the wording of the international agreement. [More…]
However, in my view reasonably minded men would regard anti-crop and anti-vegetation weapons as clearly falling within the chemical warfare specifications of the Geneva Agreement of 1925. [More…]
Yet we find that the Minister for Defence in his statement on Vietnam in this House, which we are now debating spoke with some degree of pride about our achievements in Vietnam. [More…]
In my view - and I repeat this - it is to our everlasting disgrace that the LiberalCountry Party Government of this nation ever allowed us to be a party to the destruction, by the world’s greatest military power, of the land of peasant people who were fighting against corruption, exploitation, serfdom and slavery for a better way of life. [More…]
During the last few years there have been considerable developments in the Royal Australian Navy in terms of conditions of service and of the way in which the engagement period is handled. [More…]
Young men who come in at the age of 15 as junior recruits, young apprentices who go to HMAS Nirimba’ to train as tradesmen, adults who enter the Navy and members of the Womens Royal Australian Naval Service are able to obtain an optional discharge after a certain period which gives them an opportunity to assess naval life and whether they are suited for it. [More…]
Nevertheless, I do agree that the 12-year engagement period, particularly for young men of15 or thereabouts, is a very long period and, 1 believe is an anachronism in this day and age. [More…]
Obviously those men have an income other than that derived from producing honey. [More…]
These men have hives as a sideline only. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister seen reports of an allegation by the AttorneyGeneral that the Western Australian Government had issued instructions to the State police not to execute warrants against young men allegedly evading their responsibilities under the National Service Act? [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…]
If key men without sponsorship of other members, or of the organisation or its officers, go on strike and throw other members out of work - then no benefit to anyone unless - [More…]
organisation disowns key man strike and orders key men back to work; [More…]
organisation orders its other men to be ready to work; [More…]
those other men are willing to work; also - if when those other men return to place of work and refuse to work in conjunction with ‘white collar’ workers replacing striking key men - then those other men deemed to be on strike. [More…]
The Minister for Defence puts this up as an area of major difference between his Government and the Labor Party. [More…]
It is another example of the time lag built into Government policy. [More…]
The whole pattern of deployment of Australian troops in the past 2 years has been to concentrate our forces in territorial Australia. [More…]
Only a handful of men remain in Vietnam as a contribution to the official policy of Vietnamisation. [More…]
The Government has implemented this policy without fully understanding what it is about. [More…]
It retains the jargon and the addled logic of discredited commitments while acting in a completely contrary way. [More…]
The elimination of the conscript element in the Australian Army would leave an Army of 28,000 men, all volunteers. [More…]
It is an Army that is growing steadily each year, even allowing for an official lack of enthusiasm to voluntary recruitment which has at times amounted to discouragement of voluntarism. [More…]
According to the Government’s logic Australia would be vulnerable and undefended if this 40,000 were cut by even a platoon. [More…]
Forty thousand men constitute defence preparedness and deterrence, 32,000 or 36,000 or even 39,000 are equated with treachery and betrayal. [More…]
It is overlooked that a substantial part of the volunteer component in the Army is engaged in training national servicemen and servicing and training conscripts. [More…]
The Government is moving to replace 6 command functions based on the States with a single integrated command structure on the lines recommended in the Hassett Committee Report. [More…]
If this is done effectively it is obvious that there will be substantial savings in men needed for routine functions. [More…]
In very many cases one or two men will be doing what 6 did before. [More…]
If these jobs were eliminated then more men would be freed to fill combat or specialist functions. [More…]
It is Labor’s argument that if the need to administer national service were eliminated, and if a proper reorganisation of the Army commands were carried out, then an Army strength of much less than 40,000 would be adequate for our defences. [More…]
If the rate of present recruitment could be doubled, this would be achieved in 4 years. [More…]
By setting a modest recruitment rate of an extra 2,000 men a year, we could get an adequate volunteer Army in an acceptable time span. [More…]
This sort of argument is reinforced by the recent improvement in the recruiting rate which has been conceded by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
In the years ahead there is likely to be much greater movement between the military and the civilian workforce. [More…]
There is likely to be much more emphasis on shorter terms of recruitment for the Services. [More…]
More flexible enlistment policies with men enlisting for a specific task or military project are a definite possibility. [More…]
One of them has been the steady and persistent decline in the numbers in the Citizen Military Forces, and the principal reason for this has been the operation of the national service scheme and the fact that so many of our skilled personnel and so much of our equipment have been tied up in servicing the national service scheme. [More…]
Many of the men who have served in the CMF have given it away for a variety of reasons. [More…]
The kind of reasons that they have advanced to me - and I dare say that they have advanced similar reasons to other members in this House - is that they do not get the best equipment, that the best equipment is reserved for the permanent forces. [More…]
This is not illogical; certainly the best equipment should be reserved for any force that is being sent overseas. [More…]
Another reason which these men have given me for leaving the CMF that they do not get the best instructors. [More…]
I believe that one of the things that has happened with the CMF is that, whereas in the past men enlisted in the CMF for the sole purpose of serving their country, over recent times many men have enlisted in the CMF to evade an obligation or a possible obligation to undergo national service. [More…]
So a lot of the element of sacrifice that previously enhanced the reputation of the CMF has been destroyed. [More…]
I recognise, as we all do, that many of the young men who have undergone national service would form a useful reserve even now. [More…]
Of course, one of the problems which the Government faces - and it is a problem which we have to face with our policy - is that many people will enlist in the armed forces when there is a state of war. [More…]
In other words, the men who volunteered to go to Korea enlisted because they knew that they were going to serve in forces which were actually going to war. [More…]
When this Government decided to commit Australian forces to Vietnam it did not give the young men of Australia an opportunity to volunteer his service. [More…]
I would agree that this is one of the problems which will face whatever government is in power after the next election. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for Labour and National Service a question which is supplementary to the one asked by the honourable member for Ballaarat. [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…]
It is true to say that in the past fair and reasonable men and women have expressed doubts as to the nature and conduct of the war in Vietnam. [More…]
There have been many arguments as to the causes and the conduct of it. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that at least 3 divisions of the North Vietnamese regular troops crossed the demilitarised zone in flagrant breach of the first, fifth and sixth Articles of the 1954 Geneva Agreement on the cessation of hostilities in Vietnam. [More…]
Article 5 refers to the avoidance of any incidents which might result in the resumption of hostilities and it goes on to state that ‘all military forces, supplies and equipment shall be withdrawn from the demilitarised zone’. [More…]
It is important to realise that a ‘ large number of people, fair and reasonable men, in Australia believe that the North Vietnamese are right in the military action they have taken in South Vietnam. [More…]
Any guilt laid on North Vietnam is based upon an argument that it has invaded another country. [More…]
Those who claim that Vietnam is 2 countries rely upon the Geneva Agreement of 1954 but that Agreement does not divide Vietnam. [More…]
The honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar), who preceded me, quoted that Agreement deceitfully and wrongly, as has been the case on almost every occasion that attention has been given to this matter. [More…]
Article 1 of the Agreement, partially quoted by the honourable member to suit his purposes, provides ‘provisional demarcation line between 2 regrouping zones, not a boundary between 2 countries’. [More…]
Article 6 of the Declaration says that the essential purpose of the Agreement relating to Vietnam is to settle military questions with a view to ending hostilities and that the military demarcation line is provisional and should not in any way be interpreted as constituting a political or territorial boundary, Article 6 of the Declaration upon which this claim is based says that. [More…]
It is a civil war within one country only and those fighting on both sides are inextricably made up of men from the North and men’ from the South. [More…]
It was stated in 1966 by Senator Mansfield that at that time only 400 men of the armed’ forces of North Vietnam were in South Vietnam, and that figure was certified as correct by the Secretary of the Army, Mr McNamara. [More…]
At this late hour I appeal to the men on the other side of the House to have a little sense of justice and see that, if people such as those in North Vietnam and South Vietnam have battled against the most tremendous odds which have ever been put against human beings, they have battled against those odds for some strong reason. [More…]
There is no morale because South Vietnamese soldiers are officered very largely by men who have come down from the north. [More…]
Have they not heard of anti-fragmentation bombs? [More…]
He gave equipment to the South Vietnam army in the desperate hope that it could somehow stand together. [More…]
It has a million men. [More…]
I come back te the point on which I commenced this speech. [More…]
He said that his men were told: ‘We have surrounded some Vietcong or North Vietnamese. [More…]
The Government has the emphasis all wrong. [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…]
He is one of the great men who has been in this Parliament. [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…]
These are good, sincere men. [More…]
I do not doubt for a moment that they dislike communism every bit as much as I do. [More…]
He declared that the North Vietnamese Government was completely justified in its actions. [More…]
He will have Cabinet rank in any future Labor government and he would have a vital say in Australia’s defence arrangements. [More…]
May we not ask whether the Leader of the Opposition agrees with the sentiments that he has expressed? [More…]
I ask how the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) can equate the Labor Party’s statement of support for ANZUS with the call by one of his own shadow Ministers for an end to the United States-Australian alliance. [More…]
Men like the honourable member for Lalor would use that power to undermine the defence capability of this country. [More…]
So we hear of men like Chifley and Curtin - men who would squirm in their graves to hear their patriotism yoked with that of the honourable member for Lalor inside and outside of the Parliamentary Party. [More…]
What I am pointing out is a monumental confidence trick which is an impertinence to .the Australian people. [More…]
The streams of refugees are greater than at any time since 1968, but there was no vigil this Easter outside Parliament House. [More…]
We have seen Australian Labor Party protest and sabotage of the Government’s defence policies from 1954 onwards, when they joined the Communist Party in denouncing our decision to send troops to help the British defend Malaya. [More…]
This is where it has been drifting for 20 years - into the hands of men with mass manipulative powers whose policies differ little, if at all, from tho.se of the communists. [More…]
If the South is unable to prevent the communist takeover of Vietnam, and if the inevitable mass liquidations occur, the blood of hundreds of thousands of men, women and children will be on the hands, not only of the leftists of Australia, but those dogooders opposite and in the pulpits, universities and trade unions who have done all in their power to sabotage allied assistance to the South and insist on a withdrawal ahead of military prudence. [More…]
I do not know exactly what is the advantage of men who have been trained. [More…]
These are men who cannot be trained within 6 months as a conscript soldier can. [More…]
lt takes years to train these men in the specialisation which is needed to manufacture, service and maintain aircraft. [More…]
These men are vital to Australia’s defence needs. [More…]
There is currently no work for these men. [More…]
A measure of the defence preparedness of this country is the fact that the number of persons working at the Government Aircraft Factory at Avalon has dropped by 45 per cent in 5 years. [More…]
Experienced men who built the Mirage, who built the Sabre and who had a lot to do with building the Canberra are being thrown out willy-nilly by the Government. [More…]
Unless the Government is prepared to show far more leadership than it has the skilled personnel who manufactured thousands of aircraft for the Australian Air Force during the Second World War and who have provided Australia with aircraft for its defence forces since the Second World War will be lost to the aircraft industry forever and the industry itself will collapse. [More…]
I think the Government has repudiated undertakings it gave to these men when it said that the manpower position would be looked at after a merger took place. [More…]
By procrastinating on the matter of Project N I think the Government is seriously jeopardising the future of the industry. [More…]
I suggest that it is all very well to have a lot of high-falutin talk about moral fibre and other things but the Government is destroying by its lack of decision and lack of action a vital component in Australia’s defence forces. [More…]
A few months ago one of the Ministers of the Government was running around this House accusing Australian workmen of being guilty or potentially guilty of treason; but at no stage was any charge made against any of those men because that Minister knew that such charges would not be substantiated. [More…]
The Minister said that the Government was going to build ships overseas because the security of Australian shipyards was not good enough. [More…]
Spending money overseas in order to make its American friends happy is the type of policy one can expect from this Government. [More…]
It sets out Australia’s intention to support our friends in South East Asia, to be prepared and able to back them up with seasoned men if necessary and to assist in establishing a secure South East Asian area. [More…]
I should mention that, in view of what is happening further to the north east and what has happened in the last 10 years, the Malaysian idea of a neutral region at this stage can only be called a dream. [More…]
I would like to mention briefly Pine Gap in my home town. [More…]
He said that they would be tolerated by a Labor government. [More…]
Only last year the men who sit behind him were saying that it was national treachery to have them. [More…]
As I have said here before, they can report the movements of nuclear submarines. [More…]
Although these aspects are ones to which I give only passing reference, the very nature of the Vietnam involvement mitigated against raising a volunteer army. [More…]
The reasons for involvement in that war were unconvincing and repugnant to most young men. [More…]
Ask why Australia could obtain a volunteer force a decade or so earlier for the Korean conflict, which was under the auspices of the United Nations, and yet not obtain volunteer forces for service in the more recent involvement. [More…]
With her great reserves of fighting men Britain was able to send her forces eastward to the Far East, as the British called it, or westward to the Middle East, as the British called it. [More…]
The honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon) referred to the unemployment figures in Tasmania, and I want to draw his attention to the fact that the unemployment figures in Western Australia, too, are high. [More…]
The economic policies of this Government were responsible for the high level of unemployment. [More…]
Five out of every 9 men who were registered for unemployment benefits were either unskilled or semiskilled. [More…]
Consequently, these workers tended to inflate to some extent the unemployment figures in Western Australia. [More…]
Let us hops that when the unemployment figures for March are published we will see that the position has improved. [More…]
It is a matter of regret that the management of Broken Hill South Ltd has found it necessary to announce the closure of its mine at Broken Hill. [More…]
As the honourable gentleman has mentioned to the House, approximately 650 men, as I recall it, are directly involved. [More…]
Their loss of employment will have a considerable impact upon the commercial life of Broken Hill. [More…]
Immediately I was advised of the announcement by the management of the mine I arranged for my Assistant Minister, Mr Street, together with the Assistant Director (Employment) of my Department’s New South Wales office to visit Broken Hill. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will appreciate also that the future of the mine is a matter that does not come within my responsibility but is more properly a matter within responsibility of the New South Wales Minister for Mines and my colleague the Minister for National Development. [More…]
I understand that officers of the New South Wales Mines Department are visiting Broken Hill for purposes of carry-: ing out a further assessment of the position. [More…]
In the meantime the honourable, gentleman can be well assured that the resources of the Commonwealth Employment Service will be. [More…]
at the full disposal of the men who will be out of work in helping to overcome the difficulties they face in the future. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Social Services whether he has received any apology from the honourable member for Grayndler and the honourable member for Bendigo for false statements concerning the origins of the policy of withholding unemployment benefits from men on strike, a claim made against him in this House- [More…]
I intend to mention some matters relating to the Department of Social Services in regard to age and invalid pensions and the benefits which are provided. [More…]
I think the Minister for Social Services is wrong when he stales that the policy of the Government now is the same as that followed by the Labor Government when Senator McKenna was Minister for Social Services. [More…]
I spoke to Senator McKenna on an occasion in regard to this matter and it is true that those men on strike in a particular plant would not have received unemployment benefits. [More…]
If benefits were paid, it would mean of course that the government of the time would be subsidising the strike. [More…]
The decision was not meant to operate in this way: For example, if 2,000 employees who were engaged at a plant were intent on a strike, it would be simple for the unions to pull out 10 or 12 key men to go on strike from that plant and they would be denied unemployment benefits making it possible for the rest of the plant to receive unemployment benefits. [More…]
That was Labor’s idea to endeavour to defeat this possibility, when the scheme was implemented, of the government having to pay unemployment benefits to all men on strike. [More…]
However, that does not mean to say that the men in the Vehicle Builders Employees Federation - in other industry - who are put out of work because of a strike at Yallourn should be penalised. [More…]
That is a different thing altogether to the interpretation put on this decision by the previous Labor government. [More…]
As I have already said - I impress this upon the Minister for Social Services - the interpretation was that only those working in one particular plant should be denied unemployment benefits. [More…]
I can refer to Australian industries which have been completely re-equipped with the most modern machinery available but which are laying off men at the moment because their product cannot compete with overseas government-subsidised imports which are being dumped on the Australian market. [More…]
These are the industries most likely to suffer in any major adjustments in the tariff structure. [More…]
Australia cannot afford the luxury of substantial numbers of persons on long term dole payments. [More…]
When the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly) and other honourable members advocate free trade I wish they would also point out the efficient areas of industry which are glibly talked about where alternative employment will be provided. [More…]
What I want to see is not only the suggestion that cheaper goods can be made available and that employment in Australia should be in more efficient areas but also where that employment will be made available and in what industries these people will be employed. [More…]
In the electorate I represent almost every industry is subject to tariff protection of a fairly substantial nature and unemployment would quickly reach the total population of the area, except for public servants if there are any still on the payroll, should tariff protection be cut out on the basis that some honourable members have advocated. [More…]
He is the gentleman who criticises the honourable member for Dawson; yet he has called the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) a messenger boy that nobody takes any notice of in Parliament. [More…]
In addition the honourable member rarely concentrates on the great rural issues such as unemployment in the country and the issues involved in the legislation before us. [More…]
We know he made his living in the depression years by selling up those people who were turned out of their homes by Liberal-Country Party governments in the great rural districts of this Commonwealth. [More…]
The records of this Parliament are littered with the names of men who walked off their farms because honourable members who sit in that corner of the Parliament would not provide markets or guarantee prices. [More…]
It is almost unbelievable that grown men, who are the Premiers of their States and the leaders of the nation, are required to perform publicly in such a way in order to gain Commonwealth finance for their States budgetary programmes. [More…]
I cannot understand why they have not rebelled before this, especially when this conference, as was the case with the Premiers Conference 1 referred to which was held in the 1940s, has become a regular piece of national machinery of government but in fact has no constitutional basis for being held. [More…]
On the credit side, I recognise that with a parliament of 125 members, with as many issues to consider as the Congress of the United States or the British Parliament, more and more work is falling upon the shoulders of a few, and because of this these men need assistance. [More…]
I had hoped that it would not require a member from the Government side to draw this feature to the attention of the Parliament because it seems to be a fact which has completely slipped by those who sit on the Opposition benches. [More…]
The decisions of the 12 men who meet in the far corner of Parliament House carry strength only because they know that the majority will support them in the House. [More…]
I suppose the person who introduces a Bill in the Parliament has to take it through its various stages of progress. [More…]
As to breezy iconoclasm, while there are qualifications, such as getting on with one’s fellow men, which are very valuable in the Department of Foreign Affairs, other qualities are necessary. [More…]
I believe that we have these qualities in our Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The only time I have seen morale drop suddenly in the Department was on the occasion when I visited Singapore during November last year while returning from Saigon. [More…]
Two men at the. [More…]
Geneva Agreements, which covered 3 countries - Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. [More…]
1 am terribly sympathetic to the old Labor men who remain on the Opposition benches but who gradually are being eliminated by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Did they have no confidence in the men they have on this particular Committee? [More…]
I oppose the amendment because it is unnecessary. [More…]
These great men who have rendered so much service to Australia are to go back into the limbo. [More…]
This amendment would be unnecessary if the petitions that were brought in were genuine. [More…]
How many young men called up for national service have refused to co-operate. [More…]
Who authorises the selection of these men for arrest and prosecution. [More…]
In the basic course 12 scholarships will be provided tenable for 12 months, open in general to young men and women from any part of Australia, who have passed the higher school certificate or its equivalent, and who show evidence of being likely to profit from the training provided. [More…]
Provision will be made for the entry in exceptional cases of students who do not meet all these requirements but have other special experience or qualifications fitting them for admission to the scheme. [More…]
In the basic course 12 scholarships will be provided, tenable for 12 months, open in general to young men and women from any part of Australia who have passed the higher school certificate. [More…]
But for the life of me I cannot imagine - in fact it defies any, logical explanation - why the Prime Minister should appoint these 2 men to the Interim Council when in point of fact both of them may well be opposed to the entire concept. [More…]
however, that because of the considerable disruption in the flight schedules caused by the disturbances to sleep and to the pattern of rest on board these spaceships, these men in their later flights had definite rest periods laid down when they all slept at the one time. [More…]
This has been established by close studies of every bodily and mental function of these men before and after their flights. [More…]
We should ask ourselves: ‘Are we doing the right thing by this country and by the Parliament in our performances at the present time?’ [More…]
When Parliament sits continuously through the night and visitors come into this chamber, they see men sprawled out on the benches, many of them asleep. [More…]
Is this the way to discharge the business of the Parliament? [More…]
There should be no argument about that for those of us who have been elected to Parliament have been elected to serve in the Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee (Sir Winton Turnbull) made some boast earlier as to his great strength, and I must comment that he has always been a lively member of this House and an acquisition. [More…]
We send these men to Canberra’. [More…]
Very briefly, I wish to support the amendment to the amendment which was moved by the honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Luchetti) and which I seconded. [More…]
Rarely have I known 2 men to exhibit such intelligence as they have on this occasion by indicating that they will vote on a non-party matter in a non-party way. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable member for Mallee and the honourable member for Griffith for giving an inspiring example to members on the Government side to adopt a non-party approach to a great national issue - the Standing Orders of this House. [More…]
Some members of the Government will say; ‘But we have to sit late because only in that way can we finish the session’. [More…]
Every piece of legislation that comes before this Parliament is of tremendous importance and should be deliberated when men are intelligent, awake and able to give of their best in respect of debating, concentrating and analysing what is taking place. [More…]
I believe it is prehistoric that we as members of the Parliament who come to Canberra - this ivory-towered city - should be precluded at times from seeing anybody of importance outside this House. [More…]
I refer to such people as members of the diplomatic corps, members of the Public Service, business men and trade unionists. [More…]
This would not result in much waste of time and would enable us to engage in the business that is Canberra - the business of government both national and international. [More…]
1 have expressed my view, and it is a minority view, it will not se ve the national Parliament much good if 1 speak for 10 minutes or a quarter of an hour on this subject. [More…]
Those men would not take the position. [More…]
Consequently, this is the position for which the Standing Orders are being amended. [More…]
If all is above board and clear, what is wrong with the government of the day stating a case to the court? [More…]
We send these men to Canberra’. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition said that the Prime Minister is reported to have made some statement about a Croatian march. [More…]
He is supposed to have been overheard talking to a companion about a group of men who were walking by waving banners. [More…]
The Prime Minister apparently looked at these men and said to his companion: ‘They seem to be a gay bunch’ or words to that effect. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition again is basing his attack on stolen documents and on keyhole observations. [More…]
This is typical of the pettifogging trivia that are brought before this Parliament when we should be discussing serious issues. [More…]
I never mentioned the word ‘hierarchy’. [More…]
He still leaves it unmentioned as it has been left unmentioned for 10 years. [More…]
To show the nature of the Pavelic government I produce now a publication called “This is Artukovic’. [More…]
It shows in action identifiable photographs of men who are accepted by the Croatian organisations as leaders in Australia now. [More…]
These extremist Croatian organisations celebrate 10th April and many other days and their celebrations have been attended by supporters of this Government who have thereby identified themselves with these organisations. [More…]
The trouble with the Australian Labor Party, or most members of it - and I do not include in this people like the right honourable gentleman for Melbourne or the honourable member for Grayndler - is that it has within Us ranks too many of those whom Disraeli called cosmopolitan critics’ - ‘men who are the friends of every country save their own’. [More…]
At the risk of being proved monumentally wrong by the course of events, I should like to sum up the points I have sought to make in looking at the recent campaigns in Vietnam. [More…]
If the communists gain more local successes in the days ahead, it is probable they will continue the offensive and perhaps stiffen it with more men and equipment. [More…]
We have also had the extraordinary spectacle of the Leader of the Opposition trying to lay an odorous smoke screen over the Government’s assistance to Cambodia. [More…]
One facet of the ALP’s lack of a credible defence posture is that the Party does not have many men like the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant). [More…]
I must admit that I was one of those people who believed Sir Robert Menzies when he stood in this House and announced that the United States fleet had been attacked in the Gulf of Tonkin- that the destroyers ‘Maddox’ and “Turner Joy’ had been attacked by North Vietnamese forces. [More…]
On that mad night of the alleged attack the sonar operators on tha ‘Maddox* and the Turner Joy5 were national servicemen with no experience. [More…]
These operators were listening to echoes underneath their own ships and every time their ships turned their rudders to change course the rudders came near their own propellors and these men identified the charged echo they heard as torpedoes coming at their ships. [More…]
Throughout the country districts of Australia today there is unemployment and want. [More…]
Men are walking off their farms. [More…]
This is happening after 23 years of government during which we were told that the primary producers would be protected and looked after. [More…]
I will repeat what it did for the benefit of those newcomers to this Parliament who know nothing of the record of Labor for the primary producers in this country. [More…]
Its membership is made up of everything but country men. [More…]
Yet members of the Party masquerade in this Parliament today as people representing primary industry. [More…]
I thought that this was a united Government. [More…]
The result has been that the Government has to vote $12 lm to allow farmers and others to get unemployment relief and assistance. [More…]
This has been necessary because the Government’s policy has failed as a result of disunity. [More…]
These comments are as true today as they were 20 years ago. [More…]
The honourable member for Mallee has sat silently here since his Party has been in Government and has supported a policy which brought the rural industries down in ruins and chaos. [More…]
I do not wonder that the Government has appointed an Assistant Minister to assist the Minister. [More…]
He needs half a dozen such men. [More…]
I tell electors in country districts that men like the honourable members for Dawson (Dr Patterson), Riverina (Mr Grassby), Darling (Mr Fitzpatrick) and Kalgoorlie (Mr Collard) are the type of men who will come into this Parliament in floods after the next election and who will really speak for the rural and primary producers of this country. [More…]
That amendment will provide us with quite a reasonable basis for discussion. [More…]
The Bill will not be opposed by the Opposition because we believe that it is an improvement on the existing Navigation Act. [More…]
The first part of the Bill deals with the minimum age for employment at sea. [More…]
As that implies, there is a proposal to increase the minimum age for apprentices and young men going to sea from 15 years to 16 years. [More…]
Section 40a is to be amended to increase the minimum age of young men going to sea. [More…]
I am disappointed that the Government has not taken the opportunity to bring down some substantial amendments to the Navigation Act. [More…]
As the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon) has seen fit to refer to the minimum ages of apprentices and young men going to sea I am disappointed that the opportunity was not taken to introduce what I consider would have been a very simple amendment. [More…]
It would have considerably improved the standard of people going to sea and put apprentices and young men going to sea on conditions similar to those enjoyed by people in other countries. [More…]
They have a school for training young seamen. [More…]
This was an ideal opportunity for the Government to bring down a substantial amendment along these lines. [More…]
Such an amendment would have had the unanimous support of all maritime unions. [More…]
It is a 6 weeks course of 30 hours a week and it gives basic training to young men going to sea. [More…]
Dedicated, interested men run the course and lecture. [More…]
This was an opportunity to expand the course and obtain the ideas of the men involved. [More…]
This is a matter which the industry should determine and which has to be given serious consideration by the Government. [More…]
It would fit men for the profession which they have decided to follow. [More…]
It would fit them better to understand their employment. [More…]
It is up to the industry to obtain the type of men necessary to do these jobs. [More…]
The industry now requires men with some knowledge of what they are doing - men who can cope with the changes which are taking place in shipping today. [More…]
At the present time there does not appear to be any formula for the selection of young men to undertake this 6-weeks course. [More…]
The young men do not have to sit for any oral or written tests. [More…]
I suggest that the Department of Shipping and Transport and the employers and employees engaged in the shipping industry could get together and draw up a formula for selecting young men to undertake this course and a career at sea. [More…]
I bring these matters to the attention of honourable members to indicate the great need for the Government to do something about providing increased docking capacity in Australia. [More…]
The State Dockyard in Newcastle has been trying for some considerable time to get an assurance from the Government that money will be made available to build a graving dock as part of the shipbuilding layout there. [More…]
This will cost from $350,000 to $400,000 and will provide employme for between 125 and 150 men for a period of about 6 to 7 weeks. [More…]
At this time large, numbers of unskilled men are unemployed in Sydney and Newcastle and this is work to which they would be ideally suited. [More…]
I am speaking on this matter tonight because when this Parliament resumes sitting next Wednesday, Anzac Day this year will have passed. [More…]
This Parliament should always be grateful and make known to the people its gratitude for the great service that our fighting men have rendered for Australia down through the years. [More…]
Even in this Parliament, people do not worry about it. [More…]
It has been said that for every 9 men who can stand adversity only one can stand prosperity. [More…]
Unless this country keeps to the principles that made the British people great, it will go down like nations in the past - the Roman Empire, the Persian Empire and all the countries with their great prosperity and good living which forgot the fundamental principles that build men and nations. [More…]
The whole structure of civilization is based upon the confidence that men have in each other, in their honesty, in their integrity and in their ability. [More…]
Therefore, if we do not stand for these principles I believe that in spite of anything we can do in the Parliament in relation to the economy, we are detracting from the greatness of this nation. [More…]
Some people say that we should have world government Only when it is strong financially and morally can this nation help its own people, and only when this is factual can we help less fortunate nations that we are anxious to assist. [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…]
Honourable members should not think for one moment that prosperity and progress go together. [More…]
They do not After all, we can be very prosperous but have no progress for the simple reason I mentioned earlier, namely, that prosperity brings about the forgetting of the fundamental things that build nations. [More…]
Although some honourable members might not agree with what I am saying, I believe that on that day we should pay tribute to the men and women of our fighting forces to whom we owe our freedom. [More…]
In the meantime I made inquiries and the only concrete information I have at the moment, other than from the honourable member, is a story from the Illawarra ‘Daily Mercury’ which contains a statement that 30,000 tons of tin plate has been imported which has imperiled the positions at Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd of, from memory, some men and 40 women workers. [More…]
However, because of the implications of the honourable gentleman’s question and because it is a matter of fundamental Government policy, I will be pleased to bring it to the notice of my colleague, the Acting Minister for Trade and Industry, and any other appropriate Minister. [More…]
All due respect must be paid to the men who devised this product and to the manufacturers who produce it. [More…]
I am not for one moment advocating that any attempt be made to prohibit the manufacture of this product, because it could fulfil a definite requirement among the peoples of some of the underdeveloped countries. [More…]
I also feel that import restrictions should be placed on this product in order to protect our own domestic market and that more definite meat trade agreements should be established with our customer countries. [More…]
The Bill widens the criteria for appointment of Presidential Members of the Commission. [More…]
Except for the office of President, for appointment to which legal qualifications will be required, it will be possible, on the Bill becoming law, to appoint as a Deputy President a person who is or has been a barrister or solicitor of the High Court or of the Supreme Court of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth of not less than 5 years’ standing; has had experience at a high level in industry, commerce, industrial relations or the service of a government or an authority of a government; or has, not less than 5 years previously, obtained a degree of a university or an educational qualification of a similar standard, after studies in the field of law, economics or industrial relations or some other field of study considered by the Governor-General to have substantial relevance to the duties of a Deputy President. [More…]
The Government believes that these new provisions will greatly assist in bringing to the Presidential Bench of the Commission men of the widest range of experience and practical knowledge. [More…]
The Bill also provides for the retirement of future Presidential Members at age 65 instead of 70 as now. [More…]
The Government must consider the question of the education standards of the officers and men in service training using Commonwealth facilities, and not rely on the personal sacrifice of the individual. [More…]
If it is to be accepted that the trends in size, design, equipping and reliability of ships will eventually call for fewer certified personnel, in relation to the tonnage of those ships, who will need wider skills and training in management, many ratings or gradings will disappear. [More…]
Some consider that the future lies in the integrated crew, including the dual-purpose officers who are equally at home in the engine room and in deck departments. [More…]
Again, there is some doubt whether there will ever be more than a few openings for a full career at sea for men of graduate calibre. [More…]
As I said before, the people who are engaged as surveyors should see that the Navigation Act is complied with in regard to the measurement of ships, bearing in mind particularly the safety of operations. [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 know you were not, but the letter I have quoted shows how this Government dallies in regard to these very important matters. [More…]
We are still waiting for those amendments which were promised nearly 5 years ago. [More…]
The delay in bringing down amendments to the Navigation Act as promised so long ago does not show much concern on the part of this Government for those who go down to the sea in ships. [More…]
The Government should show more consideration. [More…]
A lack of concern about the men of the sea has been apparent throughout the lifetime of this Government, which is now happily coming to a close. [More…]
The fact that a new International Labour Organisation convention was adopted in 1960 to replace the 1948 convention, and the fact that the Government waited until 1967, 7 years later, to bring down the necessary amendments illustrates the lack of concern of this Government. [More…]
The present amendments, of course, have been similarly delayed. [More…]
There is an obligation on this Government to act much more quickly on important matters such as these. [More…]
One cannot get around the Navigation Act because there are so many little details in it to protect the seamen. [More…]
Possibly in the far off days of sailing ships the seamen were disadvantaged, but by heaven they are not disadvantaged now. [More…]
They are doing hardly any work each day compared with a lot of other men in similar circumstances. [More…]
Members opposite have spoken about unemployment among waterside workers and members of seamen’s unions. [More…]
Through these senseless strikes the men have put themselves out of work. [More…]
Australian seamen enjoy excellent conditions. [More…]
1 am all for high wages, and men can earn these wages if they do not cause ridiculous industrial trouble on the waterfront for which the Australian community must pay. [More…]
Transgressing somewhat for the benefit of the honourable member for Mcpherson - seeing that he mentioned the point I think that I may be permitted to reply to it - the honourable member suggests that the cost of freights to the farming community has been brought about by seamen. [More…]
Yet the honourable member’s Government has denied the apple growers of Tasmania a bounty. [More…]
1 raised this matter last year with the Minister and his Government did not have the courage of its convictions to help them out. [More…]
The shippers started as pirates on the high seas 200 years ago and they still come as pirates to this country under the protection of men like the honourable member for McPherson. [More…]
He knows full well that the Australian National Line and the whole container system has brought more internal arguments and more line demarcation disputes overseas at Tilbury and for the Port of London Authority than anywhere in Australia. [More…]
He said that at the present moment those who are working on ships like the ‘Iron Somersby’ work for 32 weeks and have 20 weeks off. [More…]
What the men are seeking is 20 weeks work and 32 weeks off, including 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
One can see the tremendous impact that it will have on costs if this claim is agreed to: but 1 am unable to comment upon it b any great depth because the dispute is before the court. [More…]
People who are silly enough to go to sea like that have to be protected from themselves, and so do the men who have to go and look for them have to be protected. [More…]
People get into trouble mostly in inclement weather, when there are storms and the like. [More…]
New parliamentarians are by and large neutralist teachers and professional men with some resemblance to Australia Party: They, have considerable influence on party through Whitlam’s prestige. [More…]
The information before me indicates that the number of men, women and children fleeing from the invading forces now exceeds 250,000. [More…]
I know that all honourable members in this House will agree on the necessity for picking people of the highest calibre to serve on the Tariff Board and in other Government organisations. [More…]
The salary level chosen for members of the Board is governed by the salary levels of the Commonwealth Public Service generally and, whilst it may be difficult to compete with private enterprise to obtain men of the highest calibre, I can see no way of adjusting the salary level of Tariff Board members on their own without general adjustments across the board for the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
These people were concerned principally with matters of Australian defence and internal security, and had personal policies on these matters substantially similar to those of the Government. [More…]
Among the names of men reproduced in that journal - men who have been scarified - are Professor David Armstrong, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, Dr Colin Clark of the Monash University, Mr Geoffrey Fairbairn, Professor Owen Harries, Dr Knopfelmacher, Professor Peter Lawrence, Professor McCawley, Professor McCallum, Mr Santamaria, Professor Johnson and others. [More…]
Is it justifiable for me to discuss with and present a point of view to men of this stature? [More…]
Are these men and others among academics essentially disloyal, or are they to be scarified principally because they are on the Right? [More…]
While that surface coal is being produced by open cut mining methods it is possible for 270 men to produce 4 million tons of coal a year. [More…]
In my own constituency it will take 4,000 men to produce twice that quantity of coal. [More…]
It is not only the question of employment in New South Wales that is involved. [More…]
The employment of the 800 men in the Ipswich field will in turn be threatened if the present uncontrolled, unchecked rape of Queensland’s resources continues. [More…]
The Opposition wants to see every phase of Australian coal development fully fostered. [More…]
Only the Commonwealth Government has the power to do it. [More…]
Only the Commonwealth Government has the responsibility to do it. [More…]
And only a Labor government is capable and has the will, the wit and the intention of safeguarding Australia’s national interests and putting these rival overseas groups in their places. [More…]
I speak in the name of 350 men who, through the foolishness and incompetence of this Government, stand in grave danger of losing their employment. [More…]
Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) who is Deputy Prime Minister - the Australian Country Party is also guilty - and all the other guilty men in this Government allow their friends who run the breweries and the hotel combines to fleece the public in this way and to add immeasurably to inflation. [More…]
Is it any wonder that we do not get any action from this Government to ensure that the beer drinkers of this country cease being fleeced? [More…]
The lives of Australian men and women, both young and old, and of our children are being needlessly and wantonly wasted each day. [More…]
What is the Parliament going to do about it? [More…]
But obviously the question which was troubling all the men and women, who were experts in their own fields, was: Were they wasting their time in attending that 3-day symposium? [More…]
I am satisfied, now that the Government has proposed action to which the Opposition has pledged its support, that they were not wasting their time and that something constructive will come out of the whole of it. [More…]
There is no doubt that road accidents in Australia are costing the lives of about 4,000 men, women and children and are maiming and injuring up to 80,000 people each year. [More…]
So this is something that does concern the Government. [More…]
The Commonwealth Electoral Officer, Mr Frank Ley, and his officers throughout Australia are, in my view and in the view of the Australian Labor Party, men of the highest personal integrity. [More…]
It is not the responsibility of the Federal Leader of the Opposition or even the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party or for that matter any leader in this Parliament to answer for statements made by every member of the Labor Party or any branch of the Labor Party any more than it is in other parties. [More…]
The views expressed by individual Party members or officers, no matter how highly placed in the Party, or even State branches, as members will know from the events of a few days ago, do not necessarily represent the policy or views of the Party or those of the Leader or the parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
Labor leaders are bound no more than the Country Party leaders were bound when a Country Party conference in Victoria called for the replacement of Mr McMahon as Prime Minister by Mr Anthony. [More…]
The resolution of that conference did not represent the views of the Country party in this Parliament. [More…]
I place that on record in the Parliament. [More…]
Members on the Government side would give the impression that in this Parliament Labor Party members are the only ones who wish to attack Commonwealth electoral officers. [More…]
In 1962 when a redistribution of boundaries took place the Leader of the Country Party, supported by members I see sitting here now, accused electoral officers of rigging the electorates against the Country Party and refused to pass it through this Parliament. [More…]
These were the very men that the Liberal-Country Party Government, some members of which still sit opposite, had appointed as redistribution commissioners and then in effect levelled a charge of corruption against them. [More…]
The people he was criticising were the people who were appointed by the Government of the day, of which he was a member, but because their decision did not suit him he made up all kinds of accusations. [More…]
Through all this, the only leadership that the Leader of the Opposition has given is to fail to come into this House and repudiate statements made with the most utter irresponsibility by men who, we are told by honourable members opposite, have nothing to do with him. [More…]
The honourable member’s Leader said just that, namely, that in safe Labor seats in New South Wales - he was talking about his colleagues opposite; men like the honourable member for Grayndler - to gain preselection for the Labor Party, candidates would have to devote all their interests and their political activities to doing just that. [More…]
The allegation is that they have tapped telephones, that there has been bribery and that men have been offered very substantial financial rewards for declaring false statements. [More…]
First, I should like to make it perfectly clear that I believe that Mr Ley and Mr Malton are men of the highest integrity. [More…]
If these words were uttered by Mr Westerway, I do not believe for one moment that they are true. [More…]
However, I have always found them to be men of the highest integrity and absolutely unbiassed who would not do a favour for any candidate against another. [More…]
If honourable members want to indulge in personalities, let me mention a few indiscretions that I have seen. [More…]
It was under the Menzies Government that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) and the honourable member for Macarthur (Mr Jeff Bate) raided Garden Island which was then under strict security. [More…]
The Queensland Government does not have to look for grants when it comes to solid government. [More…]
Would anyone suggest for one moment that the workers, the traditional Labor supporters of that area, have suddenly abandoned their principles and said: ‘We are not Laborites any more’? [More…]
They have seen the Labor principles which they understood and for which they and their fathers before them fought dissipated into something that is utterly distorted and unacceptable to genuine Labor men. [More…]
It is traditional for by-elections to show a swing against the government. [More…]
Local authorities throughout the length and breadth of Queensland were wondering how they could keep their men employed and how the landholders were going to pay their rates. [More…]
With the tremendous assistance which came from the Federal Government they were able to bring this matter partly under control. [More…]
The assistance was immensely appreciated. [More…]
Once more the Queensland Government had to foot the bill and go to the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
There is the most superb understanding between the Commonwealth Government and the Queensland Government. [More…]
A. Santamaria, whose vital involvement with the Democratic Labor Party is undoubted. [More…]
Does the Minister then believe that the Government’s views on defence and internal security are substantially similar to. [More…]
Does he, for example, agree with the recently expressed view of the Deputy Leader of the DLP in the Senate that the Australian troops should be sent back to Vietnam - a view which his own Government does not support? [More…]
It is this very statement of substantial agreement with men such as Mr Santamaria that is the crux of this question. [More…]
Can the Minister continue to identify himself so closely with the views of this small party and remain a loyal member of his own Government at all times? [More…]
Is it that he recognises only too well, as he acknowledged this morning, that he holds a very marginal seat and prefers to play both sides of the Right in a desperate endeavour to retain his own seat in the Parliament? [More…]
So as far as I am concerned, and I speak for my colleagues, that is not so, but let one of the members on the Government side stand in this place tonight and say that there are not in fact Ministers of the Crown occupying positions in this Federal Parliament who are used as puppets by outside organisations - by faceless and baseless men. [More…]
I quickly veer away from the useless exercise which we have just heard and which hardly deserves comment. [More…]
Four musterings which exist in the Air Force are virtually dead end positions, by and large, for young men who in the majority of cases - certainly in the majority of musterings - seem to be fairly well skilled and reasonably highly qualified people. [More…]
These are people in the following musterings: Architectural draftsmen, laboratory technicians, boiler attendants and air photo plotters. [More…]
These young men - I gather that they are young - are human beings. [More…]
As a side consideration I might mention that members of the Women’s Royal Australian Air Force are able to proceed to the rank of sergeant. [More…]
The fact that members of the WRAAF can break through to these higher ranks is causing a fair degree of dissatisfaction among these highly skilled professional men. [More…]
The sort of work these men do is related to organising and analysing photo reconnaissance material which is brought back to air bases. [More…]
Because of the extended hiatus that has occurred between the promise in the early 1960s and the nondelivery in the early 1970s of the Fill aircraft, and seemingly the dropping of the idea of acquiring the F111C aircraft, the men in this area are frozen at the rank of corporal. [More…]
The courses are undertaken in the United States of America and, until a course is offered, there is absolutely no hope of these men moving beyond the rank of corporal. [More…]
All in all one sees a situation which is rather despairing for a number of young men who have joined the Air Force and taken on a highly skilled trade which demands a fair degree of intellectual capacity and which pays fairly well in civilian life. [More…]
Admittedly there are probably no more than a couple of score of servicemen involved throughout Australia in these 4 musterings, but they must have rights and incentives and some expec tation of breaking through this barrier of corporal which pays only about $13.50 a day. [More…]
I will ask the Minister for Air to consider ways of breaking this barrier and in the meantime to provide annual increments in pay so that these men will not be disadvantaged in this way, so that the demoralisation apparently setting in can be eliminated and, more importantly, so that there can be a reasonable reward on an annual incremental basis for their professional skill and the valuable contribution they will be making and have been making to the Air Force. [More…]
Further to a previous question I asked of him relating to inspectors employed in Commonwealth Government defence departments, 1 now ask: Is the Prime Minister aware that the Inspectorial Grades Review Committee completed its investigations early in October 1971? [More…]
Can the Prime Minister inform the House of the reasons for delaying the implementation of this review? [More…]
Does the Prime Minister realise that the 7 months delay has caused, and is causing, considerable unrest among these men who are suffering a considerable loss of salary due to this delay? [More…]
If we recognise the People’s Republic as the government of China, we automatically cease to recognise the Republic of China - the regime of Chiang Kai-shek - as the government of China. [More…]
The Minister’s Department knows it. [More…]
There are scores of able, clear headed men in that Department. [More…]
The main point however is how political opportunism has obscured or stultified some of the best insights by some of the best men - by Lord Casey, by Ambassador Freeth. [More…]
The Australian Government seems barely to have grasped the rate at which events are changing our region. [More…]
The Labor Party endorsed 4 men whose surnames began with the letter A’ so that its candidates could be listed at the top of the ballot paper. [More…]
It is high time that the Government reconsidered its scheme. [More…]
Instead of having men employed on high labour content jobs in the respective shires and allocating money for the sole purpose of reducing the number of unemployed men, this money and the men should be used for jobs that will be everlasting and more beneficial to a community such as the people of Wyee who so urgently need water to be installed to their little township. [More…]
Unlike countries that have Labor governments - particularly the former British Labour government, from whom the Australian Labor Party takes so many of its principles - the proportion of households in Australia on the poverty level has not increased. [More…]
The honourable member for Oxley spoke at some length about those who are on very low wages and who therefore are closer to a poverty level than are men on average wages or men on above average wages. [More…]
I will make a charge concerning this which it will be impossible to refute: Nobody has beenless concerned with the men on the minimum wage than the honourable member’s colleague on the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party, namely, the leader of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke. [More…]
If he thought men were wrong they would do as he directed, but he always supported them when he thought they were right. [More…]
That is the kind of leadership which, in the final analysis, is best for good industrial relations, because that is the kind of leadership that will make it possible for management to enter into industrial agreements knowing full well that they will be honoured by the other side. [More…]
It is terribly important that agreements be honoured by both sides during their currency. [More…]
If shop stewards are to do their jobs properly they must be kept well informed by management about plans and developments, and must be consulted by them. [More…]
Instead of there being hundreds of men on an assembly line making a small contribution to the construction of a car or to the putting together of a television set, little groups of men are brought together to build the whole job from beginning to end, and are thus put in a position to see what they are doing and take some pride in the finished article. [More…]
Before 1 go on to talk about strikes and strike action, let me quote from a comment made by the late Mr Justice Higgins. [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…]
Surely that is a basic, fundamental statement of the law. [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…]
You cannot cure that by calling for wage restraint on the part of men whose earnings are already less than $70 a week. [More…]
We must make a fundamental change in our wages policy so that more will go to those whose need is greatest. [More…]
I refer, of course, to the human suffering and enormous loss of production which is represented by the 100,000 men and women who cannot find employment. [More…]
But what is even worse than the present unemployment figures is the sharp downturn in the rate of expansion of the workforce. [More…]
Instead of being able to find jobs for all migrants, school leavers and married women wishing to re-enter the workforce, our national economy is scarcely capable of maintaining employment for those already employed. [More…]
And as though these examples of crass stupidity and double-talk were not enough, the Government proposes to give Conciliation Commissioners an increase of $84.60 a week, retrospective to November of last year, as the price it is prepared to pay its $16,000 a year Commissioners to exercise wage restraint against the hundreds of thousands of working men whom it expects to maintain their families on a miserable $52 a week. [More…]
The Government has created a legal obstacle race that nobody could survive. [More…]
The Government is afraid of strong unions. [More…]
There are men on the Government side of the House who are living in the past and would like to be able to return to the old, bad traditions of the law of master and servant of 70 or 80 years ago. [More…]
Of course, it dances to the tune of the Democratic Labor Party, a vicious, perverted, unforgiving and unrelenting group of men who were formerly within our Party. [More…]
This Government dances to their tune. [More…]
He was speaking in terms of what was a reasonable percentage of votes in a ballot for the amalgamation of unions, and he said this: ‘It is true that in Victoria, out of 33 members of Parliament, 18 are elected on preferences.’ [More…]
This is a minority government. [More…]
It is a government in lower esteem and lower standing with the Australian public than at any other time in its history since it came into office in 1949. [More…]
It is a government which is discredited and which has a leader who is our best electoral asset. [More…]
The honourable member for Hindmarsh also mentioned this great word ‘productivity’. [More…]
I cannot let pass without comment one point mentioned by the honourable member for Hindmarsh. [More…]
I think he mentioned that the coal producers or coal miners - call them what you wish - had doubled their output but had not been allowed to receive a 35-hour week. [More…]
This business of using productivity in this way as an argument for increasing wages and for decreasing hours is not an argument at all if it is taken completely out of context, as it is on many occasions. [More…]
I have no argument whatsoever that workers or anybody else throughout Australia should not receive a reasonable day’s pay for a reasonable day’s work. [More…]
This is not my argument at all. [More…]
What I am saying is that in certain circumstances throughout Australia where sometimes millions of dollars are spent in handling heavy cargo throughout various industries within Australia and where numerous men once were employed by the hundreds previously, by installing modern machinery which is necessary because of the tonnages which are being handled, the number of workers involved is so much less. [More…]
Productivity means that men, working under the same conditions, are producing more during a day’s work - and this is happening all the time - and they are entitled to receive more pay; that is fair enough. [More…]
But I believe it is important also to have a practical approach and to bring in men of other and wider experience who have a practical point of view. [More…]
I mention these cases to illustrate the way in which unions have run foul of the Commission and the unfair manner in which they have been treated at times. [More…]
The men were instructed to lift their ban and to go back to work, which they did. [More…]
The firm involved was able to go to the Industrial Court from which it obtained a court order which denied the men the right to resign. [More…]
The men then had to approach the Court to get permission to resign from their job. [More…]
Provision for the holding of secret ballots is another proposed amendment to the Act. [More…]
This has already been mentioned by an honourable member who spoke earlier in this debate. [More…]
Any number of situations could arise which might bring about a dispute and result in a decision by the men to walk out the gate, or they might have a meeting at lunch time and decide not to go back to work. [More…]
One thing which intrigues me is the assumption that if a secret ballot is held the men will automatically reject strike action. [More…]
I refer to a secret ballot which was carried out among railway men in Queensland a few years ago when the men overwhelmingly decided in favour of strike action. [More…]
What intrigues me is that if a secret ballot is carried out and the men decide to go out on strike or to take other industrial action, after a while some negotiations will take place, but what action will be taken to get the men back to work? [More…]
That is one point that certainly is not covered in this Bill, mainly because in the argument of the Government it is assumed that every time a secret ballot is held the men will reject any suggestion of industrial action. [More…]
We heard mention earlier of the State Electricity Commission strike. [More…]
This was a case where the men themselves went on strike. [More…]
I suggest that the Minister might read a paper on industrial strikes which was prepared by Mr Woods, the Secretary of the New Zealand Department of Labour. [More…]
But unfortunately with the guns so heavily loaded and with the Minister going round the country all the time telling employers that they should not talk to their employees and now writing into an Act of Parliament - - [More…]
I want to discuss the resignation of 4 men from the Australian Broadcasting Commission who were involved in the production of Tasmania’s ‘This Day Tonight’ television programme. [More…]
I believe that they are correct in their assessment, that the principle exists, and that it should be adhered to by the ABC or any other organisation whose responsibility it is to interpret current events to the general public. [More…]
The 4 men resigned because their executive producer stood for election to the Tasmanian House of Assembly in April, and having failed to secure a seat was reinstated in his same executive position. [More…]
Particular reference was made to the ABC management’s stated views of current affairs reporting. [More…]
He has his old job at his old salary, while the men whose resignations were made in accord with the Commission’s principles have been re-employed at salaries $1,000 to $2,000 below their levels of a few days earlier. [More…]
I compliment them on their stand; I sympathise with them in their reduced circumstances. [More…]
On 3rd May the General Secretary of the Australian Journalists’ Association, Mr Crossland, issued a statement in support of Mr Holgate and expressing disappointment in the resignation action of the 4 TDT men. [More…]
Following the expression of concern at this statement by some local members of the AJA, a meeting of the AJA District Committee on 5th May considered a resolution dissenting from Mr Crossland’s statement. [More…]
The four TDT men had made no approach to the AJA, believing that this was not a simple matter of journalistic ethics appropriate for that body’s consideration. [More…]
The 4 men who resigned quite clearly showed where their political views were. [More…]
If they had been Labor men they would not have said a word, but quite clearly because they support the political views of honourable members opposite they have kicked up a stink. [More…]
If they are worth their salt, as most journalists, political interviewers and current affairs men are, their job comes first. [More…]
I informed the Minister for Immigration about this letter and he said that it was really the concern of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr N. H. Bowen), to whom I gave a copy of the letter because I hoped that the responsible department would take some action in the matter. [More…]
I am well aware that a number of foreign countries including, I believe, Italy and Greece - I may be wrong here - and France do not recognise the fact that if men become citizens of another country they are released from their duty to undertake national service. [More…]
I find it particularly objectionable that these 2 young men, who have spent 20 of their 22 years in Australia and who to all intents and purposes are as Australian as everyone in this House, should now be harassed by anybody from France, let alone the Consul-General. [More…]
Yet at a time when we had a much smaller population and had thousands of men being demobilised just after the war, there was another government in this country that did bring in a retraining scheme which allowed men to do full courses at universities or full courses for trades. [More…]
It provided for this country the professional men and the tradesmen that were required; it allowed those people to take a more useful place in the community and it established them for the rest of their lives. [More…]
The same sort of thing could be done now, but no attempt is being made to do it Legislation could be brought into this place to provide a proper marketing system and an acceptable marketing system - one that has already been decided upon and laid out for this Government by the Australian Wool Industry Conference. [More…]
Unemployment in the country is still running at about 100,000 on seasonally adjusted figures. [More…]
Legislation was brought into this Parliament to provide for rural unemployment relief. [More…]
The Bil] is intended to give the right to vote to men and women citizens of 18, 19 and 20 years of age. [More…]
Before the last elections for the House of Representatives and during the election the then Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), promised that at the next election for the House of Representatives men and women citizens of 18, 19 and 20 years of age would have the vote. [More…]
The honourable member for Griffith is the first member of Parliament to deny that the former Prime Minister made that promise. [More…]
19 and 20 year old men and women at this year’s elections for the House of Representatives. [More…]
The reasons why the Opposition has had for a third time to raise this Bill on that the present Government has repudiated promises made by the Gorton Government and there are divisions in the coalition parties on this question. [More…]
the Government is considering this subject, has not made a decision, but opposes the passing of the Bill in this form at present. [More…]
At the last elections in the United Kingdom men and women of 18 years of age had votes. [More…]
1 do not have to go again through the arguments why votes should be given for men and women at 18 years. [More…]
I have given those arguments on previous occasions. [More…]
19 and 20-year-old men and women felt more intensely than any other people in the community at that time are still matters upon which they feel intensely. [More…]
In 19S4 only 6.2 per cent of men and women who were 18 years of age were in full-time education; in the 1961 census there were 13.2 per cent; in the 1966 census there were 27.2 per cent; and in a statistician’s survey of a one per cent sample of households throughout Australia in 1968 there were 35.7 per cent. [More…]
Is it to be wondered at then that men and women of 18, 19 and 20 years are becoming increasingly alienated and frustrated by the Liberals refusal to carry out an election understanding? [More…]
If 18, 19 and 20 year old men and women had votes in Australia much more would have been done to see that conditions outside the metropolitan areas were such as to retain such people in those areas and give them some future in those areas. [More…]
I would think that this argument would appeal to the Minister for the Interior who will follow me. [More…]
I refer to the men and women of 18. [More…]
The Government should accept, with good grace, votes at 18 years in this year’s House of Representatives election. [More…]
There are excellent chances that men and women of those ages will be able to have a vote in this year’s House of Representatives election, even if the Government does not allow a vote to be taken on the Bill I have introduced today, or on the Bill which I introduced in June 1970, or on the Bill which the Government itself introduced in March last year to which we would move an amendment to give votes at 18 years of age, The reason why these people might have a vote at this years House of Representatives election is because the Constitution states: [More…]
Some people say that an adult in our Constitution means what it meant in Britain when our Constitution was enacted by the British Parliament in 1900. [More…]
The matters which affect adult rights in Australia usually fall within the province of the State parliaments. [More…]
The clear matters which fall within the province of this Parliament are marriage and the franchise. [More…]
But by the end of the next month men and women of 18, 19 and 20 years of age in South Australia will not only have adult rights in the general sense; they will also have the right to vote at elections for the more numerous House of the Parliament of that State. [More…]
Under the heading ‘Western Australia’ the Attorney-General informed me that some adult rights had been given to minors in the age group 18 to 21 years and that they had been given the right to vote for the State Parliament. [More…]
Since then the Western Australian Labor Government has announced that it will give complete adult rights to 18- year-old men and women. [More…]
It is quite likely, therefore, that by the end of next month, when those who have adult rights will also gain the right to vote in South Australia for the State Parliament, those who have the right to vote at 18 years of age in Western Australia for the State Parliament will also have adult rights. [More…]
In South Australia it would appear clear, and in Western Australia it seems probable, that by the end of next month men and women of 18 will be adults and they will have the right to vote for their State Parliaments. [More…]
In those circumstances they will have the right in South Australia, and one hopes in Western Australia, to apply for enrolment for the. [More…]
So under the Liberal Government we are right back with the Bedouins. [More…]
It is now an accepted fact that the majority of the nations of the world consider that men and women at 18 years of age are more mature, better educated and articulate than those of a generation ago at 21 years of age. [More…]
Let me now present the case in support of a vote at 18 years of age for men and women. [More…]
Young men and women are more mature and better educated in most cases and because of the times in which they live, more advanced mentally than those of a few generations ago. [More…]
The view is taken that 18-year-olds are immature and incapable of sound judgement. [More…]
This argument is defeated if we seek to deny a person of 18 years the right to vote on the score of immaturity because is there any reason why it should not be withdrawn from those unfortunate people who reach senility, if we accept that argument? [More…]
Whether or not men and women are mature enough to vote at 18, the test to be applied is that they are increasingly involved in social, financial, industrial and political affairs and to take a responsible role in society they must have the right to vote. [More…]
I did not know until I read the article in a Sydney newspaper that there were any young Liberals, but they have called upon the Government to implement this measure. [More…]
Why then does the McMahon Government oppose the legislation? [More…]
The Government fears the vote of the 18-year- olds at the forthcoming election and for this reason the Government stubbornly rejects the legislation. [More…]
The Commonwealth Statistician indicates that 700,000 men and women will be eligible to vote if the age is lowered to 18 years for the next Federal elections. [More…]
They could make or break the Government. [More…]
Evidently the McMahon Government thinks they would break it and that is why the Prime Minister resists this desirable democratic reform. [More…]
It means that the present Government is prepared to deny a vote to about 10 per cent of the voters at the next elections because it believes they could decide the fate of the Government. [More…]
That is what was said by Mr Rattigan, Chairman of the Tariff Board, who is one of the most influential and learned men on this subject in Australia. [More…]
That is the fraud that has been perpetrated on the people of Australia by this Government which has sold or is trying to sell to the people a bill of goods that is patently false. [More…]
I try to contrive in my own peculiar way to show patience to all manner of men. [More…]
Indeed, in 1935 or 1936 every political party in Australia joined together to support an amendment to the Constitution with respect to civil aviation. [More…]
If we take the assumption, which I invite the House to take, that this section places distinct limitations upon the national Parliament, and if we want to alter it, how do we go about it? [More…]
I would like to make this suggestion: I believe that a commission, perhaps a royal commission, of the highest possible competence, spread right across the board, representative of employer organisations, the trade union movement and all interests should be established to examine the whole structure of conciliation and arbitration in Australia. [More…]
I mention that amendment, because to me the whole basis of a sensible approach to getting peace in industry lies in conciliation. [More…]
Men do not cheerfully put up with burdens indefinitely. [More…]
Years ago I worked in a very large factory which employed over 600 men. [More…]
In that factory the management, in my view, was quite enlightened. [More…]
Every fortnight every person in the factory, not in the employees’ time but in the management’s time, was brought together and all were told what was going on throughout the company. [More…]
He knew hundreds of the men and women by their Christian names. [More…]
This state of affairs comes by dint of having a management which is enlightened. [More…]
I want to pass some remarks on the comments made by the honourable member for Darling (Mr Fitzpatrick) about the mining situation as it affects one Broken Hill mine which is closing down. [More…]
1 know that all honourable members regret men being thrown out of work but I think we must consider the history of mining operations in Broken Hill. [More…]
My information - and I have had a lot of experience in mining - is that the mining unions in Broken Hill resisted attempts to introduce modern mining industrial equipment. [More…]
honourable members comment in preference to it. [More…]
Had this mine been able to install modern up-to-date equipment these men undoubtedly would have been working. [More…]
Doubtless the use of modern mining equipment would have resulted in the possible redundancy of a few men, but not of all the men who are now going to be out of work, and the men who would have been put out of work would have gone out at a time when it would have been easy for them to obtain employment. [More…]
A book with the same title is available from the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
He is also one of the controlling men in the Amalgamated Engineering Union which is involved in the union amalgamation proposal. [More…]
There is not one syllable in that with which I find myself in disagreement. [More…]
I have seen men who take the view that no matter what may be said of them, no matter what threats may be made against them, they will stand firm. [More…]
The task of industry is to avoid men and parties getting into that state of obstinacy. [More…]
I agree with the Government’s stipulation that the president ought to be a lawyer because there are legal questions to be determined and the constitutional authority of the commission has to be understood and only a lawyer understands it. [More…]
But I have always said - and I am pleased to know that the Government has been wise enough to note what I have said about this - that there is room on the bench for economists, sociologists, psychologists and men of practical experience on the bench. [More…]
I am glad that the Government has made provision for this. [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…]
However, this Government has decided that that is the way it will be done. [More…]
As part of its formula for resolving disputes its seems to think that there is some mistique about men who come to the Bar, those who the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) said wear the silk. [More…]
J, am very much afraid that I am not persuaded by the argument that lawyers are a race apart. [More…]
I am reminded that he came to judgment too. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman were to remain silent for more than a few moments, perhaps he might have the opportunity of listening. [More…]
Rather, the Government in looking at this proposal believes that in making appointments to the position of presidential member it should not be restricted to those with legal experience on the simple basis that the Government did not believe - I say this without offence to any of the legal men in this chamber - that lawyers possess any total reservoir of human wisdom in the field of industrial jurisdiction. [More…]
From time to time there may be such appointments but there is no suggestion of any radical change in the composition of the presidential members. [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…]
I do not agree with the idea that we should rush about trying to get people who are not lawyers because lawyers ought to be the fairest men to appoint to the tribunal. [More…]
It has been said that no lawyer worth his salt would sit on a tribunal with a majority of non-legal men because he would have a different background and he would take a different view of the whole situation. [More…]
If that were to happen it would open the way for political appointments. [More…]
What I do not like about this section of the Bill is that it leaves the way open for political appointments, and the minute a political appointment is made respect for this tribunal is lost. [More…]
The trade unions which, as 1 have said, are having a subtle change in their leadership - they are getting better educated men and men who look to the public interest more than was done in the old days - would lose their respect for this tribunal. [More…]
This leaves the way open for political appointments to be made and that would go some distance towards destroying the respect for the people on the tribunal. [More…]
I contend that this particular clause is designed specifically to put the bar on the legal high jump so high that no leader in the trade union movement could ever qualify for appointment as a deputy president; hence the use of the words ‘high level’. [More…]
This clause is designed specifically to fit either of these 2 men whom the Government now has in mind. [More…]
Of course it suits the Government at this particular stage to pass this legislation. [More…]
It hopes that it will have allies in the Senate who will be able to prevent the necessary amendments which undoubtedly will occur under Labor. [More…]
The Government has only itself to blame for exercising very carefully the 1947 amendment that was included in the Act by the Chifley Administration and which provided for the establishment of an economic bureau which would have exercised the function of providing the necessary economic data for the Commission to use. [More…]
That bureau would have been current and continuous in its functioning but quite deliberately the Government in the early 1950s chose to repeal that section of the Act. [More…]
There is equally a need for men to understand how trade unionists think. [More…]
When one looks at the ranks of the Government one will not see a single trade unionist amongst them. [More…]
I am certain, is a matter to which we will as a government give very serious consideration. [More…]
So that honourable members may get a fair sample of the hiatus which does occur because of the vague status of the Commission I shall quote from a publication by no less an authority than CEDA, the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, sponsored by the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, the Colonial Sugar Refining Co. Ltd, the Bank of New South Wales and all the best financial institutions and companies in Australia. [More…]
He had a very great understanding of men. [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…]
1 ask the Assistant Minister assisting the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Street) whether he will undertake to give to the Committee a guarantee - that is probably pressing it a little high; whether he would assure us - that the Government will look at the drafting of sub-clause (1a.) [More…]
There were untold strikes because the mine managers could not get on with the men. [More…]
I would like to see this provision withdrawn and the principles of the Labor Party implemented so that a person who knows men can attain this position in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and it will not necessarily have to be occupied by what sometimes could be an educated idiot. [More…]
It seems to me that however valid, however persuasive the argument of the honourable member for Hunter and of one or two others in reference to people who were not fortunate to have had formal training up to some sort of level 20 years ago, or even 10 or IS years ago, that argument is not relevant to the projection in this case. [More…]
In the past 10 years we have had perhaps 3 times the number of university graduates that we had previously, not to mention colleges of advanced education, technical colleges, institutes and all the rest. [More…]
We are not talking about the self-made men, about all those people here and elsewhere who never had an opportunity to get formal training, so when we are considering this proposition let us try to move, roughly speaking, up to the 1950s or so. [More…]
Frankly, given all those things, I do not see how anybody of real and outstand ing merit would be likely to be excluded from consideration for appointment as a presidential member of the Commission. [More…]
As a matter of fact, really to get to grips with the functions of the Commission we need to appreciate - I do this without anticipating or trying to open the debate on a subsequent clause - the fact that more than ever before the Government is introducing economic issues into what are strictly legal deliberations. [More…]
The Deputy President of the Court should be there as a counter-weight to the deliberations of a court or a commission that will have an overwhelming preponderance of men who are, as we would term it, on the other side of the fence. [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…]
They are those to have evidence presented to them, and traditionally a judge gives his judgment on the facts of the case as presented. [More…]
I need not remind the Committee that in common law courts it was found, by experience over centuries, that it was necessary to create a fresh branch of law known as equity to supplement the known deficiencies of the common law. [More…]
Similarly, with the planning of the Government to inject these economic considerations and major, broad and quasipolitical considerations into the functions of the Commission, there is more than ever before a need for men there who can speak positively and with certainty and experience for the trade union movement, the little people, the people who will be affected and who will study the real impact. [More…]
The rest of them will be men, with all due respect to them, who in many cases have had a relatively sheltered experience in life. [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…]
If this is what they think they are worth - an extra $84 - why do they not set some sort of example by giving a more reasonable increase to the people who have to rely upon their judgment? [More…]
It appears to be a disgraceful attempt - I hope it is not - by the Government to bribe the Commission. [More…]
The honourable member says that the Government has been doing it for years. [More…]
You are the men who have to carry it out. [More…]
My friend from Burke asks why not give them what the Government gave our friends and supporters - the $2 a week which those who heard the national wage inquiry recently thought was a proper wage for men on $66 a week. [More…]
If men on $60 a week ought to be able to meet the rising cost of living that has occurred over the last 16 months out of the miserable $2 a week which these commissioners have given them, the commissioners ought not to need another $84 on top of the $240 that they are now getting. [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…]
If the Government intends to increase the salaries of judges or commissioners, it will leave itself open to the charge, as the honourable member for Hindmarsh said, of trying to buy them off. [More…]
The Government is placing the commissioners completely above the people on whose salaries they are adjudicating. [More…]
In that way the Government’s action is unjust. [More…]
That is why we on this side of the Parliament intend to oppose these proposals. [More…]
If an example is to be set of wage justice and wage pegging and what the Government would call stability, the top level should be made to set this example. [More…]
Does it not look farcical that, at the same time as the Government is asking workers to accept an increase of $2 a week and pensioners to accept a miserable increase of 75c a week, it is backdating for 4, 5 or 6 months a salary, increase of $84 a week to men who can well afford to live on the salaries that they are now receiving? [More…]
Where is the justice associated with wage payments in policies of this kind? [More…]
This in itself is scandalous in the extreme and that is why we on this side of the Parliament will oppose this legislation. [More…]
It is all very well for the Minister for Labour and National Service to say that such salary payments are necessary. [More…]
I believe that those people who want these salaries increased, who expect workers to accept an increase of $2 a week and who are appointing men on huge salaries to adjudicate on salaries would spend as much on one night’s entertainment as the minimum weekly wage that is paid to workers . [More…]
are on exorbitant salaries compared to private members of this Parliament and other people. [More…]
The trouble with this Government is that it has overpaid Ministers who are receiving exorbitant rates ^ while backbenchers do not receive as much is Qantas flight stewards. [More…]
The Government is setting up throughout the Commonwealth people in highly paid positions to implement its policy which can mean only, increases of $2 a week to workers. [More…]
These men are drawn from both sides of the industrial fence. [More…]
In fact, if I remember correctly, the honourable member for Kingston has been this article which appeared in the journal of the Administrative and Clerical Officers Association towards the end of last year, in which it was stated that the Opposition was not fit to form the government of this country simply because of its reaction to the Salaries (Statutory Offices) Adjustment Bill. [More…]
I say to honourable gentlemen opposite: What complete and utter humbug that they should take this view. [More…]
After all, was this not one matter included in the Salaries (Statutory Offices) Adjustment Bill? [More…]
I recall the Salaries (Statutory Offices) Adjustment Bill introduced last year. [More…]
I would invite all my friends oh the opposite side of the House to say that parliamentary salaries should go up by $2 a week. [More…]
I can understand the tradesman’s resentment. [More…]
We look around the various States and we compare our own circumstances with the salaries of members of State parliaments and frankly I must tell the House with all. [More…]
This is the difficulty, and we have to try to make a judgment having regard to the responsibilities of the men who occupy these positions. [More…]
I just want to say this and I will try to say it without any heat at all: The charge made by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) and the honourable member for Burke that this is seeking to pressurise the Commission is one of the most offensive comments I have heard in this Parliament. [More…]
When we come to think of it, it is not hard to justify that statement. [More…]
When we consider that the top level of the Third Division is getting $220 already and wants another $19 and that the men on $67 a week are to get only $6, it seems to me that the whole thing is cockeyed. [More…]
I told Mr Linehan that had I been preparing the case for the Third Division of the Commonwealth Public Service I would have been asking for a hell of a lot more for the men on the bottom rung of the Third Division. [More…]
I said: ‘I would tell you that your claim was too low for the men at the bottom. [More…]
I think it is extremely unfortunate that the salaries of men who will undertake a very difficult and responsible task in this community have to be the subject of so much acrimonious debate in this place. [More…]
We have heard the comments by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), who I understand at some earlier stage preceded the Minister for Labour and National Service as the Minister in charge of this portfolio but who now occupies the most honourable position of Prime Minister. [More…]
This matter will continue to be a problem so long as we have conservative governments and conservative Ministers who are all too anxious to say that men must be driven to make them work. [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…]
I am referring there to induced unemployment and ignoring the recognised level of some 60,000 people who are unemployed all the time. [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 Prime Minister commented that generally there are fewer stoppages in Australia than there are in any other part of the world. [More…]
The majority of industrial disputes are caused by men refusing to go into unsafe places. [More…]
I invite the Minister or any member on the Government side of the House to stand up and tell me that men ought to go into areas where they believe their lives are at risk. [More…]
Working men have an obligation and a right to take industrial action to rectify any of the things that concern them, but the Minister through this legislation is seeking to deny them that right. [More…]
In other words, there is a place now for this kind of goup - for a situation where the union leaders and the men who know the work, such as the safety officers in the mines, can work with management and get better results. [More…]
I know that I have accused these men before of being’com’ dominated. [More…]
The Opposition supports the comments made by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen). [More…]
I understand that the Opposition in the Senate may move an amendment along the lines suggested by the honourable member to provide that it shall be a defence to a prosecution under this proposed new section if a person can show that he had just cause for not attending the conference. [More…]
The fact that this penalty has never been imposed or that it has never been found necessary to impose it in the past does not convince me that a defence provision ought not be included because we cannot be certain that the kind of men we now have in control of these procedures will always be in control. [More…]
He was from a western State and he kept sneering and saying ‘The wise men of the east’. [More…]
I have not mentioned the person’s name. [More…]
You are not permitted to mention his name in this place. [More…]
The decision in regard to the ‘Little Red Schoolbook’ that was mentioned earlier by my friend was not a decision of the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp); it was a decision of the Cabinet of which the Minister is a member. [More…]
1 should hope that in future my friend does not put the blame for that decision on the Minister for Customs and Excise when he was only one of the men who were responsible for making it. [More…]
Is it in the public interest that young married men who have been forced into the Army must live in the fringe areas of various cities because adequate and proper housing is not provided for them? [More…]
All the issues which the Government, with its narrow political point of view, believes to be in the public interest are contained, though hidden, in the clauses of this Bill which will give extremely wide powers to a group of people whom 1 consider have never been in touch with the public other than on the university campus in their younger days when they were studying law. [More…]
If time would permit 1 would quote to the Minister many of the statements he has made to his own political party and coming from his own secretariat in the past few weeks and just prior to Christmas. [More…]
It seems to me, and I have yet to be persuaded away from this argument, that anything that is in the best interests of those 9 million people surely is in the public interest. [More…]
Has the honourable member for Moreton not tried to persuade us that it should be a small minority - the 66 men of this great nation who sit on the other side of the House - that represents the public interest? [More…]
The Government’s ideas of public interest are the interests of the Sir Frank Packers and companies such as Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd and other organisations which the Government represents. [More…]
The proposed new sections 32, 33, 34 and 35 give the Commission power to include in an award a bans clause or a clause relating to procedures for the settlement of disputes. [More…]
Of course, if a dispute is already in existence and men are on strike one might say that for all intents and purposes it will in future be mandatory for the prosecution certificate to be issued. [More…]
I withdraw from that, as the Committee knows; but I am just trying to point out to the honourable member for Hindmarsh that when it comes to the crunch, when he is placed in the position of assuming a measure of responsibility he is bound to acknowledge the fact that no matter what the merits of the law may be, in order to support it and defend it against infringement and destruction, he must be prepared to have a system of sanctions. [More…]
I think it was in my speech on the second reading that I pressed upon the House that 1 acknowledged readily the fact that people resile from having a system of punishments. [More…]
1 also contended that whenever we have a system of punishments, whenever we have powers which are misused, men will ultimately say: ‘These are no longer to be dignified as powers. [More…]
That is why I say to the Government unblushingly - and that is why, if I may, say to those who are called upon to administer this legislation: ‘You cannot abuse it, because the very moment that you abuse it you bring into being the prospect of its own destruction’. [More…]
Can I have an acknowledgement from the Minister? [More…]
How it ever met Board of Trade requirements in the United Kingdom I will never know. [More…]
A private agreement was struck between the company and the union. [More…]
The men wanted extra money to take the vessel from point A to point B. [More…]
Let us imagine that the men refused to take the vessel to sea. [More…]
I agree entirely with the comments of my colleague from South Australia the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) who said that there is always a danger in arbitral actions that where men who have taken what honourable members opposite like to regard as industrial action the matter could well involve a question of safety. [More…]
It is true that from the Government side there has been only one speech, and that was from the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen). [More…]
Towards the end of his speech he quoted comments made by the late and most revered Dr Evatt. [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…]
The Government would say that if goods or services were unprofitable to provide it was part of the free enterprise or market system that one could make one’s own choice about whether to provide them. [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…]
This Government and governments of the same colour across the world traditionally have done this to working people. [More…]
It is bad in the eyes of the trade union movement, the Labor Party and the people of this country. [More…]
Now this Government intends to compound that which is bad by adding to it to make it worse. [More…]
Yet this Government has now introduced proposals not to improve the situation but to make it worse. [More…]
An order is issued on the application of an employer and that order restricts working men in their actions. [More…]
The investigation takes place later, although the fines commence from the day that the order is issued. [More…]
Surely what we are trying to do is to protect the men against the tyranny of the union machine. [More…]
One would have thought that the Opposition, if it had readily been on the side of the men, would have been very glad for this kind of provision to operate. [More…]
They want the Government to provide them with some protection against trade union tyranny. [More…]
I am afraid that it is not really concerned with the interests of the men. [More…]
The members of the unions are naturally looking to the Government to protect them against the tyranny of trade union officials, and that is what this Bill is all about. [More…]
Is it a fact thatit is not possible under the scheme for sons to buy out their fathers when the time has come for the property to be handed over to young trained men and at the same time provide the fathers with funds for the start of retirement; if so, is this the defect to which he referred. [More…]
The employment position there is aggravated and will be much more aggravated by the end of the year as is shown by a statement made by the Brownbuilt Industries Division of John Lysaght (Australia) Ltd. [More…]
It shows that the company proposes to lay off 600 men out of a total employment force of 1,080. [More…]
The 600 men will all be displaced between July and December of this year. [More…]
Quite frankly, what the Minister said is all bunkum and is typical of the irresponsible statements for which he is becoming renowned in this place. [More…]
It is also typical of the provocative statements that the honourable gentleman makes on industrial matters. [More…]
The company issued a Press statement in February which does not contain one reference to industrial trouble as the reason why it is laying off 600 of its men and closing down sections of its business. [More…]
I do not have time to read all the statement but I would be happy to do so. [More…]
If I had the time I would love to read the rest of the statement in order to show that the Minister for Labour and National Service is irresponsible in the statements he makes to this Parliament. [More…]
I have figures here which disclose that, for example, since the introduction of containerisation and the development of the Yennora wool handling centre in Sydney, there has been a reduction of employment in the waterfront industry in Newcastle. [More…]
Twenty years ago between 1,500 and 1,600 men were employed on the handling of general cargo and coal in the port of Newcastle. [More…]
Peters closed down 2 years ago, displacing 146 men. [More…]
Other companies in the wholesale warehousing section of the foodstuffs industries have likewise closed down, and now business is transacted on a management to management level. [More…]
As a result of this over 100 men and women have been displaced from the food wholesaling section of the Newcastle economy. [More…]
In my remarks a moment ago I mentioned wool. [More…]
I have some figures showing the movement of wool through the port of Newcastle over the last 10 years. [More…]
The Government must do something positive about the matter. [More…]
I support the amendment, the main detail of which will be dealt with later by the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Kirwan). [More…]
However, I cannot leave the subject completely alone because my experience in my electorate and in the areas surrounding it in the far western suburbs of Sydney has shown that there is a tremendous growth in unemployment in all industries. [More…]
A number of organisations in the North St Mary’s industrial complex, which is one of the largest industrial complexes in the metro, politan area of Sydney, are putting men off weekly, and I have people coming to me day by day with problems associated with unemployment. [More…]
For this reason and in view of the growth of this problem over the last couple of months, I cannot help but doubt the validity of the unemployment figures which are published and wonder whether some adjustments are being made to them. [More…]
That industry employs many thousands of people and contributes to the employment of many thousands more. [More…]
The honourable member for Canning (Mr Hallett) referred to the setting up of committees and he said he thought them unnecessary because men ought to be able to arrive at the decisions required and necessary for the development of our country. [More…]
The present situation is illustrated by Australia’s population figures from 1949 to 1971 - the period of office of the Government. [More…]
During 20 years of this Government there has been a steady progression and the point has been reached where that figure stands at 63.01 per cent. [More…]
At present in that State it is difficult to obtain employment even in the timber industry. [More…]
All rural industries there are maintaining a minimum of employment and the mining industries are putting men off and are in a state of minor recession. [More…]
Yet the Government seems to have no concern for this situation. [More…]
Indeed, in the May 1972 bulletin of the Australian Industries Development Association it was said: [More…]
The government of the day decided that all men who were eligible for service could be conscripted in 5 classifications and among these classifications were married men and widowers without children, aged 18 to 35, and married men and widowers with children, aged 35 to 45. [More…]
1 am sure from what I saw at Rowville in the war period, with men of 35 with three or four children conscripted and in training, that had the Japanese managed to land anywhere in Australia and had they bombed Sydney these people would have been called up. [More…]
I believe that the honourable member for Herbert as the person who represents this area would want the best possible body of men to run this institute. [More…]
The amendment which is before the Committee relates to a difference on how the council would be constituted. [More…]
I hope that the Committee will look at this amendment on the basis of the best method of forming the council and will vote on that basis and not on the basis of what could only be described as ‘simpleton parochialism of the worst type’. [More…]
I would have thought he would be concerned to ask me to take the initiative at a much earlier time when South Vietnam was endeavouring to defend itself so that it could have its own form of democratic government and when from the north it had an invasion of regiments of a regular army seeking to control it by force. [More…]
I conclude by commenting that one does not see the people of South Vietnam rushing north to their socalled liberators. [More…]
On the contrary, these unfortunate men, women and children are fleeing southwards. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the House when, where and how backbenchers in this Parliament can get an opportunity to bring forward their views on matters not covered by legislation? [More…]
Grievance Day offers an opportunity for those members to bring these matters before the Parliament. [More…]
The Government must stop diseregarding the view of the Parliament The Government must become aware that the Parliament is made up of men of equal status. [More…]
lt makes him a leader of a particular section of government. [More…]
There is abundant evidence available in a plenitude of authoritative journals by suitably qualified research workers which indicates that people who do not smoke have a lower rate of mortality and morbidity than those who smoke and in those people who give up smoking there is a significant improvement in the rate of mortality and morbidity. [More…]
For instance, chronic bronchitis and emphysema are twice as common in men smokers and 3 times as common in women smokers than in non-smokers of the same sex. [More…]
Men who are light cigarette smokers - men who smoke less than 10 cigarettes a day - have a 22 per cent higher frequency of coronary and atherosclerotic heart disease than those who have never smoked. [More…]
On 18th January I made representations to the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) after having received a visit from 5 young men who live in my electorate. [More…]
These young men, aged between 20 and 30, were Canadian nationals who visited Australia as members of the Trojan Rugby Union, playing a series of matches against club and representative sides including the Brisbane Waters Rugby Union Club. [More…]
They are a fine bunch of young men who I am sure would make ideal citizens of Australia. [More…]
At 10.30 on the morning of Wednesday, 5th January, Messrs Weiss, Bird and Buhr were rudely awakened at their Terrigal home by 2 men, one of whom said to Mr Weiss: ‘Alright you guys, the party’s over. [More…]
These passports were found and the men showed them to the police. [More…]
It is the opinion of the girls themselves that the Australian Government has brought them to this country as marriage fodder. [More…]
So they note Australia has recruited this large number of single girls and encouraged them to come here while finding visas for only a small number of men. [More…]
These single girls find when they get here that there is a big imbalance in migrant intake - they meet more migrants than they do Australians - in favour of single men from many countries. [More…]
Rightly or wrongly they feel that the Government has looked upon them as marriage fodder to correct an imbalance in the Australian community. [More…]
This concerns me because at present in Australia we have a substantial number of men who are unemployed. [More…]
In the Newcastle district unemployment registry area which includes my electorate and the adjoining areas of Maitland and Cessnock there are 1,499 adult males and 1,015 junior males unemployed. [More…]
This means that a total of 2,514 men are unemployed in the Newcastle district. [More…]
If this work were carried out by the Australian steel industry employment would be provided for many men in the steel industry. [More…]
We had a situation in the Newcastle district only just before Christmas in which a considerable number of men were laid off by the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd. [More…]
In fact, men were laid off in the 4 plants operated by BHP throughout Australia. [More…]
The filling of this order by Australian industry would provide employment for hundreds of men throughout Australia. [More…]
The Government should make a clear and positive statement to the Australian Gas Light Company that in no circumstances will it be permitted to import the steel pipes necessary to carry the gas from South Australia to New South Wales. [More…]
1 should like to draw the attention of the Minister to figures contained in a Department of Trade and Industry publication which is received monthly by those of us who are interested in it. [More…]
In fact, for the first 8 months of the present financial year, notwithstanding that a great number of men and women have been unemployed in this country, there has been a greater inflow of iron and steel than there was in the comparable 8 month period in 1971. [More…]
Yet the Government is going to permit the Australian Gas Light Company, which is a wealthy company making very substantial profits, the luxury of importing 120,000 tons of steel pipes which will utilise in excess of 120,000 tons of steel plates. [More…]
If the work were carried out here its manufacture would provide employment for Australian men in the steel fabricating and pipe-making industry in Australia. [More…]
ships, men and human suffering, that saved Australia from invasion. [More…]
We the peoples of the United Nations determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind, and to affirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small. [More…]
that since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed. [More…]
There are 4 particular points that 1 want to raise with the Minister for Customs and Excise (Mr Chipp) and with the Government as to what they should bear in mind when considering those appointments. [More…]
The first point I have mentioned before. [More…]
I would strongly recommend that the Government pay more attention to the quality of the men appointed to the Board rather than the particular industry whence they come. [More…]
For that reason the quality of the men who go on to the Board will be most important, so I hope that the Government will depart from its usual procedure of going to the industry groups rather than looking as a first requirement for quality above all, because quality above all will be required. [More…]
I represent a great number of primary producers, as does all this fine body of men sitting behind me. [More…]
I asked: As the division between the economy of secondary and primary industries is widening will the Government reduce tariffs in certain instances or will it grant to primary industry price support on its exports? [More…]
If the Government decides that it will not do either of these things primary industry will continue to be in a very bad financial position. [More…]
The Great Boulder mine which, as the report stated, was obliged to close down its underground operations in December 1969, carried an average work force of approximately 750 men. [More…]
It is fairly safe to say that had the Commonwealth Government introduced the present amendments to the Gold Mining Industry Assistance Act approxiately 4 years ago instead of waiting until now Great Boulder would still be producing gold and would still be employing a very substantial number of men to produce that gold. [More…]
The Lake View and Star, which over the years has constantly employed between 900 and 1000 men, quite naturally required a much lesser number of employees when it found it was necessary to reduce production costs by cutting down almost completely its development work. [More…]
The same situation applied with regard to North Kalgurli, which normally employed about 500 men. [More…]
Here again the reduction in work force and the curtailing of development work would not have occurred if the additional assistance had been provided 4 years earlier. [More…]
Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie, whose overall work force was normally in the vicinity of 900, was also obliged to reconsider and change its intentions in relation to further development which again had a reducing effect in relation to employees. [More…]
Execution of the sentence was deferred until 7th August 1952 when both men were hanged. [More…]
I note his recent statements in the first speeches he has ever made on urban affairs that it is wildly inaccurate to speak of a crisis in our cities and that people have been carried away by labels such as urban affairs’ and ‘the challenge of the cities’. [More…]
Does this mean that the right honourable gentleman and his Government reject the views of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, the Royal Australian Planning Institute and the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects, which have formed a national alliance and in a manifesto a month ago declared that the very real problems of unplanned urban growth are now approaching a crisis situation in many areas and are in large part caused by the failure to develop national and State policies to co-ordinate this growth? [More…]
Are these architects and planners simply men who have been carried away? [More…]
Some years ago the Government advertised for young men who had a certain education standard to make a career for themselves in New Guinea as patrol officers. [More…]
Is it true that they will lose their careers soon, and has the Government made any attempt to absorb them within the Public Service in Australia or provide them with any other positions within government organisations in Australia? [More…]
There are 2 or 3 other aspects of the Shortland electorate dispute that have caused me unceasing worry and I will mention them briefly. [More…]
Each of these 3 men has possessed qualities separate from each other, while being as virtuous and sustaining as one another. [More…]
However, an environment department is much more than a pollution control department. [More…]
The environment embraces a whole host of items such as over-population, urban sprawl, litter, dirty air and water, mining, land use planning and flora and fauna conservation. [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…]
The Commonwealth Department of the Environment has a staff of 8 clerks one is an Engineer the remainder is without any skilled scientists or men of technology in that field. [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…]
All decisions by government, by private companies and by individuals have environmental impact. [More…]
What we must do is design a new model which ensures that when any decision is made it is an environmentally wise one. [More…]
This will mean that we might have to change quite drastically some of our present concepts of government departments. [More…]
We can attain such a goal if we first set up proper social and environmental goals to keep us on course. [More…]
Finally, it must become obvious that once we recognise that everything is interconnected in a systems way, that the environment can be overloaded and destroyed, we must realise that our concepts of ‘freedom’ will have to undergo great changes. [More…]
However, if, ahead of time, we have agreed upon a set of environmental goals we will be better off. [More…]
It is the only way which will be socially responsible, be fair to all people at the same time, and which will result in the collective survival of all men. [More…]
But obviously no-one would entertain the idea that those professional men, because of their position, were buying these stocks just as an investment. [More…]
The Australian aircraft industry provides at the present time employment for about 6,000 men. [More…]
Not all of these men are employed on aircraft production or maintenance; many of them are employed on other work associated with civil aviation. [More…]
It is time that this Government did something positive to provide decent offset payments for the aircraft industry in Australia from overseas aircraft manufacturers whose aircraft we are purchasing. [More…]
Negotiations could be undertaken by the Government to ensure that the Australian aircraft industry receives some decent return, instead of the Government dealing with these matters in the way that it is at the present time. [More…]
I recognise that under the Act Mrs Bowden is receiving her just entitlement. [More…]
However, I think it is a weakness in the Act and in the arrangement between Australia and Great Britain that once a person in her situation leaves Great Britain there is no increase above the level of social service payments received from Great Britain and she is not entitled to an Australian pension until she has been here for 10 years. [More…]
Her cider son works for the New South Wales Department of Main Roads. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members will be aware that young men working in those sorts of jobs would be on the minimum salary. [More…]
In the absence of the Hassett report there is some reason for scepticism about how fundamental this reorganisation is. [More…]
Another absence from the Minister’s statement is any reference to economies which a rationalisation would normally be expected to produce. [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…]
It is of crucial importance that all of the defence services find ways of diverting resources away from the long administrative tail and getting them to the areas such as weapons replacement where funds are badly needed. [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…]
At the moment there is no clear picture of what is the real situation. [More…]
As permanency develops, as more men are employed and as more waterfront labour is employed by permanent employers, the need for these men to be retained becomes less. [More…]
I hope that in his reply the Minister will give some constructive ideas about what the Government proposes to do with the men employed at present by the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority and indicate their position as far as staff redundancy is concerned. [More…]
This matter is causing these men great concern and they want to know what is their position. [More…]
I hope that the Government will come up with some answers to the overall effects of containerisation, roll-on roll-off ships and the other revolutionary changes that have taken place on the waterfront and also will indicate what it proposes to do about the ports that are more vitally affected. [More…]
Twenty years ago 1,500 to 1,600 men were employed there on coal loading and on general cargo loading. [More…]
This, together with other innovations that were introduced into the port, has resulted in the number of men engaged on coal loading being reduced from 700 to something like a maximum of 15 to 20 men today. [More…]
This is one of the problems to which the Government has to find a solution. [More…]
You just do not get rid of so many men overnight. [More…]
These men are entitled to some suitable compensation. [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…]
He is a skilled employee in his own field, but when he is taken out of it he is just another fellow, and he has commitments based on an income of $90 to $100 a week. [More…]
He then finds that the only employment available to him is as a labourer, and he has to meet his commitments out of a wage of approximately $45 to a maximum of $55 a week. [More…]
The change is too great, and men should not be required to carry the burden of this change. [More…]
Therefore, the Government should be coming up with answers to these problems, and the Minister should have some answers. [More…]
Not only are the men in the industry to be taken into consideration; the whole district has to be considered: I have quoted the figures on the amount of wool shipped through the port of Newcastle in my electorate. [More…]
We had ports that carried approximately 2,500 men in a labour intensive field which had a nonmechanised structure for the loading and unloading of vessels. [More…]
The number of men employed in these ports today has dropped to 900. [More…]
I think the Minister in his second reading speech expressed some disappointment about industrial disputes within the industry. [More…]
There was an extremely high average age among the men engaged in the industry, and this meant that the men who were closest to retiring age and were considered to be redundant, found it extremely difficult to be trained in some other occupation. [More…]
In addition there was the fact that the Act itself stated that the last men who joined the industry should be the first to go. [More…]
So the Government deprived the industry of the younger, fit men and retained those who had had a lifetime in a very hazardous and arduous industry to carry on the burden of work. [More…]
There is a tradition in western Europe for enterprising young men to work in colonies or territories for a few years, and then to retire home. [More…]
Australia has benefited from thousands of such young men and their families coming here. [More…]
By late last month 1,150 men. [More…]
Government spending to that date: $1.5m. [More…]
I suggest that, if this is all that we can think of as a solution to unemployment in that area, it is rather a policy of despair. [More…]
Work has been available in certain State government departments. [More…]
In the Railways Department there was work for fettlers, and the Forests Department employed 51 men for unskilled work in the forests. [More…]
However, we feel that completely absent from Government utterances has been a positive adherence to the ideal of full employment. [More…]
No clear statement has been made to indicate that this is the ideal of the Government. [More…]
I realise that if one says that one stands for full employment, as a Labor government did back in 1945 - it said that at a time when it was demobilising a very large number of people from the Armed Services - one is committed very perilously to produce a result. [More…]
If a government were to say that it stood for full employment and did not produce full employment, it would invite derision. [More…]
But it would be a courageous statement. [More…]
It is the sort of statement that a government which is concerned for the development of this country should be making. [More…]
It is based on the general attitude of industry and the failure of this Government to come up with solutions and with a statement of what it proposes to do about the situation. [More…]
We agree that restructuring is necessary, but what is being done by the company and this Government to alleviate problems created by restructuring? [More…]
They will have to find employment wherever they can. [More…]
Probably Government members, including the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Bury), who is to follow, will give some indication of what the Government is doing in this case and also what it intends to do in regard to the closing by the Chysler-Rootes group of its plant at Fishermen’s Bend in Victoria, where some 300 men and women have been thrown out of employment. [More…]
What is the Government doing about issues like that? [More…]
Another matter to which I would like to draw attention is the action of the American-owned company, Clutha Development Pty Ltd in closing South Clifton and North Bulli No. [More…]
It is because of the loss of a contract to the Italian market, which in turn lost it to Goonyella, in the Bowen basin in Queensland, which is 90 per cent owned by an American company, Utah Development Co., in a joint venture with a Japanese company, Mitsubishi Development Pty Ltd. [More…]
These foreign-owned companies are using Australia’s assets with complete disregard for the men and women they employ. [More…]
I might as well mention in passing that in the past week I have received 2 letters from members of trade unions involved in the Australian stevedoring industry, who have been expressing concern about what is happening in that industry. [More…]
The Government will not even tell its own employees of its intentions. [More…]
In my opening remarks I mentioned that the reason for the closing of the General Motors plant in Western Australia is the opposite of the explanation given by Lysaghts at Newcastle for laying off 600 men by the end of this year. [More…]
These close-downs have had a serious effect on employment opportunities at Newcastle. [More…]
Also, the Government is doing nothing to overcome a problem in my electorate associated with the wool industry. [More…]
In 1969, 785 men and women were engaged in wool merchandising at Newcastle. [More…]
A similar comment may be made about wharf labouring. [More…]
In 1950 there were between 1,500 and 1,600 men engaged in this work, but in January 1970 there was a port quota of 600 and in April of this year the figure had declined to 372. [More…]
The Government has no answer for these problems. [More…]
The Government is entitled to ask the Opposition to state its attitude on this matter. [More…]
At least the Government should permit the members of this Parliament to become involved in trying to find a solution for these problems. [More…]
If Cabinet cannot find a solution, at least the Government should let the Parliament try to find a solution by investigating the situation and trying to come up with solutions for the major problem of displacement of labour and associated problems. [More…]
After all, men who are committed to the education of their children, to the upbringing of their families, suddenly find themselves out of work. [More…]
Men who have had 30 and 40 years in the industry now find themselves on the unemployment market irrespective of whether they are staff men or labourers. [More…]
It appears that people do not count and the Government does not care. [More…]
Usually, before money is made available for any development project, the proposal has to run the gauntlet of this Parliament; it has to be debated and subjected to any criticisms or amendments that may be thought necessary. [More…]
It took almost 12 months from the expiry of the first 5-year plan for this Bill to hit Parliament. [More…]
This seems to be the type of arrangement in which the Government is becoming more and more involved. [More…]
Already men, with their machines, are facing uncertainty in respect of their movements and employment because no public decision has been taken on the continuity of that development project. [More…]
There is now no unemployment in the Fingal Valley as there was late in 1961 when the coal mines closed down. [More…]
State and local government authorities wanted to safeguard the capital spent on streets, water supplies, schools, medical services, stores and power reticulation and to protect the homes of the people. [More…]
So the Forestry Commission moved into the Valley and began to train for forest work men who had worked underground for years. [More…]
This is an excellent example of the ability of the forest service to meet the challenge of unemployment in a rural area. [More…]
I would like to explain that the reduction in employment from a peak figure of 109 6 years ago to 66 this year has been due to the normal wastage, such as age retirements, sickness, resignations to take up other work, and so on. [More…]
I repeat that no unemployment has been evident in the main towns in the Fingal Valley - Avoca, Fingal and St Mary’s - since the scheme began 10 years ago. [More…]
The retrained men have built hundreds of miles of roads and fire breaks and dams for fire protection and have done a magnificent job. [More…]
The gang commenced with 12 men In 1969, increased to 20 in 1970-71 and now stands at 18. [More…]
All unemployed waterside workers have been employed and the reduction to 18 men is due to normal wastage and to the efficiency of the gang. [More…]
1 pay a tribute to these men. [More…]
They have proved capable of handling the annual establishment of 600 acres of plantation, in addition, the Forestry Commission has built 18 miles of roads and 5 miles of fire breaks during the 3 years of the scheme. [More…]
This is another very fine example of the forest service meeting the challenge of unemployment - this time amongst waterside workers. [More…]
Finally, I would just like to mention what happened in New Zealand. [More…]
But at that time I can remember quite distinctly these men selling bonds for acres of forest in New Zealand. [More…]
This is an example of what can happen when men with vision start to plant trees. [More…]
I hope that this Government will go on and provide asistance to private enterprise to enable it also to participate in the reforestation programme. [More…]
It would be bad enough if that was all the increase that was given, but every one of these office holders under the legislation that the Government wants to have passed receives travelling expenses. [More…]
These are the people to whom the Government is toadying. [More…]
When the men who fix the wages are to be given increases of $4,400 or $84 a week and some workers who come before them get only $2, is it any wonder that public opinion is turning against this Government for its wage restraint against not those who have money but those who really need it in the lower income group. [More…]
This is a Government that does not give a damn about the 10 per cent of workers in Broken Hill who have been declared redundant. [More…]
This is a Government which in the last few minutes passed legislation involving millions of dollars of the taxpayers’ money for the benefit of industry. [More…]
But this is a Government that is not prepared in any way, shape or form, to recognise that there is a human element to technological change in industry and that readjustments and rationalisation in industry have affected in one fell swoop some 600 men each of whom has an average family of 3 or perhaps 4 persons. [More…]
Yet, the Government does not give a damn about the manner in which they are going to live. [More…]
It is a government bereft of any plan, a government that has denied completely the type of inquiry that should surround what is happening in Western Australia and in Broken Hill, what has happened in South Australia in the durable industries and what has happened in the rural sector. [More…]
In fact, only the other day in South Australia I heard that the Government, as part of its aid programme to provide employment in rural areas, was opening up tracts of land in the rural areas of South Australia, areas that were put down- [More…]
As the House may recall, the ANL purchased the ‘Echuca’ specifically for the Melbourne to Tasmania run and provision was made for the use of a radio telephone operator rather than the usual wireless telegraphers - the sort of dit-dit-dit-dash men - that ships traditionally carry. [More…]
It has always amazed me that although we can talk by radiotelephone to men on the moon, members of the Professional Radio Employees Institute refuse to believe that we can talk to people half way across Bass Strait without impairing safety. [More…]
It is quite right that a few weeks ago I was asked a question about this matter - I think by the honourable member for Sydney - and I indicated that I had hopes that a scheme of free discharge, after giving 18 months notice subsequent to certain requirements of return of service being fulfilled, could be instituted. [More…]
I am happy to say that agreement has been reached on this scheme and it will be announced in the course of a few days. [More…]
The details of the scheme, roughly speaking, are that a junior recruit now entering the Navy at ISi years of age at HMAS ‘Leeuwin’ will not be required to serve the full 12 years of his engagement. [More…]
He will have to fulfil a minimum requirement of 4i years service. [More…]
As to the effect on the numbers borne in the Service, of course the basic idea behind it is to make the Service more attractive as a career for young men. [More…]
It is hoped that this scheme will improve the enlistment rate, which is not entirely satisfactory at the moment. [More…]
Re-engagements of senior sailors are running at the rate of about 70 per cent which is, as everyone will appreciate, a very high figure. [More…]
The scheme would envisage their being able to remain in the Navy throughout their working life with the possibility of discharge after 18 months notice, which would be the minimum requirement. [More…]
The commissioners are already in receipt of a salary of $11,800, and it was intended to give them an increase of $4,450 per annum, and to make the payment retrospective to 4th November 1971. [More…]
These are the men who increased the minimum wage by $4.70 only a few weeks ago and gave tradesmen a miserable increase of $2 a week. [More…]
The Government tries to adopt a double standard, as is clear when one looks at the legislation now before the House. [More…]
The Government has 2 standards. [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…]
When another 300 complete their leave there will be a total of 900 Australian seamen unemployed because of the policy of this Government. [More…]
We believe that the Government should have taken action to move into the crude oil trade. [More…]
Here is a large industry - the second largest industry in Queensland - which is in a position where employment for approximately 3,000 men could be lost to that State. [More…]
It is time the Government did something about shipbuilding. [More…]
A Tariff Board inquiry commenced in 1969. [More…]
It has taken almost 12 months for the Government to make up its mind on the policy that has been recommended by the Tariff Board. [More…]
If it had not been for the raising of the matter of public importance this afternoon I doubt very much whether the Government would even at this point of time table the Tariff Board report. [More…]
I would like to take the opportunity of commenting on it later. [More…]
At least we are going to get the report tabled this afternoon- or I hope the Minister will deal with it in a few moments. [More…]
and (2) The standards of fitness for national service are those which apply to general volunteer enlistments in the Regular Army. [More…]
All men liable for national service are required to be medically examined against these standards prior to call-up. [More…]
In the period 1st January 1965 to 30th June 1971, 64,454 men were rejected on medical grounds and 6,456 on education or psychological grounds. [More…]
The Department of Defence has provided the information below regarding entry to the Regular Forces and discharge from all Forces. [More…]
Men may volunteer for enlistment in the Regular Armed Forces in a specific function for which particular set standards relating to a necessary aspect of fitness have been determined. [More…]
Medical examinations take place at various stages of the enlistment process and not all applicants are medically examined. [More…]
In a comprehensive survey on alcoholism presented to the 29th International Congress on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence at Sydney in 1970, research participants stated that, in Australia, within the age group 15 years and over, approximately 80 per cent of men, and 70 per cent of women drink alcoholic beverages. [More…]
It further showed that, within the same age group, 5 per cent of men and 1 per cent of women were estimated to be alcoholics. [More…]
How many (a) men and (b) women voted in each regional and open electorate at the elections for the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that I ask this question at the request of a great number of the men and their families? [More…]
I can well understand the honourable gentleman’s concern about the impact that the announcement which was widely reported in the national Press during the last weekend has had directly on the men concerned and their families and, of course, on the operation of the plant. [More…]
The facts are that the Riverstone Meat Co. Pty Ltd has announced the retrenchment of some 700 workers and the closure of sections of its meat operation which is a subsidiary’ of the W. Angliss Meat Company. [More…]
Of course, that will have an impact on honourable gentlemen on this side of the House as it should have on honourable gentlemen on the other side of the House. [More…]
It is a classic example of the extent to which unemployment in the community at the present time is caused by sporadic stoppages of the type which have been mentioned and which have been condoned consistently by members of the Opposition. [More…]
As the honourable, gentleman mentioned in his question, I recall no statement made by any member pf the Opposition or any member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions , deploring what has been a series of irresponsible stoppages which have led directly to the unemployment of men. [More…]
The House might well ponder the simple fact that here again is a circumstance in which 700 men have lost jobs and sections of a company have been closed down simply because of the 168 stoppages to which they have been subject during a period of only 6 to 7 months. [More…]
It is almost inconceivable that this should be the case, but in- fact it is the case and it is a point well worth the attention of honourable gentlemen on the other side. [More…]
I understand that recently the Minister or his Department announced that 7,775 or a similar number of men ‘have been denied the benefit of the ballot’. [More…]
Does it mean that 7,775, or some similar number of men have failed to register or have committed some other offence against the National Service Act and were not prosecuted? [More…]
What did happen to these men? [More…]
There were no suggestions from the Leader of the Opposition that the men ought to return to work and negotiate their claims before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Let me say by way of a casual observation what a pathetic comment it is on Opposition members in this chamber that on a day following the release of the employment figures for this country there has -been not one question on unemployment from the Opposition. [More…]
Opposition to what the Government was up to continued. [More…]
The Minister will recall that on 11th May 1972, when he said that there was no opposition to the Government’s move - 1 know he heard it because I saw his face when he read the statement out - I shouted: ‘Shame! [More…]
You frightened little men’. [More…]
You frightened little men’. [More…]
They found 5 or 6 men in the tent with their fingers raised in the Churchill V for Victory sign. [More…]
But I say full marks also to those demonstrators and no marks at all for the Minister or for this Government whom he represents. [More…]
The first is his dishonesty about the strong suggestion in the television programme when he said that he knew that the Ordinance was to be gazetted at a time when the Parliament would not be sitting. [More…]
He will remember that shortly after the violent removal of the tent on 20th July he was interviewed on television and it was put to him: ‘Would you rather that this would have happened when the Parliament was sitting?’ [More…]
The Minister had been referring to how he had announced the intention to Parliament on 11th May. [More…]
When the Minister was talking to this interviewer about how on 11th May he had made an announcement to the Parliament the questioner asked: ‘Would you rather that this would have happened when the Parliament was sitting?’ [More…]
The Minister’s answer was: Well, I knew that this was not going to happen and this is why I felt obliged to inform the Parliament of the Government’s decision on 11th May’. [More…]
In his interview the Minister said: ‘it is interesting to note not one member of the Labor Party, the Opposition, at that time, from either the House of Representatives or the Senate objected to the Government’s intention’. [More…]
I have already referred to the long history of opposition, the petitions that have been presented to the Parliament, the telegrams sent to the Minister, the Press statements dealing with the subject and finally, to my shouting of: ‘Shame! [More…]
You frightened little men’. [More…]
With recruiting running at a high level and conscription continuing at a rate of 12,000 men a year, why can the Government not get the battalions up to strength? [More…]
Would it not be advisable for the Government to scrap conscription, as recommended by Sir Roden Cutler and supported by the Minister outside the Parliament? [More…]
who described the Government’s national service scheme as having undesirable lottery effects and logical objections. [More…]
Are there not very many young men now being treated as criminals and hounded as such because they oppose the Government’s system? [More…]
In order to test the Government’s support for this system of compulsion, will he agree to conduct a referendum of the Australian people in conjunction with the forthcoming election, asking whether they approve or disapprove of conscription? [More…]
If the Minister’s advertence to the words flattening out’ means what I think he ought to have had in mind we are reaching a very serious situation because the work force has nearly flattened out to a position where it is now static and is no longer able to absorb the 190,000 extra people who will need to be absorbed if we are to cure the unemployment situation. [More…]
Indeed, the work force has flattened out to such an extent in the manufacturing industry - my colleague the honourable member for Melbourne Ports will give the precise figures on this - that there are fewer men working in the manufacturing industry today than there were 2 years ago. [More…]
The manufacturing section of the work force, which is a substantial section and is capable of providing employment for 1.3 million of our total work force, has now already dipped into decline and is employing fewer than it was last year and the decline is continuing; there has been no evidence at all of any arrest in the decline. [More…]
Unless we can get a government quickly enough to have a completely new attitude towards the economic problems that face this country our unemployment situation will be easy enough to forecast, because one will simply be able to add 190,000 on to each year’s current unemployment figures. [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…]
They cannot buy all the things they need, and it is because they cannot buy all the things they need that the factories cannot employ all the men they need. [More…]
The increasing incidence of industrial unrest also has significantly affected employment opportunities. [More…]
As a direct result of this irresponsible industrial action these men and their families face difficulties, and quite possibly hardships. [More…]
It is a most unfortunate example of the ultimate effect on employment of repeated strike action. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the Government is conscious of the fact that we live in a time of rapidly changing technology and that Australia will have to keep up with the world because the world will not slow down for us. [More…]
In fact in future it probably will be rather the exception than the rule for men or women to spend all their working lifetime at one job. [More…]
In that Commission in July, Mr Justice Moore granted an interim wage increase to the men and made it clear that provided work continued under normal conditions the unions’ full claims would be heard and determined. [More…]
In a direct insult to the judge and the laws of the Parliament the union leaders walked out of the Arbitration Commission and pulled their members off the job. [More…]
Instead of returning to the umpire, Mr Hawke and his cohorts, with the tacit support of the Leader of the Opposition, advocated that the employers should put their offer on the table before the men went back to work. [More…]
Throughout this period the Government consistently called on the unions to return to work and to let the Arbitration Commission umpire continue hearing their claims, but for weeks the union leadership refused to do this and Mr Hawke refused to direct it to do so. [More…]
The Government’s appeals to the strikers to return to work and to go back to arbitration were branded by Mr Hawke as inflammatory and designed to prolong the strike. [More…]
So serious was the situation that the South Australian Labor Government took full emergency powers and the New South Wales Government arranged to do the same. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition, who had been monumentally silent, was finally stung into saying something about the Labor Party’s attitude. [More…]
He came out pitifully in favour of Mr Hawke and the ‘gun at the head’ tactics, instead of showing courage and fighting the Communists Halfpenny and Carmichael and asking the men to go back to work and accept the umpire’s decision. [More…]
One Sunday night the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) announced that the Parliament would be called together if the strike was not over by the end of the week, lt was following that announcement that we saw action by the moderate unions, which sensibly recognised that industrial upheaval faced the nation. [More…]
Moderate union leaders like Mr Laurie Short of the Federated Ironworkers Association proceeded to dump Mr Hawke and the Leader of the Opposition by coming out and publicly advocating that the men go back to work. [More…]
Of course, the men agreed with Mr Short and, following Mr Justice Moore’s initiatives the next day, went back to work on the same terms and conditions as those on which they went out on strike earlier in July. [More…]
The attitude of the Government in appealing to the men to return to arbitration was completely vindicated. [More…]
The Government had upheld the principle of the laws of the Parliament and the impartial role of the Arbitration Commission against a delinquent attack. [More…]
The oil dispute demonstrates one thing clearly, namely that the traditional conciliation and arbitration system as supported by the Government provides proper processes for the settling of disputes. [More…]
It is equally obvious that the procedures indicated by the Opposition can only lead to a situation where a few unscrupulous union bosses can alone decide which men will work and which factory or business will open. [More…]
What is worse, it demonstrates the real lack of concern that the Labor Party has for job disruption and unemployment caused by strikes. [More…]
Can he state why, when Australian steel mills are dismissing men for want of work, a foreign project which will import 621 miles of steel pipe from Japan is allowed to proceed. [More…]
What were the (a) numbers and (b) percentages of scholarships awarded to (i) men and (ii) women in 1972 in each State and Territory. [More…]
With regard to the names of other ships that we are developing, I trust that a number of other cities will find that they not only have an association with them in terms of the names given to the ships but also will feel a special bond of relationship and interest in the activities and careers of their name ships and the men in them. [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…]
As I said, this matter was raised in 1 970 on the basis that all one needed to do was to put in some minor amendment to the Act. [More…]
That amendment has now been interpreted as not being sufficient. [More…]
We now have the situation again after all this time that men who served and fought for this country have been denied their entitlement. [More…]
The first matter ‘ raised was that there was not the means of supplying the necessary equipment to do the work. [More…]
Another matter was that many men work in the open earth channels in order to ‘ clean them, out every year and that the implementation of this scheme would result in a fair amount of unemployment throughout the area. [More…]
He gave the projected strength of the Army permanent forces at about 40,000 and went on to make the observation that actual strength would fluctuate around this figure because of variations in recruiting and re-engagement rates. [More…]
This is important because the net gain in Army strength is running at a high level at the moment. [More…]
The excess of volunteers and re-enlistments over loss of men is running at quite a high annual rate at the moment. [More…]
With the number of permanent volunteers rising and a stable component of nation.il servicemen the Defence Minister is working himself into a very serious predicament. [More…]
growth in the number of men enlisting. [More…]
It is impossible to see any sort of rational compromise between the Government’s wish to retain national service, its insistence on a maximum component of volunteers, and the desire expressed by the Minister for Defence to restrain the growth of manpower costs. [More…]
The lack of logic and consistency in the Government’s military manpower policies is forcing it into a very sticky position on the future strength of the Army. [More…]
If its objectives are not rationalised in some way the whole basis for the present mix of volunteers and national servicemen could be destroyed beyond rpeair. [More…]
He said explicitly that any limitation in Army manpower must be compensated for by technologically advanced equipment. [More…]
This hints very strongly at possible replacement of a labor intensive Army as we have now by a capital intensive Army with fewer men and much more advanced equipment. [More…]
This exposes the misleading nature and the often hypocritical attitudes of the Government on this question of the size of the Army. [More…]
On the other the Minister has made it quite plain that the Government has plans for moving away from a labour-intensive army to a capitalintensive army based on fewer men and more advanced equipment. [More…]
In the same breath the Government is putting restraints on the growth of manpower and maintaining the strength of the Army at an inflated level by the conscription of 12,000 men each year. [More…]
How often have I heard in this Parliament honourable members on the Government side of the House say, when we have been discussing the problems of national service, as well as the Minister for Defence, the Minister for the Army (Mr Katter) and others in answer to questions, that young men have the alternative of joining the CMF. [More…]
The Minister for Defence must know that one of the problems of the CMF today is that it has been expected to absorb those people who are not prepared to accept responsibility as national servicemen in this country. [More…]
Is it any wonder, Mr Deputy Speaker, that there is this great concern throughout the community about the deterioration of the role of the CMF in Australia and the complete disregard for the CMF by the Government and those on the Government side of the chamber who accept responsibility in this Parliament for matters of defence? [More…]
I want to talk tonight about the need for national service, why we must have an Army of 40,000, why we cannot achieve this by voluntary enlistment and briefly what effect the abolition of national service would have on the Army. [More…]
In 1964 we had a regular Army of fewer than 23,000 men. [More…]
A comprehensive review of our strategic situation, covering existing commitments and likely contingencies, revealed a need to increase the strength of the Army to some 40,000 in less than 2 years. [More…]
The recruiting campaign was stepped up, servicemen’s pay was increased and moves already in train to improve conditions of service continued. [More…]
These measures increased re-engagement rates to some extent but the effects on recruiting were marginal. [More…]
Remember that this decision was made before any commitment had been undertaken to send battalions to Vietnam. [More…]
The Army had to be increased to meet our overall requirements. [More…]
At the height of the Vietnam commitment tnt Army was increased to some 44,000 men. [More…]
He recently stated that the present attitude of the Australian Labor Party would in ali probability cut our Army by half if it were ever implemented. [More…]
Apart from filling the Regular Army ranks to the level of 40,000 required, a secondary but most important purpose of national service is to insure against emergencies by building up a reservoir of trained soldiers in the community, as was mentioned quite specifically by my colleague the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) in his splendid speech last night. [More…]
Every year since 1967 some 8,000 national servicemen have been added to the Regular Army Reserve on completion of their full time service. [More…]
This has meant that we have a reserve already of 40,000 fully trained and experienced men. [More…]
In addition, many men of military age joined the Citizen Military Forces and were trained there, having selected the CMF as an alternative to national service. [More…]
It is obvious that with a cut from 40,000 to 29,000- a reduction of about 30 per cent - combined with the elimination of the requirement for training national servicemen at a turnover rate of 18 months, there would be a corresponding reduction in the officers and NCOs required for the reduced force. [More…]
The net effect could only be to reduce an Australian Labor Party-type army to a level much lower than 29,000 men. [More…]
The shadow Minister for Defence dwelt quite a good deal on the CMF and the fact that the Minister for Defence did not mention it. [More…]
If there has been a deterioration in that wonderfully Australian characteristic of wanting to get into the Army and serve, it has been due very largely to the vicious elements which the Opposition has infused into the community. [More…]
I remember that just a year or two ago in this House someone mentioned - I cannot recall who it was - that by stimulating cadet training we were making militarists; in other words, from the early beginning the Opposition has been brainwashing our young men not to join the CMF and not to be involved in the defence of this country. [More…]
The CMF has received a momentous amount of my own involvement. [More…]
The CMF would lose its national service optees and could consequently fall virtually overnight to about 19,000 men if Labor were in office. [More…]
It is no exaggeration to say that the elimination of national service and the reduction of the size of the Regular Army to fewer than 29,000 men would not only emasculate the Army - both the Regular Army and the CMF - and impair its efficiency but also would produce side effects which would militate strongly against subsequent efforts to increase volunteer strength. [More…]
In about 8 to 10 days a lightly equipped battalion of less than 1,000 men can be transported to within a 2,000 nautical miles radius of Sydney which, as the Australian Defence Review’ points out, still keeps them on the mainland of Australia and in parts of New Guinea. [More…]
What a tremendous achievement in 8 to 10 days. [More…]
One of the other great pleasures in following the honourable member for St George in a debate is to know that he is present in the Parliament, because, even if this country must suffer, at least our foreign relations have some chance of being maintained when he is here. [More…]
For those who are not in the Parliament and who perhaps are considering a scene of the aesthetic diplomat in a black striped suit with a pale, ethereal look on his face leaping from conference to conference, I point out that that is hardly the scene as I see it. [More…]
These men are just outsiders’. [More…]
The honourable member had again made a statement that Australian troops were not wanted in Malaysia, and that editorial reveals what the Malaysians said in reply. [More…]
The honourable member has said that the governments of Malaysia and Singapore do not want our troops and that a statement has been made that, if the Labor Party wishes to withdraw our troops, those countries will not plead with Australia to leave them there or complain about their withdrawal. [More…]
With respect to national service and the Labor Party’s policy of reducing the Army to 29,000 - the Deputy Leader of the Opposition calls an army of 40,000 men an inflated army - he should realise that with an army of 40,000 men you could put one task force with supporting troops in the field. [More…]
For every front line soldier we needed 8 men behind. [More…]
When you consider that an army of 29,000 would include the Women’s Royal Australian Army Corps - which, I am sure, would bear the major burden under a Labor government - you realise that the number in that Corps has to come out. [More…]
When you take into account also the support facilities, logistics and other areas which do not represent front line fighting troops, you reduce it to an effective fighting army of about 5,000 or 6,000 men. [More…]
The men have to be trained. [More…]
They have to be conditioned to ensure that if we are faced with a hostile force or there is an action that we have to go into we will not go through what we did when Singapore fell, when men were put into uniform and shot into the front line without any training or conditioning and without any support. [More…]
Our closest foreign neighbour has about 300,000 men under arms. [More…]
Nobody has yet found it but it should not be beyond the wit of men who have developed radar and other such equipment. [More…]
In my view, the hundreds of millions of dollars that may well be spent on destroyers would better be spent on the development of scientific techniques to locate submarines under wat,-r because I believe that a submarine located under water is a submarine potentially destroyed. [More…]
1 turn now to the concept of the Government announced by the Minister for Defence. [More…]
But this also means that in the other Services we do not need a full commitment of a major combat burden. [More…]
At this time of night in a debate such as this one cannot develop an argument at great length but I ask: Why 9 battalions? [More…]
Suddenly we are told that we need 40,000 men. [More…]
Why 40,000 men? [More…]
Is it something out of the past related to the 40,000 horsemen, or what is it? [More…]
At the height of the Korean conflict we had 27,000 men in the Australian Army. [More…]
J believe that Australian soldiers are probably the world’s best men on the ground - in the jungle. [More…]
I have no complaint about the effectiveness of their training on the ground but I cannot be convinced that the 9 battalions of young men who are standing around, sitting around, painting the stones around the officers’ mess, peeling potatoes for lunch or whatever else they are doing are gainfully employed, usefully employed or necessary in a military sense. [More…]
I believe that national service disrupts the whole system of national employment. [More…]
Has any honourable member driven past the barracks at Townsville and had a good look at the establishment? [More…]
What on earth do we want that establishment there for? [More…]
Therefore those young men are waiting for something that can never come during their service. [More…]
My friends opposite say that its abandonment would min the Army. [More…]
At present about 80,000 young men are serving as regulars, of whom on my arithmetic, based on the reports, 68,000 are volunteers. [More…]
About 12,000 of them are national servicemen. [More…]
We were asked to comment upon the statements of General Daly. [More…]
He is now retired so that he can be quoted and we can try to refute his arguments. [More…]
He said that if we abandoned it and the 12,000 national servicemen went out of the Services we would have to dispense with 4,000 officers and non-commissioned officers. [More…]
So that for every 3 national servicemen apparently we have to have one officer or non-commissioned officer. [More…]
We want 12,000 young men to train with - to fill the gaps so that others can become corporals, sergeants, colonels and generals. [More…]
We are using the young men of Australia as training and position-sop fodder. [More…]
I believe that the question goes back fundamentally to the citizen forces. [More…]
We have destroyed their capacity to be trained properly and we have destroyed the will of the young men who would join those forces. [More…]
First of all, it needs good equipment. [More…]
It has to have first class equipment. [More…]
If a person is to give up his weekends for 7 days or 21 days a year to train, there is nothing so exasperating, frustrating and disheartening as to take over equipment and find that it will not work or that there is not enough of it. [More…]
This is what those 4,000 men could do. [More…]
They could be training young men who are much more capable in all the areas of ordinary human endeavour than our generation was. [More…]
We have to do something about the public attitude, their employment and so on. [More…]
Here in this community are dozens of young men who drive heavy equipment. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party in the days of the Chifley Government created the Australian Regular Army. [More…]
I have coming into my office young men who have been called up for national service and who have skills of some kind. [More…]
They are tradesmen. [More…]
Today young national servicemen are going into the Army for 18 months only. [More…]
It follows that the Army would prefer to place in its skilled positions young men who have enlisted for a term in the Regular Army in preference to young men who go in for 9 months training and then 9 months service. [More…]
The result is that we get an increasing frustration amongst young men who are undertaking national service. [More…]
If we look at the number of people who were involved in the CMF just before the Second World War and the number of young men who saw the CMF as an avenue of service to their country after the war, we realise that the numbers were much more respectable than is the case today. [More…]
I think one of the great challenges held out to all of us on both sides of the Parliament, whoever might be governing after the next election, is to restore the CMF to that position which it previously occupied in the defence of Australia. [More…]
Men of various callings, of all political persuasions, of various degrees of skill and otherwise, felt that they were performing some service to their country in training to serve in the profession of arms. [More…]
It is one of the options available to them under the legislation of the present Government. [More…]
We are going to have to make sure that better equipment and instructors are available. [More…]
I refer here to the Army because the Air Force and the Navy do not have the recruitment problem that the Army has had. [More…]
This is very sad because, notwithstanding the fact that only a small proportion of young men who serve in the cadets at school actually go into the Permanent Army, I am sure that it has great value for these young people. [More…]
Many of the young men who go to Duntroon started their association with the Army in the cadet corps at the public schools, state high schools and elsewhere. [More…]
I would commend to the Minister that more money ought to be spent in these areas. [More…]
I know that what I am suggesting is not popular with the establishment in the armed forces but I think there is great value i.i the CMF and the cadet corps. [More…]
Anyone who has any contact with the Air Force will admire the skill and the expertise with which these men operate the aircraft and the knowledge that they bring to their calling. [More…]
One would hope that on the basis of cooperating with them in a modest way we might, under a future Labor government or whatever government we have, get to the situation where we can effect economies of scale in equipping air forces in our whole region. [More…]
Of course, I am not conversant with the particular circumstances of the Gosford abattoir dispute to which the honourable gentleman has just referred, but the fact is that some weeks ago about 700 men were retrenched by the Riverstone [More…]
He would discover that the company concerned had agreed to take the men back on the basis that the Labour Council would- use its good offices to stop the influence of wildcat strikes in that particular plant. [More…]
There might be a good deal of resentment if a professor of surgery were paid a great deal more than a professor of history. [More…]
I fear we need to be more realistic about this otherwise we will find that we are not getting into the chairs the men who are absolutely at the top of their professions. [More…]
And what price has this nation paid for this ‘achievement’? [More…]
thousands of whom may never find themselves in employment again; incomes ruined; standards undermined; lives ..wrecked; families broken - all because of. [More…]
these divided and desperate men. [More…]
all their proved incompetence, for all their bickering and pettiness, they remain, still as arrogant as they were in the days when, finding themselves suddenly the successors of Menzies and Holt and McEwen, they thought that they had been endowed with the right and ability to rule this nation. [More…]
So put the Treasurer’s package together, take the Treasurer at his own words, and see what sort of a statement of national goals we have. [More…]
Is a small rise in cash welfare benefits, with an actual decline in their value, the answer to poverty, indignity and insecurity among the aged, the widowed, the returned men, the sick and the handicapped? [More…]
Such is the extent of the Government’s vision for Australia in 1972. [More…]
This is my judgment of the typical Australian, and I am confident that my judgment is not misplaced. [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…]
In modern Australia the typical Australian looks to his governments to redress these injustices, not least because he knows that governments themselves have done so much to create them. [More…]
And in modern Australia the government he increasingly looks to for leadership and justice is the national government. [More…]
From that national government he is looking for leadership. [More…]
This most impermanent and unstable document this year provides nothing of the sort. [More…]
There are the immediate questions of unemployment side by side with inflation. [More…]
There is the long term question of the strong, balanced development of the nation’s human and natural resources. [More…]
It was intolerable that the Government should have deliberately created the sort of unemployment we are now enduring. [More…]
It might have been poor consolation for the thousands of men and women thrown out of work, but in the long term it would have made some amends to the nation. [More…]
But this Government has not even left the unemployed with the dignity of having served the nation’s larger purposes by their unwarranted and enforced sacrifice. [More…]
And it gets back to a lack of confidence in the national Government, not just in. [More…]
The people of this country just do not trust this Liberal Government. [More…]
And not the least reason is that this Liberal Government does not trust the people. [More…]
However it will not be just in the narrow context of an annual financial document, but in the narrowness of the philosophy the Budget represents, arid the limited vision of the men who presented it to the Parliament and the nation. [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…]
What is more important is that apparently the honourable member for Hindmarsh did not read properly Statement No. [More…]
Not too many honourable members are betting men, but I suggest to them that they wager 20c with the honourable member for Hindmarsh against his estimate of 100,000 unemployed, or with the Leader of the Opposition against his estimate of 200,000 unemployed. [More…]
the Government went to the very boundary of responsibility and to go beyond that would, be irresponsible. [More…]
This Government has somehow to lift the economy and get back into it some feeling of confidence. [More…]
Skilled men are wandering around defence establishments because no orders have been placed to produce equipment, although a boat may be built in 1975 at the naval dockyard. [More…]
For instance, the social welfare measures will be of tremendous assistance to many people in more ways than one. [More…]
The Government’s Budget feeds money back into the private individual’s pockets for him to spend. [More…]
It does not take moneys out of the private individual’s pockets for the Government to spend. [More…]
On 24th September 1969 this Government made a statement about relief from estate duty for people in primary industries. [More…]
The present rates of duty, if left unaltered, would tend to destroy the value of men’s private property. [More…]
I must say that the amendments to the estate duty legislation outlined in this Budget will again assist the private individual. [More…]
The Government’s assistance in this direction will be of tremendous help. [More…]
I refer to a statement that the proposed Northern National Park area is to be a flora and fauna sanctuary and that 5 rangers will be appointed to help to police it and advise visitors. [More…]
Have any of these men been recruited and, if any have been appointed, are their efforts having any effect on preventing the damage that was being done to that environment? [More…]
Has any agreement been reached between the Government and interested mining companies in the Jim [More…]
On this very principle stands the constitutionality of labour and management conflicts. [More…]
If the Government introduces, succours and supports the idea that unions can be brought to the civil courts, prosecuted and ordered to pay damages as compensation, it will destroy arbitration as we now know it. [More…]
The Government is putting in place of the 72-year-old arbitration system of peacefully and constitutionally settling these disputes between management and labour the law of the jungle in which the big battalions will always win because, in the words of Shelley, in his call to the working men of England, ‘ye are many - they are few’. [More…]
If the Government is planning to settle industrial disputes by forcing the bg battalions simply to bash it out against the employers - tearing down private property, resorting to arson, destruction, physical violence and revolution then I can only say they have forgotten that the French Revolution, the American Revolution and the Russian Revolution started because a few people in seats of power did not realise that right under their noses a revolution was erupting and could not see that when people were crying out for bread they could not be satisfied by being given cake when there was no cake to give them. [More…]
Executive has committed any future Labor government to placing union officials above the law, in the circumstances I have mentioned, free from civil liability for such familiar industrial actions as damage to property, assault, trespass and conspiracy, provided only that the men committing these actions can claim to have been acting on behalf of the trade union in an industrial dispute. [More…]
I might mention in passing that on alternate Thursdays, when the Standing Orders provide that grievances be noted, I will be moving that the grievance debate be further postponed because it also comes under Government business. [More…]
Honourable members will have an opportunity to debate general matters during the debates on the Budget, the Estimates and the various Budget Bills, as well as on the adjournment debates, in respect of which I am sure we can come to some common-sense compromise with members of the Opposition to provide reasonable time for members to speak. [More…]
At the same time I know that Opposition members will realise that sitting days are very long days for many members of this Parliament, some of whom are no longer young. [More…]
Most honourable members start working at 9 a.m. on committees or on their other duties, and to work from 9 a.m. right through until 11 p.m. every night for 3 nights, particularly when the proposed changes in sitting times come into effect, puts a toll on even young men. [More…]
Even when the motion for adjournment is put at 11 p.m. the adjournment debate normally continues for an hour or so, which brings us to midnight. [More…]
It is a bit too late now because we now know that an overall effect has been that unemployment has further increased since February-March and has reached an all time high of 2 per cent. [More…]
In the electorate I represent is a large motor manufacturing concern conducted by General MotorsHolden’s Pty Ltd. Last January GMH dismissed without any qualms 1,000 men because there was a rundown in the economy. [More…]
The Government was very worried about the situation in January of this year. [More…]
The Treasurer became very worried and issued a statement on 20th January which contained this passage: [More…]
Words must have lost their meaning because only 9 days later 1,000 men in my electorate were sacked by General Motors.Holden’s Pty Ltd. That action would be taken in the interests of General Motors which, I suppose, would not have any particular love for the poor unfortunate wage earners. [More…]
Am I to tell them that the Government will produce a Budget next August and they will then be able to get a job? [More…]
This Government is led by the most unpopular leader in Federal Parliamentary history. [More…]
Today this Government has a vested interest in unemployment. [More…]
Of course, it was some of the best economic brains of the 18th and 19th centuries that have been responsible for this Government and its economic policy. [More…]
It suits the Government to have a pool of unemployed, to have men bidding for jobs. [More…]
In the meantime this Government will be handling out a miserable dole but even that dole for 130,000 adult workers will amount to $2 16m a year in payments, payments that need never have been made if work had been available for those men. [More…]
This Budget is the third in 8 months of Government economic tinkering. [More…]
It is an annual swindle sheet for the benefit of the privileged because this is a Government of privilege. [More…]
lt is a Government which is nothing but a mutual protection society for the privileged people of Australia. [More…]
The worker does not count with this Government. [More…]
It has been led by a very eminent economist, a gentleman who represents the electorate of Lowe - the Artful Dodger of Australian finance who first introduced in 1954 the situation, which is perpetuated today, of inflating everyone into a higher tax bracket so that men in the lowest income groups are paying middle income tax rates and those in the middle income groups are paying high income tax rates. [More…]
If this were possible primary producers who have paid for their properties would soon become very wealthy men. [More…]
That is why I welcome the Government’s decision not only to investigate but also to try to implement a form of long term lending at a very early date. [More…]
The honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Duthie), in the form usually followed by members of the Opposition, is trying to drive a wedge between the Government parties in the hope that by doing so the coalition will break. [More…]
I am sure that the present Government will be able to introduce the necessary legislation provided the Opposition does not indulge in too many delaying tactics. [More…]
I will come to that in a moment. [More…]
This Government’s 1971 Budget produced 2 per cent unemployment, the highest in this country for many years. [More…]
This is producing a great deal of hardship, and heaven knows the hidden unemployment which is not revealed in the figures. [More…]
Heaven knows how many married women want to take work but cannot find it. [More…]
Heaven knows how much hidden unemployment exists in this country at the present time. [More…]
What does this Government do about unemployment? [More…]
Take a person on a salary approximately equal to that of a member of Parliament, say $9,500 or $10,000 a year. [More…]
This Government gives him about $7 a week as a result of the tax concessions which it has now introduced. [More…]
I think it stands to reason - it is almost commonsense - that the majority of family men on $10,000 a year are not going to rush out and spend it. [More…]
Take the area of social adjustment. [More…]
We have a stable and scandal-free Government and until very recently we had freedom from violence and threats to security. [More…]
For example, there has been the fear of inadequate security for retirement, illness, the education of a family and the provision of a home. [More…]
Finally I mention the fear of ultimate national insecurity in terms of defence. [More…]
It tackles them in the context of proven performance and it builds on proven foundations and through parliament-based change. [More…]
I felt deeply incensed at what I saw of fine men and women who had served the nation in peace and war reduced to the level of ne’er-do-wells and wastrels by the soulless mathematics of the 100 per cent taxation of the means test. [More…]
So far, I have not even mentioned the trade union power base. [More…]
A student of the statements and actions of the ruling elite for Labor’s tomorrow can but tremble at the thought of power in the hands of men who, like Lenin, see little value in the decisions of this bourgeois Parliament. [More…]
I see the institution of Parliament in peril if men like Hawke, Carmichael, Halfpenny and Slater have their way. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor has given expression to this when he declares that Parliament is not the only place for important decision making on this level. [More…]
I am certain that this unemployment relief money is appreciated by the local authorities in these areas. [More…]
In some ways it is a breakthrough in Commonwealth-local government finance, even though the State governments still administer and distribute the money to the local authorities. [More…]
But the question which is always before these people in local government is: How long will this money continue? [More…]
Then this unemployment relief money is suddenly thrown into their lap on the condition that they use it immediately and put men to work. [More…]
Mostly it is men who are put to work. [More…]
It is an unfortunate aspect that in many of these non-metropolitan areas there are many single women who need work but whose local authority is not able to provide employment for them; and the State governments care little about them. [More…]
They employ men because one of the conditions of this money being granted is that the work must be of a high labour content. [More…]
So they employ men to carry out the work, but they feel that they could make better use of the money had they known beforehand - preferably at the time of formuating their own budgets - that they would be receiving a certain sum of money so that they would be able to plan accordingly and get the best use of it. [More…]
In rural areas there was, without any doubt, increased unemployment. [More…]
People were forced to put off men working on their farms. [More…]
So, there were reasons, above and beyond any smart talk about the Government’s intention or the Government doing this for a set purpose. [More…]
There is no reason in the world for saying - surely it cannot be sup ported - that the Government at that time could have done a heck of a lot in respect of overseas buying and the flow-through effect. [More…]
Let us look at the unemployment figures for the last month. [More…]
Is it not a fact that, through the efforts of Mr Carmichael and his merry men - the supporters and confreres of the gallant gentlemen on the other side - the petrol supply in Sydney was reduced almost to nil? [More…]
Is it not a fact that in South Australia the Labor Government was forced to regulate and restrict petrol supplies? [More…]
Did this not affect industry and did this not affect unemployment? [More…]
Under this Government decisions have been kept secret. [More…]
Decisions have been made by advisory committees on which sit men like Sir William Gunn, Sir Frank Selleck, Sir Albert Axon, managers and directors and senior executives of Comalco, the Australian Gas Light Co., Felt and Textiles, Imperial Chemical Industries, Australian Consolidated Industries, Drug Houses of Australia, the Shell Co., and Elder Smith Goldsbrough Mort Such men sit on all sorts of commissions and committees, advis ory and otherwise. [More…]
There are also men from Qantas Airways Ltd, Trans-Australia Airlines and the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission - everything from the Material Handling Advisory Committee to the Australian Immigration Planning Council and the advisory committee to the Atomic Energy Commission. [More…]
I hope that the vigorous attempt to throw up a smokescreen about revaluation does not mean abandoning good men and women for political expediency. [More…]
The Minister and the Government know the decision to revalue is theirs - it has been done. [More…]
I make a simple plea tonight for justice and help and 1 ask the Minister to take the initiative to bring the States, the canners and the grower’s representatives together to take action on the money owing to men for the fruits of their labour. [More…]
This document provides names, addresses, the manner in which money was withdrawn from the bank and reveals that the men who posed as the salesmen of this company asked for the money to be paid to them in cash and indicates how they defrauded this most valuable woman in our society - this mother, this widow of a serviceman. [More…]
If the governments of New South Wales and Commonwealth cannot act in a matter of this kind, [More…]
1 compliment him on doing so. [More…]
It is certainly to his credit that he has begun reading the platform and that the Government is slowly adopting the propositions contained therein. [More…]
I believe that another fault in the scheme - not a basic fault because the scheme generally is a good one - lies in the fact that it will cover persons who have been registered for employment at any time within the preceding 12 months and who have remained unemployed for a total of at least 16 weeks. [More…]
I refer to the bright young men who missed the opportunity of becoming apprentices at the time when that decision had to be taken and who decided that they would like to avail themselves of the opportunity for moving further up the scale. [More…]
I think that the Minister would have been wise to have allowed people already in employment to change employment if they wanted to or to accept the possibilities which this training scheme might give them. [More…]
To the extent that those who are now employed participate and make a success of the retraining, the vacancies created in the more menial tasks they are now doing could perhaps be much more easily filled by those who are registered as unemployed than by taking those people into the training centres instead of moving them into the gaps caused by the retraining of bright, ambitious and intelligent young men who want to avail themselves of an offer which, 6 or 7 years earlier in their lives, they did not have the wisdom to accept. [More…]
The community is investing very heavily in educating the young and in expanding elementary education, vocational schools, training colleges and secondary education. [More…]
Unemployment figures show also that the majority of long term unemployed people are older men. [More…]
It is extraordinary that the guilty men of this Government should think that the people of Australia are so gullible that they will be happy with this Budget when it is merely attempting to redress the horrors which the same guilty men inflicted on our people. [More…]
The citizens we represent realise that we must all be much more interested in the level of economic activity, including the level of unemployment, than in any temporary dollar or two whichthe Treasurer may have decided not to take from us in taxation. [More…]
Let me describe the economy because so far I have mentioned only unemployment figures. [More…]
This Budget is an act of desperate men. [More…]
‘It is better that we spend the money than Labor under Whitlam’ sums up the mentality of the desperate group of men who framed this Budget. [More…]
One has to recognise that because this Government is desperate there are within the Budget some steps towards progress. [More…]
I wholeheartedly support the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
In speaking to this Budget I shall deal with the environmental aspect and the priorities of this Government. [More…]
The Budget is the product of men who are totally lacking in vision. [More…]
The Government has decided to place an excise tax on liquefied petroleum gas used for the propulsion of motor vehicles. [More…]
From an environmental point of view, LPG is a blessing to city air, while petroleum is a curse. [More…]
The Government has the audacity to suggest that the advantages of LPG, to quote the Treasurer (Mr Snedden), ‘will be diminished as emission control standards are implemented’. [More…]
Much the same kind of incoherence involves such things as our mining policy, our urban policy, the development of our cities, to which my colleague, the honourable member for Reid (Mr Uren) referred a while ago, the capital market in this country, inflation, unemployment and transport. [More…]
Professor Henderson went on to suggest - the Government might take this up - that we need procedures to evolve a coherent national economic policy. [More…]
He suggested that these procedures should involve politicians, businessmen, professional men, public servants and academics. [More…]
Canada employed 100 professional men - lawyers, academics, economists and so on - to work out a taxation policy. [More…]
We advocate a structure of co-operation with all people who are involved in the development of the economy. [More…]
This, in my opinion, is an academic argument. [More…]
It is an academic approach which ignores the fact that a major increase in cheap imports following sudden appreciation could cause the bankruptcy of small manufacturing industries which employ thousands of men and women throughout Australia. [More…]
Of course disappointments were expressed; there always will be disappointments. [More…]
These disappointments have been registered in some sectors of the community. [More…]
I have encountered them in primary industry, in local government bodies and in connection with estate duty arrangements. [More…]
But when we look into these things I find that the disappointments are mostly based on a misunderstanding of the real position. [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…]
I would like to point out to some of these people that payments to rural industries in this Budget of $233m are the second highest on record. [More…]
If wool deficiency payments were deducted from last year’s figures for the purpose of comparison, the remaining phases of primary industry could have attracted a record appropriation again this year. [More…]
My third and final point concerns a lot of men who are in responsible positions in local government - men who are there because they were elected by their fellow men and who work in a voluntary capacity. [More…]
It is not true to say that the Commonwealth does not already greatly assist with local government finance. [More…]
One would say it is true to say they do already greatly assist with local government finance. [More…]
Direct grants for local government assistance in the financial year just completed amounted to S245m and this year it will rise, according to this Budget, to $279ra. [More…]
Notwithstanding this, whether or not the funds come from the Commonwealth or the States where the constitutional responsibility lies, local government authorities have reached a position where under the present rating system some ratepayers cannot pay their rates at all. [More…]
I am a member of what the Australian Council of Local Government Associations refers to as its Canberra Committee. [More…]
The experience I have gained on that committee coupled with my electoral experience, makes it easy for me to be aware of the financial problems of local government that are borne by these men who act in a voluntary capacity. [More…]
For the sake of 1,000 men who were seeking more than they ought to have, men in other industries were being stood down. [More…]
For the sake of 1,000 men here or a few hundred men there a whole industry and a community is thrown out of work. [More…]
The process can be summarised as follows: Created demand will lead to purchases of highly efficient and productive machine systems that need few men to control them . [More…]
Thus, in the relatively near future, a policy of forcing rapid growth in demand in order to increase employment opportunities will actually lead to the opposite result: It will raise unemployment rather than lower it. [More…]
Amongst them are grants for unemployment in non-metropolitan and metropolitan areas. [More…]
What a hollow result is achieved in respect of employment. [More…]
One of the municipalities I represent received probably one of the highest grants but with it it could provide employment for only about 30 men for a period of 6 weeks without any continuing benefit. [More…]
The comments appearing with the table show that payments to the States for education purposes are expected to increase by $25,996,000. [More…]
So in 1966 the Government used as its reason for not abolishing the means test the excuse that it had other commitments and it could well use that excuse again this time. [More…]
He came straight out with a direct denial of any suggestion that his Government, and that means the same men who are sitting on the Government side tonight, would ever agree to abolishing the means test. [More…]
I have another document which is beaded ‘Liberal Women’s Rally, Brisbane, Queensland, 30th July 1969. [More…]
To hell with the Repatriation Department’s lousy, stinking treatment in suggesting that he should take his case to a tribunal. [More…]
Is this the way to treat the men who have returned from Vietnam? [More…]
No directive was issued by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation which would prevent staff speaking to members of Parliament or anyone else. [More…]
No blanket of secrecy has been placed over my Department, which is one of the most open of all Commonwealth departments in making information available to the general public. [More…]
I have issued no directive to my Department that would change the normal method of operation which I have mentioned. [More…]
There is no question of money being spent or provided by my Department which is not accounted for. [More…]
1 think that on another occasion 1 mentioned that this was a question that was of some length and in a great number of parts. [More…]
It sought the numbers and the percentages of students in each and all of the schools mentioned who had sat for or applied for and who were awarded Commonwealth secondary scholarships, Commonwealth university scholarships and Commonwealth advanced education scholarships in each and all of the years since each scholarship scheme was introduced - going back to about 1951 when the university scholarships began. [More…]
Before 1968 these records were kept by State departments. [More…]
My Department has estimated that it would take 2 men 6 months to obtain what information is available and a good deal of it is not available. [More…]
Is it not a fact that over the years thousands of ex-servicemen who had been refused repatriation benefits had these benefits granted subsequently when additional evidence such as hospitalisation and Service conditions was put forward? [More…]
Is it not almost impossible for an ex-servicemen who has suffered the effects of gas to establish his rights and privileges? [More…]
Would it not be better for a few men to get benefits they are not entitled to - [More…]
The forked-tongue principle once again applies to this case, with many Labor men telling the people of Australia not to be too concerned about the 35-hour week, that they will be supporting it and it will come only through the means of arbitration, and only those industries which can afford the 35-hour week will get it. [More…]
What a decline in the philosophy of a once proud Party that its members are more concerned with enabling 2 men to get into bed together than with the profound issues which affect the welfare of the workers. [More…]
Prominent and perspective Labor men have informed me that the new look as far as the nomination of candidates from several Labor branches is concerned, particularly in Victoria and in New South Wales, is one either of infantile Leftists or pseudoprogressives. [More…]
This is given as one of the principles of action by which a Labor Government would achieve its socialist objective. [More…]
But do these men not recall what happened to Ben Chifley when people from over the other side of the House by malicious, filthy innuendoes said that he was a fellow traveller and pro-communist? [More…]
When the newspapers - not the Opposition - do this to the present PrimeMinister supporters of the Government squeal like stuck pigs about what is happening to their Prime Minister. [More…]
So much for the ‘Economist’, lt is the Australian counterparts of these people who break the provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and provoke large scale confrontations between unions - which are composed, incidentally, in large part of decent men - and the Government, which naturally is hesitant as it knows that only a minority is guilty. [More…]
The Government has not yet learned to cope with industrial blackmail, and this is a major cause of inflationary propensity in Australia today. [More…]
Suffice to say now that the necessary changes are fundamental and would take more than 3 years to implement; and 3 years is the maximum term that Australian governments have in office. [More…]
I appealed to one of the rank-and-file group’s leaders, Mr Frank Ball, a member of the Communist Party of Australia to calm the men … it could have led to a full scale brawl. [More…]
I am making some remarks about the sort of situation which would develop if the Australian Budget were created by the alternative government. [More…]
We have heard it said that there are some old tired men around this country. [More…]
The old tired men in this country are the men of the Opposition. [More…]
This was all right in the early years of this century when there was a role to play, but these conferences make Labor policy; they make the policy for the elected members of Parliament. [More…]
The ‘policy’ bears the marks of Labor’s ‘Big Three’ rural men - Patterson, Grassby and Whan - but doesn’t seem to be any better as a result. [More…]
The statement he made calling for revaluation and wide tariff reductions - presumably outside the Tariff Board - has been repudiated by members of his own Party. [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…]
Honourable members may be interested to learn that industrial stoppages to the end of May this year, according to figures supplied by the Department of Labour and National Service, caused a loss of more than 2 million working days and a loss to workers of nearly $38m in wages. [More…]
The last annual report of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd showed that industrial stoppages had cost the company enough money to pay 800 men full time for one year. [More…]
The Government will say that the future is better: ‘We promise you that things will be better in the future. [More…]
Were those concerned all bad business men or were they caught up in the national mismanagement? [More…]
Will the Government departments, such as the Taxation Office, give a sympathetic hearing to their problems and wipe the debts? [More…]
So the small Australian businessman in the main, in the past a supporter of this Government, is wiped out financially and has to look around on the already overcrowded employment market for a position. [More…]
Of course, a number of these people who cannot find decent employment are migrants and they have no hope of repatriation to their homelands, if they should desire to return home. [More…]
The reasons for unemployment in Australia can be set down in quite a few ways which are outside the control of the Government. [More…]
Industrial unrest with unnecessary strikes and stoppages caused by communist-controlled unions has resulted in considerable unemployment. [More…]
The recent strike by maintenance men employed by the oil companies caused a loss of millions of dollars to the nation and resulted in a big increase in unemployment as many industries and the petroleum distributors who are still having trouble with stocks have had to put staff off. [More…]
The strike by the Victorian power distribution employees earlier in the year, caused a loss of millions of dollars to the nation and to the men and their families who were affected by it. [More…]
There is no reason why, in many of these areas the Parliament could not participate instead of this mystic group of men in the Cabinet room fooling around with the matter week after week. [More…]
Perhaps it is old hat to refer back to the Labor government of 23 years ago. [More…]
Mothers of families will be able to live without the fear of having to meet an assessment for death duties which they know is beyond their capacity to pay. [More…]
The Government has accepted its responsibility in this field and is carrying out a policy which I hope will mean the complete abolition of death duties. [More…]
This will be an added incentive for young men to stay on the land, as they will now have a more reasonable chance of carrying on the family property after the death of the father. [More…]
This did not apply in Queensland a few years ago, before the Federal Government and the Queensland Government made a reduction in death duties. [More…]
I trust that the State governments will follow the lead which has been set by the Federal Government, as was done previously by Queensland. [More…]
State governments collect considerably more in death duties than the Federal Government collects, and the need for a further reduction in State fees is quite obvious. [More…]
We find that the shadow Treasurer of the past 18 years, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), one of the most responsible men in the Opposition, when questioned on speeches he has made regarding Labor Party policy on income tax deductions, not committing his Party but rather, if I can quote one of the newspapers, exploiting some ruminations of his own as distinct from actual Federal Labor policy. [More…]
As the Treasurer pointed out, this is an increase of SI 06m, even allowing for the reduction of 4,000 men in the national service component of the Army. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn) made an extensive statement on the 5-year rolling programme after the Budget papers were tabled. [More…]
This allowed a reasonable defence debate which contained some flashes of enlightenment. [More…]
Dare I mention them? [More…]
They are the communist strong men in the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union. [More…]
He sees what men like Mr . [More…]
(Quorum formed) In the few moments left to me I want to say that there can be no union peace in this country until the grass roots members of the unions are prepared to attend union meetings and to stand up to the muscle men, the communists and fellow travellers. [More…]
In rising to join in this year’s Budget debate I would like to make some comments about the remarks made by the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch) who has just finished speaking. [More…]
In the closing stages of his contribution he made some pious reference to violence in the trade union movement. [More…]
I find that very strange coming from a representative of a government that is violent, a government that practises violence, a government that has blood on its hands from Vietnam, the blood of the children of Vietnam and the blood of Australian men. [More…]
It is a government that supports the regimes of South Africa and Rhodesia and then piously speaks about violence in the trade union movement in Australia. [More…]
He mentioned the unemployment figures and disputed the forecasts that had been made by members of the Opposition. [More…]
I would level the same accusation against him because his department - probably under his instruction and, I would think, his deliberate instruction - does not accurately present the picture of the number of unemployed in Australia. [More…]
His Department presents to us the figures of those who are registered for unemployment but these figures do not take into account the housewives who leave industry and go back home because there are no jobs for them. [More…]
They do not register as being unemployed nor do they receive unemployment relief as their husbands are employed. [More…]
The Department’s figures do not take into account the number of students who went back to school at the start of this year, who will still be there at the end of this year and at the start of next year. [More…]
There is a big difference between those registered for unemployment and a labour resource or labour potential that is not being used. [More…]
This situation is caused by the direct action of this Government. [More…]
The Minister has said that the list of measures taken by this Government are well known. [More…]
He was speaking of the unemployment situation. [More…]
They are well known to 100,000 men walking the streets every day looking for work. [More…]
That could be right, but his unemployment figures are also only the tip of the iceberg. [More…]
He mentioned the strike involving the State Electricity Commission of Victoria and the oil industry strike and the hardship that they caused the workers who were put out of work because of them. [More…]
But he neglected to tell us that both the SEC strike and the oil industry strike - which was a national strike - were the direct result of Government interference in industrial affairs. [More…]
He did not tell us that Sir Henry Bolte, the then Premier of Victoria, played a direct role by requesting the Chamber of Manufactures to advise its members to close their factories and stand men down so that things would look bad for the unions. [More…]
Members on the Government side certainly have reduced this debate to a level of personal attack on members of the Opposition. [More…]
The Australian people will not be hoodwinked by the desperate actions of these desperate men. [More…]
The Armed Forces - Here again there has been revolt against the Government’s attempt to keep the armed forces up to full strength by supple mentary national service. [More…]
The choice is to leave Australia defenceless or to train men for its defence. [More…]
They intend to reduce our Army from 9 battalions to 5- from 41,000 to 29,000 men. [More…]
This is what their spokesmen say. [More…]
How can we effectively defend this country with 29,000 men? [More…]
No doubt the Opposition will dispense with or sack all those experts who are available for training men in excess of those required in the 5 battalions. [More…]
The Opposition will sack those experts and create more unemployment. [More…]
I presume that the Opposition - and I ask honourable members opposite to listen to this because I challenge them to refute lt - will release those men now on reserve who were called up under the national service scheme, because to be consistent, if the Opposition will not maintain the national service scheme in order to get the required number of men for the Army, it cannot have men under obligation on reserve. [More…]
It was interesting to note, Mr Deputy Speaker, that there was absolutely no mention of defence in the reply of the Leader of the Opposition to the Budget. [More…]
Are we to assume that this is the importance with which the Labor Party regards benefit of the nation, if you are unable to and primary duty of any government is the protection of the national interest. [More…]
It is not much use making other proposals for the benefits of the nation, if you are unable to implement them because you do not control that country. [More…]
Expenditure on capital equipment has increased from $140m last year to $200m this year. [More…]
On the advice of the Government’s military advisers, it has been the policy of this Government to maintain an army of between 40,000 and 42,000 men. [More…]
The honourable member for St George (Mr Morrison) has advocated an all-volunteer army, with a strength of about 30,000 men, which he claims would meet current defence requirements. [More…]
I have listened with interest to some of the speeches that have been made this afternoon by members of the Government Parties. [More…]
I am sick of the cant, the hypocrisy and the tongue-in-cheek accusing of this side of the Parliament, the Opposition, of not being able to form an effective government. [More…]
I make this challenge to the Government here and now: Man for man we can outmatch it and we can beat it. [More…]
There are more qualified people on this side of Parliament, on the Opposition benches, than on the Government side. [More…]
We have men of the calibre of the shadow Treasurer, Frank Crean, a graduate in 3 faculties of the University of Melbourne. [More…]
What he is saying there, in so many words, is that this Government will not give him the staff to do the job. [More…]
I accuse this Government of that. [More…]
The Government should relax restrictions on recruitment to the Public Service, or at least to the Taxation Office, in order to allow recruitment at the lower level. [More…]
There are sufficient trained staff in the assessing area and there are enough trained accountants, but more men are needed in the investigation field where they can be used fully and effectively in collecting - and I say this quite advisedly - hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars payment of which is being evaded by the section of the community that can afford to pay. [More…]
These are the important questions that the Government overlooks. [More…]
The question of settling people in country areas and so saving the expenditure of vast sums of money is of tremendous importance; yet in Australia today some 112,000 people are unemployed, most of whom are in country districts. [More…]
When one looks hurriedly through the list of country towns and cities in the unemployment statistics one sees that in Dubbo 1,117 men and 382 women are unemployed; in Kempsey 425 men and 282 women are unemployed; in Maitland 457 men and 254 women are out of work; in Parkes 305 men and 187 women are unemployed; and in Wagga Wagga 468 men and 334 women are unemployed. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has indicated on many occasions that it is clearly the responsibility of the Federal Government to see that all 3 levels of government have not on’y the finance but also the motivation and the expertise to play their part in creating a viable environment for the Australians who choose to live in cities. [More…]
To that end he has said that an Australian Labor Party government would establish a Commonwealth department of urban affairs. [More…]
The establishment of such a department would serve 2 immediate and important ends. [More…]
They are the proper functioning of the Australian Federal system and the proper functioning of municipal government. [More…]
That the present government is not ensuring the proper functioning of municipal government is evidenced by the Australian Institute of Municipal Administration’s report that local government is slowly sinking into further financial futility because this level of government is deprived of adequate finance. [More…]
There is no doubt, that unless local government is financed from the common pool of taxation and loan funds, local government authorities cannot provide the services for which they are the most appropriate medium. [More…]
I must confess that 1 was overjoyed to learn recently that the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) received the first local government deputation that a Prime Minister has met for more than 20 years. [More…]
1 do not like to ascribe motives to persons, but we must consider the Government’s dismal failure to give proper consideration to the important third tier of government. [More…]
We must ask why the Government has concentrated so much power at the centre. [More…]
Regrettably we cannot escape the conclusion of De Tocqueville who, referring to able and ambitious men, said that they will labour constantly to increase the scope of social power, for they all hope, sooner or later, to control it themselves.’ [More…]
It is a waste of time to demonstrate to such men that extreme centralisation may be harmful to the state, for they are centralising for their own interest in it. [More…]
The present Government is not going to do anything for local government. [More…]
It has ignored the unequal development of municipalities and has ignored its own responsibility for local government. [More…]
Ratepayers are looking forward to a Labor government to provide firstly, local and semi-governmental representation on the Loan Council; secondly, authorisation for the Commonwealth Grants Commission to recommend the nature and amount of Commonwealth financial assistance to remove inequalities in servicing developing suburbs; and thirdly, relief from extortionate debt charges. [More…]
These things a Labor government will provide. [More…]
The third aspect of unemployment to which I want to refer relates to 2 analyses, one of which has been made by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron). [More…]
The honourable member tried to indicate on some very imprecise data that because the work force will grow over the coming year by about 2 per cent or a little less, we can look forward therefore to a very great increase in unemployment in 1973. [More…]
Other Labor authorities have said that we can look forward to anything from 150,000 to 200,000 men being registered for work next year. [More…]
That very statement is based on incorrect information but, once made, it entices the solution which Labor poses for the Australian economy. [More…]
In fact, the statement is designed to cause the very event which Labor says it does not want to occur; and the Opposition knows this. [More…]
How many men in Australia are employed directly with the Japanese yen compared with men employed directly with the Australian dollar? [More…]
For instance, if we are concerned about social costs - believe me, I appreciate that the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) is not only aware of them but is genuinely concerned - arising in our community because of the destruction of the nuclear family unit, we also should be concerned about the tremendous social and economic cost of the single unattached male in our community and of his particular problem. [More…]
There is much convincing evidence from overseas by sociologists, social workers and social anthropologists, and a little in Australia confirming the findings of overseas, that these men who are regarded as hoboes, or to use the American term, as drifting bums, in fact are people who are quite capable of making a creative contribution in our society - creative economically and creative socially. [More…]
It is a well thought out Budget; it is designed to bring justice to the people; it is well balanced; it will inspire confidence; it will create the incentive to develop; it will assist unemployment; it will raise the standard of living and, above all, it will preserve the stability of our economy. [More…]
The Budget will assist small business men and those about to start in business. [More…]
I sug gest to the people - whoever may be listening to this parliamentary broadcast - that they should get the details of this Budget because the effects of the Budget are not yet widely known to the people. [More…]
I say as the Labor Party’s shadow Minister for Trade that it will be Labor’s policy to safeguard the employment of Australian workers and to ensure that no tariff reduction will be accepted unless at least 2 conditions are met. [More…]
The first condition is that the proposed tariff reduction is the result of a plan for the development of Australian industry in which every relevant factor is taken into account, and not just the narrow doctrinaire factors that the Tariff Board considers, and as a result of which industry will be able to plan 2, 3 or 5 years ahead or whatever period is necessary. [More…]
No Labor government will accept any recommendation unless it meets that condition. [More…]
The second condition is that no Australian worker will be disemployed on the pittance of the present unemployment benefit. [More…]
I know personally, from having them in my office and from correspondence with them, dozens of men who worked in the footwear industry and who are among those 6,000 who. [More…]
They have come to my office at a time’ when they were trying to live on the miserable unemployment pittance. [More…]
No Labor government will put any’ worker in that position and I challenge the Minister to Say what he intends to do about it. [More…]
These , young men and women, totally preoccupied with working, building a home and establishing a family, have not the opportunity to organise themselves into yet another pressure group to petition, demonstrate or lobby. [More…]
Australia would be well warned that the past performances of this Government mirror the future that they can expect from the Government should they ever be unlucky enough to have the same Goverment inflicted upon them after the next election. [More…]
In a speech to a business and professional men’s dinner on 24th July the Prime Minister is reported to have said: [More…]
It is obvious that his public relations men have been working on him very hard. [More…]
This Government has issued bribe after bribe in its Budget policy and I have no doubt that this is the first of many such eleventh hour decisions, forecasting what it will do in the future, that this Government will make between now and the election. [More…]
The Government has been in power for 23 years and I have no doubt that the desperate men on the Government side will now pull everything out of the hat to try .to- [More…]
I have no intention at this stage of making any derogatory remarks about the members of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works. [More…]
They are, and have been over a long period of time, a very dedicated bunch of men who have put in long hours and I compliment them on the work that they have done. [More…]
I realise that I am restricted in this debate to speaking about this referral but I would like to make one comment. [More…]
He was trained, under the ex-servicemen’s scholarship scheme as a secondary school teacher. [More…]
He visits the Mount Gambier gaol and occasionally takes into his home men who are released from prison. [More…]
I happen to be the President of the North Western Rifle Club Union in Victoria, lt comprises a fine body of men. [More…]
The riflemen move in. [More…]
Rifle clubs were formed at the outset to train young men. [More…]
To the members it is a hobby or a sport, but they are also doing it for the nation because a rifle club with well trained men might be invaluable to this country at some time in the future. [More…]
We have failed them in not ensur ing that their victories are properly recognised as Australian triumphs by Australian men and woman. [More…]
1 remember the embarrassment and resentment among Australians that Australia could not even honour the event and honour Lionel Rose with a song of his own country. [More…]
In soberer moments the world will agree that it was right that the Olympic Games should continue. [More…]
It is so tragic that the Games at Munich should have been chosen for this act because of all the functions at which the nations of the world gather together, the Olympic Games are a function at which men and women of all the different creeds, nationalities and colours gather together in the hope that there will be greater peace. [More…]
Its sole purpose and consequence is to give the vote to 18 year old, 19 year old and 20 year old men and women in elections for either House of this Parliament. [More…]
It now falls to this Parliament to decide this matter. [More…]
There are 2 concluding comments that I wish to make. [More…]
Be that as it may, however, there are now 2 States in which 18, 19 and 20-year old men and women have the vote for the State Parliament. [More…]
They had it at the last State election in Western Australia and they will have it for the next election for the State Parliament in South Australia. [More…]
A similar Bill has gone through both houses of the New South Wales Parliament but its proclamation has been deferred, I am informed, until the Commonwealth legislates in this respect. [More…]
The Commonwealth has promoted suffrage for 18, 19 and 20-year old men and women in this year’s election for the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I imagine that we should not concede that our 18-year olds are less qualified to exercise the franchise for the Australian National Parliament than are the 18-year olds of Papua New Guinea to exercise the franchise for their legislature. [More…]
Of course it has been available in the Netherlands and in a very great number of other countries in eastern Europe and Latin America for many years past but in all the countries with which Australia compares itself the vote now is available at 18 and it should be possible for this Parliament to express its view promptly on this subject in time for 18, 19 and 20-year old men and women to have the suffrage at this year’s national elections. [More…]
It seeks to give the right to vote to men and women citizens of 18, 19 and 20 years of age. [More…]
The Bill should be debated immediately not only because of its urgency with the impending elections but also because it involves 600,000 to 700,000 citizens who are being denied their franchise - a franchise accepted already in 37 countries and supported in Australia by State Liberal governments and even by some members of the Parties which sit opposite in this House and the other chamber. [More…]
For some reason or other the Government desires to evade debating this important issue as well as any legislation appertaining to electoral reform. [More…]
Without in any way indicating or misconstruing the Government’s intentions, I have a shrewd idea that the Australian Country Party is very touchy on important questions relating to electoral reform. [More…]
As the Leader of the Opposition has shown, the notice paper is cluttered with several Bills not only on this issue but also on other matters of electoral reform which the Government refuses to debate. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman made some passing association with men on the land he would pay some attention and indicate his bona fides in the area by making his position very clear indeed. [More…]
The whole history of industrial development has been the replacement of sheer manpower by horsepower - the putting in of machines instead of men. [More…]
This is implicit in the growth of unemployment. [More…]
What is the Government doing to retrain those people to go somewhere else? [More…]
Essentially, in the main, academic people are looking at this problem on the one hand - I think properly looking at it - and on the other hand practical men are looking at it. [More…]
Practical men so often are practical and successful businessmen. [More…]
1 can almost see my friends on the Opposition side say: ‘Of course, that is true and all successful, practical businessmen are selfish’. [More…]
I argued a similar point on some delegated legislation 5 or 6 years ago, which was long before 1 was elected to this Parliament. [More…]
He did not have to consider the argument I raised because he found the case proved on another point. [More…]
He may not have used those exact words, but he expressed the sentiment that to wait until Parliament was in recess was a terrible way to make laws. [More…]
I remind the Minister that when he was interviewed on a television programme and asked why they had waited for Parliament to rise before trying to gazette the legislation, he said that he knew the law would noi be gazetted until Parliament had risen. [More…]
He announced to this Parliament two or three weeks before Parliament rose that he was going to do so. [More…]
You frightened little men.’ [More…]
These men speak of law and order. [More…]
I saw them assaulted vigorously and brutally by those with all the writ of the Government behind them. [More…]
These 50 men descended upon them with all the force and vigour of which strong powerful well uniformed men are capable. [More…]
The Government cannot write that out of the record. [More…]
What it to be done opposite Parliament House? [More…]
Those people who were ingenious enough to think of this operation in the first instance did so on the clear cut issue that they wanted some recognition by the people of Australia through their Government on land rights. [More…]
On the whole the Minister, as are most members of the Government, when plain and straight forward discussion takes place they arc straight forward people. [More…]
Surely it is not beyond our wit, with all the resources at our disposal, to do that instead of descending on them tomorrow morning with another act of governmental thuggery. [More…]
All I ask is that in this case instead of the Government talking law and order, throwing its weight about and acting as if il owned this place as its own private Parliament, the Government be sensitive to what this issue is all about. [More…]
I ask the Government to negotiate with the young men opposite and the people whom they represent. [More…]
Somehow in this civilisation which we are supposed to be developing we have to find some different way of negotiating between government and the governed. [More…]
The Government does not need to beat up these people. [More…]
I do not know whether it can be done now but it is time for the Government to stop in its tracks, to forget about exercising power, and to start to exercise tact and discretion and just be sensitive to human dignity and the long felt needs of the Aboriginal people for a change. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a report in the Australian Jewish News of Nth July 1972 in which Dr El-Hafez, President of the Committee of Foreign Affairs of the Lebanese Parliament, and at that date a guest of his Department, in commenting on accusations that armed men, using Lebanon as a security haven, launch attacks on Israel or areas controlled by Israel, was reported as saying that there are Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon but denying that they, are terrorists, that there is a resistance movement which has a right to fight for Palestine but denying that they receive help from Government of Lebanon and denying also that the Government has any responsibility to police their infiltration into neighbouring ‘occupied Palestine’ which he believes is the responsibility of the Israeli Police. [More…]
Yesterday the Minister for the Interior opposed my motion to suspend Standing Orders so that we could debate the vote for 18-year-olds - a right given to men and women in most comparable countries. [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 Leader of the Opposition has joined with other men of goodwill in this country in trying to spread tolerance and understanding and to remove racial prejudice but that kind of remark will inflame prejudice in this country. [More…]
May I commence by congratulating the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen)? [More…]
May I say also at this stage before I make my more general remarks, that the amendment that was mentioned by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) when he spoke earlier is designed to achieve largely what the honourable member for Moreton has put. [More…]
It is an amendment designed to relieve these 27 men in the situation in which they now find themselves. [More…]
The Legislative Research Section of the Parliamentary Library could not find out for me. [More…]
His arms were linked with those of other men around the tent. [More…]
I was told this morning that adoptions were off in Canberra at the moment, that an adoption appointment with one of the judges was cancelled this morning because the adoptions ordinance was invalid. [More…]
The young lady who was given a term of imprisonment the other day for handing out leaflets advising young men to break the National Service Act should not have been put in gaol because the magistrates have not been properly appointed. [More…]
The Court of Petty Sessions Ordinance which gives power to appoint magistrates is at this moment invalid. [More…]
This organisation is comprised of well meaning people and it is subsidised by this Government. [More…]
It is comprised of men of religion and well meaning people who are trying to do something not only for the age pensioners and immigrants but also for the part-Aboriginal people who live in my electorate. [More…]
These people are absolutely disgusted with the Government’s action in removing the tents during the last parliamentary recess. [More…]
One thing is quite obvious: Despite what is happening in the Government ranks, ii would appear that even one Government supporter was disgusted with its action. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry has said that the amendment puts the Parliament above the courts. [More…]
It is not the amendment that does that, it is the Bill. [More…]
As far as the courts are concerned, none of the 27 men charged in regard to incidents on 20th or 23rd July could be convicted. [More…]
The courts have said that as far as the law stands at the moment there could be no offence. [More…]
It is the Bill that puts the Parliament above the courts. [More…]
It is the Bill which is sending these men for trial again. [More…]
By derivation civilised men are those who live in the cities. [More…]
We have expressed our sympathy to the families of the victims, as decent men should. [More…]
Jordan crushed and dispersed its terrorists and if Syria and Lebanon would do the same, not only would the problem of terror be virtually overcome but also the prospects of a Middle East settlement would be immeasurably improved. [More…]
Until 10 minutes ago I had had no reply, but I will ensure that the Secretary of my Department contacts the Chairman of the Public Service Board today to see whether the matter can be quickly resolved. [More…]
I think it should be considered on the basis that these men not only work long hours effectively but also give complete loyalty to those for whom they are working. [More…]
Australian Labor Party is now justifying its position on revaluation on the basis that it is better qualified intellectually to make a judgment. [More…]
This has been its attitude at times when the Labor Party has had great leaders - I will give it credit for that - men who have come up through the ranks and who understand the problems of employment, industry and keeping the economy going. [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…]
I hope that one day, if it is found that the employment of Aboriginal teaching students as teachers at Kormilda College is a step in the right direction, provision will then be made to house their wives and children. [More…]
Mr Wesley-Smith was supported in his view by Mr Bruce MacKenzie, a director of the Young Men’s Christian Association at Darwin. [More…]
After his training at Townsville he listened to a call for volunteers for Vietnam from a Major Darlington and another officer who stressed that on discharge the benefits would be the same as those given to national servicemen. [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…]
The Development Bank agreed to find the finance, contingent on the resettlement loan which it applied for on his behalf. [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…]
This surely represents a shameful betrayal of young men who volunteered under Government inducement and in good faith. [More…]
I ask that a full statement be made by the Minister as to the reasons for this discrimination. [More…]
While I am dealing with young Australians who answered the Government’s call to go to Vietnam, I want to draw attention to great bitterness among many men who served there because the Australian Government has failed to seek approval for its servicemen to accept and wear the awards of allies and has not followed this matter to its conclusion. [More…]
It is incredible that in 1972 the only awards made throughout the Vietnam action that the Australian Government has officially sanctioned are those of a country which has remained neutral and has opposed the action. [More…]
Under the Government’s edicts, individuals and even the widows of dead servicemen are not entitled to wear allied awards. [More…]
Whatever our views about the involvement of our country in the bloody and tragic struggle in Vietnam, surely it is a duty of the Government, which chose to enter the conflict and which chose to induce young men to serve in it, to ensure that the promises given to them are honoured and also that no colonial hangover prevents them from having recognition of doing the job their Government asked them to do. [More…]
Vietnam has been a tragedy for mankind, and for these young men of whom I have spoken tonight and who heeded this Government’s call to arms it -has brought neither just treatment nor recognition. [More…]
I thank you for correcting me because they are not hypocrites; they are just misguided, misled, foolish men. [More…]
The people of Australia have made up their minds and the Government is gone for sure. [More…]
On the same day I inspected the sites where the outrages took place and visited the hospitals where the 2 men who were severely injured had operations performed. [More…]
What is uppermost in my mind al the moment is that we must do nothing whatsoever that would in any way impede the action of the New South Wales Police Force or prevent it in any way from carrying out its investigations in the most effective and satisfactory way. [More…]
Only yesterday the Premier of New South Wales said that he hoped for early favourable developments of the inquiries taking place. [More…]
I will agree that this has had an effect on employment in the States, because the higher you make the cost of labour the less likelihood there is of labour being employed. [More…]
This is not due to something going into men’s pockets; it is due to an increase in payroll tax forced on the States because of a shortage of funds and because the Commonwealth has given them that tax to help them to discharge their responsibilities. [More…]
What has the Government done? [More…]
The policy of the Government has been to say: ‘Get them here. [More…]
If you want further proof of the position, have a look at the inflated rates that are being charged for interest on housing loans, have a look at the inflated charges that are being imposed for land and have a look at (he deficits, the record deficits of the State governments. [More…]
New South Wales and Victoria have been in the business of government for more than 100 years. [More…]
Today Australia is being ruled from a city which might be a fairyland and which might have in it some very competent men provided that we stick to the text: books, but when it comes to the hard realities 1 would back the State administrations collectively against that of the Commonwealth. [More…]
We have had father, son and grandson, and in administrative terms the people here are mentally inbred. [More…]
Let us look at the history of this particular war service land settlement scheme. [More…]
The Government of the day was determined not to make the same mistakes as were made in other schemes before the war, so it employed the best men it could get. [More…]
It employed agricultural scientists, agricultural economists, practical farmers and practical men in other fields to work out the best methods of sub-dividing land in the various States. [More…]
When I look at this tremendous breakthrough for the settlers of Kangaroo Island I think of 2 people who consistently over a 15-year period battled hard for those war service settlers. [More…]
These 2 men have always been tremendous champions of the cause of the settlers in those areas, including a time when I was indirectly representing Kangaroo Island for 5i years in the South Australian Legislative Council. [More…]
Thereafter he spent most of his life as an Independent but he completed his wonderful metamorphosis by becoming the Minister of Lands in the Playford Government before eventually he retired honourably from the unequal struggle. [More…]
These 3 men are some of the people who made an impact in these areas. [More…]
However, none of their efforts will have made as much impact as the tremendously worthwhile contribution to those settlers envisaged in the Bill we are now debating, but which is probably due to their efforts. [More…]
In speaking for the Government I wish to express our deep concern, in fact our horror, at the bombing which occurred in Sydney last Saturday. [More…]
As the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) mentioned at question time this morning, immediately he learned of the incident he visited the area where it took place and also visited in hospital the men who had been injured. [More…]
If younger exservicemen, particularly those from Vietnam, were able to establish eligibility to take over existing mortgages many more of the original settlers would be able to sell their blocks. [More…]
This would not involve the Commonwealth in the outlay of extra finance and would result in the injection of younger men with younger ideas into the industry which could well profit from the infusion. [More…]
This is what is currently happening in this area, and because of the Government’s lack of policy, ex-servicemen, particularly regular, servicemen, are denied the opportunity to take up holdings and become part of the settlement area. [More…]
If post-1945 exservicemen were able with priority to establish eligibility to take over existing mortgages, current settlers, most of whom are in their 50s and many of whom do not have families interested in taking over the blocks, could sell to the younger men who are perhaps fitter and more able to keep this part of the fruit industry alive and progressive in the increasingly competitive atmosphere of today. [More…]
If I remember the Minister correctly he said that the period of service of men who served in these areas was not as long as that served by men in the First and Second World Wars. [More…]
Surely the Minister is not representing a government which told this Parliament that those who served in Vietnam would be given all the privileges that had been accorded to those who served in the First and Second World Wars. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for Social Services a question about the surveys of the characteristics of recipients of unemployment benefit in February last year and February this year which appear in the respective annual reports of his Department. [More…]
Why does the 1971-72 report omit such important information as the 1970-71 report gave on the age groups of men and women who were unemployed for long periods, the areas in which there were concentrations of men and women unemployed for long periods and the number of children in the families of the unemployed? [More…]
I believe that criticism of what the Government has done to improve conditions of service for servicemen is completely unjustified. [More…]
This Government has a very proud record of achievement during the last 18 months in the field of improving pay and conditions. [More…]
As a result of one of the reports in the major field of increased pay for both officers and men we are paying S92m more this year than was paid in the previous year. [More…]
All new houses for servicemen will be of an unproved size and improved standard and the established houses will be upgraded. [More…]
It is true as the national secretary of the RSL, Mr Keys, has said that there are still some matters before the Government on which decisions have not been made. [More…]
Of course this is true but those matters are there because of the initiative of the Government in bringing them forward. [More…]
Naturally, it has taken Mr Justice Woodward some time to pick up all the threads but he has informed me that he will report on the 2 matters on which he has to report to the Government within the next 5 or 6 weeks. [More…]
This problem becomes much more difficult for a government to control when men like the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), who is Labor’s shadow Minister for Health, state that they would recommend to a Labor government the abolition of penalties for drug taking. [More…]
This Committee, consisting of senior Department of Health and law enforcement officials from the Commonwealth and all States, was set up to co-ordinate activities in drug education and law enforcement. [More…]
One of the results of this current situation has been the development of a very high standard of professionalism in the Trade Commissioner Service and its officers enjoy a great reputation among Australian businessmen and their customers overseas. [More…]
He had with him officers of his own Government, men from industry and at least one representative from the Department of Trade and Industry. [More…]
Now the establishment has been reviewed in the light of [More…]
These trade commissioners are men with quite considerable qualifications. [More…]
The Service gives advice on the latest marketing methods, promotion techniques, the appointment of agents and generally brings the buyer and seller into contact. [More…]
It is a necessary and useful side of its work to report back to and advise Government of trading procedures and to act in the field of international trade agreements. [More…]
I would like to congratulate the Government for its action recently in increasing the tariff on cheap Asian textiles coming into this country. [More…]
Those of us who are interested in full employment are anxious to ensure that Australian labour is kept going in this industry. [More…]
It was extremely good to see the Tariff Board make a recommendation to the Minister for Trade and Industry (Mr Anthony) in this respect and to see him agree to the placing of increased tariffs on cheap imports. [More…]
In my electorate I have the huge Bradmill textile industry at Rutherford which employs 1,200 men. [More…]
After all, if it is proposed that a currency be altered in value at the wrong time, as has occurred in other countries - in European countries during the 1930s and in Great Britain during the 1920s - such an incorrect decision can cause thousands of men to be unemployed as happened in the United Kingdom unnecessarily when an incorrect decision was made in that country in the middle 1920s. [More…]
Inquiries made at branches of the Department of Labour and National Service in various centres in the electorate do not reveal any panic or great numbers coming forward seeking employment. [More…]
In fact, 1 know of many men on the land and in business who have advertised for employees but have not received even one applicant. [More…]
The unemployment situation is grossly exaggerated. [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…]
In view of the enormous interest and appreciation shown by Australians in the subjects raised by Ralph Nader - foreign control of Australian resources, automobile safety, excessive government secrecy, pollution, conservation, dishonest advertising and packaging and others - does the Prime Minister still hold the same view of Mr Nader? [More…]
My God, I have seen enough of it in Ipswich where working men; labourers in the railway workshops are literally wearing patched and repatched clothes to put their sons through medical school and are even depriving themselves by cutting back on their diet. [More…]
It might sound sentimental and it might sound emotional, but it does happen. [More…]
For those sorts of people to be on the unemployment benefit is not only unreasonable, discriminating and repressive for them but is terribly unfair for their children who have never done anything wrong in society except perhaps to be born into a lower socio-economic family and accordingly attract the sort of penalty from the conservative Government of which I speak. [More…]
Young men who went to work were unable to make ends meet because they had to finance this social security system which, even then, they had doubts about. [More…]
In this Budget the Government has recognised the plight of these people and has announced that the means test will again be substantially liberalised and that it will be completely abolished within 3 years. [More…]
The Prime Minister has said that the Government may well be able to abolish the means test within a much shorter period. [More…]
There are some working men who have to raise families and pay off their homes on less. [More…]
It is fair to say that the social services structure of this country is a mosaic of ideological fragmentation. [More…]
This is not a fact that is emphasised over much in the speeches of Government supporters. [More…]
Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) when presenting this Bill, the women, who retire at 60 years of age will not benefit from this means test free pension for some 5 years of their pension life. [More…]
Why is it that men at their standard retiring age of 65 will qualify for this means test free pension while this traditional discriminatory attitude which has always characterised this Government bears so heavily upon women. [More…]
For 5 years of their retirement women will be deprived of the benefits of this means test free pension which is only, available to people 65 years and over. [More…]
In a recent annual report of the Department of Social Services I read that there were som i 90,399 widows in Australia, of whom 47,146 were class A widows and some 43,000 class B widows. [More…]
The fact remains that while there are so many tears shed with regard to the unemployed - we heard them referred to by the honourable member for Oxley as unfortunate wretches - one wonders how much persons like Mr Hawke lose from their weekly pay packets when he and his men put striking men on the dole. [More…]
We find that persons who are not in receipt of earnings and who are required to go on to unemployment benefit, as a result of both political and industrial strikes, are reduced in terms of their income. [More…]
He referred to the way in which he believed the Government - to use his own words - has failed to control inflation’. [More…]
If there is one field in which I believe the Government ought to have some room for pride it is this very field. [More…]
The Government has had success in dealing with inflation. [More…]
Even if they are doubtful whether they are eligible to receive this new benefit, all aged persons - men over 65 years, servicemen over 60 and women over 60 - should make application for this new benefit in social service pensions if they are in receipt of superannuation payments, because the amounts are. [More…]
As the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) knows, it has operated in such a fashion that of every 10 people who qualify by age - ladies over 60 and men over 65 - only 6 receive the pension in whole or in part. [More…]
When we aim to remove the means test we are, in essence, seeking to give an additional payment to people whom the means test, as administered by this Government and previous governments, previously excluded - people regarded as having an income higher than that of those who are entitled to a pension. [More…]
If I may have the indulgence of the House to put a commercial over the air, I want to reinforce what we are trying to do about getting knowledge of pension entitlements into every prospective pensioner’s hands. [More…]
The pensions for new pensioners - that is, the people who have no entitlement now but who will get an entitlement to a pension for the first time under this Bill - will date only from the time they make their applications. [More…]
So I urge them now, as I hope to be urging them through advertisements and through the co-operation of honourable members on both sides with their constituents, to make their applications as soon as possible. [More…]
The people of whom I am talking are people in the aged group - that is, women over 60 years and men over 65 years - people in the invalid group who have the requisite medical qualification or disqualification, and widows, who include of course deserted wives. [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…]
According to the latest report of the Repatriation Commission some 12,000 people are getting entitlements because of war injuries in Vietnam. [More…]
These are not all ex-servicemen. [More…]
The majority are dependants but a substantial number of ex-servicemen from Vietnam are getting a service pension under the Act. [More…]
As I have pointed out in the House before, many men who would have died from serious wounds in earlier wars survived in Vietnam because of advances in medical techniques and helicopter evacuation of the wounded. [More…]
Many of these injured people and many of the dependants of men who were killed are dependent on the Repatriation Act for their subsistence and their survival. [More…]
These men who were required to fight by their Governments should not be denied the only piece of legislation which assists them. [More…]
As my Deputy Leader reminds me, they have not reached the rate of repatriation benefits in 1949, the year that this Government came into power. [More…]
It is interesting to note that in the vicinity of 194,400 ex-service men and women are in receipt of the general rate pension. [More…]
It is obvious that if the Government can please a good proportion of that number the political effects must be satisfactory. [More…]
The service pension is granted to exservicemen and women 5 years earlier in each case than the civilian age pension is granted. [More…]
But in this instance, in the free of means test proposal, the ex-servicemen and women will be disregarded unless they are over 65 years of age. [More…]
If the rigours of war were bad enough to warrant a service pension to men at 60 years of age instead of 65, and to women at 55 years of age instead of 60, surely it is good enough to grant them a free of means test pension 5 years earlier than the Government proposes to grant it to civilians. [More…]
This is another example of the Government’s concern for the most seriously disabled TPI and intermediate rate pensioners and its concern for the widows of deceased ex-servicemen as well as its interest in the welfare of that small and very wonderful band of women who served overseas as nurses during World War I. [More…]
In this new field the Government is continuing to honour its undertaking and the undertaking of previous parliaments and previous governments to look after the most seriously disabled ex-servicemen and to care for the widows of those men whose deaths were the result of their service to their country. [More…]
1 should like to mention at this stage the reaction to these proposals by various organisations, including the War Widows Guild. [More…]
It makes one feel quite small when a totally and permanently disabled ex-servicemen’s association expresses some form of appreciation. [More…]
Men stayed in the line until their temperature reached over 100 degrees, as I understand it. [More…]
Why is it that one knows ex-servicemen who are dying unexpectedly in their forties? [More…]
It seems to me that among the people with whom I associate this is occurring more in relation to ex-servicemen than in relation to people in the general community in the same age group. [More…]
At times there have been some unfortunate statements and expressed opinions unfavourable to repatriation pensions and benefits. [More…]
I say unfortunate’ because over the years Australia as a nation has been proud of its attitude to its ex-servicemen. [More…]
Our proud boast has been our interest in the welfare of our ex-servicemen and their dependants. [More…]
Our concern for and admiration of our exservicemen have been greater than in other nations. [More…]
In recent times some people have made unwarranted attacks on our repatriation system, hinting that many exservicemen are granted pensions to which they are not entitled. [More…]
Such bold statements would be difficult to prove. [More…]
On the other hand because of my long association with the Returned Services League, I know of many men who were entitled to pensions but have been denied same. [More…]
Chairmen and members of repatriation tribunals have assured me over the years that any benefit of the doubt has been given to the exserviceman. [More…]
Be that as it may, I have known of men who were denied pensions and who eventually gained same but only after years of hardship and suffering. [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…]
I challenge anyone to prove that these men did not suffer tortures which were almost indescribable. [More…]
High explosive bombs would kill 3 or 4 men in a section. [More…]
Thousands of men who were slightly gassed continued on duty. [More…]
They were not hospitalised and did not receive medical treatment. [More…]
They endured massive bombardments and they had to follow creeping bombardments within 100 yards. [More…]
Let us consider the men of the Second World War, particularly prisoners of war who worked in copper mines at temperatures of up to 120 degrees with only a loin cloth about them. [More…]
Surely no sane person would say that ailments that beset these men in later life could not have been attributable to war service. [More…]
I am sorry that our ex-servicemen have not secured more recognition by way of monetary assistance for the damage their bodies and minds have received. [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…]
The Government’s achievements in the repatriation field are beyond the scope of valid criticism. [More…]
Letters of appreciation of the Government’s proposals this year already have been received from various ex-service organisations. [More…]
We can never sufficiently reward those men who endured so much for Australia and the world for their suffering and anguish not only during the war but also since the war ended. [More…]
They are against ex-servicemen. [More…]
If they were men of fibre they would have walked out the moment the thought dawned upon them that the place was full of malingerers and undeserving people. [More…]
I have never seen ex-servicemen’s organisations resort to those tactics. [More…]
Recently the President of the Returned Services League in Queensland - my namesake, Mr Cameron - suggested that many of the doctors in the Repatriation Department today are of a generation a little removed from the war scene. [More…]
As far as I can see, the Repatriation Department is a very fair department and at all times will do what it can for ex-servicemen. [More…]
I want to refer to the policy that has been pursued by this Government in the past and the policy which should be pursued in the future in relation to staff for the Department of Repatriation. [More…]
By 1950 approximately one-half of all people employed in the Repatriation Department were ex-servicemen. [More…]
I believe that this has contributed to the great degree of understanding that departmental officers have shown in their dealings with people making application for the various repatriation benefits. [More…]
But I think the fact that there have been men who have been able to say: I was in the show myself; I know what you are talking about’, has brought about a considerable amount of confidence in the Department and its work. [More…]
In concluding, I repeat my belief that it is not possible for people just to go along to the Department and say: ‘1 have been shivering at night lately. [More…]
Australians would acquit 10 men who were guilty in preference to convicting one who was not, and the same thing should apply to the Repatriation Act and its administration. [More…]
As I see it, and in terms of what the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith said, section 47 ought to be the subject of a great debate in this Parliament. [More…]
We ought to have the Evatts, the Joskes and other men of great legal capacity back here. [More…]
The onus of proof is supposed to fall on the Crown, not on the ex-servicemen. [More…]
Percy Joske and Dr Evatt never quite had the numbers to give expression to this great ideal and get a proper practical understanding of it from the standpoint of parliamentary administration. [More…]
1 suppose we could draw a parallel with an ex-serviceman having to satisfy a highprincipled public servant somewhere, perhaps someone in a tribunal or maybe a number of men in a tribunal. [More…]
How can these men ever understand that the ulcer, the stroke or anything else that an exserviceman suffers from might have been attributable to war service? [More…]
It is time that a new breath of spring was swept into the conception of our outlook towards the ex-servicemen of this country. [More…]
I say that if the honourable member has lost a real appreciation of the men who served this country it is unfortunate. [More…]
Since my election to this Parliament and for the time I will be in this House I will play my part in achieving that end. [More…]
I do not need much encouragement from honourable members opposite but I am gratified to know that there are people on both sides of the Parliament who are not going to be sucked in by this sickness that is running through the novels and paperbacks but who will manifest a genuine sense of obligation which all Australians ought to have for the men who served this country. [More…]
I compliment the honourable member for Griffith (Mr Donald Cameron) on the words he used and the obvious sincerity with which he uttered them. [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…]
He has interests of ex-servicemen at heart. [More…]
The honourable member for KingsfordSmith (Mr Lionel Bowen) raised matters which he has raised before in this Parliament, although this time he went into a little more detail. [More…]
He mentioned the percentage of favourable decisions by various tribunals. [More…]
I repeat that these tribunals are completely independent of the Department and of the Minister for Repatriation. [More…]
To say that the men who sit on these tribunals have no experience in or knowledge of service conditions is not accurate. [More…]
His enthusiasm is infectious, and one realises quickly that while it may turn out to be a very profitable investment, that factor is secondary to the completion of a dream. [More…]
Should it be financially successful - and I know that many hard headed business associates of Mr Fox were sceptical in the early days - the profit will have been justly earned, for the frustration, obstacles and expenses would be enough to make most hardy men throw in the towel. [More…]
Site problems, finance, State Planning Authority and local government delays, plus numerous trips overseas to research and study similar projects have all contributed to the frustration and delay, but now it is all stops out. [More…]
The Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) in answer to a question asked by the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) said that in relation to inaccessible off-shore natural gas resources conceivably the Government would modify its policy. [More…]
Government will certainly see that these resources are first quantified, that they are fully assessed and used for the benefit of Australia. [More…]
We are an Australian Labor Party and the Government is not. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side are not decent or patriotic Australians. [More…]
Shame on this Government. [More…]
All power to the trade unions which are comprised of working men and patriotic Australians. [More…]
This Government will not get away with this deal. [More…]
Particularly, and significantly the announcement has been made at the very time that Japanese Government representatives are in Australia to finalise the deal. [More…]
Quite apart from that fact, the owner would have an overdraft and other commitments. [More…]
The men with the ready money - I came across an interest rate the other day charged at 36 per cent - who lent money not to await repayment, but to get possession. [More…]
I urge the Government to endeavour to recruit people to train to put in such places - I mentioned Haasts Bluff, which has 4,000 square miles of some of the best cattle country in Central Australia - to make these projects viable. [More…]
It will take the time, the patience and the experience of as many men and women as possible. [More…]
Men who were encouraged to leave the Royal Australian Air Force and come to work for Qantas have been laid off. [More…]
We are concerned also by the recent appointments to the Qantas board. [More…]
When the Government could have taken the opportunity of bringing on to that board men who have a great knowledge of the industry because, they have worked in it, not one trade unionist was appointed to that board. [More…]
At least the Liberal Government in New South Wales had the decency to put one trade unionist on the board of the State dockyard in Newcastle. [More…]
Of the 8 board members of Qantas not one represents the trade union movement. [More…]
The men on the board might have been good men in their own fields, but with the exception of Caplain Ritchie and the recent appointee Sir Donald Anderson, they have no real knowledge of airline operations. [More…]
I have, said quite a deal outside this place about the appointment of Sir Donald Anderson. [More…]
I do not agree with this appointment. [More…]
No other member of the board has any knowledge of transport operations, tourist activities, running motels and hotels and all the things which are so important to an international airline today that wants to extend its business to encourage people to come to this country to provide revenue for our own tourist industry instead of doing what Qantas is doing at the moment - encouraging Australians to go overseas and spend their money on overseas tourist attractions. [More…]
For the reasons I have stated the Opposition has moved an amendment and asks the House to support it. [More…]
The Government at this time has to make substantial contract payments which are due on delivery, and the rest of the amount sought in the Bill is to cover the pre-delivery payments. [More…]
I hope that there will be a continued recognition that the directors who are appointed in the next few years should be men who are capable of grappling with and handling the most competitive industry in the world today. [More…]
It is all right if we have the young men to fly these aircraft and to be shot to pieces when they go up. [More…]
The honourable member is concerned about an industry; he is not concerned about the young men who have to fly these mediocre aircraft. [More…]
I support the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition and I again totally repudiate the remarks of the honourable member for McPherson. [More…]
One of the things that this House can be proud of is the skill and dedication which has been shown in their jobs by men working in the Australian aircraft industry and it is stupid and irresponsible for anyone to stand in this Parliament and suggest that the only way Australia can obtain highly complex and successful aircraft is to buy them overseas. [More…]
Evans Deakin has no plans to put off 1,500 suitable order to provide continuity of employment and remove the threat of dismissal of these men? [More…]
I did see the Press report mentioned by the honourable member. [More…]
It is contrary in context to a report in the Brisbane ‘Sunday Mail’ which more accurately reported the statement by Mr Hoare, the Chairman of Evans Deakin. [More…]
It is false, men at this time. [More…]
It has no plans to put off up to 1,500 men. [More…]
From discussions I have had with Evans Deakin I can say that there are no plans for the dismissal of such a large number of men. [More…]
Are the same exacting standards applied to the admission of national servicemen? [More…]
If so, how is it possible for young men with previous records of mental instability to be admitted to the Army as national servicemen? [More…]
The Minister will remember that one of his departmental officials or Army public relations officers reported that there had been 5 incidents of attempted suicide. [More…]
I have further asked that in the report to be furnished comments be made on the reaction of the men to some elements of our training programme which might cause unfortunate pressures to be exerted on these young men. [More…]
They said that men in small boats pick up the drugs and deliver them to a Brisbane syndicate. [More…]
1 wish to raise a few points in relation to the estimates for the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]
1 am particularly concerned, however, wilh the position of the fruit growers in my own electorate, particularly those at Harcourt, because almost every single device in the form of assistance by the Federal Government and every measure of assistance provided by the State Government to apple and pear growers has been so limited as to be virtually useless to the people I represent. [More…]
There is a danger that the economy of the township of Harcourt as a whole will be effectively subverted by what is being allowed to happen in the fruit industry without assistance from the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Men have been leaving the industry. [More…]
My main purpose in speaking to the estimates of the Department of Immigration is to pay a tribute to the officers of this Department who are stationed overseas. [More…]
I recently returned from a visit to Europe during which I attended a conference in Vienna on the environment. [More…]
I want to acknowledge the help and the courtesy which was extended to me by the officers of the Department of Immigration. [More…]
In quite a number of cases I talked with Government officials of the countries which I visited and I found that without exception the Australian officers were held in very high regard by those overseas governments. [More…]
Australia is fortunate to have such capable and dedicated men representing it overseas. [More…]
The proposed expenditure this year is an average yearly expenditure by the Department of Immigration. [More…]
I would like to confirm the remarks made by the honourable member for Henty (Mr Fox) about the officers of the Immigration Department overseas. [More…]
As a member of a parliamentary delegation last year I was able to see at first hand the methods of our immigration officers in Turkey, Yugoslavia, Great Britain, Ireland, Greece and some other countries. [More…]
I was most impressed with the types of men we had there and with their methods of interviewing and consulting future citizens of this country. [More…]
I will deal with that in a few moments. [More…]
It is all very well for the academic world and the World Council of Churches and such people to say that all men are equal. [More…]
However, this is the result of poor policies implemented years ago. [More…]
The primary function of a denominational school is to produce leaders, not only in the sense of captains of industry, Ministers of State, distinguished men of the Services … but in the sense of citizens, ready to grapple with the problems of life in the second part of the twentieth century, accepting responsibility, standing for something definite and having the desire to serve men in some capacity, however humble. [More…]
Some men drive their families out into the woodlands at the weekend. [More…]
However, there has been an arrangement made whereby Vickers, the British company, has leased facilities at Cockatoo Island Dockyard so that the company may, while carrying out our submarine refits and other naval construction, look for and undertake private commercial work to offset its overheads and to try to maintain efficiency. [More…]
I can assure the House that we are giving very close consideration at the moment to every possible way in which highly skilled men, some of whom have beenin the employ of the dockyard since 1938, as in one or 2 cases I know of in the black trades, will no longer have their jobs in jeopardy. [More…]
Let me summarise the situation in this way, because it is a matter of some importance: Single men who are aged 65 years and over or are medically qualified to receive an invalid pension should apply if their means as assessed are up to $60 a week. [More…]
The same is true for single women who are 60 years and over or medically qualified for an invalid pension. [More…]
I turn now to the single people - that is, men aged 65 and over, women aged 60 and over, and single people medically qualified for an invalid pension. [More…]
In the case of wives who are not married to men who come into this category, that is, husbands not over the age of 65 and who are not medically qualified, those wives who are themselves over 60 or who would be medically qualified for an invalid pension, should apply for their own pension if their combined means as assessed are less than $103.50 a week. [More…]
lt may not be realised yet by the House or by people outside the House how far the Government has moved in the liberalisation of the means test. [More…]
We have already moved to the point where abolition at the age of 65 will be of much less financial consequence than is generally realised because we have already taken an immense step towards it. [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 repeat, that where a married couple’s means as assessed are less than $103.50 a week they will be eligible for some, not full, supplementary pension. [More…]
It involves employment for hundreds of men where much unemployment now exists. [More…]
It involves the important question of the role of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
It involves even now a wide range of things far beyond the negotiations being carried on by the Department of Customs and Excise in Sydney. [More…]
The loss of this contract means loss of employment for 260 men who would be engaged directly in the fabrication of the pipe, lt means loss of employment for one year to the equivalent of 1,000 men who would be producing the steel. [More…]
It means loss of employment to 300 coal miners who would be producing the coal for the project. [More…]
We are not their protagonists on this occasion but we know the implications, so do the men at the Port Kembla steelworks and in the different trade unions which have decided to take action, and take action they will. [More…]
I should point out, however, in the face of very occasional recognition by the communications men that the Liberal Party has given increasing thought to this subject for some time. [More…]
I have pursued it since entering the Parliament, and I pay tribute to the interest of the honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) and the Minister for Defence (Mr Fairbairn). [More…]
The Prime Minister chaired a policy committee on urban development on which some of us worked long and hard. [More…]
Pritchard asked the Commonwealth Government for a subsidy on research on motor car emissions. [More…]
All we get is a few words from our colleagues in the Senate - we cannot be too critical of them; they are not technical men - saying: ‘Leave it to the Americans’. [More…]
There are plenty of good scientists in Australia itching to have a go at the problems I have mentioned. [More…]
To my amazement, I found that there are 3 shareholders in Admen Advertising which I remind the House handled the DLP advertising in the 1970 State elections in South Australia. [More…]
He signed himself W. H. Stevens, Secretary, Norwood Men’s Branch, Liberal and Country League. [More…]
The third and major shareholder is our old friend Martin Kinnear Clemenger Pty Ltd, who, I remind you, Mr Deputy Speaker, handle, and have handled for years, the LCL account in South Australia. [More…]
Admen Advertising has 3 directors. [More…]
B. Jarvis, a Director of Martin Kinnear Clemenger, is the third Admen Director. [More…]
May I say that these men have the complete backing of the honourable J. [More…]
B. Fuller, the New South Wales Minister for Decentralisation and Development. [More…]
In 1971 an Environmental Protection Authority was set up in Victoria and the pamphlet publicising the setting up of this authority is headed ‘Tomorrow and tomorrow and . [More…]
‘Tomorrow’ is right because despite the Clean Air Act of 1958 little has been done, and I have little confidence that anything will be done by the Environment Protection Authority. [More…]
Recently a statement was made that action would be taken on exhaust emissions. [More…]
Very little assistance has been given to those men. [More…]
It will pollute the environment in which we live. [More…]
Perhaps it might be wise for the political parties to put on every piece of paper they publish a message such as ‘Do not rubbish Australia’, ‘Dispose of this’ or Do not pollute your environment’. [More…]
Mining companies should be allowed to go into these areas but they must be forced to keep the environment in first class order. [More…]
If their projects cannot meet expenses which will be entailed by establishing a town and plant outside a reserve area or spending far more money than they had thought of spending on containing their treatment plant - 1 think Noranda has stated that its plant can be contained within a half mile which will be restored - they should not be allowed to go into the areas. [More…]
It is up to the Government to see that these mining companies play their part. [More…]
They have finance and they have the men who can do a lot of organisation. [More…]
But it is up to the government to see that these areas are policed and that companies such as Peko-Wallsend and Queensland Mines makes positive statements that they will protect the environment. [More…]
The responsibility for what has taken place over a. long period of time rests with many men in many places. [More…]
terms to know and use in daily conversation are ‘conservation’, ‘pollution’ and ‘ecology of the environment’. [More…]
The ecology of the environment embraces all forms of life and its natural surroundings. [More…]
It is the study of environments and the interdependence of life that exists in those environments. [More…]
Some of us may have taken a course in science and will remember the long hours of work over some science project where diagrams were drawn to explain how the plants grew, how the cows ate the plants, how the men ate the cows, and how what was finally left was returned to the plants. [More…]
But today, with the tremendous increase in scientific knowledge, things are not so simple because the value of this scientific knowledge gained is either not being passed on to the people or, where it is passed on, many of us tend to disregard it. [More…]
My Party - both the members in the Parliament and its officials outside - has been ready for this election for many months, whenever it was to be held and whenever it was to be announced. [More…]
Despite some statements made by Ministers, particularly the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) who is the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party and who of course also was not consulted on the date, I may say that Labor’s campaign will not be American style either in method or in purpose. [More…]
The Labor Party will win this election because of the known qualities of its team and its policies, because it has men better prepared for office than any who have sought to gain office at any election since federation, and because our policies are the best prepared and most thoroughly scrutinised ever presented by any party at any election since federation. [More…]
It is on these facts and our faith in the good judgment of the Australian people that we rest our confidence on the outcome of the election now announced to be held on 2nd December. [More…]
The movement of men, materials and wealth to and from the developed and the undeveloped countries before the Second World War was mainly a matter of what could be called the imperialistic and neoimperialistic systems. [More…]
I join this debate on the estimates for the Department of Labour and National Service and I would like to make some comments on the speech just delivered by the honourable member for Denison (Dr Solomon). [More…]
He was very vocal about the public interest, but neither he nor any of his colleagues sitting on the other side of the chamber - some of them very knowledgable men on the question of law - can in fact define what is the public interest. [More…]
If one is going to ignore them and pretend that those very people who are seeking these improvements are not part of the public interest then 1 have yet to be persuaded what is the public interest. [More…]
The estimates that we are debating revolve around the Department of Labour and National Service which is the Department that has the very onerous task of administering the National Service Act. [More…]
These young men are appalled at the futility of the whole situation and the frustration that is forced upon them. [More…]
The loss of the 18 months that they must serve away from their interests, away from their friends and away from their employment weighs very heavily upon their shoulders. [More…]
Yet, with the introduction of the national service scheme and the continuation of it, this Government has put at risk the wages and working conditions of the regular soldier or the career soldier. [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 lives of the young men who have been conscripted have been disrupted. [More…]
The jingoistic Government supporters, with their archaic attitude, resolve all problems by considering the question of war and would not think of looking anywhere else for solutions. [More…]
That is a fine example of an Australian statesman calling on overseas interests to join issue with Australian working men. [More…]
A statement was also made by the Minister for Shipping and Transport (Mr Nixon). [More…]
When you have been there and stood and witnessed that as many as 98 people are being processed in half an hour before a long weekend commences it brings home the total inadequacy of the situation - the hopelessness of these people even being offered a position. [More…]
One wonders at the tremendous pressure under which the interviewing staff are placed with an average registration in one month of 392 a week against an average placement of 240 a week. [More…]
He would be thinking of the large number of men and women who are standing crowded in the waiting area. [More…]
I am happy to remind the people of Maranoa and the people of Australia generally that the trade unions and their leader will have the power to dictate policy to any Labor government, and the honourable member who interjected will find this position to his cost if ever he sits on the side of a Labor government. [More…]
He is one of the responsible men on the other side of the chamber, despite his interjection. [More…]
The more tradesmen we can produce the better it will be for Australia in the future. [More…]
The Government should look at the situation because there is considerable disruption to the education of men being called up for national service. [More…]
The Government should take a more sympathetic attitude. [More…]
Not many firms nowadays will accept as apprentices persons aged 18 or 19 years because the employers are frightened that these young men will be called up for national service. [More…]
How can State governments with their meagre Budgets and with no access to the income tax field pay more than a mere pittance of $50 a week to the bloke who works for water boards and sewerage boards and does the lousiest jobs in the community and gets the least for it? [More…]
If the Government says that the States are burdened by restricted Budgets why does it not, in the interests of the wives and children of men on this low wage and salary level, make grants to the State governments to enable them to lift those wages by at least 20 per cent? [More…]
The same situation applies to some employees of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Is the Commonwealth Government not an employer? [More…]
Alternatively young men living more than 25 miles from a CMF unit - which often happens in country areas - may attend special units involving one annual camp of approximately 33 days duration. [More…]
In addition, a claim for deferment can be made on the grounds of exceptional hardship. [More…]
There are training schemes for Aborigines, for national servicemen to whom I referred a moment ago, for those displaced owing to redundancy or replaced by technological change, for women wishing to re-enter the work force, and there is training provided under the rural reconstruction scheme. [More…]
In the estimates provision is made for new initiatives, for schemes to include those with a history of long periods of unemployment who are worrying the honourable member for Sturt, for a greatly improved and expanded programme of subsidies to employers of first year apprentices which I included in my remarks when replying to the honourable member for Leichhardt. [More…]
By our encouragement of double incentives to employers of apprentices in country areas we are providing opportunities to young men and women who would otherwise have to leave the country to seek employment. [More…]
This is all part of the Government’s stated determination to bring about a better distribution of population throughout Australia. [More…]
These are just some of the aspects of the work of the Department. [More…]
A modified report of the Government’s proposal appeared in the ‘National Times’ a few weeks later, on 31st July. [More…]
According to this report the scheme would be known as the servicemen’s loan scheme and would provide up to $9,000 for servicemen, whether or not they had served overseas. [More…]
The suggestion that CMF men be eligible for the scheme had been vetoed by the committee drawn from the Treasury, Housing and Defence Departments. [More…]
The committee had recommended an interest rate of 6i per cent or 21 per cent above the war service homes rate but rather lower than interest rates in the market. [More…]
I was just wondering whether you men who run this country know what it is like for the little people who make up this country, who have less future than the migrants who come out here and because they are new and strange get all the help in the world. [More…]
Let us look at this in relation to the Government’s claim that it has put a floor in the price. [More…]
This decrepit structure has been matched only by the Government’s disastrous policies which have cost growers dearly. [More…]
The inaction of the Government during this 3-year period probably has robbed the Australian wool growers and the nation of $450m. [More…]
The Government was asked by 1,500 wool growers who met at Orange on 17th June 1970 to embargo the export of wool below a national average of 45c a lb. [More…]
It was very interesting to see the response to that request by 1,500 wool growers who included, I might say, some of the leading men in the wool industry over the whole of the nation. [More…]
The meeting was called mainly by former supporters of the Government and former members of Government parties. [More…]
They had made their assessment and they disagreed with the Government. [More…]
They asked the Government to take protective action but that action was not taken. [More…]
Even one wool clip at present prices would be a tremendous help to thousands of hard pressed growers and to country towns and business men. [More…]
I feel sure that the Minister will be able to say that this is also the objective of the Government. [More…]
It is imperative that we have the best men to do the job. [More…]
The debate on the report should be one of the most interesting’ debates in the next Parliament after the Government is returned on 2nd December. [More…]
It is not what machinery this House may adopt, or what complementary machinery the State Houses introduce if we have an acquisition scheme, that is all important. [More…]
We need men to back the commission or authority which we set up. [More…]
We need men who will stand up to pressure and back the authority, as the Government did. [More…]
It is not only the machinery that counts; it is the men who are handling the situation who matter. [More…]
The Press, of course, was against the Government and against the Commission. [More…]
It was money borrowed from the Government, from the banks, on which the Commission paid interest on a commercial basis. [More…]
The Government and the Commission had the courage to stand up to the tactics that were being adopted and to the position in which we found ourselves at that time. [More…]
In December of last year, the Government introduced another Bill to make available $30m to back the Commission further, and by the February sales of this year the game was over. [More…]
But had the Commission not stood with the Government and had the Government not backed the Commission the game would not have been over today. [More…]
We need men who will back and have faith in their own country and the produce of their country. [More…]
The wool industry is of tremendous significance and scope. [More…]
During the recent crisis in the industry many country towns suffered tremendously because of the failure of wool to attract a satisfactory price. [More…]
That is a tremendous tribute to this industry and to all the men who participate in it. [More…]
Of course, it must be said that the Government later introduced a rural retraining scheme. [More…]
He said that Tamworth would be probably oneof the best situated cities in Australia for the implementation and application of such a scheme. [More…]
Where would such a person get employment in these fields?. [More…]
This sort of scheme, of course, is to be contrasted with Labor’s action in the rehabilitation scheme which it provided for men who were demobilised after the last war when Australia had a much smaller population than it has at present. [More…]
It would appear from what has been said by Opposition speakers that the Corporation is some remote body of men who have no interest whatsoever in the producer. [More…]
These 4 wool growers obviously will have a lot to say on the setting up of any future plan, on any alteration to the present legislation or in relation to any submission to the Government. [More…]
What the Opposition wants the Government to do is lay down in specific terms how the Corporation will work. [More…]
But it was not until the present Government came into office that these matters were rectified. [More…]
The Corporation which is to be set up under this Bill will decide what recommendations are to be made to the Government with respect to the wool industry and I have no doubt that the wool growers and others on the Corporation will be able to handle that task as it should be handled. [More…]
No matter how many middle men there may be or how many hands it may pass through in the process, the principle still applies. [More…]
When the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) spoke it was apparent, as is quite frequent when he makes his statements, that again a number of his points were not substantiated. [More…]
I must take specific exception, however, to the allegation that the officers of the Department of Customs and Excise are not doing their jobs properly, which I think was implicit in one of the statements the honourable member made. [More…]
The Department has at least 8 fully qualified accountants who check producers’ costings thoroughly. [More…]
In conclusion, I would like to return to the assertion that it is the intention of the Minister, the Department and his officers, when sums of money are made available by way of subsidy, to take every precaution to ensure that the money does not pass into the hands of middle men but that, in fact, it gets to the farmers who are intended to be the recipients of the subsidy. [More…]
Recently the General Manager of the ABC, Talbot Duckmanton, told ABC men in London and New York that TDT’ had a limited future and that instant opinion shows were doomed. [More…]
The death of TDT has been made more certain by recent changes in the ABC involving political appointments. [More…]
Again I ask the Commonwealth Government to consider what 1 have suggested. [More…]
Our society is becoming so complex today that we depend on a few key men to keep our vital industries going. [More…]
I believe the Federal Government has to look at a new idea of a task force which will go anywhere where there is a blackmail operation by people who will not abide by arbitration. [More…]
Immediately industrial action is taken by the working men or women of Australia they are looked down on. [More…]
I felt that they should have at least some comment before 1 proceeded to make my main remarks in the limited time - the curtailed time - that we have available to us this evening. [More…]
Before I deal in more detail with these 2 matters I believe it is important that honourable members consider the background of the Queensland Government leaders and particularly certain of the Cabinet Ministers. [More…]
It is important to realise that these men, the leaders of the Country-Liberal Party coalition in Queensland, the political colleagues of the Liberal-Country Party Federal Ministers, hold office not because of the majority of electoral support that they are able to gain at the elections that are held in that State but because of the gerrymandered State electoral boundaries. [More…]
They retain the majority of members in the Queensland Parliament by this method rather than through the method of receiving favourable and popular support, because all the favourable and popular support goes to the party in Opposition, the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The programmes are excellent, certainly: but as a person who is critical and one who has been associated with the circumstances of the times I have an impression that the young men who are the commentators, interrogators or whatever they are called probably suffer from immaturity. [More…]
Since that time, following a question that 1 asked in the House regarding some guarantees towards the continuation of employment for these men at the Evans Deakin shipyard, the Minister nas been able to give me an indication that in his understanding of the situation the problem has largely been overcome and the continuity of employment will almost certainly be guaranteed for the men. [More…]
I have had an opportunity to discuss this matter in recent days with the management of Evans Deakin and I understand that the dismissal of the men is now most unlikely. [More…]
It was explained to me that this is due to a natural wastage of men or a loss of men going to other jobs for various reasons. [More…]
The main reasons for this problem being virtually overcome at this stage are the fact that the ‘Sir Roderick Miller’ is due to be launched soon and there are no other orders in hand, and the earnest efforts by the Evans Deakin management to place the men in other sections of their general engineering activities as the ship completion date approaches. [More…]
I certainly must compliment the management on this decision and also compliment the industrial unions for the great restraint they have shown while this threat has been hanging over their heads. [More…]
The situation has been resolved but I suggest to the House that it was not resolved because of any action that the Minister or the Government took to overcome the problems of the Evans Deakin shipyard. [More…]
The head in the sand attitude that the Government has adopted for many years now, particularly in respect to the Evans Deakin shipyard, but generally in respect of continuity of work in the short term and the long term for shipyards in Australia, is still being adopted. [More…]
It just does not have men of experience. [More…]
In the Sunday Mail’ of last Sunday there is an article headed ‘Sack Threat to Ship Men’. [More…]
The article states that the general manager of the company said that the shipyard reeded a new order very quickly to avoid having to dismiss workmen. [More…]
His comment followed a report that a proposed $12m expansion to the Whyalla shipyard has been temporarily shelved. [More…]
So we see the situation in relation to 2 shipyards, one employing approximately 1,700 men and the other one employing approximately 850 men. [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…]
He is in a class of 30 young men who will graduate this year and, for various reasons, is the only one who will face the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
The professor at the university has advised the class that 20 of the young men will find no difficulty in being placed readily in their profession but that 10 of them may face some period of waiting while they organise jobs for themselves. [More…]
He will be 2 years behind every one of the 29 men who graduated with him. [More…]
He will not only have to secure a job but also secure a job in the profession that he has been away from for 2 years and against competition from up to 60 men who graduated in the 2 years he was away from university. [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…]
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…]
Probably there are countless dozens of such cases of young men throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth. [More…]
-] would like to have the opportunity of making some comments about the plea that the honourable member for Bowman (Mr Keogh) has made but time precludes me from doing so. [More…]
However, I do think thai there are a number of men in similar circumstances who have served and, I think, done remarkably well. [More…]
I want to raise a matter in respect of the rehabilitation of ex-servicemen. [More…]
I am interested in this question because the case is similar to many which came before the Joint Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation. [More…]
The terms of reference required the Committee to look at the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act, not the Commonwealth Employees Compensation Act which a regular member of the Service comes under should he be injured in an accident which occurs not in war time. [More…]
The embarrassment in the present level of volunteers is that the ceiling of around 40,000 imposed by the Government has been shattered. [More…]
According to the latest figures available to me, the strength of the Army is 41,536 men. [More…]
Government moved to cut back the Army to 40,000 by reducing the term of national service from 2 years to 18 months. [More…]
This was designed to reduce the number of national servicemen inducted from 16,000 to 12,000. [More…]
However, this measure was negated by the increase in volunteers and the closest the Army got to reducing its strength to the 40,000 target was 41,290 in June this year If the Government wished to achieve the objectives of cutting the [More…]
I do not want to repeat what I have said on other occasions about what would have happened to the defence forces of this country in, for example, 1939 had there not been a citizen military force from which sprang the cadre of officers, NCOs and enlisted men - the privates - who came forward and provided the basis for the 6th Division which was Australia’s first con.ribution to the 1939-45 conflict. [More…]
It alarms me that today, when there is dissatisfaction within the ranks of the CMF - I challenge the Minister for Defence to dispute what I have said in relation to the fall-off in the strength of the CMF - there has been a deterioration not only in the morale but also, I believe, in the equipment and manpower of the CMF. [More…]
Although it is a very important part of national service to have a readytogo standing Army that is capable of meeting any threat or of going to any area where a threat might erupt, a second and, I think, equally important reason for national service is the number of reserves who are trained so that, in the event of any threat to or involvement of this country, we have, as each national service intake completes its period of service, men who in the event of mobilisation could be called up and would be ready to go. [More…]
It is breaking the hearts of young men who are prepared to serve. [More…]
When we talk about 40,000 men we should work out how many are in logistics and how many of them are in the support area. [More…]
We do not have a lot who are front rank fighting men. [More…]
Wo talk about 40,000 men and about our defence preparedness, but I doubt very much, under our present defence organisation, whether we could by ourselves mount anything more than a holding situation on Portuguese Timor for 2 days. [More…]
We must have capital equipment, landing barges and other engineering supplies for which we have been dependent on the United States and the United Kingdom. [More…]
Men serving in such a unit would have done their basic training in one of the forces and in time of war they would be able to revert to a fighting unit or, alternatively, using their skills in assisting in rescue operation so prevalent during wars. [More…]
The equipment with sophisticated weapon systems and the availability of effective support from the Australian electronics industry is of prime importance to the Navy. [More…]
I personally cannot see an argument that would first of all put men out of work in our domestic appliance electronics industry if we were to import on a large scale, as is done in the United States, Japanese and other overseas manufactured products. [More…]
I add that aspect as one which the Government must consider on a much wider spectrum than those other aspects I have mentioned in view of the large expenditure involved in colour television. [More…]
I saw some Indonesian airmen returning home last week-end after training in Australia. [More…]
They were pleased to have been here and to have been trained by our men. [More…]
I should mention that in speaking of co-operation I am not forgetting the Army. [More…]
They have come to realise that in every area associated with defence the Government has failed. [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…]
We do not know exactly why we want that particular number, but that is challenge the authenticity of the argument behind it. [More…]
So, in a community in which there are something like 2 million men of military age, we pick out those 12,000 and we send them off to become members of the Services. [More…]
They talk continuously about the Army and its 40,000 men. [More…]
But what about the other 29,000 or 30,000 men who are in the citizen forces? [More…]
They hardly rate a mention in the Defence Report 1972’. [More…]
They are never mentioned in debate. [More…]
In the limited time at my disposal I want to inform the Committee of some new developments in our plans for increasing the tempo and operational readiness of the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
These are significant developments which are part of the overall review which is being undertaken in order to revitalise the CMF, to make it more interesting and attractive to young men and to encourage them to undertake parttime service in defence of this country. [More…]
There have been some retrenchments at the dockyard of both tradesmen aud unskilled people. [More…]
As the Government has complete control over orders placed with this dockyard it is incumbent upon the Government to ensure that these men are not permanently lost to the industry. [More…]
I have been asked by the Labor Council of New South Wales to pursue this matter in order to get something definite from the Government in regard to this industry so as relieve the anxiety not only of trade unions involved but also of the management. [More…]
Part of this amount is to be given to an Army that is supplemented by young men taken from the community against their will, placed into military establishments for 10 weeks, where they are bastardised and brutalised by the people in these places. [More…]
The excuse that is given for this treatment is: This will make men of them*. [More…]
Young men are taken from the community, from their occupations where they are performing worthwhile tasks, and for a 10- week period some of them are driven to distraction. [More…]
The community ought to be told - this ought to be well known to the people of Australia - how we are training these men to defend this country, which is what the Government says they are being trained for. [More…]
Let me tell honourable members, and through the radio let me tell those who are listening to these proceedings, how these young men are being trained. [More…]
Well, we will sleep safely in our beds knowing that young men of this country are being trained to throw typewriters and filing cabinets at those who come to attack us. [More…]
He and those who support him should learn to Jive in peace with other men. [More…]
Speaking in this fashion I leave myself open to a charge from the Government parties that 1 do not believe in the defence of this country and that I would sell this country out. [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…]
A government of the same political complexion as this Government sold our minerals to them for 10c a ton. [More…]
Can they believe that hundreds and thousands of people live in unsewered areas in this age when we can put men on the moon? [More…]
If they do not have the obnoxious pan system they have to put up with the septic system with its extra cost and often polluting effects on the environment. [More…]
Many many thousands of people in outer urban areas suffer this back breaking burden because of the failure of governments, both Fed eral and State, to provide adequate finance to local government and semi-government authorities to enable them to sewer these outer urban areas adequately. [More…]
The Government’s decision to introduce meanstestfree pensions for people aged 65 and over represents a major social advance with considerable financial, economic and social implications. [More…]
As announced in the 1972-73 Budget Speech, the Government is committed to abolition, within the next 3 years, of the means test on age pension eligibility for residentially qualified men and women aged 65 years and over. [More…]
The Government has also decided that the free-of-means test pension will be subject to tax but, following past practice, provision will be made to exempt or partially relieve from taxation persons in the lower income groups receiving freeofmeans test pension. [More…]
In addition, the Government has determined that eligibility for supplementary assistance and for Commonwealth ancillary pension benefits will be conditional, as now, on satisfaction of the relevant special means test. [More…]
Having In mind the policy of the Government to abolish the means test within the next 3 years on age pension eligibility for residentially qualified men and women aged 65 years and over, as announced in the 1972 Budget speech, to report on - [More…]
I wonder why the Prime Minister and his Government have deemed it wise to appoint 2 retired business general ‘managers to conduct the inquiry into national superannuation? [More…]
The Prime Minister said that these 2 men, Messrs Scott and Dixon, are retired business people. [More…]
That is why I asked the Prime Minister when he was on his feet to indicate what were the qualifications of the men to be appointed to conduct this inquiry. [More…]
It is fairly obvious, from what I have said, that the Labor Party has strong suspicions about the sincerity of the Government on this proposal. [More…]
If the Government were to say bluntly and dogmatically that it will introduce a national superannuation scheme and that that scheme depends on the findings of the inquiry, we would feel much more at ease. [More…]
The Government has boasted over the years of the respect and reverence in which it holds men who served this country in time of war. [More…]
We may be proud of what we have done in this respect because I think I am right in saying, from what I have been informed, that what we have done for returned servicemen is far is excess of what any other nation has done. [More…]
However, this is consistent with the attitude adopted towards our national servicemen. [More…]
Many young men have had their lives blighted in that way. [More…]
He can receive an additional $35 a fortnight as an attendant’s allowance, a clothing allowance of between 85c and $1.70 a fortnight, and perhaps a transport allowance of $12.50 a fortnight, making a maximum total payment of SI 45.20 a fortnight. [More…]
I think that the bravest men in the world have been those who have been able to overcome that fear. [More…]
It is not often that I have spoken in the Parliament on repatriation matters. [More…]
The Government is willing to send men to Vietnam, yet the system it has- set up cannot possibly give them economic justice. [More…]
He is all right at the moment; he is not an. [More…]
Because a citizen operates in these forces on a part time basis and has a special relationship to the community, and because he is in such a totally different position to the regular servicemen, he needs to be treated differently. [More…]
It is my belief that the citizen forces are the great reservoir of recruitment for the armed forces which has been ignored. [More…]
In discussions in this place, whether at question time or during debates on defence, reference is made to the Army having so many men. [More…]
But it is just the regular servicemen who are counted. [More…]
But here’s a happier age for now we know, Both how to make men sick and keep them so. [More…]
The Government’s decision to phase TAA operation into Western Australia over a period of 2 years is not good enough. [More…]
There has been no mention of TAA operating in South Australia, but I know that the Government has been requested by the South Australian Government to permit TAA to operate in that State. [More…]
I know that this rearrangement will cause staff problems, and that aspect will have to be closely examined. [More…]
At least men and women should retain their employment in the industry. [More…]
The honourable member said that the Government had taken 2 years to act on this matter since a delegation of 3 men from the Northern Territory - 2 of whom were members of the Australian Country Party and one was an independent - came to Canberra in relation to it. [More…]
The honourable member accuses the Government of refusing to take this matter seriously. [More…]
He said that the Government had taken 2 years to work out a proposition to put to the Northern Territory Legislative Council, and through the Legislative Council, to the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The matter had to be discussed by several Commonwealth Government departments. [More…]
Therefore I think it is wrong for the honourable member to accuse the Government of delay. [More…]
Against those Australian Labor Party men, including the honourable member for Dawson who is now at the table, saying that they would put into operation a quicker pace of reform than this, we have the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) who, when last on his feet in the House on this matter, seemed to be backing off this idea of a quicker move towards self-government in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I had mentioned that some of them were in favour of immediate selfgovernment for the Northern Territory; but the honourable member for Adelaide, in appearing to be backing off this idea, said that he knew them personally and that they would not be talking of this sort of thing. [More…]
He went on to say - I presume he was talking about self-government - that he could not see the slightest risk in going the whole hog. [More…]
By ‘whole hog’ he obviously meant going from the Budget straight to selfgovernment. [More…]
The honourable member for Adelaide then refuted what his men have said in the Northern Territory Legislative Council, saying that such a move would be unpopular. [More…]
It seems that pursuant to Government policy a certain amount of very limited progress has been made towards territorial government in the Northern Territory which the Government has denied the people of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
A form of local government exists in the Northern Territory. [More…]
It has an unnecessarily very restricted Legislative Council and, like the Australian Capital Territory, it has very restricted representation in this Parliament. [More…]
The substance of this Council has remained unaltered for many years as a result of deliberate Government policy. [More…]
Those men on the Advisory Council who represent the people of Canberra are free to give only advice on matters that arise. [More…]
On this very day in the last 24 hours of the Parliament the Government is opposing salary and wage increases for the workers, yet it has the temerity to put a Bill of this sort before the Committee and says, in effect: ‘Whilst we oppose a salary increase for those who toil within the airline system - in TAA - we will have, in fact, another system which says to the top brass: “You have only to come and knock on out door and you will be granted salary increases”.’ [More…]
Not only does the Minister agree with this, but also if he wants a little protection in what he does he can gather around him the Higher Salaries Committee of the Government of Australia. [More…]
This body of 13 men, which could fit into a telephone box if it wanted to, will determine the salaries for the top strata. [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 arguments are not only between management and men; they are between the unions themselves. [More…]
It was employing the same number of men - and used almost 8 times the amount of steel. [More…]
I have given these figures before but let me repeat that cement is carried from Townsville to Darwin in an overseas ship for $2.30 a ton, but it is carried from Townsville to Weipa, half the distance, in an Australian ship for $25 a ton. [More…]
The fundamental lesson of this whole exercise is that if you prepare a feather bed people will lie on it. [More…]
They know that the cost plus system applies and that the import of ships will be prevented by Government decree. [More…]
It is not because our men cannot work as well. [More…]
I note in passing that in the recent Tariff Review’ for the first time we have a classification of industry, of 1,648 firms, showing the number of people employed, the value of production, the value added and the amount of capital investment. [More…]
I would have expected that in that table the number of men employed would have been divided into the value added, or that a unit of capital - say $1,000 - would have been divided into the value added so that one could arrive at the value added per person employed or the value added per unit of capital. [More…]
The honourable member did not say this, but I know that the principal reason for demarcation disputes in the industry is that the men are determined to hold what they have within each individual union because there is no guarantee of continuity of employment. [More…]
The men’s attitude is that they have to hang on to what they have. [More…]
They say the work is theirs and they are going to hold onto it because if they do not do so they will be out of employment and it is better for them to be in employment and the other fellow to be out of it. [More…]
Where men are in the one shop, handling the same equipment and doing the same type of work, except on different material, and are getting different rates of pay, there is a problem. [More…]
If it is not to be proceeded with in this session it will be erased from the notice paper upon the expiration of this Parliament. [More…]
In other words, the Government tried to be brave, but suddenly those outside men, those outside influences, those faceless men who influence this Government, brought the pressures down and the Government is bowing to those pressures. [More…]
Therefore, who can blame the public, not to mention honourable members on this side of the House, for being cynical as to the Government’s motives in respect of this legislation? [More…]
I stated earlier that this legislation is a last minute effort to confuse the public into believing that the Government is fair dinkum on this issue of overseas investment. [More…]
It completely ignores the fact that a number of members of this Parliament have been warning for over a decade against the evils of the Government’s excesses on this issue. [More…]
When will the men who went on strike on 18th October last and were dismissed on 19th October become eligible for the unemployment benefit? [More…]
The second fact which is also undeniable is that the gallup polls which have been taken in the community on this question of substance indicate full well that the position which has been taken by the Government is supported by the overwhelming majority of Australians. [More…]
This policy is contrary to the egalitarian trend of industrial relations in this country, is discriminatory in the context in which I have mentioned before in this House and, finally, is totally naive because it ignores the whole concept of flow-on throughout the genera] community, about which concept, of course, the honourable gentleman who asked the question is vitally concerned because, as he indicated, such a flow-on would have disastrous effects on the rural community, the export industries and on those groups in the community least able to protect themselves, namely, the pensioners, the superannuitants, those on fixed incomes and, of course, the men and women on the land. [More…]
The policy of this Government is one which is well supported in the Australian community. [More…]
This effectively demolishes the recommendations of the Committee even if some of its provisions are ultimately included in the existing scheme by amending legislation. [More…]
I oan assure the Government that this will not satisfy servicemen who have suffered from the complexity and often downright cussedness of the existing scheme. [More…]
Many of these men have already been 2-time losers under the scheme; now there is every chance that the Government will make them 3-time losers. [More…]
We moved an amendment to the Defence Forces. [More…]
Retirement Benefits Bill in June 1970. [More…]
He can bring up something on a general business day on Thursday morning but a government only has to talk the matter out and it then remains on the notice paper unless or until a Minister brings it up for debate and decision. [More…]
It is only when the Government brings in a motion or a Bill that any private member, including any member of the Opposition, can move an amendment and secure a vote on that amendment. [More…]
This Committee was set up only because the Government introduced a Bill which it wanted to pass. [More…]
The Opposition was therefore entitled to move an amendment to that Bill and the Government was able to retain its supporters only by giving an undertaking to set up this Committee. [More…]
Not only did we move to establish the Committee in such a way that the Government could not stall it any longer but had to give an undertaking to its dissident members that such a committee would be established and they then acquiesced in regard to the Bill going through. [More…]
These were clearly the members of the Committee who had the longest and the most distinguished experience in these matters - men who knew something about the Services and about finances in general. [More…]
Without any dispute whatever in the Parliament by Ministers or private members since the Committee’s report was tabled over 5 months ago, we find that there is another controversy in the Government ranks on this matter. [More…]
Of course, the whole exercise of the midnight Cabinet meetings and so on have been devoted to trying to get the dissident Government supporters not to put their votes where their mouths have so often been. [More…]
It is only 3 star men who can serve until then. [More…]
Most men get out when they are in the 30s at the latest. [More…]
Some stay on to the 40s, a very few senior men in the 50s. [More…]
If we equate the DFRB scheme to the Commonwealth Superannuation Fund or Provident Fund we are disadvantaging the armed forces as a whole; we are losing the investment that the country puts into the armed forces. [More…]
We must consider also that we are unfair to the men and their families who choose to serve voluntarily during some of their prime years of life in this essential occupation. [More…]
The DFRB scheme has been the subject of investigation by one of the most high powered joint committees that this Parliament has ever set up, and now on thelast day of the Parliament we find that its unanimous report, which has never been criticised in the Parliament, is to be shelved once again. [More…]
I would like to extend my personal thanks to my colleagues on the Committee who came from both sides of the House and who proved themselves to be men who were dedicated to the cause of conservation. [More…]
National parks and their management was another problem that was put to us. [More…]
We found that while the consciousness of the proper ecological management of national parks is improving in Australia and there is a great deal of pride growing in the men who are employed in the national parks services, there is still a lot to be learnt and a lot of training to be done. [More…]
A number of witnesses recommended that the Committee should journey to other countries where national park management programmes are well established. [More…]
I believe it is most important in matters of this nature that parliamentarians, who eventually have to assist in making the decisions and bear the responsibility, should be fully informed on these matters. [More…]
Therefore I think a great deal of emphasis should be placed on the Committee’s recommendation that a standing committee of the House of Representatives should be established in the new Parliament to inquire into matters of environmental and conservation concern referred to it by the House. [More…]
There was also some lack of communication with government departments. [More…]
It appeared that a number of departments were involved in conferences with other countries on matters of conservation which, while referred to in some reports of those departments, were never in fact referred to the Committee. [More…]
But I should like to say, in view of the criticisms and comments made by this Committee over the years, that it would be unfair if we did not also emphasise that one of the things that comes to the minds of all members of the Public Accounts Committee is the growing professionalism, the amazing dedication, of members of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
On some committees we tend to examine closely and to criticise, but let us not forget that underlying all this is a huge body of professional men and women who are serving this country very well. [More…]
I commend the reports. [More…]
1 believe that the Government should be entering into negotiations with the State governments, if it has not already done so, to set down more stringent penalties than those which were set down on this occasion. [More…]
It is obvious to me that the learned judge gave the 2 men the maximum penalty that he could impose. [More…]
We, the legislators, whether it be in this Parliament or in the State parliaments, should take appropriate action to increase the penalties and so provide a greater deterrent to the people who have this kind of thing in mind. [More…]
However, I believe that the Commonwealth must give consideration, in development programmes such as this and when transferring people from one area to another, to the indirect and direct effects on services in the area to which the squadron - in this case - is transferred. [More…]
Not enough thought is given in the planning to the effects of transferring a lar-e body of men into an area. [More…]
I ask the Government in this case to give special consideration to the people of Townsville who have been adversely affected in one way or another when looking for houses and flats, because of the programme of development. [More…]
1 completely endorse the development. [More…]
I completely endorse the establishment of the Army and Air Force base in Townsville. [More…]
But, on the other hand, more consideration must be given to the effects that the introduction of thousands of extra men in the Army and Air Force will have on the ordinary civilian services of the area, lt is also having some effect on telephone installations. [More…]
Apart from the repatriation legislation a considerable improvement has been made by giving these servicemen access to the war service homes legislation. [More…]
Under the previous legislation these men had no entitlement to war service homes. [More…]
It is appropriate that these men should be allowed assistance under this legislation. [More…]
These men were drawn from various islands including Murray. [More…]
Two other small units, the Torres Strait Employment Company and the Islander Labour Company were subsequently formed. [More…]
When the war ended 700 Island veterans of this company were rehabilitated in the pearling industry by the Queensland Government. [More…]
As I said at the outset - I suppose one can always learn something new in this Parliament - I had no knowledge of the discrimination that applied in relation to those from this area served in the armed forces during the Second World War, But at least the Minister for Repatriation (Mr Holten) and the Government have now accepted that there should not be any racial discrimination and the Bill which we now have before us provides for this. [More…]
So, the Government has decided to apply this principle. [More…]
I have studied the Act very carefully and I have received an assurance that, when the Minister talks about appeals and when his Department refers to appeals, they agree that the benefits of the entire processes of the Repatriation Act will apply to those who are now being considered under the terms of this legislation. [More…]
I found it very difficult to determine what was intended by the legislation, because while it contains a reference to a right of appeal to the Repatriation Commission I can see no reference to a right of appeal to an entitlement tribunal. [More…]
However, I accept the assurance that there will be a right of appeal to an entitlement tribunal. [More…]
I have said in this House on a number of occasions before the present Minister held the Repatriation portfolio that I do not accept the principle that we cannot give ex-seamen the right of appeal to a higher tribunal. [More…]
It is not racial discrimination but discrimination in relation to what is availale to ex-servicemen in the form of an appeal and what is available to ex-seamen in the form of an appeal. [More…]
But I accept the assurance that there will be a right of appeal to an entitlement tribunal. [More…]
I compliment the Minister for quite a lot of things he has done. [More…]
Ever since he came into Parliament he has been a tremendously likeable fellow, not only in this Parliament but also when he went into the electorate to meet the people. [More…]
There were men in this House who said that the Chowilla Dam should be built, but the men who really knew - the experts on the job - said that Dartmouth Dam would give better, clearer and more water more cheaply. [More…]
I join with the Prime Minister in his tribute to the retiring First Parliamentary Counsel and to the newly appointed First Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]
I might, in normal circumstances, think it inappropriate that in the last hours of a Parliament there should be appointments to any major office of this character. [More…]
This, however, is a parliamentary office. [More…]
Might I say, partly in a personal capacity but also more particularly in an inherited capacity, that 1 have had some association for well over 30 years with both these learned gentlemen. [More…]
I believe the Parliament of the Commonwealth is fortunate to attract men of such dedication and distinction. [More…]
I would hope that it would soon become possible for qualified persons to find it attractive to become what we have always hitherto called parliamentary draftsmen. [More…]
It is essential that the people who make the laws in a parliament should be able to make laws with sufficient clarity and dispatch for the public to understand and observe those laws. [More…]
I join the Prime Minister, too, in his tribute to all those men and women who make it possible for this Parliament to function at all - those concerned with the comings and goings of members to and from the city and to and from the House; those concerned with the replenishment, the refreshment, the encouragement and the inspiration that honourable members have to call upon. [More…]
A very great number - hundreds of men and women - provide these services. [More…]
There are some people who probably have been kept more busy in this Parliament than ever before. [More…]
In the last Parliament 2,725 questions were placed on notice; in this Parliament there have been 6,577. [More…]
Whatever asperities there may be - these are only spasmodic whatever the public may think - between honourable members, I believe that these men have been fortunate indeed in their wives. [More…]
A parliamentarian’s wife is in a very real sense called on to serve his constituents. [More…]
Very few men can successfully conduct a public life without the support of their wives. [More…]
To the men retiring one cannot wish better than that they should have in their retirement health and happiness for themselves and for their wives as well. [More…]
I want to say something about draftsmen. [More…]
The Government is at fault - perhaps it is your fault, Mr Speaker; I do not know - or somebody is at fault in advertising for draftsmen who are already well experienced. [More…]
You will never get enough draftsmen unless you decide to bring in cadets and train them in the numbers that you need. [More…]
You will not get experienced men to come in as draftsmen. [More…]
At least we have had a well run Parliament since he became the Leader of the House. [More…]
I do join with all those who have wished honourable members who are leaving the best of good health during the years that they will be in requirement. [More…]
Among them - I will not mention them - are men of great distinction. [More…]
Unfortunately there are better men going out of the Parliament than some of those who are staying in. [More…]
The Parliament will bc the poorer for their leaving and I am sure that some of the more objectionable members on the other side of the Parliament unfortunately will not be here after the election. [More…]
I thank the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) and the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) for their very generous remarks about my service in the Parliament. [More…]
If I might speak on behalf of the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Allan Fraser), I thank them also for their remarks about his fine contributions to the debates and deliberations of this Parliament. [More…]
Two men have held the one seat for 68 years. [More…]
I have had my failures; I have had my successes; I have had a lot of disappointments. [More…]
There was not much argument then; you were named promptly. [More…]
If you were to be here during the next Parliament I would hope that you would enforce it. [More…]
We must have other men like Mr Ewens and those who write our laws so that judges can understand them. [More…]
We must maintain its prestige and its respect among all the people throughout Australia, and there must never be any attempt by any pressure group outside this Parliament to try to run the Parliament or to denigrate members of the Parliament who have served this country with great sacrifice to themselves and to their wives and children by their repeated absence from their homes. [More…]
I make the personal plea that 1 would like to see this place fulfil its other function and, rather than be just a legislative chamber be a national forum where debates of national importance can be conducted by men of different political and philosophical persuasions. [More…]
When a statement of great national importance is made by a Minister the tendency is to think in terms of how many from each side can take part in the debate. [More…]
Mr MclVOR (Gellibrand) (10.42)- I want to support the remarks that have been made this evening concerning the officers and the attendants of Parliament House, and also the remarks of appreciation that have been made to you, Mr Speaker, and to your Deputy Speaker, Mr Lucock. [More…]
I did not realise until I was elected to Parliament the immense job I had taken on in representing the Federal electorate of Gellibrand as I wanted it represented, that is conscientiously. [More…]
To the men and women in the Commonwealth departments of Australia I pay my thanks and appreciation, for without their help and advice I could never have coped with the amount of work that went through my office. [More…]
I have been asked on a number of occasions, now that I am wending my way out of the Parliament, what have been my impressions and what are some thoughts that I have had since I have been in this Parliament. [More…]
Firstly, I want to say that it has been a great privilege to serve the national Parliament of Australia and I know it has been a great privilege also for Mr Griffiths to serve it. [More…]
Secondly, I want to say that, since I have been in this Parliament, I have seen 4 Prime Ministers in this place and I have served under 3 leaders of the opposition. [More…]
I know that I will be forgiven for saying that the Leader of the Opposition that I have loved and respected, perhaps even more than 1 have the late Dr Evatt and Gough Whitlam, with all due respects to both men, has been the right honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Calwell). [More…]
In Pentridge Gaol and gaols all over the country are men whom no-one can fault for their physical condition; but they are no good to this country or to any country. [More…]
In service to our fellow men. [More…]
Mr Speaker, 1 will occupy only a few moments. [More…]
I naturally join with all the remarks that have been said by other speakers concerning the attendants and everybody else who serves us in this Parliament. [More…]
They are men of great honour and great distinction. [More…]
Those of us who occupy the back benches have enjoyed our moments with them. [More…]
In these dying moments of the 27th Parliament I know that many of us think of the honourable members from both sides of the House who are leaving the Parliament. [More…]
I know that they must be gravely concerned about leaving this Parliament. [More…]
Those 3 men stood for something for which members on the other side of the House have not stood, but that has not been mentioned tonight. [More…]
I refer to the question of our involvement in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
This matter has not been discussed to any great extent in this country because we have not a great involvement in Vietnam at this period, although one must recognise that we still have some commitment in that country. [More…]
Yet during that period of time the United States Senate - both the Republicans and the Democrats - voted by an overwhelming majority that the policies of the United States Government in Vietnam were wrong and that their troops should be withdrawn. [More…]
But never has this Government had the moral courage even to try to do so, because it was the moral decay of this Government that caused it to take this immoral action in the first place. [More…]
The Government involved itself in this war as a cheap insurance policy because it thought that if we involved ourselves and later were threatened the United States in turn would come to our aid. [More…]
That was the cynicism behind the Government’s policy. [More…]
Even though there were men of military age on the Government side of the Parliament it continued to conscript young men to the forces in Vietnam. [More…]
The result was that some 500 young men died, 250 or approximately 50 per cent of whom were conscripts. [More…]
Many of these young men I will remember for the rest of my days, until honourable members opposite have the moral courage to stand up and say in public the things that they say in private - that they were wrong to go into the war in Vietnam and that they should never have become involved in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
As long as they sit in this Parliament I will remind them of the immoral crimes that they have supported over those years. [More…]
He could have made peace agreements- [More…]
Were 9,013 men automatically considered for call-up fair national service since the beginning of 1968? [More…]
Separate records are not maintained of subsequent action in respect of men automatically considered for call-up. [More…]
Action towards their call-up proceeds in the same way as with men balloted in. [More…]
(a) During the period from 1st January 1968 to 30th June 1972, prosecution action has been initiated against 1,625 men for failure to register as required; (b) In the period 1st July 1972 to 30th September 1972, completed prosecutions numbered 200. [More…]
A further 237 cases had been referred to the Attorney-General’s Department with a view to prosecution action. [More…]
and (2) 1,222 men who volunteered for service under the National’ Service Act were enlisted In the Regular Army Supplement in the 1970-71 and 1971-72 financial years. [More…]
During the same period 787 men who had volunteered were found not to meet the standards required by the Army. [More…]
Do some Aboriginal men in the Northern Territory pursue a custom of taking promised girls as child brides. [More…]
Are charges usually preferred against men who have relations with juveniles who are promised brides or is special dispensation from the laws in the Northern Territory extended to Aboriginal men who follow this tribal custom. [More…]
This does not, of course, allow for men who are not required to register because, for example, they are serving in the Permanent Forces or have already served for more than 18 months, migrants who arrived after the registration date for their age-group and men temporarily resident in Australia, including shortterm visitors and overseas students. [More…]
As to the figures given by the honourable member of men who have registered for national service during 1965-66 and 1966-67, available figures relate to the periods from 1st January 1965 to 30th April 1966, when 122,581 men were registered, and from 1st May 1966 to 30th June 1967, when 106,62* men were registered. [More…]
There is a general reluctance tor women to seek the care provided by facilities on missions and settlements. [More…]
Frequently there is pressure on mothers from the older men not to seek medical help for sick children but to rely on traditional methods for treating illness. [More…]
There can be few men who have served in this House who would be more entitled to hold the post to which we have elected you unanimously and who would be regarded more highly as a friend as well as a member. [More…]
The only qualification I have in congratulating you is that we all have deprived ourselves of a sure source of delight and refreshment in our deliberations. [More…]
My Government believes that industrial confidence requires industrial co-operation. [More…]
My Government is determined that the men and women of the Australian workforce will share fairly and fully in the nation’s prosperity and productivity. [More…]
This Parliament is the true foundation of the Australian law and the Australian democracy. [More…]
My Government intends to place that democracy on a wider, fairer and firmer basis by granting the vote to men and women at 18 and by removing malapportionment of the electorates for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Parliament having to recall memories of former colleagues but I think that it is most fitting that the activities of these men are recorded and that their contribution to the country, to the Parliament and to their political parties is remembered. [More…]
I knew only 2 of these men - Mr Bill Riordan and Mr Jack Mortimer. [More…]
Both were members of the Parliament during my time here and both made notable contributions to the Parliament and left this place with affectionate memories. [More…]
He gave long service to both the Federal Parliament and the State Parliament of New South Wales. [More…]
He was the Deputy Leader of the Federal Country Party for 3 years and he held a number of portfolios, as was mentioned by the Prime Minister. [More…]
He was one of those rare people who held portfolios in both the Federal and State Parliaments. [More…]
He took a leading part in the formation of agricultural policy in this country not only as a parliamentarian but also as a distinguished member of some of the principal farming organisations of New South Wales. [More…]
To the relatives of these 4 gentlemen I express on behalf of the Country Party our sympathy at their loss. [More…]
I did not know Tom Burke when he was a member of this Parliament but men who did tell me that his view was respected in the Parliament and within the Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
It has been said also that had the Labor Government been returned in 1949 Mr Chifley would have wanted him in that Labor Cabinet. [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 did so much of his work in the great depression when he fought a tremendous fight. [More…]
So we see the passing of a splendid Australian who lived a long life of service to his fellow men. [More…]
I am sure that honourable members would wish to pay a similar tribute to the memory of 3 great North Americans who have served the men and women of the world in our generation - President Harry S. Truman who died on 26th December 1972; Prime Minister Lester Bowles Pearson who died on 27th December 1972 and President Lyndon Baines Johnson who died on 22nd January 1973. [More…]
I support the sentiments expressed by the Prime Minister and wish to associate the Opposition with them. [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…]
Each of the men we remember were best known tor the roles they played in international affairs. [More…]
We stand respectful in the memory of these great men. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I join with the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) in the splendid remarks they have made about these 3 North American statesmen - Lyndon Baines Johnson, the Right Honourable Lester Bowles Pearson and Harry S. Truman. [More…]
They were men of outstanding characteristics. [More…]
Their achievements will be immortalised and will remain, I believe, as an inspiration to other public figures who will follow them. [More…]
They have had to shoulder enormous and onerous responsibilities and it is therefore fitting that a few moments in this House be taken in paying tribute to them and expressing sympathy to the peoples of Canada and the United States of America. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition have very competently mentioned some of the achievements of these men but I think the job of making a complete summary must be left to the historians. [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…]
It was a most generous gesture by one of the busiest men in the world when he came to Australia to give a clear indication of his affection for our former Prime Minister and for our country. [More…]
By any standards men and women are as mature at 18 years now as they were at 21 only a generation ago. [More…]
They practice a knowledge of the performing and plastic arts at a much younger age than men and women did a generation ago. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s statement is even more valid today than at the time it was made. [More…]
This Bill, therefore, symbolises the commitment of the Labor Government to the youth of this country - to a new Australia of equal, political, social and economic opportunity for all. [More…]
At 18 years of age young Australian men and women may - or soon will be able to - enter into contracts, dispose of property, take and defend legal action, drink, drive a motor vehicle, marry without parental consent, and under the previous Government could be called up for military service. [More…]
That Australia has not fallen into line long ago with the trend in these countries remains one of the regrettable features of the policy of the previous Government. [More…]
The Prime Minister wrote to all State Premiers in December 1972 advising them that the Commonwealth Government would lower the franchise age for all men and women to 18 years early in the sittings of the new Parliament. [More…]
The position with regard to the franchise in the 6 States of Australia is as follows: South Australia and Western Australia have enacted legislation to reduce the voting age to 18 years; New South Wales passed legislation in 1970 lowering the franchise age to 18 years but the Act has not yet been proclaimed; in Victoria the Premier has announced that the franchise age will be lowered to 18 years before the next State elections which, I understand, are expected to be held about the middle of this year; the Queensland Cabinet approved the towering of the franchise age to 18 years but the Government deferred consideration pending information as to the Commonwealth Government’s intentions; in Tasmania a Bill which included the lowering of the franchise age was passed by the Lower House of the last Parliament. [More…]
Although the distribution of 18 to 20 year old persons is not yet available electorate by electorate, the Commonwealth Statistician estimates that there are almost 700,000 young Australian men and women in this category, all of whom will be entitled to the franchise under this measure. [More…]
In his policy speech, the Prime Minister proclaimed to the nation that the 3 goals of the Labor Government would be: Firstly, to promote equality; secondly, to involve the people of Australia in the decision-making processes of our land; and thirdly, to liberate the talents and uplift the horizons of the Australian people. [More…]
The bulk of the unemployed today are the innocent social casualties of the disastrous economic policies of the last Government and its 1971 Budget. [More…]
The need they suffer as a result of the meanness of unemployment benefit rates and the humiliation they suffer from unwanted unemployment are the penalty visited on them by the blundering economic policies of the last Government. [More…]
One of the most objectionable aspects of the practices of the previous Government was the complete denial of any benefit at all for dependent full time student children over 16 years of an unemployment or sickness beneficiary. [More…]
We have ended this injustice practiced by mean men for too long. [More…]
Those who suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis, or who have served in a theatre of war and are over 60 in the case of men, or 55 in the case of women, or permanently unemployable, qualify for service pensions, if they satisfy the existing means test. [More…]
As you know, Mr Speaker, the Government is committed to abolishing the means test within the life of this Parliament, but I will not dwell on that particular point at the moment. [More…]
The Bill before the House relates to seamen’s war pensions and allowances. [More…]
The Act which it amends was first passed in 1940 to provide appropriate war pension benefits for Australian seamen and their dependants, having been framed on British war pensions legislation but drawn to conform to Australian conditions, chiefly along the lines of the Australian Repatriation Act. [More…]
As a result of service at sea during the war, 288 Australian seamen were killed, 39 died of injuries, 37 died while prisoners of war, 9 were lost at sea, 5 died of illness and 8 died from unknown causes - a total loss of 386 lives. [More…]
Many of these seamen lost their lives in ships sunk as a result of enemy action while employed in Australian coastal waters. [More…]
The Bill, which continues to provide some recognition of the service that these men gave, is complementary to the Repatriation Bill in that it applies the same important improvements in war pension rates and conditions of eligibility to be provided under that Bill to the corresponding provisions of the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act. [More…]
I believe that this Government has taken all the sinew and muscle out of our defence system which has been built up over the last 10 years. [More…]
Already some 30,000 men have been moved out of the Australian Army. [More…]
Of course, this Government has to find money from somewhere. [More…]
There was no mention in the Governor-General’s Speech yesterday about tax remissions to the workers. [More…]
The Government is building up in the minds of the people of this country a welfare ethic. [More…]
In the last couple of months, in its decision-making the Government has revalued our Australian currency. [More…]
This was a decision taken not by Cabinet but by two or three men within the Government. [More…]
No doubt I will be corrected by Government members if I am not correct. [More…]
If that decision were, correct for our currency, at the time, which undoubtedly the Government thought it was, following the crisis with respect to the strong currencies, notably the United States devaluation which had an appreciating effect of about 11.01 per cent on Australian currency, how could it possibly be right to do nothing then? [More…]
First, we have additional grants to the arts; more aid for Indonesia - 1 think that the Government has promised an amount of Sim more than the $60m which the previous government had promised; then there is the announcement that the purchase of the Fill will proceed. [More…]
Other announcements include the maintenance of the present 9 infantry battalions for the Army. [More…]
I understand that some of the battalions comprise less than 100 men. [More…]
The Government has also made announcements about drawing up a plan for the development of the aircraft industry, portable pensions, preference for Australian firms where other aspects of tenders are equal. [More…]
Of course, it is recognised that the previous government had made decisions of this type long before the Labor Party announced them. [More…]
There was also the announcement to close up Norfolk Island as a tax haven. [More…]
The previous Government had taken action there. [More…]
The Government has also made an announcement about decentralisation. [More…]
The previous Government set up NURDA and this Government has murdered NURDA. [More…]
The Government intends to decentralise tertiary education facilities. [More…]
The Government has also announced the provision of boarding allowances for isolated children. [More…]
This was a policy announced by our government which was not included in the 140 promises of the Labor [More…]
If the people who made up the previous Government of this country had given the matter of industrial relations any consideration, and if they had looked into what industrial relations are all about, half of the provocative acts that have been committed over a number of years in the past would not have been committed. [More…]
I am very proud indeed to be the supporter of a government that for the first time intends to have a scientific look at the question of industrial relations and not just treat it in the way that it has been treated ever since the industrial revolution in Britain. [More…]
That is exactly what the conservative governments over the years have always done. [More…]
They have used the power of the State to bludgeon men to make them work. [More…]
The honourable member for Balaclava agreed with me one day that the trouble in this country was not the workers but management. [More…]
He said that those in management should be sacked, and t think he was correct. [More…]
The conflict is not solved simply by drawing up Conciliation and Arbitration Acts of Parliament and placing in them penal provisions so that if men do not do things that their employers wish them to do they may be fined or imprisoned, when the same Acts never carry penal provisions against employers. [More…]
It is a fact that employers have committed about 3,000 industrial breaches for which they were never prosecuted by the previous Government. [More…]
Yet the previous Government was very quick to place in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act the necessary machinery to make it very easy for an employer to take action against his employees if they did not do what he wanted them to do. [More…]
I repeat that unless that sort of situation is moved away from, there will continue to be resentment from the work force and a refusal by the work force to accept its role. [More…]
This right is denied to them at the moment. [More…]
Legislation was introduced in the last session of Parliament which makes virtually impossible the amalgamation of trade unions. [More…]
Once again it was introduced because of the fears the previous Government held about what would happen if these hybrid monsters, the trade unions, were to come together. [More…]
It must be remembered that over 100 years ago at Tolpuddle even 6 men coming together constituted a threat to authority. [More…]
It horrifies honourable members on the other side of the House and interests that they represent to think of 100,000 men coming together in one union. [More…]
The Government - the Cabinet - has to be subject to what were called the faceless men. [More…]
To determine whether Australia can fulfil its commitments to our allies, to follow up and support our fundamental security interests, one has to look, in these circumstances, to the machinations of the Labor Party Conference. [More…]
If it says no, the Australian Government similarly is forced to say no. [More…]
I think 5,000 or 6,000 men are involved in the industry at present. [More…]
I shall mention some comparisons of manpower in other countries. [More…]
The Government needs to show confidence in the Nomad, and to give it the production scale we need to go much further. [More…]
I urge the Government to pursue with vigour the search for a co-production scheme which will allow the industry the workload and manhours which it needs to build itself up in the next 5 or 10 years. [More…]
I rise tonight to criticise strongly the Government’s policy on the Northern Territory but before doing so I would commend it on introducing a Department for the Northern Territory. [More…]
But I ask: What is this Government doing about the previous Government’s offer to the Legislative Councillors of the Northern Territory to have discussions with them at ministerial level on the matter of greater autonomy for the Northern Territory Legislative Council? [More…]
It is all very well to have a Department of the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Enderby) has a very good man at the top of the Department now. [More…]
But the people in the Northern Territory and the Councillors - the Country Party, Australian Labor Party and independent men on the Council - who were having discussions with Ministers in the previous Government, are entitled to have those discussions continued with Ministers of this Government. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister, who is now in the chamber will do this, that he will pay these people and the Northern Territory the compliment of continuing these discussions with the Council. [More…]
I have commended the Government on the action it has taken in establishing the Department but it will have its men in the Northern [More…]
The men there will be office boys and that is all. [More…]
I ask the Minister to return these branches so that they can be administered by men who live on the spot. [More…]
I ask the Minister: What will he do about the welfare of the men in the street? [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…]
The personnel of the 121st Signals Squadron could not by any stretch of the imagination be described as agents, undercover men or by any of the other terms used by writers of fiction to describe their fantasy world of international espionage. [More…]
The Minister for Defence let it be known that, in acordance with this decision, 900 men would be left in Singapore. [More…]
Pressure started from the left wing and the Prime Minister at a Press conference reduced that to 500 or 600 men, including, as I understand it, the Royal Australian Air Force personnel in Singapore. [More…]
At this point, defence considerations and the security of the country, which had been rapidly diminishing in importance anyway in the minds of members of the Government in their approach to this question, completely disappeared. [More…]
I acknowledge that the Australian people have voted for a change in the government of this nation, and as a member in opposition it will be my duty to analyse the measures introduced by this Government, to expose weaknesses in its policies and legislation and to inform the Australian electorate of alternative policies and another point of view. [More…]
Although denied the opportunity to complete even a formal primary school education, by study, dedication and ability he made a contribution to the Parliament and to the Government of this nation which has been equalled by very few men in this nation’s short history. [More…]
Despite the excellent spending in Queensland of the previous Government, the situation is now critical. [More…]
In addition to making specific requests for urgent attention to vital rural connections, I want to make specific mention of the Maroochydore area, which is in the heart of the Sunshine Coast. [More…]
Here we have businessmen trying to become established and doing something in the. [More…]
way of decentralisation; yet these men are stopped’ in their tracks because of what I regard as a critical situation. [More…]
I hope i that the Postmaster-General will take note of my statements. [More…]
It is well known that the economy of Queensland relies heavily on minerals and it would be abhorrent if there were any truth in the rumours that go slow tactics will be employed by this Government against Queensland because of the Premier’s stand. [More…]
I point out to all honourable members that the coalition Government in Queensland hasled Queensland from the position of being the Cinderella State of this country - from the stagnation and shame of almost 30 years of Labor government - to the position where it is now a wonderful, progressive State. [More…]
men who make those statements know that there are many more factors to be considered. [More…]
I can understand that the Government would be disappointed, but if that disappointment becomes vindictiveness it will be intolerable and unforgivable. [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 was telling honourable, members how much he was revered by working men. [More…]
Adelaide Ship Construction is going out of production and shortly 800 men will be without a job. [More…]
The blame for this can be attributed directly to the previous Government, in fact to the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon), the Minister for Shipping and Transport prior to 2nd December. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government decided to open the shipbuilding subsidies to anybody who obtained a tender. [More…]
Only when we can reorganise the shipbuilding industry in this country, and apply this sort of economic planning policy to it and to so many other areas of secondary industry will we have security of employment. [More…]
In Australia we have silently witnessed - almost politically stupified - the development of the imposition of the depersonalised society. [More…]
This is a society where machines have more importance and are given greater significance than men and women who operate them, where material possessions are the very criteria of success, where job satisfaction and purpose of life have come to be regarded as almost irrelevant and certainly ignored by previous governments, and where peace of mind and harmonious living are matters which have been replaced by disharmony, discord and division. [More…]
We hear talk of faceless men. [More…]
During the past generation previous governments have created and have encouraged this depersonalised society in which the rights of individuals are cheap, in which individuals count for little and in which all that counts is the number of dollars and cents that were made in each year. [More…]
We have a growing movement by women, young and old, in the community to assert their rights and their position in this society. [More…]
For too long women have been considered second class citizens. [More…]
Women are taking a more active part in this campaign, but not just at that level. [More…]
They are seeking equality of rights and recognition of their place in society as people, not just as chattels of men or as the housekeepers of the community. [More…]
It is amoebic meningitis. [More…]
The reason I mention the strike tonight is that I am hopeful that members on the Government side may have some influence over the men who are striking and not only holding communities to ransom but, in some cases, threatening their lives because of the tack of substances such as chlorine, caustic soda, potash and various other products which are used in these areas to control hygiene. [More…]
Some members opposite have been elected to this House from the trade union movement. [More…]
Surely, having led unions, they have some responsibility to the people who elected them and should be able to exercise their influence over members of the unions if they were good enough to be selected to represent them in this national Parliament. [More…]
I believe that company has announced that it may have to put off 300 men. [More…]
Honourable members undoubtedly will know more than I do about the ICI strike but it is my understanding that when a vote was taken the workmen agreed to return to work - indeed, they wanted to return to work. [More…]
However one section of the work force - I will not mention the name of the individual concerned because I have not been able to check my information and I could be wrong - is controlled by one shop steward associated with a union allied with the other unions concerned with ICI employees and he pulled out those men. [More…]
This is a very serious matter and I hope that tonight I have not made wild statements about it or been unduly emotional or hysterical. [More…]
He raised a very important subject that I know has been worrying him and many of my colleagues on this side of the House, namely, the upgrading of telephone services and the establishment of automatic telephone exchanges. [More…]
He pointed out the great problems associated with these things and mentioned the importance of retaining first class telephone services. [More…]
I think he went on to comment that the way business is moving today even primary producers could be classified as business men because of their activities. [More…]
It hit me with nothing short of amazement and great concern. [More…]
I pay a great tribute to some of those predecessors such as Sir Alan Hulme, Sir Charles Davidson and, if honourable members like to think back far enough, Donald Cameron who was a member of the last Labor Government. [More…]
These men and others have made great contributions. [More…]
As I said last night, what a financial mess the previous Government created. [More…]
Why is it that the previous Government created such a mess in Queensland? [More…]
I have selected Queensland because that is where the problems of the Postmaster-General’s Department are the greatest. [More…]
Members of the previous Government are honourable men and they would not have dared to exploit subscribers if they had thought there was an alternative. [More…]
All these matters to which I have referred have a significant relationship to the policies of the new Australian Government. [More…]
Those policies appear to have been under some pressure from some people - at least within the Australian Labor Party - who over recent days have sought to create a problem between the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and the Secretary of that Department. [More…]
The very distinguished Secretary of the Department of Defence, Sir Arthur Tange, is well known internationally. [More…]
He is known within this country as a former head of the Department of External Affairs, now called the Department of Foreign Affairs, and he is one of our top and most experienced men. [More…]
It would be a monumental tragedy if, for parry political reasons, there were any great conflict between the Minister, who carries on his shoulders the problems of the defence of Australia, and the head of his Department. [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…]
I hope that this Parliament will make significant progress towards giving women an equal place in our society. [More…]
For a country which once led the world in granting rights to women about the time this Parliament was established we have often since lagged behind the rest of the world. [More…]
What many people fail to realise is that true equality for women is of great benefit to society - to both men and women. [More…]
When this Parliament considers legislation which affects women, women should be consulted, and they should help make the decisions. [More…]
This House can make a significant contribution to rights for women by, among other things, passing legislation to provide much better adult education facilities, to establish equal pay for work of equal value, to provide for family planning clinics, to build child care centres and to reform those laws which discriminate against women both socially and financially. [More…]
I think that we can look forward to some very strong debate from honourable members on the Government side. [More…]
I also congratulate the honourable member for Fisher (Mr Adermann) who made his presence felt and who left no doubt as to the earnestness of the part that he will play in this Parliament. [More…]
1 deem it a signal honour to be standing in this national Parliament, having arrived here through the medium of a democratic way of voting, and to express the loyalty of the people of McMillan to the Queen. [More…]
It is clear that there are elements within our midst desirous of deleting any reference to our ancestral mother country; they would sever the traditional ties of democratic government if given the opportunity. [More…]
As descendants of pioneers and early settlers, we have held to the traditions that came with the first unfurling of the flag on Australian shores in 1788, one important tradition being the bicameral system of government. [More…]
Men have laid down their lives to preserve what it signifies, as a guiding star for future generations to follow. [More…]
Loyal Australians will ever say ‘no’ to any Party, person or government that wants to design a new flag without the Union Jack. [More…]
But if the answer from the honourable members opposite is an unrepentant yes, I would say, that is the answer of men who have not had to make a sale overseas of meat or other rural products, of iron ore or any other mineral product but, most importantly, of an Australian manufactured window frame, a radio microwave link, a motor car or a desk calculator - in a word, any one of the great range of items which today make up our increasing export trade in manufactured goods. [More…]
That trade is of the utmost importance for Australia’s long term prosperity and growth and therefore - and I ask the honourable member for Casey (Mr Mathews), who led in this debate, to mark this especially - this trade is important for the chances of this Government making a reality of the programme of social and economic development outlined in the Governor-General’s Speech and so eloquently supported by the honourable member for Casey. [More…]
The previous Government has only itself to blame for what the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) described as a rise in political strikes in this country. [More…]
When a government avoids its obligations it leaves a vacuum of responsibility that will be filled by extraparliamentary bodies urged on by frustration at the inactivity of the Government. [More…]
The program outlined by the Governor-General demonstrates that this young Government will not allow responsibility vacuums to develop and be filled by extra-parliamentary groups in matters of social security, health, industrial relations and equality of opportunity. [More…]
This Government has indicated it will no longer tolerate the differences in the equality of life and opportunities between black and white, between town and country, between men and women or between rich and poor. [More…]
I repeat that I am proud to be a member of this Government. [More…]
My one regret is that the State of Queensland did not return more Government supporters in the elections last year. [More…]
They were dedicated men who would have made excellent contributions to this Parliament and to its functions. [More…]
On this occasion, of course, full-page newspaper advertisements, pamphlets, radio programs and all the different means of communicating with people were used to mislead and to falsely represent the Australian Labor Party’s policies. [More…]
In addition to these significant changes, the Bill includes a number of other amendments which are designed to facilitate the adminis tration of the War Service Homes Act. [More…]
As honourable members will be aware, the war service homes scheme was originally introduced as a repatriative measure to provide homes for returned men and women from the 1914-18 War. [More…]
The granting of war service homes benefits to regular servicemen on the conditions already mentioned will do much to offset the disadvantages inherent in Service life in relation to the acquisition of a permanent home. [More…]
At the same time this measure will afford practical recognition of the significant contribution made to national defence by servicemen who undertake full-time Service commitments of a substantial duration. [More…]
As we consider this measure an essential one in our program to improve service conditions we feel as a matter of equity that it should also be extended to those national servicemen serving at 6th December 1972 who voluntarily chose to complete the period of service for which they were originally enlisted. [More…]
The retention of those young men who chose to remain is seen as valuable in the transition from a partly conscripted army to an all volunteer force. [More…]
To reflect more aptly the type of service which will constitute qualifying service under the scheme upon the enactment of this legislation, the Bill provides for. [More…]
the title of the Principal Act to be amended to ‘Defence Services Homes Act 1918-1973’. [More…]
As a consequential amendment, the name of the body corporate established by the Act will be changed from Director of War Service Homes to Director of Defence Service Homes. [More…]
When the War Service Homes Act was enacted in 1918, provision was made for the granting of benefits to members of the Young Men’s Christian Association who were accepted for service and served abroad with the Naval or Military Forces of Australia as representatives of that Association. [More…]
However, no comparable provision was made when the Act was amended in 1941 to cover the hostilities which commenced in 1939. [More…]
I am not sure what the position is with women’s and men’s toilets. [More…]
I saw the statement that Sir Arthur Tange gave to the Deputy Prime Minister before the House sat on Tuesday. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister tabled the statement in the House at that time. [More…]
The statement, which is available to all honourable members, gives his point of view. [More…]
I merely wish to say this: Sir Arthur Tange, one of the most experienced and competent men in the service of the Commonwealth, is now at last able to pursue a consistent, co-operative attitude with the Minister for Defence instead of the succession of 20 Ministers who proceeded through various Defence portfolios before the Deputy Prime Minister took over the position of Minister for Defence. [More…]
The use of sub-contractors and the elimination of apprentices will mean that in 5 years time this industry will be on the point of collapse because there will be no skilled or trained tradesmen. [More…]
What did the previous Government do about this? [More…]
The Opposition wants to stop this Government by the use of cheap, miserable political propaganda, from attacking what is a grave national issue. [More…]
It is in the interests of the people of this country to ensure that there are young men trained in this important industry and that there will be skilled labour in it. [More…]
The previous Government allowed by its neglect a system to develop which would deprive the industry of trained people. [More…]
As I have mentioned in this House over the years, we should be realistic and honest about this matter. [More…]
It is the Government’s responsibility. [More…]
Governments should recognise the great debt that this country owes to these men. [More…]
Without the servicemen who were prepared to do their job at a time of need we may not have been enjoying the life of freedom we enjoy today. [More…]
I must commend the Government for including in the range of benefits, benefits for members of the Australian merchant navy and the widows of members who have died as a result of service. [More…]
Again we tend to forget that these men did a tremendous job, often with no means of defending themselves or without escorts for protection. [More…]
Australia owes a lot to these men. [More…]
The Government has now grasped the nettle and raised the benefits from $50 to $100. [More…]
Such men were prepared to go away and fight, and possibly to die. [More…]
This is no more than it should be when one remembers that the TPI rate is paid only to men or women who are totally and permanently incapacitated as the result of a condition which has been accepted as having resulted from a war injury or a condition due to war service. [More…]
Those who suffer from pulmonary tuberculosis, or who have served in a theatre of war and are over 60 years of age in the case of men or 55 years of age in the case of women, or permanently unemployable, qualify for a service pension if they satisfy the existing means test. [More…]
The proposed increases in age and invalid pensions will, under the provisions of the Repatriation Act 1920-1972, apply automatically to service pensions, and there is no necessity to amend the Act to increase immediately means test pensions by $1.50 a week. [More…]
As this is my first speech in the new Parliament I take this opportunity of congratulating the Speaker and you, Mr Deputy Speaker (Mr Scholes), on your elevation to your new positions. [More…]
I trust that you both will give long service in these posts in the Parliament. [More…]
The House is debating cognately 5 Bills which implement the election promises of the Government. [More…]
The Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) referred to the gazetted increase in funeral benefits from $50 to $100 for war pension exservicemen. [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…]
The least Australia, which was responsible for sending these men to Vietnam and at whose bidding they served, can do is to recognise that they should not receive as a pension less than the Commonwealth adult minimum wage. [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…]
Provision will be made for a payment until such time as the child either completes his studies or is able to obtain a position. [More…]
This debate on repatriation benefits is another symbol of parliamentary search to give justice to the people who have served this country in war. [More…]
I recall the particularly poignant situation of the young men who have been totally incapacitated in Vietnam. [More…]
Anyone who cares to read through Hansard will appreciate that it is beyond the financial capacity or ability of any government to restore immediately the general rate of pension to 50 per cent of the minimum wage as the result of one legislative action in this Parliament. [More…]
The record of the previous Government made it difficult in this respect. [More…]
The honourable member for Indi knows that there have been periods in the history of governments in this country when the general rate of pension has reached a level of 50 per cent of the men basic wage. [More…]
The honourable member for Indi destroyed his own argument by suggesting that he himself had worked out the figures. [More…]
I shall deal with it in a few moments. [More…]
I was surprised to read in the ‘Australian’ of last Friday that Alan Ramsay did not know that I had been a member of this Parliament for all that time, so this afternoon I correct the record for the benefit of the Australian’. [More…]
Only 3 of the 125 members of this House were here when the last Labor Government was in office. [More…]
this Parliament when Labour returns to office after all those years in a political Siberia. [More…]
One of the great realities of parliamentary life is the fact that, as Saint Paul said in his Letter to the Hebrews, Chapter 13, verse 14, ‘here we have no continuing city’. [More…]
He must have had in mind members of Parliament when he wrote those, words. [More…]
It is a dangerous, exciting, but short life to so many new men who, with high hopes and aspirations, first take their seats in this Parliament. [More…]
Suddenly the people have spoken with that frightening and ruthless finality which only a ballot box can record, and some members are no longer in this Parliament. [More…]
But at last the electorate caught up with that Government. [More…]
Twenty-seven new members were elected to the Parliament, mostly men under 45 years of age. [More…]
There are 16 new Labor members, 8 new Liberal members and 3 new Country Party members elected to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
This move is long overdue as we have previously possessed a Ministry for National Development which had no charter to identify our national interest in this growing and vital area. [More…]
Unions and employers have been fighting to preserve the employment of some 600 men in the electorate of Macarthur who, for a 2-month period, have worked on virtually a week to week basis. [More…]
One hundred and fifty men have lost their jobs and uncertainty hangs over the jobs of the 1,300 miners and the 700 or so other workers and contractors in the Burragorang Valley. [More…]
There was a possibility that the last Government was prepared to sacrifice all these jobs. [More…]
Joint Coal Board’s annual report for 1971-72 shows that 465 men had lost their jobs in New South Wales. [More…]
Due to the fact that coal in the Bowen Basin is more easily extracted, does it make sense nationally to wipe out this investment overnight? [More…]
Do honourable members honestly consider that if Australian companies were mining California for the Japanese market, the United States Government would allow our firms to cut each others throats and give the United States a pittance in royalties? [More…]
It is not the fault of United States companies in Australia that absurdities abound, lt is ours, as Australians, and that of the previous Government. [More…]
To do this he gathered around htm an expert team of architects, comprising a federal secretary, top public relations and advertising men and, of course, a first class speech writer. [More…]
Nor was he that much bothered by the strong criticism of him by men such as Dr Cairns, Mr Cameron and Mr Uren. [More…]
Our valuable share of the American sugar quota is in jeopardy, because the White House is not likely to argue on our behalf with the powerful men in the Congress who decide these things. [More…]
And we should add to all this the immense step which this Government has taken towards centralisation in the spheres of housing, health, education and urban development, to name only a few, and we have a very unhappy picture indeed. [More…]
But what sort of men make up the Government that is controlling Australia today? [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…]
Perhaps it was also indicative of the newer breed of Labor men that a number of its members were reported by the Press to have refused to shake the hand of the Governor-General, a former colleague and the Queen’s representative in this country- [More…]
I now turn from the concept of mandate to the style of the government since it came into office. [More…]
To put it in a phrase, since this Government came into office we have had a presidential style of government. [More…]
First we began with a duumvirate - 2 men - like a president and a vice-president. [More…]
They were in no hurry to meet congress - that is, the Parliament. [More…]
This is typical of the American style of government. [More…]
He was in no hurry to summon Parliament together, and questions were put to him, not by gentlemen sitting in this House - oh no - but by Pressmen. [More…]
It permits of no supplementary questions. [More…]
At any rate this is an improvement as far as Press conferences are concerned. [More…]
If the Government is happy about that, let it rejoice but the people will have reason to sorrow. [More…]
It is the old story - when in opposition they are roaring lions but when in government they are worn out old tom cats. [More…]
But today in their new pasture in the Parliament they are a vibrant fighting force and when they think they have the time to stop saying what they think of the Liberals they think about attacking us because of a shortage of telephones or insufficient time to ask a question of two. [More…]
This Government is to undertake an inquiry into long term low interest rates for farmers and we will certainly see that they get their returns. [More…]
On top of that they know that on this side of the Parliament they are represented by real country men like the honourable member for Riverina (Mr Grassby) and the honourable member for Dawson (Dr Patterson). [More…]
The people in the country districts know that they now have in this Parliament spokesmen who will speak on their behalf. [More…]
They are the guilty men because they were in office for so long. [More…]
I am interested to note that after 24 years in the lush pasture on this side of the House they have to be at least a little vocal in order to let the people know that they exist in the Parliament. [More…]
It has promised social welfare schemes and improvements in housing, urban development and transport. [More…]
No-one can deny that all the cranks, odd bods, drug addicts, homosexuals, abortionists, pornographers, Women’s Liberation supporters and all the demonstrators in the world were brought together in one unified force to get the Labor Party into power. [More…]
The people were horrified when this Government came to power. [More…]
In that first week we had only 2 men controlling this country. [More…]
Those 2 men handled 26 or 27 portfolios. [More…]
I rose initially to speak on what I consider to be a very serious matter which reflects on the dignity and standing of this Parliament. [More…]
This is a right which was established for members of Parliament after one of the longest and most bitter struggles in the history of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
Yet men are being vilified because they have exercised their religious freedom in this country to do what they consider to be right. [More…]
In the early years after Federation, employees of the Commonwealth Public Service set a standard for the rest of Australia in conditions of employment. [More…]
This advantage has long since disappeared, and my Government is determined to restore it. [More…]
We want the national Government to continue to set the pace in improving the working conditions of Australian men and women. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend section 68 of the Public Service Act 1922-1972 to increase the basic annual recreation leave entitlement of officers of the Commonwealth Service from 3 weeks to 4 weeks. [More…]
By any standards men and women are as mature at 18 years now as they were at 21 only a generation ago. [More…]
If the Government cannot make these pledges to the young and idealistic men and women of this country whom it is planning to enfranchise, its actions in giving them the vote will be seen by young people - and by the electorate at large - as a measure of hypocrisy. [More…]
It will surely be one of history’s ironies that a government heavily influenced by the left wing forces should introduce a Bill which gave us ultimate proof of our young people’s faith in the democratic system and which indicated its acknowledgment that a LiberalCountry Party Government created the conditions necessary to give this responsibility to the young people throughout the country. [More…]
And I would agree with those remarks - and indeed the frequency with which the young seemed to have swallowed this argument whole was one of the factors that almost inclined us to leave the age of majority firmly where it was - not that the young were alone in this. [More…]
And, finally, the age at which it is appropriate for the country’s welfare to call up young men or women could well vary; the military might decide that they needed them at 15 or at 20 or at 25. [More…]
We can hardly imagine much enthusiasm for the idea that the age for marriage and mortgages should fluctuate according to such military requirements - yet that is the argument’s logical conclusion. [More…]
We will give the vote to men and women at 18 years of age, as is already done in all other federal systems and most English-speaking countries. [More…]
It seems to me from all of the debate I have heard in the short time I have been in this House around this whole question of the franchise for people that I have hot yet heard a’ very sound argument why : 18-year-old people in this country should not have the right to vote. [More…]
Arguments were put forward by the former Minister for the Interior, the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt). [More…]
I well remember that very strongly and very vehemently he poured out from the table a lot of diatribe about the Commonwealth Government not having the right to force 18- year-olds into doing things. [More…]
It is significant that the honourable member was a member of the government which forced young men against their will to go to Vietnam to die or be maimed. [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…]
I suppose some of these arguments are hackneyed. [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…]
I hark back to my earlier statement about the Pharaohs of Egypt and the Caesars of Rome. [More…]
These were the men of that time who were given the right to engage in taking some decisions for their countries, apart from the decision to kill. [More…]
Has the Government referred this matter to the Northern Territory Legislative Council or to the people of the Northern Territory? [More…]
Government supporters claim to be the great sponsors of freedom for all men, but the Northern Territory represents one-sixth of Australia and several people live in it. [More…]
Will this be referred to the Northern Territory Legislative Council or the people of the Northern Territory or will it be passed by a centralist government and pushed on to them whether or not they want it? [More…]
1 think that the Northern Territory is being insulted by the Government in this matter. [More…]
The Northern Territory Legislative Council has passed also a proposal for the abolition of capital punishment. [More…]
The Government disregards that entirely and says: ‘We will put the Bill through’. [More…]
No government in the last 25 years has levelled such an insult at the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
No democratic government should do this sort of thing. [More…]
The Government was elected on a promise to give the Legislative Council greater autonomy so that the people could have more say in their own affairs but the Government is legislating in this House without any reference to the Northern Territory Legislative Council. [More…]
Not only that, but also it has taken from the Northern Territory responsibility for the administration of the police, the Survey Branch of the Lands Department, the Abor iginal affairs authority and the body responsible for community affairs. [More…]
The running commentary is not assisting me in making this speech. [More…]
Nevertheless, the informal vote at the last election, despite a termendous effort on behalf of the electoral officers concerned, was 5 per cent. [More…]
The electoral officers - Mr Lee and the men in that Department - are to be congratulated for the effort they made to educate people, mainly Aborigines, to be able to vote with preference cards listing 6 or 7 candidates. [More…]
As there was a 5 per cent or greater informal vote at the last election, I ask the Ministers responsible for this matter to start now to teach not only Aborigines but also young men and women down to the age of 18, or as the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) suggested, down to the age of 14 years. [More…]
Yet these same honourable members were in a government which left office only 3 months ago and that government not only failed to lower the voting age but consistently refused to legislate to bring about this reform. [More…]
If we are to accept the word of those Opposition members that they supported this reform while they were in Government, it appears that they had the numbers in the party room to achieve this reform but were unable to count heads. [More…]
What a golden opportunity these bright men of the Liberal Party missed. [More…]
They were so closely knit as members of a government that they were unable to ascertain who their friends were and where support for change would come from. [More…]
1 have great admiration for young people and I respect their good judgment. [More…]
Arrival at adulthood is a most significant point in the developing lives of young men and women. [More…]
In most cases it can have fundamental consequences on the person’s family and social relationships. [More…]
All men in our society are adjudged to be equal before the law. [More…]
This Bill underlines the Government’s belief that a person’s vote is of equal value no matter where he lives or whatever his occupation. [More…]
All men should be equal in making the law as before the law. [More…]
It gives to those who sit in this Parliament the opportunity to say whether they believe in these democratic principles and the equal rights of all electors, or whether they stand for manipulation of the Electoral Act to retain governments of their political colour irrespective of the vote of the Australian people. [More…]
The present Government does not regard any level of unemployment as satisfactory or acceptable. [More…]
We do not try to lull the Australian people by saying that because there has been a higher percentage of unemployment in the United States of America, Canada or Britain therefore unemployment in Australia is comparatively satisfactory at the level it reached last year. [More…]
We take much more as our model the lower level of unemployment shown last year in Western European countries. [More…]
We are in fact not content merely with the programs of training that the late Government introduced. [More…]
We are regarding the whole question of employment for people, not only teenagers leaving school and so on but also those of middle years or later, with a consistent interest. [More…]
We believe that all men and women in Australia of whatever age are entitled to expect employment if they wish it. [More…]
Does he recall that during early November 1972 the then Leader of the Opposition and he authorised the Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Herbert in Queensland to announce the major policy declaration that an ALP government would station an extra battalion of the Australian Army in Townsville and thus raise the strength of Laverack Barracks to 4 battalions? [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that the much publicised promise was not an unworthy election gimmick and that the Government will not in any circumstances renege on the undertaking? [More…]
Finally, if the Prime Minister and he are men of their word will he inform the House when the transfer of Army personnel to Townsville is likely to eventuate? [More…]
The courses of action mentioned briefly by the Minister as evidence of his actions to reduce the migrant departure rate are, as I am certain he would acknowledge, not new initiatives although some are extensions of the previous Government’s policies. [More…]
But migrants are not just economic units in a program of massive development. [More…]
They are people with the hopes, aspirations, satisfactions, fears and uncertainties of men and women everywhere. [More…]
1 shall confine my remarks to the abolition of sales tax on contraceptives and the role of women in the community. [More…]
The Government’s all-male Ministry and all-male Parliamentary Party has shown a degree of realism in relation to the women in the community that I did not expect. [More…]
Very few men can appreciate the burden which today’s women are expected to carry. [More…]
The party opposite, although it has claimed for a lengthy period of time both to have the interests of women at heart and to understand them, rarely gives them a role to play in this Parliament. [More…]
When 1 first came into the Parliament there was a woman member of the Australian Labor Party in the Senate. [More…]
There have been 4 other women serving with the Liberal Party in the Senate. [More…]
I ask the Government: Where are its female members? [More…]
I want the House to consider a particular group - namely, women - who I believe are under-involved, who are vitally important and who would be able and willing to do more if certain difficulties could be resolved. [More…]
At the moment in Australia there are slightly more women than men, at any rate of working age, which is taken to be from the age of 15 onwards in the work force figures. [More…]
Yet about 80 per cent of those not in the work force are women. [More…]
In the work force itself women numbered 1.7 million in May 1971. [More…]
I make it clear that I realise that the bulk of the women not in the work force are working, and in many cases working very hard, in their homes in caring for their families. [More…]
It is absolutely fundamental to our society. [More…]
I believe that many women feel that at some stages of their lives they can make a greater contribution than they are making to society as a whole. [More…]
Many of these women are not working. [More…]
If they want to work, they should be given every encouragement. [More…]
Gone are the times when marriage was a form of sentencing women to the house for the term of their natural life and when vocations were thought to be the preserve of the divorced, the separated or the frustrated. [More…]
I feel that there is great room for improvement in the employment figures. [More…]
As the women reach marriageable age their numbers in the work force decline and the numbers of men in the work force increase. [More…]
In the 25 to 34-year bracket only 40 per cent of women work, compared with 97 per cent of men. [More…]
This would be the time when most women are looking after a young family and when most men are supporting one. [More…]
One would expect that as women got older some would return to work. [More…]
In the 35 to 44-year bracket the number of women working rose from 40 per cent to 47 per cent. [More…]
The number of men working remained constant at 97 per cent. [More…]
In the 55 to 59-year bracket only 30 per cent of women work, compared with 90 per cent of men. [More…]
In the 60 to 64-year bracket the figure for women is 16 per cent, compared with 70 per cent of men. [More…]
Many women would like to work, but they feel that the burden would be too great or that they would have forgotten what they knew by the time they went back to a job after an absence of, say, 10 years. [More…]
The second matter for concern is the figures which show the areas in which women are employed and their average wages. [More…]
The figures show that women are not favoured in managerial positions. [More…]
Only 2 per cent of women are managers, compared with 8 per cent of men. [More…]
This is lamentable. [More…]
Women in Australia and around the world have shown that they can do just about anything if they have to and that they can do some surprising things well. [More…]
There are areas in which individuals can do something to involve women more closely in the fabric of society as a whole and not just in one area - namely, the home. [More…]
It mav seem surprising at first, but the first women barristers were a surprise, as were the first women doctors, the first women politicians, the first women taxi drivers, the first women company directors and a host of others who are now regarded as commonplace. [More…]
I focused on this aspect of the Bill because women in our community are a most conspicuous example of a group in our society which is under-involved. [More…]
There are many young women who are not involved in society and who have so much to offer. [More…]
I wanted to point out this under-involvement of women. [More…]
Progress towards a more equitable social role for women must of necessity involve an altered social role for men. [More…]
Women deserve equal pay and opportunity. [More…]
So, too, the legal bias which can economically cripple divorced men should be changed, and legal cases should be determined on their merits. [More…]
I regret that I have had to curtail my remarks - not as a consequence of your direction, Mr Deputy Speaker, but because of the need to meet another commitment. [More…]
In Gladstone, Queensland, yesterday Dr Everingham assured us that men would not be discriminated against. [More…]
The luxury tax on the pill had been removed because representations had been made to the Government from this area, he said. [More…]
In mentioning matters of sex education, 1 did not mention what I believe to be a very important factor, and that is the regard which we should have for one another as individuals. [More…]
Boys and men should be taught that girls and women are not sex objects to be exploited for their pleasure. [More…]
Girls and women should be taught that boys and men are not there just to provide them with a succession of escorts. [More…]
Of course, population control is not only a matter of providing good sex education and of making contraceptives available at a reasonable price to men and women who wish to use them; it is a matter of quality of life as much as a matter of birth control. [More…]
It is pleasing to see that the Commonwealth Government is taking decisive steps to improve the quality of life in our cities and to build more pleasant urban areas. [More…]
Through full and proper co-operation with the States we can build a much more pleasant and satisfying urban environment at no more expense than our present expense. [More…]
The fourth example of what I regard as this Government’s double standards concerns the comparison between a woman who takes the contraceptive pill to prevent conception and the woman who undertakes treatment to promote fertility or to prevent a threatened miscarriage or who seeks that sort of treatment. [More…]
which is also a hormone preparation and is sometimes used to promote fertility or to prevent abortion - I trust that the medical men in the chamber will not disagree with that because I have a friend who has undergone this treatmentcosts $19 for 100 tablets. [More…]
If the Government is sincere in its expressed intention to improve the lot of women, it should ensure that it helps all and not just some. [More…]
It should begin by considering the ways in which women are disadvantaged when competing with men. [More…]
In my view it should subsidise, for example, essential pharmaceutical items which all women are obliged to use rather than just subsidise the contraceptive pill. [More…]
I do not think women, or even men, in our society have any more right to tell other women that they should have children than they have to tell them that they should not have children. [More…]
I strongly objected to the proposition which was current in this country and which certainly was current in places such as pre-war Germany where the state itself encouraged women to have children and where it insisted that it was in the national interest for them to do so. [More…]
In countries such as Germany women were told that they should have children for the sake of the state. [More…]
But on the same basis I also object to the proposition that to oppose the principle of ZPG is somehow an attack on the rights of women. [More…]
This type of thinking comes into exactly the same category as telling women to have children. [More…]
It is a very serious thing when the Minister who is now in charge of trade union affairs in this House - the Minister for Labour - still associates himself with the ring of informers which I am told he has for long maintained in the Australian Workers Union and, in the case of other trade unionists, individual little men who have incurred his displeasure. [More…]
Other little, smaller men, people for whom we should have consideration - we should have consideration for the little men in the community - deserve our help and our support. [More…]
About SO men followed Mr Ducker and union organisers, Mr Ken Tyler and Mr Les McMahon, from the meeting and abused them. [More…]
Let’s not be fanciful about what happened yesterday,’ Mr Ducker said….. ‘not only were we abused and kicked by the vigilante group of 50 men but officials of the Plumbers’ Union were told that their cars would be bombed, and that chunks of concrete would be thrown at them if they returned to their jobs’….. ‘unless we are careful, and unless rank and file members become interested, the union scene will became reminiscent of the violent roaring 20s in America’. [More…]
It commenced in this way and has grown in that form. [More…]
The grower provides shedding, labour and management. [More…]
The contract as such is little more than a gentlemen’s agreement. [More…]
Such agreements are fine while ever one is agreeing with gentlemen - and there are some men in the industry who are gentlemen. [More…]
Housing, employment and health - all these things are important and they should be supported. [More…]
I know the north of Australia in this regard, and I have seen the Government machinery at work. [More…]
It has been operated by men who were dedicated and whom you would not want to criticise, but throughout I think there has been too much paternalism and too much reluctance to give to the Aboriginal control over his own destiny. [More…]
I say to the Minister in all seriousness that one of the sources of major concern in Australia today is the welfare and the improvement of the lot of the Aborigine. [More…]
The Minister commenced his second reading speech by saying that he assumed that most members of this Parliament and even members of the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party could read. [More…]
That sort of attitude is liable to antagonise men who are. [More…]
I realise that the remarks made by the Minister were probably said in a lighthearted way because I know that he has a good sense and humour as well as a tremendous interest in the big job which he has undertaken. [More…]
But it is generally known how far the swimming pool at the Alice Springs airport is away from the nearest Aboriginal settlement? [More…]
Some of the critics, a number of whom are churchmen, are accused of dividing Aborigines. [More…]
Men who were officers of a similar department with tremendous experience prior to the Minister assuming his portfolio have been cast aside in the new Department. [More…]
I acknowledge that I had some arguments with him. [More…]
But I know that these men have some contribution to make. [More…]
The men on this side of the list are all Europeans. [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…]
But I should like to mention land rights, which is a practical problem. [More…]
The Department which dealt with Aboriginal problems prior to the establishment of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs was busy acquiring land from various people in all areas of Australia. [More…]
The actions of the former Government were applauded. [More…]
I am sure that the Minister can obtain the money necessary for land acquisition but he will be very hard put to get the men to do what should be done with this land. [More…]
I think they would want to identify themselves with the development of Australia. [More…]
If some of the older men wish to do this then by all means let them. [More…]
I know from the material that I have now at my disposal that the previous Government deliberately set out to close down some of the smaller ports because, it said, they were not viable and could not be sustained. [More…]
They are the guilty men and, in particular, the honourable member for Wannon is the guilty man. [More…]
Honourable members opposite can laugh their empty heads off if they like but Norman Foster knows more about the stevedoring industry than any person who has ever sat in this Parliament. [More…]
I have arranged for Norman Foster to be sent by my Department to make a full investigation of this matter. [More…]
If the situation is cured, as I hope will be the case, it will be entirely due to the fact that this Government has seen fit to amend the legislation which the former Government introduced, and which brought about the demise of the ports, and to repudiate all of the things that the honourable member for Wannon and his Liberal and Country Party cohorts did during the 23 years they were in ofice. [More…]
They are the guilty men. [More…]
I want to say that I was tremendously impressed with the spirit and the performance of the body of teachers that I met. [More…]
I do not think that in any school, even in the schools in my electorate, of which I am very proud, I have ever met a body of more dedicated men and women who want to help the children of whom they are given charge. [More…]
I was tremendously impressed. [More…]
The House is asked to appropriate quite considerable sums under these 2 Bills, which are rightly being treated as one, for carrying out the proposals submitted in the early stages of the new Government. [More…]
When one looks over the very brief course of the new Government and sees how it has arranged the expenditure of this money, one must feel that this was a unique episode in Australian political history. [More…]
The Government was formed overnight and was placed in the charge of 2 men only. [More…]
Between them they shared out all the portfolios, offices and responsibilities of the former Government. [More…]
An examination gives us all some food for thought as to what could be done by ruthless men if they had a compliant Governor-General. [More…]
For those 2 men the episode must have been a field day. [More…]
But if one considers his administrative work, he must have gone into a department and, in accordance with normal good administrative procedure, an officer of the Public Service would have given him a ministerial letter to write to the Ministers in change of other departments. [More…]
The Prime Minister would spend about an hour in studying the letter, would sign it and then, a little later, would quit that office and presumably go to another department. [More…]
The first thing that would happen when he arrived there would be that an officer of the Department would hand him his letter to read and he would then proceed to reply to it. [More…]
I presume that this must have been a little amusing for the departments concerned and also for the Prime Minister who would be writing letters to himself, giving orders in one section and then, in another section receiving the orders and carrying them out. [More…]
It was a strange situation because just 2 men had divided up between themselves all the offices and powers of government. [More…]
He was the giant Pooh-Bah in charge of writing letters to himself and running departments, one with the other. [More…]
My last comment on what was said by the right honourable member for Lowe refers to what he had to say about the 27 Ministers of the Australian Government and their activities. [More…]
The members of the Government Party are proud of the fact that we have 27 Ministers who all meet together to make decisions on such matters as those for which these Bills will provide the finance to carry out. [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…]
These 27 men who act as Ministers are elected by their fellows, supported by their fellows and they jointly make decisions to help govern the country. [More…]
When Suljak was arrested on 19th October 1972 a considerable quantity of documents was seized from his dwelling. [More…]
These documents established the fact of transmission of funds from the Australian branch to the parent bodyin Germany. [More…]
A number of photographs of armed men were also found, including one in which Suljak can be seen standing beside an Ustashi flag in the company of other armed men. [More…]
AH 3 of these men were named in the Yugoslav Government aide-memoire as participants in the Bosnian incursion anc?, it will be recalled that Jure Marie had also maintained contact with Vegar. [More…]
All 3 were killed in this adventure, according to the Yugoslav Government. [More…]
His letter, which is among the documents tabled, should be closely studied by everyone who is interested to discover the basis of his curiously tender regard for men whose preferred methods of asserting their political beliefs are the bomb and the gun. [More…]
What we have said about Croatian terrorism applies to all terrorism - the Bulgarians, Daskaloff and Petroff, were convicted of throwing a bomb into the grounds of the Russian Embassy in Canberra not very long ago and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment. [More…]
Despite that these men were clearly liable for deportation, the previous Government did not deport them and they are still here with us. [More…]
The present Government’s policy will be to deport aliens associated with terrorist organisations who have been convicted of crimes of violence, and become liable to deportation. [More…]
These events, this recovery and this movement of the economy go much farther back than December. [More…]
But that having been said, the time is not far distant when the policies of this Government will make themselves felt and, indeed, I venture the view, and I warn the Government, that the cumulative effect of its own direct action since assuming office and the indirect influence of the Government on economic affairs will, if the present course is maintained, result in a resurgence of inflation and over-full employment greater than this country has seen for many years. [More…]
When men tioning the indirect influence of the Government on economic affairs, I refer for example to its all but unqualified support of the claims at present being considered in the current national wage case, claims for a large increase in the minimum wage, a substantial flat increase in the total wage and the restoration of cost of living adjustments. [More…]
Is it not obvious that the Whitlam Government is bringing the power not to the ministers generally, because they have been appointed on the basis that they will be mainly ineffective, and all power will come back to 2 or 3 men and eventually to one? [More…]
A second Menzies! [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies suffered a stroke recently. [More…]
Surely to heaven these men who have responsibilities on behalf of important sectors of the Australian economy and Australian people have a right to be heard. [More…]
But, as rational men, you will know that there are very few navigational aids which don’t have some defence significance. [More…]
Since the relief work started on January 24, 26 men have left, three were dismissed for misconduct, one refused to work and two were round sleeping on the job after being warned. [More…]
These men simply do not want to remain in employment. [More…]
After all, capable men like the former Minister for Social Services, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), are looking for a place on the front bench. [More…]
As a result of a decision made recently by the Cabinet, the Government has given the Santa Fe drilling company an assurance that, if the rig is built in Australia and on completion is held on the coast for a reasonable time, no attempt will be made by the Government to recapture the subsidy on the building of the rig. [More…]
This in itself should ensure continuity of employment at the Evans Deakin shipyard for some time, at least until the Government can get orders for the building of ships in Australian yards moving again. [More…]
With this policy being pursued the Government will have drilling for oil or gas on the Australian coast rigs built in Australian shipyards thus guaranteeing continuity of work in the shipyards for the men employed. [More…]
Then the great economic problem in this country was the recession - the terrible period of unemployment. [More…]
There was a body of theory formulated by John Maynard Keynes, which was completely ignored by the men who were in control at that time throughout the world. [More…]
At least the Opposition has agreed with the Government that inflation is a problem. [More…]
Monetary policy operates on the availability of credit while fiscal policy operates firstly on disposable incomes - incomes which are left in people’s pockets to spend - and, secondly, on the relative role of government expenditures. [More…]
For years we have had this body of theory but we have not had the men to bring it to fruition. [More…]
We now have the men to do so and it is a great delight to be speaking in this debate and supporting that theory. [More…]
The whole of the Galbraithian theory rests on a partnership between labour, industry and government in these concentrated sectors particularly promoted by government. [More…]
The duties of a member of Parliament are very important to the welfare of this country. [More…]
Back benchers and front benchers alike must be men of quality. [More…]
The Parliament provides the men to be the Executive for the management of this country. [More…]
The quality ot our national management is dependent on the quality of the elected members of this Parliament. [More…]
The area has a tremendous reputation also for the quality of its livestock. [More…]
I am proud to be associated with the quality of livestock in my electorate just as I am proud to be associated with men of the calibre of the Hon. [More…]
The point I am making is that the quality of the product from the Darling Downs, whether produce of men, is absolutely top quality. [More…]
But I address myself to what this Government has done and to what occurred in the past. [More…]
The Liberal PartyCountry Party coalition Government had a very sad and unfortunate record in respect of its attitudes in relation to annual leave as a matter of industrial reform. [More…]
It failed to understand that men work in order to live; that they do not live in order to work. [More…]
These men and women are much more highly trained than were their predecessors, those who were employed at the time of Federation. [More…]
Those who have undertaken technical training have had to achieve a significantly higher standard in order to be equipped to operate and to manage the very sophisticated and expensive machinery and equipment now being used. [More…]
Some processes are being so arranged that one might wonder whether men are controlling the machines or whether the operators are really trying to keep up with the pace of the machines that they operate. [More…]
We want the national Government to continue to set the pace in improving the working conditions of Australian men and women. [More…]
Another point concerned me considerably when the Bill was going through the rigours of being implemented, from the time it was suggested by the present Government prior to the election. [More…]
I find it very difficult to understand that a responsible body of men or a responsible government should endeavour to implement such a proposal. [More…]
In the early years after Federation, employees of the Commonwealth Public Service set a standard for the rest of Australia in conditions of employment. [More…]
This advantage has long since disappeared, and my Government is determined to restore it. [More…]
We want the national Government to continue to set the pace in improving the working conditions of Australian men and women. [More…]
May I first of all Mr Speaker, congratulate you and the Chairman of Committees on achieving appointment to your important offices. [More…]
Whatever might be the length of my service in this House - a short period or, as I personally plan and hope, a more lengthy one - I will be more than content if it is marked with anything like the personal goodwill which I know these 2 men enjoyed. [More…]
I shall, however, not state the names of the officials because it might cas’ aspersions on men who deserve to have no aspersions at all cast upon them. [More…]
Men of energy and enterprise have established primary industries and mining industries. [More…]
They have created the situation in which Australia today has a credit balance of payments, as I mentioned in this House recently. [More…]
Let us have the Government’s policy in blueprint form. [More…]
I am not aware whether the Minister has advised the mining companies of the Government’s position. [More…]
Has he informed the industries concerned in detail of the Government’s policy? [More…]
I suggest that if he can manage it, it would be appropriate for him to make a ministerial statement so that Australia and the world will know precisely where we are going with these particular projects. [More…]
I understand that Canada supplies about twothirds of the nickel requirements of the free world. [More…]
These matters are important because so much is involved - men, money, homes and towns. [More…]
The controversy here is not between rural virtues and urban iniquity - but between those who believe that men are entitled to equal representation regardless of their position, and those who feel that certain citizens should be given a greater influence in government than others. [More…]
We on the Government side of the House wholeheartedly support this proposition. [More…]
We believe that members of Parliament represent not cows, acres, trees or sheep but people. [More…]
We believe that all men should be equal not only before the law but also in making the law. [More…]
Those of us who sit on the Government side of the House - included in our ranks are more representatives of country electorates than any other political party has - say categorically that the value of all men’s votes should be equal, irrespective of where they live or what they do. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
By derivation civilised men are those who live in cities, pagans are those who live in the country. [More…]
By derivation civilised men are those who live in cities. [More…]
We know that when the Country Party speaks all those brilliant men opposite- [More…]
The fact of the matter, however, is that members of the Liberal Party are prepared to drag along at the heels of the Country Party and frustrate the will of the Parliament by trying to stop legislation. [More…]
The Government must, in the interests of the people this Bill seeks to serve, take effective action in the Parliament to see that its legislation is passed. [More…]
This is unusual but they know that they are desperate men and anything they can do to try to discredit this legislation is worth attempting. [More…]
I am aware of the seriousness of the Birkenhead men’s situation and I am continuing to explore every possible avenue to preserve their employment’, said Mr Jones. [More…]
But surely when the jobs of 1,500 men at Evans Deakin are in jeopardy, when 2 of the oldest companies in Australia are about to close their shipyards and when Adelaide Ship Construction has announced its intention to close, the Minister who claims to have the interest of Australian shipyards at heart would have had the constitutional fortitude to make a decision to consider this job for an Australian yard. [More…]
Whatever the policy of the previous Government may have been, that is not before us now; the present Minister for Transport is in the saddle and he is not riding too well. [More…]
That decision was made by a Liberal-Country Party Government, by the very men who have raised this time-wasting matter in the Parliament today. [More…]
I will outline what we have done and I will show that the company and even the men concerned who are losing their jobs realise at this time where the guilty party is sitting. [More…]
The guilty party is sitting in the seat of the honourable member for Gippsland, and the guilty parties are sitting on the rows of benches behind him and are those who supported him in government and supported him despite the lack of policies when he was the Minister for Shipping and Transport. [More…]
This company in a few months time, on present indications, will no longer be operating because of the totally inadequate policies of the previous Government, the McMahon Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
No-one in the unions or in management makes the claim that everything has been perfect in the Adelaide Ship Construction shipyard or indeed in other ship yards in Australia. [More…]
Of course the management has made wrong decisions which have exasperated the men and tested their patience. [More…]
But the raw material was there - the skills of men and the other raw materials that go into building a ship - with great potential for government leadership. [More…]
If only this had been done in time, perhaps this time last year, it would mean that the employment of men in these yards would now be secure. [More…]
Those of us who know personally men who are employed in these yards are sickened by what has happened, but there is nothing we can do. [More…]
What has happened has been due to the failure of the previous Government. [More…]
When one refers to the number of men who may be affected by the decision of Evans Deakin to close unless certain requests are met; one must look beyond the 750 men working at that place. [More…]
A further 400 of the population depend for their living on the expenditure of the men who are earning because of the shipbuilding industry in Queensland. [More…]
Of course, that referred not to the policy of this Government but to the policy of the previous Government, a policy which for many years had failed to show an appreciation of the needs of the Australian shipbuilding industry. [More…]
Continuity of work was never available and, consequently, the men in the yard never knew from one week to the next where their future existence lay. [More…]
Rather than being critical of the present Government, Evans Deakin has been high in its praise of the action which this Government has taken since coming to power on 2nd December. [More…]
In the same statement from which I quoted previously, Mr Knevitt said: [More…]
The present program is intended to assist the States provide buildings and equipment for the training of young men and women undertaking trade and certificate courses in technical colleges and trade schools, and for similar courses at agricultural colleges and rural training schools. [More…]
The existing arrangements for the scheme will continue until 30th June 1974, with the exception that the Bill provides that grants may now be used for the purchase of land which is to be used for technical education facilities. [More…]
It is important, I believe, for -honourable members to realise, that by their statements and by their conduct they should give no comfort to that relatively small number of men, and maybe women, in Australia who are promoting the flag,, the leader and the anniversary of this puppet state created by our enemies in the last war. [More…]
I represent, as I have said before, more migrants from Yugoslavia than any honourable member in this House has represented, and I can assure honourable members that the use of the flag, the portrait and the celebration of the anniversary create just as much tension and resentment among migrants from Yugoslavia as the display of Hitler’s photograph and the display of the swastika flag would create among most people in Australia. [More…]
He will have seen the statements made) by Public Service unions, presumably close to him and also close to public servants, which have well characterised the Government’s action as a Star Chamber approach which could destroy or hinder the careers of conscientious and able men who may well be entirely innocent of what have been classified as Mr Whitlam’s charges of conspiracy. [More…]
I have seen the element of divisiveness which the honourable gentleman has sought to inject into the affair. [More…]
In the Prime Minister’s statement delivered this morning there is equally a slur against public servants who are unable to defend themselves and unable to have the Opposition in this Parliament put their point of view. [More…]
They disgraced their uniforms until the progressive thinking heads of the defence forces realised that they had to face common sense and reality and put wet canteens on the Army and Air Force establishments where these young men could be supervised by long term serving officers. [More…]
It is true, and it is generally conceded, that people, particularly workmen, die because they have reached a state of old age or from some other cause. [More…]
These men may come down with a disease, perhaps not as exotic as most of the diseases we know, but an industrial illness brought about by their employment, for which of course there is no compensation because we blithely accept the fact that the men were going to die anyhow and that if their work accelerated their death it did not matter. [More…]
So here we have a continuing pattern of the Parliament being misled, the people being misled and a foreign government being misled. [More…]
These are the charges which have to be answered - and the only men who can answer them are the members opposite, the ex-Ministers. [More…]
What has a government of 4 months to answer for about the growth of terrorism in Australia? [More…]
What has a government of 23 years to answer for? [More…]
These are the guilty men on trial. [More…]
It was his men who assasinated King Alexander of Yugoslavia. [More…]
In the Croatian community, there are men willing to display their sense of nationalism and hostility to Yugoslavia in ways which can lead to violence. [More…]
I have heard people talk about ASIO documents floating around. [More…]
Apparently he did not see any ASIO documents lying around and, of course, the Intelligence Organisation is staffed by firstclass professional men whom you would be proud to call your friends for they are true Australian patriots and they are just as devoted enemies of the extreme Right as they are of the extreme Left. [More…]
Officers of the Department of Immigration here and overseas are under standing instructions in this matter and I have re-emphasised those instructions. [More…]
I am particularly concerned, therefore, about those people who are already here and who attempt to recruit young men to kill and to be killed in campaigns of violence and terror. [More…]
It is also a fact that the Attorney-General raided ASIO headquarters accompanied by 27 Commonwealth police^ men. [More…]
During that raid safes were sealed, staff forcibly detained, files searched and documents taken. [More…]
There can be no question in this Parliament of calling that raid a visit. [More…]
Who would not want to forget the dissension that exists in their ranks and to put away from the public mind the fact that they are split to ribbons from one end of this country to the other and in the Parliament? [More…]
They are desperate men. [More…]
1 wonder why we do not ask Senator Greenwood to come before the Bar of the House in order that he might tell us what he has done with the stolen documents that he has hidden in his garage. [More…]
Of course, no mention is made of this. [More…]
I only wish we had the time to debate in this Parliament the unlimited things that should be said in respect of this matter. [More…]
We are not like the previous Government. [More…]
If anybody was demolished today in this Parliament it would be the members of the Opposition when the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had finished speaking in the previous debate. [More…]
I have never seen such relieved men opposite as when we said that they could have only 3 speakers in the debate. [More…]
Now that I have revealed the situation he has woken up to what goes on in the place whence he came and he wants to do something about it in this Parliament. [More…]
It shows a true spirit of democracy and it is in keeping with the highest traditions of this Parliament and the great men who have occupied your position before you. [More…]
The Government received representations that an exception from the 10-year rule should also be made for short term endowment policies that are taken out independently of superannuation funds by people who are within 10 years of the common retiring ages of 65 years for men and 60 years for women. [More…]
The Government decided, however, that it would be more in harmony with the general policies of the tax law to meet the needs of these people through the exception for policies issued to trustees of superannuation funds. [More…]
Public superannuation funds exist which are able to provide for the retirement needs of these older people. [More…]
In this Bill the Government again has extended eligibility to those personnel who complete 3 years effective service. [More…]
This is quite a commendable thought, but such a short period as 3 years raises some doubts in my mind as to whether the Government really means this to be a concession to Service personnel or whether it is just a recruiting gimmick. [More…]
We are all aware that the strength of the Army, for instance, will be depleted by approximately 4,000 within 12 months when the serving national servicemen take their discharge, and we are all aware that the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) and, in fact, the Government itself will be over a barrel if they cannot maintain Army strength at a reasonable level by their proposed volunteer system. [More…]
But I fail to see how the proposal of a 3-year effective period can help the Government to achieve its aim or help the Services in any way. [More…]
But does the Government want numbers only, or an effective defence force? [More…]
If by the introduction of this Bill the Government hopes to entice young men to join the Services and if after 3 years service they give the Services away and walk out with a concession of $12,000 at the lowest interest rate in the country, then the Government deserves to be censured for not maintaining an adequate and effective defence force. [More…]
If the Government is so concerned about maintaining an effective defence structure, as it would have the people believe, and wishes to improve conditions of service in order to retain personnel in the Services, why has it not given any thought to that very important person, the Citizen Military Forces member? [More…]
I would have thought that when the Government was considering making the provision of a service homes loan available and deciding that 3 years effective service was sufficient for a Regular soldier, some thought would have been given to those citizens who voluntarily devote their time to assisting in the defence of this country. [More…]
One could say that they are men with a mission, their mission being to play their part in seeing that this country has an adequate defence force. [More…]
But if, as the Minister for Defence has stated, he intends to improve the conditions of service for CMF personnel in order to boost the strength of that organisation, I feel the inducement be has offered to regular soldiers after 3 years effective service should also be offered to the CMF member. [More…]
I do not want to talk about the amendment that is not yet before the House. [More…]
But surely, if reason prevails, there should not be any objection from members on the other side of the House if the amendment is approved. [More…]
In fact, one would anticipate that if there are any reasonable men over there - and this is very doubtful - they would most certainly in all fairness support the amendment. [More…]
But while there is a possibility of someone exploiting this clause of the Bill it is most reasonable to look at the amendment and give it reasonable treatment. [More…]
How can honourable members opposite have any faith in or rely on statements by men like this who cannot even agree on what the true situation is; where there is such vindictiveness and distrust between senior members of the last Government? [More…]
That sense of intolerence in the ranks of that Party as a Government exists today within the same Party as the Opposition. [More…]
You cannot negotiate for uncontrollable or unprincipled men. [More…]
Salaries paid to officials of great energy, dedication and talent are low and unattractive, and discourage men of quality from making the sacrifices that a career as a trade union official often involves. [More…]
Demarcation disputes concerned with protecting the revenue and membership of a union threatened with loss of coverage by encroachments of other unions are a common occurrence in this country. [More…]
Acts against the combination of working men were passed on several occasions between the 14th century and 1800. [More…]
Thus for instance, an attempt to raise wages is not unlawful in itself, but when it is done in concert, it becomes unlawful because the judges have said that combinations of working men are unlawful. [More…]
The employer sought an injunction to restrain the men from preventing labour from entering his premises but the union argued that since it did not exist in law, it could not be enjoined or sued for damages. [More…]
The argument failed, the injunction was granted, and the union ultimately fell liable for a very large sum of damages. [More…]
The Government proposes to abolish the power to make orders for costs against parties in proceedings arising under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
This is part of our policy of bringing the courts to the people, of overcoming the deterrent which often prevents a person from seeking to right a wrong because of the burden of costs he might incur where his argument has failed to carry the day. [More…]
There have been cases where costs awarded against individuals in the court have led to the bankruptcy of working men and to the seizure of their property because they have employed the court to settle their differences with an opponent. [More…]
We do not wish to see men tempted to resort to direct force to defeat a rival in a union conflict. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware that some cities in Australia are importing trades men from the other side of Australia in order to meet the great need for bricklayers and other building workers. [More…]
The Parliaments of the ‘thirties and ‘forties and ‘fifties were certainly not lacking in men of stature, vigour and colour but in those decades Arthur Fadden was always significant, never overshadowed, or one might say overawed. [More…]
Perhaps his outstanding personal quality was a supreme zest for life, and for life at its most zestful - here in this turbulent, unpredictable, wilful world of Parliament and politics. [More…]
He loved this Parliament and the people who worked in it and secured with rare unanimity their love in return. [More…]
I have the documents in front of me if anybody wishes me to table them. [More…]
The execution of these men is the most serious instance of the trouble that can arise over disputes on dual nationality. [More…]
The difference between my Government and its predecessors is that we are trying to solve the matter and at last we have a Minister for Immigration, an Attorney-General and a Foreign Minister who are co-operating to that end. [More…]
Australia has the same diplomatic representation in Belgrade today as it had under the previous Government; that is, the same Ambassador has been in Belgrade throughout the period when these men were arrested, tried, convicted and executed. [More…]
Under the previous Government, we were unable to get any information at all. [More…]
The present Government has been able to obtain information. [More…]
The information has been made available in a statement which the Yugoslav Government released on 12th April. [More…]
The 3 men were executed on the morning of 17th March. [More…]
The Government of Yugoslavia is considering the issues raised regarding the dual nationals and the Australian Ambassador will be received by the Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs in connection with these issues. [More…]
Therefore, all the information has been made available as a result of my Government’s representations to the Government of Yugoslavia. [More…]
Are we in this Parliament to be denied an opportunity to look at these documents, to know the full circumstances and to know to what degree complicity, be it by chance or by intent, between the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) and others has led to the present sad exercise in the reduction of standing of Australian citizenship and has led to the execution of 3 men, the full story behind which still remains to be revealed? [More…]
It is for that reason that I endorse completely the motion moved in this Parliament by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden). [More…]
This increase was essentially due to higher costs of benefits payable to waterside workers, particularly payments in respect of full shifts at permanent ports during which men were available but not required to work, which increased by over $2im. [More…]
Any arguments which the Minister might seek to bring to bear, to the effect that fewer men today handle a greater tonnage of goods and that further there has been an increase in labour productivity, cannot be upheld. [More…]
Where improvements in cargo handling have occurred they have been due principally to the introduction of bulk handling, better and more highly mechanised equipment or the provision of better ships such as roll-on rolloff vessels. [More…]
The Minister who is in charge of the Bill and who has a responsibility on behalf of the Australian people, not simply on behalf of the unions that seek to exercise their total control over him and the conduct of his portfolio must, we believe, should speak out in this debate and let the Australian people know where he stands in relation to the agreements which have been made and those which are foreshadowed at the present time. [More…]
He should let the community know whether he is prepared simply to bless and endorse the agreements which will be made - out of all proportion to any sense of national responsibility - and their impact on the public interest. [More…]
Nevertheless, because of the manner in which this Bill has been drafted we support the Bill as it seeks to enable - this is the point of our support - a number of important decentralised ports to continue their operations on a competitive basis and assist the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority to meet its financial commitments. [More…]
Thus, we cannot have a labour force sufficient to cater for peak requirements but neither can we have a labour force adjusted to minimum requirements because if we did we would have a very severe shortage of labour on many days with consequent very heavy costs in delayed ships. [More…]
Five hundred men on idle time every day for a full week costs $33,700. [More…]
It should also be borne in mind that the present system of rostering labour from the genera] labour force in permanent ports - that is labour other than in container and vehicle dock ship terminals - on an irregular shift basis from Monday to Friday and with irreguler overtime shift work at weekends is the cheapest possible system in terms of the amount of labour used for a given result and it is unfair to the men. [More…]
Because they are rostered irregularly the use of the labour is very flexible since men can be changed from shift to shift on a daily basis and, in fact, from afternoon shift to day shift with only an Si hours separation. [More…]
If the men had to be rostered properly the number of men required to work the same industry requirements would be substantially higher. [More…]
With the introduction of regularly rostered shift work at BHP wharves the number of men had to be increased by some 25 per cent. [More…]
Since the employers and the previous Government insisted on recruiting men when the Waterside Workers Federation did not want to recruit and where the need was short term, they cannot complain because the Federation did not want compulsory redundancy. [More…]
If that seems to represent a retreat from the notion of permanent employment - more ‘normal’ industrial relations - I think it would be fair to say that the incidence of idle time, together even with the equalisation of wages, has made a mockery of what was sought to be achieved by that idea anyhow. [More…]
I refer to the fact that there can be an overall shortage of labour on a particular day while at the same time, through labour being locked up in permanent employment by operational companies and being nontransferable, an approximately equal number of watersiders are at home receiving idle time payments. [More…]
In the week ending 9th February there was in Sydney an overall shortage of labour of approximately 228 men while at the same time 175 men were being paid for idle time. [More…]
Having heard the honourable member for Berowra it is difficult to understand why he is supporting the Bill because he made a pretty vehement attack in relation to idle time on the wharf. [More…]
It costs more to tie up a ship than it does to pay men occasionally for idle time. [More…]
Also it will enable employers of waterside labour to meet their commitments to their employees. [More…]
Any government or political party which suggests, as has been suggested by the Opposition today, that provision should not be made in legislation for basic award conditions and agreements under which employees shall work is totally irresponsible. [More…]
Idle time refers to the time when men report for work or are available for work in the various ports around Australia but are not in fact required to work on any one day. [More…]
Idle time at ports can be measured, but there are many other areas which are never mentioned and in which there is a tremendous amount of idle time not only in manpower but also in relation to the transporting of goods by truck. [More…]
As far as I know this idle time has never been measured or set out in any document, but it does involve a tremendous amount of money. [More…]
Portland has been mentioned, but it is only one. [More…]
The honourable member for Berowra instanced an occasion on 9th February when there was an overall shortage of waterfront labour in Sydney of 228 men, while 175 people were at home being paid for idle time. [More…]
In the limited time I have available, I will not go into detail, but 1 should like to refer to a statement made by the honourable member for Indi (Mr Holten). [More…]
He referred to this humane attitude of the Federal Labor Government and its actions in endeavouring to provide low rental homes for needy people as being an example of some political ideology, suggesting that the socialist attitude was one which demanded that a Labor government should do something about this problem. [More…]
I think it is a wonderful tiling to be humane and to care about one’s fellow men. [More…]
Not only in Australia, of course, but also in Britain - I do not think the Government of Britain is a socialist government at the present time - action has been taken to assist people in need. [More…]
To this end the British Government introduced fair rent1! [More…]
The British Government provided a rent rebate or allowance for those who could not afford them and larger subsidies for local authorities with the worst housing problems. [More…]
The facts, as evidenced only the other day at a function I went to, are that the men and women of that area are prepared to work far harder for their community organisations than are people from more affluent areas. [More…]
The decision of the previous Government regarding the non-payment of unemployment benefits to persons involved in the one day industrial dispute at Gladstone in Queensland was reversed and payment made from the date of dismissal of employees by the contracting company. [More…]
This new decision was made in accord with the principles set in 1947 by the then Federal Government. [More…]
The decision of the last Government to deny these men unemployment benefits was in flagrant conflict with those 1947 principles and clearly the decision was taken on political grounds. [More…]
Can the Prime Minister say, or will he find out, when the Australian Government first learned that 3 Australian citizens whom the Yugoslav Government had earlier indicated were dead, along with others, were in fact still alive? [More…]
I refer to the 3 men who have since been executed. [More…]
The present Government had no knowledge, other than that inherited from its predecessors, about the 3 men whom Australia acknowledged as Australian citizens who were liquidated or destroyed according to the information given to the previous Government last year. [More…]
The fact that the men had been arrested, tried and executed first came to the knowledge of a Minister of this Government on 9 April and to the knowledge of the Department of Foreign Affairs on 12th April. [More…]
I said that again for reasons of humanity as well, we thought, as of law the Australian Government should be able to give that information to the relatives in Australia. [More…]
The 3 men were executed on the morning of 17 March. [More…]
The Government of Yugoslavia is considering the issues raised regarding the dual nationals and the Australian Ambassador will be received by the Federal Secretary for Foreign Affairs in connection with these issues. [More…]
As far as my Department knows, every outstanding case has been made the subject of inquiries in Yugoslavia. [More…]
I have given the names so that honourable members who have any other persons in mind can enable my Government to do what it can to get information and to afford them protection. [More…]
Everything that has been known about the 3 men executed and about every other case has been elicited by my Government. [More…]
My Government has protested. [More…]
My Government has gained information. [More…]
My Government is not deterred by the technicalities of dual nationality. [More…]
My Government is determined to see that Australians are protected anywhere in the world. [More…]
He is trying to shelter behind the actions of the previous government taken in circumstances which were completely different. [More…]
We were led to believe by information given by the Yugoslav Government that the whole of the force involved in the Bosnian incursion had been liquidated. [More…]
Now we apparently find that 3 men survived, although there is some doubt that they were ever involved in the incursion. [More…]
The 3 men were held for a number of months, tried and executed. [More…]
We hear that the circumstances are just the same as applied in the time of the previous government. [More…]
He says: This is the way that the previous government performed’. [More…]
Some of those letters relate to cases with no bearing at all on the 3 men executed or on the Bosnian incursion. [More…]
Why has there been no outcry by Labor members against the Government of Yugoslavia? [More…]
Why has there been no complaint against the Yugoslav Government about the deception it has perpetrated against the Australian Government and the Australian people? [More…]
Is it because the Government of Yugoslavia is Communist? [More…]
Why does the Labor Party accept, apparently without question, the account of the Yugoslav Government, a government now shown to have treated the Australian Government and the Australian people with contempt? [More…]
What an insult to the Australian people to have the Prime Minister of Yugoslavia visit this country knowing that 3 Australians had been executed by his Government only 3 days before! [More…]
How do we know that these men were guilty of any offence against the Yugoslav Government? [More…]
How can we believe the version of the affair given by the Yugoslav Government, especially now that its account of earlier events is shown to be wrong? [More…]
The Yugoslav Government did not convey correct information. [More…]
In fact, it lied to the Australian Government. [More…]
It is all very well for the Prime Minister to accuse the previous government of having lied to the Yugoslav Government, basing his accusations on unsubstantiated facts. [More…]
Here is a case in which we know the facts to be correct - that the Yugoslav Government lied to the Australian Government. [More…]
Why have the Labor Party and the Australian Government been so silent on this issue? [More…]
Is it because they have an uncomfortable feeling that perhaps the evidence on which the Yugoslavs relied for the convictions was that which appeared in the unsubstantiated statements of allegations made by members of the Labor Party? [More…]
Senator Murphy made his raids on 15th and 16th March and the men were executed on 17th March. [More…]
How do we know that these men were guilty of the crimes with which they were charged? [More…]
I have read reports that Mr Vlashnovic one of the men concerned, claimed that he entered Yugoslavia quite legally for the purpose of visiting his mother but was arrested on his arrival, imprisoned and later executed. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s casual, off-handed treatment of this whole affair at question time yesterday and later during a Press conference deserves the strongest criticism. [More…]
He made it clear that his concern is not for the fact that 3 men were executed on the say so of a communist government but merely that those men did not have access to Australia’s representative in Yugoslavia. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s clumsy efforts to cover up for the Yugoslav Prime Minister are an insult to the Australian people, to the Australian Parliament and especially to the families of the men who were put to death. [More…]
The Prime Minister has made it plain that there will be no further protest to the Yugoslav Government. [More…]
The Leader of the Country Party also, of course, carefully suppressed the fact that all the events about which he has just professed concern occurred under the administration of his Government. [More…]
I suggest that the Leader of the Country Party is finding his conscience in this matter too late to be credible and too late to be helpful to the men who are dead. [More…]
There was a visit by the Yugoslav Prime Minister to Australia - to this Government. [More…]
He had left his country long after the trial of these 3 men and after the sentences had been passed on them. [More…]
There has been no accusation of wrong treatment by the Yugoslav Prime Minister of another Prime Minister, and there should have been in these circumstances. [More…]
Of course, it is too late to do anything about the lives of those men who are now dead, but it is not too late to try to make well known to the Yugoslavs the approach of the Australian Government so that in future this will not occur again and so that in future Australians will not be subjected to the treatment and the killing to which they have been subjected without proper complaint by the Australian Government. [More…]
What we ought to get from the Government, if it treats this seriously, is a firm statement that in the future if any Australian citizens are arrested in Yugoslavia, brought to trial in Yugoslavia, sought to be punished in Yugoslavia, this Government ought to be informed immediately that takes place so that it can take care of the rights of those people according to Australian law, so that they are properly represented, so that they are not railroaded to the kind of death to which these 3 men have been railroaded. [More…]
The Government should make a statement that it insists on that, and that if it does not get that proper undertaking from the Yugoslav Government there is little point in continuing relations with such a Government. [More…]
Various names were mentioned and various places were named. [More…]
We actually accepted the statement that the men had been destroyed in the invasion. [More…]
allocation for promotion however must be balanced against the dimensions of the task being undertaken by the IWS in encouraging the use of wool in an international textile market which is so large in comparison with the volume of wool products sold. [More…]
In this manner, the development of new products and the imparting of new properties to wool products are directed specifically towards retail requirements and- consumer demand. [More…]
Technical advice is constantly provided in various countries on mill re-organisation and modernisation and the specialised treatments and processes such as for permanent creasing, shrink proofing and machine washability of wool products, are being extended under trade mark and licence control, by the IWS, in the various countries where it operates. [More…]
These activities of IWS are concentrated on the 4 main end uses of wool - carpets, women’s outerwear, men’s outerwear and knitted outerwear (excluding children’s wear). [More…]
However, the activities of the IWS have been under intensive review during the current triennium and’ the Government is examining the results of that review to ensure that every effort is made to further improve the performance and effectiveness of wool promotional activities in the future. [More…]
The former Government had neither the will to do the job properly nor the ability to do the job properly. [More…]
I have requested the Stevedoring Industry Council to supply me with its views on future permanent employment arrangements for casual ports and on funding arrangements for the industry as a whole. [More…]
I have also commissioned an officer of my Department, one of the most knowledgeable men on the stevedoring industry in Australia, Mr Norman K. Foster, who was for 3 years a member of this House, to inquire into and report on certain aspects of stevedoring operations in relation to the activities of the Australian Coastal Shipping Commission. [More…]
When he has completed that assignment he will be visiting the other States so that he may give me an on the spot report as to what is needed to be done to correct the results of the inactivity of the previous Government over the past four or five years. [More…]
The Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) is to be congratulated on the efficient and capable manner in which the 3 Services of the Australian forces have been studied and consideration given to entitlements long overdue for review as far as war service homes are concerned. [More…]
It seems incredible, Mr Speaker, that to date representatives of welfare organisations such as the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Salvation Army, the Australian Comforts Fund, the Young Women’s Christian Association and the Australian Red Cross Society that served in all theatres of war with distinction, such as North Africa, Greece, Crete, Papua New Guinea, Malaya and Singapore, have not been recognised and given the opportunity to participate and have the same rights as a returned person under the War Service Homes Act. [More…]
Returned men in this House will remember only too well the tremendous job done by the welfare organisations in all theatres of war where Australian troops were fighting. [More…]
I am sure they will remember the work done by the Salvation Army, the tremendous work done by the Red Cross and the facilities for recreation placed at the troops’ disposal by the YMCA. [More…]
This House should not quibble if the number is 1,000 or 2,000 in view of the tremendous job they did during the war years. [More…]
This Bill which has been clearly explained by the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Ashley-Brown) - he gave a small recitation of its provisions - I believe represents a much more fundamental change than most people would realise. [More…]
It is not only in the name that the fundamental change takes place but also in the spirit of the Act. [More…]
It was a repatriation measure for men who had served overseas. [More…]
Those were the men who were entitled to the benefit. [More…]
In that spirit, of course, it had a different connotation from what it has now, because the proposed Act, the Defence Service Homes Act, the Bill which we are discussing, will bring in all regular servicemen who have served for 3 years. [More…]
This is a matter that is being dealt with by amendment. [More…]
1 do not think it would have been impossible for the Minister for Housing (Mr Les Johnson) to deal with the housing of servicemen as a separate matter from the spirit and intention of the original War Service Homes Act. [More…]
Of course, the wealthy can get it, but it is difficult for other men to get the extra money for their homes because there is no limit on the price of a home. [More…]
I brand it in the first place as a bribe for enlistment to fill the Services. [More…]
There are tens of thousands of eligible ex-servicemen in Australia from the 1914-1918 and 1939- 1945 Wars and subsequent wars who have nol yet availed themselves of loans under the old Act. [More…]
This is due, mostly to the restraints contained in the Act and its application which I have mentioned in relation to the eligibility for owning a home and so forth. [More…]
The honourable member for Bennelong (Sir John Cramer) expressed his complete reactionary philosophy by accusing the Australian Labor Party, as he designated us, of offering a bribe to servicemen. [More…]
I would like to point out that he has also shown his disappointment by not understanding or refusing to recognise the fact that what he calls the Australian Labor Party is today the Govern ment; he still has not learned that those on his side of the House were not bom to rule. [More…]
If offering and paying decent wages and granting decent conditions to our servicemen and women is a bribe then the Opposition would have been well advised, when its members were in Government, to have paid bribes to the servicemen instead of conscripting our gallant young men and sending them to death in Vietnam. [More…]
Accompanying that promise was our stated aim to make the conditions of service in the armed forces such that we would attract to the service of their country not only sufficient suitable young men and women, but also that we would retain the services of these trained people, as they would be, after their first term of enlistment was ended. [More…]
It was our party’s well-publicised judgement that attractive conditions of service would make it easier for young men and women to make their decision to enlist in the service of their country without being penalised relative to the remainder of the community. [More…]
This Bill is putting that judgment to the test, and the future will reveal the truth of that judgment. [More…]
If the future reveals that the judgment was in error, we may be accused of bad judgment. [More…]
But even so the moral question would still remain, and I believe that few people would agree that young men and women who have willingly offered to serve their country and pay the supreme sacrifice if needs be, should be disadvantaged in relation to the remainder of the community, but it does appear that since 1949 Austraiian governments have not subscribed to this sentiment. [More…]
I wonder how some of the ex-servicemen on the Government side of the chamber who served overseas or enlisted to do so feel when they realise that they have been party to a decision that gives a few national servicemen who have had 18 months service in the comfort and safety of Army camps in Australia in peace time exactly the same lifetime housing loan as their fellow Australians who served overseas in the Second World War, in the Battle of Britain, over Germany, in Tobruk and in the Middle East. [More…]
This Bill will place a few national servicemen who have served 18 months in national service training after 7th December last year in the same position to obtain a housing loan as those exservicemen who were prisoners of war under the Japanese and the Germans. [More…]
These national servicemen will have the same rights as those Australians who served in the rotten conditions in New Guinea. [More…]
My opinion is that this Labor Government should be ashamed of itself for including this very small percentage of national servicemen in the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
I register my strongest personal objection to the extension to these national servicemen of eligibility for a housing loan. [More…]
It is an insult to the men who served or who made themselves available to serve overseas. [More…]
I also support the extension of eligibility to members of various volunteer organisations such as the Salvation Army and the Young Men’s Christian Association who often shared in the dangers of combat and who always were an inspiration and help to many exservicemen in a great many ways as many honourable members know. [More…]
Therefore I cannot comment as to whether there is adequate coverage of these organisations. [More…]
The war service homes scheme has been of tremendous assistance to and greatly appreciated by about 330,000 exservicemen who have received loans. [More…]
The interest rate of 3) per cent is generous and it certainly has contributed, together with the length of the term of the loan, to the obtaining of homes by ex-servicemen who otherwise could not possibly have managed to build and maintain a home. [More…]
In conclusion, whilst this Bill has many good features I support the amendments proposed by the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett), as does the rest of the Country Party. [More…]
In summary, I reaffirm the comments I expressed at the start of my address. [More…]
I repeat that I am disgusted with the Government because it has granted eligibility to a handful of national servicemen. [More…]
This is an unprincipled and contemptible abrogation of the 55-year old principle that overseas service or enlistment for service anywhere qualifies a person for the privilege of a war service home loan. [More…]
This provision relating to a very small number of national servicemen is in my opinion an insult to nearly 1 million ex-service men and women who enlisted for service anywhere. [More…]
The retention of those young men who chose to remain is seen as valuable in the transition from a partly conscripted Army to an all-volunteer force. [More…]
I would like the Minister to qualify, if he can, this portion of his statement and tell the House how this improves Service conditions - that is, how does the granting of eligibility for service homes to young national service trainees, who are signed up to serve 18 months, improve Service conditions. [More…]
I also wish to ask the Minister how many of these young men who were serving at 6th December have chosen to remain in the Regular Army. [More…]
One should look at the contribution that has been made by the men in the past. [More…]
This new Government has come in and, with gay abandon, has thrown the old system to the wind and is bringing in a system which will effectively drive young Australians to join tha armed services. [More…]
I feel confident that, while it may be some form of attraction to some people, if the Government thinks that young Australians today can be so easily bought it is wrong. [More…]
We need the method which the previous Government tried and used. [More…]
Nowhere in the debate has mention been made of the welfare organisations that come into the area of eligibility. [More…]
The organisations designated as accredited welfare organisations are the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Salvation Army, the Australian Comforts Fund, the Australian Red Cross Society, the Campaigners for Christ and the Australian Forces Overseas Fund. [More…]
The few comments I have heard have been very favourable. [More…]
It is significant to note that the tent that has been erected bears a sign declaring it to be a women’s embassy. [More…]
I suppose I can add as part of my answer that personally I am glad that they are not in power now - otherwise the women’s embassy would probably be dispersed in like manner. [More…]
May I add that there is significance in their choice of a women’s embassy because there is oppression against women in this community. [More…]
Women who are aware of social issues like the abortion issue and who know that this issue and other issues that fundamentally concern them are going to be decided in this House of men do feel oppressed. [More…]
Women who are aware of social issues and who like to think that they should be treated with full civilian rights and have opportunities available to them in much the same way as you gentlemen have opportunities available to you feel oppressed and discriminated against. [More…]
The present position is that no assistance is given by the Government, nor is it a matter for tax deductibility. [More…]
I point out that they include women, children and men. [More…]
However this amount of $6m was lost by Evans Deakin when the Liberal-Country Party Government was in office, not during the time of the Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
If the honourable member for Griffith has any adverse comments to make about the $6m lost by Evans Deakin, he should refer them to members of the former Government which is guilty. [More…]
The guilty men are not on this side of the House. [More…]
As the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) said on one occasion, if an Opposition is silly enough of course it can force a government to use the gag. [More…]
I say to honourable members opposite: ‘You are honourable men. [More…]
You are intelligent men. [More…]
With the limited time that we have I think that there is a need for honourable members to co-operate, and the Government in its way will be charitable, benevolent, reasonable, decent and just. [More…]
All honourable members know that when we on this side of the Parliament say these things we mean them, because all that Labor promises Labor will do. [More…]
Having said so much, I have not the time to read again the full record of what has been done by the Government, but what has been done today is an endeavour sincerely to try to finish the business of this House with reasonable sitting hours, without curtailing debate in any way, and with the co-operation of honourable members opposite I know full well that it can be done, and I know they will give that co-operation to us. [More…]
In our universities today we are educating a lot of young men and young women who, regrettably, may not find adequate opportunity for meaningful employment in the community. [More…]
There is a real need for study to be undertaken - be it by the universities or within the Department of Education - to determine the extent to which present degree courses and diploma courses will give to the student the sort of qualifications the community needs. [More…]
It is true that within a university or any institution of learning it is necessary for men to be engaged in the quest for knowledge for knowledge’s sake. [More…]
But it is also true that those who engage in such a quest should be able to find meaningful employment when they complete their university studies. [More…]
They need to be given an opportunity for worthwhile employment when they leave the university. [More…]
We are coming into a period in which the correlation between employment opportunities and a degree is regrettably declining. [More…]
When the Australian Education Council was requested to forward details of the requirements of technical training in Australia it suggested that an amount of $14m was needed. [More…]
This Government came up with an amount of $10m but it is clear that each State has a capital development program which is lagging behind this schedule. [More…]
The common problem was that rising building costs were not matched by funds available for technical college buildings, furnishings and equipment. [More…]
I cannot imagine a State government which is fair saying that the Commonwealth is not providing adequate funds for this. [More…]
It is providing buildings and equipment for the training of young men and women undertaking trade and certificate courses in technical colleges, trade colleges and agricultural colleges, and taking part in rural training schemes. [More…]
Each year in Australia we have the spectacle of young men and women who leave school suffering the frustration of not being able to follow their chosen careers because of difficulties of being admitted to the system of trade training. [More…]
It is fundamentally wrong in principle to spend public funds in training young men and women for jobs which will not be required in the foreseeable future. [More…]
The disappointment and frustration of those who have been adversely affected in this way is very considerable. [More…]
Previous Liberal-Country Party governments have been either indifferent to, or ignorant of, this rapidly growing need of our future citizens. [More…]
Sub-contracting to a level where, as a matter of law, workers become agents of principals rather than employees means that young men are not apprenticed to learn the various trades and therefore have no opportunity to acquire the skills involved. [More…]
This allows large development companies, with near-sighted policies, to maximise their profits by reducing overhead costs in respect of such things as provision for sick leave, annual leave, long service leave, workers compensation, payroll tax and so on. [More…]
As some of these people are the top men in State technical education we believe that we are appointing men capable of assessing the needs of the States. [More…]
They are people who are especially experienced in the questions relating to training of apprentices and tradesmen. [More…]
They cover the subject matter mentioned by every speaker in this debate. [More…]
For instance, they include overall manpower policy and national and local occupational requirements; the emerging needs of industry, commerce and governments as they adjust to technological, economic and social change; priorities within needs and appropriate measures to be undertaken by the Australian Government. [More…]
The committee will furnish information and advice to the Minister on matters relating to the development of technical and further education in Australia, including financial assistance to the States in relation to institutions in the States. [More…]
The committee has a wide range in the terms of reference it has been given which will enable its members to use all their skills and intelligence to broaden technical education in Australia and to respond to the requests of State governments and of persons who give expert attention to the whole field of technical education. [More…]
However, the recommendations of this Commission will take effect a little later than the other commissions because we propose that its action will start after the funding already provided for in the current triennium which expires on 30th June 1974. [More…]
I feel that the evolvement of this scheme is largely due to the efforts of 4 members of Parliament during the period prior to its introduction. [More…]
These men played a leading part in liaising between the State and the Commonwealth. [More…]
They were the men to whom the Prime Minister kowtowed, and then it was only to get money. [More…]
The whole emphasis of our industrial legislation and the whole emphasis of our conciliation and arbitration procedures should be directed towards the prevention of industrial disputes rather than the settlement of disputes which occur. [More…]
It is significant that the word ‘prevention’ precedes the word ‘settlement’ in referring to industrial disputes and also that the word ‘conciliation’ precedes the word ‘arbitration’ in describing the method by which disputes shall be prevented and/ or settled. [More…]
The amendments proposed in this Bill, particularly those proposed in respect to the consultation of employees and the encouragement of greater conciliation, will have far-reaching beneficial results. [More…]
This Bill, read as a whole, will be seen as a major step towards the achievement of industrial peace. [More…]
It is unfair to predict any effects of the elimination of certain penal provisions without giving adequate consideration in calmness and tranquillity and giving due weight to the amendments designed to create far greater involvement of the individual employee in the establishment of his own conditions of employment. [More…]
This Bill creates the means for a bold and courageous new experiment in industrial relations. [More…]
My experience is that working men and women do not break arrangements made when they have been directly and fully involved in their making. [More…]
Let me say something about this equality argument - that the Opposition stands for equality, and that if it is proper to penalise the employer, so also should we penalise the employee. [More…]
If, in retaliation for that act, 10 men decide to withhold their labour from that giant corporation, they, through their union, face a fine of $1,000 a day until they offer for work. [More…]
But a little union of 100 men could be fined $1,000 a day. [More…]
Penalties of this kind eroded the confidence of working men in the system of conciliation and arbitration and in our Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
In spite of the Opposition’s attempts to frustrate it, this Government is determined to establish industrial peace and harmony in Australia and thereby lift the conditions of employment and the standard of living of all the Australian people. [More…]
I commend the Bill. [More…]
The previous Government last year introduced a wide range of very significant changes to existing legislation to ensure that the procedures of conciliation and arbitration were adequate to meet the circumstances of Australia in the 1970s, to ensure the divorce of conciliation from arbitration, to ensure that there should be available to the working men in Australia a procedure which would be adequate to ensure for them a reasonable and equitable part of the changing productivity and available wealth in this community but to ensure also for the consumer, the producer and the citizen on fixed income a protection against excesses. [More…]
Why, even this morning in the ‘Australian Financial Review’ we read of a further amendment to this legislation which apparently the Minister for Labour is to introduce, or it is rumoured he is to introduce, later in the debate today. [More…]
We are told that the purpose of the amendment is to exempt trade union leaders from facing ballots in the transitional period of up to 3 years following union amalgamations; that is, the time between the legal clearance of an amalgamation and its final consummation. [More…]
This is a further step towards strengthening the position of the trade union leadership and a further step towards eroding the real responsibility that the trade union leadership should have for the men it is supposed to represent. [More…]
It introduces a concept of employment that is totally alien and foreign to any concept of employment that we know in Australia today. [More…]
I believe that they are men who will try to exercise an independent judgment of the position. [More…]
It is proposed to amend section 5 (1) of the principal Act by inserting a new paragraph (f) to provide that an employer shall not dismiss an employee or in any day affect or prejudice him because he has done or proposes to do an act or thing in an industrial establishment or elsewhere - not only in the industrial establishment - for the purpose of protecting the union’s industrial interests providing only that he feels he has directly or indirectly some authority from the union. [More…]
In other words, this proposed new paragraph puts him in a position of permanent employment. [More…]
This can be done notwithstanding that sound economic management and sound practices of administration will demand that that employee should, in fact, be dismissed because he is working contrary to the interests of the company, contrary to the interests of the other employees and contrary to the interests of the nation. [More…]
That is because a number of corrections have to be made to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, which was amended by the Opposition when it was in government. [More…]
So there can be no question about the need for organisations of working men. [More…]
The attitude of the Opposition has been one of the destruction of the trade union movement. [More…]
When the Parties opposite were in a position to wield power they worked very hard to bring in legislation which was designed entirely to destroy the powers of the trade union movement and the effective organisation of working men into bodies that could take a role in the whole field of the betterment of society. [More…]
Speaking in broad terms there are 4 proposed amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Although this is not the total number of proposed amendments, the 4 amendments I have mentioned are, broadly speaking, the important ones. [More…]
The first and most important amendment was outlined by my colleagues the honourable members for Phillip (Mr Riordan) and Gellibrand (Mr Willis). [More…]
I could give the example of the waterfront where there has been industrial peace in regard to all of the stevedoring agreements around Australia since the trade unions in that area have entered into agreements with employers rather than being thrust into the position where a third party would inflict its will upon them. [More…]
The Metal Trades Union, which comes under most attack from members of the Opposition, has had far less warfare since there has been agreement in the trade unions than was the case when the situation was thrust upon them by arbitration. [More…]
The provocation by those who now sit in Opposition - those of them who are left - when they sat in government is very manifest when one looks once again at the waterfront, provocation as evidenced by their insistence that there be penal provisions against men who withheld their labour. [More…]
As was explained to this House only last week in the debate on the Stevedoring Industry Charge Bill, the previous Government refused to allow a proper payment Of the levy provided for under that legislation even though the shipowners and the employees agreed that it should be paid. [More…]
The reason for the refusal was that with the fund being rather short of money and because there was a surplus of waterside workers around the ports of Australia, the then Government endeavoured to persuade the shipowners and the employers of waterside labour to enforce compulsory retirement upon waterside workers who were redundant knowing full well that there was not sufficient money in the fund to pay them their entitlement. [More…]
The then Government knew that if such a situation occurred there would be conflict on the waterfront between employees and employers. [More…]
The then Government proceeded with its proposal until the shipowners - and 1 do not speak in praise of employers - told the Government to do its own dirty work and refused to carry out this proposal. [More…]
But when did the previous Government at any time say to an employer who had surplus money: ‘You shall invest your money in a particular area, whether it is a profitable area or not, and if you do not we will prosecute, fine and gaol you’? [More…]
The previous Government never did. [More…]
It drew a distinction between those who offered their labour for sale and those who offered their money for investment. [More…]
When workers refused to work the previous Government wanted to drive them to work with a whip. [More…]
When investors refused to invest the previous Government said:- ‘That must be your decision. [More…]
If you are not guaranteed a profit on your investment why should you be made to invest?’ [More…]
But the previous Government drove men to work to earn $50 a week when it required $60 a week to keep them. [More…]
No-one on this side of the House denies the need for trade unions in Australia, nor does anyone on this side of the House deny the right of working men and women to organise themselves into trade unions. [More…]
I have some, interest in this subject and I am glad it has come up for debate so early in this Parliament. [More…]
This Parliament has power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of our Commonwealth with respect to conciliation and arbitration for the prevention and settlement of interstate disputes. [More…]
They wanted an end to industrial warfare which disrupts industry, hurts men and their families, weakens the national economy and above all pits Australian against Australian in unremitting conflict in the false name of the class struggle. [More…]
Are the good intentions of this Parliament any different? [More…]
Then what is this Government trying to do? [More…]
Nothing is more calculated to bring war, disorder and bad government to industry and to the economy than these, the Cameron proposals which we are debating today. [More…]
This Government has no mandate for that. [More…]
As the great Mr Burke wrote: ‘Men cannot enjoy the rights of a civil and uncivil state together*. [More…]
That is perfectly true and those words of the 18th century have as much moment today as they had then. [More…]
Some clever men may take the view that they can escape from that, but in the ultimate they will come back to the realisation that there is no escape to be found. [More…]
I have knowledge of how industrial law operates and of how it has operated to the detriment of the work force and trade unionists in Australia and of how it has been responsible for a lot of industrial unrest in Australia. [More…]
Over a period of years the Liberal Party-Country Party Governments relied on industrial laws which were directed against workers and industry to deprive workers of justice in the areas of wages and conditions. [More…]
Ministers of those Governments exhibited little or no understanding of the work force. [More…]
When disputes arose they mistakenly believed that Australian men and women in industry could be stood over through the agency of savage penal provisions. [More…]
How bad was their judgment of the average Australian worker. [More…]
The Government did nothing to prevent disputes. [More…]
By its actions the previous Government during its term of office was developing opposition to the arbitration system which it claims now it wants upheld. [More…]
The Opposition appears to believe that Australian men and women who are trade unionists and workers in industry have only one role on this planet and that is to do as they are bid by certain people, with no say in the industry in which they are employed and apparently with no right to seek improvements in wages and conditions. [More…]
Under the stewardship of the previous Government we witnessed opposition by that Government to applications to the national wage case hearings. [More…]
The interference of that government in those proceedings showed its contempt for the Australian workers. [More…]
In 1972 we had, on the one hand, the previous Government having an official submission made to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in the national wage case and, on the other hand, the then Prime Minister making a statement that the Government wanted the minimum wage to be increased significantly by the Commission. [More…]
This statement fooled no one. [More…]
The majority of people cannot be employed if we do not have employers, men of initiative to set up employment opportunities, to put in capital - in many cases, risk capital - to set up factories and build industries. [More…]
What would be the situation if we did not have employers and the billions of dollars being invested in employment opportunities for the people of this country? [More…]
No penalty will be attached to an order from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission or the court for men to go back to work. [More…]
It will not please the Government when it has a rash of strikes but it will be disastrous to the Australian people for undoubtedly the strike rate is building up. [More…]
In this Bill the Government says it is just a simple majority. [More…]
No rules say when the ballot is to be open to union members or state the period of time during which ballot papers have to go out or during which any argument can be put for and against amalgamation. [More…]
The union management executive alone could have a vote and that could result in amalgamation proposals. [More…]
I believe that to take away any statutory provision relating to amalgamation is simply to turn over to the powerful officials at the top of the trade unions a tremendous accretion to their power. [More…]
They are already powerful men. [More…]
After this Bill becomes law they will be excessively powerful men. [More…]
I am sorry that the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) chose to speak disparagingly of my colleague, the honourable member for Phillip (Mr Riordan), because he should realise that the honourable gentleman, until he came into this Parliament, was easily one of the most eminent trade union officials in Australia. [More…]
He came into the trade union movement as the State Secretary of the Federal Clerks Union of Australia when he was only 22 years of age, and he is regarded by all sections of the trade union movement - whether they are communists, supporters of the Democratic Labor Party, Labor Party people, right, left or centre - as the most competent and one of the most capable men in the business. [More…]
All that 1 intend to say is that the honourable member for Stirling (Mr Viner) and his learned friend who preceded him, the honourable member for Moreton, do not seem to understand what the amendments are all about. [More…]
This particular amendment simply says in ordinary lay language that no longer will we have people called arbitration commissioners and others called conciliation commissioners. [More…]
If the honourable gentlemen will look at clause 12 of the Bill they will see that it alters section 22 of the Act. [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…]
The proposed amendment to the Act seeks to make some protection, and I believe it is very good protection, available to those people because if that protection does not exist we have the sort of situation which the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and those he repre sents - those who employ - want, that is, a situation where they have a completely subservient work force in their factories and men and women who are disinclined to take any action or to complain about any action taken against them for fear that their elected representatives and they in turn would be dismissed. [More…]
Proposed sub-section 2a (a) states in paragraph (a): the act or thing done or proposed to be done by the employee was or would have been unlawful under the civil or criminal law, otherwise than by reason only of its being a breach of the contract of employment. [More…]
So here we have a situation in which an employee can turn round and, no matter what he might have agreed to and no matter what the award might say, decide to take action to pull men out on strike. [More…]
I take it that they are men of great erudition, intellect and especially integrity. [More…]
The other important matter 1 would mention now is the proposal in clause 17 dealing with the requirement, as contained in proposed new sub-section (2a) of section 28, that before a memorandum is certified in accordance with the section there must be produced a statutory declaration by the officer authorised by the committee of management that the principles are agreed to or there can be required a declaration that the members affected by the agreement have been consulted and agree to it. [More…]
This diametrically cuts across the fundamental basis upon which unions are registered, and authority is granted to a committee of management to stand in the place of the members when an agreement is entered into or when an application is made to the Commission for an award. [More…]
The proposal is that there may be required approval by the members who are affected by the agreement. [More…]
One goes down to the floor level, the shop level, to see whether the men approve of what is being done. [More…]
But what is proposed here is that what the officials do, what they might agree to in conciliation, can be completely overturned by the men at the shop floor. [More…]
It is to be a yo-yo affair between the nien at the shop floor and the management? [More…]
This can be and is an eroding and weakening of the authority of official management of unions. [More…]
I know that so often the management of a union, in order to get out of difficulties - may be it is in order to get out of an agreement it does not want to enter into - will go back to the men and, if the word goes around in the right way, of course the men will not agree. [More…]
This is the perfect let-out for management. [More…]
So there is in this provision an insidious sort of eating into the authority of official management. [More…]
Does he want a hybrid affair or does he want something which is clear and unmistakable in its terms, something which puts management in a position where it can exercise the function of authority that it should have, or will the Minister go to the other lengths and give that authority to the men on the shop floor? [More…]
I refer to the removal of the automatic authority of the Full Bench to approve an agreement which has far-reaching consequences, as is already outlined in the existing section 31, and the altering of wage rates, the altering of the minimum wage, the altering of wage rates for females, annual leave and so on. [More…]
Couple that with the provisions I have mentioned already in regard to going back to the men for approval and what in the end do we have? [More…]
I refer to the provision which makes if obligatory for employees covered by agreements to be consulted. [More…]
AH students, practitioners, beneficiaries or combatants in the field of industrial relations today are seized with the importance of the problem of having a system under which industrial agreements, once made, will be honoured. [More…]
All those concerned with industrial relations are perturbed that a number of the agreements which are made and which are beneficial in their result are not being kept. [More…]
Unions are finding difficulty in some industries in having the men maintain the agreements. [More…]
This amendment is designed to encourage, on the part of employees in particular industries, a personal involvement in and a personal commitment to an agreement or a code of working conditions covering their particular employment. [More…]
It is based on a faith in the collective integrity and collective honour of men and women in our community. [More…]
I firmly believe, and my experience has shown, that where men and women employees of an industry understand that they have made an agreement or commitment to an industrial code, the commitment is almost invariably kept. [More…]
No citizen desires to create the impression that he is breaking his word or breaking an agreement which he has freely entered into. [More…]
They will go on strike where they believe that they have a grievance that it is no longer possible to bear, and it is only proper that free men should remain free enough to be different from slaves in this regard. [More…]
A lot has been said about the penalty which I did propose a couple of years ago for people who breached voluntarily negotiated agreements which had been submitted to the rank and file for approval and had then been registered. [More…]
Why on earth people believe that men who go on strike to rectify a deep seated grievance do so merely to be cantankerous is completely beyond me. [More…]
If it be true that working men may combine with a view, among other things, to getting as much as they can for their labour, just as capital may combine with a view to getting the greatest possible return, it must be true that when combined they have the same liberty that combined capital has to support their interests by argument, persuasion, and the bestowal or refusal of those advantages which they otherwise lawfully control. [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…]
I speak on this clause because I think that it is complementary to the other 2 clauses about which I spoke yesterday. [More…]
We all, I think, believe in fairness and in equality in industrial relations for working men. [More…]
What this clause proposes is to prevent the replacement of monetary penalties upon a union with a law that allows individual penalties of imprisonment upon officials of unions because the simple process - to follow the interjection of the honourable member for Stirling who knows the law so well - is to make an application for an injunction, having first of all established liability for torts, and then if the person does not refrain from the action which the injunction seeks to restrain him from continuing he is arrested and taken to prison. [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…]
Is this what you want to do to honest decent working men? [More…]
The occurrence of a strike in itself signifies a break down of industrial relations in the industry in dispute, and even with the best will agreement may not be possible. [More…]
The strike may be the culmination of a long period of mistrust and resentment or it may be totally unexpected. [More…]
Suddenly, without any change in the officials of the union concerned, there was a strike involving some 8,000 men. [More…]
Acts against the combination of working men were passed on several occasions between the 14th century and 1800. [More…]
If they do not give way we will shoot them into gaol with all the pickpockets, prostitutes and criminals there and treat them as ordinary criminals - not as decent, upright and honest working men but as criminals of the worst order’. [More…]
We would therefore ask the Government of France to take a responsible attitude in this matter and to treat their fellow men with dignity and compassion. [More…]
We must condemn the testing of nuclear weapons in the atmosphere at the same time that we continue to seek the co-operation of the French Government. [More…]
In my time in this Parliament, I do not know of any social issue that has been brought before this House - it has not been brought before the House by honourable members on this side but by 2 honourable members on the Government side - which affects humanity and social living standards as does this Bill. [More…]
Millions of women, men and children, both born and unborn, can be affected by this Bill which will be introduced by those 2 honourable members. [More…]
There has been no greater social issue since I have been a member of this Parliament- [More…]
This Government is extending the time for the debate. [More…]
A few moments ago the Opposition even voted against a period of 3i hours. [More…]
Honourable members on this side are looking at the frightened men. [More…]
I fee’ a little embarrassed for the officers of the Department of Immigration who are here. [More…]
A fine body of men sit in the advisers’ box. [More…]
The officers of the Department of Immigration in this country are unparalleled in their dedication to duty. [More…]
I feel embarrassed that I should be making these comments because, as my colleague the former Minister for Immigration, the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes), points out what a terrible time it must be for them. [More…]
What embarrassment they must feel when they see Press statements being trundled out on the machine and sent to them. [More…]
1 do not know why on earth they would be sent to them, but what a real sense of embarrassment they must feel. [More…]
Perhaps I should restrict my comments in relation to this matter. [More…]
And perhaps the Minister might be impelled, the next time he issues a Press statement, to make certain that there is some aspect of that statement for which he can really take the credit. [More…]
If one were prepared in this debate to go through chapter and verse and to take each of the Press statements which the Minister has put out on the question of citizenship directly relevant to this Bill, or on other matters - as my colleagues will do later - one would find that very little of what has been claimed as initiative on behalf of the Government can, in fact, be traced back to the initiative of the present Minister. [More…]
If I had stated that sort of thing when I was Minister for Immigration, the bright young men of the Press would have laughed me out of court. [More…]
What the Minister is trying to do by weaving words such as those contained in this inane second reading speech is to avoid any justification of the new arrangements he proposes in terms of objectives which are nationally valid. [More…]
They include inequalities between pre-school children, depending upon whether they live in the Australian Capital Territory or in the various States; inequalities between our children, depending upon which school they attend; inequalities between men and women; inequalities between the wage earner and the prices setter, inequalities between the electors in the State electorates and particularly in Commonwealth electorates, depending upon the electorate in which they leave; inequalities between migrants, depending upon the country of their origin; inequalities between overseas visitors and more particularly between migrants, depending upon the country of origin; and, of course, inequalities between applicants who seek eligibility for citizenship under the terms of the Act enforced by the previous Government - the Act which this Bill seeks to amend. [More…]
Having said that, let me now say that I sometimes get disturbed about procedures in the Department. [More…]
Knowing human nature as I do, I know that the most foolproof scheme that can be implemented in any immigration office or bank is not foolproof unless the honesty of those enforcing the scheme or carrying out their duties is beyond reproach. [More…]
Since I have been in this Parliament, I have always held that view. [More…]
I have heard the same thing said by a former member for Batman, Mr Bird, who advocated in this Parliament that people in trustworthy positions which allowed them to be subject to corruption should be required to declare regularly their assets. [More…]
He said that this should apply to members of Parliament, public servants, taxation officials and people in positions of trust. [More…]
I believe that if we members of Parliament keep harping on this issue, eventually one day we will have a system - if. [More…]
we are to preserve our democracy we should have such a system - by which men in high positions of trust, even the judiciary and other men in high, influential legal positions, should have to declare their assets when they accept a responsible position and every 3 years thereafter. [More…]
Every honourable member of this House knows that from time to time some of the spivs in the community are able to obtain passports to leave the country when the law enforcement authorities are looking for them. [More…]
He apparently entered Australia and left Australia with the law enforcement authorities looking for him all over the place. [More…]
On 11th April last in an adjournment debate he made a series of ill-considered charges about the present industrial dispute in the wool industry and the policy of the previous Government in relation to the wool industry. [More…]
The honourable member for Eden-Monaro claimed, firstly, that the present industrial dispute within wool stores followed a deliberately engineered plan by the government to displace men employed in wool stores from their jobs; secondly, that there was no consultation between the Australian Wool Corporation and the Federated Storemen and Packers Union and other people employed in the woo] market on potential marketing changes which would lead to greater marketing efficiencies; thirdly, that wages paid to storemen in wool stores are the lowest within the award and that there is a high turnover of labour as a result; and, fourthly, that the National Council of Wool Selling Brokers and Dalgety Australia Ltd, through Mr William Vines, dictated wool policy to the Australian Country Party. [More…]
He was a member of the Australian Objective Measurement Policy Committee and the Australian Objective Measurement Technical Committee. [More…]
His intemperate statements since his arrival make me wonder whether his reputation was based on achievement or personal embellishment. [More…]
Take the charges the honourable member has made as a member of the 2 objective measurement committees. [More…]
In his charges that the introduction of objective measurements could lead to possible redundancy the honourable member chose to overlook the fact that next year and the year after only 10 per cent and 30 per cent of the national wool clip would be affected by these changes. [More…]
As a result few men, if any, will be affected. [More…]
I am quite sure that any men affected will be found employment elsewhere in the marketing and handling of wool. [More…]
On the grounds of non-consultation with the men in the wool stores, has the honourable member forgotten what he learned when he was a wool research worker - that it has been the men in the wool stores who have been involved in making the Australian objective project measurement succeed and that consequently they have, with the researchers, learned first hand of how the techniques work and are in the course of evolution? [More…]
Does the honourable member know that the union has been kept fully briefed of the situation regarding the development of these techniques and that on 22nd March union officials, together with broker representatives, went to a Wool Corporation store in Sydney to examine the progress of the Corporation’s jumbo bale development? [More…]
On the question of wages, does the honourable member know that there are 5 grades of storemen and that the award levels he quoted are the minimum rates? [More…]
Does he care to know that in wool stores the seasonal nature of handling means overtime payments, which greatly increase the wages he so selectively quoted? [More…]
Does the honourable member know that 35 per cent of the men employed receive over award payments and that of this number 74 per cent receive award payments of $2 or more while 27 per cent receive over award payments of $5 or more? [More…]
Parliaments have not faced up to their responsibility to society in ignoring the ugliness of abortion. [More…]
Parliaments have not protected all the rights involved when they force women to bear children against their will. [More…]
Governments which deny their responsibility by failing to provide efficient family planning programs and then prohibit abortion on request can only be described as architects of double standards. [More…]
I warn this wholly male House that it is because we are males there is a great danger that we will ignore the needs and rights of women in this matter. [More…]
Laws are made by men, sanctioned by a male dominated church hierarchy and imposed largely by policemen, and yet we will never bear children ourselves. [More…]
They are honourable men, and I doubt therefore that they will deny it. [More…]
The establishment of a royal commission on abortion and related issues has been supported by the leader of the Catholic community in Victoria, Cardinal Knox, by the Anglican Archbishop of Melbourne, Dr Woods, and by the Leader of the Opposition in the Victorian Parliament, Mr Clyde Holding. [More…]
Here we are, a Parliament of all men; there is not a single woman in this chamber. [More…]
Yet women are obviously intimately concerned with this matter. [More…]
So the amendment provides for the royal commission to have a majority of women members. [More…]
For those who say that this amendment is a cunning device to sidetrack the matter, I point out that the proposed royal commission is to report within 12 months. [More…]
So those honourable members who say that this proposal is just a trick so that the matter is disposed of should remember that the matter will come back before the Parliament. [More…]
Let us look at the details of the amendment proposed. [More…]
Firstly how many abortions are performed each year in Australia and what are the characteristics of the women who are aborted and the circumstances in which abortions occur? [More…]
Is it because of poverty, because they are not married and a child would cause them embarrassments or because they are married and have too many children? [More…]
What are the dimensions and the characteristics of the problem? [More…]
I do not think even men are permitted to do whatever they like without proper reasons if their actions affect other people. [More…]
Is that not a reminder of what the honourable member for Bradfield said, that we sit here as men making decisions for women when there is not a woman amongst us? [More…]
The right to prevent conception is the right of men and women in our community and cannot be changed by edict. [More…]
It is my belief that after conception a life commences. [More…]
That is because of our belief, our understanding and the reality that after conception a life commences. [More…]
It is a difficult decision, but difficult as the decision is it is not adequately answered by what may be described as abortion on demand or on request - I do not see any difference between the words; it is an element contained in this Bill before the House - at earlier stages of pregnancy, or by the provision relating to the later stages which, while containing conditions, are to my mind quite unacceptable. [More…]
An additional reason why I would not want by my vote to pass this Bill is that I would not want to contribute to a situation in which young men and women may take a decision which could haunt them with guilt for the rest of their lives when a chance event brought back to their recollection the decision which they took many years ago and which deprived them of the opportunity of a child - stifled a life at a time when there were on them great pressures which they could not withstand at the time. [More…]
Yet within the first 6 sitting days of this Parliament 2 newly-elected Labor members from Victoria - the honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr McKenzie) and the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Lamb) - gave notice thai they would introduce this Bill to legalise abortion on demand. [More…]
We have all heard the story around the lobbies that this Bill is really the brainchild of several Ministers of this Government and that, in order not to involve the Government as such, 2 front men had to be found to do the hack work of proposing and seconding the Bill. [More…]
It is very infuriating to realise that it is men who are largely responsible for the campaign opposing the Medical Practice Clarification Act, and men who will vote on the Bill. [More…]
The statement made by the honourable member for Diamond Valley in his speech that the position was otherwise is not correct. [More…]
Fifty-nine Church leaders of all faiths have signed a statement appealing to politicians, organisations and citizens to protest against this Bill. [More…]
The feeling against the Bill is not confined to any one section of the community; it runs high and wide, and is shared by all concerned - men and women, labourers and professional men, doctors and lawyers, rich and poor and young and old. [More…]
Let us look at some of the arguments raised by those who are in favour of abortion on demand. [More…]
On 19th December the Premier of New South Wales, Sir Robert Askin, made a statement on this matter. [More…]
At least that statement is an appreciation of the fact that land values will rise and that land owners whose land is to be acquired will need to get some compensation for inflation. [More…]
No doubt this is one of the reasons why the Commonwealth Government wants the State authorities to be the authorities for acquiring the land. [More…]
But it could cause tremendous injustice to people who might not get fair values for their properties if this matter is overlooked. [More…]
I know that in Albury-Wodonga at the moment there is concern among members of the local government authority about the contribution which the States and the Commonwealth will make to the development of services in the area. [More…]
I think that at the moment Albury has ideas about a new water scheme to supply the present growth rate, but this scheme would be quite inadequate if the town had multiplied at 2 or 3 times the predicted growth at the time the scheme was installed. [More…]
Why should the present local council commit itself to heavy Joans and heavy indebtedness on a water scheme if really the whole arrangement is to be made incorrect by actions of a State or Commonwealth Government. [More…]
How the responsibility of that local council overlaps with that of the development authority is another question which needs to be resolved. [More…]
J am sure that given men and governments of good intention we can work them out. [More…]
Immediately they are named the State governments will have to move, in and try to prevent speculation taking place. [More…]
They will have to prevent developers going in and buying up large tracts of land which will happen immediately the names are mentioned. [More…]
So I would caution the Government in the first place to enunciate quite clearly how the land title policy is to work, how compensation is to be paid and how this matter is to be inter-related with the local government authority. [More…]
Again the Government decided to intervene on the side of women to ensure that they received the same pay as men. [More…]
I think we all ought to express our indebtedness to the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission which in its recent judgment decided that the increase in the total wage of $2.50 plus 24 per cent should apply to men and women alike. [More…]
I was impressed by what the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said about ILO documents. [More…]
He criticised the ILO for not producing any documents. [More…]
There are a few other matters which I would like to mention. [More…]
I am a former contributor and I know of a number of contributors who, because they had growing families and could not raise the necessary finance to commence the purchase of a home, decided to use the accumulated money they had in the Superannuation Fund. [More…]
Most of the men I know of who resigned were skilled tradesmen whose resignation was a loss to some Commonwealth instrumentality. [More…]
1 would also like to see examined the position of contributors who resign from the Commonwealth service to go to other employment. [More…]
Often Commonwealth contributors living, say, in country towns are placed in the position where to get better education for their children, possibly to provide better employment opportunities for their children or perhaps for a healthy reason, they are required to resign from a Commonwealth job and move to the city. [More…]
T would certainly like to see some examination made of the possibility of the contributors who resign receiving some interest payment on their contributions. [More…]
I certainly commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
Payments for idle time on the waterfront have risen from $824,000 in 1967- 68 to $8. [More…]
The reason why there is a decreased labour requirement on the waterfront is quite clear. [More…]
There is less need for men on the waterfront than there was before. [More…]
Why do we keep them on permanent employment if we do not need them? [More…]
One would think or expect that there would be a requirement by or a pressure from the employers for these unneeded men to leave the industry. [More…]
Under the present arrangements only the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority can declare an employee redundant. [More…]
However this step can be taken only on the recommendation of the Waterside Workers Federation or the Association of Employers of Waterside Labour. [More…]
They would be paid 83,263 for the golden handshake to get out, but that is a once and for all payment. [More…]
On the other hand they get, as an average payment, about $3,000 a year to stop in the industry knowing that they are redundant. [More…]
If honourable members want a specific example of this situation I need only mention that during the week ending 9th February of this year there was an overall shortage of 228 waterside workers needed in Sydney while 175 men were at home being paid for idle time. [More…]
Under the present situation one cannot expect either of these 2 bodies to declare that men are redundant. [More…]
I can understand why, under the conference system, the stevedoring industry companies, which are dominated by overseas shipping interests, will not ask for men to be declared redundant. [More…]
Some of the men who were retrenched were transferred to stevedoring companies, the socalled operational companies, under the new scheme, but with the mergers, amalgamations and takeovers that have taken place some of them had to find work with other companies because they found that the new employment was less secure than the one they had left. [More…]
They were promised alternative Crown employment. [More…]
All members of the committee attended except one, the chairman, who was an officer of the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
This incident was indicative of the attitude of the previous Government to employees who suffered a retrenchment for no other purpose than to give effect to then Government policy. [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…]
Mention has also been made this evening of the activities of the waterfront, the industry’s shortcomings and its problems. [More…]
He would be the first to agree that where a lot of men are working together supervision is very important. [More…]
In 1965, 22,744 men were registered for employment on the Australian waterfront. [More…]
At 30th June 1971 16,853 men were registered at all ports. [More…]
Obviously the trend is continuing, mainly because of the changes around the world which I have mentioned. [More…]
Tremendous expansion has taken place in shipbuilding and the capital investment in both general cargo vessels and bulk cargo vessels has greatly increased. [More…]
The introduction of different types of shipping has meant that fewer men are required at ports, both in ships and on shore. [More…]
It is necessary to determine for how long the trend will continue and how the men to be replaced can be employed in other occupations. [More…]
As more container ships and bulk handling equipment come into operation fewer men will be required on the waterfront. [More…]
We believe that this Government is bereft of policy. [More…]
As John Stuart Mill observed many years ago: ‘A state which dwarfs its men in order that they might be the more docile instruments in its power will find that with small men, no great things can be accomplished’. [More…]
Nevertheless, we are making much more information available to the Parliament in a formal way than ever before. [More…]
As I mentioned yesterday, there is the regular practice now of tabling in the Parliament the minutes of any Commonwealth-State ministerial meetings. [More…]
We want the Parliament to debate all the things it usefully can debate. [More…]
I must say, however, that I not believe it would facilitate the workings of the Parliament for me, on the first day that the House sat after a Cabinet meeting, to make a ministerial state- men embodying the decisions of the Cabinet. [More…]
In fact, Parliament has the opportunity of debating every matter which takes the form of legislation. [More…]
I do not believe that the consideration of legislation is impeded by the public, including members of Parliament, having the amplest warning of the general tenor of it. [More…]
Many oil men put this down to the extremely low price which the Federal Power Commission allows people to charge. [More…]
The Minister claims in the first sentence of his second reading speech that it is the Government’s policy to maximise Australian ownership. [More…]
It would seem that so far in the life of this Government the effect of virtually every one of its actions has been to discourage investment by Australians in Australian mining and oil companies. [More…]
We shall have men of great ability on our pipeline authority. [More…]
We shall have men who are looking to the future far beyond when natural gas itself is available in Australia. [More…]
I know that members of the Opposition want to move amendments not only at the second reading stage. [More…]
Because of the all important legislation we want to put through this Parliament in the short time available to us, we on this side of the House have agreed to restrain ourselves in the things we would like to say. [More…]
I pay a tremendous tribute to the Minister for Minerals and Energy for the energy he has shown in bringing this Bill to the Parliament and getting so far as we have in such a short space of time. [More…]
One of the great men in our gas industry in Australia, Sir William Pettingell, has queried very strongly the reason why the Federal Government has taken over this pipeline. [More…]
It could not oppose the concept of a national pipeline system, but it had to drag in the usual set of shibboleths and the usual number of straw men to knock over. [More…]
The hard fact remains that only the national Government could conceive this measure; only the national Government could put it through; and only the national Government could act in the best interests of the people of Australia. [More…]
I am indebted to the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) for the comments that he made, because he, alone of the speakers for the Opposition, could adopt a truly national approach. [More…]
Basically the policy enunciated by the Government at this stage in this legislation is part of a 2-pronged attack on prices. [More…]
Firstly a Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prices has been established which will play an ombudsmantype role. [More…]
In other words, by exposing these practices the Committee will show the utter hypocrisy of the claims that were made by the previous Government over the years - and there are men sitting in the ranks of the Opposition who must have known how untrue those claims were - that the cause of price increases was purely that of rising wages. [More…]
The previous Government refused to realise that increases in wages and salaries were only a symptom of the base problem of inflation. [More…]
As the reader passes through the great amount of rigmarole of the Bill he comes to how the ‘men from the Tribunal’ are to operate. [More…]
Then there is a lag period of 21 days while the men from the Tribunal consider. [More…]
Coming back to the men from the Tribunal, they may agree or may further refer prices to an inquiry which has 3 months to reply. [More…]
For instance, I am told that there are 4,000 to 5,000 different lines in a typical major food retailing outlet, and in a large department store there may be 50,000 or upwards. [More…]
They are subject to daily market price fluctuation, even to the large buyers, and it is hardly practicable for stockpiles of perishable foods to wait up to 21 days for decision by the men from the Tribunal. [More…]
Just as yesterday we experienced within this House the Federal Labor Government proposing a measure of great national importance, namely, the Pipeline Authority Bill, and finding it opposed by the Liberal-Country Party Opposition in this place - true successors to those narrow men who opposed 25 years ago the great national Snowy Mountains scheme- [More…]
They have been mentioned earlier in this debate. [More…]
Is it not possible to arrive at some sort of sensible agreement with the States? [More…]
I do not believe that all the brains of this country are concentrated in this Parliament. [More…]
I believe that there are men of high integrity and great national loyalty in our State Parliaments who will stand comparison with the members of this Parliament. [More…]
I suggest that we do not get a body of people such as the whole of a government of a State and say that they are not prepared to look at anything from a national point of view. [More…]
Even in this Parliament we have had one ex-Prime Minister taking one point of view and another ex-Prime Minister taking another point of view. [More…]
I respect the views of both of these men. [More…]
When this nation is involved in any conflict, men leave its shores and serve in its defence not in the spirit of being New South Welshmen, Victorians or Western Australians, but as Australians - one people, one nation, one destiny. [More…]
The Parliament will be glad, of course, to recall that my Government recently appointed Justice Evatt, a most outstanding woman in the. [More…]
This appointment was not simply a gesture to women. [More…]
We were able to appoint Justice Evatt to the position because she had better qualifications in our view than anybody else offering, men or women. [More…]
It was not an empty meaningless gesture to women but a recognition .aid acknowledgement of the tremendous capabilities and competence of a woman. [More…]
So far as is known there are no legislative and administrative instructions or official practices which discriminate in employment on the grounds of religion. [More…]
The Government will ensure that the national policy is observed by the vocational guidance, vocational training and placement services under its direction. [More…]
In the vocational training field I am advised that present practices are in accordance with the convention’s recommendations. [More…]
My Department is examining existing arrangements with a view to ensuring that all categories of persona have equal access to vocational guidance and receive equal treatment in this area. [More…]
Particular attention is being given to Aborigines and to women in this regard. [More…]
In the operations of the Commonwealth Employment Service, what is involved is drawing up guide lines to eliminate the discriminatory practices associated with notifying and filling job vacancies; for example, where employers specify that only men should be referred to fill vacancies which could be filled by women, or specify that they do not want Aborigines. [More…]
So if these men mean what they say -and one accepts that they do -they have no need to seek the additional powers sought in this Bill which could allow some future Labor government to go very much further than these 2 gentlemen propose going. [More…]
In this case the Government should have no difficulty in agreeing to the proposed amendments which will be brought up in this House by my colleague the honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) and in the Senate and which will ensure that a future government will not go further than previous governments had proposed. [More…]
Who knows, we may have some of the wild men who come out of the West and seek to administer this Bill in a way that would bring fright to the Australian people. [More…]
That common bond covered a whole field of administrative detail and it was utter nonsense to maintain 2 organisations when a total marketing concept was forced on the industry in order to achieve the cost savings in the areas to which I referred a while ago and in the areas of objective measurement and changed selling techniques of which the honourable member for Eden-Monaro was a pioneer. [More…]
Regarding the appointment of those men, I can assure this House and the Australian people that at no time did I select persons for those positions other than because of their inherent qualifications for the tasks which they were required to fulfil. [More…]
These developments led to the present price averaging plan in which the Government pays a subsidy to offset selling brokers costs. [More…]
The Wool Board and the Wool Commission -the same men, different names - constantly have failed to deliver credible posicies.It became necessary for the previous Government to set up crash committees to save face -the Crawford Committee, the Objective Measurement Committee and the Randall Committee -each as a consequence of the failure of the Wool Corporation or the Wool Board or the Wool Commission to deliver the goods. [More…]
If so, were the men concerned the Director of the Commonwealth Radiation Laboratory, Mr D. J. Stevens, the Director of Meteorology, Dr W. J. Gibbs, and the Reader in Physics at Sydney University, Dr H. D. Ratbgeber; if not, who were they. [More…]
How many citizens are (a) men aged 65 years and over and(b) women aged 60 years and over. [More…]
Based on population projections by the Commonwealth Statistician it is estimated that in Australia at April 1973 there were 454,800 men aged 65 years and over and 888,700 women aged 60 years and over who were qualified by residence for an age pension. [More…]
I believe that nobody could seriously dispute the fact that to-day’s young men and women of 18, 19 and 20 are much more mature in every way than people of the same age were even 12 years ago when the present Marriage Act was passed. [More…]
Therefore, in Committee I shall move an amendment designed to place the widower with dependent children on the same footing as the widow with dependent children. [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…]
These are people whom we should be helping and whom I hope the Government will consider in accepting the amendment which I propose to move. [More…]
I believe that this proposal can work only with the utmost co-operation and goodwill of local government bodies, State governments and the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
We in the Australian Government have goodwill towards those other 2 tiers in our federal system. [More…]
We in the Australian Government seek the co-operation of all levels of government We must meet together as a team in the spirit of co-operative federalism, as a team of men and women of goodwill who are concerned to put this nation on the right tracks again. [More…]
I am sorry that this amendment cannot be accepted immediately. [More…]
The amount of money involved would not be substantial when considered in relation to the cost of the implementation of the proposals contained in the Bill which is before us at present. [More…]
Both classes of men deserve our very greatest sympathy. [More…]
I take it from his remarks earlier that that is in the Governments’ mind. [More…]
Once again it is not a case of my trying to remonstrate with the Government or anything of that character; it is a case of my believing that something should be done, and done quickly, for this class of person. [More…]
He went on and on and then they showed us a 10-minute film of the 3 men in the United States who started it all and even had ex-Vice President Humphrey on screen going mad about their product. [More…]
This is a clear case which, due to the inaction of the Government, should be referred forthwith to the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Prices for investigation and action. [More…]
Due to efficiency of operations and planning by practical men on the farmer organisations and not the theoreticians so ardently advocated by the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Whan), dispatch money on 4 cargoes of sorghum, due to the changing rates of exchange of the Australian dollar versus the American dollar, has fallen from $21,722 to $18,276. [More…]
We will not accept a government which seeks to avoid legitimate challenge and controversy. [More…]
I am very happy to join with the honourable member for Warringah (Mr MacKellar) tonight in making a special plea for a group of dedicated young men. [More…]
From time to lime a great deal is said about the shortcomings of the youth of this country, yet along the 20 miles or so of the coastline around Sydney every weekend hundreds of young men give unselfishly of their time in devotion to the cause of the protection of others. [More…]
These young men protect those who are participating in recreation and sport against the dangers of the surf. [More…]
Without these young men and their constant vigilance one could not estimate the number of lives that would possibly be lost through drowning, shark attack or other mishaps that can occur in the surf. [More…]
These young men patrol the beaches; they ensure good conduct in the water; they ensure the safety of our citizens. [More…]
Not only that, these men and youths assist in the development of still younger people - the children - in the sport of surfing, in the recreation of the surf and the beach, and also in the development of a spirit of service to other men and women. [More…]
What is of concern is the assistance they can expect from the Government. [More…]
One who preceded me as the member for Phillip, now Senator Joe Fitzgerald, first advocated Commonwealth Government assistance for the surf life saving movement in this country. [More…]
He succeeded in that the previous government started a form of aid which has been continued. [More…]
That aid, valuable though it is, is not sufficient for the purposes of the life saving movement. [More…]
In this country we have the greatest beaches in the world and we have the greatest band of men voluntarily giving their services every weekend. [More…]
They deserve the support of this Parliament. [More…]
Is it not true that if all men were to exercise that option the vessel would be unable to sail? [More…]
It is suggested that women work from the time they complete their formal education until the commencement of the family formation period. [More…]
They then withdraw from the work force for a period of up to 10 years before returning to some form of employment. [More…]
For a time the wage differential between rates of pay for men and women doing the same job was justified on the ground that the wage system was thus made sensitive to family size. [More…]
The task is to resolve how best to enable men and women to spread their income over their lives so as to give them the means of keeping the family when they need it. [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…]
The Government recognises that it has a role and responsibility, as Australia’s largest employer, in promoting the status of women. [More…]
The Government, therefore, is introducing the new benefits and leave entitlements in respect of its own female officers and employees - I suppose it is not necessary to say ‘female’ officers - to enable each person concerned to fulfil the role of mother and, if she wishes, to continue her career after the birth of her child. [More…]
The effect of this Bill will be to maintain the income of the female employees concerned during the period when they are on leave prior to and following confinement. [More…]
The Bill will also help women endeavouring to pursue their careers on the same terms as men. [More…]
As you are well aware, Sir, your predecessor in that chair when he was the honourable member for Phillip also played a great part in obtaining some financial support from the Government for these bodies. [More…]
As was pointed out last night the movement is well known throughout the world. [More…]
First of all, there is the effect on the young men who give up so much time and effort throughout the year to remain on duty and to safeguard the lives of . [More…]
But the unfortunate thing about this is that the cost of their equipment is continually rising. [More…]
Nowadays, for the purpose of saving the lives of many citizens who use the beaches life saving clubs have to buy sophisticated equipment, the cost of which goes up year by year. [More…]
I point out that it is not only the people in the immediate vicinity such as the business peop’e and other private donors who contribute to the movement who benefit but also the whole of Sydney benefits, because a great proportion of the 3 million people who live in Sydney use the beaches from time to time. [More…]
An undue burden is being thrown not only on these young men but also upon the people who support them in raising the funds and who generally help them. [More…]
The community, through the Commonwealth, should be called upon to give this movement adequate support. [More…]
At the moment it is short of funds, lt is struggling and facing great difficulties. [More…]
I, like my colleagues in this House, feel that the movement should be supported to a greater extent, particularly as we now have a Minister whose responsibility is directed towards this aspect and who, as I say, has one hand in the till. [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…]
Those of us who have had any association with beaches appreciate the tremendous contribution that the young men who are a part of the surf club movement make to the safety of our beaches. [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…]
For that reason, I believe that any encouragement which can be given to them by the State and Commonwealth governments, particularly the Commonwealth Government in view of the vast resources it has at its disposal, would be most welcome, would be appreciated and would be of tremendous value. [More…]
The emphasis will be on putting top quality men into blue ribbon seats, some of which are currently occupied by members who are too old, or too ineffective. [More…]
In future, only top quality men will get the selection. [More…]
I have no doubt that is his definition of ‘top quality men’. [More…]
One difficulty in getting the top men required is, that they would, in some cases, have to make a financial sacrifice to go into politics. [More…]
There is serious discussion about ways in which parliamentary salary, could be supplemented by the party in such cases. [More…]
Does he agree that if options are given it is a breach of the fundamental obligations of servicemen entered into on recruitment? [More…]
Finally, is not the Government itself therefore responsible for inciting men to break these service obligations, thereby destroying the effectiveness of the armed forces? [More…]
Perhaps the House might pardon me if I supplement my answer to the question asked by the honourable member for Wimmera and also reply to the question put to me by my colleague, the honourable member for Hunter. [More…]
I do not believe that there would be any question of requiring any additional crew members, but in view of the fact that there has appeared a statement in the Press this morning which indicated that 12 crew members had sought to opt out under the conditions which I have laid down, I think I should indicate to the honourable member for Wimmera that I have had inquiries made since the report appeared and it is true that there have been 11 applicants for review under these conditions. [More…]
It ought to be, and I am sure it is, understood by honourable members that in these circumstances applications will be made, as they have been made on other occasions by servicemen to opt out of an exercise, and these crew members are exercising their normal rights. [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…]
It is a great pity that men in high places in this country denigrate the wonderful work and the activities of our building societies. [More…]
In terms of land usage and capital investment this is a common-sense solution and would at least ensure a better spread of facility however thin this may be den compared with what is provided In men socially concerned countries. [More…]
Any contribution due under a compulsory social Insurance scheme providing maternity benefits and tax based upon payrolls which is raised for the purpose of providing such benefits shall, whether paid both by the employer and the employees or by the employer, be paid in respect of the total number of men and women employed by the undertakings concerned, without distinction of sex. [More…]
This provision is designed to ensure that a maternity protection scheme should not make the employment of females more expensive for the employer than the employment of males, so giving cause for discrimination against female labour. [More…]
The Convention further provides that any contributions to a social insurance scheme or any special tax imposed to raise funds must be raised in respect of the total number of men and women employed by the undertakings concerned without distinctions of sex. [More…]
The Convention is not restricted in its application to women in government employment. [More…]
The Convention does entail the establishment of social security schemes financed in a prescribed manner. [More…]
It is demonstrable that women today are still subject to very considerable prejudices. [More…]
The 3 principal influences which have shaped Western society - Greek philosophy, Roman law and Judao-Christian theology - have each held almost axiomatically that women are inferior to men. [More…]
But we know now that, aside from physical differences, there has been no scientific proof of differences, either psychlogical or intellectual, in the genetic inheritance of men and women. [More…]
Yet women’s child bearing functions undoubtedly have served as the basis of restrictions and discrimination. [More…]
The Australian Country Party supports the proposal as it is now expressed and it compliments the Government on bringing down changes which the Country Party believes are very much m the interests not only of those who have served and who are serving in this place but also of those who one might hope can be encouraged to serve in the future. [More…]
The standard of debate and the standard of administration depend significantly on the ability of Parliament to attract men and women who are prepared to forsake whatever their normal way of life might be for the uncertainties that this task places upon them. [More…]
One of the important aspects is the position that one’s dependants might be in if one were to suffer premature illness or, either by way of accident or ill health, to die at a time when one was still exercising one’s parliamentary role. [More…]
This Bill makes a significant range of concessions which are meaningful for past, present and future parliamentarians and in my opinion will help towards encouraging the right sort of men and women to stand for political office in the future. [More…]
It depends what the word ‘senators’ means in the Constitution, whether it means the men who will be appointed under this legislation will be senators or not. [More…]
Nothing which can be put in an Act of this Parliament will change the wording of the Constitution. [More…]
The Constitution can be changed only by amending it. [More…]
That is an example of what happens with this centralist socialist Government. [More…]
No one mentioned anything to the people in the Northern Territory at all. [More…]
Despite the fact that I am for Senate representation for the Northern Territory, this Government has shown all along the line in the very short time that it has been in office that it is not really interested in the Northern Territory or the people who live there. [More…]
The functions which previously were carried out in the Northern Territory have been shifted to various southern based Minitries operated by men who, despite their qualifications, would have little knowledge of and little interest in the Northern Territory itself. [More…]
We have heard that the control of the Northern Territory police is to be removed from the Northern Territory Administration and placed under the auspices of the Attorney-General’s Department in Canberra. [More…]
We think that the Government should be pursuing a course which is aimed at giving the Northern Territory greater autonomy as it moves towards statehood. [More…]
This is the underlying thought behind the amendment. [More…]
We believe that the Government, in introducing a different class of representative, is doing a disservice to something which I have supported and which the people of the Northern Territory would welcome, that is, further representation. [More…]
I am sure that they would like to see these men treated the same way as State senators are treated. [More…]
Therefore I urge that my amendment be considered and passed. [More…]
I understand that in the Association of Consulting Engineers there are between 4,000 and 5,000 engineers, and all told there are between 10,000 and 12,000 men in that organisation. [More…]
In 1970 the Snowy Mountains Hydroelectric Authority employed some 3,000 men and was geared to the super-vision of approximately $40m worth of work a year. [More…]
The action of the previous Government to subsequently limit the operations of the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation and to arrange a specific list of matters was not taken out of political malice. [More…]
If the Government wishes to expand the scope of the organisation it should make clear how it is to meet the 5 criteria I have listed, and what duties it envisages the organisation performing. [More…]
The lack of a statutory organisation of this nature in the past has not prevented massive development work being carried out in Australia. [More…]
lt has not prevented the rapid mineral development of this nation and the exploration and exploitation of previously untapped energy resources. [More…]
We should consider when looking at this Bill that we are virtually considering the status and the remuneration of those men who are virtually in charge of the democratic concept in this country. [More…]
These are the men who supervise the elections. [More…]
True it is that this Bill virtually takes the Commonwealth electoral officers outside the purview of the Public Service Act or the jurisdiction of the Public Service Board and brings them, as the right honourable member for Lowe has said, under the direct control of this Parliament - a place where they should be. [More…]
The Labor Government undertook on election to abolish conscription forthwith. [More…]
It promised that there would be no further call-up of young men for national service in the Army under the National Service Act and all pending prosecutions would be discontinued. [More…]
I approved the cancellation of call-up of some 2,200 men who had been medically examined and passed fit for service and were due to be called up at the end of January 1973. [More…]
In accordance with the powers vested in the Minister under the Act to grant deferment to classes of persons liable to render service under the Act, I deferred indefinitely the liability of all men who had not as at that date been enlisted for service in the Army. [More…]
This affected the 2,200 men I have already mentioned, and another 30,000 men who subject to their fitness for service would have been included in future Army intakes. [More…]
There were also some 8,000 men already serving in the Citizen Forces as an alternative to full time national service in the Army. [More…]
As Minister I also confirmed arrangements which the Department of Labour and National Service had brought into effect on the Monday morning following the election. [More…]
Besides taking no further action regarding the call-up and registration scheduled for January 1973, and in respect of prosecution, these arrangements provided that all national service medical examinations were to be cancelled forthwith, no further steps were to be taken to detect men who had defaulted in their obligations under the National Service Act, all investigations into apparent defaults were to be discontinued, and no warrants for apprehension of persons for breaches of the National Service Act or for non-payment of fines under the Act were to be executed, and the restriction requiring persons with a national service liability to obtain permission to leave Australia was waived. [More…]
Conscription should not, moreover, be capable of reintroduction without the express need for legislation to be brought before, and passed by, this Parliament. [More…]
The Government has decided that legislative effect should be given to the decision to abolish conscription which I as Minister took administratively. [More…]
It legally terminates as from 5 December 1972 the liability of men to register for national service, whether it be full time or part time service on the Reserve - or in the CMF - on completion of the full time service. [More…]
The date on which the new Government came into office was 5 December and I, as the Acting Minister for Labour and National Service, approved administrative action to end all call-up for national service. [More…]
The Government has not repealed the National Service Act primarily because it wishes to ensure preservation of the rights of those men who were serving at the date the Government assumed office, including those who have elected to continue their service under the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
The men thus remain eligible for reinstatement in civil employment and for their reestablishment benefits. [More…]
It is nonetheless the Government’s intention to repeal the National Service Act just as soon as possible after all men have ceased to serve in the Army under the Act. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
The experience of the Canadians and Americans whose officers had a right to retirement after 20 years’ service - though in their case service commences at the age of 20 - was that they had a high attrition rate among officers at that point. [More…]
The Jess Committee therefore recommended that there should be some penalty for the voluntary retirement of officers before they reached the retiring age for rank which in the case of, say, a lieutenant-commander in the Navy is 45 years. [More…]
The Jess Committee recommended that the pension entitlement should be reduced by 5 per cent for every year at which an officer voluntarily retired before the laid down retiring age. [More…]
I must admit that this caused some concern in the Services largely because the men misunderstood what the 5 per cent was to apply to. [More…]
They thought it was an absolute 5 per cent reduction when, in fact, it was only 5 per cent of entitlement. [More…]
What the Government has done is to introduce a notional retiring age of 5 years less than the ordinary laid down retiring age and to reduce the penalty to 3 per cent. [More…]
I fear it may well be a very severe attrition of officers in their late 30s and early 40s, who will take their defence forces retirement benefit entitlement and establish themselves in new careers. [More…]
Surely it is not the purpose of a defence forces retirement benefits scheme to encourage early retirement. [More…]
The Labor Government has found also that it must find a substitute for national service training to encourage people to join the Army, in order to have a reasonable number of people in the armed Services. [More…]
However, the Labor Party was influenced by the strong ‘peace’ proponents and ideologists within the Labor Party’s ranks, both inside and outside the Parliament. [More…]
It is a shame that the Labor Party gives no recognition to the fact that since 1965 national service training has provided Australia with more than 40,000 men trained in various military areas. [More…]
It has helped many young men in many ways and it has helped Australia. [More…]
Personally I would not seek to retain national service military training, but it certainly seemed to me from my contacts with national servicemen that a vast majority of them approved of the scheme. [More…]
Of course another problem was that in the earlier scheme promotion shortly before retirement led to vast increases in contributions. [More…]
We were particularly fortunate in having available to us in the Government at that time people of the calibre of John Jess. [More…]
We were also extremely lucky to have the services of 2 other men. [More…]
The defence forces retirement benefits scheme is important to my area because there is within the electorate of Darling Downs the $10m Army aviation complex at Oakey, the 7SD at Hamilton in Toowoomba and the Army establishment at Cabarlah outside Toowoomba. [More…]
I am concerned that these men and their dependants should have a retirement scheme equal to and as generous as that which they could obtain as an employee of the Commonwealth Public Service or if they were employed in private enterprise. [More…]
I support any benefits scheme that will allow these people on retirement to remain part of the community; which will provide to them allowances which will allow them to continue to live where they are happy, and I support the provisions of the legislation in which the commutation provisions will, if they wish to take this step, allow them and their families to start a new career or business enterprise. [More…]
It was expected that the new legislation would iron out the anomalies in the previous schemes that were causing discontent among the servicemen. [More…]
The men involved were unable to work out what their entitlements were. [More…]
These men are still disillusioned because the old scheme has been carried on concurrently with the new one. [More…]
The servicemen concerned - and there are thousands of them - who contributed under the old scheme have to remain for years to come under the provisions of the old scheme. [More…]
At least some elements have been spelt out. [More…]
But in view of the generous compensation that is being paid to widows of Commonwealth employees, I would hope that the Government will give consideration to the widows pension and invalid pension of the same magnitude. [More…]
We want competent men; men who understand and men who appreciate the great difficulties while retaining a sense of justice. [More…]
We heard in a statement on defence this afternoon by the Minister [More…]
We heard the Minister state that h<* will endeavour to increase the strength of the Army to 34,000 men by 1974 even though the President of the Returned Services League in Queensland suggests that we should have an Army of 41,000. [More…]
I would suggest to the Minister, notwithstanding his great anticipation that he would fulfil the recruitment target by June of this year, that one of the best methods of attracting the young men of Australia into the various arms of the defence forces is to have an adequate defence forces retirement benefits fund. [More…]
I think they are very faceless men who sometimes try to think they are a window on the world. [More…]
It is to be condemned in this case because it is not an adjustment that resulted from an unexpected court interpretation nor a reinforcement of existing tests. [More…]
I do not think that this provision will be readily translatable because many experienced professional men have gone to the Press and have spoken to me about their differences as to the extent of this retrospectivity. [More…]
Tenders have already been called for the supply of the necessary pipeline gate valves, and the continued employment of 600 men in foundries at Melbourne and Ballarat are dependent on the allocation of the contract to them. [More…]
The reasons for this concern include not only the headlong nature of the rush to reach Peking but also the recognition of Hanoi while the ink on the agreement for a cease-fire was hardly dry. [More…]
It includes also the invitation to the Vietcong to visit Australia and their entertainment here by senior members of the Government. [More…]
They are, after all, a body dedicated to the overthrow of a friendly government of a country with which we have diplomatic relations and beside whose people our men have recently been fighting. [More…]
The eagerness to carry Australia into the so-called Third World, so often expressed if somewhat moderated in the Prime Minister’s statement, has added to the uncertainty of our neighbours about Australia. [More…]
Of course, our growing economic strength and standing in international affairs under the previous Government contributed to the importance of our voice in international affairs. [More…]
We were invited to join the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]
Japan, for example, regards us as an attractive source and supplier of its iron ore requirements and it does so for 3 reasons. [More…]
If the offering or withholding of iron ore is to be dictated on political and not on economic grounds the third element which has contributed to our position favourably - that is, confidence in our political responsibility - will disappear. [More…]
One result may be that by mixing politics with economics we finish up damaging our industries, discouraging investment of capital and effort, putting men out of work and slowing down our development. [More…]
Mr Speaker, 1 have touched on a number of matters which my Government has achieved since we came to office. [More…]
Mostly I have dealt with the evidence of our solid achievements in many fields which has been placed before this Parliament. [More…]
The achievement of this program of reform, upon which we embarked last December, would not have been possible without the counsel and co-operation of the men and women who comprise the Australian Public Service. [More…]
We have had the benefit of professional and impartial assistance from the Civil Service directed to the speedy achievement of our policy objectives. [More…]
Therefore, Sir, this catalogue of my Government’s achievements is in part a tribute to the professionalism, integrity and industry of the Australian Civil Service. [More…]
While we were sitting here listening to this remarkable speech we thought of the hypocrisies that are normally delivered at the end of the year and we decided that all that has happened is that the Leader of the Government has advanced Christmas by 6 months. [More…]
The Prime Minister commenced in office by setting the most dangerous precedent to parliamentary democracy that we have ever seen in this country - a government of 2 men. [More…]
We live in closer contact today with our fellow men than ever before. [More…]
The Liberal Party Government made Australia one of the world’s leading aid donors with virtually all aid given as grants. [More…]
It should be provided in response to the needs of our fellow men in a humanitarian spirit. [More…]
We will continue to work, as we did in government, to strengthen the United Nations as a body to alleviate the suffering of all peoples and to maintain the peace and stability of our international community. [More…]
It may be as well for the House to know that one of these men was involved in a public company scandal as a director of Testro Bros International Pty Ltd in Victoria some years ago. [More…]
523 (Hansard, 22 May 1973, page 2470), what percentage of the 454,800 men, aged 65 years and over, are in receipt of social service pensions. [More…]
and (2) At April 1973 approximately 61 per cent of men aged 65 years and over and approximately 74 per cent of women aged 60 years and over who were qualified by residence for an age pension were in receipt of a pension from the Department of Social Security. [More…]
Approximately a further 10 per cent of the men were in receipt of a service pension from the Repatriation Department. [More…]
Upon what passports do these men travel. [More…]
How many (a) indigenous men, (b) expatriate men, (c) indigenous women and (d) expatriate women are (i) sponsored by his Department at each tertiary institution in Papua New Guinea and (ii) assisted to attend tertiary institutions in Australia. [More…]
The Commonwealth Practical Training Scheme was established by the Australian Government in March 1970 to enable Papua New Guinean men and women to develop their skills and so advance more rapidly to positions of greater responsibility. [More…]
His departure from the Parliament really finished an era of great members of Parliament, such as Curtin, Chifley, Evatt and Wardmembers who carried great responsibilities as Ministers of the Crown during the war years. [More…]
We regard him as one of those men who did a wonderful job for Australia. [More…]
His post-war achievement was marked by the commencement of an immigration scheme which I believe will immortalise him. [More…]
I liked the remark he made when he was leaving this Parliament. [More…]
Neither capitalism nor communism can provide a society which will respect and safeguard the dignity of all men and women and their deepest needs as human beings, a society which will protect the interests of all. [More…]
Arthur had come to the conference to assist the Victorian delegation, a delegation of earnest and in the main elderly men who were dedicated Labor men steeped in the tradition of our Party. [More…]
There were 2 men who were extremely kind to me when I was first elected to this House. [More…]
I noted at his funeral that the mortal remains of both those men rest within a few feet of one another. [More…]
He loved to debunk men in this friendly fashion, using the pages of Hansard. [More…]
There was, however, no accident or mystery in the fact that he was the longest serving Minister for Repatriation and, apart from his Pnme Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, the longest serving Minister in any single portfolio in the history of the Parliament. [More…]
He brought to that particular Ministry a wealth of experience and personal knowledge of the problems of repatriation and rehabilitation, and a particular sensitivity to the needs of returned men and their families. [More…]
He established a special relationship between the Department and the Service organisations which remains and will remain a feature of the Australian repatriation system. [More…]
We all know that the Army and the Department of Defence have advocated an army of 38,000 men. [More…]
If the Government were prepared to accept the recommendations of its defence advisers it would at the very least be accepting every recruit that comes forward. [More…]
These sorts of considerations lead me to believe that the motivation of the Government is highly suspect and that it is not really interested in the welfare of servicemen at all. [More…]
The Labor Government believes that those fine Australians who choose to serve this nation through a service career should be treated no less generously than were national servicemen who were given no choice by the previous Government. [More…]
Prior to that time we were told by the Opposition that as national service would be abolished under a Labor Government there would be insufficient recruits for the Australian Regular Army. [More…]
Of course now we have the shadow Minister for Defence talking about the fact that the Government has the luxury of more recruits offering for the Australian Regular Army than are actually needed. [More…]
The number of recruits offering has exceeded the Government’s best expectations and this is at a time of near full employment. [More…]
We are able to select the best of the young men and women available with all that this means to the Army and the quality of its serving personnel and the fact that it no longer has within its numbers those national servicemen who did not choose to serve, is, of course, another factor which will improve its morale and standard of service. [More…]
The Government has appointed an inquiry into the CMF and while we anticipate that many benefits will follow that inquiry it will be some time before the CMF recovers from the effect of national service. [More…]
I think that we all recall the earlier days when serving in the CMF was an honoured occupation and many fine men chose to serve as officers and as other ranks in that body. [More…]
National service had an extremely harmful effect on the CMF in the sense that many young men who did not wish to have their lives interrupted by undertaking national service opted to go into the CMF. [More…]
This Government does not pretend that these disabilities can be overcome in a day, in a year or in a short term. [More…]
The men who now join the CMF again now do so from a desire to serve their country and not to evade national service. [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…]
I will not say much by way of explanation of the benefits to be conferred on servicemen because the second reading speech of the Minister for the Army (Mr Barnard) made these clear and straight forward. [More…]
During the recess I was privileged to engage in a tour of Service establishments with my colleagues on the Government’s Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee. [More…]
We saw training establishments for the Army and the Royal Australian Air Force, and active bases of the 3 Services. [More…]
We were impressed by the dedication exhibited by officers and men and, where equipment was up to date, a large measure of job satisfaction. [More…]
However, I was concerned by some of the problems posed by condi- tions of service, particularlywith regard to amenities such as housing. [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…]
Married men and their wives and children face disadvantages with respect to housing, education and shifting of postings. [More…]
The disadvantages faced by servicemen and their families are not widely enough appreciated. [More…]
As the benefits to be made available were already allowed for national servicemen it seems to me that in some ways this Bill merely corrects an anomalous situation. [More…]
It has certainly been so regarded by many servicemen in my electorate of Macarthur. [More…]
In the Minister’s second reading speech mention was made of the $1,000 re-engagement bounty. [More…]
This matter was largely covered by regulation, and there has been some dissension among members of the Navy as the bounty is available to them after 6 years with subsequent re-engagement being for 6 years, whereas the reengagement period for the Army is only 3 years. [More…]
As the re-engagement bounty is a once only payment, there seems to be no way of avoiding this situation. [More…]
One advanced policy enunciated in the Minister’s second reading speech concerned war service homes benefits for men who were continuing in service, given that they were committed to serving beyond 3 years initial service. [More…]
Although the $6,000 for agricultural loans and $3,000 for business loans will not enable men to buy a farm or business, these loans certainly will be of value in buying into existing operations and, again, could provide some compensationnot a bribe- for any disadvantage servicemen may suffer during their period of service. [More…]
Provisions in this Bill delete means test provisions for regular servicemen where the Social Services Act 1947-1973 already applies to national servicemen under the existing Defence Re-establishment Act. [More…]
Although the means test provision of the Social Services Act will still apply to former national servicemen, pursuant to Part V of the Defence Re-establishment Act, it is not considered that this will disadvantage former national servicemen in practice. [More…]
In the first place, the few persons eligible for benefits under Part V and Part V/A of the Defence Re-establishment Act will almost invariably be eligible for invalid benefits available under other legislation anyway. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
Has the Department of Defence prepared adequate contingency plans to be ready to deploy forces in the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, New Britain or Bougainville if any rebellion breaks out there after independence and proves too strong for the authorities at Port Moresby to deal with? [More…]
Are there still enough men left in our shrunken, depleted and harassed Army to cope with the situation? [More…]
If arrangements are made in respect to debates they will be honoured by this side of the Parliament. [More…]
If arrangements are made for speakers on any matters they will be honoured. [More…]
But I cannot give any assurance that 2 spokesmen will be allowed to speak on every issue that comes before the Parliament. [More…]
I suggest to the Opposition Parties that they should prevent time wasting like this by having some harmony and a bit of unity on that side of the Parliament. [More…]
They should not expect us on this side of the House to put up with 2 men fighting openly and holding up the Parliament when no arrangements were made or broken. [More…]
This has led to a planned increase in the field force of about 2,000 men this year with a corresponding reduction in the support area component. [More…]
This increase will enhance our capability to provide effective ground forces should any low level situation arise to which the Government may decide it is necessary to respond; and it will provide a sound basis for expansion should our strategic circumstances change. [More…]
As part of ground force maritime support, the acquisition of 8 heavy landing craft will provide the capability to transport men and material in coastal movement. [More…]
Air transport support of the ground forces will be provided by 2 squadrons each of Hercules and Caribou aircraft and utility helicopters now in service, shortly to be complemented by the additional capability provided by medium lift helicopters. [More…]
There are a number of armoured vehicle proposals now being studied including the replacement of the Centurion medium tank and the acquisition of fire support vehicles and bridging equipment. [More…]
These and other proposals will be submitted to the Government for decision at the appropriate time. [More…]
The honourable member said that the Opposition wants more time for debate; yet the Opposition has moved an amendment seeking to reduce by an hour and a half the time we have allowed for debate. [More…]
He said that it would upset the whole Parliament; yet he is supporting an amendment that reduces the sitting time by an hour and a half and he is going to vote for everything he says is monstrous. [More…]
Fancy talking about their record of open government. [More…]
This is the record of those men who tell us they want freedom of speech. [More…]
It is inevitable that we will not be able to continue with the sittings of our Parliament without some arrangements being made in an orderly way for the committees to function not only independently in their inquiries and all that goes with that but also at the same time for their deliberations and their decisions to be presented to this Parliament in a way that will provide for better debate and speed up the practice and all that goes with it. [More…]
It was mentioned even in a debate earlier tonight that members were finding it exceedingly difficult to attend committee meetings because of the sittings of the Parliament. [More…]
As I have mentioned, there are numerous committees. [More…]
But there is nothing more annoying or distracting than when in the middle of hearing a witness in a committee a quorum of one of the Houses of Parliament is called or there is a division or something of that nature. [More…]
Some arrangements should be made amongst responsible men for the committees to function without interruptions. [More…]
In 1961, when the United Kingdom sought to join the European Economic Community it was a move which I must confess - I suppose the national Parliament should not be despised as being a confessional box - was the end of what I regarded and held deeply as all prospect of the Commonwealth emerging as a third world force - something to fit in those days between the messianic mood of Moscow and what I might without offence describe as the egregiousness of Washington. [More…]
But at times we all are victims of dreams and of hopes, and if men ever get to the stage where they are not to be inspired by hope or not to be persuaded by dreams, we will live in a pretty desperate and dull world. [More…]
The surf life saving movement in Australia is constituted by a dedicated band of young men who devote their time and energy to a noble community service. [More…]
In that very negative statement a very positive ideal is expressed. [More…]
It is a positive achievement beyond the expectation of most. [More…]
These young men give up their time free of charge. [More…]
This is $100,000 more than was allocated previously and it is a real incentive to these young men who have to beg for the provision of facilities by which they save lives. [More…]
This Government has now brought forward a plan whereby dollar for dollar will be matched on the basis of $100,000 being made available for this noble work. [More…]
Australia is the last developed country in the world to accept the reseponsibility for encouragement of proper use of leisure time. [More…]
The performing arts were given real encouragement in the Budget introduced last night, but sport has not been neglected on this occasion and there is real encouragement. [More…]
I hope and believe that this Government recognises that our youth needs encouragement. [More…]
The establishment knocks the youth of this country. [More…]
They are ridiculed because of their hair styles and their mode of dress, but under the long hair, under the unconventional style of dress there are very fine young men, the young men who will develop this country and make it a better place to live in. [More…]
What we need to do in this Parliament is to recognise that and to recognise that they need encouragement and assistance to cope with the strains that we have developed for them. [More…]
These are the guilty men. [More…]
This campaign of ridicule - it is occurring now - is one of the matters on which the Government has a guilt towards the’ whole Australian population. [More…]
It was quite clear from the witnesses who appeared before us that the Camp Hill site was regarded as the apex of the parliamentary triangle and was clearly preferred by the great majority of the very eminent and highly qualified professional men who gave evidence before the Committee. [More…]
I merely say that the tremendous weight of evidence was in favour of building the permanent parliament house on Camp Hill. [More…]
Camp Hill has the advantage of the symbolism of association and yet at the same time it is sufficiently prominent to provide a site for the major building in the national capital which, of course, is and always will be the Parliament building, because that is why Canberra exists. [More…]
Firstly, he mentioned loan funds. [More…]
Honourable men: ben will know that in the Budget the sum of $60m is mentioned for loan funds to be given to the States to allow them to do work in urban and regional development. [More…]
These mean nothing to the Administration now in power because apparently on this question and in so many of the other basic areas that concern the interests of the men and women on the land it is prepared to cause those electors and those persons to be stabbed in the back because of the wanton disregard by the ALP in this House of the real needs of the people on the land. [More…]
For once he is on the side of the angels instead of the men of yesterday. [More…]
The Commission now consists of 4 extremely able men. [More…]
Although I did not appoint Mr Boswell as chairman, I appointed him at an earlier stage when he was Secretary of the Department of National Development. [More…]
It is quite evident from the facts that I have given this afternoon that there is a wide difference of opinion between these 3 top men in the Cabinet, but there should be no difference in opinion as to the benefit to Australia by continuing the export incentive scheme. [More…]
This misleading campaign of hate carried out by individuals who spread fear and distrust was waged in vain and this Budget throws back to them the attempts they made to besmirch the character of Labor men and the good intentions of a Labor Government. [More…]
This was after consideration of the matter by an inter-departmental committee consisting of representatives of the Departments of Defence, Treasury, Works and the Services. [More…]
In the past, planning was on the basis of 80 square feet per man with four men to a room. [More…]
The Government will be happy to take a vote on this Bill today. [More…]
There are, I hear, 2 men under sentence of death in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It is, however, not appropriate any longer in our country that the execution by this means of court sentences should depend upon the caprice or principle of a government. [More…]
Mr Bull who even now is only 25 years old, resigned within a year both as Chairman and as a management committee member and has left Lake Tyers for a job at Longford. [More…]
Not one of these men is a ‘nohoper’ but each in turn has been landed with the responsibility for an undertaking which had failure built in at the outset, and each in his own way and in his own turn has broken under the burden of that responsibility. [More…]
Early this year men with a semi-trailer stole more than 100 new-born lambs from the Lake Tyers paddocks. [More…]
These are the real things in relation to building national unity which I have been concerned enough to mention. [More…]
(Quorum formed) The reason is that we have been ruled for too long by little men dedicated to yesterday. [More…]
That was the reply I gave to the young women concerned. [More…]
Let me refer to the policies of the Government revealed by this destructive and irresponsible Budget which attempts to reduce country people to third class citizens. [More…]
The Budget is irresponsible because one great economic truth has been ignored by the Prime Minister and his henchmen - that is the economy in total, the prosperity of all Australians, and the interdependability of rural and urban Australians. [More…]
The country men produce and support the major earning power of this country and millions of city dwellers provide the domestic consumption. [More…]
Here is what the Government has done to destroy the quality of life of country people, and this is anything but a complete list: It has abolished support for petroleum product costs in country areas; it has increased postal rates on newspapers and periodicals; it has increased telephone rentals in country areas and telecommunication charges to the media. [More…]
One would almost suspect that the Government was trying to stifle the voice of our mini-media in country areas, but that would be unjust. [More…]
The Government has imposed charges on meat exports and seeks to recover the full cost of eradicating bovine brucellosis and tuberculosis. [More…]
These honey mouthed deceivers opposite have hit the workers, the pensioners, the small contractors and business men, the small farmers and graziers. [More…]
Tomorrow I will be distributing to all honourable members of this Parliament an article reprinted from the ‘Sunraysia Daily’ and written by its editor, Mr George Tilley. [More…]
A small but enthusiastic group of men is now working to promote this proposal which could be Australia’s highway to the future. [More…]
The idea is one that could open up an enormous area for development, tourism, transport and defence, but it has to have the backing of governments if it is to succeed. [More…]
The small businesses will be sacrificed on the altar of socialistic power by men displaying Stalinist ruthlessness. [More…]
It is interesting that newspapers which have sent men to discuss this matter with the officers who compiled the index for each school have been satisfied on that score. [More…]
In 1934, the Bruce Government introduced an amendment to provide that the Minister could not appoint an arbitration inspector from within the Public Service. [More…]
I believe that the 1934 amendment was too restrictive and that the present situation should be made clearer than it is. [More…]
It should be possible to draw on the Third Division of the Public Service as well as on men of extraordinarily good talent and experience outside the Service. [More…]
Provision will be made that where the Australian Government intends to intervene in any matter before the Commission or Court, the Minister for Labour shall be responsible for the intervention, rather than the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) as at present. [More…]
The first one is that the Commission right at the outset said that it will wait before making any recommendations to the Government - and the Government has accepted this - after it has received the many reports and evaluation statements about homeless men and women, national superannuation plans and so on. [More…]
This is a responsible recommendation and it is the action of a responsible Government in accepting it. [More…]
I commend the Government for it. [More…]
It seems that to local councils and do-gooders in the community recreation for youth is often translated as building better sports stadia and beautiful playing fields so that the strong, decent young men in the community can play cricket and football. [More…]
But what of the kid who is a dropout, who wears no shoes, long hair, T-shirt and jeans and who despises the establishment? [More…]
I would hope that the Commission would get under and look at the kid who feels disadvantaged, who feels outside society, and recommend to the Minister for Tourism and Recreation the kind of recreational activities that are realistic for such a kid. [More…]
I fear that this Government is putting this country into the situation it was in when I was of military age, which is a long time ago, and I, along with many other young men, went to Papua New Guinea, some without equipment or with equipment which was very very old. [More…]
I suggest that the way this Government is heading, in scrapping defence and putting emphasis on welfare, we will see the day when we will be as ill-prepared to defend ourselves or to honour our commitments as we were in 1939. [More…]
The country at large knows about the shortage of carpenters, bricklayers and other tradesmen. [More…]
We will have to organise a program, again related to our targeting, to ensure that there is a flow of young men into the building industry. [More…]
There is a lot to be said for having young men do a technical training course of perhaps 6 months and after that work as an apprentice in a block system, perhaps apprenticed to the Master Builders Association. [More…]
The Treasurer hinted at such a move in a recent television interview when he said that, because the Prime Minister had indicated that during the first year of the Labor Government he did not propose to increase the income tax, he had ; not been able to do so. [More…]
The Prime Minister did not use the ‘during the first year of the Labor Government’ part of the statement. [More…]
We cannot ignore the impact of the recommendations in the Coombs ‘search and destroy’ mission. [More…]
Lastly, as we know from past experience, the Labor Party has an emotional attachment to direct controls. [More…]
Of this we can be certain: As Labor pursues its policies and impulses without thought of the consequences and the effects on the lives of individual men and women and on the productive development of this country, while Labor is in office we will be compelled to live under the continued threat of worse to come. [More…]
Throughout the poll, the negative response from women was stronger than from men, reflecting the influence of the rising cost of living and its sharper impact on the housewife. [More…]
The Prime Minister says that there were some difficulties between the Government and the Public Service and that all these difficulties could be attributed to some lack of understanding. [More…]
But what he really means is that the Public Service wanted to give direct, objective advice and the Government was not prepared to accept it because this was not the advice that it wanted to hear. [More…]
If the Public Service does what it is told and if it offers the advice that is wanted by the Government then the understanding will pursue. [More…]
We do not agree that this is the way for a government to govern a country. [More…]
It is very important that members of the Commonwealth Public Service serve Ministers fearlessly and are not subjected to being shunted off as special ambassadors to the International Labour Organisation or some other body in Europe as has happened to 2 men who were both first class public servants. [More…]
This action was a deliberate act of retribution by the Government to get rid of these men. [More…]
It introduces the first phase of the Government’s program to abolish the means test on age pensions. [More…]
It proposes complete abolition of the means test for residentially qualified men and women aged 75 or more. [More…]
It confirms the Government’s desire to see an entirely new approach to the question of cash payments. [More…]
It is the fourth Social Services Bill introduced by this Government since it assumed office just over 9 months ago. [More…]
He said he believed the men should have talked more about local issues. [More…]
It is very important that far greater emphasis be given today to the public sector to meet the need for schools, hospitals, local government works, roads and sewerage. [More…]
This uses up men and resources in a very crucial and important industry which, when it is working correctly, shows that the economy as a whole is working correctly. [More…]
It has always been said that the building industry is the yardstick of the economy as a whole and there is a great deal of truth in that statement. [More…]
This is the product of a Labor Government. [More…]
The Budget and the Government’s subsequent economic decisions have already caused the biggest shakeout on Australian stock exchanges for more than 12 years. [More…]
The people who are selling their shares are not the little men. [More…]
The people who are hurt by the shakeout that this Government has caused are the men and women who have turned to the stock exchange because of their past faith in the future of this country. [More…]
It will rob the school children of the nation of the real improvement in education that all would like to see and and that many have come to expect will be achieved by this Budget. [More…]
It will rob young men and women of their earnings and of the opportunity to establish homes of their own where reasonable standards of living and adequate opportunities can be provided for their children. [More…]
More will be taken by way of tax, compulsory levy and special purpose contribution to be spent, and sometimes misspent, by a big brother socialist government. [More…]
The people who will suffer are not the ones at whom the Government is aiming - the Pitt Street farmers or whatever they are. [More…]
The ones who will suffer are the men who work in the mines at Peko, Warrego and Frances Creek, to mention a few in my electorate. [More…]
They will have to pay more than 25 per cent more for their foodstuffs to be brought down the road because this Government is aiming at someone who lives in Sydney. [More…]
I do not know what the Government really thinks it is doing. [More…]
On top of this, the company, in the face of all the attacks through export controls and revaluations, was financing its exploration and development through the sale of gold. [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…]
These miners and transport men are the ones who will suffer. [More…]
This Government has decided to put out of business the biggest private enterprise in Alice Springs - Connair Pty Ltd. [More…]
The Government can do this by all means, but 120 or 130 people are involved in this enterprise. [More…]
They are all technical men. [More…]
I remember well the times when the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden), after the previous Government had announced details of pension increases in the budget, would describe the then Government as mean and miserable men. [More…]
But let us have a look at what his Government has done with pensions. [More…]
When I made the point last session that this $3 a year raise would never reach the desired percentage the Minister stated that if necessary the Government would make a special allowance available so pensions could reach the promised amount. [More…]
Recently he again made the statement that special consideration would be given to pensioners if the SI. [More…]
So I now say to the Minister that because the pension still remains well behind the promised 25 per cent of average weekly earnings, his Government is a collection of mean and miserable men. [More…]
I have great pleasure in supporting the amendment proposed by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden). [More…]
I was quite stunned by the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett), who accused this Government of parsimony and of being mean and miserable men. [More…]
The present Government has increased pensions by $3 a year. [More…]
We did not say at any stage that it would be done in the first 3 months, 6 months or 9 months of a Labor Government but in the first 3 years, and representing the largest pensioner electorate, I for one am convinced of the Government’s sincerity and that it will do just that. [More…]
Some years ago in England 2 young men were charged with murder. [More…]
It is also relevant that this debate takes place now when there are 2 men waiting capital sentence in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I cannot claim to have had the close association with the law that the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) has had but I can understand his wrestling with the problems involved and wrestling with his approach to consistency as to the value of life and the role of a government in upholding that value. [More…]
I do not believe that any of us is competent to make a judgment on an issue as critical as this. [More…]
It is true that, in the terms of the enforcement of the death penalty in the past, the Governor-General, in his Executive Council right, has been the person responsible for finally exercising the death penalty. [More…]
But we are here not to determine the fate of individual men or women; we are here to set the laws of this land. [More…]
Neither on moral nor on deterrent grounds have I any objection to the abolition of the death penalty for a range of offences which I see as the product of society and attitudes towards our fellow men. [More…]
I believe that there is a very real problem in our society which relates not only to the Bill that is before us and the enforcement of the death penalty but also to the enforcement of the law itself, the respect for the law, the nature of our penal institutions and the way by which, in a society where licentiousness generally is extending, there can be bred in the hearts and minds of the citizens of this world - not just of Australia - a respect for the rule of law. [More…]
Indeed, if one has a look at other countries - there has been a recitation in the debate tonight of a range of countries that have already abolished the death penalty - it can be seen, for example, that there has been no lessening of activities such as those of the Black September Movement because of the abolition of the death penalty. [More…]
I have been interested in the Black September Movement. [More…]
From my own knowledge, even in my own area young men - farmers’ sons and new growers - have established acreages of wheat and have no quotas for them. [More…]
The matter has been timely raised, and I certainly shall refer it to the Minister for Primary Industry who, I know, was most anxious in the first year of his administration to see that every encouragement - not discouragement - was given to production. [More…]
That is, to sack 30 men - was part of the company’s reorganisation program in anticipation of the effects of the Federal Budget and Sunday’s revaluation of the dollar. [More…]
We should acknowledge that by failing as a society to make proper arrangements for matters such as sex education and family planning, we have allowed ignorance and irresponsibility to make rich men of many abortionists, parents of many couples who have neither the inclination nor the temperament for parenthood and battered babies of many children of whom it can be said quite literally that they would have been better off if they had never been born. [More…]
The amendment of the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) is principally different. [More…]
This also recommends an inquiry into various problems concerning abortion and sexuality, but there the similarity ends. [More…]
It is this dissimilarity that prompts me to support the amendment. [More…]
Essentially the amendment recommends that we examine the role of women in our society and I say it is high time that this was done, but not just in the narrow confines of an inquiry that would reduce women to mere curio objects. [More…]
I do not claim that sex, pregnancy and abortion are not important to women or, for that matter, to men. [More…]
But I do argue that there is much more to this problem than merely determining whether or not women should have the sole prerogative of deciding to terminate a pregnancy. [More…]
The amendment specifies the numerous related areas that should be examined in connection with abortion. [More…]
It shows compassion, honesty and, above all, common sense when it refuses to accept abortion as an isolated phenomenon, almost as though it was the result of an unfortunate oversight by women, something we men must nobly allow them to have - a sort of social pardon. [More…]
Its authors are Arthur Koestler and C. H. Rolph, 2 men committed to the subject of the reform of capital punishment. [More…]
I felt that one of the most serious criticisms of the Vietnam participation was the commitment of conscripts to the battlefield with their lives to forfeit. [More…]
Nearly all the crimes of recent times for which people have been under sentence of death have been committed on the spur of the moment. [More…]
The standards of behaviour in the community, as established by governments and in public life, are the ones which will produce an attitude towards other people’s rights and lives. [More…]
Of course, there is always the argument that perhaps the innocent are punished. [More…]
Many of them were young, most of them were men and most of them were executed for crimes of passion. [More…]
I hope that on this occasion - I am pretty certain that it will happen - the Australian Parliament will set the seal on the standards of this community and by the passage of this Bill repeal the death penalty and therefore place Australia generally up with most other civilised nations and with several of the Australian States. [More…]
I reject the amendments. [More…]
I do not believe that there is any validity in the arguments put forward in support of them. [More…]
Capital punishment is one of the last relics of barbarity on our statute book. [More…]
Today is a very important point in parliamentary history because we will be setting standards for one or two of the States which have on their statute books provision for capital punishment which has been retained by the archaic procedures of legislative councils. [More…]
Since the earliest times, men have struggled with the question of capital punishment. [More…]
The custom in the Middle East was to execute criminals by stoning, hanging, crucifixion or impalement on a stake. [More…]
To interpret that, it means that the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy), who is the highest law officer in the country, not only has all the admissible evidence against the accused but also has all the facts on a file on which to make a reasoned judgment and a recommendation to a responsible group of men in a Cabinet. [More…]
Here I am giving credibility to an elected govenerment. [More…]
Surely this indicates that those in responsible positions are capable of exercising sound and merciful judgment. [More…]
If this Bill goes through - of course it will - and capital punishment is abolished, the community must be protected from certain types of criminals such as the psychopathic criminal who goes out and rapes and kills a child. [More…]
I hope that there will be no repetition of the crime of which he was convicted, as there has been in other similar cases in which men in that condition have been released from prison. [More…]
Misconduct in action by other officers and men; [More…]
He tells the story of how, when in the first Australian Imperial Forces he was serving with some British colleagues, he came across some British troops who, in the tradition of the British Army of that day, were tied to the wheel of a gun carriage as a form of punishment imposed on them by their officers of that day. [More…]
I express no view on it other than that the British Army fought no better for following a policy of punishment of that sort than the first AIF fought following a policy that did not impose such punishment on its men. [More…]
I concede that given the degree to which life seems to be of no consequence to the criminals who participate in the disruption of the normal way of life of people in so many parts of the world, there is no way in which one can adequately ensure their containment unless the death penalty is retained in this area. [More…]
It is there that I find myself at variance with the reasons that are advanced by those people who seek the abolition of capital punishment. [More…]
1 can understand that human life must be sacred but I do not concede that one should be concerned more for the life of a criminal than for the lives of men, women and children who are citizens of this country. [More…]
The people I am talking about are all pensioners, women more than 60 years of age and men more than 65 years of age.- All pensioners will be affected. [More…]
The Government has deceived the pensioners and, in particular, it has deceived the pensioners in the small and middle income range who earn between $20 and S50 a week. [More…]
They are the people who will pay for what the Government is trying to put over the country. [More…]
There are so many things: The Australian assistance program; the special provision for homeless men; the inauguration of a program of national superannuation; the setting up of the inquiry on national superannuation, the report of which we hope by the time of the next election we will be able to present at long last to the Australian people; and a national compensation scheme inquiry. [More…]
More has happened in 9 months than happened in 9 years in some periods of the previous Government’s history. [More…]
I commend this Bill with all my fervour. [More…]
Yet if one looks at the report of the Coombs task force one sees that there is some suggestion that the Government is looking at the question of lowering the income at which young family men shall begin to pay tax. [More…]
We need now to look at the proposals of the Minister for Social Security as they relate to the members of the community who today are between the ages of 65 and 75, in the case of men, and between 60 and 75 in the case of women. [More…]
It is all very well to say that we can shift people from one city to another or from one job to another, but do people want to be shifted about simply because a government decides to take an arbitrary decision such as this? [More…]
No wonder the Caucus is starting to overthrow some of the decisions that have been taken by the 3 power men of Cabinet. [More…]
In spite of the willingness of the Premiers to cooperate with the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in combating inflation, the Prime Minister is ready to go to the people by referendum in order to snatch complete control over prices and aim central to the total socialist objective of this Government. [More…]
Since the Government was elected to office all its economic decisions have been directed to shifting men, women and resources from private industry and employment to the official government sector. [More…]
The erosion of the economic base of many industries, the collapse on the stock exchange, the uncertainties in the business sector and the brutal attack on the farmers in the Budget are all clear evidence of the Government’s intention to strangle the private sector. [More…]
This action will hit hardest the smaller businessmen, the comer storekeepers, the farmers and the little people in our community. [More…]
This is the saddest part of this Government’s performance. [More…]
There must be other cases, because I know of instances where members have come back from interviews and have complained of the treatment they received. [More…]
As I have said, these men who were prepared to offer their lives in the service of this country are entitled to be treated with dignity. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Defence in his capacity as representative in this House of the Minister for Repatriation to pass on my comments to the Minister in the hope that in future the tribunal chairmen will adopt a more reasonable attitude. [More…]
The Repatriation Department has done and is still doing a great job in assisting our returned servicemen. [More…]
It is not what the Minister personally thinks that bothers me; it is what the Government thinks that is disturbing me. [More…]
He assured me that this was certainly not the thinking of the Liberal Party or of the Country Party and that he would support me in any move I made to retain the Department in its present form. [More…]
There is no objection to their being used otherwise, provided that this specific purpose is not disturbed because the men and women whom the Repatriation Department was instituted to assist have, through their actions in defence of this country, earned the right to receive this assistance. [More…]
Whilst I would endeavour to streamline the administration processes, the Repatriation Department will remain as it is when the Opposition becomes the Government. [More…]
As mentioned by the honourable member for Herbert, rumours are prevalent that the Repatriation Department will disappear as a department. [More…]
The only public statement 1 know of on this matter was a rather vague answer which was given in the Senate last week by the Minister for Repatriation, for whom I have a deal of respect. [More…]
When he was asked whether the Repatriation Department would be absorbed and abolished he said that as far as he and the Minister for Defence were concerned, they would strongly resist any attempt to bring that about. [More…]
I suggest that this statement is not sufficient. [More…]
I challenge the Government to make a definite statement of policy on the future of the Department and not to say that a couple of Ministers will resist the idea as strongly as they possibly can. [More…]
On this point I urge the Returned Services League and other ex-service organisations to speak up loud and clear and to demand that the Repatriation Department be retained as a specialist organisation responsible for and to the 800,000 ex-service men and women who defended their country when defence was needed. [More…]
Not only am I, as a member of the Opposition and as a former Minister for Repatriation, concerned, but also members of the Australian Country Party, members of the Opposition generally, the RSL and the 800,000 ex-service men and women want to know the position. [More…]
The large and skilled professional staff of the Department want to know the position. [More…]
Again I challenge the Deputy Prime Minister to ensure that the Government makes a clear and unequivocal statement, if possible here and now, giving a firm policy commitment which will retain the Repatriation Department. [More…]
The second challenge I issue to the Government is one which I issued when I spoke in this House in March this year. [More…]
I challenge the Government to specify exactly what is meant in the policy speech of the Australian Labor Party where the Prime Minister stated: [More…]
Another major let-down for the ex-service men and women is in the area of the general rate pension. [More…]
To cite a few examples, TPI ex-servicemen will be receiving $55.60 a week, an increase of $4.50. [More…]
I remind honourable members again that a number of men on the 100 per cent rate war pension are no longer working; they are retired. [More…]
Different levels of output of the Department require different levels of resources - of men, money and materials. [More…]
The Engineering Division participates in this process throughits line management. [More…]
Will he say if he is prepared to go back to the Cabinet, raise this matter again and ask the Cabinet, for the first time on this significant issue, to take into account the defence implications; to take into account the many representations which the Government has received; to take into account for the first time the views of the international consulting group which I understand was commissioned at a fee of some $500,000; and to take into account the views of the interdepartmental committee which has been sitting at both Commonwealth and State levels? [More…]
And is he therefore saying, against the background of what he has already said about the cutback in our defence forces, that the men and women at Richmond are to be sacrificed to a sloppy piece of decision making by a Government which has been in operation long enough to have done better? [More…]
He said that no farmout will be agreed to by the Government if it leads to a dilution of the Australian equity. [More…]
It is a company having some 900 Australian shareholders, employing 60 men directly, with a fortnightly wage bill of $10,500, and being the largest consumer of electricity in the North West County Council District of New South Wales. [More…]
If the Minister has any doubts about the reaction to his own particular attitudes and statements I would suggest to him, that he get out and go to mining areas not mix with the management, as he usually does, but with the workers, in the canteens, as I do. [More…]
Most workers are planning to get out of the industry, just as men are planning to leave the Army, Navy and Air Force. [More…]
The Government has undermined confidence and everybody is wanting to get out of their own particular calling. [More…]
The lc per lb levy relates specifically to the inspection of carcasses and other ancillary facilities - that is, the ancillary expenses for which the Government is responsible with respect to meat exports - and will result in a total cost of $69.39m. [More…]
If we assume a growth factor of 25 per cent annually in inspection charges - a fair figure taking into account the growth of exports, the widening recruitment of inspectors, rising wage rates and the inflationary spiral about which this Government seems to care little in that it is spending money in the public sector and not caring 2 hoots about where it is going; of course it is making the private sector pull its horns in and has no concern for the individual men and women in this community and is concerned only that the public sector should keep on spending - we find that in the remaining 9 months of 1973-74 the cost of inspection services would be $14.3m. [More…]
This Government, through a Labor Minister, will spend only $54.6m in providing the services which this levy is supposed to compensate. [More…]
I assert again that I am excluding completely the additional surcharge which the Prime Minister, outside the Parliament, said will be imposed to cover tuberculosis and brucellosis eradication. [More…]
The State Liberal member for Alexandra who was put into Parliament with the support of the honourable member for Barker who is a great admirer of him. [More…]
One of the Labor men asked the next Liberal speaker who rose to his feet, Mr Becker, whether he agreed with or was prepared to dissociate himself from the statements of the previous Liberal speaker. [More…]
He said that he did not know that he could associate himself with all of the statements. [More…]
I say that this Government has a great deal to its credit in a period of only 9 months in the improvements it has made in the conditions for Australian servicemen and servicewomen. [More…]
Since I have assumed the responsibility of Minister for Defence I have made it perfectly clear not only in the Parliament but also outside the Parliament that as a result of the Government’s decision we will have an all volunteer army in Australia and that the size and shape of the Army for the 1970s had already been determined by the Government. [More…]
As I said this morning and I repeat now, the Government agreed to an army of 34,000 men in Australia by 1976. [More…]
The laws applying to the men in the submarine exploring for manganese nodules are the laws of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
I hope that some Australian Workers Union men will be appointed, but let me tell the Committee about the history of this proposition of Ministers appointing arbitration inspectors. [More…]
In 1934 it was all right for a conservative government to allow the Minister of the day to appoint the arbitration inspectors. [More…]
From 1934 right up to 1952 - for all that long period of 18 years when many amendments were made - nobody suggested that there was anything improper, unreasonable or wrong about the Minister appointing the arbitration inspectors. [More…]
Now trie Opposition comes along with an amendment which tries to cast aspersions on the integrity of the Minister. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that this is not an amendment that we will accept and I hope the Committee will reject it. [More…]
One of our objectives should be to break down any false and artificial barriers between management and labour. [More…]
If management is educated in one place and labour in another place those barriers will tend to be reinforced. [More…]
We need to develop the concept in which all men and women who work in an industry are regarded as having a common objective and not regarded as competitors. [More…]
It must be demonstrably so and a great deal more work is required in this area so that productivity arrangements can more commonly find their way into agreements and awards. [More…]
Hitherto that security has been dependent not only upon a person’s own skill as a worker but also on the vagaries of the market place or on the capacity of management to meet changing consumer demands. [More…]
It is within our capacity to protect men and women who become redundant for that last reason. [More…]
We will also be exploring with management and unions means of easing insecurity caused through temporary changes of demand. [More…]
Some interesting experiments have been conducted overseas that could be tried here with advantage. [More…]
Job satisfaction and job enrichment are high in our priorities in attempting to improve the quality of the working environment. [More…]
Fifth, if we are looking for substantial changes in management we have the right to expect also that the union movement will submit itself to a searching examination. [More…]
Such a change, if it were desirable, might take a lifetime or more to accomplish but it might also do much to help give men and women who work in a particular industry a sense of. [More…]
Men and women cannot be regarded as mere inputs like an ingot of steel in the production process. [More…]
The complex problems of labour and management relations are being actively examined by the Opposition. [More…]
The Opposition wants to see sensible arrangements developed to give workers a sense of involvement. [More…]
We want to demonstrate to both labour and management that their true interests are interests held in common. [More…]
Negotiations can then proceed on matters in dispute, and only when agreement cannot be reached should recourse be had to conciliation and arbitration processes. [More…]
Industrial unrest causes hardship and inconvenience to individuals; it disrupts industrial efficiency and retards output; it rebounds on the workers involved, causing them needless losses in income and prejudicing the employment of the men concerned; and it has adverse consequences on the economy. [More…]
It is not, of course, a phenomenon which is unique in this country. [More…]
Is he aware that the defensive capacity of the RAAF will be seriously impaired by this policy of fewer aircraft and fewer men? [More…]
What action does he intend to take to meet the strong resentment of the RAAF at this policy decision? [More…]
Will he immediately review these decisions to prevent any further deterioration in the morale of Australian servicemen? [More…]
Some people would regard Papua New Guinea’s movement towards independence at the present moment as exciting. [More…]
I have the utmost confidence in the future of Papua New Guinea, provided the government of the day in this country, whichever Government it may be, gives the assistance requested by Papua New Guinea and does not impose its views on Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We are too important to each other for it to be otherwise and for it to be to the detriment of both countries. [More…]
I am confident that provided there are efforts by men of goodwill in both Papua New Guinea and Australia we can achieve that goal. [More…]
I think there were about 155 local government councils in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Many of the councillors are very skilled men indeed, particularly in committee work. [More…]
I felt that the recent troubles had little to do with the coming of self-government and more to do with the change in the degrees of control and changes in the basis of authority. [More…]
We were privileged to see also one of the land commissions of inquiry in action at a village level trying to work out what recommendations it would make to its own Government. [More…]
The other thing is the problems of the highlanders who supposedly are opposed to self-government and independence. [More…]
Many men there could remember seeing the first European coming into the valleys. [More…]
Since development has accelerated since about 1966, they have seen roads, hospitals, schools and all those things come in. [More…]
They simply do not want to take the risk of the provision of these improvements ceasing in any way. [More…]
The present Budget was a record Budget and much of the various allocations were negotiated between the Papua New Guinea Government and the Australian Government. [More…]
But the society itself did evolve means of settling disputes, and probably one could boil this down to saying that the big men talk the problems out. [More…]
I think we should also give some consideration to the fact that people who are stressing that they are anti-colonialist and want to give the people of Papua New Guinea independence are advocating something that is even more detrimental than colonialism, that is, pushing people or rushing people into independence before they are prepared for it. [More…]
I believe that this Government is making a mistake at the moment because it is not listening sufficiently to men like Michael Somare and other leaders in Papua New Guinea who are looking to the future with confidence but knowing that it will bring with it many difficulties and complex situations. [More…]
The aspects of Aboriginal marriage arrangements which offend Europeans seem to be polygamy - or to give its correct name, so my experts tell me, polygyny - so called child marriage and what is often called the promise system. [More…]
Some men no doubt had egotistical and sexual reasons for taking several wives, but others acquired them as a social duty. [More…]
They were expected to give security to the widow of a dead brother or, in some cases, another relative, and other men, especially the older, took an additional wife or wives to support them in their declining years. [More…]
This is not simply because the Christian missions, as they are entitled to, expect their adherents to be monogamists, but because there is a distinct shift of sentiment amongst Aborigines themselves, especially the younger ones. [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…]
Most mission authorities and settlement officials now wisely refrain from breaking up polygynous marriages of long standing. [More…]
I fully recognise that the idea of young girls being required to marry men, often many years older, whom they may dislike, offends against our ideas of marriage, the liberty of the person, and women’s status. [More…]
Aboriginal society allowed, and still allows - I stress this point - girls and women who refuse to go through with marriages ordained for them ways of escape. [More…]
It is simply inaccurate to picture them as men’s chattels; it is also needlessly pejorative to talk about bride price; and perhaps I may point out too that only a few people in human history have attached the importance we do to romantic marriage and are so opposed to the idea of arranged marriage. [More…]
But, as in the other matters I mentioned, the Aboriginal scene is changing in this respect, too. [More…]
I thought it very interesting and significant that a recent congress of Aborigines in the Northern Territory decided, of their own motion, that promises of long standing would continue to be honoured but that in future young men and women would be free to marry by choice provided they kept the other laws of marriage. [More…]
This encourages me in the approach that I as the Minister and the officers of my Department wish to take. [More…]
The effect of this policy on the child can only be guessed at, but there are outstanding examples of young Aboriginal men and women in our society who have overcome this trauma without loss of their cultural identity. [More…]
I have asked my Department to initiate a program of reconciliation. [More…]
I point to the fact that an ex-director of Aboriginal Affairs of 20 years to 25 years’ experience has been stood down; other men of similar experience are being brushed aside. [More…]
The Government should be training men and women who can assist the Aborigines themselves to develop their own skills and to develop their own determination to work for themselves in order to enable them to own and operate a considerable part of this country. [More…]
The Commonwealth Department of Labour has a scheme for pre-employment training. [More…]
Through the Commonwealth Employment Service it selects and offers pre-employment training to young Aborigines who might be short on skills but show that they are not afraid to work. [More…]
We recently had a course of about 20 young men from northern Queensland who attended the Eagle Farm Technical [More…]
We must realise that these dedicated people - both men and women - who work for the 354 meal services use their own vehicles and their own time. [More…]
The simple fact is that we have to put the proposal in this piece of legislation through the Parliament this week. [More…]
We have to put it through the House of Representatives today because of the requirements, constitutionally and legislatively, if we are to have a referendum before Christmas - and we intend to. [More…]
Then the Leader of the Opposition and the silent men behind him can be measured by the public. [More…]
It is a very small part of the overall tools which should be available to a central Government in administering the economy of a country. [More…]
It is a manful struggle to try to repair the almost irreparable damage for which members of the previous Government have been responsible. [More…]
Whatever the result, the situation of having the 2 most powerful men in the union movement and the Labor movement pulling him in 2 different directions is not an entirely happy one for the Prime Minister. [More…]
I could not have spoken against a better backdrop to Parliament than the proceedings of today. [More…]
Were I able to speak with the tongues of men and angels and were I Demosthenes, Cicero and Winston Churchill rolled into one the purpose of my speech would be absolutely nil this afternoon. [More…]
I repeat that this is typical of this Parliament. [More…]
I should like to refer very briefly to one or two comments made by the honourable member for Scullin (Dr Jenkins). [More…]
Surprisingly I do so to commend him for them. [More…]
I am in the position where I do not have a wife any more, but I think that these ladies who work with their men do a magnificent job. [More…]
They have to tolerate the backlash, or accept the bouquets which come very infrequently to a Federal member of Parliament. [More…]
I think that they are a wonderfully courageous and magnificent group of women. [More…]
At one time the Parliament passed 20 Bills in .17 hours. [More…]
He was one of the members of Parliament recorded in Hansard as having voted for using the guillotine. [More…]
Every honourable member on that side who survived the last Parliament is one of those guilty men. [More…]
Every person who was present at that meeting was disappointed and some were disgusted at the refusal of the governments, both State and Federal, to be represented at this vital, crucial meeting of 500 soft fruit growers representing over half the entire number of fruit growers in South Australia. [More…]
Those men were there because they felt their entire future - the future of their farms, the future of their families, their lives and their lifetime investment - was in doubt. [More…]
He also expressed disappointment at the nonattendance of government representatives because this matter concerned the district. [More…]
First of all, I wish to comment on what the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) has just said. [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…]
This sort of thing is absolutely necessary if we are to have proper understanding and proper relations between Government and primary industry. [More…]
Men of vision predicted the use and the need to utilise the coal for what we are now using it. [More…]
In 1918 we find a parallel to today’s argument. [More…]
Just as the Bill introduced in the Victorian Parliament at that time to utilise brown coal for the production of of electricity was very vigorously debated as a ‘pipe dream’, ‘uneconomic’ and ‘a burden on the State’, the same would be said of a Bill to set up an authority to produce synthetic oil if it were introduced into this Parliament in this session. [More…]
The present Government’s policy about fuel and energy is quite specific. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party platform states that Labor will establish a national fuel and energy commission to devise and implement an integrated and co-ordinated national fuel and energy policy. [More…]
The need for co-ordination was recognised by the previous Government and the previous Minister for National Development, the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), and positive moves were being made towards planning how future energy needs were to be met. [More…]
One of the men who was at the forefront of thinking about energy policy for the future was the late Sir Harold Ragett. [More…]
Is he one of these dreadful men who will destroy the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
At the objective level there is no evidence for a difference in average intelligence of men and women, when we take each group as a whole. [More…]
The expectations of the various elements of society influence the performance not only of Australians but also of migrants. [More…]
I say to him that when this matter was first raised with me it was raised on behalf of great men in the countryside. [More…]
I refer to men like the Bradley brothers of Temora, men who are above politics and the petty partisanship that is often displayed by the honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair) and the right honourable member for Richmond (Mr Anthony) who sit opposite me. [More…]
These great men raised the matter on the basis of the free flow of information. [More…]
The encouragement of the sheltered workshop concept is a very worthy one. [More…]
In this environment men, women, boys and girls can be engaged in worthwhile activities which satisfy their dignity as human beings by providing the opportunity to engage actively in manufacturing or processing and thus making a contribution to society. [More…]
It seemed to the mothers of these children, and I think our society generally would agree, that it is a great waste for these young men and young women who have a handicap, whether physical or intellectual, at the age of 16 to have to leave the school which they have been attending in familiar surroundings and under the care and the guidance of the teachers of that school. [More…]
The Electricity Commission of New South Wales advised at 1700 hours on Friday, 28 September, that it would be limiting its draw on the Snowy to conserve water so that its further requirements could stay within the limits of its yearly allocation, even though this might lead to load shedding. [More…]
The Askin Government has in no case taken disciplinary action against State Electricity Commission employees, not one of whom is on strike and none of whom have been suspended. [More…]
Instead it has to date carefully avoided full confrontation with these men knowing that a major industrial dispute would cripple New South Wales. [More…]
You will note, Mr Speaker, the role played by the representatives of the New South Wales and Victorian State governments who were members of the Council. [More…]
They were quite prepared to precipitate an industrial stoppage on the Snowy Mountains scheme and to introduce professional engineers to replace those men who ceased duties - action which the New South Wales State Government was not prepared to take in New South Wales. [More…]
Later that afternoon I met at Parliament House with Messrs Reiher. [More…]
Also present were Messrs Townsend and Hunter of my Department. [More…]
I said that in the circumstances it would be preferable to conform to the requirements of the 35-hour Week Committee which would at least provide some relief to the system rather than to accept the decisions of the New South Wales and Victorian representatives on the Council which would have led to an even worse situation. [More…]
I was concerned to ensure that only the hydro-electric plant operators normally employed on the stations be allowed on the premises and that the safety of both men and plant should be ensured. [More…]
I specially stressed that management and control of the stations was to remain in the hands of the Council. [More…]
I instructed Mr Reiher that as no typist was available, he should prepare an appropriate directive and on the following day it was sent to me by courier from my Department. [More…]
The New South Wales Liberal Government has made it clear that it will not use professional engineers to take over jobs of men engaged in industrial action, nor has it suspended employees for operating at reduced loads. [More…]
The decision not to use employees of the Snowy Authority to take over operations is precisely in line with the way the Askin Government has been managing the dispute in New South Wales. [More…]
To attack Mr Connor the way Messrs Fraser and Anthony have is ridiculous, Mr Connor has no more assisted the unions in the management of their campaign than has the New South Wales Premier, SirRobert Askin . [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…]
Even the Leader of the New South Wales Labor Party, Mr Hills, called on the men to resume work. [More…]
Presumably at that stage - because the fighting would have been in the Minister’s territory and not that of the New South Wales Government - the New South Wales professional engineers would have been told to do the work of the striking men who normally generate the power. [More…]
For the first time ever we would have had a situation in which men sent in to break a strike would have been enjoying the conditions which the men on strike were trying to obtain. [More…]
Only men who are frightened of the emergence of the facts and only those who are scared to justify their position are the ones who refuse to discuss and to negotiate in these matters. [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…]
Now, when this pool has been removed, the Opposition says that this Government has not done anything. [More…]
When one looks back on the recent Budget and recalls that this mean, lousy Government has taken away from all men over 65 years of age and from all women over 60 the age tax allowance, one wonders how it can parade itself in this Parliament as a Party with heart. [More…]
So frequently when honourable members of the Opposition have pointed to the fact that the Budget by its very nature has contributed to inflation Government supporters have said: ‘Tell us what you would save money on. [More…]
Government supporters have said: ‘Are you saying that we should reduce pensions? [More…]
They mention all those emotive areas but it is only when one starts carefully to scrutinise the manner in which the money is being spent in an instance such as this that one realises that the reason the people of Australia are being belted from pillar to post is to finance some of these grandiose schemes which have been hatched out of the infertile imagination of a government which is already cracking at the seams. [More…]
I recall the words of the Prime Minister in speaking in this Parliament or on the platforms throughout the nation that his was a decisive government - a government which was able to make decisions about the value of the Australian currency relative to the value of foreign currency. [More…]
He referred back to the 3-day deliberation that went on a couple of years ago when the previous Government had to wrestle with the same problem. [More…]
But only recently we had another confidence shattering example of bungling by the Labor Government. [More…]
A decision was made in Caucus, that body made up of all the wise men from various parts of Australia. [More…]
Men such as those make up caucus. [More…]
In other words a communist trade union leader when he professes to be working for better conditions is really double crossing his own union and double crossing his own men. [More…]
The House can judge how far this movement towards a state of revolution has already gone by what happened last Friday when the Minister responsible for the generation of power in New South Wales was refused normal admission to a power station by a mob of power workers who were perhaps not technically on strike but who were having a consistent program of go slow. [More…]
I regret very much that it is not appreciated how far this has already gone, how far these people have been able to manipulate the unsuspecting power workers who do not realise what is being done to them and how they are being used as pawns in this revolutionary game by far sighted and unscrupulous communists who are out to double cross and betray their own men. [More…]
I regret very much indeed that Mr Hills, for example, or Mr Unsworth, who are not communists, have surrendered to these men and are taking up their cause, and perhaps without realising what they are doing, have collaborated in this communist plot. [More…]
The Government is very keen to establish a regional Commonwealth presence in as many places throughout the Commonwealth as might be possible. [More…]
Of course, money is not the only solution to the problem; it is also very much a case of getting the right men and women to staff the positions which might be created. [More…]
Until such Commonwealth regional presence is established to co-ordinate and develop priorities and to co-ordinate not only with Aboriginal organisations but also with State and other Commonwealth departments working in the various areas, the task of administering a program of the kind we have is a difficult one. [More…]
The Government could not get the Aborigines to do that. [More…]
I would hope that some good will come out of the tremendous amount of money that is to be allotted to the Aboriginal cause and that it will not be poured down the drain such as has happened in the instances which I have mentioned and in others. [More…]
We have lived there peaceably with the Aborigines for 20, 30 or 40 years, but the present Government’s policy is pulling us apart. [More…]
We have heard a lot of nonsense talked by Labor men about apartheid in other countries. [More…]
The great breakthrough came, I think, when the honourable member for Mackellar was appointed as Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs in the Gorton Government. [More…]
These 2 men devoted many years to the Aboriginal cause long before either entered the Ministry. [More…]
Explicit or implicit means tests do not allow legal services to be given to the very groups in most need of them, and I’m talking about men on the basic wage, deserted wives and working men with large families. [More…]
These people are more likely than others to be victims of slick salesmen, of fraudulent hire purchase agreements, of high divorce costs . [More…]
He has made a great thing of the 2 men concerned who made the report. [More…]
He has made a great thing of the fact that the previous Government had taken no action whatsoever with regard to gaols, penal systems, prisoners and so on. [More…]
Mr Justice Adams, and had such experienced and knowledgeable men on it as Mr Haynes Leader, the Reverend Paul Albrecht, who is head of the Lutheran Church in the Northern Territory and who was born and bred in the Northern Territory and has vast experience with Aborigines and the alcohol situation, and Mr Claude Narjic, a full-blooded Aborigine from Port Keats. [More…]
I think that the honourable member for the Australian Capital Territory, the previous Minister for the Northern Territory, did great injustice to the Legislative Council, to the previous Government and to the people who actually put the report together. [More…]
Unhappily, the problem no longer is confined to men. [More…]
Quite recently, drinking has increased among Aboriginal women - probably, it is the first time that this has occurred in the Northern Territory on any large scale - and this has been correlated with the breakdown in tribal life and discipline. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Committee to this fact: For some years I sat on the other side when my Party was in Government and pleaded - I know that I had the backing in those days of the then Minister for Civil Aviation - for Qantas to open its mind a little and to venture into such activities as charter flights. [More…]
This opportunity was present at all times but was not taken advantage of because of the failure of a group of men to recognise that new business was there if only they would go after it. [More…]
As a result of the conference that followed that dispute the men went back to work and a case was put to the officials of the Commonwealth Railways who agreed that there would be an increase in their expenses. [More…]
The standard of a government’s administration is gauged best by the quality of the men who are responsible for the various departments. [More…]
Tragically, decent enough fellow though the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) is, there has been a lamentable failure in the exercise of his responsibilities during the course of the transport strike which has brought the whole of the air services around the eastern seaboard, particularly those operating to and from Sydney and Canberra, to a halt. [More…]
The Minister asks whether it is not a Liberal Government in New South Wales. [More…]
It is perfectly true that it is, but when there was a Liberal Government in Canberra also there were fewer strikes in New South Wales because the strikers did not know, as they know now, that in Canberra they have a great and powerful friend who is on the side of industrial disruption. [More…]
It is this kind of confidence they have which emboldens them, as I have said, to strike and it is because of this that this Government must be thrown out. [More…]
I have been provoked by the interjection of the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) to make this point, because he himself is one of the guilty men who has failed to do his duty in this matter. [More…]
Whilst I appreciate that there have been difficult technical problems in designing effective emission control equipment and that BHP has expended large sums in installation of other anti-pollution equipment at its Newcastle plant generally, the continued operation of the ferro alloy plant is a major source of visual pollution in Newcastle. [More…]
Proper control of its emissions would result in a further dramatic improvement in the air quality of the city. [More…]
I believe that the installation of control equipment is a matter of urgency for the sake of the citizens of Newcastle and that Mr Jago should take a much more vigorous line with the company. [More…]
The company ought not to be adopting the attitude that ‘if we do not get further exemptions we will close the plant down and about 70 men will be displaced’. [More…]
It seems to me to be one of the major ironies of present politics in this country that one of those rare and splendid public men who are most concerned with nonmaterial values in the Australian community - I refer to the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) - should be forced to preside over some - not all - education policies which in my judgment and the judgment of my colleagues threaten crucial non-material values in our community. [More…]
We gave a guarantee that when we became the Government we would set up this Interim Commission, and we did that immediately we became the Government. [More…]
Within 5 months this very capable body, this dedicated body of men and women, produced this report. [More…]
If there is not to be more than one commissioner on a full time basis how can we hope to ensure the appointment of senior and experienced persons who would otherwise be interested in taking on this task in the full knowledge that they had the support of others interested in the area, that they had the supporting services and that they would be able to perform a worthwhile task? [More…]
We know that one man cannot be all things to all men. [More…]
We should avoid, in such a Schools Commission, the appointment of persons representing particular interests who would bring in factional interests or factional fights contrary to the functioning of the Commission. [More…]
It is one which carries communities of men. [More…]
Whilst it must be conceded that a certain number of houses must be available for rental to persons for a variety of reasons, it is most regrettable that many people who are, judging on past figures, battlers - average working men - will be denied the chance to purchase a home at a cost within their means and ambitions because of the restriction on the sale of housing commission homes. [More…]
I submit, as did the honourable member for Herbert (Mr Bonnett), that the State governments should have been allowed to continue to use their own judgment, taking into account the differing circumstances in the different States. [More…]
When committees operate in this way we know that we will get reports that are prepared by men who are interested in and conscious of their responsibilities. [More…]
The whole problem with this plan is that it has ‘been brought forward not because it is in existence but because the Government apparently says that it does not like what has happened in Darwin in the past. [More…]
I think all of us would agree that there is a tremendous problem in the development of Darwin. [More…]
The people of Darwin advise us, and it is acknowledged, that they would look towards land in the future being used for the advancement of the causes of the city and they would hope that positive plans for development could be implemented. [More…]
This Government is pursuing a course of action which denies the rights not only of those the Government likes to call the big men but of thousands of Australians - the Australian who owns his own home, the Australian who is paying a bank, a hire purchase company or a land development company for his land or his home. [More…]
This Government could not give 2 hoots. [More…]
This Government has intervened and said: ‘We will take over this land’. [More…]
I think it is absolutely deplorable that there should have to be such a motion before the House because this Government has not acted responsibly in considering individual landholders. [More…]
I am surprised that Government members do not support the motion which tries to ensure that what ali these little men of the Territory want is taken into account. [More…]
They should be told when this Government intends to develop that land it is taking over, whether the whole 32 square miles will be developed immediately or whether part of it will be developed this year and some of it in 5 years or 10 years time. [More…]
I think the Government should be able to say: ‘This is our overall plan. [More…]
I suspect that in this instance a significant part of the 20,000-odd square miles will not be needed for development in the foreseeable future. [More…]
It is well known thai because of the failure of the previous Government to complete the acquisition of all land in the Australian Capital Territory years ago so that it could be properly developed for houses to be built on it for families and people who wanted to live the good life, some pockets of land remained. [More…]
The previous Government eventually was forced into moving to do something because of the growing scandal of rising land prices in about 1971. [More…]
lt was the previous Government’s malicious neglect that produced that asking price of $35m. [More…]
The guilty men are the members of the Country Party. [More…]
Both’ the honourable members for Barker (Dr Forbes) and the honourable member for New England who preceded me in this debate talked about HMAS Sydney being taken out of service without any replacement. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that the previous Government had made no decision’ on the future of the Fleet Air Arm over the mote than 10 years in which its future was in question. [More…]
The very fine men who are stationed at HMAS Albatross are living in Second World War accommodation. [More…]
The accommodation is a complete disgrace and is very much worse than the accommodation at Kapooka, Amberley or many other defence establishments around Australia. [More…]
The morale of the Fleet Air Arm over many years has been poor because the previous Government made no decision to continue the Fleet Air Arm. [More…]
The assessment of the future of the destroyer program can be determined only when the needs of the Fleet Air Arm of the future can be placed on the table. [More…]
These are among the problems which we have inherited from the previous Government. [More…]
The historical factors for this range all the way from the inflexibility of the rather simple military tradition in the face of modern social and technological change to the discontent of military men over pay and conditions. [More…]
Unless we intend to establish all our equipment overseas it is clear that we could handle any attacker of Australia at present and into the near future. [More…]
Sweden has 500 to 610 planes available at any one time and it has an air force of 11,700 men, which is about half the number that we have. [More…]
We have one aircraft to 75 men, but the Swedes are 3 times as efficient. [More…]
Just as we necessarily are no better defended by buying all equipment now, our defence is not necessarily guaranteed by having large numbers of soldiers just for the sake of having large numbers. [More…]
These men must have short memories, because economic history indicates that overseas reserves can dwindle very rapidly. [More…]
It is not very long ago that speakers on both sides of this House were talking about the intractable balance of payments situation from which Australia suffered and the intransigent balance of trade which we had. [More…]
Therefore, I would imagine, apart from international goodwill considerations or anything else, that the Australian Tourist Commission’s activities in promoting tourism and of attracting people to Australia are more important today than they have ever been, yet one sees, and is dismayed by, the report of a boffin and his men who recommend total abolition of the grant to the Australian Tourist Commission. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, for us, it is fortunate that we live in a community which cherishes its freedom of action, a country peopled by men and women who want to do their own thing in their own way and in their own time. [More…]
It is not a society that will tolerate for long the dictates of others or a government economically and socially illiterate that seeks to rule not by persuasion and common sense but to impose its gut reactions and primitive economic ideologies on a temporarily captive electorate. [More…]
In short I believe that instinctively the Australian people want a liberal society and form of government and the system of free enterprise as the creative element in the production and exchange of goods. [More…]
It is a way by which ordinary persons, the men and women down the street, will be able to put their money into something from which they will be able to get a reasonable return and, at the same time, feel that they are making a real contribution to the development of Australia. [More…]
Although time is so limited in the adjournment debate I must make one other comment. [More…]
It has been suggested by some observers that if Israel is now suffering heavy and painful losses this ‘serves her right’ to put it crudely for not co-operating earlier on the return of occupied territories and the re-establishment of the pre-1967 boundaries. [More…]
More than that, given the general absence of support for Israel when faced as she now is with the staggering odds of men and material against her, who will be left in a position to moralise about it? [More…]
The proposals that go to the establishment of an Australian law enforcement agency do involve the Australian Capital Territory Police, the Northern Territory Police and various other law enforcement agencies throughout Australia. [More…]
One of the great advantages of the proposed system will be an increase in mobility by way of advancement and promotion in the new system that will come into being. [More…]
Police has an extremely high morale, a lot of elan and professionalism that is the envy of many other police forces in the country; it is to be commended. [More…]
Police in recent years because of its small size, yet rapidly growing numbers, there is a danger that a lid will be placed at the top levels which will stop other young men coming up. [More…]
They have a very experienced and capable judgment to exercise. [More…]
I think the Corporation would gain if it had such men exercising their judgment, along with others, on its Board. [More…]
As far as I am concerned as the Minister, they will be free to exercise their judgment as responsible people. [More…]
I would not at any stage attempt to influence their judgment. [More…]
I would be very unfavourable if anyone else tried to exercise their judgment. [More…]
I ask the Opposition to have a little respect for the Government as well as for itself in this respect. [More…]
In saying that, I expect it to take that as being a statement of what will actually happen. [More…]
Certainly the Minister for Secondary Industry (Mr Enderby) who sits at the table mentioned and quoted from the speech of Sir Alan Westerman when he was delivering his speech during the second reading debate. [More…]
But that is not what has motivated the Government in this matter. [More…]
In the light of experience we have found that the takeover of Australian industries is not prevented unless we can find within Australia the investment funds to take the place of overseas funds. [More…]
The functions of the Australian Industry Development Corporation, both in our view and in the view of many men, if I may say so, who are the political colleagues of the 2 gentlemen at the table opposite, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and the right honourable member for Lowe, need to be widened to do this, and that is precisely what these clauses in this Bill do. [More…]
(a) (ii) which reads: engaging or participating in enterprises or developmental projects in relation to any such industries or activities’, [More…]
It is in the light of experience that we have arrived at these conclusions and that any men of different political persuasions have arrived at these conclusions. [More…]
I promised that I would not take one minute more than I had to in order to allow more ground to be covered and I am going to rest on those comments. [More…]
The American importers are now wondering what new devilment, what new uncertainty is being introduced into the meat market by the people who are supposed to be the champions of the country men. [More…]
When he sat on the government side he did not give anybody anything and cared only about what he wanted himself. [More…]
Therefore if honourable members opposite want reforms I suggest that they make them when they are in government. [More…]
I am sick and tired of members of the Country Party and other honourable members opposite demanding reforms in this Parliament, which for 20 years they refused to do anything about. [More…]
If there is anything wrong with the running of this Parliament they caused it, because for 23 years they had the opportunity to reform the Parliament and they did nothing about it. [More…]
They know as well as I do that whatever is wrong with the Standing Orders, whatever is wrong with question time in this Parliament, whatever is wrong with any other thing, it is their responsibility. [More…]
We on this side, brilliant men as we are, cannot reform it all in 10 months. [More…]
With respect to the search that is continuing, thanks to the co-operation of the Services - the Department of Air and the Department of the Navy - through the Minister for Defence, 4 Royal Australian Air Force planes and 2 Navy tracker aircraft have been made available and they will continue to carry out the search. [More…]
The hope was that in this way the attention of the men who may be on board the ship or who may be in lifeboats or on rafts might be attracted. [More…]
Because of the inclement weather and low cloud level last night, those searchers were unable to carry out this operation. [More…]
This is one of those rare occasions - those all too rare occasions - when the Parliament can act as it was originally theoretically intended to act; that is, to act as a collection of men, representing sections of the community, able to listen to a case and to make up their minds as to what is right without the constraints of party or of faction. [More…]
It is a matter which, in the ultimate, is what this Parliament is all about because every action we take, however important in the national field, has one ultimate justification - the welfare of the individual citizen of Australia. [More…]
That is what we all want and this is an occasion on which we can make up our minds and cast our judgments as to whether, because something has continued for a long time, it should continue still; as to whether unfortunate people should have their lot made yet more unfortunate;, as to who would be hurt or harmed by private actions. [More…]
Let us think instead of the thousands of men who are not like that, who could not be discovered in an ordinary glance at the population, who hurt no one, harm no one and yet have this hanging over them. [More…]
Prior to coming to this Parliament homosexual acts were as repulsive to me as they were to any man. [More…]
But having read material of the Parliamentary Library and having conversed with men here who have made some study of the problem, I find myself now more tolerant to the homosexual than ever before. [More…]
I applaud the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton) and the honourable member for Maribyrnong (Dr Cass) for bringing this matter before the Parliament. [More…]
I must tell him, if he does not already know it, that an appropriation would have to be made and brought to this House in order to harness funds in that way in our country for the Government to invest on behalf of the people in any enterprise. [More…]
In this legislation we are attempting to raise funds voluntarily from the little men of this country in order to buy part of their heritage, part of the resources of this country. [More…]
This is how the coalition works in opposition and is certainly how it would work in government. [More…]
As I have said, there may be some men of goodwill within the Liberal Party but in all cases they will be cowed by the gross materialism of the Country Party. [More…]
House, although his appointment was gazetted last week; the full time members are Mr J. K. Lawrence and Mr T. A. Pettigrew; and the part time members are Dr Allan Fels and Mr R. N. R. Johnston. [More…]
I would believe that the people of Australia should be grateful that men of the experience of those I have named are prepared to serve in this key office. [More…]
There should be no dispute in the minds of anyone that the Government undertook at the last elections to appoint a prices justification tribunal. [More…]
The Parliament established that tribunal by statute. [More…]
Many statements have been made about it which I believe are quite unwarranted. [More…]
Although it is not necessary it may be appropriate to say that the Government appreciates the way the Tribunal carries out its statutory obligations. [More…]
Somebody in the Parliament should say on behalf of the public that the general public does appreciate the existence and the operations of this Tribunal. [More…]
Given the quality of the men, and possibly the women, who will serve on this Commission, one can surely leave it to their judgment and their discretion as to how often they will have to meet to consider the work that obviously they will have to do. [More…]
As I have said several times already, the Government sees this measure as being of great importance to industry and to Australia as a whole by bringing out into the light those decisions which so greatly affect Australians - decisions involving the expenditure of the taxpayers’ money - so that they can assess whether the money is being spent in the right way. [More…]
I think that the Government is as aware as the Opposition and anyone else of the dangers of a large bureaucracy. [More…]
The Government is concerned about it. [More…]
At this stage anyway one has to rely on the quality of the men who comprise it. [More…]
Naturally, it is the Government’s intention that the departments would offer as much informaion as possible in their areas of expertise, in the way in which the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Edwards) described it. [More…]
The Government certainly hopes that that would be so. [More…]
The Government is quite confident that it would be so. [More…]
It seems to me that there is nothing calling for an amendment at this stage. [More…]
This has been said by very prominent Liberal men in the past. [More…]
The report of the Working Party on Homeless Men and Women was received too late for inclusion in Budgetary considerations for the current financial year. [More…]
Action to be taken on the report is a matter for decision by the Government and an appropriate announcement will be made as soon as a decision is taken. [More…]
The current campaign is born of electoral fear and has 2 elements which have been linked together - first, built a fear of the bogy of the multi-national corporation and then allege that money is pouring into the free enterprise parties’ coffers. [More…]
The mentality of the men who have been entrusted with the odious task of pursuing it, even if it is a puerile role for them. [More…]
Had it not been for the change of government, this nation would still have been committed to that awful blunder of our civilisation of intervening in Vietnam. [More…]
A year ago, men were being conscripted for Vietnam. [More…]
You know, Mr Speaker, in another great English speaking democracy recently there were people who were protesting that they would brazen it out; the dirty tricks could not come home to them; they would survive; they would go to the parliament; they would go to the people. [More…]
Where, alas, are those men now? [More…]
The Government’s Bill, which proposes to amend the Conciliation and Arbitration Act and which is designed to give effect to the mandate of the Australian Constitution to prevent as well as settle industrial disputes, is still awaiting the approval of the other chamber. [More…]
It is no use honourable gentlemen opposite now disclaiming any responsibility. [More…]
They are the guilty men. [More…]
The Opposition’s system is to create a massive pool of unemployment. [More…]
What did the previous Government do in terms of its manpower policy? [More…]
The previous Government did not have a manpower policy. [More…]
Its only manpower policy was to create unemployment. [More…]
The result is chaos because the previous Government allowed a situation to develop in which there were no training facilities available for young men and young women who wished to enter the skilled trades in the building industry. [More…]
Only a year ago we saw a situation where there was massive unemployment in this country. [More…]
The former Government did nothing to retrain those unemployed workers - not a thing. [More…]
Unemployment was rife a year ago, and the then Prime Minister was almost on his political knees begging the Australian community: ‘Please spend some money - anything, one cent, $1, $10. [More…]
I am surprised that he referred to unemployment, however, because when his Government was in office it deliberately followed policies, which I have already mentioned, which led to the creation of unemployment that reached the staggering total of 130,000 men and women. [More…]
He did not touch upon the Australian Parliament’s limited constitutional power to intervene directly in industrial relations. [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…]
Unlike the Parliaments of the 6 States which have unlimited powers to deal with industrial relations and labour disputes, the Commonwealth power over industrial maters can be exercised only through the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in accordance with the powers which the Australian Parliament may confer on the Commission. [More…]
The people who negotiate the agreements are not the ones who work under them. [More…]
The important question is whether the people who work under an agreement understand the agreement and whether they are prepared to honour it. [More…]
My experience as a union official - as secretary of a union and as a court advocate - has always been that you can win if you can say to the rank and file: ‘This is not my agreement I am asking you to honour until the 2 year or 3 year period, whatever the duration of the agreement might be, expires. [More…]
I am asking you to honour your own agreement, an agreement which I put to you a year ago which you all voted to support. [More…]
When you can say that to a group of men you can win. [More…]
I know that this agreement was made behind closed doors without your being brought into it at all. [More…]
You have to put agreements to the membership for their approval or you might as well not have an agreement. [More…]
I am telling the honourable member that as a union official of long experience my experience has always shown me what happens if you can go to a factory site and talk to a meeting of men and say: ‘Comrades, I am not asking you to honour my agreement, something that I made behind closed doors; I am asking you to honour your own agreement’. [More…]
When you talk like that and when you can truthfully say that to a group of men, that is what gives a union official his power to implement and honour an agreement. [More…]
But you take the power away from him the moment you allow agreements to be registered that have not been ratified by the rank and file. [More…]
The Government’s Bill recognises this well-known fact of industrial life and seeks to ensure that no agreement can be given the force of an award unless and until it has been ratified by those who are expected to sell their labour at the price fixed and under the conditions agreed upon by that agreement. [More…]
So, that mini-shuffle of a fortnight ago created almost as much uncertainty as the appointment of the first Whitlam-Barnard Ministry - the 2 men, the 2 individuals who administered the whole range of affairs of Australia in such a way as :y are still being quoted in areas such as mat raised the other day by my colleague, the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt), when he referred to a letter written by the then Secretary of the Department of the Interior - before that Department became known by another name - to Queensland Mines Ltd giving firm guarantees by the Whitlam-Barnard Ministry to the company on the basis on which it would be able to operate in the future. [More…]
We have received notable service in Indonesia from the Department of Foreign Affairs, including a number of quite outstanding ambassadors. [More…]
They include men like Mick Shann and Mclntyre, who is temporarily the president of the United Nations Security Council. [More…]
Over the years they have built up a tremendous personal relationship. [More…]
The predecessors to this Government, of course, played an immense part at the time of the liberation of Indonesia just after World War II. [More…]
In everything, including diplomatic relations to which it is quite unsuited he likes drama, the big splash, the sensational reports, working up excitement and things of that character. [More…]
Unfortunately, their position does not seem to be understood clearly by members of the present Government and, even less, by some of their associates and friends. [More…]
Events in the modern world move too quickly and with too much at stake to allow us the luxury of waiting for the big men to fly. [More…]
The recent statement by the Minister for External Territories (Mr Morrison) regarding the independence timetable clearly shows that, despite our eagerness to give an early opportunity for self-government and independence in Papua New Guinea, we are keenly aware of the need to co-operate with those whose responsibility it will be to effect the completion of the task. [More…]
The Minister responsible has been commendably sensitive and co-operative. [More…]
At that time I listened with great interest to the comments of men such as the present Governor-General, Sir Paul Hasluck, who, like me, had studied the area. [More…]
I took the bother to go to the top of Mount Ainslie and consider how the new and permanent parliament house would look from that position. [More…]
The more I think about it and the more I drive past Capital Hill, I am more than ever convinced that God himself put Capital Hill where it is for the purpose of giving to our nation a position for its parliament house that would surpass any other position nature has bestowed upon any other country. [More…]
It is a criminal tragedy for us to talk about having the new parliament house on Camp Hill. [More…]
Parliament House is the pre-eminent building in Canberra. [More…]
Capital Hill is the one place where we can build a new parliament house without destroying this one. [More…]
It leaves me cold to hear people talking about the fact that it will cost $120,000 a year to keep this Parliament House in repair. [More…]
Even if that exaggerated figure were doubled, the cost of keeping this great historical record of our development as a nation ought not to be the thing to deter us from preserving it. [More…]
Let us never forget that this very building in which we are now debating this proposition; this building in regard to which, if we erect the new parliament house on Camp Hill, there will be agitation for its destruction by people who talk about vistas; this building, inadequate though it may be and inadequate no doubt it is, is the building in which, in its corridors, in its chambers, in its libraries walked and talked and thought men like Bruce, Page, Scullin, Theodore, Lyons, Chifley, Casey, Menzies, Hughes, McEwen, Holt, Fadden, Curtin, Evatt, Ward, Calwell, Barwick, McMahon, Gorton, Anthony, Hasluck, Latham and Whitlam. [More…]
This is a building in which future historians will give anything to be able to stand in the place where stood all these great men who will become greater the longer our history develops. [More…]
I want to make one or two observations on the estimates for the Department of External Territories and the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
When one looks through the Appropriation Bill and sees the various areas of expenditure of the departments one realises exactly what is covered by the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Let me say at the outset - I think this would be accepted by honourable members on both sides of the chamber - that we in Australia are extremely fortunate in the personnel of the Department of Foreign Affairs, both at home and in our posts overseas. [More…]
At the various conferences I have had the privilege of attending over a period of nearly 22 years, I have been gratified by the very high standard of the personnel of the Department. [More…]
I am thinking of the assistance that was given in Thailand by engineers and men who had had experience with the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority in Australia. [More…]
Along the top appeared the words: ‘All the Queen’s Men’. [More…]
The Queen has gone back to the United Kingdom so I can now say that the truth is that this Labor Party Government, if the opportunity presents itself, will cut Australia’s ties with England so quickly that the Queen will not even know that it has happened. [More…]
How I had a fit of the horrors, how I had sad memories of the way he gags debate in this Parliament and hardly gives us a chance to speak. [More…]
by leave - Mr Speaker, I know that members will join with me in expressing our heartfelt relief to know that 7 of the 10 crewmen of the freighter ‘Blythe Star’ which has been missing since she left Hobart on 12 October bound for King Island, have been found safe. [More…]
A helicopter on charter to my department, which has been continuing the search, has collected the 4 men who were left on the beach and they are now receiving medical attention in Royal Hobart Hospital. [More…]
I know the House joins me in expressing the sympathy of the Australian Government to the relatives and friends of these men. [More…]
The survivors are: The Master, Captain Cruikshank; the cook, Alfred Simpson; the bosun, S. Leary; and seamen Cliff Langford, Malcolm McCarroll, M. T. Doleman. [More…]
The Country Party members, the doyens of the country, these men of the land, who believe they know every subtlety in regard to the country have mistaken carcass weight, which is the weight of the beast slaughtered with the bones, with the export weight which, in the main, is the beast minus the bones. [More…]
Because of this mistake and the inability to understand an elementary fact of agriculture, the tuberculosis and brucellosis campaign in this country is being thrown into great question and is causing great concern to our overseas buyers. [More…]
I see the industries non-assistance commission as a device to avoid the responsibilltie of Government but I do not intend to canvass it again tonight. [More…]
However, I wish to refer to several items in the appropriations for the Department of Primary Industry in the brief time that is allowed to me. [More…]
I think this is an area which might well have been augmented. [More…]
I believe tremendous problems will be facing the agricultural field in the future. [More…]
The deplorable elimination of concessions available to the rural community, the antirural loading of this Government, the failure of men like the honourable member for Eden-Monaro to recognise the swings of price and swings of seasons and the recommendation of an export tax are all part of the [More…]
How many Cabinet changes were there in the last Government? [More…]
These are the men who wish to deny the Government trying to run the country and cause great suffering and disadvantage to the Australian people in their wish or hope for power motivated only by unprincipled opportune political gain. [More…]
It would be a good thing if they would give greater attention to the reasons for their judgments when they are issuing them. [More…]
We had a team of men there who were angry; they were militant. [More…]
They were not prepared to accept the decision of the court until I read to them the excellent and logical judgment by Sir Edward Morgan, as he later became when he was appointed to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, because the judgment was so packed with logic, such compelling logic that when I read it to the men I did not have to make a speech to give them the reasons why they should go back to work and accept the decision. [More…]
The judge’s own reasons for judgment contained the logic of the case that anybody would want to put to persuade men to return to work. [More…]
This Government has taken several actions to widen the availability of repatriation benefits. [More…]
Now all personnel who serve for more than a 3-year engagement receive them and national servicemen who extended their service by only a few weeks receive them. [More…]
The men involved received medals for their war service but they have been excluded from repatriation benefits and I think this is entirely wrong. [More…]
The only difference is this: Corruption in America has been exposed and the guilty men are to be punished. [More…]
Corruption in New South Wales goes unchecked and the guilty men appear in white tie and tails in the company and presence of the Queen of Australia. [More…]
Partial effect has been given to the pension side of the new arrangements, and there will be further pension increases enacted in the autumn. [More…]
The Bill will withdraw the tax exemption for social service and repatriation pensions, but not war pensions, paid to men aged 65 years or more and women aged 60 or more. [More…]
Pensions paid to women less than 60 years of age by reason of their being wives of men aged 65 years or more will also become taxable. [More…]
For similar reasons to those I have mentioned, and to avoid larger transitional problems later, taxation must extend to age pensions that remain meanstested. [More…]
No one could ever convince me that the subsidy was designed to keep men on dairy farms. [More…]
I have not yet mentioned the allowance for clearing country properties that has been practically discontinued. [More…]
There should be an incentive for primary producers, the men on the land, to clear this country and bring it into production so that our exports can be increased and the economic stability of Australia improved. [More…]
We have great opportunities but we are being led by a government that has no regard for primary industries. [More…]
It is a matter of fact that ‘primary industry’ is a dirty expression in this Parliament and it should not be. [More…]
It is a pity that the Bureau of Agricultural Economics did not send to this Parliament men with more practical experience in primary industry. [More…]
If we do not get behind our great primary industries and encourage them, our failure to do will be to the detriment of this country. [More…]
There is no doubt whatsoever that the New South Wales Government is attempting to create a situation of tension within that State. [More…]
If this is what it proposes to do a vote for the Askin Government is a vote for bloodshed and anarchy. [More…]
The guilty men are the Askins and the other conspirators. [More…]
Members of the Liberal Government of New South Wales are a bunch of conspirators who will stop at nothing to try to win some political advantage out of the distress and the inconvenience caused to the New South Wales public. [More…]
If the people of New South Wales vote for the Askin Government they will prove themselves to be more gullible than the people of America were when they voted for the return of the Nixon Administration. [More…]
If the Leader of the Country Party desires to make this a political issue I am quite sure that the people of Australia will want to exercise a judgment against men like him who will not in this House even strengthen Australian private enterprise but who will continue to act as though they were agents of foreign corporations. [More…]
The Senate Select Committee on Drug Trafficking and Drug Abuse reported in 1970 that in Australia 5 per cent of all men and 1 per cent of all women were dependent on alcohol, and the estimated number of people involved was 258,000. [More…]
The thought has been inspired in me by some people who live in the city of Toowoomba on the Darling Downs that it is opportune for governments, both State and Federal, for local authorities and for voluntary workers to encourage people to stay together and to participate in co-operative enterprises. [More…]
Let this be a pilot scheme for the whole of Australia so that when people are cured, whether it be at the doorstep of their home or through custodial treatment in an institution, or when they are discharged they have the knowledge that there is waiting for them a place to work. [More…]
There is nothing worse for a person who has had a mental disturbance than to find when he is capable of supporting himself that an opportunity to participate in labour is no longer forthcoming to him. [More…]
Recently during a strike in mental homes in Queensland - I spoke about this previously in this House - I drew the attention of Australia to the sinister attitude of unions which, on a very narrow demarcation issue and because of jealousy among the men because a woman was granted a position of authority, saw fit to place in jeopardy the very existence of many people who unfortunately had been committed to these homes. [More…]
In the past governments have been at fault in not supplying sufficient money and in not providing sufficient personnel to these essential sections of the community which have been the most disadvantaged of all. [More…]
Apart from the technical training competency gained from the courses, they must also aid in the social development of young men and women. [More…]
Mr Speaker, from earliest times, men have produced in order to live and, in later history, men have produced more in order to live better. [More…]
One wonders why this process is not possible at this moment in Australia. [More…]
It would be irresponsible at this moment to decrease hours of work or significantly to increase real wages because such action would add to the cost of production and, if not accompanied by any increase in productivity, would result in higher prices. [More…]
This is how a country can be betrayed by its own government. [More…]
The present wave of strikes is gathering because behind it there is the wind of Government approval - sometimes tacit, sometimes explicit, but always there, compounded partly by the leftists in die Government and partly by the weak men in the Government who should know better and dare not stand up against what they know is wrong. [More…]
I say to the Minister that many men respected Marshall Rommel and there were others who did not. [More…]
When the Minister for Minerals and Energy speaks of equity he speaks of the interest of the Government. [More…]
Do not believe that Australian equity is the shareholding of Australian men and women, because that is not what the Minister is talking about. [More…]
He is talking about government ownership, direction and control of industry. [More…]
6) which went through Parliament recently the Minister is taking $14m to pay for the pipes which he has resumed for the pipeline. [More…]
When one turns further into the Bill to clauses 45 to 50 one recognises the tremendous power this Commission will have, and one recognises the fact that the men who are appointed to the Commission should be men who are highly skilled and highly qualified, not just people whom the Labor Party wants to push up the line or push sideways, but people who have the ability to cope with the provisions of the legislation. [More…]
The way clause 6 of the Bill has been phrased the Government can appoint any prawn or idiot to a position in which he will make judgment on the words ‘substantially’ and ‘control’ - 2 very important words that are not defined in the Bill. [More…]
They will deplore also the delay which is to occur in the enactment of effective measures for consumer protection at the national level. [More…]
Nobody will doubt, reading those reports, that the consumer protection bureaus and councils themselves are acutely aware of the limitations of their power, especially when it comes to dealing with the great corporations with which this Parliament has only recently gained the power to deal. [More…]
The consumer protection bureaus and the consumer protection councils of the States can exert a certain leverage over the shysters and the small scale con men to whose activities they regularly draw attention in their reports. [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…]
The arguments put forward by the Opposition are shallow and are designed to create a political smokescreen. [More…]
They should realise that the days of this Parliament acting with the pace of a slow and leisurely country club are over. [More…]
Tired old men who cannot work at the pace required will have to make way for others. [More…]
I commend it to the House and hope it will be carried and become law without undue delay. [More…]
These are men into whose hands will be placed the most significant economic weapon, and an error of judgment on their part could conceivably reap the most significant economic damage, one way or the other. [More…]
So the first revelation of this Bill is that the Labor Government which is seriously contending that it is concerned with restrictive trade practices is prepared to put into the hands of a body with unstated qualifications this most significant economic weapon. [More…]
I did not say that all supporters of the Government were communists or procommunist. [More…]
He referred to my statement that the communist leaders in some of these trade unions were not out to help their men get better conditions and that they were deliberately trying to destroy the conditions of their men in order to produce a revolutionary situation. [More…]
Does he not know that those men are out, in accordance with the communist textbooks, to produce a revolutionary situation by means of worker control and things of that character. [More…]
Honourable members opposite know that they are speaking this way only for something to say and, of course, to protect the interests that they on that side of the Parliament represent. [More…]
For my part, I have no doubt that the Labor Party, setting that high standard that it always sets, will pick the men of the highest integrity and ability. [More…]
These statements will not bear investigation. [More…]
If honourable members opposite were on this side of the Parliament every supporter of the Liberal Party, every big businessman would probably ‘be given the right to be on this Tribunal. [More…]
We will pick the right men for the right positions - men of integrity, wisdom and judgment. [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…]
Every criticism the Opposition has levelled at the Commission can be levelled at the Commissioner whose position the former Government created. [More…]
Where does the Opposition’s argument stand now? [More…]
It must be said again in the context of clauses 30 to 44 that the Tribunal, consisting of the most eminent men in the country, will be set up to consider, review appeals from the Commission and to consider whether the matter should go to the industrial court, again consisting of some of the most eminent men. [More…]
He was driven almost to despair by the procrastination and delay of the Government of which he had once been a member. [More…]
When he was leaving this Parliament and going back into private practice at the bar he said: [More…]
The gist of the difference between the original wording and that of the amendment is that the word ‘knowingly’ is inserted before the prohibition on inducing or attempting to induce a corporation to discriminate in the manner set out in the earlier part of the clause. [More…]
Perhaps this is an opportune time to say that in considering these clauses which deal with price discrimination, mergers and certain other practices which are dealt with in the Trade Practices Bill - it of course really could be called the Anti Restrictive Trade Practices Bill - the Government recognises, and I certainly recognise, that the vast majority of businesses in Australia are conducted by extremely well meaning, responsible, civic minded men and women who are wholly devoted to their duties and to the weight of the task which they shoulder in trying to administer their businesses so that they can fit in with changing circumstances in Australia. [More…]
I will say a few words about that in a moment. [More…]
A Mr Dietrich who was General Counsel to the United States Federal Trade Commission gave the Parliamentary Counsel the benefit of his advice. [More…]
I am informed that the draftsman who actually did this work - and we are proud of the quality of his work - is Mr Geoff Kolts of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]
As is well known, the First Parliamentary Counsel is Mr Charles Comans. [More…]
I pay a short tribute to the work done by these men. [More…]
The second ground, and I suppose the more substantial ground in the ultimate, for wishing to have this Bill recommitted is the damage which is being done to this Parliament by the fashion in which massive legislation is pitched through the House in scant time. [More…]
What is the point in having a Parliament? [More…]
If the Parliament cannot and will not consider matters of significance, the only other place in which people will be given an opportunity to consider them is in the street. [More…]
Surely that is not the wish of honourable gentlemen opposite. [More…]
As long as we can preserve the right of free men and free women .to discuss in a free, responsible and rational way matters of policy and matters which concern the safety of the state then the state is in effect assured of a safe position. [More…]
But honourable gentlemen opposite, brick by brick, are demolishing the safety of the state by the manner in which they are behaving. [More…]
Of course honourable members opposite will hold up the business of this Parliament and the 2 honourable members who moved this motion are the most guilty men in the Parliament for time-wasting and phoniness. [More…]
It will not worry the Government but I can see that if the Opposition can get only 46 members today it will have about six here on Christmas Day. [More…]
If honourable members opposite want to debate these measures they should bring their members into the Parliament and see that they vote. [More…]
Then they say that the Government would not allow them to debate the Bill. [More…]
I ask the people and the Parliament to judge, knowing full well that they will come down on the side of the Government. [More…]
When I was looking up the references on sugar I also found the claim that in actual fact it adds years of life to the virility of men. [More…]
Is he aware that these men have been out of work now for 5 weeks, without any intervention by the Minister? [More…]
Is he aware of the unsuccessful attempt by the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and the Federal President of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Hawke, who recognised the dispute to be one of national importance, to bring about a settlement? [More…]
In Victoria there is a strike of power workers, with 150 men on strike. [More…]
There was a recent strike in New South Wales over the 35-hour week, in which the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) played such a discreditable part for himself and for this Government. [More…]
I fail to see how the Government, having refused the Victorian Premier’s offer to have a conference on the matter, can hold up its head in respect of this matter. [More…]
The Minister’s refusal to con ciliate with the Premier of Victoria and to talk with the men of the La Trobe Valley involved in this dispute is, I consider, a very good reason why the Standing Orders should be suspended to allow this matter to be discussed. [More…]
The honourable member should lift his mind out of the gutter and recognise that I am trying to make a contribution for the betterment of all men. [More…]
No fair minded person in this Parliament could possibly condone that practice. [More…]
This is not just a matter of strikes; this is also a matter of shortages, with men working inefficiently because they cannot get material and because they cannot get things delivered on time. [More…]
I suppose that one has to extend the definition of widower to include deserted husbands and divorced men whose children are still dependent upon them. [More…]
I wonder whether the women’s liberation group might think of doing something along these lines. [More…]
If one talks about equality of the sexes, something has to be done for those men, whose wives have died, have dependent children and find it difficult to carry on. [More…]
This, unhappily, is now becoming much more common, and something should be done for men placed in that situation. [More…]
This proposal to some extent, has been covered by the Government’s scheme. [More…]
I do not think that the Government would want to impose a set pattern on all these men, but I suggest to the Government that this is an area in which we could be moving and in which we could be investigating. [More…]
I hope at least that a motherless child’s allowance will be introduced in the near future and that later it will be supplemented by a housekeepers’ allowance or something like the mother’s allowance that is given. [More…]
I commend this suggestion to the Government. [More…]
Security and the Department of Health. [More…]
In doing so I commend the Government for the tremendous forward steps already taken in such a short period of office of 10 or 11 months. [More…]
It is little wonder that he and others, who transported so many of our servicemen and shared the horrors of war with them, resent being treated differently. [More…]
I put this plea forward on their behalf now that so wide ranging a definition has been given in other areas such as that of national servicemen. [More…]
Surely something can be done to grant full equality of rights to those men. [More…]
I refer to those men, Australian citizens, who served with the United States Army small ships in the New Guinea war zone. [More…]
Those men were civilian employees, Australian citizens, paying Australian taxes. [More…]
Now no government, Australian or United States, wishes to recognise them as a liability under their repatriation legislation. [More…]
I know it will be possible to say that in some areas they can be covered under the merchant seamen’s legislation, but this is not factual. [More…]
He was, in fact, recommended for an award for bravery by the United States authorities. [More…]
I want to place on record my very grave concern at what this Government is allowing to happen in Victoria and the consequential hardships being experienced by the population because of the Government’s inability to bring about a settlement of the strike by the electrical trades workers employed by the State Electricity Commission in Victoria. [More…]
The Minister for Labour (Mr Clyde Cameron) has failed to reassure me that he has any real concern for the people he so proudly boasts that he and his Government represent. [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…]
The men rejected his terms. [More…]
I see the looks of despair on honest men’s faces as they stand by the principles they hold dear. [More…]
I hope these desperate men are not being misled by their union leaders. [More…]
No one from the Minister’s Department or the Minister himself has bothered to stir himself to try to solve this serious matter. [More…]
I was amazed to hear the Minister for Labour say that the Victorian Liberal Government was standing over the State Electricity Commission administration to create the impression to the public that the Federal Government was incapable of handling such a situation. [More…]
What a ridiculous statement. [More…]
It does not take any action by the Victorian Government to highlight the fact that this Federal Government is an incompetent, irresponsible and” incapable Government. [More…]
It is all very well to blame the Victorian Government when this Government gives great credence to the role of the great arbitrator, Mr Bob Hawke. [More…]
He waited until he thought the men would surrender and then he stepped in and delivered his ultimatum, hoping that he would join the ranks of ‘I am the greatest’. [More…]
So, with complete abandonment, he trips overseas and lets this situation deteriorate. [More…]
His sense of responsibility lies in the gutter in-fights of Labor policy making, where he performs so well to the detriment of the nation as a whole. [More…]
It has gone beyond the normal avenues for settlement. [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…]
Under the Westminster system of parliamentary government the Committee of Privileges has always been regarded as one of the most important committees of the House, if not the most important. [More…]
Of course, in essence the purpose of parliamentary privilege is to give such protection as may be necessary to enable honourable members to carry out their duties on behalf of their constituents and the nation and to uphold the dignity of the parliamentary institution. [More…]
We all know that the front bench members on both sides of the House are extremely busy men who carry a heavy load of responsibility and a big work load every day, whether the House is sitting or not. [More…]
I pay a compliment to those very senior members of this House who make, their time available to serve on this important Committee. [More…]
What has been the record of 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Governments in regard to the Burdekin River? [More…]
In its first year of office, this Government did something. [More…]
The decision was made in April 1973 by the Australian Government to participate in a joint FederalState Burdekin project committee to undertake a comprehensive study of the Burdekin River basin in Queensland with particular reference to water availability and the requirements of urban irrigation, power generation, industrial and flood mitigation purposes and, against the background of such a study, to develop proposals for the future development of the region. [More…]
Funds were allocated for this project for this study, by the Labor Government only 4 months after coming into office. [More…]
Again, quoting from the Budget Papers, I would like to give some details of the special appropriations for the year ending 30 June 1974 for northern development. [More…]
This financial year, the first under a Labor Government for 23 years, an amount of $46,647,950 has been allocated for special projects in northern Australia. [More…]
Last financial year, under a Liberal-Country Party Government, the amount was $29,510,693. [More…]
So in the first year of a Labor Government the increase in the allocation for special northern development projects has been $17m, an increase of 60 per cent - another dramatic increase. [More…]
I wish that the Leader of the Australian Country Party (Mr Anthony), who was setting out to denigrate the work of the Minister for National Development, were here to hear these figures, because he was the Deputy Prime Minister prior to the Labor Party’s coming to power and was partially responsible and, I would say, would have had a big say in the lack of development in the north. [More…]
He stands condemned, as do all other members of the Ministries of those years, for the travesty that has gone on in regard to the lack of development in the north of Australia - a country that is arid, that needs development and that needs a ton of money pushed into it. [More…]
I admire the people in the north who have to put up with inconvenience, particularly in the grazing community, the cattle men, the ones who have battled for years, who have pressed their own Party - the Country Party - and who have pressed the Government of the day for money to be allocated. [More…]
They have had to suffer the indignity, the loss of finance and everything else because the Government of the day was inept, did not have the courage and did not have the foresight to push money into a part of Australia that sadly needs developing. [More…]
I would like to comment on some of the arrant nonsense that was spoken by the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin). [More…]
But I do thank him for the compliment he expressed when he said that he admires the cattle men who live and have to battle for their existence there. [More…]
The first thing that I want to say is that my Leader did not in any way reflect on the officers of the Department of Northern Development. [More…]
May I add that, in my experience with the Department in the current year, I have had the utmost assistance. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) gave me an open door to his departmental officers and those men have given me every assistance. [More…]
I must say categorically that in no way did the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) reflect on any of those gentlemen. [More…]
While on the subject of the Department, I think the decline in the stocks of the Labor Party was triggered off by the treatment that has been meted out to the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson). [More…]
Because of this very fact he was gagged, and the whole of Australia reacted to that treatment. [More…]
Now we have the unacceptable situation that the Minister can make recommendations on a proposal, but not a decision. [More…]
That is an indictment of the tyranny that permeates the Cabinet which governs this nation. [More…]
Dealing first with the all-pervasiveness and the power of the media, I would say that technology makes this field as important as, say, the development of nuclear weapons, or jet aircraft, or modern earth-moving equipment, or the electronics industry - for example, in the field of computers. [More…]
The difference is that instead of effecting the movement of mountains, the killing of millions of people or the speed of movement, it affects the minds and attitudes of men, and this is obviously a vitally important matter. [More…]
May I mention two or three of the most famous thinkers in the field of education over the centuries. [More…]
Those great men had no doubt that that kind of indoctrination was not merely justifiable but also essential if worthwhile citizens are to be produced. [More…]
You may he aware that we are buying this home and studio as an historical memorial to one of Newcastle and districts great men. [More…]
While I was a member of the Public Works Committee I had the pleasure of listening to executive officers of the Postmaster-General’s Department giving evidence before that Committee. [More…]
I was satisfied that they were dedicated, highly qualified men. [More…]
I believe that the Postmaster-General’s Department will continue to maintain its very high standard of efficiency, particularly under the administration of the present Postmaster-General who I believe will exceed in efficiency any other Postmaster-General who has held this high office in the past. [More…]
It will be interesting for the other people throughout Australia to learn that improvements in mail handling operations have occurred following the establishment of 15 letter preparation lines in the main capital cities. [More…]
The Labor Government is moving in other areas of the Postmaster-General’s responsibility to provide the maximum benefit from improved technology. [More…]
This is being achieved through improvements in day to day organisation. [More…]
Computer based management information systems include the computerised analysis of faults in external line plant and radio telecommunication installations. [More…]
I pay a tribute to the men and women of the Postmaster-General’s Department who work by day and night on behalf of this nation and its people. [More…]
The fact that it is in another charging zone causes constant dis sension among people in the Campbelltown area, particularly business men who find that their telephone bills are virtually double what they would be if their telephone installation was a mile closer to Sydney. [More…]
On behalf of those employed in the Australian Post Office I express my thanks to honourable members who tonight publicly said how much they appreciate the splendid public service rendered by officers and men of the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [More…]
They are a dedicated team who have done a splendid job in the past and they have many commitments to meet in the future. [More…]
One of the comments made was that there was industrial unrest. [More…]
There is no industrial unrest that cannot be solved if the management talks to the men. [More…]
If the management cannot talk to the men, there is a lot of industrial unrest. [More…]
There are a number of other matters which are too numerous to mention. [More…]
Where there is an industrial dispute in contravention of either an arbitration decision or justified government intervention, the people on strike should not be considered to have rights maintained in respect of their employment; nor should they have any approval or support when they prevent other people from taking their jobs in such unjustified strikes. [More…]
If we were to adopt principles of this character I believe that most workers and most employers would accept them, then I think we could get rid of the kind of industrial strife which is now marring our industrial output and preventing the attainment of higher living standards by all Australians. [More…]
This, of course, would be subject to the good will of both sides, and that good will cannot be guaranteed if on the trade union side there are officials who are not trying to help their men, such as by getting them better conditions, but are trying to organise disruption as a plan for some kind of incipient revolution. [More…]
He issued a Press statement which was baseless. [More…]
He claimed that Mr Justice Aird had given a direction to the men to return to work and that lock-outs must not be imposed by builders. [More…]
I am advised that there was a recommendation. [More…]
The Minister in his Press statement said it was an illegal lock-out. [More…]
It said that work must continue on sites where work had already commenced. [More…]
This industrial peace conference can succeed if it receives goodwill and the support of men of goodwill. [More…]
The Minister for Labour totally ignores the fact that Mr Justice Aird’s recommendation, that the men return to work applied to all jobs under dispute. [More…]
Yet the Builders Labourers Federation Executive kept workers off 22 building sites, after the men voted to return to work. [More…]
It knew the men were sick of striking and holding the country to ransom, so it accepted the instruction that the men resume work whilst at the same time hiving off 22 jobs that were to be kept in a strike position for their own greedy, selfish, political motives. [More…]
What the honourable member for Wannon did was make a speech which contained 2 fundamental errors. [More…]
Tradesmen, such as members of the Plumbers and Gasfitters Employees Union, the Building Workers Industrial Union and the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners, have never been on strike, and they have been locked out. [More…]
The builders locked out men who had never been on strike and who had never expressed any intention of going on strike. [More…]
I suggest that the Government might well watch the progress of this expedition, and that the Government and the Parliament could send a message of congratulations to the men on the rafts when they land on the beautiful Sunshine Coast in my electorate. [More…]
I think that the Government could well consider the historical and scientific aspects of this experiment and the question whether the 3 rafts should be preserved for Australia. [More…]
I hope that the Government will consider what I have said tonight. [More…]
There is, of course, a new world wide consciousness of the rights and opportunities of women. [More…]
The nub of the matter that I wish to raise is that women who did the same war work as men, in the same place, wearing even the same clothes, do not get the same housing benefits even if their work was in a war zone, such as Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Previous Liberal governments were not asked to do anything about this matter. [More…]
The May 1973 amendment to the Defence Service Homes Act provided that in the future women will be eligible for home loans in the same way as men. [More…]
In other words, if men are entitled to receive a housing loan assistance grant, women will be entitled to receive that grant also. [More…]
Previously, such benefits had been restricted to persons whose terms of enlistment involved their preparedness to undertake active service overseas. [More…]
During World War II the majority of men in the Australian Imperial Forces, and the other Services, enlisted in such a way that they indicated their preparedness to undertake service overseas, whereas most women - similar to members of the Citizen Military Forces - were engaged for home service only. [More…]
This fact, in itself, automatically disqualified those women from eligibility for home loan assistance. [More…]
I am told - and this is very interesting - that the first women who enlisted in fact did enlist on the same terms as men but when, later, they requested the same sorts of facilities and repatriation assistance as men, these were not granted to them. [More…]
Shortly after some hundreds of women had been enlisted on the same terms as men, the method of enlistment for women was changed. [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…]
In other words, they were in the same position, except for the form of enlistment, as women who served in the Forces at home. [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…]
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…]
On the other hand his female co-worker is not eligible for a loan simply because of the terms of her enlistment. [More…]
The women acted as flight mechanics, transport drivers and cooks doing precisely the same sort of work as men and, often, as I say, in Papua New Guinea working under the same dangers. [More…]
For this work they received, I understand, two-thirds of the male wage, as well as having to suffer the indignity of having to wear blue calico bloomers and men’s giggle suits. [More…]
In future men and women will be entitled to the same benefits, so what I am talking about really is the present effects of what are now historical circumstances. [More…]
The Second World War is now nearly 3 decades past, and most women who served in that War have established themselves in civilian life, but there are some ex-servicewomen, some of them fairly elderly, who are in very straitened circumstances and who cannot help noticing that, with all that is happening to the young women today, they, the older women who served their country in the same circumstances as did many men, are’ not getting the benefits to which the men alongside whom they served are entitled. [More…]
I realise that extending the benefits does involve some complications because there are also men who enlisted for service only in Australia who have to be considered, but the point remains that women doing the same work, wearing the same clothes, getting less pay, suffering the same hardships, sometimes working in areas where war was raging, do not today get the benefits to which men are entitled. [More…]
I ask the Government to consider this matter with the greatest sympathy. [More…]
I congratulate him on his submissions in the Grievance Day debate in which he put stress on inequality between men and women. [More…]
I am proud of my Government’s achievements in education, social services, giving local government direct access to the Loan Council and in establishing the Grants Commission which will relieve the financial burden on local government councils which have been starved of funds for far too long. [More…]
The Australian Government is using its influence on leaders of countries big and small. [More…]
We are in the infancy of world order, but immense progress has already been achieved. [More…]
If all leaders of nations and all men of goodwill will join their hearts, their wills and their efforts, surely permanent peace will at long last be given to all the peoples of this earth. [More…]
I am a supporter of a Government which realises the problems of the Australian people, a Government to whom the burdened heart may pour forth its sorrows, to whom distress may prefer its suit, whose head is guided by justice and whose heart at all times is expanded by benevolence. [More…]
It is an argument consistent with the horse and buggy era. [More…]
The Australian Constitution is at present severely lacking in respect of control by the people over Parliament. [More…]
So many of those who speak about outside control by faceless men and so on are now resisting putting the control of this Parliament into the hands of the people themselves. [More…]
An hour and a half was thrown away last night by the Opposition which, in a contemptible way, had no respect for the dignity of this Parliament. [More…]
Some months ago in this Parliament we debated the issues involved in this measure. [More…]
It was passed twice in this chamber in an attempt to give equality of voting to the Australian people, but decadent old men in the other chamber, comprising mainly the rump of the Liberal Party, decided that they would not allow the Australian people to have equitable voting. [More…]
The Country Party and those who are in control of that Party in Queensland, having the cunning of all confidence men, sensed the support that the Australian Labor Party was gaining and decided to increase the number of electorates from 78 to 82. [More…]
While this argument concerning the rigging of boundaries and the gerrymander that was to take place in Queensland was going on the ‘Australian’ newspaper of 30 March 1971 ran an article under the heading ‘Politics versus principles*. [More…]
I have illustrated how the Country Kid, the oil baron of Kingaroy, and his hatchet men put it all over the city slickers, the smart businessmen of the Liberal Party, whom they took for a ride about 1 8 months or 2 years ago. [More…]
This was a point mentioned over and over by members on this side of the House - that members of Her Majesty’s Opposition be recognised as men with a sense of both duty and responsibility and it would be as well for the Prime Minister to recognise this fact.’ [More…]
I oan quote any number of examples if honourable members opposite want me to elaborate on this statement. [More…]
This Government must start to come down to earth. [More…]
I think it fair to say that until the Prime Minister tells us about the staffing arrangements of Ministers, which he has promised this Parliament to do but has not done, the people of Australia are entitled to know who these faceless men are who are not elected by the Australian people but who cover up for Ministers in every way possible at huge public expense. [More…]
One of the great things about national service is that it produces fine men. [More…]
That sort of outburst illustrates that it is a deliberate policy on the part of the Government to defend its own faults and errors by making allegations against members on this side of the House which are aimed at detracting from our character as men. [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…]
But when he has been wrongly traduced, when he has been chosen as the vehicle to attack all honourable members on this side, and when, unwittingly, recklessly and uncaringly the Government is prepared to pull down this great institution of parliament at the same time, then this Parliament has come to a sad position. [More…]
I fail to see how men sitting behind the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) can laugh so easily. [More…]
I have such respect for the private members of the Government that I know that within their own minds there must be a good deal of stirring as to their respect for their Prime Minister because of such unmanly conduct as we have seen over the past few days, and because he has prevented the court of Parliament making a judgment on whether his actions or the actions of the honourable member for Barker (Dr Forbes) have been appropriate. [More…]
Surely there are such decent instincts among honourable members of this Parliament as not to allow this sort of thing to go on unbridled as we are seeing today. [More…]
I would have thought that on an issue such as this there might have been enough red blooded men in the Government Party to have this matter examined. [More…]
I will accuse Ministers if there is maladministration of their departments. [More…]
Dr Kissinger’s statement predated the Whitlam statement. [More…]
His statement, therefore, is tantamount to calling Dr Kissinger a liar. [More…]
But the men scorned, men such as Nixon, Kissinger, Prime Minister Heath, Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, should not feel too bad. [More…]
I have the honour to refer to your letter of today’s date confirming the Australian Government’s offer to send to Viet Nam an infantry battalion of 800 men, with some 100 personnel in logistic support, to serve with United States forces in assisting in the defence of the Republic of Vietnam. [More…]
This visit indicates the importance which the Japanese Government pays to the whole question of creating a better understanding between our 2 countries. [More…]
The young men and women who are here today will, I am sure, be able to contribute a tremendous amount to the growing friendship between our 2 great countries. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with the Prime Minister and I am pleased now to be able to announce that the Government will host the Asian Labour Ministers Conference in 1975. [More…]
All this legislation does is to seek the approval of the Parliament to give the Australian people the right to say whether their fellow men and women in the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory, including Jervis Bay, shall have the right to exercise their vote in referendums. [More…]
It should receive the support of all fair-minded citizens, and in view of that I commend the legislation to the House. [More…]
These are men who are actually in the Northern Territory and have first hand knowledge and experience. [More…]
They have more to gain or lose than those who speak mainly, from a political standpoint, on behalf of the Government. [More…]
Unless the Parliament and the people support the Government’s attempt to amend the process of amendment, then you are just so many men hoping to God that nothing out of the ordinary will ever happen. [More…]
It is about time that we acknowledged that our Constitution should no longer be used as an obstructive document which can be quoted by any partisan politician for his own purposes. [More…]
I commend the constitution alterations to the House. [More…]
But the other 3 Liberals, the 2 Country Party men and the 6 Labor Party men all supported it. [More…]
Certainly one thing which will make a return to past habits difficult, even under the most reactionary of administrations, is the Government’s decision announced in March this year, to endow 2 fellowships in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at the Australian National University. [More…]
The stimulation of public debate on defence policy in ways such as this will make it very hard for any future government to masquerade the emotionalism of fearmongering as sane defence analysis. [More…]
Significantly, honourable members opposite should benefit from the Government’s determination to pursue rational, logical analysis in defence policy-making. [More…]
Unlike them when they were in power, this Government has no fears of giving the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden) or his relevant spokesman access to defence planning documents if they have the wit to request them. [More…]
One can understand the way these men used secrecy- [More…]
The first is that I am horrified to see that there is in the estimates of the Department of the Navy a cut-back on oil fuel requirements of nearly one-third. [More…]
In other words, financial decisions are being taken which, supplementing the positive decisions - the negative decisions, I should call them - by the Minister, will very seriously impair the ability of the Australian Navy to undertake any sort of reasonable patrol operation in the Indian Ocean or anywhere around the great expanse of Australian coastline. [More…]
Similarly, in the naval air units, the army air units and the Royal Australian Air Force establishments there is a serious cut-back in flying hours at a time when it is more and more essential that the men operating the equipment should be technically able to handle it and should be operationally proficient. [More…]
I briefly recall to the minds of honourable members - although they might not require such recalling - that the men on board the Blythe Star’ launched from the vessel one of the survival rafts which I think was 12 foot in diameter with a fluorescent orange canopy. [More…]
There can be no doubt whatever, that the knowledge amongst farmers that their wheat was received by, and handled by men with that sense of responsibility which pertains to Trusteeship was a source of satisfaction to growers, and a moral strength permeating the whole concept of organised marketing on a Commonwealth basis. [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…]
Perhaps it is enough to return to office a Labor Government that carves up the cake, such as it may be, and we should not concern ourselves with the size of the cake. [More…]
We are turning from the old situation of homo sapiens - wise men, far sighted men - to that of homo servilis; that is, we are turning to men who depend upon the State for everything from the cradle to the grave. [More…]
I ask that this Government again carefully consider the implications of such drastic legislation in the light of the mounting mass of expert opinion that says school milk supplies should continue. [More…]
If Government supporters in this House do not have the courage of their convictions to reject legislation proposed by the Treasurer (Mr Crean), I hope that men of conviction in another place will take more appropriate action. [More…]
He built up a truly remarkable department. [More…]
The enormous scale of that achievement will be understood if I list just a few of the men who served in his Departments: Dr H. C. Coombs, Sir Allen Brown, Professor L. F. Crisp, Sir John Bunting, Sir Arthur Tange, Sir Lenox Hewitt, Mr J. F. Nimmo, Mr Walter Bunning, Professor Gerald Firth, Dr Lloyd Ross, Sir John Crawford, Mr G. Paul Phillips, Mr A. C. B. Maiden, Sir Giles Chippendall, Sir Ronald Walker, Professor S. Butlin, Mr R. G. Osborne, Mr Walter Ives, Mr Jack Campbell, the late Professor R. C. Mills, Sir Harold Wyndham and Professor R. I. [More…]
The Department of Post-war Reconstruction was extraordinarily far-sighted and contemporary in the policies it followed. [More…]
It is not too much to say that in its emphasis on regionalisation and the planned allocation of resources, we had a foretaste, in vastly different circumstances, of many of the principles applied now by the present Government. [More…]
If you love and serve men you cannot by any hiding or stratagem escape the remuneration. [More…]
As the House will be very much aware John Dedman was a regular visitor to Parliament in recent years. [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…]
But possibly his greatest attri bute was a capacity to choose men to aid him in doing the job. [More…]
I was interested to hear the Prime Minister read out the long list of men whom he had solicited to help him do that job. [More…]
So I say to the worthy men of the Labor Party who are representing rural seats: Get to work in caucus and make sure that these Cabinet gentlemen do not steamroll and walk across the face of rural Australia with policies that will cause harm not only to the farming community but also to the nation as a whole. [More…]
I am not trying to pat myself on the back but they have the experience of the things that I went through with the previous Government. [More…]
Only as recently as a couple of years ago the previous government when it was returned said quite definitely - it is in Hansard if anybody wants to look at it - that it had decided that the goldmining industry could die away. [More…]
Of course, just a short time ago he showed that he had no knowledge of the industry when he asked an inane question about whether the North Kalgoorlie gold mine had put off 30 men. [More…]
We realise that to change budgetary proposals can bring criticism and cause embarrassment. [More…]
Let me tell the honourable member this: The Treasurer made some token resistance, but like all other members of the Australian Labor Party he has a great concern for the livelihood of the people, for the little people about whom honourable members opposite did not have any concern when they were in government when they were attacking the gold mining industry. [More…]
They could not care less about the livelihood of the men working in the mining industry. [More…]
It was only as a result of the Australian Labor Party, when it was in Opposition, moving motions of censure that the then Government decided to change its view and increase the subsidy to the gold mining industry. [More…]
These Bills are not ones of which the Government can be proud. [More…]
The Government of course needed to implement the socialist objectives with all the committees and commissions it set up. [More…]
Probably, this legislation is a combination of both - the decisions of 27 men in Cabinet or 93 men in Caucus. [More…]
As to the actual changes being implemented, there are several things upon which I think the House might dwell for a few moments. [More…]
The first is that the office of the Australian High Commissioner is one of those posts abroad which has been traditionally filled by men who are so-called political appointees. [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…]
1 believe that this Government has kept faith in its allocation of money for these purposes. [More…]
As I said during the earlier part of my speech, I think that the crunch will come in the next triennium, when we see just what this financial assistance has done for these tertiary institutions and how they will respond to the stimulus that they are given, because respond they must in the submissions that they make for the next triennium and in the variety of courses and the variety of facilities which they will make available and which will allow young men and women to cope with the needs of modern day life. [More…]
I mention these changes and these challenges because it is to the teachers, to responsible professionally trained young men and women, that the future course of the lives of our young children will be moulded. [More…]
I desire to raise the subject of the effect upon the defence of Australia of the scrapping by the Government of the DDL program for the Royal Australian Navy. [More…]
We have, in fact, asked questions about the cost of this program in relation to our total defence commitment. [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…]
When they arrive here things may happen in the hearts of young men or young women and it may well be that they enter into a sincere and enduring relationship. [More…]
But at the same time whenever an application is made on the basis that they fit the criteria - I stress that again - they are counselled in accordance with the arrangements made with our neighbouring countries, that is, that they had originally undertaken to come to Australia to study and then to return home. [More…]
On 29 August the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) announced that the Parliamentary Labor Party had considered the results of the Public Service Board’s review. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that barriers against the permanent appointment of women to the Third Division were removed in 1949, and restrictions against the permanent appointment of married woman to the service were removed in 1966. [More…]
It was announced in August that as a result of the Board’s review, all positions in the Australian Public Service are to be open equally to men and women applicants who can perform the full range of duties required. [More…]
The Prime Minister indicated that the Government had agreed to repeal these provisions in the Public Service Act which could be said to discriminate against women, but which had become redundant. [More…]
It is necessary to do this for 2 reasons: Not only because it is our conviction that it ought not to be repealed, but also because we want to make honest men out of the Government. [More…]
Therefore, it is very much in the Government’s interests that we ought to refuse to repeal that legislation. [More…]
Some documentation of that point is needed. [More…]
I have noticed that tremendous emphasis has been placed on the amount of expenditure contained in this Bill, as though expenditure alone was the panacea and that if one allocates hundreds of millions of dollars all the problems will be overcome. [More…]
I find it very easy to imagine in the present economic circumstances in Australia, when we have difficulties in obtaining builders and building materials, just to name 2 areas, the enormous difficulties which Education Departments and school systems will have in expending the money allocated to them. [More…]
In fact, this factor could have a serious effect in driving up costs, particularly building costs, in the next couple of years as schools and school systems compete with each other for scarce resources, be those resources men or materials. [More…]
I would like to see in the programs for succeeding years some provision for the training in the building industry of young Aborigines who show a capacity for this area of employment. [More…]
I realise that many of these young men would not have the secondary school qualifications necessary to commence an apprenticeship. [More…]
Indeed, many of them live in country towns in which the number of qualified tradesmen is fairly small and it would be difficult for them to enter upon apprenticeships. [More…]
We probably need, on a regionalised basis, colleges operating in the field of the building industry to train young Aboriginal people to serve in this industry in which they will not only receive employment but also work to advantage their own people. [More…]
There is a need to design special types of houses - I know that the word ‘transitional’ is a dirty word in relation to housing, but it need not be - to cater for the particular needs of Aborigines and to suit the degree of transition that they have made from their own traditional environment to living in the broader Australian community. [More…]
I think this Government owes a great debt to the program of Aboriginal secondary school grants established by the previous Government when the honourable member for MacKellar (Mr Wentworth) was responsible for Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
The basis was laid on which in the future a greater number of young Aboriginal men and women would be able to take employment for which they were trained. [More…]
I think its establishment is probably very good in theory. [More…]
He speaks the language and he knows more about Aborigines than anyone in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs today. [More…]
These 2 men say these things and so does anyone else who knows anything about Aborigines. [More…]
From the experience that I have gained over the past 35 years as a result of living in association with Aborigines, and from speaking to men who have had the same - if not more - experience, I believe that a grass roots approach should be adopted. [More…]
It means going back to a hard slog of getting departmental officers or interested people - I would say both black and white Australians - to go out and consult with Aborigines in their own groups. [More…]
I have said often that I consider that the Minister and the Government are getting the wrong advice about Aborigines. [More…]
Let me mention only a few of the people who could be advisers to the Government. [More…]
I will mention the Europeans only this time because I consider that Aboriginal groups should be allowed to pick their own advisers. [More…]
I have included in my list some of the men who have been passed over. [More…]
I would say that men such as Bishop 0’Loughlin who has been in the Northern Territory for years, Paul Albrecht, who was born in the Northern Territory, Reverend Symonds, Ted Evans, and Martin Ford could be appointed to such a panel. [More…]
These are department men. [More…]
But we cannot by-pass the experience of such men. [More…]
The self- determination theory is not really working very well at the moment. [More…]
The Government should listen to men like Gary Stol! [More…]
He works with the Aborigines and is, incidentally, the Superintendent of the settlement. [More…]
I am certain that the Aborigines themselves do not want to turn their backs on such men and the experience these men have. [More…]
To all those who have been officers of the Department of External Territories under its several names I also pay credit. [More…]
Both the Minister and the honourable member for Kooyong have made reference to the contribution that these men have made. [More…]
Their actions both in the past and in the present represent the highest contribution that men can make within the obligations that are theirs as members of the Australian Public Service. [More…]
I believe that their contribution to the self-government and to the status of Papua New Guinea must be a great tribute to their own personal efforts. [More…]
To Michael Somare, the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea and to his parliamentarians the responsibility for the future is now passed. [More…]
It did not occur only during the period of government of my Party. [More…]
In those days 10 men did less than 3 men would do towards the end of my time, because- manpower has been replaced with machinery. [More…]
But the spirit of men here was greater than the vision of faraway politicians, and gradually the people spread out from Port Jackson to the north, south and west. [More…]
His own strategists within his Department do not agree with this study. [More…]
In the recent Middle East outbreak of hostilities we saw a completely incompetent comprehension of the development of the surface to air missile. [More…]
We saw an enormous amount of weaponry and mobile armament battered into submission because of a lack of understanding. [More…]
This is what happens when men are not trained to use the weapons. [More…]
One of the reasons for the disharmony is that the men and women of the work force are not catching up with prices. [More…]
We all, I believe, wish to legislate for periodic cost of living adjustments. [More…]
I do not wish to draw attention only to the arguments put forward by this side of the House. [More…]
I draw attention once again to these 16 economists I mentioned. [More…]
I am glad that we have had this opportunity in this place to put these arguments. [More…]
1 understand that there is no intention to change the dimensions of the egg delivery devices but I am sure that the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the hatchery men will be able to take this in their stride if it comes about. [More…]
I would like to make a few comments on this matter. [More…]
I would like to make a few general comments on the egg industry. [More…]
Is it a fact, as claimed by the Union, that 80 men will be affected. [More…]
Has the Minister for Health noted widespread comment in support of cheap, even free, and easily accessible vasectomy operations for men? [More…]
Is he concerned that in the event of such a development promiscuity may be encouraged among young men? [More…]
In such an event, has he any proposals for the preservation of the virtue and moral rectitude of the young men of our society? [More…]
Would be like to walk around and see the high rise office buildings which have been constructed for investment purposes by entrepreneurs in the hope of making profits in the future? [More…]
It takes men to construct buildings, too. [More…]
Whilst men are erecting these high rise buildings in the cities of Melbourne and Sydney they cannot be erecting villas in which workers can live. [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…]
How did we get a shortage of tradesmen? [More…]
I shall tell honourable members: We have this shortage because the previous Government had a policy of employing contractors on its jobs rather than training its own tradesmen. [More…]
But did the previous Government look at the longterm social consequences to Australia? [More…]
I support the remarks of the honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) and I support the amendment which has been returned from the Senate and which was originally moved in the House. [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…]
At the time it was being discussed, they did not know that the Prime Minister or the Government had included in the Bill clause 2 (c), which seeks virtually to lower the number of States that would have to show a majority in favour of a referendum proposal from four to three. [More…]
Still, Mr Withnall, a leading lawyer in the Northern Territory, found it somewhat odd, in view of the fact that this provision in the Constitution is to come under very careful scrutiny by the Standing Committee of the Constitutional Convention, that we should be asking the Commonwealth Parliament to put before the people a referendum in advance of the decision of that Convention. [More…]
So would I, and so did the Opposition when it moved the amendments in this House and in the Senate. [More…]
However, these legal men in the Northern Territory have their reservations. [More…]
Mr Withnall said that he would like to see them have a vote, but that it ought to be on terms more carefully considered, on terms that seek to determine the exact way in which section 128 is to be amended. [More…]
These are the legal men in the Northern Territory spelling this out. [More…]
Why is the Government hurrying the Bill through the House? [More…]
In the recent Budget, the Government allocated $30m for a beginning to the sewerage backlog program. [More…]
In setting the level of assistance, the Government was fully aware of the pressures on resources, both men and materials, this year. [More…]
This year the Australian Government has made available almost $10Om for the purpose of improving the supply of serviced land, which is an important element in the price of land. [More…]
I assure honourable members that I believe that the report presented by those 3 prominent men - Mr Justice Else-Mitchell of the New South Wales Supreme Court, Professor Russell Mathews of the Australian National University and that progressive and enlightened developer Mr Dusseldorp - is a social landmark in this country. [More…]
All that the people can do next Saturday is give the Australian Parliament the jurisdiction to pass laws on prices and incomes. [More…]
It will then remain for the Parliament to pass such laws. [More…]
The State parliaments always have had the power to pass laws with respect to prices and incomes. [More…]
The New South Wales Parliament, in particular, on many occasions in the last 20, 30 or even 40 years has passed laws with respect to incomes. [More…]
It is because the New South Wales Parliament has passed laws with respect to incomes that in that State all wage and salary earners, male and female, were able to get equal wages and salaries, paid annual holidays, paid long service leave, quarterly cost of living adjustments, sick leave and a great number of other benefits - all done by a Parliament which had the power to pass laws with respect to incomes. [More…]
All the State parliaments have had that power to pass laws with respect to incomes. [More…]
But if the people endow this Australian Parliament with that jurisdiction next Saturday, then early next year we can expect to introduce laws which will apply equal pay for men and women who are employees everywhere in Australia. [More…]
We will introduce a program to bring in equal pay for all men and women. [More…]
We will introduce a law to ensure that there are periodic cost of living adjustments for wage and salary earners as we are doing for pensioners. [More…]
Do we accept the sugar coated ‘innocence’ of this Bill or do we believe the publicly professed intentions of the Australian Labor Party about socialisation and the expressed intentions of honest men such as Cass, Everingham, Gun and Hayden, who have gone on record saying that their aim is socialisation of the public sector of medical care, which is palpably on record as their future intent? [More…]
The task of the Government - not our task - was to prove that its alternative scheme was better than ours. [More…]
Not all general practitioners are willing participants in the campaign that has been conducted against this Government. [More…]
Some of them are sick to death of what has been a disgraceful campaign of misrepresentation of this Government’s proposals. [More…]
I pay tribute to those general practitioners who are dedicated, hard working sincere men - men to be admired for the long hours they give to patient care at the expense of their own private lives. [More…]
They are men who have seen a diversion of a large part of their practice to their more fortunate colleagues, the specialists, under the present patched up scheme. [More…]
This Government’s health proposals will bring justice and relief to these men, and I believe that they deserve it. [More…]
I hope that these doctors will now strike out, stand up for honesty and truth and join in the development of the proposals outlined in these Bills. [More…]
Clearly there should be some degree of government involvement - even intervention - in the appropriate place in health services. [More…]
The problem is that in a complex area such as health there needs to be other views - views of those people who actually work in the field of medicine - to offset those of just 2 men. [More…]
We must not be blinded by the circumscribed views of those 2 men. [More…]
What about all the young men between about 15 years and 33 years of age? [More…]
At the moment^ when they get a cold or a headache they do’ not want to bother themselves with going to see a doctor. [More…]
But under the Government’s health scheme, these people will , think: ‘Well, the Government is. [More…]
They are two good men, but sometimes their policies are as desperately misguided as are the policies and speeches of the honourable member for Hunter. [More…]
I might say that in my own household I would not be much of an advertisement for such a balance as I am outnumbered by four to one. [More…]
That represents a considerable improvement on the earlier position. [More…]
In urban areas the women now outnumber men by 100 to 97, so the urban boys have what I might term a much less competitive time. [More…]
However, there is some improvement in the intermarriage rate which helps the situation. [More…]
So there has been some improvement. [More…]
I will do my best to maintain the rate of improvement in the direction of balance. [More…]
The Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) told us at the beginning of his second reading speech that the decision to set up this authority is based on the policy of the Government as enunciated by the 1971 Launceston Conference of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The conference was, after all, only a meeting of the faceless 36 men or whatever number they have now been increased. [More…]
These men were not elected by the people and it is doubtful whether there was even one geologist among the lot of them. [More…]
One of the Minister’s colleagues, the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) thought so little of this conference that he strongly attacked its decisions on primary industry of which he was then the official Opposition spokesman by saying that very few members of the conference knew anything about rural matters. [More…]
However, the Australian Country Party, at least, in the past has had some men of vision, some good Australians, who made sure that these pieces of public enterprise remained and were not dismantled as a previous Australian asset in the oil field - the 50 per cent ownership of the Australian people in Commonwealth Oil Refineries - was dismantled in 1952 by the Menzies’ Government. [More…]
It has all been a tremendous loss to the Australian community. [More…]
The Leader of the Country Party unfortunately had not done sufficient homework even to recognise that an important amendment will be incorporated in this legislation. [More…]
I am not ashamed to say that I - I suppose more than anybody else - am responsible for that amendment. [More…]
I am grateful for the wholehearted support of the Minister for Minerals and Energy and also to my colleagues in the parliamentary Labor Party for agreeing to this amendment. [More…]
I have great hopes that this man will be one cf the top mining men in this country. [More…]
We know, of course, that anyone who has coal interests at the moment is planning to sell as much coal as he can as quickly as he can because the international scene is not encouraging. [More…]
A group of us recently had the tremendous advantage of seeing something of what is happening in the area of solar energy. [More…]
I think it is well known to anyone who has the remotest interest in the energy situation that valuable experimentation is going on in southern Arizona in relation to solar energy. [More…]
The Government is creating a situation in which people with expertise are leaving this country. [More…]
Australia was once the country to which geologists, great international geophysicists and the most brilliant men in the mining industry came. [More…]
It was the Mecca for men in the mining industry. [More…]
There are men on the other side of the chamber who know it and who have fought for it - I am prepared to acknowledge that they fought courageously for that principle - and they will not go home from this place tonight happy men. [More…]
In February of this year, a time when they were in Government, the Minister for Education, in a letter to the Secretary of the Parents and Friends Federation of Victoria, stated: [More…]
I want to extend some congratulations to the Australian Country Party which contains some men of wisdom who realised that we looked like going to the people to fight for $6m to be given to the wealthy schools, which is what the Liberal Party wanted. [More…]
The Government decided that now that the Commission has been agreed to it would not be so miserly as to not extend some additional grants. [More…]
When he was caught out on that, he did not think about the reputation of these men; all he thought of was his own political advantage. [More…]
He went to the lengths of putting out untrue and absolutely unjustified statements that these people were second raters and third raters. [More…]
This was an endeavour, at the last moment, on the day before the referendum vote, to deceive the Australian people. [More…]
The Australian people, whether because of this letter from the economists or for some other reason, saw through the Prime Minister; they saw through what the Government was trying to do at the referendum. [More…]
By a very decided and almost unprecedented vote in every State in Australia they called the Government to task; they said that they did not trust the Government. [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…]
Of course it would not have been unusual to go onto farms in years gone by, and still today, and find women cooking for and looking after many men with no recognition whatsoever by the nation. [More…]
Women have been in the work force for a long time. [More…]
Women are now moving into other areas within the Public Service. [More…]
In considering this legislation, we are looking at the acceptance of directorships by public servants in various establishments in Australia. [More…]
If men and women are capable by reason of their qualifications of carrying out certain duties in certain positions, in my book regardless of where those duties may be carried out the benefit of those qualifications and that expertise should be taken advantage of. [More…]
From memory, each shift of 8 hours involved 5 men - 15 in all were employed - of whom 3 were Australians and 2 were Americans. [More…]
The problem of ensuring the availability of an adequate number of experienced and capable legislative draftsmen has been one that has troubled this country, along with most other countries, for a long time. [More…]
That this Parliament has been able to enact so many laws has been due in the main to the dedication of a small number of able men. [More…]
There is no need for me to impress on honourable members that good government requires good laws and that good laws are dependent on the availability of legal draftsmen with sufficient skills and experience to enable the government of the day to express its policies in appropriate legislation. [More…]
My Government is unequivocal in its belief in the equality of men of all races: we have proclaimed that belief and have consistently acted in accordance with it. [More…]
My Government believes the war in Vietnam was a bitter disaster, the end result of the squandering of opportunities for peace presented two decades ago. [More…]
Above all my Government believes in those abiding virtues in Australian society which have given us a distinctive nationhood, the belief in fraternity and independence, the instinct for fair play, justice and freedom that Eureka signifies. [More…]
It is those virtues which Australia’s foreign policies have sought to embody over the last year; it is that independence which my Government has celebrated and revived. [More…]
Of all the appointments that it has fallen to me to make as the Leader of the Government, there is none in which I take such great satisfaction in the House and outside as the appointment of its Leader. [More…]
He has been assisted by the Whips, the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Hansen) and the honourable member for Bonython (Mr Nicholls) on the Government side and the honourable member for Henty (Mr Fox) and the honourable member for Calare (Mr England) on the Opposition side. [More…]
They are all experienced and firm but decent men. [More…]
Not all of us can express, because time would not permit, but I must express my own pleasure in the work - heavier I suppose than I have ever had to undertake - with my eoi-; leagues in the Cabinet and in the Government. [More…]
Like all of us who have staff - Ministers and Opposition office bearers - we are immensely assisted by the men and women who are prepared to work for us on our staffs. [More…]
Needless to say, the Government Printer and his staff have been kept busy this year. [More…]
I also commend to the House the work of the Hansard and Parliamentary Library staffs, the secretaries and stenographers and the hundreds of men and women who work in this building. [More…]
There is also a class of men who wait outside the building - the drivers. [More…]
Is it a fact that one in four of the Yirrkala men has a drink problem. [More…]
Are most of the drinkers young men whose dignity is affected. [More…]
The majority of Aboriginals who drink are young men. [More…]
and (3) The Women’s Services are auxiliary forces to enable the release of men for employment on operational tasks. [More…]
In accordance with accepted national attitudes women are not trained for combat duty. [More…]
This necessarily limits the range of employment, training, and posting opportunities for servicewomen. [More…]
Women have the same opportunities for promotion as men in their respective fields. [More…]
The differentials for NCOs and officers are an interim measure as recommended by the independent Committee of Inquiry into Services Pay, pending the outcome of a work value inquiry now proceeding. [More…]
If so, did their defence counsel say that their crime had been made easy for the men because of the manner in which the cheque had been sent. [More…]
It was a very unusual and singular honour bestowed on him that the men who work in the Post Office should ask him to march with them on that day. [More…]
In 1968 there was a dispute and 11,000 men walked off the job. [More…]
What was the answer of the previous Government to this problem? [More…]
The Government of 1968, in which the honourable member for Wannon had a part to play, had an instant and brilliant solution. [More…]
It dismissed or suspended all of the men. [More…]
Of course, the men to whom I have referred were subsequently reinstated. [More…]
That is an indication of the level of ability which the previous Government had in settling disputes. [More…]
The attitude of the previous Government if men went on strike or stopped work, was to suspend them or dismiss them from service. [More…]
This country has suffered for 23 years from being under the control of men who were so fearful of change as to seek out every avenue in order that it might be blocked. [More…]
They will surely endorse our basic proposal to ensure that all electorates for all Parliaments in this country are represented in direct relation to the populations they contain. [More…]
It was something about which civilised men - Australians who have the welfare of Australia at heart - could sit down and say: ‘Here is something we can give to you because it is proper and correct. [More…]
It gets rid of the rigidity and the legalism - I am a lawyer - that are inherent in the system at the moment. [More…]
Dr Coombs was one of 3 men chosen by Prime Minister Holt - the other two being Professor Stanner and Ambassador Dexter - to advise him as members of the Council of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
That statement was made at the very end of his answer at the time when he disclosed to the House that 2 members of the Royal Australian Air Force had lost their lives and 2 members had been injured, and that 2 members of the Army had lost their lives and one had been injured, in providing aid to flood victims. [More…]
That is a matter which would evoke from this side of the House the utmost sympathy for the relatives of the men and more particularly we would want to offer tribute to the way in which the service was carried out by the armed forces. [More…]
It is important for me to say that there was great amusement or embarrassment on this side of the House and amusement or embarrassment displayed by a number of people on the Government side because the Minister was shuffling through papers and was unable to answer the question for a considerable time. [More…]
I believe that it does not apply to them and, in the light of experience, it has been indicated that there is a lot of satisfaction with the competent way which these men held their portfolio and their handling of their portfolios was certainly not a disaster. [More…]
Under the previous Government’s legislative program we were given roughly a week’s notice of proposed legislation. [More…]
I believe that there is a lot to be said for an arrangement under which a government could tell the Opposition or its own members intimately what its legislative program would be 5 or 6 weeks ahead. [More…]
But practical men know that a government cannot do that. [More…]
Such matters depend on draftsmen and others. [More…]
Since the Government took office we have seen great increases in productivity and a great reduction in unemployment. [More…]
We are seeing moves to bring about greater equality in Australia for men, women and children and the various other matters which have been the main planks of our platform. [More…]
I believe that this Government in the short space of 15 months has done that. [More…]
It shows a group of men sitting around a board-room table with a graph going predictably up. [More…]
This page with about eight or nine different records on it shows exactly what this Government is doing for the economy. [More…]
There is not much doubt that in sport and recreation Australia has entered a new, long overdue era, that our Government has, for the first time ever, openly and without bashfulness, decided to accept at least partial responsibility for the physical well-being and the leisure time recreation of its people. [More…]
As it is becoming fashionable nowadays, I would like to present the case for a pressure group, even if this group, for a change, is the vast majority, the silent majority of our country - the you, the you and the me; the hundreds of thousands of normal, ordinary, decent men, women and youngsters whose only crime’ is that for too long they have been taking it on the chin. [More…]
These people are entitled to a fair deal from us and I am sure our Government will give it to them. [More…]
But heavens above, they do not know where the Government stands. [More…]
The announcement by the Prime Minister on this subject proves beyond all doubt his lack of knowledge of the electorate in relation to this question and his lack of knowledge and understanding on the practical side. [More…]
I, like many of my colleagues, cannot understand why men like the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) and the Minister for Immigration can see what is going on and yet not have any influence. [More…]
So there is a natural cleavage here between one school that thinks there should be fiscal honesty and that money and funds for paying for these things should be collected - in other words, the purchasing power should be destroyed to make room for the Government - and the other school that says: ‘Do not worry about all this: Just leave taxation where it is and hope for the best.’ [More…]
Until we get a government or a group of men who are prepared to do this I am afraid we are in for a very bad immediate future. [More…]
The loss of and damage to property and personal belongings was immense. [More…]
How is it possible to evaluate the effect on the future wellbeing of men, women and children who fall into the cold category of flood victims? [More…]
Men and women from all walks of life - office workers, labourers, tradesmen and professional people, some young and some not so young - volunteered for the mammoth job of cleaning up. [More…]
It was a decent attitude and one to be commended. [More…]
Now one can walk into such establishments and find that the racks are almost empty. [More…]
and machinery generally, and that situation will not be rectified unless men work. [More…]
The standard of living that we have enjoyed for so many years and the rate of building we have seen in this country will not be maintained unless men are prepared to work. [More…]
I doubt if it is being handled correctly and I will refer to that in a few moments. [More…]
I should like to add the sympathy of the Government to the men, women and families in his electorate, particularly in such large cities as Lismore and Murwillumbah, who have now been stricken as were so many people further north a month and two months ago. [More…]
Rather that it was obviously unnecessary for me to refer to other economic advisers of the Prime Minister - and there are others - because those other men were in no way associated with Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
I put it to you, Mr Speaker, that the ineference that the Prime Minister has made here today is unparliamentary in form, unparliamentary in character and completely unjustifiable in both those circumstances and the present ones. [More…]
There is no justification in this place for men who are prepared to carry on in that form. [More…]
Indeed, I think all of us last Thursday realised the lack of ability that the Prime Minister has to control himself in circumstances where one probes the administration of his Department or his own deficiencies. [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…]
He thought: ‘Nobody is going to worry me with statements like that’. [More…]
No two men in this Parliament use language that is insulting and unparliamentary more than the mover and the seconder of this motion use. [More…]
There is an old axiom in this Parliament: If you cannot take it, do not hand it out. [More…]
For the past 465 days, the media have concentrated their attention on the actions of the Government. [More…]
There is a limit to how long any Opposition can continue without a policy and even the most generous and biased among the electorate must be embarassed by what is purported to be policy statements by the Opposition during the Christmas recess. [More…]
It is a measure of how desperately short of talent the Liberal Party is that it should have at the helm 2 men who had the dubious distinction of recording the biggest swings against them in any electorate in Australia. [More…]
The plastic men of the Liberal Party commenced their caterwauling on 3 December 1972. [More…]
Crisis, chaos, industrial anarchy, communists, fascists, centralists, spendthrifts, misers and a host of other phrases roll glibly off the tongues of these men as they continue on the same path of dividing the nation in Opposition as they did for 23 years in Government. [More…]
In Australia the power brokers in the trade union movement are active, ruthless men who would seize upon the opportunity of an unsettled world to catch this country off guard and create an atmosphere of dissent and dissatisfaction which will only lead to crises in Australia. [More…]
They served alongside men of the Air Force. [More…]
Why should ex-servicemen be eligible for Trust homes but not ex-servicewomen? [More…]
I point out that men who enlisted for overseas service but who were not sent overseas are eligible. [More…]
Women who also enlisted to serve anywhere but who were not sent overseas are ineligible. [More…]
I have been informed by one of these ex-servicewomen that a recent advertisement for the recruitment of WAAFs stated that they will become eligible for defence service homes. [More…]
I ask: Why should women who serve in peacetime be eligible for these homes whilst those who served in time of war are not? [More…]
There are members of this House who will recall that Winston Churchill told the House of Commons in 1947 that democracy is the worst form of government except all the other forms that have been tried from time to time. [More…]
Honourable members who attach an equal or greater value to the institution of parliamentary democracy must view with alarm the loss of confidence in those institutions which is being revealed at successive elections around the world. [More…]
Even before the Watergate tragedy that destroyed President Nixon and set in train the destruction of the Republican Party, opinion polls showed that between 1958 and 1970 the number of white Americans who believed that government is run by the people’s representatives for the benefit of the people had declined from 74 per cent to 45 per cent, while the number who believed that government is run by big interests for their own sake rose correspondingly from 18 per cent to 48 per cent. [More…]
Among black Americans the number who believed that government is run by the people for the people declined from 78 per cent to 34 per cent, and the number who believed that government is run by big interests for the sake of big business rose from 12 per cent to 63 per cent. [More…]
Increasingly in all the countries of the European Economic Community, in Scandinavia and throughout the Englishspeaking democracies, there is a mood of disillusionment and cynicism about members of parliament, the institution of parliament and the democratic process itself. [More…]
Events are preparing the way for men on horseback who will echo Cromwell’s call to the Rump Parliament: [More…]
you shall now give place to better men. [More…]
This is very disturbing because among those resignations - in fact, forming a significant proportion of them - are trained men whom the Army can ill afford to lose. [More…]
The men in those areas have to get rid of that sand in order to get down to their pastures and try to cultivate the ground again. [More…]
I saw crops lost and I saw men getting their tractors out of the water, drying them out, starting them up and going to plough in the stubble, to try again. [More…]
They could not obtain any unemployment benefit because they lost last year’s income. [More…]
I have made representations to both the Queensland Government and the Federal Government, and I hope that finance will be made available for these people, many of whom are already burdened down with mortgages. [More…]
I hope that the Government comes up with it now and I hope that the interest payments will be delayed to give these men a chance to get on their feet again. [More…]
The Kilcoy Shire Council will have to bear tremendous costs as a result of that action. [More…]
I think that the Lord Mayor’s action should be inquired into because statements of responsible men have been levelled at him and I think that the position ought to be clarified. [More…]
It is pretty clear that it is not strikes and industrial unrest that are causing lack of productivity, if this is a contributing factor but rather industrial accidents, which occur nine times out of ten because the employer refuses to comply with regulations and make work safe for his men. [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…]
This Government has made advances in many areas, apart from the obvious ones of education and pensions. [More…]
Let me refer to this Government’s attitude towards servicemen. [More…]
I read in this morning’s Press that the ratio of officers to enlisted men in the Australian Army is something like one officer to every 6.3 enlisted men. [More…]
I do not know whether it is suggested that we should double the number of officers so that every third bloke in the Army is an officer, or whether we ought to increase the number of enlisted men. [More…]
I think that I have as much association with servicemen as anybody in this House has, and that has not been my experience. [More…]
They are pleased with the things that the Australian Labor Party Government has done for them. [More…]
They are in no way deterred by the attitudes of the Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
In fact they are pleased that there has been a change of government. [More…]
On that occasion the demon strators were allowed to make their point and they immediately responded as sensible men would be expected to do to the appeal made by His Honour. [More…]
The previous speaker, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, said that the Government could have been satisfying the 400,000 people who he says need houses. [More…]
I hope that honourable members opposite will pay serious and critical social attention to the Henderson report when it is published, I hope, shortly, lt is an indictment of the Australian nation - not of this Government or of any particular government, but of governments in the past. [More…]
It shows that, despite advantages that this country has, something like 1 in 10 of its men, women and children - old people, married people on low incomes and children - is suffering from what might be called some degree of poverty. [More…]
The first is the degree to which it is reducing the initiatives and endeavours of those in the private sector of the economy and diverting funds from the private sector into the public sector so that the Government can pursue its programs. [More…]
The second respect is the impact that high interest rates have had on the ordinary men and women in the Australian community in pushing up the costs of everything they want to do and in denying them the opportunity to build homes and to do many of those things which as Australians we have come to expect as a result of years of sound and wise economic management by governments from this side of the House. [More…]
Of course the Opposition’s complete disinterest in the idea of making any propositions at all as to how any government can overcome the demand liquidity situation with which this country is confronted has been of interest. [More…]
It would be the height of absurdity for anybody to suggest that the economic situation that prevails in Australia has descended overnight or that’ it is even the creation of the present Government. [More…]
Of course they sit opposite today able to talk in this critical way, but if anyone takes the trouble to look at any of the documents and any of the economic trends from any official papers it can be clearly established that those persons opposite are the guilty men. [More…]
If there is any quibble with that, let me just give some statistical information to show how those who sat on the Government side of the chamber for 23 years, in a desperate preelection situation, gave rise to a state of affairs with which we are now confronted. [More…]
Now the Labor Government, after 23 years, faced with the products of that irresponsibility, is trying to bring order out of chaos which was irresponsibly created by those who dare today to criticise this Government which is taking positive forms of action to arrest what we willingly acknowledge to be a highly undesirable situation. [More…]
However, at the same time thousands of men who would not otherwise have an opportunity to learn the skills required in harnessing the water are employed in these operations. [More…]
The exercises that are embarked upon as a result of these loans are of tremendous benefit. [More…]
Also, the people of a country are brought into a new area of industrial development. [More…]
He then mentioned high oil prices. [More…]
He mentioned the price of food. [More…]
Now while I agree that there is some truth in the 3 points mentioned by the Treasurer they are not by any means the only significant causes of inflation, nor do they constitute a complete list. [More…]
There was not a word about all the improved conditions of employment in the fields of holidays and superannuation and the other benefit increases. [More…]
There was not a word about his Government’s encouragement in the Arbitration Court of wage costs beyond the national productivity increase or the encouragement of Public Service wage increases and condition improvements which have got to the point where they greatly compete, indeed I think in many areas unfairly compete, with the needs of the productive private sector. [More…]
I think practically all those men are hard-working, dedicated and entitled to what they get; I am talking about the thousands upon thousands - as a matter of fact, more than 200,000 - clerks and others at lower levels who have received increases out of all proportion to the national increase in productivity. [More…]
There was not one word from the Treasurer in this reply about Government expenditure on an unprecedented scale, most of which goes to the administrative side of these matters, to the Public Service, and not to production or those directly providing services. [More…]
The honourable member for Cook also said that this Government was an inventive government. [More…]
It has invented more mistakes than any other government that I can remember in the 9 years I have been in this House. [More…]
I am quite sure that with one or two exceptions, several of whom I can see looking at me now, the honourable members on the Government side will not object if 1 say that this Government is an inventive government of old, tired-out trade union hacks who are talking off the top of their heads and who are swayed entirely by the left wing of the Labor movement. [More…]
The way to democratic government is not sectional rule from one area of the Australian people. [More…]
If I might go further, we see in these days of open government the complete silencing of erstwhile good debaters and people with a bit of constructive thought. [More…]
When worthwhile debates come along he keeps his own men down. [More…]
He is so frightened that a split will appear in the Government ranks that the order goes out - the manifesto and the thumb screws - that: No Government members must get up in case we look as brittle as we really are’. [More…]
This is the open government which we see today. [More…]
It is very generous of the Government to keep its own members down. [More…]
But what has happened to the parliamentary thrust and to the to and fro of debate in which members look critically and analyse properly legislation? [More…]
All of that has gone by the board since the advent of this so-called open government. [More…]
I cannot think of anything that gives me more sorrow than to see the democratic process and parliamentary process so denied to the people of Australia as it has been recently on a great series of debates, which I will not bore the House by mentioning because they are well known to all honourable members. [More…]
Let me deal with the 12 Fijians who came in search of settlement but who entered through the back door. [More…]
Let me assure this House that the men in question were deported solely because they had come to Australia under the guise of tourists but with the real intention of breaking Australia’s laws and taking employment. [More…]
The Minister now has dashed those hopes and expectations and has made, by implication, serious allegations against a Fijian member of Parliament. [More…]
The Minister repeated some of the statements of the Fijian member of Parliament and then, by implication, associated that member of Parliament with unscrupulous people interested in a modern form of blackbirding, hostage to the exploiters who masterminded the illegal entry. [More…]
Only one person of substance is mentioned in the Minister’s statement - the Fijian member of Parliament. [More…]
That being so, these allegations must be directed to that Fijian member of Parliament. [More…]
The Minister continued by saying that the men were deported solely because they had come to Australia under the guise of tourists but with the real intention of breaking Australia’s laws and taking employment. [More…]
Again, these are serious allegations against a member of Parliament of another country. [More…]
He said that the deportation of the group was essential to protect the 12 dupes from 20 years of exploitation and to protect the standards of living and employment of the Australian community. [More…]
These fairly serious words carry with them, by implication, a criticism of a Fijian member of Parliament. [More…]
In the statement which the Minister has tabled but not read he said that there is no doubt that a very substantial number of Fijians have come here under the guise of tourists with the actual intention of taking employment. [More…]
He has not told us how his departmental officers could, for so long, ignore some of the conditions of his own easy visa system under which there needed to be evidence of a person having paid a return fare to Australia - an onward ticket - and the production of a declaration. [More…]
The Minister mentioned that a very substantial number of Fijians had come to Australia, expecting to stay here. [More…]
I do not believe that the bombing up to the present has significantly reduced, nor any bombing that I could contemplate in the future would significantly reduce, the actual flow of men and materials to the south. [More…]
I also want to say that at a time when we are looking for increasing productivity, better industrial relations, better management of labour and resources, more emphasis should be given to special courses at technical colleges in these important areas. [More…]
It is just as important for management to understand the needs of the work force as it is to mobilise resources for profit. [More…]
It is just as important for the work force to know what its entitlements and responsibilities to management are as it is for the work force to understand the needs of management. [More…]
We hope that in the future we will see an improvement in industrial relations and productivity because I believe that will be one way of overcoming the inflationary spiral with which we live. [More…]
I believe that the technical education colleges of this country could play a greater part than they are at present in trying to turn out young men and women who will take their places in both management and the work force, each understanding the problems of the other, and making a worthwhile contribution to the economic development of our country. [More…]
In colleges such as the East Sydney Technical College we see an environment and an attitude towards art and drama which accepts the fact that these are as much and as important a part of everyday living as are the more functional courses that the technical college has to teach. [More…]
We see the transitional areas where these functional and basic requirements of technical education move into this field in such areas as cooking and other courses that the technical college presents. [More…]
As we become more sensitive to the creative nature of men - and women - we can expect more support for these particular areas of instruction in the technical colleges. [More…]
With regard to the low fuel stocks in Central Australia, I urge the Government to consider the reinstating of the freight differential that was removed in the Budget. [More…]
Tremendous stocks of fuel will have to be brought into the area in a great hurry to keep the transport industry and the mining industry afloat and for the people of not only the towns of Tennant Creek and Alice Springs but also the surrounding areas. [More…]
Although some transport companies have not had any goods off the railway line since early January they are still holding on to their men but they cannot afford to do so forever. [More…]
I think the Government will have to consider whether those companies should be given some assistance. [More…]
The Government has backed the forces of isolationism in Britain and in the United States. [More…]
I do not for one moment say that international law would give the verdict to this side or that side. [More…]
Force was used and a few hundred men killed, but there is more to come because the next leg southward will be towards Borneo. [More…]
But there is nothing from the United Nations and nothing from this Government. [More…]
If only we could get rid of the senseless strikes which the men do not want. [More…]
The earlier problem, during the period from 1948 to the early 1960s, was met and dealt with by men of the calibre of Field Marshal Templer and significant numbers of the British armed forces, at enormous cost to the home government as well as to Malaysia itself. [More…]
The rewards are going to those with industrial muscle, while the little men, for whom honourable gentlemen opposite, the Labor Party, are supposed to stand, are being hit to leg. [More…]
What has the Government contributed to this situation? [More…]
It has presided over a 27 per cent increase in Government spending and a 7 per cent increase in the Public Service at a cost sufficient to provide a $2 a week increase to every pension recipient in Australia. [More…]
The present Government has presided over a 14 per cent increase in wages, from which it has gathered in no less than SI 100m in increased income tax, which is a 25 per cent increase on 1972-73. [More…]
This Government has presided over a 100 per cent increase in industrial disputes, in relation to the previous year. [More…]
No single measure will cure inflation, but a government which is not prepared to exercise wage restaint or discipline its own spending is only trifling with the problem. [More…]
The Government’s failure to do anything about these 2 matters has led to an excessive reliance on monetary policy, with interest rates at penal levels, credit short and housing loans impossible to obtain for many people. [More…]
There was unemployment yet farms were going without men they needed and farm produce was being given away. [More…]
Of course, the Federal Government of the time said: ‘We must be concerned about that’. [More…]
That was the product of very wise government! [More…]
Men who worked on farms 7 days a week for most of the year turned up in my office with patches on their pants while others bludged - and I shall not mention anyone. [More…]
I hope that the Government will see fit to make available Army personnel and Army equipment, perhaps in the form of suitable transport and the like, first of all to assist in getting access to areas when the water has fallen and secondly to assist in removing the stock to areas where they can be put on pasture and sustained in the recovery period. [More…]
I wish at this early stage to draw attention to the difficulty facing small farmers and small business men who, under the existing provisions of flood relief, are excluded from any grant assistance unless they are virtually bankrupt or insolvent. [More…]
I believe this is a very harsh exclusion of these people, whose viability makes it quite impossible for them to be afforded even the low interest short term loans that are proposed because of the added financial burdens and extreme difficulty they would face in meeting these commitments. [More…]
The first rumour is that the Australian Government is to hand over the Butterworth base to the Malayan Government. [More…]
Men who have served at Butterworth over a period of years have established a yacht club there. [More…]
If there is some truth in them I would like the Minister to make a statement about them. [More…]
A previous Australian Prime Minister said that to get ahead Australia needed men, machines and markets. [More…]
Over the last few years of Liberal-Country Party government we had the machines, we had the men but we did not have the markets. [More…]
Since the Australian Labor Government came to power people cannot say that we do not have the markets. [More…]
The Government has gone out and has been able to get markets for the farmers to sell their produce in. [More…]
What the Prime Minister and his Government then showed was that they were a body which was already showing signs of being hopeless at the management of men and hopeless at the real work of government. [More…]
They were good, yes, but good at strutting and good at fretting, and hopeless at the hard work of government, that is, at getting people together to get decisions out of them and at drawing together people who did not necessarily like one another to fulfil some greater purpose than any one individually could stand for. [More…]
Responsible management, man management, the government of men - call it what you will. [More…]
But our neighbours, our allies and our friends, particularly those in South East Asia, tended to feel that this new Government was treating them as sort of stepping stones for its strutting on a wider world stage. [More…]
When the people voted us out and put this Government into office people could have been forgiven for thinking that perhaps the Liberal Party and its country cousins, the Australian Country Party, were the old fashioned ones and were the parties which were formed on old fashioned philosophies and run by tried old men and so on. [More…]
But in field after field it has become clear that the bids which this Government has put in in the field of old fashionedness have far outbid anything which the previous Liberal governments could offer. [More…]
The Labor Government has indulged in a quaintly old fashioned belief in its version of socialism for this country. [More…]
The Government has had its shots at business men. [More…]
I hope that when we get back into government shortly we will resist the temptation to trade blow for blow against unions. [More…]
One expects the Government to have a crack at the Americans, the Brits and so on, but who would have thought that it would have alienated Aborigines, and who would have thought that it would have alienated those refugees who sought refuge after the last World War in Australia where they could find a home safe from the knock on the door in the night, the secret police and the footsteps in the corridor? [More…]
Who would have thought that we would have had to wait until 1974 and a Labor Government for Aborigines to be given twice as much money as ever and to be half as happy with their lot? [More…]
That is not to say that it is not a problem for Australian men and women but at least it puts it in the perspective which the Opposition does not provide. [More…]
Of course as has been announced this morning, the Government will also be providing a tax concession with regard to interest rates on mortgages. [More…]
The comments made on the economy by Opposition members during the last couple of weeks can be seen to have been grossly unfair. [More…]
When they were in the government, they had a much worse rate of inflation. [More…]
They have had a much worse tax record than that which applies to this Government. [More…]
Everyone who has participated in any level of Government activity, be it local government, State government or Federal government, knows that no government service could function without the dedication and responsibility of its officers. [More…]
Everyone knows that at each of those levels of government there are many dedicated, hard working men and women who give a lifetime of service to the respective levels of responsibility. [More…]
However, as I said earlier and as I keep repeating, this argument is not new. [More…]
It is not the concept I have because I work with a lot of them, and generally speaking I find them most dedicated men who do a fair day’s work. [More…]
I have at Maitland in my electorate the big Bradmill Industries Ltd textile mill employing 1,350 men and women. [More…]
This will have a serious effect on our textile industries - not now, because it will take eight or ten months to flow through and affect the employment situation in these textile mills. [More…]
Together with mills throughout Australia they employ 120,000 men and women. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade said here tonight that the Government was geared up to take care of any unemployment that might occur in this industry. [More…]
On 15 February 1966, the present Prime Minister took part in a television series produced by Channel 7 in which he discussed the witless men’ of the Australian Labor Party Federal Executive. [More…]
Officers who have left the International Wool Secretariat informed me that not enough attention is paid to the findings of the men on the ground by London, the headquarters of the IWS. [More…]
It seems to me that the IWS often in its statements has expressed the thought that high wool prices were a bad thing. [More…]
It would also say that there have always been middle men but that wool will remain for the true user in the market. [More…]
It would say that in asking for proof, one is asking for more than any company does in making a major business marketing decision or a major investment decision. [More…]
A few key men will be what makes it work or not. [More…]
So all we need is the wisdom of Solomon and the right men to do the job. [More…]
I turn now to some of the comments made by honourable members concerning this legislation. [More…]
It always amazes me that whenever a Country Party member rises to speak he looks for something on which to bash the Government - something to criticise and to gripe, moan and grizzle about. [More…]
Honestly, most Country Party members - not all of them, for I exclude the honourable member for Moore (Mr Maisey) and the honourable member for Mallee (Mr Fisher) who are tolerant men - would, if given a suit of clothes for Christmas, grizzle about its colour. [More…]
We have seen some definite decisions by the Government to deter the incentive to invest in secondary industry. [More…]
The investment allowance has been removed. [More…]
Honourable members talk about improving technology and installing modern plant and equipment. [More…]
One of the best decisions that the previous Government made for secondary industry was in this field. [More…]
It helped to remove a lot of the obsolete machinery which had been in use for years and improved not only production but also the working conditions of men and women across the nation. [More…]
I do not want to delay the Bill but I want to remind the House of a few things, the most important being the change that the Government has introduced in the extension of repatriation benefits to the regular peace time forces and to national servicemen. [More…]
We recognise that the range of activities and location of the regulars and national servicemen often mean that they are exposed to potential personal injury not ordinarily encountered in civilian occupations. [More…]
The legislation also provides an important improvement in the conditions for service in Australia’s defence forces and will help to ensure that a Service career holds as many advantages and attractions as possible to young men and women. [More…]
Repatriation benefits will be available to regulars and national servicemen broadly on the same basis as for ex-servicemen who served only in Australia during the Second World War, for incapacity or death arising out of or attributable to service on or after 7 December 1972. [More…]
The Government has extended this benefit to all of these kinds of servicemen, not only to ex-servicemen. [More…]
The ex-servicemen and women are in effect given concurrent status as members of the forces under the Repatriation Act and as employees under the Compensation (Australian Government Employees) Act. [More…]
Any entitlement under one Act is offset against that acquired under the other, so that the person is at all times eligible for the maximum benefits available under either Act. [More…]
As I have said, the Government is rushing these Bills through the House, and we are concerned that they were not introduced earlier. [More…]
However, many responsible people realise that the Government is hooked on the promises that it made to repatriation beneficiaries. [More…]
The Government is caught between its irrational and irresponsible promises and the expenditure in which it is involved now and in which it will be involved in the future. [More…]
The increases come on top of greatly increasing expenditure in the Repatriation Department. [More…]
If you are men of your word you would keep the promises that the Prime Minister made on behalf of the Labor Party in his pre-election speech in 1972. [More…]
Of course, if the Government keeps its promises it is adding further substantial fuel to the roaring inflation which already exists in Australia. [More…]
They will throw the present Government into political oblivion mainly because of its utter irresponsibility in its management of the finances of the nation. [More…]
The honourable member for Barton a few moments ago quoted the number of exservice men and women pensioners in this country who are in receipt of the general rate or 100 per cent pension. [More…]
I said that when we became the Government we would remove it because it could not be applied fairly. [More…]
A person in receipt of a 70 per cent pension under the previous Government received a payment of $9 less a week than a person who is on the 75 per cent rate. [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…]
If that is the case, I appeal to my Government not to issue Mr Bovill with a passport until this matter, which is causing great concern to Australians in general, is cleared up. [More…]
Sir Alexander Downer, one of the wealthiest men ever to be a member of this House, was appointed High Commissioner to London, Sir Eric Harrison, a former High Commissioner and member for Wentworth, was appointed by the Liberal Party, Mr Ian Allan, a former member for Gwydir for whom I have very great respect, was appointed Chairman of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission by the Liberal Party. [More…]
The Labor Party’s policy speech prior to its becoming Government included this promise: We will make a massive attack on the problem of land and housing costs’. [More…]
The answer to this problem was given by the Treasurer (Mr Crean), who has publicly stated that in 1973 land and housing costs rose by 20 per cent, and by other prominent Government men, including the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), who have promised housing interest as a tax deduction and have said that through this means the people of Australia “buying homes would be saving money. [More…]
This statement also was entirely incorrect. [More…]
So as a result of the actions of the Government in relation to interest rates and its ignoring of the inflationary trends, the people of Australia will have to pay much more for their houses and certainly will not be saving money. [More…]
His remarks were not only unconstructive, negative and condemnatory but he also failed in every way to provide any firm alternative to what the Government is doing. [More…]
The problems of the industry as they exist now represent the legacy left to the Government by its predecessors. [More…]
I say very firmly to him that he must be regarded as one of the guilty men who brought about the present housing situation. [More…]
Who should bear that responsibility more than the former Minister for Labour and National Service who should have been prepared to prevent the shortage of men and material in the building industry? [More…]
It is those who sit opposite who cry centralism whenever the Australian Government takes an initiative in this area. [More…]
It is those who sit opposite who would like the Australian people to believe that the States should have the powers but the Australian Government should have the responsibility. [More…]
Under the policies proposed by the Australian Government we would no longer need to build new suburbs without jobs, transport, shops, schools, parks and social and community centres. [More…]
Through our related policies on roads, on making up the sewerage backlog, on urban public transport investment, on the environment, on education, on social welfare programmes and on health we are also seeking to bring an end to the isolated and incomplete development of new urban areas. [More…]
We need the skill, awareness, concern and courage of men and women of goodwill if we are to succeed in overcoming our urban problems. [More…]
We need the involvement of people. [More…]
We need men and women of goodwill to work in the spirit of partnership and co-operation. [More…]
Our initiatives in urban and regional development are designed to create a new and improved working urban relationship amongst all levels of government and amongst all levels of people. [More…]
There was no preparation of the building and construction industry which is now so short of supply of both men and materials. [More…]
The previous Government was notorious for such policies. [More…]
Of course, we must send our top financial men to such meetings. [More…]
The marginal men, the wretched stragglers for survival on the fringes of farm and city, may already number more than half a billion. [More…]
I believe that they are honourable men who will withstand these offers which will undoubtedly be made to them. [More…]
I may differ from my honourable friend opposite on this, but I do not believe that these honourable senators are dishonourable men. [More…]
The Prime Minister is the most honourable of men. [More…]
So are they all honourable men. [More…]
Initially, the faculties of an Australian overseas university should be those relevant to the immediate requirements of the developing countries. [More…]
Though it is important that there be a pool of educated people in the developing countries who understand the operations of a developed country, it is more important that the developing countries have technicians, educated academics and professional men understanding the environment in which they live and the development of which we wish to assist. [More…]
This measure is largely experimental. [More…]
A lot will depend on the quality of the men who staff the Institute - the Director and the people he chooses to work with him. [More…]
It will be related, of course, to the work they can attract from the universities and the assistance that is given to them by officers of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel and others. [More…]
In terms of the different styles that exist at present between the State governments and the Australian Government and in view of the desirability of uniformity, I see this as being a measure to which one can look forward as having a great chance of success. [More…]
They are, to a large extent, the result of the lack of interest in the CMF shown by successive Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]
However, the greatest damage resulted from the previous Government’s attitude to the CMF during the IndoChina war. [More…]
They suffered not at the hands of a foreign foe but of their own Government. [More…]
However, in the Vietnam conflict, conscription was used to provide junior officers and men when the size of the volunteer Regular Army was found inadequate for the scale of involvement which that government sought. [More…]
The report says: _ There is within the Citizen Military Forces, considerable resentment of the fact that they were not called to active service in Vietnam and a general lack of confidence in the national intention to employ them short of a full-scale mobilisation, which is seen as a remote possibility. [More…]
This lack of purpose is a fundamental cause for many of the present problems of the organisation. [More…]
These changes could come as a disappointment in some ways to members of some individual units affected. [More…]
The Government is sensitive to these feelings. [More…]
Also, these changes must come because it is clear that many young men leave the CMF as they find the training boring, repetitive and unrealistic. [More…]
Mr Speaker, let me assure you that there must be no doubt that this Government is determined to improve the CMF. [More…]
It will give this country a reorganised CMF, which is not only attractive to the young men and women who wish to serve in it, but with the Regular Army will also provide a viable base for expansion should this be necessary in the future. [More…]
As a result of that immediate action, rather than reviewing the situation and making alternative arrangements, the CMF lost approximately 9,000 men overnight and became non-viable, to use the words of General Brogan, the pre vious Chief of the General Staff. [More…]
Having destroyed the CMF and having made it non-viable, the Government set up the Millar Committee in April 1973 - nearly a year ago. [More…]
I have written to the Minister about this and his reply has been that the Government will do nothing until it receives the report of the Millar Committee. [More…]
When these men received salary increases they were automatically entitled to take out additional superannuation units, and because they did not know what the future would hold they felt, for the protection of their wives and families, that they had to take these units and contribute to the Superannuation Fund at higher rates. [More…]
Many of these men had reached the stage where they could not live at a reasonable standard because they were forced to contribute to the Fund at a rate that was much higher than it should have been because of decisions taken by the Government of. [More…]
This is a criticism of the previous Government. [More…]
If the Government of the day had faced up to the issue of the recurring surpluses - and it should have been very obvious to it that the Superannuation Fund as it then was needed a decent looking at - this situation would not exist today. [More…]
But it was left to the Labor Government when it came to power to have a look at the Superannuation [More…]
The Government is introducing tonight this motion for the suspension of Standing Orders because these measures have been rejected in another place. [More…]
Those courageous men who sit opposite and who are simply dying to face th Australian electors will no doubt give them that opportunity by supporting this motion for the suspension of Standing Orders. [More…]
Earlier tonight, on the most important issue which they said they have ever brought before the Parliament - when they challenged us to an election - the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lynch) stood alone in this place with not one person behind him. [More…]
To put it in parliamentary terms, he was like a shag on a rock. [More…]
What sort of a government is this? [More…]
This document has been circulated. [More…]
Men were asked to come from each State to a meeting in Melbourne. [More…]
I have in writing that certain amendments would be considered by the Minister. [More…]
I have a statement authorised to be made by Mr Jack Cade. [More…]
Then this morning, because the heat in the kitchen got too great, the Minister or one of his officers authorised a disowning of the statements by the officers to whom I have referred. [More…]
No Minister worth his salt would have allowed question time to pass today or this Parliament to continue today without confirming or denying the ratting on his own officers. [More…]
At the beginning of the remarks of the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Drummond) I was encouraged by his statement that the men of violence, the men who cut the microphone cord and the men who refused not only to listen to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) but also to the Western Australian Minister for Health, were in the main not farmers. [More…]
directed these men of violence and deliberately organised the demonstration should be thoroughly ashamed of himself. [More…]
Whoever the organiser was - I call him General Amin but I do not know him - I am sure all members on both sides of this Parliament will reject violence and the practice of silencing people who have a point of view. [More…]
I was encouraged by the statement of the honourable member for Forrest that the action was certainly not carried out by farmers. [More…]
I do not regard the political comments about the Government and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as relevant to that matter. [More…]
That is the third time during the life of this Government that he has been suspended. [More…]
He is more unruly and disrespectful to the Chair than any other member I have seen in the Parliament. [More…]
There is no doubt that today members of the Country Party and others will do anything to disrupt the proceedings of the Parliament. [More…]
Anybody who has had any experience in this Parliament will have observed the trend in recent weeks. [More…]
You have an exemplary collection of men on the government benches. [More…]
They are highly intelligent and respectful to the dignity of the Parliament. [More…]
It is as well to have some constructive criticism from both sides of the Parliament, be it at ministerial level or otherwise, and there should be opportunities to express agreement or disagreement with the Commissioners. [More…]
In that respect, I am in agreement with the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland) who said that these reports might well be more informative. [More…]
I believe that in that respect, adequate staff and research staff should be provided for the Electoral Commissioners because in this day and age redistributing boundaries and forecasting population trends are not things that unskilled men can carry out. [More…]
He went on to make a lot of other statements. [More…]
What we have seen, of course, in this area of investment - overseas investment and internal investment - is a tremendous slowing down of development in the recent past. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that in all this expenditure which it is undertaking today the Government is only living off the wealth which has been accumulated in recent years and built up by better men. [More…]
They have made it impossible for ordinary men and women to plan their future with any degree of consistency and with any kind of confidence. [More…]
The Government cannot even make up its mind whether it will allow the Russians to establish in Australia a base which will destroy the purposes of ANZUS, destroy the functions of the Pine Gap and Woomera bases and most probably cause the United States of America to withdraw from or cancel the ANZUS obligation. [More…]
Of course there are many in this Parliament - the honourable member for Lalor, the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns), and the Minister for the Environment and Conservation - who would be delighted if they could provoke the United States into that kind of activity. [More…]
The Minister for the Environment and Conservation is nodding his head in agreement. [More…]
He knows quite well that he does not support his Prime Minister’s statements in this particular area. [More…]
He was nodding his head in agreement when I was making these remarks. [More…]
He has chosen men of outstanding ability,, men who are committed politically to the philosophy, the cause and the policies of the Labor Party. [More…]
I am given to understand that at least 12 people attended the meeting in Melbourne and that they were addressed by 2 senior and highly respected civil servants of the Minister’s Department - Dr Deeble and Mr Dennis Corrigan, 2 men whose integrity is unchallenged and who have utter respect from everyone who knows them. [More…]
A report I have of that meeting, which has been confirmed by several people, is that Dr Deeble indicated that the Minister had asked that the group be called together to discuss the proposed amendments. [More…]
If the Minister was prepared to fly anywhere to discuss the very amendments that were put to that meeting, how could he the next day in the ‘Canberra Times’ deny that the spokesmen had any authority from him to act? [More…]
It is not hard to find who were the dishonourable men, I am sure, if one wants to search through the rest of the names. [More…]
On 2 April 1974, this Government tabled in the Parliament a report and draft Bill on the Defence Force Disciplinary Code. [More…]
This Bill eliminates obsolete offences, reduces general levels of punishment, and modernises such matters as sentencing, trial and review. [More…]
It will ensure effective discipline in the defence force, but at the same time it will ensure that the rights of individual servicemen are preserved. [More…]
Re-engagement rates of servicemen finishing their contracts and signing on again have seldom been higher. [More…]
The main shortfall - and this is not such a large one - is that we need 300 or 400 more fit young men for the Army’s Field Force. [More…]
Much is being done to improve the training and the professional education of servicemen. [More…]
Turning to matters of Service organisation, I am pleased to be able to say that the Government’s decisions that 1 announced in May 1973 on the future size and shape of the Australian Regular Army, are progressing smoothly. [More…]
Essentially, the Government decided to maintain the divisional structure but reorganise the Regular Army Field Force on the basis of 6 battalions, each with appropriate combat and logistic support forces. [More…]
I said then that there must be no doubt that this Government is determined to improve the CMF, that it will give this country an Army Reserve which is attractive to the young men and women who wish to serve in it, and which, with the Regular Army, will also provide a viable base for expansion should this be necessary in the future. [More…]
Does the Minister really believe that the Australian people, as a result of this announcement, will forget everything that had gone before? [More…]
In its first Budget the Government budgeted for 2.9 per cent of the GNP. [More…]
Will the Australian people forget the effect the Government’s actions have had on the morale of the Services, so that officers are resigning in droves and despite the payment of a very expensive re-engagement bonus the Army gained only 11 men last year and the target strength of 34,000 by 1976 announced by the Minister has now become quite unattainable? [More…]
I could go on with this catalogue almost indefinitely, but it does most graphically make the point that the Government has only itself to blame if the Australian people treat with profound scepticism the sudden conversion of the Government to an interest in defence. [More…]
The Government should not be surprised if the Australian people asked themselves what new threat emerged on Sunday and came to the conclusion that a group of frightened men on that day felt themselves threatened by a loss of power. [More…]
For nearly 2 years he has been using this absence of a threat to justify the Government’s monstrous decimation of our defence capability. [More…]
For nearly 2 years he has attributed this to the strategic basis produced by the Government’s advisers, when the interpretation of that document was the Government’s and the Government’s alone. [More…]
The document, as is becoming well known, of course was written in haste, at the Minister’s direction, by 2 officers with no defence experience. [More…]
This is what we have been led to by the Government’s failure to make decisions essential to the security of the country at the right time and with proper foresight. [More…]
It is inconceivable that the people of Australia will regard these decisions as anything more than the panic reactions of a group of men frightened by the electoral consequences of failing to do anything - decisions likely to be reviewed and reversed in the unlikely event that honourable members opposite get back into Government. [More…]
There were many stories of heroism and throughout several days and nights in Karumba men worked with heavy machinery to save as much as possible of the township. [More…]
The question is: Where do these men, if they have any money, obtain the stock to rebuild their breeding establishments? [More…]
Obviously, this is a challenge which will have to be faced and which is being faced by the cattle industry and by the Queensland and Australian Governments, lt will need a complete reorganisation of the industry to try to get these areas back into production as quickly as possible. [More…]
I hope that when it has been assessed the Treasurer (Mr Crean) or the Prime Minister will make a statement indicating just what amount of money was involved. [More…]
We owe a great debt to the dedication of those men. [More…]
But I drove away thinking of the men from the Brisbane City Council who were working not only an 8-hour day but also overtime and all through the weekend in order to get the household rubbish and other material that had been deposited in people’s yards carted away, thus averting health hazards and the like. [More…]
These men are not highly paid. [More…]
I also would be uncharitable if I did not pay a tribute to our parliamentary colleagues - both State and Federal - and the aldermen of the Brisbane City Council and people who serve on local authorities throughout the State, for what they did. [More…]
As I do not wish to appear partisan in this matter, I do not intend to mention names. [More…]
But many of our colleagues from the Australian and Queensland Parliaments - and I am sure from the New South Wales Parliament - and certainly the aldermen and members of local authorities, did great work. [More…]
The Bills provide for assistance to local government as well as assistance to States. [More…]
Yet, the people concerned with building the banks have not been able to attract their part of assistance from the State Government. [More…]
I hope that when the New South Wales Government was discussing the various categories of estimated expenditures it did not overlook the mining industry and the miners, because some of these people - particularly those miners at Lightning Ridge - were seriously affected by the floods. [More…]
I remember receiving a telephone call asking me to have a look at what is called the ‘six mile’ at Lightning Ridge, where the miners were cut off from their mines and their treatment plant. [More…]
These miners built a road with their own plant in order to reach their machinery and treatment plant. [More…]
1 think it can be said that the amounts of money that the Australian Government is providing under these 2 Bills dwarf any previous expenditure or assistance provided in respect of any single disaster. [More…]
They were the 2 men who assisted me most when I had occasion to contact the Federal Cabinet to get various planes, including Caribou aircraft and helicopters, to go to the flood area. [More…]
It is gratifying to know that long before these Bills were introduced the Government had shown its concern for the welfare of the people and had provided this help. [More…]
Before I continue, I would again appeal to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to include on his committee someone who has actually had a realistic and prolonged association with the whole of these floods happenings in the north-west, I know that the Minister for Northern Development played his role very effectively during the terrible time that we went through up there. [More…]
The reply I received from the Prime Minister when I asked for representation on this committee by someone with local knowledge to act in an advisory capacity to the Minister for Northern Development which I am sure the Minister would greatly appreciate, was that the Minister for Northern Development was on the board and that was that. [More…]
Both of these men would be able to provide the Minister with detailed information that nobody could appreciate unless they actually lived in the area. [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…]
By their acceptance and recognition of bis continued presence in the upper chamber they are culpable to the extent to which they sought to distort the accepted constitutional practice in order to gain control of the upper House of this Parliament and sought to defeat a constitutionally valid step taken by the Premier of a sovereign State. [More…]
A general election for the Government of Australia will now be held. [More…]
Let us brush aside the whims of petty men and make our decisions upon things which are important for our country. [More…]
Yes, but threatened men live long. [More…]
This is the situation today: The Opposition has made continuous and deliberate attempts to obstruct the Government by blocking important legislation in the Senate. [More…]
The honourable member for Moreton and Sir Robert Menzies stand together at this stage. [More…]
At this very moment the frightened men in the Senate who are seeking the numbers know that they are destroying democracy. [More…]
The first is the Gair appointment. [More…]
It does not matter when the appointment was made. [More…]
We are told that it is the appointment itself to which the honourable members opposite - the Liberal Party, the Country Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the multiplicity of parties opposite - object. [More…]
Let us look at the long list of Liberal political appointments. [More…]
Whilst there are some notable men amongst them, there are also some of the greatest deadbeats who ever came into this Parliament. [More…]
We have been told that there has been extravagant spending and a terrific amount of wastage by this Government and that we are wasting the taxpayer’s money. [More…]
But the point I make is that this is one of the men who is constantly complaining in this Parliament about extravagance. [More…]
This is the letter he wrote to me about certain equipment that he wanted for his office: [More…]
In 18 months, the Labor Government has transformed the face of the Australian nation. [More…]
It has brought about full employment and security. [More…]
Pensioners have had a S6 rise as against 50c from the previous Government. [More…]
There is work and employment. [More…]
The education vote has been doubled and in every way, right throughout this country, tremendous prosperity has been brought to Australian people. [More…]
Yet there are people who sit in the other place who were elected years ago and who seek to bring down this Government for reasons which the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) mentioned are completely contrary to every democratic process. [More…]
1 ask the Australian people to follow the line set down on constitutional issues by Sir Robert Menzies and others. [More…]
When Labor faces the people in the immediate future after those frightened men opposite have brought themselves to vote against this Supply Bill, I ask the Australian people to return the Whitlam Government because it has brought to this country things that the people desire. [More…]
I ask them to restore democracy to this country by giving a majority in this House and the Senate to the Australian Labor Government. [More…]
Almost 70 per cent of men and over 80 per cent of women in the labour force have no formal educational qualification at the trade, technician or vocational level or a degree. [More…]
In 1961 9.6 per cent of the labour force consisted of married women. [More…]
The report specifically recognises the crucial role that married women have been playing and will continue to play in maintaining the growth rate in the workforce. [More…]
It specifically seeks to make provision for married women to re-orient their skills or refresh their skills by making tangible suggestions as to the future organisation as to curricula and timetables. [More…]
The Committee reacts sensitively and creatively to the disabilities experienced by girls and women, married or single, who have greater barriers to access to technical and further education than boys and men. [More…]
The proportion of women enrolled in technical colleges is too low. [More…]
Too few women are employed as teachers in technical colleges. [More…]
The reactionary notion that it is only boys and men who need career and vocational education and training is too powerful and is rejected as totally invalid. [More…]
There is a model in some respects in the activities of the Commonwealth Employment Service and Commonwealth Rehabilitation Service, which services have developed sheltered workshops and have trained the handicapped for placement in work. [More…]
The Committee points out the value of further education in developing basic skills for the handicapped as an adjunct to the development of capacity in technology, or any other vocational field, including the alleviation of illiteracy. [More…]
The lack of formal qualifications among women is exceeded by a greater lack in men in some of these groups; and of course the women of the Aboriginal race, ethnic minorities and migrant communities suffer special disabilities. [More…]
We appreciate the sentiments expressed by the Minister about women undertaking technical education. [More…]
Most of us are aware that women are very competent and very skilled, particularly in the type of work that is called processing work. [More…]
Those of us who live in rural areas and understand the very great difficulties of country men, women and children iri obtaining access to technical education are appreciative of the new idea of the making available of money for the construction of residences for students who attend technical colleges. [More…]
When the time comes for the plan to be implemented I hope that some of these residences will be built in the rural cities and rural towns and that they will not all be built in the large areas of education. [More…]
There is a very strong interest in team sports among boys between the ages of 12 and 14 but this is no longer true for older age levels with young men or at any age level with girls and young women. [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…]
This Parliament could scarcely exist and could certainly not long survive except for men like Joe Sexton. [More…]
Such men seek little or nothing for themselves. [More…]
The parties need balance; the Parliament needs ballast. [More…]
It is men like Joe Sexton who provide our parties and our parliaments with balance and ballast. [More…]
The union has no regard for thousands, of men who are being thrown out of employment there or for the hundreds of thousands of people who are being inconvenienced by this dispute. [More…]
One should take into consideration the fact that these men are receiving annual salaries of between $11,750 and $18,000, and that is the regard they have for people on less than average weekly earnings. [More…]
We are in complete agreement that if the union wants this additional leave it will have to go back to where it came from, namely, the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
Mr Justice Moore has offered to adjudicate in the matter, to hear argument and to deal with it on that basis. [More…]
Freight Forwarders standing down 220 men Monday, 8 July, [More…]
Kauri Timber, Stanley, stand down 40/50 men Tuesday, 9 July, [More…]
Daffodil, Hobart, 30 men to be stood down next week, [More…]
Electrolytic Zinc, Risdon, if ‘Silver Hawk’ not arrive Monday, 8 July, employment 2,000 men in jeopardy, [More…]
Kelsall and Kemp (Textiles), Launceston, 300 men to be stood down from Monday, 15 July, [More…]
This eminent young lawyer has made so many speeches tonight that I really think that he can talk under wet cement. [More…]
The knowledge with which he spoke was the legal knowledge of a small debts lawyer, but the Government takes advice from the Commonwealth crown solicitors - eminent men who know and understand the Constitution and all associated with it. [More…]
Our advice is that this legislation has no effect on the question of increasing the size of this Parliament. [More…]
Members of the Country Party know that that is true because they sat on the Government side of the Parliament on 29 May - the Leader of the Australian Country [More…]
The Minister for Health, in answer to a question without notice from myself on 6 December last year, clearly stated - I ask the House to listen to this devastating statement of Labor policy - thai he believed that the future of medical care in Australia will see at least 80 per cent of all Australians attending doctors on government salaries or at government-owned hospitals, with only 20 per cent still being interested in attending private practice, going to a doctor in a private capacity or attending a private hospital. [More…]
As I said at the outset, these men on the other side of the House are socialists. [More…]
We do not want to see the dead hand of socialism, which has ruined everything that this Labor Government has touched since it came to office in this country, applied to our health system. [More…]
In Western Australia 2 Liberal members replaced 2 Country Party men. [More…]
It is tragic that past Australian Liberal and Country Party governments have failed to accept their responsibility in this field. [More…]
They hid behind the usual old argument that it was a State responsibility. [More…]
However, in their inevitable fashion the men of the past finally realised in preparing ‘policies’ for the recent election that the community demanded that the Australian government, regardless of whichever party it was, take action in this field. [More…]
By every standard of parliamentary democracy the Labor Government received a renewal of its mandate, a new endorsement of its policies, from the people of Australia. [More…]
In the history of Australia there has never been a government with a clearer mandate, for never before has Australia had a government whose policies were so clearly spelled out for so long. [More…]
The policies of this Government were not presented to the people a mere 3 weeks before the 1974 election or even 3 weeks before the 1972 election. [More…]
They were the product of the democratic process of the Party, developed over years and at grass-roots level by hundreds of involved men and women of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
It is right that that should be so because more and more people of Australia are giving their time and energy towards care and consideration for their fellow men. [More…]
The policies on which this Government went to the people on 2 recent occasions emphasised issues of social conscience. [More…]
It has in the past been represented by men of great calibre. [More…]
When Henry Lawson wrote in your electorate, Mr Speaker, ‘They lie the men who tell us for reasons of their own that want is here a stranger and that misery’s unknown.’ [More…]
But is the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) or his Government or his Party any more virtuous when, knowing the alarming extent of poverty in this country, and claiming to be the champions of the poor, they offer no commitment to remove it in the program they place before this Parliament? [More…]
Entrenched traditions and attitudes against equal employment opportunities for women in certain 0:CUpations are out of place in today’s society. [More…]
We wish to establish true equality of opportunity which involves equal opportunity for training, advancement and the abolition of wage disparities between men and women doing similar work. [More…]
Ensuring that vocational guidance is given without bias between men and women. [More…]
Recognising the traditional and future social importance of dedicated and highly skilled tradesmen in Australia, a Liberal and Country Party Government would undertake a full examination of apprentice and trade training schemes in co-operation with employee and employer organisations and the States to see that they meet the needs of today’s society. [More…]
In that examination we would have as an objective the encouragement of more young men and women to enter appropriate trades. [More…]
The Minister does not tell us what acceptance he has from the trade union movement of adult training and adult apprenticeship, although acceptance by the trade union movement obviously will be important. [More…]
A Liberal and Country Party Government would recognise that employers should not use the opportunities created by adult training to downgrade or reclassify particular jobs. [More…]
In any development of adult apprenticeship, the existing entry of young men and women into trades would be safeguarded. [More…]
A further purpose of the Income Tax Assessment Bill 1974 is to bring the Act into line with the amended pay structure of the armed Services. [More…]
The changes in pay structure followed the adoption of the recommendations of the Committee of Inquiry into the Financial Terms and Conditions for Male and Female Members of the Regular Armed Forces. [More…]
This Committee was established by the former Government in 1970. [More…]
The Committee was asked to have special regard when reviewing the existing pay structure to the national requirement to attract and retain men and women with appropriate qualities, skills and experience. [More…]
It was also asked to consider the rates of salary in other areas of Commonwealth employment and in the community generally. [More…]
The Opposition Parties have, in principle, supported the findings of the Committee and consequently support these legislative amendments which are pursuant to the Committee’s recommendations. [More…]
As legal men of such eminence as the Minister for Manufacturing Industry and the former Solicitor-General have put so much study and skill into the legislation’s formation, implementation and passage through the Parliament I do not think that many loopholes will be found in it. [More…]
That is a public statement. [More…]
These three men who are supposed to have had a conversation in the Australian Club have never said these things publicly. [More…]
But the honourable member for Eden-Monaro has made that statement publicly. [More…]
Those guilty men who sit opposite knew for years and years the problem in what is known as the Moore v. Doyle case. [More…]
It has been left to this Government and the Minister for Labor to try to unravel that situation. [More…]
The timing of the introduction of that Bill into the House - which will ensure that members will be elected on 24 October so that there can be a fully elected Legislative Assembly before the end of December this year - hinged on the statement of policy that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made off the top of his head that that would be so. [More…]
Anyone who knows anything about the Northern Territory knows that that date for having a fully elected Legislative Assembly - by that 1 mean one with executive authority and not just 19 men milling around the Assembly chamber with no policy, no leadership, no means of introducing government business, no means of asking questions and no government member in there at all - makes a farce of the Committee and of the Bill. [More…]
The 35-hour agreement of 1972 has, under present circumstances, had one significant result: Less time is worked at ordinary rates and more time is worked at overtime or premium rates. [More…]
The Minister for Labor and Immigration himself is on record as having said that he is not in favour of 35-hour arrangements if all they mean is an increase in the number of hours worked at the overtime rate. [More…]
Sometimes there have been very large idle time payments because there have been too many men in relation to the amount of work available; and at other times, including in the early part of this year, the idle time payments have been very much Jess but there has been inadequate labour on the waterfront. [More…]
On every occasion when there has been a need to implement the agreed redundancy arrangement the employers have been threatened with industrial dislocation by way of stoppages, bans on overtime and weekend work and go slow tactics. [More…]
In the face of these threats the AEWL has not been prepared to make an application for a declaration of redundancy except after some agreement with the Federation. [More…]
For its part, the Federation has been successful in limiting retrenchments to those men willing to accept the redundancy benefits payable under the agreement [More…]
There was no evidence of any improvement in industrial relations during the year. [More…]
Discipline has deteriorated to the extent that in most cases it is now almost entirely related to the degree of responsibility exhibited by the men themselves. [More…]
The expectation that the Conference arrangements would result in better industrial relations, freedom from industrial disputes and a reduction in unit and total costs has not been fulfilled. [More…]
They have had occasions when men have been put off and the union has said ‘If you do not reinstate them we will pull the whole port out’. [More…]
There are so many things wrong in our society as a result of previous administrations, which we have not been able to put right in 18 months, that it was not easy to single out one or two areas for mention at this time. [More…]
The Opposition parties, when in government, seemed to believe that everything was fixed in about 1850 or before and nothing further needed to be done. [More…]
Societies are not static structures but ever-changing inter-relationships between people and between people and their environment. [More…]
One of the changes to be encouraged is in the relative roles of women and men in society. [More…]
Historically, men have been the breadwinners and women have stayed at home as unpaid servants for the menfolk. [More…]
At present about one-third of the work force are women and the female component of the work force is growing at about twice the male rate. [More…]
These figures reflect not only the improvements in the employment situation which have taken place in the past 18 months but also a growing acceptance of the equality of men and women in society. [More…]
Immediately on taking office in 1972, the Labor Government reopened the equal pay case and helped to secure acceptance by the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission of equal pay for work of equal value. [More…]
The Government implemented this policy in relation to its own employees without waiting for the phasing-in period suggested by the Commission. [More…]
The Opposition and employer organisations opposed the equal pay submissions all along and it was only the timely intervention of the new Labor Government that succeeded in getting the case reopened. [More…]
One of the arguments put forward by the employer opponents of equal pay in the 1969 equal pay case was, by implication, that equal pay should not be granted because it would jeopardise the status of the male in the family unit. [More…]
Mind you, looking at the sort of men who represent employer interests on the other side of this House, it would be surprising if even this earned them any respect. [More…]
Women and men should be free to seek employment with equal opportunities in all occupations, or to stay at home if they wish. [More…]
The situation of women in the employment field and the provision of child care facilities are only one part of the social question of the relative roles of the 2 sexes in the society. [More…]
However, if we are to give any meaning to talk of equality of opportunity and status in society for men and women, the change must come in the schools and even before. [More…]
It is not sufficient to ensure that job advertisements must not specify that the applicant must be of one particular sex, necessary though such legislation is, if there is not the same opportunity to get the same standard of education in whatever field may be desired. [More…]
Doubtless many men will feel uncomfortable at the thought of such an era, they are so imbued with the idea of their own superiority. [More…]
It is no wonder that women in their 40s have the highest rate of consumption of drugs in the society. [More…]
This is no reflection on the women; it is a reflection on the society which has kept them captive in a 13-square prison to minister to the every need of their male masters. [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…]
In the meantime they look to the Government to bring about stability in the economy. [More…]
They join in the protest against withdrawal of fertiliser subsidies, knowing full well the continuing critical requirements of the Wallum country for such fertilisers. [More…]
Business men know full well the devastating effect on the economy of a rural decline. [More…]
I say in conclusion that since the beginning of time the men of the country have dealt in realities. [More…]
They recognise the need from time to time for governments of all colours to implement measures which may not immediately be popular, and they will accept such measures when it can be demonstrated that they have been taken with such an attitude as to convince them that the measures are taken for the benefit of the country and not as discriminatory acts. [More…]
1 believe that the position was made much more serious because the Leader and the Deputy Leader of the Country Party, men whose standing in this country is as high as that of any politician in Australia, have completely denied the allegations. [More…]
I believe, that the responsibility rested squarely on the shoulders of the honourable member for Eden-Monaro and on the shoulders of the Labor Government to do so when it had the opportunity to do so. [More…]
All it has done has been to throw tremendous doubt on the Australian Wool Corporation and the whole Australian wool industry. [More…]
The wool industry at the moment is under very great pressure of declining prices and uncertainty as to the future. [More…]
Is he trying to discredit the Corporation in order to have it reconstructed or is he endeavouring to have certain members of the Corporation dismissed and replaced with boobs who will be nothing more than lackeys for the present Government? [More…]
The members of the Corporation are men of great standing, with a great reputation and of enormous experience. [More…]
Its whole record is one to be commended - a very laudable one indeed. [More…]
In this Parliament this afternoon, going quite beyond the terms of the censure motion which I heartily support, the Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) has carried character allegations beyond any precedent that has been established in this Parliament. [More…]
He has listed a number of individuals whom he has condemned by innuendo and implication in such a way that these men must be seen to have their status and standing in the community maligned. [More…]
At the beginning let me say that I know each one of these men - not well, but I know them. [More…]
They are honourable men, which is more than the actions of members of the Government Party this afternoon have displayed them to be. [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…]
The Minister now gets up in this Parliament and says that he does not agree with ‘the two they appointed’ - not the Liberal PartyCountry Party Government, but the AWGC and the AWMPF. [More…]
He now finds their appointment objectionable. [More…]
There is a law of this Parliament which prescribed the. [More…]
It was under the terms of that part of that legislation that these men were appointed. [More…]
Any innuendo or inference made in this Parliament is completely against legislation which the Minister supported. [More…]
Before I return to the substance of the allegations, I point out that the Minister also persisted in a charge which has been made by him and by other members of the Government about the timing of the appointment of members of the Wool Corporation. [More…]
I point out, even if the Minister does not know, that the timing of the appointment of the Chairman of the Corporation was conditional on his being able to make suitable arrangements with the International Wool Secretariat of which, at the time of his appointment to the chairmanship of the Australian Wool Corporation, he was managing director. [More…]
Approaches were made to him quite a time before the time when final ratification came through, but it was not until there had been a meeting of the Board of the International Wool Secretariat that Mr Maiden was able to advise the then Government of his availability. [More…]
Immediately after that meeting took place the Chairman and all members of the Corporation were appointed and the announcement was made. [More…]
Unlike the Australian Labor Party, on this side of politics we believe in men being appointed to these positions not because of their political background - [More…]
You are suggesting that the 4 industry representatives were political appointments? [More…]
Their names were sent to the Minister, who at that time happened to be myself, and in accordance with those recommendations those men were appointed. [More…]
Unlike members of the Labor Party, we made those appointments without any political prejudice. [More…]
It is a very serious matter when the Opposition proposes a censure motion against the Government. [More…]
One of the first of them is that, acting in accordance with the legislative authority which this Parliament has placed on them, are a number of men who are members of statutory corporations. [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…]
This Government is taking a position where any right thinking citizen desiring to do his duty according to the general precepts that apply to an invitation to act on any one of these bodies must seriously doubt whether the members of this Government are prepared to stand by him when he takes decisions and acts in accordance with the charges that have been placed upon him. [More…]
This is not just one corporation; this is part of a range of functions exercised by government through statutory agencies designed to undertake specific responsibilities. [More…]
This despicable attack by the honourable member for Eden-Monaro and the Minister for Northern Development must place serious doubt on the integrity of the Australian Wool Corporation and, from it cast doubt on the reasons for any right thinking citizen being prepared to assume the responsibility that would be his if he were to be a commissioner or to exercise some role within a corporation or some other statutory body. [More…]
Mr Speaker, that of itself is a damning indictment of the ability of this Government to govern. [More…]
Since these charges were first laid and the denials were made by Mr Anthony and me, there have been in this Parliament under the provisions of the Standing Orders repeated opportunities for the honourable member for Eden-Monaro to table the evidence and to announce the names of the men against whom the charges are made. [More…]
There are opportunities in an adjournment debate. [More…]
Indeed, the name of the honourable member for Eden-Monaro was even listed, I understand, last week to participate in an adjournment debate and he was not here. [More…]
Let me repeat: Neither my Leader nor I have in any way been associated with these men in the way that the honourable member suggests. [More…]
Shame on a government to suggest that the normal processes of law in Australia should be reversed, because that, Mr Speaker, is the ultimate conclusion of the charge made by the honourable member for Eden-Monaro and the Minister for Northern Development. [More…]
In Australia there is a presumption of innocence - but not for the Labor Party, not for the Labor Government. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development will henceforth be condemned. [More…]
If there is any substance in those charges, the honourable member has responsibility to pro duce the evidence, to name the men concerned and to substantiate the charges made against them. [More…]
To my mind, the charges made by those men go to the very fundamental basis on which we expect men outside the Parliament to exercise responsibility. [More…]
I believe, and I had thought before that this was a bipartisan view, that responsible men in the community can be asked - indeed, called on - to act in the way that the members of the Australian Wool Corporation have been acting in serving the industry and the country, in accordance with the charge laid upon them. [More…]
But that the Government today has denied and that the Government today has thrown into question. [More…]
The Government stands condemned for the 4 reasons that are outlined in the motion now before the House; the Government stands condemned because it has failed to uphold the principles by which parliamentary democracy should work; and the Government stands condemned because henceforth any fall in the Australian wool market will be not the fault of the Australian Wool Corporation and not the fault of the market forces that previous spokesmen have tended to support but the fault of Labor machination in order to assert and abuse the power which, fortunately, will not be Labor’s for long. [More…]
As one who has lived his lifetime in mining areas and in a mining environment I derived great joy from the fact that we were at long last to have an independent commission. [More…]
After all I do not think anyone in his heart of hearts, either on this side or the other side of the House, really appreciates tremendous and absolutely unfettered authority being in the hands of any Minister. [More…]
I reiterate that the establishment of this commission would have given everyone associated with the mining industry great hope and would have seen this industry develop as it had prior to the disaster which occurred in this nation on 2 December 1972. [More…]
I speak not so much of the individual gouger, although he would have been very much involved in the responsibilities of this small miners commission, but more particularly of the people who have pioneered the industry, who are perhaps the last of the frontier men in my part of the world and who have mines that are capable of development and capable of producing for them a moderately prosperous income, but who have never been able to get their undertakings off the ground. [More…]
4) 1973 delivered on 11 September 1973 I announced the first phase of the Government’s program to abolish the means test on age pensions. [More…]
In that same year - and the matter is related - the Income Tax Assessment Act was amended to make pensions and similar benefits payable to people of pensionable age (65 years for men and 60 for women) taxable as from 1 July 1973. [More…]
The Government at that time decided to introduce a transitional benefit for the aged blind of $3 a week to alleviate any detriment which they might have experienced when their pensions become taxable. [More…]
It brought to the attention of the House the Government’s failure to use its alleged influence with the Australian Council of Trade Unions, in particular, to exercise restraint when Australia is crying out for restraint and some kind of leadership from the Federal Government. [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…]
The Government cannot go back much further than that to make a record. [More…]
Has that union amalgamation really moved towards industrial peace when in the March quarter that union and other metal trades unions were principally responsible for the loss of 2 million work days and $37m in wages with 381,000 men being involved? [More…]
It is in the field of consumer protection that every Australian stands to benefit at some time or other from the enactment of this legislation. [More…]
The absence of strong national legislation on consumer protection has allowed Australia to remain a paradise for imported and homegrown spivs, sharpies and confidence men for far too long. [More…]
Perhaps I can best describe the objectives of these people by quoting from the final paragraph of a document titled ‘Sales Presentation - The Key to Success’, which was distributed to salesmen of a home cladding firm last year. [More…]
They are fine men. [More…]
I prefer that movement to his shaking head. [More…]
It is a great argument that the Minister used. [More…]
The strength of our defence forces is measured by a number of factors - the number in the armed forces, the number in the reserve and their quality and training, the quality and quantity of equipment, the state of bases, the strength of industrial backup. [More…]
When I handed over to the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard), the Army had 41,290 men and today it has 30,080, or 11,210 less. [More…]
The Navy had 17,134 men and today it has 16,228, or 906 less. [More…]
The Air Force had 22,769 men and today it has 21,551, or 1,218 less. [More…]
There are many other appointments that I could mention. [More…]
But in this case these men were not appointed by the Party. [More…]
They sit on that Corporation because of their long experience and the general acceptance by the industry that they are men of high reputations and men of distinction. [More…]
We view the appointment of people to this Committee as being appointment of men who in some cases may have some political sympathy. [More…]
But I hope that that will not be a predominant requirement and that it will not hold largely in the mind of the Minister when he is selecting people for appointment. [More…]
If it becomes a case of stacking this body, so that when it makes recommendations to the Government it is acting as nothing more than a dupe which will be mimicking the sentiments of the Minister or of the Government it will not be able to fulfil its role. [More…]
This Committee must have on it men who have an independent view and men who will do their job as they believe it to be in the best interests of this legislation. [More…]
It is a very strange thing that history shows that these so-called champions of the lower classes, these so-called champions of the working men, when they are in office are notorious for having indirect taxes higher than those imposed by Liberal and Country Party governments. [More…]
I have asked the Statistical Service of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Library to give me some statistics on this matter. [More…]
When the Labor Party went out of office in 1948-49 the indirect taxes, as a percentage of total taxes levied by the then Labor Government, were 41 per cent. [More…]
Of all taxes paid by the working man under the last Labor Government, 41 per cent were indirect taxes. [More…]
Under this Government’s policies we have now moved back to paying higher indirect taxes. [More…]
They are a parliament of empty words without spirit. [More…]
They are men without honour, and worse, gutless. [More…]
The imputation that members of this House are men without honour I believe to be despicable, scurrilous and unworthy of any editor. [More…]
As I have said, the surf life saving movement is a voluntary organisation which exists solely to protect the public when they visit a beach. [More…]
They are a selfless body of men, and I believe they deserve the highest commendation from the community as a whole, and I believe they deserve the utmost support from the various Parliaments in Australia. [More…]
The Government is concerned to see that employment is available to all men and women who want it. [More…]
It is a fact that in many country towns, such as Wangaratta and a few other towns in Victoria and also some in the Hunter Valley, the main employment hitherto for women has been in the textile industry. [More…]
It is quite erroneous to suggest that employment is not available generally in Australia for men and women who lose their jobs in the textile industry. [More…]
The experience has been that where such people lose their jobs in the State capitals they are able to get other employment. [More…]
In country towns, however, it is unfortunately true that there is not readily available alternative employment. [More…]
My comment about a commuter transport system between Wangaratta and WodongaAlbury stems from the experience that where there is a large growing manufacturing centre such as Newcastle or a large employment centre such as Canberra then all towns within 50 miles or even more from it prosper, but it is necessary to have public transport available for men and women to go to the growing, the big employment centre and to get home from it. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman puts up a proposition that in order to encourage or preserve employment in towns like Wangaratta the Government should subsidise the commuter service, I would be very receptive to such a suggestion. [More…]
I believe that the men and women in Wangaratta would be advantaged by the range of employment available over the next decade in Albury-Wodonga instead of the restricted opportunities for employment which have hitherto obtained in Wangaratta. [More…]
If government money is to be spent then [More…]
Each of these men in his own way and according to his own lights did a reasonably dedicated job. [More…]
In some cases it was a tremendously dedicated job. [More…]
This measure can be traced directly to a statement made in this place in October 1972 by the then Minister for the Northern Territory, the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt). [More…]
He tabled a paper he had prepared entitled ‘Northern Territory - Form of Government’. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Services and Property (Mr Daly), who is responsible for this legislation, is caught in a cleft stick, to use his own phrase of some days ago, with regard to the 4 points that I have just mentioned. [More…]
A ‘swifty’ report on the Committee’s references will not be conducive to the future development of the fully elected Legislative Assembly. [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…]
This is a tremendously important milestone in the history of the Northern Territory and I am sure that to the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) it is a culmination of a dedicated crusade, if you like. [More…]
He must feel, as does everyone else in the Territory, that there is something questionable about the tremendous haste to hold an election almost preceding the Committee’s report. [More…]
We usually look forward to the establishment of a redistribution commission. [More…]
The members of that committee appear to me to be men of quite some standing and well known. [More…]
It brings to mind the comment of the Minister for Services and Property that he would break the hearts of the Country Party. [More…]
He made this comment about the redistribution even before the commissioners were appointed. [More…]
The Minister and the Government must come clean about this matter. [More…]
The men and women who will seek election at that time time for the purpose of trying to help in the development of the Northern Territory will want to know the answer to this practical question: Where will responsibilities lie. [More…]
I know that ‘salaries and allowances’ is a horrible phrase at the moment but, after all, these people will need to come distances of hundreds and hundreds of miles to Darwin. [More…]
I do not believe that people of the desired quality will stand for the new assembly unless the Government is prepared to pay them appropriate salaries and allowances. [More…]
This is before the Government at the present time. [More…]
I want to ensure that members of the Legislative Assembly are given a decent salary, as good a salary as is possible, in order to attract to it the best possible men and women in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Another good example of the Government’s initiative is the fact that this legislation is providing $7 1.91m for public transport. [More…]
In other words, the guilty men were delaying this legislation when the Government was endeavouring at every opportunity to press it forward. [More…]
Liberal and Country Party Premiers delayed the signing of the agreements for 3 months in the first place. [More…]
It is appropriate at this time of the year to draw the attention of the people of Australia to the difficult situation in which local government finds itself. [More…]
That situation has been quite definitely thrust upon it by 2 actions of the Labor Government, firstly, by its financial strangulation of the means by which local government stays in existence, and secondly, by its deliberate and rather blunt use of the instrument of power to dictate to the representatives of local government what their policies shall be, on what they shall operate and how they shall spend their money. [More…]
At this time of the year many local government authorities throughout the whole of Australia are spending many hours on the preparation of their forthcoming budgets. [More…]
Only recently I talked to Mr Fred Rogers, President of the Queensland Local Government Association, about this matter. [More…]
Ihave also had numerous discussions about it with the honourable member for Petrie (Mr Hodges) and the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson), who are both men who have devoted many years of their life to the most rewarding work of local government. [More…]
They have drawn to my attention the fact that some local government authorities will have to increase their rates by up to SO per cent and that in many cases there will be a percentage increase of 30 per cent. [More…]
We of the Australian Country Party have definite plans to submit for the solution of local government’s ills. [More…]
Shire clerks with whom I have spoken have reiterated to me on many occasions that they are utterly opposed to the provision that will require them to submit detailed plans and specifications to the Government sitting in its ivory tower in Canberra as to how and where they shall spend their money. [More…]
I honestly believe that those men of principle will stand up and be counted on this most important issue and that they will refuse to submit to the dictatorial attitude that is permeating this Labor Administration. [More…]
TheLabor Government has done nothing except make cheap talk about solving the problems of local government. [More…]
Those of us who sit on this side of the House maintain that the supporters of the Labor Government are merely a mob of political bikies who are pack-raping the local government associations of this country. [More…]
On some of the issues about which we feel very strongly the Labor Government has deliberately by-passed the expertise and experience that is to be found in local government. [More…]
Local government has not been asked to provide the office, experience, expertise and local knowledge that is quite evident in that regard. [More…]
I believe that men of this type should be exposed throughout the length and breadth of the nation. [More…]
One ingredient in the quality of life is the range of employment that is available. [More…]
People, men and women, young and not so young, in the honourable gentleman’s electorate have had their opportunities in life very much augmented because of the growth of Canberra. [More…]
We on the Opposition side maintain that there should at all times be a dual system of hospital care wherein the public system is covered by the governmental purse. [More…]
It will lead to a situation where our highly qualified medical men and women will not tolerate interference in their work from people who do not know what they are talking about. [More…]
This Government’s plan will not hurt them but it will deny top quality medical care to the countless hundreds of thousands of Australian people - men, women and children - who at the present time in certain areas have access to it. [More…]
They will be denied this access by this deliberate attempt by this socialist Government to centralise all power in Canberra and to dictate its whim and point of view to all people. [More…]
Among the longest-waiting sufferers under the NHS are men with hernias and women with varicose veins. [More…]
If a reasonable number of men want to band together they have a right to registration and the protection of the Act. [More…]
Minister has no right to legislate those men out of business as the Minister in a recent Press statement said he would do. [More…]
Perhaps that courage was reinforced by the fact that he was a member of this Parliament, which gave him some standing. [More…]
But what of the little men, the people who do not have the good fortune or whatever it is to be members of this Parliament? [More…]
The honourable member for Wannon has brought into this chamber a proposal which should commend itself to every member of the Labor Party who is opposed to the corrupt left wing. [More…]
However, in his second reading speech the Minister said that the Bill will require that every member of every organisation affected by the proposed amalgamation shall - not may - be supplied with a ballot paper and given the right to vote; not put in a position where he has to go on his knees to vote; not put in a position where he has to mark his name up with 249 other men where their names are known, and vote; not put in a position where he must go along and apply to the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union for an absent vote. [More…]
If there were an opportunity that section ought to be amended. [More…]
The Minister was earlier at pains to point out that the Parliamentary Counsel was at fault in relation to this Bill; not his speech. [More…]
Under the proposals put forward by the Minister even if there is a court controlled ballot, a Registrar controlled ballot or an Electoral Office controlled ballot, under the amendments that the Minister is introducing there is no provision for secret postal ballots. [More…]
If 250 men or a committee of management ask for a secret officially conducted ballot under the provisions of the Bill, that ballot must still, as far as practicable and possible, be in accordance with the rules of the union. [More…]
I am quite delighted that the honourable member for Darling Downs told the House that he recently had talked to Mr Fred Rogers, President of the Queensland Local Government Association. [More…]
He said that the two honourable members are both men who have devoted many years of their life to local government. [More…]
Both these gentlemen, in collaboration with the honourable member for Darling Downs, ought to have conferred with the Secretary of the Queensland Local Government Association and they might have learned something to their benefit. [More…]
Only 2 regions were the subject of negotiations with the Queensland Government and the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
A satisfactory arrangement has been reached in these regions with the assistance of Mr Max Armstrong, secretary of the State Local Government Association. [More…]
A close and amicable arrangement has developed between the association and the officers of the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
I will go back further in time and refer to Liberal members who obtained assistance from the Minister’s Department. [More…]
No matter what the Minister says, he is responsible for what happens in his Department. [More…]
He cannot hide behind clerks and junior officers who have no way of replying in this Parliament. [More…]
In South Australia 2 men who became members of this Parliament on the same day as I did in 1966 witnessed the blatant misuse of political power, but they were not prepared to display the same patience and tolerance as I did. [More…]
I am advised that if these provisions become law and if two or three or four shops which might employ five or six men each wrote to the Commission and said that they had not been consulted, then the Commission would feel bound to organise a ballot in relation to a new agreement. [More…]
An agreement of the kind which the Minister has in mind, which involves referral to that rank and file, could take place on a factory basis but not on an industry by industry basis. [More…]
I condemn that statement of the Minister as a correct perspective of what industrial relations are all about. [More…]
I think the time has long since passed when employees - men and women of the work force of Australia - could be regarded as chattels to be bought and sold, to be haggled over and to be cast aside if somebody does not want them. [More…]
Nothing could be further from the truth than that as an accurate statement of what industrial relations in Australia are all about. [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…]
It may have encouraged that shift but what shifted dairy men into beef production, of course, were the market forces and the returns for beef at that time. [More…]
It must be remembered that the classical economic theories of men like Mill, Ricardo and Bentham failed to solve the problems of the great depression. [More…]
We do not have chronic unemployment in developed economies, the demoralising dole queues of the 1930s and a disastrous slowing down of aggregate demand which were symptoms of the great depression. [More…]
A constant state of more or less full employment has built up consumer expectations and consequently a fairly constant excess demand situation. [More…]
At that meeting I pointed out that I did not think it was possible for a Labor government to give consistent, stable government indefinitely because of its system of management. [More…]
I said there would be no decisiveness in a Cabinet of 27 men, it was impossible for 27 men around a table to have a fair say; they could not deal with a great volume of business. [More…]
But it is not really a Cabinet of 27 men that we have under a Labor administration. [More…]
We have virtually a Cabinet of 96 men where everybody thinks he has the right to express a point of view. [More…]
If he is not able to cope with it, this Government does not deserve to be in office. [More…]
The other example which illustrates one of capitalism’s inherent shortcomings is the spectre of unemployment. [More…]
The people oi Tangney know far too much about unemployment. [More…]
As a result of the 1971 Budget which was brought down by the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Snedden), it will be remembered that a vast pool of unemployment was created as a deliberate part of antiinflationary policy. [More…]
That policy was unfortunately no more successful than it was in the Kwinana area of Western Australia where meetings of 700 unemployed men were held, where there were food handouts and other sorts of relief dispensed, where 40 building workers applied to .fill every vacancy in their industry. [More…]
These people know the indignity of unemployment. [More…]
These people know that as long as this capitalist economy remains in Australia, unemployment is to be expected. [More…]
I am very much afraid that what it has in mind is laying men off because of the Federal Government’s attitude. [More…]
sincerely trust that the Government re-drafts the Bill along the lines suggested to it by us. [More…]
I trust that at the same time, while we cannot make an amendment to the fact, that the Government reconsiders the financial position of local government authorities throughout Australia and particularly in Western Australia. [More…]
Not only does it appear in this legislation that its allocation will be reduced, but it also appears that Western Australia has lost the benefit of the supplementary grants which was a fair and reasonable benefit and amounted last year to some $6. [More…]
It was fair and reasonable because of the vastness of the State and the development still going on within the State. [More…]
Out of gainful employment because, as this Wallum development project winds up, their services are no longer required. [More…]
They are men who have a big job to do in the future. [More…]
It is not the function of any government, it is not the intention of my Government, to force people to invest in any particular industry or to work in any particular industry. [More…]
If honourable gentlemen compare the statistics turned up by the censuses in 1966 and 1971 they will find that at a time of import quotas or embargoes or prohibitive tariffs the number of people working in this industry was consistently declining. [More…]
I pointed out the other day - I believe it to be accurate - that if men or women lose their jobs in the textile industry in metropolitan areas they are able to find other employment. [More…]
I also noted that there are some country towns - in particular, I said, in Victoria and the Hunter Valley - where at the present time alternative employment is not readily available for women who lose their jobs in the textile industry. [More…]
In those circumstances I pointed out 2 things: First, it was not a proper economic priority to insist that Australians should have to pay more for textiles across the board in order to maintain employment in every possible textile factory; secondly, the best way to ensure employment in smaller centres was to increase and diversify the opportunities for employment. [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…]
But what we are bitterly opposed to is the Commonwealth assuming that it has the right to tell State and local governments how they shall spend the funds that they raise in order to try to improve the services in their own areas. [More…]
If the Minister will not reconsider the situation, I hope that there are in the Government men who will respond to some of the pressures that must be coming upon them from shire councils and local government bodies, because hundreds of shire councils and local government bodies happen to be in the electorates of members of the Labor Party, and they are opposed to the approach that is embedded in this clause of the Bill. [More…]
We are dealing with responsible men to whom power has been delegated. [More…]
This is being done every day of the week by State governments and local government authorities. [More…]
A lot of honourable members opposite have had experience in local government. [More…]
According to them it is good for a State government or for a local government but it is wrong for an Australian Government. [More…]
Duplication was allowed, approved, authorised by the former Government. [More…]
Honourable members opposite know full well that those men did not abuse it and that they will not abuse any authority entrusted to them under this proposal any more than will public servants who have been delegated power by a State government or a local government authority. [More…]
I have confidence in those men. [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…]
In my opinion, local government must retain its present autonomy. [More…]
It is vital that these dedicated men and women in control of the local government scene - the area of government closest to the people - retain autonomy of their areas of responsibility. [More…]
Grenfell was also the haunt of the great Ben Hall, and the fact that it is the home of two distinguished Country Party men, the honourable member for Calare (Mr England) and Senator Doug Scott, is not to suggest that they too are bushrangers. [More…]
This Parliament has been honoured by the presence of some distinguished former members for Hume, Mr Arthur Fuller will be remembered by many. [More…]
He served this Parliament well, particularly on committees, and especially in the areas of social security and Papua New Guinea affairs. [More…]
These men all served Hume well and have set me a high standard. [More…]
These men do need help. [More…]
In these days of ‘women’s lib’, or whatever we may like to call it, the widowers and deserted husbands should be placed on the same footing as the widows and deserted wives. [More…]
The operation of the means test will prevent such men ever drawing pensions and getting into a rich category, but they do merit or deserve this special help. [More…]
I make the plea to the Government that in this Budget some recognition be made of the special needs of these people - the supporting fathers, the widowers with dependent children and the deserted husbands with dependent children. [More…]
I commend this cause to the Government. [More…]
In line with the Government’s principle of equality of opportunity for men and women in the Australian Public Service, I announced on 29 August 1973 that women are no longer required to notify the Public Service Board of their marriages and are not required to produce their marriage certificates for employment in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
Furthermore, women now have the choice of Miss, Mrs or Ms as a title of courtesy. [More…]
Consequently statistics identifying married women officers as such are no longer collected. [More…]
Its basic principles have been recognised by the Supreme Court of the United States for 10 years and by an all-party committee of our Parliament for 15 years. [More…]
It affirms the Government’s belief that every person’s vote is of equal value no matter where that person lives. [More…]
It affirms our belief that all men and women should be equal in making the law as they are before the law. [More…]
It gives to those who sit in this Parliament at this historic Joint Sitting of this Parliament the opportunity to stand up and be counted, to say whether they believe in these democratic principles and, above all, in the supreme principle of one vote one value. [More…]
For its content and its implications, for its real value and its symbolic importance, for its contribution to the cause of democracy in a world where democracy seems daily more frail, I commend this Bill to honourable senators and members. [More…]
Gerrymandering, as everyone knows, is the creation of electoral divisions which give certain parties favoured treatment. [More…]
Therefore, there is that protection which has been in existence since 1902 which relates to the men who are appointed as distribution commissioners. [More…]
It did very little credit to Senator Withers in another place under the privilege of Parliament to attack the integrity of men who, everyone knows, have a high standing in the community. [More…]
There is a safeguard against gerrymanders in this Parliament. [More…]
Whenever legislation on electoral boundaries is presented it must come before both Houses of the Parliament. [More…]
If one House of the Parliament rejects that legislation it can then be sent back to the commissioners. [More…]
In 1965, when the Opposition was in Government, it amended the Electoral Act and some provisions which had been contained in the Act since 1902. [More…]
So it was good enough for the previous Government to amend the Act after 65 years but it is not good enough for the Labor Party to amend it after 74 years. [More…]
This Bill gives to this historic Joint Meeting of the Australian Parliament the opportunity to give expression to the democratic principle that a person ‘s vote is of equal value no matter where he is domiciled and whatever his class, creed or occupation. [More…]
All men should be equal in making the law as before the law. [More…]
So it was assumed that, consistent with the constitutional requirement, there would be equality of value of votes cast in elections for this Parliament. [More…]
It is assumed in the Australian Constitution that politiciansmembers of this Parliament- will act as honourable men, will ensure that their electorates are so framed as to allow the people to give expression to their view. [More…]
Fortunately the Distribution Commissioners whom I, as the then responsible Minister, had appointed were fair minded men of great principle who were not going to be suborned or overborne by the Leader of the Opposition, as the present Prime Minister then was, simply to get his son into this Parliament. [More…]
The facts are that in 1972 the Australian Labor Party received 49.6 per cent of the votes and 53.6 per cent of the seats and won Government. [More…]
There was not one such charge made by any sensible member of Parliament anyway. [More…]
There is one essential factor required and that is that the distribution commissioners in a redistribution must be men of integrity. [More…]
Of course, there must be proper Executive power to any Government, but our British, our English idea, in a special sense, has always been a system of balanced rights and divided authority, with many other persons and organised bodies having to be considered besides the Government of the day and the officials they employ . [More…]
.All this idea of a handful of men getting hold of the State machine, having the right to make the people do what suits their party and personal interests or doctrine is completely contrary to every conception of surviving western democracy. [More…]
After an electoral Bill leaves the Parliament the main responsibility is in the hands of the Commissioners. [More…]
I believe that the Chief Electoral Officer and the Electoral Officers in each State have shown, by the results in the past 2V4 decades, that they have been men who have taken notice of the need to preserve our democracy. [More…]
In the not too distant future he intends to change the Electoral Act to alter the requirement that the Surveyor-General of each State be appointed as a redistribution commissioner so that a registered surveyor may be appointed. [More…]
The first is section 122 which, admittedly, makes provision for the Parliament to admit to the Parliament on such terms and conditions as it sees fit representatives of other States and Territories. [More…]
But it was never the intendment of those at the convention debates which founded this country that representatives of Territories which had not been raised to the status of States be brought into this Parliament. [More…]
The mere introduction of a Representation Bill to amend the Representation Act cannot be allowed to be accepted as something to tranquilise the community into a state of agreement and to say: ‘Our fears are unfounded’. [More…]
The men who wrote the Constitution were men of reason, men of justice. [More…]
The Government proposes that there should be 64 senators, and that all of those senators should have full voting powers. [More…]
(Government supporters interjecting)- [More…]
It is the attitude and conviction of men and women who look upon the Senate as a chamber of frustration and who misunderstand its historic role and its purpose. [More…]
In a period when our institutions are creaking at every joint, the last refuge of the idolators of the status quo is an appeal to the founding fathers- those wise men who brought the commandments down from the mount and gave us a prescription for running our affairs, a prescription which Senator Greenwood would have is eternal and unchangeable, like the sun rising in the east and setting in the west. [More…]
As Senator Murphy so aptly demonstrated today, it is quite clear that the founding fathers envisaged just such a situation as the Government is facing in this legislation. [More…]
I believe that this Bill merely provides for the anticipated normal progress and development of a democratic society- a society which seeks to avoid discrimination against any section of its people. [More…]
I suggest that it is precisely the kind of development which the founders of the Constitution foresaw. [More…]
People like Deakin, Piddington and Garran, men of great vision and men with a sense of history, foresaw the need to make provision in the Constitution for this historic Joint Sitting this evening. [More…]
I wonder what these great men would be thinking if they were sitting in this chamber tonight and hearing the arguments of the Opposition. [More…]
I have always been a little mystified as to why the fact that someone was elected to Parliament in 1 899 makes him more sagacious than somebody who was elected to Parliament in 1974. [More…]
We are unlike the Piltdown men opposite. [More…]
I call them Piltdown men advisedly, because it may be remembered that the Piltdown man was constructed artificially. [More…]
The Piltdown men opposite would tell us that, because a group of politicians amongst whom the Labor Movement was almost totally unrepresented, if not totally unrepresented, almost 80 years ago decided to devise a Constitution whose purpose would be to preserve the property rights of the wealthy citizens of that day, to withstand the scourge of the Peasants’ [More…]
If this doctrine which was handed down in 1895 by men with long white beards that all States should have equal representation is such a sacred doctrine, then surely the Opposition would say that all Territories ought to have equal representation too. [More…]
I believe that if we had to draw up a constitution tomorrow there would be the wit, the wisdom and the intelligence in politicians on both sides of the parliament to draw up a better constitution than those people did 80 years ago. [More…]
I could be marginally out in these figures, but I believe that at the 2 Constitutional Conventions the Labor movement had one representative out of 135. [More…]
Those people who drew up the Constitution were, primarily, men of property, merchants, farmers and men of influence in our community. [More…]
Representatives of the people whom we on this side of the Parliament represent were not members of the various State parliaments at that time. [More…]
One of the great shames of our history is that at the time of the drawing up of the Constitution the Labor movement was not fully represented, as it should have been. [More…]
At least 3,000 men are engaged full time in the industry. [More…]
The miners themselves see the need for the Australian Government to identify the national interest in respect of the exploitation of minerals and energy in this country. [More…]
They see the need for Australian people to have a share in that exploitation and they see the need for the development of a national policy for minerals and energy. [More…]
One can get information through government departments, but that is an operation which seems to have ceased these days. [More…]
There will be 5 men on the Authority, and I would not let three of them examine a specimen of copper that I brought down the other day because they would probably think it was a lump of copper or something Uke that. [More…]
At the outset I want to say to Representative Katter that when he talks about Australianism many new members in this Parliament- people like Representatives Mathews and Lamb- are here because the conservationists in this community are sick of being trampled by the mining lobbyists. [More…]
So when the honourable member is talking about political dividends, the very fact that these men are here is significant. [More…]
I believe that the creation of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority will mean that with an overall national plan those of us who are conservationists can work with the Minister for Minerals and Energy, Mr Connor, because we will implement a sane plan. [More…]
and (3) On August 8, 1974 the Secretary-General of the United Nations was informed that, in response to his request for an increased contribution to the United Nations Force in Cyprus, Australia was prepared to provide a military contingent consisting of an independent rifle company of 170 men and appropriate headquarters and support elements to serve for a period of six months from their date of arrival in Cyprus. [More…]
On 22 July 1974 the Secretary-General of the United Nations convened a meeting of all Governments already contributing contingents to UNFICYP (including Australia by virtue of its civil police contingent), announced that he was seeking to double the present strength of UNFICYP to about 5000 men and asked representatives to indicate whether their governments could increase the size of their contingents. [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…]
His advice to me when I was first elected to this Parliament in 1969 was quite invaluable. [More…]
He understood and, indeed, wrote about its great history and the tremendously important part it played in the development of Tasmania. [More…]
He contributed greatly, in my view, to the scholarship of men. [More…]
This means that the total allocation of financial assistance for sewerage backlog in 1973-74- the first year of administration of this Government- will be $37.95m. [More…]
The extra money will be made available on the same terms and conditions as in the Sewerage Agreements Act 1973. [More…]
Where works will not be completed for some months we have ensured that our allocations will not impose a strain on resources of both men and materials. [More…]
It is certainly a degrading insult to the priesthood- men who are involved in spreading Christianity in this country- to be defamed in such a manner. [More…]
This has had a detrimental effect on many industries, not only in my electorate but in aU country areas. [More…]
I Will not mention his name because of the danger of victimisation. [More…]
As his station is on one of our main highways, it would be of tremendous advantage to him and to the travelling public if he had additional supplies. [More…]
Upon contacting the oil company he was informed that this was the situation, that the driver was one of the top union men and that, literally if the driver said that he would get only a certain amount of petrol, that was the situation. [More…]
As to the idea of the Leader of the Opposition on leadership, all I can say is that it would be a damned sight easier for this Government to give leadership in our area of responsibility, governing Australia according to the program on which we were elected, if he were able to give some leadership in his area of responsibility. [More…]
If he could control his wild men in the Senate, if there were one Liberal Party in this Parliament instead of two, this Government would be much better able to get on with the job for which it has been twice elected and much better able to carry out its program which has been twice endorsed. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, in supporting the amendment moved by my friend the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) I would say that although I have no concern or fear personally about having to conform to some system that would bring about the disclosure of my own personal wealth- and I say that quite sincerely- I am opposed to the principle that underlies the motive behind the motion under discussion. [More…]
Just because a person chooses to serve his community by becoming a member of this Parliament, it should not deny him as an individual the right to personal privacy. [More…]
If members of Parliament are to be subjected to this form of public scrutiny, then why not the judiciary? [More…]
Or are they men of honour and members of Parliament men without honour? [More…]
Surely they would need to be publicly scrutinised if this were necessary for members of Parliament. [More…]
Why not the personal staff of Ministers, of members of Parliament? [More…]
Why not have those who sit in the gallery above this Parliament subjected to the same sort of inquiry? [More…]
I hope we are all men of honour, because we are supposed to be. [More…]
If the move is one to establish a register, to acknowledge and record the shareholdings of members of Parliament in public companies then I would not be opposed to it in principle. [More…]
It would perhaps be easier for those who wish to know which members of Parliament have an interest in public companies if there were a separate register, but this goes much deeper than that. [More…]
If pursued it will lead ultimately to the enforcement of the disclosure of private and personal assets and liabilities of a private member, of his wife, of his family. [More…]
I say sincerely that if the Government is serious and sincere why does it not apply its own medicine to its Ministers, who are the policy decision makers? [More…]
Why apply this to the private members of this Parliament who play no real part in policy decisions? [More…]
As the honourable member for Moreton said, surely there is honour among the men and women who serve in this Parliament. [More…]
Why is it necessary to assume that those who sit in this place are not honourable members, are a bunch of rogues, are men who cannot be trusted. [More…]
What an indictment, that men should need to have their confidential private financial affairs disclosed to public scrutiny. [More…]
I see it as an infringement upon the privacy of the individual, although that individual may happen to serve his community as a member of this Parliament. [More…]
I think that Committee ought to report whether arrangements should be made and then give us the nature of the arrangements that it recommends. [More…]
We find that such committees of the Parliament are an asset to the Parliament. [More…]
We find that parliamentary committees achieve very much on a non-partisan basis. [More…]
We find that the deliberations which take place at such committees result in the enrichment of the legislation that comes out of this Parliament. [More…]
If we want legislation which will be fair to the men who come to this place to represent the people, this is the way to do it. [More…]
Therefore I support the amendment and ask that the Government give consideration to taking the course of action suggested. [More…]
-Well, the sad thing about these men who do not understand the interconnection of the various facets of the environment is that they want to make criticism before they have really studied the situation. [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…]
Action was taken by this Government to try to create some form of decentralisation in this nation. [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…]
This Government is trying to reverse that situation. [More…]
At present under constructionit will be in operation in about 2 years- is a water treatment works at the junction of the Molonglo and Murrumbidgee Rivers which will purify water to such an extent that one can drink the water as it is released after treatment of the sewage. [More…]
The same systems will be used in the development of the Albury-Wodonga scheme. [More…]
It is only because of that situation that we can now turn our attention to preserving and conserving the environment and the national estate. [More…]
This report and its recommendations should give us the lead. [More…]
We are one of the last developed nations to have a large part of our environment left virtually in its natural state and it is up to all men and women, not just the socialists, to preserve as much of it as is economically and socially possible. [More…]
I am sure that the implementation of the recommendations against that background of consideration will be to the long-term benefit of the Australian people. [More…]
I receive the letters I refer them to people who are there to give the necessary legal advice on what can and should be done and what the recommendations are. [More…]
When these papers are produced for public inspection and cross-examination at the royal commission it will be shown that at no time have the Department of Transport and its Minister accepted and tolerated payments of this type being made into any fund. [More…]
It is part of the policy of the Labor Party and the trade union movement. [More…]
It is true that I told Charlie Fitzgibbons, who is a personal friend of mine, both being Newcastle men, that there was no risk of any interference by me or any prosecution or action being taken against his union while it was insisting on the crews of foreign ships being paid ITF rates of pay. [More…]
Never for a moment have I tolerated a situation where money was obtained by means that could be referred to as blackmail or anything else. [More…]
The first is the inherent inefficiency of the Government and the second is the industrial disruption imposed upon them, when very often they themselves do not want this disruption, by their own militant unions who are making disruption not to help their members but in order to break the whole social system. [More…]
He excluded them from the meeting with the men although I believe he had with him one person from his own central office. [More…]
Here we have the Minister, who has had some association with trade unions, corning into this House and asking for the instruments of victimisation. [More…]
He is one of the people who will be working these kinds of standover tactics in the unions- standing over the men in the unions. [More…]
They are their fellow men. [More…]
That is not a new concept; it was the concept of any previous government, naturally, to get its funds. [More…]
If we had adopted the Senate assessment of the situation and had been deprived of the $30m we wanted and have now got in this Bill- the Opposition has at last said it will approve it, having had second thoughts, but the position still holds if the Opposition does not approve the Bill and the Bill is rejected- how many thousands of men would be sacked from the Post Office? [More…]
Men of great honesty and integrity who have the confidence of their industry are concerned that a further word has been included without a clear definition of its meaning or information on the premise on or the reason for which the Minister may terminate the appointment of a member of a Board by reason of misbehaviour. [More…]
On behalf of those gentlemen, I want to know what is the strict definition of the word ‘misbehaviour’ so that these men can have confidence in the future. [More…]
In a responsible organisation there is nothing worse than having the men in control of that organisation fearful of being regarded publicly as scoundrels because they have seen fit, in the interests of the people they represent, to oppose an irresponsible direction that could be given by a Minister. [More…]
I ask the Minister now to define the word ‘misbehaviour’ and state on what grounds a Minister may terminate the appointment of a responsibly elected member of the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
It is quite tragic that this Government thinks it can talk about wheat in one package and forget all about the problems of harvesting wheat, having fuel to harvest the wheat, having fuel “to. [More…]
enable the rail trucks to get the wheat to the point of shipment and having men working when the wheat is delivered to the port of shipment. [More…]
Harvesting this year’s crop, transporting it to silos and snipping it could well be completely impossible under the farcical arrangements that this Government is pursuing with respect to fuel supplies, particularly in northern New South Wales and Queensland. [More…]
The payment of that 20c per bushel would have meant a better liquidity situation for wheat growers and would have helped to relieve the liquidity position of the banks. [More…]
Moreover, this occurred after an announcement by the Wheat Board last April setting out the dates on which funds would be available as a result of sales that were made. [More…]
The only reason the payments were not made is that this Government has not been bothered about getting the men to work and getting the cargo moving in the way a responsible government would have done. [More…]
Hunter apparently seeks to identify the people from the country as peasants who do not really deserve to be helped by the Government. [More…]
Tragically it is not only those who count for little weight in this Parliament, such as the honourable member for Hunter, but also men like the Prime Minister who echo such sentiments. [More…]
It is absolutely deplorable that in this day and age, with economic conditions declining as they are, the Government just fiddles away while the country burns and the city is about to go with it. [More…]
The product of the Government’s policy is to create within Australia a group of rural peasants. [More…]
If the Government thinks that all this is too much, let me draw on 3 specific areas in which things are crook. [More…]
At Newcastle 40 men were responsible for delaying the payment to Australian wheatgrowers of the last pool payment for the 1972-73 pool period. [More…]
This payment has already been announced by the Chairman of the Australian Wheat Board. [More…]
The action of those 40 men is symbolic of how this Government has ignored the countryside run to waste. [More…]
It is of interest today to note that the Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) is not in the House. [More…]
He is not in the House because he has apparently gone to London to try to negotiate a sugar agreement with the United Kingdom Government. [More…]
If the Minister for Northern Development, in Britain in order to help the Labor Government there win its impending election, enters into a contractual arrangement with the British Government under which the price of sugar will be less than the Malaysian price- a rumour about which the sugar trade is most concerned- this will not be in Australia’s interest. [More…]
If so, again we will see another one of the ways by which this Government is intent on driving the nail into the primary industry coffin. [More…]
that probably it will take until 1980 or the early 1980s to achieve our aim because of pressure on resources, both men and material. [More…]
Actually if we had made available the expenditure that was required to meet our commitments we would have had to make available $83m in the first financial year. [More…]
The situation is that in discussions with the State governments and the sewerage authorities we found out that both men and material were not available. [More…]
We took die lower figure in the first year because we were concerned about the problems that were being caused in the construction industry due to the pressure for both men and material. [More…]
Consequently in relation to environmental matters in connection with Port Phillip Bay the Premier of Victoria sought a further $3.95m. [More…]
Because it was said that unless a further $3m was made available last year- that amount was requested last year by the Minister for Works in the former Labor Government, Mr Jamieson unemployment would occur in that sector, the money requested was made available. [More…]
This proposal was discussed and an agreement reached with the Queensland authorities. [More…]
Enormous pressure had been imposed on men and materials in clearing up the flood problem in Queensland. [More…]
The Australian Government made more than $50m available for work in the Moreton region. [More…]
One of the major objectives of this Government is to curb inflation. [More…]
Inflation was created by private enterprise and it commenced in 1971. [More…]
Men and materials were in short supply in that period. [More…]
A further $2,000m was released by the fringe banking institutions without any control by the then Federal Government. [More…]
If one examines sanely where inflationary pressures were created, one appreciates that when an enormous amount of capital is infused into the economy in such a way that money is chasing too few goods and too few men and materials, one has an understanding of the real situation. [More…]
We, as a national Government, are trying to solve these problems. [More…]
It is utterly stupid to think that in this day and age when we can put men on the moon one in every 6 families in Sydney and Melbourne are still living in unsewered areas. [More…]
From an environmental viewpoint we not only want to sewer all urban areas but also to make sure that there is environmental protection of all areas, such as Port Phillip Bay. [More…]
It was built up because of the uncertainties which resulted from the economic policies of the previous Government during 1971 and 1972. [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 survey illustrated that 52 per cent of all labour shortages was with respect to skilled tradesmen. [More…]
There were not sufficient tradesmen because the guilty men, who are now in their place in Opposition, refused to spend a reasonable sum on training. [More…]
They allowed in the building industry the introduction of a pernicious system which had as its very objective the destruction of skilled tradesmen. [More…]
It was obvious that there would inevitably be a shortage of skilled tradesmen because of the lack of apprentices. [More…]
-I am telling a small untruth at the moment. [More…]
How can proper decentralisation be seriously considered when mills like this one- I am talking about a mill that established a pre.shrunk system and the set crease system with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation- and those in outer country areas are closing without any chance of replacement, affecting men who have given their whole working lives to learn a skill that cannot be picked up overnight in any retraining scheme? [More…]
I now ask the former Postmaster-General, since he issued the original challange- a most unusual thing for one member to do to another- to me to swear this declaration, to swear a declaration specifically on the 2 points that I have mentioned. [More…]
First, let him swear that there was one of his officials from the Redfern Mail Exchange present at the mass meeting of men- I am told by senior officials that there was not- and, secondly, let him swear that he did not sign the demands served on him at that meeting. [More…]
I have a signed letter in my possession at the present moment saying that the Minister signed these demands. [More…]
If not, to what extent are they below strength, both in respect of men and serviceable aircraft. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston makes a good comment. [More…]
For many years, the grazing industry has been trying to get agreement on a scheme which would enable an apprentice system to be introduced for the industry. [More…]
We are acutely aware of the need to encourage young men to enter this industry. [More…]
It is significant that the Julius Dam Agreement Bill should come before the House tonight because it was only the day before yesterday that Julius Krutschnitt, after whom the dam was named, died. [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…]
He was one of the men who were responsible for establishing the splendid industrial climate which exists in Mt Isa. [More…]
If the men working underground at Mt Isa decided not to work any more, if the wheat growers said that they were not going to grow any wheat and if the cattlemen said: ‘We are finished; we have had enough’, the whole fabric of the financial structure of this nation would collapse. [More…]
It also attacks grass and this is of particular concern to the cattlemen in the area of my friend the honourable member for Kennedy (Mr Katter) who already have been savagely hit by floods. [More…]
I think we should pay a tribute to the honourable member for Kennedy for the tremendous amount of work he has done in his area and in drawing the attention of governments to the great damage caused by locusts. [More…]
The cattlemen will be affected by the spur throated locust as well as the grain men. [More…]
At the meeting, Mr Pringle said: ‘ If you don ‘t do what we tell you the next time 111 bring 2,000 men up there and none of you will live through that’. [More…]
In May 1974 at a site at Granville during a period when claims were being made for the reinstatement of a builder labourer, Mr Pires Mr McNaughton and Mr Milosevich visited the site and stopped a concrete pour which was in progress. [More…]
Two men were arrested. [More…]
As pan of the settlement and end to the dispute the company had to pay the fine in addition. [More…]
There is also further evidence in Mr Justice Franki ‘s judgment that the unions had demanded other payments. [More…]
Mr Gleeson requested reinstatement and upon this not being agreed to informed the employer: ‘The site is black banned and you will do as we say’. [More…]
There were strikes against Jennings and Dillinghams for a few days before work could be recommenced. [More…]
Concrete Constructions had a strike of about 2 weeks and Lewis Constructions, the same company in Victoria, had to pay $75,000 in back pay to pay the men for the period they were on strike before they would return to work. [More…]
I believe that newspaper men who read those findings would find superlatives, which are used every day by them, being used by the 3 responsible and very senior judges. [More…]
‘Extortion’, ‘industrial payments’ and ‘muscle’ are words that are used time and again. [More…]
It is a constructive amendment. [More…]
I am sure that all the men in this House will be pleased to see that this amending legislation also gets rid of the discrimination single men have suffered under the previous defence service homes legislation. [More…]
Last year we amended the Act to provide for single women with qualifying service. [More…]
This year we have liberated the single men and widowers and they too can receive assistance under the scheme. [More…]
The economic role of the Budget, so far as I can discern it, is this: By embodying the Government’s program in the Budget in this way, and by a show of ‘soaking the rich’ and demonstrating a real concern to redistribute income towards lower income groups- I refer to the tax on unearned income and the capital gains tax, hitting the multi-national mining companies and the fringe benefits of business men, the reduction in the allowable tax deduction for school expensesthe Government will be able to achieve a social contract with the unions, that is, achieve wage and salary restraint, an agreement to limit income increases, as the means of countering the current accelerating cost inflation spiral. [More…]
As the Treasurer puts it in the Budget Speech, ‘the Government is convinced that the best course is to attack the cost-price spiral directly. ‘ [More…]
Since Labor came into office in December 1972 our program of legislation in every field of the economy has been a monument to the courage of the men who initiated it and the humanity of vast areas of it. [More…]
But what do we find on the opposite side in this Parliament? [More…]
Inflation itself is too much money chasing too few goods and the moment that we try to draw the money supply from the community we are accused of taking stupid action. [More…]
I believe that this company, which employs only local men except a Canadian who is an expert in trawling and who is the captain of the vessel, should receive assistance from the Fisheries Research Division. [More…]
It is part of our policy to do this as a government. [More…]
All the big men would be subsidised in respect of only X’- ions and all the average growers of Australia would get their 20 tons subsidised say, at $8 a ton or something like that. [More…]
The Country Party long recognises Sir Eric as one of its great colleagues, both in Government and in Opposition. [More…]
He made a tremendous impact in pursuing his political beliefs. [More…]
He had left Parliament by the time I arrived, but he was a very close friend of my late father and in his presence I once had the opportunity of meeting Sir Eric. [More…]
He made his greatest political contribution, I would think, during his period in Opposition from 1941 to 1949, when he and a small handful of other men did their job very faithfully and with great dedication as members of the Opposition. [More…]
He was a great Australian in serving his country in war, as a Minister, as a parliamentarian and as an ambassador. [More…]
He loved Parliament. [More…]
He set a fine example to all of us as parliamentarians and we are pleased the he is remembered with the esteem that has been expressed today. [More…]
That is one of the memories I shall always have because of my interest in that election and the fact that I knew 2 men who I believe were among the great Liberals I have known in my parliamentary life. [More…]
During the time I have been the member for Lowe and while he was in Parliament he opened every election campaign for me. [More…]
With that he tore them up and his comment was: ‘You are no bloody good reading speeches. [More…]
That is one of my memories of parliamentary life and Eric Harrison that I will never be able to and will never want to forget. [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…]
When I first came to the Parliament we had a different Parliament from the Parliament we have now. [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…]
The great names of the Parliament were names like Larry Anthony, Robert Menzies, who of course was an academic, and Billy Hughes, who somehow seemed to get a QC-ship. [More…]
John McEwen was a great parliamentarian who was not an academic. [More…]
Eddie Ward, probably the greatest of all parliamentarians- in my time, anyhow- was not. [More…]
All these men were great parliamentarians. [More…]
So too were Archie Cameron, Arthur Calwell, and Percy Clarey, who resigned his presidency of the Australian Council of Trade Unions to come into this Parliament. [More…]
Other great men of the Parliament included Artie Fadden, Reg Pollard, Dick Casey, Percy Spender, Harold Holt and Paul Hasluck. [More…]
That Parliament was a very great Parliament indeed. [More…]
Men like Eric Harrison helped to make it great, as did those whom I have already mentioned. [More…]
They could give punishment, serve it out, but they could take it. [More…]
That is what I admired about both those men. [More…]
I admired him as a parliamentarian. [More…]
Naturally I was distressed by his policies, but he was nevertheless a great parliamentarian. [More…]
Sir Eric Harrison was one of those men who once met would never be forgotten. [More…]
Sir Eric was an individual who brought to the parliamentary system and to history a meaning to one who at that stage viewed it rather dispassionately and who thought that history was something to be read in books. [More…]
In a condolence motion of this sort I think it is important for those of us who are parliamentarians to realise that it is through the person of such men as Sir Eric that this land of ours has been developed and the parliamentary traditions have been evolved. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman and many other honourable gentlemen from both sides of the House have been very helpful in bringing forward proposals for completion under the Regional Employment Development scheme. [More…]
The honourable gentleman will be pleased to know that they have given immediate approval to projects involving $75,000, employing 27 men, and that on Wednesday they will be looking at the other 2 projects submitted. [More…]
I must compliment the Town of Canning on the excellent manner in which its projects were set out. [More…]
But, however promising that observation may have appeared at the time, to any one of 1.3 million men and women over pensionable age in Australia and the more than 600,000 people who are within, say, five years of it, your subsequent announcement of the Government’s proposal to impose a tax surcharge on income received by individuals from property rendered your statement of intention to make Australia ‘ a fairer society ‘ rather meaningless. [More…]
Blanket cuts in tariffs may look very neat to the men in Canberra when they announce them, but when no demographic or other disability is considered in the decision and when the social consequences are not considered, then how hollow do the protestations of these men sound? [More…]
There was no consideration of whether an affected industry was a decentralised industry, whether it employed women, what was the skill of the people in the work force, whether they would be absorbed elsewhere, whether the industry was already in competition with imported goods and what its level of profitability was, and whether there had been a Tariff Board inquiry into the industry shortly before. [More…]
The honourable member for Bass, the honourable member for Braddon, the honourable member for Wilmot, the honourable member for Denison (Mr Coates), the honourable member for Franklin and the Labor senators from Tasmania all know of this unemployment. [More…]
These men whom I have enumerated- the honourable member for Braddon (Mr Davies), the Minister for Defence and the honourable member for Bass, the honourable member for Wilmot, the honourable member for Denison and the honourable member for Franklin- purport to support a Government that claims to have the solution to urban Australia. [More…]
There has been no greater shock to the living standards of Australia than there has been over the past 20 months of this Labor Government. [More…]
That means that millions of dollars of the most modern machinery and many men and women are idle. [More…]
They are idle and not producing mainly because of the Labor Government’s policies and the ill-advised and badly judged actions of the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns). [More…]
Those men are trying to pass the buck by blaming everyone else. [More…]
Government action must be taken to restore this efficient machinery and the men and women who operate it to full production. [More…]
-As I was saying, at Burnie the projects are netball courts and amenities costing $43,500; Waratah recreational amenities, $38,149. [More…]
This is a fine experiment in the use of female labour for this kind of outdoor work. [More…]
In Launceston, employment of female labour at the Beaconsfield Council chambers is to cost $4,650. [More…]
This proves that all is not lost when there are pockets of unemployment and normally one would think that only men could be employed. [More…]
Women can be employed and are being employed in this excellent pilot program. [More…]
Unless we deal with mounting unemployment and gathering business bankruptcy we can find ourselves face to face with an economic and social collapse, which, however much it may be relished by those whose avowed aim is the destruction of the whole fabric of our society, must surely be abhorrent to men of goodwill. [More…]
I hasten to congratulate the Government for stepping into the breach in the wool industry and providing that industry with a floor price when it was facing a very uncertain period. [More…]
In a fertile, reasonably newly developed area in my electorate- it is a high rainfall area which runs down the west coast of Western Australia and is basically concerned with growing beef cattle- a few weeks ago, one of my State colleagues had an informal meeting with the local bank managers, the local stock firm men, and two or three of the district’s leading farmers. [More…]
After hearing what was contained in this Budget one wonders how supporters of the Government can with all honesty go to the pubs in their electorates and stand up to their fellow men. [More…]
The things that were crippling Australia then, as they are today in a greater degree, were inflation, unemployment, crippling interest rates and so many other perpetrations by this Government since it has been in power. [More…]
What about the 115 commissions of inquiry that have been set up by this Government and are wandering around the world and the countryside considering things which the Government probably will never implement anyway. [More…]
What about making some cuts in the overseas jaunts and junkets that are being made by Ministers of this Government? [More…]
What a strain on these men. [More…]
What I wanted to talk about tonight very briefly is the peculiar omission from the terms of reference of the Royal Commission which is inquiring into payments made to the maritime unions under duress. [More…]
What happened was that when this matter was brought to the attention of the public the Government professed a great deal of indignation about it, said that it was improper and set up a Royal Commission to inquire into it. [More…]
But one of the things that was missing from the terms of reference of that Royal Commission was any reference to misdoings by the Government itself because the Government itself knew about this misdemeanours and did nothing. [More…]
One of the terms of reference of the Royal Commission should be why the Government did nothing, what Ministers had guilty foreknowledge of this matter and to what extent were they culpable in trying to hush up these events before they came to the notice of the public. [More…]
I believe that this omission from the terms of reference of the Royal Commission is very significant because in my view there are guilty men in the Government. [More…]
The surf life saving movement has been responsible for rescuing 200,000 people in the Sydney area. [More…]
Many of those people might have perished but for the activities of those dedicated young men who risk life and limb for no other purpose than to give protection to the Australian community. [More…]
But it is popular only because of its safety- a safety guaranteed by young men who serve the community. [More…]
If some organisation could guarantee that no lives would be lost on Australian roads in the next year, I venture to say that the Government would say that no cost would be too great to meet its operations. [More…]
If the surf life saving movement did not exist many thousands of lives would be lost in surfing activities around our coastline. [More…]
The development of character and the development of youth are things that the Government has set out to encourage. [More…]
The surf life saving movement has done a great deal in that regard. [More…]
It is fundamentally wrong that the citizens who happen to live there should have to bear the whole of the cost. [More…]
I make a plea to the Government to take special steps in this regard. [More…]
The surf life saving movement needs to attract more and more young men, and one way of attracting them is to provide decent and reasonable facilities in which they may enjoy their recreation. [More…]
There is also a need, with the introduction of new oxygen equipment, for more highly skilled professional instructors. [More…]
I believe that the Government would do well if it were to give serious consideration to the subsidising of the surf club movement so that professional instructors could be available full time rather than reliance being placed on the part time instructors, medical practitioners and the like who give their services and time free of charge for this very important function. [More…]
Some of the other books were entitled: ‘Poor Alice ‘, ‘ Dangerous Game ‘, ‘Adultery Without Men’, ‘Stag Film Girls’, ‘First Experience’, ‘The Coming of a Woman’, ‘The Painter of Passion’ and ‘The Wife Will Play’. [More…]
If they do perhaps it is a matter for our assessment as to whether they should. [More…]
Yesterday I asked how Labor members can hold their heads up when they go into the pubs in their electorates and hear what their fellow men and supporters are saying to them when they go into their electorates. [More…]
Restraint is being called for by everybody in the Government. [More…]
Among those calls for restraint come the proposals to boost government expenditure by more than 30 per cent. [More…]
So, we have had an increase comfortably in excess of 50 per cent in government expenditure. [More…]
Some examples of their decisions are as follows, and they intrigue me: In Bega for the extension of the Cooma Creek plan they expect to employ 20 persons; in Maitland for the extension to the community centre they expect to employ 4 persons; in Lismore for tree planting and construction of public facilities they expect to employ 14 persons; in Benalla for footpath, kerb and channel construction and showground improvements they expect to employ 26 men; in Devonport for clearing of bushland and development of parks and the elimination of potential fire dangers they expect to employ 25 men; in my own city of Townsville they expect to employ 19 persons on a drainage project. [More…]
These figures are expected to increase, and then of course will be augmented by the school leavers in November. [More…]
Finally, I call on the Government to give special attention to the employment potential of what should be our No 1 growth industry, and that is the housing industry. [More…]
The opportunity exists for thousand of jobs for men and women, not just in construction but in the manufacture of building materials. [More…]
Special praise must go to the young men of the Leeton Rescue Club who travelled to, and worked in Darlington Point, some without the promise of pay from employers, for the duration of the flood. [More…]
This Government is incompetent, irresponsible and has no confidence even in the men who are Ministers. [More…]
3 in the hierarchy is to be denied the opportunity, as he should be- but that of course is an expression of view which comes from the Opposition and according to the Government is to be discounted- of being the Acting Prime Minister at a time when there is economic uncertainty. [More…]
The Minister for Health (Dr Everingham) shortly after the introduction of the Budget- not in the Parliament because these men have given away the concept of making policy statements in the Parliament; these men no longer regard the Parliament as significant- decided that in excess of $600m over the next 3 years, or $200m a year, for the construction of public health facilties or hospitals will be spent by this Government. [More…]
This is not included in the Budget and not referred to in the Parliament, but specifically it is placing an additional outlay on the Budget which the Treasurer himself, on page 3 of his Budget Speech, estimated as providing for an additional 32.4 per cent of outlay or $3,980m in 1 974-75. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I need no protection from these men. [More…]
In other words, only 2 nights after the presentation of the Budget, outside the Parliament, without any reference to the people’s representatives - [More…]
Outside the Parliament, an additional outlay of $600m was announced over the course of the next 3 years. [More…]
Did the Ministers or those who are advising the Ministers- the departmental officers- know of the devaluation decision? [More…]
This has been used as the reason to hide the fact that these men are incompetent to govern. [More…]
The Prime Minister of Australia is predicating his future and our country’s future on his status in the United Nations and on our ability to equate ourselves with other men and with other countries who are doing just what the Deputy Prime Minister says we should do. [More…]
It is a land of tremendous potential. [More…]
But, this Budget, by its financial imposition on the average citizen, by its destruction of incentive, by its excessive expenditure in the public sector, by its denial of the right of the private sector to employ people, by its destruction of the confidence of every citizen in those traditional avenues of investment, has turned the page backward in a way which this generation will not forget. [More…]
Today the economic gyrations of this Government are recognised as the consequence of abject abandonment of any pretence to economic leadership. [More…]
There is no economic strategy exercised by this Government. [More…]
There is no leadership- let alone economic leadership- in this Government. [More…]
Above all, there is no real commitment to fight inflation. [More…]
There is no commitment at all by the Treasurer to fight inflation. [More…]
Rather, there is only a frightened group of men twitching in response to every economic pressure in the country. [More…]
It is a group of men led by a leader who is more concerned about tripping overseas with his public relations entourage to try to get Senator Willesee elected president of the United Nations. [More…]
Within a weekand the Labor men in this House still carry on living in their dream socialist world believing that the Budget was a great success. [More…]
It did nothing whatsoever to assist Australia with the problems of inflation and unemployment that it has today. [More…]
He lives in a big city suburb and he would not know that half the people in the outback have to use tremendous quantities of diesoline and petrol and even avgas to get themselves about. [More…]
I hope that the Government will bring about a reduction in interest rates. [More…]
I hope that the Government will steady the rate of inflation. [More…]
I also hope that the Government will bring about a reduction in the number of unemployed. [More…]
The Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) said when he was Acting Prime Minister that the unemployment situation is not serious. [More…]
I think that the country is heading for a monumental prang, to put it in the vernacular that would be used by those men who know something about Spitfires and things like that. [More…]
We have a Government which seems dedicated to a course of splitting the nation. [More…]
Little do they know that the men in these areas, whether they are farmers or people who live or have businesses in the country, are suffering at the hands of this city-orientated centralist Government. [More…]
As I was saying, members of the Labor Party bracket all farmers, whether they are sheep men, cattle men, battlers, lessees, private owners, men working on company stations, groups of farmers or dairy farmers, as being wealthy farmers. [More…]
Why is this Government so fanatically opposed to those who do not live in these places? [More…]
The honourable members who sit opposite are the guilty men. [More…]
The present masters of our national destiny, the purveyors of outdated economic shibboleths, these misguided men, would have us believe that whatever the cause of Australia ‘s economic crisis the blame is not theirs. [More…]
The various treasurers and other selfstyled economic experts with which this Government abounds? [More…]
Mere men could not possibly be responsible for such an economic mess. [More…]
In the afternoon I saw a deputation concerned with the problems of homeless men and bashed up women and other personal situations whereby refuge housing is required as a matter of urgency. [More…]
Again officers of the State and local government agencies were agreed on the nature of the problem. [More…]
A meeting under the auspices of the Aus.tralian Assistance Plan was held at Liverpool this afternoon so that the extent of the problem can be properly submitted to the Government. [More…]
In fact, if honourable members will reflect back on the report on homeless men I think they will acknowledge it was one of the better reports that has come out of the social welfare field in recent .times. [More…]
In the afternoon I was privileged to open the offices of the Department of Social Security in Campbelltown which is a regionalised and decentralised centre. [More…]
Again, local, State and Australian Government agencies were present. [More…]
Again I was able to relate the amount of money that the Government is allocating to these needs and the real problems that these were causing for us. [More…]
For the first time Australia has a national government- and he goes on and on. [More…]
For the first time, Mr Prime Minister, the big three- inflation, unemployment and economic crisis in combinationare the scourge of this nation. [More…]
We have intolerable unemployment. [More…]
We are told by the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), who is at the table at the moment, that the statistics show that 130,000 people are unemployed, but his confrere in Queensland, Mr Jack Egerton, the Queensland President of the Trades and Labour Council, estimates the true figure to be 200,000. [More…]
That is the opinion of one of the Minister’s own men. [More…]
It used to call our Federal Conference the ‘36 Faceless Men’. [More…]
The meeting will be in Parramatta Business and Professional Men ‘s Club, Marsden Street at 7.30 p.m. [More…]
Is the Treasurer aware of a strong reaction against his Department’s proposal to increase the tax on lump sum superannuation benefits paid on retirement? [More…]
When considering this proposal, will the Treasurer bear in mind that the imposition of such a tax would discourage people from saving for their old age and would cause many retired men and women hardship and a further falling off in their standard of living? [More…]
The Government is playing down the crisis and the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns) has not shown great consideration for the position. [More…]
On 2 October he claimed that the general level of unemployment was not serious because it was not causing undue hardship. [More…]
He said that the rise in unemployment had followed a boom period which was unusually high. [More…]
We must convince men in the Cabinet like the Minister for Overseas [More…]
The first is to induce men who are trained and experienced miners to return to the industry. [More…]
The second one obviously is to recruit young men to come into the industry, to upgrade it and to give them the certainty of a career. [More…]
I have removed for all time the fundamental fear that it has had of a redundancy of labour. [More…]
We have had information from the Japanese as to their exact requirements. [More…]
We need to attract to the industry men who normally could be going into other trades. [More…]
Let me remind the House that during World War I men who were skilled coal miners were brought back from the trenches. [More…]
The first and most readily available remedy would be to make such fathers eligible for widow pensions on the same basis as women with dependent children are thus eligible. [More…]
I think this could be supported as an interim measure for 2 reasons: Firstly, it is logical in these days of women’s lib that we should not have discrimination against men. [More…]
I find that this is not altogether a watertight argument because if one followed it to its natural conclusion one would say that a widower without dependent children should be eligible in the same way as a widow without dependent children. [More…]
Even if it allows a little income for the men who work to enable their children to be home at weekends, that would be something. [More…]
I am quoting now on another matter, the income eligibility limits of these men we are talking about if the widows pension scheme were to be expanded to cover them. [More…]
Of course we want to help the people in this position and we are exploring possibilities, as I mentioned, and we have an interim arrangement with special benefit. [More…]
The Government has done a lot and it is quite proud of its record. [More…]
We will hold our record in social welfare up against the record of any previous government. [More…]
In fact the 20 years prior to the election of this Government was a period of neglect. [More…]
One also wonders whether, in the event of the Opposition’s pipe dream coming true and it regaining government, this is one of the areas in which it will cut government spending. [More…]
It would be in line with its track record of neglect of that tier of government that serves the peoples closest for it to do so. [More…]
If $900m is to be cut off Government spending under a mythical Snedden government, will councils be the first casualty? [More…]
After all, local government was neglected and downgraded for years under previous governments. [More…]
It is a wonder to me that many of the dedicated men and women who give their services voluntarily in local government were able to keep pushing on in view of the debts which had been accumulated. [More…]
We have tried, as you would probably know Mr Deputy Chairman, to give local governments their own voice on the Australian Loan Council. [More…]
It did get through in New South Wales which evidently has very well informed local governments which were very anxious to get a voice on the Loan Council. [More…]
We want local government to have adequate and reasonable access to the nation’s financial resources. [More…]
We do not want, as we are constantly misrepresented as wanting, a take-over of local government. [More…]
The honourable member for Phillip made a nasty comment about the honourable members for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) and Gippsland (Mr Nixon) in regard to charter nights they had made. [More…]
As fas as I am concerned this is a legitimate expenditure but if we are going to be small minded men on these matters let us present both sides of the story. [More…]
The other point I want to make is that unemployment in this country is now in excess of 150,000 people. [More…]
Sure, they are big men. [More…]
As a general training centre for unemployed and apparently unemployable men and women in Gippsland; [More…]
A rural, agricultural and forestry training centre for men; [More…]
How many (a) women and (b) men have sat as union representatives on selection panels, tribunals and other appeal boards established under the Public Service Act in the last 12 months. [More…]
Information on the numbers of women and men who have sat as staff association nominees on Promotions Appeal Committees in the last twelve months is not available. [More…]
Further surveys are being conducted of the representation of men and women on Promotions Appeal Committees in New South Wales, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
967 of 25 September 1973 concerning details which have been made available to the Government on the trials in Yugoslavia of 8 men holding Australian citizenship, has the translation of the material referred to now been completed. [More…]
The fact is that this nation is now ruled by a group of divided and desperate men apparently unable to agree to any responsible Cabinet approach to the serious nature of this country’s economic problems. [More…]
-During these Estimates debates there is not time to engage in a political controversy across the chamber, but one thing should be said- there is no particular courage on the part of a member of the Government to set up a stalking horse as to the cause of difficulty in the economy at present. [More…]
I will deal with this aspect in a moment. [More…]
I have been appalled and offended by the alacrity with which a number of honourable members set up the Treasurer (Mr Crean) and the Department of the Treasury as the stalking horse in this respect, use them as the whipping boy and credit them as being responsible for all the faults in the Australian economy. [More…]
I have known the Treasurer for a long time and it is not within his nature to indulge in this kind of activity which should be desisted from by men of principle and men of character. [More…]
Of course, the dreadful shadow hanging over the Northern Territory directly and Australia indirectly at the moment is the possible introduction of foot and mouth disease into Australia. [More…]
I know- I have commended the Government previously on this matter- that the Government is drawing up a forward plan to try to meet the problem in the country from which it might come. [More…]
The Government has sent a very good veterinary officer overseas. [More…]
But I hope that the customs men in Darwin will not have to carry the absolute responsibility in relation to the combating of this dreadful disease. [More…]
I commend the efforts of the shadow Minister and of the staff of the Department. [More…]
Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
Comans and his men are able to achieve. [More…]
The honourable member for Wentworth also mentioned the question of the administrative review committee as it was recommended by the Bland Committee and also by the Kerr Committee. [More…]
Some argument may be advanced for this action. [More…]
But he has demonstrated in the process an antipathy- one almost could be excused for saying approaching psychopathic distaste- for all men who have the temerity to leave Mother Earth. [More…]
He suggests that all these activities can be reduced to the mundane and that all the magic and the challenge that have made Australia one of the premier aviation nations of this earth, that have produced an international flagline with a record of 28 years service without a fatality, that have put in the annals of aviation history the names of some of Australia’s famous men can now be forgotten. [More…]
This industry has been established on the free initiative and ability of men seizing the challenge to rise from Mother Earth and produce an industry of whose record Australia can be proud. [More…]
All of us have heard of the people called eccentrics by some and courageous men of principle by others who have stood in front of bulldozers. [More…]
Every person in this chamber has heard of the confrontations between the road construction authorities and the people affected, whether they be residents of the areas through which the freeways are passing or people concerned for the environment that a freeway may disrupt or mar. [More…]
Honourable members can imagine the distress felt by so many who had been there only 2 years and were still paying off their houses when they found that a bloody-minded government was going irresponsibly to put a freeway through their homes and their estate. [More…]
In my electorate of La Trobe, which is adjacent to the electorate of the honourable member for Casey, there has been the establishment of the DLF which, in explanation to honourable members, is the Dandenongs Liberation Front. [More…]
It is of unknown numbers but it is comprised of men of calibre- men who are determined to stand in front of a bulldozer and who are determined that roads will not be widened beyond the needs of tourist traffic and residential demand to bite into some of the most beautiful scenery within easy driving distance of the metropolis of Melbourne. [More…]
These men will not stand by and see the Dandenong Ranges ruined. [More…]
I do not intend to debate the details of uranium policy in this adjournment debate because it is not the occasion to do so. [More…]
Also a proper and responsible approach to Australia’s role as a supplier of this premium energy resource to the western world is sadly needed from the Australian Government. [More…]
I do not claim to have spoken to the same people in high places as the Prime Minister, but I spoke to a good cross-section of officers of the United States and Canadian Governments and to leading men in the nuclear and uranium industry in the United States in particular. [More…]
The clear, unmistakable message which I received from within both government and industry was, firstly, that Australia was missing the boat in the world uranium trade and, secondly, that the economic nationalism of the Minister for Minerals and Energy was against the foreign policy interests of Australia. [More…]
The Australian Government made an offer of a military contingent of about 200 men for service with UNFICYP. [More…]
The Australian Government would have had difficulty in meeting the request for additional police because of the shortage of men in State police forces and the secondment of some Australian police to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
-Yes, it applied to those 2 honourable gentlemen and also to every other person who was unfortunate enough to be a prisoner of war. [More…]
I am awfully glad that I did not have that experience, because, from what I have read of some of the deprivations and ravages suffered by these men, they certainly were treated in an inhumane way. [More…]
I now wish to refer to the provision of free medical and hospital treatment for cancer victims. [More…]
I am pleased to see that the Government has widened the eligibility for this benefit to include not just ex-servicemen and women who had served in a theatre of war but all ex-service men and women who qualify for repatriation benefits. [More…]
But I have said that the provision of free medical and hospital treatment just to cancer sufferers who served in a theatre of war was a grossly unjust decision as it excluded from the benefit many hundreds of thousands of exservice men and women who volunteered for service overseas but who through no fault of their own did not serve in a theatre of war. [More…]
I do not disagree with the provision of medical and hospital treatment for all ex-service men and women who are suffering from cancer although it does depart from the true blue principles of the repatriation system. [More…]
But as I have said, I am glad to see that the Government having first provided this benefit for people who served in a theatre of war has now made the benefit available to all exservice men and women who broadly speaking enlisted for service anywhere at any time. [More…]
This clause will ensure that any claim which is before an Appeal Tribunal or an Assessment Appeal Tribunal- it will apply to the boards eventually- shall be valid if decided by a majority of votes of the members present and voting. [More…]
I understand that the reasons for decisions have been sent by the tribunals to the ex-service men and women since 1 July 1974 and that the boards- that is the first determining authority that hears a claim from a veteran- will start giving reasons for their decisions on 1 January 1975. [More…]
I will be very interested to see the long term result of the practice that has been adopted by the Government of requiring determining authorities to give the reasons for their decisions. [More…]
Of course one of the disadvantages of this practice will be to slow down the hearing of the claims of ex-service men and women. [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…]
These people will receive the same benefits as are available to ex-service men and women who have served in the Australian forces. [More…]
I hope that the Government will give consideration in the near future to extending these benefits to our other wartime allies who are living in Australia. [More…]
I know that there has been a great deal of pressure and demand for this eligibility from British ex-service men and various other organisations. [More…]
I know that Bill Clegg- I hope he is still with us as he was not very well the last time I saw him a couple of years ago- will be very happy to know of the Government’s decision in this respect. [More…]
This gentleman certainly took a great deal of interest in having this eligibility extended to British servicemen. [More…]
We on the Opposition side regard as one of the greatest areas of social need the men, widowers and deserted husbands who have been left to care for young children. [More…]
We will move during this second reading debate an amendment which will force the Government to stand up and be counted so that people can see where it stands in relation to people who are in such tragic circumstances. [More…]
I do not know why the Government is resisting our move because it is bad enough for a child to lose a father, it is bad enough to have the breadwinner leave the family, but when the child is deprived of the mother surely the area of need is as great as or even greater than is the case in the other circumstances. [More…]
What we are proposing, of course, is not a final scheme but it is what the Supporting Fathers Association asked for as a first step, and as such those members who have made promises to representatives of the Association when they came to see them here can now show by their votes in this House whether they are men of their word. [More…]
Supporters of the Government said earlier tonight- we have heard this many times from the other side in the last few weeks- that members of the Caucus really rule the Labor Party. [More…]
We have heard how members of the Caucus have the right to change the decisions of Cabinet and that they are their own men. [More…]
Why do they not act as their own men tonight and have the courage of their convictions? [More…]
Instead of saying that things can be changed only when changes are suggested by the Government, surely it would be more constructive and sensible for supporters of the Government to say: ‘Let us change things when the other side makes an acceptable suggestion’. [More…]
They should accept and vote for the amendment. [More…]
-I am delighted to hear the honourable member for Wilmot comment on this because he is one of the few members of the Labor Party who has any sympathy or understanding for the rural sector. [More…]
He, together with the Minister for Northern Development and the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson), who is now at the table, and I gather even the Minister for Overseas Trade (Dr J. F. Cairns), supported the retention of the superphosphate bounty. [More…]
But these men, as individuals, have failed in their responsibilities. [More…]
I will admit that we give preference to people in receipt of the unemployment benefit who have families to keep. [More…]
If there are 40 men in an area and there are only enough projects to employ 20 of them, and if 20 of them are married with families and 20 of them are single and capable of doing work elsewhere, I believe that at a time when we need 1,400 able-bodied men in the steel industry we ought not to be using RED employment to employ single men who could get a job immediately in another industry, instead we ought to use our money to employ people who are tied to a family home and who cannot go away long distances to work. [More…]
Where a State puts money into a project we include on the notice board that the scheme is a scheme that is being carried out by the municipality or shire of Timbuktu for the State Government of Queensland and the Australian Government. [More…]
Where the project has no State Government money in it we do not, of course, mention the State Government. [More…]
The Minister for Agriculture rides roughshod over his advisers, turns a bUnd eye to the mounting problems of rural poverty in Australia and a deaf ear to the voice of the Australian country men and country women. [More…]
The presidency of the Labor Government has seen the dismantling of practical schemes of assistance to producers. [More…]
To use an American expression, no one rooted more for Snedden and his anti-socialist forces in the election campaign than did Government men and top businessmen in the United States. [More…]
One of my grievances is this: I have in my electorate a great number of cattle men and those who depend upon the cattle industry for a living. [More…]
They are the little people the Government is supposed to be looking after. [More…]
What plans does the Government have for trying to stimulate overseas trade in the export of beef cattle7 Never mind about crawling and snivelling to the Chinese at a display in China. [More…]
Rural reconstruction assistance is available for men if they need it. [More…]
The Government has introduced expertise into marketing boards. [More…]
We do not believe that just because men are producers they are good marketers. [More…]
Men in rural industry agree with us. [More…]
Today we need men who can sell products on the tough competitive world markets. [More…]
So the Minister for Agriculture is appointing to our marketing boards one or two men with expertise in marketing. [More…]
One can go on and on citing examples of incapacitated tradesmen. [More…]
The percentage loss under this impairment classification in no way compensates them for the actual loss of capacity to work. [More…]
Those lawyers who are so glibly condemned by Government supporters have handled hundreds and thousands of cases of people over 65 years of age who have suffered serious back injuries, injuries to limbs and other parts of their bodies. [More…]
They are compensated by the law at the present time for pain and suffering and what we call loss of amenities, loss of enjoyment of life and the inability to pursue their lives to the full as they could have done before. [More…]
Those people- men, women and elderly people- in the community who are injured on the roads or at work are denied by this scheme compensation to which they are presently entitled. [More…]
The first and most important is the welfare and wellbeing of the men, women and children of Australia in the future who are going to be entitled to the benefits which this Bill is designed to provide. [More…]
Is it by the means of this system or is it perhaps by some modification of the system which the Government has introduced? [More…]
What we are proposing- this is my reason for seconding the motion moved by the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) -is not that the measure be rejected out of hand, not that the measure be referred from this chamber where the ultimate responsibility for the Government of this country lies, but that the measure be referred from this chamber- the paramount chamber of the Australian Parliament- to a select committee and that it be deliberated within that committee, that it be considered and that the terms upon which an analysis of the cost benefit to the individual citizen, to the public exchequer and to the future generations of Australians can be best acquainted. [More…]
I would have thought it unbelievable that the Australian Parliament, manned by men and women with normal cerebral processes, would ever have put in an Act of Parliament something like the words contained in clause 7: [More…]
There is another factor, however, which is influencing the turn-off of stock, that is, the nonavailability of finance from normal commercial sources to enable cattle men to see their way over the current quite serious downturn in market conditions. [More…]
It is a serious problem in the dimensions of the depreciation of capital value itself. [More…]
This figure was given to the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony), the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) and myself at a meeting that we convened last week to discuss what we saw as the quite critical developments in the meat industry and in an endeavour to try to identify first the problem and then to see in what way Parliament might be able to do something about it. [More…]
If this occurs it is essential that the Australian Government does its very best to ensure that we in Australia have the maximum possible opportunity to maintain our continued flow of stock to that market. [More…]
The representatives of the Australian Government abroad, both in the United States and in the European Economic Community, I know have done an outstanding job. [More…]
Mr Jack Smith and Mr Pat Donovan, the senior commercial counsellors who are responsible and were responsible within the course of the discussion that took place in the United States a week or so ago, are men who have done their best in the market place, but we have to do something about the market itself. [More…]
What else happened while the LiberalCountry Party Government was in power? [More…]
Men, labour and materials which were in short supply were pouring into office buildings some of which are still untenanted. [More…]
The men and materials, the work force, were dragged away from where they were neededthat is, in the building of homes and hospitals and schools- and poured into these great buildings in the cities. [More…]
I believe that it was right and proper that this Government allowed single men the same right as we have allowed single service women to buy defence homes. [More…]
We do not want to be discriminating against men any more than we do against women. [More…]
But when you inject an amount of money into the building industry as irresponsibly as Opposition members did in their last year in government there is going to be a backwash of the kind with which we have been coping. [More…]
Let me simply say this, when the honourable member questions the role of the 104 people in the Department of Northern Development: They administered last year projects worth $37m; this year the projects are worth $46m. [More…]
Let us have a look at some of the projects; but before I do that I should like to pay tribute to the officers of the Department of the Northern Territory and the Department of Northern Development. [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…]
They are backed by officers in both departments who are dedicated to their jobs, and I pay tribute to the men and women in those 2 departments. [More…]
Young and enthusiastic men seek consultation. [More…]
Of course this rebuke stung the Minister and he issued a special statement in which he referred to the report in his customary language as being trivial and, in fact, of a fallacious nature. [More…]
In the past 3 weeks there has been quite a hooha- I think that is the in expression today- about the so-called policies of the Government. [More…]
When the Secretary of the Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr Renouf, gave a special briefing to Press men on the subject this belief was reinforced to such an extent that even mining shares on the stock exchanges reacted strongly. [More…]
The main problem is getting men to mine, not that we are leaving the coal in the ground. [More…]
Five new mines will be opened in my electorate in the next 2 years, and the labour requirement will be for over 2,000 people. [More…]
So much for saying that the Government wants to leave Australia’s minerals in the ground. [More…]
They have started to stop the downturn becoming disastrous, and now it is up to the textile industry, if it is dinkum, to co-operate to the best of its ability to re-employ some of the men it has put out of work. [More…]
One of its excuses for not doing so is that the retrenched employees will not come back because they are now getting paid in unemployment benefits what they were earning in the industry at the time when they left. [More…]
Surely the situation can be altered if we are prepared to assist financially to the extent of millions of dollars to enable the industry to get its men back into employment. [More…]
During its operation it has had quite some impact on the Queensland trade in school knitwear and, to a lesser extent, in knitted sportswear for men and boys. [More…]
The Labor Government has indulged in profit-bashing to a stage where it has just about beaten the feathers out of every pillow in the nation. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) made a statement in Townsville about 5 weeks ago that the load to defeat inflation would be put upon the shoulders of those best able to carry it. [More…]
We have fast reached the stage where Australia is running out of people able to carry any more of the load, and the load is now falling right across everybody’s shoulders, whether they be big men or small men. [More…]
That is the proud record of this present Government, yet the prevous speaker stood in his place and assured us that the Government was doing all right, that there was nothing to fear except fear itself. [More…]
The other day I asked the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) a question concerning aid to national liberation movements. [More…]
For the benefit of the Minister for Science and other members of the Government it should be realised that even the Scandinavians are no longer satisfied with giving money to funds over which they have absolutely no control in terms of how that money is spent. [More…]
Is the Government going to fund people who are doing nothing but buying arms and munitions with which to kill others? [More…]
Is that the basis of the Government’s policy of peace and goodwill among men? [More…]
It is important to note the State Government’s track record at Westmead now that it has become the latest episode of a wider dispute between the Commonwealth and the four non-Labor States. [More…]
The fact that 3,500 men then stood to lose their jobs could only have obscured, in the public mind, whatever justification the State might have been able to offer as part of its stand on the protection of States’ rights. [More…]
Visitors who engage in employment during their so-called holiday in Australia will automatically be asked to return home voluntarily or face deportation. [More…]
At today’s Caucus meeting I was asked by a Western Australian senator to say how many illegal immigrants were in Australia working in fulltime employment without any right to be here. [More…]
My estimate, according to the best advice I can get, is that the number of people illegally in Australia occupying full-time employment is in the region of between 30,000 and 50,000. [More…]
They have simply dissolved into the community and are now occupying full-time employment. [More…]
I should like to know how many thousands of men and perhaps women, because we have found Filipino women who have been exploited in this way, are working in Australia at near slave rates of pay under threat of deportation by their employers who have only to say: ‘Listen, if you are going to kick up a row about it or join the union I will ring the Department of Immigration and tell them where to locate you’. [More…]
I hope that that is not the view of all those Labor men who represent rural constituencies. [More…]
I hope that the rural rump of the Australian Labor Party can persuade the Prime Minister that that is a foolish statement, that it does not get to the root of the problem in this country or indeed in the world. [More…]
The second measure contained in this Bill, as I previously mentioned, is to extend the provisions of the Aged Persons Homes Act to handicapped adults. [More…]
Experience has shown that the definition of ‘aged person’ in the principal Act- namely, men aged 65 and over and women aged 60 and over- is somewhat arbitrary and that people in younger age groups often suffer from handicaps or disabilities which result in their also needing accommodation of the type provided under the Aged Persons Homes Act. [More…]
Amendments contained in this Bill will enable such accommodation to be provided for handicapped adults in 2 ways: Firstly, by subsidising the building of homes specifically for people who are permanently incapacitated for work or permanently blind and, secondly, by permitting such people to be accommodated in aged persons homes. [More…]
As a result of this widening of the scope of the legislation the title of the principal Act is being amended from the Aged Persons Homes Act to the Aged or Disabled Persons Homes Act. [More…]
The honourable member would develop an Australian Army with modern equipment but with nobody sufficiently educated to operate it. [More…]
Of course, he would be driven back to the old Liberal way which is not to pay servicemen what they are entitled to receive, not to pay them what they are worth but to get what one can for the least possible cost and to make up the difference by conscription. [More…]
I should be pleased to hear a completely unequivocal statement by spokesmen of the Liberal Party that they will not in future reintroduce conscription. [More…]
These are the guilty men who until the day they were thrown from office insisted on conscripting the youth of Australia, disrupting young lives for 2 years at a time, interrupting the training of Australian youth to put them into the Army, taking young men out of universities and out of clerical positions in private enterprise and putting them into the Army to do basically the same work. [More…]
-These are the guilty men, and those who resisted, as the honourable member for Hunter interjected, even those with conscientious objections, were thrown into gaol and treated as common criminals. [More…]
These are the guilty men who conscripted Australian youth and sent them to the jungles of Asia to die and be wounded. [More…]
These are the men who would do it again. [More…]
The concept of this Government is to put the defence services of Australia on a modern and proper basis. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party team said before the last elections that no government could have an Army without conscription. [More…]
After this Government abandoned conscription we saw the same thing happen in the United States of America. [More…]
The realities of life are that this Government will have a defence force which is capable of defending Australia. [More…]
Australia will have a defence force of men who are volunteers. [More…]
The Regular Army is limited to 6 battalions, together with supporting arms and logistic elements for a force of that size. [More…]
But, and it is the ‘but’ that matters, the problem is, of course, to sustain it and to meet other requirements which may arise subsequent to committing that task force. [More…]
Let us also suppose that the immediate requirement was to put 2 battalions into the field in the area of the border with West Irian, with a third battalion as the theatre reserve. [More…]
With all the logistics elements as well- the supporting arms- this sort of exercise would require something of the order of 10,000 men. [More…]
Australian people, God bless them, effective protection and assured security; and, secondly, at the same time expose the manner in which this present Government, hell bent on a snivelling subservience to every little tin-pot communist country, has emasculated the Army, ripped out its heart and wounded- as yet not mortally, but near enough to it- the proud morale of our defence forces. [More…]
The first thing we would do is to look for the closest co-operation with New Zealand, co-ordination with its defence Services and, where possible, standardisation of equipment. [More…]
Forgive me if I smile a little; we were not even able to co-operate with the New Zealand forces on a joint operation a few weeks ago because HMAS ‘ Melbourne ‘ was held in port when a handful of men went on strike. [More…]
Indonesia in particular has a profound distrust of Mainland China and knows that the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) and this Government are utterly subservient to Peking. [More…]
I am saying that the whole of this South East Asian area is one of the most unstable areas in the world and we have got to have adequate defence capabilities; we are just not getting those adequate defence capabilities at the present moment. [More…]
Our Army had lost some 12,000 men. [More…]
It was 11,210 fewer than when the LiberalCountry Party Government went out of office; the Navy had 906 fewer men; the Air Force had 1,218 fewer men. [More…]
In actual fact, shortly after I made that speech the Minister put out a statement in which he corrected my figures and showed that I had actually overstated the number of people we had in the Services and in fact it was over 400 fewer than I had said, so the position is even worse. [More…]
Absolutely nothing in the field of new equipment. [More…]
The DDL was accepted by the Liberal-Country Party Government because it would have a much greater capability than the patrol frigate. [More…]
The Government has also cancelled the fast combat support ship and it has slowed down on the Cockburn Sound development. [More…]
He spoke about action in New Guinea near the West Irian border and the need for possibly 10,000 men. [More…]
In the document which the Minister for Defence has but recently circulated to us, dated a week ago, is the longest statement that I recall in any defence document on Australia’s projected defence relations with New Guinea for the year ahead. [More…]
The document sets out a continuation of that close consultation and co-operation with Papua New Guinea and the major developments that have taken place recently in that country, which is setting up a defence administration in its own right. [More…]
When a country has self-government and is approaching independence it is very difficult to spell out in precise terms some of the things that can be negotiated only at the time of independence. [More…]
But I deny that there would be any reluctance on the part of a Labor Party government in this country to accept responsibility for the defence forces in Papua New Guinea because, frankly, given the fact that Australia has continuing responsibilities for assisting Papua New Guinea, we would not- I put it to honourable members opposite that they would not eitherwant to see a newly emergent Papua New Guinea devoting an over-large amount of its money to defence preparedness when there are so many more urgent things for it to do. [More…]
This situation results from the policies of the Australian Government and the Minister at the table. [More…]
But, under the former Liberal Government men could not be encouraged to join the armed forces because the armed forces were not attractive enough- and well honourable members opposite know that fact. [More…]
The former Government took notice of some of the defence chiefs and said that it would need to use conscription. [More…]
As I have pointed out in this Parliament before, when boys were conscripted to serve in Vietnam there were 17 members of the then Government who were physically capable of meeting the entry standards required to join the forces in Vietnam. [More…]
This statement, if taken on face value, would . [More…]
lead one to believe that Australia has right now 3 task forces- 3 separately formed groups of men at full strength, trained, equipped and with the necessary logistic support to move and defend this country. [More…]
The statement was, at best, misleading and, at worst, was nothing more than a falsehood. [More…]
For example, a task force headquarters of more than 100 men currently has 3 Land Rovers and, slowly but surely, these are falling appart. [More…]
The mobility of our infantry battalions is even worse and more than 90 per cent of the men must walk. [More…]
I would not take from him his record of service in the Army over a long period but I remind the honourable member that there are other honourable members in this Parliament who have also had Service experience. [More…]
During the period when the Opposition was in government- a coalition of the Liberal Party and the Party to which the honourable member now belongs- in 1965 it suggested there should be conscription. [More…]
That Government called up for service every young man in Australia. [More…]
In that year the field force was 10,499 men. [More…]
The strength of the Army in 1965, when the Party to which the honourable member for Riverina belongs was in government, was slightly more than 25,000. [More…]
In May the honourable member for Barker said that there should be 36,000 men in the Army. [More…]
I repeat that there has not been one positive or constructive suggestion during the whole of the period when he has been the shadow Minister for Defence that the Government could even consider as being worthwhile for incorporation into the defence legislation of this country. [More…]
lm for area improvement should be spent. [More…]
I am not condemning the area improvement scheme. [More…]
On the contrary, I thoroughly commend it. [More…]
Are these men of superior calibre to their counterparts in the various States? [More…]
Men must learn to live with each other and to overcome the environmental problems. [More…]
Finally, I make an appeal to the Minister to give consideration to the allocation of regional employment development scheme funds for sewerage schemes in towns and cities with a population of less than 20,000. [More…]
It seems to me that if we are to increase the quality of life in these areas and to encourage people who have lived in the immediate vicinity for many years to continue to live there in their retirement, these areas must have sewerage. [More…]
Has he said that a Labor Government would never deliberately create unemployment as an instrument of economic policy? [More…]
Is his Government presiding over by far the highest rate of unemployment for more than 30 years? [More…]
Does he believe that the army of unemployed men and women will be consoled by the fact that they have been thrown out of work as a result of the incompetence and economic mismanagement of his Government rather than as a deliberate act of policy? [More…]
Has he considered the provision of aid to the rural credits section or department of the Reserve Bank? [More…]
What other form of aid has the Minister considered and when does he expect to be in a position to make a statement to the House, considering the fairly critical position that many beef men are now in? [More…]
Last month, when the official figures revealed that 130,000 Australians were out of work in September, we had estimates by trade union leaders, business leaders and private employment firms that an extra 70,000 people were unemployed and that the true unemployment figure was closer to 200,000. [More…]
We do know that the unemployment situation is going to become much worse in the months ahead. [More…]
We do know that throughout Australia young men and women have already begun leaving schools and universities and are now coming onto the labour market Those young people will have their careers cut off before they begin. [More…]
With their careers unfulfilled, bitterness and resentment will characterise their view of the system within which they live. [More…]
He got into trouble for that statement. [More…]
So, 2 days later, having his 2 bob each way and being all things to all men, he then said: [More…]
The responsibility for the fact that there are unemployed persons who cannot get those jobs rests squarely on the guilty men who sit opposite, the men who for a quarter of a century refused to introduce into Australia any scheme for the training of employees. [More…]
They found it beyond them to engage in employment planning or any form of manpower scheme whatsoever, except the conscription of our youth. [More…]
The basic difference between them and a Labor government is that whereas the Government initiates economic activity, they react to whatever happens to occur and whatever may be the wishes of their rich and powerful friends. [More…]
The principle involved here is as old a principle as one could apprehend in the struggle by free men and women to achieve their liberties and to protect them. [More…]
What self-respecting newspaper editor in this country would countenance for one moment being told by a government authority where he is to place his leader page and what he is to place on his leader page, and do so without the slightest whimper? [More…]
It is a matter of commercial judgment that many television stations today screen their news programs at 6 o’clock at night. [More…]
Unfortunately the principal television stations in Australia are virtually in the hands of 3 or 4 men who also control the Press and the principal radio stations. [More…]
This morning there was a great tirade by the Government against the people here in the Press Gallery, and this has become quite prevalent lately. [More…]
No one complained when morning after morning Mr Chamberlain gave tremendous blasts in favour of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Now, of course, the members of the Press with their habitual honesty and power of evaluation- these are men of discernment- have evaluated the position, and perhaps they have been influenced a little by the results of the elections that have been held around the country. [More…]
When one sees eleven out of eleven Australian Labor Party members being defeated in the council elections in Broken Hill and seventeen out of nineteen seats in the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly being won by the National Liberal Party and the other 2 seats going to Independents and when one sees the Australian Labor Party vote in the Australian Capital Territory being reduced from 5 1 to 24 per cent, the Press is beginning to appreciate that the people of Australia do not need to be guided in these matters, that they are waking up to the regimentation that the Labor Party is inflicting on them. [More…]
In addition to the stimulus being provided to housing activity in both the public and private sectors by these measures, we consider there is a need to supplement further the flow of finance for housing. [More…]
The detailed arrangements will be discussed with the savings banks but the funds will be provided directly to them by the Government on terms and conditions to be agreed with the banks. [More…]
They will be available to men and women for the acquisition or erection of homes and for extensions to existing homes. [More…]
I demonstrated last night that the increase in incomes in Australia, particularly in wages, and for women still more than men, had been very much greater than the increase in prices. [More…]
The net result of the decisions I announced last night on behalf of the Government is that incomes will be worth very much more than was previously the case. [More…]
Honourable members will remember my saying in December of last year that if the economic downturn- the cyclical downturn- in Western economies, which was then being confidently predicted by all of the economic experts around the world, in fact eventuated and if the energy crisis remained unresolved there was no way that the ripples of inflation and unemployment which would follow in the wake of these events in the Western economies would not lap our shores as well. [More…]
The rate of unemployment in West Germany was only 0.8 per cent and it has now increased to well over 2 per cent. [More…]
Only yesterday in the United States it was announced that in the motor car industry 88,000 men had been retrenched on in previous 24 hours. [More…]
In West Germany there have been very heavy retrenchments in the motor car industry. [More…]
I will be glad to see whether he will oppose indexation now that the Australian Government is supporting it and is putting submissions to the Commission to tie in tax reductions with wage indexation. [More…]
There is no doubt whatever what employers will think about this because employers will now have the confidence and the incentive to keep and to put men and women on their payrolls. [More…]
It is also a fact that the unprecedented boom conditions which forced the Government to take restraining action were the result of the unplanned explosion in the money supply which took place in the dying days of that Liberal-Country Party Government in 1972. [More…]
In a desperate effort to stay in office the previous Government allowed the money supply to increase by an alarming 17 per cent in the last half of 1972. [More…]
Yet in face of this staggering increase no attempt was made by the previous Government to increase the supply of labour or materials. [More…]
No attempt was made to encourage young men to enter the building industry. [More…]
Certainly the generous inducements to apprenticeships which this Government has made were never contemplated by our predecessors. [More…]
In the field of welfare housing, the result was that part of the record amounts made available by this government were left unspent. [More…]
If this Government had not taken responsible action, if it had not introduced restraints, there would have been little hope of stepping up activities in the welfare housing area and as well most homeseekers in the private housing market would have been permanently excluded by rising costs from ever purchasing their own home. [More…]
I agree with the honourable member for Henty when she said that local government bodies should be represented on the Loan Council. [More…]
She referred also to the activities of the Grants Commission with respect to local government. [More…]
In view of the funds that the Grants Commission has provided for local government, I believe it has been a dismal failure. [More…]
The present Government has taken over responsibility for what it calls national arterial roads but in so doing it has taken funds away from rural arterial roads with the result that shire councils, which were dependent largely for work for their employees on the Main Roads Department, for which they acted as constructing authorities, are now putting off men who have given long and faithful service. [More…]
This is directly the result of the policies of this Government which is claiming some credit for accepting responsibility for national arterial roads. [More…]
The Council is meeting regularly and advising my Department of community views and needs in relation to the movement of people in and around the area, the location of town facilities and acceptance of design. “ [More…]
Following a consultative project survey and in accordance with the Council’s request funds have been provided to the Council for their employment of 25 men on award wages on work projects of the Council ‘s choosing. [More…]
The list of priorities to which the honourable member refers is applied without discrimination to women and men alike. [More…]
I might add that it is clear that as a result of the programs which I further developed in my statement on Tuesday night employees- that is, the vast bulk of men and women who work in Australiawill be more secure in their jobs and their plans, and private employers, who provide three-quarters of the employment in Australia, will be able with confidence to pursue programs which will enable them to keep and put men and women on their payrolls. [More…]
What about the management and expert personnel in these companies? [More…]
They have gone to where they can get a job because there are no alternative positions in country areas offering for men of this calibre. [More…]
So at the end of six months we are going to be faced with an increase in the number of people in the straight unemployment situation, and there are quite a few thousands of them. [More…]
I wonder whether in fact they are being counted at the moment as unemployed because, after all, they are being paid a full wage. [More…]
This bleak outlook is caused by the inability of the Labor Government to exercise sensible economic restraints and sound economic management. [More…]
Firstly, to reduce substantially services and new works programs; secondly, to reduce substantially rates or charges; or thirdly, to lay off men. [More…]
Let me refer to certain local government authorities in Western Australia to illustrate the current dire straits of local government. [More…]
Western Australia local government authorities are not alone in experiencing such difficulties. [More…]
In my electorate of Canning, in which there are 33 local government authorities, the story is one of savage increases in local government rates. [More…]
These increases are not to expand or upgrade services and facilities; they are merely to keep abreast of the vicious increases in costs incurred by local government authorities because of wage and cost increases. [More…]
The engineering section employs 150 men. [More…]
I have been informed by the city that 96 of those 150 men are directly employed by the use of loan funds. [More…]
The inevitable is obvious: If the balance, the amount of $ 1.2m, is not raised by way of loans the employment of those 96 men is in jeopardy. [More…]
I have been further informed by the city that the situation is so acute that unless a substantial amount of loan money is found within 9 weeks, those 96 men may well face redundancy. [More…]
I come back to the point that I made early in this debate about the provisions of the Bill and the discretion that is given to the Treasurer (Mr Crean) to make payments at times and in such amounts as he approves. [More…]
But January will be too late for a local authority like the City of Stirling to keep in employment those 100 men that I have spoken about. [More…]
So I ask the Minister to give an assurance to the House that there will not be any delay in providing these funds to the State Government. [More…]
I will certainly be approaching the State Government to see that it does not delay in making these moneys available to local authorities in Western Australia. [More…]
If the local authority in Coolah is going to sack 2 men, that has nothing to do with these grants. [More…]
In fact the amount of money going to Coolah is twice what the State Government is giving to it. [More…]
The whole idea of the grant is to level the amenities in an area or a region. [More…]
Yet the fact is that both these men are at least partially taken in by a myth- that of the ‘social contract ‘. [More…]
However we are told that there will be more money made available for roads and more money for oil search subsidies when a coalition government is returned to power. [More…]
They can have a marvellous time wandering about the countryside being all things to all men. [More…]
They are the ones about which members opposite have been screaming- investment allowances, oil search subsidies and the superphosphate bounty. [More…]
The difference is that members opposite are in Opposition and have the luxury of being able to be all things to all men. [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…]
Now, he clearly has the same job of attempting to destroy the Whitlam Government. [More…]
I draw the attention of honourable members to the annual report on the operations of that fund for 1972-73 which was tabled in Parliament. [More…]
I should emphasise that the capital fund has not been a ‘hand out’ operation but has provided loans on reasonable terms to Aboriginal men and women who have sought to improve their economic circumstances by their own effort. [More…]
It is proposed initially to appoint two or three leading financiers and businessmen, as well as at least 2 Aborigines, to the Board of Commissioners. [More…]
We will be working without men and equipment in the plants and factories. [More…]
We warned of the rising unemployment crisis unless immediate action was taken. [More…]
With respect to this legislation, I ask: Will the Government go about this matter in exactly the same way as it acted in relation to the 32 square mile acquisition scheme? [More…]
This is the reason why the Opposition has moved its amendment and why we disapprove of this Bill. [More…]
Those powers are to be recommended by the Joint Committee on the Northern Territory and will be what the Minister sees fit to allow the Legislative Assembly. [More…]
I would suggest that the members of that Assembly are a team of the most competent men and women. [More…]
It is obviously more preferable from a practical point of view, to have working with the company people who, as occasion requires, can be assigned to its stevedoring operations, rather than go through the complicated manoeuvre of bringing men miles across water by launch to do a job, and then returning them. [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…]
His first imprisonment was therefore at the hands of the Nazis. [More…]
I am glad to say that the Government has had a very favourable response from employer and employee organisations to the program I outlined on Tuesday night of last week. [More…]
Employers feel confident in being able to put men and women on their payrolls and to keep them on their payrolls. [More…]
Employee organisations in a great number of cases have responded positively by telegram, letter or telephone call supporting the Government’s approach. [More…]
Apparently it is only, in public life, among people on the opposite side in this Parliament that we find no positive response to these matters. [More…]
I observed that in his speech last night the Leader of the Opposition did not make any mention at all of wage indexation. [More…]
One would have thought that the great issue in which all governments will be engaged before the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission in the next few months would have been something justifying his passing interest. [More…]
I am proud to say that my Government has taken initiatives in each one of those matters which I have just quoted. [More…]
The resources of this continent and the opportunities of our people would be very much less if the Australian Government had not at last decided to extend or establish public enterprise in those fields. [More…]
The honourable gentleman asks me to elaborate on the attitude of the Government towards private enterprise. [More…]
In a nutshell, the Government recognises that three-quarters of the men and women in Australia are employed by private enterprise. [More…]
Despite a great deal of continued obstruction by the Senate, the Government has been able to pass quite a number of Bills which have made Australia’s mixed economy a more just economy than it was when my Party came into office. [More…]
The Industries Assistance Commission as set up by this Government has forgotten what the word ‘assistance’ means. [More…]
The IAC is now saying to the Government: ‘Will you please have a co-ordinated policy’. [More…]
Here is an outside independent body saying to the Government: ‘For goodness’ sake, have a co-ordinated policy’. [More…]
It said that the Government should develop a common and explicit framework of policy objectives. [More…]
Manufacturing needs confidence; manufacturing needs certainty and the Government should state clearly its objectives and policies. [More…]
It is no good the Deputy Prime Minister trying to be all things to all men, all countries and all people. [More…]
What we want is a policy statement now, not after the Jackson report. [More…]
The Bill provides also for a liberalisation of the eligibility provisions of the Act which will remove the restrictions which, since the inception of the scheme, have prevented single men and widowers with the necessary qualifying service from receiving assistance. [More…]
This amendment will remove all discrimination in the Defence Service Homes Act against single persons, thus giving full recognition to the principle that defence service homes benefits are granted not only as a measure of repatriation, but also as a reward for service. [More…]
I think it provides only due and proper recognition of the service given to this country by the men and women concerned. [More…]
I think I could quote perhaps not from his words but from his intention when he said it was felt that the demands imposed on servicemen and the distinctive nature of their work warranted incorporation of their retirement benefits in a special scheme. [More…]
Because they do not have the opportunity to complain to seek the conditions of service that they would want in the job they have to do, I believe compensation must be made for those circumstances after retirement. [More…]
This is why it is necessary that we recognise the work done by these men and women when they give service to this country. [More…]
I speak now of the bulk of servicemen; I do not speak of those few who are perhaps lucky enough to see some of their service here in Canberra. [More…]
I speak of those men and women who on occasions work for long hours in excess of any normal hours of work sought from men or women. [More…]
Apart from those aspects that I have mentioned, the provisions of this legislation are long overdue. [More…]
The Bill is one which certainly will be received with tremendous thanksgiving and pleasure by all those ex-servicemen and exservice women and by present serving men and women who can look forward in time to something of a better deal. [More…]
The move against the dumb barges was tremendous. [More…]
One firm actually stated that if it had been able to use the dumb barge operation it would have employed 10 more men in its land operations and would have shifted the backlog of cargoes along that coast. [More…]
Extra men would have been employed as a result of the extra business generated. [More…]
On behalf of Aborigines the Government has purchased a 70 per cent share in one of the largest barge operators in the Northern Territory. [More…]
This share was purchased by the Government with a view to interesting the Aborigines in their own affairs and to involve them in a transport operation. [More…]
From my knowledge of the men who used to skipper the luggers across the north coast, Aborigines would be hard put to do the work. [More…]
If this legislation is passed, those barge operations will cease, even though one is now 70 per cent owned by this Government. [More…]
Many of the men in the TWU will refuse to work with the WWF. [More…]
I would like to see this Government operate those ships and try to sort out the debacle which will occur if this legislation is passed. [More…]
The men who are manning these ships will not work under the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
I know that the Government has been very concerned over the last few months about the position of the beef industry. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson) and the Minister for Agriculture in answers to questions and in speeches that they have made recently have demonstrated their concern for the industry. [More…]
Naturally the Minister for Northern Development is primarily interested in the top end of the country, but both he and the Minister for Agriculture have demonstrated their interest mainly in the northern part of Australia where beef is primarily produced for export. [More…]
But at the moment cattle men in the southern States are in the process of selling their cattle. [More…]
They mowed down 32 men and women at Rome Airport. [More…]
At a time when this country is facing many problems, for the complexity of which we of the Opposition have been highly critical of the Government because of certain steps it has taken, this strike action by a supposedly- I use the word ‘supposedly’ advisedly- responsible body of men is, I think, one of the best illustrations of a lack of responsibility by a group of people. [More…]
Inconvenience will be caused not only to this group of school children which happens to have come to Canberra from my electorate, but also to many members of the travelling public, including businessmen. [More…]
He has established a clear case that members of this Parliament and people outside it have been deliberately misled. [More…]
Those cases involve one in the Senate- the manner of the Senator Gair episode- the matter of communist penetration within the union movement and the famous ‘nervous Nellies’ comment concerning tariff policy which has been shown to be a lie. [More…]
The honourable member mentioned also a series of untruths and deliberate untruths that was manifested and propogated during the election campaign and the very unnecessary and cruel denigration of a number of Australia’s leading academics and economists during the referendum campaign last year. [More…]
I understand that the latter statement was made in Adelaide. [More…]
It was an attempted slur on the reputation of men who have demonstrated their considerable intellectual capacity. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) is acknowledged at home and abroad by industry and supporters of the Government as brilliant, capable, honest and outstanding. [More…]
Members of the Opposition know that his presentation of papers is outstanding in the Parliament. [More…]
They were half truths, smear and innuendo under the privilege of Parliament, trying to break down men who with great integrity are leading this Government. [More…]
If a single justification were needed for the level of expenditure we propose, it is given by the fact that the 1971 census recorded that some 67 per cent of men and some 80 per cent of women in the workforce claimed no formally recognised post-school qualification of any kind. [More…]
While the provision of grants for training within industry, which is the province of my colleague the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), was excluded from the Kangan Committee’s terms of reference, it will be recognised that the program we are putting forward will be of some consequence in providing the buildings, the equipment and the trained staff to cater for those people who undertake courses of training or re-training at technical colleges under the national employment and training scheme. [More…]
I would love to be able to tear up the 2-airline agreement, but the friends of Ansett on the other side of the House have really tied the agreement up. [More…]
The agreement is worth millions of dollars every year to the Ansett organisation. [More…]
The previous Liberal-Country Party Government, on the eve of the last election- I think it was one of the last pieces of legislation it put through- extended the agreement for another 5 years. [More…]
The right honourable member for Lowe, who is interjecting, is one of the guilty men. [More…]
-That is a matter for a parliamentary statement which, of course, this Parliament has yet to receive. [More…]
A reading of the economic pronouncements of the honourable gentleman must lead to total confusion in the minds of the Australian public. [More…]
In a short period of time, he appears to have become the Government’s economic trampolinist. [More…]
He is all things to all men- an alleged friend of business and at the same time the darling of left wing radicalism. [More…]
Opposition members have not read the Bill and they did not even know their own proposals from those of the Government. [More…]
Tonight the honourable member for Gwydir will walk into this House and vote against 16 of the proposals which, as the then Minister, he asked the Parliament of Australia to endorse and which we, as the then Opposition, would have endorsed. [More…]
Does that not prove to the Australian people what a phoney collection the Opposition is and how phoney are the arguments that have been brought down? [More…]
During the 23 years that the present Opposition was in government it brought forward only one reform, other than to gerrymander the electorates. [More…]
The Opposition will vote tonight against that one reform, which in 1971 lapsed on the expiration and dissolution of that Parliament. [More…]
It is weeks and months since I announced all the proposals to the Press and sent a statement of what was in the Bill to every member of this Parliament. [More…]
Tonight these slow thinking, doddering, old men, as the Leader of the Liberal Party in Victoria described them, have not got round to registering the facts. [More…]
The Government cannot even act appropriately when it gets a report from the Tariff Board. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) will be aware of a factory in her electorateJohns Consolidated Ltd- where a tremendous number of employees have been put off simply because of imported goods coming to Australia and undercutting Johns. [More…]
Men are being put off at that plant day after day. [More…]
In October 1974 the Government was given the warning: ‘Keep this on and there will be a recession in the middle of 1974’. [More…]
I know the warning was given because I gave it but the Government took no notice and kept the credit squeeze on. [More…]
Now probably what the Government will do will be to plunge an immense amount of money into the economyinto the private sector- in a desperate effort to bolster it. [More…]
At the same time, with government spending as it is, we are headed for a level of inflation which we could never have imagined in the past. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister, Dr Cairns, wants to be all things to all men. [More…]
In respect of the beef men and others in the country, I think the record of the present Government is one of more having been done to obtain markets from overseas. [More…]
When we became the Government primary production everywhere was at an extremely low level, despite the fact that the expenditure on food, particularly meat, was increasing. [More…]
Finally, will the Treasurer explain why it is that, for example, person A, who is buying a home which is an appreciating asset, can take home more pay than person B, who is paying rent, and who is disadvantaged all the way down the line, although both men perform the same amount and son of work, receive the same salary and have the same sized family? [More…]
Measures for avoiding or relieving unemployment are available to both men- and women without discrimination. [More…]
These measures include: the counselling and employment assistance of the Commonwealth Employment Service; training assistance under the National Employment and Training System; employment assistance under the Regional Employment Development Scheme; and for those displaced as a direct result of Government induced structural changes, assistance under the Structural Adjustment Assistance Scheme. [More…]
In view of the comments made yesterday on conditions at Johns Consolidated Ltd in Victoria that the firm is crippled and is sacking men day after day, will the Prime Minister give the House the up-to-date facts on Johns, bearing in mind that yesterday’s statement could cause Johns serious harm? [More…]
That includes the cost of acaricides and the extra men involved, as well as the measures taken on properties, such as mustering and dipping, to control the tick. [More…]
I am aware, as other honourable members are aware, that if ticks are not controlled, particularly in relation to clean areas, the extent of redwater can do tremendous damage to the cattle industry in Australia. [More…]
Following on the expansion of the Australian Grants Commission, which involved the recognition of 74 regional groupings of councils in Australia and the recognition of these groupings by the Minister, we have seen the most exciting development in local government since federation. [More…]
I refer to the growth of the concept of regionalism and its ready acceptance by the men and women who give their services willingly and selflessly as aldermen and councillors of the 900 odd municipal and shire councils. [More…]
One of the leaders in the development of regionalism has been the Hunter region. [More…]
As agovernment we have been continually subjected to charges of centralism or Canberra centralism by the Opposition and some of their counterpartsI emphasise some of their counterparts -in State parliaments. [More…]
But the fact is that centralism that has operated to the detriment of community standards and values in the past has been that of State centralism- the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane based State bureaucracies. [More…]
One only has to ask anybody who is serving or who has served in local government in the past 25 years to get some account of that. [More…]
in reply- This umbrella Bill is an historic piece of legislation because it brings together programs in the field of urban and regional development. [More…]
I have said on many occasions that activities in the field of urban and regional development are interconnected.. Like environmental aspects, everything is connected to everything else. [More…]
For instance, even Federal departments do not always correlate with each other, just as the States do not coordinate with local government and even the private sector. [More…]
The new, young crusaders, if one wants to put it that way, the young men who came into my Department to work with and to advise me want to change the life style of the cities. [More…]
It is my view that in the long term the only way in which one can solve problems is for local government, the States and the Australian Government to work together. [More…]
Honourable members will be well aware of the emphasis placed by the present Australian Government on all aspects of social welfare, especially those involving the more socially disadvantaged people in our society. [More…]
Accordingly, on 26 February 1973, I established a working party to examine and report on the problems of homeless men and women in Australia. [More…]
I remarked that millions are spent on the enforcement of archaic laws against these casualties of society. [More…]
But very little government money has been spent on providing facilities for rest, nutrition, treatment, counselling and rehabilitation which would ease the burden on the law enforcement agencies and provide a reasonable standard of support for the homeless. [More…]
When I released the report of the working party on 17 July 1973, I sought public comment on the recommendations which had been made. [More…]
The Government’s decision to adopt the major recommendations of the working party was first announced by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in his election policy speech on 29 April 1974. [More…]
On that occasion he said that the Government had decided to introduce a program to help meet the material needs and raise the dignity of homeless men and women. [More…]
In delivering the Government’s welfare policy speech on 1 May 1 974, 1 gave further details of the policy the Government had endorsed. [More…]
I said then that this was an area of need to which the social conscience of the Government was being directed. [More…]
I described the homeless men and women we would assist as being in poverty in the sense of having few independent resources and lacking a conventional home with most of the social or economic supports a home normally provides. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to assist eligible organisations engaged in providing temporary accommodation and personal services for homeless men and women and, in one-parent family situations, their children. [More…]
As the scheme develops, and as its operations are assessed and evaluated, its scope may be widened in the light of experience to extend eligibility also to State departments and authorities. [More…]
Many of the men and women who will benefit from the improved services for the homeless are now receiving income security benefits at rates and under conditions which, in accordance with the Government’s enlightened and progressive policy, have been liberalised dramatically since the end of 1972. [More…]
The measures proposed within the Bill are based on a compassionate understanding of the needs and very real problems of homeless men and women and of their alienation, their loneliness and their despair. [More…]
Many of the pleas directed at the Australian Government are loud and demanding about the needs and rights of particular groups within our society. [More…]
But there are also voices which have for too long been crying in a wilderness of governmental neglect and social insensitivity- a wilderness in which the assertive voices of those with electoral or economic muscle have drowned out or diverted attention from the needs of groups of people who are not so articulate or who do not have ready access to government. [More…]
Our Government is determined to end such areas of neglect. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
I also join the Opposition with the remarks of the Minister in his thanks and praise for the men and women of the voluntary organisations. [More…]
We would totally join with the Minister in his comments in that regard. [More…]
I too have given an undertaking to try to make my comments brief because of the legislative program which has to be gone through tonight. [More…]
In hospitals one sees young men of 2 1 , 20 and younger still who have been injured for life through the simple act of diving into shallow water and breaking their spine. [More…]
It enhances our admiration for those voluntary bodies which are receiving extended help from the Government in this task. [More…]
-In general terms the Opposition supports the provisions of this legislation as they apply to ex:servicemen who served in the Second World War. [More…]
We acknowledge that discrimination did exist against single men and widowers. [More…]
Honourable members on this side of the House are pleased that the Government has recognised this deficiency in the old Act and has taken steps to rectify it. [More…]
I have amalgamated 2 amendments. [More…]
The Opposition also intends to extend the eligibility for war service home loans to all those ex-servicemen and women who served in the defence forces in World War II irrespective of whether they served in a theatre of war. [More…]
We hold the view that the Government altered the whole philosophy of the war service homes legislation when it introduced the Defence Service Homes Act. [More…]
It is now enlistment and enlistment alone which achieves eligibility for this greatly subsidised housing loan. [More…]
We on this side of the House believe strongly, and I believe honourable members on the other side of the House believe, that the overwhelming majority of these men and women served their country well and it was not their fault that they did not serve outside Australia. [More…]
I shall not read the passage from Hansard but I am willing to provide the Hansard reference and those interested enough to check the debates- I am sure the Minister will be one of them- will be able to see that the Prime Minister believes that these men and women should be included under the legislation. [More…]
Canberra, to have 3 men employed full time looking after 100 milkers. [More…]
I suggest we should carefully consider the consequences of adopting such an emotional phrase as ‘look first and foremost after those in need ‘ because I think there is a certain conflict of logicality in this argument which is apt to make nonsense of what the Parliament is trying to do in a Bill which, in many other ways, is worth while. [More…]
Yet in spite of that 28,000 men have left the industry. [More…]
This plan is designed to pour in assistance at the point of greatest need whereas the subsidy system meant that in many cases the dairymen who did not need assistance received the subsidy. [More…]
The dairymen in that State were lucky in that respect. [More…]
I am not against the subsidy being paid where it is needed most but it should not be paid to men who do not need it. [More…]
The scheme that is before us in this measure will provide a broadening of the marginal dairy farms reconstruction scheme into a more comprehensive dairy adjustment scheme- a $28m scheme, in fact; Interest free loans will be made available to suppliers to change over to refrigerated bulk milk delivery with concurrent assistance as necessary to factories. [More…]
It is a most generous scheme and it means that hundreds of men who switched over in the last 16 months will be eligible for assistance. [More…]
In Western Australia, and I believe in Queensland, men who have been retrained at Government expense as bricklayers are actually now being put off. [More…]
An estimated 700 supervisors, estimators, architects, draughtsmen and people of that quality have been laid off in Western Australia. [More…]
But there are men and women who have the professional and technical skills who are apparently not being used. [More…]
Single men and single women, serving members of the forces, ancillary groups of people associated with the Comforts Fund, the Salvation Army, and so on, have been brought into the scheme. [More…]
The Aged Persons Dwellings Bill has been introduced into the Parliament. [More…]
The Minister for Agriculture has made great play on the appointment of qualified men to boards, authorities and the like. [More…]
It speaks highly of the integrity of the Meat Board Selection Committee that it rejected such pressures and the appointment of a true grower representative was recommended. [More…]
Federation delegates were, to say the least, highly embarrased that they suddenly had to jettison one of their best men. [More…]
To lose the qualifications of these two men would be retrograde enough for the woolgrowing industry. [More…]
All in the cause of getting the ‘most qualified ‘ men. [More…]
They are middle men. [More…]
I am quite confident that it will pull itself out of its predicament. [More…]
In spite of greatly increased shearing rates, there is a growing shortage of shearers and, because it is such hard work and often takes men away from home for long periods, few young men are entering the industry. [More…]
The Australian Wool Industry Conference still nominates people for appointment to the Corporation but the Minister simply has the power to select. [More…]
With an industry as large as the Australian wool industry it is essential to get the 10 best men. [More…]
I could go right through the string of achievements. [More…]
Women not only now receive equal pay for equal work but also, for the first time ever, in September of next year will reach the point where the minimum wage, which was previously confined to men, will be applied to them as well. [More…]
The trade union movement remembers that it was the Prime Minister who actively supported me and encouraged me to take the steps necessary to ratify no fewer than 10 International Labour Organisation conventions in the space of 2 years. [More…]
I refer to an amendment put into the Conciliation and Arbitration Act by the Opposition parties when they were in government which precluded the Arbitration Commission from extending the minimum wage to adult females, because the Act specifically made a point of the fact that the Commission could fix a minimum wage only for adult males. [More…]
He has made a number of contradictory statements regarding defence as it exists today in Australia. [More…]
He said, first of all, that the Government is not particularly perturbed about the number of officer resignations and that it is accepting what is happening because of a nothreat philosophy developed by the planners to suit what is going on in the defence field today; yet in a statement he issued on 27 November the Minister pointed out that the 3 Services were still seeking suitable recruits and that the Army required large numbers of fit young men for its expansion program. [More…]
In answer to a question from the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Young) the Minister stated earlier today what he and this Government had done for people who are retiring from the Services. [More…]
There has been a remarkable improvement in pay, an increase in pay, for Service officers since this Government came to power. [More…]
Service officers are now confronted with an improved Defence Forces Retirement Benefit scheme but at the same time there has been a healthy increase in the payment received on the job. [More…]
How does the Minister explain why men receiving satisfactory pay leave the Service before time and accept a greatly reduced retirement benefit? [More…]
An officer retiring at the notional retiring age 5 years before his normal time receives approximately 30 per cent less than he is entitled to receive upon normal retirement. [More…]
In the Services there is a diminished responsibility, brought about deliberately by this Government. [More…]
Young men who are graduating into the Services, whether from the Royal Military College or the Officer Cadet School, are faced with the prospect of going to units which have no soldiers. [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…]
-The honourable member for Riverina (Mr Sullivan) who has just resumed his seat concluded his address by talking about platitudes in regard to the defence forces retirement benefits scheme and pay and allowances. [More…]
I can only say, as one who spends some time in defence establishments, that one of the matters that has been raised with the members of the Labor Party’s Defence Committee everywhere we have gone is appreciation by the members of all the Services of the very great improvements that have been made in Service pay and conditions under the present Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard). [More…]
In this matter of officer resignations we are suffering- experiencing might be a better word- the effects of the improved Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme. [More…]
Many officers and men who retired from the defence forces in former times suffered very severely from the niggardly attitude of the former Government. [More…]
The Minister talks about his judgments ‘My judgment was right’, he says in a pious fashion. [More…]
‘My judgment is right’. [More…]
Let us look at his judgment. [More…]
I am reminded of the story Sir Robert Menzies used to tell: ‘If you want one opinion ask 2 economists’. [More…]
If you want one opinion about the state of the work force and the unemployment level ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration. [More…]
He is the most shameful Minister ever to have disgraced the benches of this Parliament. [More…]
Let us see what one of the few honest men in this Parliament has had to say about overseas conditions. [More…]
-My figure is as at the date the Minister for Defence produced his statement. [More…]
Australian servicemen integrated in the force will be reduced to a figure of about 430 by the end of December next year, months after the date of independence proferred by the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But how many of these men will be integrated within the Papua New Guinea defence force? [More…]
No one in this Parliament or outside it has spoken with greater confidence about the future of Papua New Guinea and about its leaders than I have, but it seems to me that there is a profound duty- which has not yet been executed- on this Government to tell us just what will be the role of those servicemen if in fact there is any requirement for them to be used up there. [More…]
One can see them sometimes when one goes to a public library- men, and to some extent women, in their dishevelled gear in a moment of sobriety, knowing that they have seen better days and trying to recapture some of the glory of those former days. [More…]
We joined the depressing queue of 30 men; no one spoke as whitehaired Mr Col Breem ladled mince stew into paper plates and handed them out. [More…]
They include not only the men one sees in the disused Army greatcoats lounging around parks and gardens or in the depressed areas of the city, but also the young homosexual who is cast out by his family because they do not understand that some people are sexually deviant without any blame cast upon themselves. [More…]
They include the discarded daughter of a family who will not meet the strict moral requirements of that family. [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…]
If the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) will excuse me I am not being chauvinistic when I say men, because as she would know that for some interesting philosophical reason for which I do not have the answer, of the homeless in our country the men outnumber the women ten to one. [More…]
The term ‘Skid Row’ is more applicable to American cities than to Australia, where the facilities used by homeless men are spread over relatively large areas of the cities. [More…]
However, the picture is essentially similar; a population of homeless men roughly proportional to the size of the city is found in association with night shelters, cheap rooming houses, religious missions, charitable handouts, wine shops, lowgrade hotels, and sources of casual employment. [More…]
Being in personal contact with each other, homeless men tend to become acculturated to the distinctive values, customs and myths of the Skid Row community, which therefore has some characteristics of a sub-culture. [More…]
The men who are observed in a given period might be classified arbitrarily into men who appear briefly while in transit from one place to another, men for whom the particular Skid Row is the headquarters from which they move out periodically to work or to wander, - [More…]
Homeless men may be defined approximately as persons who exhibit extreme social isolation, and who are chronically dependent on the community for material support, either continuously or recurrently. [More…]
The great majority of homeless men are chronic excessive drinkers. [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…]
Most homeless men support themselves most of the time, but all are subject to recurrent crises, during which they often become dependent on the community. [More…]
Material support is obtained as social service benefits and pensions, from welfare agencies and missions, by begging, by ‘borrowing’ from other men, and by residence in hospitals, prisons, sanatoria and homes for the aged. [More…]
I commend him for it. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to assist the eligible organisations engaged in providing temporary accommodation and personal services for homeless men and women and, in one-parent family situations, their children. [More…]
The Minister has given an undertaking that the legislation will not interfere with the fields of child care under the administration of State governments. [More…]
I have the report of the working party which the Minister established and which recommended these matters some months ago. [More…]
It seems a small matter to raise now but I hope that the Minister or his Department might take note of some suggestions. [More…]
The working party suggested a great number of practical and constructive things such as an aggressive program of creating employment opportunities which could be undertaken by the Commonwealth Employment Service and which could persuade employers that there are many jobs which homeless men can perform quite adequately. [More…]
The working party suggested certain activities such as tree planting which at least would give a sense of some sort of achievement to a person in this situation. [More…]
In concluding my remarks on the Bill that provides assistance for the homeless I commend to honourable members an article written in the Social Security Quarterly’ of winter 1974- a publication of the Department of Social Security. [More…]
This may seem a strangely out of place and incongrous matter to raise in a Parliament which, with respect to the honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child), is almost full of hard, cynical men. [More…]
Perhaps that is the reason why with respect to the homeless in this country men outnumber women by ten to one. [More…]
Sociological research indicates that almost all of these people were denied the love of a women in their childhood. [More…]
Thirdly, I hope that a program of care would mean providing the opportunity for these men to meet and mix with decent women. [More…]
Although the house mothers would encounter some problems with some of the men, such as the handling of jealousy, the men do respond to the care and attention given by women. [More…]
-Before speaking to the Nursing Homes Assistance Bill and the Homeless Persons Assistance Bill I tell the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) that I do not consider him a male chauvinist but I think I know the reason why there are more homeless men than women. [More…]
It is because society designed women but not men to be home makers. [More…]
There are a lot more homeless men than women. [More…]
But that is what society designed women to be. [More…]
The Homeless Persons Assistance Bill arose through the interested commitment of the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) who moved very quickly after taking over his portfolio to set up research into vagrants or homeless men. [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…]
There is no program to meet the material needs of homeless men and women. [More…]
It is really an experimental program. [More…]
I hope that it will be researched thoroughly so that we can learn from the program as it is put into operation just why so many men and, increasingly, women are homeless. [More…]
The 3-year program will involve updating existing facilities, expanding treatment which is almost non-existent and building more accommodation. [More…]
It should be regarded by the community as an involved experiment. [More…]
I hope also that the program will eventually recognise and cope with the problems of the men and women who batter their children either physically or mentally. [More…]
Those parents who make up Parents Anonymous show a tremendous amount of courage in acknowledging their own deep psychological problems and the fact that they batter their children either physically or mentally, but we do not give them any help. [More…]
As usual, we have had to rely, in helping just about all the people I have mentioned, on the voluntary and charitable organisations. [More…]
They are closest to the people who need counselling and treatment, who need rest and nutrition and who need an opportunity to return to a normal life. [More…]
I hope that we break up our care and treatment into smaller units dotted around more centres so that these places do not get an institutionalised air about them. [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…]
I am taking that statement to mean that no one will be excluded from this legislation. [More…]
Such half way houses for the victims of rape, members of Parents Anonymous, homeless men or beaten women, will run very well pivoting around the community health centres because there they will have all the paramedical servicesphysiotherapy, counselling, social work and nursing treatment- that will be needed by the homeless, the disturbed and the battered. [More…]
I see them complementing each other. [More…]
I hope that the honourable member for Hotham will take this into account when he is opposing the building of community health centres because such centres can be complementary to voluntary organisations and to the work that needs to be done among the homeless, the helpless and the hopeless. [More…]
Unfortunately some men and women are alcoholics and drug addicts. [More…]
If honourable members have witnessed people suffering from delerium tremens, or the DTs as it is often called, they will agree that it is not a very pleasant experience. [More…]
The honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross), who is not in the chamber at the moment, and I know more than any other Queensland member about the tragedy that is associated with these people. [More…]
for her work in South Brisbane, and I recall the job which has been done for both men and women by the Salvation Army. [More…]
One of the problems has been that the placement of a number of these facilities, what might be described as shelters- for instance, St Vincent de Paul Society shelters- in the inner city area has not exactly helped to eliminate the problem. [More…]
I know that the Homeless Persons Assistance Bill makes provision for up to 100 per cent of the amount of money required to build a new home, and I would enter a plea now to the Government to study closely the desirability of encouraging those charitable organisations which might wish to become involved to move out of the inner city areas because those areas are responsible for half the problem of loneliness of many of the people who presently use the facilities. [More…]
Just as a lesson is to be learned from the manner in which the Government allowed Aboriginal hostels to be set up in Brisbane- there is some problem at New Farm now- I hope that there will be recognition of the need to encourage these organisations to move out of the city. [More…]
I realise that the argument on the Aboriginal hostels is that the people living in them have got to be close to their work places, but regrettably many of the people who will be catered for in these homes have little inclination to work and that argument does not apply and is not valid. [More…]
The honourable member for Henty (Mrs Child) made references earlier to the bashed women for whom these homes might be able to serve as a half way house. [More…]
I should like to suggest- and there is no mention of this in the Minister’s second reading speech- that there are also mentally battered men. [More…]
How many men on Skid Row have come from a marital home, have been driven out by their wives? [More…]
But it is a fact that many men have been mentally beaten from their homes whereas many women are physically beaten. [More…]
and (4) The above studies are related equally to men’s and women’s employment. [More…]
Last year, however, the Women ‘s Bureau of my Department undertook a major survey of women’s employment, on behalf of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, on ‘The role of women in the economy’. [More…]
The report dealt with such subjects as trends in labor force participation, employment patterns, education and training of women. [More…]
I do not know whether he is endeavouring to create an empire for himself or whether he thinks he will save the entire national parks and wildlife across the country but I agree with members of the Legislative Assembly that something should be done in relation to having discussions with these men. [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…]
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…]
While the ‘Straitsman’ was out of operation our Minister for Transport issued without question permits to the Tasmanian Government to enable King Island to be served. [More…]
On 11 April 1974 the Tasmanian Transport Commission chartered the ‘Alban’ which commenced operations on 23 June. [More…]
I pay tribute to the officers and men of the ships and the waterside workers for the great work they have done through these difficult times. [More…]
I believe that it allows the Government- I do not believe that the people know to what extent- to impinge upon all sorts of areas that are not only and immediately the Government’s responsibility. [More…]
Again, if we look at clause 5 of the Bill it seems quite clear that where any authority of Australia is negotiating or doing something in association with any other government authority, body or person- perhaps it is entering into negotiations, enforcement of agreements and so on- arrangements under subclause (c)- that is the loan of money by the Bank- could give the Government authority to intervene through that Bank and to require this type of impact study statement as part of that negotiation. [More…]
I mention this because the honourable member for Macarthur mentioned that business men did not mind the community making these judgments at the moment. [More…]
Certainly, where State governments and perhaps local government authorities are required to vet proposals because of their impact on a community, business certainly accepts that this is necessary because the community has an interest. [More…]
The Bill strengthens the hand of the Wool Corporation with respect to supply management. [More…]
The trading powers of the Corporation are such that we want to have on the board men with experience in the various specialist activities and in all facets of the new powers of the Wool Corporation. [More…]
The Government believes that the making available of wider experience and expertise on the board is a prudent action and is in the best interests of the wool growers. [More…]
I picked up 2 young men who were walking along the side of the road. [More…]
They said that they needed the kind of place that the honourable member for Corangamite mentionedsome old building or some building not used for other purposes which they could use for theirs. [More…]
I want to expand on this list just a little and mention a few things which he did not mention in particular. [More…]
I want to pay tribute to the Young Men’s Christian Association and the Young Women’s Christian Association in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
This organisation has been in the forefront of providing amenities for young people in this Territory. [More…]
It has provided a tremendously wide range of amenities for young people. [More…]
Yet the Government still wants to bring in such a scheme. [More…]
For instance, I refer to the magnificent services performed by Catholic nuns and other men and women interested in the care of their fellow human beings. [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 think few men in the House have been as well qualified academically to occupy the position which he has occupied. [More…]
The record of his achievement, unfortunately, has not necessarily been the way tha’ he would have had it. [More…]
The argument that the Minister would reject them and reject them again is so much nonsense and humbug. [More…]
The Minister wants to obtain the best possible men for this position on the Corporation and that is what he is attempting to do. [More…]
I repeat that the whole Bill is designed as a complementary package and that by taking out bits and pieces as the Senate has done simply weakens the whole Bill. [More…]
The Government will have no part of it. [More…]
How many people, men and women, are in each category. [More…]
How many (a) women and (b) men have sat on selection panels, tribunals and other appeal boards established under the Public Service Act in the last 1 2 months. [More…]
The Public Service Board has advised me that information on the number of women and men who have sat on selection panels, tribunals and other appeal boards established under the Public Service Act in the last 1 2 months is not available. [More…]
As outlined in my previous answer (Hansard, 17 October 1 974, p.2582), surveys are being conducted on the representation of men and women on Promotions Appeal Committees in New South Wales, South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Promotions Appeal Committees covering the eight-week period 1 March 1974 to 30 April 1974, reveal that, apart from the Chairman, the total membership consisted of (a) 1 1 women and (b) 208 men. [More…]
The Department has not yet taken over the red telephone service but expects to do so on 20 December this year. [More…]
It is known that the company currently employs about 19 men on maintaining the existing red telephones. [More…]
It should be explained, however, that under the current agreement between the Department and the company the rectification of minor faults on red telephones including the replacement of minor external components is carried out by departmental technicians. [More…]
It should also be mentioned that red telephones are generally in locations under constant supervision by the lessees and are not subject to the high incidence of faults and damage due to vandalism experienced with departmental public telephones many of which are in isolated locations. [More…]
If so, is this causing great concern to medical men conducting research. [More…]
6 ( Hansard, 17 October 1974, page 2582) relating to the number of men and women who have sat as union representatives on promotion appeal panels, when was the survey of the A.C.T. [More…]
Because of the deal of comment on this matter I should give the record. [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…]
In Victoria, on 3 occasions, the Bolte Government nominated Labor men to succeed deceased Labor senatorsSenator Sandford replaced Senator Devlin in 1 957, Senator Poyser replaced Senator Sandford in 1966 and Senator Brown replaced Senator Cohen, Q.C., in 1969. [More…]
In Queensland the Nicklin Government nominated Senator Whiteside to succeed Senator Poulter in 1962. [More…]
In South Australia the Walsh Government nominated Senator Laucke to succeed Senator Hannaford in 1967 and the Dunstan Government nominated Senator Martin Cameron to succeed Senator [More…]
We need positive programs to stimulate the private sector and to get investment in plant and equipment. [More…]
Some members on the Government side of the House are skilled tradesmen. [More…]
If some of them have to go back to the lathe or the bench after the next election they will find that they will be working with inadequate equipment because there has been no investment in new plant or equipment. [More…]
There has been the social impact of injury to the dignity of men, women and children. [More…]
It has been caused by a new government obsessed with the political purpose of foisting socialism upon the Australian community. [More…]
They are being revealed in the frightful social upheaval that is going on across the country, with hundreds of thousands of men and women, young girls and boys, not being able to get a job and facing a bleak future. [More…]
When this Government came to office it thought that money did not matter, that it could just spend money right and left. [More…]
In another section of the document the honourable member for Wannon (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has had his way. [More…]
They are the innocuous words in this document, but one has to look elsewhere to see what the honourable member for Wannon had to say at a recent conference. [More…]
We see the establishment of an industrial gestapo through which he will have men of the Australian Public Service going to factories to try to crush workers into line, workers who have suffered the squeeze between their non-increasing wages and rapidly increasing prices. [More…]
Their next step is to encourage foreign investment in productive industries. [More…]
The Liberals then make the unequivocal statement that it is only the private sector that can provide the means of eliminating unemployment. [More…]
The intention of the men who drafted our Constitution and the expectation of those who voted for it was that every 3 years there should be an election for the House of Representatives and half the Senate. [More…]
No supervening principle has emerged in favour of multiplying and separating elections for the Australian Parliament. [More…]
There is only one way in which simultaneous elections of the Senate and the House of Representatives can be assured at all times and that is by the constitutional amendment that is proposed in this Bill. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
The same situation occurred about Vietnam, when the then Government conscripted the youth of Australia to become involved. [More…]
The United States tragically lost 60 000 men, and most of the other big nations of the world stayed out ofthe fight. [More…]
There was a peace conference held to which Australia was not invited, but to which the Provisional Revolutionary Government was invited as an observer. [More…]
The great powers of the world failed to solve these matters with the result that there is still an argument and, worse, a war in Vietnam. [More…]
We could well develop overseas trading corporation arrangements whereby we can market the resources of our own people and take in return products that we are now importing from other countries, get them on a fair basis and activate the trade prospects of Australia, but to go around the world, as have the Leader of the Opposition and certain State Premiers will not solve our problems. [More…]
He is not mentioned. [More…]
When one looks at the battlefields and sees the graves one well understands the valour of the men, but no real credit is given in this hard commercial world. [More…]
There is no doubt that the concern felt by leaders of the trade union movement which the honourable member for Kooyong (Mr Peacock) mentioned, was echoed widely by the Australian community early in December in the days when the Prime Minister was preparing to depart on his trip. [More…]
It is important that the Prime Minister recognise that while in his terms it might be that his colleagues can deal with domestic problems in his absence, the unemployment statistics degenerated significantly during that period while he was away from Australia. [More…]
It is important that he realise that the men and women in the soup queues and the men and women who were receiving unemployment benefits were in no way better off for the visit that he made and the time he spent in countries abroad. [More…]
Salaries paid to officials of great energy, dedication and talent are low and unattractive and discourage men of quality from making the sacrifices that a career as a trade union official often involves. [More…]
Demarcation disputes concerned with protecting the revenue and membership of a union threatened with loss of coverage by encroachments of other unions are a common occurrence in this country. [More…]
Amalgamation of organisations will operate in this situation not only to reduce the number of unions parties to single awards and agreements but also to limit the number of awards and agreements applying within single establishments. [More…]
Negotiation and agreement on industrial matters would also be facilitated if the employer had to deal with only one or two unions instead of, as is often the case today with larger employers, with a number going into double figures, each one operating under different rules and procedures and not necessarily common policies. [More…]
One needs to look no further than government instrumentalities to get an idea of the number of unions one employer has to deal with. [More…]
I have already mentioned the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
The men and women employed by the Commonwealth Railways, a small enterprise by railway standards, belong to 14 different unions. [More…]
This Government will not stand for Watergates in Australia. [More…]
Huge amounts of money are being put into the funds of honourable members opposite in an endeavour to mislead the people into putting them into Government again. [More…]
Within a few days in this Parliament those who are collecting these funds can stand up and say whether they are prepared to tell us where their ill-gotten gains come from or whether they wish to keep hidden their sinister controllers and the faceless men who provide their funds. [More…]
The public should know that funds are being poured into the finances of the honourable members opposite from sources that are opposed to Australia’s best interests and that even Liberal candidates are prepared to spend $40,000 to try to defeat Labor candidates and to defy the law because those behind them want government at any price. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present the report on apparel- section 1- men’s shirts, woven pyjamas and other woven nightwear by the Textiles Authority within the Industries Assistance Commission and the report of the Industries Assistance Commission on mushrooms. [More…]
We can suspend periodic payments of private companies tax. [More…]
If the provisional tax limit were to be, say, $32,000, that would significantly reduce the tax bill that beef men are being called upon to pay with respect to their high incomes last year. [More…]
We could restore some of those concessions and reduce the overall impact of tax on the cattlemen. [More…]
As for finance, I have already pooh-poohed the adequacy of the allocation of $20m to the Development Bank of Australia. [More…]
A significantly larger sum of money could be made available either through the Development Bank or through rural reconstruction loans and the maximum interest that should be charged in order to enable cattlemen to hold their stock and their properties should be at that old rural reconstruction rate of 4 per cent. [More…]
There is no excuse for the Government’s believing the $20m at 11 per cent interest is in any way adequate. [More…]
The Government constituted 5 committees to try to reduce the price of meat to consumers, but it has not even had one committee to look at the question of adding to prices to the producer. [More…]
In Darwin, throughout Australia and elsewhere, the men and women who got together to help, whether it was a child in Hobart breaking into his piggy bank so that he could give or an age pensioner on the devastated streets of Darwin consoling the shocked and dressing the wounds of the injured, took human nobility to its highest level. [More…]
The City of Darwin and the surrounding area, which I have the honour to represent in this Parliament survived in the aftermath of cyclone Tracy because the finest of the fine of the citizens of Darwin and the citizens of Australia immediately got together and helped. [More…]
It is also summed up in the statement of a relief worker who, when asked why he volunteered for Darwin, replied: ‘We must do all we can to help. [More…]
‘It is summed up in the statement of the Deputy Prime Minister (Dr J. F. Cairns) and of the Minister for the Northern Territory (Dr Patterson): ‘Darwin will be rebuilt.’ [More…]
I would like also to thank the Darwin womenfolk who, with the men, displayed at all times great courage and perseverance. [More…]
Specifically I would like to thank the men and women of the Darwin Bureau of Meteorology who stayed at their posts as the cyclone intensified, plotting its course with a growing degree of certainty while their families bravely faced the horror at home; the men and women of the Postmaster-General’s Department who kept the communication lines open as much as possible and then worked without rest to reopen them; the men and women of the radio and television stations who broadcast continuously advice on cyclone warnings and preparations and then, when the storm abated, immediately set about to restore broadcasting. [More…]
In particular I would like to thank the amateur radio station operators who quickly established communications southwards; also the aircraft pilots who, using salvaged equipment, did the same. [More…]
I would like to thank the men and women of the Northern Territory Police Force as well as the civil defence workers who went out during the cyclone and again afterwards consoling the shocked, getting medical attention to the injured and comforting the bereaved; the men and women of the Darwin medical, paramedical and nursing professions and ambulance service who displayed at all times the highest dedication to duty, great compassion and efficiency in bringing kindly assistance to the injured and the sick; the men and women who worked at getting the public utilities such as water and electricity operating whenever possible, cleared the roads to allow the entry of rescue vehicles, checked homes for the trapped, the injured and the dead, organised themselves into working parties, helped in the distribution of food and necessary supplies, such as medicine, and helped to organise evacuation; members of the religious profession who gave spiritual comfort; the airport and airline personnel who cleared the airport and rigged emergency flare paths. [More…]
The men and women of the defence servicesthe Navy, the Army and the Air Forcewho whether on duty or off duty responded bravely to the crisis and displayed outstanding heroism in bringing practical assistance to their fellow Darwin citizens. [More…]
I would also like to mention the defence services. [More…]
Here I must pause and single out for special mention the Royal Australian Air Force aircrews and maintenance staff who kept their planes flying continuously; the RAAF medical teams who did not falter in their duties; the Navy disaster force which hurriedly assembled for duty, brought needed supplies and swung immediately into action bringing urgently needed assistance and undertaking unpleasant tasks often during times of supplementary volunteered duty; the Army which currently is undertaking a similar task as that of the Navy in the same spirit of commitment; the journalists who reported objectively the situation that Darwin faced; the churches which organised relief efforts through their own social welfare agencies; the people who organised funds for those financially wanting to help the people of Darwin; the personnel of Qantas Airways Ltd, Ansett Airlines of Australia, Trans-Australia Airlines, Connair Pty Ltd and SAATAS Pty Ltd, as well as members of the general aviation industry who collected together to make the great evacuation program a success; the men and women of the Royal Air Force, the United States Air Force and the Indonesian Air Force who contributed magnificently; the people down the track from Darwin who gave food and shelter to road evacuees; the personnel of the Commonwealth and [More…]
However, faced with a challenge more immense than anything in our peacetime history, the work of restoration has been amazing. [More…]
The rate of opening up of roads, re-establishment of services, roofing of houses and general clean-up has far exceeded expectations. [More…]
For this magnificent effort we can well be proud of the work carried out by the Darwin citizens, by the officers and men of the Royal Australian Navy, the Royal Australian Air Force, and the Australian Army, by Australian, State and local government authorities, by volunteers from outside Darwin and by private contractors. [More…]
I would also express my deep appreciation to the men and women of my Department who worked untiringly to meet the deadlines set by the emergency Cabinet meeting. [More…]
The Family Law Bill is one of the most discriminatory, ill-considered and badly drafted Bills ever to be introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
It discriminates against women and against those men and women who do not want their marriages to be dissolved at the whim of the other party to the marriage. [More…]
Many leaders in the community from the professions, among social workers and in the churches have pointed to the changes which will be introduced into the nature of marriage and threaten the stability of the family if this Bill is passed without amendment. [More…]
The Bill proceeds on the basis that men and women are equal in the matrimonial situation. [More…]
It is a fact of life that in marriage the longer it lasts the women’s independence, and particularly her economic ability to fend for herself, become less. [More…]
This element is wholly overlooked by this Bill. [More…]
It fails to give women the protection and support to which they are entitled as wives and mothers of the future generation of Australians. [More…]
It takes away from women the security and legal safeguards of the present law and, in the guise of enabling marriages which have broken down irretrievably to be dissolved with dignity, enables all marriages to be dissolved on the unilateral decision of either party on 12 months notice. [More…]
Do the people of Australia want such a law that will reduce marriage to a purely temporary union with little or no protection for women and children? [More…]
The most important aspect of the Bill is that it makes men and women more equal before the law than they are at present. [More…]
The legal supremacy of the male and the entrenched legal inferiority of the female are removed without removing the commitment of one party to honour obligations of maintenance towards the other or towards children where the courts’ deem this to be appropriate. [More…]
It is to be hoped that the family law council, the family law court and social institutions will accelerate this movement towards complete equality of opportunity and responsibility between the sexes. [More…]
When both men and women understand the full implications of the equality of the sexes we may see a new era of more stable marriages. [More…]
I cannot see that era coming for at least a generation, however, as the attitudes of men in particular- but some women also- will need to change before that eventuates. [More…]
Prior to that time the matter of divorce was the sole domain of the ecclesiastical courts unless one were important enough to the realm to be able to obtain divorce by special Act of Parliament [More…]
This legislation overlooks a woman’s incapacity for job continuity and the psychological adjustment which a woman would face. [More…]
Men and women in marriage perform different functions. [More…]
Their roles are complementary, not equal and interchangeable. [More…]
I commend clause 75 (2) to those people who hold that point of view. [More…]
That seems to me to be somewhat of a downgrading of women. [More…]
All honourable members no doubt are aware that many men feel that they are being unduly oppressed by many features of the existing legislation in relation to the payment of maintenance. [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…]
Yet, at the same time, it is unfair to men. [More…]
So it is unfair to women and it is unfair to men. [More…]
We find in both the Roman Catholic and the Protestant traditions no fundamental reference to the relationship of marriage so far as God or Christ is concerned. [More…]
In fact, this type of investigation reveals that the only references that Christ made to marriage were in terms of answers to such questions as this: If a woman was married to two or three men on earth, who would her husband be in Heaven? [More…]
There is nothing of substance in the Bible in regard to the fundamental relationship. [More…]
People have desires to express friendship and other relationships in all sorts of dimensions. [More…]
We are not dealing with situations in which it is necessary to pass judgment on our fellow men. [More…]
This Bill accepts the view that there is no future in trying to assign fault for what is really fundamentally a breakdown in the hopes and aspirations of 2 people who, when they came together and were joined in marriage, believed in all sincerity that they could make a partnership together which would be unique and long lasting. [More…]
In presenting this amendment, a couple of honourable members have done women a grave disservice. [More…]
One honourable member earlier this evening described women as not being equal to men. [More…]
Another suggestion, which I think was made by an honourable member from my home State, included references to ‘tom cats’ and casanovas’ but did not even mention the case of what he privately called ‘alley cat women’. [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…]
Before I proceed further let me say that those unfortunate people who are confronted with the divorce situation deserve compassionate, just and fair treatment. [More…]
This is not really the time for platitudes or for legalistic arguments about the sordid aspects of divorce. [More…]
This is the time to think about the consequences of this legislation for all men, all women and all children of this generation and future generations in this country. [More…]
We, as men and women, are brought together to consider the needs of the community. [More…]
I do not commend it to you, Mr Speaker, or to the honourable members of this House. [More…]
Three men jumped, one opened his parachute almost as soon as he left the aircraft. [More…]
One of the deceased had a wife and 2 children at the camping site and the enforcement of the regulations would have protected them as well as the deceased. [More…]
The same pattern of conduct continued 10 days later in the Australian Championships and still no action was taken by the Department of Transport. [More…]
Two men died as a result. [More…]
I am happy to see that there are 2 Ministers in the House because, despite their crusty exteriors, I believe that they are men of compassion, and what I have to say today is not political. [More…]
In recent years we have become more aware of our responsibility to the Australian men and women and boys and girls who live with a physical disability or handicap. [More…]
In an age when we can devise magnificent computers and send men to the moon, cannot we provide a simple system of captions or signs for our television programs and, hopefully, eventually in some films to aid people who are deaf. [More…]
It is an appeal from many fine, wonderful Australians- men and women and boys and girls- to include them in our appreciation of television and perhaps films. [More…]
The joy and the satisfaction this would give, the new meaning it would give to so many lonely lives would be one of the finest achievements to which we could aspire. [More…]
I hope that the Government will respond. [More…]
It is unfortunate that this Parliament is denigrated by statements such as we have just heard. [More…]
The history of courts in Australia, especially the major courts, has been one of appointment of men with political experience. [More…]
The history of courts in Australia is one of men acting in those courts in a responsible manner and integrity irrespective of the political background from which they have come. [More…]
I believe that an attempt to denigrate a judge in advance by using what is a technicality in the Standing Orders of this House is a denial of the traditions of Parliament. [More…]
There are 2 sets of rules in Australia in relation to the appointment of men with political experience to judicial office. [More…]
The list of members of Parliament who have been so appointed is long and stands examination. [More…]
I do not think that there is a great deal of question about the performance of those men when they have left die Parliament. [More…]
But I think it is fair to say that the performances of some of those men in Parliament would not have been such as would have led to trust in their performances by the Opposition parties. [More…]
Whilst a tradition exists of appointment of men to courts from political office the political opinions of those men must be the subject of controversy. [More…]
They are an area in which the judgments of men based on their legal training prevail. [More…]
If we are to suggest that only conservative politicians have good judgment we are saying that the nation is not entitled to democratic government at all, in or outside of the courts. [More…]
I will come to that in more detail in a moment. [More…]
Only guilty men- those who have something to hide- will oppose this proposition. [More…]
So the legal entitlement to spend funds for election purposes has been increased 6 times. [More…]
Perhaps it is that the guilty men want to protect their rich and powerful friends. [More…]
We must remember that this legislation is introduced by men who are preoccupied with the belief that the Opposition parties are rolling in money - [More…]
I am under a commitment to restrict my speaking time in this debate, but I would like to say that the Labor Party in the federal Division of Brisbane has never received any financial assistance at all from the central organisation of the Party in Queensland. [More…]
Why is it that those on the other side of the House, the members of the Liberal Party and of the Country Party, are afraid to disclose the resources and the faceless men who stand behind their political parties? [More…]
That is the whole basis of Judeo-Christian society and the upward progress of men and women so that when they reach adulthood- whether it be 18 years of age or 2 1 years of age- they are allowed to do what they want to do as long as they do not break the law. [More…]
I will be introducing an amendment that will say that, in the case of consent, where satisfactory arrangements are made for the children, if the parties are adult and responsible the period can be reduced to, say, 3 months. [More…]
That is the principle that I commend to honourable members although I know full well that it will not gain very much support. [More…]
-No, early in the life of the second Whitlam Government there was a change made in the work test by the Minister for Social Security, Mr Hayden. [More…]
It required that married men should leave their homes and go long distances away from where they lived to take work where it was offered to them. [More…]
That is all right if the Senate accepts its role as a House of review and if the Senate accepts that governments elected at the time when government is on the line are entitled to govern. [More…]
They have now clearly established that they do not believe that the tenure of office of governments elected to govern has any relevance whatsoever where it interferes with the personal ambitions of men whose greed for power would destroy the whole parliamentary system if necessary. [More…]
The intention of the men who drafted our Constitution and the expectation of those who voted for it was that every 3 years there should be an election of the House of Representatives and half the Senate. [More…]
Irrespective of the result that accrues to this Bill in this House, where we can be crushed by the savage onslaught of numbers, I hope that when the BUI is in the upper House the men there when they are confronted with big issues will not be like the men in this House who, when confronted with big issues, prove that in essence they are only little men. [More…]
Her Majesty’s Judges, Australian as well as British, will ever be men of conspicuous ability and integrity, whose impartiality will not be prejudiced by their domicile- are not English Appeals heard in the House of Lords? [More…]
It has been- I hope it will continue to be- manned by men, and indeed by women, of great accomplishment. [More…]
Continuation of appeals not only appears to impair Australian sovereignty but also inhibits the development in Australia of an integrated judicial system. [More…]
This should be acknowledged here and now, and all the parliaments of Austrafia should cooperate in bringing about the abolition of this right of appeal at the earliest possible date. [More…]
Whilst perhaps it was arguable at the time of Federation that an Australian superior court could not recruit within Australia men of sufficiently high learning and experience to deal with the more complex cases coming before the court, subsequent events proved that, far from being incapable of providing judges of the highest calibre, Australia has had the good fortune to produce jurists who have shown themselves as world leaders in their field. [More…]
Men such as Griffiths, Isaacs, Higgins, Evatt, Fullagar, Latham and Dixon would have added lustre to any superior court in Britain or anywhere else, and the frequency with which such men have been quoted in the Privy Council shows how eminent they were. [More…]
I have prepared for the Parliament a statement on the matter raised by the honourable member for Balaclava (Mr Macphee) in the Grievance Day debate last Thursday. [More…]
One of the things that concerns me is the fact that the honourable member did not bother to consult anyone in my Department before he came in here, using all sorts of information without checking his facts and using some pretty strong language about the condition of the people concerned. [More…]
He showed little regard for the feelings of the relatives of the deceased men. [More…]
He is a new member of this Parliament. [More…]
At any time he considers that there may be some irregularities in the Department of Transport he is at liberty to come and talk to me privately or, if he wishes, to talk to members of my Department and check out his facts. [More…]
One of the reasons we have included employment in the terms of the matter of public importance is that this Government’s policies are prejudicing employment opportunities, and perhaps that is illustrated most effectively by referring to the superphosphate industry. [More…]
During the last 15 years a tremendously effective aerial agricultural industry has grown in Australia and has contributed very much to the level of production. [More…]
At the moment there are no orders outstanding for the spreading of superphosphate, but last year there were orders totalling 100000 tonnes on the books. [More…]
Men in all major superphosphate works throughout Australia are being stood down from employment. [More…]
This Government is just letting the country run and it is not doing anything about it. [More…]
Rural unemployment is at a worse level today than it has ever been in Australia’s history, and this Government is causing it. [More…]
Its withdrawal of support for rural industry, its failure to provide meaningful decentralisation assistance, its withdrawal of fuel price equalisation schemes, its destruction of what was a reasonably efficient country communications system and its withdrawal of significant aid for country road construction apparently are all part of this Government’s objective of destroying Australian productivity and creating unemployment in country areas so that, in accordance with its socialistic objectives, men can be diverted into the city. [More…]
Australian Red Cross, Australian Comforts Fund, Young Men’s Christian Association, war correspondents, photographers. [More…]
There have been representations, particularly in respect of merchant seamen, that all Australians whose lives were lost in the course of their war-time duties should be honoured by the Memorial. [More…]
-The Government’s display on the pretext of being interested in employment never ceases to amaze honourable members on this side of the House. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) has come out with yet another of his great statements to the effect that the Government is going to devote its energies to the unemployment situation by creating employment. [More…]
Unfortunately, the actions of the Government give the lie to any suggestion that it is trying to create employment for Australian men and women. [More…]
The Government has set up these schemes not for the purpose of creating employment but for the purpose of propping up these industries temporarily while it dithers its way out of a mess. [More…]
The purpose of those grants was, of course, to prevent massive retrenchments from taking place on Christmas Eve. [More…]
Certainly it was a good manoeuvre for the men and women concerned. [More…]
One wonders why these sorts of things should happen in a country which supposedly is governed by a socialist government which obviously is dictated to by the trade union movement. [More…]
Yet it does this sort of thing to the men and women who are employed in our various industries. [More…]
The point will be reached where a large number of men employed in such foundries will have to face possible retrenchment for the simple reason that a Russian firm is going to get this contract- and I wonder how many more contracts. [More…]
I feel terribly sorry for certain people on the other side of the House who had, as I did, the privilege of membership of the old Australian Labor Party and by that I do not mean the old reactionary men. [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…]
I can remember it as though it were happening at this moment. [More…]
Whether one agrees with the Vietnam war, which is now a thing of the past, or not the people these characters represent shed good Australian blood and did everything in their power to destroy our young men. [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…]
If we are honest we will admit that some good men bit the dust up there. [More…]
I can name men who went to gaol because they stood for principles of unionism and principles of support for a Party which in those days honestly and sincerely fought for the workers. [More…]
On the other side of this place there are young aristocrats, bluebloods, people who for some reason are espousing a cause in which they believe for one of 2 reasons- either they are ideological socialists, impressed by some peculiar thing in Chile, Cuba, North Vietnam or one of those countries which have ideologies commensurate with theirs, or, if one goes back into the past, they have a chip on their shoulder. [More…]
Then again there is the pressure brought to bear by the faceless men, to use an old cliche. [More…]
Commonwealth Railways has recently commenced a railway project of world stature- the Tarcoola-Alice Springs line. [More…]
It involves a meticulous survey by both air and land over hundreds of kilometres of featureless country, the opening of ballast quarries, the welding of miles of continuous rail, the laying of hundreds of thousands of sleepers, the building of a telecommunication system and the feeding and quartering of men in some of the most inhospitable desert country in Australia. [More…]
It is estimated that the project will take 5 years to complete, but within 3 years a railhead will be established to enable the road-rail movement of goods. [More…]
This Government’s decision to abandon the fuel price equalisation scheme, plus higher taxes and land freights for the movement of cattle, have increased costs further. [More…]
Of course this Government then comes out and says to the Minister: ‘Oh yes, but we gave $30m for beef cattle road construction in Queensland this year. [More…]
Has not the Minister even realised that there is a new Commonwealth Aid Roads Agreement? [More…]
Does the Minister not know that in Queensland, as a result of that Commonwealth Aid Roads Agreement, there is likely to be a significant reduction in overall funds available for country roads and the product of that is that those people who are living in those country areas are likely to have a significantly reduced amount of money available. [More…]
Certainly it is not going to help immediately the men, women and children of whom I spoke a little while ago. [More…]
It is of no use the Government thinking that it can continue loading charges here and there and that the producers will be able to continue to survive. [More…]
Irrespective of the fact that the industry asked the Government for $50m- not $20m- and asked for an interest rate not of 1 Vi per cent but at reasonable commercial rates, the Government must realise that that representation was made months ago and must realise that a reference to the Australian Industries Assistance Commission is not going to provide any help to those men and women who have no money to buy their bread, butter, milk, meat and other things they need to eat tomorrow. [More…]
At least the Queensland Government has a little bit of get up and go. [More…]
Not only has the Premier of that State an ability to get up and demonstrably show that he is prepared to back bis hand when it comes to trying to secure markets because of the lack of action of this Government, but in addition the State Government has provided $10m at 2Vi per cent or 2V* per cent to the industry. [More…]
Indeed the whole problem with this Government is that it is like Nero- fiddling while the country is burning. [More…]
Let us turn to the report of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics that I mentioned a while ago. [More…]
I wish that some members of the Government would read some of the reports that their advisers produce. [More…]
This report, like the Green Paper report, has been produced by a responsible group of men, all of whom have suggested positive assistance to the rural industry. [More…]
Having said that it intended to set out new parameters for assistance to rural industry, the Government does nothing about it. [More…]
The Opposition only regrets that the Government knows so little about the problems that are seriously besetting this industry that it provides such minimal help at a time of crisis. [More…]
This Government which had members who claimed to be advocates of low interest rates supports an interest rate nearly double that available 2 years ago to men in dire straits. [More…]
This Government needs to do far more than just provide that $20m from the Development Bank. [More…]
It is our regret on this side of the House that the Government does not listen to some of those frequent protestations and positive suggestions that we make which I believe would significantly help to improve the financial position of the industry at this time. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask for leave to incorporate in Hansard a statement which I showed to the Minister entitled: ‘Australian beef cattle industry survey, estimated property net cash income 1971-72: Indexed forward to 1973-74; and projected to 1974-75’. [More…]
Unemployment benefits should automatically be extended to people engaged in beef production and in primary industry generally. [More…]
At the present time they find it most difficult to cut through the heap of red tape in order to receive benefits that would allow them to live in some decency but, more importantly, as equal men and women in an equal society. [More…]
Primary producers have to register for employment and be available to work away from their properties, and they find it most difficult to obtain any sort of reimbursement or unemployment benefits. [More…]
We need to shuttle through all this red tape and government propaganda and allow these people to participate forthwith in the scheme for unemployment benefits. [More…]
The point will be reached where a large number of men employed in such foundries will have to face possible retrenchment for the simple reason that a Russian firm is going to get this contract- and I wonder how many more contracts. [More…]
The Minister’s own statement confirms that the pilot who flew the plane from which the men who were killed jumped had made a similar midnight flight 48 hours prior to the accident. [More…]
The departmental officer- himself a parachutist- was staying at the camping area but he took no action to ground the pilot, nor did the Federation take any action to ground the pilot. [More…]
It is important to note that the Department has the power to ground the pilot as a pilot, but the Federation has the power to ground him only as a parachutist. [More…]
The Minister told us that the pilot’s licence has now been suspended, but apparently the Department took no action and, according to the Minister, the Department did not know about that earlier flight until 3 February. [More…]
Yet there was a departmental officer at the competition, and other persons at the competition most certainly knew about it. [More…]
It is hard to see how the departmental officer did not know. [More…]
What tremendous justification he of all men nas to ask for fair play. [More…]
-The Opposition does not object to the establishment of this Commission per se. [More…]
On the basis of the exercises performed by the present Government in relation to its Public Service expansion in the last 2 years, I think we have every reason to anticipate that at least 300 people will be involved in this Commission. [More…]
In the definition which has been given concerning the appointment of officers to the Commission I would not like to see the criterion ‘knowledge of or experience in public administration’ used as a means of bringing into the Commission a substantial number of public servants, thereby diluting the Commission’s very real need to ensure that the people at the top are in fact, as they are in the case of the Australian Industry Development Corporation men who are well experienced in the field of commerce, industry and finance. [More…]
The remarks made by honourable members about clause 21, and in particular sub-clause (3), concerning the qualifications of members of the Commission are relevant and are very much in the Government’s mind. [More…]
There can belittle doubt that the people who make up this Commission will have an extremely important role to play in the industry and the effect that the industry has on investment generally in Australia. [More…]
The Government appreciates that fact fully and when the time comes to find those people every effort will be made to find those most suitable for the job. [More…]
They will have to be men or women with a great breadth of experience and understanding. [More…]
The article, which is headed Most company men favour Federal law’, reads: [More…]
I hold this Parliament, this institution, in far more esteem than that. [More…]
In fact, if I were to be given a free choice between the captains of industry- they are all good men- and the men of any party which leads our country, whether it be the Liberal Party of Australia, the Australian Country Party or the Australian Labor Party, I would give far more status and esteem to the people who have become Ministers of the Australian Government and who lead the country. [More…]
Every one of them is accountable to this Parliament and every one of them is accountable to the people outside through the media. [More…]
There would be a Cabinet decision, with all the safeguards that go with that, to put up a recommendation to the Executive Council, which would give effect to it. [More…]
There is no doubt that there are many eminent men in the industry at the moment- I will not use names here- and one would hesitate to say that they should have to subject themselves to the filling in of forms, getting character references and matters of that sort. [More…]
At the moment the balance leans heavily towards a fresh start. [More…]
We have changed the whole philosophy and righly so because we have enabled people who were previously discriminated against, men and women who have served their country well, to come within the provisions of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
This is a clear example of where the interest of this Governmernt lies in providing facilities for retirement to those who have given service to their country whether overseas in a theatre of war or in this country. [More…]
They have obtained the co-operation of Australian building unions to overcome the difficulties that were created by the sheer neglect of Liberal-Country Party governments in the past. [More…]
For a generation too few skilled tradesmen have been trained in the building industry. [More…]
For a generation building trade unions were telling Liberal-Country Party governments that a shortage of skilled tradesmen would occur because those governments were allowing a policy to develop whereby sufficient men were not being trained. [More…]
Those governments ignored that advice in their cynical disregard for the needs of the Australian people. [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…]
It is a tragedy that the men who are presently in Government are neither prepared to maintain the conventions nor to uphold democracy. [More…]
Instead they, who are presently in Government, are prepared to see the destruction of Parliament and of the system whence government itself is elected. [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…]
When parliamentary members of the Labor Party accept the prescriptions of Caucus and when they accept the restraints that the Prime Minister today demonstrably placed upon the then Speaker and upon the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) but refused to place on the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron), we do not believe that any member of that Party can be seen as being prepared to comply with the Standing Orders and to maintain the dignity of this Parliament. [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…]
Mr Clerk, we have just heard Parliament’s own Brutus in action. [More…]
What manner of men are these? [More…]
In the 19 years that I have been in this Parliament I do not know of any behaviour that measures up to the hypocrisy, the vandalism and the plain parliamentary sabotage of which all Opposition members are guilty. [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…]
So they made the life of Mr Cope a continual misery in his efforts to make this Parliament work in the way that it always had. [More…]
How is it that Australia is inflicted with 2 men like this at this time? [More…]
In a democracy it is vital that the media should not be in the hands of a small number of rich and powerful men. [More…]
Those honourable members who feel I am overstating the case are invited to observe the treatment this speech receives at the hands of the media. [More…]
The concern arises from the apparent bungling of the Government in deciding to reallocate these men by sending them to Melbourne. [More…]
The Commonwealth Police comes under the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
They have been advised by the Department that they should expect to be transferred to Melbourne to work as security guards at the airport and other areas in the western sector of Melbourne. [More…]
These men to whom I refer have been employed in the Commonwealth Police service for many years. [More…]
These men have raised their families in Bendigo. [More…]
Most of them have no wish to transfer to Melbourne but they accept that sometimes the demands of government and a prevailing situation may warrant that they should be transferred. [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…]
She may be one of the heroic band of women and men who are prepared to put up with it, to bear it with cheerfulness to the outside world, but with inner deep, personal distress, Something may happen and she says: ‘I can stand this no longer’. [More…]
The Bill has been denounced as unchristian, a marriage breaker, a nation destroyer, one which neglects the rights and obligations of women and men and the rights and welfare of children. [More…]
For anybody to suggest that the passage of this legislation will not have some long term impact on the general community attitude towards marriage and on the general community attitude towards relationships between men and women within marriage is, I think, to fail to understand the real impact of social legislation in our society. [More…]
He advanced a very thoughtful examination of the changing relationship between men and women, not only in marriage but also in society. [More…]
I acknowledge much of what the honourable member said to be a very accurate statement of the present situation. [More…]
It is impossible to examine a divorce law in our present society without taking some note of the changing roles of men and women inside marriage. [More…]
I have believed for a long time that the changes that have occurred in the status of women in our society have been a considerable advance. [More…]
There is no doubt that a generation ago many women faced overwhelming social pressure to conform to the traditional pattern of an exclusive mother and wife role within marriage. [More…]
The time has now arrived when it is possible for women in our society to exercise more and more an effective choice as to the type of role they should adopt without in any way feeling that their role is any less or that they are under any social pressure to conform to a traditional role. [More…]
I support any legislation- I think this is relevant to the Family Law Bill- which makes it possible for men and women in our society to exercise a complete choice as to the type of role they should adopt. [More…]
In this Parliament we are upholding the principles of a democratic state. [More…]
There is always a prima facie case for freedom; because men must not be used merely as tools, the onus of proof always rests on whoever wants to limit it not on those enjoying it. [More…]
We must assume then, until we are proved wrong, that if men want to associate for sectional purposes they should be left unmolested. [More…]
Moreover, other citizens have an interest in the matter, for it is of general concern that children should be equipped to become reasonably social and useful men and women. [More…]
Of the 1067 New South Wales cruelty dissolutions in that year, excluding joint petitions 49 were granted to men and 1010 were granted to women, making the New South Wales husband appear to be 20 times more cruel than the New South Wales wife. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
Stability, indeed permanence of marriage as a principle, is basically fundamental to Australian society and to most societies around the world. [More…]
If that were a correct view, the Bill would certainly need amending to remove that interpretation or impact. [More…]
I believe that the Parliament needs to be convinced that the Bill does not weaken marriage, that it does not destroy the rights that attach to individuals -in particular perhaps to a woman who, throughout her life, wants to be nothing more than a wife and mother. [More…]
With some of the changes in modern society there seems to be a growing view that women have an obligation to work as much as men. [More…]
I know that amendments in another place have done something to redress that matter, but whether they have gone far enough is a matter which I have no doubt will be examined in the Committee stage of this debate. [More…]
That is what he did last Thursday shamelessly, deliberately and intending this Parliament to be weakened by it, not caring about the Opposition but equally not caring about any member who sits behind him. [More…]
Quite recklessly uncaring as to whether those men can make their contributions to the Parliament, he deliberately did it. [More…]
It is not surprising, however, that the Parliament was ashamed to witness this squalid abuse of power. [More…]
It was degrading bullying tactics and was endorsed by the majority of Labor members of the Parliament. [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 the Parliament to become an irrelevancy. [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…]
That this is so is expressed in the extracts from newspaper comments in the ‘Canberra Times’, the ‘Sun’, the ‘Australian Financial Review’ and the ‘SunHerald’. [More…]
I seek leave to have incorporated in Hansard extracts from editorial comment over the weekend and on Friday of last week following the affair. [More…]
Mr Speaker, few people have done more to subvert the democratic processes of this Parliament than has the Prime Minister. [More…]
Few men have done as much to demean and besmirch the conventions, customs and traditions of this Parliament as has the Prime Minister. [More…]
Few men have done so much violence to the important conventions, to the well-established customs and hence to the democracy, as has this Prime Minister. [More…]
His self-confessed objective is the destruction of the States and the creation of an all-powerful central government- unitary government, as he calls it. [More…]
In making these attacks on the authority of the Speaker, both these men committed serious and clear breaches of privilege. [More…]
The Government, led by the Prime Minister, using its weight of numbers prevented that course from being followed. [More…]
To quote from an editorial in the ‘Canberra Times’ of last Friday, this action by the Government ‘left the Parliament impotent to act in defence of its privilege’. [More…]
Exactly the same thing happened on another occasion earlier in the life of this Parliament when a gross libel on the House by the Prime Minister and a clear and serious breach of privilege by the Prime Minister was prevented from going to the Privileges Committee of this House. [More…]
If men in positions of power feel free to breach the rules with impunity, how long will those who feel disadvantaged or deprived or denied power play according to the rules. [More…]
The Government is to be deplored for its handling of the economy and the amount of money that it is seeking to appropriate by means of this Bill. [More…]
I mention the fact that the Bill provides for assistance to be given to small businesses to allow them to get going again. [More…]
That assistance will be provided not only for the construction people but also for the citizens- the family men and women and their children. [More…]
A major element in the whole reversal is the Prime Minister’s recent stance in the matter. [More…]
The Prime Minister has averred that he does not accept that the problems of the motor industry and other’ industries, especially importing competing industries, are due to the cumulative effect of the Government’s ill-advised policies- the whole gamut of them. [More…]
Not only inflation but now unemployment is the result of last year’s wage increases. [More…]
They do not cause unemployment, according to the Prime Minister. [More…]
To talk about these things as causing unemployment, is ‘garbage’ so the Prime Minister says. [More…]
What a line from the professed champion of the ordinary men and women of Australia. [More…]
The honourable member for Wentworth and the Special Minister of State (Mr Lionel Bowen) have mentioned the importance of judges, the importance of their position and the fact that if we are to attract to these positions men of the calibre that is needed, we must give attention to the remuneration they receive. [More…]
Of course, the car manufacturing industry has been in serious trouble for some time largely because of the previous unreasoned hatred of private enterprise and overseas investment in Australia. [More…]
This was the attitude of the Government which was thereby guilty of creating considerable unemployment in the car industry. [More…]
The Government would not heed any advice and it continued its policies while saying all the time that it was the only party which would prevent unemployment. [More…]
Now the Government, in its usual fashion, waits for the crisis and then moves, and moves ponderously. [More…]
It waits until record numbers of Australian men and women have lost their jobs and retrenchments are unavoidable and then starts to get off its tail. [More…]
People are ready for change and in this important year, International Women’s Year, the most important single contribution of lasting value that we can make is to try to broaden the minds of those who have closed their minds to change. [More…]
It could be a tribute to International Women’s Year that we took the year to help in changing entrenched attitudes of some people within our community, that we took the year to broaden the minds of those who have closed their minds to change, of those who cling to old prejudices, old accepted attitudes, old accepted roles. [More…]
International Women’s Year should be a year when we accelerate change, a year to look back on, a year of commencement and a year to start the long revolution to whittle away old prejudices. [More…]
It will even be a battle to make clear that it is fundamentally a people’s battle and not just a battle for women’s rights, but a struggle to proclaim that every section of society, all men, women and children born and unborn will benefit from sweeping changes in attitudes to women’s rights. [More…]
We should investigate conditions leading to discrimination against women in education, in the work force and certainly in the credit facilities available to them. [More…]
I am pleased to see some of the moves that this Government has made since coming into office towards eliminating the discrimination against women in the fields of pay and opportunity of employment. [More…]
But these are still peripheral changes and it is the community acceptance of roles of men and women that has to be changed. [More…]
As an example I point to the establishment of Halfway House in Melbourne, which has recognised the need for refuge for women and children forced to leave their homes. [More…]
As well, I would cite the inquiries being carried out by the rape committee and the excellent counselling and referral work done by the Women’s Health Collective at Collingwood. [More…]
We cannot survive as people and we cannot proudly claim success in the campaign to remove discrimination against women unless we remember too all other groups similarly disadvantaged. [More…]
In fact, we do not deserve to if we remain elitist, permitting nations to exploit those areas which desperately need encouragement, compassion and aid and giving instead alms paid for through economic gain and political strategy. [More…]
There are all too many people, both men and women, who are still unaware of their vital responsibility to other people- people whose right to eat, breathe clean air, have shelter and freedom of choice and a future for their children is as valid as yours and mine. [More…]
Peace should have a place in International Women’s Year. [More…]
To achieve peace in our time may be a gigantic task, but this year it is hoped that men and women will join forces against repression and work towards the liberation of all oppressed groups throughout the world. [More…]
If International Women’s Year leads the way democratically, shaking us a” UP and prodding those who resist change, to lay the guidelines for dialogue for other needy areas both locally and internationally, it will be worthwhile. [More…]
To women I say: Retain a sense of humour, you will certainly need it. [More…]
Perhaps this message should go to men and women. [More…]
There must be a constant, continual challenge to the conservative institutions and the reactionary factions which hinder the progress of so many human beings in this International Women’s Year. [More…]
Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of the recent dispute involving the sacking of 17 women at Dreffin Everhot Ltd, a manufacturing company in Bayswater, Victoria, in respect of which charges have been made by the sacked women that they have been sexually discriminated against? [More…]
Is he aware of the allegations that some of the sacked women are single parents and the breadwinners of their families, while some of the men who now occupy their positions hold more than one job? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House what the responsibilities of the Australian Government are in this matter and what action the Government intends to take, especially as Australia has recently ratified the relevant International Labor Organisation Convention No. [More…]
Ill and this is United Nations International Women’s Year? [More…]
-Answering the last question first, yes, the Government will consider the provision of carry-on finance as has been now recommended by the Australian National Cattlemen’s Council. [More…]
The immediate problem of course is the need for carry-on finance to stop the dismissal or sacking of stockmen, particularly in the high rainfall areas of Australia where the tick problem is quite serious. [More…]
Once those men are lost to the cattle industry it is doubtful whether they will return. [More…]
My own personal opinion regarding carry-on finance is that it is essential that some method of financing be made available to those cattle producers in need- those who need finance to keep the men on the properties, particularly, I keep stressing, in the high rainfall areas where unless mustering is carried on consistently to prevent the tick problem getting out of control the danger of redwater spreading into non-tick areas arises. [More…]
Some action has to be taken to make certain that the cattle industry remains viable in terms of the cattle themselves and in terms of the cattle men and workmen on those properties. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Northern Territory: Is he aware of a published article about cyclone Tracy in which a former Darwin journalist, Mr Noel Harley stated that the Darwin death toll was between 250 and 300; that he, Mr Harley, helped local firemen load 52 bodies on a truck; that babies were blown from the arms of their mothers; that 8 police officers had gone missing and only one had been accounted for; and that men tied bandages around their legs and were limping in order to obtain priority seats in the evacuation? [More…]
Are these statements correct and if so why have they been suppressed from the public in the official reports? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Labor and Immigration aware of a special crisis among woodchip loggers and bushmen in Tasmania in that many loggers with costly trucks and equipment worth from $50,000 to $150,000 have become unemployed because the 3 woodchip companies in Tasmania have had their exports to Japan drastically reduced by the Japanese paper companies? [More…]
Is he aware also that at least one of the woodchip companies in the north pressured many of these men into this expensive business even as late as October to December last year, that the loggers are paying from $700 to $ 1 ,000 a month to finance companies and that the huge log trucks are of little use anywhere else without costly alterations? [More…]
Will the Minister treat this crisis as urgent and make one of his key employment officers available at a log haulers association meeting at Launceston next Sunday? [More…]
Because this woodchip crisis is unique to Tasmania can he make special arrangements to help these out of work hauliers to stay solvent? [More…]
What we seek to do by our amendment is to ensure that Parliament meets adequately so that we can scrutinise legislation effectively and on a normal systematic basis, where parliamentary debate can take place and electoral responsibilities can be met. [More…]
It is absolutely nonsense to think that Parliament in 1975, with the economy in the mess it is in, with the Labor Government in disarray, with the parliamentary institution being debased, that the Parliament should get up, go away and forget about what has happened. [More…]
Why, the last fortnight has been the most deplorable in the history of the Australian parliamentary democracy, if not in the history of the democracy of Westminster system countries. [More…]
It is absolutely frightening to think that the Government now wants just to adjourn the Parliament and let everyone go back to their electorates and forget about what has happened. [More…]
The fact that we have had these troubles and that men within the Labor Government have been prepared to show disrespect to your predecessor, Mr [More…]
Before I am accused of being a hopeless reactionary who is not aware of the extraordinary difficultiespersonal and financial- faced by men and women whose marriages have failed, let me hasten to add that I am strongly of the view that divorce law reform is urgently needed. [More…]
What we in this House have to decide is whether this Bill achieves these reforms or whether it is capable of amendment to achieve desirable reforms. [More…]
The most recent public opinion poll found that 77 per cent of Australian women and 7 1 per cent of men favoured the introduction of no fault divorce; 61 per cent of women and 59 per cent of men favoured a separation period of 12 months or less. [More…]
It is not surprising that new legislation on such fundamental concerns as marriage, family relations and divorce should be open to doubts and criticism. [More…]
I think that it is good that we should circumvent that process and cause all of our rationalising capacities to be brought to bear so that we can get a decision out of this Parliament as quickly as possible. [More…]
Why shouldn’t men and women have equal rights in the question of custody? [More…]
I feel a percentage of men are equally as capable of looking after children as a percentage of women. [More…]
In my opinion these arguments are completely overwhelmed by the reality of the gross injustice and the bitter degradation and humiliation associated with the existing law. [More…]
I am not prepared to vote to perpetuate the undignified role of the professional snooper for the necessity to establish fault and I am not prepared to vote to see the many thousands of unhappily married men and women throughout Australia condemned to the protracted anguish and inhumanity inherent in the present law. [More…]
I commend the Bill in its present form. [More…]
Fifty years ago, when educational opportunities depended upon a parent’s pocket rather than upon a student’s intelligence, many of those who in today’s circumstances would have become the country’s leading lawyers, scientists, academics or professionals gravitated to leadership of the trade union movement. [More…]
We still have men and women working on the factory floor who are there for reasons only of lack of education. [More…]
No doubt had those men of vision in Western Australia at that time been able to persuade in fairness a way for the new national government to undertake and open up the isolated areas of Western Australia with railways. [More…]
They were men of unselfish vision who, in the main, had come from some other nation to settle in that portion of our vast continent of Australia called Western Australia. [More…]
How these men of yesteryear would despair at the attitude being taken today on this very issue, at the resistance being shown to the introduction of some form of standardisation and improvement in rail services for passenger, trade and defence purposes by placing the responsibility for those rail services with the main taxing authority, the national Government. [More…]
It is Uke saying that the citizens of Western Australia should be forced to meet any losses incurred by the Postmaster-General’s Department because of the vast areas that have to be served in the same manner as they, the citizens of Western Australia, are being forced to do in relation to the annual losses of the railway system. [More…]
It is an appalling situation that we in Western Australia do not have men in our State Government at this time who are as astute enough, as were their forebears, to pass on a responsibility like this to the main taxing authority- the national government. [More…]
What we need in Western Australia is a State Government with business acumen which will not put its lust for petty power before State and national interests. [More…]
The continued non-co-operation of the State governments in the matter of the handing over of the annual State railway liabilities is lamentable. [More…]
This BUI, which makes provision for that and other matters, deserves the support of all members of this Parliament. [More…]
No doubt the provisions contained in this Bill to relieve the States of this burden will be looked at favourably by sensible people in the future- men of similar vision to Sir John Forrest. [More…]
One of the singular contributions to that gathering of distress has been the conflict between and among races- the fact that men and women of different races have had difficulty in living with each other, abiding with each other, respecting each other. [More…]
Let those who year after year encouraged a military solution, those who decried as weakness or even treason the calls for negotiations and the calls for political settlement, now, and at last, recognise the real consequences of their work. [More…]
These strongmen, these realists, the men on horse-back, insisted upon a military solution. [More…]
A former President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson, reminded us: ‘Men do not start revolutions in a sudden passion . [More…]
Revolutions come because men know that they have rights and that they are disregarded. ‘ [More…]
I have spoken to the leaders of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and the Provisional Revolutionary Government. [More…]
These are the kinds of men I support and these are the kinds of men I want to see leading countries in South-East Asia because I believe that they know that social, political, economic and national reforms are necessary in their countries, not only for the good of the people but also to prevent disorder, distress and war. [More…]
But I believe that we should all remember the lessons of the past because the very men who are leading the Opposition now were then leading the Government. [More…]
I have said in this House before and I will repeat it in this House as long as I stay here that the Opposition when it was in government lied and lied and lied about Australia’s involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
That was a deliberate lie because there was never a decision by the South-East Asian Treaty Organisation that involved the commitment of its members to Vietnam. [More…]
But not only did Thailand and the Philippines go in under the direction of the United States Government; also they were rewarded handsomely by the United States Government for their involvement. [More…]
I refer briefly to the result of Question Time today: The deplorable suggestion made by the Prime Minister that there is no risk of execution of those people in the countries that are being overrun by communism at the moment, Cambodia and South Vietnam; no risk of these men being assassinated. [More…]
He completely denies the record that is known to every member of this Parliament. [More…]
This record was illustrated in today’s ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ by a letter contributed by Mr R. A. Dowell, Federal Secretary of the Flight Stewards Association of Australia, who comments that he has little regard or respect for the members of the present Government- nor do I blame him. [More…]
Indeed, the testimony given by Warrant Officer Ossie Ostara to which I referred in a question to the Prime Minister today, is another testimony to the degree to which these communists who are taking over South Vietnam and who are at the moment taking over Cambodia are likely to demonstrate little concern for the men, the women and the children whose lives and well-being are of no consequence to them. [More…]
In circumstances of conflict, a head in the sand rigid attitude of ideology, the advancement of ideology insensitive to the sufferings of men, women and children and the exploitation by the Government of the concern of” the Australian people for human causes provide no excuse for a foreign policy. [More…]
Neither the political motivation in the gestures of the Government of the past week nor the statement by the Prime Minister to the House today is any reason for any Australian to believe that Australia’s foreign policy is in good hands today. [More…]
As for the thesis of Chinese primary interest in this, China would be totally undisturbed if we sent one million men from Australia back into [More…]
We have been told today by many Government speakers how the North is merely trying to liberate the South and that after all what we are seeing is nothing more than a civil war. [More…]
This Labor Government that stands before the world mouthing new standards of intellectual platitudes fails to appreciate the fact that when the Ho Chi Minn Government took over in North Vietnam, with the failure of the French and their withdrawal, over 1 million North Vietnamese were taken from their villages, hamlets and towns and most of them never returned because members of the Communist regime of the North appreciated the fundamental dictum that their power would remain only while they were able to crush, utterly expunge from their society any possibility whatsoever that there would still remain a flicker of freedom in the minds of men. [More…]
After all these years, after all the pain and after all the blood of honest and honourable men and women who have done nothing wrong except to wish to live in the South and to be able to make decisions of their own free of the dictates of the communists who control the lives and hearts of all those who are unlucky enough to be under their control, what have we to give and what is our message of sympathy? [More…]
I have heard nothing from the Government today that makes me want to be proud to be an Australian. [More…]
Over 400 Australian men have died in Vietnam and many other Australian men and women to this day have the courage of their convictions to stay in Vietnam and to work for those poor people in that country who have lost everything but their desire for life and freedom. [More…]
But today we have heard callousness, of which I am appalled and I hope that other Australians will join me in that sentiment. [More…]
When we fought in Vietnam for what I fundamentally believe to this day was a just cause we found in our midst people who would question the very premise upon which any government of responsibility will found its actions. [More…]
Not all men will agree on the decisions taken by any government. [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…]
As a result of self-interest and the need for self-defence men and women became increasingly capable of cooperating in substantial groupings. [More…]
Any representative of any fund who says that the Australian Government is preventing it from paying a full benefit rate to people in the circumstances outlined by the honourable member for Kingston is being totally dishonest. [More…]
Not only is he being totally dishonest; but if in fact the funds are not providing the full benefit rate they are not fulfilling the undertaking which they gave to the Australian Government as a condition of it allowing them to provide this new table of hospital benefits at an increased rate. [More…]
I am afraid that Mr Moon and men like him are exposing their own dishonourableness in this particular situation. [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…]
A few years ago in Sydney there was a case that comes to my mind in which a well-known and influential member of the New South Wales Parliament cooked up evidence for a divorce case. [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…]
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 regard this as a men only Bill. [More…]
From that moment there is a commitment to divorce. [More…]
I believe that there is a disadvantage also to men. [More…]
The proposal that each party to the divorce pay his or her own costs may appear on the surface to be based on a principle of” equality but in fact it discriminates against women. [More…]
The burden falls unequally on men and women, on husbands and wives. [More…]
Many women do not work outside the home and depend on their husbands for any money that they get. [More…]
Women in this position are particularly vulnerable to an order for costs. [More…]
Some women are engaged in industry and work both in the home and out of it. [More…]
In a divorce situation they may have to squander slender hard-earned savings or child endowment to pay lawyers. [More…]
When I first came into this Parliament it was generally accepted that this type of legislation now before us was properly within the jurisdiction of the States. [More…]
This concept probably would not have been beyond the ken of the great legal giants at the time of Federation- men like Edmund Barton and Deakin and others. [More…]
Both men and women councillors of the Cherbourg Reserve have enabled me to become far better informed on their problems and they have earned my respect in so doing. [More…]
However, I think that I should commence my reply to the debate by commenting on the speech of the honourable member for Wide Bay (Mr Millar). [More…]
We hold the truth that all men are created equal to be self evident, but not so the honourable member for Wide Bay. [More…]
He believes they have to work their passage, that they have to show by their capacity, by their aptitude and by their skill in competing in a society delivered and directed by people such as he and by governments of political complexions such as his which draw up all the rules so that they always get returned to office, even when they get only about a third of the vote, that they should be accorded equality. [More…]
Then there is the right of residence and movement. [More…]
This is perhaps the one to which my friends opposite have given most attention, even my friend the honourable member for Mackellar, who said, I think in giving his support to the legislation before the House, that he did not really approve the amendments that were before honourable members directly. [More…]
What do we mean by this right of residence and movement? [More…]
Men who had married away from their islands were not allowed to return with thenwives. [More…]
Therefore we are considering a fundamental question of the freedom of movement of people and the right of reunion of families. [More…]
The same could be said of merchant seamen. [More…]
As a former member of the Royal Australian Navy, I am very conscious of the fact that merchant seamen faced many of the same dangers and discomforts as the Navy did. [More…]
These men and others like them are historians of world standard, responsible for some of the greatest writings and pictorial records of the wars in which Australians have been engaged, and they too are worthy of recognition in the Australian War Memorial. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, the Opposition supports the Bill. [More…]
I should like to make one other comment because I think there will be some criticism. [More…]
Assistance was available for the 50th anniversary of Gallipoli, but in exercising judgment in this matter we thought it more appropriate that the Retimo veterans, the Cretans contingent, ought to be given a chance because the Cretans are waiting for them. [More…]
It commemorates an outstanding achievement of the 6th Division. [More…]
It is a tribute to them; it is a way of thanking the Cretans and the Greek Government for their consideration. [More…]
In its own way, it is a permanent recognition of splendid men and great valour. [More…]
1) If the Aboriginal officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs are a burden on the white men in that area, were they employed for political expedience; if so, does this bring into question the integrity and professionalism of the interviewing panels. [More…]
I wish to emphasise this exploitation as officers of the Department of Labor and Immigration right throughout this country say, I understand that the situation is the worst .that they have ever experienced. [More…]
Let us assume that an office of the Commonwealth Employment Service wishes to contact 10 men, to place those 10 men in employment. [More…]
This may be through the RED scheme or in relation to some unemployment relief money. [More…]
I shall cite an example- it is not in my electorate, but I believe that it is typical- where three times as many men as required are contacted. [More…]
The .remainder of the 55 per cent had actually lodged’ a statement and were receiving unemployment benefit. [More…]
Four, five or six young men or young women or mixed company may occupy a flat and pool their resources. [More…]
I pleaded with him to use his influence on the Hanoi Government to lay off South Vietnam. [More…]
I pleaded with him to suggest to Mr Gough Whitlam that on his way home from his travels through the Greek ruins of Europe he call in at Hanoi and say to the Hanoi Government: ‘We are a friendly Government towards your cause; please lay off. ‘ [More…]
He has reaffirmed his belief that that part of the world would be best served by a communist government. [More…]
They are the men who yesteryear condemned aggression and talked about those who were being murdered. [More…]
They have exposed themselves for what they are- charlatans, shallow men who really only have an interest if the communists are losing. [More…]
If any of the families of those boys who died in Vietnam are listening to the debate, I inform them that he was one of the men who sent their sons to their death. [More…]
He also mentioned the way that the Australian Labor Party holds itself together and tried to suggest that there are divisions in the Party. [More…]
Let me just say this: It is fair that the Parliament should discuss the machinations within the Liberal Party and the sad fact that the Australian people can no longer go to the polls and make a judgment upon the quality of a leader of the Opposition and have any confidence that that leader will be leading those parties for any length of time. [More…]
Come what may, I know that, when the Australian people come to pass judgment, they certainly will not vote for anyone of those opposite who are in or out of the shadow Ministry. [More…]
Speaking as I do now, I suppose I should say that they are Rugby men because, after all, they have all got to be good. [More…]
Even the honourable member for Mackellar must sit up and try to be good in the Parliament. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, these are the people who seek to displace this Government. [More…]
I know that you will be in complete agreement with me when I tell you that that is an impossible proposition to accept. [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 the event of a surveyor-general not being available or a State not desiring that he be occupied in this way, this clause gives anyone concerned with the appointment the right to pick a qualified surveyor. [More…]
Of course, we also lose sight of the fact that we have men of great integrity in the Commonwealth Surveyor-General’s Department. [More…]
The amendments refer to the matter to which I was just speaking. [More…]
Under the Opposition’s amendment, if the enrolment were extended to all persons overseas who had a fixed intention of returning to Australia of course a spouse would be covered. [More…]
Indeed to single out the spouse in this way surely must be offensive to those who are taking an interest in such matters as International Women’s Year and in the rights of women and their position in the Australian community. [More…]
It singles women out and gives them a right to vote simply because they are with their husbands or wives as the case may be. [More…]
No doubt ‘spouse’ would apply mainly to women and in very few cases to men. [More…]
-What was that snide comment? [More…]
Fourteen men are not allowed to go on to a football ground and call themselves a football team. [More…]
-Has the attention of the Attorney-General been drawn to a court case before Mr Justice Nagle in Parramatta, New South Wales, in March of this year in which 3 men were convicted of murdering Dieter Bergmann on 20 September 1974 at Liverpool, New South Wales? [More…]
Has he noted the evidence that Bergmann was a member of an organisation formed to overthrow the Government of Australia and was killed by three of his fellow members because he was considered to be a security risk to this organisation? [More…]
My inquiries and the advice I have received indicate that there is no truth in the allegation that the 3 men who have now been convicted of the murder of Bergmann belonged to an organisation formed to overthrow the Government of Australia. [More…]
I might mention in addition that the alleged leader of the group, McConnell, is currently receiving treatment at Morisset Mental Hospital. [More…]
I assure the honourable member and every other honourable member that if by government expenditure I can ensure that any one of those men is put to work productively I will make sure that he is, and he will not be allowed to remain in unemployment because of a shortage of money. [More…]
As long as by government expenditure we can employ people productively or assist in their employment in the private sector productively so that they produce as much as the expenditure is worth, there is no contribution to inflation. [More…]
I will continue to ensure that unemployment does not remain in this country if anything the Government can do can remove it. [More…]
The people of Australia understand that that is what the Party which I represent in this Parliament- the Government I represent in this Parliament- has stood for for over a quarter of a century. [More…]
The Government agrees with this. [More…]
But the Governor of the Reserve Bank specifically informed the Government’s Economic Council yesterday that he does not want any supplementary restraint on the banking system by raising the statutory reserve deposit ratio or in any other way. [More…]
The Government agrees with this. [More…]
But the Government says to the trading banks in addition: We want you to have regard as best you can, when you lend money, to being satisfied that resources- men, machines and land- are available or not available. [More…]
We want you to lend money when you are satisfied that men, machines and land are available to increase production, but not to lend money when they are not. [More…]
-Yes; I would much rather have the State Ministers collectively picking the experts whom they know to be the best rather than have each State Department of Education nominating its pea. [More…]
If that were done, I do not think the same sort of quality would be achieved as would be achieved with the 6 State Ministers getting together to pick out the 3 men- after all, the Council is not big enough to justify morewhom they, as a consensus among themselves, regard as the top men in the country. [More…]
I have had experience in State education departments and I know that the tendency would be for people who have come to the top of the machine to be nominated because it is the formal sense. [More…]
If we fail to learn the lesson of adapting our attitude to skill training other nations which adjust to the changing needs of a technological age will gain a trading advantage and our tradesmen will find themselves skilled in redundant trades. [More…]
We recognise that in any development of adult apprenticeships there will be a need to safeguard the existing entry of young men and women into trades. [More…]
In our view there is no doubt that only by an updated system of apprenticeships and improved training schemes for trainees of all ages will people be able to take maximum advantage of present and future employment opportunities whilst at the same time developing their talents to the full in a dynamic and changing society. [More…]
Today there is no valid reason why we should be denying to technical education anything less in status or in government support than that which is so apparent today in other forms of post-secondary education. [More…]
Nor is there any justification for the differences applying to students in the technical and non-technical situations except in relation to curricula and perhaps basic entry requirements. [More…]
In this regard the Kangan report has drawn attention to the fact that almost 70 per cent of men and over 80 per cent of women in the Australian work force have no formal educational qualifications for the trade or occupation in which they are engaged and that these people do not have anything approaching equality of access to vocational education with those who are preparing for a livelihood by attendance at a university or, in more recent times, at a college of advanced education. [More…]
However, the members of the group deserve recognition by this Parliament. [More…]
Undoubtedly, this is a proud day for those men, when this Authority is now finally getting under way. [More…]
I heartily endorse all the social precepts but I believe that in 1975 we need to recognise the consequences of the closer settlement schemes that were structured to meet conditions totally unrelated to the marketing circumstances of today. [More…]
A problem exists because, unfortunately, many of the soldier settlement blocks are in areas where there is either an inadequate opportunity to diversify in production or a fundamental problem that relates to the maintenance of a viable operation in the particular industry for which those blocks were designated. [More…]
I am concerned that in the allocation of this $4m, $2m of which is to go to South Australia, $ 1.2m to Western Australia and $800,000 to Tasmania, all the circumstances of those men who are affected under soldier settlement schemes are being bypassed completely. [More…]
In order to show that I am not being completely biased in making these remarks, let us look at some things with which I was personally involved under another government prior to December 1972. [More…]
Let us bear in mind that valuations of war service land settlement blocks in many cases- I think in most cases- are based on the land being fully and effectively drained. [More…]
At a meeting between the current Leader of the Australian Country Party, if my memory serves me rightly, when he was Minister for Primary Industry, and the relevant State Minister- they are pretty hard to box together, both being busy men- we were able to bring in budgetary control for certain settlers who needed it in areas where they were in grave difficulties. [More…]
As the Minister responsible for the National Capital Development Commission I welcome the introduction of the National Gallery Bill. [More…]
The NCDC has worked closely with the Prime Minister’s Department in the lead-up to the building of the great new National Gallery. [More…]
I am indeed happy that we are creating this National Gallery to house their works so that the present generation and future generations can enjoy the work they have done and the expression of attitudes they have given to their fellow men. [More…]
I am not giving the credit for its establishment just to this side of the House because I know that the seed was sown years ago when the Government of honourable members opposite was in office. [More…]
But I think all members in this Parliament must give credit to the drive, initiative and inspiration of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in giving men like Mollison and the men who are now in charge of the gallery a fair go and the moral support that is necessary to make it a great gallery. [More…]
I do not think it is the intention of the Government constantly to appoint a judge to that position. [More…]
I am sure that no one in this Parliament will oppose the Bill, as everyone must be aware of the tremendous amount of time that the commissioners have put into the hearing of evidence from those engaged in local government all over Australia. [More…]
There are some 900 local government bodies in Australia, including semi-government authorities. [More…]
As well as that, the commissioners travel quite extensively so that they can have a first hand look at many of the projects for which local governments bodies are seeking finance. [More…]
I think that it would be true to say that the Grants Commission has rejuvenated interest by councillors and councils who for many years considered that they were quite invisible to both State and Federal authorities and governments. [More…]
In fact, they have for so many years been neglected by previous governments and starved by State governments that it is a wonder that the men and women who voluntarily service local government bodies have had any enthusiasm left to give. [More…]
One of the aims of this Government has always been to upgrade the role of local government. [More…]
Recent years have seen a resurgence of interest in that area of government that has long been the Cinderella of the 3 tiers of government in this country. [More…]
Anything I might say in criticism of local government should not be taken as a criticism of the dedicated men and women who serve in the cities, shires and municipalities of Australia. [More…]
Indeed, they have fought for better local government, for better services, for a better financial deal, and they have fought against very heavy odds. [More…]
The fault lies in the whole system of intergovernmental relation. [More…]
The remedy lies in balancing the functions and the finances of the 3 levels of government- local, State and national. [More…]
I believe that local government must have its own voice and vote on the Loan Council and that all councillors in all cities, shires and municipalities should be fighting for a voice on the Loan Council. [More…]
I believe that they must not be conned by the old argument that the federal Government wants to gobble them up. [More…]
Until the voice and vote on the Loan Council is obtained local governments will limp along getting further and further in debt. [More…]
I believe that local government will be restrained and, indeed, crippled for generations if left in its present state. [More…]
Loan Council representation would be the final and complete answer, the answer that will make worthwhile the work that the men “and women of Australia perform on local councils. [More…]
One industry which this Government has watched deteriorate with obvious disinterest- almost contempt- is the fishing industry. [More…]
Under the Liberal-Country Party Government we saw a great wave of prosperity which stimulated the fishing industry to the most exciting point of development it had ever known. [More…]
Hundreds of fishermen have left the area. [More…]
Men who had purchased boats and looked like establishing themselves permanently in that remote area have been forced to leave. [More…]
The economic policies, the anti-rural attitude of this Government, resulted in the workers of the industry, the fishermen, getting so little for their catch that they were operating at a loss. [More…]
Finally, in this context of overall Government economic and industrial policy, we must face sooner or later the problem that is critically important to the survival of representative government. [More…]
At the time of the Tolpuddle prosecutions and the Taff Vale disorders there was good reason to take legislative action to strengthen the trade union movement against the oppression and exploitation of labour by management and the law. [More…]
You can’t live on past memories, attitudes, and hang ups and with all the propaganda associated with environmental and industrial conditions that have long ceased to exist. [More…]
Power then resided with the employers and management and it was ruthlessly used. [More…]
The world has changed; and men are now much more equal. [More…]
Knowhow and expertise have been lost and men have lost their jobs because this Government took away the tariff protection. [More…]
I cannot understand an Australian Labor Government stooping to actions such as this. [More…]
It is evident that it did not do its homework because its actions have created chaos throughout Australia and created unprecedented unemployment. [More…]
When we were in Government, I heard the present Minister for Labor and Immigration enlarging upon the unemployment figures. [More…]
If unemployment was running at 80 000, in his estimate it was running at 140 000. [More…]
Fancy him here today trying to put the blame on us for unemployment in this country. [More…]
We were a responsible Government and we aimed for full employment. [More…]
Until the last few days of the previous Liberal-Country Party Government, full employment was the order of the day. [More…]
The then Leader of the Opposition, who spoke in this debate this afternoon, was one of the first men to go to Darwin with the Deputy Prime Minister and Treasurer ‘ (Dr Cairns). [More…]
He made an assessment, along with the Treasurer, of the situation. [More…]
A Liberal-Country Party Government certainly would have assisted the people of Darwin in their sad and sorry plight and to re-establish themselves, so it is utter nonsense for the honourable member to talk in that way. [More…]
Today we have the largest ever peacetime army in Australia- 3 1 500 men. [More…]
Contrast that fact with his statement. [More…]
The guilty men sit opposite- the men who refused to encourage apprenticeship training, the men who refused to build technical institutions, the men who refused and did not care to encourage the training of more skilled employees in this country. [More…]
Under this Government more money, in massive amounts, is being made available for technical education and industrial training. [More…]
They know that they are guilty of the crime of forcing young men and women out of country towns into the cities because there is no employment there for them. [More…]
They cannot cover their guilt by attempting to attack this Government. [More…]
I assure the honourable member and every other honourable member that if by government expenditure I can ensure that any one of those men is put to work productively I will make sure that he is, and he will not be allowed to remain in unemployment because of a shortage of money. [More…]
The position is that under our proposition 76 per cent of our allocation is going to rural roads, as against 59 per cent under the Act which the Liberal-Country Party Government brought down when last in office. [More…]
Furthermore, prior to the meeting of the Premiers on 14 February this year, the Prime Minister wrote to all the Premiers and said: ‘Now, how much money do you need to take care of inflation, to retain all the men who are at present in employment with your road authorities, and to re-employ those displaced?’ [More…]
An amount of $ 1.35m was allocated to local government, but what did the government of Queensland, this people’s government, do with it? [More…]
Local government received none of it. [More…]
The Queensland Government used it for its own roads. [More…]
It endeavours to place the blame on the Australian Government for a shortage of funds in Queensland. [More…]
It even laid men off on the pretext that we were withholding funds; yet I was able to establish at a meeting of local government authorities in Brisbane that only on 2 occasions had they had to wait for longer than - [More…]
In his policy speech in April 1974 the Prime Minister further stated: ‘The Government will reestablish the Commission this year’. [More…]
This Bill is the fulfilment of those policy promises, albeit a little later than had been hoped initially. [More…]
I suppose it is understandable that in the years since Federation constituent States should tend towards State parochialism, but that in no way excuses the paranoia of the present non-Labor Premiers whose policies and endeavours fly in the face of the development of a strong, independent, national outlook. [More…]
The continual tirade of abuse against this Federal Government that emanates particularly from Premier Court and Premier BjelkePetersen can only retard the progress of Australia. [More…]
Their attitudes herald a march backwards to the isolationist, separatist policies of the 6 colonial States of the nineteenth century, whose governments realised the disadvantages of not having a co-ordinated national transport system for our vast island continent. [More…]
The gallant, lone Liberal Prime Minister who strove to place the national and overall interests of Australia before the parochial State interests was hounded from office by his own party colleagues and their machinemen at State level, and the faceless men of private enterprise who support them. [More…]
Those men of the State governments at the end of last century hoped that by enshrining sections 101 to 104 of the Federal Constitution they would ensure the creation of a continuing Inter-State Commission. [More…]
The fact that the original Inter-State Commission was allowed to wither and die until the 1912 Act was finally abolished by the Menzies Government in 1950, resulted in unnecessary and incalculable costs being inflicted on our transport systems since 1920. [More…]
However, in 1959-only 9 years after the abolition of the 1912 Act and during the administration of a later Menzies Government- the Constitutional Review Committee recommended the reestablishment of the Commission. [More…]
The Committee recommended also that the Commonwealth Parliament should have an express power to make laws on restrictive trade practices found by the Commission to be contrary to public interest. [More…]
More recently, in fact last year, the Brisbane Chamber of Commerce, backed by the Department of Economics at the Queensland University, in a submission to the Queensland Government advocated re-establishment of the Inter-State Commission to regulate transport, both interstate and intrastate, so as to overcome the anomalies and inefficiencies which existed in abundance as a result of State regulation of the transport sector. [More…]
Finally, I remind honourable members opposite that if some of the men who represented the States in the preparation of the Constitution had the type of thinking that they are exhibiting Australia would still be made up of 6 separate States instead of being one nation. [More…]
There is no doubt that Australia, under this Labor Government, will go forward as one nation provided that the Opposition does not put forward in the other place in this Parliament where it has the majority the negative thinking that has been put forward by it in this House, which would have the effect of blocking the passage of this legislation. [More…]
The Australian Wheat Board is a statutory authority which gains its legislative teeth from complementary and supplementary legislation by the State and Commonwealth Governments. [More…]
It has been uniquely successful because the men who have controlled it over the years have been vitally interested in its success because they were the real owners, on behalf of the Australian farmers, of the product. [More…]
There has to be some shackling of control as advanced by the Australian Labor Party for otherwise the reins will be snapped from the hands of those who have the constitutional responsibility of holding them- the Parliament. [More…]
-This afternoon for one hour and 40 minutes we were given the luxury of debating the second reading of the Inter-State Commission Bill which is one of the most fundamental Bills which has been introduced by this Government into the Parliament. [More…]
We have commenced our Committee stage debate and we have had a division in the Committee stage. [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…]
All the poppycock and nonsense which the buffoon from Grayndler has given us is a demonstration of his complete contempt for the Parliament. [More…]
I know of no electrical authority in Australia which is run by part-time commissioners or chairmen. [More…]
Certainly, the New South Wales, Queensland and Victorian electrical authorities have not got part-time chairmen. [More…]
I think that if we are to get good men of high calibre we must offer these people some assurance that there will be security of office, that they will not be employed on a year to year basis, that at least they will be there for a substantial period of time. [More…]
I rise tonight to talk about the attitude of the New South Wales Premier towards the funds that are being given to his Government by the Australian Government for local government activities. [More…]
Recently three men were laid off by the Crookwell Shire Council on the grounds that it did not have funds to employ those men. [More…]
It occurred at a time when the New South Wales Government received $76. [More…]
6m from the Australian Government in order to avoid the type of event that occurred in Crookwell. [More…]
At the Premiers’ Conference in February the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) insisted that this money would be used by the States to avoid retrenchments in State and local government instrumentalities, yet when the Crookwell Shire Council approached the State Government it was informed that the State Government had no money because the Australian Government was starving it of funds. [More…]
Not only did New South Wales get this grant of $76.6m as recently as February, but also it received from this Government record grants to discharge its responsibilities under both tied grants and general revenue grants. [More…]
Of course it is pathetic that the Crookwell Shire should retrench 3 men. [More…]
Three men’s salaries are denied to Crookwell Shire because the State Government is not prepared to find some of the $76.6m given to it in February to avoid just that situation. [More…]
In many areas, the building of pre-schools has been held up in the electorate because the New South Wales Government has procrastinated and refused to allow the Australian Government program on education to be initiated. [More…]
We need to take a good hard look at the inheritance in EdenMonaro when this Government took office. [More…]
This is the legacy which we are left from a Liberal-Country Party Federal Government, and a State Government that refused to accept its responsibilities. [More…]
From a government which was prepared to allow $4 billion of overseas funds to come into this country, to buy the country and to create the base for inflation, this is the legacy that we are left. [More…]
It has been well and truly perpetuated by the Premier of New South Wales by his denial of funds to local government authorities and grass root organisations such as the Braidwood Historical Society. [More…]
-The $115m made available for the purpose of the defence service homes scheme has been expended due to the fact that the Government has greatly improved the scheme, increasing the amount of loan from $9,000 to $15,000 since it has been in office and greatly extending eligibility for the scheme in respect to members of the permanent forces, single men, single women and a limited range of national servicemen. [More…]
In addition to those improvements, the scheme has become more attractive because the Government has introduced a transfer of loan scheme in certain circumstances. [More…]
It is a fact, as I have said, that the $ 1 1 5m has now been expended except for certain moneys which must be retained to meet progress payments to building contractors. [More…]
6) which is before the Parliament at the present time provides for an additional amount of $ 15m for the purpose of the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I understand that if the legislation reaches the stage of having the acquiescence of both Houses of the Parliament, the funds which will be necessary to eliminate any waiting time will become available. [More…]
It needs to be emphasised that the Grants Commission’s operations are only part of the broad program of financial assistance being made available by the Australian Government to local government. [More…]
The importance that we attach to the role of local government in our society is a real answer to the charges of centralism levied against us by our opponents. [More…]
Under a variety of programs we have provided local government with the funds to undertake a range of activities previously inadequately carried out or totally neglected. [More…]
We deliberately have made, and shall make, local government a vehicle for our legislation dealing with aged persons homes and hostels, sheltered employment, handicapped children, meals on wheels, home care and nursing, nursing homes, homeless men and women. [More…]
In addition, substantial financial assistance is being given under the Regional Employment Development Scheme. [More…]
These are all activities which cannot be regulated closely from the national and State capitals and are best planned and implemented by local government working with local community groups. [More…]
Everyone who wishes to suggest what ought to be done and what procedures ought to be followed should look at the comments made by Sir Littleton Groom when he held that no prima facie case was established in relation to the idea that those 2 men had committed a breach. [More…]
It is a pity that the tone of that great organisation is not set by people such as James Dibble, Ross Symonds and Richard Carleton- men of the highest quality. [More…]
A group of distraught relatives, and the hatefully curious, watched at Phu Thu as sandy ground was delicately removed by a group of young men- another grave had been found. [More…]
The worn and handwritten papers that I was shown were it is claimed, found on the body of a North Vietnamese 20 miles from Hue in April, 1 968, by men of 1 Air Cavalry Division. [More…]
Their men were seen as soldiers doing their straight military job. [More…]
It is true that a Soviet vessel landed men on an Australian reef in the Pacific in April last year. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs drew the attention of the Soviet authorities to the presence of the Soviet ship and asked that the ship leave the area. [More…]
Indeed, he said that the number of the volunteer forces is five more than it was when his Government took office. [More…]
I am wondering if I can encourage the honourable gentleman, though, to acknowledge the fact that 10 per cent of the officers in the 3 Services have resigned since his Government took office; more than 1000 of the officer strength of the 3 forces in Australia have resigned. [More…]
I ask the honourable gentleman how on earth is he going to replace the massive experience that those men represented by saying: ‘Well, we have five more on the volunteer side’? [More…]
Does this not indicate the futility of the Government’s philosophy with respect to defence? [More…]
The Government has not yet caught up with the fact that it is not merely numbers that count in this day and age; what is needed is equipment. [More…]
When I get an opportunity, I shall turn to the question of equipment. [More…]
But I say this to him: ‘I would love immensely to meet the person who has made the decision to purchase 53 tanks’. [More…]
I suppose the honourable gentleman went along to a meeting of Cabinetthat determined body of men- and put in his bid. [More…]
I wonder whether the House realises that today this country stands in danger of losing the immense skills of our shipbuilding industry. [More…]
The skills of these men are being lost. [More…]
It was in the intention of the previous Government in the light destroyer program to remodernise completely the whole of the Williamstown Dock and to keep going the expertise that we need in this country. [More…]
This morning the Minister was silent as to why he and his Government had abandoned the project involving the fast support combat ship. [More…]
Let us consider the strategic assessment situation which on this occasion appears to be favourable. [More…]
The Government is now saying that the situation is favourable and that there will be no threat to Australia within 10 to 15 years. [More…]
Let us compare the figures concerning military involvement and the interests in the Sea of Tranquilitythe Indian Ocean- of the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), and the area roughly described as South-East Asia. [More…]
In 1970, United States involvement amounted to approximately 500 000 men in this theatre. [More…]
In 1970 the United Kingdom had 9 infantry battalions- a division of men deployed in SouthEast Asia. [More…]
In 1975 United States involvement has been reduced to 35,000 men with no fighting troops. [More…]
We were walking through the Evans Deakin shipyards and the men who were left in those shipyards were saying: ‘AH we want is work’. [More…]
To my mind the Government is totally inconsistent in its application of principles. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Government is trying to build something up on the one hand and is tearing it apart on the other. [More…]
-With some sadness I rise to make what will probably be my last comments on the South Vietnamese refugees. [More…]
I merely ask those who wish to listen to consider the fact we have been observing for some years, and more particularly in recent weeks, perhaps one of the most immense human tragedies that has befallen mankind in the last 25 years- a period of history which undoubtedly will be remembered for its numerous tragedies. [More…]
Perhaps this will be the greatest tragedy because never before, at least since the Second World War, have so many men and women been led to hope in others, expected the assistance of others, been naive enough to believe in the unity of common goal and believed that ultimately our destinies were inter-related. [More…]
In these last moments of their independence when, to use a phrase, the wolf is knocking at the door, they have called out to us as have their nationals who are among us as Colombo Plan students and as private students and have received so little in return. [More…]
What are we to tell the parents of the Australian men who went to Vietnam because they thought they were doing their duty? [More…]
This Government believes that their lives were wasted and lost because they were fighting a so-called civil war. [More…]
For the sake of their parents and friends, I hope that we are men and women of enough honour and integrity to stand up and say, when people fight wars for principles that are right and just, regardless of the consequences and the outcome: ‘You did your duty. ‘ [More…]
Let us now consider the Foreign Affairs document dated 30 January 1975. [More…]
It is titled ‘International Issues- Vietnam, 2 years under the Paris Agreements’. [More…]
It is prepared by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The document points out that at the time of the Paris Agreements, there were 145 000 North Vietnamese regulars in South Vietnam. [More…]
Since then, and in contravention of the Agreements, the North Vietnamese had continued to move materials and men south in numbers far in excess of the agreed one-for-one replacement level. [More…]
I suppose that he will be shielded by the men who sit behind him who know full well that he does not deserve their protection. [More…]
In view of the firm and categorical denial of any difference by the Prime Minister on 9 April and supported in another place by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee), there is clear evidence for everyone to see that the Prime Minister -has deceived this Parliament and tried to suppress and keep secret the Government’s real feelings and attitudes. [More…]
All the counter-charges, all the allegations, accusations and red herrings thrown about by the Prime Minister this afternoon do not alter the inescapable fact that the Prime Minister has deceived the Parliament and the nation. [More…]
The guilty men have raised themselves from the bloody mire of Australian involvement in Vietnam to point their fingers. [More…]
These men who plunged Australia into war, these men who applauded killing, these men who applauded violence, these men who supported the United States’ invasion of Cambodia and of Vietnam, not once protested about United States transgressions when evidence showed that both the Americans and the North Vietnamese had transgressed the 1954 Geneva agreements. [More…]
These people belong to the very Parties that lied and lied and lied to the Australian people about Australia’s involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
From that time on there was no effort and no sincere attempt by the Opposition when it was in government to reach a negotiated settlement on the Vietnam war. [More…]
Yet members of the Opposition come here today and criticise the Labor Government for seeking even at the eleventh hour- we have been doing this ever since we came to power in 1972- a negotiated settlement of that war. [More…]
These men who believed that the war was winnable have now found out that the war was winnable. [More…]
This is the hypocrisy that motivates honourable gentlemen opposite. [More…]
Where, in an opposition, would one find men who would have the guts- just the plain ordinary guts- to make a statement like that to both sides? [More…]
The substantial difference was that in the case of South Vietnam we were urging them to adopt a policy on the political side of the Paris agreements and to establish a national council. [More…]
These were the statements made by the Australian Government. [More…]
I find it absurd that the Parliament has to waste its time with a repetition of the old catalogue, trying to substantiate the errors and the lies of the Opposition when it was in Government. [More…]
It is a policy which those guilty men opposite could never have sought to adopt because at the stage when they had the opportunity to protest and to make their views known, not one word was ever said. [More…]
What monumental hypocrisy. [More…]
The Bill provides further that, in respect of those still subject to the means test for service disability pensions, 50 per cent of income will be disregarded in the assessment of the disability pension, with that part of the pension to be free of means test for application of other pensions. [More…]
Quite a number of Commonwealth returned service men and women in my electorate had begun to despair that this proposal would ever be presented. [More…]
There is still a real need which has not been covered adequately in my opinion in this legislation to establish again at local government level sufficient facilities so that all women and all single parents, including men, are given the opportunity to put their children into adequate day care centres even if only for a short time so that the mother or the father may, for instance, go to the dentist. [More…]
It is a remarkable thing that in the large suburbs of Sydney, for example, there are still no adequate arrangements made in this regard. [More…]
They are each on the public record as believing that a policy of wage and salary restraint is essential to curb unemployment and inflation. [More…]
Are we now to believe that these men are so inept or so weak? [More…]
The divisions between Ministers have sabotaged an essential element of antiinflation policy. [More…]
Either the Whitlam Government has deliberately created a massive pool of unemployment to curb employment or it has been grossly incompetent. [More…]
Let the Minister recall the words of the present President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions in 1972 when he said that because of the then prevailing level of unemployment members of the then Administration were either fools or knaves. [More…]
I ask the Minister and the Treasurer: How and when do they intend to curb unemployment? [More…]
These are the guilty men; these are the desperate men who have the responsibility to front up with the goods. [More…]
Their lamentable failure to do this in more than 2Vi years is an indictment of the socalled Cabinet. [More…]
It is a clear reflection of the continuing failure of the policies which this Government has adopted. [More…]
I suggest that the Minister and his colleagues stand before this Parliament without any responsible answers. [More…]
-The previous speaker mentioned that everybody in the community is in favour of giving proper attention to our children which is, in a sense, like supporting motherhood. [More…]
Everybody in this House supports the view that a great deal needs to be done in providing proper care for children in that there are many children in Australia, particularly where both parents are working or the sole parent is working, who are not getting adequate assistance at the moment and that the community does have a responsibility to provide assistance to them. [More…]
However, it could also be said that that is about where the consensus on the child care issue finishes because there are strong differences of opinion within the community on the whole philosophy of child care and this really centres on the role of women either as mothers or as members of the work force. [More…]
One view is that as women have rights equal to men as members of the work force, their childbearing role should not be allowed to prevent them from finding work, job advancement or job satisfaction. [More…]
They are very hard working group of men. [More…]
The Government cannot accept the amendment in this form although I give the assurance to honourable members that we have the matter under study. [More…]
We suggest that the solution probably lies in having draftsmen outside the Office of Parliamentary Counsel because a conflict of interest situation could otherwise arise. [More…]
That it is constitutional and agreeable to usage for the House of Commons to declare their sense and opinions respecting the exercise of every discretionary power which whether by Act of Parliament or otherwise, is vested in any body of men whatsoever for the public service. [More…]
The question of the appeal was the question of the reasonableness or the propriety of the judge’s direction on whether the belief of the men that they had the woman’s consent was reasonable. [More…]
I think the other aspect that has to be borne in mind- and this is where it becomes unfair- is that whereas a prosecutrix, a lady who claims to have been raped, can be cross-examined on her previous sexual life with other men- all her antecedents can be brought in, in that regard. [More…]
In these times, when the generosity of the Government is excelled only by the number of unemployed in this country I ask why discrimination against people wishing to enter theological colleges should be practised. [More…]
As I said earlier, a person can be trained to be a dog catcher or anything else he wishes at Government expense and be paid $93 a week. [More…]
A person can be retrained to become a social worker and at the end of that training might be in the employ of a State, local or Federal government. [More…]
But at these times, when there is a decrease in the number of people of all denominations wishing to enter the ministry- there is a great shortage of such people- the argument which applies to the refusal to allow people to become lawyers, the argument being that there is a surplus of people in the legal profession, does not apply. [More…]
I believe that this is simply an extension of anti-Christian attitudes by this present Federal Government. [More…]
I know that there are people on both sides of this Parliament who profess- and rightly so- to be greater Christians than I. [More…]
But as they are on the Government side, and in great numbers, and have been told of these happenings, if they are true men at least they should have the character or the courage to stand up in their Party room and demand the removal of this discrimination. [More…]
Men and women of outstanding ability and talent in various fields who have not been adequately recognised in their own country have reached their zenith and obtained full reward only when they have gone to Britain, Europe or America. [More…]
Our failure to give due recognition to outstandingly talented Australians could be to some extent offset and remedied by improving the quality of our television programs and producing films based on the lives and achievements of Australian-born citizens of note, both past and present. [More…]
The lives of notable Australians representing a wide range of talents and achievements would provide excellent material for better and more informative Australian programs. [More…]
I will not mention all of them and it is by no means an allinclusive list, but it was very interesting to glance through the names. [More…]
I would like to mention some of the names which appeared, for example, under the heading ‘Explorers and Leaders’, just by way of putting a positive suggestion. [More…]
Among leaders and jurists there would be such men as Sir Henry Parkes, Peter Lalor, Sir Isaac Isaacs, Sir Edmund Barton, Sir Alfred Deakin, W. M. Hughes, Sir John Monash, John Curtin, Dame Enid Lyons, Lord Bruce of Melbourne and Lord Casey of Berwick. [More…]
Among the men and women of science and medicine would be Lord Florey- -ealier Sir Howard Florey- the codiscoverer of penicillin which has transfored medical science and saved so many lives. [More…]
Famous airmen would include Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Sir Ross Smith and Bert Hinkler, who is well-known in Queensland as the Bundaberg Boy. [More…]
There are noted sportsmen and sportswomen in a whole variety of fields such as- and I mention only a few of them- swimming, tennis, cricket and athletics. [More…]
Not very long after making that statement he introduced the 25 per cent across the board tariff cut which put thousands, tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of men and women in the textile and other industries out of work. [More…]
What is the Government doing now? [More…]
It created unemployment of a kind which we would never have believed to be possible when we were in Government for a period of a little more than 21 or 22 years. [More…]
Now we have to sit and look in anguish while the men opposite get it as high as 16 per cent and, next year, it will probably move to 20 per cent or 25 per cent. [More…]
One other aspect of what the AGIC can achieve is very much in the mind of the Government. [More…]
The Corporation will provide opportunities for women employees which will set an example to the whole insurance industry. [More…]
In terms of employment in the AGIC women will have the same rights and opportunities as men. [More…]
In addition, the Government will encourage the AGIC to extend to women the same opportunity to take out policies as men now enjoy. [More…]
When the former Liberal-Country Party Government introduced conscription in this country and, against their will, hundreds of young Australian men were conscripted into the Army, the insurance companies immediately refused to insure those men. [More…]
The Opposition’s amendment is certainly justified. [More…]
We know that the provisions, or the suggestion for a Government insurance office, were in the platform of the Labor Party, just as were the provisions for nationalisation of other things. [More…]
But people said: ‘They do not mean it, they are reasonable men’. [More…]
Nobody says they are reasonable men any more. [More…]
If a Government insurance office had been a part of the platform of the Labor Party before, there is no mandate for it now. [More…]
Because we want to see proper national disaster provisions worked out with the industry we move an amendment for referral, and we hope that the industry and the Government will come to proper arrangements for national disaster provisions which do not threaten the lifeblood of Australia in the process. [More…]
Even the Western Australian State Government Insurance Office under a socialist Premier is guaranteed, it is backed by all the resources of the State of Western Australia, not by $lm but by aU the resources of the State of Western Australia. [More…]
That is a State Government insurance office. [More…]
I do not know how the Opposition can reconcile its views to an Australian Government insurance office with those of the Western Australian State Government insurance office and the Queensland State Government insurance office. [More…]
Over the past few weeks we have seen in Australia the most vicious, inaccurate and immoral campaign that has ever been waged against an Australian Government. [More…]
In the living memory of more than half the population of this nation never has there been such a campaign designed to mislead, designed to create hatred and division in our community and designed and orchestrated by men in an industry which claims that it is the industry to which the public should entrust its funds and in which the public should place its trust and have confidence. [More…]
No one can dispute that the present campaign being waged against this Bill is a political campaign, the cost of which is being borne by policy holders throughout Australia- -policy holders who have not been consulted, whose permission has not been obtained for the use of their funds for a political campaign against this Government. [More…]
Inside, they had seen about SO men and women and about 15 children around a TV screen on which they could see a girl dancing. [More…]
The proposition that is inherent in the amendmentI think it needs to be recognised- is that in the process of redressing the balance we might have gone a bit too far and we may be effectively closing off, not only in this legislation but in other legislation that affects the relationship in marriage between men and women, the option of the full time wife and mother role. [More…]
As I see it, in no way does this amendment destroy some of the other objectives of the Bill so far as maintenance is concerned, but I think the amendment does bring back to the Bill, certainly so far as the principles to be applied by the Court are concerned, a much needed balance so that we do have, hopefully, something approaching the ideal situation where, if a woman does opt for the traditional role of a wife and a mother on a completely full time basis, she should not in any sense be at a disadvantage. [More…]
I must make a few very brief comments in support of the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
The reason I wish to speak to the amendment is specifically this: The presumption throughout this legislation has been the equality of men and women to enter divorce and therefore to have exactly the same basis on which their marriages should be terminated, the fact of the matter is that a vast number of marriages up to the present time have been based on decisions made on social mores which were the accepted views of the community as early as 50 or 60 years ago. [More…]
Many women who entered into marriage contracts in earlier times did so on the specific presumption that their husbands would take care of them and be the sole or main source of their maintenance. [More…]
Now, of course, times have changed, but there is considerable doubt whether amended laws should be made at this stage which force under such circumstance people who entered into contracts at that time to live according to legislation which is passed in 1 975. [More…]
In other words, a vast number of marriages do not in fact give women the basis of equality that is presumed in this legislation. [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…]
I think the proposed amendment is a useless platitude to offer the women of Australia. [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…]
Such an arrangement as that would never have been accepted by a court given the right to make a settlement under the powers conferred on it by clause 8 1 . [More…]
This is a very dangerous amendment that is now being proposed. [More…]
Coming as it does from one who, quite honestly, has a very tender regard for the position of women- I say this quite solemnly and seriously; I know that he does- I can only say that he is misguided if he believes that the proposed new clause ought to be put into the Bill. [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…]
It is much safer to leave clause 8 1 as it is, giving the court, in proceedings before it, the fullright and full discretion to determine what kind of a settlement shall be entered into. [More…]
The Government does not agree with all proposals of the Distribution Commissioners, but it believes the Commissioners to be men of competence and integrity who have performed their difficult duties with complete impartiality. [More…]
In the Government’s view, there is no reason why the Liberal Party should not support a speedy adjustment of the inequitable situation which I have just outlined, since the existing boundaries discriminate against the party in most States. [More…]
This point is worth stressing, given the frequent assertions which have been made by Country Party spokesmen to the effect that the percentage of seats won by the Government and Opposition in recent elections has accurately reflected the number of votes polled. [More…]
Such assertions obscure the degree to which present disparities as between divisional enrolments within each State have assisted the Country Party. [More…]
One of the good reasons is that they know that it is a good, fair redistribution that has been carried out by men of integrity and independence. [More…]
We have brought the South Australian redistribution into this Parliament first, only because it was the redistribution that was given to the Minister for Services and Property and to this Parliament first. [More…]
For the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) and, before him, even the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Fraser) to come into this place and talk about manipulation is a discredit to them and a reflection on men of integrity- the Commissioners- who have followed these principles that have properly been given to them by this Parliament. [More…]
The fact is that in South Australia 3 men drew up this proposal for redistribution. [More…]
Finally, because the name of Mr Malcolm Mackerras has been mentioned in this Parliament, I mention another independent observer of these matters, Mr Dean Jaensch, a member of the Politics Department of the Flinders University of South Australia. [More…]
I do not appreciate that to any great extent but it has been done by men of independence, by men of integrity, and the umpires’ rulings should be followed. [More…]
Mention was made of the problem of huge electorates. [More…]
Honourable members should have a look at these 2 men. [More…]
If he made them outside the Parliament there would be a definite case for libel. [More…]
The Commissioners are all neutral men. [More…]
The charges that have been made today against the Commissioners and their integrity are charges that I think it is somewhat degrading for members of Parliament to make because the Commissioners cannot reply. [More…]
If he thinks that the Distribution Commissioners are doing that, he should go outside and say they are men who have no integrity and honesty. [More…]
No objection was made when their appointments were announced. [More…]
I do know that in relation to Western Australia at least one if not two of the Commissioners we appointed were people who had been appointed by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government and who were still under attack when the boundaries were announced there. [More…]
No charge has been levelled against those men. [More…]
We are in the same position as were previous governments in regard to this redistribution. [More…]
There are things that one likes and things that one does not like about the recommendations of the 3 honest men who were appointed to carry out the redistribution. [More…]
The Government of the day is stuck with the proposals of the Distribution Commissioners, whether it likes them or not. [More…]
Someone here said that he is the best numbers man the Government has. [More…]
If he is the best numbers man the Government has, it is very short indeed of good numbers men. [More…]
I remind honourable members opposite that the variation of 10 per cent above or below the quota was endorsed by the Australian people at an election and was passed at a Joint Sitting of this Parliament. [More…]
The Labor Party sends great men to this Parliament from country districts. [More…]
When he says that, he attacks some of the most reputable men in the land. [More…]
No Distribution Commissioner to date has been challenged by anybody in this Parliament in regard to his integrity or his capacity. [More…]
But the honourable member must remember that, when he does that, he is attacking men of great ability and great integrity who cannot reply, as they are the ones who have drawn the proposed boundaries. [More…]
The Government does not agree with all proposals of the Distribution Commissioners, but it believes the Commissioners to be men of competence and integrity who have performed their difficult duties with complete impartiality. [More…]
In the Government’s view, there is no reason why the Liberal Party should not support a speedy adjustment of the inequitable situation which I have just outlined, since the existing boundaries discriminate against the Party in most States. [More…]
This point is worth stressing, given the frequent assertions which have been made by Country Party spokesmen to the effect that the percentage of seats won by the Government and Opposition in recent elections has accurately reflected the number of votes polled. [More…]
Such assertions obscure the degree to which present disparities as between divisional enrolments within each State have assisted the Country Party. [More…]
I challenge any member of the Opposition to deny that the Distribution Commissioners- each and all of them- are men of integrity. [More…]
They now want to attack, and attack viciously, the defenceless men who are not present tonight- the Distribution Commissioners. [More…]
I accept it as the work of men of integrity and honesty. [More…]
But, in terms of judgment and objective opinion, in my view they erred and erred very considerably in the drawing of the boundary of the centre of Sydney- the electorate of Sydney. [More…]
The transfer of the State railways to the Australian Government has been portrayed by the Opposition as a centralist and socialist measure. [More…]
I doubt if men of the political character of Barton, Griffith, Kingston and Deakin could be described as socialist or centralist as they gave to Australia a federal Constitution. [More…]
Yet they were practical men who saw the need for the coordinated development of Australia’s transport system and incorporated in the Constitution, provisions which would enable the establishment of the Interstate Commission and a national railway system. [More…]
Regrettably Australia has had to wait for a Government with a truly national approach to transport problems before the vision of the framers of the Constitution could commence to be realised. [More…]
Railways not only represent a physical investment but they also represent a human investment. [More…]
Many men and women devote their working lives to the railways and they have collectively formed some of the finest traditions in any government service. [More…]
Only recently in a flood railwaymen repaired a major washaway on the Trans-Australian Railway, and in a third of the time it was expected to take; at the Finke Crossing on the Central Australia line men have often worked up to their waists in water and at personal risk to themselves to get trains through. [More…]
For this reason, the ‘Principles to Govern the Transfer’ of the railways, which were tabled in Parliament, contained specific provisions to guarantee the jobs of present employees and that the terms and conditions of employment would be no less favourable than those that presently applied. [More…]
Also the Bill before the House makes provision to ensure that employees’ superannuation, long service leave, sick leave and other entitlements are maintained. [More…]
The new exchange of notes provides for 3 amendments to the 1963 Agreement. [More…]
An amendment to article 1 of the Agreement provides that the station at North West Cape shall be operated jointly while amendment to article 2 limits United States Navy exclusive occupation to a national room and provides for a similar Australian national room. [More…]
The land use arrangement under the 1963 Agreement is amended to reflect the changed conditions of use and occupancy. [More…]
An amendment of Article 14 of the Agreement provides that the Australian Government will meet only the costs directly associated with the location of the Royal Australian Navy at the station, such as salaries, allowances and accommodation. [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…]
I commend the Bill to honourable members. [More…]
I now turn to make some comments about the professional ability of optometrists in Australia, because for many years opthamalogists and optometrists have been in conflict. [More…]
They are men and women of integrity. [More…]
They are highly skilled people who employ modern technical equipment. [More…]
Many of us can think back to the experience of sevicemen who returned to tertiary education after the Second World War and can recall how infinitely greater was the advantage that those men and women took of their university places at the more mature age at which they were able to take them up. [More…]
I think it is a pity that we did not learn something from that experience that we could have expressed in our institutional arrangements for tertiary education. [More…]
Mr Speaker, you are extremely fortunate not only in having great wisdom yourself but also in having very wise men on this side of the Parliament supporting you. [More…]
The reason for this discussion of a matter of public importance is that the Government has failed again. [More…]
The Government failed to take that opportunity. [More…]
The Government has failed because once again it has shown that overall it has no concern for the men and women in country communities. [More…]
Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which have lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled on embarrassment, week after week? [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately but needlessly created Australia’s worst unemployment for 10 years, or to the same men who have presided over the worst inflation for 20 years? [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately but needlessly created Australia ‘s worst unemployment for 10 years - [More…]
What is the unemployment situation in Australia now after less than 3 years of this Government? [More…]
or to the same men who have presided over the worst inflation for 20 years? [More…]
In fact, it was only the other day in the Parliament that the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) stated that some seven out of ten of the 5.7 million people in the Australian work force are not yet covered by superannuation, and that this is true of four out of five manual workers. [More…]
The priority in public expenditure in this area lies there- to get superannuation arrangements available for the mass of ordinary men and women, for whose interests the Government constantly professes its concern. [More…]
Public servants and government employees are a valued group in the community. [More…]
Many work long hours and are dedicated men and women. [More…]
In the matter of providing superannuation benefits, however, it seems unreasonable to expect that their benefits should be significantly greater than is generally available outside government service. [More…]
I believe that, with the scheme amended as I have indicated, the result will be a generous and highly beneficial scheme for the benefit of government employees. [More…]
It will be one of which the Parliament and the people can be proud, and it is surely in all our minds to safeguard against a situation developing in which there are 2 classes of people- those employed by government and those not. [More…]
The Pollard-Melville report, recommendation 6, states that if we do make provision for national superannuation payments which are a right, then we must take action to ensure that it can be fully offset against a benefit payment under the proposed superannuation scheme for Australian Government employees. [More…]
I also refer to the statement of one of those famous men on the other side of the House who is more often wrong than right but nonetheless creates a reputation for himself in saying so much so frequently. [More…]
He went on to say that a government had no right to require the community to give its Public Service conditions of employment which the community could not afford to give itself. [More…]
His love for humanity is allegedly tremendous. [More…]
I do not believe one should argue that the Defence Force Retirement Benefits scheme or the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits scheme are better than this one and, therefore, the rest of the Public Service should be brought up to that standard. [More…]
I believe that the arguments for the DFRB and the DFRDB schemes are valid. [More…]
Those men were prepared to put their lives on the line for this country. [More…]
I do not think that there is any resentment towards the serving men who gain a benefit which is in excess of what would normally be regarded as reasonable in the community. [More…]
I do not intend to argue in this debate that the public servants are not entitled to a good and satisfactory retirement scheme. [More…]
I think that those men and their colleagues are certainly entitled to a good scheme. [More…]
The argument is not about whether or not these people are entitled to an adequate superannuation scheme; the argument is about the cost to the community of an over-generous scheme, the cost to private industry of a pace setter scheme being brought into operation. [More…]
It is a scheme in relation to which the Government has not accepted, as it tends to do in other instances, in toto a report which has been submitted to it. [More…]
We shall also eliminate the restriction on single persons because we believe there is strong discrimination against women and men who are unmarried. [More…]
We believe that by absorbing the HLIC into the Australian Government Insurance Corporation the Government in fact will destroy it. [More…]
I think it must be very humiliating to men who have worked hard for their country to be offered the privilege of adding a paltry C.M.G. [More…]
When they pin the stars and garters, when they write the titles rare, The men who earned the honours are the men who won’t be there. [More…]
The North West Leisure survey discovered that large numbers of men claimed that they would like to take up turf sports (chiefly soccer) but could not. [More…]
There is no doubt that the present Government has given significant recognition to the work performed by the surf life saving movement. [More…]
In fact, in the current financial year some $280,000 has been made available for administration, for special purposes, and for the purchase of life saving equipment- rescue equipment of various types. [More…]
Some 29 000 men are members of the Surf Life Saving Association. [More…]
But what this Parliament should recognise is that the life saving of today is vastly different from the life saving that the honourable member who interrupted me would have seen the last time he was at the beach in his youth- a long time ago indeed. [More…]
For example, at the present time the surf life saving movement utilises the helicopter service which is made available by way of grant by a private trading bank. [More…]
It utilises radio communication services and power boats and on the beach it administers oxygen and other advanced first aid and paramedical treatment. [More…]
It should be recognised also that the surf life saving movement does not confine itself to assistance to people who are injured while participating in the sport of swimming. [More…]
Fishermen washed off rocks and people involved in boating accidents have no hesitation in calling for assistance, and that assistance is readily available. [More…]
Throughout the debate the Minister for Services and Property quite rightly said that the Distribution Commissioners were men of integrity and high qualifications. [More…]
Is the Minister scared that some of the arguments that have been advanced by the Opposition during this debate might be given some heed by the Distribution Commissioners? [More…]
Is he concerned that if the boundaries were referred back to the Distribution Commissioners some alterations might be made and that therefore they would not be so acceptable to the Government? [More…]
Why does the Minister not refer them back to these men of admitted integrity and high qualifications? [More…]
The Government is frantic for these boundaries because it is running scared. [More…]
The Government does not want the boundaries looked at again because it knows that there is an advantage for the Government in these boundaries that it might not get under another redistribution. [More…]
So the Government has adopted this extraordinary procedure of putting these boundaries into the form of legislation and, in an attempt to intimidate the Opposition into changing its mind, the Bills have been presented to this Parliament. [More…]
Let us look at what meaning the Government gives to community of interest and economic interdependency. [More…]
In my electorate, for instance, I represent almost the whole of the Australian pineapple industry, a tobacco industry, a ginger industry, fruit and vegetable growers, timber men and dairy men. [More…]
What humbug the Government talks when it talks of community of interests. [More…]
These are the restrictive practices on the waterfront- which were designed to make jobs last longer or employ more men, should have ceased with the introduction of permanent employment. [More…]
I want to comment briefly on the irresponsible action of the trade unionists engaged on the waterfront as far as the banning of the sale of wheat to Chile is concerned. [More…]
I would have thought that being men of compassion they would have been thinking of the millions of residents of that country who were practically dying of starvation. [More…]
Mr Speaker, I ask you: Who really can blame the waterside worker if his union official, who is subjected to the elective system, does his best by the men he represents and strives his utmost to win concessions and conditions? [More…]
In Victoria, the absolute minimum time it takes for a Health Department all clear is 6 weeks. [More…]
There are 2 qualified departmental officials working in the area- 2 men for the whole State- and consequently it usually takes a good deal longer than 6 weeks. [More…]
A building permit cannot be gained without the all clear from the Health Department, and who knows how long that will take? [More…]
During question time the diplomats were asked whether it was true that women worked in all types of professions in the Soviet Union, and whether this was necessary. [More…]
One of the diplomats answered the questions very courteously by saying that more women worked in the Soviet Union that probably in any other country in the world, the reason being that when they were at war as our allies against the tyranny of Nazi Fascism, so many of their men were in the fighting forces that it was necessary for the women to do the men’s jobs. [More…]
He said that they had lost so many of their men in that warapproximately 20 million to 25 million- that the women who had been trained carried on with their professions after the war. [More…]
Then, the diplomat added in conclusion that women in the Soviet Union worked for the same reasons as women worked in Australia, that is, to get extra money for the household. [More…]
To say it is the Hartleys, the honourable member for Hunter and perhaps the AttorneyGeneral (Mr Enderby), who is sitting at the table- the men of the Left- who determine where the Labor Party goes. [More…]
The former member for Bass, of course, held many portfolios in the brief period during which he and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) shared all the responsibilities of government. [More…]
China National Cereals Oils and Foodstuffs Import and Export Corporation, 82 Tung An Men Street, Peking. [More…]
Last year we had the Treasurer’s Budget Speech in September, a statement by the Prime Minister in November about some other concessions and this year an announcement in January about a cut in sales tax on motor vehicles which gave a very significant advantage to 3 large multinational companies but which ignored completely and absolutely the thousands of small purely Australian companies, because the measure of their difficulty and harm was that they would have to lay off only 5, 10, 15 or 50 men, not the 5000 that General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd would have to lay off. [More…]
Where is the Government’s theology in that? [More…]
The truth is that the management of Evans Deakin was not inefficient as the honourable member suggested. [More…]
I believe he has been unfair not only to the management but also to the men who worked in those shipyards. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) stood in the Evans Deakin shipyard- I have repeated this in the House on 2 previous occasions- and said to the men: ‘If you want to work, vote for us. [More…]
Perhaps they were for unemployment benefits because that is all the men ever got. [More…]
Those men who were left at Evans Deakin ‘s shipyards said: ‘We are no longer interested in politics. [More…]
They saw that under a Labor Government the industry was closing down fast. [More…]
There are 5 000 men employed in the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
But one should not lose sight of the fact that this support was a policy of the previous Government. [More…]
It is a policy continued by this Government. [More…]
Indeed, when the previous Government was in office protection to the shipbuilding industry was such that, for all practical purposes, a total ban was imposed on all imports. [More…]
We should look at this Bill from the employees ‘ point of view and we should not pay any attention to the strong men who say: ‘Your future is in jeopardy unless there is continued division and separation’. [More…]
I put it on record- not on a political basis: How in the name of fortune can 2000 skilled men get the same opportunities as their counterparts working in the Australian communications scheme which has 80 000 to 85 000 employees now? [More…]
It might suit a person working for OTC who is on a high salary, has high superannuation benefits, receives all the perks of office and has plenty of overseas tripsthey leave the average member of Parliament for dead for the number of trips they make overseasto stay on in a separate organisation. [More…]
We do not deny the fact that these people might have expertise in negotiating international agreements. [More…]
Indeed, the Australian Telecommunications service has people with expertise who negotiate international arrangements. [More…]
This intrusion into State affairs in the most minute detail by the Federal Government, is worrying the men who run the States. [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…]
These average men I have mentioned took a gamble and borrowed money in order to own their own bit of soil. [More…]
The companies have been encouraged, as this Bill encourages them over a very limited slot of time, to replenish stock, plant and equipment and to upgrade their activity. [More…]
Due to the direct action of this Government, they have a very heavy taxation onus. [More…]
South Australia, Riverland and even in the Barossa Valley that will come into production in future years and the firms which purchase those grapes from the small grower who has planted them are unable to meet their commitments for immediate payment. [More…]
Here was a body of men and women who were prepared to stand on their own feet, while others sought protection and handouts from the governments of the day. [More…]
Events have overtaken this commendable attitude amongst woolgrowers. [More…]
The dairy farmers themselves face this enormous impost but for the abattoir, with 135 men, the workers compensation bill next year will be about $200,000. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
The first proposal was for a corporation of 10 members- 3 farmers, 2 manufacturers, but five members appointed by the Government, with the chairman having a casting vote. [More…]
The second proposal related to the method of appointment. [More…]
None of these men is actually elected to the Corporation. [More…]
When one hears some of the criticism of the industry from the Government side of the House one realises that honourable members opposite have little knowledge of or regard for the industry either. [More…]
The concept of the Tariff Board, as it was, or the Commission as it now is, as I have always understood it should be, is that of a group of wise men of diverse backgrounds and experience, independent of the industry under examination and essentially independent of each other, achieving a meeting of minds as to the issue before it. [More…]
A 25 per cent tariff cut is equivalent to an increase in wages that ranges, depending on what basis of calculation one uses, between 6 per cent and 13 per cent; yet between December 1972 and September 1974 there has been an increase in wages averaging about 60 per cent- 56 per cent for men and 73 per cent for women. [More…]
That is the kind of thing that it is much more difficult for the industry to adjust to than the 25 per cent tariff cut but it is the kind of thing we never talk about on either side of the Parliament. [More…]
I refer to the Green Paper of the 4 wise men- Crawford, Honan Harris and Gruen, the latter being not an unknown name- which contains an admission of what tariff protection really means. [More…]
These schemes which are operated by the Government are quite all right, but they would be totally unnecessary if this particular industry had been investigated, if homework had been done on it, before the 25 per cent acrosstheboard tariff reduction was introduced. [More…]
From looking at newspaper articles and from listening to the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in this chamber, it would appear to me that the textile industry can expect very little assistance from this Government. [More…]
I heard it reliably stated tonight by an eminent person in the textile industry that one of the reasons why the honourable member for Bass (Mr Barnard) resigned from this Parliament was because of the great problems that he was experiencing with unemployment in the textile mills in the Bass electorate. [More…]
Let us have some sane approach by the Government towards assisting this great industry in this country, which has been built up by pioneers over decades, to provide Australians with good quality textiles. [More…]
They were drawing decent wages and working under decent conditions, but someone in the Government did not do his homework. [More…]
If he had, surely the Government would never have introduced this 25 per cent across-the-board tariff cut and put thousands of decent Australian men and women out of work. [More…]
But no, this control must be exercised by the Australian Government. [More…]
I refer also to the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Bill which was introduced earlier this session into this Parliament. [More…]
But this Commonwealth Government wants to control those parks and wildlife reserves. [More…]
A collection of very experienced men in the Northern Territory will have to report to this Parliament and decisions will be made here, at least 2000 miles away from the areas that are to be controlled. [More…]
This clause states definitely that the appointed authority can ‘enter into contracts’ although there is no mention of the kind or type of contracts. [More…]
This to me is too much licence to give to any government alone, let alone any constituted authority of 3 men. [More…]
Yet the Government tempers the blow by stating in clause 8 (3) that the authority has power to perform any of its functions in co-operation with Queensland, with an authority of that State or with a local governing body in that State. [More…]
If the Federal Government were fair dinkum in its desire to co-operate with Queensland why is not the wording in the Bill: ‘The authority will perform its functions in co-operation with Queensland . [More…]
I notice that the Reef Consultative Committee will consist of a member of the Authority, 3 members nominated by the Queensland Government and not fewer than 12 other members, making a total of 16 members. [More…]
I counsel the Minister- as the honourable member for Gwydir (Mr Hunt) and the honourable member for Brisbane (Mr Cross) have mentionedthat the members be chosen carefully and to the best advantage. [More…]
There are men in the north, one I can recall in particular, whose knowledge of the Reef and its waters, the currents etc., have received world wide recognition. [More…]
There are professional fishermen who have spent a life-time studying the habits of fish in Reef waters. [More…]
There are many other men who have spent many years making a study of the Reef. [More…]
Their knowledge would be of tremendous advantage to the Authority. [More…]
Whenever we hear criticism of this Government’s policies remember this simple fact: The Australian people have never been better offbetter off in the money they have to spend, better off in their real incomes, better off in the range of services and opportunites available to them from this Government’s agencies and programs. [More…]
Average minimum weekly award rates for men have increased by 53 per cent; for women by no less than 75 per cent. [More…]
Real average weekly earnings after tax for all wage and salary earners have increased by 7.3 per cent since this Government came into office. [More…]
In its historic judgment of 30 April the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission accepted the Government’s case for a restoration of quarterly cost of living adjustments. [More…]
We have seen this year a number of significant Government programs brought to fruition. [More…]
Others have been brought to the point of implementation. [More…]
It requires new institutions, new scales and priorities, new social attitudes, new political guidelines, new efforts at co-operation, new men and women in positions of authority. [More…]
After all the obstruction in this Parliament, after all the attempts to delay the Medibank Bills- not just the basic. [More…]
legislation which the people specifically endorsed, but the ancillary Bills to establish and finance the program- the anti-Labor States are now seeking to join the Medibank scheme and, if their advertisements can be believed, even taking some of the credit for it. [More…]
A very strong interest in team sports exists among boys between 12 and 14 years of age but not for young men of older age levels or girls and young women of any age. [More…]
The way to destroy the policies is to destroy the men who promote them. [More…]
In one of the most shabby episodes in Australian journalism rival newspapers in ‘cheque book’ journalism offer unheard of sums to shabby continental fringe men beyond the jurisdiction of Australian courts. [More…]
These men have been paid for fabricated documentation suitably slanted to support the motives of these newspapers. [More…]
They invariably act as middle men. [More…]
In conclusion may I say that whatever has been done has been done at all times with the best advice that could be got from the Government of Australia. [More…]
I fling in the face of the little men of the Opposition the words of an old Australian poem: [More…]
Give me men to match my mountains, Give me men to match my plains, Men with freedom in their vision, And creation in their brains. [More…]
For the first time we have a truly national government in Australia. [More…]
We have a government which will speak and think and act independently. [More…]
I do not want to boast, but I have impressed upon the steel mills of Japan the fact that there is in Australia an honest, decent governmenta government which is prepared to honour contracts, a government which is proud of its name, a government which is proud of its country. [More…]
I give the he to those on the Opposition benches who today seek to besmirch and to smear this Government. [More…]
I leave them to their own devices and to the judgment of the people of Australia. [More…]
The men who have been publicised in the Australian Press are on the other side of the world. [More…]
Australia has been deprived of these funds by Press hysteria and by the acceptance of it by’ men who should know better. [More…]
This matter has been going on for 6 to 7 months and we have had to squeeze every drop of information out of the Government to know what has been going on. [More…]
He wanted no part of funny money being raised by funny men for funny purposes in Australia and he is deserving of credit for that. [More…]
Both these men have misled Australia by conspiring to get around the Constitution. [More…]
It is not about the Government’s desire to do its best for our people. [More…]
It is about whether the Government has acted in a way which commands respect and support at home and abroad. [More…]
It is about honesty and integrity in Government. [More…]
Nor is it a contest between the Press and the Government or even between the Opposition and the Government. [More…]
It is a plain question whether our people, those who have supported this Government and those who have not, can go on believing that the men who lead it- particularly its Prime Minister- are men of integrity. [More…]
The Government raised it. [More…]
By its own actions the Government raised it. [More…]
For its own sake and for the sake of our country the Government dare not fail to answer it. [More…]
But that is not the sort of advice that honest men would seek on an occasion like this with this extraordinary loan in their minds. [More…]
It is not the sort of advice that honest men would seek if they were going off to the Governor-General to tell him that this was a loan for temporary purposes. [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…]
If this Government wanted the impartial advice of a lawyer, where was the advice of the SolicitorGeneral? [More…]
We know that Messrs Byers and Harders were at a meeting in the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
They were good enough to prepare this document ‘J’, this farrago of fact and falsity. [More…]
One was for an amount of $ 15m for Mr Bajius who is now a fugitive from justice and one of the men who was tested by the security service or someone else as to integrity. [More…]
Uranium enrichment, the development of gas reserves on the North- West Shelf, the construction of a trans-continental gas pipeline and the establishment of an Australian owned petrochemical industry were some of the projects that the Minister for Minerals and Energy had mentioned at various times. [More…]
If any member of the Opposition can stand up and say ‘My character is as impeccable as that of Sir Lenox Hewitt’, they are better men than I think they are. [More…]
It was for an incredible amount and for purposes inadequately and misleadingly described and involved an unprecedented method of implementation likely gravely to damage Australia’s financial standards. [More…]
The Parliament has been ignored, the Constitution by-passed and the Loan Council and the Financial Agreement treated as of no consequence. [More…]
Now belatedly, nearly 7 months later, he tries to give us yet another reason for the actions of the Government. [More…]
Why the funny money men? [More…]
Of course, the funny money men are not accepted as being agents through whom a Government should act, not only those of us who believe that it is necessary that the advice of responsible officials of the Government be listened to. [More…]
One might again ask why was not Sir Frederick Wheeler given an opportunity to comment on the Executive Council minute of 13 December. [More…]
It was because once again the members of the Ministry who were concerned with that Executive Council minute were apprehensive that if the Solicitor-General or the Permanent Head of the Attorney-General’s Department had been listened to the whole of the nature of the Executive Council minute would have been declared invalid. [More…]
In it Mr Nagy states that Mr Harris said to him that Cairns was finished and that the Government was finished, but that Mr Lynch had said that he would take up the loan when he became the Treasurer. [More…]
I have referred to a statutory declaration of one of the men who has been involved in these negotiations with the Treasurer or the Minister for Minerals and Energy, whatever the case may be. [More…]
We ought to know from our experience throughout the 1960s that there are very many people on the other side of politics, both within the Parliament and outside, who will try to exacerbate divisions in the community in the light of the Vietnam situation during that period. [More…]
It is all right for the guilty men on the other side now to say - (Opposition members interjecting) [More…]
Under the previous Government 27 men had all the facilities that mattered and private members got nothing inside or outside the Parliament. [More…]
This practical attempt by the Government to see that we get under way with the new Parliament House deserves to be supported. [More…]
Motions aimed at delaying the commencement of the important construction of a new Parliament House deserve to be opposed. [More…]
In response Australia offered to provide a military contingent of about 200 men, but this offer was not taken up. [More…]
We will come to that argument very quickly. [More…]
This Government of course actually adopts that principle in another way. [More…]
It is called, I think, the Department of the Media, is it not? [More…]
Nevertheless, that goes to show what one can do when one is in government. [More…]
One can employ hundreds of public relations men and print all sorts of material and send them around the country. [More…]
That is why disclosure needs to be made, so that the Government will see where the money is coming from and try to lop it off if it is coming to the Opposition side, and continue to spend large sums on government official propaganda. [More…]
We see here that when Government supporters are discussing money in relation to elections they believe that if people have a lot of money they will always win. [More…]
A little earlier I made the point that the money being spent by the Government through the Department of the Media through its vast army of public relations men- they are a vast army- is nevertheless not having much success if its aim is to get votes. [More…]
Government supporters have this preoccupation with disclosure which they hope will help them. [More…]
The Opposition’s theme, which was first developed by the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) when this legislation was previously before this Parliament, is that the legislation discriminates against the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
Men of integrity, men of honour, will stand up in this Parliament and say: ‘I have nothing to hide’. [More…]
This Government obviously will keep the working of the Bill- or the Act, as it will be- under close review. [More…]
I have no doubt that there will be reasons for amendments with the passage of time and with the accumulation of experience. [More…]
If we do not have a clause like 36a and we do not have men and women of the highest calibre filling the role of Ombudsman then that office will not have the status that it should have and it will not be listened to with the respect that it should attract. [More…]
Having said that, I am wondering whether I may lay bare my attitude to the Bill, to its sponsors and to the Government. [More…]
Many of them are men and women with whom I have worked intimately over a long period. [More…]
Many of them are men and women I have known in this place for some 20 years. [More…]
Socrates observed that the general must know how to get his men their rations and every other kind of stores needed for war. [More…]
We have to strike a balance so that these men can work side by side. [More…]
The Tange report talks about two-hatted gentlemen. [More…]
I find that two-hatted gentlemen often become yes men. [More…]
Are they to supplement and to allow the machinery to run smoothly? [More…]
I cannot find anything in the Bill which indicates that the Minister, the Government or the draftsman of this legislation have given it any thought or any detailed consideration. [More…]
The Secretary of the Department of Defence was appointed not by the Labor Government but by the former LiberalCountry Party Government. [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…]
I did not hear one argument advanced by the Opposition to the effect that that was not a good thing. [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…]
It has been borne by very many gallant men and women, and I will not lightly stand in this Parliament and see that name expunged from the statute without wringing an explanation from the Minister responsible. [More…]
According to the records only two men who took part in the trials are known to have come from a Wollongong unit- the 34th Battalion. [More…]
That was one of the reasons why the Australian Governmentmy Government- decided to put the whole of the War Service Homes Division on a much wider basis. [More…]
We would hope that, in due course, the services which previously were limited to those who had served overseas on active service will become increasingly available to all those who fall within the Australian Parliament’s jurisdiction. [More…]
There is no substantial difference of opinion between the Returned Services League and the Government on this matter at all. [More…]
The RSL has acknowledged the fact that conditions of housing for returned men or for serving members are immeasurably better than they were when this Government was elected. [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…]
That may be true but they were great men and they were responsible for great feats of arms. [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…]
But if the Government is going to treat the Parliament and the people of the nation as it has and to opt for government by stealth I think that sort of action deserves reciprocal action. [More…]
It is time that the Government went back to a democracy and allowed proper consideration of these measures. [More…]
The only way under this Bill and particularly under clause 7, which we are considering, that we can understand the Government’s intention and allay the ever-present fears that are welling up within the defence forces themselves as to how much say the Public Service is going to have over their actions it is for the Minister to tell us what his directives are, how the thing is going to work. [More…]
What is the relationship between civil and military men? [More…]
I think the Minister owes a great deal to the Parliament and the people of the nation right now during this debate to tell us his intentions. [More…]
-My comments will be quite brief. [More…]
I share the pleasure of the honourable member for Moreton, that the appointment of the Defence Force Ombudsman will in no way affect the discipline that is an integral and critical part of the forces. [More…]
Discipline these days is not based on the martinet attitude of a regimental sergeant-major but on understanding and mutual respect between officers and non-commissioned officers and those serving under them. [More…]
It is because of this respect and understanding which inevitably grows between a good NCO and a good officer and their men that I am pleased to see that there is special mention in clause 7 of the Bill in relation to a provision that a serving member of the defence force can have a complaint dealt with by the Service authorities before submitting the matter to the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
The relationship which exists between an NCO and the men serving under him is of a very special nature. [More…]
-My comments also will be brief. [More…]
I think that this right of investigation allowed to servicemen is a step forward. [More…]
I do not consider that an ombudsman is responsible to anybody other than the Parliament, and in that respect I think in it is the wrong term to use in view of the role to be played by the Defence Force Ombudsman. [More…]
I have one small reservation in relation to clause 5( 1 ) which mentions investigating the matter of administration. [More…]
If in this case ‘administration’ is to apply to troops or men in the field and is to refer to matters of discipline or morale I find it most concerning. [More…]
I commend the legislation in concept although I disagree with the term used. [More…]
They belong to the Pricing Bureau of the Department of Health. [More…]
I would have thought that conscientious, dedicated and long-serving officers as these men are- they are senior officers- would have been indepenedent to the extent that at least they are entrusted with negotiating for the Government as buyer with independent firms as sellers. [More…]
They can be prescribed outside the Government subsidy scheme and paid for by the patient. [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…]
Arthur Calwell, and the then Deputy Leader of the Opposition, now the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam), waiting outside the Kingston Hotel for their instructions from the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party on what their reaction ought to be to the establishment of the North West Cape. [More…]
They were told by the then faceless men to question the establishment of the base- the base to which the present Prime Minister only 2 years ago referred as being obnoxious. [More…]
The present Government- the persons opposite who are so prepared to denigrate the American presence- did not achieve the preservation of Australian sovereignty. [More…]
It did not in any way change the Articles which were written into the Agreement way back in 1963. [More…]
It provides that the station shall be operated by the armed forces of the 2 governments as a joint facility. [More…]
Do honourable members know where the 47 officers and men of the Royal Australian Navy are allowed to go? [More…]
My word it was a remarkable achievement! [More…]
As my colleague said, the only product of the demonstrably anti-American attitudes of this Government, particularly of its Left, are that the Australian Government will pay for the 47 naval officers and men who are stationed there as part of the joint service detachment. [More…]
What a remarkable achievement! [More…]
There will be 3 minimal extensions to the agreement. [More…]
Those 3 extensions are where the left wing has either been done in the eye or the Australian people are being completely hoodwinked by the assertions that the Government has been able to achieve some remarkable extension of Australian sovereignty. [More…]
Of course this is part and product of what the Government normally does. [More…]
The Labor Party said: ‘When we come to government we will, in accordance with the Treaty, renegotiate’. [More…]
It will be remembered that then was coined the phrase the 36 faceless men’- the men who reached the decision while poor Arthur Calwell and poor Gough Whitlam were sitting out in the shrubs waiting for the decision. [More…]
-I have never seen government speakers less comfortable than they have been in this debate because they have not really wanted to say the truth. [More…]
This is what the debate is all about, as indeed it was in 1963 when it came on with the faceless men dictating to the then Opposition. [More…]
Among the contradictions in what government supporters have said I particularly noted one statement by the Minister for the Capital Territory (Mr Bryant). [More…]
He said that no government has a right to bind the future of Australia for so long ahead. [More…]
That came very well, did it not, from a Minister in the Government which only a couple of months ago was wanting to enter into long term loans for $4,000m to be repaid in 20 years, I think it was, for $20,000m which would have bound the whole economic future of Australia? [More…]
It comes well from a government to say ‘You cannot enter into long term agreements’. [More…]
This is just a small instance of the insincerity of the Government of the contradictions which underlie its approach to this whole matter. [More…]
He is patron of the Newtown Rugby League Football Club and, as we all know, rugby league is the sport of rugged, physically well equipped young men. [More…]
I conclude by congratulating Fred on 3 points: Firstly, his sincerity, diligence and conscientious work for the Australian Labor Party in a lifetime of dedication to a cause in which he believes; secondly, his 32 years of splendid service to the Parliament and the Australian community; and, thirdly I emphasise this again- his outstanding achievements which have provided the highest standard of conditions and amenities ever enjoyed by members and senators. [More…]
I weighed 8 stone 6 pounds and thought I knew everything; but when I looked across the table and saw Billy Hughes, the late John Curtin, the late Ben Chifley, not to mention the late Artie Fadden, Sir John McEwen, Harold Holt and Larry Anthony, the father of Doug Anthony, I knew that I was not the top weight that I thought I was. [More…]
Politics has given to me the opportunity to live with some of the really great men on both sides of the Parliament. [More…]
I came into this Parliament at the time of the war in 1943 and was here when Douglas MacArthur walked into the dining room, where we sat tonight, and it was a case of salvation through him, America and others. [More…]
I was privileged to enter the Parliament when I was young. [More…]
In taking the advice of the military advisers to the Government, the Government made the decision that the school cadet corps be abolished at the end of this year. [More…]
The honourable gentleman has also raised the question of whether the activities of the school cadets could be undertaken by other sections of the Government. [More…]
I repeat that the advice of the military advisers to the Government in relation to those defence force functions for which the Minister for Defence is responsible was that the funds that were used for school cadets and the Regular Army men used in training school cadets- there are some 385 of them- could be better used for the defence preparedness of Australia. [More…]
That was the basis on which the Government’s decision was made. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that when Walkers Ltd shipyards closed last year the Prime Minister made an offer to Walkers and to the Queensland Government for a 3-way or a 2-way arrangement between the Australian Government and either the company and/or the Queensland Government to take over Walkers shipyard and operate it. [More…]
This offer was rejected by both the Queensland Government and Walkers. [More…]
The Prime Minister has now sought the opinion and the views of the Queensland Government in relation to a similar project in respect of which discussions are taking place at the present time between the New South Wales Government and the Australian Government concerning the Newcastle State Dockyard. [More…]
So taken all round I believe that this Government has done all in its power to assist, to ensure that this shipyard is kept in operation and to make sure that work is available for the men there. [More…]
Men already employed by the Australian National Railways, formerly the Commonwealth Railways, have their conditions prescribed. [More…]
They have been negotiated with the trade union movement. [More…]
The Government has said to those trade unions whose members are employees of the South Australian Railways: ‘These are the conditions in the South Australian Railways and these are the conditions in the Australian National Railways. [More…]
In my lifetime I have seen many transfers of employees which have involved trade unions as well as rearrangement as a result of amalgamations. [More…]
I take up the cause of the thousands of men and women who work for themselves in small businesses like the corner shop, the garage, the family farm and so on, and the people who work for and with them. [More…]
These men and women are the great productive strength of Australia. [More…]
When I was the Minister and when my colleague the Deputy Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Sinclair) was the Minister they were joined in their complaints over the years by other roaring lions in the Senate- Senator O ‘Byrne, who now holds the lofty position of President of the Senate, and Senator Wriedt who is now the Minister for Agriculture and the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
The really guilty men are the Minister for Transport and the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam). [More…]
The people of Bass recognise the humbug and hyprocrisy of the Labor Government. [More…]
The Government has wrecked the Tasmanian economy. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are the guilty men, and I say that the Government stands condemned for what it promised when in Opposition for 23 years and for what it has not done in the 3 years it has been in office. [More…]
At the national level the Government is charged with the very grave responsibility of declaring how and when the needs of individuals and of the community can be assisted with the moneys it collects in the form of taxes. [More…]
Consequently, the Government must know the difference between needs and wants. [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…]
In fact this Government has done the unforgivable thing of spending the taxpayers’ money on areas which can only be described as ‘minor wants’. [More…]
What is more, they are the wants of only a few- the vocal minorities who seem to have the ability to make men who crave to be called ‘responsible’ throw away logic and common sense. [More…]
-I take the point of the honourable member for Prospect and reply that I have seen better men than he is cleaning out toilets. [More…]
In a weak attempt to reveal a strong and determined approach to coming to grips with excessive government expenditure the Prime Minister decided that his supporters would travel economy class. [More…]
Government supporters know the answers. [More…]
Yet Government supporters continue to sit up and shut up. [More…]
How many of them have made honest speeches about unemployment or inflation? [More…]
Well, the Government has been found out. [More…]
The hardworking men and women of this country recognise the Government for what it is- incompetent and totally incapable of governing this country any longer. [More…]
The only ones who continue to support the Government are the pseudo-intellectual halfwits who peddle communism, socialism and anarchy, and some of the bludgers who can cheat it for the handouts it gives. [More…]
The opinion polls will spell out this fact for Government supporters if they need any further elaboration. [More…]
These 2 men are now in Fretilin held territory and we have tried and are still trying through Portuguese channels to make direct contact with them. [More…]
He happens to be on the board of Philips Industries Ltd. Philips Industries Ltd has under its control the manufacture of a wide range of equipment with military sales potential. [More…]
This equipment ranges from computer software to communications equipment, from radar and fire control systems to patrol boats. [More…]
It is quite obvious that these gentlemen have more than a passing interest in defence matters. [More…]
But I want to assure honourable members that this Government will not be stampeded by yesterday’s Colonel Blimps. [More…]
We have within the Department of Defence and within the Australian Services to-day’s men, men who have the experience and the expertise and who are in a position in 1975- not in 1965- to tender advice to this Government. [More…]
It is on the basis of that expert advice that this Government will formulate its defence policies. [More…]
We have a positive commitment to assist and support the smaller enterprises and smaller entrepreneurs. [More…]
We shall provide encouragement because, unlike this present administration, we believe that small businesses in Australia require incentive and encouragement, particularly in the present economic crisis. [More…]
Thus small business men and women who are listening to this parliamentary debate might wonder why it is that the Government has not provided an answer to the increasing problems of those small enterprises still in operation. [More…]
They might wonder why it did not seek to assist the many businesses which have been forced to go into liquidation during the totality of this Government’s maladministration. [More…]
I think it is ridiculous when old men like Gorton and McMahon go around talking about nothing- they should give the young blokes a go. [More…]
Defence capability is a matter of well trained men, modern equipment and adequate support. [More…]
We must ensure that the defence force, its equipment and its logistic, industrial and technological support provide an adequate base from which to expand in a timely fashion should the need arise. [More…]
At the same time, largely because of the failure of the previous government to take sound equipment decisions in its last years of office, the resources devoted to capital items in the defence vote, namely equipment and infrastructure, have been falling. [More…]
Expenditure on capital equipment in this year’s defence outlay covering continuing payments on equipment approved last year and in earlier years, as well as initial payments on proposals approved this year, will be $182m. [More…]
This represents approximately an 80 per cent increase on the spending on equipment last year, which was $102m. [More…]
This amphibious ship will have a displacement of 6000 tonnes and Will provide a long range lift capability of some 2000 tonnes. [More…]
It will be capable of discharging men and equipment, including tanks and other heavy items, across the beach or by cargo helicopter carried on board. [More…]
I say to him with some warmth on the matter that his traducing of them reflected not upon himself or upon his office; it showed that he did not understand the fact that to seek to smear or indeed to slur upon the reputations of brave men is not welcome in this country. [More…]
I think it is most fitting that in this Parliament we pay tribute to the Australian men and women who were on the field staff. [More…]
Of course, it was also promoted by men such as Mr Hubert Murray and Sir Donald Cleland who, as my colleague said a few moments ago, died yesterday. [More…]
Unfortunately, the economic policies and the neocolonial policies of the present Government tend in many ways to detract from what might otherwise have been quite a promising relationship which would have enabled, in my view, the development of peace, harmony and understanding. [More…]
On our side of politics we have a great deal of respect for the tremendous achievements that the Government of Papua New Guinea in its final days as a territory has been able to attain. [More…]
We have a respect for the men who have acted within that Government, the men who have assisted them within the Australian civil service, but we have a real concern for the future and a concern that the Government presenting its Budget for this year has hidden the fact that there is nowhere near sufficient allocation for the real needs for the development of this newly independent country. [More…]
These 9 men were silenced by the threat of deportation. [More…]
I ask Government supporters: Can you feel proud of that coercion of 9 men? [More…]
I hope that you can understand, Mr Deputy Speaker, how people who believe in civil rights and civil liberties will regard this coercion by the Government and by the action of the Prime Minister as totally reprehensible. [More…]
Now he turns judge and makes the judgment that it is quite proper. [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…]
Do you not exacerbate the divisions within the community by saying to 9 men: ‘Your life or your liberty’? [More…]
But all those migrants could be screened and could be forced to sign an undertaking not to speak about politics which are not to the liking of the government of the day. [More…]
Let us consider some of the economies proposed in the Budget and evident in the Government’s defence policy. [More…]
The Government has discontinued financial assistance for the provision of cadet schooling. [More…]
Cadet units have provided a service which has been of wonderful benefit to Australia and to the young men who have participated in the scheme. [More…]
The sustenance payment made to men and women who lost their jobs as a result of the Government’s tariff policy was often delayed for three or four months and this caused considerable hardship. [More…]
Recently not far from my electorate of Paterson the Commonwealth Department of Aboriginal Affairs office at Moree ran up a telephone bill of $ 1 8,600. [More…]
We have nothing against Aborigines, who are part of our Australia, but there should be administration to ensure that money is not wasted along the lines I have mentioned. [More…]
I have much pleasure indeed on behalf of my Party in supporting the amendment moved by the Leader of the Opposition and I commend it to the House. [More…]
Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which has lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled on embarrassment week after week? [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately but needlessly created Australia’s worst unemployment for 10 years - [More…]
This was in 1972- or to the same men who have presided over the worst inflation for 20 years? [More…]
Mr Speaker, there can be no doubt that the program of the Opposition is the complete antithesis of that which would best serve the interests of the ordinary men and women in Australia . [More…]
I strongly commend the Budget to the House. [More…]
I think they should do so before their credibility disappears completely, and should do so, if they are men and men of conscience, not only for thenown sake but for the good of this country as well. [More…]
The present Government has been a disastrous flirtation. [More…]
Let us hope that when it goes out of power it will recognise that one of the reasons for it going out of power is that most of the Australian population- it does not matter whether I refer to working men or farmers- reject socialism. [More…]
The Australian people simply want sane government. [More…]
Since we have had this division in the Services where there is a parallel control of the defence Services by the Public Service as well as by the Army, the situation has arisen where a number of the defence forces cannot be posted to Defence Central unless the appointment is approved by the Public Service. [More…]
What is happening is that the Public Service is building up a nice little lot of yes men in the high echelons who will do all the things that the Public Service calls upon them to do. [More…]
The dedicated Army men are sick of it and they are resigning. [More…]
The other reason for the resignation problem relates to the defence forces retirement benefits plan. [More…]
I have been told in my electorate that the men are being told that the total commutation of defence forces retirement benefits is going to be refused. [More…]
I have asked the Minister to give me a statement on that but he has not done so. [More…]
Talking about the Singapore battle, he said that the defeat was caused simply because he had to refer to Whitehall in London to get the OK to use men to go out and dig trenches while the Japanese coming down from Singapore were 20 miles away. [More…]
I hesitate to pursue the honourable gentleman’s question because my good friend the honourable member for Hotham has been in a deal of trouble for some time over his varied pronouncements. [More…]
I pay tribute to him because for years he has initiated the annual cricket match between the Parliament and the Press Gallery. [More…]
That is the only occasion on which members of Parliament have been able to express their views, in appropriate language, about the Press Gallery. [More…]
Unfortunately, the honourable member for Hotham did not realise that there are now women in the Senate. [More…]
It can be applied to men or women. [More…]
-After having listened for the last 15 minutes to the Minister for Housing and Construction (Mr Riordan) making a rather lamentably poor rebuttal of the arguments raised by the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street), I am doubly enthusiastic in supporting the raising of this matter of public importance. [More…]
There was a time in this country when every citizen, even the humble sausage maker and candle-stick maker, had 2 fundamental rights- to own his own home and to have a job. [More…]
But these rights and their associated hopes have been splintered through the schemes and policies of the Labor Government. [More…]
The nation is faced with the prospect of half a million unemployed at the end of June next year, a figure suggested by the leader of the trade union movement in this country, Mr Bob Hawke. [More…]
This proves once and for all that the socialistic excesses of the Labor Government have led us to ruin. [More…]
The raising of this matter of public importance by the honourable member for Corangamite shows our concern at the dim prospects facing our people and particularly our school leavers, our concern and sincere desire to rectify the position by the positive policies we have proposed contrasts sharply with the parcels of idle gossip which the Government hands out with such off-handed remarks as ‘It is a world-wide problem’, which was one of the remarks of the Minister for Housing and Construction who also said in answer to a question in this House: ‘We are looking at something less than 150 000 extra’. [More…]
This type of flippant dismissal of the catastrophe of record unemployment depicts a minimum veneer of concern and proves conclusively that the Government does not care at all about the men and women who cannot obtain employment. [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…]
The Senate is so critical to the States that obviously they want to have the best men to represent them. [More…]
I thought that the Leader of the National Country Party presented a magnificent catalogue of deception, a magnificent catalogue of the number of conventions and practices that this Government has broken. [More…]
The idea of coming into the House and piously trying to express concern about some attitude of the Queensland Parliament in this matter will not sell. [More…]
The nation will not forget the Government’s attempt to circumvent the Senate by the appointment of Senator Gair to Ireland. [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…]
I know that he has been doing everything possible to influence his Liberal colleagues in the State Parliament to take an equally responsible attitude on this issue. [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…]
This motion seeks to give honourable members the opportunity to endorse a fundamental principle of our democracy, to support our Constitution and the accepted convention which has in recent times been rejected by one State Premier and now stands threatened by another. [More…]
No person other than Dr Mai Colston can be selected by the Queensland Parliament as a Labor senator to replace the late Labor senator, Bert Milliner. [More…]
With that in mind, I suggest that honourable members will see the situation with clarity, Will note how ridiculous is the amendment moved by the Leader of the National Country Party and Will take the opportunity to show that they are men of principle by supporting the motion moved by the Leader of the House. [More…]
There will be a further cut back in employment. [More…]
The larger building companies that build ordinary villa homes have for the last couple of years been forced to change their policy of 60/40 erection, meaning 60 per cent for private sale and 40 per cent for government contracts to a system of 40 per cent private and 60 per cent government. [More…]
This has been forced on them by the Government’s high interest rates over the last 2 years which have made the building companies accept government contracts for 60 per cent of their work to keep their men employed. [More…]
The result of the Government’s moves now means that that 60 per cent will not be available and the Government will find increased numbers of builders on the unemployment lists. [More…]
In spite of the wishes of the majority of the people, an increasing commitment to Vietnam was developed by the Liberal Government. [More…]
(Quorum formed) Our young men were sent to fight and often died in a war that was directed and governed by powers outside of the interests of the majority of the Vietnamese and Australian people- a war in fact that was perpetuated by capitalistic interests. [More…]
Moneys that could have been used for the betterment of living for the people of Australia were used by the Liberal Government against our neighbours in a destructive and inhumane way. [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to men who deliberately and needlessly created the worst unemployment for 10 years and the worst inflation for 20 years? [More…]
The Prime Minister made this statement. [More…]
Think of the situation: The Prime Minister sets up the Commission and appoints the 3 men to sit on that Commission. [More…]
Why does the Leader of the Opposition not come into the Parliament and defend himself? [More…]
Why does he not stand in the Parliament and say precisely whether he got the subsidy or whether he did not? [More…]
However, the situation is that the Country Party, the Leader of the Opposition and others- there are thousands of them in the same position as the Leader of the Opposition, wealthy and powerful men in the farming community- are raking it off in thousands at the expense of the small farmers and others. [More…]
That is what the honourable member for Wimmera is defending in the Parliament tonight. [More…]
The men controlling the Country Party work in Pitt Street in their business places. [More…]
I would be quite prepared to give that much away if I could sit on the verandah of that million dollar property looking at those lovely fields and thinking that the Government subsidises me in addition to what I make myself. [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…]
Gordon Freeth, a former Minister of the Crown in the tory Liberal Government, was defeated for. [More…]
The impact of this philosophy in political terms can be judged from the experience of Winnett Boyd in Canada when in 1972 he stood as a Conservative Party candidate and increased the vote of the Conservative Party in the constituency from 15 458 to 37 181- reducing the Liberal majority of the Government of Pierre Trudeau by approximately 20 000 votes to only 1847. [More…]
As has been said by President de Gaulle, ‘to stick to wages alone is to maintain a permanent class struggle’, whereas if the philosophies of Louis Kelso were adopted we could avoid that result by giving to the men and women who work in Australia the opportunity to have an income apart from the wages they earn. [More…]
So the men and women who work see that the harder they work the more the Government takes out of” their pay packet. [More…]
I refer specifically to the homeless men and women of Australia, the casualties of our society, whom governments in the past have been happy to ignore. [More…]
In drawing attention to this aspect of the Budget, I return to my original tribute to the Treasurer’s skill and ability which I mentioned in my speech in the Budget debate. [More…]
If the people opposite were in office- I refer, for example, to the honourable member for Riverina- half of our young fellows would be in the Army and the rest of the people would be living in poverty, and the homeless men would still be being swept up by street cleaning machines. [More…]
Anyone who is engaged in production or especially in the export business appears to be the enemy of this Labor Government. [More…]
Last year the Government provided $2 8m for assistance to this industry. [More…]
Yet we have this tremendous outlay of $245m for the 2 non-productive schemes I have mentioned. [More…]
I know that the Government was paying the men virtually to give them a feed. [More…]
But these men were unemployed because of this Government’s incompetence and bungling of the economy. [More…]
Why does this ‘ Government continue to turn its back on the defence of the nation and close its eyes to the slaughter being organised around the worldnow in East Timor- by its acknowledged friends, the various communist parties and their fronts? [More…]
Earlier I spoke of Darwin port development, Darwin could once again be in the firing line. [More…]
I pray that the negligence of Labor will not bring disaster before the nation becomes prepared with regard to men, material and mentality. [More…]
That is why most LiberalCountry Party State government company laws provide havens for rogues and spivs of all descriptions. [More…]
This is why the Liberal-Country Party State government company laws allow these men to fleece the investing public of millions upon millions of dollars. [More…]
I have a copy of a speech made by the honourable member for Campbelltown in the State Parliament. [More…]
These schools seem to make a specialty of turning out these types of financial pirates who seek only to gain the respectability of the old school tie or the titles they have bestowed upon them by munificient and grateful Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]
These 12 men and their ilk have tricked and robbed genuine investors in public companies of over $30m, yet when they have been asked to disclose their assets we find that they have only a few thousand dollars between the lot of them. [More…]
The best that can be said of these 12 men is that they are a bunch of supercilious conspiring rogues who should be banned from all stock exchanges for life. [More…]
Not one of these men or any other company director in New South Wales, or any other State, whose companies are under investigation should be allowed a passport by the Government. [More…]
The moment their companies are placed under investigation the directors should not be allowed to leave the country. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General of my own Party (Mr Enderby) and this national Parliament to give serious consideration to this request. [More…]
The Government deliberately embarked upon a policy of inflation to finance its social programs. [More…]
In fundamental terms the socialists- for the present Government is a government of socialists- see inflation as essential. [More…]
It is simply the modern method of debasing the currency in order to give to the ruler, be he a monarch or be it a democratic government, more of the people ‘s wealth and income to finance the ruler’s expenditure. [More…]
We know of the monarchs of old, the autocrats of old, who debased the currency in order to finance their own personal wealth or their governments’ expenditure. [More…]
That must always be at the expense of the working men and women of the country. [More…]
This is what the economic policies of this Government represent in real terms. [More…]
What this Government has done on the economic side by way of debasing the currency is paralleled and complemented by the kind of legislation which it has introduced. [More…]
I refer to legislation like the modifications to the Australian Industry Development Corporation, the National Investment Fund Bill, the National Compensation Bill and the Australian Government Insurance Corporation Bill, all intended to draw away from private business the private capital of the nation, the wealth that is held there, and to place it in the hands of the Government. [More…]
That great monopoly is the Government, where the socialists seek to concentrate the wealth of the nation. [More…]
Now, I am sure that the working men and women of Australia- those who are members of unions, those who are notappreciate what is happening to their country through the deliberate policy of inflation of the present Government. [More…]
The ones who suffered the loss, tragically, as a result of that decision for more than a decade were the wheat growers of Australia, men who carried on one of our great exporting industries. [More…]
In terms of export trade and its development it is those who participate and who produce directly in the field who have to be considered and who have to be concerned. [More…]
The first 3 recessions were due to the problems of balance of payments. [More…]
The Prices Justification Tribunal is an important element in a wages and incomes policy in Australia. [More…]
But a Liberal-National Country Party government would abolish the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
The Opposition must remember that we live in a free society in which men are free. [More…]
The Amalgamated Metal Workers’ Union, which has key men for the building of the temporary bridge, restoring the Tasman Bridge and construction of a new Risdon punt, has been holding out now for six weeks - [More…]
At that time, the strike period was 6 weeks- for $20 a week over-award payments. [More…]
The union has been told there can be no Court hearing until the men resume work. [More…]
The leaders wanted the men to go back, and the rank and file would not’. [More…]
I simply follow on from what members of the Government Party have said in this debate. [More…]
The leaders wanted the men to go back. [More…]
What did the Government in Canberra or the Labor Government in Hobart do? [More…]
They did not even express a consistent disapproval at what the men were doing. [More…]
Not for the one moment. [More…]
Because they are frightened of some of the trade union elements they stay silent. [More…]
As a result of the work of these men a community health service has been provided, an office of the Department of Social Security has been established, new roads have been put in to service the area- I will deal with the Old Beach Road at a later stage and will tell the House just what did occur in regard to that road- grants have been made to the Clarence Council, an office of the Department of Labor and Immigration has been set up as well as Social Welfare offices. [More…]
It was a major job to build it in the first place but its replacement will be an even greater job. [More…]
real position: When this accident occurred, it caused a great mess of broken piling underneath the bridge decking, all of which is in deep water where men can work only for about half an hour before they have to surface. [More…]
When one compares what has been done by the Tasmanian Government and this Government with the bungling by the Victorian Liberal-Country Party Government in connection with the Westgate Bridge, one will see the mess that the Victorian Government has made. [More…]
Once again, unfortunately, many members of my union lost their lives in that disaster as a result of engineering bungling brought about by the Victorian Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
We got the best men that we could possibly get for the job to get on with the job. [More…]
It has been setting up its shore establishment so that as soon as the company is able to get on with the job it will do so. [More…]
It does not matter which way we look at this situation, the facts are that this Government has done a first class job in providing alternative cross river transport, in providing facilities on the east side of the river, and providing access by way of road and by surfacing the Old Beach Road and paying for it and telling the Government in Tasmania to get on with the job and to get it out of the way. [More…]
In comparing that record with the bungling that took place under the Bethune Government in regard to the Launceston to Bell Bay railway and the way in which the Liberal-National Country Party Government handled the Westgate Bridge tragedy in Victoria this Government has plenty of which to be proud. [More…]
I will not take up much of the 10 minutes I have skirting those aspects of the Constitution which the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Crean) raised except perhaps to remind him that it was the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) before the last election who was very fond of describing the then members of the Senate as yesterday’s men and men elected for a certain number of years. [More…]
I do not want to draw attention to differences but I must say that the remarks we heard a few moments ago showed some emotion, which perhaps is understandable, but also disclosed a lack of understanding of the views of residents of some of the smaller States who see value in that chamber. [More…]
-I speak with a great deal of interest and concern in the debate on the estimates for the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I think that those of us on both sides of the chamber who have some concern for Aboriginal affairs do not make a judgment on the achievements of government in the area of Aboriginal affairs on the basis of the money provided for in the estimates. [More…]
After all, that is an earnest of the Government’s preparedness to place resources behind the Department of Aboriginal Affairs, but I think that all of us are aware of the fact that it is a case of men and women as well as resources. [More…]
It is a case of obtaining the enthusiastic co-operation of the departments in the State. [More…]
I am referring not only to the departments of Aboriginal affairs or their equivalents but also to all those other instrumentalities involved in Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
I think any honourable member can take some considerable satisfaction in saying that involved in Aboriginal affairs is the substantial support of the Australian Government. [More…]
One thinks also of the State departments through which programs in health, education, housing and, indeed, Aboriginal affairs themselves are financed. [More…]
Mick Ranggiari when the announcement was made that he had been elected to the National Aboriginal Consultative Council, said: ‘This is right. [More…]
I think we all congratulated those men on their dignity and the way they carried on that day. [More…]
The message I have for this Parliament is what Mick Ranggiari said. [More…]
I do not want to hear people here saying what was not done during the 23 years of Liberal-Country Party Government for Aborigines, because in actual fact a lot was done for Aborigines during that time before the present Government came into power. [More…]
A lot of money has been spent and great strides have been made towards the betterment of Aborigines. [More…]
As honourable members know, I live right in the midst of it, and a lot of people are fermenting trouble between black and white in the town of Alice Springs. [More…]
I think it is deplorable and I hope that this Government will take every action that it possibly can to see that both Aborigines and Europeans are brought together, understand each other and work together on projects for the Aborigines, because they will be a failure if the European is not there to assist the Aborigine. [More…]
They must find the men. [More…]
Instead of so much money being spent on material things we should be spending it on training people, on giving them the experience, on trying to find men and women with experience who can give the Aborigines the lead and help them enter the future life that they are going to have. [More…]
I say once again that it is no use voting tremendous amounts of money unless there is sympathy, understanding and preparedness for the people of Australia to be with the Aborigines and work with them. [More…]
I want to join with other speakers in paying tribute to the Department of the Capital Territory. [More…]
I do so with a great deal of sincerity and feeling because I know just how good a department it is. [More…]
I also pay tribute to the City Manager who undoubtedly is one of the top men in the Public Service. [More…]
I know that the Department has laboured under great difficulties at times, particularly since 1972. [More…]
I think that there are enough sensible men in the Senate, like the new honourable senator from Albury Senator Bunton, and Senator Steele Hall, to ensure the Opposition does not have its selfish, arrogant wish to get back into power granted. [More…]
I hope that the sensible men in the Senate will make sure that there will be no election this year, and that there will be no election before the due time, that is, May 1977. [More…]
The Government is taking over and upgrading the national highways of Australia as was done at great cost but with great success in the United States of America. [More…]
The new road works that have been undertaken in Tasmania are a credit to the Public Works Department of that State. [More…]
As I have said, the work in Tasmania is an absolute credit to our Public Works Department and the engineers, overseers and other men who work in and for that Department. [More…]
I think the Government should be coerced into extending that road north from Port Augusta up through Tarcoola to Alice Springs. [More…]
I would like to emphasise once more that there are many projects to be carried out and these projects would employ a considerable number of men. [More…]
In these times of high unemployment we should be building our national roads system. [More…]
That is a great deal of satisfaction to the men in my electorate and throughout Australia who are being laid off because there is inadequate money in the States, particularly in New South Wales and Victoria, to maintain even the present level of eradication. [More…]
The Government still has not made up its mind on it. [More…]
If it implemented the compensation scheme and provided a reasonable acceleration to the program help would be given to the beef industry. [More…]
-The speeches of Government supporters in this debate reflect a rather infantile optimism that they will have their project of socialising primary industry carried out. [More…]
The heart of the nation will prevail because people want to remain free men and free women in a free society. [More…]
They have no feeling whatsoever for its murderous policies and consequently they have more confidence in the local garbage boy than they have in the policies of the Government. [More…]
The honourable member for Darling (Mr FitzPatrick) spoke of the men who work and live on the minefields of Australia. [More…]
I remind him that these people elected to the State Parliament of Western Australia Liberal members because they know where prosperity lies. [More…]
He went on to state the proposition that ‘men gain faith in themselves and their capacities through achieving through their own efforts’ and to this end his first action if ever he were to assume government would be to ‘restore the rewards and reverse the penalties on excellence, achievement and enterprise’. [More…]
The building and construction industry has taken an enormous battering as a result of Labor’s policies, and unemployment together with company liquidations in the industry is now at an all time high. [More…]
Average employment in the building industry and the manufacturing industries which support it is over one million Australians. [More…]
These are men and women who want to work. [More…]
This Government apparently believes that those who do not work should be paid as much as those who do work. [More…]
We appreciate that many public servants work long hours and are dedicated men and women. [More…]
Jefferson said that the whole of government consists of being honest. [More…]
Where is the honesty in government by decree? [More…]
Government is not a matter of decree; democracy is not a matter of decree. [More…]
If the Government wants its program the people of Australia will agree provided the legal process is observed and the democratic process is carried out. [More…]
As Burke said, the moment you abate anything from the full rights of men each to govern himself and suffer any artificial positive limitation upon those rights, from that moment the whole organisation of government becomes a consideration of convenience. [More…]
This Government is a consideration of convenience and it operates as such. [More…]
One could be forgiven for believing that when this Government came to office it set out upon a course of action which involved a complete disregard of any consideration by its own legal adviser as to whether or not a particular Act of the Parliament was valid. [More…]
Whilst I would never deny the proposition that it is the place of the High Court in the final analysis to determine whether or not a law of this Parliament is valid I put it to the Committee that any AttorneyGeneral of this country has an obligation to advise the Government that he serves whether or not Acts passed by this Parliament are within constitutional power. [More…]
I think when one examines the fate of the Acts which have been passed by this Parliament since this Government came to power one finds that the quality of the advice tendered to the Government on so many occasions has not been perhaps what it should have been. [More…]
One is reminded, of course, of the fate of the petroleum and minerals authority legislation which was rejected by the High Court as being outside the operation of section 57 of the Constitution being legislation which ought not to have been considered at the Joint Sitting of this Parliament convened last year. [More…]
Members of the Committee will recall the remarks made in respect of that advice by my colleague the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) when he categorised the advice given on that occasion as advice that no honest men could possibly have given. [More…]
-In speaking briefly to these estimates I would express my appreciation to the Ministers for Customs- there have been in fact no fewer than three of themfor their courtesy in facilitating my ready access to the departmental head, the Department and the operational organisation of the Department of Customs since I have assumed the responsibility of shadow minister for customs and excise. [More…]
Might I too express in real sincerity my appreciation to and respect for Mr Alan Carmody, who heads that Department, and to the sub-collectors and other officers who have been so courteous and so helpful. [More…]
From this informed situation I pay very high tribute indeed to the diligence, ability and very high calibre of the men and women- there are a number of women- who are engaged in every avenue of Customs. [More…]
What needs to be discussed is the impact such an action will have on the whole parliamentary process and the people of Australia. [More…]
Some men come into the Parliament, served here for years and retired never having known what it was like to have been in government. [More…]
Some came here as relatively young men, served on the Executive for years and were too old to become Ministers when we got back into government. [More…]
These men that they are appealing to to give $10 per employee go into the Arbitration Court every day of the week and oppose every rise and every request for wages. [More…]
The school cadet system could be said to have military value if it makes young men more interested in serving in the armed forces, either on a full-time or pan-time basis. [More…]
The honourable gentleman would know that I could not read it in a moment or two. [More…]
What does the honourable gentleman say to the fact that there has been what I would describe only as a spontaneous expression of hostility to the Government’s decision throughout the country? [More…]
Were the 36 000 cadets who signed a petition which was presented to this Parliament by the honourable member for Curtin (Mr Garland) expressing selfishness on their part? [More…]
Was the behaviour of the Minister in Western Australia an expression of respect for the young men who give of their time freely and willingly? [More…]
The Minister received with great discourtesy a deputation from young men who did him the honour of donning their uniforms. [More…]
I do not have to quote public servants here, I can quote from one of the major bodies that have served all governments with advice on defence matters. [More…]
The most important of these, in the context of personnel management, is the Defence Force Development Committee. [More…]
In fact it will release about 330 Regular Army soldiers, officers and men, for much more productive work within the Regular Army. [More…]
When we are talking about battalion strengths of the order of 570, the fact that 330 Regular Army Officers and men will be released for more effective use within the armed forces is important. [More…]
It provides a multitude of activities for the young men of this country which are not readily available through any other equivalent source at that age level and in that form. [More…]
-The introduction and application of the guillotine in a House of Parliament is a totally reprehensible procedure. [More…]
There is no validity whatsoever in the nonsensical comments of the Leader of the House (Mr Daly) suggesting that because we have already had a debate we should not therefore have another debate. [More…]
If we accept that sort of argument we will preclude all debate on all subjects at all times. [More…]
If the legislation were fair and equitable, if it were accepted by honest and fair men in the community, this proposal would be understandable but the whole basis of the time allocations that are now under consideration is to preclude all opportunity for members of this Parliament- not just members of the Opposition but Government members too- to speak. [More…]
The Government itself, which introduces these measures, which introduces this allotment of time on such a nonsensical basis, deserves contempt. [More…]
That is the scheme laid down by the Electoral Act, and incidentally was the procedure that was followed at the time of the last redistribution carried out by a LiberalCountry Party Government. [More…]
That is the scheme laid down by the Electoral Act and the Opposition, of course, draws attention to the fact that the Government has departed from that procedure. [More…]
In fact one of the principal arguments that has been advanced by the Government in support of its proposals is the fantastic proposition that the Opposition, in criticising the redistribution proposals, is in some way reflecting upon the honour, credit and integrity of the Distribution Commissioners. [More…]
Time and time again we have been accused of defaming honest men. [More…]
One of the greatest untruths about the electoral situation in Australia at the moment is the story which has been peddled by the Labor Party that somehow or other the result of the Senate election last year was a fraud. [More…]
Government supporters argue in that way only because they did not win the Senate election. [More…]
He spent 6 minutes during the adjournment debate talking about the frustration of Labor members who entered Parliament as young men and grew to middle and old age in Opposition. [More…]
This is a very remarkable proposition that has been advanced by the Government because - [More…]
The Country Party does not realise that the Labor Party is the largest country party in the Parliament. [More…]
We have more country members than the Country Party in the Parliament. [More…]
The largest seats in area are represented by men from this side of the Parliament who consistently espouse the policy we are putting forward of one vote one value in the community. [More…]
Everybody knows that when there is one vote one value intelligent people, unless they are rigged, would not vote for the collection which is supposed to represent the country people in this Parliament. [More…]
Members of the Country Party will not even let us know where their funds are coming from to buy their illgotten gains in this Parliament. [More…]
These men represent all parts of Papua New Guinea and are likely to be its leaders for many years to come. [More…]
They are very much aware that the highlanders are ceasing to be the conservative people who they were once and they are also aware that younger leaders are emerging and that if they are cultivated they will add strength to the present Government and that if they are ignored they will become opponents. [More…]
I believe that these policies will correct the mismanagement and the chaos into which this Government has turned this most important area of welfare. [More…]
It bothers me to leave that amount in the hands of men of the character of the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen), the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) and their contemptible ilk. [More…]
With her colleagues, other members of the ministerial staff, and the staff of the International Women’s Year Secretariat, she arranged for necessary supplies to be sent to the women of Darwin. [More…]
She arranged for women to be helped and given advice as they arrived in the southern States from beleagured Darwin. [More…]
She arranged for supplies of basic necessities to be sent to the women who remained. [More…]
Mothers were without refrigerators to keep milk cool for their children- one can imagine that in the tropics during the summer time or the wet season- women were without basic clothes, women needed to know that other Australian women cared for them. [More…]
The efforts of Elizabeth Reid showed to all those brave women of Darwin that there were Australian women who, regardless of politics, cared for the women of Darwin and it was those women of Darwin who were deeply touched and given extra spirit to get to work alongside their men and rebuild Darwin as their home city, as they are now doing. [More…]
Since her appointment, Elizabeth Reid has been criticised for some of the administrative actions of the Women’s Year movement. [More…]
I am not qualified to comment on that criticism. [More…]
However I am qualified to comment on her actions and those of her colleagues during the Darwin emergency. [More…]
The private citizens of the city, both men and women, whom Elizabeth Reid helped so very much during those days, are fighting back. [More…]
Men of that calibre have been aptly described as political cowards. [More…]
The people of Australia need to be told that the Leader of the Opposition is afraid to match himself against the Prime Minister in the national Parliament and chooses instead to hide behind an army of script writers and political press secretaries who prescribe his daily thoughts for him. [More…]
Firstly, she applied for assistance under NEAT in October 1974 when the then Minister boasted that NEAT did not discriminate against women and that both men and women had the right to qualify in their own right. [More…]
She was told to contact the St Kilda Commonwealth Employment Service office when she heard from her institution that she had been accepted. [More…]
These 2 young men, when John McEwen was away, took their stand in the Cabinet and fought their own Cabinet on an issue that was of vital importance to this country. [More…]
For example, in those early weeks following the onslaught of cyclone Tracy, the Government spent $74.7m in providing food, clothing and shelter for the homeless, evacuating 26 000 residents, restoring essential services and providing men from the armed forces to undertake the massive clean-up of debris that covered Darwin. [More…]
In this Parliament the work of the Government was recognised. [More…]
Revlon and Estee Lauder, top names in the high fashion skin game, are fighting cap, tooth, lick and nail for the millions of dollars their research people tell them are available from men who are ready for cosmetics and skin care. [More…]
Bronzers, wrinkle creams and moisturizers are all being peddled in terms so butch and so masculine that a Braggi advertisement, for instance, begins to make you feel as if you would as soon leave the house without your testicles as leave without your makeup kit. [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately, but needlessly, created Australia’s worst unemployment for 10 years? [More…]
Or to the same men who have presided over the worst inflation for 20 years? [More…]
Are you prepared to maintain at the head of your affairs a coalition which has lurched into crisis after crisis, embarrassment piled upon embarrassment week after week? [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately, but needlessly, created Australia’s worst unemployment for 10 years? [More…]
Or to the same men who have presided over the worst inflation for 20 years? [More…]
I urge its implementation with great speed because not only do the roads need resurfacing, repairing and maintaining but also the road construction workforce in the Northern Territory is in dire straits. [More…]
If work is not brought forward very soon many of the contractors will have to let their plant, equipment and men leave the Territory. [More…]
I notice in the program a recommendation that the roads be rebuilt to a width of 7.4 metres which is 22 feet or thereabouts. [More…]
Many years ago I recommended to the then Government and the Director of Works in Darwinwho is still there, thank goodness, because he happens to be a very keen road builder- that the cost of maintaining these narrow bitumen roads is very often in excess of the original construction cost of a road of suitable width in the first place. [More…]
I put on record that I am very proud of my Department. [More…]
It is an extremely good Department, run by dedicated officers. [More…]
The head of the Department, Sir Hugh Ennor, is an excellent Australian citizen with a first class record in science. [More…]
He has the active backing and dedicated support of men like the First Assistant Secretary, Mr Jack Lonergan, Mr Paul Free and a whole bracket of people immediately beneath them and no doubt further down the line too, who are really dedicated to the work they are doing. [More…]
They are at all times aware of the position that a Minister holds within the Department. [More…]
They accept the Minister’s judgment graciously. [More…]
If a Minister’s judgment does not accord with their own judgment not only do they accept it but they also then do everything that is humanly and physically possible to make a success of the Minister’s judgment. [More…]
I put on record that I am extremely proud of my Department and of the officers in it. [More…]
The way to do that is to control the mass media, by abolishing the free Press, by setting up government newspapers and radio stations, by censorship and even by gaoling and deporting newspaper men and women as has happened in India. [More…]
Because of the system to which Dr J. F. Cairns often refers this Government has to find a way to live with the free Press just as it has to live with a free enterprise society, although that may irk the Government. [More…]
There are now between 800 and 1000 speech writers, researchers, public relations experts and journalists employed by the Government or by government authorities. [More…]
The Government is bleeding the heart of the news industry by taking some of its most senior and experienced men and women. [More…]
As journalists become more and more dependent on the Government for employment and as the mass media employs fewer and fewer journalists because of cost pressures causing closures and economies, the classic socialist climate is reached and the balance of journalistic employment begins to transfer from the private to the public sector. [More…]
If honourable members talk to media men and to reporters in this Parliament, they will know that those persons have all had their winges to every member in this chamber. [More…]
Over the period of time since the school cadets were established I doubt whether one would find many men who had undergone that training who would not admit that it had been of value to them. [More…]
The Minister mentioned the disappointment of the cadets, the parents and the schools concerned. [More…]
But for his information I inform him that these are not the only people who have expressed disappointment. [More…]
Many, many people who have no connection whatsoever with the cadet training system have expressed dismay and disappointment that such a decision was made. [More…]
These men are respected by the cadets who seek the advice of their instructors both on and off the parade ground on all sorts of matters. [More…]
-I wish to consider the banishment of the cadet corps and remarks of the Minister for Defence (Mr Morrison) about the cost of the cadet corps. [More…]
At this time when the average strength of the infantry battalion is standing at about 500 as against the 900 it should be, I think that any means of engendering interest in the Army would be grabbed at by the Minister and the Labor Government. [More…]
I say this in spite of the apparent increase in the number of men joining the Army. [More…]
What action is the Australian Government, this Labor Government which has tacitly supported Fretilin ever since that particular fracas has been ensuing, going to take? [More…]
I have heard it said by the Fretilin men themselves that they have both types of communists in their ranks. [More…]
Now I suppose they are being whitewashed by this Government and probably parts of the media because it is obvious that this is what is happening. [More…]
That is what the Fretilin men have said; I have heard them say it. [More…]
I want to know what the Government is doing about it. [More…]
Does the Government care who governs in Timor? [More…]
Does the Government know of any training assistance that Fretilin received from left-wing supporters outside the country? [More…]
Does the Government know that the Australian rations and medical supplies which were taken to Timor in the early periods of that rather disastrous confrontation were going only to Fretilin supporters? [More…]
Mention is made in the report of the Sir Bedivere class of general purpose ship. [More…]
I take it that this type of ship will be able to land men and tanks anywhere around Australia. [More…]
In the meantime how does equipment such as logistic supplies or whatever find its way from down south to any northern area that may have to be defended? [More…]
Have we a tank carrier that is capable of carrying the Leopard tank over even a bitumen road? [More…]
I do not think that very much in the Defence estimates indicates that this Government is interested in that area. [More…]
Let me repeatbecause it does not seem to get through least of all to the newspapers- the advice that I received from the Defence Force Development Committee, which is the most authoritative source of advice available to any Minister for Defence. [More…]
This advice comes from men who not only have experience but also have served many governments. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development said: ‘Yes, that seems fine. [More…]
The Premier of New South Wales offered men but not finance. [More…]
He offered men from the Water Conservation and Irrigation Commission and men from the Department of Public Works. [More…]
Of course local government was seriously affected and wished to become involved. [More…]
The Minister for Urban and Regional Development then said: ‘I would like to appoint the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation to conduct the survey and I will give to that area, by way of an area improvement grant, $5,000 for that survey to be carried out’. [More…]
The area improvement plan has gone a long way to helping the local government authorities in my region to identify themselves as part of the region, as part of an exciting region. [More…]
It is a region which, after many years of neglect and after many years during which local government has been deprived of resources, has not been able to maximise the opportunities that nature has bestowed on it. [More…]
It has been deprived of the normal beautification aspects of a city which grow with a city that has a much slower rate of development. [More…]
Under the area improvement plan it has been possible to provide Queanbeyan with a youth facility. [More…]
The area improvement plan, in conjunction with the Young Men’s Christian Association, has made a major contribution to the youth of Queanbeyan. [More…]
I have moved this motion with the object of bringing home to the Australian people the appalling fact that this Government, and more precisely the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) with his henchman the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), will be judged, if their shabby history is ever recorded, as the architects of disaster for an industry which was the envy of the world, an industry that established us a Mecca for huge development and for rich investment. [More…]
Through the high quality of housing and amenities it provided instant comfort, community happiness and comradeship in settlements which were established almost overnight in many remote parts of this land. [More…]
The Minister for Minerals and Energy, encouraged by a group of radical academics, most of them no doubt sharing his sick, obsessional class hatred, men who have not one iota of genuine, practical experience of the mining industry, set out to gain complete control over oil and mineral production in Australia and finally to take over the control of this nation’s mineral resources. [More…]
If the relationship between the States and the Australian Parliament is ever to change it is surely a matter for the States to decide whether it should change and the way in which it should change. [More…]
This being so, then surely if the relationship between the States and the Australian Parliament is to change we must allow the States to change that relationship with us. [More…]
One certainly assumes that if this change ever becomes part of the law of the land, the Governments of the States and the Australian Government will at some stage in the future be able to sit down as rational men notwithstanding the difficulties which the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) described. [More…]
In those circumstances why can we not just put the matter right as sensible men should do? [More…]
We would get an instrument of change. [More…]
I agree with one of the earlier speakers who said that if this can be brought about it will be one of the most momentous changes for good in the future- I am not talking about next week or in 6 months time, I am talking of 10 years, 20 years, 50 years or 100 years- that will have been brought about in the Australian Constitution, because it will introduce an element of flexibility which, at the moment, is completely lacking. [More…]
The relationship between the States and the Australian Parliament at the moment is not what they want it to be at all. [More…]
I cannot think of any State government which would say: ‘The relationship is ideal; let it continue.’ [More…]
I cannot think of any Australian government, whether it be of an Australian Labor Party or of a Liberal-Country Party coalition persuasion which would say: ‘The relationship is ideal; let it continue.’ [More…]
Surely the States and the Australian Parliament should be able to do the same thing. [More…]
As I say, this is a statement founded in deceit. [More…]
The Government cannot rip up sections of the Constitution and then come in here and plead ignorance of them. [More…]
The Prime Minister knows as well as I do that if men of goodwill had got together they could have solved this problem. [More…]
The Prime Minister has come into the Parliament tonight with a 21 -page statement. [More…]
On page 19 of that statement he states: [More…]
I readily agreed to the incorporation in Hansard of the statement to which the Prime Minister has referred as being hastily drawn up during the luncheon adjournment. [More…]
Let honourable members read this statement and let the most senior legal occupant of any bench in the Parliament advise me whether that document could have been drawn up at lunch time. [More…]
It is like the stories my dear friend the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) tells about the men on the bench in the outer Barcoo and other areas asking counsel: ‘Are expressions such as .—-Il:- unius est exclusio alterius frequently used in the Barcoo?’ [More…]
Fancy during a luncheon adjournment drawing up a 3-page agreement between parties such as Islanders, a nation such as Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
The only person who has advocated publicly some form of solution, and he was supported by his Government, was the Queensland Premier. [More…]
That was the national park that the Government subscribed to. [More…]
I am not accepting the twenty-one or twenty-two page document put together tonight. [More…]
As I say, without trying to assume false modesty, there were men of goodwill trying to draw different boundaries. [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…]
On the tenth anniversary of the coup, the counter-coup, the massacres and the mass incarcerations in Indonesia I believe it is my responsibility as an individual member of Parliament to join the occasional voices from Australian universities and student organisations, churches, trade unions, lawyers associations, and so on which have been heard as have similar voices from other countries. [More…]
In today’s world of atrocities people too easily become accustomed to continuing reports of cruel and inhuman treatment to human beings of whom they know little. [More…]
But if we ignore infringements of liberty, freedom and the rights of men and women throughout the world we cheapen the respect we hold for our own freedoms and we move closer to the total enslavement of all mankind. [More…]
We can offer this money to the whole of the youth of the community, not just to 5 per cent of the eligible youth in Australia and not only to 16 per cent of the schools in Australia Unemotionally I believe that the cadet system in Australia did offer something to those young men who participated. [More…]
For one who contends that he has such a fierce regard for the proprieties of Parliament, the issuance of a Press statement by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in respect of this matter must surely be the frankest repudiation of that view. [More…]
Parliament is sitting. [More…]
Why is it that the honourable gentlemen has not found that simple sense of courage to come into the House and tell the House what is in this statement. [More…]
We are dealing with a matter which touches the very heart, soul and integrity of government, and that is the capacity of men and women who sit in Parliament to tell the truth. [More…]
He arranged for his contingent of Home Guards to dress themselves up as tramway men, with uniforms and hats and everything on. [More…]
At the given point the Home Guards, dressed as tramway men, pounced upon the police station, held the inspector in charge and put everybody under guard. [More…]
I was about to complete my second reading speech on the Repatriation Acts Amendment Bill (No. [More…]
As honourable members will recall, I was saying that again our actions in the field of repatriation have demonstrated a deep desire on behalf of the Australian Labor Party to see that our ex-service men and women receive the benefits to which they are justly entitled. [More…]
There is no doubt in my mind that since 1972 the Australian Labor Party Government has demonstrated far more readily its interest in the welfare of our returned service men and women than did the previous government. [More…]
I should like our ex-Service organisations, be they Navy, Army or Air Force, to compare our attitude, our achievements and our benefits to them with the previous benefits given by the Liberal-Country Party Government. [More…]
There is no doubt that they will see that the Australian Labor Party Government since 1972 has demonstrated that it is interested in the welfare of ex-servicemen and ex-servicewomen. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. ‘ [More…]
Mr CHIPP (Hotham) (12.0)-Mr Deputy Speaker, because of the Government’s reaction in refusing to accept the Opposition’s suggestion that the Social Services Bill (No. [More…]
We know the names of the men concerned because they were all named in the Melbourne Age of 21 September in an article headed appropriately enough: ‘A victory for the manipulators- Hamer Government gives in to lobby groups’. [More…]
We should not close our eyes to the costs which are incurred both nationally and at a State level when urban and regional development is allowed to go by default as was the case in the 23 years between the return of the Liberal Party to power at the end of 1949 and its fall from power at the end of 1972. [More…]
We would not be faced with these massive backlogs if we had earlier recognised the unavoidable costs that are incurred as a community when urban and regional development is allowed to go by default to men of the stamp of those whose records I have quoted from the Melbourne Age this afternoon. [More…]
When we allow these aspects to go by default, when we let handsome profits be reaped by private individuals involved in the development process, the whole community bears the cost and ultimately that cost is sheeted home to the taxpayer. [More…]
-The purpose of this Bill, as the Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) has already pointed out, is to establish an Australian Maritime College and to provide the machinery for the planning and development of such a college. [More…]
I have, for a long time, been an advocate of the need for improved training of the men who are charged with the operation of ships. [More…]
It seems foolish in any sense to insist on high standards of construction and equipment without similar requirements for the men who are charged with the operation of the ships. [More…]
If a shipowner wants to select his own men before they begin training, then I would think that owner would make some form of payment to those men. [More…]
We have seen reports in recent weeks of welders being paid more than $30,000 a year and of the unions waging strike action against contractors on trumped up excuses which have had no relevance to wage justice or the legitimate working conditions and requirements of the men engaged in this work. [More…]
The men have gone back to work today after accepting an offer of wage indexation on top of their previously negotiated award. [More…]
The men made it clear from the start that they wanted to work and it is a pity that the union leaders did not take more notice of their rank and file. [More…]
The vote was about ninety-five against going on strike and six in favour and yet the men. [More…]
It would be a help if the Government could use its newly acquired powers over vessels engaged in off-shore industry to curb these flagrant abuses which the left wing unions are making in this industry. [More…]
The wage levels, crewing requirements and living conditions which have been imposed on Australian shipowners make it quite uneconomic for Australian vessels to compete against vessels flying foreign flags, especially those registered in flag of convenience countries. [More…]
There does not exist in Australia the incentive for men to go to sea to earn their living. [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…]
The political immorality of the Opposition is demonstrated further by the grossly improper incitement of non-Labor State governments to restrain the Governors of the States from exercising their duties under the Australian Constitution in relation to periodic Senate elections. [More…]
The years 1975 or 1976 could see the first time in the 75 years during which Australia has had a national Parliament, the first of the 25 occasions on which a Governor-General has put such requests to the State Governors, that a Premier advises a Governor to disregard constitutional practice, to fail in the duty which the Constitution imposes on a Governor. [More…]
This outrage would be at the behest of the Federal Council of the Liberal Party last Sunday- the faceless men of the Liberal Party. [More…]
In defence it would mean the end of recruitment and a reduction in strength as a result of such a policy, of 6 000 men. [More…]
Every man, woman and child knows that the Government has the numbers in this place. [More…]
He should go and ask the other House of Parliament what it thinks of the Government; then he will get an answer. [More…]
Well, certainly it is a coward’s castle today when the Prime Minister comes in here trying to get an endorsement, trying to get support. [More…]
There are, I believe, some good decent men on the Government side of the House, but how long are they going to put up with this Prime Minister? [More…]
How much longer are people like the present Minister for Overseas Trade (Mr Crean), the honourable member for Cunningham, the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and the honourable member for Sydney (Mr Cope) the former Speaker of this House- all these people who were just dumped, who were sacrificed, who were good loyal Labor men with a long tradition associated with - [More…]
This is a dishonest Government. [More…]
The place for dishonest men is in gaol, not in the national Parliament. [More…]
This whole sad business began with the actions of 4 men- the Prime Minister, the former Deputy Prime Minister, the former Attorney-General and the former Minister for Minerals and Energy. [More…]
What did those 4 men do? [More…]
The forthcoming Senate election is more than a party political contest; it is an election which will call upon the electorate to decide whether a government elected for a constitutional term of 3 years should or should not be allowed to complete its constitutional term. [More…]
If an elected government is not to be permitted to govern for its full constitutional term, why have elections at all? [More…]
But he will not give the Whitlam Government a full 3-year term to correct all of the evils of 23 years of rotten Liberal government. [More…]
He even rings up the Press barons in order that the Press men, the working reporters, will not be free to speak the truth and to publish the truth, so that the Press barons will put the jobs of the reporters in peril if they do other than follow the editorials of their newspapers. [More…]
The rich and the privileged Leader of the Opposition wants government by big business, not government by properly elected representatives of the people. [More…]
This Senate election will not be won by the party that gets the most dollars from foreign racketeers who stand to gain so much from the election of a Fraser government. [More…]
The election will be a contest between foreign dollars and Australian votes, the votes of men and women who want to keep Australia Australian and who want parliamentary democracy to remain democratic. [More…]
It is not only the institution of Parliament that is now threatened but also the judiciary, the Public Service and the statutory arms of government are now under threat. [More…]
I challenge the Leader of the Opposition now to deny honourable members opposite need not laugh that he told colleagues that if elected to government he would abolish the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the courts and that he would reconstitute them with people of his own choosing. [More…]
I challenge him to deny that he has told colleagues that he believes that appointments are more important than laws. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition dares to deny that he made these statements to his colleagues I ask the honourable member for Corangamite (Mr Street) to stand up and deny that he was present when the Leader of the Opposition made statements to that effect I challenge Senator Young to stand up in his place and deny that he heard the Leader of the Opposition declare that he would abolish the Commission and the courts and reconstitute them with his own men. [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…]
After all, what is the institution of Parliament without its conventions and traditions? [More…]
Once working people see that their chosen governments are not to be allowed to govern, what is it that will stop them from responding to those memorable lines of Percy Shelley who, in conditions very much like those which will apply when the collapse of the parliamentary system occurs, made this clarion call to the men of England: [More…]
A few men in the Press have seen the light. [More…]
-Men like Eddie Ward, Sol Rosevear and Rowley James have been called rats. [More…]
What a lovely expression when one is talking about members of Parliament who discharged their normal duty. [More…]
The real duty of the people of Australia is to get off their backsides, vote and get rid of these charlatans who are posturing as a government. [More…]
They are barely worthy of the title ‘honourable gentlemen’. [More…]
The Senate does not sack the Government; it gives the people of Australia a chance to do it. [More…]
The people of Australia will put the Government up in the air like an Australian football and kick it out into the middle of the Pacific Ocean, and that is where the Government belongs. [More…]
I am unable to say yet with any certainty what the impact will be except to say this: Within 3 weeks the Government will not be able to meet its commitments in respect of certain works and construction; by the middle of December the Government will not be able to meet some other commitments; and by the end of December it will be completely unable to meet its commitments in the field of construction. [More…]
I cannot believe that in this Parliament there are such cynical and heartless people as would inflict such economic vandalism on the Australian community by persisting with this action. [More…]
I certainly hope that those gentlemen opposite will think their attitude again and will prevail upon their Senate colleagues to allow this Budget to go through before their present action wreaks such havoc on this economy; havoc from which it might well never recover. [More…]
Our opponents might as well face the consequences of their action, because these guilty men will be held responsible and the Australian community will reap from them a very heavy penalty as the price of such economic and political vandalism. [More…]
A constitutional principle of fundamental ‘ importance to the future of parliamentary ( democracy would be breached if the Opposition in the Senate were now allowed to reject these j Bills. [More…]
But the Leader of the Opposition will not be allowed to succeed in wrecking this country and its parliamentary system. [More…]
His only success so far has been to galvanise the entire Labor movement throughout Australia. [More…]
Support for the parliamentary principle goes far beyond our ranks and the real pressure on him is going to come from the overwhelming ‘ majority of decent Australians- not least the overwhelming mass of decent Liberals- men and women- who, whatever their opinion of the Labor Party may be, believe profoundly in the great parliamentary principle which this House < itself and this House alone embodies. [More…]
Could we who are members of this Parliament have had it i more dramatically brought home to us than it was during the lunch hour when a meeting i organised by the Liberal Party, to hear the Leader of the Liberal Party, turned on him and made him flee into the building itself. [More…]
A previous Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, has said that the rejection by a hostile Senate of a Bill of this kind would create ‘an impossible situation and make popular government unworkable’. [More…]
The Government will not stand by and let popular government become unworkable- not now, but more important, for the future. [More…]
From the first weeks of our coming in, the Opposition- the self-anointed, self-appointed men born to rule- showed the lengths to which they would go to disrupt the normal operations of the Government in their quest for power. [More…]
But if we have to use these sexist analogies, the difference between the conduct of the Government and the conduct of the Opposition is the world of difference between the lawful exercise of conjugal rights and the rapist. [More…]
We now have new Khemlani allegations which, coupled to all the rest, tie this Prime Minister in solidly to the misrepresentations, the deceptions, the deceit and the duplicity of this Government. [More…]
We would be derelict in our responsibility to the people of Australia if we did not exert all the influence available to us through the proper constitutional processes not to say who will govern this country but to give the average men and women of Australia an opportunity to vote- a basic right of people in a democracy and a basic right that this Prime Minister seeks to deny. [More…]
If, in their anxiety for power, men lose sight of great principles they can put at risk the safety of their institutions. [More…]
Honourable members opposite are the guilty men. [More…]
I believe that sitting on the Government front bench are honest men who have doubts in their minds about all this, who are asking questions and who will look at the documents to which I have referred. [More…]
There are men, if I can use the statement of the old poet, who can stand before a demagogue and damn his treacherous flattery. [More…]
Honourable members opposite said in their advertisements- paid for undoubtedly by foreign interests- ‘We must do it’. [More…]
Let there be no doubt that in every newspaper in which a full page advertisement appeared the Liberal and National Country parties have taken full responsibility for the action which is to occur. [More…]
They refused and voted against legislation in this Parliament designed to allow the Australian community to see where the money is coming from. [More…]
They are the guilty men. [More…]
They are the men who oppose legislation to require the disclosure of funds. [More…]
I quote here advice that I have received from the Department of Defence. [More…]
The results of the $235m cut over the period would be: Cessation of all recruitment, involving a reduction of service strengths of about 6000 men; cessation of all ordering of major equipment and most minor equipment, including replacements of the CI 30s, the Hercules, additional tanks and the destroyer program; the cancellation- this is precisely what the Opposition’s budget would involve for defence- of defence facilities and housing programs; reduction of Service activities well below ordinary peace time training levels; the elimination of operational training and probably all Australian and international exercises; consequent reductions in repair overall, with resulting effects on dockyards, factories and industries; further substantial restrictions on travel, almost to a zero level; and a nearly complete reduction of the administrative activities which incur significant expenditure. [More…]
Any person in the Government ranks with any sense of fibre would say: ‘That is a challenge to which I will reply and reply willingly. [More…]
These are the frightened men of Australia. [More…]
When the frightened men and women of Australia are submitted to the will of the people of Australia they will be the ones, the members of the Australian Labor Party, who will be swept to utter oblivion. [More…]
The 3 senators I have quoted are all honourable men. [More…]
Did the Opposition want to put fear into the men and women in our defence forces so that they would believe that their salaries, their allowances and other expenditure would not be made available to them? [More…]
I think I have shown quite clearly that in 1968-69 an open-ended Loan Bill such as is this Bill was introduced by the then Government. [More…]
It is the most extraordinary statement relating to defence preparedness that I have heard. [More…]
We know that during the period of this Government ships have been unable to sail because insufficient funds were allotted. [More…]
We know that during the period of this Government men have been unable to train because of the lack of concern by and the lack of funds from this Government. [More…]
We know that aircraft have been unable to fly because the Government could not have cared less whether proper and effective action was being taken. [More…]
Government supporters should not start talking to us about the confusion and concern that they feel. [More…]
It is only now that he is starting to mouth cliches that relate to some form of security and to notions of strategic bases that should have been accepted and analysed by this Government before today. [More…]
The Government swept aside the only realistic strategic assessments that ought to have been made. [More…]
What does the Government think it has done in the United Nations where it is praising its supporters for what great men they are with their so-called influential and independent foreign policy? [More…]
The Government will be the first to offer peace-keeping forces if there is a need for them and the moment its bluff is called and it is asked to provide them it scuttles, just as it scuttled the defence forces of this country. [More…]
I rise to defend the pay of those 1700 men and to defend their wives and their children. [More…]
What we have seen over the past week are statements by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Malcolm Fraser) which are verging on the neurotic. [More…]
The issue of the Senate is one of responsible government. [More…]
Governments are responsible to the House of Representatives; only the House of Representatives can make government operational. [More…]
The Senate cannot keep a government in office. [More…]
Such are the aspirations and ambitions of the men in another place led by the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Two men who have sat in the Acting Prime Minister’s chair have been dismissed in disgrace. [More…]
The Prime Minister was able to dismiss the threat of a judicial inquiry by his ruthless marshalling of his yes men, his numbers. [More…]
-I am very concerned at the highly reprehensible comments by the West Australian. [More…]
The West Australian made the claim in its editorial about the tabling of ‘a politically biased Defence Department report’. [More…]
The Defence Department report was tabled in the House and I think all honourable members have seen it. [More…]
In fact, the two senior advisers to the Government and to the Minister for Defence- the Secretary of the Department, Sir Arthur Tange, and Admiral Sir Victor Smith, the Chairman of the Chiefs of Staff- were not appointed by the Labor Government. [More…]
I do not believe that any responsible peron in this House, and one would hope no responsible editorial writer, would suggest that either of those men was subject to political bias. [More…]
I will consider what he had to say about appointments. [More…]
Let the honourable member for Gippsland or any other member of the Opposition take to task any one of those men who have been appointed. [More…]
They are all men with the highest credentials and integrity that have been appointed to these positions. [More…]
That appointment will be announced at some later stage. [More…]
All this garbage that is tossed out from time to time about Party hacks, about jobs for the boys, is absolute distortion and lies because all the people that we have put on to these various commissions are men who are able to make a contribution. [More…]
We brought in an age retirement requirement which provides that when the people on these commissions reach age 65 they are not reappointed. [More…]
The people who replace the men who retire are men of great integrity who can bring something to the job. [More…]
We have an Australian National Airlines Commission Bill that was amended after negotiation and discussion with him and other members of the Opposition and that does work. [More…]
In the Department of Defence, for example, this action would result in the retrenchment of something in excess of 10 000 servicemen and civilians. [More…]
Further, there would have to be an immediate cessation of all recruitment, which would involve an additional reduction in Service strengths of around 6000 men. [More…]
All orders for major and minor equipment, including the destroyer program and additional tanks, would have to be halted. [More…]
In the Department of Education around 3000 teachers could be expected to be retrenched. [More…]
In the Department of Agriculture the consequences of the Opposition’s proposed cuts would include the following: Government contributions to joint industry research programs would be reduced; no new applications for beef carry-on-loans could be approved; some approvals in the dairy adjustment scheme would have to be cancelled; there could be no further rural reconstruction loans, rural re-establishment loans or wool service credit. [More…]
It goes without saying that there would be absolutely no money at all to implement the Opposition’s extravagant promises to help the beef industry. [More…]
Similar examples of the consequences of the expenditure cuts promised by the Opposition are available for each Government department. [More…]
-The wizardry of the Treasurer (Mr Hayden) in economics is well known to the mounting number of Australians unemployed, to small business men and business women ravaged by accelerating inflation and mounting bankruptcies, to the great rural sector whose desperate plight is well known, to those who are on fixed incomes, the superannuitants of Australia, to those many people who are today being destroyed and will remain destroyed until they die, if this Government remains in office. [More…]
On behalf of the Opposition I can only wish the honourable gentleman greater success in that field than he has had in the area of economic mismanagement. [More…]
The air must now be cleared by the Government to dispel the suspicion and taint of scandal that has enveloped the Labor Administration in the whole of the sordid loans affair which the Treasurer referred to in the latter part of his comments in presenting the Appropriation Bills. [More…]
It is no coincidence that during the course of this parliamentary week I have sought on 3 occasions to raise the loans affair in this national Parliament and on each occasion I have been subjected to a Government gag. [More…]
I can well understand why this Government wants to wash its hands of the loans affair, but that scandal is the most sordid and disgraceful affair which has ever involved any Australian Prime Minister and I say today that the scandal and the sense of dishonesty go right to the top. [More…]
The Prime Minister and his men are guilty of an illegal conspiracy and a cover-up which has no precedent in Australian political history. [More…]
This in fact is part of the context in which these Appropriation Bills and this Government’s credibility and standing both in this Parliament and outside must be judged. [More…]
The Prime Minister has personally suppressed information and held back facts which ought properly to be available to this Parliament and the people. [More…]
He is as guilty as the men around him. [More…]
I ask this House today in consideration of the Appropriation Bills and the Government’s financial standing and credibility: What is the Prime Minister hiding? [More…]
Why does he refuse to table all of the documents? [More…]
I have here more documents. [More…]
They are not the only documents the Opposition has in relation to the loans affair, but as I recall it the Prime Minister is on the record as saying that all of the relevant documents have been published in the House. [More…]
Why has that document not been produced. [More…]
On 2 occasions those lies, lies deliberately told to me, have led to the dismissal of two of this country’s most senior Ministerswho can over-emphasise the seriousness of that fact- men who have acted during periods as Prime Minister of Australia. [More…]
It was this Prime Minister who refused to appoint a royal commission or judicial inquiry as demanded by every leading newspaper in Australia and by the Opposition in this Parliament. [More…]
It is not a constitutional crisis that we face at the moment Let no one be misled by those who say that it is a constitutional crisis. [More…]
The political crisis has been brought about by the actions of dishonest men within a dishonest Government. [More…]
Three of those men have either left or been sacked. [More…]
It is no longer tenable for this Government to say that it commands the support of the Australian people. [More…]
I have the greatest pleasure in supporting the amendment moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Professional men and strong trade unions adjust their incomes upwards just as fast as or faster than prices. [More…]
This is a dishonest government. [More…]
Any dishonest government should not govern any country at all. [More…]
How he can dissociate himself from the actions of these men who were senior Ministers who were Acting Prime Ministers, I fail to see. [More…]
And this Government says it is governing well! [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…]
Mr Khemlani, still using the car, and the men then disappeared into room 49- the room adjoining the motel shoe-shine box. [More…]
He stayed locked in his room while the staff members stayed huddled in a corner sifting through his 8 suitcases of documents. [More…]
Last night Mr Khemlani was locked up with 2 Opposition front benchers, Mr Bob Ellicott and Mr John Howard, going through suitcases full of documents. [More…]
What must he think of Australia- his life was endangered by high speed car chases in Commonwealth cars; his bags were searched by bearded investigators, and as far as we know they were not false beards; he was booked into a $23 a night room next to a shoe shine box yet his bags were booked into a $33 a night international hotel; he was locked up all afternoon with bearded men and then all night with 2 members of the Opposition - [More…]
Leader of the Opposition lay charges against any officer who has destroyed documents. [More…]
If he has no evidence for these outrageous and damaging accusations, let him keep silent or apologise to the men and women whose integrity he has impugned. [More…]
The Opposition is not without honourable men in the Senate; but the hypocrisy of the Opposition ‘s grab for power is exposed for all to see. [More…]
Or let it take the proper course that has always been adopted in the past of passing the Appropriation Bills for the services of the Government. [More…]
I pointed out last week that on 139 occasions Appropriation and Supply Bills had been passed by the Senate, although the Government of the day did not have a majority in the Senate. [More…]
As the honourable member for Wentworth said: ‘There is no direct evidence in the documents I saw which involves the Prime Minister’. [More…]
The nation is increasingly disenchanted with the desperate efforts of desperate men in the Opposition who have endeavoured to pave their way to government with dishonesty. [More…]
The Prime Minister claimed in a speech that 139 appropriation Bills passed the Senate when the government did not have a majority in the Senate. [More…]
Make no mistake about it: Every one of those scared men on the other side of the House is running from the electorate. [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…]
Of course, and this is the point, the Labor Caucus and the trade union movement outside Parliament are more significant than the people. [More…]
None of the fear tactics that these little men in the Government seek to provoke will be successful. [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…]
Yet the telexes demonstrate that the Government, with the knowledge of the Prime Minister because all those telexes passed across his desk, knew that a hidden commission was payable through an addition to the interest rate. [More…]
The whole nature of those transactions was within the knowledge of 4 men. [More…]
One of them has left the Parliament and gone to the High Court; two have left the Ministry; one remains as Prime Minister. [More…]
What has happened to those documents that were in that Paris bank? [More…]
What was the involvement of the Reserve Bank? [More…]
The third charge is the absolutely deplorable behaviour of the Treasurer, condoned by the Prime Minister, in prematurely releasing Budget documents in a totally unprecedented fashion to the President of the Australian Labor Party, the master of the parliamentary members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Was it because the President of the Australian Labor Party had said that the answer the Treasurer gave in the House on 22 October was inaccurate and that more than those 3 men knew about that particular transaction? [More…]
Honourable members will remember that the Treasurer said that only 3 men knew about it. [More…]
Three men! [More…]
He said: ‘I have not spoken with anyone on this issue; there were only 3 men involved.’ [More…]
Subsequently, in December 1974, the then Acting Prime Minister, the now deposed Dr J. F. Cairns, one of the honest men in this Parliament, confirmed and endorsed what the then Minister had said. [More…]
We do not blame this Minister because we realise it must be a tremendous embarrassment for him. [More…]
He in fact is simply carrying the can for the rest of the Government. [More…]
Why did the honourable gentleman not provide a Budget briefing to a person such as the Director-General of the Associated Chambers of Manufactures of Australia so that in terms of the theory which the honourable gentleman proposes in relation to briefings of this type the Director-General might be better able to ensure that the Budget was accepted by business men? [More…]
For example in Queensland, prior to the State election late last year and again early this year, hundreds of men employed on road projects were either sacked or threatened with lay-offs because the Queensland Government withheld funds for local government and arterial roads. [More…]
The Queensland Government claimed it was forced to do this because the Australian Government had not made available funds for roads. [More…]
This place can only be won with sufficient resources, men and money. [More…]
They have moved 2 censure motions in a week in this Parliament. [More…]
Only a week ago this Parliament passed a vote of confidence in the Australian Government. [More…]
Today the Leader of the Opposition came into the Parliament not to speak on the Bills before it but to apologise for the waning enthusiasm of his supporters in a campaign that has been condemned by all Australian people. [More…]
As Steele Hall said, he is carrying the votes of dead men in his pocket in another place. [More…]
What would he say if Sir John Kerr, the Governor-General, made a similar statement in support of the Government? [More…]
Fraser and others scurrying in the door of Parliament House. [More…]
Money is coming in in thousands because people will not see democracy destroyed by a collection of individuals opposite who exist on dead men’s votes. [More…]
This Government had not been elected for more than a few months when the Opposition plotted to withdraw Supply from it and to stop its flow of money. [More…]
Now today it comes again and seeks to put the Government out. [More…]
We have faced up to this position and have let the people realise that if the Senate is not stopped on this occasion under the domination of men such as those who sit opposite, the Leader of the Opposition and the right honourable Leader of the National Country Party (Mr Anthony), every three or four months in this country the people will face an election when we come for Supply. [More…]
It is because when the pay packets cease this Government will not be blamed but those who sit opposite will be blamed for stopping people with families from getting their pay. [More…]
They will be blamed when the contractors are closing down, when the funds are not available to provide housing for the people, when work in the Northern Territory is stopping, when in the Australian Capital Territory men cannot get paid and industry is slowing down; when all over this country unemployment is mounting simply because the money is not available due to the action of the Liberal and Country Party senators. [More…]
1 ) What was the nature of the research program conducted by the Young Men’s Christian Association of Australia, which was funded by a grant from the Australian Government. [More…]
1 ) A grant of $6,000 was made available to the Young Men’s Christian Association of Australia (YMCA) to commence data collation and assessment as an initial stage in the creation of a Division within the YMCA to conduct further research into youth needs and the development of resources and planning. [More…]
While I would not say that its report is in Augustan prose, nevertheless it is very wide-ranging and valuable document and I take this opportunity in the Parliament to express the appreciation of the Government, and I believe of all honourable members, of those busy men who spent so much time investigating these matters and so much time in reaching the remarkable consensus they did. [More…]
The Budget, in its essential elements, will survive even if the present Government does not. [More…]
It will survive because the men who instigated it in the Treasury are committed to it and the Opposition has no coherent alternative. [More…]
The Docker River Council men could not convey their ideas and beliefs easily in a telegram so unless you can visit here prior to a debate they wish that great care be had in ensuring that Aboriginal groups be involved in the entire planning and implementation of such Bills. [More…]
How much were these men paid, and what expenses were provided. [More…]
How many of these men were appointed to the Australian Dairy Corporation by the former Minister. [More…]
I come back to a proposition which was put by the honourable member for Wentworth (Mr Ellicott) a few moments ago when he suggested that the operation of this legislation be restricted for the time being to the Northern Territory so that we can see how it goes. [More…]
This leads to another difficulty which is quite fundamental. [More…]
I am not trying to criticise the Bill or the Government. [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…]
This proposal is an experiment. [More…]
It is the gathering together of the needs of the whole of the continent and bringing them into this legislation because this one Parliament has responsibility for all the continent. [More…]
I suppose that as one of the early Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs in this Government I can only regret that we did not have this machinery with which to start back in the beginning in 1972, so that by this time we could have worked it out, made any amendments that were necessary and be working in a different way. [More…]
I have had contact with a number of Aboriginal communities in which, technically speaking, the spokesmen were one group of men but the actual power lay with others, as it does in so many communities. [More…]
Varying degrees of achievement are in evidence around Australia but we must bear in mind that we have 41 Aboriginal electorates covering the whole of Australia. [More…]
Their degree of sophistication exceeds that of nonAboriginal people in local government areas in New South Wales, for example. [More…]
The honourable gentleman talked about our seeking to require both men and women to vote and that that could be at variance with Aboriginal practices. [More…]
I understand that it is in some parts of Australia at least, but he should note that there is no obligation for Aboriginal women to vote or for Aboriginal men to vote in this situation unless they choose to do so. [More…]
The legislation makes specific mention of that. [More…]
It is not sufficient that the Parliament should simply approve legislation setting up a framework within which land rights can be legally handed over to Aboriginal communities. [More…]
But we should not suppose that a group of people- a body of men and women- able to accept these highly specialised responsibilities will arise spontaneously. [More…]
I warn the Minister that if he receives and mentions telegrams from the northern land council- from Bathurst Island, Melville Island and many other areas, but Bathurst Island in particular- in support of the Bill he should realise that there were 2 Aborigines, one part coloured, on the land council, and seven were what one might call ‘heavies’, department men or legal advisers. [More…]
As I said, the main thrust of my speech today is to ask the Government to treat the Opposition’s proposal as a sincere amendment. [More…]
There are legal men amongst them. [More…]
One of the Independent members described this Bill in words which roughly meant that it was one of the greatest pieces of parliamentary hogwash he had ever seen. [More…]
The Assembly passed a motion- the honourable member for Wentworth read it so I will not repeat it- which stated that the Assembly should send a delegation to the Parliament of the Commonwealth to discuss this matter, to appear before it to give evidence and to advise. [More…]
Surely to goodness this Government will have enough sense to take some notice of the people in the Northern Territory and what they say about this matter. [More…]
Those 2 men were far more far sighted and far more considerate of the Territory and its future than the honourable member for Casey who gets up in this place and just slangs everyone left, right and centre with little or no knowledge. [More…]
Those men realise that both black and white must work together for the future of the Aborigines in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I assure the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, who is at the table, and the Government that if this Bill goes through in its present form it will be an even greater disaster for everyone in the Northern Territory. [More…]
If they want any help from Mr Allum, the Department of Aboriginal Affairs man at Gove, or Warren Paul they get it. [More…]
They are both quite capable men; they are administrators and are experienced. [More…]
In passing, I observe that one of the ‘constitutionalists’, the law and order men, the men of principle, in the Opposition demonstrated his fine appreciation of constitutional principle by saying that this Government’s term of 3 years is already up! [More…]
I believe that it has tended to cement excellent relations with these countries. [More…]
I also want to mention that the Australians working overseas- there are a number of them associated with these aid projects- are highly regarded and their skills are second to none. [More…]
They are men and women who have offered a great deal from Australia and are great ambassadors for this country. [More…]
This Bill seeks to amend the Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Act 1967-74 to permit the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority to refund to the Fremantle Port Authority amounts equal to such parts of the stevedoring industry charge as the Authority considers appropriate for the purposes of meeting the long service leave and pension entitlements of a waterside worker in respect of persons who, prior to their registration as waterside workers, were employed as crane drivers by the Fremantle Port Authority. [More…]
The conditions of their employment have been the subject of direct agreement between the Fremantle Port Authority and the Waterside Workers Federation. [More…]
As employees of a Western Australian Government statutory authority, the men enjoy long service leave and pension benefits which are more generous than those to which registered waterside workers are entitled under existing stevedoring legislation. [More…]
This amendment is therefore necessary in order that the long service leave and pension components of the stevedoring industry charge in respect of the men be reimbursed to the Port Authority, the Port Authority already making provision for them. [More…]
Universities should hold fast to the belief that in them men may pursue intellectual curiosity and speculation even when it appears to have no practical usefulness whatsoever. [More…]
But I am speaking of an important difference- a difference that is important to young men and women who will be the future Australia. [More…]
The panel that was charged with reporting on the arrangements for the amalgamation and not for the need was obviously acutely aware of this problem. [More…]
It is because of this risk that most of all I support the Opposition’s amendment that expresses our reservations about the need and the desirability of amalgamating these 2 commissions. [More…]
I am afraid that there always is a tendency among Aboriginal men to try, out of politeness, to agree with you whatever you say. [More…]
What would the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) and the honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) say, if they were free men to speak their minds, about their Prime Minister? [More…]
I am of the belief- I am probably of a generous nature- that both of these men acted as dedicated Labor members believing that they were following through Australian Labor Party policy and that when the heat on the Prime Minister got too hot he dumped them; he cut them short. [More…]
I think it is unfortunate that these men will now go down in the history books as discredited men merely because they were loyal to their own Prime Minister. [More…]
In times of adversity men come forward- and in this case I would spell Men with a capital. [More…]
In many ways adversity is a major requirement in forming character, and character is what is needed to control this House in a dignified and proper fashion. [More…]
These forces used every possible device available to them to topple in a most unethical way the most progressive government Australia has had. [More…]
The Australian people should never be allowed to forget the shabby intrigues, the misuse of power and the blatant denigration of honesty, integrity and morality which were used by power hungry men to achieve their tawdry ends. [More…]
There can be little joy in the hearts of decent men sitting opposite when they reflect on the methods used to gain office. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition tried to achieve the impossible when he led the fateful government of Australia- fateful’, I said, not ‘faithful’. [More…]
Unlike the great dreamers we do not propose to try to carry mankind on some great wave of discovery to a new world of enlightenment based on socialism to an environment in which men and women lack the capacity to make decisions for themselves according to their inclinations and in their own way. [More…]
Tonight we have heard the first of the maiden speeches to be made in this Thirtieth Parliament. [More…]
They are a credit to the men who made them and to the Parliament as a whole. [More…]
We are very fortunate that we have a large crop of what is obviously very good talent in this Parliament. [More…]
I hope that all of these members are able to spend a long time in this Parliament. [More…]
-The tragedy of the election of 1975 was that a number of reasonable men in the Labor Party lost their seats. [More…]
We have heard a great deal from the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) about the deceit and the lies and things of this nature which allegedly have been forthcoming from this Government since its assumption of office last December. [More…]
I think there is a strong argument that the Opposition men, shadows thereof, should spend some time being constructive if they are to contribute to the parliamentary session into which we are now entering. [More…]
Our side of the Parliament has a legacy of 3 years of total mismanagement and of gross inability to handle the Australian economy. [More…]
The tasks that are facing this new Government are immense. [More…]
I sincerely hope that the Government will continue to give thorough and deliberate thought to the redress of the imbalance that exists in the economy and then to act decisively to do something about it. [More…]
There is no doubt that there will be no progress in our economy until the problems of unemployment and inflation are overcome. [More…]
Then the beef cattle industry was staggering under international market conditions to a point where the producers were fighting not for development but for survival. [More…]
But the thousands of people in the towns who depend on this industry- the subcontractors, the railway men who get their bit of overtime- were affected. [More…]
It is forever to the shame of members of the Opposition that when in government they brought that industry to its knees. [More…]
We had the terrible experience recently of 13 of those men being killed, deep in the heart of the Kennedy electorate. [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…]
We were made, undeservedly, to look guilty men. [More…]
Let us make sure that there is an amendment and that the people understand it so that if a Senate again rejects supply there will be a double dissolution immediately. [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…]
It is regrettable to see, I believe, and bad for the democratic institution that there is a tendency for the talent of the Party opposite to be represented continually in swinging seats so that when the judgment of the people goes against not necessarily the policy of those men in swinging seats but against the policies of the tired war horses who remain we see, I am afraid, a decimation of talent. [More…]
Australia, in common with all other countries of the Western world, continues to suffer from the twin problems of unemployment of men and women and under-employment of resources on the one hand and an intolerable rate of inflation on the other hand. [More…]
If there were simple solutions and we knew them in this country we would become the Mecca for all statesmen of the Western world. [More…]
I trust that for whatever period I am allowed to hold this position of Parliamentary Labor Party spokesman on Treasury matters I will not be caught giving the impression that there are simple solutions. [More…]
The media barons who sponsored this Government into office want the Australian people to forget the events of Remembrance Day 1975. [More…]
You participated in a conspiracy against our system of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
The Australian people and the Opposition will not rest until the facts are known and brought into public view and the guilty men exposed. [More…]
Has this been further reduced from Budget levels by the Liberal-National Country Party Government’s spending cuts including the apparent deferral of 250 projects valued at $130m in the next financial year? [More…]
What is the reason for this when there is unemployment of men and under-employment of resources in the building industry? [More…]
It is probably very difficult for people like the 2 senior men in the present coalition Government to understand the problems of a substantially migrant, working class electorate in which more than 25 per cent of the voters are recipients of social security payments. [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 men who lived by duplicity and ruthlessness in Opposition intend to live by duplicity and ruthlessness in Government. [More…]
The men who obstructed all economic and social reforms in the last 2 Parliaments are bent on destroying them in this Parliament. [More…]
The men who would make any promise in Opposition will break any promise in Government. [More…]
The men who posed as the party of economic salvation are driving the nation into deeper austerity, more prolonged recession. [More…]
For 3 years his Government cultivated that instinct in this country. [More…]
For 3 years the honourable gentleman led a government which had no understanding of the basic economic issues of the nation, which took the view that there is a short cut to prosperity, that people can live out their days in high comfort, that there is no need to observe any sense of discipline, that reason can be despised. [More…]
No nation has survived on a diet of government of that character in the past. [More…]
It must get back to a clear, firm understanding that there is nothing wrong with this nation that cannot be solved, provided there is a will to solve it; and provided, beyond that, that there are men and women prepared to work to make it so. [More…]
Last week the honourable member for Wills (Mr Bryant) when large electorates were mentioned interjected with ‘camels and spinifex’. [More…]
It is one of the last frontiers of Australia opened up by adventurous, stout-hearted men and women. [More…]
- not by governments but by private individuals, people willing to take risks, to face the dangers and difficulties of isolation and the ‘tyranny of distance’, the apt tide of Professor Geoffrey Blainey’s recent book. [More…]
It is the cause of past ignorance and neglect of the far north by governments- all governments- and now that this side of the House holds all the seats in Queensland north of the Tropic of Capricorn I trust that the northern members will work together to produce an influence, perhaps greater than their numbers, in keeping with the vast wealth and importance of the area. [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…]
It would prefer to put the meat in the chillers and provoke the men to strike when the chillers will hold no more meat. [More…]
I suggest that the Government work with the Pharmacy Guild of Australia. [More…]
The Pharmacy Guild has men and women with great expertise in this field who could combine with the Government and officials of the Department of Health as a working party on restructuring the scheme. [More…]
In the main, the ordinary people perhaps can afford a greater contribution than those disadvantaged groups I mentioned previously. [More…]
Economics today is inadequate and contradictory about inflation because it is concerned only with income and employment in what is assumed to be a competitive system. [More…]
Policy derived from this analysis is mainly relevant to a condition of much less than full employment and suggests, as policy measures, an increase in the propensity to consume and a low rate of interest. [More…]
This is the policy prescription when there is less than full employment. [More…]
When there is less than full employment of plant and machines, what then? [More…]
Although we have a significant amount of unemployment of men and women- 4 per cent or 5 per cent- is it realised that we have a significant amount of unemployment of machines in Australia today? [More…]
If one has to increase the propensity to consume and has to reduce the rate of interest when one has unemployment of men, what does one do when one has unemployment of machines? [More…]
I think that is what the Government is getting ready to do- to reduce the propensity to consume. [More…]
Why, then, has it been overlooked that he has indicated that no fewer than 4 men were asked to oppose him and to direct their preferences to the Liberal candidate? [More…]
-What we want at the moment in this country more than anything else is consumer confidence. [More…]
We want a consumer-led recovery so that the men and women who are unemployed can get back to work and so that the under-employed resources can be used more. [More…]
Instead of this, the Government is putting in jeopardy the whole of the steady recovery which was in train. [More…]
2)- the Budget Bills arising from the Australian Labor Government. [More…]
The main excuse given for doing this was economic mismanagement. [More…]
The latest unemployment figures were very heartening in this regard. [More…]
Furthermore, one only has to look at the surveys of business confidence, such as the surveys of the investment decisions of businessmen, and all those surveys taken while the Australian Labor Government was in charge of this country. [More…]
Then there are the cuts in the Department of Health in relation to pharmaceutical benefits. [More…]
There has been a decrease in the amount of money available to the Department of Health, giving rise to the increase in charges for benefits in the pharmaceutical field. [More…]
Similarly the $29m for the Australian Housing Corporation is worth mentioning. [More…]
So there is this category of tragically unfair inequitable cuts in government spending and all to no purpose, as will be driven home by the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) who will follow me in this discussion- a mania about Budget deficits, a mania which should not exist during a time of underemployment of men and resources. [More…]
How can a cut in the amount of money available to the Department of Construction involving $6m do anything but delay a recovery in the construction industry? [More…]
Does anybody on the government benches in this House suggest that there is not underemployment of men and resources in the construction industry? [More…]
How on earth does it bring about a recovery when there is going to be $6m less available by this deferment of certain capital works? [More…]
The same applies to the $7 5 m cut in funds for the Australian Industry Development Corporation. [More…]
The Corporation may not have suggested that it wanted the money immediately, but any government really concerned about getting this country back on the rails of recovery should have seen that it made every move possible to spend that money. [More…]
Those funds, which were investment funds, would have resulted in men and women in this country getting back into employment. [More…]
History will not stand still for this conservative coalition while the Government pursues its foolish endeavours to reconstruct a blatantly laissez-faire free enterprise, elitist society based on the Prime Minister’s outmoded philosophy of survival of the fittest. [More…]
The Governor-General can talk glibly of this unique opportunity of establishing a ‘liberal, humane society ‘ in the Government’s terms. [More…]
History Will not stand still while the Government endeavours to turn the clock back to some long past golden age of open exploitation of resources and people by the Government’s men of property, by the Government’s corporate partners of the stock exchanges and by the professional people, all of whom have exploited the Australian community for so long. [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…]
He was a Minister of the Government which was in power for 3 years- which, of course, was 3 years too long- and he then had plenty of opportunities to change the Constitution. [More…]
The honourable member’s contribution in the debate to the Constitution was a lamentably poor one. [More…]
I want to say to the honourable member in reply to his remarks, and I am not being vindictive because I have a personal regard for him: Thank heavens we have a written Constitution and thank heavens we have men like Sir Garfield Barwick who can interpret that Constitution according to law and what is said, and not what a power-hungry band of men who want to cling desperately to power hope it might say if words can be bent to suit their insatiable demands. [More…]
Let governments show the way. [More…]
I hope that over the life of this Thirtieth Parliament, under the leadership that will be given by the Government, we can do something meaningful to overcome the problems that inevitably will flow from natural disasters. [More…]
This Government is not the weak reed of Whitlamism bending even in the slightest breeze. [More…]
It is a Government strong in character, resolute in purpose, determined to beat the twin problems of inflation and unemployment whilst not forgetting about the defence of our country. [More…]
Choices will be made but they will be choices made by statesmen and leaders, not men who were mere tools of the communist led trade unions. [More…]
The election of democratically minded Labor men will make unions progressive and trustworthy again. [More…]
They want men who will confront such ferocity with will. [More…]
They want men fostered by those unions which have an almost unlimited capacity to seek the good things in our society. [More…]
They have to oppose such unions as the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, which led by Laurie Carmichael, will have a $10m fee income to spend on activities such as the gestapo tactics employed by certain trade unions in the last election, unions which stood over men demanding money and ordering them to leave their jobs to attend meetings addressed by the former Prime Minister. [More…]
Mr Justice Kerr committed him to gaol and the whole industrial union movement, not just one pan with a certain political complexion, got behind him. [More…]
When I hear a Queenslander talking about responsible Labor men taking positions I can believe only that he is referring to the opinion of his colleague the Premier of Queensland and the former Senator Albert Field. [More…]
Apparently they represent the outstanding Labor men in whom the honourable member believes. [More…]
One can learn a lot during the salutary experience of being out of Parliament. [More…]
The odd thing, however, about some people in politics, some political parties and above all some leaders of political parties, is that they do not seem to learn very much from a period of government or a period of opposition. [More…]
I suggest that there are 2 touchstones, 2 keys in that speech which indicate the Labor Party’s attitude to society and government. [More…]
The first of these themes is the economic issue and, Mr Deputy Speaker, you will recall that the Leader of the Opposition, in his speech the other night said that we on this side of the Parliament were the men who ‘obstructed all economic and social reforms’. [More…]
These were the economic and social reforms which apparently took place in the last 3 years while I was absent from the Parliament. [More…]
This Government was elected by the people and the people are dictating the terms at the moment. [More…]
They made the decision on 13 December to elect this Government. [More…]
I will honour that commitment. [More…]
Although many local authorities throughout Australia are shackled with financial and economic problems, I believe that if they were given the encouragement and incentives to make decisions and to assist in improving the quality of life for the people they represent they would do it admirably. [More…]
Mr Whitlam and his Government were becoming aware of local government. [More…]
I know that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has indicated strongly the intended involvement of the Liberal and National Country Parties in local government. [More…]
Local government is most important. [More…]
Many honourable members have spoken about local government today. [More…]
I think they realise that from grass roots government come men and women who are prepared to right and work for people. [More…]
The money that will go to local government under the Government’s new federalism plan will be in the form of an equalisation or a toppingup grant to be distributed through State grants commissions. [More…]
If local government is to survive it needs real assistance and encouragement. [More…]
I can assure that strata of government that I am aware of its problems and will continually promote its cause. [More…]
We do not believe that the Australian people want a government that takes over from them their responsibility for decisions concerning the manner in which they live. [More…]
It believed that it had the right to tell not only the States and local government but people in every corner of this land what they must do. [More…]
How can any person or any small group of 27 men believe that they have that divine right to determine the fate of every person in this country? [More…]
That was the assumption underlying the previous Government’s philosophy. [More…]
Will he be prepared to stand for the leadership when the Leader of the Opposition resigns, or will he run from the Party and the Parliament? [More…]
To help his fellow men or keep them chained [More…]
On 3 February 1976 the Minister put out a statement confirming a number of people in their positions in the air transport section of the Department of Transport and giving them the right of direct access to the Minister. [More…]
These men all held those positions prior to 1 1 November 1975. [More…]
It is our task to see that Australia is a light in the darkness, a fortress of freedom, a refuge against the tyranny which could crush all men. [More…]
Many journalists reporting on rural affairs and the armchair academics, including some in the position of advisers to politicians and departmental heads, have created a widely held myth that the only thing agricultural exporters need is awareness of modern marketing psychology, an aggressive and centrally co-ordinated sales approach, and a few other assorted phrases of pseudo-economic jargon. [More…]
These same journalists acidly claim that, armed with those invincible weapons, the unimaginative and incompetent little men with brief cases could take overseas markets at their will and magically bring home the hitherto unwon riches that he overseas in a hungry world. [More…]
I believe also that there are evil, clever men in this country who would not only welcome this situation but also are actively working for it to happen. [More…]
This Government has done more than just ignore the suffering it is causing by generating an increase in unemployment. [More…]
It has made the obviously absurd claim that its policies will bring a return to full employment. [More…]
I challenge the Treasurer to place before this House projections of unemployment over the next 18 months prepared by the Treasury on 2 assumptions- firstly, excluding the effects of measures taken by the Government since it came to power and, secondly, allowing for those effects. [More…]
If he will not bring such figures forward, I suggest that he and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) should cease talking nonsense about restoring full employment. [More…]
Let them admit that their policy is a short, sharp shock policy and let them admit that they are deliberately acting to increase unemployment at this time. [More…]
My questions to the Ministry generally during the short period of this new Parliament also have been along these lines. [More…]
The House will be hearing more from me and my colleagues on this subject of the unnecessary waste of men and resources caused by this Government’s ill-founded policies. [More…]
The Government is doing quite the opposite of what is recommended in the Industries Assistance Commission report. [More…]
So it is utter humbug for the Government to say that it is adopting that report. [More…]
Whereas the report says that it should do a certain thing last, the Government is doing it first and neglecting other things which would be of real benefit to the producers. [More…]
It is picking out this measure because it helps the middle men, the friends of the Liberals, the big meat barons. [More…]
The real inconsistency is in the statements of the Government. [More…]
The Minister said that the men were met at the airport by immigration officials and issued with documents. [More…]
Yet these men were supposed to be gun-toting emissaries. [More…]
I have never made any secret about my movements as Prime Minister or as Leader of the Opposition in Australia or overseas. [More…]
When the Attorney-General was aware of the possibility of police investigations into the Labor Party the men concerned had already left the country, and the fact of my meeting with them was public knowledge. [More…]
Mr Street, the Minister representing the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers), was quite baffled this morning when I asked on whose authority and at what expense police “ officers were despatched to another country and under what international agreements they conducted their inquiries of the citizen of another country. [More…]
What would be thought if the next Government were to instigate an inspection of the diaries of police who attended the Governor-General on his visits to Hobart last month or the visits he made in September, October and November last? [More…]
What would be thought if the next Government were to check the call boxes at Government House and Admiralty House to discover which men or which women had gone there last year? [More…]
What would be thought of the next Government if it were to interrogate the official drivers of last year’s Leader of the Opposition about the newspaper proprietors, the bankers, the company directors and the clubs he had visited, or if it were to instigate an interrogation of the official drivers of the Governor-General and the Chief Justice to discover what trysts and rendezvous they had, where they met each other or where they met others in November, October or September last? [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…]
Why do these men, who came into Government in 1972 and purportedly were going to pursue a policy of open government, persistently proceed to hide circumstances which quite obviously should be revealed to this Parliament? [More…]
These circumstances are material not only to the Labor Party, the Labor Party Caucus and the National Executive of the Australian Labor Party but also to the Parliament of Australia. [More…]
If the Leader of the Opposition believes that the assertions by the Prime Minister were the basis for a Commonwealth Police inquiry, why does not the Leader of the Opposition prepare a consistent story and come into this House and make a statement? [More…]
If he would like to come into the Parliament and state his explanation of his involvement in the affair we would be only too pleased to give him leave to do so. [More…]
So, I shall not, as I could, defend myself today and possibly destroy two or three men. [More…]
I come back to the point that these things can be readily established irrespective of the mentality of the Attorney-General or the Prime Minister. [More…]
We cannot run justice according to the peculiarities of the mentality of those men. [More…]
They are approved by this Parliament. [More…]
He said he had information from two or three men. [More…]
If, as suggested, two gentlemen came to Australia with foreign currency there could have been a breach of the regulations, but they have since left without evidence of any breach of the law. [More…]
We are experiencing a time of unemployment and of under employment of resources. [More…]
We must act in a much more sophisticated way than is the LiberalNational Country Party Government. [More…]
We must not allow interest rates to increase to the extent that investment decisions on the margin will not be taken. [More…]
We must not cut government expenditure which would directly and indirectly throw men on the labour market which is already oversupplied with men and women. [More…]
We must not institute a credit squeeze such as is being instituted right now by the Government. [More…]
This credit squeeze will mean that loans will not be available for investment which will use the resources which are not being used right now. [More…]
These are the direct results of Liberal-National Country Party Government policies. [More…]
They are a direct result of cuts in government spending. [More…]
I admire and commend the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) for the work he is doing pointing this out to his own colleagues. [More…]
It is ridiculous to cut government spending in areas where that spending could be put to immediate use. [More…]
Is anybody suggesting that there is not an under employment of men and resources in the building industry? [More…]
Government policies are directly responsible for under employment of resources in the building industry and will be responsible for the position getting worse. [More…]
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. [More…]
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves. [More…]
In any event, after 6 years on the Government back benches during the Curtin and Chifley Governments, and after 23 long and frustrating years in Opposition, Mr Daly became a Minister. [More…]
He had played the parliamentary game by the rules for 29 years. [More…]
The men he had watched on the opposite side of this chamber knew those rules too. [More…]
Its residents comprise old people and young people, women in employment and women who work at home, people who were born here and people came to this country to build a new life, men and women who are employed pursuing courses to improve their skills and persons on the dole desperately seeking employment- all these people look to the Government to create an environment for greater opportunity and fulfilment. [More…]
Cuts in real living standards now in order to contain inflation and promote employment can only be traded off against firm commitments to a greater future for all, young and old, in housing, education, health, job satisfaction and creative leisure. [More…]
Both are men of strong character, determined to put Australia back on its feet. [More…]
I remind the House of the statement by the Prime Minister that all he could offer was sweat and hard times ahead for perhaps up to 3 years. [More…]
He said again only recently that he could see a situation of unpopularity for the Government. [More…]
I commend the Government for other benefits that have been introduced in recent times. [More…]
I think of the superphosphate bounty and the investment allowance. [More…]
To those critics who say it is only going to help the big men and is of no advantage to the small men I address a simple question: If that is the case are they prepared to forget about removal of the means test for people over seventy years of age? [More…]
Sir Robert’s words should be a reminder to all Australians that the philosophy of the Government cannot be reduced to embrace a glib phrase only. [More…]
The Government certainly believes in free enterprise, not only because it believes in restricting governments to areas which concern governments. [More…]
I say that advisedly because the free enterprise system is the major employment avenue for us all. [More…]
The great guiding principles of the Government that men and women can grow to their full moral stature only when they control their own lives will be a source of untold comfort and inspiration and a solid base of confidence to all Australians in whatever fields of endeavour they may pursue. [More…]
When government takes important decisions unnecessarily out of their hands, whatever its intentions it gradually destroys the very condition in which people can gain a sense of their own worth. [More…]
First I mention the present plight of thousands of Jewish people trapped in the Soviet Union. [More…]
I recently lodged with the Consul at the Russian Embassy a petition containing 2500 signatures protesting at the harsh treatment meted out to Soviet Jewry, decrying the discrimination against them and highlighting the consistent refusal of the Russian authorities to grant exit visas to them. [More…]
This certainly does not agree with documentary evidence in my possession. [More…]
I pledge myself to work tirelessly in an endeavour to do whatever I can to right this terrible injustice which is abhorrent to the minds of all men of peace and goodwill. [More…]
As far as the Australian National Line is concerned, there is a need for the ships I have mentioned already. [More…]
Why does not BHP do the right thing, and build a 70 000 ton replacement ship for the Iron Endeavour? [More…]
There is enough work just in what I have mentioned tonight to provide sufficient employment for the 2 shipbuilding yards and most important of all as far as shipbuilding is concerned, to provide a continuity of employment, so that workers are not faced with the position with which they are today in these 2 major shipbuilding yards, that is, closing down. [More…]
Unless that order is placed, those men who normally would be employed on the work will have to be laid off by both the State Dockyards. [More…]
As I understand it, a regulation was drafted last year by the Department, which at that time was under the administration of the previous Government, to control hang gliding insofar as public safety was concerned rather than the intrepid efforts of hang gliders themselves. [More…]
The day that Parliament has to regulate to stop the enthusiasm of young men trying something out I think will be the sorriest day for this nation. [More…]
I believe that the Foundation about which we are debating will remain as a living testimony of the work of men like our Australian Ambassador, Mr Mick Shann, the previous Japanese Ambassador to Australia, Mr Yoshida and the many other Japanese and Australians who are convinced that the overall development of our 2 countries will require that we pass from an entirely economic relationship to one of more human depth. [More…]
Through this Foundation we must build a structure not dissimilar to the famous Churchill Fellowships which have helped so many Australians to travel and improve their understanding of other people, their problems and achievements. [More…]
Australia, are of key importance and the Foundation seeks to establish contacts in those areasforeign affairs, language, culture, history, contracts in the legal system, trade requirements and understanding between business. [More…]
He is considered by Japanese diplomats as one of their most outstanding men. [More…]
Labor believes that all government power should be placed in the hands of a few men. [More…]
The whole history of the Labor movement has been one of as wide a participation in decision making as is possible. [More…]
So often frankly he becomes a tyrant as some of them may be learning now when they disagree with Government policies. [More…]
At the present time, power is in the hands of a few men. [More…]
When the debate was interrupted, I was entering a plea for the individual and I was saying that Ministers who have a very heavy responsibility and a workload which forces them to work extremely long hours can become so immersed in the business of government on occasions that they unintentionally put the State before the individual. [More…]
In the case of the former Government, I am inclined to the view that there is a great deal of evidence to suggest that at least on the part of some Ministers, this was a conscious policy. [More…]
During the last 3 years, people throughout Australia grew tired and even became apprehensive of the dictatorial attitude that was adopted by some members of the then Government. [More…]
I believe that we must always remember that laws are made for men and women and not men and women for the law and that governments are the servants of the people, not their masters. [More…]
-I am glad to hear the intervention of the honourable member for Port Adelaide because I suspect that even he does not realise that the members of that union entered into these arrangements completely voluntarily; they knew the consequences. [More…]
I believe that there is a responsibility on these men, the members of this union, to return to work and avoid the costs which are now flowing through to the wool growers as a result of their wool not being sold, which is to the prejudice and detriment of the whole Australian community. [More…]
I am of the view that this Committee is probably one of the most important joint committees of this Parliament. [More…]
It is essential that not only should the Australian people be aware and kept informed of the world around us and the circumstances, which change daily, but that the men and women who are elected to this Parliament with the fundamental responsibility of leading the Australian people and of setting a standard of excellence and an appreciaton of the problems which this nation must face, should ensure that this Committee has indeed a real role to perform. [More…]
Undoubtedly, this is a proud day for those men, when this Authority is now finally getting under way. [More…]
We were advised of grown men and women who were unable to read even the simplest sign board, who did not know where they were going or how to get somewhere. [More…]
I conclude by saying that I hope that the new Committee will display the same amount of infectious enthusiasm as did the previous Committee and that it will receive the same cooperation from all sectors of the community in helping to brighten the day for many boys, girls, men and women who otherwise would have a vast world of knowledge not available to them. [More…]
Naturally I support the re-appointment of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs although I hasten to add that I have never served on it. [More…]
The reason for that is that there was another committee which virtually duplicated the movements of the Standing Committee on Aboriginal Affairs, and that was the Committee on the Constitutional Development of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I was a member of the Committee on the Constitutional Development of the Northern Territory and I used to find that both bodies were operating in the same area, covering a sixth of Australia, at the same time. [More…]
Its chairman and deputy chairman were men of outstanding ability and sincerity and they were backed completely by the members of the Committee. [More…]
There are men in the Territory who have lived in this area who are experts on Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
There is a former director of the Northern Territory branch who would know more than almost the whole Department put together as it stands now. [More…]
He has been sitting there not being used and the experience that he has was ignored by the Labor Government. [More…]
We have men who have lived there for 20 or 30 years. [More…]
If he is seeking to make mischief among his own men, he is entitled to do so. [More…]
These presumptions emanated from a philosophy which appears to overwhelm this Government’s every action. [More…]
In the Age of 4 March one newspaper columnist describes this philosophy as being based on an idealised society of the past with a market system catered for the requirement of all and the need for government provision was minimal. [More…]
Thus we come to the basic differences in philosophical stance between the Government on the one hand and men and women who support the Labor Party on the other hand. [More…]
The provision of public goods and the existence of a strong, positive public sector appear to be anathema to the leaders of the Government. [More…]
The Government has conducted a campaign of myth and half-truths to convince the Australian people that they are being harmed by the efforts of the public sector to improve the quality of their lives. [More…]
However, we believe that the AIDC report commissioned by the Labor Government should be considered immediately and not put off on the basis of securing an up to date report as the Minister indicates in his second reading speech. [More…]
All the canneries affected are situated, as are the growers, in areas represented by the coalition Parties in this House and therefore the Government is afraid to take a decision. [More…]
I hope that these men, will in the interest of these people they represent, vote for the amendment I have proposed to the Bill, or explain themselves to this industry and those who live from it. [More…]
People in this industry should insist that the Government come to terms with the problem of the industry and implement a plan for its solution. [More…]
Wheat growers over a long period are not demonstrably wealthier or less indebted than wool growers or cattle men who have not had the benefits of stabilisation. [More…]
That is a fascinating conspiracy theory, because I did not hear any of these sorts of statements being made following the 1972 election campaign during which a great proportion of public affairs commentators taking part in sessions on commercial radio in fact supported the Labor Party. [More…]
The honourable member for Chifley, of course, is giving as the basis for his comments rumours circulating amongst Press men. [More…]
It really is not good enough in terms of a debate on possible government attitudes towards the ABC or ethnic radio. [More…]
For this reason, the Address-in-Reply should be passed without amendment, as a testimony to this Government’s total elitism. [More…]
In supporting this amendment, this is what I am attempting to do. [More…]
Dealing with such men, though, is a Herculean task and one must, at the outset, hold out little hope. [More…]
In attempting to make honourable members opposite see the need for acknowledgment of the shortcomings of His Excellency’s Speech, we have been confronted with the all-too-common brick wall of Liberal and National Country Party intransigence. [More…]
It is the same brick wall that says: ‘Who cares about Central Intelligence Agency involvement in the last Federal elections? [More…]
Well, let the Government leave its motion unchanged. [More…]
All will be incorporated in Hansard and people will judge this sinister and elitist group of men charged with responsibility for our nation. [More…]
However, one cannot help but ask: ‘What will it take for this Government to act responsibly and responsively?’ [More…]
That its actions in day-to-day government disregard pleas in the interests of such people indicates that we are in for a torrid, in fact horrid, 3 years of Liberal-National Party Government. [More…]
The same thing as happened to the former Labor Government could happen to the present Government and although it would be its just desserts it would be incredibly harmful to our political system. [More…]
The Government has already harmed it irreparably- it has got what it wantsbut now, for goodness sake, it must see that it will not happen again. [More…]
In closing, I repeat that I cannot recommend the amendment too strongly because it at least identifies the substantial and vile holes in the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]
I think it is probably a waste of breath but at least people should understand what sort of amoral men are running this country. [More…]
At this stage I would like to mention briefly the changing role of the Surf Live Saving Association of Australia, a most splendid and active organisation which has 4 clubs in my electorate. [More…]
The value of this Association and its vital role in safeguarding Australians who use our surfing beaches for recreational purposes are well known and need no great comment. [More…]
I believe it is about time that all members of this Parliament, in accepting and acknowledging the dedication of the thousands of young men who volunteer their time and efforts to help their fellow Australians enjoy themselves, were made to realise that, with the increasing requirement for more sophisticated equipment to save lives on the beaches, the movement is now supplying a service which can develop only into an even greater and more effective scheme. [More…]
I trust that the Government will view the Surf Life Saving Association not merely as an activity for the welfare of its members but as a self-helping voluntary welfare organisation totally deserving of this Government’s support. [More…]
That was recommended in the report of the parliamentary committee and the committee has now been set up. [More…]
I urge that this Government continue along that line and use that committee. [More…]
There are many very able men and women in the Northern Territory who can assist vitally in the build up of the Territory to statehood. [More…]
In the face of those policy statements I say again that it is imperative for the Government to take the Northern Territory into its confidence, that is, through its elected leaders. [More…]
Many of them are very able men. [More…]
While I am speaking of this I should like to ask the Government urgently to consider the across-the-board economies which have been forced on the Treasury and the Government by the complete and utter bungling of the economy by the Labor Party. [More…]
Any cut or deferral in allocation of Commonwealth funds has immediate effects whereas in the States there are government grants and government financed works programs and so on. [More…]
Also I notice that in the Speech- unless I have missed it- there was no mention of Indonesia. [More…]
Let the Government not rely on propaganda from outside these countries. [More…]
I ask the Government to send competent men to see what can be done to prevent whatever the honourable member for Hunter is threatening us with from happening over there and prevent it from spreading here, because after Rhodesia and South Africa comes Australia. [More…]
Most of them are either one-man governments backed by the army, or the army itself. [More…]
So I say to the Goverment: Do not turn your back on the defence of the north. [More…]
I should like to know why, when we talk about objectives and priorities of expenditure, etc., governments spending $500,000 on buying cattle stations such as Kenmore Park, Mount Allan and other such places. [More…]
There are far better ways of spending money and helping Aborigines than buying a cattle station which even if it costs $500,000 1 could run with 10 men-and that does not feed very many people. [More…]
Nyerere of Tanzania, the 2 main speakers, said to the Australian representatives and to others, including the Prime Minister of Great Britain: ‘We want to make it very clear that we have been attending these conferences for years, and we have heard the likes of Mr Harold McMillan and Sir Robert Menzies promise us solutions to’ these problems for the last 10 or 15 years. [More…]
Everybody in the world should have equal rights according to the Christian ethic that all men are born equal and entitled to equal opportunity. [More…]
This attack was launched by those men who for decades have peddled the propaganda that it was they and they alone who stood by convention, precedent and tradition; that it was they and they alone who supported law and order. [More…]
The truth is that these men, these self-righteous conservatives, smug in the belief of their divine right to rule, support order only as long as it gives them the advantage and support law only as long as it is prejudiced in their favour. [More…]
If Australian democracy is to return to a position consistent with that described by Professor Sawer, a position which promised and conferred certainty and stability on the workings of the Parliament, vigorous remedial action is essential. [More…]
If the power of Opposition members in the Senate to destroy the elected government at will is not eliminated then the long term consequences of such a capricious and politically motivated power to destroy will itself destroy all vestiges of stability and certainty in Australian government and administration. [More…]
It is a perversion of the very nature of representative democracy that the elected representatives of the people can be hamstrung in their task of government by just those men that the people have rejected as potential administrators of the nation ‘s affairs. [More…]
Democratic government and democratic freedom as we know them would have been history. [More…]
This would have eventually meant the elimination of private enterprise and the replacement of it with a government controlled economic system. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Party members of Parliament and our supporters must keep hammering the fact that when a Labor Government or most Labor men use the words ‘democracy’ and ‘peace’ they have an entirely different meaning from the meaning which the vast majority of Australians believe them to have. [More…]
The Labor and the communist people believe democracy will only exist when Australia has a socialist, neocommunist government which can never be defeated. [More…]
The Commission, to be a 5-man body with unlimited powers, was not to be subject to Parliament. [More…]
These 5 men were to be able to override and to ignore the laws of the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
The Commission was to have the status of an alternative government, having the same kind of power as a People’s Revolutionary Council. [More…]
Under this legislation, the socialist Labor Government would have been free to dictate the nature and the content of all television and radio material. [More…]
Yet, to my amazement, certain prominent journalists in Canberra and elsewhere continue their support for Labor even though Labor proposes to destroy the basic freedom which all journalists constantly say they support. [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…]
Much closer to home, in Hanoi recently the Communist Party newspaper called on underground groups throughout South East Asia to step up the fight to overthrow the non-communist governments. [More…]
He had the courage to send a telegram of condemnation back to the Labor Party and to the Parliament here in Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party is dominated from outside this Parliament. [More…]
I am convinced that in the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Deputy Prime Minister, the Minister for National Resources and Minister for Overseas Trade (Mr Anthony) we have 2 great men of experience, intelligence and strength who will lead this Government, with the assistance of the people of this great country and with the backing of all members on the Government side. [More…]
I am sure they will use their best endeavours to put this country back on the right track after pathetic economic management. [More…]
It has been many years since a government was elected with a mandate to make cuts and revision. [More…]
I hope that the Government will continue to seek out areas, perhaps some where there are a few sacred cows, in an endeavour to get more efficiency. [More…]
Whatever may have been Labor’s policies and objectives, whatever may have been the motives, their result is the greatest unemployment this country has ever seen, the highest interest rates, the most prolonged inflation rate and the greatest recession since the 1930s. [More…]
This Government has a clear mandate to stop that because the people who suffered most were the weak. [More…]
That is based on clear statements made by men engaged in welfare services in this country. [More…]
The Liberal and National Country Parties need to build up the productive and employment capacity of this country for the greater benefit of every Australian. [More…]
I for one, as a member of the Australian Government, exhort and implore him to break his silence and to tell the Australian people exactly his reasoning and his motives in dismissing the worst government since Federation. [More…]
When he sets the record straight good men and true who have been hoodwinked by these malodorous statements will bow their heads in shame. [More…]
I interviewed 3 men during the weekend whose applications for citizenship have been rejected. [More…]
Is it a fact that some hundreds, possibly thousands, of people have had their applications for citizenship rejected because of some secret report about which they know nothing and about which members of Parliament like myself who make representations are told nothing? [More…]
Is the Minister satisfied to continue such a system which, unfortunately, has been going on for a long time under many governments? [More…]
This matter was discussed within the Cabinet of the previous Government and it was thought that if it was necessary to make more funds available to the public sector in the field of welfare housing those funds would be made available if resources, men and material were available. [More…]
This was the understanding of the Ministers of the previous Government. [More…]
But of course we know that the last thing that the present Government would ever do would be to increase government expenditure, particularly in the field of welfare housing. [More…]
That is due, I think very largely, to an old historical accident, because the evil that men do in politics sometimes lives after them for generations and decades. [More…]
Of course, his main thesis is correct when he says that the Government, which I hope he is supporting only temporarily at the moment, is in an ideological straitjacket about the deficit. [More…]
The sooner that straitjacket is cast off and the sooner more funds are made available in an area such as housing, where there is an underemployment of men and resources, the better will the needs of the Australian people be satisfied. [More…]
But as the House has already learned from my colleagues, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Reid, and the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson), both of whom had extensive experience in the housing sphere as Ministers in the last Labor Government, the amount appropriated for housing in that Labor Budget and in this Bill was only a second instalment. [More…]
Just as there had been an additional amount appropriated in the previous financial year, as I have just mentioned, so there would have been an additional amount appropriated in this financial year provided that there was capacity for the industry to use the funds. [More…]
Nowhere is it clearer than in the building industry that it is useless pumping more funds into the industry than there are men and women and materials to use those funds. [More…]
While there are materials available and while there are men unemployed, there is no need to worship any deficit. [More…]
The reason for this is that they have got themselves into this straitjacket which I have just mentioned to the honourable member for Petrie. [More…]
They are allowing unemployment of men and women to continue. [More…]
In fact, by their policies, they are deliberately creating additional unemployment. [More…]
They are allowing under-employment of resources, in this instance, building resources, to continue. [More…]
The Government’s policies are wrong. [More…]
Unless they can be kept continuously employed, 500 to 600 specialist tradesmen and contractors could be out of work at the end of this financial year. [More…]
In supporting the remarks of the honourable member for Petrie I pay a tribute as he did to the many excellent free enterprise men who are building excellent quality commission homes for the Queensland Government for a fraction of what they would cost under the socialist policies of those who sit opposite. [More…]
Of course the State cannot accept the offer which has been made by some of the contractors to whom the honourable member for Petrie and I referred to arrange their own finance to continue working and accept payment later in the year. [More…]
‘The men and women workers were also exposed to certain diseases transmissable from animals to humans. [More…]
‘The industry is fragmented and characterised by a wide variation in the size and scale of individual units. [More…]
‘The Green Paper calls for less concentration of industry in the main cities as a means of improving the quality of work life, and for more employment opportunities for young people in the country centres. ‘ [More…]
I adverted to what must be a continuing Government responsibility for the social impact of changed forms of assistance to the rural sector. [More…]
For the moment, for example, as the honourable gentleman may be aware, in the manufactured milk sector there are quite serious economic and social difficulties that flow from the downturn in market opportunities for the sale of skim milk powder. [More…]
As a result employment in those communities will be seriously prejudiced. [More…]
Very large sums invested in those plants might be left to lie idle, with the complete impossibility of meeting capital repayments and interest charges on that investment. [More…]
In terms of the family responsibilities, not only the men in those family groupings but their wives and children are likely to suffer. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) occasionally laments about the man in the small country town. [More…]
The men who will benefit are the biggest farmers with the biggest properties. [More…]
I took an opportunity to ride on the engine when I went there, and to talk to the engineers and the technical men at the top as well as the men working on the lines. [More…]
It is interesting that the founding fathers- those men who drew up the Constitution of this country- saw the possibility of an occurrence which did occur and they wrote into that Constitution those things which would overcome it. [More…]
The fact that we now have a new Government, the fact that this country without a shot being fired, without tanks going on to the streets, has been able to change a government, proves that the Constitution is sound and it proves that the Constitution must not be changed. [More…]
Members of the Opposition say that is tremendous. [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…]
Henty is a long established seat of this Parliament, having been created by the redistribution of 1912. [More…]
In taking my place as the member for Henty I am conscious that I am treading in the footsteps of some very remarkable men who previously represented the seat. [More…]
It is not possible to mention all of them, but I would like to say something about a few of the more outstanding men who have represented Henty. [More…]
A deep analysis by responsible men from Queensland in an application to the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
I pay tribute to many excellent officers in Queensland, such as Jack Littler, Owen Duncan and the late Jock Hart- men who became legends in their lifetime, men of practical experience like the honourable member for Forrest (Mr Drummond). [More…]
They were able to harness the techniques of modern technology to the practical techniques of the good ploughmen. [More…]
I pay tribute to them for the wonderful experimentation they have done in order to find the amounts of nitrogen which are applicable to certain types of soils containing different levels of moisture. [More…]
I suggest that we all take heed of those figures I have mentioned tonight because here is one of the real problems associated with farming in this country today. [More…]
The debate which has just concluded successfully for the re-introduction of the fertiliser bounty is not of much value to young men like this if they cannot get themselves established on the land itself. [More…]
Some unemployed young men left Newcastle where they could have got work in the steel mills to seek jobs on the north coast of New South Wales and on the Gold Coast of Queensland. [More…]
The number of men who did this in respect of the Gold Coast was not great; it was not nearly as many as the newspapers made out. [More…]
I told officers of my Department that I wanted them to take special steps to see that this practice was stamped out. [More…]
A few isolated cases occurred in which young men and women did behave and did dress and did arrange to smell in such a way as would cause people not to employ them. [More…]
I would like to draw attention to one more condition1 which is of particular concern to me and which has been mentioned in the newspapers to some degree. [More…]
It concerns the elimination of students from the class of people who are eligible for the unemployment benefit when they are likely to go back to school or university in the following year. [More…]
I believe that it is an important principle that during the school vacation people should not be able to enrol for the unemployment benefit and be kept by the state when they intend to go back to university or to school to pursue their studies. [More…]
They have not canvassed the reasonableness of that condition or the reasonableness of the other conditions that we seek to impose by these amendments to the scheme and the work test. [More…]
If honourable members opposite are going to continue throughout this debate to ignore the statement of the Minister and to ignore the particular matters that constitute the context of that statement and intend only to argue in emotive terms, I believe that they are doing Australia and their Party a grave disservice. [More…]
As one of the oldest men in this House, I well remember it and the scars that it left on the body politic of the Australian people. [More…]
More men than women are unemployed, but proportionate to their numbers in the work force, women’s rate of unemployment is higher. [More…]
I can remember men standing on the hill outside the steelworks at Port Kembla. [More…]
The men are treated better but the principles being applied by this Government are identical. [More…]
One-third of the employment in my city comes from heavy industry. [More…]
In addition to that, more than half the men are migrants and more than half of them still suffer from substantial language problems. [More…]
What earthly chance do those men have of travelling one and a half hours daily to Sydney to seek employment? [More…]
They can be employed only in groups under foremen who can speak their language. [More…]
It is a disgrace, it is a shame, it is a tragedy, that in the name of dole bludgeoning a government such as this can perpetrate a means test of the type it is imposing upon the people of Australia. [More…]
In December, the largest groups of unemployed men were unskilled or semi-skilled, while the largest group of unemployed women were accustomed to or were seeking clerical and administrative work. [More…]
I am very fortunate in having in my Federal division three such men. [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…]
The first quote comes from Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the second from a statement on Liberal philosophy by the then Leader of the Opposition, our Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I ruminated on these words at a time when the dark shadow of arrogant Labor socialism was looming over us all, when increasingly we were being told what was good for us rather than being asked, when social causes were being confused with mindless vendettas and power-drunk men were thrusting the course of Australian life in a direction that their own prejudice dictated rather than in the direction that the Australian people wanted. [More…]
I ask you to pass on to Mr Deputy Speaker my formal congratulations on his appointment. [More…]
During that period he set an example to all parliamentarians oh how elected representatives should look after their electorates. [More…]
When he died in 1970 this city and the Parliament lost one of its great men. [More…]
The first white men to see what is now the Australian Capital Territory were Dr Charles Throsby and his convict overseer, Joseph Wild. [More…]
The men who have been most condemned and held in contempt throughout history were those who paid danegelds to the Danes 1100 years ago. [More…]
Today the right honourable gentleman made comments in his speech that are equally contemptible and which will surely go down in history on that basis. [More…]
That is where we join issue with the Government in respect of its proposals. [More…]
The first is that unemployment has fallen particularly on the white collar section of the workers, and they are in my electorate. [More…]
No statistics are available, but it would appear that there is an inordinate number of young people, and particularly young single men, among the recipients of unemployment benefit in my area. [More…]
This is something which I think should distress every member of this House because I do not believe that this is a phenomenon which is peculiar to the electorate of Mackellar. [More…]
The Minister is seeking to drive people away from the Commonwealth Employment Service offices. [More…]
He will not mention that in the process the number of homeless people has increased. [More…]
He will not have to do so because they are one segment of the community that no one bothers to count. [More…]
Living in my electorate is a large number of what might be called marginal men- men who are only a step away from becoming the homeless men in our society. [More…]
Quite a large percentage of those men are alcoholics. [More…]
Many of them could go on to the invalid pension if they wished to do so and spare themselves the worry of having their unemployment benefit terminated, but they do not want to take that course of action. [More…]
These men are already being harassed repeatedly by petty restrictions. [More…]
Hardly a week seems to go by without one of these men approaching my office seeking assistance. [More…]
It will probably double since the Public Service staff ceilings will not allow the appeal tribunal to increase its numbers, nor sit at times when it is necessary to sit to overcome the waiting list that will be increased by the actions of the Government. [More…]
There would be few honest men in this Parliament who could not enumerate great numbers of incidents where women in this category had come into their offices and detailed not only the harrowing circumstances under which they tried to make ends meet and raise their children but also the problems of maintaining equipoise with their personality, maintaining their self-respect, maintaining their sanity in the light of the discrimination that existed in the past. [More…]
In our period of government we increased expenditure on repatriation because we regarded it as of paramount importance and because we regarded the commitment to the men who had served this country, at the risk of their lives in so many cases, as one that had to be discharged and not just talked about. [More…]
Talking and not acting was about all this Government did in its previous terms of office. [More…]
In the short term in which we were a government, a 3-year period punctuated by two elections and considerable disruption to the normal flow of government by a hostile Senate which was always prepared to abuse its position rather than to acknowledge its responsibility to the community, we achieved more than any other government had achieved in the history of the Commonwealth of Australia. [More…]
We achieved more in those 3 years than the Menzies Government achieved in its 16 years of continuous office. [More…]
We did that because we had what we regarded as a beholden commitment to people in the community who had been neglected for too long in the past by a rather coolly indifferent succession of Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]
For some time I have been advocating the establishment of a fixed relationship between the special rate- the totally and permanently incapacitated pension- and the Commonwealth minimum wage. [More…]
But I know that the Minister will be studying this in conjunction with the recommendations of the Toose report. [More…]
I am also heartened quite a little by the Minister’s statement that he has requested the views of major ex-service organisations on recommendations in the Toose report. [More…]
Within these organisations there are men of wide experience and discernment in repatriation matters and their opinions could assist the Government considerably. [More…]
It is designed to provide self-sufficiency in terms of social security arrangements and organisations that are capable of catering for people in every eventuality in every region of Australia. [More…]
I do not think this Government will breathe much life into it. [More…]
Great initiatives were taken in rehabilitation training allowance, supplementary rent pension, abolition of the means test, assistance to the handicapped, home care for the elderly, support for senior citizen centres and subsidies for the welfare officers who service them, Meals on Wheels, assistance for homeless men and matters of that kind. [More…]
I believe that some other assessment is necessary. [More…]
I know that I am contradicting what I said earlier about simplifying means test arrangements, but I think this is a special case that requires an assessment different from that which applies in other areas. [More…]
In fact, at the moment I am dealing with a combination problem in this regard. [More…]
He has three or four school-age children but he is not eligible for any sort of special benefit or unemployment benefit. [More…]
That is the sort of hopeless combination situation, which includes the element of the supporting father situation which many men find themselves in at the present time. [More…]
I want to say a word this morning about the family, from whose stable environment most of us have come. [More…]
I am prompted to speak on the family this morning because there are good family men on the other side as well as on this side of the chamber. [More…]
I rise to speak today because of recent moves in the field of employment and industrial relations, or more accurately the draconian way in which the Fraser Government has taken the axe to the innocent and the weak in this field. [More…]
Under this Government Jesus Christ would be ineligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
What is worse is the vile arrogance of this Government in its execution of such policies. [More…]
I have repeatedly raised this characteristic of the present Government in this place, but it seems that the total elitism is inextricably tied up with the leaders’ philosophy. [More…]
They are men who are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, heirs of squattocracy and big business interests, rich beyond comprehension of most Australians, people who have not known poverty or war or even the mundanity or nuisance of city life. [More…]
The argument has been put today and on earlier occasions that somehow or other the Government ought to be encouraging people to retire and to use this scheme as a method of getting people to retire early. [More…]
I remind the House of what was said in debates last year, that retirement at age 60 as against 65 would be at a cost of 30 per cent more to the taxpayer. [More…]
I am sure that a number of honourable members in this House over 60 years of age would quickly agree with me that compulsory retirements are not necessarily in the national interest. [More…]
On a more serious note, of course, the argument about making way for younger men can be used for people at any age. [More…]
By the standards of most private sector schemes, retirement on full pension at age 60 is an early retirement (for men). [More…]
I can assure the honourable member for Griffith that pensioners in his electorate will be well informed on his action in this Parliament. [More…]
I was interested to hear the honourable member for Parramatta suggest that it would be intimidation for anyone to suggest outside this House exactly what was the stand of honourable members in the Government ranks on this issue. [More…]
I can understand their uneasiness, but I really think we ought to indicate to their electors what brave men of principle they are. [More…]
If you vote for this you are voting for one of the most insensitive actions that a government has carried out in a long while. [More…]
It was part of a political deal to try to get atmospherics in the community- these men mean business. [More…]
My honourable friend from Oxley (Mr Hayden) changed the standard of life of every pensioner in this country, and he did it in the face of the hottest critical opposition you could encompass, from obstructions from State governments, from obstructions from the other place, from appeals to the High Court in various areas, and all the rest of it. [More…]
We changed the style of life, the standard of living and the quality of life of everybody subject to benefits under this Government. [More…]
The situation is that all industries, with one or two notable exceptions, are in terrible trouble and that their troubles are a direct result of the economic mismanagement of the former Government. [More…]
We need the support of the States because they are responsible for a great deal of the spending of the public dollar; we need the support of local governments; and we need the support of trade union leaders. [More…]
One can see proof of that across the whole spectrum of industry; but it is particularly bad in the building and construction industry, which has suffered from bans, demarcation disputes and frivolous disputes such as that which occurred in relation to the Flinders Medical Centre building just two or three weeks ago when the men went on strike because the contractor would not pay them for when they were on strike. [More…]
Mr Clancy said that between November 1973 and November last year 30 000 men were forced out of the industry. [More…]
Let us have the survey reports and let us find out exactly what the previous Government did. [More…]
The previous Government created them. [More…]
With the perception, the understanding and the resources that this Government is prepared to use to gain information- information the very existence of which was denied by the previous Government- we will be and are in tune with what is happening in the building industry. [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…]
This is the great benevolence and kindness of the men who cried about a once-in-a-lifetime reduction of a $40 benefit but who happily ripped $30 a fortnight off superannuitants. [More…]
The absurdity of the the honourable gentlemen opposite is transparent in this situation. [More…]
I suggest that it is equally disgraceful that the Defence Force Retirement and Death Benefits fund superannuation scheme had not had an adjustment in payments for 3 and a half years. [More…]
I must say I am glad to hear today’s news from the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) that such an adjustment is now on the way. [More…]
How extraordinary that the gentlemen now occupying the Opposition benches failed to do anything to fix up this disgraceful situation; yet they are prepared to complain about our generous and effective approach to the whole question of superannuation and pensions. [More…]
I came out of the Navy as one of the highest paid lower deck men, and am now one of the lowest paid superannuees [More…]
It was made under the cloak of Parliamentary privilege. [More…]
The attack was obviously designed to discredit those 3 reputable men in an attempt to shroud the current prosecutions. [More…]
The slanderous statement that Sankey gave detailed evidence as to the time and place of the meeting with Tange and that Tange was committing an armed robbery at the same time is equally scurrilous. [More…]
I say that the record of evidence given at the trial indicates, firstly, that the Mascot bank was robbed by 2 armed, masked men at approximately 1.S0 p.m. on 25 August 1970; that the police arrived at the bank at about 1.55 p.m. when the robbers had left; that Tange, who was on that day a client of the firm of solicitors to which Sankey was articled, called into its Pitt Street, Sydney, offices at aproximately 2.50 p.m. on the date of the robbery concerning, of course, another matter; that later that day Tange ‘s solicitor was advised that Tange had been arrested and Sankey, in the company of a partner of that firm, went to the police station where Tange was being held; and that Sankey and the solicitor were called to give evidence on these events and Sankey was asked to describe what Tange was wearing when he saw him at approximately 2.50 p.m. [More…]
Since I have been in this Parliament the Liberal and Country Parties have done everything possible to subvert democracy. [More…]
Take a look at the conscription system which they imposed upon the young men of Australia. [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…]
Only in the case of the men with six children does the rebate exceed the minimum; they will receive 40 per cent of 6 x $250 (or $600) rebate for education expenses. [More…]
Tonight I direct the attention of the House to a petition that has been circulated by the Australian Parliamentary Group of Amnesty International. [More…]
Honourable members will know that Amnesty International is a world wide human rights movement which is independent of any government, political faction, ideology or religious creed. [More…]
It works for the release of men and women imprisoned anywhere for their beliefs, colour, ethnic origin or religion, provided they have neither nor advocated nor used violence. [More…]
The previous Government received no co-operation whatsoever from most of the State Ministers. [More…]
He laid off thousands of men at the time of the 1974 State election there and said that it was as a result of not receiving sufficient money from the Australian Government for roads. [More…]
In fact, the Australian Government increased its allocation to Queensland by some $12m; Queensland reduced its spending by $800,000 and then accused the Australian Government of not providing that State with sufficient money. [More…]
At a meeting of the Local Government Association of Queensland in Brisbane on 14 March last year I was able to produce evidence which proved conclusively that the Queensland Government was lying when it said that it did not receive money from us and that it had to wait for money. [More…]
If the relationship is so good, if the New South Wales Government is happy about the amount it is getting for roads, why did it want to defer the meeting of ATAC which was to be held in a few days’ time? [More…]
We know that the New South Wales Government wanted to defer it because of the approaching election, because of the bad tidings and because of the cutbacks that are coming. [More…]
The Minister has said that the State transport administrations are efficient, that they are the wise men, that they know best how to do things in relation to transport. [More…]
I have more confidence in the Minister’s Department. [More…]
Australian men? [More…]
Does he claim- that is, the principal of the company, not the Minister- to have more than 20 000 single, good looking, clean, well educated, sexy and rich Australian men on his books and does he charge these women large sums to arrange introductions? [More…]
Will the Minister advise our consular representatives overseas to tell any interested women that ‘it ain’t necessarily so’ and that all 3 Melbourne daily newspapers and the Sydney Morning Herald refuse to accept advertisements from this company? [More…]
Any discussion on foreign investment also brings into focus the question of ownership and control. [More…]
These 3 weapons of government economic management are far more significant than percentage ownership in a particular company. [More…]
This in itself brings us around to the very first question, that all investors must have a clear understanding of what Government policy is and confidence that the Government will carry through its commitments in this area. [More…]
We now have a chance to prove to Australians and to investors around the world that we are what we say we are- a party of practical men. [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…]
We must not be seen as the new Cassandras predicting dire consequences unless we alone monopolise the resources of development. [More…]
We must illustrate that we are the antithesis of the previous Government, that our ideas are the opposite of theirs and that investors no longer need be frightened of government control of their industry or profit. [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…]
There was a great deal of squealing and going on by supporters of the previous Government about the sanctified waters of the Gulf being infringed, trespassed upon and so on. [More…]
One only has to show a red sickle and hammer and these men are up in arms and cry out: ‘Ah, the poor Fretilin’. [More…]
I am very strongly of the opinion that the opposition to foreign investment in Australia is a confidence trick of the present Opposition, the previous Government. [More…]
The propaganda against the multi-nationals and foreign investment became a catchcry for the ranks of the Opposition and unfortunately it has been swallowed elsewhere. [More…]
I do not believe that multi-nationals and foreign investment are, per se, bad. [More…]
I believe that many multi-nationals are efficient, reasonable and sensible and are run by men who, while they are interested finally in profitand who is not- also realise their reasonable obligations. [More…]
I believe that Australia simply cannot get its economy going again without massive injections of foreign capital, for the huge amounts of money needed to get development projects moving are simply not available in this country. [More…]
If the Treasury ruling is to stand then we must find ways and means of making it work, otherwise we shall probably continue to be in the same sort of mess as we were in under the previous Government. [More…]
-An abiding impression of the statement on foreign investment by the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) is that like the curate’s egg it is good in parts. [More…]
Imitation, of course, is the sincerest form of flattery and it is in keeping with the tradition of conservative governments that they generally adopt at least a proportion of the policies of the Labor administration which preceded them. [More…]
The statement is a glib one, it is an artificial one and it skates over the major issue. [More…]
No group of men on a committee, with all due respect to them, should be allowed to deal with some of the major issues which will undoubtedly crop up in relation to Australian resources allocation, particularly energy resources. [More…]
By that I mean that even before this Committee can function a good deal of legal work needs to be tidied up in relation to the impact of the High Court judgment on the Seas and Submerged Lands Act. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the whole rickety structure of offshore oil and gas search, erected in 1967, which was criticised and attacked even by a former Liberal Prime Minister and a former Liberal Attorney-General, has collapsed as they and I and other Labor men since 1967 have persistently and repeatedly forecast. [More…]
Its members are legal men. [More…]
In another place an honourable senator has called the Australian Labor Party a party of intelligent men. [More…]
I think that the intelligent men are in the ranks of the blue collar workers and that next Saturday they will prove it. [More…]
I mention men like Halfpenny and Carmichael. [More…]
These men are doing everything they can to destroy the progress and development of this country, but at the moment they are not saying or doing as much as they have said or done in the past because they know that the people of New South Wales are going to put back into power in New South Wales a Liberal-Country Party government and keep out of power these socialistic people who are working only for the destruction of this country. [More…]
I ask the Foreign Minister Has he written, and if so when did he first write, to the Foreign Minister of Indonesia or to the President of Indonesia about the S media men who were killed at Balibo? [More…]
He there was briefed by men very close to President Suharto and to General Ali Moertopo. [More…]
Those men gave the impression to the President and General Ali Moertopo that if a Liberal-National Country Party government were elected it would acquiesce in an Indonesian takeover in Timor. [More…]
Ever since then the Indonesians have been able to quote the view of the men who are now the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister as supporting their obsessions about any communist movements in our area. [More…]
As I have said, the Government will not hold back and for all the argument over policy matters I think he would agree that if he puts material to me I will execute it faithfully and I will not hold back on anything. [More…]
It relates to matters well before my time in this Parliament, but it does relate to men who may have to date an unimpeachable reputation. [More…]
In fairness to whoever these men are or whoever this person is, I think the Leader of the Opposition ought to substantiate his claims to me. [More…]
The Government has acted quite properly to date in making informal and preliminary inquiries on the basis of the material contained in the letters of the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
Until there is such justification the Government is not prepared to make a formal approach to the United States Government. [More…]
That certainly indicates that great credit is due to the expertise of the people in the yard and shows that there was no lack of quality in the workmanship of the men in the yard or in the design. [More…]
The case for the plaintiff depends wholly and solely upon the transcript of proceedings in the New South Wales Parliament. [More…]
I had used words appertaining to the action in relation to the New South Wales Parliament when you ruled me out of order. [More…]
Men of this country have lost their lives in 2 world wars fighting for freedom of speech which I have been denied here today. [More…]
It is further stated in the paper that the object of adjustment assistance is not merely to replace one form of long term assistance- for example, tariffs- by another form of long term assistancefor example, subsidies. [More…]
Structural adjustment does not mean replacing one form of assistance with another. [More…]
Structural adjustment is a very positive measure to see that all the people affected not just one area of the community- accept all the responsibility of change. [More…]
I believe that the Government should act on a report on industry which was presented in the House on Tuesday. [More…]
The Industries Assistance Commission has stated in this report that some 400 men may lose their jobs in small engineering works. [More…]
Why should those 400 men in small engineering works with their respective skills have to accept all the responsibility of change because the Government says that it wants that change or because it says that it is uneconomic to keep those 400 people in those jobs in all those small engineering works around Australia? [More…]
That report recommended that no urgent action against import was necessary. [More…]
It recommended that no urgent action against imports was necessary. [More…]
I think that that decision resulted in some 1500 men being displaced from their jobs, and no government could do anything about it. [More…]
So it is not fair to say about the former Labor Government: ‘You failed in every sense of the word to protect these industries’. [More…]
We at least tried, but we got caught on an amendment that was introduced in the Senate and forced upon us. [More…]
There has to be a political decision as to what can be done to guarantee that an industry can continue to function, unless alternative employment can be found for the employees in that industry. [More…]
I have often taken comfort from it myself when littleminded men in this House and in other places have taken the opportunity to denigrate people who look at things with a wider vision. [More…]
The member of Parliament who supports every proposal for strengthening this monopoly ( by increasing tariffs) is sure to acquire not only the reputation of understanding trade, but great popularity and influence with an order of men whose numbers and wealth render them of great importance. [More…]
Their culture and their language are different from the people around them, and certainly very different from the military men who come from Jakarta to defeat and rule them. [More…]
Can it be that the deaths of these 5 young men, and the circumstances of their deaths, do not really matter if it makes for diplomatic embarrassment in the circles which our bureaucrats in the Foreign Affairs Department are trying to cultivate? [More…]
I want to mention 6 other deaths- the deaths of the 5 journalists killed at Balibo and Roger East. [More…]
The remains of the 5 young men were handed over in one small packet, and were buried in a single grave in Jakarta. [More…]
I suggest, Mr Speaker, that there are no words to express the tragedy of the deaths of these young men, but there are words to explain how it happened. [More…]
He must have noted Pistol’s observation that men of few words are the best men although I hope he does not scorn to say his prayers lest he be thought a coward. [More…]
I make a point to the Minister concerning members of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Fund who join as married serving men, whose wives subsequently die, who marry again and who leave the Services. [More…]
After all, we are endeavouring to assist servicemen and their dependants. [More…]
One of the great failings I feel about my parliamentary career in the Tasmanian House is that I was unable to obtain the government support which I and the indsutry asked for incessantly from 1966 up until the time of my resignation in 1974. [More…]
My original pledge to the fruit growers of the Huon was that I would endeavour to get them government support to give the industry stability and to give the growers hope. [More…]
I came into the Parliament, frankly, knowing very little about fruit. [More…]
But I was helped, and helped very considerably, by a number of men in the industry who were prepared to take the time to give me the information necessary to enable me to put a case. [More…]
The fruit growing industry had been affluent in the 1950s and the early 1960s and I believe that governments thought that the fruit growers were doing pretty well. [More…]
The tragedy of the situation is that governments failed to heed the warnings. [More…]
Another aspect I wish to raise is the overall achievement in the field of social security and welfare by the Labor Government. [More…]
Again as a further illustration, I do not believe we have ruined society by introducing the Homeless Persons Assistance Act, although I really must raise some questions about how far that has progressed since we went out of government. [More…]
It is not the sort of welfare initiative which gets votes but it is the sort of welfare initiatives which satisfies one greatly because one realises that one has discharged a very important moral obligation in society to do something for the very serious social casualties that we do have in our community, and to help the very worthwhile people who dedicate their lives to helping the men and women who are homeless and who are drifting in the community, often in a situation of that nature because of some sort of crisis that has occurred in their life. [More…]
Briefly this was that vehicles carrying 74 men, women and children, had been intercepted by a body of police at Skull Creek. [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…]
It is not what happened in 1975 that is the issue but the massive disembowelling of the growth centre projects that is now engaging the Government. [More…]
The line that is coming from the Government’s official spokesmen is completely different from that which is coming from its hatchet men in the Treasury who are actually doing the job. [More…]
Last Friday the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, Senator Greenwood, who is the Minister responsible for growth centres, made a sensible speech in Adelaide on the future of growth centres. [More…]
He pointed to the likely population movements in Australia over the next 25 years. [More…]
In the main, I agree with the population projections which he expressed and with the implications for internal population movements which he drew from them. [More…]
It is similar in many ways to the philosophy built up by the Labor Government and absorbed by the old Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
These are panic measures of men who realise that thenwords and their policies have hitherto been wrong. [More…]
They have caused unemployment. [More…]
They have caused hardship by slashing Government expenditure. [More…]
I believe the time has come when the Fraser Government must be more explicit in saying what it intends to do with personal income taxation in the light of the statement by the Treasurer last night, that he will from time to time make statements relating to such matters as indexation as a help in solving the nation’s problems. [More…]
There is a very good precedent when we are considering great national issues of an economic kind and when the judgment has to be made as to whether the Government should take action quickly. [More…]
In order to pre-empt that I believe we have an obligation as a Parliament and a government to indicate clearly to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission what it will do in terms of income tax indexation with its effect on future wage claims. [More…]
Many years ago the Arbitration Commission informed the Government that it would not grant a wage rise if child endowment was introduced, and child endowment was introduced. [More…]
This is a moment of decision. [More…]
It is a moment of trial for the Government. [More…]
Members of the Commission are talented and experienced men. [More…]
They are looking for leadership and guidance from the Government. [More…]
They must be assisted with a sensible and achievable approach by the national Government. [More…]
I believe that the Fraser Government is the only government that is capable of giving it. [More…]
It is unworthy of any government or any country that preaches democracy and participatory democracy within the trade union movement. [More…]
Nobody should imagine that it did not win votes for the Government; it did. [More…]
But, of course, by the same rule it will lose votes for the Government now that those who voted for it in the belief that they were going to get the democratic direct voice of the rank and file know that they are going to get only an indirect voice and that handfuls of men calling themselves the management committees of unions will elect each other to the most important full time positions at the federal level. [More…]
I preface it by saying that we on the Opposition side of the House are very much aware of the difficulties of adopting an automotive industry plan for this country which is all things to all men. [More…]
Is he aware that the honourable member for Melbourne, the honourable member for Corio and I made these predictions in our statements to the House on the new car plan? [More…]
Before proceeding to elaborate on the Government ‘s attitude to future arrangements for the industry I want to refer briefly to that aspect of the Bill dealing with waterside workers employed by the Fremantle Port Authority. [More…]
The Bill seeks to facilitate an agreement reached by the Fremantle Port Authority and the Waterside Workers Federation and it is a matter which has the support of the Stevedoring Industry Council. [More…]
These men are not registered waterside workers and their conditions of employment with the Authority provide for different long service leave and pension entitlements to entitlements for registered waterside workers under existing legislation. [More…]
In 1973 the Fremantle Port Authority and the WWF agreed in principle to an arrangement whereby crane drivers would become registered waterside workers but retain separate long service leave and pension entitlements. [More…]
This arrangement is limited to waterside workers employed as crane drivers at the time of registration. [More…]
Persons employed in the future as crane drivers are to be subject to the normal conditions of employment. [More…]
However legislative amendment is necessary to enable the long service leave and pension components of the stevedoring industry charge in respect of these men to be reimbursed to the Port Authority which makes direct provision for these matters. [More…]
A Bill with the same purpose was introduced into Parliament in November 1975 but lapsed at the second reading stage when Parliament was prorogued. [More…]
Appropriation legislation goes to the very heart of government. [More…]
Government is finance and finance is government. [More…]
It behoves ail of us in this House to be deeply conscious of how the Government spends the people’s money. [More…]
Governments do not spend Minister’s money. [More…]
It is the hard earned money of people- the men and women who have toiled for many hours each week of their working lives to finance government. [More…]
I am reminded of the comment of the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen), as he now is, in my electorate during the last election campaign, when he said: [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…]
In particular, he has challenged the official version of how these young men met their deaths. [More…]
The conventional view which has been pushed hard by the Department of Foreign Affairs is that these 5 men met their deaths by misadventure. [More…]
These officers knew that Australian newsmen were in Balibo and they ordered their men to kill them. [More…]
Furthermore, he has brought to this country a grisly testimony in the form of bone fragments. [More…]
Mr Martins claims that he collected these bones after the bodies of the newsmen were burnt. [More…]
Unfortunately, the former Government created divisions amongst the salaried and private specialists in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
Most of the doctors, salaried and private alike, in Canberra are men of good will. [More…]
I have already spent some considerable time since the change of government in trying to improve the relationship and in creating an atmosphere of trust amongst the Canberra doctors, salaried and private. [More…]
I hope that his reference to codifying the Constitution and making it clear to the Australian people will be looked at by the Government and that it will not be possible for those pseudo great men, interpreters of the Constitution who wish to misrepresent the facts, to put the GovernorGeneral into a position where his situation is falsified. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that, in spite of these complaints, the Governor-General personally was appointed by the Labor Party Government, and the speech that was made on his appointment by the Labor Party’s Prime Minister, the honourable member for Werriwa, was full of praise. [More…]
Words are not strong enough to denigrate these spivs, urgers and arch confidence men who prey on innocent members of society, many trying to augment their pensions or poor superannuation benefits which have been so affected by inflation. [More…]
If the evil actions of these men were connected with horse racing they would be warned off the course for life. [More…]
Some of the things that I want to deal with tonight in the limited time available to me relate once again to the tardiness of this Government in doing something for an industry in this country that employs directly and indirectly something like 5000 men and women. [More…]
I am referring to the shipbuilding industry which is slowly but surely falling to pieces because of the need for this Government to decide what it is to do with ship building. [More…]
When this Government came into office the shipyards had orders. [More…]
Orders were in the offing, as I will outline in a moment. [More…]
I want to deal with the policy expressed by the Government when it was in Opposition. [More…]
If the ideas pinched from us were taken out of the document and only the ideas of the Opposition left in, the document would contain less than one page. [More…]
It is now over 6 months since the Minister for Transport and the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Senator Cotton) became Ministers in the Liberal-Country Party, first of all in the caretaker Government and then in the Government after 13 December. [More…]
I sat in on 2 delegations from the State Dockyard, one from the shop committee executive and the other from workers from the plant who came to Canberra to approach the various Ministers in an endeavour to get a decision out of the Government. [More…]
All that I heard from the Minister was unnecessary abuse of the men who had come here. [More…]
The Minister gave them aline of baloney that any Irishman would have been proud of, but at no point did he come up with one fact or one figure to indicate what his Government would do in regard to shipbuilding. [More…]
I believe the delegation will be here again on Thursday of this week in an endeavour to get an answer out of the Government as to what it is doing. [More…]
The Government has a responsibility to ensure the continued employment of some 2200 men at Whyalla, 1900 of them employed by BHP, 200 to 300 employed in the back-up industries which do the sub-contracting work, 2000 men employed at the State Dockyard and 300 to 400 men who provide the back-up to that particular industry. [More…]
It is up to the Government to ensure that the countries which have cheap labour, about which the honourable member for Riverina is so concerned- Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Japan- are not building ships for Australian work at the expense of Australian workmen. [More…]
The Government must stop the dumping on the Australian market of overseas built ships. [More…]
The previous Government appointed a shipbuilding forum which went overseas last year. [More…]
It contained representatives of management, trade unions and the men off the floor of the workshop. [More…]
Surely we have sufficient evidence of how Australian industry can suffer from the actions of governments. [More…]
For example, the 25 per cent tariff reduction by the previous Government brought disaster- yes, disaster- to some sections of Australian industry. [More…]
We must remember that this type of disaster is measured in the loss of jobs by Australian men and women. [More…]
If an industry is considered to be non-essential, inefficient or necessary to be closed in the light of the Brussels Definition of Value, I believe that a warning should be given to that industry and alternative arrangements for employment made for the men and women whose jobs would be affected. [More…]
I have much pleasure in supporting its passage but I want to refer briefly to the excellent work of the men of his Department. [More…]
In my capacity as Chairman of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Environment and Conservation I have had some contact with these men. [More…]
I trust that the Minister will give them every encouragement in the future to rid Australia of the scourge of drug trafficking that is so detrimental to the health of an affluent nation such as we have in Australia. [More…]
I ask you, Mr Speaker, to look at this matter and decide whether or not there is prima facie a case of conspiracy to deceive the House or whether an agreement had been undertaken. [More…]
We cannot look into the minds of men; we can only have the overt facts or the clear inferences to decide whether or not the honourable member for Hunter and Mr Landa have conspired to deceive this House. [More…]
It was a weak attempt by a weak member, a weak barrister who is showing his allegiance to his legal fraternity in a way that some legal men usually do. [More…]
He is doing this in anticipation because he is a oncer in this Parliament. [More…]
This week’s Press is filled with 2 kinds of stories, one giving graphic, in fact gruesome detail of the lengths to which some men on the land are having to go to protect themselves and their industries, the other an almost daily retinue of announcements of some form or other of Government aid. [More…]
In his notarised statement which is incorporated I direct attention in particular to paragraphs 23 and 24. [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…]
So here we have these ‘persistent callers’ ringing the Deputy Prime Minister after 1 1 November- men assigned to investigate the loan raising activities of the previous Government. [More…]
And we are asked to believe that no one in the caretaker Government, no Minister or member of his staff, took any part in inquiries into an issue which members of the Opposition had been hammering ad nauseam for the best part of a year, and whose repercussions were the pretext for their refusal of Supply. [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…]
What the Labor Government sought to do, it will be recalled, was to borrow $4 billion. [More…]
Let me make this point to the House: No one had ever heard of these people until the Whitlam Labor Government scoured the back alleys of the banking world to turn them up- and to turn them up to do business with them, business involving incredible sums of money, incredible sums of commission and strange intricate means of getting this funny money into Australia for funny purposes. [More…]
But Mr Whitlam says that Mr Richard B. Todd and, by inference, others associated with him are reputable men. [More…]
I refer to the stopping of Supply to the Australian Government. [More…]
It was these same men who supported the violent action taken by the Governor-General- the sacking of a Prime Minister and an Australian Government that had a majority in the people’s house. [More…]
It was these people opposite, these law and order men, who involved our young men in the bottomless pit of human suffering of Vietnam. [More…]
It was these same law and order men who sent our young men overseas into that war of violence. [More…]
This applies to members of any upper or lower House in any State parliament or in any previous parliament. [More…]
We should talk about the violence of these men when they talk about law and order issues and try to raise smokescreens. [More…]
That was a question by a Government supporter so why should I not talk about the Government as a whole as a government of hypocrisy? [More…]
Of course it is a government of hypocrisy. [More…]
For too long supporters of the Government were able to send our young men to Vietnam. [More…]
They were able to do so by using their numbers in this Parliament. [More…]
They ignored our protests against Australian involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
We had to go to the people and ask them to demonstrate non-violently against the actions of the government of the day. [More…]
We asked them to show their indignation at the violence with which the then Australian Government was associating itself. [More…]
They say: ‘The parliamentary system is yours. [More…]
We have, through our movement, fought our way for years against the conservatives. [More…]
It is the conservatives’ parliamentary system and we are going to fight against it’. [More…]
The facts are that many of those men really see life as nothing more than a straight out power struggle amongst groups. [More…]
They give no status to the Parliament; they have no consideration for it. [More…]
We have at times by our own behaviour in the Parliament allowed the public in some cases to look down on us or even despise us. [More…]
We have said time and again in the past that the real power lies outside the Parliament. [More…]
I stress that it lies outside the Parliament. [More…]
This is the group that this investment allowance is aimed at, but this will not revive the Australian industry. [More…]
The investment decisions of these multinational corporations are not made in this country; they are made overseas. [More…]
The men who head these companies in foreign countries are the people who control our economy. [More…]
These men, in conjunction with this conservative Government, are the people who will, if they have their way, bring about change- change for the worse- in our society. [More…]
How extraordinary it is that in this debate we have had 3 honourable members for the Government parties use the time of this chamber on such frivolous matters. [More…]
Their contributions were a good swan song because they know what will happen tomorrow in the Parliament, which was called together in mid-February to deal with the affairs of this nation, to put right the terrible mess into which the nation had been allegedly placed by 3 years of Labor government and about which the Government has done nothing until now. [More…]
That is the one positive measure that the Government has introduced in this period. [More…]
AH the Government’s supporters, all the people who thought: ‘Gee, anything better than the Labor Party ‘ have been so disillusioned. [More…]
I refer not to the Robert Christian Browns, the Sir Robert Creighton Browns; I refer not to those bad men. [More…]
I refer to the decent honest Australians, the people who were mystified by the developments in world trade and by the contraction of the world economy which caught up with the Australian economy and which confuse the best minds in the whole world, none of which sits on the Government benches in this chamber. [More…]
That confusion deceived these people and this Government has misled them. [More…]
Tomorrow the Government will entertain this chamber with such diversions. [More…]
He will slash Medibank, which the Government parties told the people they would maintain. [More…]
This Government will slash their hopes and will do it for the meanest of objectives. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side will do it because they support a Prime Minister who has never worked for anybody in his life, who lives off inherited wealth, who has never rustled cattle in his life. [More…]
I realise that the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs may have had some disagreement with Senator Cotton in Cabinet, but nevertheless I believe he will appreciate that such personal differences cannot be allowed to interfere with the jobs of people who are dependent upon this industry for their living. [More…]
He has refused to see the delegation by using an untruthful, false alibi- stating in effect that he would be at a Cabinet meeting at 10.30 this morning, the time he was to see the men, when at that time the House of Representatives members of the Cabinet were in this House, in public view, for everybody to see that the Minister’s alibi was false and untruthful. [More…]
It is worth noting that it is time this Government came up with a policy in respect of what it proposes to do about ship building. [More…]
The decision of the Labor Government would have meant that approximately 150 more people could have been employed. [More…]
This action by the then Opposition has meant that working men in Cairns will not be given the opportunity of being employed in a decentralised industry on the construction of a 50-metre ship which will cost between $4m and $5m [More…]
Apart from this being an open-end commitment, how soon would the operation flow through? [More…]
As to its effect on employment, how much of it will be labour-intensive and how much capital-intensive? [More…]
Normally 90 000 men are engaged in it. [More…]
At the present time 30 000 of those men in the eastern States of Australia, particularly New South Wales and Victoria, are unemployed. [More…]
Without making free handouts to anyone, what has been vaguely adumbrated as the amount of Government expenditure would be manna from Heaven for these people. [More…]
Today there are home builders who are carrying on and tendering at cost so that they can retain the limited number of skilled tradesmen left in the industry. [More…]
If those tradesmen go from that industry they will not return. [More…]
What is the Government doing about that situation? [More…]
But no, the Government, in its mulishness and pigheadedness, wants to proceed with what it chooses to class as an election promise. [More…]
In fact, Mr Speaker, in summarising I believe that the announcements of this statement are -of very serious consequence to Australians in a number of ways. [More…]
Nobody knows the real cuts in government expenditure. [More…]
Further, the attitudes and policies of the LiberalNational Country Party Government as continued in the announcements in this statement have created a set-back to the steady economic recovery which was under way before this Government came to power. [More…]
We have seen that this is so by examination of the seasonally adjusted unemployment figures. [More…]
In addition, the cuts in government expenditure, apart from their effects on confidence and on deterring consumers from spending, are deliberately creating unemployment. [More…]
More men and women would be employed and more resources would be in use if only more government contracts were let. [More…]
This does not complete the story but at least it does present the foundation on which, with sensible, reasonable discussions with the trade union movement we can hope- and we have good grounds for hoping- that we can get a sensible and proper response in the best interests of this country. [More…]
I have not lost confidence in the trade union movement. [More…]
I believe that there are more leaders in the trade union movement generally with common sense and goodwill than one would gather from the actions and statements of the Australian Metalworkers’ Union, the transport union and the building unions. [More…]
I believe that there is a prospect- a little prospect perhaps, but growing into a bigger one as the days go by- that those wise men in the trade union movement will help the Government to succeed in achieving goals that will improve the national development of this country and the welfare of most Australian people. [More…]
I think it is tragic that a body of men who will go to any extent, even to the extent of accepting a worsening of working conditions and putting in their own money to get the company operating, will be unemployed. [More…]
-After that scintillating defence of the Government’s economic package, perhaps we can look at what is really behind it. [More…]
Certainly they would have every reason to be worried men. [More…]
The Government is relying on a two-pronged strategy to achieve this objective. [More…]
The first objective of the Government is to curb Government expenditure and the size of the inflationary Budget deficit. [More…]
The other is to bring about greater wage justice and social benefits by the introduction of tax indexation and family allowances in the desire that there will be greater wage restraint on the part of the ordinary men and women of this country. [More…]
It is most unfortunate that so many of the comments on the Government’s economic measures have been pitched at the gain or loss level to the individual. [More…]
I believe he is very concerned that there is a Government that is prepared to tackle these problems. [More…]
In fact, we have had disagreements with him on many occasions. [More…]
It demonstrates the vicissitudes and sometimes the tragedy of politics: Men- even those who may not agree with our viewpoint- are sometimes knocked down when they could have given so much to Australia. [More…]
Lesser men take their place. [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…]
Will he take urgent action to ensure continuity of employment for the men concerned in accordance with his election pledge of last November to assist the States to modernise and rationalise their rail systems? [More…]
I suspect that the question arises from a row that seems to be brewing in South Australia at the moment about the alleged dismissal of some 260 men from the South Australian Railways. [More…]
As Chairman of the State Transport Authority he was present at all the meetings- the minutes record this- when decisions were taken that the number of men employed by the South Australian Railways ought to be reduced not by sacking but by attrition; that is, it was decided that as people left, their positions ought not be refilled. [More…]
So in fact there has been no decision to sack 260 men in South Australia. [More…]
This will provide a very rewarding part time activity for men who wish to become involved in an active and stimulating form of youth work which the Government believes is essential to the character building of Australian youth. [More…]
I took with me to Europe to meet the principals of the Swiss company owning mining rights at Gove 2 young Aboriginal men. [More…]
The other had a name which meant ‘movement of the octopus, reef. [More…]
These young men were named after the place. [More…]
The anthropologist Roheim long ago commented concerning Aborigines of the central Australian desert: [More…]
The lesson we learnt 13 years ago was that, with the best will in the world, the average departmental officer was unable to get through to the Aboriginal people what it was all about. [More…]
We sat around the table and talked to these intelligent, self-contained young men and old men about what the proposal meant. [More…]
I did not know until I heard the honourable member and the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman), 2 learned medical men, tell me that public hospitals are infinitely better than private hospitals. [More…]
I thank those 2 honourable gentlemen for the excellent advice they have given me. [More…]
But once you have made those resources available, now when private enterprise is not taking them up, and is not being encouraged to take them up, and is not being given the circumstances in which it can profitably take them up, then we have to do a little bit of governmental spending on good capital works. [More…]
It is much better that our men should be engaged on sewerage works, for example, which we need in the cities, rather than that they should be sitting idle and drawing the dole. [More…]
These are men who owe their positions in the trade union movement to their knowledge of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
I find it incredible that an omission such as that which the amendment rectifies should have occurred in a Bill like this. [More…]
As I understand it- I am sure I will part company with my friend the honourable member for Hindmarsh now- that trade union which the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) rightly points to as running rather peculiar elections, the Australian Metal Workers Union, would have been laughing to eternity at the Bill before this amendment was proposed. [More…]
It puzzles me how a Minister who is probably the busiest and the hardest-working Minister in the Cabinet could receive an amending Bill from his Department with this obvious omission. [More…]
I am not saying that the Department, which is extremely efficient, is infallible or should be infallible. [More…]
All I am doing at this stage is making a plea to the Minister to organise a panel of trusted trade unionists- there are many- and trusted members of employer organisations with whom he can consult on a confidential basis on future amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, so that omissions like this will not be repeated. [More…]
I believe that this is done in other areas of endeavour by the Government. [More…]
While there is an obvious need for continuing surveillance to be carried out over Australian waters and the adjacent region, to create public concern that Australia is suddenly confronted with a threat from the Soviet Union or any other power serves only as a contribution to the undermining of efforts of reasonable men in all great powers to bring about a genuine relaxation of tensions and progress towards a better relationship between those powers in a position to threaten the security of our globe. [More…]
I put this proposition to my friends opposite: If they have any real support for the principle of clean union ballots, they will indicate their support of this amendment; but if they have some kind of hankering or underground desire to have corrupt ballots, they will indicate their opposition to this amendment. [More…]
The Government has taken honourable members opposite at their word when they said that they wanted to control trade union ballots by their own machinery. [More…]
The Government took them at their word when they said that there would be clean ballots. [More…]
They will show this by their attitude to this amendment. [More…]
If they support it, they will be seen to be honest men. [More…]
-I quite understand the view of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and the fact that he does not want to stir up a hornet’s nest over this matter. [More…]
The amendment should not, he thinks, be pressed unless the trade unions accept it. [More…]
However, I do not go along with the other arguments that have been put forward, either by the Minister or by the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis). [More…]
But they may not always be experienced men. [More…]
Each financial year we must seek to replace those leaving our Defence Force with high quality young men and women to maintain it at the level set by the Government. [More…]
But he has also made it clear that he did not witness the deaths; he was not at Balibo when the men died. [More…]
In the event the Australian investigating team which visited Balibo conducted a detailed interview with Mr Goncalves and, as will be seen from the report, Mr Goncalves account did not bear out Mr Martins ‘ statements. [More…]
I am having a summary of these other accounts prepared and I shall also make these available in the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
I regret that it is still not possible to come to firm and final conclusions as to the circumstances and manner of the deaths of the newsmen. [More…]
He has mentioned the names of certain Indonesian officers and an Indonesian official as having been in the area at the time. [More…]
He has alleged that the S men were killed by Indonesian troops in Balibo. [More…]
If this examination identifies a real prospect of moving forward, the House may be assured that the Government will pursue that prospect without hesitation and to the limits of its ability. [More…]
In my view the way in which the 5 young people were ill-treated and the attitude of the Indonesian authorities will have an enormous influence on our relationships with the Indonesian Government in the future. [More…]
We cannot accept the proposition that Australia’s relationship with the Indonesian people will be destroyed if we take a moral stand on the rights of the people of East Timor to independence and seek the truth about the death of these S young men. [More…]
I point out that it was our Government that gave great support to the Indonesian people for independence and self-determination. [More…]
People are dying in Timor and the Australian Government does very little because it does not want to offend the militarist elite of the Indonesian generals. [More…]
So in interrelated ways I would like all Australians both inside and outside this Parliament to work together so that there will be a fair go. [More…]
We want to know the truth, particularly about these 5 young men and possibly the outcome of the position of another Australian journalist in East Timor. [More…]
With those remarks I conclude my response to the Minister’s statement. [More…]
How can it be explained that this appalling and widespread violence which kills a disproportionate number of young men is not recognised as a major national disaster? [More…]
Last week it was suddenly disclosed, as a result of an overnight legal advising from the Solicitor-General and the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott), that the Government believed that the agreements made with the States for cost-sharing arrangements were invalid. [More…]
The views put forward by the SolicitorGeneral and the Attorney-General are nothing more than the views of 2 men. [More…]
They are eminently qualified no doubt, but these views are nothing more than the views of 2 such men. [More…]
In any case, if the Government is concerned to maintain financial support for the States to allow their public hospitals to continue to function- I want to deal with the problems of maintaining public hospital services in a few seconds- it would be a quite simple exercise for the Government to introduce validating legislation so that the agreements entered into would be valid. [More…]
They would be valid retrospectively to the dates on which the agreements were signed. [More…]
They would be valid prospectively to the dates on which the agreements expire. [More…]
But the Government has not done that. [More…]
In spite of the fact that it is a relatively simple exercise, the Government has not done that because it wants to exploit the situation that it has contrived in this instance in the hope that it may be able to impose much tougher conditions on the [More…]
All of a sudden the dole has become a fashionable instrument of government policy. [More…]
This much mocked, much maligned unemployment benefit increased by the Labor Government during its tenure of office is now resurrected to paper over the cracks in Country Party neglect. [More…]
I suspect the easy catch-cry dole bludger which we heard last year from the former Opposition, now the Government, will become just a memory of their squalid road to power. [More…]
These great men of business, these men born to rule, these men who know the vagaries of international trade, sat by and watched the EEC foster the agricultural interests of its own member nations which have this year culminated in a skim milk powder stockpile of 2 million tons. [More…]
Contraction in dairy farm produce to arrive at this point has to be assisted by governments generally in Australia with compassion and understanding. [More…]
I have been given some figures which show that in the late 1960s the total manpower of the British Merchant Navy was about 100 000 men, of whom 13 000 were deck officers. [More…]
That large number of men was cateredfor by the multiplicity of schools that existed in the United Kingdom- schools such as those at Conway, Pangbourne and Southampton University. [More…]
Establishment of this college is well overdue. [More…]
It is quite ridiculous to think that we have the facilities available but that they are under the control of other people who have no time to educate young men in those activities. [More…]
So it is important that the site of Launceston has so much to commend it. [More…]
I do not begrudge the men who man these ships these conditions. [More…]
On the morning of Friday 28 May, 1 976, two men professing to be news reporters from Channel 7 came onto campus in a vehicle marked ‘Channel 7 Eye Witness News’. [More…]
These two men proceeded to ask a group of students sitting in the quadrangle if they ‘would like to be on television’. [More…]
The men said that they would film the students setting up the tent and then film them demonstrating against the fact that aboriginal people received an unfair advantage to education for their children in that they receive a special allowance of $ 1 a day or a week for each child- (they were not sure at all). [More…]
When they (the gentlemen) spoke of the Aborigines they spoke in disrespectful terms such as ‘Abos’. [More…]
In reply to these statements our students joked and said that they were not very proficient at setting up tents. [More…]
The men replied to this by saying that they had a simple ‘two man tent’ that they could use. [More…]
Finally, our students told the men to leave because they were proposing an extremely racist act. [More…]
The men left in the vehicle mentioned before. [More…]
Is the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations aware of a situation in Western Australia where 8 plumbers have been suspended from their union for a period of 6 months? [More…]
What can be done for people such as these men who have broken no law and whose only crime was that they wanted to work and who now are unemployed? [More…]
I am advised that the men referred to by the honourable member were employed by Steeldeck Industries ( WA) Pty Ltd in Western Australia and the offence which led to their suspension by the union is that they are alleged to have continued working while other members of the union were on strike. [More…]
The company then sacked the 8 men, having been threatened with industrial action on all its projects around Australia. [More…]
I have no doubt that the union movement is highly critical of people who work during a strike but I am dismayed at the action of the union officials which in this instance has meant that these men can no longer earn a living. [More…]
I understand that the 8 men concerned have instituted proceedings in the Supreme Court of Western Australia and of course I will not comment on that matter. [More…]
The honourable member by interjection, as indeed by the purpose of his question, seeks to inject a sense of rigidity into this whole area which would be quite inconsistent with Australia’s interests and certainly the intentions of the Government. [More…]
It is precisely for that reason that, unlike the confusion which surrounded the policy which emanated from the former Government of this country, we have deliberately established a free enterprise board so that companies seeking to invest in Australia can talk to free enterprise men in their own language and the matter can be subject to recommendation to the Government. [More…]
We welcome that because of the advantages which it will provide, and we would see overseas investment as a contributing factor to the recovery which is presently taking place in the Australian economy. [More…]
I even found myself in agreement with some of the remarks of the honourable member for Port Adelaide on this subject. [More…]
We have an obligation as a relatively wealthy member of the world community to assist the developing countries with our international trade arrangements. [More…]
Inevitably when one finishes a speech like that the risk is run that one will be accused of trying to be all things to all men. [More…]
I urge the Government to give the majority leader and his executive the backing of suitable experienced civil servants to work on the transfer. [More…]
I know that certain numbers have been approved but I would think that in this very difficult and trying period over the next 5 years when they are moving towards statehood they certainly will need top class men standing behind the leader and the executive, apart from the ones in the Department of the Northern Territory who will be working to transfer these powers. [More…]
I commend the Minister and the Government on a very sincere and genuine effort, something which the Opposition said it was doing but of which there was no evidence. [More…]
That was proved during the 3-year term of office of the previous Government. [More…]
If one speaks to the old men of the tribes out in the back country they will ask why the Labor Government did not stand alongside them as we stood alongside them in those horrible days of- in inverted commas ‘paternalism’. [More…]
The whole development happened so fast that the Aborigines went from a society which was relying very heavily on the assistance and guidance of Europeans to a position where the Europeans were standing aside as advisers if requested. [More…]
The old men today will tell you that it all happened too fast. [More…]
This Government has been accused of wishing to abolish the NACC. [More…]
I just mention three of them off the cuff. [More…]
These are all men who are getting $9,000 a year. [More…]
Because the honourable member holds the seat of Mitchell in such a precarious way he likes to be a friend to all men and he wants to bestow these goodies on everybody. [More…]
For example, as a result of legislation which I introduced involving the Commonwealth and State Housing Agreement these people are able to obtain homes with 4 per cent money. [More…]
If I had not entered into that Agreement when I was the Minister, even in the face of opposition from the Liberal-Country Party Opposition and its contemporaries around the States, these people would not be able to get 4 per cent money. [More…]
I, too, regard the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund (Distribution of Surplus to Pensioners) Bill 1976 as a machinery measure, and my comments will be very brief. [More…]
I commend the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Government on their prompt action in dealing with this matter of the distribution of the surplus funds under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Act. [More…]
It is not as though the money involved is government money; it is money which belongs to the contributors under the Act. [More…]
I think that the previous Government’s failure to ensure that these contributions were refunded was a further indication of its indifference to the Services and to the men in the Services. [More…]
Let me briefly look at some of these requirements. [More…]
There is now a variety of these and time does not permit me to discuss them, but no doubt they will be referred to by other speakers on the Government side, men highly qualified and experienced such as the honourable member for Leichhardt (Mr Thomson). [More…]
An urgent requirement obviously is the second priority I have referred to, that is the development of our forces in the north and north-west. [More…]
Today we have to pick up the remnants of our defences and slowly but surely blend them and increase their efficiency to meet the requirements of Australia for at least the next 20 years. [More…]
These will need to be defended and money will have to be spent and men will have to be trained and equipment purchased. [More…]
It is the saga of how defence equipment can go wrong. [More…]
The DDGs were off Vietnam doing a simple bombardment task. [More…]
This was a ridiculous employment of expensive warships with crews of 300 men. [More…]
The means test limit of $838 be increased to $2,000 for married men and from $410 to $1,000 for single men; [More…]
Canada: $824,000, a military corps specialised in clearing operations and medical assistance as well as 300 men with various equipment, ambulances, helicopters, etc. [More…]
In the history of our country few men have attracted, or earned, the respect due and paid to Lord Casey. [More…]
The Australian people can count themselves immensely fortunate to have had him as a servant over such a long period. [More…]
One’s chief regret must be that, for all the correctness and enlightenment of his views, there was something lacking in his ability to carry them through and embody them in national policy. [More…]
The acute sense of lost opportunity one feels on reading his diaries was due perhaps to the realities of party politics in his day and the ascendancy of other more determined men around him. [More…]
We must wonder what influence he might have brought to bear on the course of events and the tragic policy decisions that were to follow his departure from government. [More…]
I think that in any era there are men who serve their nation in a manner which is unique and Lord Casey was one of those men. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has already given the details of the parliamentary service of our four former colleagues and also an indication of the range of interests which they had before they came into the Parliament, during their service and afterwards. [More…]
He has thereby indicated the qualifications which made each of them in his way a valuable member of this Parliament. [More…]
Very many people here would not have known some of the men concerned, because at the time Senators Aylett and Whiteside left the [More…]
Both of these men, in then- association with my Party, had a long and continuing connection with the rural industries. [More…]
Tom Bull championed a cause which I think in this Parliament is best known and expressed by the honourable member for Wakefield (Mr Kelly). [More…]
Indeed, while a senator within the Parliament on many occasions he found himself in some opposition to the former Leader of my Party, the then Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Trade and Industry, whose policies on tariff matters tended to be somewhat contrary to those which the late Senator Bull preferred. [More…]
Of course, on many occasions in the Parliament he gave voice to those concerns and in his attitudes and in his practice always upheld strongly support for the cause which he represented and in which he believed so strongly. [More…]
They were 2 men who, in their association with the Australian Labor Party and with the Parliament, represented effectively the causes in which they believed. [More…]
During the term when they were members of this Parliament they spoke, of course, about those issues with which they were associated. [More…]
To their families I extend my deepest sympathy and also express an understanding of the traumas that parliamentary life imposes on the families of all members of this place, irrespective of the parties to which they belong. [More…]
The school has long since been closed and demolished but I often think that if such schools could produce men like Tom Bull they must have been grand institutions. [More…]
I am sure that the heroism, daring and conspicious gallantry of all those brave souls who took part have the admiration of all men of peace and goodwill. [More…]
I have not the slightest doubt that, but for them, innocent men and women would have been slaughtered in the cause of political fanaticism. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, concerns the plight of unemployed women and men who are suffering hardship as a result of 3 years of economic mismanagement by the former Labor Government. [More…]
If not, will the Minister continue to press this matter in the interests of the unemployed who are seeking jobs and who have been badly let down by the Labor movement? [More…]
Women have introduced into this Parliament an element of refinement which we needed badly. [More…]
They are an adornment to the place. [More…]
It seems that we have not got into the habit of allowing women to be elected to the Parliament as members but it is very nice indeed that we do have women taking the shorthand. [More…]
If I may say so, from my own experience, the records of what I say in the Parliament are usually fairly faithfully recorded in Hansard. [More…]
I have compared the reporting of the lady reporters with the reporting of men- I have made a note of this because it has been my aim in life to overcome the discrimination against women which has been characteristic of the human race down through the centuries- and I am bound to say that the women reporters in this House are on the whole better than the men. [More…]
I was one who at a very early age recognised the value of women. [More…]
He was, I think, in very essence a perfect public servant and a perfect servant of the Parliament. [More…]
I wish him a long and very happy retirement. [More…]
It is a pity that men like Mr Bridgman, who know so much of the unwritten history of the nation, do not write it. [More…]
The 2 men who said that, were members of a Ministry which spent almost $2m of taxpayers’ money in publicising their own discredited health scheme. [More…]
I compliment the Government for not being intractable on this. [More…]
The Government brought out a scheme as an amendment to Medibank and then there were strong representations from Mr Hawke and the Australian Council of Trade Unions to change it. [More…]
The Government did change it. [More…]
Is the Government going to be criticised for consultation with the trade union movement? [More…]
If governments continue to consult people like the ACTU I think that is a progressive move and not one to be criticised by the Labor Party. [More…]
I know there are men of goodwill on the Government side of the House. [More…]
Does the Minister not recall that I was a Minister in the Labor Government? [More…]
Does he not realise that when the squeeze comes our friends in Treasury say that if there is one place in which they can really use the knife it is environment and urban and regional development? [More…]
In fact, on one occasion when Labor was in government, they made an impact on urban proposals and also on the National Estate but fortunately in the second round in Cabinet I did them like a dinner. [More…]
Unfortunately the bureaucracy of the Fraser Government is controlled by Treasury and there is no appeal. [More…]
Attacks on businessmen began over the past weeks. [More…]
Many prominent men with import-export links were arrested and are feared dead. [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…]
We have a new government, poor as it is, which has always suggested that it would do something in this field. [More…]
They are the guilty men because people such as the Bartons and others have been able to get away scot-free, and it should never have happened. [More…]
I urge this Parliament to approve the second reading and to allow this Bill to become an Act of this Parliament. [More…]
I must congratulate the Co-ordinator-General’s Department in Queensland, and in particular some of its dedicated, competent and experienced men led by Sir Charles Barton, the CoordinatorGeneral, Mr Sid Schubert, the Deputy CoordinatorGeneral, and Mr Don Young, the Regional Co-ordinator (Southern). [More…]
Those men head an extremely good team of engineers and designed this pump storage hydro system in association with the Wivenhoe Dam. [More…]
Let me describe to the House the circumstances surrounding the fine already imposed on these men. [More…]
Consequently, several men turned up for work on the sixteenth, only to be told that they were in fact to go on strike. [More…]
Seven men decided individually to remain on the job. [More…]
On 24 June a meeting was held between the 7 men, the shop stewards and the AMWU organiser for the area. [More…]
The 7 men agreed to abide by the majority decision of that meeting. [More…]
Relying on the organiser’s promise to call such a meeting, the 7 men stopped work for 4 hours on 25 June. [More…]
The men now have decided to appeal to the State Council of the AMWU. [More…]
These men have been disciplined by their union for exercising their fundamental right- the right to work. [More…]
It can only be because officials have advised Ministers not to act under this section, not to get into a position where their actions may be examined by reasonable men. [More…]
It may well be that acceptance of the amendment to which I have referred is the way out. [More…]
The Australian people have now seen the first Budget of the men who rejected the last. [More…]
The document presented to the Parliament last Tuesday is presumably their justification for all their actions of a year ago- the obstruction of the Hayden Budget and the destruction of the 30th Parliament. [More…]
For 4 weeks in 1975, during a critical period of economic difficulty, the authors of this Budget brought the Parliament to a standstill. [More…]
The men who pose as responsible economic managers and supreme patriots took the nation to the brink of chaos while they blocked the chief instrument of national economic policy. [More…]
The dishonesty, the heartlessness, the skinflint mentality, the deep social injustice which are the hallmarks of this Government will continue; but at least there can be no more excuses. [More…]
The Government had already reduced expenditure on child care by $9m in February and served notice that the Children’s Commission would be abolished. [More…]
The amount saved on old people’s homes- $27.4m- is roughly what the Government has already spent this year on its ineffective investment allowances. [More…]
Funds needed to give destitute and lonely men somewhere to lay their heads have been practically cut in half- a reduction of $1.6m. [More…]
I know that the grey men of the Treasury often are regarded as old and conservative, but surely we cannot blame them for the pre-Keynesian thinking that is so evident in this Budget. [More…]
The Treasurer’s recent statements have all been to do with the need for a fillip to business and with the natural corollary that everyone else must tighten his belt. [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…]
I believe that the attitudes of the Government to social deprivation and need can be summed up by looking at its priorities. [More…]
What sort of heartless men run this Government? [More…]
How can the back bench members of the Government parties be so cynical and cold as to allow overseas aid to be cut, migrant education to be murdered, health care to be mutilated and schemes for the aged and the unemployed to be rendered almost useless? [More…]
Why is it that only one Government supporter has openly criticised the deal the Aborigines are getting? [More…]
Does not one Government supporter have the guts to say that migrant kids have the right to be educated for more than the most menial tasks? [More…]
This Government stands exposed as the most elitist, cruel and deludedly business oriented in our history. [More…]
The Government is presiding over chaos and despair. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister: Is unemployment a serious national problem and is this situation causing hardship and distress to thousands of Australian women and men who wish to work? [More…]
Has the Government been consistent in its efforts to reduce record postwar unemployment inherited from the previous Government? [More…]
Are the fiscal measures included in this year’s Budget designed to reduce unemployment? [More…]
However, despite approaches to the responsible Ministers in the Government by all sections of the industry- the shipbuilders, the unions and other interested bodies- the Government has decided that it is not prepared to take the necessary steps to ensure that this vital industry will continue to function in Australia. [More…]
By deciding not to take the necessary action it has placed in jeopardy the jobs of many thousands of men who are presently employed in the industry in the 2 main shipbuilding centres of Whyalla and Newcastle. [More…]
Furthermore, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said earlier this year that if the unions could come to some sort of productivity agreement the Government would consider placing orders in Australian yards. [More…]
Have we heard about such a productivity agreement? [More…]
The industry is riddled with demarcation disputes, not only between unions but between men in the unions. [More…]
I have been to the yard and have talked to the men there. [More…]
They have told me that at Whyalla 5 men will sit around and will argue as to which one will weld a bit of pipe. [More…]
Demarcation leads to over-manning, leads to too many men on the job, and detracts from productivity. [More…]
The honourable member for Grey (Mr Wallis), who has the Whyalla shipyard in his electorate, can tell honourable members that when we were in Government and really doing something about the shipbuilding industry, industrial disputes did not occur so frequently. [More…]
Like my colleague and friend in the New South Wales State Parliament, Deputy Premier Jack Ferguson, I am concerned and disappointed that the workers at the shipyards will be on strike tomorrow. [More…]
But I can understand the frustration of the men who have been working for the past 12 months in an endeavour to attain industrial stability. [More…]
The men on that committee now find that all their efforts have gone for nought and their industry is finished. [More…]
The men employed in the shipbuilding industry will be on the dole in a very short time. [More…]
We say to the Government: We did something positive to correct the industrial problems that beset this major and important industry. [More…]
There are 3,000 men employed in the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
Following a view put by the Henderson inquiry into poverty, the Government has decided to implement a trial program designed to assist low income earners to choose their own rental accommodation on the open market. [More…]
I hope it will provide the Government with a new mechanism to make welfare housing sensitive to the needs of the users rather than those of the planners. [More…]
The Government will be closely monitoring the progress of this important welfare reform. [More…]
From those in need of special assistance to the ordinary working men and women, this is a Budget that puts people first. [More…]
For the first time in 4 years, Australians were not hit with increases in indirect taxes to help pay for the expensive and wasteful Government programs that were introduced in the last 3 years. [More…]
One of the most specious suggestions that is continually put forward by Opposition members in this Parliament has been that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) broke alleged election undertakings with respect to Medibank. [More…]
I think it is time to put into the Hansard record- where the people of Australia can read it- what the Prime Minister said in the election campaign prior to the election of this Parliament. [More…]
This Budget would have to go down in history as the greatest fraud perpetrated on the Australian people by this fraudulent Government. [More…]
The men of straw who composed this deceptive document and especially the Treasurer (Mr Lynch), who seems to have as much difficulty as the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and everyone else in understanding it, have exposed for all to see the tactics they intend to employ to achieve their ultimate strategy. [More…]
Obviously, the Government intends to reduce living standards until its friends in manufacturing industry can compete with such advanced and progressive places as Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea. [More…]
However, only today at question time the Treasurer conceded that in June 1977 unemployment in this country will be much higher than it is in 1976. [More…]
Nobody can deny that in recent years unemployment in Australia has increased- as, indeed, it has increased in every manufacturing country. [More…]
The difference, of course, is that the Labor Government’s approach was to endeavour to share the wealth created by those who were not required to manufacture the goods we need or provide the services we demand. [More…]
These people- men and women, young and old- were not callously used as ammunition to try to smash the trade union movement. [More…]
When this Budget starts to bite and the cynical and deliberate tactic of increasing the number of people unemployed is manifest, will those honourable gentlemen refer to these victims as dole bludgers? [More…]
Will adequate social security payment be made to them or will we see a return to the soup kitchens? [More…]
After all, how can you whip up the men and women unable to obtain work to accept work at lower rates of pay, then work extra hours at ordinary rates of pay? [More…]
The tactic is transparent and obvious: Place social stigma on those unemployed, call them dole bludgers and constantly remind those in employment that they are all candidates for unemployment benefits if they do not toe the line. [More…]
In this morning’s Melbourne Age there is a headline very easy to read: ‘No post-Budget Boost, Report Big Stores, Car Men. [More…]
Returning to encouragement for investment, it is interesting to have a look at the largesse bestowed by this Government on its friends, its financial supporters. [More…]
Miners of minerals, hardly the poorest section of the community, are to receive $60m as a direct payment brought about by a complicated system of taxation allowances- not a bad sort of payback by anyone’s standards. [More…]
Will the men who perform the work in the mines benefit from this handout ? [More…]
Many men are not acquainted with the skills which are taken for granted in the running of a family home, for example, cooking, house cleaning, budgeting and buying of children’s clothes. [More…]
Men tend to find it difficult to economise on the household shopping and their lack of expertise provides a strong incentive for chosing convenient methods such as instant foods. [More…]
It is very interesting to note that when the setting up of this committee was announced the Minister made no mention whatsoever of the relationship between these 3 men. [More…]
Here we have 3 men who represent enterprises in competition with, as clients of, and suppliers to, publicly owned transport enterprises, inquiring in secret, bringing up a secret report and operating on a secret blanket reference. [More…]
The report will never be tabled in this Parliament, and the relationship of the members of the inquiry, one to the other, has not been disclosed to this Parliament by the Minister. [More…]
I speak of it as a dynamic policy which is good for the States and Australia and good for the men and women of this country. [More…]
But as I said last night there are some people on the other side of the chamber who simply want to see inflation go up, who want to see dockyard workers out of employment, because this stirs up political trouble and they believe they can make cheap political capital out of it. [More…]
I condemn them for treating with such contempt the men and women who will be put out of work largely as a result of the policies which the Labor Party itself introduced. [More…]
He put forward a specious argument on the question of the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
This crazy argument has been put forward by other members of the Liberal Party, namely, that it was following Labor Party policy. [More…]
It seems to me that other Labor Party policies were not followed by the Government. [More…]
In the Budget there was $60m which went straight into the pockets of mining companies in Western Australia as a direct subsidy; yet the present Government will not put up $20m to subsidise the shipbuilding industry in Australia and keep men in work. [More…]
All that the Government does is to subsidise workers in other countries- in this case, Japan. [More…]
People should not go around this country making statements that are so blatantly false. [More…]
The hard-working staff is concerned, and the Government should be concerned about the future of this great national Memorial. [More…]
The Australian War Memorial, standing at the foot of Mount Ainslie and facing Parliament House, commemorates the achievements and sacrifices of Australians at war. [More…]
It would be a great betrayal of the memory of those men and women it commemorates if it were not to be adequately financed and staffed to cope with expanding needs and demands. [More…]
I remind him that this Government has done more for handicapped children than has any other government since Federation. [More…]
These men plainly have a genuine grievance. [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 hope that Sir Arthur George and Sir Peter Abeles will clear their names if they can because they are men who enjoy the respect of all sections of the community. [More…]
This Bill is probably one of the most unique that the Parliament has considered, not that it is unique in the sense that at long last we recognise the fact that the women who served in the armed Services now have access to the advantages offered by a trust fund, although it has taken a long time for us mere males to emancipate ourselves in that sense. [More…]
In all probability this Bill affords an opportunity to reflect a little on the past and, as I said in my opening, to reflect a little on some of the men who served in this Parliament. [More…]
They were 5 men who had a lifelong interest in the welfare of exservicemen. [More…]
Somebody had to make the move and this Government did just that. [More…]
Notwithstanding the present conditions prevailing in the industry- namely, growing employment and I emphasise ‘growing employment’, 5 weeks holiday leave each year, which is 4 weeks annual leave plus 1 week of grouped statutory holidays at Easter, 13 weeks long service leave after 8 years work, 10 days sick pay each year, average production bonus paid for holidays, paid sick days, and compensation up to 6 months- the mining union leaders are still reckless in pursuit of a still bigger share of the cake. [More…]
Indeed, in some sections of the industry men are now earning up to $30,000 a year. [More…]
I ask honourable members to compare this income with the mere pittance being paid to retired mine workers who do not receive the benefit of this now prosperous industry and who are restricted in receiving social service benefits and local government rate concessions. [More…]
The conditions and the continuity of employment of the worker is, therefore, also threatened. [More…]
I do not believe for one minute that the vast majority of the men employed in the industry desire to be involved in useless stoppages. [More…]
I turn to the matter of unemployment. [More…]
Opposition spokesmen have tried to create the impression that the Budget will give rise to a massive increase in unemployment. [More…]
What hypocrisy from the men who made unemployment a major problem in Australia for the first time since the depression of the thirties. [More…]
As part of this reckless and mischievous campaign some people have even gone so far as to assert that the Budget documents themselves imply a rise in unemployment over the course of this year. [More…]
Neither Statement No. [More…]
2 attached to the Budget Speech nor any other document implies an increase in the level of unemployment over the course of this year. [More…]
They are the words of the Deputy Prime Minister, being truthful when he was with men who understand that what we have been suffering from in this country is a world phenomenon. [More…]
The Government’s approach to the labour market is naive too. [More…]
Men of dignity will not be manouvered by Machiavellian manipulators in Canberra who have no intellectual or emotional understanding of their position. [More…]
The Government has tried persistently to break the system despite the fact that it is working effectively. [More…]
I will sum up the Opposition’s attitude to this Budget as an economic document. [More…]
We reject the notion that neglecting unemployment and concentrating on inflation is that key. [More…]
We assert that modest, selective, stimulatory expenditure in areas where there are unemployed men and women and idle materials and reducing charges such as the Medibank tax are not only beneficial in themselves but they are also the key to consumer confidence, consumer spending, business investment and thus, modest, slow but sure recovery. [More…]
We believe that government spending and revenue forgone on these policies can be financed by scrapping the investment allowance and the other more extravagant business subsidies and by a modest increase in the deficit which would not either force up interest rates or lead to an over-large growth in the money supply. [More…]
The Australian people have now seen the first Budget of the men who rejected the last . [More…]
The dishonesty, the heartlessness, the skinflint mentality, the deep social injustice which are the hallmarks of this Government will continue; but at least there can be no more excuses. [More…]
Honourable members opposite have endeavoured to criticise the level of unemployment, which is running at a very high rate at the moment. [More…]
It must be remembered that when we took office from the Australian Labor Party we were faced with increasing unemployment. [More…]
We have to make every effort to arrest this increase in unemployment. [More…]
Indeed, I could give many instances throughout my own area of men working in one industry during the day and working as barmen in various clubs at night. [More…]
What we are seeing today is really an enactment of vengeance by this Government and those who support it against certain sections of the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a political vendetta designed to divide the trade union movement, designed to put people outside the gate in the hope that there will be enough people outside the gate so that when wages are cut they will have to take them. [More…]
Now this Government is creating the hungry seventies. [More…]
This Government is a government for big business, dedicated to big business and directed by big business. [More…]
The massive back bench opposite, composed of relatively young Australians, I am sorry to say, is devoid of compassion for working Australians, devoid of compassion for unemployed Australians, and rendered impotent by the faceless men of big business who orchestrate those who sit opposite. [More…]
-In 1972 the McMahon Government announced a program of continuing review by the Tariff Board of those industries of highest cost, that is, those industries receiving the highest levels of protection. [More…]
The announcement was made by the then Minister for Trade and Industry, the Right Honourable J. D. Anthony. [More…]
In the main, that criticism was made by people who did not appreciate the shortage of suitable men to conduct the inquiries or the time that each inquiry inevitably must take. [More…]
Trie Leader of the Opposition and members of the Opposition either are prisoners of the left wing strong men who are intent on wrecking this country or they condone the incidents that took place. [More…]
The nation expects at least a semblance of public leadership from these men. [More…]
No matter what government is in office in this country, I think we can forget any thought of going back to the halcyon days of 1 per cent of the work force being unemployed. [More…]
Like all members of Parliament, I go into the factories, and everywhere I go the managing director or the works manager says with great pride: ‘See that machine? [More…]
Then he smiles and says: ‘But it is doing the work of 50 men. ‘ [More…]
I am pessimistic that even when we do return to conditions of economic buoyancy we will not be able to return to an unemployment rate of 1 per cent or 2 per cent. [More…]
Certainly that situation is not of this Government’s making; it is now part of the system and built into it. [More…]
There must be greater co-operation between academics and employers in the training and placement of school leavers. [More…]
I would like the proposal for a selective Regional Employment and Development scheme, run by the good managers that we have in the ministry, looked at again. [More…]
I support and I am happy with what the Government is doing about these things. [More…]
As also mentioned in the Budget Speech, the Government intends to remove the coal export levy, in this case over a period of 3 years. [More…]
The Government has always regarded the coal export levy as an inappropriate form of taxation. [More…]
The imposition of the coal export levy has had undesirable effects not only on existing producers, but more unfortunately it has acted as a deterrent to potential developments. [More…]
Planned new coal projects which would be affected by the levy could involve the employment of up to 4 500 men, peaking to 10 000 during the 5 year construction period, as well as the new capital expenditure of up to $2,000m over the 5 year period and an increase in our export earnings of up to $ 1,000m per annum. [More…]
Since the election of December 1975 many people in my electorate of Eden-Monaro have told me, and told me earnestly, that it is so important that the Government not lose its nerve at this juncture. [More…]
Men and women who work in the retail industry, the rural industry, the construction industry, the tourist industry and the Public Service have said to me that it is very important for Australia to get back on its feet, for us to wrestle with inflation and bring it back to a level that is acceptable to the men and women of Australia. [More…]
My constituents in EdenMonaro have indicated strongly to me since the Budget that, the fine print and the minor reallocations of emphasis as between categories of expenditure apart, the 1976-77 Budget demonstrates clearly that the Government has not lost its nerve in its endeavour to put Australia back on its feet. [More…]
If his sort of thinking gathers momentum, I suggest that the people in this country will come to realise that a small minority of communists has far more power in Australia than probably a similar group would have in countries which are known to have socialist or totalitarian regimes. [More…]
I would not let this day pass without putting on record the fact that not one member of Her Majesty’s Opposition has been patriotic enough to stand in this Parliament on this day and condemn out of hand the action of the communist trade union boss Bull in banning from using our wharf facilities a vessel which is sent here by one of our great allies under a treaty. [More…]
I think it is a crying shame that we do not have men on the other side of the Parliament with enough courage to get up and condemn the communists and the left wing collaborators who are trying to break down our treaty arrangements. [More…]
The ban earlier this year by the storemen and packers delayed the sale of almost a quarter of a million bales of wool. [More…]
That led to a delay in payments to wool producers, who are certainly not enjoying very high incomes at the moment. [More…]
In June about 1 500 men had to be stood down at Mount Newman while 16 bulk ore carriers were held up. [More…]
Yet all this does is to impede and stifle continuing expansion and development. [More…]
Three weeks ago we had the incredible spectacle of the Government sending 2 members of the Foreign Investment Review Board overseas to drum up foreign investment in Australia. [More…]
The men who were to be reviewing foreign investment proposals are the men who are now drumming up the business. [More…]
The week before that we saw Sir William Pettingell, the other member of the Review Board, changing the Government’s investment policy by unilaterally announcing that the Board’s criterion on foreign investment will be only an economic one. [More…]
In other words, the Government’s foreign investment policy can be changed at the whim of the Foreign Investment Review Board and the Board’s policy is determined by the individual views of its members. [More…]
So much for the Treasurer’s statement in April. [More…]
-If the subject matter of this debate was not a serious matter we would have to regard the move by the Opposition this afternoon to bring before the Parliament the questions that have been raised as probably the most humorous act since the House assembled in February. [More…]
The honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) and indeed the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) spent a great deal of their time personally attacking the Deputy Leader of this Government, the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for National Resources (Mr Anthony). [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, I put it to you that these men are not in any position to attack our Minister for his performances in his portfolio. [More…]
First of all, he abused the men who built the Australian mining industry to what it was when he assumed office in 1972. [More…]
They had the audacity to mention coal, coming as they do from New South Wales, where the bulk of the coal that is produced comes from underground mines which, of course, are less competitive than the open cut mines of Queensland. [More…]
It is arrant humbug that the Opposition has taken part in this afternoon; it is humbug for them to come here and be critical of this Government and of the Deputy Prime Minister, because they are the guilty men in relation to the depletion of this industry. [More…]
This Parliament has been denigrated by men like you. [More…]
They will be able to point to the guilty men opposite and wonder how on earth the people of Australia had so much folly as to send any of them here. [More…]
I will conclude on that note because I have made an agreement with the ‘Minister for very little communication * to sit down in time for him to carry on with the business of the House. [More…]
He had the misfortune to be followed by the honourable member for Oxley (Mr Hayden), one of the men who in this chamber commands the greatest respect for his dedication to the development of serious policies in relation to social security. [More…]
There was a joke contribution also by the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) whose contribution was, I think, regrettted as much by members on this side as was his appointment to the Board of Trustees of the Australian War Memorial in preference to those of his colleagues who were much more qualified such as the honourable member for North Sydney (Mr Graham), a fellow who served in a real war in which we were united. [More…]
Probably a mix of all these proposals would be the best, but certainly we should now be looking at an unemployment relief scheme to provide employment particularly for young people and men with families. [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…]
In short, we must urgently address ourselves to the question of what sort of country we wish Australia to be- whether with a national spirit we set out to develop and manage our great natural resources, both men and material, so that all Australians will get a fair share or persist in our folly of funding our extravagance from capital instead of from earnings. [More…]
In this respect it is noteworthy that of an estimated outlay for 1976-77 totalling $24,320.9m almost half is made up by health expenditure of $2,908.7m, education $2,204m, social security and welfare $6,187.1m- and I might mention that constitutes 25 per cent of total outlays- and culture and recreation $253. [More…]
These fundings, admirable as they are in intent and generally accepted by most as being a legitimate responsibility of government, emphasise the need to sustain a level of productivity. [More…]
Yet the men who have produced this Budget are the same men who threw us out of office last year on the basis that we could not satisfactorily manage the Australian economy. [More…]
To conclude, the established marketing structure was disrupted by discounters whose initial supply was derived from overseas refiners, distressed cargo and the middle men, such as Allied Petrochemicals Pty Ltd. [More…]
The Royal Commission has made four broad recommendations: [More…]
This Government was prepared to put out of work some 2000 men in the State dockyard in Newcastle together with some 1900 men at the Whyalla shipyards. [More…]
It was prepared to throw on the unemployment scrap heap also another 75 per cent of that figure, being those persons employed in industries associated with the shipbuilding industry- just to suit its policy, just to suit Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, which has adopted a shocking policy. [More…]
Both funds provided to the States to meet their obligations for educating our children and funds provided to colleges and universities to ensure increasing facilities for our young men and women, tike the allocations for social welfare, make allocations a few years ago seem like petty cash. [More…]
Industrial relations in the firm are excellent; so too are the terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
Members of the staff do not belong to a union and have signed a document to the effect that no pressure has been put on them by the proprietor, Mr Lewis, to prevent them from joining a union. [More…]
Of their own volition they are adamantly opposed to joining a union because they wish to have no truck with the growing involvement of unions in political matters. [More…]
The men have been under strong pressure from the Trades and Labor Council in Ballarat and from outside union organisers to join the Electrical Trades Union. [More…]
On all 5 occasions their demands that the staff join the ETU have been clearly rejected by the men themselves. [More…]
He was, as honourable members will know, the principal architect of China since 1949 and one of the very few men who had a major impact on the course of world history. [More…]
Three men in this last half century have attained supreme power- Hitler, Stalin and Mao- and it is no accident that they had so much in common. [More…]
With the passing of those 3 men in one year we can look at the remarkable history of China since the formation of the Communist Party in 1921. [More…]
The Chinese Communist Party was almost wiped out in the Long March of 1934-36 but these men won sufficient support within their country to be able to take over the government of the country in 1949 and be the first government in history to unify China and have the support of all the Chinese people. [More…]
Those men took over a country that had enormous poverty, great illiteracy and many enemies. [More…]
The majority of the world’s leaders were opposed to the Government which Mao led in 1949 and they showed in many ways, including the imposition of trade embargoes and diplomatic non-recognition, that they hoped that the [More…]
Government which Mao led would be shortlived. [More…]
So not only did these remarkable men live through the period from 192 1 to 1949 before taking over government but they lived through the period until 1976 which saw that Government consolidated. [More…]
It is nonsense for any member of the Labor Opposition to be critical of this Government’s management of the economy, especially its efforts in the employment field. [More…]
He started off by addressing the ‘ men and women of Australia’. [More…]
After a few moments he changed the manner of address used his introduction to ‘my fellow citizens’. [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately but needlessly created Australia ‘s worst unemployment for 10 years? [More…]
Or to the same men who have presided over the worst inflation for 20 years? [More…]
Far from these being a promise of the recovery to come, this Budget indicates a total confusion in the minds of the men who believed they were born to rule and who used every under-cover device at their disposal to achieve power. [More…]
The Australian electorate does not and will not accept a Fraser-Lynch budget which deliberately sets out to put one Australian in IS out of work and then refuses to provide means for retraining or re-employment. [More…]
Tonight I want to speak about 2 words- 2 words which have hardly ever been heard in this Parliament. [More…]
As few as 2000 people- all men and all over 50- control about two-thirds of the production system in Australia. [More…]
Either directly or by inference, he said he would increase expenditure on schools, roads, health services, sewerage, environment, women and children, Aborigines, the unemployed, public works, construction, shipbuilding, Medibank, State funds, growth centres, pensions, supporting mothers, unemployed school leavers, aged persons homes, destitute and lonely men- that includes most of the Opposition- supporting fathers, migrants, defence, nursing homes, hospitals, school dental services, refuges for women, national highways and last but not least, women. [More…]
Firstly, I would like to answer some of the remarks the honourable member for Evans (Mr Abel) made about a pamphlet dealing with men of the calibre of John Ducker, the President of the New South Wales Branch of the Australian Labor Party; Senator Kerry Sibraa from New South Wales; Senator Jim McClelland from New South Wales and many other prominent people. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Evans and do other honourable members of the National Country Party and the Liberal Party class men of the calibre of John Ducker, Kerry Sibraa, Senator Jim McClelland and others, including me, who go to peaceful demonstrations as communists? [More…]
If it is more highly specialised than that, he is admitted under one of the even more specialised people such as specialist neurosurgeons, specialist neurologists or specialist ear, nose and throat men. [More…]
The only person who can be in charge of treatment of him is a qualified specialist medical person who has been accepted and appointed by the hospital to the position of honorary medical officer. [More…]
These men should not be left in the position where they believe they are being well looked after by lieutenant-colonels. [More…]
I trust that the Government takes some notice of the wisdom I have tried to propound tonight. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General whether he is aware of recent newspaper reports that these men have been providing both the New South Wales Government and Federal Government with dossiers of information on the collapse of some of their companies, and the disappearance of millions of dollars, in an attempt to do a deal on these charges. [More…]
Have these ex-financiers attempted to do any deal whatsoever with the Federal Government as a condition precedent to their voluntarily returning to Australia? [More…]
Since this Government took office it either has arranged or is about to secure total borrowings of $A850m. [More…]
More than that, immediately after the advent of this Government and with the smart money believing that as a reflex action the Country Party would force immediate devaluation, another $A575m went out by way of exchange transfers. [More…]
The smart money men took it out there and then. [More…]
Our very smart Treasurer has his men tip-toeing around Europe picking up what he can, the unconsidered trifles, wherever he can get them, in places where he bad mouthed a former Government. [More…]
They were pitched on terms which were such that all the smart money men got in. [More…]
There is no need whatever for devaluation to occur if this Government is prepared to handle its business in a proper way. [More…]
I repeat my comment of last week: I said then that my predecessor in office had better pull his finger out and get straight down to business because if he did not the Japanese would put it all over him. [More…]
As the article indicated that some members of Parliament would be part of this Council, you should be aware of the antagonism that has been created by Mr Fraser’s persona] amendment to the Family Law Bill, section 75 (2) (i) that permits excessive bias against men to be exercised by the Court. [More…]
I regret having to stand down men with family commitments who want to work. [More…]
At the same time, the union executives in Adelaide were sending telegrams demanding the release of the arrested men. [More…]
Of course, the men had not even been arrested. [More…]
There must be thousands of unionists who will no longer tolerate the domination of so-called labor men, men who are there to feather their own nests, men who thrive on the power that goes with their positions- power which would be dissipated if they were not able from time to time to call on their men to lay down their tools, to go home and face all the difficulties which come with an unwarranted strike. [More…]
I will say this and say it decisively- and again I think I speak for most of the people on this side of the House- if there is a cause for social justice, if there is a cause that merits a strike I would be the first one to commend to the men that they go on strike. [More…]
It was right to prune the extravagances of the Labor Budget, and action to reduce expenditure on current services has much to commend it. [More…]
It is quite a different thing to apply that same principle to valuable capital works at a time when we have unused resources of men and materials, and when the revival of private enterprise can be so much helped by public expenditure upon things which are needed by the community or which would provide the infrastructure for future industrial ventures by the private sector. [More…]
Plants get moth-balled, so that they are hard to start again and tend to be out of date when the time comes for them to reopen; the skilled labour force gets dispersedperhaps relocated hundreds of miles away under the new scheme- so that skilled men are no longer available when the economy recovers and they are wanted in their old industry. [More…]
In some electorates unemployment has gone down. [More…]
In some areas of Sydney, including my own electorate, it went down between 2 1 per cent and 24 per cent at 2 unemployment offices in the 12 months to 30 June this year. [More…]
It has gone up slightly since although the figure is still better in respect of women than it is for men. [More…]
Young persons are having tremendous difficulties. [More…]
I commend the Government strongly for its relocation assistance scheme and in particular for the emphasis it is placing- and I hope it will place much greater emphasis on this- on ‘on-the-job training’ through the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]
There should be a great campaign throughout the nation to acquaint employers on what is occurring and what the Government is doing. [More…]
I sometimes think that as a government we do not put our best foot forward. [More…]
A gang of 8 men was there. [More…]
He said it had to do with some agreement with the union and that they had to do it. [More…]
Those accusers are the very same men who in 3 years in office practically trebled unemployment in this country. [More…]
Yet, these men have the temerity, the gall and the shamelessness to accuse this Government of creating unemployment and using it as an economic weapon. [More…]
How many homeless men and women are there in Western Australia who may qualify for assistance under the Homeless Persons Assistance Act. [More…]
1 ) The assistance provided under the Homeless Persons Assistance Act is not payable direct to homeless men and women, but to the eligible organisations that provide assistance to homeless persons by way of food, accommodation or a social welfare service. [More…]
This is the finding of the Working Party on Homeless Men and Women which reported to the Minister for Social Security in June 1973. [More…]
Some estimates from fragmented evidence contained in this report constitute probably the only information available. [More…]
Three partial censuses of accommodation used by homeless men in Sydney in 1971 and 1972 indicated that the homeless population in that city would be ‘around the 3000 mark’. [More…]
Estimates of numbers of homeless men using central city community facilities in Melbourne were of the same order of magnitude. [More…]
Figures supplied to the Working Party by the Salvation Army indicated that in 1971 its main men’s institution in Melbourne had contact with5800 individual men. [More…]
On the basis of this figure it was estimated that the total turnover of inner city agencies in Melbourne may be as high as 10 000 individual men per annum. [More…]
Unless we are freed from those constraints which were put there by timid men with parochial interests, Australia will never fully function effectively as a social and economic unit. [More…]
I say that not in any spirit of political partisanship but because it is vitally necessary that there be some amendments. [More…]
Those amendments must be put to the people and supported by both parties. [More…]
When there is a change of government or if there is a change of representation in the Senate alone, there will be further trouble. [More…]
I was attracted by the arguments of the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) about constitutional amendments, because it is a fact that as the Constitution was written the Senate effectively has more power than the House of Representatives. [More…]
The reason that it got into the Constitution was that the Constitutional Convention never debated the possibility of the ordinary annual services of the government being rejected by the Upper House. [More…]
People in a convention such as that are naturally bound by the history of what has happened, and very few men, such as Deakin, can see what might happen in the future. [More…]
I wish to spend a few minutes of the adjournment debate in describing what has occurred in South Australia in the past few years. [More…]
This prompts me to relate to the Parliament what has occurred on the issue upon which, I suspect, those men had their most bitter fights. [More…]
That is the matter of representation in the South Australian Parliament. [More…]
In ten years the men who put in $25,000 and others are millionaires twenty to fifty times over. [More…]
Their ambitions to induce legalisation of poker machine gambling in more and more areas, their anticipation of this and of their move into the lucrative fields of operation, is apparent from reading their own documents, which are exhibits or retained as marked for identification with the inquiry records. [More…]
I think it is a point of some satisfaction that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Sinclair) in particular are all men who have had experience on the land and who do understand the problems that are faced by people in these circumstances when drought is causing them so much of a problem. [More…]
I think the Federal Government is doing what it can to react to the circumstance which exists. [More…]
I for one am very grateful for the fact that the Government has been so prepared to commit itself to the support of people who are affected by these conditions. [More…]
In the case of the shipbuilding industry, for instance, it is no mean feat for any politician- be he a supporter of the Government or a member of the Opposition- to have to do as has to be done by my colleague the honourable member for Grey, Mr Walks, whose electorate encompasses Whyalla, that is, attend a meeting tomorrow night and announce that the Government looks to be hell bent on putting 26 per cent of the work force in Whyalla out of work. [More…]
So we are talking about the shifting of 2500 or 2600 men and women and their families from the industry in Whyalla to another area where we hope that they can find jobs. [More…]
We all know now if we are honest with ourselves that there are no jobs available for those people in Australia at the present moment. [More…]
Frelimo sent a fully equipped force of some 2000 men to help the MPLA in Angola and this contingent should now have returned to Mozambique. [More…]
The second part of the resolution called upon the Government ‘as a first step’ to allocate 0.55 per cent of GNP in 1976-77 financial year ‘increasing by 0.05 per cent per year until the 0.7 per cent target is reached ‘. [More…]
Perhaps the most devastating action of the Government in respect of the quality of aid is the abolition of the Australian Development Assistance Agency and the reintegration of its staff into the Department of Foreign Affairs, and the associated staff cuts that went along with it. [More…]
The ADAA was established by Labor in order to provide development assistance with some degree of independence from considerations of day to day diplomacy and foreign policy decisions, and in order to create an opportunity for public servants concerned about developments to make a career in it rather than leaving aid to be administered in an ad hoc manner by diplomats for whom aid was not necessarily their main interest. [More…]
It was beginning to develop a professionalism which might in time have matched that of the Canadian International Development Agency. [More…]
It had even become aware of the possibility that aid programs aimed at helping a whole community might unintentionally worsen the position of women. [More…]
After all, tractors mean less digging for the men but can mean twice as much weeding for the women in these poorer parts of the world. [More…]
There is no pension automatically available for men comparable to a widow’s pension or a supporting mother’s benefit, yet the family’s needs are exactly the same. [More…]
This is a very serious anomaly which is against the spirit of one of the main principles of the Henderson Commission of Inquiry, that is the principle of a right to income according to need and not according to any moral judgment as to the cause of such needy circumstances. [More…]
Discrimination based on the sex of the parent requiring assistance is against the spirit of this fundamental and quite proper principle. [More…]
Two days after the dismissal of the Whitlam Government by the Governor-General I decided to drive past Parliament House searching as usual for what my children affectionately call ‘Dad’s historical atmosphere’, and sometimes less affectionately ‘Dad’s excursions down memory lane’. [More…]
One was the proclamation pinned on to the door of Parliament House proclaiming that the Governor-General had dissolved Parliament. [More…]
The other was a booth on the lawns opposite Parliament House in which a man was selling souvenirs and post-cards. [More…]
I wondered then whether the first portended the end not just of a particular parliament, but the end quite soon of parliamentary government, by which I mean the responsibility of the government to the group with a majority in the House of Representatives, the people’s house, and the responsibility of the House of Representatives to the people. [More…]
I considered, too, whether the appearance of that small shop perhaps meant the return of the ‘money changers’ to our temple of politics- whether an age of the accountants and the book-keepers was going to have a final brief, stormy period in our history before the angry young men of the Left swept them all into the dust-bin of our history. [More…]
The Australian electors, bombarded for months by stories of the incompetence, the bungling, the corruption, the jobbery &c, &c, &c, of the Whitlam Government, had put back into government in our country a group of men who had the moral values of a troop of Boy Scouts, and the economic and social values which were rapidly disappearing off the face of the earth except in countries such as South Africa, New Zealand, Rhodesia, and possibly Spain. [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…]
But Labor was not given that chance- and hence Donald Home ‘s magnificent denunciation of the ‘ men in black ‘, men with the hearts of walnuts, who were quite determined to use every card in the pack to stop Gough Whitlam and his government helping Australia get to 1975 before the progressive and hopeful pan of the world took the next step forward. [More…]
Perhaps you can gauge the measure of its achievement, and the very high level of its performance, by the zeal with which the ‘hear dimmers’ and ‘head shrinkers’ have attempted either to belittle or to misrepresent what he has had to say. [More…]
As every student of our constitutional history knows, after somewhat tedious debates the Founding Fathers seemed to decide that wherever the federal principle collided with the responsible government principle, then the responsible government principle must take precedence. [More…]
That was what Whitlam was arguing all through those agonising days in October and November after the ‘men in black’, and their much-bedizened women, went into their huddle at the Lakeside Hotel and answered, for themselves, Lenin’s great question for any seekers of power. [More…]
It is just because the Governor-General used his constitutional powers- those powers most people thought belonged to the days of yesteryear- to serve the interests of the Liberals rather than Labor that the men of good-will, men who may have been bothered by all those errors human frailty and folly had caused Whitlam and Co. to fall prey to, were filled with a righteous indignation. [More…]
What is clear is that those historians of the future will find in Birch and Home men of genuine moral passion. [More…]
Now for a while the world here will belong again to the men of brawn, the men with the terrible delusion that they are the only ones who work. [More…]
I think it is only fair to the union members concerned that when a member of Parliament rises in this chamber to be critical of the parties to a union dispute because of legislation that a government of which he was a member for many years would not do something about, he ought to declare all of his involvement. [More…]
That is only fair and proper to the men and their families. [More…]
If a member of Parliament raises an issue such as this under the guise of public interest, he also has a responsibility to the Parliament and to the community to say that he stands to be disadvantaged from that disputation or that he stands to benefit if such disputation does not occur. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Hughes has pointed out, one of the great comforts to those of us who have taken a part in this operation for many years- the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) has a distinguished record in this- is the remarkable increase in the articulate capacity and the eloquence in expression of the Aboriginal men and women. [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…]
It has had 4 economic front men in four years. [More…]
The previous Government created confusion and inconsistency in this economy. [More…]
The present Government inherited from the former Administration a fully fledged and flourishing system of economic chaos. [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…]
Those statements could be understood only if they were read in those terms. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) spoke of unemployment benefits and of the request by numerous Aboriginal communities that either they not receive those benefits or that the money which is paid into the community in that manner be used to provide job opportunities for the men and the women. [More…]
Mention was made earlier in the day of the community at Mowanjum. [More…]
I inform the Committee that the Mowanjum community wrote to me in February of this year pointing out the great socially destructive effect of unemployment and other social security payments on the community. [More…]
As a result I established a working party, calling in my colleagues the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle), the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) and the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick), to consider that matter among other matters affecting Aboriginal employment. [More…]
I have recently said publicly that the Department is now working on ways and means by which we can convert those unemployment benefits into work money, not in any sense of discrimination or to deny to Aboriginals their entitlement to unemployment benefit but to see that the money which would otherwise go into a community in that way and not be put to work is in fact put to work. [More…]
Many of us in this chamber know scores of heartbreaking cases where Lebanese in Australia are undertaking ruinous financial commitments to bring out relatives who have lost their houses, possessions and jobs. [More…]
Those here are usually young men who came as forerunners for their families to establish themselves in Australia and then to bring out their families afterwards. [More…]
Nothing is more moving than the efforts young Lebanese men in Australia will make to help their parents, their younger brothers and sisters and even their married sisters and their families to come to our country. [More…]
The Department and the Minister in my experience have often taken 6 months to answer applications or representations by members of this chamber. [More…]
Then after the representations or applications have been acknowledged, the process of determining the applications commences. [More…]
The facts show that in his handling of the grave and tragic plight of refugees from the Lebanon the Minister has been less than candid and less than sincere to the Parliament, to the Lebanese community in Australia and to the refugees themselves. [More…]
The other doctrine is that able-bodied young men are an economic asset but that dependants are an economic liability- no matter what the social consequences or considerations. [More…]
One sees these doctrines in the issue of Lebanese migration, and now the Government is contemplating another affront to these people. [More…]
The Government will make it easier for people from Rhodesia who do not have relatives or even sponsors in Australia to come to Australia than for people from the Lebanon who have both relatives and sponsors in Australia. [More…]
The Minister spoke about a long term solution to the problem, and I agree with him entirely; but there is a need to look at the situation of those who at the moment find themselves unemployed. [More…]
Can we please be spared any future examples of the Prime Minister of this country finding positions for 4 young men from his home town of Hamilton at a place almost 200 miles away- at Highett in Victoria. [More…]
It was not by coincidence, I suppose, that those 4 young men were placed with the Nylex Corporation and that a member of this House has very close associations with that company. [More…]
It is also very interesting that those 4 men did not stay very long. [More…]
That raises a question: Did the company have 4 vacancies and could it not find 4 young men who lived close by to take those positions? [More…]
Or did the people who engage people at that factory do a favour for the Prime Minister of this country to get him some cheap publicity in the newspapers while those 4 young men stood around twiddling their thumbs or taking the wax out of their ears, and giving the impression that the Prime Minister was able to find positions for people? [More…]
Eighty per cent of all discoveries to date have been because of the little men. [More…]
We need it even more to continue our development. [More…]
I think that he made a very good contribution to this debate, as he makes a very good contribution to the planning and policy initiatives of the Government. [More…]
I think that a little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. [More…]
The Government gave very careful consideration to both points of view. [More…]
I feel that the Government went as far as it possibly could. [More…]
Until such time as an Australian Government realises that it acts for the whole of Australia and not for one pan, we will have this difficulty. [More…]
Until such time as my party realises that it cannot rely on what is called the private enterprise structure to guarantee full employment, we will have difficulties too. [More…]
They said: ‘Give us a subsidy or we will sack the men. ‘ [More…]
We should have given it to the men. [More…]
The Chairman of the Committee has already mentioned the cavalcade of human tragedy, as revealed by the evidence given to the Committee. [More…]
We were told that children as young as 8 years of age are being intoxicated; that wives are being beaten up to make them hand over child endowment, and that child endowment increases- the baby money- has been and is being used to buy grog; that charter planes are flying loads of liquor into reserves; that one community passed around a hat on one occasion and that $3,000 was collected in 2 days to buy grog; that husbands are selling women to finance liquor supplies. [More…]
We were told of a communityand I quote- ‘collapsing in a great, bloody, brawling, sprawling drunken heap’; that white men are selling flagons of wine to Aborigines at $20 a flagon; that one Aboriginal drunk pick-up service picks up 50 to 60 people a night; that one Northern Territory town has 52 liquor outlets; and we were told of a community rationing beer to 12 cans per adult per day and 24 cans on Saturdays. [More…]
Following that bombast, it is not difficult to agree with the sentiments expressed by both the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam) and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren). [More…]
Both men have for many years past, certainly during the 3 years of the Labor Government and for many years before that, been two of the few people in public life who have struggled seriously to develop policies for inter-governmental relations in Australia, not as some abstract concept of political science but as a way of delivering services to people, a dynamic way of providing services to people. [More…]
It is the first one, after 10 months of government, that the Government has come up with- the Advisory Council for Intergovernment Relations. [More…]
Both Government speakers- the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman) and the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson)- referred to its American origins. [More…]
Of course, there is a reference to the 5 citizens who are not members of Parliament, and they are to be drawn from different sections of the Australian community. [More…]
There will be the usual suggestion that these people are non-political appointments because they have never participated publicly in politics and have no overt partisan affiliation. [More…]
But among the 5 prominent citizens, including especially the chairman, you can bet your life there are going to be these grey faceless men who make their deals with the Cabinet in the boardrooms out of sight of the public. [More…]
They will be responsible men, men who always surface as the men of great public stature and independence, but who also happen to run companies that contribute hundreds of thousands of dollars to the Liberal and National Country Parties. [More…]
In fact, that could be one of the attractions of the appointment. [More…]
The Advisory Council on Intergovernment Relations is to inquire into intergovernment co-operation. [More…]
Again, honourable members opposite have not told us what intergovernment co-operation is. [More…]
If they look at the legislation, they will see it defined as including inter-government co-ordination also. [More…]
What spirit impels these men opposite to enter Parliament? [More…]
Why do they stand for Parliament at election time unless they are prepared to come out with specific policies about how this country ought to be governed and about what is an appropriate function? [More…]
They are value judgments every time. [More…]
It is about time that honourable members opposite realised that the people out there in the electorate have woken up to the fact that when the Prime Minister uses those words, he is using them as an excuse to shed the involvement of his Government and to stop this Parliament allocating funds for the real human needs of people. [More…]
It is about how we get governments to work for the good of the nation and for the good of individuals. [More…]
But this does give me the opportunity to comment on the Government’s action in restoring the 3 cadet systems. [More…]
I think the whole of this nation was acutely aware of the action of the previous Government, in accordance with its general attitude towards the defence of this country, in cutting out the cadet system. [More…]
The previous Government played up the suggestion that this system was encouraging jingoism, that it was making our young people militaristic, and so on. [More…]
It never referred to the fact that the substance of our cadet system was to put into young men a sense of responsibility, of awareness of the necessity to defend this nation- after all, who would be ashamed of that- a sense of discipline, adventure training and so on. [More…]
This approach to diversity, freedom, the establishment of institutions, and approaches in society which can enable free men to express themselves is at the heart of Liberal philosophy. [More…]
The performance of the Government to date, the amounts allocated in the Budget and the concrete decisions made all make it plain that the Government believes in the arts and in their future at the heart of community life in this country. [More…]
What did the people on the western end of the island of Timor, now Indonesian Timor, do when one of our men, a prisoner of war, was able to escape from a prison camp, or when one of our men evaded capture? [More…]
Some 50 000 East Timorese perished in defence of our servicemen, directly and indirectly, out of a population of about 600 000. [More…]
Yet during the entire Second World War Australia lost only about 26 000 men from our military forces. [More…]
The great fallacy about this Government is that it represents people in the rural areas. [More…]
Apart from the superphosphate bounty, in what way has the Government alleviated the problems of the people who live in the country areas? [More…]
The Labor Party’s only crime in government was that we refused to tell people with these problems that we could be all things to all men. [More…]
Recently, in Queensland, research officers of the Department of Primary Industry at the Hermitage Research Station, near Warrick, in the electorate of Darling Downs, released corvette, a new stock feed barley variety. [More…]
Names like Soutter, Rosser and Syme are recognised as outstanding men, even in world discussions. [More…]
Females were 32 per cent of total enrolments over the 3 sectors in 1974. [More…]
Men outnumbered women by just under 2 to 1 in universities; in the colleges of advanced education 37 per cent of enrolments were male; in technical and further education there were nearly 3 men for every 1 woman. [More…]
I hope that we do not merely increase education funding to overcome unemployment. [More…]
It is of no good for them to get a first, second or third degree at a university and then come out well-dressed men or women with nowhere to go. [More…]
In this debate I do not want to criticise what the previous Government did. [More…]
This is shown by the actions of the first Treasurer in the Whitlam Government, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean), and the then Minister for Education (Mr Beazley) in the first Budget. [More…]
I compliment them on the moneys they made available for education. [More…]
For far too long education had been the poor relation of Austraiian Government initiative. [More…]
My constituents inform me that not only were the lifeboats carrying men but huge containers were seen to be loaded into them. [More…]
To say that the passengers were alarmed would be an understatement, bearing in mind that some of them were quite elderly and justifiably apprehensive. [More…]
Before the Fraser Government undertakes any more of its sneaky tricks in testing out tried and true Labor men with spurious offers of knighthoods, it might consider supporting and rewarding some of the hard-working officers in our undermanned posts in the Middle East who have faced up to the daunting tasks imposed upon them by this Government without complaint and with considerable skill and fortitude. [More…]
Men like Brogan in Nicosia, Stuckey in Cairo, and Cameron, who was our Damascus officer, deserve nothing but the highest praise. [More…]
The fault lies squarely with the Government, which has allowed these posts to remained undermanned after the need for rapid upgrading had become more than obvious. [More…]
The Department knew that. [More…]
It could be 2 women or 2 men living together. [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…]
The stage has been reached where it has been estimated conservativelythose estimates vary depending on whether one reads the report of the Waterside Workers Federation or of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority- that 1500 men are surplus to the industry. [More…]
The previous shop stewards were not responsible men but the present ones are responsible men. [More…]
The real muscle, the real pressure and the real drive on economic issues- the real resource allocation issues- have been taken away from this new Department. [More…]
It is now a powder puff department and has no real authority. [More…]
Even the Minister who administers it, the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman), is a junior Minister who is not even a member of the Cabinet and consequently not on the Cabinet Economic Committee. [More…]
It is with great regret that that brave and wonderful body of public servants, those bright young men who came in to do so much to try to brush away the social inequalities of our urban communities, have been sold out completely by this Government. [More…]
This Government has withdrawn completely from urban and regional development. [More…]
I refer to the slashing of Government expenditure, the provocation of wage and salary earners by deliberately setting out to reduce real wages, the threatened close down of industry such as the shipbuilding industry, the failure to reduce interest rates as promised, the false talk of reducing taxes while at the same time imposing the harsh health taxes in the form of the Medibank levy or subscriptions to the other funds. [More…]
We want a change of policy to our alternative Budget strategy- the lowering of indirect taxes, the stimulation of spending where there are unemployed men and women and other resources, a more realistic wages policy. [More…]
Because of the national Government’s- that is the Fraser Government’sharsh economic policies that company’s orders are drying up fast. [More…]
Employment at Bradford Kendall in the Kilburn suburb in my electorate has been reduced from 220 to 100 in the past 6 months. [More…]
Storemen are unemployed. [More…]
Some of these family men with homes, wives and children to keep, have been employed at Bradford Kendall for up to 25 years. [More…]
They have relied on government contracts. [More…]
In certain cases these are State government contracts, but does anyone suggest that the State governments are not carrying out what the present Liberal-National Country Party Government wants? [More…]
He sugar-coated the pill with a number of compliments, but it would appear from the terms of reference and from the composition of the committee of inquiry, with the exception of Professor Birch, that it is more of a keelhauling process than a mere overhauling. [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…]
Look at these great men of principle! [More…]
For instance, do honourable members know that some of these men of principle live in my electorate? [More…]
These are the men who will not go out to the people whom they claim to serve. [More…]
They get up in this Parliament and mouth principles. [More…]
Why do not those men go out and live amongst their people? [More…]
He said he had not, repeat not, said or implied there is a secret agreement between you and President Suharto. [More…]
He said his remarks to the effect that there was a ‘ heart-to-heart conversation ‘ and a better mutual understanding between the two men following the visit must have been misinterpreted by the Australian media. [More…]
It is required as soon as possible because of the imminent expiry of the present agreement with the University of New South Wales and because, while some 16 per cent of Service officers receive a university level education now, the Chiefs of Staff require a substantially enlarged proportion of officers to hold degrees in the future. [More…]
Leaders in the profession of arms must be more than leaders of men. [More…]
They must be educated men, equipped to cope with increasing complexities and changes in technology, industry and in society. [More…]
Following this I will propose next year legislation to lay down principles of administration that will ensure both its academic autonomy and scholarship, and retention of the required military environment. [More…]
-This Government has demonstrated nothing less than a masochistic attitude to the Australian shipbuilding industry which ignores the welfare and well being of all its employees and their dependent families. [More…]
The Government has handled the question of the shipbuilding industry with the same conscience and concern as Medibank would receive if Dracula were placed in charge of it. [More…]
The issue has gone from being one of debate to one of a national joke- a joke for the Government but no joke for the men and women whose livelihoods are threatened, no joke for the fitters and boilermakers and other skilled personnel who have now brought their protests to the steps of Parliament House. [More…]
To all this, the only response we have had in this Parliament from the Minister was that in his opinion the submission from the Australian Council of Trade Unions was light weight. [More…]
Perhaps the author of that document was aiming at the Minister’s mentality. [More…]
Whilst we are speaking about the handling of this matter, it would indeed be interesting to know why the Liberal Party has abdicated its responsibility and why it is that no Liberal objects to the Minister using his own Country Party conference to tell the world about Government policy on industry generally. [More…]
As I said earlier in this debate, as rationally as possible, there is no argument about the need for the commodity. [More…]
In the Minister’s own Department, it has been predicted that we will need these 13 bulk ships and 6 tankers to be ordered between now and 1986. [More…]
There may be some argument about whether we have the ability in both those yards to build all those ships. [More…]
Of course, there can be no chance of any section of the Labor movement in Australia accepting a clumsily concluded agreement or proposal reached on this quite unique interdepartmental committee consisting of the Minister for Transport and the Prime Minister in a car ride from Parliament House to the Canberra airport. [More…]
They put up this outrageous proposal that workers in the shipyards should go without any pay rises for the next 12 months before the Government would consider giving any orders to the Newcastle shipyards. [More…]
No section of the Labor movement would be permitted by the vast majority of the Labor movement to accept or to bestow on the Labor movement such a standard. [More…]
But the men have moved a long way in overcoming these problems. [More…]
I am disappointed that he should come into this Parliament right at this particular time when there are demonstrators outside trying to put weight on the Government in relation to this matter. [More…]
The people who are waiting outside ought to know that this Government has made no change to the shipbuilding policy. [More…]
The policy that is presently being followed is the policy laid down by the previous Government. [More…]
The fact is- and the men ought to know this- that the policy decisions, as distinct from other problems within the industry, which caused the collapse of the shipbuilding industry in Australia were policy decisions made by the Labor Government. [More…]
The men outside ought to be told that under the policy laid down by the Labor Government, 3 shipyards have closed already. [More…]
That was not a policy introduced by the Liberal-Country Party Government: That was a policy introduced by the Labor Government. [More…]
I have pointed out already that the policy we are following is not our policy; it is a continuation of the policy espoused by the Labor Government. [More…]
The disappointing thing is that the men at the yards would not accept those propositions. [More…]
Let us compare the attitude of the men in the yard with that of the apple growers in Tasmania, or the dairy farmers of Australia, or the beef growers who are going without and are managing to struggle on their farms with a much smaller income than the men at the dockyards. [More…]
They are prepared to continue on a much lower level of earnings than that received by the men at the dockyard to try to hold their farms. [More…]
The men at the dockyard apparently have publicly declared that they are not prepared to back themselves in for a dollar. [More…]
They are not prepared to go without an increase in wages in order to save their own industry, although they are being satisfactorily paid at the moment. [More…]
It is a complete tragedy to think that the honourable member for Port Adelaide would use this opportunity in the national Parliament to be so politically motivated and to mislead the dockyard workers of the world. [More…]
I read a report in the Canberra Times yesterday which indicated that when the dockyard workers who are presently in front of Parliament House were approached about this question of the dock being built in Japan they said: ‘Oh, it would take too long to build it in Newcastle. [More…]
He is not prepared to have the floating dock built by his own men in his own yard. [More…]
It demonstrates again the lack of sincerity by members of the Labor Party- the spokesmen for the workers- in the whole issue. [More…]
Then we have the Labor Premier in New South Wales who is not prepared to get a floating dock built in his own State dockyard in order to keep men at work. [More…]
I ask the Parliament: Where is the Minister who is responsible for this matter? [More…]
The Minister said that the Government was adopting the policy of the former Labor Government. [More…]
Here we have all this bleating and humbug that men should work harder. [More…]
I mentioned the proposition about a deal being done in the back seat of a Mercedes. [More…]
They did not say: ‘The men are prepared to accept a moratorium on strikes and a freeze on wages. [More…]
That has not been mentioned. [More…]
The Government is not concerned about that. [More…]
So let us do away with the argument about there being a difference in the net costs. [More…]
Money is available for a superphosphate bounty for Cabinet Ministers but no money is available for the men employed in the metal trades union. [More…]
Because the Government is determined to expand the unemployment situation and to keep up the level of the expanded unemployment situation. [More…]
There are S000 men employed in the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
The women say there is widespread feeling among shipyard-department families that their interests are being too readily written off under the blanketing assurance that everything will be done to try to give the men jobs at the steelworks. [More…]
‘We know a lot of wives who say their husbands would not accept laboring jobs after being sponsored out from the U.K. by BHP as tradesmen for the shipyard ‘. [More…]
For instance, on the occasion of the D-day landing towards the end of the Second World War 6939 ships and 10 150 aircraft were required to land 5 divisions of 14 500 men each, and 2 airborne divisions. [More…]
Takushiro Hattori’s Complete History of the Great East Asia War relates that it was estimatedthis was a Japanese naval estimate- that an invasion of Australia would require 12 divisions or some 216 000 men, 1.5 million tons of shipping to move them, and the entire Japanese fleet to protect the force. [More…]
In no part of the world and under no other system do men live so well and in so much freedom. [More…]
We had no rifles, no equipment and no technical knowhow. [More…]
We had to get our young men into the Army at 1 8 years of age. [More…]
The Labor Government conscripted them but it would not allow them to go out of Australian territories. [More…]
During the Vietnam war a Liberal-National Country Party Government had to conscript our 1 8-year-olds to go to Vietnam. [More…]
But between 1941 and 1 949 - it was in 1949 that the Labor Government was defeated- we waged a successful campaign. [More…]
We had hundreds of thousands of men and women in our armed forces. [More…]
It was in those years that full employment was born in Australia. [More…]
We need an army of about 38 000 men, a reserve of up to about 50 000 and between 6 and 10 squadrons of aircraft, backed by a sound industrial development policy. [More…]
If I can do one thing during this very short Estimates debate, it is to make a call to the Government to settle the force structure, and in particular the reserve, and to get it going, as soon as possible. [More…]
But we lost some 400 men dead in South Vietnam, and I should think the wisdom of the Australians should have been there. [More…]
Those are the things that were imposed upon us by the previous Government. [More…]
The allocation is to get Australia ‘s defence forces back into a position where they can defend Australia and have the men with which to do it. [More…]
Those men will have the morale and the confidence and the will to do it. [More…]
All through the Opposition members’ speeches on these estimates we have heard such comments as ‘There is no threat’, ‘They are only mild threats’, ‘There is no threat inside so many years’. [More…]
If we do not start to reform our defence forces and put together the men, the ships and the planes, we will have no strength on which to back our argument, no strength with which to back up any decision we may take in an area in which we should be strong. [More…]
If that decision runs contrary to the attitude of other people in the area then we have to say: ‘We have the planes, we have the men, we have the ships to firm up our Government’s approach to the situation.’ [More…]
The shadow Minister for Defence said that we should not rush into buying replacements for the Mirage. [More…]
Let me tell him that it takes years and years to get a replacement aircraft, to build a replacement ship, to train the men to fly the aeroplanes and sail the ships, to train the soldiers on tanks and radar gear and so on. [More…]
We have to look ahead, and that is what the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) and the Government are doing. [More…]
The shadow Minister spent a lot of time criticising this Government and belittling the efforts that are being made. [More…]
We are looking for a replacement for the Mirage, and yet we hear this continual attack on the purchase of the FI 1 1. [More…]
It was bought by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government and it has been the target of the Labor Party again and again. [More…]
This was one of the most devastating things that the Labor Government did when it was in office. [More…]
The morale of the Australian forces when the Labor Government came to power was the highest that it had been in peace time. [More…]
During its term of office- we have heard how it did all sorts of things; it improved the conditions for the men and so on- there was a steady resignation rate in all branches of the Services. [More…]
But I would like to see an improvement in the morale of the Australian people- the young people and the old people- to defend and keep Australia safe. [More…]
If honourable members had attended the Heads of Government Conference last year in Jamaica, they would have heard President Nyerere of Tanzania and President Kaunda of Zambia threaten that there would have to be war with Rhodesia within a matter of weeks because of the injustices done to their brothers in Africa. [More…]
They told the British Prime Minister, Mr Wilson, that they had discussed this matter for years with leaders like Mr MacMillan and Sir Robert Menzies but that nothing had ever happened except the passing of pious resolutions. [More…]
They put their case from our point of view using the Christian ethic that all men are born equal. [More…]
Why should justice be denied to them because of the pigmentation of their skins? [More…]
I want to put my arguments on the basis of how important it is that we get more co-ordination in respect of the sons of supplies we want, where we want to buy them and where we want to make them. [More…]
I can say this to the Minister in all sincerity: There was a feeling that the procurement officers from the defence personnel could not care less about the Australian manufacturing base. [More…]
I was asked: ‘Are we to dismiss all these men? [More…]
We have sold this equipment. [More…]
We can receive a spinoff to the betterment of our own people in better aircraft engines and better automobile engines if we use our brains. [More…]
How is it that they are so good with such limited equipment, with such limited financial support and no plan at all? [More…]
If we talk to the men in these factories we find that they have no morale. [More…]
He dealt with the problems of moving men, material and equipment around this country. [More…]
One only has to mention those figures- they are sombre figures, they are striking characteristics -to realise that we face quite unique problems. [More…]
A short time ago the Prime Minister, Mr Fraser, appointed a special Committee of Enquiry into the Care of the Aged and Infirm which has as its members the men who so recently redesigned the Medibank scheme. [More…]
Every indication we have is that when the Committee of Enquiry gives the Prime Minister its report … it will contain some important recommendations for a better way to cover the needs of nursing home patients. [More…]
During the period of the Labor Government the Coonamble Shire, which has a very severe unemployment problem, was granted $1,386,131 under the Regional Employment Development scheme. [More…]
The problem in country areas like Coonamble is that if men are not kept in continuous employment they go to the cities. [More…]
Those men are skilled in the primary industries in occupations such as shearing and they are sadly missed in the area. [More…]
I ask the Government to give serious consideration to the reintroduction of some form of unemployment relief such as that provided under the RED scheme. [More…]
It provides much information and entertainment for many Australians and I believe it has many dedicated staff members. [More…]
I believe that most of the management are men who are strong, dedicated and able. [More…]
We never set out to be yes men to the trade union movement. [More…]
There will be sections of the trade union movement which will not like this. [More…]
But we are a strong Government. [More…]
The Government has had plenty of time in which to have reached a decision on the shipbuilding industry. [More…]
The majority of those who gave that opinion were women; women more than men said that the shipbuilding industry ought to be retained in Australia. [More…]
I believe that the way in which this matter is being handled in Australia at the moment is pretty sloppy government. [More…]
We have had a couple of off the cuff statements in the Parliament by the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon), and we have had complete evasion ever since. [More…]
I suggest that the bulk of the men who are on strike at the John Fairfax company wish to be at work. [More…]
In the case of the Australian Labor Party, this is particularly important because, as my colleague interjects, its members in the Parliament are bound by the Party discipline and by policy laid down not by elected members of Parliament but by machine men outside whose credentials are quite unknown to the voting public. [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…]
On this question, the boundaries were the responsibility of the then Minister for Urban and Regional Development, as I was, and we set up those regions in cooperation and after discussion with our State colleagues. [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…]
The same occurred in New South Wales under the Askin Liberal Conservative Government. [More…]
They were determined by conservative State governments and we accept their boundaries and worked together in co-operation. [More…]
I have said time and time again that we should work in co-operation with State Governments because I believe that the only way in which to solve the problems of local government is to work in a spirit of co-operation between the Australian, State and local governments and at the public servant level as well, and not in the way in which this Government is working- by keeping departments and governments in separate boxes. [More…]
So I want to nail once and for all this spurious argument of these privileged young men on the back benches who do not understand the real feelings of the people. [More…]
The centralist philosophy of the former Whitlam Government was, of course, directly contrary to this philosophy in that it was the declared ambition of that Government to destroy the States. [More…]
By the use of blatant or insidious means it sought to further its own centralist philosophy- to the detriment not only of the States but also of local government. [More…]
Some minutes ago the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam)- I quote him as best I remember him -said that no policy has met with such universal resentment and condemnation as the new federalism policy of the Fraser Government. [More…]
I believe that that quote is best applied to his record and to the record of his Government. [More…]
There are 36 tired old men sitting on the Opposition benches in this chamber. [More…]
I know of men who for years have had fire in their bellies. [More…]
They have been the born radicals, always agin the establishment, the existing policy, or the proposed course of action. [More…]
But today most of these men are apathetic, tame tabbies beaten not in a fair fight, but by the insidious erosion of despair. [More…]
And in the- for many- futile struggle, these men are deteriorating faster than their farms. [More…]
And they are not laughter lines … not for men who have long abandoned their cherished beer at the local pub, who have given up smoking, whose hair is hacked off by their wives rather than pay the cost of a haircut. [More…]
A considerable number of men were put out of employment or had to find employment on other ships. [More…]
We- when I say ‘we’ I mean this Parliament- may have been responsible for depriving Tasmania of what could have been the most economic form of transport for those people who cannot afford air travel. [More…]
Should the Empress qf Australia continue to be subsidised at the amount at which it is now subsidised or the amount of subsidy that we introduced initially, being the first government ever to give any subsidy to transport as far as transport between the mainland and Tasmania is concerned? [More…]
That the national government controls mineral export licensing through trade powers under the Constitution gives recognition of this pre-eminent national interest. [More…]
The Australian Government is the only government that can constitutionally prohibit exports. [More…]
Apart from projects funded by federal funds or needing Federal Government approval, environmental impact statements can be sought only when application is made to obtain a licence to export prohibited products. [More…]
We should ask ourselves: Are we going to give responsibility to men like Joh Belke-Petersen the Premier of Queensland or Charlie Court, the Premier of Western Australia? [More…]
These men have no real feeling for environmental questions. [More…]
They are of the same political background and same political colour as these men who sit opposite. [More…]
That this House notes with regret the decision of the Mount Lyell Railway and Mining Co. Ltd to reduce production of copper concentrate at its Queenstown mines, and to close down the ‘Crown’ mines, the ‘Lower West’ mine and the ‘Royal Tharsis’ mine, and to retrench in 3 stages during December- January next 400 of the total work force of 1050 men and women. [More…]
The Premier of Tasmania now has made an intriguing suggestion that if men are first sacked and then re-employed the State will not charge payroll tax for the people who are thus sacked and re-employed. [More…]
I also believe that it is high time the Government of the day either reviewed the salary ranges of the Ministers to bring them up to the level of those of the judiciary or, alternatively, ensured that the judiciary has its salaries pegged until such time as the Ministry- the men in whose hands we have entrusted the future of this nation- are paid the same salaries. [More…]
I leave you, Mr Deputy Speaker, to decide that, and I remind you that it is a judge who is in charge of the Remuneration Tribunal which sets salaries for both judges and members of this Parliament. [More…]
It is a pity that I have to answer an honourable member from my side of the Parliament who has made a very strong attack on the judiciary. [More…]
If I may say so with respect to him, it was an unfortunate attack because the judiciary, of course, cannot protect itself from such attacks, which have been traditional in the Parliament over the years since Federation. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that judges, as a body of men, work hard. [More…]
Mention was made- I thought it was a little unfortunate- of Mr Justice McTiernan who has just retired from the High Court of Australia. [More…]
Quite frankly, I will not sit in the Parliament and hear a word said against Sir Edward McTiernan. [More…]
I mention this because I would not sit here as the only one who can protect these gentlemen and not answer such an attack made on an individual. [More…]
thought that these are men who suddenly are working their way up the salary scale to achieve some ultimate objective of a high salary. [More…]
In most casescertainly in cases in which people of quality are appointed- they are men who have to accept a substantial diminution in their yearly incomes. [More…]
I think it clearly indicates, as the Attorney-General (Mr Ellicott) said, that we want to attract the best men to judicial office. [More…]
I suggest that is the wrong atmosphere to create and will not assist either the Parliament or the judiciary. [More…]
Might I suggest also that these salaries be dealt with by the Remuneration Tribunal during its next assessment and that the relativity of judicial salaries be maintained? [More…]
I had no intention of re-entering this debate until the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen) made a comment. [More…]
I realise that both the Opposition spokesman and the Attorney-General are men who have a background of great legal learning. [More…]
While on the subject of the Premier’s public statements, I refer to his newfound concern for the unemployed. [More…]
His stand on Fraser Island on which he opposes the cessation of mining because of the effects on unemployment must rank high on the list of hypocricies voiced by conservatives in this country. [More…]
One must be forgiven for thinking cynically that he is prepared to use men’s jobs as a lever in his personality struggle with the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser). [More…]
I must make comment upon the statement by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Newman) on this subject. [More…]
He merely offered them the services of the Commonwealth Employment Service to find other jobs or offered them merely the unemployment benefits which they will receive anyway. [More…]
This was stated in a speech in the House before the suspension of the sittings for dinner by the shadow Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, the honourable - member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young). [More…]
We would bring in such structural adjustment schemes as applied to industries hit by the 25 per cent tariff cut. [More…]
We would be of real assistance in employing the men who are hurt by necessary, progressive decisions taken by the Government of honourable members opposite, decisions which we applaud for environmental reasons. [More…]
But we do not applaud the way that the people who will be hurt by those decisions are being left on the scrapheap as this Government is leaving them. [More…]
It was clear in his mind that it would be used to dismiss a government; and that is what it should be used for, to dismiss a government that has been thoroughly discredited. [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…]
In rewriting the history books there is an obligation to be fair to those men who were sacked. [More…]
The apprenticeship system developed by negotiation between union and employer but there was no system of registration and no requirement that the apprentices be indentured or that they undertake work at a technical college. [More…]
Until 1964 each industry determined its own apprenticeships and, although this was the method of training in the engineering and electrical trades, there was no government regulation. [More…]
The Industrial Training Act of 1964 aimed at ensuring an adequate supply of skilled men and women and at improving the quality and efficiency of training and sharing costs more evenly between firms. [More…]
The mood of dairy men and women in the McMillan electorate is one of depression, particularly in those areas where farmers supply the manufacturing sector of the industry. [More…]
The Government has done much to assist the dairy industry over the past 10 months. [More…]
But if the honourable gentleman takes notice of the statement made, I think, yesterday and reported in at least the Sydney afternoon Press by one of the organisational men from the retailers’ association, he will see that the association is looking forward to a marked increase in sales during the Christmas period. [More…]
With respect to the second half of the honourable gentleman’s question, it so happens that the Australia- Japan fisheries agreement is due to be re-negotiated on 27 November next. [More…]
The Japanese have been anxious that this agreement should be extended. [More…]
Last year a 12-month extension to the agreement was negotiated and there have been some preliminary negotiations regarding its extension. [More…]
I am told that the industry currently employs in excess of 8000 men. [More…]
The circumstances of renegotiation of that agreement will very much depend on relations between our 2 countries and opportunities available in other areas. [More…]
As the honourable gentleman would expect, it would be difficult for us not to have regard to the action taken by the Japanese in respect of beef access when we are considering any extension which might be negotiated in respect of the Australia- Japan Fisheries Agreement. [More…]
We have heard previous speakers say that the industry at the moment has a problem. [More…]
The industry has a tragic social problem at this moment. [More…]
There are families- men, women and children- involved. [More…]
I recall that the honourable member for Adelaide mentioned the hiring industries spectacular display out on the Parliament House lawns this afternoon. [More…]
I would agree with him except that I do not believe that the lawns of Parliament House should be used for demonstrations of any type. [More…]
I commend these men just the same, for the slickness with which they appeared, the efficiency with which they erected their marquee or circus tent or whatever it happened to be and for the way in which they took it down leaving none of the mess which can clutter up such a beautiful place which it is the right of all Australians to enjoy. [More…]
I commend them for the way in which they handled their demonstration. [More…]
How many young men have enlisted in the units in (a) non-government and (b) government schools. [More…]
If a person’s pension has been affected by property in the past the Department of Social Security will reassess entitlement under the new income test. [More…]
In many cases the reassessment will result in an increased pension. [More…]
The reassessment may indicate that some people’s pensions should be reduced, but the Government decided that no one’s existing pension will be reduced as a result of the change to the income test. [More…]
Pensioners who receive age, invalid or widows pensions or supporting mothers benefits from the Department of Social Security will not pay tax if they have no other income. [More…]
The invalid pension paid to men under 65 years of age or women under 60 years of age is not taxable. [More…]
However, every action has been taken to ensure that nobody will be disadvantaged as a result of the new arrangements that have been made by this Government in the current Budget. [More…]
Pensioners who receive an age, invalid or widow ‘s pension or supporting mother’s benefit from the Department of Social Security will not pay tax if they have no other income. [More…]
Invalid pensions paid to men under 65 years of age or women under 60 are not taxable. [More…]
In any event, Assembly men have shown that they believe sites are tiny patches of land around which one can place a fence. [More…]
The proper seat of jurisdiction should be the land councils, with ultimate safeguards provided in the form of legislation passed by this Parliament. [More…]
Very few sites have ever been declared under the ordinance, even though many sacred sites have been documented, and constant demands made that they be declared. [More…]
The Government’s Bill makes no provision for this matter. [More…]
It has been put to me by individuals that old men of 75 and 80 years of age have to walk to their traditional sites. [More…]
It is a disgraceful situation when these men are hunted down and are not permitted into these areas in their cars. [More…]
I also would like him to go to the Northern Territory and talk to Mr Ron Withnall or Mr Rupert Kentish, men who have been in the Legislative Assembly for many years. [More…]
If younger unrecognised men attempted to decide for the group, the penalty was death. [More…]
This is my thought and the other Aboriginal men stop we are not satisfied land trusts go to anyone I am land trust myself according to my law stop Please we want you to come to us on Thursday to talk about this matter stop We want to see you come and talk with us stop Mr Eli Rubuntja and we other men stop We are leaders of Aboriginal people stop We want to see our land rights in our own land stop [More…]
These men were mostly important ones from the areas concerned. [More…]
It should be noted that the conference was held at the Lutheran Mission Block to which a number had come on Mission business only to some how hear of the Government ‘s ‘go-ahead ‘ presumably from Albrecht. [More…]
When I made the initial announcement last year concerning this legislation, I also stressed the need for positive personnel policies, including movement of permanent heads to different positions so as to open up new challenges for them, an executive development program and a system of succession planning. [More…]
Introduction of the procedures incorporated in this legislation will assist in the development of such policies. [More…]
The Public Service Board has recently introduced an executive development scheme directed to men and women in the senior levels of the Third Division who have the capacity to undertake higher administrative duties and who require further experience in practical and theoretical aspects of administration, policy advising and management. [More…]
There are also relevant recommendations of the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration that are currently under examination. [More…]
All parties to the industry and the Government are agreed that the present level of the workforce in the industry isin excess of that needed for effective operational purposes. [More…]
The precise extent of the surplus is not agreed upon by all parties, but I am of the view that it is in the vicinity of at least 1200 men. [More…]
Existing redundancy arrangements have failed to attract sufficient volunteers to leave the industry and under no circumstances can the Government condone a situation which results in such high and unwarranted expenditure. [More…]
Nevertheless, I can tell honourable members that, as a result of efforts I have encouraged, the labour force in the industry has already been reduced by some 300 men this year. [More…]
I am proposing to the parties that they consider arrangements which would enable immediate separation of those surplus waterside workers in the 60 to 65 age group. [More…]
This could reduce the labour force by about 500 men. [More…]
-We have just heard the honourable member for Shortland (Mr Morris) present to the House a totally illogical argument about the Government’s new federalism policy. [More…]
I want to bring to his attention what to reasonable men is a proper and correct definition of ‘coercive federalism’ and for that purpose I draw on a quotation from Professor Mathews in which he pointed out that ‘coercive federalism’ was a style of government marked by centralisation of power, unequal bargaining strength and the distortion of the priorities of lower levels of government. [More…]
One of these is that women’s reproductive organs are affected to a point at which monstrosities can be produced. [More…]
The reproduction facilities in young men are limited to a point at which there are no further facilities. [More…]
Let them go and explain their attitude to the father of that young boy mentioned in the newspaper article. [More…]
Let the womenfolk strongly associated with the Australian Labor Party who time and again promulgate that marihuana use is harmless tell that to the father of that lad whose drug problems started with marihuana. [More…]
While these dangers of the drug pusher exist, these men and women in public life who promulgate the smoking of marihuana should be put away for the rest of their lives. [More…]
That may sound like a very broad statement. [More…]
No Australian conscript should ever have served in Vietnam and the reason conscripts did was that the Army reserve was not capable of commitment as units. [More…]
Many individuals from the reserve served and some subsidiary units served, but in general the Government was unable to commit the reserve. [More…]
A full effort must be made to ensure that the reserve is brought up to strength and is given the equipment, training and the necessary wherewithall to be activated if need be. [More…]
The legal obstacles to the use of the reserve in certain circumstances are referred to in the White Paper and the sooner we get a debate on it, the sooner we get employers coming to the party, the sooner the Government subsidises employers for the extra time young men might have to take off from work the better. [More…]
Young men nowadays will be asked by their wives not to forsake their annual holidays to go into training camps. [More…]
I am on the same parliamentary committee as the honourable member for Wills. [More…]
A year ago, at the direction of the present Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the men who compose this Government brought the Parliament to a standstill and blocked the national Budget. [More…]
The Austraiian people were solemnly assured that only a Liberal government could restore Australia to economic prosperity after the international recession; that only a Liberal government could provide sound economic management; that only a Liberal government could restore full employment; that only a Liberal government could revive business confidence and beat inflation; that only a Liberal government could command the confidence of foreign investors and the world economic community. [More…]
That was the pretext on which the rules and traditions of centuries of parliamentary democracy were overturned in November last year. [More…]
The beginnings of economic recovery under the Labor Government and the credibility of the Prime Minister and his Treasurer (Mr Lynch) now lie in shreds amid the wreckage of the Government’s economic strategy. [More…]
The Fraser Government’s economic policy has not just failed: It has ceased to exist. [More…]
The Government not only lacks a credible economic policy: It lacks any policy at all. [More…]
The Australian people will not be denied the opportunity today of hearing more in this Parliament about the disastrous economic performance of the men who, in their own estimation, were born to rule. [More…]
The Government stands condemned for this massive IVA per cent devaluation. [More…]
Just 12 months after it usurped power on the pretext that it could handle the economy better than the Labor Government could, its economic policy has fallen into complete disarray. [More…]
Both the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) and the Prime Minister have destroyed their own credibility and that of their Government. [More…]
The Government has now admitted defeat of its economic strategy in a move which has been appallingly handled. [More…]
On the same day- almost in the same breath- on the one hand the Treasurer says that the move was forced upon the Government and on the other hand the Prime Minister contends that it was a measure designed to stimulate the manufacturing sector and save the mining and rural sectors from an unreasonable burden in the fight against inflation. [More…]
Members of the Opposition and some of yesterday’s men who aspire to sit among them have criticised the decision to devalue. [More…]
Their statements are as hollow as their attempts to manage the economy were disastrous. [More…]
His comments will persuade all of us who know the intimacy of his involvement in international affairs and the acuteness of his judgment in this area. [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…]
-There is sometimes advantage in honourable gentlemen being able to speak out of their places because it allows others to understand what they are. [More…]
Some of these men are quite explicitly seeking to destroy our social and economic system. [More…]
These men have no difficulty in mouthing the words of social responsibility while they systematically drive more and more of their fellow unionists into unemployment. [More…]
The former Government’s decision to devalue was taken at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday 24 September. [More…]
The announcement was timed for 6 a.m. on Wednesday 25 September when financial markets would be closed, but if we check the record we find the Melbourne Sun reported the devaluation, including the figure of 12 per cent, and that the story in question was put together at around 1 1 o’clock on 24 September, one hour after the decision was taken. [More…]
The Reuters news report was made public around 4.30 p.m. on 24 September in London, before the public announcement. [More…]
This led to immediate trading action on the London market during the final part of the day’s trading and before the announcement was made. [More…]
Not only was there a distinct leak of information in circumstances which should have led to the resignation of yet another of Labor’s Treasurers- of course Labor nearly ran out of men to fill that portfolio- but also the leak led to circumstances in which the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitlam), as Prime Minister, refused to answer questions in the Parliament on the matter and refused, of course, to initiate any investigation whatsoever. [More…]
I think the honourable member for Oxley needs to start with a comparison of the propriety of his own Government’s behaviour on the occasion of the 1974 devaluation and the present circumstances. [More…]
I am sure that at least some Government backbenchers, like members of the Australian Labor Party, are concerned about the present and prospective unemployment situation in Australia and about the serious problems of Australia’s manufacturing industry. [More…]
Uranium mining offers not even a partial solution to the unemployment situation. [More…]
The Fox report says that the employment benefits of Ranger are limited. [More…]
After a 2-year construction phase, 250 men will be required to produce 3000 tonnes of uranium per annum. [More…]
It is designed to put fear into the hearts of men and women who do not fully understand the facts. [More…]
The Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Uren), who spoke tonight, even advocated taking the decision-making away from the elected Parliament and placing it outside in the hands of some unnamed and unknown group. [More…]
He would have rule by fear and ignorance without reference to this Parliament. [More…]
I have had considerable experience with the union movement and there are at least 6 unions involved in the Mary Kathleen operations. [More…]
They are fully united in their resolve not to be adversely affected by the decisions made by the Trades Hall in Brisbane, by those gentlemen who enjoy the luxury of safe and comfortable jobs from which they foment union strikes from time to time. [More…]
I do not know whether these men went out on strike last Thursday, but it struck me that if those Trades Hall officials went to Mary Kathleen they would be well advised not to waste money on a return ticket because their chances of getting out of Mary Kathleen alive would be very remote. [More…]
They have some pretty good rifles and shot guns and can use them on those persons who are coming here to try to deprive them of their livelihood to suit the extreme views of the ratbag element of conservationists’. [More…]
It has been calculated coolly and logically that directly and indirectly 10 000 people would go into employment as soon as these major lease began to operate. [More…]
I do not have to make speeches to win votes- I do pretty well in the mining areas- but every one of those men should be highly paid, paid in keeping with the dangerous occupation they follow. [More…]
Should we be guided by the theories of the ratbag element of the conservation movement and keep these men out of work? [More…]
I repeat that I speak as a layman and I believe I speak as many people will in the community who are not persuaded by the extreme positions adopted either by the anti-nuclear lobby in the community or the pro-mining lobby in the community- people who nevertheless when presented with rational argument can feel concerned about the implications. [More…]
Page 152 of the report states: the Commission does not feel confident that nuclear facilities would currently withstand determined assaults by terrorist organisations, lt seems doubtful whether, as the number of facilities increases, it will be possible to provide sufficient defences to render every installation safe against attack by even small numbers of well-armed, trained men. [More…]
On the Cedar Bay incident, Mr Whitrod wanted to charge a number of police officers departmentally because of the aggressive attitude they adopted in the course of their investigation. [More…]
He was frustrated by the Queensland Government in his endeavours to carry out the proper duties of a commissioner of police. [More…]
Departmental charges were frustrated by the Queensland Government. [More…]
1 was able to detect things there, such as men on the same salary as I was being able to spend twice as much as I would spend on recreation. [More…]
Because of our concern for the centre- in this case Newcastle- and because of our concern for the men and their families the Government was and is prepared to entertain that situation in certain circumstances. [More…]
There were dispute settling procedures which, as I understand it, were agreeable to the unions and to the Government. [More…]
Hawke, through one of his hats-I am never quite sure which one- condemned the contract before the men at Newcastle had an opportunity to cast their judgment upon it. [More…]
The understanding I had come to with Mr Wran in the discussions about these particular matters is that there would be no discussion or dispute in public about the contract until the men concerned had had an opportunity to discuss it and look at it in a calm atmosphere. [More…]
The Government believed that if there were political dispute over the nature of the contract it would lead to an inevitable conclusion. [More…]
Really, the decision of the men at Newcastle was pre-empted before they had an opportunity to make a decision. [More…]
If the contract had been put to their own people in a calm and quiet manner, they might well have accepted an arrangement that was fair. [More…]
Unfortunately, there are a good many men, women and children in this industry in Australia who are probably as impoverished as any other sector of the Australian community. [More…]
The failure of the Labor Party to recognise the plight in which these people are currently suffering is a great indictment of it. [More…]
The last point I want to make is that I understand that under the Central Australian Aboriginal Congress the Aboriginal people themselves have very much wanted instruction for women and for men in health care. [More…]
I believe that a Dr Helen Thorn is doing work in this regard as far as the health education of Aboriginal women is concerned. [More…]
I believe there is now a need for a male doctor to help the men in health education. [More…]
That virtually is what the honourable member for Mackeller is talking about in his amendment. [More…]
I think the Government should take note of that because it has followed the Woodward report and the advice of these men constantly bearing in mind that this is traditional Aboriginal land in the Northern Territory and that these are the people for whom we are battling so that they will have the final control over their land, and nobody else, I suggest very seriously that that definition or some similar definition should be looked at very seriously. [More…]
This has been explained in the publication edited by Dr Peterson, which contains articles by learned men on Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
He was backing up such men as Strehlow, Albrecht, De Graf and so on. [More…]
We put a settlement in the middle. [More…]
It is time that this Government learned that it is not correct. [More…]
In fact, the Council for Aboriginal Affairs, as His Honour Mr Justice Woodward pointed out, actually made the recommendation that there should be a freeze over mining renewals and mining development for 20 years. [More…]
The people who made that recommendationthe members of the Council for Aboriginal Affairs- cannot be regarded as slouchers in this situation. [More…]
Certainly he is highly and mutually well regarded from the standpoint of the 2 major sides of politics in this Parliament. [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…]
These men made the point that the freeze should go on for 20 years. [More…]
But this Government is not applying that principle. [More…]
Acting upon information which came to my Department, visits were made to communes which were occupied by people who described themselves as ‘The Children of God ‘. [More…]
The Department receives information from a number of sources in relation to people who are alleged to be prohibited migrants and it has a duty to investigate those claims. [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…]
The capacity and structure of the Army will determine the quality and quantity of men and material an aggressor would have to deliver and sustain in Australia in a conventional military operation. [More…]
I have not mentioned the most important part of our defence forces- the men and women of the Services. [More…]
The allegation was a political catchcry by desperate men who claimed to be economic managers but who could prove not much of what they said. [More…]
Assistance for debt reconstruction, farm buildup and farm improvement will take the form of loans on such terms and conditions, including interest rate, as the State authority considers appropriate. [More…]
The maximum repayment term will be 30 years. [More…]
They are required to review the terms of repayment including interest rates at regular intervals with the objective of encouraging the borrower to transfer to commercial credit as soon as circumstances permit. [More…]
If such assistance is not available many producers, particularly young men getting themselves established, suffer permanent financial damage and the country’s productive capacity suffers along with the individual. [More…]
It was therefore decided that the rural adjustment scheme should include a standing faculty to enable loans to be made for essential carry-on purposes in times of severe market downturn or similar situation, but excluding circumstances covered by natural disaster arrangements, in those rural industries where the Commonwealth and States agree from time to time that it is necessary. [More…]
It is, of course, true that as far as natural disaster arrangements are concerned, there is a separate facility available to the States to provide the specific help needed. [More…]
They are backed up by the Commonwealth according to a formula which has been explained on many previous occasions in the Parliament. [More…]
As time passed and the Government made no further announcement, it became apparent that it was having some difficulty in extracting itself from its regulatory role. [More…]
Indeed it is not apparent from the speech of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) that that is the case. [More…]
The Government has still to secure the acceptance of various arrangements by the parties to the industry, without which it says it will not withdraw from the industry. [More…]
The Minister says that this surplus is of the order of 1200 men and that the Government will not in any circumstances condone the existence of such a surplus when it is costing $20m per annum for idle time payments. [More…]
He has therefore proposed that the parties should get together quickly to work out arrangements by which immediate separation of those stevedores aged 60 to 65 years could be achieved, thereby reducing the number of waterside workers by approximately 500 and then to further reduce the numbers in the lower age brackets. [More…]
In Sydney and Melbourne alone over 1000 men were recruited at that time. [More…]
Since the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) puts the figure of surplus labour at present at about 1200, it can be seen that this excess labour is almost totally accounted for by the 1974 recruitment drive. [More…]
It is ironic that soon after the recruitment drive the volume of trade fell with declining economic activity, both here and overseas, and idle time costs accelerated accordingly. [More…]
The situation remains then one in which the union has modified its approach to allow for compulsory retirement. [More…]
While on this point, however, it is worth noting that even if all surplus labour is eliminated from the industry, idle time payments will still have to be made because of the very nature of this industry with its fluctuating work loads. [More…]
When the Minister refers to idle time payments of $20m as being intolerable, he should understand that with no surplus labour at all idle time payments of several million dollars still have to be made. [More…]
I am one of the people who believes that that is against the interests of this country at the moment. [More…]
It is interesting to note, when one looks at the bitterness which has existed there and which, to some extent, still exists there, why militants or communists are elected by the men to fill positions. [More…]
I have read ghastly stories, when unemployment was very high- something like 25 per cent to 30 per cent- of employers, with their top hats and striped pants, standing up on the balconies when 200 men were waiting down below for a day’s work so that they could feed their families. [More…]
There would be a resultant brawl amongst these hungry, workless men. [More…]
This was of much amusement to the employers. [More…]
I inject that into the debate for those of us in this Parliament and for the people outside who sometimes become irritated with the behaviour of a union like that on the waterfront. [More…]
I am sorry that the honourable member for Gellibrand (Mr Willis) did not commend the Minister on this point, but I think that the Minister very wisely is not opting for a confrontation with the Waterside Workers Federation by forcing redundancy. [More…]
The fact is that 1200 men in the industry now are doing absolutely nothing and being paid for it. [More…]
The Australian public is paying that many men to do nothing. [More…]
It is not the fault of the 1200 men. [More…]
I rise to speak in this debate to express concern at the future situation of employment not only on the waterfront but also in other areas. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has referred to a substantial number of about 1200 men who are in excess of general demand on the waterfront. [More…]
The stevedoring industry is one of a considerable number of industries in which the employment opportunities have declined. [More…]
It would appear for the first time that the employers of waterfront labour and the union are in fairly close harmony about the future development of the Australian waterfront. [More…]
Certainly the union is not going to be satisfied with whatever redundancy agreements are reached although most likely it will come to some acceptable compromise. [More…]
But that may not necessarily mean that the individuals concerned will be satisfied with that kind of agreement. [More…]
It may well be a good agreement but monetary compensation may not be sufficient or in any way attractive enough to a person of 50 or 55 years of age who finds himself redundant and without skills to obtain another occupation. [More…]
According to official figures I think there is a surplus of about 70 men on the Geelong waterfront. [More…]
It must have complete assistance from the Government. [More…]
The Government must realise that if an industry is to survive it must work systematically and conscientiously at removing the problem associated with freight about which I have already spoken. [More…]
When one reads about James Patrick and Co. Pty Ltd, which was able to pay $650,000 in directors’ fees to 5 men last year, one really starts to realise that the freight problems are immense and we, as a government, should work determinedly to overcome the severe restraints on the industry. [More…]
They have been men of great stature. [More…]
I believe that in the future a South Australian deserves some consideration in the making of appointments to the Apple and Pear Corporation. [More…]
If the Government has the common sense that it deserves it should look across the Australian scene and obtain the best people that the industry can muster. [More…]
Then, 2 days before her final medical test the Adelaide recruiting office was advised by the authorities in Canberra that they were not taking women into the band corps and her application was therefore refused. [More…]
However, subsequent advertisements showed that the band corps was still recruiting men to this sphere of activity. [More…]
It would seem that the Department is a little tardy in completing its review and coming forward with appropriate advice on which the Minister could act in this matter. [More…]
Women are already employed in the Army in at least 14 areas- in the survey trades, signal trades, as linguists, in the transport trades, in the nursing corps, in the dental area, in the ordinance trades, in catering, as military police, psychologists, publication illustrators, physical training instructors, as quartermasters and air traffic controllers. [More…]
There would therefore seem to be no justifiable reason for excluding women from the army band corps. [More…]
Paragraph 15 of chapter 5 of the Defence White Paper recently tabled in this House states that the Government intends that women in the Services should now have greater job opportunities and closer equality with men in training and conditions of service. [More…]
It was also accepted that women would be permitted to serve in areas where hostilities were in progress but that they would not be employed as combatants or at sea. [More…]
This Government, having failed to honour the grandiose promises with which it conned its way to power, seeks a scapegoat to divert attention from its manifest inadequacies in the economic field. [More…]
Despite with the sleight of hand men, the manipulators of truth on the other side, may say, its leadership is democratically elected. [More…]
In the long and shameful history of union bashing by conservative parties, this arch conservative Government stands supreme. [More…]
There is no limit to the depths to which this Government and its spokesmen will sink, no limit to the subterfuge to which it will resort to denigrate and try to destroy responsible trade unionism in this country. [More…]
According to this Government the unions are responsible for everything bad and for everything that goes wrong. [More…]
There is no suggestion that the Government itself, by its own incompetence, is stifling recovery in Australia and wilfully- let us be frank about it- maintaining unemployment at historically high levels to the great distress of many thousands of Australians. [More…]
Instead of buckling down to tackle the twin problems of inflation and unemployment in a comprehensive way, the Government attacks only the wages component of the economy, as though Australians do not have a right to maintain their standard of living. [More…]
It is appropriate to raise this matter in this place because the Draconian measures taken by the Victorian Government against the trade unions have been enthusiastically applauded by this Government’s leaders. [More…]
Trade union leaders visiting this country in past weeks have been appalled both by the nature of the Government’s so-called offer on shipbuilding and by the savagery of the Victorian response on Newport. [More…]
Certainly they have maintained bans on the building of this power station, but they have done so for good and cogent reasons which have been supported by men of science and others in the community who have been led to say: ‘Thank God for the unions because they are the only thing standing between the community and potential disaster’. [More…]
Now they have gone further in a genuine effort to find a compromise which has been lacking in the Victorian Government’s approach to this problem. [More…]
The unions have asked for a wide-ranging inquiry into Victoria’s power requirements and an examination of alternative sites for the power station. [More…]
It will inquire into the necessity for an intermediate load power station, including an assessment of the present capacity to ascertain whether it can provide for present and future variations in demand. [More…]
Is that an attempt to take over from the elected Government? [More…]
It is a reasonable conclusion reached by concerned men and women with the future needs, comforts and prosperity of the people of Victoria very much in mind. [More…]
A good example of this is provided by some 60 members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union, the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association and the Electrical Trades Union who were employed by the J. Ray McDermott company on the Bass Strait oil platform construction project. [More…]
These men have been on strike since 7 October in support of claims for an even time work cycle. [More…]
These men currently are employed on a work cycle of 14 days on and 7 days off. [More…]
So, the strike is being continued only by a minority of employees who are directly causing the unemployment of fellow workers. [More…]
Honourable members should remember that these men are on a work cycle of 14 days on and 7 days off. [More…]
There is no way in the world that employment can be maintained, let alone new jobs created, if that sort of action is pursued. [More…]
When a small group of people has the power to decide whether 7000 other men and women have the right to work where is democracy? [More…]
Officer forced to pay men for not working. [More…]
A shipping officer told a royal commission today that he had been forced to pay men who had not worked, and had also paid a port levy, payroll tax and insurance for the time they had not worked. [More…]
Brewery men to strike over hours. [More…]
He stated that there had been an improvement in building statistics. [More…]
Many tradesmen are unemployed. [More…]
I believe it is appropriate at this stage for men and women of goodwill not to keep turning back the clock and saying that the present circumstances are due to the policies of the last administration. [More…]
I think all members of this House believe that it would be much better to carry on with those men fully employed, especially in view of the community aspects of Queenstown. [More…]
As I have said previously in this House, it is not just a question of management and labour; it is a community that is very much affected. [More…]
As far as the number of men is concerned, I will be coming to that. [More…]
If they are the most suitable people, women may occupy every position on the Commission because the Government has not limited their number. [More…]
The interesting thing is that the Government has not - stipulated that there shall be men appointed. [More…]
Only in the face of strong and sustained lobbying by ABC staff members has the Government capitulated on this point and made provision for ail the present commissioners to serve out their remaining term. [More…]
The Government is to be commended for making this small concession at least. [More…]
In this part of the legislation, both as originally drafted and as presented now, we are again treated to an admirable exhibition of the subtlety with which this Government goes about pursuing its aims. [More…]
The end is still the same- a totally reconstituted commission, stacked by the Government’s hand picked men. [More…]
The Government will not be running the ABC. [More…]
It will do so by proxy, by making sure that the ‘right’ people, people of its own choosing, people on whom the Government can depend to make politically amenable decisions, will be running the show. [More…]
Australia desperately needs rigorous and enlightened economic management, free from doctrinaire obsessions, with reductions in the public sector outlays and attacks on trade unions. [More…]
For the sake of Australia, I hope that the Government, with its advisers, can quickly work out a comprehensive and detailed set of economic policies so that all sections of the Australian community can plan effectively. [More…]
The disarray on the Government back benches in the last week leads me to the conclusion that Government members are demoralised and bewildered, and understandably so. [More…]
There is only one thing that Government supporters can do for Australia. [More…]
They must get rid of these men- the Prime Minister and the Treasurer- who have led us into this mess. [More…]
All this is the doing of the Prime Minister and the Treasurer- a demented idealogue and his subservient deputy; the great economic managers, we were told; these great men of business! [More…]
What does the Government want to charge the people? [More…]
The Utah Development Co. pegged up $ 135m today. [More…]
It has been given the increment of a devaluation. [More…]
The 2 guilty men are the Treasurer and the Prime Minister. [More…]
I do not mind if there are 1 1 women on the Commission or if there is none. [More…]
The object of the exercise is that women on merit should be able to serve on this Commission. [More…]
I am sure that there are plenty of women who have that merit. [More…]
What will happen is that two out of eleven members to be appointed will be women. [More…]
The Government has done its bit to show that it is interested in women’s affairs and women’s involvement. [More…]
Good Lord, cannot the Government see that! [More…]
Why should there be any mention of the number of women at all? [More…]
What we want is a society in which women are getting the opportunity to advance and to take an equal place with men. [More…]
I hope the Government will change its mind in relation to this clause and tear it out. [More…]
Honestly, the Government is leaving itself wide open to be kicked in the pants. [More…]
The other amendment deals with the inclusion in the clause of the words: ‘At least 2 of the Commissioners shall be women’. [More…]
Why do we not state that at least two of the commissioners shall be men, or whatever? [More…]
The fact that in the past we have had only one woman commissioner is no argument for showing our generosity by increasing the number to two. [More…]
In fact, there is no reason why all the commissioners should not be women under certain circumstances. [More…]
After all, surely judgment should be made on their suitability for the position on the Commission- on their particular abilities. [More…]
In many ways the female members of the Committee are ahead of many of the men who serve on it in their attitudes to standards and types of programs and in a real understanding of how the Commission should function. [More…]
I think that discretion should be used and women should not be mentioned specifically in this way. [More…]
Why should not all the commissioners be women? [More…]
If the sex of the commissioners is to be specified, we had better say as well that at least two shall be men. [More…]
The reason I query this is that it would appear to me that members of the Opposition want to have it both ways: they do not want to upset the women of Australia but they do not want to see provisions concerning their representation on the Commission included in the BUI. [More…]
In the form of an interjection yesterday the honourable member for Scullin said: ‘At least how many men?’ [More…]
My reply on that occasion was that the representation could be such that there would be no men if we could find sufficient suitable women for the position. [More…]
So I am a little puzzled as to just where the Opposition stands on the appointment of women members to the Commission. [More…]
I compliment the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson) and the Government for making absolutely certain that there will be at least 2 women members on the Commission. [More…]
Creating economic opportunities conducive to full employment where, under healthy, safe conditions, women and men will be fairly compensated for their labour in monetary, health and other personal benefits. [More…]
I refer to the wholesale murder of men, women and children which has been perpetrated and which is still being perpetrated by the Cambodian communist regime for the purpose of terrorising the Cambodian people. [More…]
I ask: What information is available to the Government about details of these shocking occurrences in Cambodia? [More…]
Has the Government any details of the recent incident when 26 Cambodian refugees, including children, were returned across the border by the Thai authorities and are said to have been forthwith beheaded by the Khmer Rouge, that is, the Cambodian communists? [More…]
Finally, will the Minister see that details of such communist atrocities which customarily occur in Cambodia and elsewhere receive adequate publicity in Australia so that such publicity may nave some deterrent effect upon those who perpetrate these atrocities and so that Australian communists who are associated with this foul movement may receive the detestation and execration which is their proper due? [More…]
-The States Grants (Rural Adjustment) Bill enshrines the Government’s new rural adjustment scheme. [More…]
As such it is one of the most important developments in the implementation of a comprehensive rural policy. [More…]
The Government has been criticised for having no grand strategy for rural industry and for not immediately implementing such a strategy. [More…]
This is an ignorant and naive view of the complex interaction of local and international economic policies and politics, not to mention the weather and pests which would almost immediately negate any such policy. [More…]
The shadow Minister implied that the returns which farmers should receive are going to the middle men. [More…]
In the aftermath of the Second World War and under the wise leadership of 2 great men, Sir Robert Menzies and Sir John McEwen, this nation has been built up with the introduction of a system of import replacement. [More…]
That import replacement policy meant very simply that we manufactured goods in Australia and provided people who were employed in those industries with a reasonable standard of living, a reasonable wage and a degree of protection from nations in our immediate region and also around the world. [More…]
There was little or no unemployment and a very low inflation rate. [More…]
This does not mean for a moment that the importance of the Army, as part of the deterent force, should be underrated. [More…]
The capacity and structure of the Army will determine the capacity, quality and quantity of the men and materiel an aggressor would have to deliver and sustain in Australia in a conventional military operation. [More…]
I have not talked about the most important part of our defence force- the men and women of our services. [More…]
I would like to make a couple of remarks about the Department of Defence. [More…]
I hope that it soon will grow into a body established by statute and one which has collective responsibility for all the affairs of the Department of Defence; that its members will be chosen on a functional basis; and that the number of professional people on it, when its structure is changed, will be appropriate to the profession of arms. [More…]
I would like to say one other thing about the Department of Defence: We seem to be getting an enormously top heavy structure, with deputy secretaries, first assistant secretaries, and so on. [More…]
If we look at the proportion of senior officer in our Armed Services- that is brigadier and above- we have one to every 697 men. [More…]
The Unites States has one to every 2127 men. [More…]
-The Pilbara is an immensely wealthy area containing some of the richest deposits of iron ore and other vital minerals in the world. [More…]
Yet my State, the size of India, is defended at the moment largely by some 300 men of the Special Air Services Regiment, one small patrol boat based at Fremantle and a squadron of Macchi jets at Pearce. [More…]
Thankfully and rationally the White Paper contains indications of impending improvements to this ludicrous situation. [More…]
The Parliament is about to go into recess with the nation and the economy in worse shape than when it first met. [More…]
Twelve months of Liberal government, twelve months of Liberal legislation and policy-making, have ensured a dismal Christmas for Australia and a bleak new year for millions. [More…]
The fruits of Liberal bungling and mismanagement can be summed up as follows: A stagnant economy, rising unemployment, and a massive devaluation. [More…]
This is the achievement of the men born to rule, the party of sound economic management. [More…]
This is the achievement of the most reactionary Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) since Federation. [More…]
The Fraser Government insists that the sole test of individual prosperity is the amount of personal income. [More…]
Yet even by that limited test the Fraser Government has failed to deliver. [More…]
Let the Government that serves Mammon be judged by Mammon’s standards. [More…]
They are falling as a result of this Government’s policies. [More…]
They are not chance or accidental effects of the Government’s measures. [More…]
This Government believes, though it has never made its intentions clear, that by putting men and women out of work and holding down incomes and living standards, the economy can be restored to prosperity. [More…]
The real fraud in this Government’s policies is its pretence that Australians have to curb their wages and reduce their incomes for the economy to recover. [More…]
What the Government conceals from the people is that wage rises have already been curbed, real incomes have already fallen, without any improvement in our economic health. [More…]
The cure for our problems which the Government and its friends demand of Australian wage earners has already been tried and found wanting. [More…]
I do not need any assistance from the one-eyed member of the Party of blind men opposite. [More…]
I can do this quite well without his encouragement. [More…]
Most of that recovery took place this year, in 1976, under the Fraser Government. [More…]
The Fraser Government this year has introduced many progressive and reforming measures which have contributed to rising living standards. [More…]
My friend, the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards), mentioned those. [More…]
There are many other measures which have been taken by the Government but time will not permit me to elaborate on them all. [More…]
Many of them are highly desirable reforming and progressive measures which the Labor Government was not prepared to undertake. [More…]
The Opposition- a combination of yesterday’s men and tomorrow’s nobodies- has once again in this debate revealed to the House and to the people of Australia that it is a negative Opposition, an Opposition without one constructive idea in the field of economic management and an Opposition which, if it ever crept back into power, as surely as day follows night would plunge this country back into economic darknessa darkness from which in the past 12 months we have slowly but steadily emerged. [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…]
Those men are holding back the cause of the liberty of coloured people more than anybody else. [More…]
When in Switzerland I thought that one of the top Swiss men to whom I spoke was rather flippant about Aboriginal land. [More…]
The Government has shown sensitivity to mining companies and their interests will not count nearly as much in the world’s evaluation of Australia as will the extent to which Australia recognises the dignity and rights of these Aboriginal people. [More…]
If there is one statement that sums up this year of the Fraser Government it is that the living standards of Australians have been reduced. [More…]
This situation has been perpetrated on our nation by a group of men who believe that they were born to nile. [More…]
These men grabbed power on the excuse that they knew how better to manage the economy. [More…]
The Government has gone from bad to worse. [More…]
There does not exist in Australia the incentive for men to go to sea and earn their living. [More…]
The next matter I want to deal with is the reporting of shipping movements. [More…]
The Labor Party is entitled to be proud because of this amendment being written into the Act. [More…]
I am pleased that the Minister left this amendment in the Bill. [More…]
Some of the moneybags are concerned about it because it might cost them some money, but if this section had been in the Maritime Act and had been in operation when the Blythe Star fatality occurred, in my opinion those men who lost their lives would still be with us today. [More…]
When I was on the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies we received information from Paris that the journals of that French expedition, which had been cast to the four winds for reasons which I will explain in a moment, had very important references to Aborigines. [More…]
He stopped any of his men from firing. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) spoke appropriately, graciously and warmly about all those men and women- hundreds of them- who work in this place. [More…]
It is a great delusion to think that this arena is the whole of the Parliament. [More…]
This arena, well or ill conducted as the members may be, would be a shell but for the men and women in their hundreds who work here less conspicuously throughout the year. [More…]
Alan Reid has discussed the Labor Government’s Budget making process very aptly. [More…]
It was more like starving men - [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association, which reports a study of 4S07 men and women by researchers at the University of Michigan, indicating that blood cholesterol and fat levels were significantly higher in those who were markedly overweight, that there was no significant association between blood fat levels and consumption of fats and that weight control was more important than a low cholesterol diet in reducing blood cholesterol levels. [More…]
I understand that since I received these figures 1000 men and women involved in only 4 industries have been sacked in the Bankstown area in the last fortnight. [More…]
We are receiving the same sorts of reports from all over Australia to the effect that people are being dismissed, that there are no orders coming in, that the Government is not taking any action, that the whole of manufacturing industry has a question mark hanging over its head. [More…]
I am not sure that the Government has really examined whether or not there are problems of management within Australian industry. [More…]
I think there are serious problems of management. [More…]
I do not think that the Government is sufficiently concerned about the lack of modernisation of plant and investment in Australian industry. [More…]
I use as an example the shipbuilding industry which in Australia is 20 years and possibly 30 years out of date in the type of equipment which is being used. [More…]
This situation is like sending men into forests with a flint axe to chop down trees in competition with men with chain saws. [More…]
I can instance textile firms in my own electorate which were taken over by efficient management- I think that is the only word I can use- from what would have been at least inefficient management and immediately became productive and competitive and are still competitive in the normal sense of the word. [More…]
At the very outset I was told by people in my party organisation that certain men in the Prime Minister’s Department were or had been officers or members of the Labor Party. [More…]
‘So long as they are competent and honest men, what of it? [More…]
Kissing will not go by political favour in my department! ‘ [More…]
With these considerations in mind let us look at the men whose appointments have been subject to contention. [More…]
Besides, any discussion of individuals tends to be futile because it is easy to produce examples of so-called political appointments from both sides of politics. [More…]
In 1974, in answer to a question on notice, I had prepared a table showing the number of Liberal and Country Party members and ex-members, ministers and ex-ministers, senators and ex-senators and past and present party officials appointed by Liberal-Country Party governments to offices of profit under the Crown. [More…]
It is to the great shame of the Liberal Party and the Prime Minister that men appointed by my Government had their reputations impugned and their characters maligned for purposes of pure political propaganda. [More…]
Yet when we look at the records and achievements of these men what do we find? [More…]
First, that their qualifications are unimpeachable; and secondly, that in all cases they have either been retained by the Fraser Government in the posts to which they were appointed or have been offered other posts of high standing and responsibility. [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…]
He is a career public servant who joined the service in 1967 at the bottom, that is, as a trainee, and through the normal promotion procedures worked his way up to First Assistant Secretary level at the time of his appointment. [More…]
This is the level from which many permanent head appointments are made. [More…]
It is worth recalling in this context the appointment last year of a new Chief Electoral Officer. [More…]
Imagine the outcry if a Labor Government had appointed the private secretary of a Labor Prime Minister to be Chief Electoral Officer. [More…]
I list his accomplishments: Firstclass honours in Arts and then in Law at Sydney University, University Medallist in Law, President of the Students Representative Council, author of a book on secrecy in government, former member of the Australia Council and member of the Council of the Film and Television School. [More…]
The present Government has appointed him to the Law Reform Commission. [More…]
I mention Mr Menadue. [More…]
He served as head of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet not only under my Government but also for the best part of a year- from 1 1 November 1975 until 20 September 1976- under the Fraser Government. [More…]
There could be no more eloquent rebuttal of the criticism of these men than the posts to which they have succeeded in other walks of life and under the Government which attacked their original appointments. [More…]
My own view is that the government of the day should be allowed the permanent heads that it wants, and should be able to remove either its own or its predecessors’ appointments when it finds them unsatisfactory, provided that suitable compensation or alternative employment is offered. [More…]
In that respect the amendments will change little. [More…]
The valuable tradition of frankness and forthrightness in Public Service advice is sustained not by security of tenure but by the character and integrity of the men and women appointed to senior positions. [More…]
In all cases it is men and women who matter most, not red tape. [More…]
With this Bill the Government is creating an unnecessary source of bureaucratic power and patronage and setting back the reform and modernisation of the Public Service for which the Coombs report showed us the way. [More…]
The tragedy of this Bill is its clear announcement that the historic and valuable Coombs report is to be virtually thrown away. [More…]
Having been a Minister and having administered six or seven portfolios in my career, I have nothing but admiration for the integrity, the ability and the skill of the kind of people the Leader of the Opposition mentioned, the public servants, particularly the senior ones. [More…]
But what happens when we have a change of government? [More…]
We must look at this matter in context because there was not a change in government in Australia for 23 years. [More…]
There was a change in Government. [More…]
Men in the Public Service who had been almost saturated with Liberal-National Country Party philosophy for more than 20 years had to confront a political party at the other end of the political spectrum, and there must have been difficulties. [More…]
In fact, if they are political eunuchs they should not be holding senior positions in the Government. [More…]
If a civil servant who has been used to receiving and implementing the policies of one government is confronted, through a change in government, with a diametrically opposed policy then certainly there will be problems. [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…]
I have absolute and utmost respect for the integrity, honesty and ability of the 3 men but they are known members of the Labor Party. [More…]
To say, however, that this legislation which we are debating today is somehow or other going to upset fundamentally a balance which obviously both sides of this House do not regard as being satisfactory is, quite frankly, overstating the case. [More…]
I think it should be the view of all honourable members of the House that it is not an unreasonable expectation for people, both men and women, who have given a lifetime of service to the Australian people and to the Public Service of the Commonwealth that the system be based on the principle that those officers who have worked their way through the second and third divisions of the Service over a period of years and so gained substantial knowledge should be given the opportunity of being selected as First Division officers. [More…]
On the other hand, it is quite obvious that the government of the day must have a capability of bringing people into the Public Service on the basis of merit- I em- phasise that point- even if those who have merit happen also to have a point of view similar to that of the government of the day. [More…]
If the emphasis which the Opposition wishes to place upon this legislation is that we are attempting to politicise the Public Service, I refuse to accept that criticism on the ground that we are trying to prevent the recurrence of a situation which existed for a period of 3 years whereby appointments were made to the Public Service on fundamentally political grounds. [More…]
Those appointments had a very serious effect upon the morale of public servants and thereby upon the capacity of the Public Service to serve the government of the day. [More…]
It is a fact of life that some ambitious men and women will take a short cut wherever they can. [More…]
I find it passing odd that in a piece of legislation such as this, when it comes to dealing with the mandarins of the Public Service, we see the forelock tugging and deference which come so easily to the conservatives in this Parliament. [More…]
The public servants whom the honourable member for Fraser represents are in the main men and women who do the more basic chores in the PubUc Service or who do the middling chores the chores which are very well paid, sometimes at between $10,000 and $20,000 a year-but they do work that brings them into touch with the reality, the statistics at least, of some of the people facing the desperate situation in Australia which is never seen by the constituents of people in this chamber who come from the wealthiest residential districts in our metropolitan areas. [More…]
We can understand why Government Ministers will feel comfy and cosy with men, many of whom went to the same schools as they attended, many of whom own rural areas just outside Canberra that have been acquired for their recreation or acquired by marriage. [More…]
It is not simply the professional men resident in Canberra who give them that reputation; it is also the highly paid public servants who have invested in the areas and who have the same kind of social background as persons who participate in conservative ministries. [More…]
Those are his words and his Government’s policy. [More…]
The Australian public is to be forced to finance this Government’s second attempt to reduce inflation. [More…]
I refer to those friends of the Government who quietly pour hundreds of thousands of dollars into the Liberal Party and National Country Party coffers at every election. [More…]
These men constantly brow beat unions and use all their influence to reduce the real wages of their employees, while awarding themselves handsome pay rises. [More…]
If the Government is really committed to wage restraint by all Australians, let it speak out against the unwarranted and blatant abuse of shareholders’ funds. [More…]
The Government cannot afford to offend the people who keep it on the treasury benches; the men who bankroll its attacks upon the Constitution; the men whom it must repay. [More…]
The Government reintroduced the superphosphate bounty in 1976. [More…]
If honourable members opposite fail to raise their voices against this obnoxious and savage increase in the directors’ salaries I claim that they are totally unfit and devoid of moral worth and unworthy of representing the Australian people in this national Parliament. [More…]
A couple of weeks ago I attended the opening of a home run by the St Vincent De Paul Society for derelict men and young boys who have been deserted. [More…]
The point I should like to emphasise tonight is that the home which, as I have mentioned, is run by the St Vincent De Paul Society was an old picture theatre. [More…]
The home originally was opened to look after derelict men, but the Society found that in 1977 young boys were being deserted and left in the streets in the little town of Launceston. [More…]
If in their anxiety for power men lose sight of great principles they put at risk the safety of their institutions. [More…]
When you can get Tiger Brennan, Ren DeGaris, Jim Killen and all those other people agreeing, as in fact they did by unanimous resolution- we recommended that the Constitution be altered to provide that residents of the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory should be granted the right to vote at referendums, and we went on to draw attention to the situation with respect to residents of Norfolk Island- I suggest it should indicate to all fair thinking men, regardless of their political background, the weight and merit of it. [More…]
He indicated to me that if he were absent from the chamber when I wished to make that incorporation I need only mention that he had granted leave for it to be incorporated. [More…]
Having read the Constitution thoroughly and having read a lot of constitutional debates, I do not believe that our founding fathers were a particularly brilliant group of men. [More…]
I think the most fallacious of the arguments against change is that we should not change the Constitution simply because it is the Constitution and because the founding fathers said so. [More…]
It is as if the Constitution were handed down from the Mount- as if it were a bible or something like that; as if a flash of light in 1 89 1 , 1897 and 1898 passed on some greatness to these people and they wrote this magnificent document that cannot be changed. [More…]
That is the basis of some of the arguments being put up in this chamber by the opponents of these changes. [More…]
Another argument that has been put up against these proposals is that they constitute an erosion of States’ rights and of Senate powers. [More…]
Had the Senate not been stacked with men appointed by the State Premiers in defiance of the convention that vacancies should be filled by persons of the same political party as the departed Senators then Mr Fraser would not have been able to block the supply debate. [More…]
I support the comments of my friend, the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) about the sanctity of the document- the Constitution. [More…]
The document is, after all, just another creation of men. [More…]
I hope that every other member of this Parliament will do the same. [More…]
There may be some foot dragging from the people in the Senate but we on this side of Parliament ought to get to work this weekend and organise institutions of com.paigning so that the referenda pass. [More…]
I refer to his statement to the Melbourne State College on 2 1 February, yesterday, in which he said that because of rising labour costs employers were tending to use machines rather than people in the productive process, and if tariff protection were reduced this trend would worsen. [More…]
Is not the replacement of men by machines an integral and important pan of this process? [More…]
Immunities, relieving particular persons or special classes or groups from the duties and liabilities appointed by law for their fellow men, have been regarded from of old as odious. [More…]
For example, rich men and poor men get arrested for sleeping under bridges. [More…]
Rich men and poor men get arrested for begging in the streets, except that rich men never need to do those sorts of things. [More…]
This is the whole tenet on which the trade union movement was built and only in countries such as Australia, which has a totalitarian government, would one find such an action being taken to isolate an integral part of the fabric of our whole community- the trade union movement- and set it aside and say not that it will receive the same protection as everybody else but that it will receive special protection because it is engaged in special activities. [More…]
They should find out what these men are doing. [More…]
We continually hear the argument that we must get involved with other countries because of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. [More…]
Recently Canada decided to solve its unemployment problem, particularly in the garment textile area. [More…]
If we imported from Hong Kong every item of clothing for men, women, girls and boys, we would represent less than one per cent of the total export market of Hong Kong. [More…]
The confrontation will take place through a carefully orchestrated industrial compaign against the Government under which a tiny handful of skilled key men will tie up the whole of Australia ‘s industry. [More…]
They will crush the Government as surely as the miners of Britain crushed its confreres in Britain when the Heath Government was so utterly destroyed as a consequence of the key position held by miners of that country. [More…]
The workers of this country, through their key personnel, will crush the Government as utterly as the miners crushed the Heath Government. [More…]
I hope they do because I believe that Parliament is a farce in terms of the way that it is being used to crush the majority of the working people in this country. [More…]
They have no chance of winning at all because they are only tiny little men who have none of the great battalions on their side. [More…]
There were some men from Newcastle Who got themselves into a rassle When I said ‘ No strike if you want work ‘ They called me a jerk [More…]
In an appalling exhibition of poor taste and judgment on ABC TV’s Monday Conference the Federal Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, recited verse he had written belittling the efforts of some men from Newcastle who called me a jerk and lost their jobs in the hassle over the State Dockyard. [More…]
The verse demonstrated only the Minister’s insensitivity to the plight of workers, be they labourers, tradesmen, technical staff, or management, put out of work by the winding-down of the dockyard. [More…]
They are in keeping only with the Government’s refusal to compensate, in any way those who have lost most heavily from Cabinet’s decision to let the dockyard die. [More…]
Does Mr Nixon really believe that the desperate plight of the men who have been thrown out of work at the State Dockyard, and of their dependants, is a subject for smartalec doggerel? [More…]
This is vital and if you expect that you could use the plight of men in their 40s and 50s in the shipbuilding industry who have not been out of work for 20 to 25 years, skilled tradesmen and naval designers, and force them into the street and force foreclosure of the mortgages on their homes, as is happening in the Hunter region at the moment, it will not be very much longer before there will be a call in this Parliament for a moratorium on home loan repayments. [More…]
You have tried to use the shipbuilding industry without any reference to plant renewal or capital investment, which is the major problem of the shipbuilding industry linked with the world wide slump in ship building. [More…]
We have a Minister who delights in infantile doggerel and in ridiculing people who are out of work, men of 55 years of age who have not been out of work for 25 years, skilled tradesmen that this country needs in a shipbuilding industry. [More…]
We need those men for defence purposes. [More…]
The latter part of what he states eloquently and sincerely supports my case for our cattle men. [More…]
I merely add that the cattlemen of Australia and all who work with them- from the ringer, the stockman, the tank sinker to the vet, the professional man-are a determined bunch and they are looking for an alternative if a scheme is not urgently put into operation which will give them a fair snare of our export earnings. [More…]
It was following that dinner that a small, select group of men sat down in a spirit of good intentions to thrash out one of the issues then clouding Australian-American relations: beef imports. [More…]
Drive them out of their bargain basement stock and then sit back and watch the market recover. [More…]
The industry cannot expect government and government ministers to help positively with its problems if there is disunity and squabbling amongst its producer groups. [More…]
It should force them to get together as a group of men representing them, the beef producers. [More…]
Make no mistake, the old system has failed and a new form of marketing must be implemented. [More…]
They do it within the guidelines which governments and parliaments lay down, which may be crook. [More…]
I think the Commissioners are at least men of integrity and try to do the job they are given. [More…]
I would like to commence my remarks by congratulating the honourable member for Robertson (Mr Cohen) on an extremely fair and a very good speech. [More…]
I must concede that I do not agree with all of the specifics of his speech, but I completely concur with the sentiments he expressed. [More…]
Not the least of the kind remarks he made was the comment that Tasmania is a truly democratic State. [More…]
It is in the spirit, not only of being a Liberal but also as one who believes in the democratic process, that I congratulate the Government on the introduction of these electoral measures. [More…]
I would not wish it to be thought by the public at large that these Bills come into the Parliament today only because of decisions taken by the High Court in McKinlay’s case and in McKellar’s case. [More…]
But I hope that men of goodwill on both sides of this House will have come to the conclusion that the sorts of amendment proposals which are now before the chamber are fair and appropriate in the democratic parliamentary system that we have in this country in 1977. [More…]
By derivation civilised men are those who live in cities; pagans are those who live in the country. [More…]
-Has the Prime Minister said that he is opposed to machines replacing men? [More…]
If so, why does he subsidise machines by giving a 40 per cent investment allowance, and penalise labour by allowing the continuation of payroll taxes? [More…]
Is he aware of the serious effect this will have on the future employment of about 200 men who are permanently employed on the dock? [More…]
Is it correct that 5 firm dockings which would have involved work valued at about $500,000 and which would have provided employment for about 200 men have been cancelled and that further cancellations will now have to follow? [More…]
Has the Premier of New South Wales, Mr Wran, made repeated representations to the Commonwealth Government for financial assistance to assist the New South Wales Government to replace the now unsafe dock? [More…]
If representations have been made, can the Prime Minister give me some indication of his Government’s response? [More…]
Finally, has the Commonwealth Government been considering making a special grant, similar to the Fraser Island grant, for the Newcastle district to help provide employment for the unemployed dockyard workers following the Commonwealth Government’s decision to place orders in Japan for the building of four 15 000 tonne bulk ships for the Australian National Line? [More…]
Can the Prime Minister tell the House what is the present position in this matter, bearing in mind that the level of unemployment in the Newcastle district is the highest of any centre in Australia? [More…]
That is a very fine attitude to adopt towards men who have spent 25 years at the top level of our naval design staff, skilled artisans- people who have spent a whole lifetime with a pride in their career! [More…]
That is what this Government is about. [More…]
The clear lesson of the Industrial Revolution has been that where men are naive enough to believe that they can pit themselves against machines they have always lost. [More…]
As my friend across the chamber suggests, sometimes they may be wrong and may make a misjudgment. [More…]
This would attract the little men. [More…]
We are not making any complaints about the efforts that have been made by officers in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs whether here or overseas. [More…]
We are making a complaint, and a strong one, about the incompetence of the Government in the Lebanese situation. [More…]
Our complaint is based on the fact that during the last couple of years, when the conflict in the Lebanon has become worse, the Government at no time has given a clear indication of the guidelines for Lebanese migrants to Australia. [More…]
I do not have to mention the closing of the Beirut embassy, and I do not have to mention the closing of the Damascus office. [More…]
We are interested in the fact that these people wishing to come to Australia are men and women. [More…]
The Minister mentioned the deception that has been involved. [More…]
The reason why this situation has arisen is not only that people have been desperate but that the Department has not been able to handle compassionately and to communicate with the Lebanese community in Australia. [More…]
The letter which the honourable member for Melbourne (Mr Innes) tabled points up one of the demands of the Lebanese community in Melbourne, that there ought to be additional interpreter staff within the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs available to assist sponsors in this country who are concerned about their relatives in the Lebanon or who have escaped from the Lebanon. [More…]
All of us see instances of the examples which the honourable member for Lang gave us, of middle men, illegal profits and bribery. [More…]
One of the reasons for it is that people with language difficulties are unable to communicate effectively with the Department. [More…]
Because of the Department’s lack of resources they have to use middle men who in some instances behave quite unscrupulously. [More…]
To add insult to injury, the devaluation was the final policy step which capped and sealed the doom of the Fraser Government, in economic terms at least, within the life of this Parliament. [More…]
Of course, this will have consequences in interest rates, inflation and, therefore, unemployment. [More…]
So after 15 months of government all that we have seen from the great economic managers- the representatives of the establishment, the big banking and finance men- is the prospect of a bout of very high inflation. [More…]
No political party in this country has ever survived politically the ravages of unemployment and inflation. [More…]
I am now of the view that these problems will not be solved during the life of this Parliament. [More…]
The Japanese resource negotiators came here to try to convince Australian companies and the Federal and State Governments that they could not afford price increases and that there would have to be reductions in tonnages. [More…]
Again these great business managers, these men of finance, banking and commerce, went up to the industrial colossus in Japan and were sent packing back to Australia empty-handed. [More…]
The coal price increased 350 per cent in 3 years of the Labor Government. [More…]
The Government backs them right to the hilt. [More…]
This Government persists with the notion that some south coast coal producer can go to Japan and negotiate a commercial deal. [More…]
In iron ore we are losing up to $150m a year in income because the Government will not exercise its proper authority under the export control powers. [More…]
The industry now has had a gut- ful of the Government and its nonsense about commercial enterprise and the rest. [More…]
There is an adage that in the days of the Labor Government there was no confidence but plenty of business; in these days there is plenty of confidence but no business. [More…]
Industry in Australia requires this Government to produce the goods that it promised in the days when it was in Opposition. [More…]
I believe that the lack of sensitivity and the gross lack of compassion for the plight of the unemployed is the badge of distinction of the hardliners who now dominate the Government’s thinking. [More…]
Some members of course are genuinely concerned at the way events are unfolding in the economy in Australia, but their voices are being drowned out by the raucous cries of those strong men, those men of steel who want to flay the backs of the unemployed; the men who want to brand them as dole bludgers and malingerers; the men who want to deny the very lowest income people in our country, the people who really need full indexation, the benefits of full indexation; the men who are completely committed to the idea of survival of the fittest; the men who are utterly and completely lacking in compassion for people who happen to be less fortunate than themselves. [More…]
Men like Carmichael and Halfpenny have no thought for the individual. [More…]
There is not a great deal of independence shown by some of the members of the unions with which those 2 gentlemen are associated. [More…]
instead of thinking of the contribution that I can make for the progress, development and advancement of the country of which it is my privilege to be a citizen. [More…]
Who is behind this group which has achieved such power in the ruling councils of the Liberal Government? [More…]
These are the faceless men of the Liberal Party. [More…]
Telephones give families, particularly the women and children, a sense of security so necessary in remote areas. [More…]
It is relatively easy for men to live in the bush, but for our women and children it is a lot harder. [More…]
Although they are only a few miles from the existing cable, there is still no program to connect the telephone for them and Telecom is unwilling to make any firm commitment to do so. [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…]
Yet, 2 weeks before Christmas unemployment benefits were taken from him because he was not trying to seek work and he was left without funds. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service knows that he will not get a job. [More…]
The Department of Social Security knows that he will not get a job. [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…]
The Special Youth Employment Training program which provides $6 1 a week subsidy for employers has some merit. [More…]
Once again it shows the inherent prejudices of the Government in happily providing free enterprise with subsidised labour to produce pink toilet seats or green telephones which it regards as the valuable products of the private sector whilst denying the same assistance to the public sector which it regards as wasteful to build roads, schools and railways. [More…]
Again, ample evidence is already emerging that some employers are misusing the scheme by sacking married men with families and taking on subsidised youth to replace them. [More…]
That is the present picture regarding unemployment. [More…]
It is not a pretty picture and regrettably as the Government’s more recent blunderings take effect it is unlikely to improve and may even get considerably worse. [More…]
But both men pay the same costs in life generally. [More…]
I believe that before the next Budget it is most important that dialogue should commence within the community. [More…]
We should assess within the community its willingness to exercise restraint and to adopt a sensible approach to wages so that this Government can look at tax reform and institute that reform without bankrupting the country. [More…]
Many of them who are over 65, and those in another category who are over 80, have received increases in income from small supplementary superannuation payments of roughly 15 per cent, which seems to be the average. [More…]
The big men can look after themselves, but Napoleon did not crack the British mainly because they were a nation of shopkeepers- a diverse nation of entrepreneurs, a people of skill and ability. [More…]
There is a demand for abortions coming from the community, not only from women but also from men. [More…]
I can only hope and pray that we will recover our senses before it is too late and that our men and women eventually will realise the dignity and precious value of every human life. [More…]
There are many thousands of men and great installations of weapons in the eastern area of the Soviet Union. [More…]
He and other ‘campaigners’ from his group had been told that their organisation called ‘the group to assist the observance of Helsinki agreements’ could not be regarded as a mass organisation because it did not reflect the interests of any broad section of society and had only twelve ‘angry’ men and women as its members. [More…]
He and other ‘campaigners’ from his group had been told that their organisation called ‘the group to assist the observance of Helsinki agreements’ could not be regarded as a mass organisation because it did not reflect the interests of any broad section of society and had only twelve ‘angry’ men and women as its members. [More…]
During the 1960s the people of the world- the people of the greater nations and the lesser nations- whose governments had involved them in a warlike operation in the Indo-China region questioned the wisdom of this. [More…]
People came out and demonstrated their dislike for their governments’ involvement and their own involvement. [More…]
They believed that there were other ways to solve these problems than to send armed men to do it for them. [More…]
Labor Government took the action of withdrawing all Australian servicemen from Vietnam. [More…]
We were told then, as we were told about the independence of Papua New Guinea, that with the removal of the Australian and other armed men from the area bloodshed and wholehearted slaughter would take place between the people who lived in those countries. [More…]
That kind of clean breast will go a good deal of the way to giving the Australian Government the kind of credibility that all of us in Australia, Government and Opposition, Tory and Labor, would wish for our image in Asia. [More…]
If the Americans, who, in terms of men and material committed to that war, made a much greater effort than Australia, are prepared to do so, why cannot Australia take the initiative here, particularly in seeking to reconcile the United States with the now united new state of Vietnam? [More…]
I believe that would be a significant contribution on the part of this Government to world peace. [More…]
The Foreign Minister touched on many parts of the world and many aspects of the development of foreign policy. [More…]
The aspect which interested me as much as any was the attitude of this Government towards trade with less developed countries. [More…]
I can say to the House that as one of the younger men in this Parliament, one of the things that concerns a great many of my friends of my own age when I talk to them about large issues is that they say ‘Look, what happens in Australia does not matter. [More…]
I believe that to an extent they are right but to an extent, of course, it is a copping out of making assessments and judgments in our own society in Australia. [More…]
In just 3 years nine of the Government’s senior Ministers have either resigned, been dismissed or demoted because of incompetence or impropriety, including 2 men who were Acting Prime Minister when Mr Whitlam was out of the country. [More…]
Mr Fraser went on with these wicked accusations, yet he has in his own Party men holding responsible positions. [More…]
The tariff changes relating to clothing and certain man-made fibres, yarns and fabrics provide for the continuation of tariff quota arrangements applying to these goods and the imposition of tariff quotas on pile fabrics of man-made fibres and towelling. [More…]
The change also provides for the alignment of certain additional duties applying to adult and non-adult garments and women’s and men’s knitted tops. [More…]
9 give effect to the Government’s decision on recommendations made by the Industries Assistance Commission in its reports on: Soaps and detergents; and electric motors, generators and rotary converters. [More…]
I commend the proposals to the House. [More…]
He and his other colleagues whose constituents include significant numbers of pome fruit growers now face the unenviable choice either of supporting the amendment moved by the Australian Labor Party- an amendment which seeks to secure an increase in the subsidy for apple and pear growers in the honourable member’s electorate and in the electorates of his fellow Tasmanian, Western Australian, Queensland and Victorian colleagues- or of voting to deprive them of this extra assistance to which we maintain they are entitled. [More…]
I believe that the honourable member for Franklin and all the other honourable members from apple growing districts are men of principle who have a compassionate concern for the fruit growers in their electorates. [More…]
So really the honourable member for Franklin and his colleagues should have no difficulty at all in supporting this amendment. [More…]
He would know that if he and his colleagues take a stand in principle on this matter even if they cannot succeed in this House they will give moral support and encouragement to their colleagues in another place to an extent which may enable this amendment to be carried, thus enabling their constituents to obtain some relief from their problems. [More…]
If the honourable members from Tasmania wish to oppose our amendment their choice is to go along meekly with the harsh handtomouth subsidy as proposed in the Bill with no real prospect of any long term remedies being applied to the industry. [More…]
Tourism based on maximum protection and minimum exploitation of the environment flourishes in the north and for many good reasons. [More…]
Pioneered by men and women of vision and enterprise it is slowly being suffocated by a lack of appreciation of the difficulties arising from a sick economy which was not pan of their mismanagement; high fares for air travel which make it cheaper for an Australian to holiday offshore than in Australia itself; unrealistic industrial awards; the high cost of capital for facilities; insufficient tax allowances or recognition to allow a subsidy against the tremendous cost of running a tourist establishment. [More…]
Two per cent of that improvement was in the March quarter last year. [More…]
Is there any objective and truthful observer who would suggest that the March quarter last year was influenced by the present conservative Government? [More…]
Of course, because of time lags, what was happening this time last year was directly influenced by Australian Labor Government policies. [More…]
In using the comparative figures related to the December quarter of 1975, these Fraser Government leaders are seeking to persuade us to forget that they are making comparisons with an economic quarter in which thenown abominable actions created a political and economic crisis. [More…]
The conservatives are the guilty men of late 1975, as they are they guilty men today. [More…]
Once the Australian Labor Government Budget; the Hayden Budget, was passed, there was a return to slow and steady recovery. [More…]
All of that has been interrupted by Fraser Government policies. [More…]
In many cases we have not given them the credit for their achievements. [More…]
It is a matter of considerable pride when one sees in Australia men and women who came here straight after World War II with nothing but the clothes in which they arrived and who have now settled into our community and have become some of our leading citizens. [More…]
I believe therefore that the decision that this Government takes at this time is most critical for the future of this country. [More…]
If we were to take note of some of the comments which have emanated from the other side of the House we would have no immigration policy at all. [More…]
There are some who are frankly so petrified at the question of immigration, thinking in some way it is an electoral issue which could put them out of Parliament, that they are not prepared to face up to the realities and the challenge that is before Australia at present. [More…]
I turn to examine the Government parties and why .they take the attitude to unemployment and inflation that they do. [More…]
One might fairly say that some Government supporters are silver spooners and those are the conservatives I can best appreciate because they do not understand what happens at grass roots level. [More…]
But there is another element in the Government parties which indeed has some knowledge of grass root conditionsthe conditions of the ordinary people. [More…]
The members of this element are the worst because in many cases they have succeeded in business and professions and believe that they have put themselves amongst the ordinary men who work with their hands and produce the goods that are used in the community. [More…]
These men ought to reflect on what they know of those base conditions and why they should be concerned that we have inflation virutally unchanged and unemployment soaring. [More…]
There must be understanding of what inflation and unemployment does. [More…]
This week a report was produced from the Australian Government Commission of Inquiry into Poverty that dealt with lifelong education and poor people. [More…]
But one must appreciate the fear, the hopelessness, the despair and the loss of self-respect that occurs amongst people subjected to massive unemployment- the people who normally produce the goods that are used. [More…]
There is the fear amongst the men over SO years that not even the skills they have acquired or the work they can do will preserve their jobs. [More…]
This is not helped by this talk of the dole bludger syndrome, a thing that has been poured on since 1975 and which no Government Minister or Government supporter yet has proved to be a substantial component of unemployment. [More…]
The Government’s argument for its budgetary constraint is that increased government spending is inflationary. [More…]
Honourable members will have heard me point out in this House and outside that government spending devoted to areas where there are unemployed men, women and other resources is not inflationary. [More…]
If it is merely to be a forum where its prime purpose is to build weedy little old men like Donald Home into robust pillars of might and muscle, then its meetings will have about as much value as a marihuana testimonial obtained in a hippie colony for pot smokers. [More…]
Greater government spending can be obtained only by greater taxation or deficit funding. [More…]
The former bogs down initiative, creates unemployment and saps the strength and vitality of the nation. [More…]
It is time they stood up like men, not like the babies some of them are, and were counted. [More…]
Too much of the nation’s resources are being used for the payment of unemployment benefits. [More…]
The Labor Government will be remembered as the ‘government of unemployment’. [More…]
It adopted as one of its objectives- it was done by stealth- a policy of unemployment; obviously, move No. [More…]
When Labor came to office in 1972 unemployment was 136 000 or 2.4 per cent of the work force. [More…]
When the people of Australia at an election brought on by a great Australian, Sir John Kerr, passed judgment on the Labor Party in 1975 and floored it for the full count after 3 short years, unemployment was 328 000 or 5.4 per cent of the work force. [More…]
Quite obviously the Labor Government is the ‘government of unemployment’. [More…]
No fancy rhetoric, no nifty footwork can assuage the deep feelings of resentment permeating the nation and the workers following the slaughtering of jobs for Australian men, women and youth by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Australia faces another indomitable foe- a shortage of skilled men and women. [More…]
In my State of Queensland, the rapid industrial development during the last decade, from a relatively small base, has produced demands for a range of skills not previously required in our State. [More…]
Employers have for some time had insufficient encouragement to increase their apprentice intake despite the shortage of skilled men and women in the trades. [More…]
In the Queen’s Speech there was mention of introducing industrial legislation. [More…]
If one looks back into history and sees the record of the Liberal Government on industrial legislation one will see that it is certainly not good. [More…]
All it has been able to do is bring about confrontation with the unions, confrontation from which in many cases the Government has had to back down. [More…]
The same thing will happen to this Government if it tries it. [More…]
I know there are some men on the other side who adopt a very reasonable attitude as regards unions in general, but this Government has its fair share of union bashers sitting on the other side of this House. [More…]
When the Liberal Government starts talking about introducing legislation to do something about trade unions and so on the unions have no cause whatsoever to trust that legislation because on very few occasions has this sort of legislation been in the interests of the unions themselves or in the interests of the members of the unions. [More…]
Anything the Government does will not be trusted by the trade union movement and will only lead to a confrontation with the organisations involved. [More…]
If we have any doubts we have only to look at the Government’s attitude to the present wage indexation case now before the Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The attitude taken by this Government will mean that if it gets its way the ordinary workers in industry will be the ones who will be asked to pay the price for solving our present economic problems. [More…]
Yet governments and the system look only to the economists and men of money to form their policies to deal with them. [More…]
All the realistic, practical men will say that this is idealism and that only a fool would take any notice. [More…]
The realists and the practical men are not doing too well in solving national and social problems, are they? [More…]
Emotional disturbances affect 12 per cent of children, and for every student who enters a university in New South Wales where a survey was made, an equal number will enter mental hospitals or undergo psychiatric treatment. [More…]
In the Labor movement it is especially unfortunate that so many have given up those values in recent years. [More…]
If it is true that men are the result of circumstances, of the conditions in which they live, there can be no change until circumstances and conditions change, however, effective advocacy might be. [More…]
As far as I can see from the legislation, not the slightest notice was taken of the wishes of these men, many of whom are traditional leaders or of the eighty-one men who signed the list which I received only a week or so ago. [More…]
He is one of the few men alive who really knows the story of land ownership in the central Australian area. [More…]
But the Deputy Prime Minister, who goes out and supports this Government’s policy, is unable to convince the Queensland Government to support the same kind of propositions. [More…]
If during Labor’s period in office any government headed by the same political party in a State disagreed with the Federal Government it was represented as some kind of calamity. [More…]
But here we get none of that kind of talk from the Press, which connived in the coming to power of these men. [More…]
He will oppose the development of that facility for the users of all energy in this country, not simply domestic users but also in industry. [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…]
Which Government supporters in this debate have instanced them? [More…]
The Government falls completely into 2 categories. [More…]
These are the old hardened men who do not really believe the rubbish, and they sit to my immediate left. [More…]
But what is disgraceful and what these men will carry with them to their graves is the certain knowledge that for short term political expedience they have driven this division into the community; they quite unnecessarily have turned elements in the country area against their fellow citizens in other States and in metropolitan areas. [More…]
Can a nation like this, long endure when men like this for their own narrow purposes make these divisions in the community and when they get into power dash the hopes which they raised so falsely as they certainly knew they would be dashed? [More…]
We would much rather have it that this wound had not been opened up by these members of the Government parties who are now so disgraced. [More…]
I draw no comfort at all from the public opinion polls which indicate a Labor Government is possible- if not probable- in the near future. [More…]
Does this mean that the people of Australia hold both men and both parties in relatively low esteem? [More…]
How dinkum is the Government about reducing the rate of inflation? [More…]
It is happy to clamp on strict bank lending curbs and increase interest rates which penalise the smaller business men of our community. [More…]
But when it comes to supporting institutions which apply restraints to large companies, the Government does the opposite. [More…]
We need go no further than the works of that great American, John Kenneth Galbraith, to learn of the sinister and detrimental influences of large corporations on our whole pricing structure. [More…]
What is important now is that the Australian people should realise that we have a government which does not apply itself to this problem. [More…]
Instead, we have a conservative government which chooses confrontation with unions, with worker bashing and with doing its best to reduce the living standards of millions of Australian wage and salary earners. [More…]
These are 4 ways in which the Fraser Government has caused an increase in inflation since it came to power 1 6 months ago. [More…]
It has terminated the quarterly company tax payments, meddled with Medibank, forced the States to increase their charges and weakened the Prices Justification Tribunal and the Trades Practices Commission. [More…]
This Speech of Her Majesty the Queen which we are now debating highlights the bankruptcy of the Government’s present policies. [More…]
If this happens, there is the danger that these conservatives who are in an ideological bind because of their misrepresentations over the Khemlani affair will fail to negotiate a loan to stave off speculation against our currency and once again Australia will be forced to devalue- or the Government will take the decision to devalue- with all the adverse consequences which result from that. [More…]
We must attack unemployment as well as inflation and we must unlock the door to encourage the return of consumer confidence, we must spend on manpower policies to train and retrain people with the necessary skills. [More…]
We must make grants to the States so that they can bring alive the plans already drawn up for building and construction works in those areas where there are unemployed men, women and other resources. [More…]
We must revive local initiative programs and allow local government bodies and other nonprofitmaking organisations to improve the quality of life in their districts by using the services of those who would otherwise be on the dole. [More…]
I had also outlined the alternative strategy which was being put forward by the Australian Labor Party Opposition- modest, stimulatory increased spending in specific areas, particularly in areas of manpower policy and particularly in the area of grants to the States in order to allow the States to get on with construction and building programs in those centres where these programs were ready to go, where we knew the resources could be used, where there were unemployed men and women, and where there were building materials, to name just one resource additional to that of people. [More…]
I pointed out also how we believe that in this time of an unprecedented rate of unemployment- the worst for 40 years- it would be advisable to get off the ground local initiative programs which were better administered than was the regional employment development scheme, which was introduced in a hurry, and which would employ people who are now receiving the dole. [More…]
I drew attention to how all of this modest programming would not in any way increase inflation, because it is seen in a package not only of increasing the money supply but also increasing the sale of government bonds and substituting these programs for the out of date ones being administered by the Government. [More…]
I refer to the Government’s policies of extravagant and expensive investment allowances which should be scrapped in favour of reducing indirect taxes in an effort to stimulate consumer spending. [More…]
From an increase in the level of economic activity which would result from the programs that I have outlined as an alternative strategy would also come more profits, which are needed for that greater investment which in turn is needed to bring us back to an era of full employment. [More…]
It is the job of the Government to stimulate that activity and to bring it about. [More…]
A large group of the men gave one the impression of being just as capable of thinking constructively about their own affairs as any other community. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) and the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and others on the Government front bench would not make the mistakes these Turks made. [More…]
They are all men interested in the land and country matters but they would not make the same mistakes because they are educated. [More…]
Local governments, of course, do have a very real part to play in helping to support local business in their communities. [More…]
I was pleased to hear today that the Queensland State Government is going to undertake an investigation into council charges in the Brisbane metropolitan area to try to help this situation along. [More…]
This is a subject I spoke about last week during an adjournment debate. [More…]
This, of course, is a direct result of the Government’s decision to devalue the currency. [More…]
These men have been worried in the past few years that imports of passionfruit pulp, especially from areas such as Taiwan, Fiji and Sri Lanka, would affect substantially their livelihood. [More…]
It is good to know too that the Queensland State Government is continuing its work at the Redlands Horticultural Station at Cleveland into new strains of fruit and vegetables to assist these growers in reaching not only new Australian markets but also the overseas markets with the best possible fruit and vegetables that they are able to produce. [More…]
Yet these are the same men who are leading the Australian workers foolishly into believing that wage increases will be their salvation. [More…]
Therefore I have great pleasure in supporting the motion and opposing the amendment. [More…]
If this Government wants Australia to continue to develop it will need to have policies that are understood and that are clearly enunciated in relation to our mining industry, our petroleum industry, our manufacturing industry and our rural industry. [More…]
This Government will have to give an indication to the working men and women in Australia what lies in front of them by way of taxation, what lies in front of them as regards improved working conditions, higher pay, better health, educational and other services. [More…]
This Government cannot sit back any longer and say that the faults that now exist in Australia belong to the 3 years of Labor rule. [More…]
Like the honourable member for Cook (Mr Dobie) and other honourable gentlemen, tonight I am speaking in a spirit of reconciliation because I believe that this report is about 2 men- the honourable member for Wills and Mr Dexterwho, by their actions over a long period, have demonstrated their sincerity about Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
I regard the honourable member for Wills as something like the father of Aboriginal activists in this Parliament, along with the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth). [More…]
In evidence to the Committee the then Permanent Head and senior officers of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs cast very serious aspersions on him. [More…]
-It can be seen that the Commonwealth Government Printer is the lowest paid officer; he receives $2 1 , 1 1 6 a year. [More…]
With 768 employees he is second only to the New South Wales Government Printer who has 990 employees under his control. [More…]
Obviously, it is not going to be possible to retain men of high calibre at a salary of $21,000 a year when, as in Mr Atkinson’s case, there is a similar position offering $29,000 a year. [More…]
The New South Wales Government Printer receives $10,240 per annum more than his Commonwealth counterpart plus a car and $450 expenses. [More…]
Even the Tasmanian Government Printer, with 153 employees, is $ 1 ,700 per annum better off. [More…]
That victory is assured if we rally the votes of women. [More…]
On the support of women and the efforts of women in the party depends the outcome of the next election. [More…]
First, we must fashion policies with the special needs and interests of women in mind. [More…]
Second, and perhaps even more important, we must show that Labor’s existing policies- our traditional and enduring policies-are as much designed for the benefit of women as they are for men. [More…]
I would go further in Labor’s great and historic concern for the disadvantaged, the underprivileged and the weak- in the primacy we give to justice and individual and family security- women may have more to gain from a Labor Government than men. [More…]
There is a fallacy and a danger in putting men and women in separate compartments. [More…]
We cannot treat men and women as if their interests were competing or mutually exclusive. [More…]
I regard Labor’s policies as designed, not for some women, not even just for all women, but for all people. [More…]
Women cannot be treated, and would never wish to be treated, as a sectional interest. [More…]
It would be arrogant and mistaken to devise policies for women in the way that special policies are needed, say for migrants or Aborigines or pensioners or other deprived minorities. [More…]
Women are not a minority. [More…]
All our policies must be developed with women in mind; and there will be some initiatives which have women specifically in mind. [More…]
By doing so we will not only be clarifying the nature of our policies; we will be demonstrating a far more mature perception of women’s place in society. [More…]
If we look at the whole range of Labor initiatives and Labor achievements- in health, in education, in social security, in child care, in industrial policy, in incomes policy, in human rights- we can see that women and children are as much the beneficiaries as men, and that those in greatest need receive the greatest benefit. [More…]
Everyone is vulnerable to poverty, illness, hardship and deprivation; very often these things fall more heavily on women than on men. [More…]
Labor’s policies in these fields are policies for women; they are part of our program to improve the welfare and widen the rights and opportunities of the whole community. [More…]
Now these were impressive achievements and no conservative government can claim anything like our record of care and concern for women. [More…]
The Fraser Government’s economic mismanagement is destroying women’s jobs and living standards as surely as it is destroying those of men. [More…]
It is wrecking creative programs for the health, security and welfare of women and children just as it is wrecking those for men. [More…]
I ask women to remember that their needs and interests are not special or separate but identical with those of the whole community. [More…]
The wrecking of Medibank is an attack on women; the neglect of the cities is an attack on women; the Fraser Government’s onslaught on social welfare, urban transport, sewerage programs, area improvement, environmental and recreational programs are attacks on the living standards of everyone, men and women alike. [More…]
The record of the Fraser Government in economic management can be measured by the fact that it is now presiding over the highest quarterly inflation rise since Sir Robert Menzies set the record in I9S1 and the highest level of unemployment ever recorded by the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
It is time we recognised that women not only have a right to work if they want to but in most cases they need to work to support themselves and their families. [More…]
Hundreds of thousands of women get jobs to make ends meet. [More…]
Under the Fraser Government they are finding it harder to get those jobs and harder to keep them. [More…]
The official unemployment figures conceal a huge rise in what might be called hidden unemployment. [More…]
There has been a big decline in participation in the work force as people have given up hope of getting a job, and clearly those people are mainly women or working wives. [More…]
They don’t appear in the unemployment statisticsbecause they don’t apply for benefits; indeed if their husbands have any sort of job these women are not entitled to benefits. [More…]
And their lack of work is every bit as humiliating and socially destructive and wasteful as unemployment among men. [More…]
There is no attempt to help women with marketable skills. [More…]
Let us be quite clear on the size of this vast reservoir of idle, workless women. [More…]
That decline accounts for some 100 000 lost jobs- jobs that are no longer open to women. [More…]
During the three years of the Labor Government, the number of women in the total workforce rose from 40.7 per cent in 1972 to 43-8 per cent in November 1975. [More…]
In other words, women’s role in the workforce has declined under the Fraser Government. [More…]
The Attorney-General is very sensitive this evening.I am talking about faulty drafting in terms of what the Government is trying to achieve. [More…]
Knowing the problems of the world today it is difficult to identify what is a government in the wording of the legislation. [More…]
We saw the situation really come to light in the Angolan situation where the Portuguese had indicated to 3 contending parties that when the Portuguese decided to leave Angola they would virtually hand over the government to 3 parties on a trust basis. [More…]
We then saw virtual civil war commencing between the 3 contending parties. [More…]
We have read since of the great tragedy that occurred to a number of young British men who were recruited as mercenaries to fight for money. [More…]
It is quite clear that it is a crime to recruit people in Australia to be in an armed force in a foreign country whether for the government or otherwise. [More…]
It is just as important that those people are not encouraged to engage in hostile activity for or against a government. [More…]
That Commission said that it was virtually very difficult to legislate in this field and limited itself to talking about how no encouragement should be given to recruiting. [More…]
In the course of those expressions by the Diplock Committee it went on to say that men with beliefs would be anxious to fight in any cause whatsoever. [More…]
The Opposition recognises that such men might be anxious to fight m any cause whatsoever, but as Australians they have a duty to this country not to engage in hostile activity because their beliefs could well disagree. [More…]
I think it is important to have some clarification here and now on the Government’s attitude to mercenaries. [More…]
So there can be no mistake about the Government’s attitude as far as that body of men or women is concerned, I refer to the statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) on or about 1 3 April 1 976. [More…]
It was a quite clear cut statement of the Government’s attitude: [More…]
The Rhodesians wanted, and still want, men to wage a Vietnam type of war against the Zambians. [More…]
Only recently an advertisement appeared in one of the national papers seeking fit men for tough, exciting adventure jobs overseas. [More…]
Reports last year received from the Singapore Government indicated that Sydney was being used as a base to recruit South East Asian students for communist guerrilla groups. [More…]
Reports from the Singapore Government said that links had been traced between underground communist cells and a recruitment and fund raising centre in Sydney. [More…]
Local and overseas recruiters are obviously aware that there are hundreds upon hundreds of men living in Sydney, Melbourne and other cities who are prepared to fight for money. [More…]
Therefore no doubt the Rhodesians and perhaps now the South Africans have an immediate need for such men and, that being so, have stepped up their own recruiting drives. [More…]
In recent times there has been accumulated a good deal of evidence of some foreign countries and forces endeavouring to recruit young men in Australia to join their armed forces and to engage in active combat overseas. [More…]
He mentioned a couple of examples and I will not go over them again. [More…]
Advertisements have been placed in newspapers asking people to apply for ‘interesting work abroad’. [More…]
One such advertisement gamed widespread publicity in Hobart some months ago and caught the attention of my colleague the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), but when certain people sought out the individuals responsible it was not easy to find them or the organisers of the recruiting campaign. [More…]
The problem also is that once one deals with those hired killers, one finds problems of recruitment and of illicit arms being horded and used. [More…]
I support the amendment because I feel that persons should not be involved in armies outside their own country. [More…]
In arriving at this conclusion I thought of the International Brigade, in the Spanish civil war which has been mentioned in the debate, when many men felt as a matter of conviction that they must go and fight in Spain. [More…]
I can think of the attraction of other apparently just causes throughout the world where men have volunteered to fight, not just as hired killers but because of their devotion to that cause. [More…]
This is the reason for the amendment moved by my colleague, the honourable member for Kingsford-Smith (Mr Lionel Bowen)- to close off very tightly this aspect of recruitment and service. [More…]
I feel that despite the arguments that can be put to allow loopholes for just causes and the question of the right of the individual, the national responsibility is too great to have this type of legislation which allows these loopholes. [More…]
If men wish to serve in causes, I suggest that we have our own army which could be used to fight these sorts of causes although they may not always be just causes. [More…]
They said that they were offering themselves as mercenaries, that they were going to fight for a quid and that they were supported financially be the Austraiian Government. [More…]
I believe that statement to be true. [More…]
The article went on to allege that the Australian Government for the past 2 to 3 years had men involved in the war in Laos and that it would probably deny this emphatically. [More…]
The article alleged further that it was well known among foreign correspondents and military commentators that mercenary troops had been working in Laos for the past few years. [More…]
The article stated that when on leave these mercenaries hang out in the tenement flats of Earl’s Court, London, waiting for their next job. [More…]
They are the men whose legal officers have issued the writs and mounted this challenge. [More…]
It comes as a surprise to me that these men and their Governments for whatever reason, are aiming a blow at the rights of the citizens of both Territories. [More…]
Proposed section 6 covers things such as being in association with or assisting people who are perhaps at odds with a government of another country. [More…]
Last night I heard reference to situations throughout the world, some of which are still present, in which there is even a contest as to who is the government of the country. [More…]
Most of the contests in the world at the moment I regard as not of that order. [More…]
We may live in a world that needs the sort of people that those men were- preventing or unnecessarily inhibiting that kind of action. [More…]
The British Government was severely embarrassed in the Angolan situation. [More…]
The British Government established the Diplock Commission to find out what it could do about it. [More…]
That Commission said that the old Act of Parliament was not good enough. [More…]
The British needed something to prevent recruitment. [More…]
The Diplock recommendations had one weakness in them. [More…]
In talking about the Angolan situation we are talking about young British men who lost their lives and the British Government was embarrassed. [More…]
The Government there decided: ‘We will teach these people who were recruited in other countries a lesson. [More…]
This bears out my argument. [More…]
All four men who received death sentences could be dead by the end of the week, he said. [More…]
The Government must show that they have a political will to outlaw mercenaries and act fast. [More…]
Only then will the Angolan Government pay attention to a plea of clemency. [More…]
Clearly the thinking of most of the larger nations in the world is to move away from armed conflict between men and to resolve their problems in another way. [More…]
If not permitting such activity were an infringement of civil rights and civil liberties of Australians citizens I make no apology for expressing that point of view. [More…]
I thought that the purpose of the parliamentary process in which we participate was to make laws which in all cases are in the interests of all the people. [More…]
The law that tells me to drive my motor car on the left hand side of the road, for example, could be regarded as an infringement of liberty. [More…]
I reject that argument. [More…]
I support the amendment and I believe that the use of the words ‘against the Government of that country ‘ is too narrow. [More…]
If the Government is sincere in its endeavours to prevent Australian citizens or residents of Australia or people who have been in Australia for 12 months- the classes mentioned in the Bill- from engaging in hostile activity it should accept the amendment. [More…]
I repeat, if the Government is sincere in its endeavours to prevent Australian people from becoming embroiled in the internal disputes of other countries, why does it limit the [More…]
I suggest that the Government would do a great service to the Australian people, both present and future generations, if it agreed to the establishment in Canberra of a national memorial on an appropriate site such as the slopes of Mount Ainslie behind the War Memorial and overlooking the Parliamentary Triangle. [More…]
I envisage that in a garden setting would be laid the remains of many outstanding men and women who have, since 1 788, played such a major role in the foundation and the later development of this nation. [More…]
The strike action commenced 2 weeks ago with a 3-day strike. [More…]
Throughout Victoria some 5500 to 6000 men are involved. [More…]
My original objection to the creation of the Agency in 1974 was that it isolated all staff concerned with aid programs away from the main flow of governmentcumdepartmental policy making decisions with foreign countries. [More…]
However I believe it would be appropriate to pay tribute to such men as Max Loveday who performed excel.lently to get the old Agency under way. [More…]
One of the most lasting impressions on my memory of that visit was the tremendous impact of the village well program in Tanzania which was initiated by the Australian Labor Party Government and which I hope is still proceeding. [More…]
As soon as one mentioned one came from Australia the people would say: ‘They are the people putting down our village well’. [More…]
The governments want to give them health care and education but cannot do so unless they can get water to start a hygiene program. [More…]
Our men go in, take their shirts off and work with the local people. [More…]
Some of the places where coal has been found show indeed signs of previous exploitation by prehistoric men who, however, probably used it for jewels and to blacken their faces at religious ceremonies. [More…]
I believe that the Government is wise in having chosen a man of the calibre of Professor Geoffrey Badger. [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…]
The choice of Professor Geoffrey Badger is an excellent one and I compliment the Prime Minister upon selecting him for the position. [More…]
I compliment the Prime Minister also upon the selection of Professor Sir Rutherford Robertson as the Deputy Chairman of ASTEC. [More…]
Professor Hobbs, Professor Sir Gustav Nossal, Mr Stone and Professor Anderson- I particularly mention Professor Street- are examples of wise selections by the Government. [More…]
They are all men of great eminence. [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…]
Why does the Opposition seek to obstruct at every turn the Government’s efforts to bring about a wage- price pause rather than to work in a spirit of co-operation to bring it about? [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…]
The Bureau of Roads has been particularly fortunate in that it has always had serving on it men of the highest calibre. [More…]
If I mention one or two of them and do not mention the other it is not because of any priorities which I hold. [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…]
I think we would concede generally that the 2 bodies have the great advantage of having men of high quality serving on them. [More…]
This situation will continue unless this mingy, mean Government- the mingiest and meanest government this country has ever had- makes more funds available. [More…]
Let me remind the House that the Australian Government does not construct many things. [More…]
There would be a reduction in unemployment. [More…]
Road builders need surveyors, chain men and plenty of skilled people. [More…]
Recently we have read with amazement about a number of organisations which have been well known brand and trading names in this country for years. [More…]
I think that members on both sides of the House, as younger men and children, wore certain types of clothing which were manufactured in Australia under Australian brand names which over the years had reached an extremely high quality and standard. [More…]
We have to ensure that organisations which have worked hard and which have large investments in plant and equipment continue to exist within our social framework and economic structure. [More…]
At least we should give the individual organisations at present involved in the garment and textile manufacturing area an opportunity to say what their future will be. [More…]
Development had responsibility in terms of this debate because the Ranger Environmental Inquiry was established by a Minister for the Environment and the Commission was bound to report to the Minister for the Environment. [More…]
The reason probably is simply that, now the Government has unofficially and quietly decided to support wholesale uranium mining and export, it feels the issue should be managed in the Parliament by one of its more senior Ministers, one of the more accomplished hatchet men of the coalition, in this case, the Acting Minister for National Resources. [More…]
I think it only right that all participants in this debate should recognise the genuine concern being rightly expressed by conservationists, for example, about the problems- to an extent, the unknown problems- of nuclear development. [More…]
My disappointment is that in fact this debate appears to be taking place only within this House. [More…]
For example, I do not know of any major public involvement in the matters of great concern. [More…]
It may well be that the public is sufficiently convinced by the practical men- the men like the honourable member for Kalgoorlie who I believe presented a very strong case for the immediate mining in Australia. [More…]
In the five minutes I have in this adjournment debate I would like to try and put into words some of the things which make Anzac Day so special for the true Australian. [More…]
The day enables us, as a nation, to pay tribute to those men and women who did not return from wars, and the important thing is that we pay this tribute as free men and free women. [More…]
Perhaps more importantly we are free men and free women because of the sacrifices made by those men and women we honour on this occasion. [More…]
There can be no suggestion that by remembering these men we are perpetuating a war spirit. [More…]
Mr Acting Speaker, they will only see groups of men and women, many sadly getting on in years, yet marching and participating with pride- a pride derived from the knowledge that they were once able to serve their country in an hour of need. [More…]
I believe we still owe them, and particularly those who have died, a tremendous debt of gratitude and thanks. [More…]
We owe them this debt because the simple fact must be recognised that unless they had served we would not be lucky enough to be here now, as I have said, as free men and free women. [More…]
We are all aware that the tradition or spirit of Anzac was born on that catastrophic day 62 years ago when thousands of young Australians joined New Zealanders and Englishmen to take part in the abortive landings on Gallipoli. [More…]
All of them were intelligent, thinking, reasoning men who were serving their country by choice. [More…]
What they did not want to do on that day was to die, but if it it had to be, they would die as menand they did- fighting for a cause called freedom. [More…]
Kapyong and Long Tan, to mention but a few, are names not remembered because they were remarkable military victories but because they were all places where some of the finest men this country ever produced died whilst serving as soldiers, sailors and airmen. [More…]
If we deny that these men were fighting for a cause we do them a terrible injustice. [More…]
If we believe that we should forget them and their cause we really do not deserve the right of choice, the right of free men. [More…]
Indeed, Mr Acting Speaker, if we should ever forget them and their cause we will deserve to lose the right of choice and the right of free men. [More…]
Let us be proud of the fact that these men were our men. [More…]
This kind of comment denigrates only the Opposition and allows the people of Australia to see what kind of men it is made of. [More…]
-As the House no doubt knows already, the crippling strike of the tanker drivers in Victoria has now finished and I understand that the men will return to work at 7 o’clock tomorrow morning. [More…]
I understand that the unions main claims relating to $5.70 a week increase in wages and payment by the employers of the Medibank levy were rejected. [More…]
I am not aware at this stage of what was put in detail to the men this morning. [More…]
What is clear is that one of the most irresponsible and futile strikes of recent times has ended, and it is a good example of the weight of public opinion and resolute action by both State and Federal governments safeguarding the interests of the community. [More…]
The facts are quite contrary to the honourable gentleman’s expectations, because the business community has responded very vigorously to the investment allowance which the Government set down for the quite specific purpose of seeking to encourage a greater output in private capital investment spending. [More…]
If the honourable gentleman wishes to seek evidence of the point that I take I can do no better than refer to the Statistician’s recent survey which indicated that businessmen’s expectations are for a growth of 8 per cent during the current 6 months period. [More…]
Development by Utah Mining Australia Ltd of the Norwich Park project, at an estimated cost of $250m, is now moving ahead and that will provide employment opportunities for 1000 men during the construction period. [More…]
There are commitments to expand the Robe River, Mount Newman and Hamersley iron ore projects at a total cost of $600m. [More…]
Work is due to commence on development of the Agnew nickel mine at an estimated cost of around $ 100m. [More…]
I hope that reason will prevail, that the men will continue to work and let the proper arbitral processes proceed. [More…]
The air traffic controllers should let the Public Service Board make a proper judgment in a cool atmosphere and not have the matter heated up by industrial trouble. [More…]
I would urge them not to undertake their strike and to let the Public Service Board make its proper judgment in the way it ought to do. [More…]
-The honourable gentleman, who has become well known for his constant probing of this aspect of the Australian economy and recent economic developments, continues to seek to be as destructive on this issue as, in fact, he has been before. [More…]
I must say to the honourable gentleman that his question about devaluation is a question about yesterday’s news by one of yesterday’s men. [More…]
There is no need to add to it except to reaffirm that the question of devaluation was a decision taken by the Government against the inevitability of the position fostered by the speculation of the honourable gentleman and against- as the Prime Minister mentioned specifically and firmly in the House today- the increasing lack of competitiveness of Australian industry as a direct consequence of the wage-push policies of the former Administration. [More…]
Because I happened to be sitting near an old friend I was asked to meet ‘two distinguished legal men from Sydney’. [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…]
Whilst controls are exercised in so many other ways, little regard is had to what diseases, particularly foot and mouth disease, could be spread by letting these fishermen roam at ease on the Reef and on our shorelines. [More…]
In the 10 months I have mentioned there were 488 opportunities for this to happen. [More…]
Already cases have been evident, in some instances of capture, of social diseases being present even after these men have been at sea for months. [More…]
The sailors and fishermen are a forgotten people as far as Taiwan is concerned. [More…]
The Government of Taiwan does not in any way hold itself responsible for the lives of the men or the safety of their boats. [More…]
The price of capture is of no concern to the Taiwanese Government but is borne by the Australian taxpayer in the capture, detention and repatriation of the vessel and its crew, although more recently the Australian Government has not been allowing the vessels to be returned. [More…]
These fishermen possess little money and isolation in a goal is no worse than the cramped conditions on a boat. [More…]
Any suggestion to deter this spoiling of our Reef and fishing grounds must bear in mind the ultimate cost to our environment now and in the future, the threat of disease in our livestock industries and the eventual cost to the taxpayer if these intrustions are not stopped now. [More…]
The whole attitude of this Government is one of seeking confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
It is a darned sight harder to convince honourable members opposite that there are 100 reasons a week, 1000 reasons in a short space of time and perhaps one million reasons a year why men should legitimately withdraw their labour but they do not do so. [More…]
Labor Council education officer, Bob Carr, said: ‘Curtailment will lead to more strikes because many young men and women union officials have learnt and others are learning negotiation procedures, which are of great value in avoiding strikes.’ [More…]
I hope that his executive, as a group of fair and reasonable men, appreciate that we in Tasmania have had enough of transport strikes. [More…]
At the same time I pay a tribute to senior officers in the Department of Transport, particularly Mr Col Freeland and Mr David Graham, who were of utmost assistance to me. [More…]
Whatever unpopularity he may have incurred in years past as Minister for Shipping and Transport in a previous administration, he has really stood up and fought for Tasmania under the Fraser Government. [More…]
Right through these documents we see the consequence of that devaluation decision where any payment has to be made abroad in foreign currency or something like special drawing rights to the International Monetary Fund. [More…]
One is, of course, the proposition that we should now vote an extra $20,000 for the salaries of officers of the ethnic affairs unit of his Department. [More…]
Honourable members will remember that when the coalition parties went to the people in December 1975 one of their great promises to the migrant communities in this country was that they would re-establish a Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs as a focus for their concerns. [More…]
This has been a totally cosmetic exercise to date, and in fact all sections that deliver post-settlement services to migrants in Australia remain in the Department of Social Security. [More…]
But after nearly 18 months we are voting here today for an expenditure to cover the salaries of 19 men for one month. [More…]
That is a mark, I believe, of the sense of urgency of the Minister and the Government about these kinds of problems. [More…]
Of course, we know that the Foreign Minister is all things to all men. [More…]
The people involved with it say that this country cannot progress in a democratic fashion with the present Liberal Party, National Country Party and Labor Party in the Parliament. [More…]
Have a look at some of the men who are endorsing this party. [More…]
In most cases they are academics who are out of touch with reality and they are men who have axes to grind about this Government or this Parliament. [More…]
If we get a proliferation of small parties in this country, this Parliament and this country will face exactly the same position as France and some of those banana republics that have 40 or 50 parties in their Parliament face. [More…]
There are occasions on which innocent men have served in prison. [More…]
I applaud the technological approach; in particular, the use of tape recordings which will resolve a tremendous number of difficulties that could otherwise arise. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
It is not the practice in this country or any other country to discuss in the Parliament the methods employed by an organisation of that kind. [More…]
The work of the security organisation is entrusted to highly qualified men who can be considered to be completely impartial. [More…]
Should any matter arise which I believe should be reported to the Parliament, I shall take that course. [More…]
The last argument he sought to press upon us was the argument that came from Boyce in the U.S., Boyce, who I remind the House has been convicted by an American jury- a jury of his peers- for spying. [More…]
But the honourable gentleman would much prefer today to summon before the high court of Parliament the evidence of Mr Boyce rather than the verdict of the jury. [More…]
It is there to caution all men of goodwill, and I hope that all men of goodwill would take some notice of it. [More…]
Two things prompted this prognosis: First, Dougherty had told him that in the event of the rank and file electing the ‘wrong candidates’, he would use his control of the union’s executive council to cancel the ballot, expel or dismiss the successful candidates, put the branch under the control of the executive council and appoint his own men to fill the positions. [More…]
It is disappointing that such a large section of the returned services movement should be taking so little interest and taking what appears to me is a relatively ineffective role in supporting the proper claims, I believe the just claims, of current serving members of the forces. [More…]
I have in my electorate a large naval area and many serving officers and men. [More…]
We have to recognise that servicemen take greater risks than civilians. [More…]
They are thieving from their fellow men. [More…]
Some 65 per cent of the registered unemployed in the inner city area are adult men, compared with 46 per cent for New South Wales as a whole. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with the Minister for Post and Telecommunications (Mr Eric Robinson), who is at the table, and he has agreed to the incorporation in Hansard of the main points of the report to the Unemployment Committee. [More…]
I seek leave to have the document incorporated in Hansard. [More…]
I am informed that the management of the company will be meeting with the union leaders at approximately 2.30 p.m., today and I expect that some clarification will come from that meeting as to whether the men are prepared to accept a week’s annual leave proposal or whether the company has any alternative proposals to put to them. [More…]
He mentioned a gallup poll that does not reflect opinions accurately. [More…]
Would he drive men to work when working conditions were unsafe? [More…]
Would he drive them to work on the Westgate Bridge in Melbourne, which collapsed and killed many workmen? [More…]
The fact is that the Government refuses to table that report. [More…]
The Government will not put that report on the table of the House so that the people of Australia can see the suggestions of some of the finest brains in the housing field in this country; for instance, men like Alec Ramsay who is the chairman of the Housing Trust of South Australia, Hugh Stretton, who has one of the finest rational minds on housing, and Pat Troy, who was the Deputy Chairman of the Housing Corporation and who, on the question of land, has made a more revolutionary contribution to housing and land than any other person in government during our time. [More…]
Because of the finance made available by our Government to the Dunstan Labor Government, the South Australian Housing Trust is the major land developer in South Australia, particularly in the outer Adelaide region. [More…]
I assume that both men were informed by the correspondent of what was published in this newspaper and were just concurring with it. [More…]
Speaking on behalf of honourable members on this side of the House there have been no allegations by the leadership of this Party that ASIO should be used by governments in political matters, particularly against other political parties. [More…]
I know that individual honourable members can make allegations against governments, against ASIO and against other security forces operating in Australia but never has the Labor Party used this subject in the way that the Government is using it now. [More…]
He was one of the few men who had the good sense or political nous to detect the very fine trend in American public opinion which eventually resulted in the election of President Carter. [More…]
If we are to call on vigorous young men- Dr Merrillees appeared to be one of them- to come from London to the United Nations for up to 4 months we ought not to expect them to come without their wives. [More…]
We should offer them the opportunity of bringing their wives to New York and we should pay for their economy class travel, which is how the parliamentary advisers travel. [More…]
There are calls for preferred treatment for this country, that country, or a particular grouping of countries. [More…]
At the same time there are demands for fewer imports to make way for the employment of men and machines here in Australia. [More…]
Furthermore, Australia is a member of a number of international agreements. [More…]
They carry with them obligations and commitments. [More…]
Australia has a record of honouring its commitments. [More…]
These young men, when they reach 18 years, are incarcerated with hardened criminals. [More…]
Immediately they become the playthings of those men in more ways than one, particularly from the point of view of sexual deviates. [More…]
These young men get no chance for self respect. [More…]
1 ) Was he consulted before prosecutions of 4 men on charges of gun-running and attempting to export medical supplies were commenced in Darwin in 1 976. [More…]
Can he say whether the magistrate, in sentencing the men, stated that he accepted that they had acted out of charity and humanitarian interest and placed them on a good behaviour bond. [More…]
The proceedings against the 4 men were Customs prosecutions. [More…]
Game Formerly hunted by Aboriginal men is now in short supply. [More…]
Because of this, Aboriginals have become accustomed to food supplied through stores on settlements. [More…]
Unemployment benefits have been available to Aboriginals as to other Australians unable to obtain work. [More…]
In some cases, as the working party report has revealed, the lack of activity when combined with unemployment benefit has produced serious social problems such as alcoholism and other health hazards. [More…]
The resultant inactivity from unemployment, coupled with the payment of unemployment benefit, has led or contributed to deleterious social effects within the communities including: adverse attitudes of Aboriginal men to work severe drunkenness and associated violence health hazards, and child neglect which occurs because some parents use their unemployment benefit for alcohol instead of food and clothing; and acute juvenile delinquency. [More…]
We knew then that we were the best team of any Australian port; and the men and boys, this year, have shown themselves just as good- which is saying something! [More…]
The assistance by the Federal coalition Government has been acknowledged already by a spokesman for the Interim Council for Small Business Organisations of Australia, Mr Peter Ostinfeld. [More…]
Mr Ostinfeld has stressed that small business men generally appreciate the assistance that the Prime Minister and the Government have provided to the small business sector so far. [More…]
Quite rightly, Mr Ostinfeld has pointed out that the Government’s help so far is small consolation for the scores of businessmen weekly still going bankrupt. [More…]
Clearly, much more remains to be done by the Federal Government. [More…]
Just as clearly, this Government, which has gone so far in such a short space of time towards restoring Australia to economic prosperity, will be aware of its responsibilities. [More…]
I believe that Federal Government Ministers already have conscientiously sat down with small business men to begin planning for the future. [More…]
When I was Secretary of the AWU Jim Healy and Roch, the gentlemen to whom the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth) presented the Illawarra Star Cup way back in the good old days, came to see me to point out that AWU members handling cargo and shipments of various kinds at Whyalla ought to have been covered by the Waterside Workers Federation of Australia because the workers could get some quite extraordinarily higher amount than the AWU could get for those men under the AWU award. [More…]
I said to Jim Healy: ‘You can have these men for one year and I want you to give me an undertaking now that if you have not got them the full waterside workers rates within one year you will hand them back to me and not hand them over to Ernie Thornton’, who had political ties with Jim Healy. [More…]
I had no idea why they wanted to see me until Healy said: ‘We have come to hand the men back to you. [More…]
I let them have the men for another 6 weeks and Mr Justice Piper gave the workers the waterside workers rates of pay. [More…]
If General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd sacked 1000 men, there would be no redress for those employees. [More…]
These are fundamental issues when we talk about industrial relations. [More…]
But people can make decisions which affect employment. [More…]
Having said that, I should like to give to the House an elaborate statement on the achievements and the progress in Aboriginal affairs over the last 10 years, but I shall not do that except to point out that in fact there has been considerable achievement. [More…]
Too often members of parliament from this House and the other place and members of the public single out apparent failures, difficulties and problems in Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
But of course it is the silent majority of achievements which ought to be heralded to the public by members of this House and the other place. [More…]
There have been real achievements in health, education, employment and the establishment of Aboriginal Organisations. [More…]
I think perhaps the greatest achievement is the fact that today more and more Aborigines- both men and womenare standing up and speaking for their own people, not simply in national forums but in their local communities and areas of activity. [More…]
They have been chosen by their communities to speak for them with government and within towns and cities. [More…]
The Government is denying all those other workers their rights if it allows this free loader in the plant. [More…]
By allowing this part of the Bill to become law the Government would have taken that collective right away from those other workers. [More…]
This would have happened in spite of the fact that the men had held a meeting, discussed the matter and decided that that would be their position. [More…]
The Government wanted to protect the person who would take away the rights of the other workers. [More…]
If we are to have an orderly society, it ought to be built on the basis that we in this national Parliament recognise that trade unions exist, we want to promote goodwill in industry, we want to encourage the means by which we can settle disputes, we want to provide the means for the settlement of those disputes and we want to encourage the organisation of representative bodies of employers and employees. [More…]
People are not free to destroy the rights and conditions for which men have fought hard over a period of years. [More…]
What we are saying here is that we cannot have people fragmenting the whole trade union organisation or a very satisfactory employer-employee relationship simply because those people want to do their own thing. [More…]
We do not want to go back to the time of backyard factories in which women were making textile goods, working in conditions that were not proper and being exploited. [More…]
I believe that it is quite easy for the trade union movement to win a confrontation with the government in this country or in any other country. [More…]
Just as the trade union movement brought down the Heath Conservative Government in the United Kingdom, the trade union movement of this country could bring down this Government simply by bringing out a few key men. [More…]
The honourable member for Casey (Mr Falconer) already admitted that by bringing out powerhouse employees representing only a few thousand men over the whole continent of Australia they could paralyse every industry in this country. [More…]
Only a few men would need to be brought out. [More…]
The trade union movement will not be so stupid as to bring out 4 million or 5 million workers in a confrontation with the Government. [More…]
The only way in which a bad law can be defeated is by ignoring it and defying it until the Government is forced to remove it. [More…]
It was thrown off only by brave men defying the law as brave men always ought to defy a rotten law. [More…]
In many ways I regard the announcement today as an evolution on Aboriginal affairs emanating from those years of inactivity, from the realisation by the Aboriginal people that they were entitled to a better deal, and from the fact that they started to demonstrate that they wanted to have a say in the administration of Aboriginal affairs and in the formulation of policy. [More…]
The fact is that it was the Labor Government which harboured and supported the emerging Aboriginal voice. [More…]
It was not only the Labor Government but also the Labor zealots going back to the mid-1950s who encouraged the Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders to gather together with people like Faith Bandler and Joe McGinnis. [More…]
But there were always people like Mr Bryant, Senator Keeffe and many other Labor men at those conferences. [More…]
I left untouched the rule which gave the women, as well as the men, a vote in the annual election of the Chief Magistrate. [More…]
The Government’s tactics were the tactics of confrontation. [More…]
I make no judgment on the merits of that dispute, nor do I endorse the actions of the men concerned. [More…]
But let there be no doubt about the Government’s intentions. [More…]
The Government and the Prime Minister inflamed and prolonged a dispute that had already wrought a heavy toll on the community in lost time, lost revenue and untold hardship and inconvenience. [More…]
On 1 1 May, 6 days after the strike began, the Prime Minister declared on television that the men concerned would ‘not get a cent’ of their wage claim. [More…]
The Prime Minister was dictating settlement terms to the Arbitration Commission in the controllers’ dispute as surely and as arrogantly as he was dictating to the Commission on the matter of a wage freeze. [More…]
Figures given to me last Thursday by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations show that the Government spent $24,000 of public money on newspaper advertisements to publicise the Public Service Board’s case in the air controllers’ dispute- that is, to publicise one side of an argument that had been going on for 1 V4 years. [More…]
Every intervention by the Government in that dispute was partisan and provocative. [More…]
A day later he threatened to recall Parliament. [More…]
He had a new remedy in store- gaol sentences for men who pressed their wage claims. [More…]
Last Tuesday week, according to an Australian Broadcasting Commission news report the following day, the Prime Minister stated that the executive of the ACTU had rejected Mr Hawke ‘s proposal for amendments to the Industrial Relations Bureau. [More…]
That statement was not only false, reckless and irresponsible, but it also showed a degree of pettiness and malice that no other head of government in an industrial nation would display. [More…]
The high cost of labour has meant an increasing tendencyreflected in the capital investment figures already mentioned- to replace men by machines. [More…]
I want first to ask the question: What is supposed to happen to the men who have been replaced by machines? [More…]
I simply underline the point that factory production was at its highest level ever during the period of the Labor Government. [More…]
That was a rather easy statement from the Treasurer. [More…]
It is true that when you bring in capital equipment you replace manpower by machines. [More…]
That has been the whole course of Western industrial development. [More…]
But surely in a society which still claims a belief in full employment we have to answer the question: What do you do with the men who have been displaced? [More…]
We had the Jackson report not very long ago, on which a White Paper has now been prepared by the Government, and apparently there is a conflict in the Australian community at the moment. [More…]
Manufacturing has declined quite significantly as a provider of total employment, both absolutely and relatively, over recent years. [More…]
Perhaps the answer is to get more sophisticated capital equipment, to expand the total capacity, which in turn will help to absorb those seeking employment. [More…]
Many people say that they do not believe married women should stay at home. [More…]
I do not mind seeing married men stay at home to provide parental attention for their children, but again the incentive or rebate has to be great enough to enable them to do it. [More…]
They accept their role that it is not what they want to get out of Australia but what they can give to Australia and their fellow men. [More…]
As regards the closure of works, a number of abattoirs have intimated that under present circumstances they find it extremely difficult to continue operating and I believe it to be true, as the honourable gentleman suggested, that one abattoir at least at Wodonga has intimated that all men will be dismissed and the plant closed down. [More…]
While that sort of direction is pursued within the trade union movement I am afraid there is little chance for the prosperity of that sector. [More…]
I urged young men and women to continue to assert their right to apply for benefits to which they were entitled by law. [More…]
The Opposition regards as of paramount importance the appointment of an independent chairman and managerial staff of the highest calibre. [More…]
When the salaries are being determined, particularly that of the chairman, the Minister should, as a guide, suggest that they are set at a level so as to attract the best men from industry. [More…]
The appointment of the chairman is a delicate matter but it must be raised because the producers’ organisations have been unanimous in requesting that the present Chairman of the Australian Meat Board not be re-appointed. [More…]
… the Australian Meat Board entered into some arrangements with the Soviet Union. [More…]
Well, I think it is wise that we do bring up those days because during those days the Labor Government entered into an arrangement which finished up in a very significant loss to the Australian meat industry. [More…]
Of course that was one of the areas where this Government picked up the loss in order to ensure that those same meat growers, the beef cattle men, were not unduly disadvantaged. [More…]
There is not much need for me to comment on it; it speaks for itself. [More…]
I believe it is the obligation of this Government to maintain the momentum of reform and progress which the Australian Labor Party undertook in relation to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I shall take a minute to mention several of the reforms which occurred under the Labor Administration. [More…]
We extended the eligibility to single men and single women. [More…]
For years and years people were calling for that provision, until the Labor Government was elected and gave effect to the proposal. [More…]
This resulted in some 900 men opting to leave their employment in the industry in addition to more than 300 who left the industry in 1976. [More…]
Since June 1975, the number of waterside workers has been reduced by almost 3000, including 2100 who have accepted voluntary retrenchment. [More…]
This Conference was attended by representatives of the employer body covering the conventional and terminal areas, the National Industrial Council, by the Waterside Workers Federation, the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, the Australian National Line and officers of my Department, including a representative of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority. [More…]
The Conference has developed a detailed scheme for dealing with recruitment and redundancy in an orderly fashion. [More…]
In light of experience in recent years the Conference proposes that voluntary means be employed to separate surplus men from the industry. [More…]
The employers, however, have reserved their right to seek compulsory redundancy arrangements when the current terms and conditions contract in the industry expires in May next year. [More…]
I have already spoken of the large number of men who have left the industry by voluntary means in recent years. [More…]
The Government will watch with very great interest the operation of the voluntary redundancy arrangements. [More…]
They are intended to achieve agreement between the parties for the management of industrial affairs while primary responsibility for administrative arrangements rests with the employers. [More…]
The Government will introduce legislation to achieve this. [More…]
I have some figures relating to the 3 areas of imports- men’s outer wear, women’s woven apparel and knitwear excluding tops. [More…]
In our great wisdom we allowed 3.5 million units of men’s outer wear to come into this country in 1975. [More…]
In 1975 4.7 million units of women’s woven apparel entered this country. [More…]
They are figures that I have researched based on the Import Watch Figures of tariff quota items produced only for the Department of Industry and Commerce. [More…]
Every time we increase the importation of garments which could be produced in this country, we are creating a situation which is guaranteed to lose our fellow Australians jobs. [More…]
We are doing this with a great lack of concern for those people who have invested their life and their life’s work in this industry, for the communication which they have built up with a group of employees over 20 and 30 years and also for the investment of considerable moneys over a period of time. [More…]
Maitland, where employment went from something like 1300 people down to 600 people. [More…]
Employment at the mill declined because of the tariff reduction, which apparently was not researched properly. [More…]
If it had been, I feel sure that the tariffs would not have been reduced and the beginning of unemployment in this country would have been severely curtailed. [More…]
There are men and women employed in these industries who have given a lifetime of service. [More…]
They are now in their forties and fifties, and it is extremely difficult for them to gain employment elsewhere if they lose their jobs in these industries. [More…]
I am not disparaging those men who came in from the RSL. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development is shaking his head. [More…]
The Minister will concede that His Honour is concerned with the wellbeing of the ex-servicemen of this country and he is saying that their problems in respect of the administration of the boards’ affairs would be better in the hands of these people whom he has described. [More…]
But it is notable that the Government in its recommendations, is disagreeing with it. [More…]
The Government offers a brutal and simplistic justification for its high unemployment policy. [More…]
It seeks to persuade the Australian people that by throwing men and women out of work all our economic problems will be cured. [More…]
It should be morally unacceptable to any Australian government, and no government but this would have entertained it. [More…]
The post-war record levels of unemployment for each month of this year are a national disgrace. [More…]
Not only that, the inequitable way in which unemployment is distributed between various groups is neither moral nor tolerable. [More…]
Unemployment disadvantages the young more than the rest of the work force. [More…]
Women suffer the burden of unemployment more than men. [More…]
The unskilled, the semi-skilled, clerical and administrative employees suffer a disproportionate unemployment rate. [More…]
The unemployment rate among juniors is 15 per cent against a national rate of 5.2 per cent- that is, 3 times worse than for the community overall. [More…]
The unemployment rate among young females is 20 per cent greater than among young males. [More…]
Unemployment among young migrants is nearly 17 per cent higher than among young Australian-born members of the work force. [More…]
The rate of unemployment among women is nearly 70 per cent higher than among men. [More…]
The proposal is for 2 elements of the overall development at the base. [More…]
They are the construction of sleeping accommodation for 96 air men consisting of 6 two-storey brick buildings, replacing traditional institutionalised barracks accommodation with flat type accommodation; and the provision of facilities for the No. [More…]
The Committee recommends the construction of the work as referred to it. [More…]
Upon the concurrence of the house in this resolution, detailed planning can proceed in accordance with the recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
The major conclusions of the Board of Inquiry were that the material aspects of security of aircraft within the hangar and of the hangar itself were less than adequate; various procedures relating to security of aircraft and hangars at the Naval Air Station were unsatisfactory; certain persons did not carry out their security duties in accordance with orders; various proposals to enhance the security of the Naval Air Station had not been put into effect; the standards of construction of H hangar were below those considered appropriate today for the safe stowage of aircraft; and the response to the alarm was good, the fire could not have been extinguished sooner or more closely confined, the actions taken to fight the fire were sound and many men showed great courage and determination in fighting the fire and removing aircraft to safety. [More…]
-by leave-I join with the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) in commending publicly the courage of those members of the armed Services who displayed great courage and dedication on the night of the fire at the Nowra air base. [More…]
It is clear from what the Minister has said and from reports in the media that many men extended themselves beyond what would normally be regarded as a reasonable level of endurance and exposed themselves to considerable danger in this display of courage. [More…]
Those men deserve commendation. [More…]
Who are the people responsible for the decisions which have allowed these gaps and defects to have arisen in the arrangements at the Nowra naval base? [More…]
Are they the top brass in the Navy who wanted more and better presentable capital equipment and were prepared to make that their priority at the expense of adequate firefighting and security equipment at the Nowra base? [More…]
Are the men at the top of the Public Service who have been passing advice to the political administrator at fault? [More…]
What about the position of the Minister and the head of his Department or, perhaps, both? [More…]
As if that were not enough, only today I have had a report that in the rice industry there is a dispute between the Federated Storemen and Packers Union and the Federated Millers and Mill Employees Association, as a result of which it seems that 1 100 tons of bagged rice destined for Papua New Guinea and a cargo of 20 000 tons due to be loaded at Portland will not be loaded. [More…]
It seems that the bans will cause significant unemployment in Echuca and Deniliquin. [More…]
It is not only the rice growers who will suffer but also the very men whom honourable members on the other side purport to represent-the very men whom trade union leaders are supposed to represent. [More…]
As far as the rural sector is concerned, there are a number of consequences of industrial disputes, among other factors, which are prejudicing the level of income for those who are at the moment unfortunately amongst the lowest in expectation generally in average weekly earnings. [More…]
Men ought to be judged by their record, and their record is contemptible, smug and self-assured, oblivious of any criticism. [More…]
… Mr Cassell has said that his union represents ‘desperate men’ who regard militancy as the best weapon to force government action. [More…]
Was the omission, during the Australian Broadcasting Commission broadcast of the Anzac Day parade in Sydney on 25 April 1977, to name clearly the group of men and women representing Australian soldiers, who were isolated and cared for by Timorese citizens in World War II an accidental omission or a result of a direction to comply with the present Government ‘s decision to ignore the Timorese. [More…]
We sometimes contemplate what one country will do to another in the name of war, in shifting men and materials in the name of destruction. [More…]
I do not think that we get a great deal of agreement about that, either. [More…]
Even if the war were contained in the way that the war was somehow contained in 1973 the attrition rates on men and material and the economic viability of the states involved would be immense. [More…]
During that conflict the Americans and the Russians flew in huge amounts of equipment. [More…]
The delivery of that equipment and the subsequent economic cost must have contributed to the present serious Israeli financial problems and those of the area generally. [More…]
Suddenly they wanted it back and they harassed our settlements, murdered our people and opposed us at every turn. [More…]
We have had thousands of our young men and women killed in four wars which were started or instigated by the Arabs. [More…]
We have had hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians and women and children killed by terrorist guerrillas in schools, hospitals, homes and shopping centres. [More…]
We have provided the majority of Arabs living in occupied territories with employment at six times what they would have received in Arab countries. [More…]
Similar movements of people have been going on throughout history. [More…]
Only when our brave young men hijacked planes and attacked Israel did they listen to our problems. [More…]
-This debate on a report by a committee of the Parliament on the situation in the Middle East is a significant one, coming as it does in a year when the world is tackling one of the world’s greatest problems. [More…]
I hope that as a result of goodwill on the part of all men the opportunities now available to find a peaceful solution will be taken. [More…]
I think it is a sad situation for the world that so often conflict has arisen because of the different mental or philosophical processes that drive men to express themselves in particular ways. [More…]
But that difficulty of bridging those gaps must be faced and must be overcome because if it is not there will be in my view in the all too immediate future, as I have mentioned, a confrontation that could envelop the whole world. [More…]
I think, too, that it is important that we look very carefully as to the permanent establishment of our embassy in Damascus. [More…]
I also agree with the recommendations contained in the report of the Joint Committee on the importance of Australia providing military attaches to our ambassadors in the region. [More…]
Those countries have probably the greatest amount of armament of any region in the world. [More…]
Insofar as we believe that we should develop our own defence potential we should at least have an understanding, as expressed through the eyes of military men, of the techniques and skills being adopted by countries that have the greatest degree of military build-up of any region in the world. [More…]
In any event, when the Government had indicated that it was blindly determined to go its own way, the unionists decided to put four railway carriages across the tracks. [More…]
Although I have been accused of backing a union which was bucking the Government, I say that because the jobs of the men were in jeopardy they had a right to take action. [More…]
The State Labor Government then gave a direction through the Transport Commission that shunters would be ordered to move the carriages off the track so that the slip road could be completed. [More…]
When that small but gallant band of men stood firm, the Tasmanian Labor Government proceeded not only to suspend them one by one but also to call in the Minister for Transport (Mr Nixon) and ask him to assist it to do its dirty work. [More…]
I am very proud of a Federal Minister who had the guts to stand up and say that he was not going to become involved in the dispute, that it was not a dispute involving the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
The Minister refused to lend his weight to the efforts of the Neilson Government to suspend the railway shunters. [More…]
It was good to see a Country Party Minister standing up on this occasion against the State Labor Government, which had decided that it would persecute a small group of unionists. [More…]
By holding out, those unionists were able to get into a bargaining position, and the State Government has now made certain commitments to them that the slip road will operate for only 1 8 months, that it will be only one lane, and that there will be an inquiry into the reintroduction of a suburban electrified rail service in Hobart. [More…]
I believe that in the years to come the people of Tasmania will remember the day when the railway men stood firm, their own Labor Government took the stock whip to them, and the Federal Minister, to his eternal credit, declined to do the State Government’s dirty work. [More…]
But the information which has been conveyed to me comes from several sources which I consider to be sufficient reliable and is so serious as to impose upon me a responsibility to relate these charges to the Parliament. [More…]
One of the men who has made these allegations is the Archpriest of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Western Australia. [More…]
Further to that, we have the case of a son of the Speaker of the Victorian Legislative Assembly, aif Ken Wheeler, who sold a farm in the Wodonga district to the Albury-Wodonga Development Corporation, which is sponsored by the Federal Government, the New South Wales Government and the Victorian Government. [More…]
It seems to me that the guilty men in Victoria, the colleagues of people who occupy the treasury bench in this Parliament, have to stand up and answer that question. [More…]
I challenge the responsible Minister to come into this Parliament at some time in the future and give an explanation as to why taxpayers ‘ money is going down the drain. [More…]
The Government has a policy and will proceed with it as soon as the matter can be discussed and some sort of preliminary planning arrangement set up. [More…]
The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife), who is at the table, would appreciate this because some of the legislation he put through in relation to these matters when he was Minister for Mines in New South Wales was most commendable. [More…]
If we look at the history of rnining in this nation we will see that almost every major mining project, even to this day, has been discovered not with highly sophisticated equipment but by the ordinary bloke who gets around the country and fossicks out the lode that really matters. [More…]
It is through small men such as those that the great mining discoveries have been made. [More…]
In my opinion this reflects adversely, and in an unwarranted way, on the service provided to the Committee by the secretariat and, in particular, on the two men closely associated with the Committee. [More…]
In my view these gentlemen should be congratulated for getting this report prepared for the Parliament in such a short time, particularly as they were subjected to very serious and inconvenient time constraints. [More…]
I feel- I know that all members of the Committee will agree with methat these gentlemen worked extremely efficiently and in a very thoughtful and cooperative manner. [More…]
The logistics of the exercise were known to the honourable gentlemen some time ago and they did not object then. [More…]
On 4 May 1 977 all members were informed in an agenda paper that as the report had to be tabled in the Parliament by 1 8 August and as its printing would take approximately three weeks, it would need to be cleared by the Committee before 28 July. [More…]
The secretariat therefore proposed that a meeting to clear the report should commence in Canberra on Tuesday, 26 July, at the latest. [More…]
This agreement was reached early in June and all honourable members were informed. [More…]
Does he realise that because of Liberal-Country Party Government philosophy that led to the construction of the wretched machine at Redfern, which has proved to be a monster, psychological problems have been caused. [More…]
They are not allowed the normal freedom or the normal environment of any other employee in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Has this not been achieved by the Minister going to the Exchange and attending a mass meeting of the men? [More…]
It is not recognised- and Government supporters would not know about this because they have not had any affiliation with this matterthat for years a set of special industrial conditions have applied only to the Redfern Mail Exchange. [More…]
This arrangement has applied with the concurrence of past Liberal-Country Party Ministers. [More…]
Do not honourable members opposite realise that special arrangements exist for rosters on the basis that men and women who work at Redfern get special entitlements? [More…]
Do they not know that this arrangement is part and parcel of a special award which , while perhaps unwritten, is nevertheless there. [More…]
Do they not know that it was agreed that the workers would be entitled to say that their terms and conditions of employment and their hours of employment would not be altered without their consent, that they would be entitled to certain overtime penalties? [More…]
Do they not know that these conditions are part and parcel of their employment contract? [More…]
Let us have an election on the basis of how much better qualified are honourable members opposite to pass judgment on their fellow men. [More…]
Arbitration processes exist for the settlement of these disputes. [More…]
Unless the Government gets some common sense into it thinking on industrial arbitration matters and unless it takes into account the fact that there are laws in existence under which trained personnel can solemnly sit down in the calmness of a room and discuss both sides of the problem and then give a determination it is going to have a confrontation. [More…]
The Government is denying that position here. [More…]
The Government is putting all the onus of responsibility on one or two people to say who will work at the Redfern Mail Exchange and whether people should have a job or be dismissed. [More…]
-This is a clear and concise Bill which will help to answer a clear and concise question: Who is running this country, the elected government of the people or arrogant trade union bosses? [More…]
These men are supported in this Parliament by the pawns they send here as Labor members. [More…]
The last honourable member who spoke, the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson), aspires to be a Minister of the Crown in a Labor Government. [More…]
The Government, through the introduction of the Commonwealth Employees (Employment Provisions) Bill today, has thrown conciliation and arbitration out the door. [More…]
If this legislation goes through the Parliament, I will be down there at the mail exchange to lead the men on a principle. [More…]
The men who have done all the work as union officials over the years, as I, the average trade union delegate, the average rank and file member and the average person who loves Australia have done, will take sides if this legislation is passed. [More…]
The Government would not have a clue about what it is doing. [More…]
Some BWIU men Will subsequently be part of an AWU delegation to the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Of course, the men did not have a say in what occurred. [More…]
Above aU, without retreating from the proposition for one second we say that when amalgamations in unions occur the men in the unions which are amalgamated should have a say. [More…]
I rose to mention a matter which is of considerable concern to many constituents in my electorate and probably in the electorate of the honourable gentleman who preceded me in this debate. [More…]
The Government has announced its intention to withdraw the payment of fees and living allowances to students who attend non-profit tertiary institutions. [More…]
Unless she has a certain accomplishment in speed as a result of her high school education she cannot get in. [More…]
Until now she has been assisted by way of the tertiary allowances which were introduced by the Labor Government in 1974. [More…]
The announcement has now been made that these allowances will be curtailed as from January 1978. [More…]
This is of very great concern to many families, especially low income families which are unable to sustain young people- not just girls but young men as well- who want to start that kind of career. [More…]
His mind and character were at home with fundamentalsabsolute values and basic concepts about the nature of our society and Australia’s place in the world. [More…]
In the face of widespread misunderstanding, vehement hostility and bitter vilification, he pursued his goals with unswerving fortitude and force. [More…]
Where lesser men would have yielded, Rex Connor stood firm for his beliefs. [More…]
Give me men to match my mountains, Give me men to match my plains. [More…]
Men with freedom in their vision, And creation in their brains. [More…]
He was the undisputed titular head of the Labor movement in Wollongong, a great Labor region. [More…]
He led countless well-conceived sorties to upgrade the lives of the people in that region through local, State and Federal arms of government, all of which he served with distinction since he first entered local government 39 years ago. [More…]
A modest man, he avoided flamboyant publicity and had an aversion to those media men whose motives he distrusted. [More…]
Men and women of the Labor movement will seek to emulate his fine example. [More…]
As a new member of the Parliament in early 1973 I appreciated Rex Connor when I came here. [More…]
Lesser men would have yielded, would have weakened, under that onslaught. [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…]
As the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) said, it is strange that in the media of our nation great men are recognised only after their death and not in life. [More…]
They are built on the backs of the coal miners- the men who hew the coal from the bowels of the earth. [More…]
My Government inaugurated a national sewerage program in 1973 to eliminate the backlog of over half a million unsewered dwellings in urban areas in Australia. [More…]
It was a co-operative effort in which 17 local and semigovernment authorities were participating in New South Wales, 12 in Victoria, 22 in Queensland and nine in Tasmania. [More…]
It was operating with the blessing of every State government. [More…]
Plans and estimates had been drawn up, equipment had been acquired, men had been engaged. [More…]
Now the Federal Government has abdicated its responsibility. [More…]
For example, the very latest controversy surrounds the extraordinary disagreement between the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) and the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) as to how much the tax cuts are going to cost the country. [More…]
We have the extraordinary spectacle of the two men quoting figures so different that, in effect, the Prime Minister claims that the cost will be double what the Treasurer claims it will cost. [More…]
The Company Men [More…]
I ask categorically: Does the Government seriously believe that unemployment in Australia is at its present level because at the moment horsepower is preferred to manpower? [More…]
I believe that any government in a Western country in 1977 which holds that principle as a basis of belief is not facing up to what the realities of employment, as we know them in Western communities, are. [More…]
Are people out of work in Australia today because machines are preferred to men? [More…]
Surely we have reached a situation in Australia at the moment where capacity is not fully utilised. [More…]
At the same time the level of unemployment is larger than this country has ever known. [More…]
The recent hearing was told of much damage done to University and Guild property by the women. [More…]
For example, a large section of stonework in the adjacent car park had to be repaired and resurfaced after a huge women’s slogan had been painted there that night. [More…]
The men’s toilet was the worst. [More…]
No charges were laid and no inquiry was held into this damage, albeit extensive, to which the women admitted. [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…]
The total value of projects of some size held up in South Australia is over $40m, and the peak job capacity for those works- about six are involved- is over 1,600 men. [More…]
The latest unemployment filgures- those for June- indicate that around 1,300 skilled and semi-skilled building workers are out of work in South Australia. [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 Labor Party does not seem to realise that the new rural adjustment scheme embraces not just assistance to help people out of their land when that is what they want; nor is it just assistance to build up the holdings of people where that is a more efficient and effective way to operate. [More…]
This was introduced by our Government for the first time to help farmers, whether they be beef men, meat men, dairy men, fruit growers or whatever, who find themselves in a position in which their income is down and they are unable to operate viably. [More…]
The unemployment benefit to farmers has a similar purpose. [More…]
Unfortunately, there has been some variability in some areas on the part of those administering the scheme under which farmers can receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
I hope that any individual who feels that he should be entitled to unemployment benefit will bring his case to the notice of his Federal member. [More…]
If that is done, we can ensure that there is uniformity of eligibility for unemployment benefit to the maximum extent possible. [More…]
There are six different classification schemes under test at the moment. [More…]
I believe the Commonwealth Government will be significantly involved in the capital facilities at the time a practical, universal, objective classification scheme is available. [More…]
But, as I mentioned, at the moment six schemes are being tested. [More…]
We seek to make sure that we reduce the work force and not add to it by having additional men to work the machinery. [More…]
The Government has committed itself completely to accelerating the introduction of this scheme as soon as possible. [More…]
The matter I want to raise is the question of the Government’s program relating to youth em- ployment training schemes. [More…]
On paper the schemes have very great attraction in that they offer to young people the opportunity to obtain training for future employment. [More…]
Unfortunately it is apparent that in some instances the Government assistance relative to these training schemes, which apparently is not very heavily policed, has been accepted as a subsidy for employment. [More…]
What is in fact occurring is that in some instances in the work force senior women or senior men doing jobs which can be done by juniors are being dismissed in order that they may be replaced by trainees who are subsidised at $59 a week or, under the National Employment and Training scheme, at a different figure. [More…]
At the end of the period of training, especially in jobs for which a low degree of skill is required as is the case in a number of these areas of employment, it is found convenient to replace with another trainee the person who has gone through the training period. [More…]
It enables an employer to obtain a subsidised employee for a long period with no guarantee that that person will continue in employment. [More…]
In these instances the purpose of the scheme is being defeated in that a person is not being trained for a position and the employer is being assisted by the Government to train a person who will not fill a position. [More…]
There is a throughput of employees at a rate which will not arouse too much antagonism or comment within the Government department making the payments. [More…]
People desperately looking for jobs are being used and people who normally occupy those jobs are being denied continuity of employment. [More…]
But that is not the sort of advice that honest men would seek on an occasion like this with this extraordinary loan in their minds. [More…]
It is not the sort of advice that honest men would seek if they were going off to the GovernorGeneral to tell him that this was a loan for temporary purposes. [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…]
There would also have been Sir Jock Phillips, the then Governor of the Reserve Bank; Mr Knight, his deputy and now the Governor; there would have been Sir Roland Wilson, the former Secretary to the Treasury and the then Chairman of the Commonwealth Banking Corporation; there would have been Sir Clarence Harders as he now is, the Secretary to the Attorney-General’s Department; and there would have been Sir Frederick Wheeler, the Secretary to the Treasury as he still is; the Solicitor-General; Mr Menadue; and many other officials- heads of departments, statutory officers and senior officials. [More…]
Three persons are mentioned and disparaged. [More…]
There is no question as to what would be disclosed if those men were called. [More…]
There has been an increase in company tax from 42.5 per cent to 46 per cent at a time when the Government is trying to encourage investment :.n manufacturing and more activity in rural Australia. [More…]
Yet the Government is pulling the rug from under its tax averaging arrangements for farmers which it so proudly introduced the year before. [More…]
This is the shabby record of the Liberal and National Country parties in government. [More…]
So much for their criticism of the former Labor Government’s valiant attempts to change the face of rural Australia and to do positive things about the major commodities such as wool, dairy products and wheat by the various measures which were enacted during its period of office. [More…]
This Government has failed dismally to do anything for the rural community. [More…]
He is all things to all men. [More…]
It sets out the demand management policies, monetary policy, financing budget deficits, fiscal policy, selective demand management policies and policies directly affecting employment. [More…]
Then, in relation to reconciliation of conflicting claims it sets out investment, public expenditure, foreign sector activity and prices and incomes. [More…]
In relation to the international dimension it particularly mentions exchange rates and international liquidity. [More…]
I now want to tell the House about my talks with the OECD and the top men in that Organisation. [More…]
When no less a person than the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) at the Premiers Conference suggested that the Government ought to legislate in this field he was opposed by none other than the Premier of Queensland on the basis that he was not going to have a national government intruding into Queensland. [More…]
If honourable members look at the minutes of the Premiers Conference they will see who are the guilty men. [More…]
There is no question in this House, that there are risks with uranium but I recall that at the turn of the century the people who first drove automobiles had men walking in front of those vehicles carrying red flags. [More…]
It is our primary responsibility to ensure that there are no more Hiroshimas and Nagasakis and that secondly, through the peaceful development of uranium, we will be able to see a more viable and happy mankind in the future. [More…]
In terms of the problems we face with energy needs, it is worth remembering that the future demand for uranium depends essentially on the rate of growth in electricity consumption throughout the world and upon the requirements of electricity which are to be supplied by nuclear plants. [More…]
But the point is that the London Club guidelines are essentially a gentlemen’s agreement. [More…]
The Club was set up after the establishment of the International Atomic Energy Agency and its safeguards and after all the talk about how we will control the diversion of nuclear material for the purpose of making bombs. [More…]
Clearly, the London Club members- that is most of the countries with nuclear technology capable of producing bombs- do not believe in the safeguards which the Government so proudly proclaims will ensure that nothing terrible happens. [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…]
The technology may be safe for 500 years but it all depends on control by men, by our social institutions and which one would be guaranteed for 50 years, let alone 500 years or 250,000 years? [More…]
Honourable members opposite do not have the necessary intestinal fortitude to stand up like men and say these things outside. [More…]
Let us recall what was said by the honourable member for Kingston who spoke for the Government in this matter a short time ago. [More…]
There is now a preparedness on the part of industry to again invest in new plant and equipment. [More…]
The reason for that is the Government undertook in 1975 to introduce such measures as the investment allowance. [More…]
It was the previous Labor Government. [More…]
Yet the honourable member for Hindmarsh tells us that we have not kept up with technology, we have not enough trained men, we have not done the job we should have done. [More…]
The main considerations of the then socialist government in respect of the uranium deal were the economic benefits to be derived from the supply of this vital energy source to our overseas trading partners who faced grave difficulties in securing their energy requirements, These considerations were stated in October 1974. [More…]
But now in September 1977 we have the same men saying that the present Government’s policy is a marketing policy and nothing else, a triumph of greed over reason. [More…]
Only recently I was reminded that the same argument was paramount in Great Britain just after the turn of the 19th century, in 1807. [More…]
He was told that his Bill would minimise jobs for British seamen, both the men building the ships and those who went to sea. [More…]
There is a fundamental right of any individual to demonstrate. [More…]
There is a fundamental right of people to join together in free speech, to express an opinion. [More…]
That is one of the most important rights which should be guarded by all men and women. [More…]
I want to mention some of the most important examples which show how peaceful demonstration has had an impact on policies not only in this country but throughout the world. [More…]
The mining and export of uranium is the first political issue that has been surveyed in 20 years to which more women are opposed than men. [More…]
On almost every other political issue surveyed in this country men voted differently to women by between 6 per cent and 10 per cent. [More…]
More than SO per cent of the women in this country who have been surveyed are opposed to the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
If we give the normal background radiation, which all of us receive and which men have received since the beginning of time, a scale of 1,000 then what the average person receives from medical and dental x-rays amounts to 700. [More…]
If the situation outlined by the honourable member is correctthat is, if no attempt has been made to advise people who have to shift from the area of their entitlements- I shall see that it is redressed. [More…]
Certainly, I am aware that the Commonwealth Employment Service in the area has been doing everything it possibly can to find alternative employment for the men retrenched and to offer retraining for those who cannot be re-employed with their existing skills. [More…]
The Relocation Assistance Scheme introduced by this Government is designed to cope with precisely the sort of situation which the honourable member has outlined. [More…]
The Relocation Assistance Scheme has enabled some 400 families to be assisted to relocate to new areas where permanent employment is available to them. [More…]
It is certainly the Government’s intention to ensure that it is of equal assistance to those who meet the criteria in the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area. [More…]
The only feasible way of doing this is to make locally some of the things which we at present import, thus absorbing our present idle capacity of men and machines. [More…]
If free men cannot run their own system, then the communists will take over the world. [More…]
Because governments wanted to stay in office and because opposition wanted to get into office, each political force promised all things to all men. [More…]
There were constant promises of higher government spending, or lower taxes, or both. [More…]
Again it is advocating increasing expenditure and increasing the size of the deficit, therefore suggesting that lower unemployment can be purchased at the expense of higher inflation. [More…]
The Opposition again fails to realise that this kind of trade-off does not apply when high levels of inflation and high levels of unemployment co-exist. [More…]
There is a real causal relationship between the two which makes it imperative to overcome inflation if unemployment is to be cured. [More…]
What any leader of the Opposition surely should do in conditions such as these is make clear what his alternative government would do to meet the economic situation. [More…]
One newspaper critic described the three Labor spokesmen on the economy not so much as three wise men but as Donald Duck’s three nephews, Huey, Louey and Dewey. [More…]
The other word used by the Government is ‘responsible’. [More…]
How any Government supporter, particularly the honourable member for Isaacs, could genuinely claim that the Government is aware and sensitive of the needs and hardship that it is creating in the community is beyond belief. [More…]
I wish Government supporters would go to some of the outer metropolitan areas of the cities or to Newcastle and talk to some of the unemployed shipyard workers who are now walking the streets looking for work. [More…]
They should talk to some members of the broken families who are now unable to get work, where husbands and wives have separated because the family income has dropped so low they cannot meet commitments and they have no prospect of getting work. [More…]
They should talk to men who have never been out of work in their lives before. [More…]
The facts are that the State Liberal government and the Federal government acted immediately to set up a special task force to seek out jobs for anyone retrenched from the mines. [More…]
Several special officers from the Commonwealth Employment Service and the State Industrial Relations Bureau moved to Kalgoorlie, Kambalda and Scotia and set up special offices in those centres. [More…]
They registered potential unemployed, sought job placements, advised all people involved of their entitlements and the possibilities in regard to retraining and relocation programs. [More…]
Two hundred and fifty dismissed men registered with the CES confirmed today that all tradesmen and skilled men had been placed. [More…]
Retraining courses, which had started last year for men put out of work by cutbacks in gold production, may be available to nickel workers sacked by the Western Mining Corporation Ltd. [More…]
This announcement by Mr Grayden, the State Minister, was reported in the local Press on 2 September. [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…]
The honourable gentleman and members of the Opposition Party have always shown a sense of hostility towards men and women on the land. [More…]
The question that I was asked during the course of last week’s parliamentary sitting was whether there would be a mini-Budget. [More…]
It is notable that in today’s Melbourne Herald, Mr Eric Risstrom, the Secretary of the Australian Taxpayers Association, has called the farmers’ tax ‘a reviver’ for what it will do for incentive and equity for men and women on the land. [More…]
This Government is fully conscious- its policies are deliberate and it is totally unashamedthat its cuts are selective and discriminatory. [More…]
This Government’s cuts are callous and, as I said, they are deliberately calculated to fawn upon the rich and to spurn the poor. [More…]
John Maynard Keynes pronounced a true economic dictum when he said that capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men work for the nastiest of motives but for all that will somehow work for the benefit of all. [More…]
-One thing is unmistakable: The conservative coalition Government has dumped the rural areas of Australia. [More…]
Certainly there has been some adjustment to the tax averaging system, but the adjustments are going to assist largely the wealthy and successful primary producers, who represent a small proportion of the total beef producers in this country. [More…]
The adjustment will give most benefit to professional men in the capital cities with rising incomes who, as a tax avoidance measure, take up farming properties somewhere. [More…]
The Government seems to be determined to alienate our important sugar markets. [More…]
The Minister for Health made an announcement on 16 June this year that the Budget would contain certain increases. [More…]
Due to certain Press speculation by individuals, who I believe have a desire to paint this Government as a non-compassionate one, thousands of ill and old men and women were subjected to stress and anguish. [More…]
This Government is compassionate. [More…]
The honourable member for Prospect tried to interject a few moments ago. [More…]
Of course, what he fails to tell this nation is that most of the health and social welfare advances in this country were instituted by a Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
Indeed let us not forget all the schemes that were introduced in 23 years of Liberal-Country Party government. [More…]
So the Government is compassionate and does not treat lightly such matters as ill health, old age and disadvantaged groups in our community. [More…]
Is the Minister for Aboriginal affairs aware that some 60 Aborigines staged a protest march to the office of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Alice Springs on Monday, 12 September 1977? [More…]
Will the Minister also investigate the request of the protesters and lend his weight to their demands that the men likely to make such decisions - [More…]
From reading the Minister’s statement and from the hour I had with his two technical advisers this morning, the system that has been selected appears- I emphasise that word appears’- to be a more effective system than the alternative system which was put up by STC (Australia) Pty Ltd. [More…]
Men’s employment is involved. [More…]
The appropriate telecommunications unions are concerned for, as the Minister has correctly said, this new equipment will be easier to install and easier to maintain also and in the long term it will affect a little thing called employment. [More…]
So, as far as the men are concerned, their employment is at stake. [More…]
All I have is an assurance from the departmental engineer that no one will be displaced. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will give the men in the Australian Telecommunications Commission an assurance that whichever of the two systems is introduced- the Ericsson system or the STC systemnone of the men who are presently employed in the technical side of Telecom will be displaced as a result of the introduction of that system. [More…]
If the men are told that there is not going to be a mammoth lay-off, either now or in the future, that at least will have the effect of allaying some of their fears. [More…]
-It is my job as the Opposition ‘s shadow Treasurer to analyse the Budget as an economic document The Fraser Government’s policies are built on three false premises and each of the three partly explains this bad Budget which we are debating this afternoon. [More…]
When this has not worked it has been converted into the ‘extended shock’ thesis or the ‘let’s have an extended recession with greater and greater unemployment’ approach. [More…]
The second false premise which explains so many wrong decisions of the past 21 months is that it is necessary to reduce real wages of men and women of Australia, the real living standards of Australian people, in order to transfer more profits to the business, particularly the corporate sector- which to them, wrongly, is another sine qua non of economic recovery. [More…]
This Government is paying less and less attention to the massive problems we face in putting young people to work, in training them for the work that is available and in giving them the vocational guidance that is necessary. [More…]
So much for the taxation system which will do all things for all men in this country. [More…]
The new revolutionary tax system as it is called is an absolute fraud because the vast majority of people will pay more and those who enjoy the privileges of a high income will receive more and more of the benefits which flow from the decisions of this Government. [More…]
The Government ought to look closely at what it has done. [More…]
Before 1 February next year it ought to divert those financial resources now being allocated in tax adjustment to areas where they are really needed. [More…]
How dare the Federal Parliament of this country spend so much money by pouring it into the people already in jobs and on high incomes while we are facing a total of 500,000 unemployed, 6 per cent or 7 per cent of the work force. [More…]
They have had a year on unemployment benefit, walking around the countryside looking for jobs. [More…]
One can understand a conservative government ignoring the massive working class districts of the cities because it does not care about them and it does not represent them. [More…]
As such the government does not relate to those areas; it does not care about them. [More…]
Right throughout the cities one finds that if it is a Labor district the Government does not care about it. [More…]
Let us look at the massive unemployment among young people in the metropolitan areas. [More…]
In Leichhardt 575 young men and 546 young women are unemployed. [More…]
We can go through every major suburb in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth and we will find that the greatest political and social problem we have is almost totally ignored by this conservative government while so many governments overseasthe British, French, Italian, Scandinavian and American- are experimenting with a multiplicity of ideas such as early retirement, a shorter working week, and subsidised work for young people. [More…]
In the Budget the Government is claiming a great deal of credit for the success of the first Budget. [More…]
There are more complaints from all sections of the community than there were during the whole of the Labor Government’s reign. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government benches laugh. [More…]
There is more violent complaint in the community today from workers and unionists, employers organisations, manufacturers, farmers, small business men, educationists, environmentalists, State governments, local governments, migrants and recipients of social security benefits than there ever was during the three years of Labor Government. [More…]
It is because this Government that came in on a host of promises has not kept pace with the expectations of the Australian people. [More…]
The honourable member talked about unemployment as though the Opposition ever cared about unemployment. [More…]
It is all very well for him to come into this House at this stage and talk about great unemployment in this country. [More…]
We know we have great unemployment in this country. [More…]
We know it is a tremendous problem which all Australians must face. [More…]
I could certainly mention a few negative means. [More…]
It derided the Government when it asked the Conciliation and Arbitation Commission to keep down wage increases. [More…]
They are working men. [More…]
Tonight he said that the State Government was squandering the funds. [More…]
He told me that there is a story going about the area to the effect that the honourable member for Wakehurst, Mr Viney, and the honourable member for Pittwater, Mr Webster, have made arrangements with the independents to try to make local government in that area a bit reasonable. [More…]
Out of the 12 aldermen there could be eight independent Liberals and four Labor men. [More…]
In a small State like Tasmania, which has unemployment problems, although fortunately they have been alleviated to large extent as a result of the policies of this Government, we have the situation that in the last month of the financial year the Premier found suddenly that he had to spend $41m out of his loan funds to avoid being publicly exposed as having more money in the kitty than he had told the public he had. [More…]
Some of them have the gall to cry poverty when they come here, yet they sit on goldmines in thenStates while men and women walk the streets out of work. [More…]
We have the situation that the Housing Department, the Department responsible for welfare housing in our State, had to spend $4m in the last month of the financial year. [More…]
Mr Neilson has a great capacity for saying ‘I have been short changed’, and then when the Commonwealth asks him to put up an argument to the Grants Commission to get some more money he backs off very quickly. [More…]
In the December quarter of 1976, under a Labor government, the population of Tasmania actually declined. [More…]
Let me tell those men now in case they already do not know that their powers flow only from the provisions of the Local Government Act, which would never countenance their despicable behaviour in their miserable attempts to erode the democratic rights of this individual. [More…]
Their actions have horrified me and I am sure will disgust all those who believe not only in the rule of law but also in an individual’s right to work without harassment and intimidation. [More…]
Firstly, nothing I say amounts in any way to a criticism of this Government’s policy on the question of East Timor. [More…]
In fact, what I am about to say is based on statements made in this House and outside it by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and votes by Australia in the United Nations. [More…]
I believe that what I say would be supported by men and women everywhere who believe in human rights. [More…]
Through you, Mr Deputy Speaker, I ask this Parliament and the people of Australia: Can we as a nation ignore reports of the slaughter of up to 100,000 of our fellow human beings living in East Timor, whether the slaughter was the result of action by Indonesia, Fretilin or any other group? [More…]
I should say at this point of tune that unlike the Government of Indonesia, the representatives of Fretilin have said they have no objection whatsoever to any form of international inquiry into atrocities alleged to have been committed by them. [More…]
Can we and the Australian nation ignore reports of mass executions including 2,000 at Lamaknan; 27 women both Chinese and Timorese on the wharf at Dili; 59 men on that same wharf in front of a crowd of 500 which was ordered to count; the murders at the Catholic Church of San Antonio in Dili; the execution of Chinese community leaders in the shop Toko Lay; the murder of a group of Timorese who dared to display an Australian flag from the third floor of a Dili building; the mass murders in the Taibesse area; the slaughter of 500 Chinese at Villaverde; reports of looting of Catholic churches; rounding up truckloads of young girls who were then subjected to mass rape; the desecration of the grave of Father Martins in Maliana; and last but not least, the vile and brutal murder on Thursday 16 October 1975 of five Australian newsmen, three of them shot in cold blood by an officer whose real name or war name was Lieutenant Markos. [More…]
The truth is that this is a tainted Governmenttainted in its creation, tainted in its associations. [More…]
Most of all they are a wake up to the real nature of this Government’s policies and the consequences of those policies. [More…]
For all the disruption and division this country has been put through for two years and more by the men who now form this Government, what has Australia got? [More…]
It has the worse unemployment since the Great Depression; inflation was higher last year than in 1975-76; it has reduced living standards; community services are declining rapidly; the dollar is vulnerable; and farm incomes are lower. [More…]
This is the record after two years of superior economic management; this is the record of the men born to rule. [More…]
They wrecked one elected Government so they could put their economic and social prejudices into practice. [More…]
Now they are wrecking another- but with superb irony and supreme justice the Government they are wrecking is their own. [More…]
These are the Australians of tomorrow, the young men and women who should be getting their training in various apprenticeships or skilled trades. [More…]
Today they are not getting that training but they are getting unemployment benefit. [More…]
All we get from this Government is a reference to these people as dole bludgers and the claim that they will not work. [More…]
Why does not the Government provide them with the opportunity so that it can see whether they are dole bludgers and whether they will work. [More…]
I have numerous parents talking to me, wanting to know where they can find employment for their children, for the young people just leaving school. [More…]
What a dastardly thing the Government did to school leavers after the last school year. [More…]
It wrote to young people and said: Your application for unemployment benefit has been declined because you have not taken appropriate action to find employment’. [More…]
As I said to the Minister, if there are any bludgers around, all the bludgers are in the Government. [More…]
These questions concerned a certain businessman, Mr Bashir Mohammed Deen of 246 Randall Road, Wynnum West, and Dr Noel Hall of 129 Windemere Road, Ascot, and their right to act as warrantors for pension and service pension payments. [More…]
It had come to my notice that very large numbers of pension cheques were allegedly issued to these gentlemen as warrantors for some of the desperate elderly in our community. [More…]
These men had been virtually kidnapped off the streets because they were in desperate circumstances. [More…]
They received no payment from the warrantor. [More…]
They are honest men. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I feel quite certain that members of the public who may have been listening to the debate so far today would have a feeling of revulsion towards this Parliament. [More…]
They have commenced calling attention to the state of the House. [More…]
Yet the honourable member for Shortland stood here in the Parliament, looked honourable members on this side straight in the eyes, and claimed that it was true. [More…]
Little wonder that at times the people of Australia have little regard for the veracity of many members of this Parliament. [More…]
As the honourable member for Moreton (Mr Killen) has often said, it is refreshing to go back into the courts on occasions and mix with honest men. [More…]
There are men in this country who care nothing for our system of government, our traditions or our way of life. [More…]
Mr Gallagher has said that the union movement should be above the ordinary law. [More…]
A short time ago Bob Pringle said: ‘If you do not do what we tell you, next time I will bring 2,000 men, and none of you will live through it.’ [More…]
I remember occasions, both at Victoria Street and at The Rocks, when there was violence, when there was intimidation and when photographs of individual unionists and politicians were put up all round the place with slogans written all over them saying that these men were to be stopped, that they were to be beaten. [More…]
There was incitement to violence. [More…]
These men were portrayed almost as fugitives from justice. [More…]
The statements in many of the pamphlets were to the effect that they were to be beaten up. [More…]
We saw what happened when the Builders Labourers Federation got into an argument and invaded the Building Workers Industrial Union premises in Sydney, and eventually had to pay damages for what occurred. [More…]
We all know of cases where, for example, the floor of a building will require 20 pourings and the men say that they will pour nineteen of them and leave the twentieth. [More…]
That is the sort of action which occurs in every place of work where men decide to withdraw their labour. [More…]
If the employer gives the men what they want, in the mind of the honourable member for St George the men are blackmailing the employer. [More…]
A round-up of statistics shows that there has been a decline in the production of clay bricks, of portland cement and of all the other things that go into the construction of houses. [More…]
It is not the Australian Labor Party but the Government, by not providing funds for the industry and by making specious remarks. [More…]
Has the Government not seen the latest unemployment figures? [More…]
Is it doing anything to get those men back to work? [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…]
If we in this House are concerned, if members of the Government parties are alarmed that public discussion of the exchange rate weakens further an enfeebled dollar, then there are the guilty men- the honourable member for Denison who raised this matter today and the Prime Minister who has been somewhat pixilated in the almost hysterical comments he has been making in the course of the past week on that issue. [More…]
I believe that it would assist in the management of this building. [More…]
In a new Parliament House I think it would be essential to place those functions under the control of one Public Service officer who would be directly responsible for advice to the Presiding Officers. [More…]
If that part of the administration would constitute a problem I do not think it would be beyond the wit of men to solve it. [More…]
It is usual for the Presiding Officers to be of a light political complexion and usually they are able to agree on matters affecting Parliament House where the interests of the two Houses are not directly involved. [More…]
That is not including the salaries and wages of the men on the field and the taxes that they have paid. [More…]
-The House will be aware that bans imposed by the Australian Builders Labourers Federation on major building projects in Victoria are costing thousands of jobs at a time when the unemployment rate is relatively high, and when jobs could otherwise be immediately available on projects involving some $500m worth of investment. [More…]
The Master Builders Association then sent out notices to the men concerned asking them to report for work this week. [More…]
I am informed that 40 men duly turned up at the site but were met by an organiser from the Builders Labourers Federation who informed them that no work was to take place. [More…]
I am informed further that the men who had turned up thereupon held another ballot amongst themselves, the result of that ballot being that they would resume work, as I understand it, tomorrow. [More…]
He is seeking to set up straw men so he can easily demolish them and hopefully, he believes, distract the people’s attention from the key issue in the political scene at the momenteconomic management or the abject and unchallengable failure of the Government to handle the economy. [More…]
This type of evidence further underlies the folly of the present Government’s attempts to reduce the real level of public sector activity. [More…]
In fact, we can learn from views expressed at the recent International Monetary Fund conference in Washington and from the changed attitudes of the governments of Prime Minister Fukuda of Japan and also Chancellor Schmidt of West Germany, to mention two countries. [More…]
I point out that there is great merit at a time of stagflation, such as at the present time, in adopting the Australian Labor Party’s alternative short term economic policy of moderate, stimulatory public spending to help the economy return to health, provided that spending is in areas where there are underemployed resources of men and material. [More…]
As I said at the outset, although this Bill is a link in the operations of the funding of government activities, it is merely a machinery measure. [More…]
I know there is a great feeling of shame on the Government benches about this matter but honourable members have absolved themselves by allowing me to say something now. [More…]
1 ) The present method of salary fixation for females in the Defence Force provides for equal pay where it has been established that men and women do perform equal work. [More…]
For example, equal increases are applied to men and women when national wage case increases are extended to the Defence Force. [More…]
-I am surprised that the honourable member has taken the attitude that he has taken in relation to the power workers dispute in Victoria in which about 2,000 men in the Latrobe Valley are holding an entire State to ransom. [More…]
1506 on equal pay for Service men and women appearing on page 1700 again is credited as having been asked by Mr Les Johnson. [More…]
In relation to suicide, there is a lot of evidence of increased suicide rates in Australia being related to unemployment, particularly amongst young people. [More…]
A report by the Mental Health Authority of Victoria, published in February this year, showed that attempted suicide had reached almost epidemic proportions in two Victorian centres surveyed. [More…]
In Ballarat one in every 40 of the unemployed men and women attempted suicide during each of the two years of the survey, whilst in Dandenong the proportion was one in 80. [More…]
I put it to honourable members that the economic policies that were adopted during that time were almost calculated policies which certainly resulted in substantial unemployment during that period. [More…]
Quite apart from the economic damage caused by that decision and quite apart from the wholesale assault on those industries, what concerns me far more than all of them is the indifference that was shown on that occasion to the individual men and women in those industries. [More…]
His attitude and the Government’s attitude were that these people could be bought off, that all that had to be done was to establish yet another government scheme, to give it a fancy name such as Structural Adjustment Assistance, to pour in millions of dollars if they could be found and to buy off those exemployees. [More…]
What a callous, indifferent and heartless attitude that was towards the ordinary men and women working in those industries whom the Labor Party continually pretends that it represents. [More…]
If one looks at clause 6 of the Bill one sees that the sort of personnel mentioned there would not dare to mention matters which I have mentioned. [More…]
One can envisage that our political assessment of the present situation in South Korea, where we have lost a number of men, would be that there is going to be rapid improvement and peace and democracy there. [More…]
But if we were to rely upon our Department of Foreign Affairs we would be told: ‘Yes, things are improving in that area’. [More…]
Honourable members on both sides are agreed that if the Joint Intelligence Organisation is not functioning correctly and if we are to establish a new intelligence assessment agency which is to command the respect and support desired by both major political parties in this country, it must attract first class personnel. [More…]
Equally important, of course, is the quality of the men and women appointed to the Office. [More…]
If we are serious about intelligence and security in this country, we ought to insist- the appropriation for that Office is voted by this Parliament- that the Director-General not be subject to any scrutiny by the Public Service Board. [More…]
Meanwhile, the three wise men who watch over the nation’s currency (the chief civil servant at the Treasury, the Governor of the Reserve Bank, and the head of the Prime Minister’s Department) are looking foolish as they make tiny upward and downward adjustments to the exchange rate . [More…]
I ask anyone who contemplates the promulgation or the decriminalisation of the distribution and smoking of marihuana to note this well: It was proved conclusively that the habitual smoking of marihuana produced deformity in reproduction and sterility in young men. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs is served by a group of 1,345 very dedicated men and women drawn from many departments. [More…]
The Department employs 2,200 locally engaged people in over 100 countries outside Australia [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 perhaps a sad thing for men like Curtin and Chifley in the Second World War, who also espoused the same philosophy and who had the courage to take the right and the difficult decisions, that their successors have so failed. [More…]
They demonstrated to this nation while in government their utter and complete contempt for the truth and for the rights of peoples whether Indonesians or Timorese. [More…]
I would like to quote for the benefit of the House the comment made by Dr H. V. Evatt in this chamber on 9 February 1949. [More…]
Previously I gave this House the impression that the integrity of these two gentlemen was in question. [More…]
I now want to be specific, deliberate and concise when I say that as far as I am able to ascertain personally they, with their staff and fellow directors, did not act improperly in respect of their financing methods and, in terms of recommendations from other people who have dealt with them, they are clearly honest men. [More…]
That must also be the view of the New South Wales Attorney-General because he has communicated nothing to me since 29 April 1977, which would put that assessment in doubt, notwithstanding that he had what amounted to an invitation so to do. [More…]
Therefore, regardless of what one feels about the issues in Victoria, the $3m which I suppose it would cost to meet what are probably the over-inflated claims at the present time of the SEC maintenance men would represent a very small proportion of the total cost of running the Commission. [More…]
Has his Government made a decision on whether young men and women who leave school this year and who genuinely seek work and cannot find it but who are not going on to higher education next year will be granted unemployment benefit during the period before schools resume next year? [More…]
The Senate was conceived as a House where men of experience could contribute to the national welfare without too rigid adherence to 1>arty lines. [More…]
1 served in a unit through which some 4,000 men passed in the six years of the Second World War. [More…]
I speak now of infantry men and associated branches of the Services, the people I know something about. [More…]
This Parliament set about to correct an imbalance; it certainly did not set about to deprive rural electors of some advantage. [More…]
Even the most staunch Labor men said that that was in order. [More…]
Yet these distribution commissioners, who set themselves up as gods, completely disregarded the guidelines set by this Parliament. [More…]
The Government’s response to the problem has been to slash expenditure, to throw at least 4,000 Aborigines out of work, and then to offer employment opportunities to approximately 500 Aboriginal men and women through its inadequate community development employment program. [More…]
It will erode Aboriginal societies through the sexual unions of white men and Aboriginal women which mining will bring to that region. [More…]
The Ranger inquiry concluded at page 233: … the rapid development of a European community within, or adjacent to, an Aboriginal traditional society has in the past always caused the breakdown of the traditional culture and the generation of intense social and psychological stresses . [More…]
When a Scab comes down the street honest men turn their backs, the angels weep tears in heaven, and the devil shuts the gates of hell to keep him out [More…]
He has tried to undermine men who are battling for the bread and butter of their wives and little ones. [More…]
Officers and men from all three Australian Services undertake specialised trade or career training in Great Britain at Service training establishments. [More…]
Approximately 90 Australian Army, and 30 New Zealand Army officers and men, are exchanged annually with their British Army counterparts in Exercise ‘Long Look’. [More…]
Appointments involved embrace many fields. [More…]
-Is the Prime Minister aware that Mr Dixon, the Victorian Minister for Social Welfare, has called on the Federal Government to pay unemployment benefits to men and women who have been stood down because of the power dispute and stated that any decision to abolish these payments would cost the Victorian Government $7.6m a week. [More…]
Is it also a fact that the Myers inquiry recommended that the Director-General of Social Security should be relieved of the responsibility for interpreting section 107 (c) ( 1) of the Social Services Act and that his discretion in classifying the terms ‘direct participant’ and ‘strike’ should be limited, not extended? [More…]
Can he assure the House that the Government will heed Mr Dixon’s plea or has he once again put his policy of ‘salvation through stagnation’ ahead of the welfare of the unemployed? [More…]
At the moment it is possible to increase spending on public housing without heating up the inflationary pressures in the building industry. [More…]
There is no stress or pressure on either men or material. [More…]
The men are available to work. [More…]
The fact is that no stimulus is being provided by the Government. [More…]
If one looks at the situation under the Labor Government, when there was a recession in the building industry, one will see that Labor stimulated the public sector in order to assist the home building sector. [More…]
The Indicative Planning Council, which is giving advice to the Government, represents the industry, the trade union movement and other sectors. [More…]
Until it is put to work, the level of unemployment will increase and further resources will be lost to it. [More…]
Having regard to the circumstances this evening and as I am the only member in the chamber this evening who was privileged and honoured to be a member of this House when the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) joined us- I was privileged to be a member of this House when his predecessor, Mr Holloway, was a member of the Nineteenth Parliament- I feel I should make some comments. [More…]
I feel that at least some of my colleagues on the back bench- the members of the front bench are singularly absent on this occasion- would like me to make some comment in reply to the expression by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports to the House a few moments ago. [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 refer to the responsibility which government has towards the homeless men and women of our community. [More…]
When the Homeless Persons Assistance Act was assented to in 1974 this organisation made an application to the Department of Social Security for the establishment of new premises in Brisbane. [More…]
Petty quibbling by bureaucrats in Canberra over issues such as whether double decker beds were more desirable than single beds, whether the amenities were too far away from the dormitories and whether single room accommodation was better than dormitory style accommodation, caused delays in the approval of this project for 12 months. [More…]
In such cases when there is already a chronic shortage of facilities for homeless men, such bureaucratic delays are unforgivable. [More…]
I do not think he is challenging the particular determination the subject of the legislation before the House because under the Constitution that can be fixed only by the Parliament- that is, the salaries of judges. [More…]
Insofar as the honourable member attempted to relate the argument to Public Service salaries, it is perhaps significant to point out that this is probably the first time that the salaries of Federal Court judges have been in a sense detached from Public Service salaries. [More…]
Quite obviously in order to attract men of the calibre of Sir Nigel Bowen, and others who have joined the court, it was necessary to offer salaries at the level that is fixed in this Bill. [More…]
For instance, at the time of his appointment he was a judge of the Supreme Court of New South Wales he was receiving a higher salary than in fact he received when he became a justice of the Federal Court. [More…]
After having run the campaign for the last month, it now decides that three men are sought for the Mackay killing. [More…]
Eye witnesses told police that three men were seen in the parking area in a 1 969 light green Holden sedan about 6. [More…]
At the time these men were described as ‘dark, of Italian or Aboriginal extraction’. [More…]
Detectives later identified the three men more positively as Indians who were thought to be fruit pickers. [More…]
It is true enough that other sections of the Australian community are affected- young school leavers, including migrant children; women, including migrant women. [More…]
I have indicated that school children or women probably are the first to be retrenched. [More…]
After all, they are only women. [More…]
But they are not the main breadwinners, so the women can afford to lose their jobs first. [More…]
But of the men, the major breadwinners in the family, the migrants are the least secure employees in the community. [More…]
Western world, it merely attests to the fact that the previous Government made it just that much harder for this country to recover at an early date. [More…]
If honourable members spoke to people who know about economic equations, about Budget deficits and balance of payments problems, they would realise that some of the difficulties that we faced at the end of 1975, and that we have not been able to solve overnight, were caused by a complete ignorance of the economic process and a complete disregard for the people, for the little men of Australia, who want only to work and achieve. [More…]
It is an exciting time for researchers and scientists, with the money that has been made available to them by the Government and the industry. [More…]
I believe- I agree with the honourable member for Fraser on this point- that we have the men capable of fully utilising these funds. [More…]
Praise must be given to our researchersdedicated men and women. [More…]
There is a need for this seed to be produced in Australia and exported as we need assistance in our balance of payments. [More…]
In this book, Dr Norman demonstrates that making better use of our resources of men, machines, material and money is the best and perhaps the only way to improvement of overall living standards. [More…]
If industries in Tasmania are not assisted, unfortunately men and women will be put out of work and will find it necessary to leave their homes. [More…]
The penalties of failure are high and real success comes only after years of unremitting hard work and effort, shrewd judgment and ingenuity and years of leaping boldly into the unknown and being able to overcome the problems when they occur. [More…]
It is time it was said plainly and openly that the swings and vacillations and frequent anti-industrial bias of governments and their advisers have done no more than possibly create an element of uncertainty in industry. [More…]
In talking to these estimates I want to concentrate particularly on those for the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, which is the Department under which the appropriation for the Industries Assistance Commission is made. [More…]
But it is a body of professional men of integrity who I believe are not commended enough in this chamber. [More…]
The way in which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) frequently, before select audiences, bashes the IAC for the decisions that his Government has to make is disgraceful. [More…]
It bears repeating, and it cannot be said too often, that the Industries Assistance Commission merely makes recommendations on protection and that it is for the Government to make decisions on those recommendations. [More…]
When honourable members opposite seek to talk about the employment consequences of the Government’s decisions on tariffs, they ought to bear in mind that the Government has to assume responsibility and that the Industries Assistance Commission merely sets out recommendations. [More…]
If honourable members opposite have any doubts about those recommendations, the Parliament is the place to raise them. [More…]
If those men have looked at the figures and have not put them forward, it is a matter of shame to them and a matter showing intellectual incompetence. [More…]
I am sorry that with filial piety the honourable member for Grayndler has followed his father, the Leader of the Opposition, the honourable member for Werriwa (Mr E. G. Whitlam), who is responsible in large part for the adultation which is being paid to the Industries Assistance Commission and its inadequate treatment of this whole situation. [More…]
It is the present Liberal-National Country Party Government which has caused a diminution of the industrial strife that so destroyed our country in previous times. [More…]
Now it is the men in the key positions, those who can turn the key and create the greatest possible disruption of the country. [More…]
It is to be regretted that in Mackay recently the Leader of the Opposition (Mr E. G. Whitiam) released a statement on the FraserAnthony Government’s intention concerning nitrogenous fertilisers. [More…]
The statement of the Leader of the Opposition was completely inaccurate. [More…]
There can be none other than that desperate men do desperate things. [More…]
It is appropriate to remind the sugar growers of the electorates of Dawson, Leichhardt, Herbert, Capricornia and Wide Bay and the workers in the fertiliser distribution works in those electorates that the Hayden Budget of 1975-inciden- tally, that was the Budget which resulted in a deficit $2,000m greater than Hayden planned- did not provide for the subsidy payment on the use of nitrogen fertilisers after the expiry of. [More…]
The collective bloody salary of these men who made the decision would be what . [More…]
The phrase ‘pack of bastards’ was replaced by the word ‘men . [More…]
If that is not a statement which urges the Full Bench of the Commission to give in to outright industrial blackmail, I do not know what is such a statement. [More…]
This stands in marked contrast with statements made by Mr Ken Stone, the Secretary of the Victorian Trades Hall Council, who said last night that he thought the men should have returned to work. [More…]
The 2,300 men involved have been badly misled and the great hardship suffered by them and their families should never have happened. [More…]
It is all very well for members of this Parliament who recently voted themselves a $60 a week increase and it is all very well forjudges of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission who have been awarded an $80 a week increase- not an $80 a week increase on top of $180 a week, but an $80 a week increase on top of $800 a week- to sit in judgment on these workers. [More…]
I agree entirely with Bob Hawke that these men have a case. [More…]
This Government knows that they have a case, but it is deliberately conniving with the Commission. [More…]
I say ‘deliberately’ because the Government has been in touch with the Commission, and I know it. [More…]
I am not telling you how I know it, but I know that this Government has been conniving with the Commission to refuse to give these men the just increase to which they are entitled because it wants to bring about sufficient chaos in industry to cause people to believe that the real culprits are the men who are merely asking for an increase in wages commensurate with the value of the work that they are doing. [More…]
These men are getting $20 a week less than average weekly earnings. [More…]
These men have to work out in the heat, the noise, the dirt, the smoke and the fumes of the industry in which they are doing 40 hours a week for $40 a week less. [More…]
Members opposite are nothing more nor less than a pack of hypocrites, sitting there on their $60 a week increase that they gave themselves only a little while ago, saying that these men are not entitled to a miserable $40 a week increase. [More…]
After listening to the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) I want to say that some men can be their own worst enemy while others can be the bitterest enemy of their friends. [More…]
I believe that his friends in the Opposition ranks ought to be ashamed of the type of argument that he proposed. [More…]
That this House, viewing with grave concern the recent report of the correspondent of Paris Match, Denis Reichle, that at least 70,000 East Timorese have been killed by Indonesian occupying forces, and his further report that 30,000 Indonesian troops are continuing actions which involve further deaths of great numbers of men, women and children; and bearing in mind that the United Nations does not acknowledge Indonesian possession of East Timor and that the question is not an internal one for Indonesia, requests the Government: [More…]
Under section 143 (2) (a) as amended, sectional deregistration would enable the Government to deregister the employees who are on strike at the SEC in Victoria. [More…]
Hopefully it will get the men back to work soon and there will be a settlement of this dispute. [More…]
But on the very same day as this process begins, this Government brings on for debate in this House legislation which proposes the possibility of deregistering the SEC workers? [More…]
If the Government does deregister them, that will be the end of the arbitration proceedings. [More…]
Does the Government think that is going to solve anything? [More…]
I think the Government is really having itself on if it believes that that action would in any way assist in the resolution of that kind of dispute. [More…]
It would more than likely ensure that the strikers just stuck it out until their claim was settled through direct bargaining with the Victorian Government. [More…]
It may well be that the Essential Services Act in Victoria, which involves provisions for ordering workers back to work, cannot be implemented while Federal law applies. [More…]
If that is the case, if the Government is passing this legislation in a hurry to bring about selective deregistration of the SEC workers so that Mr Hamer can apply the Essential Services Act to the SEC workers, I still say it is not going to bring about any sort of a solution to the dispute in the Latrobe Valley. [More…]
It will simply mean that the Victorian Government, under the Essential Services Act, will be able to order the men back to work. [More…]
But the Government sees him as some sort of whipping boy. [More…]
If a person like that who has much more a chance of getting the backing of the men, than the Minister or anyone in the Government, is suspended, you are suspending someone who may bring about a resolution of the dispute. [More…]
Nobody can assert that these kev men, doing work that nobody but trained, skilled operatives can do, should be required to work for $40 a week less than a class 4 clerk employed by the Commonwealth Public Service who sits in an air conditioned office, working for 36% hours a week, enjoying all the frills and benefits that go with being employed by the Public Service. [More…]
The men have justice on their side. [More…]
I hope that the men will not be deceived or betrayed into agreeing to a settlement that will cause them to lose their present advantage and to lose the justice of their claim. [More…]
If the Government proposes to send troops into the Latrobe Valley, as is now being talked about, or to send in scabs, there will be an immediate stoppage of all power production because members of the Municipal Officers Association have announced already that they will not work side by side with scabs and members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association most certainly would refuse to work side by side with scabs or troops. [More…]
If the Government of Victoria wants the Victorian people to forget about its own land scandals. [More…]
To do this it will ask the Fraser Government to send in the troops and it will send in the scabs. [More…]
They know the Government’s weakness and the Government ought to know their strength because the strength they possess is enough to win the strike for them. [More…]
Because they can win and will win, the Government ought to face the realities of the situation and be prepared to talk to them in a commonsense manner. [More…]
Since we are talking about communist union bureaucrats it is perhaps appropriate to mention that when John Halfpenny went down to the Latrobe Valley to try to persuade the men to go back they howled and hissed and jeered rum out of the meeting. [More…]
The maintenance men in the Latrobe Valley have justice on their side and they should not surrender until they win. [More…]
To give up the fight now would allow the Hamer Government to snatch victory from the very jaws of defeat. [More…]
While the Government says that these useful men who are doing something for the community are not entitled to $40 a week it gives the equivalent of a $400 a week taxable income to some person like the Governor-General who has no useful purpose at all. [More…]
The Labor Party is making no mention of the wages that are being lost due to the effects of this strike. [More…]
Nothing is being said about all of the ancilliary effects- the misery, hardship and difficulty- imposed because of the utter intransigence of a small group of men. [More…]
There has never been a situation as bad as this since we have been in government. [More…]
The Minister would be the last person one would expect to appreciate the scope and range of this instrument for blood letting, such is his history of understanding the consequences of his actions, or rather actions forced upon him by the Kublai Khan of the industrial world, the Prime Minister. [More…]
With respect to the parliamentary draftsmen and the departmental advisers, I am convinced that bland as they may be, their private reflections must bring trepidation to them. [More…]
One could easily be accused of incitement simply by telling a self-evident truth. [More…]
The working men and women and their organisations- organised labour- will not blithely accept this latest assault upon their very existence. [More…]
It is not provocative to say that with this great arsenal of anti-union legislation already available to it, the Government has seen fit not to use any of it yet. [More…]
No legislation will prevent men and women from organising themselves for survival. [More…]
But the only thing this Government ever learnt from history is that it never does learn from history. [More…]
The 2,300 men involved have been badly misled and the great hardship suffered by them and their families should never have happened. [More…]
I believe this is an incredibly cynical use of this Parliament. [More…]
It is a cynical use of the hundreds of thousands of decent people in the trade union movement. [More…]
I ask members of the Liberal Party and members of the National Country Party to consider this point: Thousands of men and women- I mention the women because the men have to be backed by their women- do not go out on strike for nine weeks over an issue in which there is no justice. [More…]
There are decent men in the Trades Hall Council in Victoria and the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions already negotiating. [More…]
I believe the only solution to this dispute will be found in the discussions which are now taking place between those people, the State Electricity Commission and the Victorian Government. [More…]
The men in the Latrobe Valley have been disadvantaged- and this has been pointed out by other speakers on this side of the Housebecause there are too many unions in that area. [More…]
An impediment to the long term solution of disputes of this type is the number of unions in the country. [More…]
I join with my colleagues in expressing disappointment and revulsion at the indecent haste in which this legislation has been introduced into this House. [More…]
As the honourable member for Hotham (Mr Chipp) indicated- and this is realised by many people- the Government’s action has been exposed as a cheap political gimmick which puts at risk the future of thousands of men, women and children not only in the Latrobe Valley but also throughout Victoria because of the spin-off effects that the dispute is having in other industries. [More…]
This program had the immediate effect of some 900 men being induced to leave their employment. [More…]
The total industry work force has declined since 1966 from 21,000 men to a position where today there are slightly more than 10,000 waterside workers. [More…]
The cost of removing men from the industry has not been light. [More…]
I can only say that the witnesses who came before the Committee were very eminent men. [More…]
I would rather hear the Minister’s reasons for not being able to come into this House with firm propositions tonight than hear him repeat the recommendations of the Committee which were terribly vague. [More…]
The Committee is not the Government. [More…]
The Committee hears evidence, deliberates and makes recommendations to the [More…]
The resolution of the lunchtime stop work meetingalthough it was scarcely a stop work meeting if it was held in the men’s own time- was that they should not return to work until that employee was reinstated. [More…]
But it is even more unreasonable that the Department of Social Security should have refused to provide unemployment benefit for those stood down workers. [More…]
I do, in an article which appeared in this week’s National Times dated 24-29 October 1977 under the heading ‘The Men Who Live in Fear of an Early Election’. [More…]
Several remarks attributed to me in the article misrepresent the comments which I made to the author. [More…]
The final misrepresentation of course was the heading of the article which stated ‘The Men Who Live in Fear of an Early Election’. [More…]
We have seen the abuse of union power abetted by the Labor Party, and we have seen the Government’s continuing success on the economic front which makes me well prepared for any election. [More…]
His crime is that he and his colleagues dared to oppose the two men chiefly responsible for the shameful neglect of AWU members in the three States I have mentioned. [More…]
Hundreds of votes are coming in every week and now that these men have succeeded in expelling Oliver the word will go out that it is no use voting for Oliver because he has been expelled. [More…]
The men who have been out of work recently in the Latrobe Valley returned to work today. [More…]
It is clear from the action of the Prime Minister of this country and of Government supporters - [More…]
Returning to the estimates under discussion, I should like to comment on the matter the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) raised. [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…]
The Department of Employment and Industrial Relations was created as a supportive service. [More…]
Many years ago men who were interested in the social implications of unemployment went into that Department. [More…]
They were men who were dedicated to doing something for people who were unemployed and who could not get work. [More…]
Under the present Government, that Department has developed into a policing department. [More…]
To come back to the shipbuilding industry in Newcastle, we will recall that in the latter part of that year the Minister said that special action would be taken by his Department in collaboration with other departments to provide services in the Newcastle district particularly to assist some of the 5,000 people who would become unemployed as a result of the devastation of the shipbuilding industry caused by this Government. [More…]
This Government did nothing to help these people. [More…]
These two men were charged with the offence of aiding and espousing the cause of a proscribed organisation, to wit the National Civic Council. [More…]
What concerns me is the obvious Government intrusion into the industry which is continually on the verge of industrial action brought about by unnecessary, provocative action. [More…]
The Government decided to take the preliminary steps of bringing in improvements and of expanding and modernising the telecommunications system. [More…]
But what concerns me is that the men in the industry have imposed work bans and limitations because they cannot reach understanding with the Minister or the Australian Telecommunications Commission. [More…]
I am not blaming the Commission because I think it is deliberate Government action, as we saw in the case of the State Electricity Commission workers strike in Victoria in which that State was brought to the point of collapse because this Government wanted an election on the issue of industrial problems. [More…]
I was saying that the Opposition is concerned about the industrial problems that exist today in the Minister’s Department which have been brought about and provoked because the Government desires to have an election on the issue of industrial problems throughout the country. [More…]
But we ask the Minister at least to ensure that there is enough sense and enough reason in the system so that men will not be afraid of losing their jobs. [More…]
Men are afraid of where they will finish up as a result of modernisation. [More…]
That city has one of the highest levels of unemployment, and that has been caused by this Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]
The Government should reach some basis of understanding with these people, because once again their concern is for the security of their position and their future. [More…]
So we look to the Government to do something in these three areas to bring about development with industrial peace and harmony, not the trouble caused by the Minister, in response to provocative questions directed to him, giving provocative answers which stirs the men up rather than settling them down. [More…]
This action has been taken deliberately to cause trouble in the trade union movement. [More…]
We have therefore to rely on machines rather than on men. [More…]
If all of our ambitions of exploitation and control of the 200-mile zone are to be fulfilled, we will need a range of equipment suitable for the extremities of the tropics and Antarctica. [More…]
Presently we have no substantial equipment capable of serious work in the Antarctic. [More…]
It is essential that we do all we can for those Service men and women and their backups in defence science and all the other ancillary departments which are necessary to keep our forces in the field. [More…]
We must give them encouragement, we must increase their morale and we must keep them in the Services. [More…]
I think it is a very ex-military record, but I have halted a thousand men on parade with the band playing, so the Minister is not going to talk me down. [More…]
I wish to raise for the umpteenth time since I entered this Parliament the question of the citizen forces, now called the reserve forces. [More…]
We are in a new environment. [More…]
We now have a highly skilled community in which enormous talents are lying around unused in the spare time of the young men and the young women of Australia. [More…]
I believe honourable members have to go no further than across the waters of Lake Burley Griffin to the defence headquarters to see how few of the men are in uniform. [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…]
-In speaking to the estimates for the Attorney-General’s Department, may I say that it is sometimes alleged that laws fawn upon the rich and spurn the poor. [More…]
Regrettably, rarely, if ever, do rich men go to gaol. [More…]
What greater proof of this is there than in our present laws relating to corporate crime and the treatment of what is termed white collar crime. [More…]
In many cases, corporate criminals tend to be the most respectable and powerful men in the community. [More…]
Firstly, corporate criminals are sophisticated and deliberative businessmen who engage in crime only after carefully calculating the benefits and the costs. [More…]
If the quota for the electorates in a State is 60,000, if there was a 20 per cent margin, as there used to be until the Joint Sitting of this Parliament brought it down to 10 per cent, there could be at the outset of a distribution some electorates with 72,000 electors and others with 48,000 electors. [More…]
The two Country Party members of that Committee, Mr Dnimmond and Mr Hamilton, supported that recommendation. [More…]
Twenty years ago decent Country Party men said that a 10 per cent margin was all that was needed. [More…]
From the report which we are debating, it would appear that the enrolment in Kalgoorlie is the smallest of any division in Western [More…]
Because of the actions of three men, namely the Distribution Commissioners for Queensland, [More…]
As the honourable member for Lilley said, we should never again allow the third Commissioner, who is a government appointee, to be a public servant because pubhc servants, like everybody else, have a great deal of interest in their own careers and opportunities for promotion. [More…]
Never again, if I have my way, will a bunch of anonymous men- three of them- sitting in their soft chairs behind closed doors be able to treat the people with the contempt that has been displayed, principally by the Chairman of Commissioners in Queensland, Mr Coleman, to those hundreds of people in those two subdivisions who reacted in a spontaneous way and wrote in protesting at what the Commissioners were doing. [More…]
In fact, they are different from those of all members of the Opposition and, in most cases, supporters of the Government. [More…]
To put it bluntly, if we give a group of men a stupid task we must expect a stupid answer. [More…]
The arguments tonight have been put forward by those who see political variations in the boundaries drawn by the commissioners. [More…]
My own view is that we should amend the Constitution in some way or other. [More…]
I have canvassed all the members of this Parliament several times. [More…]
I know that a lot of people in this Parliament are on my side about the matter but nothing happens. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina talked about people coming here and being independent, individuals, their own men. [More…]
Ever since this recent distribution was announced and it was realised that they were going to lose seats, National Country Party members nave been weeping away silently in the corners of Parliament and everywhere else about it, but they have fronted up here today behind the Liberal Party because they are just plain satellites. [More…]
If they were dinkum parliamentarians they would have stood up long ago and taken steps to change this situation. [More…]
They have turned this institution into his private parliament. [More…]
May I recall just two statements made not by conservative politicians but by well known British unionists. [More…]
First, the General Secretary of the Electronics Union in Britain, in supporting the development of Britain’s nuclear energy industry last month, said that death from starvation, cold and wars of conquest would be the fate of the world if energy supplies ran out. [More…]
Quite frankly, the perspective of men like these, men who need no lectures from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition on Labor principles, is light years away from that of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition who tries to reduce uranium merely to an election issue. [More…]
Those men are unlikely to be impressed by his rantings. [More…]
Let us look abroad, to the latest figures which are emerging from the various major countries from which we have drawn a very considerable inflow of foreign funds for investment purposes in the earlier years in which we were in government, and which are now returning. [More…]
The latest United States Commerce Department survey of expected capital expenditure by United States affiliates in Australia points to an increase of about SO per cent in 1978 in the mining sector. [More…]
This is a clear sign of the increasing confidence being shown by overseas investors in the policies of the present Government. [More…]
Construction has already commenced on the $256m Norwich Park coking coal project which will involve additional employment opportunities for 1,000 men during the construction period. [More…]
In addition, the impending commencement of $300m worth of petroleum exploration operations at the Exmouth plateau has now been announced. [More…]
The Homeless Persons Assistance Act was introduced in December 1974 on the basis of a report by a Working Party on Homeless Men and Women, which recommended, amongst other things, that capital grants totalling up to 35m per year should be made available over a three-year period to voluntary agencies and local and statutory authorities for approved projects, such as night shelters, reception and assessment centres, hostels, flats, day centres, special clinics and detoxification units, in order to upgrade and replace existing inadequate accommodation and to build new facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [More…]
The dissatisfaction of all parties with the existing arrangements stems from a number of factors. [More…]
Since the introduction of permanent employment of waterside workers in 1967 it has not been possible to retrench them in the normal way, but there has nevertheless been an incredible drop in their numbers from 2 1 ,000 in 1 966 to just over 10,000 now- a drop of over 50 per cent in 1 1 years, a quite remarkable reduction. [More…]
The fact that their numbers are still somewhat excessive despite this amazing decline results from the dramatic and continuing move away from conventional labour intensive cargo handling to capital intensive containerisation, and also from the recruitment of labour in 1974 when imports were at record levels. [More…]
Some 1200 men were recruited, principally in Sydney and Melbourne, at that time and the subsequent substantial drop in trade resulted in a surplus of labour. [More…]
Although the various inquiries have recorded much employer, customer and government concern at the high cost of reducing the number of waterside workers by financial inducements, I think it must be remembered that the dramatic move to containerisation has taken place without union opposition and that considerable benefits have thereby been achieved as compared with what would surely have happened had containerisation been simply imposed on the waterfront and large scale retrenchments implemented. [More…]
The first step in the industry being restructured by the Government was to ask Mr Justice Robinson of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission to bring the parties in the industry together in conference to consider ways of overcoming the problem of surplus labour. [More…]
Mention has already been made of the great success achieved in bringing the work force of the industry down from 21,000 men in 1966 to a position where there are now slightly more than 10,000 waterside workers, which represents quite a remarkable reduction. [More…]
-The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) said in his second reading speech that the total work force in the stevedoring industrythat is the waterside workers- had fallen from some 21,000 men in 1966 to just over 10,000 today. [More…]
The reason is that mechanisation and improved cargo handling facilities such as bulk sugar installations in Queensland, the containerisation of cargo and the advent of roll-on roll-off shipping have improved tonnage rates, have increased profits and have made large numbers of men redundant to the industry. [More…]
For the men who work the snips it has meant a very hard struggle to obtain improvements to their wages and working conditions or to achieve ameliorative measures to alleviate the need for fewer workers in the industry. [More…]
The 1930s was the time of the infamous bull system in which at the major ports men would go to the wharves every morning or every evening in the hope of obtaining work. [More…]
They did not enjoy a long service leave entitlement. [More…]
Large numbers of men had become redundant. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation at that time commenced a struggle for an industry pension, for two reasons. [More…]
The first was to give common justice to men who had worked a lifetime in the industry. [More…]
The second reason for the struggle in 1965 was to ease those older men out of the industry, to overcome the redundancy situation. [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…]
Permanency, as it was then known, set up a system under which men were placed in operational companies. [More…]
Its activities and attitudes have been all that those of a government instrumentality ought not to have been. [More…]
The main role of the ASIA over the years was to attack the workers on whom the industry depended, the men who actually worked the ships. [More…]
Obviously, after the Government abolishes the Authority and the SEAL labour pool, the National Conference proposes to allocate workers from the labour pools to private operational companies, with the exception of the ports of Kembla and Newcastle, where I understand that the pools will continue. [More…]
I wish to expand on them in a moment. [More…]
There will be supplementary labour pools. [More…]
I note that the Minister did not say that these supplementary labour lists would be made up of exwaterside workers, men who are now on the B register or men who may retire in the future. [More…]
Certainly, it is my personal opinion that the workers in the maritime industry will never accept pools of supplementary casual labour that are not made up from this source. [More…]
They include responsibility for recruitment arrangements agreed by the federal co-ordinating committee, registers of authorised waterside workers and matters associated with removal of men from registers, redundancy or early retirement arrangements agreed in the federal co-ordinating committee, and local matters associated with the supplementary labour force. [More…]
Let me give another example of what I regard as duplicity on the part of the Government. [More…]
The euphemisms which the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations used in his speech to explain how these amazing, painless redundancies took place on the Australian waterfront do not make clear how they really did take place. [More…]
They occurred because all men over 60 years of age in the ports concerned on the Australian waterfront were offered a retirement allowance of 70 per cent of what they would have earned if they had stayed in the industry until they were 65 years of age. [More…]
Why does this Government not extend similar generosity to other underpaid workers? [More…]
The Government has attacked the workers of the Latrobe Valley while it has offered generosity to waterside workers. [More…]
Why does the Government not offer similar generosity to other workers whose jobs are at stake in industries where men are becoming redundant? [More…]
I understand the Government is even legislating now to deny the unemployment benefit to the youngsters who will leave school this year. [More…]
It is a pity they could not be afforded the same generosity that was extended to the men in the stevedoring industry. [More…]
However, it is my opinion that some future Federal Labor government will very likely still find it necessary to place this highly volatile stevedoring industry under public administration and ownership to achieve the best results for Australia and the men who work the wharves. [More…]
But the main problem that was introduced by the Woodward inquiry was the provision of permanent employment. [More…]
What that really meant- I do not think the honourable member for Cunningham really spelt out the significance of that recommendationwas that a waterside worker could not be dismissed from his employment. [More…]
What happened over a period since 1967-68 when those recommendations took effect was that, through mechanisation on the waterfront and through the impact of roll-on roll-off ferries the demand for physical labour by the waterside workers simply became less. [More…]
The waterside workers grew older but there was no way in which those people could be removed from their positions on the waterfront, and that meant that we had an aging group of waterside workers who could leave the industry only by voluntary retirement. [More…]
They could not be removed from the industry by any mechanism other than voluntary retirement. [More…]
The net effect of that recommendation over a period was that we had a build-up in numbers of waterside workers who were surplus to the numbers required at ports throughout Australia, to the extent that in recent months some 1,200 men who simply did not have a job were still being paid by the Australian people. [More…]
The present temporary arrangements- temporary being now of many years’ duration- have placed enormous financial demands on Australian exporters. [More…]
We find that 1,800 men out of 11,600 workers in all ports are surplus to the labour requirements and all these men have been paid for doing absolutely nothing. [More…]
It is the fervent wish of many of us that the parallel industrial relations legislation- I refer to the Industrial Relations Bureau- will smash waterside workers union bans on such things as wheat shipments to Chile and Indonesia, livestock exports and uranium exports. [More…]
Finally, I thank most sincerely the officers of my Department who worked almost without pause since the Northrop report was received to help with and encourage the major changes in the stevedoring industry that are now put forward. [More…]
The Government, the Parliament and the industry owe much to three men in particular- Mr Fogarty, Mr Maher and Mr Bekema who between them have carried a great load for many months. [More…]
The industry now has a tremendous opportunity to prove that it is worthy of the responsibility that it has been given. [More…]
As I indicated earlier, the Government will be watching very closely developments in this industry in the coming months. [More…]
The Australian people can judge him by the company he keeps, by the men who advised him on industrial policy. [More…]
The real significance of unemployment, Fraser style, is not just the level of unemployment, bad as that is. [More…]
This Government has created unemployment that is not only different in degree from anything in modern experience but also different in its nature from anything that has gone before. [More…]
These three things have to be emphasised: Firstly, the new unemployment cuts across classes and regions. [More…]
Next year there will be thousands of highly qualified, well educated young men and women who will not be able to get jobs or who will have to settle for a job far below their level of competence. [More…]
Secondly, unemployment is rising in Australia far above the rate of our trading partners and comparable member nations of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. [More…]
No longer is unemployment in Australia part of a world-wide pattern as it was in 1974 and 1975. [More…]
This is an Australian phenomenon; the genuine article made in Australia; the Fraser disease; the Mai Fraser. [More…]
Thirdly, and most importantly, this unemployment has been deliberately created as an express, explicit matter of Government policy. [More…]
As to the national sewerage program, 65 local and semi-government authorities were participating in the national sewerage program when it was cancelled in this year’s Budget. [More…]
They were employing thousands of men. [More…]
They were using millions of dollars of cement and steel produced by the private sector. [More…]
As to water resources, completion of water projects commenced but not completed under Labor’s national water resources program would stimulate the production of construction materials and reduce unemployment in northern Queensland and central Queensland. [More…]
As to hospital development, a commitment to restoring the 60 per cent reduction in this year’s Budget in the real expenditure on hospitals and community health centres for which the priorities had been jointly agreed with all six State governments would also aid the flagging construction industry, reduce unemployment and, incidentally, ensure equality of access to health services. [More…]
The Australian people know about it and they will remember because the unemployed in this country were put in that situation by those new, stupid policies of the Labor Government- new medical schemes, a new free medical scheme, new ways for the Australian people to get better treatment and new ways to send people bankrupt. [More…]
That is the sort of situation that we have had to try to correct by sound, stable government policies which are a change after those three years of disaster in this country. [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…]
There is no stable alternative to the Liberal-National Country Party Government. [More…]
The Opposition talks about deliberate creation of unemployment. [More…]
Fancy saying that our Government is deliberately creating unemployment. [More…]
I suppose this is some scheme for the purpose of catching votes by trying to put forward the idea that we are interested in deliberately creating unemployment, so that people will have their noses kept to the grindstone and kept in fear of retrenchment. [More…]
Let us look at what happened during 23 years of government in Australia by this coalition. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has just admitted that an additional 200,000 people were thrown out of work in the time of his Government. [More…]
Who is talking about deliberate creation of unemployment? [More…]
Those men want to create unemployment and, ultimately, to create a revolution. [More…]
Who are the people who have been game to stand up in this Parliament and deplore the industrial activity that has been going on in Victoria, Queensland and Western Australia in recent months? [More…]
In the light of the nature of the role of the Grants Commission it is clear, in spite of claims to the contrary by the Queensland State Government, that the ability of that Government to improve the standards of public services falls considerably short of what other States are able to provide. [More…]
What I am really moving towards saying very simply is this: At the Government level Queensland is poorly administered. [More…]
It is administered by an uninspired group of men of indifferent quality. [More…]
Almost exclusively the fruit of administration there is the product of hard, creative and enterprising work by able men. [More…]
I am a Queenslander and I am disappointed that our State is so poorly administered by the State Government. [More…]
I suppose he measures the degree of happiness by the success with which the Queensland Government can rig its boundaries. [More…]
The important point I want to stress here is that if Queensland was administered by a group of men as able, as inspired and as enterprising as the men who administer the public affairs of South Australia, Queensland with the resources available to it would have the best standard of public services of any State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
When I say ‘public services’ I am talking about the faculties that governments provide. [More…]
-I shall move on to that matter in just a moment. [More…]
I wonder whether the honourable member for Oxley has talked to the men and women in those townships, the labourers and the plant operators, as I have done. [More…]
He ought to go and talk to the management again because I can assure him that it is contented as well. [More…]
The Utah Development Corporation has achieved much for Queensland. [More…]
Indeed, if we examine its annual report to which I referred earlier we find that about 60 per cent of earnings went in tax to governments. [More…]
The estimate for this year is that S3 per cent of earnings will go to governments and 47 per cent will go to shareholders. [More…]
What the honourable member for Oxley failed to tell the House yesterday was that there are total assets of the order of $500m invested there, with the Utah Development Corporation having invested about $43 Sm. [More…]
About $ 1 4m was paid to Australian shareholders and $1 17m was repatriated with the approval of the Foreign Investment Review Board. [More…]
I should like him to go to the central coal fields and talk to the men and women there who receive wonderful support from this company. [More…]
It has provided every facility for the men who work on the site. [More…]
It has provided an Olympic standard swimming pool, houses and every modern facility for the men who work for it. [More…]
The criticism by members of this House of this splendid company, which is developing Australia and which is providing employment for thousands of people, absolutely amazes those of us who had the good fortune to see the operations of the company. [More…]
Greater encouragement and inspiration should be given to those ISO miners and to the Miners Federation. [More…]
The Federation was able to keep the 150 men employed. [More…]
They would have been thrown out on to social service payments. [More…]
If it is too late now I hope that at some later date this colliery which has kept 1 50 men off the dole in Grafton Will, with the concurrence of every honourable member in the Parliament be exempt from the 5c a tonne levy because of what the men and the Miners Federation have achieved. [More…]
I would like to mention only one other matter. [More…]
The report pointed out that employment would be reduced in those industries as follows: Women’s and girls’ blouses and frocks, 8 per cent; women’s and girls’ outer wear, 7.6 per cent; hosiery, 6.9 per cent; household textiles, 5.9 per cent; textile floor coverings, 4.6 per cent; men’s trousers and work clothing, 8.1 per cent; men’s suits, coats and waterproof clothing, 9.6 per cent; and underwear, nightwear, shirts, 7.7 per cent. [More…]
It goes on to mention footwear and other elements of textiles. [More…]
In spite of having that report and the advice that employment in those industries would be reduced, the Government acted on the report three days after it was received. [More…]
I wonder whether all members of the Cabinet of the day had the report and were allowed to see it, or whether the then Prime Minister kept that advice to himself so that his colleagues would not see it and would not know what was going to happen to employment. [More…]
-The Opposition supports the Homeless Persons Assistance Amendment Bill. [More…]
The Homeless Persons Assistance Bill was introduced in November 1974 by the then Minister for Social Security, Bill Hayden, on the basis of a report of a working party on homeless men and women. [More…]
The report recommended, amongst other things, that capital grants should be made available over a three-year period to voluntary agencies and local and statutory authorities for approved projects such as night shelters, reception and assistance centres, hostels, flats, day centres, special clinics and detoxification units in order to upgrade and replace existing inadequate accommodation and to build new facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [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…]
The one I am now quoting is the sort of document that average men and women read, and I think it is very important. [More…]
From my own observations, one of the most disadvantaged groups in the community are the fathers, the men who have lost their wives, the supporter or other parent of their children. [More…]
No matter what level of income they have or what status of employment they enjoy, it is tremendous hardship and a great blow. [More…]
To those who will be leaving us as soon as the election is declared, I say that even if they feel that their contribution to the Parliament has all been very minimal, it has been for the nation, and that is a much bigger contribution than painting the back fence of the kindergarten on Saturday afternoon in a working bee. [More…]
The most serious indictment relates to the position of women enrolling in the teacher training area. [More…]
The report makes the point that in normal enrolments women represent an equal percentage with men. [More…]
But in teacher education we find that 68 per cent of enrolments are women. [More…]
Because of the reduction in the funds available the report states that the Advanced Education Council is aware that if the existing structure of advanced education is maintained a general reduction in pre-service teacher education enrolments must significantly affect the participation of women. [More…]
Again that is an indictment. [More…]
There is a further indictment in relation to the guidelines. [More…]
He has identified the complaint about employees of the field teams under the trachoma survey in Queensland as having come from the Premier, the Premier’s Department and the State Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement. [More…]
I also ask the Minister whether he has noted the remarks of Professor Hollows, quoted in today’s Age, to the effect that ‘they are the best two field workers we have ever had’; that they ‘have been too busy working their arses off to help save sight to have time to get into politics’ and ‘that the team could not function efficiently without the two men’. [More…]
We are told that, under the guise of creating a regime of equal opportunity, several amendments have been made to the principal Act to place the ANL on a similar footing to private shipping companies. [More…]
I think it means all things to all men. [More…]
A minor amendment is being made to the principal Act to enable the General Manager of the Commission to also be a commissioner. [More…]
I think that simply tidies up an arrangement for Mr Reg Robin who is presently in that position. [More…]
We should be identifying those areas, identifying the kinds of vessels that could be used, and men going on to determine the manner in which those vessels could be purchased and the method by which they could be manned. [More…]
Manning scales is the argument that is put up over and over again by the Minister for Transport- he is not present at the table but he ought to be present- and his party. [More…]
Thirdly, Australia has at the present moment unused resources of labour and materials which could be used now to provide the economies in fuel for the future. [More…]
In other words, what we are doing now in failing to use our resources of men and materials- these years of the locust can never be recovered- does prevent us in the future redressing our balance on current account difficulties through the costs of importing liquid fuels and the difficulties of buying oil abroad. [More…]
I was interested to hear the comments of the honourable member for Shortland regarding the major airport needs of Sydney study at Sydney (Kingsford-Smith) Airport. [More…]
Kingsford-Smith Airport is probably the greatest headache besetting Australia at the moment. [More…]
Many members of Parliament do not speak to the men who really know the true position. [More…]
The Jondaryan area will be represented in the next Parliament by my good friend, the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett). [More…]
The Jondaryan woolshed is a great monument to the ability of the men of last century to erect a building which in effect can withstand the exigencies of time. [More…]
The honourable member came into this Parliament from the shearing sheds and shared my infectious enthusiasm for having a fitting memorial to the industry in aU spheres, from the bottom up. [More…]
May I therefore support the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in his tributes to those many hundreds of men and women- up to about 1,000-who work in this building. [More…]
It would be impossible for us to do our jobs but for the assistance of a very great number of skilled, good humoured and dedicated servants of the Parliament and, through it, of the country. [More…]
I also support the Prime Minister in the references he has made to those of us who have announced that we will not again be standing for Parliament. [More…]
The honourable member for Fremantle (Mr Beazley), the father of the Parliament, entered this House in August 1945. [More…]
The honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Crean) entered the Parliament in 195 1 but had served in two parliaments in Victoria before that. [More…]
The honourable member for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) has served in the Parliament for 22 years. [More…]
The honourable member for Batman (Mr Garrick) has served here for eight years but before that had given long public service in local government as a mayor and for nine years as a member of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Board of Works. [More…]
There are two members of the Government parties who have announced that they will not be standing for Parliament again. [More…]
On all those occasions in both electorates I have enjoyed the company of these men. [More…]
I suppose we can take some wry satisfaction from the fact that hundreds of people try at elections to serve in this arduous and competitive environment. [More…]
I think that all members of this House owe a particular debt of gratitude to Arthur Dyster who was Parliamentary Liaison Officer, and then to Roger Webb. [More…]
As honourable members will recall, Arthur Dyster was with my predecessor, the former member for Grayndler, Mr Fred Daly, for the whole period when the Labor Party was in government. [More…]
He was replaced during this Parliament by Mr Roger Webb. [More…]
Both men in their way have served this Parliament extraordinarily well and effectively. [More…]
Not one of those statistics that have been read this afternoon would have been possible if it had not been for the manner and efficacy of the operation of those two gentlemen. [More…]
Frequently we as parliamentarians criticise them. [More…]
Yet they serve very effectively the whole of the Parliament and, I believe, the people of Australia. [More…]
As those of us who are Ministers and those who have been Ministers know only too well, the business of the Government and of the Parliament would be quite impossible were it not for the many hours of devotion they render. [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…]
This I have done with the three members I have mentioned and I have listened and learned a great deal from them. [More…]
In respect of the honourable member for Fremantle, his commitment to Australian education and the fact that he removed it from the political football field will stand to his everlasting testament. [More…]
For most of his 23 years in Parliament the honourable member for Melbourne Ports stood where I am standing now, enunciating the principles of Labor on the economic front and his commitment as the Treasurer of the Commonwealth. [More…]
These are three men who came to Parliament with principles and I hope that in the years that follow the young men who come- and they aU come as young men- to Canberra do not come here just to take a seat in the Parliament, but to make a contribution based on principles which they have developed over the years and with which they stay. [More…]
I just hope that they will not go away disillusioned, as these three men could have gone away, when they saw the system that they persisted with for 23 years ripped from underneath them by the actions of the Queen’s representative. [More…]
That did nothing for the standing of Parliament. [More…]
It did nothing for those on this side of the House who believe in the parliamentary institution, and it was poor testament to three people who maintained their principles when they got the chance which they won at election to administer the poliCies of this nation that it was denied to them. [More…]
So I join in saying on behalf of some of the younger men in the Parliament that I have enjoyed their company immensely and the right to have served with them in the Labor Party in the House of Representatives. [More…]
I also offer my special thanks to the staff of Parliament House- the attendants, the clerical staff, the drivers, the stewards and waitresses, the girls in the typing pool, the girls on the exchange, the Library staff, the Hansard staff, Gordon Pike and his team, and in fact aU those people who are engaged in the daily operation of running this Parliament House. [More…]
To the various Ministers’ staffs and the departmental officials and the staff of the whips’ offices over the 1 1 years that I have been worrying them with my famous maul a Minister day that used to happen once a fortnight, I say thank you kindly for your valuable assistance to me and my electorate. [More…]
I have always regarded it as a great honour to serve in the Federal Parliament of this great country, an honour that comes to relatively few men among our Australian people. [More…]
Altogether 13 members of this Parliament know that they will not be back because they are retiring voluntarily or involuntarily, but they are retiring for certain. [More…]
Since I became a member of this Parliament I think more than 500 members and senators have come and gone. [More…]
I think it is very sad to see so many bright young men from the government back benches opposite who have been condemned to sit there for these two years knowing that they could never make it- people who have been unable or unwilling to crawl their way into the Prime Minister’s favour so that they could serve in the Cabinet. [More…]
I mention only some of them: The honourable member for Diamond Valley (Mr Brown), the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil), the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly), the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr Ruddock), the honourable member for La Trobe (Mr Baillieu), the honourable member for Eden-Monaro (Mr Sainsbury), the honourable member for Berowra (Dr Edwards), the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), the honourable member for Murray (Mr Lloyd) and the honourable member for Angas (Mr Giles) who, I think, will be defeated in the pre-selection for Wakefield by Bert Kelly. [More…]
All of these men are men of very great talent. [More…]
The Homeless Persons Assistance Act 1 974 is administered by the Department of Social Security and makes available financial assistance to eligible organisations to provide temporary accommodation, meals and personal services for homeless men and women. [More…]
No formal applications have been lodged with the Department of Social Security. [More…]
He must have an intimate understanding of parliamentary life, of the problems of Members collectively and individually, of the moods and foibles of the House … an experience which can be acquired only through many years spent on the benches of the House itself. [More…]
Above all he must have a deep-seated reverence for the institution of Parliament, a sincere respect for its traditions derived from a deeper understanding of what lies behind the outward ceremony, and an unshakable faith in democratic government. [More…]
The technicalities of parliamentary procedure can be learned from textbooks. [More…]
The House therefore likes its Speakers to be men of mature ageold enough to have acquired a solid background of parliamentary experience but young enough to hold out the promise of some 1 0 to 1 5 years ‘ service in the Chair. [More…]
Its fundamental belief is that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
Mr Speaker, Edward William Manner’s long period of service in the Senate began when he was chosen by the South Australian Parliament in 1944 to fill a casual vacancy. [More…]
His wartime experience gave him a deep and continuing concern for ex-service men and women and over many years he was a powerful and effective advocate in the Parliament on their behalf. [More…]
He was to maintain this association with the Press, throughout his life, at various stages being president of the New South Wales, Victorian and Australian Capital Territory branches of the Australian Journalists’ Association as well as of the Parliamentary Press Gallery. [More…]
Allan Fraser was one of the most well liked and well respected men this Parliament has seen. [More…]
His talent with words was evident in his lively participation in parliamentary debates particularly those which concerned matters affecting his own constituents. [More…]
John Alexander Pettitt served during the period in which I have been a member of this Parliament- between 1963 and 1972. [More…]
He was a diligent and respected member of Parliament, a man for whom I had a great deal of respect. [More…]
All of these men have in their various ways made a valuable contribution to the parliamentary system. [More…]
The system is better for having had their presence in the Parliament. [More…]
The community is better for having had such men prepared to contribute that sort of service on behalf of the community and on behalf of the democratic institutions which we all seek to serve. [More…]
I join the Government in expressing condolences to those who survive them and I express the sympathy and concern of the Opposition at the passing of such fine men. [More…]
We are paying tribute today to five former members of Parliament who dedicated their lives to giving public service to this nation. [More…]
They are men we can all be very proud to have known or to have been associated with. [More…]
One is Allan Fraser who was a well established member of this Parliament when I first became a member. [More…]
When men like Eddie Ward, Reg Pollard, Les Haylen and the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) all got going the sparks really flew in the Parliament. [More…]
He was a man who gave public service even after he retired from Parliament. [More…]
All I can wish is that some unfortunate wretch appearing before a 12-man jury should not appear before 12 men as fair. [More…]
-Mr Speaker, I thank the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony), the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) and honourable gentlemen for their congratulatory remarks. [More…]
When accepting nomination for this position, by proper party room processes, I was encouraged by two thoughts: Firstly, the honourable member for Lyne (Mr Lucock) occupied the Chair as Deputy Chairman after four years of service in the Parliament and, secondly, the National Country Party of Australia has an impeccable record in providing the House with deputy speakers and chairman of committees of talent and wide acclaim. [More…]
On that basis I was encouraged to believe that the judgment demonstrated in the past would be no less reliable on this occasion. [More…]
Time will tell whether the judgment is wise. [More…]
I simply acquaint the House with the fact that I came to the Parliament to serve this House and to serve the nation. [More…]
By applying myself diligently, conscious of the responsibility which I bear, I hope that in some modest way I can maintain the form of the House to ensure that honest men may assemble to engage honestly in advancing the affairs of the nation. [More…]
We need to welcome the role of women in the work force but we should not necessarily have them there by force. [More…]
We ought to examine the incentives we could give to women to stay at home. [More…]
Perhaps we could examine the possibility of a tax reduction for private people in domestic employment, not just for women but for men as well, as a means of expanding employment. [More…]
Her portrait hangs in Kings Hall, and she has the rare distinction of having met all of the men who have been Australian Prime Ministers to date. [More…]
I believe it to be an issue of the greatest fundamental importance as this country moves from the decade of the 1970s into the 1980s. [More…]
I believe the feeling of the people to be for social harmony, political respect, parliamentary peace, electoral normality and national unity. [More…]
This country needs leadership that is strong, direct and purposeful, yet fair and compassionate; leadership that is morally and politically incorrupt and incorruptible; leadership that recognises and holds up high, above all else, the personal freedom of individual men and women; that puts people first, rejecting any notion of subservience to the State; leadership that recognises personal choice, initiative, enterprise and energy; leadership that withdraws from the nuts and bolts of everyday life decisionmaking and instead provides leadership- just that, leadership- which points the way by example and by deed and action. [More…]
He rang one of his Melbourne Club cronies at Nylex in Bentleigh and obtained an undertaking that there would be jobs there for three young men. [More…]
The young men had homes in the electorate of Wannon. [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…]
If the Government understood these problems it would not make such asinine remarks. [More…]
Let us examine the equation as served up by the Liberal Government. [More…]
It says that less inflation means more employment opportunities, therefore less unemployed. [More…]
The equation in fact has been less inflation, fewer job opportunities equals more unemployment. [More…]
I checked the statistics for my area and surprisingly for the Government I found they represented people- men and women, young and not so young, able, capable and willing to work and unable to find it. [More…]
The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones. [More…]
People are inclined to see and remember only the wrong men do or the mistakes men make in public office and to forget the good that they have done. [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…]
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…]
I sincerely hope that this present move does not mark the beginning of a premature retirement. [More…]
Brown) is in the chamber at the moment- I see brilliant young men rotting in the back benches while secondraters, nincompoops and yes men are sitting on the front bench. [More…]
They have been yes men and lickspittles for the Prime Minister. [More…]
It makes me say that it is time the Parliament sat up and had a good look at itself and had a good look at what Prime Ministers are doing to the Parliament. [More…]
The greatest of all is that a government cannot fight unemployment at the same time as fighting inflation. [More…]
This is the assumption on which the Fraser Government is building its policies. [More…]
Our economy cries out for a stimulus from government. [More…]
We need local government improvement programs, again using available resources and not leading to any competition which will bid up prices. [More…]
We need more of those training and retraining schemes which I have mentioned already. [More…]
It is a scandal that we are short of many skills at a time when there is so much underemployment of men, women and resources. [More…]
We need this modest, stimulatory government spending which we on this side have been advocating for so long, because the level of economic activity in this day and age is determined by a partnership between government and business. [More…]
In addition to these immediate measures, the Government believes it of the utmost importance that a review be undertaken of the whole area of protective security in Australia by a person who has an appreciation of intelligence and security operations, and a concern for the liberties of individual men and women of Australia. [More…]
But Army PR has gone as far as describing it as elements from infantry, armour and artillery and engineers with, it is presumed, supporting services such as communications, medical and logistic units which would be required for the deployment of even a stripped down task force. [More…]
Even allowing for a conservative force level of 2 companies of infantry, one armoured personnel carrier squadron and possibly one battery of field guns, this would give a minimum force of around 1200 to 1500 men and a minimum of something like 70 or so APCs - [More…]
I am certain that if we continue to attract men of their calibre into the Parliament we can look forward to a very prosperous future under the guidance of Malcolm Fraser. [More…]
I would like to refute this in the first few words that I am uttering in the Thirtyfirst Parliament. [More…]
I was recently at a factory that manufactures a very well known brand of singlets for men, women and children. [More…]
Fifteen years ago it took that factory 16 minutes to make a dozen men’s singlets. [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 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…]
One sector of it that does not receive much airing in this Parliament or anywhere else is the coal mining industry. [More…]
If justice is where it should be, it must be appreciated that with all the advances and technical improvements that have been made coal miners still have a hazardous existence. [More…]
Those men who work underground take their lives in their hands every time they strike a blow to produce more coal. [More…]
I do not think that in the production or the treatment of uranium there is anything that would be commensurate with or even approach that disaster. [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…]
Surely that makes Sir John one of the most highly rewarded men in public life in this country, not only contemporaneously but also in the history of the nation since Federation. [More…]
On top of that, he has his ambassadorial income of $30,000 a year, an allowance of $1 1,700 a year and an entertainment allowance of $6,000 a year, which may be austerity for him. [More…]
It was Labor legislation introduced by the then Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam, that led to the circumstance where former members of this Parliament keep their pensions and whatever remuneration is provided by some subsequent job. [More…]
The same applies to the Governor-General through legislation that the then Prime Minister quite specifically and personally introduced into this Parliament. [More…]
What qualification did that give him for a subsequent job or for keeping his parliamentary pension and being paid as a justice of the High Court. [More…]
I make no criticism of Mr Barnard, one of the most honourable men ever to come out of the Australian Labor Party, who is fulfilling a post and representing Australia abroad with high distinction. [More…]
Who then were judged the guilty men? [More…]
The former Government was judged guilty. [More…]
These are the men of indifference. [More…]
They are totally indifferent to the problem of unemployment, which is seen by them as a necessary and justifiable consequence of their economic policy. [More…]
They could not care less about what it actually means to people- what it means to be a middle aged worker without work for the first time in his life; what it means to be a woman ready and eager to return to the work force but with nowhere to go; what it means to be young and well educated and to have door after door slammed in one’s face; what it means to be parents who see their children gradually lose their self-esteem and self-confidence in the face of this continual demoralising rejection; and what it means to these kids who, when they attempt to find other ways in which to fill their time, are hounded by police, scolded by courts and admonished by governments. [More…]
We need men of great calibre and men of imagination and vision to employ these techniques, rather than relying on traditional salesmen and people who traditionally seek out markets, such as those who do so from various boards and authorities in Australia. [More…]
There is a need not just to bolster the existing industries, to seek new industries and to have an effective co-operative effort between our primary, secondary and tertiary producers; there is also a need to provide more sophisticated industries, better informed people within those industries and an educational process which will ensure that decisions made are accurate, investment is not wasted and real advantage is taken of Australia’s place and comparative advantages in the world. [More…]
An export drive such as that envisaged by the Government could bear good fruit. [More…]
A direct result of these policies insofar as they have had an effect or reinforced a trend has been to encourage the rate of growth in levels of unemployment so that we have now reached the situation where more than 450,000 people or 7 per cent of the work force are unemployed. [More…]
The average duration of unemployment in 1977 was 19.5 weeks compared with 6.3 weeks in 1973. [More…]
There is increasing evidence that some of the people who are being employed are often employed only part time and that the various employer subsidy schemes of the Government are resulting in the displacement of established employees with the unemployed. [More…]
Unemployment is hitting women more harshly than men and the hardest hit of all are the recently arrived migrants. [More…]
It is fundamentally important for any serious analysis- not for honourable members who get up in the House and rattle on, but for any serious analysis of economic problems- to make a distinction between the competitive sector which the Government claims it is interested in and the monopolistic sector which we know damn well provides the funds for its campaigns and has the controlling say in its party room. [More…]
If the Prime Minister is committed to the Governor-General’s word- I do not believe he is- about ‘giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom’ it is to this corporate sector that he must turn. [More…]
In his 1975 policy speech Mr Fraser referred to the need to create more democratic structures in the trade union movement and to reduce and make more accessible and responsible the government bureaucracy. [More…]
It is interesting to note that when Dr Myers recently conducted an inquiry for the Government into unemployment benefit, he recognised the changes to which I have referred. [More…]
He pointed out that it was difficult to see why unemployment benefit should include a supplementary allowance for dependent children when no such benefit is available to the wage earner. [More…]
He also recommended that, as there are now so many two-income families in which both husband and wife are members of the work force, each should when unemployed be eligible for unemployment benefit. [More…]
The increasing number of twoincome families makes it imperative that we decide whether women with family responsibilities should be able, if they so wish, to remain within the home to bring up their children. [More…]
These policies must ensure that the standard of living of a family with children and a single income does not compare unfavourably with that of twoincome families and of single men and women. [More…]
The standard of living of men, women and children in Australia and in any developed society in the world will not be maintained, let alone developed, unless the management of water resources is conducted in accordance with regional and national policies on conservation and use. [More…]
Some people will be happy to espouse any argument which permits a land use policy to develop in an uncontrolled, unrestrained manner, provided it is not next to their own home or property. [More…]
If those funds were made available, work could have been provided for an additional 750 men. [More…]
The amount provided by the Federal Government is nowhere near what the State Government is seeking. [More…]
The result is that the programs set out by the South Australian Government will not get off the ground fully and certainly will not be completed before the turn of the century. [More…]
This will be the case if the work must be done from the poor handouts that the South Australian Government is receiving from the Federal Government and from what the State is able to pay for from its own resources. [More…]
It is reorganising the Australian economy so as to reduce the public sector to a status from which it is unable to control effectively the anti-social, anti-worker and anti-national actions of the large corporations that now dominate the pattern of development of this country. [More…]
The Government is reducing the public sector so that the people no longer will be able to obtain a reasonable ‘social wage’ in the form of public transport systems, urban renewal, regional development, housing, education, health, and welfare assistance for the disadvantaged and the unemployed. [More…]
The hypocrisy of this Government is transparent. [More…]
However, its tactics have been remarkably successful since it reorganised its forces in preparation for the onslaught to destabilise the Labor Government. [More…]
The Government has failed in its efforts to find scapegoats in the trade union movement. [More…]
It will fail in its current efforts to create greater divisions in Australian society between the different sections of the Australian work force, between men and women who work, between nationalities and between the old and the young. [More…]
On more serious matters, I regret that since the last Parliament we have seen the passing of some great men. [More…]
I think the Parliament owes him a lot. [More…]
I do not think his replacement is in the chamber this evening. [More…]
When will the ordinary men and women in this country receive their just rewards? [More…]
Migrant women especially work in many instances in appalling conditions in a work force in which they make up a full third of working -….. -….. -j——- -r - :~…..— -*——— o women. [More…]
A total of 45 per cent of Italian women and 56 per cent of Greek women in employment work as labourers, production or process workers. [More…]
This compares with only 9.2 per cent of native-born Australian working women. [More…]
In most cases, however, these women are locked into this situation by economic necessity which in turn imposes enormous stress on the life style of thousands of migrant families. [More…]
In the work force as a whole statistics show that migrants, both men and women, are the first to be sacked in times of recession and suffer a higher rate of industrial accidents, mostly because of language difficulties. [More…]
The Fraser Government’s immigration policies acknowledge none of these depressing realities. [More…]
I believe that at this time the trade union movement as such has not the confidence in the Labor Party that perhaps it had a few years ago. [More…]
I believe that the moderate trade unionist is beginning to realise that there are too many extremists in trade unions and that there are too many men who are interested only in themselves and not in the trade union movement as a whole. [More…]
We have said repeatedly that we will look after the men who defended this country. [More…]
I think that members of the Returned Services League and other people are justified in criticising the Government for the attitude it has adopted and in tacking this portfolio onto another one. [More…]
I have seen children- young men and young ladies- who have completed a course of education to obtain the higher school certificates. [More…]
It seems to me that there must be changes in our education system itself and that government moneys must and should be spent for the benefit of the nation -for the benefit of our children certainly- but not as it seems apparent today for the benefit of school teachers- a group which is treated as another holy cow. [More…]
The Penguin Dictionary of Economics defines the word ‘depression’ as ‘that state of the economy in which men and machinery remain unemployed persistently, as compared with a recession during which unemployment is of short duration’. [More…]
Certainly not the least of the menaces to ships at anchorage or stationed at roadsteads are the skindivers or frogmen-valiant men on both sides of any war. [More…]
By the same token the Act has to be amended to take into account the sort of activities that these gallant gentlemen would attempt to undertake. [More…]
It has been the intention of this Government since December 1 975 when it was elected to office to reduce real wages continually. [More…]
The Government has had continual success on that front. [More…]
Based on average weekly earnings of about $200 a week, working men and women in Australia are now $ 10 a week worse off in real terms than they would have been two years ago. [More…]
Experience in Australia and in other countries has already amply demonstrated that market shares for existing industries sometimes must be maintained by a government for particular reasons of national importance, even at the cost of subsidising production or employment. [More…]
Firstly, this would prevent prolonged or permanent unemployment among workers living in regions where there is not a sufficiently wide range of job opportunities for their type of employment, aptitudes or skills. [More…]
Secondly, in some provincial areas of Australia that element of the population which is not employed in rural industries or in local commerce faces permanent or prolonged unemployment if industrial work or light industrial work is not provided and maintained in the district. [More…]
The only alternative for such people is to leave the district to seek such employment elsewhere. [More…]
In the past this has been partly responsible for the long established drift of population from rural districts of Australia to the cities, particularly among young men and women who after leaving school cannot find employment in their home districts suitable to their aptitudes. [More…]
I am sure that Government supporters would agree because I suggest that such statements are profoundly simplistic and could only be uttered by men profoundly unaware of the debate that has taken place in this country in the past two years, profoundly unaware of everything that every serious commentator has said. [More…]
I am aware of a longstanding dispute between the New South Wales Water, Sewerage and Drainage Board and the Department of Mines. [More…]
After about three years the Commission reported back to the New South Wales Government that, provided adequate safety measures were taken, mining could take place underneath water storages. [More…]
One of the Departments involved in the Royal Commission is now having legislation introduced in New South Wales to stop mining taking place under these water storages. [More…]
I am aware that the mining operations of a subsidiary of Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd, Australian Iron and Steel Pty Ltd, at Wongawilli in the honourable member’s electorate will be forced to close down immediately putting off some 300 men should this legislation be passed. [More…]
This matter has implications for employment in the honourable member’s district. [More…]
I turn now to the case I want to establish of the Government’s attack on the Public Service. [More…]
In spite of that, in spite of harbouring doubts, in spite of being the Prime Minister, the first Minister, the most important, influential and responsible Minister in the Government, he was prepared to submerge those doubts, to be led by the nose by public servants- men of stouter will and greater determination. [More…]
At page 8 of the Prime Minister’s statement he says that a committee had been appointed. [More…]
The committee consists of Sir Arthur Tange, Mr Cole, Mr Burton, Mr Cameron, Mr Lanigan and Mr Yeend- all the very top men; the cream of the Public Service; experienced people who would well know the implications of an exercise like this. [More…]
The prime responsibility of every member of parliament is the good of this country and the management of Australia. [More…]
But a government can do only so much. [More…]
We have to create the environment in which all people can live and work with the maximum individual freedom and human dignity. [More…]
The representatives of the people- all of us here- were voted into this Parliament because it was felt that we had something to contribute in the management of Australia. [More…]
This leaves a large number of men with much to offer. [More…]
The work of this Parliament must continue to be investigation and debate. [More…]
This is not just the leadership of the Prime Minister and the Ministers but of all members of this Parliament, for without a doubt it is their presence, their word and their example which is the government to so many people. [More…]
Nobody denies that there are men of talent on the Opposition benches and surely in debate they will bring up useful and worthwhile suggestions. [More…]
The Government, in its wisdom, will no doubt evaluate these ideas in the spirit of providing the best for Australia. [More…]
However, in accepting the differences in philosophy they can still add to the debate and to the betterment of Australia. [More…]
I wish that the Governor-General had had more time to expand on the Government’s intentions under this item but with such a high priority we can certainly expect action to further federalism. [More…]
The Government has many difficult tasks ahead which will require the skills and energies of every honourable member. [More…]
It will require men who can stand up and be counted, men who have the courage to make those unpopular decisions which will bring back stability and sanity to Australia. [More…]
That centre too was put into the pipeline by the Labor Government. [More…]
I ask honourable members opposite, when they think of the rising unemployment figures, to think for a moment how it affects the handicapped people in our community. [More…]
When this Government took office 60 per cent of the men and women who received appropriate training and assessment at the Rehabilitation Centre in Queensland were able to enter the work force. [More…]
I urge the Government to give special attention to the problems of the handicapped. [More…]
These are the men and women who at the end of January were registered for employment. [More…]
Police spokesmen, social workers and hospitals have reported an alarming growth in crime and youth suicide. [More…]
They put the cause down to unemployment. [More…]
We are told by church leaders that the consequences of the present intolerable numbers of registered jobless will be family breakdown, child abuse, mental and physical illness, alcoholism and, again, crime. [More…]
Churches are concerned with the judgmental and even punitive approach taken towards the unemployed, whether it be by the Government and the policies it sets for the Public Service or whether it be in community attitudes which are fostered. [More…]
The Wimmera electorate was created in 1 90 1 and has been represented by only eight men. [More…]
Percy Stewart, Hugh McClelland, Alexander Wilson and Bill Lawrence are all remembered for their diverse achievements and their effectiveness in their support for rural people. [More…]
The post of GovernorGeneral has never been one renowned for its occupancy by men of radical or even mildly progressive bent. [More…]
However, I suggest that on 2 1 February even Sir Zelman must have been embarrassed by the conservatism and the stodginess of the program thrust before him to read to this Parliament. [More…]
It admits that the Government does not intend to attack unemployment by stating: [More…]
We all feel for the families of the two garbage men and the constable who have died. [More…]
More than the number of members required by the Standing Orders having risen in their placesMr UREN (Reid) (3.9)- It is in the housing industry where the conservative Government’s economic policies are felt most. [More…]
There are ample resources, both men and materials, to build shelter for people who are not able to acquire finance to build a home because of the Government’s tight money policy, or for people who are not in income brackets which would enable them to meet the required monthly repayments. [More…]
The home building industry is at least one sector of the Australian economy where there is a potential for growth, and that growth could have a multiplying effect on other industries if the Australian Government acted in the interests of the community as a whole. [More…]
But this Government is not concerned about the community as a whole. [More…]
This Government is a sectional government. [More…]
It is a class biased government. [More…]
It is part of the Government’s policy to maintain a tight monetary situation. [More…]
It has a beat inflation first mentality, irrespective of the unemployment and the social and human suffering it is creating. [More…]
Over a number of years I built up a fairly successful export market for Australian manufactured goods garments, children’s wear, men’s wear and textiles. [More…]
Working through the South Pacific area I gained an understanding of the market and I found that people appreciate high quality garments. [More…]
Australia has the highest quality in the world of garment manufacture and finish. [More…]
This is the only country in the world in which even the cheapest garment is overlooked. [More…]
Very few other countries would expend the money- this is a very expensive part of the merchandise and we spend the extra time in processing a garment to overlock it. [More…]
The Governor-General also stated the Government’s fundamental belief: . [More…]
that a better society can only be realised by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of choice, power and freedom. [More…]
We are opposed to it on moral grounds because it constitutes an affront to the dignity of men . [More…]
and is a flagrant violation of fundamental human decency. [More…]
The point I am making is that guilty men come back to the scene of the crime, and the Prime Minister has used all of these - [More…]
I said: ‘Guilty men come back to the scene of the crime’. [More…]
The Prime Minister then establishes a committee of departmental permanent heads. [More…]
But the Prime Minister then goes on to berate this committee by saying that the assessment was too narrow. [More…]
Surely these men considered the proprieties of this man’s actions and considered whether he could have influenced the decision. [More…]
Obviously, on the assessment he did not. [More…]
I can wipe aside that objection because the matter of principle is this: If we are to have self-government in the Northern Territory, we should have full self-government and self-determination. [More…]
From the practical point of view, it has been suggested that if the Northern Territory controlled its Supreme Court it would not attract legal men and other people to the profession. [More…]
On the opening day of the Parliament when the Chairman of Committees was elected, if a telegram that lay on the Speaker’s table had been read earlier there would most certainly have been a different Chairman of Committees. [More…]
I refer to the honourable member for Lyne, Mr Lucock, who was defeated because of a disagreement in the National Country Party. [More…]
I believe that because the honourable member for Lyne had displayed a degree of impartiality during the previous Parliament, the Leader of the House, the honourable member for New England, Mr Sinclair, by the use of other members of that Party, saw that Mr Lucock was not re-elected. [More…]
Hence the honourable member for Lyne is no longer the Chairman of Committees in this Parliament. [More…]
But if Mr Speaker had displayed the ideals contained in the last few words of his statementimpartial and in fact be impartial’and read that telegram earlier I am certain that my congratulations today would have been extented to the honourable member for Lyne. [More…]
It must be obvious to Government supporters that they will really have some trouble on their hands for the remainder of this Parliament and in parliaments to come because there is no doubt that those men will be members of a Labor government in the not too distant future. [More…]
Young men going onto the land today have great difficulty buying livable areas of land because of the capital cost of land. [More…]
With the establishment of this bank there is no doubt that these young men will be given the opportunity to borrow money to enable them to get a start on the land. [More…]
We feel that the establishment of this Federal rural bank will be of great advantage to young men who desire to take up a career in the great primary industries. [More…]
Unemployment is a great problem. [More…]
Every honourable member who has spoken in this debate and on matters of public importance has mentioned the problem of unemployment. [More…]
Who started this unemployment? [More…]
In 1975 the then Labor Government reduced tariffs across the board by 25 per cent without any investigation and without any prior notice. [More…]
This really commenced the run of unemployment. [More…]
Governments are limited in what they can do to provide employment but this Government has introduced apprenticeship schemes which have been of benefit to young men and women who want to take up a career or trade. [More…]
There is the National Employment and Training scheme and the Youth Employment Training program under which young people can be trained in skills to gain employment. [More…]
I am fortunate that although the level of unemployment in my area is serious, it is at a minimum level. [More…]
I am most concerned for school leavers because if these young people leave school and cannot find employment they can get into a situation where they are drawing social security benefits and the urge to work could disappear. [More…]
I know the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) is doing all he possibly can, with the backing of the Government, to improve employment facilities and opportunities for young people. [More…]
The policies which have been enunciated by His Excellency the Governor-General are the policies of this Government. [More…]
I support them to the hilt, as do also my colleagues of the Liberal-National Country Parties of Australia who form the Government of this nation. [More…]
-Mr Deputy Speaker, would you convey to Mr Speaker and Mr Deputy Speaker Millar my very warm congratulations on their appointment to their high offices? [More…]
Unfortunately, I was not able to be present for the opening of the Parliament and the delivery of the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]
I believe that the Speech was an attempt by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) to express the rather paternalistic view that he and the establishment he represents would like the ordinary men and women of Australia to have of him and his Government. [More…]
While some Government supporters have endeavoured to lay the blame on the users, there is no doubt at all in my mind that some members of the medical profession have much to answer for. [More…]
This is a great pity because I am sure that the majority of members of the profession are still men and women who act with the highest integrity and ethics in the pursuit of their profession. [More…]
To the Government’s credit it has come down very heavily on those medicos who have been detected making false claims on Medibank. [More…]
Explain why the Senate is surrounded by a ring of men with arms; why my listeners include gangsters of yours, sword in hand: Why the doors of the temple of Concord are closed … [More…]
It was open to the Cabinet to say: ‘We accept the findings of this prestigious group of men’. [More…]
The Parliament was told by the Prime Minister in his statement- not in some statement by a public servant- that what was concerning him was this position into which Mr Harragan had got himself. [More…]
The Prime Minister has been very reluctant to table the documents. [More…]
I do not wonder why, because the more one sees of the documents that are in the file the more the position of the Prime Minister is put in jeopardy. [More…]
I ask the House to compare the statements made by the Prime Minister about Mr Harragan ‘s integrity with what is set out in a telex which has come into my possession and was directed from the Prime Minister’s office- [More…]
A tremendous wealth of talent has come into the Parliament on this occasion. [More…]
I am sure that we will hear a lot more of the men from both sides of the House who came into the Parliament following the election in 1977. [More…]
Whilst I may be a little overawed by their ability, perhaps they reflect the general standard of members of Parliament. [More…]
In the five years in which I have been in this place I have never ceased to be amazed at the dedication of all members of Parliament. [More…]
If this Parliament comes into disrepute, if it comes under criticism from outside, I am sure that this is not the result of the actions of the great majority of members of Parliament. [More…]
The life of a parliamentarian is not easy. [More…]
I do not know how we can make people or governments examine these resources, the enormous wealth around us and the great potential that we have to enjoy the good things of modern society which technology is providing for us. [More…]
The honourable member for Forrest mentioned the difficulties that are created by high wages and said that a case might be made out for a reduction in or the removal of the minimum wage. [More…]
If the garbage men stop work it is not long before the community suffers a great deal of hardship. [More…]
If a handful of railway men stop work all the trains stop. [More…]
One redeeming feature for the people who reside in the area that I have lost from my electorate is the fact that they will now be represented by a great gladiator, a real fighter for the men and women and children of the west, in the person of the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett). [More…]
All this is done while the Government espouses, as the Governor-General stated in his Speech, its fundamental belief that a better society can be realised only by giving the men and women of Australia a greater measure of ‘choice, power and freedom’. [More…]
This statement of empty rhetoric is accompanied by repressive action through the operation of an economic policy which diminishes, not increases, for most Australians their choice, their power and their freedom. [More…]
In answer to a question I asked him at Question Time today the Minister said that he had very kind words to say about the Uniting Church and how enlightened it was in introducing what he called ‘modern policies and self-management for Aboriginals’. [More…]
He said that he was concerned about the moves by the Queensland Government to take over the Aurukun and Mornington Island settlements from the Uniting Church, and that he wanted to ensure that that was the will of the communities. [More…]
I hope that when he has those discussions he will show that the Federal Government intends to enforce the power given to it at the referendum on Aboriginal affairs and not cave in as it has so often caved in to State governments on these matters. [More…]
Mr Bjelke-Petersen wanted a couple of Uncle Toms as field officers to replace those efficient men who were well recognised and well respected. [More…]
Do honourable members know why those men were replaced? [More…]
Country Party governments for not giving the Territorians enough say and for not giving it to them quickly enough. [More…]
Yet at the last election for the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly, in August, the Labor Party platform was against the proposal for the introduction of selfgovernment for the Northern Territory. [More…]
Labor Party members are ‘ men for all seasons ‘. [More…]
The honourable member can ask Silas Roberts or Sam Wagbara of Goulburn Island or Burramurra of Elcho Island; they would all say the same thing, that in fact the Government got rid of all those whites from Maningrida. [More…]
That is fine, but at least give the credit to the men and women who did the job. [More…]
I believe Dr Hollows would not sack two men in the team whom the honourable member for Capricornia described as the two best workers in the team and eulogised for their abilities. [More…]
A solid core of homeless men and women are suffering unnecessary hardship because of the refusal of this Government to cater for their fundamental needs. [More…]
In a time of government sponsored unemployment the Government’s responsibility to these people ought to increase. [More…]
Naturally, with a government insensitive enough to human needs to create record unemployment, nothing has been done for the homeless. [More…]
The cruel attack on the youth in the Government’s unemployment policy has resulted in an alarming increase in young homeless. [More…]
The Salvation Army has taken out figures for the Gill accommodation centre, a traditional centre for homeless men. [More…]
One is the lack of facilities for homeless women, by comparison with the limited facilities available for men, and the second is the tendency of women to make accommodation their prime concern. [More…]
In other words, many women who could be classified homeless live in dingy, filthy rooms on which they spend all their minimal incomes or live in de facto relationships, mostly in squalid conditions simply to guarantee a roof for themselves. [More…]
Since the establishment of a homeless persons’ section within the Federal Depanment of Social Security there has been some activity in the area for men, but women have received limited assistance. [More…]
I believe that at this time those people who are placing their money in savings banks must also start to show their acceptance of the responsibility of this Government and start to spend some of that money, because we need spending. [More…]
That will create extra opportunities in industry and will therefore create extra employment opportunities. [More…]
I am not union bashing when I say that everybody- government, unions, working men and employers- must take a proper share in the responsibilities of making this country go. [More…]
We have set up the management system. [More…]
I cannot for the life of me understand what objective they had in mind in murdering innocent men, women and children. [More…]
If anything, I believe it will strengthen their resolve and the result will be, regrettably, massive retaliation which in turn will result in possibly hundreds, though hopefully not, of innocent Palestinian men, women and children being killed. [More…]
Those honourable members who are familiar with the Middle East situation will know that it has been the practice of Palestinians to have their guerrilla hideouts in villages so that when the Israelis retaliate they hit villages with the result that women and children are killed. [More…]
It has 35,000 men. [More…]
It also has several hundred aircraft, small boats, helicopters and other forms of equipment. [More…]
Almost daily in this House we have the odd spectacle of Government supporters espousing the wisdom of their lunatic theories of economic management and claiming a complete monopoly on sound business expertise and general intelligence. [More…]
In fact, when one examines the policies of the Government, it is obvious that its policies are as shallow as the shallow men and women who formulate them. [More…]
My good friend Senator James McClelland summed up the wishful strategy of the Government’s economic thinking when he said of the GovernorGeneral’s Speech: [More…]
We have a Government that is paid to do that but it is making no inroads into the problems that it has created. [More…]
Perhaps one should not expect too much from an administration that doggedly believes that the least government is the best government. [More…]
But one should expect something better in terms of economic expertise and honesty from the men who represent this conservative philosophy. [More…]
This Government’s standard excuse for the mishandling of the economy is that it was left with a mess created by its Labor predecessors. [More…]
But the Labor Government was in office almost three years ago. [More…]
As a prerequisite to all this the Lebanese Government must come out loud and clear to the effect that the PLO is no longer welcome in Lebanon. [More…]
The courage of its great people will never be cowered by these butchers of humanity and will be applauded by all men of peace and goodwill. [More…]
Clearly we have evidence that Mr Harragan was one junior member of a group of six officers who recommended the acceptance of the Facom tender. [More…]
Are they all guilty men as well? [More…]
Did not the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), as was a proper arrangement, have senior public servants investigate the matter? [More…]
We get nothing in the Parliament despite our requests. [More…]
As one looks down the years, one cannot help but regret the fact that good men in the Middle East who have tried to assist both sides have lost their lives either through terrorism or just by becoming exhausted through their efforts to try to find a reasonable solution to the problem. [More…]
We hope that the incident that occurred last week in Israel and the situation that is now developing in South Lebanon will not deter the United States Government, or the Israeli Government or the Egyptian Government from proceeding on the road to peace because that is the most honourable road that they could follow and that is the most honourable road that they should follow. [More…]
It is not the many men of goodwill on both sides but it is the few who are on the extreme wings of both sides who make the situation so difficult to resolve. [More…]
What I say is this: Men of goodwill throughout the Middle East must combine because surely the triumph of evil is certain unless good men work for justice. [More…]
I think that there is very little more that I can usefully say at this moment because the situation now is very dangerous. [More…]
Therefore I hope that this matter of national importance which I have brought before the House has been of some value to the Parliament and the people. [More…]
I can only describe these terrorists as a murdering band of thugs who take as their victims civilian men, women and children. [More…]
Sincere as these people may be, I ask them seriously: What would Australia have done if at regular intervals bands of terrorists landed on Australian shores, assassinated our men, women and children, and then retired to the sanctuary of a friendly neighbouring country? [More…]
No government in the world would tolerate the non-stop indiscriminate murder of its citizens and not take some punitive action. [More…]
If I hear another person say, as the interviewer did last night on This Day Tonight, that somehow this is the Judiac tradition from the Old Testament of ‘an eye for an eye, or tooth for a tooth’ I will, to put it bluntly, throw up. [More…]
It is to the credit of the honourable member for Franklin that he has recognised the deception perpetrated by the Government. [More…]
We on this side of the House challenge the Tasmanian colleagues of the honourable member for Franklin, if they are as interested as he is, if they are not prepared to support the differential in pricing being applied by the oil companies to the detriment of Tasmania, to join with the honourable member as men of principle and to support the amendment. [More…]
He will be aware of the considerable interest of veterans in the wider use by the community of veterans’ hospitals and in particular the wish of returned men to be located in wards where they can share their earlier experiences with people who have served in war theatres similar to those in which they served. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House and veterans generally that the wider use of such hospitals will not diminish the service offered to returned men and that their individual views of where and with whom they ought to be located in hospitals will also be taken into account? [More…]
The United States Coastguard has 35,000 men and its equipment, except for a couple of capital items, would make it a superior force to the Australian Navy. [More…]
Anyone in this House or outside who suggests that that type of force could be set up financially or otherwise within the Australian context I think has not heard of the Treasury and certainly is not aware of the amount of Australian budgetary funds available to defence and which could be made available for additional requirements in providing civilian surveillance. [More…]
The role performed by the defence establishment in recent years in the context of coastal surveillance certainly is well up to its capability. [More…]
But to achieve that objective has meant that men and equipment have been put to functions for which they were not originally designed or trained. [More…]
A possible alternative would be to have a totally new concept, for example, a coastguard, whether it be an adjunct of the defence services, or whether it be a totally civilian operation run by the departments which I mentioned earlier. [More…]
It is indeed very advantageous for this Parliament and for Australia that we appear at last to have reached the stage where the representatives of the Australian people on both sides of this chamber can seriously discuss in a bipartisan manner what is a primary responsibility of this Parliament, namely, the integrity of Australia. [More…]
I suppose this is a subjective value view of what might be called the Australian temperament, but I do not think the people who join the Australian defence services are properly conditioned to spending their lives doing very little. [More…]
It may be all right for a person who joined the services in somewhere like Belgium or Holland where men are not accustomed to going away on expeditionary forces, where the horizons are bounded by a closely knit society and there is a long tradition to take matters very quietly. [More…]
I am absolutely certain that the morale of the Australian defence forces would be raised by the use of personnel constantly in operations which they think provide gainful employment. [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…]
It was prompted by the brutal and senseless murder of Israeli men, women and children. [More…]
The attitude of the Fraser-Anthony Government in its foreign policy and trading relations with Japan is to run hot in public and cold in private. [More…]
It is ironical that these two men would use every opportunity to bucket the intiatives of the former Labor Government in a most unwholesome way when they were in Opposition, yet in Government, have twisted Labor policy to suit their own ends. [More…]
Yet, it was painted as nationalisation by our opponents who thought nothing of running down the policies to foreigners and belittling the status of Australia and its Government. [More…]
The Minister’s next step was to propose at a meeting with senior officers of his Department that a Cabinet submission should be prepared by officers of his Department. [More…]
These men are towering mountains where Aboriginal affairs are concerned- towering mountains of jelly! [More…]
I make this further point, and this is the fundamental reason that this legislation cannot be delayed: I was at Aurukun recently. [More…]
Many men and women spoke very eloquently about their desire for Commonwealth action. [More…]
My electorate, Lalor, illustrates the problems of contracting employment in manufacturing industry. [More…]
Rockwell Standard of Australia Ltd, Tubemakers of Australia Ltd and GKN SankeyBenson Division are only three good examples of large firms employing large numbers of men. [More…]
Prevailing circumstances in Australia suggest that employment prospects in manufacturing are likely to contract rapidly. [More…]
The most recent Commonwealth Employment Service figures available concerning my electorate are as follows: Altona, 759 unemployed in February; Sunshine, 3,079 unemployed in February; Werribee, 483 unemployed in December- there are no figures since; and St Albans, 1 ,346 unemployed in February. [More…]
Knowledge of government long-term planning is essential to give these men, their families and the communities in which they live reassurance that they can be gainfully employed in the timber industry. [More…]
In March 1975 318 individual sawmills in country towns in Victoria were employing 3,750 men. [More…]
An additional 3,000 men were employed in other rural-based wood-processing industries. [More…]
It says that a person shall not recruit another person to serve in any capacity in or with an armed force in a foreign country, whether the armed force forms part of the armed forces of the government of that foreign country or otherwise’. [More…]
I suggest that an appropriate course of action would be for the responsible Minister to propose the adjournment of the debate on the Bill and to provide an opportunity for discussion of amendments that might be proposed. [More…]
Somebody remarked that this is supposed to be a government of laws, not a government of men. [More…]
The Government should say: There does not need to be a great deal of administrative discretion on the part of the AttorneyGeneral. [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…]
The House will be aware that the liability of operators of domestic airline services and charter services is governed by the Commonwealth Civil Aviation (Carriers’ Liability) Act and complementary State Acts. [More…]
Tragically for those people injured in accidents involving aircraft of this kind, those against whom they could obtain substantial judgments are off en men of straw. [More…]
South Africa: Over the period 1960 to 1967 inclusive in an underground gold-uranium mining workforce averaging 86,400 men, the lung cancer death rate was less then expected. [More…]
One minute after the commencement of 10 August I learned that Cameron and my old seat of Griffith would be parted because of the action of the ‘three men with a pen’. [More…]
I accepted it at that time but, at a time of understandable disappointment, I could not help but re-hear the words ‘not going to have a bar of them having their fingers in this redistribution’. [More…]
In a broader context, our budgetary policyand this has been stated over and over again- is a return to full employment and economic growth in the context of greater social justice. [More…]
It is also particularly difficult to get the settings together at the right time when we have an Opposition which, as the Treasurer has just said, fights for the full indexation of wages at this time when that would put more ordinary working men out of work. [More…]
We are looking for full employment and for greater social justice, and that is what we are achieving. [More…]
They are the things we are trying to correct in order to get full employment, sound and real economic growth and greater social justice. [More…]
I ask honourable members to remember those times when the Whitlam Government was spending more and more ostensibly to help people like pensioners while those people’s savings were being whittled away by that terrible thing- inflation. [More…]
John Trlin says he is looking for 30 men, and a woman, from 1 5 to 52 years of age wanting to earn up to $50,000 a year. [More…]
He said he would like men who can type and do shorthand. [More…]
It is a circumstance which quite demonstrably, in a manner which apparently has not emerged before, has brought together the fairly diverse attitudes of the larger sheep men and the smaller sheep men right throughout the country. [More…]
That move, of course, is wholeheartedly supported by the Federal Government. [More…]
The very important and basic point that that paper made is that if we seriously want to look- I do not think the Minister for Health really wants to look- for the primary cause of the uncontrolled escalation of health costs in Australia we should not look to the sick, the ill and the ordinary men and women of this country but to the medical profession itself. [More…]
That point is made again and again throughout that document. [More…]
Yet the Agreement negotiated fosters unemployment because of the failure to implement a minimum price. [More…]
This unemployment is occurring already. [More…]
I am told that in Mackay, for example, mill staff have agreed to work a four-day week rather than see 20 men retrenched. [More…]
As for the cane growers themselves, unlike most other primary producers, they are tied to a particular mono-culture and cannot diversify into other forms of agriculture to offset the effects of a disastrous government policy. [More…]
This Agreement will ensure lower incomes to growers facing increasing costs. [More…]
The International Sugar Agreement penalises the most efficient producers from improving their basic export tonnage. [More…]
The Opposition joins the Government in expressing its deep regret at the sad and untimely passing of Sir Alan Carmody. [More…]
He gave long, distinguished and most valuable service to Australian governments and to the Australian community. [More…]
Sir Alan Carmody was one of the finer men giving that service. [More…]
The Government has failed repeatedly to adopt measures to increase employment. [More…]
In fact, it has taken measures which have directly created unemployment. [More…]
It has handed out to industry more than $650m in tax concessions to replace men with machines, while firms which employ extra workers are penalised through a payroll tax which adds $450 to $500 for every additional worker employed. [More…]
For a small establishment of about 100 employees, the additional penalty borne by an employer for employing his work force is of the order of $50,000 a year, on top of all of the other costs which he has to bear. [More…]
This is a clear disadvantage to the employment of labour. [More…]
Northern Territory generally, I would like to express my deep appreciation for the contribution made by the Darwin Reconstruction Commission and all those people, men and women alike, who have been associated with it. [More…]
I am sure all members of this Parliament share my appreciation for the work of the Darwin Reconstruction Commission. [More…]
I am confident that the College will play a vital role in the development of Australia’s maritime industries. [More…]
It will provide a centre in Australia for the co-ordination of professional maritime education and training which at present are fragmented and deficient in many respects. [More…]
It will also play an important role in the development of Australia’s fishing industry which will need more highly skilled men to handle the sophisticated equipment required for distant water fishing as the proposed 200 mile off-shore limit becomes operative and as we take advantage of the vast resources of the Antarctic. [More…]
I mentioned inadequacies earlier, one being that there was so little warning of the storm’s intensity. [More…]
The speed of the weakening cyclone confounded the weather men. [More…]
The radio network of the Forest Department was of the utmost importance during the emergency, together with radios of the bushfire brigades winch were, for many hours, the only means of communication for co-ordinating the efforts of fire fighting forces. [More…]
Emergency services activated on Tuesday night involved support from the Army, Special Air Services, police and main roads and local government authorities. [More…]
The fire fighting efforts by the Forest Department staff and volunteers from the Bush Fire Brigade organisations received valuable support from men and equipment of the timber industry, Collie miners, Greenbushes Tin Co., numerous shires and other rural groups. [More…]
I make no apology for my remarks, except perhaps to the children at present in the public galleries, for this is the Parliament of the country and I think I have the right, indeed the obligation, to tell the people of Australia what is going on. [More…]
There is in Australia an increasing number of men and women who specialise in this highly lucrative skilled work of doing these killings for a living. [More…]
This light capsules the spirit of strong yet gentle men and women who have lost their patience, who have suffered for what must seem to them an enternity and who are now putting into practice in this modern environment the same sense of preservation, determination and survival demonstrated by their forebears who tamed the harsh dry areas of Australia. [More…]
In the words of my leader the Right Honourable J. D. Anthony, these men have had a gutful of the unions. [More…]
It grieves us to realise that waterside workers can load a boat destined for Vietnam to help the people of that country but do refuse to load boats with cargoes, the sale of which will safeguard and ensure the living of Australian men, women and children. [More…]
What have we achieved if the arrangements that resulted in the solution of the present deadlock are not permanent? [More…]
A government must not only appear to govern; it also ought to govern. [More…]
We as parliamentarians are recreant to the trust that has been placed in us if we are not alive to our responsibilities. [More…]
Mr Speaker, this Government and previous governments have been well served by a distinguished group of men who have devoted considerable time and energy serving ASTEC and its predecessors, the Advisory Committee of 1972 and the interim ASTEC. [More…]
Professor Badger has constantly pressed for the establishment of a permanent and independent science advisory council, particularly during his term as President of the Australian Academy of Science. [More…]
There are three other men whom I should also mention in this regard. [More…]
Sir Colin Syme, the Chairman of the Advisory Council established in 1972 and a member of the interim ASTEC, also played a vital role in the establishment of ASTEC. [More…]
I also mention Sir Louis Matheson, who served as Chairman of the interim ASTEC and who continues to serve as a member of ASTEC. [More…]
The advice of these men and of all the other distinguished scientists and others who have served on ASTEC has greatly assisted the Government in making numerous decisions affecting science and technology in Australia. [More…]
I and the Government and, I believe, this Parliament would wish to record our obligation and gratitude for that service. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for indicating once again, as our Government always indicates, that Australia consists of more than the large metropolitan areas of Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
That indicates that the then Government was composed of little men with little minds. [More…]
My bank could not care less that I retrenched seven men, all they want is my overdraft down or fold up. [More…]
On each occasion we have had a firm and reliable assurance from these men that no credit restrictions were in force, most certainly not with regard to small business. [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…]
We heard the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) talk about the Commonwealth Development Bank as if it were just another trading bank competing with the trading banks around the town. [More…]
Obviously the Opposition does not have a clue in creation as to what on earth a Commonwealth Development Bank is meant to be. [More…]
We heard the sarcasm of the honourable member for Hughes about the statement that ‘prospective borrowers will need to establish’- I quote from the Minister’s speech, as did he- ‘to the satisfaction of the bank, that the finance sought is not otherwise available on reasonable and suitable terms and conditions’. [More…]
That shows that honourable members opposite do not have even the first clue about what development finance is all about. [More…]
It is like their hide, luxuriating in this ignorance, to move an amendment to this legislation. [More…]
Even if one is skeptical of that figure, it is difficult to deny that the operation of payroll tax in this country is a major stumbling block in the path to the return to full employment. [More…]
Indeed, the Australian tax system is doubly biased against employment in that not only do we have a high tax on labour but also we have through the investment allowance a large tax concession applying to additional investment which, insofar as it is labour-saving investment, represents a tax incentive to replace men with machines. [More…]
The reality, as the Government has admitted in the most recent national wage case, is that most of the investment taking place at present is labour-saving investment, which is what one would expect when demand is slack and attractive tax concessions for investment, which are of limited duration, are made available at the same time. [More…]
Naturally, in these circumstances there is a powerful incentive for employers to take advantage of the investment allowance and to invest in machines which enable them to maintain their present output at lower cost, rather than to increase capacity to produce more by investing in machinery to enable them to produce more with the current methods of production. [More…]
Thus, the operation of the tax on labour through the payroll tax and a tax concession on labour-saving capital through the investment allowance mean that the tax system is massively biased in this country against the employment of people. [More…]
Yet this Government is prepared to sell uranium to them. [More…]
According to the IAEA reports, instruments are located at key points in the country’s nuclear fuel cycle and the results are compared with that country’s accounting records. [More…]
The Prime Minister is relying on bilateral agreements and the present inadequate IAEA procedures which I have outlined. [More…]
I know that the minds of honourable members opposite are closed and that their course is set but we are not talking to them tonight; we are talking to the men and women and the trade unionists of Australia - [More…]
Some members from that side of the House want to stop the men working on our uranium projects. [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…]
In those circumstances it would be only the bravest of men who would contend that such an environment would offer no problem for a future government of Australia. [More…]
The principle so enunciated has been abrogated, cast to the four winds and virtually spat upon by those creatures whose iron fists control the Barrier Industrial Council and the Broken Hill City Council and who have a stranglehold over the destiny and livelihoods of thousands of ordinary decent Australian men and women. [More…]
Step out of line and the sacred principles for which our men died and which are the inherent right of us all will be jackbooted into the dirt. [More…]
If the New South Wales Government keeps on turning a blind eye to the overall situation- to do a Pontius Pilate in this case- by washing its hands of the affair, the assumption can be reliably made that it would act similarly in similar circumstances where any other responsible worker in New South Wales was the recipient of union strong arm tactics. [More…]
Surely then the New South Wales Government exists to protect the democratic rights of its citizens. [More…]
It becomes undeserving of their trust, and its parliamentarians must be cast from office at the first available opportunity by the very people who put them there. [More…]
This is a fight by all men and women of peace and goodwill and by all those who stand for the democratic way of life against any duly elected representative of the people who pays lip service only to the very principles for which the flower of this nation died. [More…]
For their own sakes and for the sakes of their children and indeed for posterity they must demand, as I do, the recall of the New South Wales Parliament from its S-month recess to pass the necessary legislation that clearly only it can pass. [More…]
1 ) How many (a) men and (b) women were granted Australian citizenship in 1977. [More…]
How many (a) men and (b) women were refused citizenship in 1977 because of their insufficient knowledge of English. [More…]
The Premier told Mr Davey that he could check with community leaders in some of the areas in which these two accused men were engaged in the Aboriginal eye care project who had seen bundles of electoral enrolment cards. [More…]
The reply from the Premier was that he had nothing to add to his previous statements. [More…]
This Bill, in comparison with related Bills such as the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, clearly shows that there is a direct intrusion into local Northern Territory matters whereas the latter Bill largely equates the position of the Territory with that of the States. [More…]
Some examples of this intrusion contained in the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Amendment Bill include: Firstly, that the national park is to be proclaimed under a Federal Act; and, secondly, that negotiations for the lease from the Aborigines are in the hands of the Director of National Parks and Wildlife. [More…]
There is no provision for the involvement of the Northern Territory Parks and Wildlife Commission or its director, despite the years of experience of many able men headed by a very competent director. [More…]
I should also mention that a long while ago the Williams inquiry into education and training was appointed and we hope to receive its report quite soon. [More…]
In addition, the Minister is negotiating with the States to appoint an inquiry into teacher training because what happens in the final years at school is very important to the capacity of young men and women to take a useful and productive place within the Australian community. [More…]
The concern shown by the honourable gentleman is certainly shared by the Government. [More…]
I am quite certain that, in addition to the measures that are being undertaken and that are under examination, the Government would certainly be receptive to any constructive suggestions from members on either side of the House or from the community generally. [More…]
What this Government is doing at the moment is indulging the peculiar idiosyncrasies of the Prime Minister, including his penchant for fast cars and luxurious aeroplanes. [More…]
The Government turned its back on them, saying it was a commercial decision. [More…]
The Government has done nothing to provide for these men. [More…]
The nation is in the hands of a corrupt government. [More…]
It ‘s a corker for PM ‘s men. [More…]
If $40m is available to purchase five new luxury aircraft, the first priority for that $40m should be to stimulate the economy, to provide job security, to get the shipyards back to work, to get the men at Chrysler back to work, and to secure our economy. [More…]
The Government stands condemned before the people for putting forward such an extravagant proposal. [More…]
As honourable members will know, the existing legislative basis for the CES is to be found in the Re-establishment and Employment Act 1945. [More…]
The provisions in the Commonwealth Employment Service Bill 1978, if accepted, will necessitate the 1945 Act being amended, and the Re-establishment and Employment Amendment Bill 1978 proposes the repeal of Division 5 of Part II. [More…]
The 1945 Act sets out the then Government’s policy for re-establishing discharged men and women, and re-settling civilian war workers. [More…]
In order to facilitate this process, and against the background of the Government’s commitment to establish and maintain a high and stable level of employment, and the assumption by the Commonwealth of responsibility for the administration of unemployment benefit, the Act provided for the formal establishment of a decentralised Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
The CES was therefore one of the earliest- and has remained- one of the most significant expressions of the commitment to high and stable employment. [More…]
Indeed, throughout Western industrialised countries public employment services have remained the cornerstone of the involvement of governments in the operation of the labour market. [More…]
In biblical times the tax collector was the most despised of men though I would suggest that it was only because the taxes being collected by him were for the conquering nation, which in those days was the Roman Empire. [More…]
If anyone should be despised it is not the tax collector but the tax avoider because that person seeks to transfer to someone else his obligation to contribute towards the costs of government. [More…]
I wonder how sincere the Government is in its statements regarding its attempts to close off the various tax avoidance devices which are in existence. [More…]
Of course, the main supporters of this Government are those people who have a vested interest in tax avoidance schemes or in tax evasion. [More…]
The men and women with money and the big companies who practise these devices pass their share of taxation on to the person who can least afford to pay it. [More…]
Does he realise that exports of coal, especially to Japan, are jeopardised and that unemployment will be increased by the refusal of the Premier of New South Wales to make decisions? [More…]
Can the Minister tell the House what the Government can do to help overcome Premier Wran’s refusal to look after the interests of the men down the mines and the interests of New South Wales and Australia? [More…]
We are talking now of a group of men elected to this Parliament by 14 million Australians. [More…]
I agree with my friend the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) in that I too would like to have seen the Labor Government introduce this legislation when Treasurer Crean first spoke about it back in 1974. [More…]
The first result will be that some mines will run out of coal and have to lay off men. [More…]
I cite as an example the Wongawilli mine at which 350 men may have to be laid off next month. [More…]
The situation has been known for some years and it awaits a definite decision from the New South Wales Government. [More…]
Until the New South Wales Government makes a decision, contracts will be in jeopardy, sales cannot increase and unemployment will increase. [More…]
It is the scripture of my party that men and women do their best and achieve their full potential when the reward of their efforts is their own. [More…]
One realises that a government has the impossible task of reconciling minimum taxation with maximum spending. [More…]
On a personal scene, I am attracted to the view that the aim of government should be to obtain its revenue by lowering taxes on more dollars earned rather than to obtain its revenue through higher taxation on fewer dollars earned as people will not exert themselves because of the famous words: ‘Why should we work hard as the Government takes it from us in taxation?’ [More…]
The Committee recommended measures further to integrate gift and death dudes to take away the incentive offered under the present laws to make gifts during one’s lifetime. [More…]
The Committee recommended restructuring the rates so that the tax bite would increase with the scale of property interests held, and recommended exemptions to exclude the weight of the duty falling on the spouse and family firms. [More…]
However, it must be emphasised that this is not a government interested in reform but rather a government which is primarily dedicated to reinforcing the divisions which exist between men of property and the rest of the community. [More…]
To summarise, the introduction of an independent broadcasting authority would have three major effects: Firstly, it would end the domination by ratings, which make commercial television and radio apprehensive about experimentation, because they fear losing habitual viewers to more conventional commercial programs on other channels. [More…]
Secondly, it would relieve commercial managements of the problems of trying to maximise profits at the same time as they attempt to meet the program requirements laid down by the Government. [More…]
Thirdly, it would restore the idea that television and radio, whether commercial or government, represent guaranteed access to an irreplaceable resource, the people’s time. [More…]
We ought to think of the audience as being equivalent with the community and recognise that every majority is made up of groups which are themselves minoritiesyoung women, old women, girls, young men, old men, boys, Anglicans, Catholics, agnostics, rich, middle income, poor, under-educated and over-educated. [More…]
There are still disabilities imposed upon people in education arising, for instance, from sex: There are more chances for young men than there are for young women. [More…]
-The unemployment situation in Australia, especially for the younger generation, is at rock bottom. [More…]
We hear on radio, television and read in the newspapers heartbreaking stories of people looking for employment. [More…]
I also read that executivetype men and women from 40 to 60 years of age have been retrenched. [More…]
It was stated that from 37 per cent to 48 per cent of those retrenched cannot find employment in their own profession. [More…]
Both sexes are feeling this injustice all around Australia in this cancerous unemployment situation. [More…]
Migrants are feeling the buffeting of unemployment. [More…]
The honourable member also drew attention to the disparity between the sentences passed on these two men and the sentences passed in relation to offences committed by two American women. [More…]
It will be recalled that the two women were sentenced to a term of 14 years imprisonment. [More…]
I point out to the House that the two American women were sentenced under that part of the customs law that concerns the illegal importation of hard drugs- for importing hashish in resin form, which is described as a hard drug under the legislation. [More…]
It will be my intention at these discussions to obtain agreement with the States to increase the maximum penalties. [More…]
The United States coastguard has a strength of some 35,000 men. [More…]
The United States coastguard has substantial numbers of aircraft and helicopters and a substantial quantity of other specialised equipment. [More…]
The New South Wales Government will take these men, many of whom are in prison for 15 or 20 year terms for the most vicious crimes, and disperse them through the prisons and allow other prisoners, particularly younger persons to come into contact with them. [More…]
One study done in the United States of America revealed that, in a period of rising unemployment, for every 100 women laid off 30 joined the unemployed and the remaining 70 dropped out of the labour force as discouraged workers. [More…]
The rapid increase of employment of women also refutes the argument on the wage rate question. [More…]
Again, whilst it is not totally relevant to this matter, this is an argument which was used against the Labor Government for the rise in unemployment figures in this country. [More…]
At a time when equal pay had been given by the courts, between May 1974 and November 1975, female employment increased by 80,000 whereas the number of men employed declined by 60,000. [More…]
At the moment, proportionately more females of Australian and migrant origin are unemployed in all age groups than the corresponding group of males. [More…]
When these figures, which today show a total of 10.4 per cent of the female work force unemployed, are added to the hidden unemployment to which I have already referred one can comprehend the problems concerning the newly-structured Commonwealth Employment Service operation. [More…]
All measures shall be taken to guarantee women ‘s right to work as the inalienable right of other women doing and to refuse as necessary existing mass collective agreements, practices or customs which limit the integration of women in the work force on a footing of equality with men. [More…]
The mandatory retiring age of 65 years for men and 60 years for women is a social rule that we inherited but have never questioned. [More…]
The changes in the expected life span or our standard of living or the demographic changes taking place in our society have failed to rouse the Government even to the extent of having a Parliamentary debate on this matter. [More…]
Some countries with a more purposeful social conscience than the present Government have a flexible retiring age of between 60 and 70 years of age. [More…]
Others have made arrangements whereby part pensions can be paid for those opting out of the workforce before 65. [More…]
At least one country permits early retirement on full pension provided that person is replaced in employment by an under 30 year old. [More…]
The ratio between those at work and those receiving social security payments plays an important part, of course, in this debate. [More…]
It is in some difficulty at the moment. [More…]
It has been suggested that the anticipated development of deep sea trawling will solve the employment problem. [More…]
With trawling men can be at sea for up to 50 days, whereas with whaling the catches work on a daily basis. [More…]
He first entered the Victorian Parliament, where he served nearly six years. [More…]
Characteristically, he quickly made his mark as parliamentarian and Minister, holding several portfolios, and within four years, at the age of 37, he became Deputy Premier. [More…]
His unfailing interest in his constituents and his commitment to them earned him their loyalty, their trust and their admiration. [More…]
Immediately upon his election to Federal Parliament, Sir Robert was appointed Attorney-General and Minister for Industry, portfolios he held until 1939. [More…]
These were years of extraordinary activity in which Sir Robert had achieved what for many men would have been the work and ambition of many lifetimes. [More…]
Inevitably there was a change of government. [More…]
The trials of these years may have left most men embittered and unnerved. [More…]
They served only to spur Menzies to embark on a program of reshaping, rebuilding, remodelling and reassessing the needs of those Australians who had pinned their faith to a Liberal alternative. [More…]
Sir Robert was recognised by all as one of the Queen’s men. [More…]
He saw clearly the place of the Crown in the Australian body politic, and stood by the principles of constitutional monarchy which are the fundamental base of our political life. [More…]
Many people will recall Her Majesty’s first visit to this country in 1954 and how she was escorted with dignity and with a profound sense of the occasion by her Australian Prime Minister to the opening of this Parliament. [More…]
I send you my condolences on the death of Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
He was one of the great men of his era. [More…]
I consider them to have been men of great parliamentary stature. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies’ career is a salutory reminder that they are not necessarily so. [More…]
His commitment to those values was not doctrinal or theoretical; it was based on long experience and the fact that they had evolved gradually and were the products of a particular historical tradition. [More…]
It was a fully earned commitment, immune to changing fashion and confident in itself. [More…]
In substance, Sir Robert Menzies combined all the essential qualities of leadership: Courage, judgment, integrity and dedication. [More…]
Such qualities are frequently found in part in other men; Sir Robert had the rare combination in full. [More…]
He has achieved success who: Has lived well, laughed often, and loved much, Who has gained the respect of intelligent men, the trust of women, and the love of little children, Who has filled his niche and accomplished his task, Who has left the world better than he found it, Who has never lacked appreciation for earth’s beauty nor failed to express it, Who has always looked for the best in others and given them the best he had, Whose life was an inspiration, his memory a benediction. [More…]
The provision of the Defence Service Homes Act apply equally to men and women. [More…]
Accordingly, ex-servicemen and women are required to meet the same qualifying conditions. [More…]
The level of on-site employment on projects varies significantly throughout the currency of each project. [More…]
For example the largest single project commenced in March 1978 is the Australian National Animal Health Laboratory (ANAHL) at Geelong. [More…]
As this project gathers momentum it will directly employ at various stages an estimated 200 to SOO men on-site. [More…]
He and the rest of the Government back benchers sit around like parrots on biscuit tins. [More…]
They are on the Government, but they are not in the Government. [More…]
But where is the Minister for National Development (Mr Newman)? [More…]
Firstly let me deal with the industrial dispute which occurred in Port Kembla over the last few days and which, as my colleague has pointed out, was solved not by the Federal Government but by the unions concerned and by the Premier of New South Wales. [More…]
I tell the House that those men had a case, as the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating) has said. [More…]
The people who had to maintain that installation at Port Kembla were receiving $3.90 an hour as members of the Federated Ironworkers Association, and their colleagues- workers in the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association who work the loader- were receiving $4.75 an hour. [More…]
Mr Wran can take some credit for solving that dispute, for getting the men back to work and for getting the coal moving again. [More…]
The Government’s approach to economic policy has been an extraordinarily simplistic one. [More…]
Its approach has been this: ‘Right, we will increase unemployment as our way of fighting inflation’. [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…]
That is why I say it is a thimble and pea trick which the Fraser Government played upon the ordinary family men and women of this country. [More…]
If they sat down and looked at the matter logically, had their tax rebates for dependent children been indexed as the Government had undertaken to do, they would be far better off than they are today. [More…]
Other areas are attacked by the policies of the Government because of the philosophy that flows through the Budget strategy. [More…]
The unemployment policy has resulted in alarming increases in the young homeless in my electorate. [More…]
Statistics from Melbourne institutions for homeless men verify this increase. [More…]
The Salvation Army has taken out figures for the Gill accommodation centre, a traditional Melbourne centre for homeless men. [More…]
I hope that we will do something more dramatic about this disarmament conference than appears to be the case at the moment. [More…]
I think it is important that the people of the world see that on this matter- diffident and inhibited as I think the approach of the Government is- there is a bipartisan approach. [More…]
But after the battles were over men came home. [More…]
-May I say at the outset that the Government condemns unreservedly the senseless and brutal killings of innocent men, women and children recently in Zaire. [More…]
Their aim appears to have been to bring down the present Mobutu Government in Zaire or to bring about the secession from Zaire of the Shaba province, which, of course, is the former Katanga, as was attempted in the early 1960s. [More…]
Honourable members will be familiar with the famous parable of the four blind men and the elephant. [More…]
Mr Grahamslaw mentions specific examples. [More…]
On one occasion nine Australian prisoners comprising five men, three women and one child were brought in by natives and subsequently killed and beheaded. [More…]
There are two streams within the Department: There is the A stream and the B stream. [More…]
It is important that we should do something about this problem because other governments have done something about it. [More…]
Other governments operate successfully without this sort of class distinction within their departments. [More…]
It seems to be pretty evident from the Minister’s statement that his Department is more overloaded with people doing what we might call the political and economic reporting than with people who are able to deal with the problems of Australians overseas. [More…]
As in the case of medical practitioners, it is important that they should have the ability at the commencement of their profession to understand what the human problems are. [More…]
They should not just go into the rarefied A stream without first having to think about the problems of their fellow men. [More…]
The Department of Foreign Affairs could benefit if more of its diplomatic staff stepped out into the normal atmosphere of life and dealt with the problems of people as we as politicians understand them. [More…]
Even those he has visited were too numerous to list in his seven-page statement. [More…]
The subsistence activities and the exchanges which arise from them are the basis of the women’s society, which is able to mitigate to some extent men’s control of ritual life. [More…]
That is, the Government did not have the information to make changes like introducing front end deductible schemes, five weeks ago. [More…]
It is true that it is impossible to make any accounting at the front end deductibles announced in the Ministerial Statement. [More…]
There is no evidence in any of the documents he provides of new statistical information to provide the profile that he talked about as being necessary. [More…]
When the Sax report came in some weeks ago the Minister gave a reasonably sympathetic response to that document. [More…]
Yet of the four concrete proposals he put before the Parliament in his statement two of them are clearly rejected by the Sax Commission. [More…]
Two of them it recommends; the other two are rejected. [More…]
I am beginning to think that for the learned men who write reports for this Government, that if they want their views accepted they should argue against them. [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…]
That is why I supported the Opposition’s amendment. [More…]
Unless there is a broader and more sympathetic approach by those in control perhaps there will be the same frustration with this organisation as there is with the Commonwealth Development Bank. [More…]
As I have said, I do not know why we were not able to extend the charter of the Development Bank to use State instrumentalities which are already established and which are doing great work. [More…]
People may make their own judgments about this sectional and class biased government. [More…]
I say ‘tragic’ because Australia has skilled men and the materials available to build houses. [More…]
All that is needed is a government that will make a decision to overcome the tragic position. [More…]
The Commonwealth and the States should set a target rate of completing 15,000 dwellings a year, or a 25 per cent increase on the last 5 years, for the three year duration of this agreement. [More…]
There are many reasons for saying that we need to build more houses under this agreement. [More…]
We have unused resources, both men and materials. [More…]
A stimulus of this type would have a flow-on effect to other sections of industry- the supply of cement, fibrous plaster and related products, asbestos cement sheets and mouldings, bricks and tiles and other earthenware products, porcelain and terracotta products, glassware, sawn timber, plywood and veneers, other processed wood wall and ceiling boards, aluminium building materials and plastic building materials. [More…]
This Government, more than its predecessors, has protected the privileges and rights of the Parliament and of individual Australians, wherever they may be, against bureaucratic decisions. [More…]
A Minister and a department under the direction of the Minister were deliberately pursuing loans overseas and seeking to by-pass the normal authorities in that regard. [More…]
These are men of notoriety. [More…]
By their debate today they remind this House and this nation that they are men of notoriety. [More…]
As to the protection of civil rights, we have seen the appointment of the Ombudsman and the establishment of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. [More…]
The freedom of information legislation will be introduced into this Parliament during this week or next week, and will lie in the Parliament over the winter recess. [More…]
In the area of the protection of civil rights against a large and, as some would see it, an increasingly powerful bureaucracy this Government has done more than any in the history of Australia to protect the rights of average Australian men and women against bureaucratic decisions of one kind or another. [More…]
The overall strategy and our intention when we framed that Budget in August 1975 was that if building had not lifted in the private sector, if unemployment worsened in the construction or in the housing sector, we would stimulate public sector housing in the second half of 1975-76. [More…]
The honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson), who was then the Minister for Housing, joined in consultation with myself and the then Treasurer to seek an additional amount of money because if men and materials were available we would make more money available. [More…]
We said at that time that if the private sector had not picked up and if both men and materials were available we would provide that money, and that is what we did. [More…]
All I am saying to this Government now is that both men and material are available. [More…]
The honourable member for Cunningham (Mr West) this afternoon cited the actual number of workmen unemployed. [More…]
We have materials under-utilised; we have men under-utilised. [More…]
It is about time that this Government gave a stimulus to the public housing sector. [More…]
I am making it quite clear that the actual percentage of government expenditure made available has fallen. [More…]
If you like to go back even further and look at the relevant figures when this Administration was previously in office, in 1970-71 some $142m was made available for welfare housing and that was then 1.74 per cent of government expenditure. [More…]
Those were all years under the administration of a conservative government. [More…]
What I am saying is that this Government has given public housing a lower priority. [More…]
When the conservative government headed by Sir Robert Menzies was in office, 22 per cent of all housing was built by the public sector. [More…]
If the honourable member had been listening he would have been aware that for the last five minutes I have been paying tribute to one of the greatest men involved in public housing in Australia. [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…]
It is about time that we in this Parliament had some understanding of the matter and gave some protection as far as growth is concerned. [More…]
In relation to an earlier amendment I spoke about the struggle going on within the ministries of this Government. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is one of the very junior Ministers. [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…]
This amendment shows a narrowness of attitude. [More…]
It is the little men with power who have the control of the parties opposite. [More…]
The Government parties are controlled by enormously conservative people. [More…]
The National Country Party elements have certainly made particular Liberal members toe the line and it is about time some of the young backbenchers, who I know are men of principle, stood up to these awful conservative forces that are squeezing them out. [More…]
The Opposition did not want to oppose all these amendments, but in view of what has happened in Committee, I think that when the vote is taken it will have to oppose everything. [More…]
This Government is not worried about nuclear codes or the protection of the environment. [More…]
The speciousness of the Government’s position stands exposed by these very amendments. [More…]
From the word ‘go’ it wanted to produce uranium regardless of the dangers, regardless of the hazards and regardless of the safety of the men on the job. [More…]
The Government was so anxious that in the first place, it produced a Bill which ran absolutely roughshod over State’s rights. [More…]
In order to sustain that objective of mining at any cost, irrespective of the dangers or problems, we now have before us a piece of legislation which is a disgrace to the Commonwealth Parliament, a disgrace to the party of Menzies. [More…]
Has there ever been a more shameful, a more despicable, abnegation of the responsibilities of Parliament? [More…]
This Government says: ‘Of course we are concerned about the problems of safety in the handling of nuclear substances’. [More…]
But it is so concerned about those things that there will be a nuclear code only if a State government asks the Commonwealth. [More…]
Teams of Soviet and Cuban advisers have moved into Missao de Boma, in south-eastern Angola, to instruct the men in the use of field guns, surface to air missiles, rocket launchers and other heavy equipment. [More…]
It should then put the cleaners through the Defence Department. [More…]
The late Sir Robert Menzies won the 1963 election on the refusal of Labor’s ‘36 faceless men’ to approve the original North West Cape radio station. [More…]
The Fraser Government is suffering acute embarrassment on the ‘faceless’ Defence Department ‘s significant upgrading of that station. [More…]
It is time this matter was looked at especially by a government talking so much about cutting down the Public Service and saving the money of the taxpayers, bearing in mind the enormous payout in salaries to public servants. [More…]
Inside the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations there are key men who are directly tied to the NCC. [More…]
He was feeding NCC poison into the Prime Minister and into the Department, and is now trying to force the Minister to take it as well. [More…]
If the statements were reported correctly- and I believe they are, bearing in mind the text of. [More…]
Thousands of men employed in the industry were put out of work and stood down. [More…]
Mr Mumford told Mr Hancher that his department had deliberately misled them so that they did not attempt to take counter measures. [More…]
Rent-o-Kill men arrived and covered the aviaries with huge tarpaulins and killed the birds by fumigation. [More…]
I would like to refer to the substitution of the mythical Office of Road Safety within the Department of Transport. [More…]
One can appreciate the benefits that can flow from such an office within the Department of Transport. [More…]
However, this office is subservient to the wishes of the Minister and the Department as a whole. [More…]
Whilst I have great regard for the integrity of the men within the Department and their interest in road safety, they are still governed by government policy and by what the Minister decides the Department will do. [More…]
Those two men no longer are able to sit on the Road Safety and Standards Authority and help to make recommendations to the Government. [More…]
Population-based incidence data, from Queensland, giving the incidence rate per unit area of skin, shows significant excess melanomas on the generally or occasionally exposed sites of the face, leg, neck and arm in women and of the face, ear, neck and back in men. [More…]
It is very appropriate that this change should be proposed because members are coming into Parliament at a much younger age. [More…]
If we want to get the best men in Parliament, it is important that we guarantee that they enter Parliament in the prime of life and not in their declining years. [More…]
The Bill has penalties for people who are, if I may say so, reaching the latter period of their effective parliamentary life. [More…]
It is deepening its investment in this area and consequently is shedding labour. [More…]
It is not good enough for the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) to say that confidence is returning and that the investment figures are up. [More…]
Investment figures are not an indication of what is happening in the economy. [More…]
All that is happening is that investment is deepening and machines are taking the place of men. [More…]
What we want is investment to widen so that new jobs are created. [More…]
The Aborigines have been driven off those pieces of the country that white men wanted. [More…]
The second proposition is that even if the person fails to comply with the injunction, the provisions for enforcement are not the traditional provisions of contempt of court which could involve imprisonment but are summary provisions which involve a fine of $200. [More…]
These men should be locked up for 10 or 20 years’. [More…]
Frankly, I carry that concern in my heart even to this very moment, in the debate. [More…]
It is only because of Australia’s obligations under the Vienna Treaty, and because the legislation as it now stands before us is far more restrained and moderate than perhaps otherwise it might have been that I can say with, I believe, a clear conscience that the legislation probably ought to be passed by the Parliament, although I reserve my own position in relation to it. [More…]
Over-expansion and reckless optimism were fostered by the men of conventional wisdom who still populate the [More…]
Through the beef industry incentive payments scheme, more money has been provided to a single agricultural industry than ever before. [More…]
But the assistance given by this Government has not only enabled those men to stay on their farms with their families but also given them a prospect of carrying on to the point where it seems the beef market is about to improve significantly. [More…]
The use of this debate as an opportunity to slander other men is just a demonstration of the cynicism of those who raised this matter. [More…]
That may be so, but the statement is a little meaningless unless they define what their poverty line is. [More…]
But we will take the statement as read. [More…]
Those released from Nirbaya Prison in Jakarta were nearly all old while the Bandung newspaper, Pikiran Rakyat, 19 January 1978, reported the release of two 77-year-old men in the city. [More…]
The only prison where age does not seem to have a significant criterion is Bukit Duri women’s prison in Jakarta where the releases included a young woman of 30 who would have been a teenager at the time of her arrest. [More…]
The Commonwealth Banking Corporation’s OHA scheme is designed primarily to assist married men officers who, as a fundamental condition of employment, are required to be prepared to serve at any of the points of Corporation representation. [More…]
Corporation officers, young single men and women officers, probationers, full-time temporary service staff and part-time staff. [More…]
One aspect is of concern: I would hope that those people who are involved in the industry right through to the point of shipment co-operate in order to ensure maximum returns to the Australian community. [More…]
Not only do those industrial disruptions prejudice returns to the men involved but they also affect Australia’s capacity to meet orders when they are capable of being negotiated. [More…]
I submit that there is relevance between the fact that unemployment exists and how people who are unemployed are to be put back into the work force or how they are to be treated between now and when they are put back into the work force. [More…]
If unemployment did not exist at the level that exists today, the honourable member for Robertson would not be asking this question. [More…]
It is well known to honourable members and, indeed, to the people of Australia that it was the Labor Government which when in office took policy decisions that created the unemployment levels that exist today. [More…]
This Government, in the relatively short period that it has been in office, has taken decisions in the economic areas and in the business areas to recreate jobs and to create a climate conducive to employment. [More…]
It ill becomes the honourable member for Robertson and any other Opposition member to ask a question of this nature when, I submit, they are the guilty men. [More…]
At Dumbarton Oaks in 1 944 the leaders of the governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the United Kingdom and the United States of America met and agreed upon proposals to establish an international organisation to replace the League of Nations and which was to be called the United Nations. [More…]
The conclusions reached at Dumbarton Oaks included the belief that the United Nations should ‘facilitate solutions of international economic, social and other humanitarian problems and should promote respect for human rights and fundamental freedom’. [More…]
For example, in the preamble the peoples of the member nations expressed their determination ‘to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small’. [More…]
Article 56, when read with Article 55, provides that ‘all members pledge themselves to take joint and separate action in co-operation with the Organisation for the achievement’ of a number of objectives which ‘the United Nations shall promote ‘. [More…]
Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Chaner reaffirmed their faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person and in the equal rights of men and women and have determined to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom, [More…]
Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. [More…]
The Government of the Republic of South Africa has done nothing to lessen the impact of its apartheid policy. [More…]
It is evident that many states still choose to ignore the terms of these human rights documents and to deprive their citizens of one or more of the basic human rights and freedoms to which all people are entitled. [More…]
The Commonwealth parliamentary group of Amnesty International is comprised of members of this House and members of the other place and those members are from all the political parties. [More…]
They work to have men and women released from prisons where they have been incarcerated because of their beliefs, colour, ethnic origin, language or religion. [More…]
Moreover, it is doubtful that the present standard will continue to attract the type of men whose knowledge allows them to adjust without great effort to changes in the type of shipping and cargo handling that are developing. [More…]
I thank the previous speaker for his comments. [More…]
I will make mine rather brief because we have two northern Tasmanian members in the House tonight- the Minister for National Develpment (Mr Newman), representing the electorate of Bass, and the honourable member for Wilmot (Mr Burr). [More…]
It will be of great benefit to the city of Launceston and to the men and women who in future will sail our ships and be involved in the College. [More…]
The Opposition joins with the Government in its expression of condolence at the death of His Holiness, Pope Paul VI. [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…]
That statement shows the insidious influence of this Government over the whole Queensland redistribution. [More…]
If it was not so scandalous, it would be laughable to think that the Government of Australia can say in here today: ‘Look, something might have gone wrong. [More…]
It is a matter of the Government being guilty of the vilest corruption, using political influence to get the best results possible for a party in Queensland. [More…]
The Government got those results. [More…]
It was left to a back bencher- the honourable member for Fadden, who was sacked from the position of Deputy Government Whip some time ago- to raise again the matter of why the truth was subverted. [More…]
It was left to two men on the Government back bench to try to raise this matter. [More…]
It is a figment of the Opposition’s fevered imagination. [More…]
They have been trying to cover up their total inability to come to grips with all of the basic issues confronting the working men and women of Australia. [More…]
The Labor Party knows it is in real trouble and so do honourable gentlemen opposite. [More…]
The Government is saying that the posturing by the Opposition is a matter of complete and utter hypocrisy. [More…]
Those people who scoff, as the honourable member for Newcastle apparently does, and the cynics on the Opposition benches, I believe bring no credit on themselves or, in fact, on this national Parliament. [More…]
It is a sad commentary on their perverted perception of politics to see them rating the men and women of this country so low. [More…]
The men who are party to this conspiracy to cover up were in there saying: ‘Well, all we have to do is accept the Prime Minister’s word and accept that occasionally he has amnesia ‘. [More…]
I ask the House to consider why it was that the Prime Minister, on being confronted with a lengthy document from the honourable member for Fadden, did not ask him for a copy of it. [More…]
Of course, that is dealt with again by Withers, who says that at one stage Mr Fraser had asked to borrow the documents to have them photocopied but Mr Cameron had refused permission. [More…]
My statement this afternoon rejects entirely the need for the expenditure of public moneys on the undertaking of such an enquiry. [More…]
It is clearly necessary for me to present the true position of aviation safety in Australia to defend our pilots, our air traffic controllers, and other officers of my department, men and women who, I believe, are doing a difficult job magnificently, maintaining our aviation safety standards as perhaps the best in the world. [More…]
Sir Reginald Ansett made a similar comment about the situation in Victoria, as did the Acting Premier of Victoria. [More…]
Does the Minister accuse those men of sensationalising? [More…]
When people who hold such positions see these things happening and seek to draw them to the public attention I think that I, as the Opposition’s spokesman in this area, have a responsibility to respond, having ascertained to my own satisfaction that there is substance in the statements. [More…]
I think the Government has a responsibility in this matter. [More…]
It is not good enough for the Government to try to skirt around the problem. [More…]
This is to allow for full consultation with State governments on future arrangements to meet the needs of homeless people in the light of the experience with the program to date. [More…]
As honourable members will be aware, the Homeless Persons Assistance Act was introduced in December 1974 on the basis of a report by a working party on homeless men and women. [More…]
The program has been kept under close review since then, and has been the subject of specific evaluation by the Department of Social Security including careful scrutiny by the homeless persons advisory committees established in each State. [More…]
The working party on homeless men and women recommended amongst other things, that capital grants totalling up to $5m a year should be made available over a three-year period to voluntary agencies and local and statutory authorities for approved projects- such as night shelters, reception and assessment centres, hostels, flats, day centres, special clinics and detoxification units- in order to upgrade and replace existing inadequate accommodation and to build new facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [More…]
The Act provides for capital grants to be made to eligible organisations, which are defined as non-profit organisations, local governing bodies and charitable or benevolent trusts, towards the full cost of purchasing, constructing or renting buildings, including the purchase of furniture and equipment. [More…]
The Government has no doubt about the importance of this program, nor its effectiveness in helping to upgrade the standard of facilities for homeless men and women in many areas of Australia. [More…]
Complementary to the assistance that has been provided under this program, 76 women’s refuges have been approved for funding, at an estimated cost of some $3m this financial year, through the community health program. [More…]
Because of the involvement of the State governments in many aspects of services for homeless people, the Government has decided that it is appropriate at this stage to extend the Act for a further year, to allow full consultations with the States on future arrangements. [More…]
This is in line with the spirit of the report of the working party on homeless men and women, which recognised the need for consultation concerning the continued development of service by all levels of government and voluntary agencies to meet the needs of homeless people. [More…]
The future of the garment and textile industry will mean a great deal for this country. [More…]
The sizes of garments, the lasts of shoes and the types of cuts that are necessary for all clothing in this country are different from those in most other countries. [More…]
This applies to underwear garments, swimwear, sportswear and normal day-wear clothing. [More…]
If honourable members look at the Bill they will see that it covers everything from rubber coated garments, men’s suits and clothing, women’s dresses, underwear, boys and girls’ clothing and babies napkins. [More…]
Another criticism is that the Government has given no indication of how this proposed Corporation is to secure information about available projects. [More…]
How does the Government expect the proposed Corporation to do it? [More…]
We have said for some time- and again we were denigrated in the second reading speechthat the most effective way for Australia to trade and develop would be to have an Australian overseas trading corporation, not as a socialist concept but on the basis of talking government to government with the ability to find out about projects that ought to be developed. [More…]
If we had that sort of structure, which for reasons we cannot understand this Government will never agree to, we would be fully alerted to the worthwhile projects that could be developed in other countries and for that purpose we could utilise our trade commissioners. [More…]
But if this legislation is passed we will have a private enterprise corporation employing very busy men who will be trying to make a living in private organisations in Australia and who will be expected to be alert to what is happening in other countries. [More…]
How will the Government get this sort of corporation to assist employment and development in Australia? [More…]
Australian soldiers fought and died in New Guinea to keep the Asian invader from our shores, but these men - [More…]
There are arrows pointing to the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar)- these men- these politicians- afraid of offending the United Nations are now breaking faith with those who died and suffered to keep Asian invaders out of Australia. [More…]
This Government encourages a ‘wear our badge with pride’ mentality. [More…]
This Government says that it will stand loyally by our ex-servicemen and women. [More…]
Yet it is this Government which for the first time in our history will tax repatriation pensions in the same way as any other income. [More…]
It is this Government which we have seen decrease in real terms by over 50 per cent in the last three years the amount of money made available for defence service homes. [More…]
At that time the men and the material were available- as they are now- to enable homes to be constructed. [More…]
Under a Labor Administration we made sure that the men and the material were available. [More…]
There are two other aspects of the matter that I want to mention. [More…]
I refer particularly to proposed new section 4AAA (1) (a) (ii) which requires a regular serviceman to serve six years’ continuous full time service, with a commitment to render further service. [More…]
For the first time, the legislation will discriminate between an officer who accepts a career appointment and who may resign at any time and other ranks on the basis of service for eligibility for a defence service home loan. [More…]
Moreover, the legislation will discriminate between the Services because they have different terms of enlistment. [More…]
It also discriminates- I want to emphasise that word strongly to honourable members opposite because this is a discriminating Government- between men and women who have different terms of enlistment. [More…]
After all, the servicemen have a role to play. [More…]
But Army personnel- those men and women who comprise the great mass of the Services- serve for six years in the first case and then they must re-enlist. [More…]
It is a ‘putting a carrot in front of a donkey’ mentality. [More…]
Servicemen and women are being told, in effect, that if they want their home loan they must re-enlist and extend their period of service. [More…]
So far as I am concerned, it is typical of this Government. [More…]
These were the guilty men. [More…]
I want to quote the comments of a Mr Maher as they appeared in the Melbourne Sun Pictorial. [More…]
The comments give one some feeling for those who were at the butt of this exercise. [More…]
I have heard all those sorts of comments in court from many guilty men. [More…]
Let me read the comments from the Melbourne Sun: [More…]
Let me remind him that there are no women in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Fifty per cent of the electorate is constituted of women. [More…]
Women want some say about what the Government is doing to the incomes that come into their homes. [More…]
Women, as well as other members of the community, are having their say outside this House in rallies. [More…]
Yesterday morning those 20 men from the brickyards went to demonstrate outside John McLeay ‘s office against the Budget. [More…]
Civil servants in Australia, and the community at large, often look with envy on the condition of service that apply to Australian men serving in the forces. [More…]
They look, for instance, at group rental schemes, at provisions for retirement benefits and at certain allowances and conditions and tend to consider that in times of peace those benefits are rather generous. [More…]
It is not obvious to people who consider the type of work and the involvement of servicemen in our community that they may be called on to pay the supreme sacrifice of giving their lives in the service of the nation. [More…]
Few people seem to be aware that, on a constant basis, servicemen are required to move with their families from place to place throughout Australia, often on a two-yearly basis, thereby disrupting home life, family life and the schooling of the children and thereby causing the onflowing effects which appertain in relation to the wellbeing of the children, their development and growth and their capacity to cope with the educational system. [More…]
If the terms and conditions of service are not satisfactory and if the number of men coming forward to play their part in the defence Services is insufficient, other measures should be adopted; we should not be adopting this measure which is a traditional one for assisting those who are being paid a tribute by the nation. [More…]
I really do not think we can make those comparisons; nor do I feel that those types of servicemen can really be dealt with equally or thanked in the same way by this Parliament or by the people of the nation. [More…]
Therefore some distinction should be made if recognition is to be given to men who have served the nation. [More…]
This Government has made a move to give proper recognition to those who have served the nation, and providing for six years service is one measure which is designed to achieve that end. [More…]
Therefore, those who have served in war zones, those who have served for long periods, I trust will be given some sort of favoured treatment in the application of the measures that are envisaged by this Bill. [More…]
I refute completely that attitude and approach to the administration of this most important area, concerned as it is with the recognition of the service of men to this nation over a long period of time, and of service that they will continue to give. [More…]
They have given time and training, dedicated their lives to important areas of our defence and sacrificed many family pleasures and enjoyments that the average citizen benefits from in order to take part in a fine and proud career in the service of the nation. [More…]
The Government rejects completely the concepts contained in the Opposition’s proposed amendment. [More…]
As my colleague the honourable member for Mitchell (Mr Cadman) told the House, this program began many years ago and in an environment within which the circumstances were utterly different from those that exist in 1978. [More…]
It was decided that the servicemen, most of whom had suffered economically as the result of their period in the armed forces, because they had been in the battle in the Middle East or in France, would be entitled to an amount of money to assist in the provision of a home. [More…]
These were men who would marry and raise the families of the future. [More…]
-The Opposition has been forced to move an amendment in respect of this Bill to show that the Government again has failed to fulfil its promises to our ex-servicemen. [More…]
This Bill is another example of the Government paying only lip service to its oftrepeated assertion about the great debt of gratitude we owe our ex-service men and women and the serving members of our defence forces. [More…]
Governments of all complexions have always placed value on the votes of our serving personnel and our ex-servicemen rather than seek value for taxpayers’ money spent on the requirements of eligible ex-service men and women. [More…]
The scheme came into operation in March 1919, as part of the system of repatriation benefits, with the aim of satisfactorily securing the reinstatement to civilian life of members of the Australian Imperial Force. [More…]
From 1973 exservice men or women who had three years continuous regular or national service in the defence forces were covered. [More…]
One purpose of this Bill is to extend the period of qualifying service to six years for full time service subject to a commitment to render further full time service. [More…]
It extends from three years to six years, subject to a commitment to render further full time service, the eligibility provisions for serving members of the armed forces. [More…]
The present aims and objectives of the scheme appear to be to reward those who served their country in time of war, to attract and retain regular servicemen in peacetime, to recognise the significant contribution made to national defence by servicemen who undertake full time service of a substantial duration and to compensate regular service men and women for the considerable disadvantages they suffer in acquiring a permanent home when compared with other members of the community. [More…]
I am absolutely certain that nobody in this House would quarrel with the reward for service concept for our ex-service men and women and the serving members of our regular forces. [More…]
Originally, the loan granted to returned servicemen was more or less sufficient to purchase a home at an interest rate slightly less than the long term housing interest rates of the day. [More…]
On a recent parliamentary visit to Japan I was surprised to find that the normal retiring age in industry there is 55. [More…]
They have an expectation of 78 years for women and 73 years for men. [More…]
But the retirement age, certainly for the privates and noncommissioned officers of Japan’s industrial army, is 55 and in some cases 57. [More…]
It is that our own defence structure should be capable of deployment for maintaining and supervising peace as part of a United Nations force or for carrying out international peace-keeping agreements. [More…]
The Opposition is concerned to learn from newspaper articles by experienced journalists that the Department of Defence is opposed to any such commitment because we cannot afford it. [More…]
The nature of our defence structure at the moment is such that we cannot afford to be committed. [More…]
I am reminded of this by an article by Mr Laurie Oakes, headed ‘Senior men oppose plan to send troops’. [More…]
The restrictions and stringency measures contained in the Budget are clear evidence that our defence structure is rather weak, if in that context alone, we cannot subscribe to international arrangements. [More…]
I hope that when the Minister again delivers a joint statement he will inform us as to whether there is any disagreement between his Department and the Department of Defence on the basis of involvement. [More…]
It is thought that there is some disagreement there. [More…]
My fellow shadow Ministers are of the opinion that there could be support for the attitude of the Department of Defence of not wanting to be involved because it can well affect its obligations in other areas. [More…]
That is not mentioned in the Minister’s statement. [More…]
The point that we want to make is that nothing should be done, no commitment, no government decision should be made- until this House is fully informed as to what this is all about. [More…]
Opinion in this country would be a little divided at the moment. [More…]
The view would be held that we should help Namibia and there would be the other view as to whether our men should become involved in Africa and as to what such involvement would mean. [More…]
Utah is able to produce its profit and export resources with the aid of a little in excess of 2,000 men. [More…]
It is not just a matter of pump priming, of putting money into the system to pay the unemployed to do meaningless jobs, as was the case with the Regional Employment Development scheme, which was discarded by Labor itself. [More…]
So let us be frank about unemployment. [More…]
That indicates that if the policies of the Government are sound, confidence- something which is intangible and which cannot be measured or weighed- will flow through. [More…]
We need tough men and tough action, not fairy-floss opposition. [More…]
Parliament the Federal Government will put muscle into its industrial legislation. [More…]
It could follow the example of the Government of Queensland. [More…]
The Government has the responsibility of safeguarding the rights of the people. [More…]
How wrong it is when a handful of men at a power station in Gladstone can virtually cause industry in a State to grind to a standstill because they need tarpaulins to cover their cars. [More…]
They cause immense losses of thousands of dollars to innocent dairy farmers. [More…]
If that is the type of trade unionist we are developing in Australian society we as a Government have the responsibility to introduce legislation which says in effect that there shall be ‘no strike clauses’ in the awards of people engaged in the provision of essential services. [More…]
Unless our government is prepared to bite the bullet and take the necessary action we could well be tagged with being a government in name only. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition says that the charge of misleading Parliament was not made lightly. [More…]
It was made out of desperation by the Opposition because it has no attitudes, no purposes, no policies in relation to the main matters of concern to the Australian people- the working men and women whom the Labor Party once in the distant past used to represent but whom it no longer represents. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition has made a grave and fundamental error in his tactics because he has underestimated the Australian working men and women, the people who put members into this Parliament. [More…]
The Homeless Persons Bill was one of the small but valuable initiatives taken by the present Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) when he was the Minister for Social Security in the former Labor Government. [More…]
At that time there were several disastrous fires in some of the homeless persons homes in the capital cities, and this caused critical shortage of beds for homeless men. [More…]
The report of the working party on homeless men and women estimated that in 1973 approximately 25,000 people in Australia were homeless. [More…]
The report on the survey conducted recently by the Department of Social Security- I refer to the booklet entitled ‘A Place of Dignity’ which is the report on a survey of homeless people and homeless persons assistance centres- opened with the comment that an estimated 10,000 homeless men and women in Australia were being assisted by welfare agencies. [More…]
It outlines the social dimension of the problem of homelessness and the health status of these people. [More…]
Some of these findings, which were based on a significant sample of some 356 homeless men in Sydney, were as follows: These men experienced a disrupted and discontinuous process of care in the formative and vulnerable years of their childhood. [More…]
More than half were exservicemen and most of these had served in the Second World War. [More…]
For most, the incidence of previous illnesses was far higher than for the general population and, as a group, homeless men appeared to be prematurely aged. [More…]
I wish to speak for a few moments about the Homeless Persons Assistance Act and how it came to being. [More…]
Last year a Government member revealed that some destitute men in Brisbane were living under what were classed as ‘slave camp’ conditions. [More…]
Further information on the health of homeless men has been given in a recently released Poverty Commission research report entitled ‘Health Study of Collective Disadvantaged Groups’. [More…]
An earlier account of vagrancy and drunkenness convictions has been recorded in the Poverty Commission research report entitled ‘Homeless Men and the Law’. [More…]
It was an initiative of the Whitlam Government, but it has suffered the same fate as the three-year Australian Assistance Plan and the area improvement program. [More…]
I thought that the homeless persons assistance program might have been axed but I am pleased to say that it is still alive although, as I said earlier, responsibility for it will be put back into the hands of the State governments. [More…]
Following a working party on homeless men and women set up in February 1973 by the Leader of the Australian Labor Party, Mr Bill Hayden, which reported later in the year on the feasibility of the program to assist them, legislation was foreshadowed by the then Prime Minister in the 1974 election campaign and was introduced by Bill Hayden in November 1974. [More…]
They covered rent, furnishing and equipment, with subsidies for welfare staff members and a subsidised meal allowance. [More…]
The measures proposed within the Bill are based on a compassionate understanding of the needs and very real problems of homeless men and women and of their alienation, their loneliness and their despair . [More…]
Our Government is determined to end such areas of neglect. [More…]
I might say that the average age of homeless men is about 46 years. [More…]
That was mentioned in the same report. [More…]
But because of the unemployment situation these people are becoming younger. [More…]
A reporter, Michael Cordell, went to Woolloomooloo to take a close look at one of Sydney’s major centres for homeless and destitute men. [More…]
A drunk lay unconscious just down from Sydney’s Matthew Talbot Hostel for homeless men. [More…]
About 200 men were downstairs watching television and talking. [More…]
The article talks about three men at this hostel who are 24 years of age. [More…]
The Government should provide more money to assist these people who need help. [More…]
-In it the Treasury also acknowledges that there has been a sustained decline in the participation rate and points out that, contrary to past experience, the decline occurred well after the onset of high unemployment in 1974. [More…]
It claims that the normal discouraged worker effect of a weak labour market was nullified by the attraction of higher real wages and higher unemployment benefits, but only passing reference is made to the significant change which has occurred and is still occurring in the size and composition of what might be described as the potential work force. [More…]
This year’s statement fails to analyse correctly the impact of female employment. [More…]
It also appears to express regret that, unlike women, men do not leave the labour force when they lose their jobs. [More…]
We had long discussions with the top men of all these companies, including Mr Toyota himself. [More…]
It would be fair to say that a consensus of these views was that the reasons for Australia’s lack of competitiveness was, firstly, that at the top level of management Australia was a long way behind. [More…]
Australian management, the Japanese felt, was inefficient. [More…]
In view of the dire straits that the Australian automobile manufacturing sector has been in in recent years and in view of the constant aid and assistance it has sought and obtained from governments, culminating in the latest sales tax reduction, I think the least we can do is to look seriously at what they suggested. [More…]
The Government supports Telecom. [More…]
If the spirit of arbitration is to prevail- arbitration, a principle that has protected Australian working men and women through the generations, through the decadesthen it ought to be accepted in this case as it is in others. [More…]
But one of the tragedies of more recent years is that senior union leaders have taken the view that they will accept arbitration while it gives them what they want, but if it does not give them what they want, they will go outside arbitration and use industrial action, thereby inconveniencing the people of this nation, in order to achieve a settlement more to their liking, more in accord with their own decision. [More…]
That view is not acceptable to the Australian community; it is not acceptable to this Government. [More…]
Of course, as is always the case with conservative political parties, the Government parties are delighted to be able to engulf themselves in an industrial dispute. [More…]
So the Government embarks on a threat, or an offer which it says the union cannot refuse. [More…]
Already one can predict with all the certainty in the world that on Monday and Tuesday, because of the stupidity of the Prime Minister tonight, the men will vote to stay out. [More…]
-They do not want to listen, Mr Speaker, because they know that the Prime Minister has made a very crude error in bringing on this debate tonight, when the negotiations are at a very sensitive stage and when the men will meet on Monday and Tuesday to discuss the sixpoint proposal put by Commissioner Clarkson and to decide what ought to be done. [More…]
What everybody ought to know is that Telecom Australia, like the back bench supporters of the Government, is merely the lackey of this Prime Minister. [More…]
Telecom has been carrying out the directions of this Government ever since the dispute started. [More…]
How else can the Government submerge the Withers issue and the Budget? [More…]
No effort at all has been made by this Government to look seriously at the prime mover of the problem that is now being confronted by Telecom and by the employees of Telecom. [More…]
There is a dispute about how the men in the industry will be de-skilled. [More…]
Instead of taking the bull by the horns in terms of looking at the problem now faced by ATEA members- that problem is soon to be faced by thousands of other people working in these areas, including members of the Public Service, the employees of this Government- the Government refuses to recognise the inherent problem in technological change. [More…]
That is the infallible gospel of a Liberal conservative government. [More…]
The men are wrong’. [More…]
It has been handled even worse by the Government of the day and far worse by the Prime Minister. [More…]
I believe that attitude, as indicated by the Minister for Transport in his letter of 2 1 August, is reasonable and should be responded to by the State Labor Government. [More…]
It is completely unfair to the railway men, and indeed the railway women, of Tasmania that their fate should be up in the air while a State Labor Government dilly dallies for month after month and will not indicate whether it is prepared to bring in legislation to protect the State railways system. [More…]
All it asks is for a fair deal; for the State Government to give the railways the protection to which they are justly entitled. [More…]
Reports to me indicate that, in addition to the Deputy Chairman of the Council, Councillor Barry Ngakyunkwokka, and members of the Council, the meeting was attended by Mr Francis Yunkaporta and the Queensland Premier, Mr Poner, Mr Hinze (the Queensland Minister for local Government), Mr L. Harman of the Queensland Department of Local Government, two police officers and two other men. [More…]
Notes that the average annual earnings for the men concerned were $25,000 for a 35.8 hour week for rotating shifts last year. [More…]
It is important that the House notes that some of the bonus benefits gained by the men as a result of the strike cut in at between 70 per cent and 80 per cent of normal levels of production. [More…]
Unless the benefits of very high productivity which that industry is able to pursue are spread over the whole community full employment opportunities will not operate again around Australia. [More…]
The salaries received by all these men are in excess of $20,000 per person per year. [More…]
I again commend the Minister for Finance for saying at the weekend: ‘What about a bit of confidence in Australia? [More…]
We on this side of the House are the young men of the 1980s and 1990s and our Government will lead Australia into the 2 1st century. [More…]
I would like to concentrate for a few minutes on another group of unemployed and potential unemployed who rated little more than an indirect mention in the statements attached to the Budget Speech, and not one word in the Budget itself Despite the Government’s failure to recognise them in the Budget, the Telecom technicians recently in conflict with the Australian Telecommunications Commission are involved in the most important industrial dispute in Australian history. [More…]
AH we have heard from the Government is a lot of mumbo-jumbo. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations came into the House on the Thursday of the last sitting week and said that the Telecom technicians would not win. [More…]
He said that they could not win, despite the fact that they had an answerable case that showed that they were engaged in a life and death struggle for their future employment. [More…]
Like all the prophecies made by the Government this one went down the drain. [More…]
The dispute was all over bar the shouting after reasonable men got together on the Sunday and talked out their problems. [More…]
All that the Government could do about that dispute was to pour oil on troubled waters. [More…]
However, it turned out to be petrol which ignited and inflamed the situation to such an extent that Deputy President Justice Gaudron and Commissioner Clarkson took the Government to task because of its attitude. [More…]
Yet they are producing, with 1,000 men, as much steel as British Steel produces by employing 50,000 men. [More…]
The only encouragement the Government gives in this area is to promote actively the replacement of men by machines. [More…]
It tends to be the case that in those areas where new processes would have the greatest social advances the new technology is avoided simply because the necessary investment is not available. [More…]
Members of the Foremen Stevedores Association, an organisation not noted for industrial militancy, have now joined the dispute. [More…]
Men transfer from company to company but not from container terminals. [More…]
Employers refused a concessional option of transferring these Melbourne terminal men to conventional stevedoring operations. [More…]
Fewer than 10,000 men are now employed there whereas 25 years ago almost 30,000 men were employed. [More…]
Roll-on roll-off ships, bulk loading, mechanisation and the great mistake of containerisation instead of investment in unit load ships have taken their toll of jobs. [More…]
But agreement was reached for redundancy payments, a 35-hour week and a pension scheme featuring early optional retirement. [More…]
These stand-downs in Melbourne are a deliberate attempt to wreck a system which cannot function unless the men know that they will not be subjected to sudden deprivation of earnings from disputes over which they have no control. [More…]
There is no need for this vital industry to be covered by waterside workers in stevedoring operations, clerks keeping cargo tallies, members of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemens Association and the Federated Ironworkers Association driving cranes and storemen and packers filling containers. [More…]
Now that 70-odd maintenance men have returned to work, we are still left with a national dispute. [More…]
Now the Waterside Workers Federation will probably seek payment for its members wrongfully stood down during this dispute and will seek a pledge that it will not happen again. [More…]
The College also found from its survey that most of the recent slow-down in the rate of improvement of life expectancy and half the difference in life expectancy between men and women can be attributed to the fatal effects of smoking. [More…]
I think it is probable that the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, unless it is looking at so-called constitutional responsibility rather than combining it with the effect on the economic recovery and the future development of this country, would listen to and accept the views of these very talented men. [More…]
After the manufacturers, the agents and the middle men get their share, they get what is left over as their price for the product. [More…]
At present the only likely viable crop open to them is also illegal, and very few men have been tempted by that, thank goodness. [More…]
When these recommendations have been carried out, I suggest that the Government look at the proposition that a retirement or superannuation scheme be provided for wheat growers. [More…]
If a national superannuation scheme were implemented for wheat growers, I think that we would find that a lot of young men would be able to come into the industry and that others who have done most of the hard work over the years would leave the industry. [More…]
There are many other matters I could mention. [More…]
Of course, he wrote A Treatise on the Law, Privileges, Proceedings and Usage of Parliament. [More…]
God, I wonder why we have forgotten that we have men such as Mr Pettifer serving this Parliament who could also be regarded as an authority on such matters. [More…]
Let us get a little Australiana into this Parliament. [More…]
For God’s sake, let us recognise that we have grown up and we are entitled to have associated with this Parliament more evidence of the fact that we are Australians and have some traditions of our own. [More…]
The Western Australian men’s and women’s hockey associations have combined their resources and have embarked on a giant public fund raising campaign with a target of $250,000. [More…]
To its credit the Western Australian Government has made a commitment of $250,000. [More…]
Considerable unsuccessful representations have been made to the Commonwealth Government for the balance of $500,000. [More…]
The national sports program developed by the standing committee on recreation and accepted by the council of recreation Ministers recommended the provision of one venue of international standard for each sport somewhere in Australia. [More…]
However, let me make the fundamental point that the facility is not a facility just for Western Australians; it is to be a national facility sited in Perth. [More…]
Australia’s men’s and women’s hockey teams will use it extensively in the lead-up to their preparations for the 1980 Olympics and, of course, beyond that time. [More…]
For the first time, women’s hockey will be an Olympic sport. [More…]
The men have already set the pace with silver medals in the Mexico City and Montreal Olympics. [More…]
Seen in this light I believe that this facility is firmly deserving of support from the national Government. [More…]
All this has happened in less than nine months, while the Aborigines have constantly been reminded by the media, the Government and the uranium developer that mining will get the go-ahead this year, that the Federal Government controls the uranium-bearing land, that rnining will go ahead no matter what the traditional land owners want, and that negotiations must conclude and will conclude before the wet season this year. [More…]
These men of power with the stroke of a pen can speed up cultural genocide. [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…]
Regardless of what was said at that meeting at the Darwin Travelodge on 8 September, the fact is that over the last nine months there have been constant reminders that the Government must sanction the continued existence of the Northern Land Council. [More…]
As summed up in the words of Mr Yunupingu: ‘You can’t muck around with the Government. [More…]
As far as this Government is concerned, it worked. [More…]
The demand for permanent part-time work as distinct from casual employment has increased considerably, especially among men and women with family responsibilities, single parents, people with health or domestic problems, and those wishing to update their knowledge, skills, and so on. [More…]
The Government should be facilitating this development within the Public Service and encouraging private employers to do likewise. [More…]
Through this I had the opportunity to talk with a broad cross-section of the community- white, coloured, Indian and black ethnic groups, ranging from strong supporters of the present Nationalist Party Government and its policies to its equally strong opponents. [More…]
These included Government and Opposition white members of parliament, people such as Sonny Leon, the leader of the Coloured Peoples’ Labor Party in the Coloured Representative Council, Mr Reddy and other members of the executive of the South African Indian Council, urban and homeland black leaders, Government bureaucrats, business men and people such as Dr Beyers Naude, the former moderator of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, who is now under a banning order for his opposition to apartheid. [More…]
In this way I had the opportunity to gauge a broad cross-section of opinion, as well as make direct observations about the current situation in South Africa, and also possible future developments. [More…]
I wish merely to indicate quite clearly that, in accordance with that statement, 380 men were sacked. [More…]
They had been first class employees and they are first class men. [More…]
The Queensland company and its men say that they can make the tyres and have made them. [More…]
Demand in the tyre industry is not down; it is rising now and certainly has risen since the days of the Labor Government when demand plunged quite disastrously. [More…]
I am reinforced in this view by the latest data on new motor vehicle registrations, which show that the demand for supplying original equipment to motor cars has risen enormously. [More…]
The IAC report on the motor tyre industry illustrated that it was in the original equipment area that demand had dropped during those disastrous times of two or three years ago, and this is the precise area which is now enabled to pick up. [More…]
Therefore, we cannot say that the men are being sacked and that the Olympic company is closing down its Queensland operations completely merely because the motor car industry lacks demand, as it certainly does not. [More…]
Why have we a situation in which men and women in his own electorate, and in other parts of Brisbane- indeed in every part of this country- are being thrust on to the dole queues? [More…]
It is attributable to the policies and actions of the Fraser Government, which he and others on his side of the chamber support. [More…]
So many factories are closing that if we are to have an urgency debate every time one closes- and there is very good reason why we should, if only to bring home to the Government the tragic personal circumstances of those who are thrown out of work- the Government’s policy will have to be for Parliament to sit permanently. [More…]
This is another indication of where this cockeyed Government has gone off the rails, lt is taking a swipe at ex-servicemen on this occasion. [More…]
The Labor Government said in 1972, and its statements became effective in 1973: ‘We do not believe that there will be any more wars. [More…]
We do not believe that Australian servicemen will be called out. [More…]
We hope that young Australian men will never be called upon to serve in an area of war again’. [More…]
It is effectively saying that these service men and women will serve nine years prior to becoming eligible for a loan. [More…]
Servicemen or servicewomen become eligible after six years; but they must sign up for another term, which makes nine years of service. [More…]
Not only has the general community a lack of confidence in this Government to do things right- I pointed out that it cannot even draft a Bill properly- but also it knows that the Government is having another side swipe at military personnel who last Saturday in a byelection indicated quite clearly that they are fed up to the back teeth with this Government. [More…]
The sooner the Government gets itself out of office, the happier a lot of people in Australia will be. [More…]
I compliment the Government on clause 3, which deals with de facto relationships that exist between men and women by choice. [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…]
I pay credit to the Government for taking the initiative in that area and correcting the oversight. [More…]
The Government also does not explain a very curious feature where for the first time people are divided into classes. [More…]
Is this Government again contemplating sending young Australian men to a war that is not ours, a war that belongs to somebody else and which is fought at the behest of somebody else? [More…]
It is pretty clear to me that what is implied in proposed new section 27B is that the Government anticipates that situation. [More…]
The Minister is obviously one of the most intelligent men in the Ministry and is entitled to a fair go. [More…]
Perhaps at another time the Australian Labor Party will have an opportunity to restore the beneficial terms that enabled serving members of the Defence Force to enjoy the benefit of defence service homes, so that that provision, which encouraged recruitment and enticed into the services men of great calibre, can again become a feature of the defence service homes legislation. [More…]
If I understand this amendment properly, there is to be some kind of tightening up, or at least there is not to be a loosening, of the arrangement that affects these people. [More…]
What is the criterion that guides the Minister and the Government in respect of this matter? [More…]
I know that young men going into the permanent forces today look at the prospectus as it were. [More…]
If they should then fall foul of somebody or commit a misdemeanour that seems to me to be a totally unjust reason to deprive them of a benefit which they have earned by virtue of two fundamental factorsfirstly, their enlistment, and secondly, the fact that their enlistment has taken them into a war theatre. [More…]
It is a greater honour to follow Edward Gough Whitlam into this Federal Parliament. [More…]
Gough Whitlam is one of the most remarkable men ever in the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
He was one of the most able and dominant parliamentarians Australia has ever seen. [More…]
Edward Gough Whitlam brought the Australian Labor Party into government. [More…]
He gave hope to a generation of Australian men and women. [More…]
He changed forever the nature of federal politics in this country, and not even the most conservative government this country has ever seen, the present Government, can ever change that. [More…]
The men are sick of going on simulated exercises with outdated equipment and two bullets per man if they are lucky. [More…]
The Macarthur Development Board, which is the body responsible for jobs in the southern part of Werriwa, was promised in 1975 that continuation of federal funding would be a fact. [More…]
The original agreement setting up the [More…]
For example, the Indicative Planning Council for Housing states that the men and material to construct 150,000 homes a year are available. [More…]
The Australian economy needs a public housing stimulus now because men are unemployed and much material is unused. [More…]
The Government’s own indicative planning council says that enough men and material are available to build 1 50,000 homes. [More…]
Yet, because of the Government policies, we have built only 1 16,000. [More…]
They cannot afford to pay commitments of 25 per cent of their salary. [More…]
The scheme, which was originally for the benefit of ex-servicemen who had served in both theatres of war, was broadened to include other military personnel. [More…]
It is a generous scheme in relation to interest repayments. [More…]
This Government seems to want to restrict the finance available even under this scheme at a time when the Government’s indicative Planning Council for the Housing Industry recognises that it has sufficient men and material to produce at least 150,000 homes for the people of Australia. [More…]
This year under this Government’s administration the total number of homes constructed both in the private sector and in the public sector was 1 16,000. [More…]
As I said at the beginning of my speech, the honourable member for Barton is living an Alice in Wonderland existence if he believes for one minute that the Government will impose this surcharge for only one year. [More…]
The Government has put forward this measure in this way so as to ensure that it hits the middle and lower income groups and not the big men. [More…]
It is unfortunate that their State colleagues in New South Wales had to bear the burden but I think that people’s memories are enduring enough to take a toll of the guilty men when the people go to the polls on some subsequent occasion. [More…]
I know that the Government thinks these things will be forgotten about in two years time, that people have short memories, but I doubt it. [More…]
It is an area where there will be an on-going task, which this Government is addressing, of long-term management brought about principally by the burials in the area of a total of about 20 kilograms of plutonium. [More…]
It is a matter of regret that men who were members of Whitlam Labor governmentsgovernments led by Mr Whitlam and administrations which professed a close interest in nuclear matters- must realise the untruth of some of the rumours and misinformation and sheer fabrications that have appeared on this subject yet they have chosen to remain silent. [More…]
In my judgment, they could have made a useful contribution to rational discussion of this subject and could have allayed public fears aroused by silly sensationalism. [More…]
I wrote him a letter which recapitulated the salient facts about the Maralinga burials- the same information that had been available to the Government in which he was a Minister. [More…]
On 9 August last year the then Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development announced a scientific study into the Maralinga wastes. [More…]
I was contacted last year by a group of men who had been Commonwealth policemen at Maralinga in the 1950s. [More…]
But the Government refuses to do this. [More…]
The United States Government is now engaged in a study of the health of personnel previously involved in atomic tests. [More…]
This afternoon, the Deputy Leader of the Opposition sought to say that the British Government has not told him what is going on. [More…]
Not a word was said, despite the splendid, lively relationship which existed between the two men. [More…]
Members of this House have the closest contact with the men and women throughout Australia. [More…]
This Government will allow the other chamber to talk on and on and on about this legislation. [More…]
We are going to have a cognate debate of the Social Services Amendment Bill. [More…]
We are going to have a cognate debate of the National Health Bill, and the National Health Bill and the social services amendments that were announced in the Budget are now the cause of this Government ‘s unpopularity. [More…]
It ill behoves one of the wealthiest men in this Parliament to be responsible for the imposition of such discrimination and disadvantage. [More…]
I repeat that the miserableness of these measures which in a full year will raise much less than $200m and much less than $100m in the course of this fiscal year pales into insignificance against what is available to be raised in the community if the Government raised revenue according to a sense of proper social equity. [More…]
For instance, the Government could introduce an excess profits tax- that is, a resource rental tax- on mineral development companies in this country. [More…]
I am not talking about mineral development companies which are battling to get on their feet and which are set back and disadvantaged by the adversity of world trade at the present time. [More…]
I am talking about the really wealthy and prosperous mineral development companies in this country of which there are several at the present time. [More…]
If that sort of tax were introduced, the Government could raise $150m in a full year. [More…]
There would be no need to deny the pensioners of their twice-yearly indexation adjustment of their pensions. [More…]
If the windfall addition to the profits of crude oil producers derived directly by the adjustment in crude oil pricing imposed by the Government were to be eliminated by redistributing through revenue means back into the community, there would be another $340m available to the Government. [More…]
-To organise and manage a nation properly requires outstanding people- men and women who seek responsibility and who know challenge. [More…]
This legislation is the product of the activities of such men and women. [More…]
Notwithstanding a difficult economic environment we are not neglecting our senior people, our young or our handicapped. [More…]
The Government’s policy is to give help to people in the greatest need. [More…]
The means of production cannot be socialised without socialising men and women. [More…]
What we want is freedom of our economic system; freedom of our society; freedom for the private enterprise system to develop this country in the way in which it can be developed, contrary to the Labor Party’s statements in three years of government that only the public sector could provide the benefits. [More…]
He sold out those moderates, those right wingers in the Labor Party, those few genuine Labor men with a commitment to social justice, with the weak speech that he gave in this House this morning. [More…]
There are serious implications not only for the nation but also for Tasmania in some of the comments made by the honourable member for Blaxland. [More…]
I simply ask: Where does Mount Lyell stand after these comments that he has made? [More…]
The honourable member, in his speech today, gave the game away for the decent members of his party, the few remaining men who are not prepared to go along with the socialism nonsense. [More…]
The House and the nation are indebted to the honourable member for St George for bringing this important matter before the national Parliament today. [More…]
The reality is that in an election situation the Prime Minister and his responsible Ministers committed every honourable member opposite clearly and unequivocally to the view that if this Government were to be re-elected every pensioner in Australia, no matter what was the level of the pension or the nature of it, would not have his situation made worse. [More…]
I believe the reason for the restiveness in the chamber, the reason that honourable members on the other side of the chamber have been leaping up to assert matters of conscience and matters of liberty and have been coming into and out of the chamber as though they were caught in a revolving door at Myers, is that there are men of honour on the other side of the chamber, that there are men who regard any contract as being a binding moral obligation. [More…]
There is a tide in the affairs of men, [More…]
I have no intention of keeping the House for very long, but I do wish to express the disappointment felt by the returned soldiers on this side of the House at the treatment that has been meted out by this Government to those men and women of our armed forces who have served in the number of wars in which we have been involved. [More…]
I remind the House and the returned servicemen’s organisations that between 1972 and 1975 more benefits were granted to our returned servicemen and women than had been granted for many years previously. [More…]
One of the Labor Government Budgets- I think it was the 1974 Budgetcontained 23 of the 25 proposals put to Cabinet by the then Minister for Repatriation, Senator Wheeldon, who was a most benign Minister. [More…]
I remind you, Mr Deputy Speaker, and the House that it is only a matter of 10 years or so since our young men were sent to fight in Vietnam. [More…]
Some of those young men are likely to find at any time that their lungs have been affected, because the country in which they were fighting is a country which is noted for tuberculosis. [More…]
The same thing could happen to Vietnam veterans who were sent by a government of the political persuasion of the present Government to fight in a war which is now recognised as being a war that should never have taken place and a war into which Australia should never have been drawn. [More…]
The great humanitarians opposite, the people who wave the flag on every possible occasion and say how wonderful it is that men and women are prepared to sacrifice themselves for our country in time of war, are now taking away the automatic acceptance of tuberculosis amongst ex-servicemen as being war caused. [More…]
I only wish that honourable members on the other side of the House would realise that the time has now passed when they could say how loyal they were and how wonderful it was that our exservicemen and women had been prepared to go away and fight for our country, while gradually dwindling away the benefits that have been available to our returned soldiers, sailors and airmen. [More…]
We cannot attract sufficient men and women into our permanent Army, Navy and Air Force. [More…]
It is perfectly true that some members of the medical profession could abuse that system but from my own experience and watching the situation in the inner industrial area of Melbourne those doctors and members of the medical profession who chose to bulk bill tended to be local general practitioners, men who simply took the view that they were more interested in medicine than in making large sums of money. [More…]
Frankly, what happened was that the Government became their accountant because they knew that if they rendered a full bill to many of their patients they would never be paid in any event. [More…]
He now brings to the world his message of peace and goodwill for all men and women of all creeds and all nations. [More…]
At one stage, the honourable member for Franklin was talking about adopting the recommendations of the fourth report of the Royal Commission into Petroleum Marketing. [More…]
The Government has switched to another tack of blaming the Australian Council of Trade Unions for that not being implemented. [More…]
I say to him: Please be frank because those men and women in the service station industry are suffering. [More…]
They are bleeding as a result of the policies of this Government. [More…]
The Government has turned its back on the hardships and the needs, particularly of sole proprietors of service stations. [More…]
Whether the work is done by men or machines, there is a need for that wealth to be distributed equitably in the community. [More…]
Of necessity, the Minister relies on recommendations from the Department. [More…]
I put it to the Committee that we need to examine the capacity of the Department to vet those applications. [More…]
I do not believe that the Department has the manpower or the skilled personnel to carry out an analytical examination of all the operations of Ansett Transport Industries and Trans-Australia Airlines in the few weeks that are available to it from the time the fare increase application is lodged until the pressure comes upon the Minister to make a decision. [More…]
In my view we need men who are skilled in the accounting world and in the private sector if there is to be a thorough examination. [More…]
This will get the monkey off his back and give the public the opportunity to see what resources the Department - [More…]
Our foreign reserves of currency, indicating our trade position, are at their lowest ebb in four years and unemployment is still rising. [More…]
The Budget changes have been forced on the Government by its own back bench. [More…]
The Government’s own back bench members are throwing out the Budget Estimates and taking away any credibility the Government had for handling financial affairs. [More…]
According to official figures, the Government is already in the red to the tune of $2,500m in its own financial dealings, after only three months of the financial year. [More…]
It is no wonder the Government was forced to take back the tax cuts that had worked so well in getting it re-elected. [More…]
There is a need in Australia for a government that is firm and fair with everyone equally, a government such as the government that runs New South Wales, a Labor government that will protect the little person whether wage earner, pensioner or businessman. [More…]
Labor’s numbers in Federal Parliament are small, but I am proud that we have a number of men and women who have the ability and understanding needed to lead Australia when the time comes. [More…]
Let all Australians take heart from the New South Wales election and remember that the people are not the fools that this Government paints them. [More…]
Scheme, the National Employment and Training Program, the Special Youth Employment Training Program, the Commonwealth Rebate for Apprentice Full-Time Training and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth. [More…]
It is a program that warrants full support and, to the extent that is necessary to help young men and women in that particular category, it is one that is being expanded. [More…]
Queensland the ALP is in effect dominated by trade union machinery men, the faceless men of Queensland politics. [More…]
Because of this obvious lopsidedness, a group known as the Reform Movement gathered momentum during this year to make the Labor Party in Queensland a better reflection of Australian society. [More…]
The goal of that group has been, and remains, to establish a party which will attract ‘the broadest range of men and women’ and whose structure will offer ‘the maximum opportunity for participation at all levels and throughout the State’. [More…]
However, these official statistics disguise the magnitude of the real unemployment. [More…]
Many thousands of young people, married women, and men approaching retiring age have simply dropped out of the labour force. [More…]
Over the past two and a half years the number of involuntary retirements from the work force has been about 250,000. [More…]
The real level of unemployment in Australia is therefore close to 650,000 people right now. [More…]
It is quite easy for a small unionmaintenance workers, members of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union- to close down the whole waterfront in Sydney or Melbourne and to prevent movement of all freight. [More…]
As few as 28 men may be involved. [More…]
The NT Chief Minister, Mr Everingham, yesterday urged Central Australian business men to boycott trade with SA until the SA Government upgraded about 800 kilometres of the Stuart Highway. [More…]
The total number of people in that electorate with a bachelor degree was 2,043 men and 1,115 women. [More…]
The number of those with a higher degree was 386 men and 123 women. [More…]
If we are to provide a stimulus to the economy, if we are to get things moving again, it is important that we have selective government expenditure. [More…]
If we spend money in these industries there is a multiplying effect which stimulates employment within the economy. [More…]
The Opposition states quite clearly that both men and materials are available and this Government should take the initiative to provide selective stimulus to the economy in order to get things under way. [More…]
As I have said, when the Government starts to spend money in these sectors there is a flow-on effect. [More…]
On the question of housing, if one looks at what governments have spent on public housing one finds that in 1974-75 the Labor Government allocated 2. [More…]
It is estimated that the Government will spend about 1.1 per cent this year. [More…]
Last year the Government made available $390m for public housing and this year that amount has been cut to $3 16m. [More…]
As to the homes savings grants scheme, which was the Government’s answer for young people who wanted to get homes, last year $35m was made available and this year the allocation has been cut back to $20m. [More…]
A Cabinet submission was made last year, prior to the discussion of the Budget, that an amount of $76m would be needed if the Government was to meet all the applications under the home savings grants scheme. [More…]
The new Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom) is sitting at the table. [More…]
The Government continues to direct resources into the corporate sector. [More…]
For example, the investment allowance, in relation to which more than $850m has been appropriated, is obviously designed to replace men with machines. [More…]
There does not seem to be an effective realisation on the part of the Government that investment in the building and construction area, which is labour intensive, will bring very great benefits to this country. [More…]
The honourable member for Reid made the comment that we should be spending more on government departments, that we should build up the size of government in Canberra. [More…]
There is no doubt that during the Labor Government’s term of office a great deal of money was wasted in some of the programs which he encouraged. [More…]
On any sensible and responsible assessment of the job he did when he was in office, one would say that many of the decisions made at that time were unsuccessful and many of the public resources used at that time were wasted. [More…]
Of course, the people who pay are the taxpayers, the ordinary hard-working men and women of this country. [More…]
I think we should have due regard to the fact that the money we spend as governments is not our own money; it is money earned through toil and effort by ordinary people in the community. [More…]
What are the dimensions of the problem at which we are looking? [More…]
Thousands of young people, married women and men approaching retiring age have simply dropped out of the labour force. [More…]
Over the past two and a half years the number of involuntary retirements from the work force has been of the order of 250,000. [More…]
The real level of unemployment in Australia is therefore close to 650,000 people. [More…]
This level of unemployment strikes disproportionately at those most vulnerable to social and economic disruption- the poor, the unskilled and semiskilled, members of certain ethnic groups. [More…]
I understand also that Mr Justice Ludeke has proposed that an assessment be made of the situation by experts from the National Roads and Motorists Association. [More…]
These inspections are to commence at 9 o ‘clock tomorrow morning. [More…]
I understand that the men have scheduled a meeting for 6.30 tomorrow morning. [More…]
One would have thought, after watching the advertising campaigns which took place a little earlier this year, that a serious effort would have been made to ensure that the co-operation with the reserve force that was sought from civilian industry, the input that was asked of officers who give a considerable amount of their time to the reserve force and the participation in that force that was sought from young men and women would have been accompanied by a serious effort by the Government to make that force not only attractive but also a functional and effective means of providing additional Defence Force personnel in times of any need. [More…]
This statement and the practical situation indicate that that will not happen and is not likely to happen in the near future. [More…]
In the refining industry, most technical employees in the classifications I mentioned earlier are not earning the basic wage. [More…]
Regrettably, these men strike because apparently they can afford to. [More…]
Already today the Minister for Industrial Relations indicated the details of the recommendation by Mr Justice Ludeke that the men should begin work at 6.30 a.m. tomorrow and that he will be on site at the Broadmeadow terminal at 9.30 a.m. tomorrow with inspectors from the National Roads and Motorists Association to inspect car damage, which is the basis of the dispute. [More…]
Tonight we heard this diatribe from the honourable member for Bradfield, not from a Minister and not from the Government but from the most pretentious, self-opinionated member of this Parliament. [More…]
He was not worried about the future of New South Wales or about the people who could be seriously disadvantaged by fuel shortages but for miserable political purposes he tried to take a rise out of the New South Wales Government which beat his Party to death two weeks ago. [More…]
Today at Question Time the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) was embarrassed by an interjection from the honourable member for Adelaide (Mr Hurford) who suggested that the matter of public importance listed for today’s business would upset the balance of these negotiations. [More…]
The Minister did not take up the point because he is aware, as we are aware, that this kind of debate in the Federal Parliament, which is so far away from the dispute and can have no bearing upon it, is mischievous, damaging and could upset the whole basis of the agreement which we hope will lead to a resumption of work tomorrow. [More…]
I took the trouble to speak to some people in the Transport Workers Union today and I understand that despite company promises, as ruled by Justice Ludeke, that the senior officials would negotiate with the unions this week, such negotiations did not in fact occur and that actually the company reneged on that arrangement. [More…]
It sent in junior industrial officers and then told the men concerned that it would refer the dispute to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission anyway and that it ought to be dealt with as part of the oil industry work value case. [More…]
Despite the posturing of Government members in this place, we now see that negotiations today have perhaps provided the framework of a settlement and that further discussions will take place in the morning that will hopefully end the dispute to the satisfaction of most of the people concerned. [More…]
In passing I pay tribute to David Hamer, a former chairman, and the men who served with him for producing what was a commendable report. [More…]
I draw attention to one particular element that could be utilised. [More…]
Under the training of the Army, Navy or Air Force, whatever it may be, we could produce a tremendously effective force of coast watchers- people who would be indispensable in surveillance. [More…]
In Werriwa we have the Ingleburn Army establishment and just over the border, in the seat of the honourable member for Banks (Mr Martin), there is the Holsworthy-Moorebank complex. [More…]
In the three years that I was privileged to represent HMAS Albatross, I found that I had a great deal of admiration and respect for the officers and men in the armed forces and for their real and sustained views on the defence of this country. [More…]
No one has ever doubted the honourable member for Moreton ‘s interest in defence but I put on the record, now that he is in the hot seat, that some of these comments were most unfair. [More…]
The often vicious personal criticism by the then Opposition of Mr Barnard centred on men, equipment and organisation. [More…]
When in government we picked up the recommendations of the Jess committee on conditions and, of course, this provoked many resignations. [More…]
I think it was General MacDonald who said that we needed 38,000 men in the Army. [More…]
-by leave- I join with other members of the Select Committee on Tourism in expressing my appreciation and congratulations to the two men who have occupied the position of chairman of that Committee for the work that they put into it. [More…]
They were both good chairmen, in my opinion. [More…]
He has had vast experience in this field, due to the fact that he was Minister for Tourism in the Labor Government. [More…]
As was mentioned earlier, many have no service at all. [More…]
They live in areas which have produced a disproportionate number of our top class sports men and women. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, in the fortunate country areas there may be one ABC station and one commercial station. [More…]
Having destroyed the arguments of the honourable member for Denison, there are a couple of other matters that I want to raise. [More…]
Does that mean that men from that Organisation can now go to ACTU Jetset Travel Service Pty Ltd every Saturday morning and clean it out? [More…]
But even if it is contended, despite the convincing evidence to the contrary, that a real wage overhang does exist, there are still very good reasons to be highly sceptical of the Government’s claims that such an overhang is responsible for the growth of unemployment. [More…]
Neither the Government nor anyone else has produced any firm evidence of such a causal relationship. [More…]
One such piece of evidence is the fact that despite a far greater percentage increase in female wages than in male wages over recent years due to the phasing in of equal pay, female employment has fared much better than male employment. [More…]
But in regard to employment, the total number of hours worked per week by all males in civilian employment- that is, the numbers engaged in full or part-time work multiplied by the number of hours worked- actually declined by 2.6 per cent over that period whilst the total number of hours worked by females increased by 8 per cent despite their far greater increase in pay. [More…]
Any real wage overhang was clearly far greater for women than for men but their employment performance has been markedly better than for men. [More…]
Such evidence must surely throw great doubt on the alleged real wage overhang and unemployment relationship. [More…]
I welcome the opportunity to enter this debate because, in my opinion, wages policy is one area of economic management, along with several others, where the Opposition is particularly vulnerable. [More…]
That is, in the light of the economic difficulties facing this country it chooses to indulge in popular rather than proper economic policies and be all things to all men. [More…]
In the absence of productivity growth, wage increases lead only to cost increases, cost inflation and unemployment. [More…]
Yes, and have us operate the mine or have another interested company, or indeed the men themselves working as a cooperative operating it. [More…]
Anything would be better than the present arrangement whereby we pay for the mine ‘s losses and it picks up the profitable venture at the end. [More…]
In the end the Mount Lyell Mining and Railway Co. under Consolidated Gold Fields was prepared to close the venture if the Tasmanian Government and the Commonwealth Government did not come to the party. [More…]
The Tasmanian Government saw that there was a problem with employment. [More…]
Considering that the total unemployment level in Tasmania is 12,000, this 2,000 was a lot. [More…]
It could not afford that to happen, so on a dollar for dollar basis now the Commonwealth is putting its money where its mouth is- I am referring to the Labor Government in Tasmania- and putting up $ 1.6m on $3. [More…]
For workers, the top priority was the same as the Government’s- to keep inflation under control. [More…]
There were similar disagreements between the work force and union leaders on compulsory unionism and working hours, for example. [More…]
I think that that survey just goes to bear out the great good sense of the majority of average Australian working men and women. [More…]
If there is a shortage of capital works in Australia the Commonwealth Government is not the only government which has to take part of the blame. [More…]
I can see from the look in the eyes of the honourable member for Melbourne that he immediately acknowledges the sagacity of what I am pointing out at the moment. [More…]
They will vote for the amendment attached to that handle but they will go into a room full of contradictions and enigmas. [More…]
That will do this Parliament no good. [More…]
Many Opposition members are responsible men. [More…]
He will see the force of these arguments immediately. [More…]
Until the present Government recognises the error of its ways and adopts the strategy which the Opposition is advocating, it will only lead the economy deeper into recession. [More…]
Could it be that proud men will not admit publicly that their stagnation policies have been a failure but that they will do so privately? [More…]
Instead of coming into the Parliament with vision and getting on with programs, in particular public works programs, they will quietly allow the States to do this. [More…]
The States will borrow funds abroad at a higher rate of interest than the rate at which a national Government could borrow the same funds. [More…]
Thirteen men sailed thousands of kilometres in this old and small ship through enemyinfested waters to the islands near the Singapore Roads. [More…]
The prosecutor ended by declaring ‘The last moment of a hero must be historic and it must be dramatic. [More…]
As we respect them, so we feel our duty of glorifying their last moments as they deserve; and by our doing so the names of these heroes will remain in the hearts of the British and Australian people for evermore. [More…]
Major-General Ohtsuka reported that all Japanese soldiers should be inspired by the example of the men ‘if they hoped to win the war’. [More…]
Is it not strange that the captors and executioners of these men recognised the valour of their exploits, while we have not done so? [More…]
I suggest with respect, the award of the Cross of Valour to each of the officers and men of Jaywick and Rimau. [More…]
These rules must be changed to enable the Australian Government to grant this award to these heroes of a recent yesteryear. [More…]
I seek the support of all my fellow members in petitioning and lobbying the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs to see that these men who did so much to conquer the Japanese in the Singapore area are suitably decorated for their extreme courage and heroism. [More…]
This centre caters mainly for older homeless men, and young men (about 6-8 per week are referred elsewhere). [More…]
Primmer Lodge, a self-supporting longerterm care community for children aged 14-17, has recently received State Government funding to operate 6 short-term crisis accommodation beds. [More…]
As mentioned earlier, St Vincent de Paul city refuge gives a bed and meal to about 6-8 youth (male) per week. [More…]
The Salvation Army Valley office (which has no accommodation facilities) also refers about 12 per week, mostly to its old men’s hostel in South Brisbane. [More…]
Neither group is satisfied with a system where young men are thrown in with the old professionals’. [More…]
As far as he is concerned, he talks about democracy in this Parliament but he is prepared to stand up and support any puppet regime, any corrupt regime, any dictatorial regime so long as it says it is anticommunist. [More…]
It was precisely that position that allowed a conservative government to drag Australia and young Australians, many of whom now lie dead as a result of its view of foreign policy, into Vietnam. [More…]
Their blood is on this Government’s hands, let there be no doubt about that, and the moral responsibility is on its hands. [More…]
They are the guilty men. [More…]
But this Government did not save the corrupt regimes which it was trying to bolster in South East Asia. [More…]
As to what is happening today in South East Asia, the signatures on this document simply witness the fact that there are regimes which are endeavouring to hold back the course of social change and social revolution in South East Asia. [More…]
The State Government is locked into those programs. [More…]
They are programs which the State Government cannot just stop and shift everything to the Stuart Highway. [More…]
The State Minister of Transport was most adamant that he did not want to stop any existing programs because he was already locked into them; all the planning and design had taken place; the men were working on the job; and it would be just too stupid for words to stop those projects and to transfer everything to the Stuart Highway. [More…]
When the coalition was in opposition it was very grudging in accepting the maternity leave legislation and once it got back into government it started cutting back the small privileges won by the working men and women of this country. [More…]
Government members have put themselves on record as supporting women’s rights, the equality of women, giving women opportunity and a decent go. [More…]
Yet the first opportunity they get they start introducing this sort of legislation which amends the Act. [More…]
Now the Government is starting to take us back to the Middle Ages again. [More…]
Women employees represent an investment to the Public Service in terms of skills and training. [More…]
I wonder what would be happening if men were having babies. [More…]
Quite seriously, I am damned sure that these provisions would not be amended. [More…]
Here we have legislation by men for men. [More…]
I am quite serious in saying that if men were having the children this would not be occurring. [More…]
I was one of those who supported the improvement in the parliamentary salaries and retirement allowances but apparently the attitude is different when we are looking after No. [More…]
1 than it is when we are thinking about the women in the Public Service. [More…]
Paternity leave is the only government recognition of the dual role of father and mother in child rearing. [More…]
This Government’s proposal to abolish paternity leave altogether is a backward step and one likely to cause considerable practical hardship, especially to young families. [More…]
By repealing section 10 of the principal Act the Government is, in effect, downgrading the role of the father in child rearing. [More…]
It is particularly important at a time when there is a changing malefemale relationship, in which young men and women are working out different attitudes than those that prevailed in the past about their role vis-a-vis the home and vis-a-vis the work place. [More…]
Paternity leave provides us with an opportunity for men to play that role. [More…]
By abolishing paternity leave the Government does nothing to assist the new relationships that young men and women are working out. [More…]
-He employs only men. [More…]
In order to avoid any danger of his staff members becoming pregnant, he will not even give women job opportunities. [More…]
Turning to a more serious aspect of this subject, I endorse the comments of the honourable member for Macquarie (Mr Gillard) who pointed out that the Government is not stripping away the rights to take leave of women in the Public Service who fall pregnant. [More…]
I readily concede that the Labor Government in 1973 did improve the previous provisions which were initially introduced by the Liberal Government in 1966. [More…]
I inform the House that after the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, made some comments last June or July foreshadowing changes in the maternity leave provisions, I received five phone calls from both men and women who were concerned about those provisions, either because they were men married to female public servants or, alternatively, being women, because they were planning families. [More…]
Let me prove even further my case that the existing provisions applying maternity and paternity leave entitlements in the Public Service are certainly a lot less than what applies overseas. [More…]
It aims at women as well as men because both women and men should have equal responsibility towards their children. [More…]
Accordingly, the Storting has adopted legal provisions on entitlement to full pay during absence in the case of a child’s illness for all employees caring for children under 10 years of age. [More…]
Some government institutions will experiment with a six-hour working day for parents with children under three years of age. [More…]
With regard to the maj ternity leave provisions in Norway, since July 1977 the entitlement to maternity leave has been extended on the basis of parental leave. [More…]
Now when the Government has a chance to do something, what does it do? [More…]
Where are its attempts to implement this concerted program which will provide policies to meet the needs of pregnant women everywhere in Australian society? [More…]
This Bill will be rated by the men and women in the Public Service as another of the [More…]
Government’s broken promises. [More…]
They will regard it in the same category as the broken promises on pensions, Medibank, taxation and unemployment. [More…]
There is no doubt that, in the spring of 1980, these men and women in the Australian Public Service will remember these attacks on their working conditions. [More…]
The Liberal-Country Party Government brought down the banking legislation which this Bill seeks to amend. [More…]
During the time I was dealing with this problem- I want to put this accurately and clearly- the primary industry representatives were saying to me, including men such as Sir William Gunn, that they were stressing one, and only one, aspect. [More…]
I have no doubt that, under the guidance of the Fraser Government, when international trade improves to a substantial extent it will be possible to reduce interest rates considerably. [More…]
In my electorate, primary producers who have income equalisation deposits do not look upon the Government’s legislation as a simple machinery measure. [More…]
For too long our primary producers have had to be content with middle men who have doubled the price of their product between the farm gate and the consumer. [More…]
If the honourable gentlemen opposite had done their homework they would have found that when Mr Gorman was invited to open a depot which had been closed for some five months and to which oil was being delivered by tanker drivers who were operating under a federal award he was told by Esso Australia Limited that it believed that the Transport Workers Union would not oppose his use of his own trucks. [More…]
Unfortunately, what was not pointed out to Mr Gorman was that, whatever trucks he was using, the Transport Workers Union would expect Mr Gorman to continue what had become the practice in the industry and pay his men the federal award. [More…]
There was no argument about the use of his own men. [More…]
There never was any argument about that. [More…]
The argument was about whether they should be paid under the federal award. [More…]
It is perfectly true that all the men involved are members of the one union. [More…]
It is essentially an argument about maintaining the provisions of a federal award in a situation in which a federal award had previously maintained. [More…]
We all know that quite apart from reason and consultation, the processes of conciliation have to be backed on occasions by the force of law to protect the rights of individual working men and women of Australia and to protect the rights of all citizens in this country against the predatory actions of some union leaders in some circumstances. [More…]
They have been accepted by management and labour and the provisions are working well. [More…]
Many thousands of young people, married women and men and people approaching retiring age have simply dropped out of the labour force- a stark acknowledgement of the hopeless task of finding employment. [More…]
I suggest that those in the construction sector are there through downturn of capital investment rather than for any other reason. [More…]
In one sense it is just as well that it is because a lot of us would be living adjacent to unmade roads if we had to wait for proper roads to be constructed by men with picks and shovels and wheelbarrows. [More…]
There is no way that the Government can sit back and blithely say that this post-industrial revolution, this onset of advancing technology, can be likened to the industrial revolution when initially the crofters smashed the machines which slowly created more employment for them. [More…]
There was development of new industries, such as railways, which employed huge resources and manpower. [More…]
I am told that it took 20 men to bring the railway from Tarcoola to Alice Springs. [More…]
This report was written by Peter Coleman, the former Liberal leader in the New South Wales Parliament, Phillip Adams, the writer, television executive and film producer and a third person who modesty prevents me naming. [More…]
We must be careful that the Government’s apparent generosity in permitting tax write-offs after two years does not exacerbate the situation. [More…]
That means that film makers are competing with each other for scarce resources- the best camera men, light and sound personnel, writers and performers are in short supply. [More…]
A holier-than-thou attitude towards many governments in Asia seems prevalent in Australia. [More…]
This attitude is found in the Press, the Public Service, the Parliaments, and in educational institutions and trade unions. [More…]
Many of Asia’s leaders, if not most of them, are extremely well educated intelligent men who have been brought up in a very tough school. [More…]
I know that all wheat growers and all people associated with the industry will welcome this new move because it will have as its fundamental result the shooting home of accountability to State authorities, to the men who are represented on those State authorities, and many of whom were put there as representatives by way of vote of the rank and file wheat growers. [More…]
Other States, such as Western Australia, have gone for long horizontal storages which require the employment of many men. [More…]
-Last Friday, the State Housing Ministers met with the Federal Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development, (Mr Groom) in Adelaide to try to overcome the serious crisis that has developed in the housing industry in Australia and, in particular, to discuss the seriousness of the crisis in the public housing sector. [More…]
For instance, the Indicative Planning Council for the Housing Industry has stated that enough men and material are available to build 150,000 houses a year. [More…]
In the public sector, there were 10,888 commencements last year. [More…]
That was a dramatic drop from the number of commencements- 16,148- in the public sector in 1974-75 under the Labor Government. [More…]
This year the State Ministers estimate that there will be no more than 6,000 commencements in the public housing sector although nearly 100,000 families are on housing commission waiting lists. [More…]
As soon as he left the meeting, he issued a lengthy Press statement which had been prepared in Canberra, before he attended the meeting. [More…]
The statement he issued repudiated everything he had agreed to with the Ministers at the meeting that day. [More…]
After the State Ministers had completed their meeting, they became aware of the Federal Minister’s Press Statement. [More…]
An agreement was reached with Esso Australia Ltd that petrol carted to that depot would be carted by tanker drivers employed at the tanker drivers’ rate of pay under the Federal award. [More…]
The small distributor wanted to cut the throats of those tanker drivers and slash their wages by employing men under the State award. [More…]
For instance, let me remind the House that in December 1938, long before my time on the waterfront, members of the Seamen’s Union in Port Kembla imposed a ban- this Government would call it now a secondary boycott- on the export of pig iron to Japan. [More…]
Nevertheless, even in that far off time Australian workers had the good sense to know when a government was acting against the national interest. [More…]
The late Sir Robert Menzies earned his sobriquet of ‘Pig Iron Bob’ during that dispute as he attempted to impose the Government’s will on those workers. [More…]
But the Tory government of the day successfully beat them into submission and the pig iron was exported. [More…]
Some of it may have ended up back on Darwin in 1942. Who was right in 1 93 8- the Government or the men? [More…]
Personally, I am not much interested in what we have read to date, that is the autobiographical elements of Sir John’s memoirs. [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…]
Honest judgment of this man will depend on the answer he provides to these questions. [More…]
They are, in fact, the only important things likely to emerge from this document. [More…]
Even men like Professor O’Connell, who has been a very active defender says that that act was an example of deviousness which he cannot defend. [More…]
The team interviews head men on the island, proffers advice in regard to visitors from Papua-New Guinea, and at intervals carries out a chest x-ray survey of the inhabitants of the islands. [More…]
Passive case detection is also carried out by oversighting reports of cases of fever noted in the islands by head men or State officials. [More…]
The Government tried to get itself involved with the Victorian power dispute. [More…]
It was solved with the good sense and ability of the Australian Council of Trade Unions and other organisations in the Victorian establishment. [More…]
The Government talked about a trade and commerce power as a means of solving those disputes. [More…]
The dispute was settled within 48 hours on the basis that the men would recover all their lost pay, to which they were entitled. [More…]
Is that not the way an intelligent government should deal with the matter? [More…]
Why is it that the Government wanted to take some sort of praise for this sort of legislation which could have brought the nation to a standstill? [More…]
They are broken, wounded men and they cannot defend their own Government. [More…]
In the interests of this Parliament I stated that when I was there and saw toilets, hotels and buses displaying ‘whites only’, ‘nonwhites only’ signs, as an Austraiian it made my stomach turn. [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…]
The people of Jamaica have great economic problems and I would like to see the Commonwealth and Australian Government do something for them, if possible, otherwise one cannot expect them to try to play along with people’s democracies as we see them. [More…]
One wonders what is going to happen in Rhodesia and South Africa if prominent Australians are going to uphold the attitudes of the governments there. [More…]
There is a time in the lives of all people when the cup of endurance runs over and men are no longer willing to be plunged into war and an abyss of injustice that they experience by the blackness of corroding despair. [More…]
But it is a pity that the Australian delegation was marred by the statements of the senator. [More…]
These amendments to the Atomic Energy Act do not prevent a Labor government from implementing Labor’s policy. [More…]
Furthermore, it will not be legally possible for the Fraser Government to achieve this end. [More…]
A Labor government when elected in 1980 will have a range of powers available, including the export powers and also the strength of the people- the electors who will elect us to government. [More…]
We will use those powers to implement our policy. [More…]
We will seek popular support for implementing that policy. [More…]
It is not only me stating that this is the situation; it has been stated by men such as the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Hayden) and other leading members of the Labor Party. [More…]
Frequently, measures introduced by government have ramifications far beyond the understanding and comprehension of people living here in the gold lined coffin which represents the nation’s capital. [More…]
I know small business men who at this very moment are in great difficulty simply as a result of trying to meet the demands of government that they make their payments within seven days. [More…]
It is ironic that the South Australian who spoke before me made but passing comment on the future of the rum industry in Queensland. [More…]
It would seem almost as if someone in his party room stood up and said: ‘Chris, do not forget to mention rum when you make your speech ‘. [More…]
I see the Deputy Government Whip within feet of me. [More…]
I hope that the next time he is at a Cabinet meeting he will awaken that group of wise men to the inconsistencies which exist. [More…]
It is striking that with the much publicised political assassinations and attempted murders in the United States of America-for example, the murders of President John Kennedy, Senator Robert Kennedy, Dr Martin Luther King, Medgar Evans, James Meredith, and George Lincoln Rockwell and Malcolm X, and the attempted murders of President Truman and George Wallace- all without exception took place in States in which the death penalty applied, although all these men were highly mobile and in theory might just as well have been shot down in an abolitionist jurisdiction. [More…]
Even supporters of capital punishment are squeamish about media coverage of current methods of execution. [More…]
An inexpert hangman may bungle the long drop, and with lessening execution rates expert hangmen are hard to find. [More…]
The mock trials of Orlov, Scharansky, Ginsberg and the Baltic dissident Petkus besmirched the name of justice in the eyes of all right-thinking men and women in all corners of the globe. [More…]
-The statement just made by the Leader of the House (Mr Sinclair) could best be described as ambiguous. [More…]
The House is being asked to suspend the 1 1 o’clock rule in order that some statements can be made. [More…]
I think the Minister ought to make it plain to the House what the statements are in the first instance. [More…]
Then he should try to indicate why it is so important to suspend the 11 o’clock rule so that those statements can be dealt with tonight rather than tomorrow. [More…]
There is a saying to the effect that men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil. [More…]
The Bill provides for a loan of $ 1.4m by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
This is to be matched by the State Government which will forgo royalties also. [More…]
The loan of $1.4m by the Commonwealth Government is for a period of 15 months at commercial rates of interest. [More…]
It is secured by a mortgage on some of the equipment. [More…]
This is a combined operation by the Federal Government, the State Government and the Commercial Bank of Australia Limited. [More…]
As you would know, Mr Deputy Speaker, it has a small operation at Baryulgil on the far north coast which employs a significant number of men. [More…]
The Woodsreef mine employs 435 men. [More…]
I hope that the Commonwealth Government will receive praise and not carping criticism for what it has done. [More…]
What is the sense in turning out people through an educational system who are the best dressed men and women in the world but have nowhere to go and do not know how to get there. [More…]
There was none of this hand-out mentality, of always going to government. [More…]
Now the Institute has an enrolment of 4,21 1 students. [More…]
These men have observed, they are devoted and they have experimented and out of all this has come stability. [More…]
Two members of the Committee want to express some criticisms, I am sure, of the Government for at least not giving their recommendations more serious consideration. [More…]
Therefore I can only condemn the Government generally for its whole approach to defence service homes. [More…]
These homes and housing in general have received a very low priority from this Government. [More…]
The Government knows that this is a time when resources of both men and material are available. [More…]
1 ) How many men are at present in receipt of a Supporting Parents Benefit [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say which 10 nations have the largest life expectancy for (a) men and (b) women and what the figure ism each case. [More…]
1 ) The 10 nations that have the largest life expectancy for men and women and the respective life expectancies are shown in Table 1. [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…]
The camp set up by the company employing the men is approximately two miles from the nearer of the two points above which the land-based nuclear devices were exploded Le., the ground zeros. [More…]
The element which we will offer to the United Nations for inclusion in the force is an engineer contingent of 250 officers and men, together with a national headquarters and support element of 50. [More…]
It is intended that the deployment of the Australian contingent will be for that length of time. [More…]
But all aspects of the situation in which the force will operate have been given the most careful consideration and the risks our men will face are assessed by the National Assessments Board as low. [More…]
That came about, as a result of the actions of a person who had purported at one stage while in Opposition to be a spokesman for manufacturing industry, by the imposition of a 25 per cent tariff cut, which destroyed a number of working men’s jobs. [More…]
During the same period Government expenditure increased out of all proportion. [More…]
This was the mess, the disaster, created by the ineptitude of a government which purported to have the support of the people of Australia. [More…]
I am pleased to have been elected to this Parliament in 1975, and subsequently reelected, by genuine people who were sick and tired of a group of socialists who did not know what they were talking about. [More…]
Is it a fact that showers are provided in the men’s toilets at the Commonwealth Parliament Offices, Brisbane, on the 12th floor of the Australian Government Centre, whereas the women’s toilets in that same complex do not have showers even though one member of Parliament whose offices are on the 13th floor is a woman and all the secretaries in the 1 2 Parliamentarians ‘ offices are women. [More…]
1 ) Yes, no showers have been provided for women in the Commonwealth Parliament Offices, whereas one has been provided for men on the 12th floor. [More…]
The Government is spending more on one individual than it is saving by the abolition of half-yearly indexation. [More…]
Making political footballs out of the two million men, women and children directly or indirectly dependent upon social security payments is less than cheap. [More…]
It is an expression of disgust by the Government for those people who cannot afford the luxury of family trusts. [More…]
I believe that there are many honourable members on the Government side of the House who, on this issue, are honourable men. [More…]
It is rumoured in the Press that there are many more honourable men in the Liberal Party- men who are concerned about the plight of the pensioners and who are concerned about back bench disquiet over broken pledges. [More…]
There is no doubt that the pledges given by leaders of the Liberal Party in the 1977 Federal election campaign have been broken by the Government’s decision. [More…]
Therefore, if they are honourable men they will insist on the maintenance of the pledges that they followed in the election. [More…]
The Government cannot justify the saving of $27m in terms of the inflationary situation of the Australian economy. [More…]
It is a mean and paltry decision which, if Government members are honourable men, they will reject. [More…]
If honourable members opposite have any social compassion, if they are honourable men in that sense, they too will support the motion moved tonight. [More…]
Mr Fraser talks about how poorly the Labor Party performed in government. [More…]
Let me repeat for his benefit, although he is not in the House at the moment, the number of bankruptcies which shows the measure of the Government’s success under his prime ministership. [More…]
In 1977-78 there were 3,134 bankruptcies in contrast with the three years of the Labor Government when they averaged 1,800, So there was a 70 per cent increase in bankruptcies under the Fraser Government. [More…]
Of course, I have not mentioned the more spectacular bankruptcies like the liquidation of Associated Securities Ltd with the knights no longer in shining armour. [More…]
These men who form the backbone of the establishment were caught with their pants down with a $350m crash, not just a $lm crash. [More…]
The Australian Financial Review in an editorial disgracefully excused the role of these three men as non-executive directors. [More…]
That is the kind of treatment the members of the Australian public are used to receiving from the people who manage this country, quiet and competent managers in the Liberal Party uniform, the pinstripe suit, who get on with the job. [More…]
The role of Sir Reginald Ansett and his co-directors should be investigated by the New South Wales Government because ASL is incorporated in New South Wales. [More…]
We on this side of the House will be looking to the New South Wales Government to proceed in its investigation of ASL and the background of this massive commercial failure. [More…]
The point I am making in providing this background information is that there is no loyalty between these two men. [More…]
There is as much loyalty between these two men as there is between the Prime Minister and Senator Withers. [More…]
This is a rabble of a government with a rabble of a Cabinet. [More…]
I dare the Government to dash off to the present Governor-General and to suggest that it might have an extension of its present term because of its policies and their acceptance by the people of Australia. [More…]
The dispirited, listless group of men on the other side of the House have sought to gather themselves together again and launch another of their futile motions. [More…]
What a splendid tribute to the Opposition’s capacity in this national Parliament for any form of constructive debate and what an outstanding record of responsiveness to some of the very significant issues which are facing Australia today. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, I say at the outset that we of the Opposition are very anxious to put our point of view concerning the issue which is the subject of the ministerial statement presented today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock). [More…]
In our view the Government does not have clean hands on this issue. [More…]
We must go back to considering the fundamental problems of Indo-China. [More…]
We must look at what has been said in this Parliament before, particularly by the men who are in office now and were in office prior to 1972. [More…]
It has to be recognised that the first time a real and tangible effort was made by an Australian government to achieve peace in Vietnam was after the Australian Labor Party was elected to government in December 1972. [More…]
Secondly, these men restored our foreign relations with an obsession of a broader and engulfing question of deterioration. [More…]
We turned over the ground that was poisoned in Indo-China and China by the likes of Menzies, Hasluck, Barwick and others. [More…]
Thirdly, these men put back into our foreign relations a poison and a hatred which serve no national purpose. [More…]
We lost 350 men in that conflict. [More…]
Again we say that the Government has sought to take over for domestic political advantage the achievements of the Labor Government in relations with the region, in relations with the developing world and particularly in disarmament and arms control. [More…]
But there existed and there exists a fundamental difference in approach. [More…]
But we have in office now men who behave as though they are rulers or pretenders to rule. [More…]
China embarked on this united front strategy because of its sense of encirclement. [More…]
The China of Mao, irrationally feared by those men opposite in this chamber in the 1960s, did not commit its armies to battle in Vietnam. [More…]
The China of Deng Xiaoping, embraced by these men, has committed its armies into Vietnam. [More…]
Yet the Government shows no signs of recognising its history of inspired folly in foreign policy. [More…]
-Last week this Parliament resumed and throughout three sitting days not one opportunity was taken by the members of the Opposition to question the Government about any matter concerning foreign policy. [More…]
In his last breath he decided to mention West Asia. [More…]
At no stage did he mention Europe. [More…]
The statement made here today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) was not only a concise and expert coverage of the very difficult situation facing Australia and the Western world but also examined matters which this Parliament, as a matter of prime responsibility to the Australian people, must take very seriously. [More…]
Whether we like it or not, power and the perception of power will always remain the final and ultimate arbiters of the affairs of men. [More…]
As I said previously, and I want to repeat this point, power and the perception of power will remain the final and ultimate arbiters of the affairs of men. [More…]
Between 1964 and 1977 Soviet military personnel increased from 3.4 to 4.4 million men. [More…]
Technologically, the Soviet military establishment is now approaching, in many but not all respects, the quality of our own. [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 Government needs to make decisions on naval air power, whether the aircraft carrier Melbourne is to be replaced. [More…]
It was suggested quite seriously by one speaker that we could have an aircraft carrier or a naval air strike force of some sort if we could reduce the Regular Army by 7,000 men. [More…]
The defence experts predicted in the White Paper that we needed a regular Army of 34,000 men. [More…]
At present the Army has 3 1,600 men because the decision not to increase Army personnel was one of the economies which the Government made. [More…]
There are no plans to increase the manpower strength of the Army at the moment. [More…]
The Government must make those plans immediately. [More…]
In the 1950s the Government spent about 30 per cent of the Army budget on manpower. [More…]
Even with an Army of 34,000 men if it is to be expanded quickly, Australia needs a strong active reserve force. [More…]
The Government and this Parliament must give a lead. [More…]
The men do not have the equipment. [More…]
These young men are keen to learn. [More…]
I hope that every honourable member will go out to his electorate and encourage the reserves, speak of the facts which I have outlined and encourage the Government to give a lead. [More…]
At the moment we have no mobilisation plans in Australia. [More…]
There is a third piece of puppetry which is even more disgraceful and that is the way in which we allow the Indonesian Government to decide some of our policies for us. [More…]
There are two men in prison in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They are three classic examples of puppetry from what is supposed to be a sovereign government. [More…]
The Government is not fit to govern. [More…]
I suspect that we cannot, that the nature and rate of technological change are not strictly comparable with any past development. [More…]
For example, Watt’s steam engine forced many workhorses into premature retirement, but it created jobs for the men who made the machines, operated them, maintained them, built the factories to house them, dug up the coal and supplied the water which ran them. [More…]
Would that not have represented a significant change in employment in agriculture? [More…]
Concern has been expressed by some members of the trade union movement in the past about the effect of the maintenance of the live sheep exports. [More…]
The combination of both is very much in the interest not just of Australian primary producers and the sheep men in particular but of the whole Australian community. [More…]
The employment that is engendered is certainly very important in ensuring the maintenance of the present economic recovery in the rural sector. [More…]
I have expressed concern to my Department about that fact because one of the conditions upon which people are offered this kind of seasonal, casual work is that they are provided with expenses to go to the place of work. [More…]
Therefore, it is not unreasonable to ask whether persons who refuse the opportunity to take the travel expenses and to travel to the Mildura or Shepparton districts should nevertheless continue to receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
I think there are many people in Australia at the present time who see able bodied men and women not responding to these kinds of work opportunities. [More…]
You have to give us that; otherwise we will sack more men’. [More…]
This, however, was not a new experience for advertising men, who ‘spend a great deal of their lives giving the kiss of life to commercial propositions that often look very blue in the face indeed’. [More…]
I say in all humility that I am in no position to make a final definitive judgment on the views expressed by Mr Webb and Dr Spry. [More…]
But Mr Webb and Dr Spry are men of such eminence and standing that the comments they made not only should be the subject of discussion and debate but also indeed should be pursued to ascertain whether they are correct. [More…]
If the comments are correct a result would be obtained by the passage of this legislation which would be contrary to the wishes of this Government. [More…]
-I am glad that the honourable member for Sydney has reminded me that the lawyers, the professional men, the doctors and certain taxation avoidance accountants are the ones who are getting away with millions of dollars. [More…]
It is those people whom the Government should be setting out to catch. [More…]
I compliment the Treasurer on the actions which he has taken. [More…]
I must admit that I have been criticised in some of my own Australian Labor Party branches for complimenting him on the actions which he has taken. [More…]
There are reasons for the non-implementation of certain of those recommendations. [More…]
There are a few guilty consciences not only amongst members of the present Liberal-National Country Party Government but also amongst a few members of the judiciary. [More…]
I would not reflect on the judiciary in any shape or form because I think members of the judiciary are all honest men. [More…]
It could be said that certain people, honest men, do take advantage of tax avoidance schemes through family trusts and so on. [More…]
Presumably they are honest men, otherwise they would not be appointed to the judiciary. [More…]
Be that as it may, it is a fact that people in high places, even within this Parliament, have practiced tax avoidance schemes. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, most of these were contained in the original Act of 1929 which introduced the present tribunal system, over four decades before those same principles became accepted generally by this Parliament. [More…]
I pay tribute to the farsighted men of 1929 who developed such an appellate scheme. [More…]
I wish also to pay tribute to the many men of calibre who over the years have held appointments to the existing Tribunals. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the House. [More…]
This took place in the Department of the Capital Territory. [More…]
People are required to do the work of two or three men while other people are out of work. [More…]
The primary concern of the Florida industry is, of course, Brazil; citrus men who have been in Brazil over the past several years say that the Brazilian citrus industry, heavily subsidised by its Government, is geared up to match Florida’s production by the end of this century. [More…]
What happened was that a message went through from the Government because the untouchables were involved, that is Bolte, Ansett and Looker, the great men. [More…]
I get around the merchant banking community, the banking community and the financial community just like other members of Parliament. [More…]
In fact he would probably fit into more than one of the categories I have mentioned. [More…]
The incidence of heart disease amongst professional men was three times that amongst unskilled workers, whilst amongst bus drivers it was nearly twice that of bus conductors, and so on. [More…]
The Education Department of South Australia, in its discussion paper published in August 1978, had this to say- and I know that the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) will be very interested in this: [More…]
Australia once dominated tennis, squash, women’s athletics and swimming and produced world champion athletes in men’s athletics, cycling and rowing and creditable performances in other sports but we now cannot claim to be the top nation in any sport. [More…]
What I have said has been adequately documented in a White Paper released by the Confederation of Australian Sport in May 1977. [More…]
I recommend it to everyone for reading. [More…]
Time does not permit me to quote in detail from this excellent document but I pay tribute to that body and the work done by its president, Wayne Reid, its Secretary, Garry Daly and its committee, particularly Mr Les Martyn, the President of the Australian Amateur Weightlifting Federation. [More…]
Australia is fortunate in having such men prepared to give up so much of their time and energy to fight for a healthy and physically fit Australia. [More…]
Will this Government not recognise that the health and physical fitness of Australians generally is declining and that the prowess of our sporting champions is falling far below that of our traditional opponents? [More…]
It is at the base of the pyramid where encouragement is needed and from that base will come the champion men and women whom we as rugged, outdoor Australians all. [More…]
I am disappointed when I look at people watching a football match or a cricket match and see young men- from my point of view ‘young’ meaning under 30 years of age- with their tummies hanging over their belts. [More…]
I do not think that these young men have ever joined in the ‘Life. [More…]
I have to look quite a long way before I see any of the bronzed, lean, lantern-jawed young men which he was describing. [More…]
By the same token, when we see certain advertisements for cigarettes the fellows shown are looking bronzed and fit. [More…]
None of us in this Parliament or outside it has to be reminded of Australia’s former glories. [More…]
The list of our sports heroes includes men and women who have reached a pinnacle of accomplishments in international class in their field of sport. [More…]
Without their great achievements, the annals of sporting history would be greatly diminished. [More…]
The Government’s attention and its money ought to be directed on the broad based sporting organisations- programs for the masses- with the expectation that our stars will rise from within those ranks. [More…]
That is not necessarily the most important segment but it is one. [More…]
Let us not think that the men and women who sit on the Hill are not engaged in recreation. [More…]
Funding was mentioned, and in that respect I ask the honourable member for Grayndler to have a yarn with some of his colleagues in New South Wales. [More…]
If he can get the New South Wales Government to agree, we will be able to have a national sports lottery. [More…]
The Victorian Government seems to be in favour of it, and if the two most populous States are in favour of such a lottery then the indications are that we should be able to raise between $20m and $30m a year for sporting activities. [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…]
The whole attack has been based on the allegation that the loans were made beyond the responsibilities which these gentlemen exercise. [More…]
I shall quote again to the House a statement by the Chairman on behalf of his colleagues. [More…]
These gentlemen have been charged with the responsibility of administering these funds. [More…]
This attack is on the probity of these three men and of every one of the officers who work with them. [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…]
The attack is against the men who administer this Act and against a statement presented in this House saying that loans have been advanced solely in accordance with the guidelines determined by the Commission and in accordance with that statement. [More…]
The statement continued: [More…]
All of these schemes are administered by men of high reputation and integrity and many of them are career public servants. [More…]
They do not have the intestinal fortitude to get out from under the cloak of parliamentary privilege- a privilege that they are continually and progressively abusing in this place. [More…]
I regard the introduction of the Repatriation Acts Amendment Bill as a backward step. [More…]
I do not think it is relevant to consider streamlining a piece of legislation unless it is likely to produce a better system for the ex-servicemen and women of Australia. [More…]
It is approximately six years since the last men and women came home from Vietnam; it is about 25 years since the last men and women came home from Korea; it is 34 years since they came home from the Second World War; and it is 60 years since they came home from the First World War. [More…]
I have the feeling that this legislation is part of the machinery which is being established to try to get the claims of ex-servicemen and women upon the gratitude of the people of this country to fade away as fast as possible. [More…]
I have heard around the Parliament mention of people who are advocating that we should abolish the whole system- give our ex-service men and women a hearty golden handshake and then ask them to go away. [More…]
The report of the Repatriation Commission shows that, in 1977, 10 men from the South African War were still drawing pensions, and it is 79 years since they came home. [More…]
We have had a reduction in the medical and hospital treatment available to people who are on a full pension. [More…]
Fringe benefits which have meant so much to many of the service men and women are slowly being whittled away. [More…]
That is just another example of the way in which this Government has gone about its business. [More…]
One of the interesting occurrences to me was the decision taken some two or three years ago to change the name of the Department. [More…]
It used to be called the Repatriation Department. [More…]
Everybody talked about ‘the Repat Department’. [More…]
The War Memorial lists the names of 100,000 men and women who were killed in the wars. [More…]
We are talking about a mammoth commitment by the Australian people at that time and what I believe to be a moral demand upon us to examine the situation and to ensure that the commitment that they accepted is met with equal commitment on our part. [More…]
The figures as to the number of men who survived the First World War and who claimed pensions look ridiculously small to me. [More…]
The figures in the last report of the Repatriation Commission, as it was called, show that in 1950 or 1951, more than 30 years after the First World War, some 15,000 men who returned from that War were receiving pensions. [More…]
As I said earlier, some 330,000 men and women sailed from Australia in the First World War. [More…]
I have seen men who have had injuries for 40 or 50 years and who have gone to work, gone off duty for a few days, gone back to work again and then collapsed because of an ulcer condition, a heart attack or something like that, only to find repatriation benefits and so on being denied to them because their disability could not be proved. [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…]
He was asked or instructed or directed by the Commonwealth Employment Service to go to Cobram in the northern part of Victoria. [More…]
The persons chosen to form the assessment panel are also men of great experience. [More…]
The Parliament will be represented on the panel by Senator Gareth Evans and by the honourable member for [More…]
Until now, the backroom nature of the involvement of the organisers has made investigation, and subsequently proof in the courts, virtually impossible. [More…]
The Government believes that by careful use of a power to authorise listening devices, investigators will be able to break down the walls currently protecting this inner circle. [More…]
Honourable members should have no doubt that the lives of these men are at risk. [More…]
But a second danger of the geo-political approach is that in welcoming the re-emergence of geo-politics, the Foreign Minister will be carried away by the seductive, but simplistic, visions of grand international strategy which, too often, blind men to the realities of complex local situations. [More…]
Now, certainly, the Minister’s statement is replete with the misleading jargon of geopolitics. [More…]
It leads one, I think, to particularly unbalanced analyses and one of these is the role of the Soviet Union as portrayed in his comments. [More…]
It serves as an example to an agnostic, hedonistic world that religion is still a great mover of men. [More…]
Hardly anything could be added to the volumes of comment and analysis which have accompanied the fall of the Shah and the rise of the Ayatollah. [More…]
However, I stress one point in the Iranian revolution which concerns Australia and that is that the Australian Government’s decision to tie the country’s petrol prices to world parity could not have been more ill-timed. [More…]
There was nothing but inventories, censuses of men and animals … estimations of harvests to come … [More…]
(one of the first effects of harsh price controls on farm goods is the abandonment of farms and the consequent fall in the supplies of food). [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…]
On the same basis- I know that the Government of which I am proud to be a member takes this view- let us not by Federal legislation do anything which will take away the traditional and substantial role of the State Supreme Courts. [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…]
The second was by Miss Julie Flynn on PM referring to Catholic Labor men’ in regard to the Lusher motion to be debated later today. [More…]
A. Johnson while he was Research Director of the Family Planning Centre, St Vincent’s Hospital in Sydney, and Mr D. B. Roberts, which showed that about 25 per cent of the women who have abortions in Australia are of the Catholic faith. [More…]
However, Dr Johnson emphasised the ‘acute moral and ethical dilemma’ of those women in deciding to terminate their pregnancies. [More…]
Not one of us men in this House can speak of the personal experience which a woman or child undergoes in circumstances where she has to make a decision to terminate her pregnancy. [More…]
We do not have the right to interfere in any way with the judgment of a medical practitioner in giving advice to this patient. [More…]
There are many in this country who would not agree with sterilisation operations for men or women. [More…]
Those people are also taxpayers and they could advance a strong argument that the Commonwealth Government should not allow any medical benefit to be paid to any person who wilfully undertakes an operation which will prevent conception. [More…]
There are some who would say that the morality involved in a sterilisation operation is more serious than the morality involved in the termination of a pregnancy carried out in circumstances that accord with the Menhennitt rule. [More…]
Women pay equally with men for medical benefit coverage. [More…]
Yet a surgical procedure that affects women only, which is prescribed by doctors, and charged for, is to be deleted. [More…]
The fact that abortion is available to women does not force women to have abortions. [More…]
The restricted availability of abortions forces women to be unable to exercise the choice of avoiding a situation where an unwanted child is brought into being. [More…]
It forces women into a specific position of oppression in this society in that they are denied their rights to control their own bodies. [More…]
No women enjoy having an abortion. [More…]
The Medibank rebate for abortion does not encourage women to have abortions. [More…]
Few women take the decision to have an abortion lightly. [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…]
But outside this House, countless women will suffer, especially working class women and women on low incomes. [More…]
Women have a variety of responsible reasons for wanting an abortion such as the inability to manage financially; inability to cope emotionally; completion of a family or a recent child; no wish to be forced into a marriage; avoidance of family strife or parental awareness; ill health; worry about the deformity of a child; and rape or incest. [More…]
That in itself reflects a broader set of problems facing women. [More…]
Women are doubly disadvantaged. [More…]
It is true that in many areas women are excluded. [More…]
Too often decisions concerning women are made by men and too often these decisions reflect a lack of understanding of the real situation of women. [More…]
For the most part women are treated unfairly in a domestic role where they are not only responsible for bearing a child but also for rearing the child and caring for the home. [More…]
What gives this House of men the right to take away from women, and to take away from families under economic pressure, a civilised provision to which they have every right? [More…]
Surely we have passed the stage where men hypocritically think that women should pay a penalty for their promiscuity. [More…]
If we are not hypocritical and if we are not narrow-minded, surely we can see this motion only as an attack on women in general and an attack on women with low incomes in particular. [More…]
I believe that it is the women, not the men, who are under stress in these cases. [More…]
I believe that women must receive special understanding, sympathy and care. [More…]
I believe that it is the job of this Parliament to ensure that that care is given to them and that strong preference is shown to them. [More…]
I find it strange and unacceptable that men should make such savage judgments on women. [More…]
I suggest to those who have made amendments that they should withdraw them no matter how good their intentions. [More…]
Because I think they prolong the debate and do not serve a useful purpose, I ask honourable members to give up their amendments and move straight on to a rejection of the Lusher motion. [More…]
Those people ought to recognise that parliaments are made up of people like ourselves; they are not made up of criminals or people who introduce laws designed to force people to take certain actions to terminate pregnancies. [More…]
It is men and women- people like ourselves- who are making these laws. [More…]
I intend to vote for the amendment moved by the honourable member for McMillan ( Mr Simon ) but not because I support it in total. [More…]
However, because I believe that there is a possibility that the motion moved by the honourable member for Hume (Mr Lusher) may get up if I do not support the amendment moved by the honourable member for McMillan, I shall vote for the amendment as a safety precaution. [More…]
But I do not hold very much brief for some honourable members of this Parliament who for what they believe to be good political reasons and for no other reasons- in this they are sadly mistaken- have pontificated here on a matter which is purely the concern of women. [More…]
It makes me sick to hear some of the hypocrisy that comes from the mouths of men about the rights of women to control their own bodies. [More…]
That reaction is now strongly in favour of laws which allow women to regain ownership of their own bodies. [More…]
He has very cleverly seized on this issue because he knows, first, that the majority of voters are women and, secondly, that the majority of people, men or women, favour the right of a woman to decide what will happen to her own body. [More…]
That was a political issue in which the apathetic majority foolishly believed that the Government could pour hundreds of millions of dollars into church schools without affecting the level of everyone’s tax burden. [More…]
I am angry because those honourable members who fall within that category are telling women something they would not allow women to tell men if the positions were reversed. [More…]
If this were a House of 124 women they would have no more right to make laws relating to the bodies of men than we have to make laws concerning medical matters relating to the bodies of women. [More…]
How would men like a parliament of women to make a law calling for the castration of every husband wishing to exercise what husbands are pleased to describe as their right when their wives are tired, have a headache or would rather read the Sunday newspapers. [More…]
There is no difference between the number of Catholic and non-Catholic women having abortions today. [More…]
Psychologically and physiologically the trauma is the same in the case of all pregnant women. [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…]
Perhaps, above all, it ill becomes a group of men to tell the women of Australia what their responsibilities are and that they should save their housekeeping money to pay for abortions which are deemed by doctors under State laws to be legally necessary in the interests of the woman ‘s health. [More…]
Why have these women and men thrown in the towel? [More…]
Several arguments have been put that this House should not debate the matter. [More…]
I refer to the argument put by the Minister for Productivity (Mr Macphee) that this is an all male House and that we are purporting to make a decision on a women’s issue. [More…]
As members of Parliament we have a responsibility to debate matters of public concern. [More…]
We are elected by both men and women. [More…]
Far from it being improper for me to express a view in this Parliament on this matter, I believe I would be failing in my duty if I did not maintain the view I expressed on both those occasions, and chose instead to ignore the views of many men and women who supported me on the basis of my expressed views. [More…]
It is further argued that the Parliament should not consider this matter because it is a woman’s right to choose if she wants an abortion. [More…]
When I consider all the evidence of the development of the foetus at various stages I can conclude only that it is a developing person. [More…]
Those two men are controlled by the union movement. [More…]
Even worse, the Leader of the Opposition in Victoria- I should say the de facto leader, because I have established that the real leader, the State President, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports, is in this Federal House- Mr Frank Wilkes, according to the Melbourne Herald of 2 1 February, wrote a letter to Mr Sammy Armstrong of the Gippsland Trades and Labour Council saying that the Labor Party would dismantle the present State co-ordination committee and give Cabinet responsibility for handling disputes with government departments and authorities. [More…]
Therefore, I want to say at the beginning, and almost at the end, of my remarks that it is a matter first of all of drawing the line so that one can make a judgment as to what is proper and what is not proper. [More…]
Yet different lines will be drawn by different men and women of principle. [More…]
Am I to say that they are not each men of conscience? [More…]
Both of them are men of conscience and great principle. [More…]
The arguments defending abortion payments for the poor are cynical and socially completely unacceptable. [More…]
This Parliament should stand firm in the defence of human life. [More…]
Many women argue this way: Whilst they are involved, why should men make decisions involving the lives of many women in this private and sensitive area? [More…]
I apologise for the fact that, we have not got more women in this Parliament who probably could assist us in making these difficult and sensitive decisions that are going to affect many thousands of young people. [More…]
Many members of this Parliament, like me, have been brought up to oppose abortion on demand and to fight it until it is outlawed in this country. [More…]
Imagine the embarrassment, pain and anguish and the knowing comments, such as: ‘Of course she was pregnant. [More…]
She was popular with the men. [More…]
Imagine the embarrassment in either case for the women concerned. [More…]
There can be no argument that, in the biological sense, life is often not easy for many people, particularly as they pass their mid-forties. [More…]
For many women this is so, and the problems are often specifically related to their sexual physiology and anatomy; their sex organs and how they function. [More…]
The problems will range from difficulties arising from menopause or its onset. [More…]
In giving these examples I am not saying that I believe in the assumptions on which far too many women and men make judgments which give rise to these fears. [More…]
Even if I think they are wrong, the fears, the anxiety, the destructive effects on the women and their family relationships are all too real all too often. [More…]
Whilst I disagree with the views of prominent church men who have in recent days indicated their opposition to legally performed abortions, I do not disagree with their right to express their views. [More…]
It is simply a question of the right of the individual to be free to avail herself, or not to avail herself, of legitimate medical treatment in the eyes of many people in this country. [More…]
Let us take the case of a half a dozen young men joining in a gang rape and their being arraigned before the court. [More…]
The Levine ruling in New South Wales has merely widened the application of the Menhennitt doctrine. [More…]
Here we sit, 124 men deliberating on what I see is essentially an issue between a woman and her doctor, a husband and wife and their doctor, a woman and boyfriend and a doctor or a teenager, her parents and their doctor. [More…]
A lot has also been said about the effect that this motion, if passed, could have on a doctor’s judgment. [More…]
A doctor’s judgment in my view should not be subject to the scrutiny of public servants. [More…]
It will make safe, sterile abortions inaccessible to women who so desperately need them- women on low incomes, women who have been raped, women with large families and women to whom an unwanted pregnancy threatens physical and mental health. [More…]
That is one thing that no man in this Parliament, including me, can really understand. [More…]
Yet I do not condemn, as some have, the fact that men are passing judgment on this subject. [More…]
The House of Represenatative is the only allmale lower House in any democratic national parliament throughout the world. [More…]
If an all-female assembly were to pass laws, Lysistrata-like, determining the sexual rights of males there would be considerable consternation among men. [More…]
Many of the letters I have received, mostly from men demanding that I vote for the Lusher motion, reveal an astonishing confidence in their own judgment. [More…]
I am not certain about my own judgment in this matter and it is because I am uncertain that I am voting to maintain the status quo. [More…]
I have been appalled by the arrogance and exaggeration of their arguments; for example, the logical slide which goes: Foetus equals human being, therefore abortion equals murder equals genocide; therefore, as one correspondent wrote abortion clinic equals Hitler’s death camps. [More…]
After suicide attempts, women and men routinely go to hospital for treatment. [More…]
If a desperate woman finds herself in the hands of the backyarders because she cannot find a hospital abortion, or if she attempts suicide for the same reason and has to go to the hospital to be patched up, would the compassion of the honourable member for Hume allow her to claim medical benefits, or would he say: ‘If she can’t pay for treatment, she can’t hope for hospital benefits’. [More…]
I find it repugnant that 124 men in this House- no women- are passing judgment on women’s rights. [More…]
I would not seek to impose my moral judgment on these women. [More…]
Women endure abortion, men cause the need. [More…]
If we in this Parliament were genuinely concerned in this area we would be better advised to press for more generous family allowances and increased support for single mothers. [More…]
I would like to point out to the people on the other side of the House that support this motion that the Labor Party when in Government introduced the supporting mothers’ benefit. [More…]
This Government has done nothing to improve it. [More…]
I follow the most disappointing speech that I have heard in this House from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Mr Lionel Bowen) in the time that I have been in this Parliament. [More…]
Putting that aside, if we look at what he has had to say in this particular debate it becomes quite clear that the Opposition are certainly worried men. [More…]
They are worried about the actions of the Premier of New South Wales and his colleagues in agreeing to this most disastrous compromise, as they would like to call it, or capitulation in the industrial commissions of New South Wales and the Government’s conscientious decision to agree to give up resistance to the increased benefits for the employees in the electricity generation area. [More…]
There is nothing loose on the part of the Government about it. [More…]
It was part of its strength that it said notwithstanding what was given to these men in other areas and notwithstanding the apparent injustice- it is an apparent injustice- it is not in the national interest to allow this matter to go any further. [More…]
We have the first position now in which one State Government has given up. [More…]
It seeks to establish that the Commonwealth Government, through its reimbursement grants, will have to meet the additional commitments in wages that the New South Wales Government has been prepared to pay. [More…]
That Government is not asking for the people of New South Wales to pay these additional benefits for its employees but is asking that Australian taxpayers subsidise higher wages and costs in New South Wales because that State Government is not prepared to meet them. [More…]
Before the Second World War men working for the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board in Victoria were required to be on duty 18 hours a day. [More…]
It is of some significance that from 1949 we had a Federal Liberal government for 23 years. [More…]
I am not too sure that the honourable member for Dundas or any other honourable member on the other side of the House has yet been prepared to see the men who load and unload the ships that come to our shores. [More…]
These men, because of the advance of technology and the methods of handling cargo through containerisation, work only 35 hours a week. [More…]
The honourable member for Gellibrand is acknowledged throughout this land as the greatest authority on economics in or outside of Parliament. [More…]
It is a pity that the honourable member did not have the opportunity of saying that to the Treasurer who, it is acknowledged inside and outside the Parliament, knows nothing about economics. [More…]
He just took the normal, Tory reaction to a situation where the working hours of working men and women were being reduced. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Howard) must be condemned for his rash statement. [More…]
He should not make such statements in this House without a shred of evidence, purely and simply on the basis of his own emotions and conservative attitude towards working men which are well known throughout the country. [More…]
I ask the Opposition and every honourable member in the House: If I have been misleading the Australian people as to the true situation in Australia and it is now six weeks since I made that assessment and made it public, have I been right or wrong? [More…]
Of course there is not because the assessment is correct. [More…]
Has the Opposition told us why it believes my assessment is incorrect in relation to the position between May and June? [More…]
Of course it has not because it does not know and because my assessment is correct. [More…]
The men opposite me who amount to the Opposition in this place will say anything, will do anything, and tonight we have seen another example of that. [More…]
I know that this honourable collection of gentlemen- at least on this side- and the people who are listening to this debate will be making the proper decision now as they listen to the way we have argued the case tonight. [More…]
The film showed in a genuine fashion the experiences of young men in the Vietnam conflict. [More…]
A royal commission was held and it blamed the West Gate Bridge Authority for allowing ‘the atmosphere of urgency to permit “judgments to be influenced by the prevailing sense of pressure, resulting from ill-conceived decisions and the kind of mistakes which all too often arise from hasty actions” ‘. [More…]
The Melbourne City Coroner, Mr Pascoe, S.M., in his inquest on the dead men blamed the Authority for ‘lack of control over the consultants and the contractors, and failing to inspect the work frequently’. [More…]
Will this happen with the new and permanent parliament house? [More…]
It is not a very impressive recommendation. [More…]
-Whilst I endorse the comments made by the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott) in relation to the gross allegations which have been made in this House tonight against the members of the Parliament House Construction Authority- they are men of good will, who have been appointed by this Government to undertake a very serious and responsible task- I congratulate the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) on today being his fiftieth birthday. [More…]
I do so because he has worked with me and many other people before me on the Joint Standing Committee on the New and Permanent Parliament House, and he knows more than anybody else the hundreds of hours of work by members of this Parliament which has gone into the setting up of the Authority, the work carried out by the Authority and the preparation of briefs for the construction of the new and permanent parliament house. [More…]
If the honourable member for Melbourne will wait I will say that the majority of union members in this country will take up the challenge and realise that there is a national responsibility to have this particular Parliament House constructed by the time of the bicentennial celebrations in 1988. [More…]
1 think it is particularly worthwhile recording that there is a challenge not only to the union members but also to members of Parliament, employers, contractors, and all the artisans who will be involved in this particular construction. [More…]
I emphasise that it will require the goodwill of all men in this country, and, not the least, of all men in this Parliament. [More…]
If the House is going to take note of the sort of denigration which has been made tonight about people who have offered themselves after being approached by this Government to take on the responsibility of being members of the Construction Authority then I think: ‘God help this country if we are going to have those sorts of people taking part in future debates on the construction of the new and permanent Parliament House.’ [More…]
Tonight some honourable members have discussed whether the building will reflect parliamentarians. [More…]
That is the work of this Parliament. [More…]
For instance, the Committee will continue in existence and will continue to provide advice to the Parliament House Construction Authority and to the Assessment Committee. [More…]
The Committee in a sense will be the watchdog of the Parliament and in another sense will tell those who are vitally interested the detail and nature of the building and the interrelationships between various facilities. [More…]
The new parliament house will be a very complex building, but not of a complexity that intelligence and understanding cannot contemplate. [More…]
The group of men of intelligence, integrity and experience in a number of fields who will work on this Authority will be able to see this job through and build the parliament house that we want. [More…]
We could have asked the Department of Housing and Construction or the National Capital Development Commission to undertake this job; but the Government decided that the job required a group of people who would dedicate themselves to the precise work and who would be given power to get on with the job. [More…]
Those men ought to be able to put together programs and implement the final plan. [More…]
The necessary skills are embodied in the experience of these gentlemen whom we have chosen. [More…]
The Authority is set up to get on with the job, not to be hampered overly much, but to keep within the resolutions of this Parliament. [More…]
Firstly, it will conduct a competition in accordance with the instructions of this Parliament, which I hope we will be able to give next week, after this Bill is passed. [More…]
Later, through the assessment process, the Authority will recommend a final designer. [More…]
I hope that that person will be endorsed by this Parliament. [More…]
The final plan, with the sketch plans and details, will be endorsed by this Parliament. [More…]
So, at all times the Authority will be circumscribed by the decisions of this Parliament. [More…]
At all times the Joint Committee will be there as the watchdog to make sure that the Authority is getting on with the job in accordance with the decisions and resolutions of this Parliament. [More…]
As a result of the Government’s reforms, indexation and reform of the rate scales and its introduction of family allowances, the taxpayer on average weekly earnings with a wife and two children is $15 a week better off under this Government than under Mr Hayden ‘s tax scales. [More…]
That is certainly a peacetime record for any government in Australia. [More…]
The Opposition was going to take the taxes out of the pockets of the working men and women of Australia and pay those funds to companies. [More…]
We must sustain a defence force containing men with the right skills, possessing the right weapons, that could train and develop an expanded force as and when a major threat to Australia begins to emerge. [More…]
May I refer again to our need to have a defence force with the men in the right skills, possessing the right weapons, that can train and develop a force expanded in size, should a direct threat to Australia begin to emerge. [More…]
In the interest of rational defence debate, we must resist a somewhat old fashioned concept of measuring the country’s military capability in terms of the number of men in our Army, or the number of men we could contribute to overseas expeditionary forces in a major conflict in a distant theatre. [More…]
The Government aims to improve the air and sea mobility of the ground force within Australia, and the capacity of the Services to move a modest force over the seas and sustain it in limited operations. [More…]
She will give the Defence Force a capability for moving men and equipment to any location around our coast without the use of port facilities. [More…]
And may I say here that the one point which critics contrived to overlook last November is that it will sometimes be a wise course in Australia ‘s circumstances to hold and maintain certain equipments on a care-and-maintenance basis instead of working all of them, full time, all the time. [More…]
We would be in dire trouble if the career structure in, say, our Navy, allowed only a handful of men to achieve an Admiral’s rank and pay. [More…]
Let me mention but one more example: Over the past 10 years Australian Army surveyors, with Royal Australian Air Force and Royal Australian Navy support, have contributed more to knowledge by the governments concerned of the physical features of the archipelago to our north than was gathered in the hundreds of years of colonial administration. [More…]
With 54 per cent of the defence expenditure allocated to manpower, 27 per cent to running costs and 1 per cent to defence co-operation programs, we are left with 18 per cent for capital equipment and facilities, including 14 per cent for equipment. [More…]
Whilst never ignoring the importance of trained men in service, the provisions for capital equipment and weapons systems are an absolutely fundamental measure of our preparations against future uncertainties. [More…]
These men and women saw that their patriotic duty lay in serving their country in times of danger and gave generously of their energies and abilities so that this country could develop in freedom and prosperity. [More…]
To see those benefits and privileges, which were deservedly given to them by a grateful nation, eroded and debased by a pennypinching Government. [More…]
In tabling the tenth annual report of the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications (COPQ), it gives me pleasure to draw to the attention of the House the achievements of the Committee. [More…]
The Committee, assisted by over 100 advisers- men and women of eminence in their own professions- has undoubtedly established itself as the principal authority in Australia on qualifications gained overseas and, as such, is a central reference point for professional bodies, registration authorities, universities, public and private employers and individual applicants who seek advice in evaluating foreign degrees, diplomas and professional experience. [More…]
I would like to acknowledge the foresight of the Government, in 1969, in setting up the Committee on Overseas Professional Qualifications, and the support and encouragement of successive governments, in furthering its aims. [More…]
I also acknowledge the statement made by the Opposition spokesman on immigration and ethnic affairs, the Member for Maribyrnong (Dr Moss Cass), when I tabled the Committee’s seventh annual report. [More…]
I believe that a broad based movement against nuclear energy is growing. [More…]
Enormous concern is being expressed, particularly amongst young people and women. [More…]
Why is it that the pregnant women in Harrisburg had to be evacuated first? [More…]
It is a reasonable proposition which says we do not believe the Government should enter into any commitment to open new uranium mining or enter into any contracts until these unresolved problems have been solved. [More…]
We are asking members of this Parliament to act as rational men- there are no women here. [More…]
Political activists trying to force personal views of human betterment on their fellow men also find an outlet within the anti-uranium movement. [More…]
The Minister talked about how many fewer strikes there have been under the LiberalNational Country Party Government than there were under the Labor Government. [More…]
He beat his chest about the fact that perhaps industrial relations were better, which by itself is arguable, and then took this action in the midst of mechanism being used by the union which might mean that the men would go back to work tomorrow. [More…]
This action has been taken in relation to the Victorian elections in the hope that the Government can do something, that it can take some action to inflame the industrial relations arena- the hotbed the Government has always tried to use throughout its history- in order to ensure that the Victorian voters look only at that issue between now and 5 May and forget about the land scandals and the murky dealings of the Victorian Government. [More…]
If there had been a Labor government in Victoria last year the media would have demanded its dismissal when those revelations were made. [More…]
If a Labor government had been caught up in all those murky land deals in Victoria everybody would have said that it should resign. [More…]
Now, when the opportunity is being given to the Victorian electors to bring down the Hamer Government on 5 May, the Federal Government is acting in cahoots with it to use the Transport Workers Union dispute to try to play down some of the other issues. [More…]
Who will ever forget the ravings of the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in the Telecom dispute when he came in here and told us that if the men did not go back to work they would not be paid? [More…]
The union was told that in future it would be consulted by Telecom management on any technological changes, and there was a guarantee that no one would lose his job. [More…]
Let us look at the way in which the dispute was resolved and compare it with the ravings of Malcolm Fraser, who again tried to use this Parliament– [More…]
What are the motives of these men? [More…]
It is public knowledge that an election is to take place in Victoria and that the Hamer Government, caught in a web of corruption and maladministration that goes right to the whole structure of government, is so desperate that it will not even allow the Parliament of Victoria to meet. [More…]
It is not a question of the leaders of the Transport Workers Union going to the men and saying: ‘Right-o, guys, no work. [More…]
I was a trade union official before I came into this Parliament. [More…]
The Government should not delude itself and should not try to delude the people of Australia. [More…]
What happens is that the men meet, talk about their problems and by ballot decide the issue. [More…]
On more than one occasion the leadership of the union has gone back to the members and recommended a return to work, the members have been dissatisfied with the advice given by their leaders and have decided by ballot that they will remain on strike. [More…]
It is a nonsense to suggest that the Government has the public interest at heart when it denies the words of our Constitution. [More…]
We have a Conciliation- I stress the word conciliation- and Arbitration Act, but when has this Government conciliated with anyone? [More…]
The honourable member gave a history of the trade union movement and said that at some time or another there was great justification for the existence of trade unions and the organisation of the work force. [More…]
He would like to return to the days when men and women were gaoled if they dared to organise against the employers. [More…]
But because they show a weakness and because the employees are better organised, he wants to use the forces of government to destroy the employees. [More…]
Is it the free enterprise system where those who believe in it can call on the Government to bail out the employers as has happened in many areas? [More…]
That statement seems to raise a smirk on the face of honourable members opposite. [More…]
But let honest working-class men demand something that the court has given to them, and the Government wants to deregister their union. [More…]
The Minister went on to say that he was very worried that disruptive developments had occurred in recent weeks in industrial relations which now required careful consideration by the Government. [More…]
I wish to look at some examples of these disputes, other than the transport workers’ dispute, which are apparently firing the Government’s imagination and concern. [More…]
I look around me in New South Wales and I see a continuing coal dispute wherein a number of maintenance tradesmen working at coal loaders throughout the State have made a $40 a week wage claim. [More…]
Honourable members may think that that is extravagant but it is not, because those skilled tradesmen were only demanding parity with the semi-skilled and skilled men who operate the loaders. [More…]
Here is the classic situation of the Government and Government members attacking skilled tradesmen who are merely seeking to bring their wage rates up to semi-skilled levels. [More…]
The men who actually keep those coal loaders operational are being attacked because of that. [More…]
Yet in the same breath the Government talks about and sides with the employers in their complaints that there is a deficiency of skilled tradesmen within Australia and that they must be imported from overseas. [More…]
That is how this Government treats its skilled tradesmen. [More…]
In Port Kembla some 35 maintenance men sought that wage increase. [More…]
In that circumstance this Government was prepared to give $15m to the Japanese steel mill owners but it was not prepared to support Australian skilled tradesmen in a miserly claim for $73,000. [More…]
This situation has arisen because the Government was not prepared to say that tradesmen should get as much money as semi-skilled operators. [More…]
As I said a moment ago, a country the size of Australia, with the limited population that we have, cannot afford to have uneconomic modes of transport. [More…]
At the same time, we as a parliament have a responsibility to set up a commission to examine these matters. [More…]
We should put competent men in charge of it. [More…]
Nobody in this Parliament has a better understanding of transport matters than he has. [More…]
The Government’s decision is a decision of some magnitude. [More…]
I wonder what the Government’s attitude will be if the conservationists of the world turn their attention to, say, marlin fishing. [More…]
I believe that whales served a great purpose in man’s endeavours and were of use to all men. [More…]
Why is there consternation among presumably quite a number of people on the island about the legislation which the Government proposes to enact? [More…]
It must be accepted that in the breasts of all men lurks the desire at least to be independent and, as far as possible, to be master of ones own destiny. [More…]
I suggest that in this Bill we have set the stage for a progression towards self-government for the people of Norfolk Island. [More…]
There are some impediments to the unimpeded pursuit of the desire and objectives of those Norfolk Islanders who have views different form those of the Government. [More…]
This Bill does not represent the final step towards Norfolk Island’s selfgovenment. [More…]
If, on the enactment of this Bill, flaws are discovered in it, certainly the Australian Government will be amenable to holding further dialogue on the matter to determine whether the aspirations of the Norfolk Islanders cannot more properly be met. [More…]
I wish to take up a couple of comments made by the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) earlier in this debate. [More…]
He reflected on those members of the judiciary who have conducted inquiries sponsored by the Victorian Government. [More…]
I refer to men such as Mr Beach, who is now a Supreme Court Judge, Judge Frederico and Mr Justice Gowans. [More…]
I wonder how many people know, for example, that Mr Wilkes has been a member of the Victorian Parliament for 22 years. [More…]
Yet he has been in the Parliament for a year longer than Mr Hamer. [More…]
He has been a member of parliament for almost as long as Sir Henry Bolte was a member. [More…]
They lie with men such as the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding), who now sits opposite in this chamber. [More…]
That honourable gentleman obtained his safe seat in this House in a deal with the socialist Left in Victoria, which gave the socialist Left an additional seat in the Victorian Parliament- the former seat of Richmond of the honourable member for Melbourne Ports. [More…]
There is no unemployment benefit. [More…]
There is no necessity for women to be paid the same amount as men doing the same work. [More…]
As was mentioned by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), Frank Stewart was of the old school of Labor men. [More…]
At times in his career he suffered because of his attachment to his principles. [More…]
Frank Stewart held very strong views and he expressed them without any fear at all, no matter what conflict it might have brought him into within his own political organisation, within this Parliament or in the whole body of political controversy in this country. [More…]
He held his views with deep religious conviction and clear zeal and this Parliament is the better for it. [More…]
This Parliament is the better for men and women who hold strong views and express them here without hope or expectation. [More…]
Because men such as Frank Stewart come among us and add to them with their own superb, sterling qualities. [More…]
No doubt, like all men in the public arena, he had his critics. [More…]
I know that other members of the Committee would want me, as Chairman, to speak briefly about his involvement in this area because of its close association with his own personal area of concern and interest in this Parliament, one which transcended, I believe, the political interests that we all have and share. [More…]
He was respected for his churchmanship by, I believe, men and women of all faiths. [More…]
I am sure that all members of this House will be pleased with the 12 men and women who have been chosen by the Government to form the first National Youth Advisory Group. [More…]
The seven young men and five young women represent Australia geographically, ethnically and racially. [More…]
In addition to underemployment through part-time work, the phenomenon of hidden unemployment is also characteristic of women. [More…]
The hidden unemployed are those not measured by either Commonwealth Employment Service or Australian Bureau of Statistics surveys of the unemployed. [More…]
The CES figures are the most unreliable for women. [More…]
They refer only to people registered with the CES for full-time employment. [More…]
Women living with men who have jobs are ineligible for unemployment benefits. [More…]
This acts to discourage women from registering with the agency. [More…]
Further, because many women’s jobs are handled by private agencies, particularly in office work, cleaning, and entertainment and recreation jobs, women tend not to register. [More…]
Finally, most women are simply not in the habit of registering with the CES for employment. [More…]
In March 1976, for instance, despite a collapse of employment in the manufacturing industry, only 327 women, compared to 34 987 men, registered for unskilled manual jobs. [More…]
A survey of women’s work for the Royal Commission on Human Relationships found that in Melbourne in 1975-6, only 1 per cent of a sample of working women found jobs through the CES. [More…]
Most used personal connections, advertisements or direct applications. [More…]
I think that the previous speaker has indicated the growing concern that is being experienced on the government side of the House with respect to the ability of this Government to manage the economy. [More…]
It does not take a very good memory to recall the certainty with which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and his senior men spoke when in Opposition in 1975. [More…]
They thought that unemployment would be reduced, inflation would be restrained, public sector expenditure would be reined in and all the problems that the Australian economy faced would be resolved. [More…]
I think members of the government side are beginning to recognise that the problems that [More…]
The people concerned are certainly men of the market who are experienced and who have lived and worked the industry all their lives. [More…]
If we read some comments made by a former Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia who was on the secretariat at that time, we will find his reference to the fact that during the course of that commission, Mr Chifley really became educated in banking. [More…]
Most of the comments I hear are directed toward its destruction or its nationalisation. [More…]
They are made up of the average person who has a lot of commonsense- the type of men and women that we all know, who live in our streets, travel on public transport and who can make a fair judgment of a situation. [More…]
These people are always reasonable in their judgment. [More…]
I do not believe that given the increased powers which are being given to Customs officers in the enforcement of narcotics offences it would be impossible to get a finding beyond reasonable doubt. [More…]
Accordingly we will be moving amendments to this Bill at the legislation committee stage to provide for jury trial and proof beyond reasonable doubt on the threshold question which is whether a person has been involved in narcotic dealings for which a pecuniary penalty is payable. [More…]
I think that the lesson to be learned from the case of these three men in particular and from other Australians being held in Thailand should serve as a terrible warning to any young Australians contemplating involvement in drug trafficking. [More…]
It is equally serious that this principle is also operating in the Department of Transport in respect of the Flying Operations and Airworthiness Division. [More…]
That Division, which does not have dealings with Parliament or with Ministers, has to operate out of the larger metropolitan areas of either Melbourne or Sydney by virtue of the fact that, in order to fulfil its task of establishing the principles of aircraft safety, it needs to be in close contact with the two major airports. [More…]
Any parliamentarian who has to suffer the problems of getting in an out of this place knows that to take the Flying Operations and Airworthiness Division out of a major centre such as Melbourne or Sydney and transfer it to Canberra is an exercise in centralism and political madness. [More…]
Anything up to 50 per cent of the Division’s experienced and dedicated officers, who are men of great talent and capacity in this area, have already indicated that for family reasons they would not be prepared to make that transfer. [More…]
Given the problems in maintaining the continued effectiveness of air safety, it seems to me to be imprudent to the point of stupidity to decrease efficiency, to increase costs and to prejudice aviation safety by insisting that these men, who are performing their functions satisfactorily and well, who need to be close to a whole range of technical facilities and who need to be at major airports where there is a vast range of aircraft, shift their families and homes to Canberra in order to comply with some very centralised bureaucratic concept. [More…]
I ask the relevant Ministers whether they can re-examine this situation in terms of this Government’s political philosophy. [More…]
1 ) Prior to 9 February, 1977, cash benefits were available to the aged in New Zealand in the form of either: age benefit- an income-tested, non-taxable cash payment to men and women aged 60 years of age and over (55 years for women in certain circumstances) subject to residence qualifications (generally ten years); or superannuation benefit- a cash payment made free of any income or assets test but subject to income tax, to men and women aged 65 years and over, subject to residence qualifications (generally twenty years). [More…]
From 9 February, 1977, age and superannuation benefits were replaced by national superannuation, a taxable cash payment generally payable free of any income or assets test to men and women aged 60 years or more. [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…]
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…]
I endorse the messages and comments that have been made this afternoon in regard to the late Sir Charles Adermann. [More…]
It is only eight or nine days ago that honourable members in this House joined in messages of condolence to another member of this Parliament who at the time of his death was a serving member. [More…]
In these days when perhaps democracy and our parliaments are under threat from many quarters in the world we should remind ourselves and our nation that there are men of character and virtue who have shown courage and integrity in this Parliament. [More…]
On 27 March, on the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the House, the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) who has honoured me with his presence in the chamber, urged members of this House, as well as members of the Australian public, to attend screenings of the Australian movie The Odd Angry Shot. [More…]
Judging the honourable member on his past performance, no doubt he will soon be recommending that we should go to see the much vaunted movie The Deer Hunter. [More…]
Both films are about the experiences of young men in the Vietnam war. [More…]
What in the name of heaven does a country want with 920,000 men in its standing forces, if not to attack somebody else? [More…]
Give me men . [More…]
Where are the men of vision these days? [More…]
Nothing positive ever comes out of this Government. [More…]
It has been a long downhill run since this Government grabbed power. [More…]
The Government wants to extend its ‘un-Midas’ touch to the highly efficient and successful Pipeline Authority. [More…]
We say to the Government: ‘Hands off! [More…]
Remember the old Mortein advertisement: “When you’re on a good thing, stick to it”.’ [More…]
When we left power we left this Government with one of the best authorities in Australia in the Pipeline Authority- an authority which was to give Australia a real chance to do something big. [More…]
All the Government is trying to do is to emasculate it. [More…]
There is a residual common sense in the Australian community that would not buy such nonsense for a moment. [More…]
One does not have to go into the private bars of Australia to realise that that residual common sense lies also in the public bars among Australia’s working men and others. [More…]
There is a feature of this whole issue which has been overlooked frequently in this debate and that is that the vast majority of Australian men and women- three out of four employees- work in the private sector. [More…]
They do not work for the Public Service and they are not entitled to the still generous provisions of employment that exist in public service in Australia. [More…]
The ordinary men and women of Australia, the employees of Australia, whom the Labor Party pretends it represents in this place, work in relationships with their employers subject, in effect, to what on many occasions is little more than the whim of the employer. [More…]
Not for them the situation where the production of the company or the employer must continue to increase to enable the employment relationship to continue. [More…]
Not for the employee in private employment the protection of prescribed grounds before redeployment can be introduced or before the relationship of employer and employee comes to an end. [More…]
Not for the employees in private employment this right of appeal which the public servant has. [More…]
An employee receives 50 per cent of his salary on retirement plus his contributions with interest. [More…]
Rather than attack the men and women who enjoy those benefits in the Australian Public Service, honourable members opposite ought to aim for a national superannuation scheme in the future which would allow ordinary men and women to retire on at least 50 per cent of their earnings or the national average wage. [More…]
The increased consumer power created would probably wipe out most of the unemployment prevalent in today’s society. [More…]
I conclude my remarks on this iniquitous Bill by echoing the words of the shadow Minister, the honourable member for Port Adelaide, in demanding that the Bill be withdrawn and redrafted so that the real needs of the men and women in the Commonwealth Public Service can be taken into account. [More…]
Men such as the former Premier of Victoria, Sir Henry Bolte, were involved. [More…]
There have been numerous examples in Victoria of Liberal governments being involved almost directly within the process that I have just been describing. [More…]
Ministers of the Crown have been prepared to overrule established planning practice in the interests of political parties, overruling, if necessary, government policy. [More…]
With respect to developments at Sunbury, Melton and Packenham, the Gowans inquiry documented the payment of hundred of thousands of dollars to middle men who were offering no real contribution. [More…]
The sixth point I would like to make is that the development of callous public attitudes to the refugee problem may well cause governments to adopt callous official attitudes to the refugees which, in the long term, will have a negative influence on efforts to seek an international solution to the problem. [More…]
Estimates range from 100,000 to 250,000 men, women and children dying while seeking refuge. [More…]
Hundreds of thousands of people- including women and children- are dying and drowning at sea. [More…]
Last week the tide of public opinion finally reached the courts, where in my opinion Taiwanese fishermen have in the past got off lightly for their continued breaches of either the Fisheries Act or the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act. [More…]
The Magistrate in Cairns, Mr B. J. Scanlan, in response to an increasingly hostile and indignant public, committed Taiwanese fishermen to gaol. [More…]
I regret that he had to make an example of members of the crew, who are paying the price for the indiscretions and excesses of their captains, the owners of the boats, and the company men who are responsible for sending these young fishermen and their captains into Australian waters to pollute and plunder the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
However, as I said in a statement released last week, we ought to draw comparison with the sort of justice meted out to some Australians in Asia. [More…]
One matter I mention is the dead hand of this Government with its restrictive fiscal policy on the social consciousness, on the development of this community and on the use of our resources. [More…]
We should get back to having pride in developing this country, a country where people did not rationalise their feelings of guilt about the suffering of their fellow men and try solutions to assist them. [More…]
The then Opposition spokesman on primary industry, the present Minister for Industrial Relations (Mr Street), described the instruction as an abuse of power, an example of the then Government’s authoritarian iron fist which opened the danger of governments appointing only ‘yes men’ to marketing boards. [More…]
At that time a lot of people had to swallow their pride, but they did not issue some of the ridiculous statements which greeted us in 1973. [More…]
Perhaps it was those sorts of statements by the then Opposition, the present Government, that makes the Government a bit reticent in asking the Australian Wheat Board to do what it clearly wanted it to do. [More…]
Those men are members of the New South Wales State branch of the Australian Workers Union, which operates separately from the federal Australian Workers Union which covers the rest of the industry in New South Wales. [More…]
Last November the oil companies succeeded in obtaining an order from the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission restraining the New South Wales Industrial Commission from arbitrating on awards and terms and conditions of employment at Kurnell. [More…]
In this they were supported by the New South Wales Government. [More…]
The application for these men to be covered by a State award instead of the federal award which now applies was unanimously rejected by a full bench of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission on 14 May 1979. [More…]
The Federal Government intervened in that case and argued that the men should continue to be covered by a federal award. [More…]
It is important to note that we were supported in that argument by the federal Australian Workers Union, the federal Storemen and Packers Union and the federal Transport Workers Union. [More…]
In these circumstances the New South Wales Government has a very clear obligation to convince the men at Kurnell that they should be covered by a federal award and permit the work of the Moore conference to proceed. [More…]
The fact is that the policies of this Government are working. [More…]
They may well be not working fast enough but I ask honourable members to contrast them with the decline in employment that took place in only one year under Labor. [More…]
Let us compare the situation in respect of young men. [More…]
Jobs for 22,000 young men were lost in the last year of the Labor Government. [More…]
Under this Government there are now 44,000 more young males at work. [More…]
The basic reason for the continuing unemployment problem largely revolves around the crisis for young women as many more married women and senior women are now making it more difficult for young women to get jobs. [More…]
There are no Labor men in the House. [More…]
He said that he has given the Government away. [More…]
He was equal only to possibly Joe Cahill and Neville Wran, the last two mentioned men being on the Labor side of politics and Sir Robert being on the Liberal side of politics. [More…]
But he said that he has given the Government away. [More…]
Let us look at the disaster the Government will attract. [More…]
The Government was not prepared to sugar the pill of popularity in the short term and to see the future of our nation destroyed by the frailty of weak men. [More…]
The Australian people have to be made to realise that if the nation wants more government input it must be prepared to give the Government more revenue. [More…]
Australia wants less taxation and less government spending. [More…]
It has a policy of the Government doing things for people and not allowing them to do what they want with their own hard-earned money. [More…]
The real free enterprise lunatics had a field day and cast tremendous aspersions on the Wheat Board for its efforts to stabilise the wheat industry, to organise it, to secure overseas sales and to guarantee payments to the Wheat Board. [More…]
He said: ‘A lot of the very efficient and capable men who are yelling out for the return of free trade are not old enough to remember what happened to their forefathers during the depression ‘. [More…]
-The first thing that I want to do in this debate is refer to the comments made by the speaker who has just resumed his seat, the honourable member for Parramatta (Mr John Brown), who spoke on behalf of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
His comments were more or less a repetition of statements made earlier in the debate by another representative of the Labor Party. [More…]
If he does something in the way of supporting the industry that is in line with Government policy, they say he is under the control of the Government. [More…]
The Labor Party has attacked the Wheat Board and Sir Leslie Price because they happened to take some action which coincided with what the Government thought was in the best interests of the Australian wheat growers. [More…]
It should not attack honest, responsible, capable and dedicated men who have used their time in the interests of the Australian wheat growers and, through the Australian wheat growers, the interests of every resident of the Australian nation. [More…]
Mr Brown thereupon gets a warrant in good faith because a police officer has said to him that the men are engaged in narcotics. [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…]
Let nobody accuse any member of this parliament of being a friend of the drug traffickers. [More…]
The Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife) might well say: ‘Is the honourable member for Fadden saying that if my Customs men overhear a conversation in which a murder is being planned, that information should not be divulged?’. [More…]
The judgment of Australian people will go far beyond the petty actions of the Opposition in this Parliament because the package will be respected. [More…]
It is a document of economic responsibility. [More…]
The Government will not sacrifice economic management for political expediency. [More…]
That is not doubted except by the blind men of the Austraiian Labor Party. [More…]
The vision that brought this Government to office has not been dulled. [More…]
The real author of last Thursday’s perfidious statement came into the House, not to defend the statement but to do what he normally does, to sermonise and preach to the Australian people. [More…]
This statement is an indictment of the Australian Government. [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…]
Whatever their critics may say about them they are recognised universally as men of impeccable honesty. [More…]
We now have the sorry situation in which the Treasurer (Mr Howard) has come clean at last and admits that unemployment will rise and inflation will rise. [More…]
Is any explanation forthcoming as to why the Government’s policies have not worked? [More…]
Honourable members opposite knew quite well that when the election was on in 1 977 the future for Australia was that inflation would continue to grow and unemployment would continue to expand. [More…]
That is exactly why the Government got a compromising GovernorGeneral to grant it an early election. [More…]
As Senator James McClelland once said in the Senate: ‘We can at least leave him to the barmen of Paris’. [More…]
I would like to have gone into the subject of the Government’s overseas borrowings but time is against me. [More…]
I would like to put something to the Australian public so that they will know what sort of government they have. [More…]
This Government was going to restore economic viability and decency to Australia. [More…]
When the Labour Government left office in November 1975 our national debt stood at $88 per head. [More…]
Those men listening at home to this speech who have a wife and four kids are up for six times $325, which is $1,950. [More…]
That is the sort of situation in which this Government has the Australian people. [More…]
When the Prime Minister came into this place this afternoon he was unable in any way to defend the policies or the lack of policies that his Government has pursued. [More…]
Much as I hate, loathe and detest those involved in drug trafficking, I cannot believe that by passing this legislation in its present form we will be acting in a manner which is commensurate with our united views on an individual’s right to privacy. [More…]
The amendment moved by the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs reasserts to some extent the provisions already contained in the clause; that is, the overriding discretion of the trial judge to exclude evidence which in his view has been obtained unfairly. [More…]
I do not believe that it is the wish of ordinary men and women that special power given in relation to narcotics should be broadened to deal with matters involving SP bookmaking, drunken driving - [More…]
In the late 1960s, in my old electorate of Griffith, there was a raid by I believe, Customs men- on the home of an elderly lady who was a highly-respected poet or author. [More…]
She was confronted by Customs men who had been fed incorrect information that she was a dealer in imported pornographic material. [More…]
In their search they found 24 editions of the Australian Women’s Weekly, 15 editions of Woman’s Day and 10 editions of House and Garden. [More…]
The comments of the right honourable member for Lowe (Sir William McMahon), the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Wilson), the honourable member for Denison (Mr Hodgman), the honourable member for Melbourne Ports ( Mr Holding) and the honourable member for Prospect (Dr Klugman) are all comments of men who do not come in here with political motivation but men who are deeply concerned as to powers we are thrusting in the hands of a few. [More…]
I do not say for a moment that those Customs men who learn a murder is planned or a severe bashing, et cetera, should just close their ears and eyes. [More…]
I congratulate the Minister for Business and Consumer Affairs (Mr Fife), who is sitting at the table, for his intended amendment. [More…]
I wonder what a jury, which comprised men like the honourable member for Hunter (Mr James), all practical men, to use his words, would think if a lawyer were brought in and he suddenly said: I claim the privilege not to give evidence in relation to that taped conversation’. [More…]
In conclusion, because the night races on, I compliment the Minister because he is one of the better Ministers of this Government. [More…]
I hope the lateness of the hour means that he is hoping that the debate is talked out, which will give him an opportunity to ask Cabinet in the morning to consider further amendments. [More…]
The first relates to narcotics and to the user, the pusher and to the men who can mastermind this filthy and undesirable practice which has to be stamped out to the maximum of our capacity. [More…]
Proposed new Division 3 relates solely to Commonwealth Government responsibilities. [More…]
1 ) and (2) It is not possible to estimate with accuracy the additional cost of paying an income tested age pension to men aged 60 to 64 years because of the lack of data on their income distribution. [More…]
In addition, it is not known what effect the lowering of the pensionable age would have on workforce participation rates of men aged 60 to 64 years. [More…]
The possible impact on the employment of younger people currently in receipt of unemployment benefit consequent upon any reduction in the workforce participation of men aged 60 to 64 years is also not known. [More…]
The estimated cost of paying an income test free pension to all men from age 60 gives some indication of the order of magnitude of the maximum gross costs which could be involved in lowering the pensionable age for men from 65 to 60. [More…]
The additional cost of paying an income test free pension to all of the 275,000 residentially qualified men aged 60 to 64 years would be about $450m in a full year. [More…]
This cost is additional to the estimated $220m annual cost of existing payments to some 95,000 male invalid and repatriation service pensioners and unemployment and sickness beneficiaries aged 60 to 64 years. [More…]
The costs are gross costs in that they make no allowance for the additional revenue that would result from the inclusion of the payments in income for the purpose of income tax. [More…]
The actual gross costs that would be involved in lowering the pensionable age for men from 65 to 60 could be expected to be somewhat lower than the maximum cost set out above, particularly in the short-term since many older people would have already planned their retirement on the basis of age pension eligibility at age 65. [More…]
It is noted that the following estimated proportions of men aged 65 to 69 are currently in receipt of an age or repatriation service pensions. [More…]
It involves a demand on management by certain people at the dockyard concerning the number of electricians to be on duty during various shifts, especially at times when overtime is worked. [More…]
It is quite true that on 9 and 10 May, after discussions between the parties concerned, an agreement was reached that the number of electricians employed when overtime is worked would be determined by the management on the basis of need. [More…]
On 23 May some painters and dockers employed at the Dockyard refused to work, following management decisions on this same subject. [More…]
Therefore, they breached the agreement which had been reached a couple of weeks before. [More…]
The men concerned were then placed on a ‘no work as directed, no pay’ basis. [More…]
I understand that there was a mass meeting on the next day, that is 24 May, at which the men resolved to return to work but to accept no directions at all from management. [More…]
But the men involved have been told that the entire staff of the Naval Dockyard has been placed on a ‘no work as directed, no pay’ basis. [More…]
The issue involves the question of manning scales, which clearly is one for management prerogative. [More…]
While I was Minister for Aboriginal Affairs I recall being at Cloncurry and speaking to one of the railway men there. [More…]
He told me that there was a certain amount of resentment developing because the Aboriginal children received advantages that did not extend to the local white children. [More…]
He is one of the most able men I ‘ve ever known in 25 years at the Bar, said leading Perth Barrister, Mr Leo Wood, Mr Wilson ‘s adversary in scores of major criminal trials. [More…]
Barbette- each a 33-metre vessel operated by 1 8 men. [More…]
It even reached the point where the Taiwanese Treasurer held an emergency meeting of fishery officials and representatives of the Fishermen’s Association to discuss reports in the Courier-Mail of the great clam war. [More…]
I regret that members of the boats’ crews have to pay the price for the indiscretions and excesses of their captains, the boat owners and the company men who give them their orders. [More…]
There are many other examples where welfare payments, particularly allowances, have not been indexed to account for inflation and remain at the same figure as many years ago. [More…]
In my own electorate I have seen recently an example where, for the sake of a $5,000 grant to enable an organisation to provide assistance for homeless men, unfortunately the wheels of bureaucracy have turned so slowly that that grant appears not to be forthcoming because of some rather arbitrary requirements and regulations as to the standard of the accommodation required. [More…]
I would like to take some people along with me to see those homeless men, to see the conditions under which they are living. [More…]
Our proposal for the High Court building would have cost $ 1 1 m. This Government has accepted changes to that proposal which will bring the cost to $45m. [More…]
The Government talks about saving money and giving it to those in greatest need. [More…]
The Calvary Hospital was opened by the Government. [More…]
I will not join the honourable member for Calare in saying that the Calvary Hospital should be converted into an old men ‘s home. [More…]
What I am saying is that this Government has certainly not pushed money to those in greatest need. [More…]
To think that the once small school that is providing three men for the Australian side next Sunday happens to be my alma mater makes me a rather happy young fellow. [More…]
The golden thread that will run through the game on Sunday is this simple fact: The Irish side will consist of men from northern and southern Ireland. [More…]
I know of no other country which is so torn apart by idealism and emotion which can rely on the field of sport to bring its countrymen together. [More…]
No matter how much those men fight in economics, in politics and in the philosophy of life, they are proud to wear the green of Ireland on the sports field. [More…]
I was surprised that the honourable member for Cook talked about preferential treatment being given to Qantas as a government airline when private airlines do not get this guarantee. [More…]
Honourable members will recall that earlier this year we approved a similar arrangement for Ansett Airlines of Australia to borrow overseas about $1 1.12m, I think, to purchase the 727-200 series aircraft. [More…]
This is one of the matters on which I think the Minister for Transport should be present to comment. [More…]
With all respect to him, even though advisers from the Department of Transport are present- even though they are good men- I think it is the responsibility of the Minister for Transport to be present to give us the information we require. [More…]
The answer does not lie in making these services subordinate to leaky committees of self-serving politicians, but in appointing men of integrity to run them, men who can be relied upon not to abuse their power. [More…]
I wish that I was staying in the Parliament long enough to see the progress of the marrying of these police forces. [More…]
I am not happy about the appointment of a commissioner from overseas. [More…]
I do not doubt his ability but I know many men serving in the police forces of the States and the Commonwealth- Australian nationals- who could do just as good a job. [More…]
The criminologist who was appointed head of the Munich force in 1963 has called in a psychiatrist to teach his men better relations with the public; the Japanese police take an annual survey of publicopinions concerning them. [More…]
I put it to the House that his Government has degenerated into a government led by tax avoiders, land dealers and company spivs. [More…]
That is not to say that there are not some men of integrity on the Government front bench. [More…]
But the ‘growth’ men of the Northern Territory whose attitude is ‘growth at any price’ do not want that. [More…]
If those white men have been asked by your people, okay. [More…]
The Labor Government came to power in December 1972. [More…]
On 25 January 1973-an extremely historic day- an agreement was reached between the Australian Government and the two conservative governments in Victoria and New South Wales. [More…]
Those Governments worked together in a spirit of co-operation. [More…]
Local government was also included in the agreement. [More…]
During the three years of Labor administration from 1972 to 1975 I was extremely proud of the public servants in the Department of Urban and Regional Development. [More…]
They were part of a special breed of public servants who set out to build up a basis of goodwill, who sought to build a bridge of co-operation between the Australian Government, State governments and local government authorities. [More…]
They discussed matters in a gentle way with State governments and local government. [More…]
They thought that we were men from Mars or from a foreign land, not representatives of the Australian Government coming to have discussions with a State government. [More…]
The public servants in the former Department of Urban and Regional Development were great ambassadors for the Australian Government and the Australian Public Service. [More…]
After two years of negotiations between Commonwealth public servants and planners and the Hamer Government in Victoria we were able to reach agreement on where development in Melbourne should occur. [More…]
Of that amount $79m went directly to the AlburyWodonga Development Corporation. [More…]
Of the couples whose grants were approved during 1977-78, the men were most commonly in the 26-30 years age group, and the women in the 21-25 years age group. [More…]
He rightly said that men of 65 and beyond are quite capable of giving good service to the public. [More…]
Last week we set up a board- I can assure honourable members on both sides of the House that it is not window dressing- called the Canberra Development Board. [More…]
It consists of men from the private sector as well as the Secretary of the Department of the Capital Territory and the Commissioner of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
It is set up within the administration of the National Capital Development Commission. [More…]
That is very significant- a government body set up by a Minister which in fact to some extent will be subsidised by the private sector. [More…]
To some extent it will be aided by government funds. [More…]
The purpose of this body is to try to take our national capital into this next phase in its development in which the private sector will be built up in this city, and in the adjacent city of Queanbeyan, so that this whole area may start to reflect what I describe as a microcosm of the rest of our country. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier, the legislation also provides for the establishment of manning scales. [More…]
Equally importantly, it provides for the establishment of a formal qualification structure and competency standards for officers and crew aboard vessels operating on the Australian coast under Australian registry. [More…]
The development of those competency standards and the training of the crews involved will become a major responsibility of the Australian Maritime College. [More…]
Again, the Australian Labor Party takes credit for the initiative in deciding that after all these years since settlement Australia is now old enough and competent enough to have its own maritime college. [More…]
I should like to mention a little instance of my own experience. [More…]
Last Friday night I had the pleasure to meet accidentally four young men who had just completed a marine course at Newcastle Technical College. [More…]
I was very impressed with the style of these young men. [More…]
For instance, the present Act imposes requirements related not only to the welfare of the crew and the structural safety of the ship but also to its manning, navigation, loading and unloading; to the carriage of dangerous cargoes, pollution of the sea and wreckage and salvage. [More…]
The Act provides a basis for the work and discipline of the men on board the ship, the amount that a ship can carry, the way she is handled, the way she is navigated and many other down to earth requirements of a ship at sea. [More…]
I wish to raise one or two matters which are legitimate adjournment debate subjects. [More…]
The organisation has progressed to the stage where it is a major international young men’s club. [More…]
Firstly, it was the practice in the past, when the Post Office was run by the Postmaster-General’s Department, to honour such anniversaries. [More…]
One was for Rotary International and the other was for the fiftieth anniversary of the organisation’s establishment in Australia. [More…]
The Young Men’s Christian Association, the Lions clubs and the Christian Women’s Association have all had commemorative stamps issued for the same reasons. [More…]
The application of the Y’s men’s club was rejected on the grounds that the organisation was a derivative of the YMCA. [More…]
Apex is the only men’s club of international standing which was established in Australia. [More…]
They are of immense operational significance. [More…]
This year, expenditure on repair and maintenance of defence establishments will rise considerably above that of 1978-79. [More…]
In parallel with this increased investment in the effectiveness and reliability of equipments in inventory- which will of course project forward into future years as increased deliveries come to hand- there will be an increased investment in human skill. [More…]
There will be greater expenditure on administrative support for these and other purposes, and on the movement of men and equipment. [More…]
More men will be sent overseas for training. [More…]
-by leave-I thank the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch) for extending the usual courtesies in allowing me a couple of hours to examine this statement. [More…]
For 24 hours there apparently has been high drama surrounding the delivery of this statement. [More…]
If those objections have been to the effect that this is a fairly ineffectual statement, trying to be all things to all men at a time when our country is crying out for strong government leadership, then I have sympathy with those back bench objectors. [More…]
It consolidates and supersedes the 1960 convention of that name that was amended in 1974 and an amending protocol was added last year. [More…]
There can be nothing more pre-eminent in the mind of anybody connected with government than to ensure that we have a convention which does as much as can be done to prevent the loss of life from collisions at sea. [More…]
1 believe that it is an incredible reflection on humanity that as we move into the 1980s men and women are still losing their lives as a result of collisions at sea. [More…]
I know that the Minister for Transport places very great store on the strength of the Committee and the recommendations it made. [More…]
But I believe that all Australians would support an increased commitment for hydrographic work in this country. [More…]
The sooner we have 100 per cent of Australian coastal waters adequately surveyed the better it will be for the safety of the thousands of Australian men and women who sail upon our coastal waters. [More…]
There does not exist in Australia the incentive for men to go to sea and earn their living. [More…]
I believe the time has come when such a facility should be provided in Australia, but it seems to me that it should provide for the training of all seafarers, men and officers. [More…]
As well it would give public recognition to the many young men who are currently serving or have served their community through Apex. [More…]
It would also be of international interest to the many Apex clubs which have been formed throughout South East Asia to know that the Government of the founding country of Apex is prepared to give recognition to the organisation. [More…]
All this would have been sufficient achievement for most men, and very much more than most could ever hope to achieve. [More…]
Ordinary men may climb up with distinction; only extraordinary men can climb down without some loss of distinction; and he achieved the latter. [More…]
The object of the United World Colleges, which I can remember his speaking to me about when I was Minister for Education more than 10 years ago, is to bring young men and women from many different countries together, to create an understanding between them, to create an understanding of their different countries, of their different histories and of their different cultures and hoping by that means to inspire, possibly, potential future leaders of countries and thereby to avoid some of the fears and some of the hatred and suspicion which can so often lead to war and to the disaster of war which Lord Mountbatten knew and understood better than most. [More…]
Lord Mountbatten visited particularly those in the hospitals and I will always remember my mate telling me about the great thrill it was for the men to be visited in hospital by Lord Mountbatten. [More…]
I speak today simply to say what Lord Mountbatten meant to those men in the forces at that time. [More…]
This Government is not in the business of hitting the pockets of the working men and women of Australia. [More…]
One month before the Prime Minister made that remarkable statement, this Government’s 1978 Budget increased direct and indirect taxes and charges by $ 1,500m a year. [More…]
Eight months after that statement the Treasurer, in his mini-Budget of May this year, reefed another $ 1,300m from the public in higher taxes and charges. [More…]
So, in just nine months this Government increased taxes by a total of $2,800m a year- all of it, with minor exceptions, from the pockets of, to quote the Prime Minister, ‘the working men and women of Australia’. [More…]
When political leaders say the present situation cannot be helped, that it is pan of a world situation, they are expressing the futility of their own leadership when, if they were men of real stature, they would be saying ‘ We can overcome ‘. [More…]
The great changes in technology for the period 1780-1914 were thought about over a long period- for example the application of steam to textile manufacturing, the replacement of wood by iron and steel, the replacement of the horse by mechanical vehicles, flying machines, the new medical techniques, modern weaponry, mechanised agriculture, photography, refrigeration, using electricity for light and heating, had all been written about for generations, if not centuries. [More…]
H. G. Wells in the 1890s had a very clear idea of what men would be working on in the late 20th Century. [More…]
From Kittyhawk (1903) to men on the Moon (1969) is only 66 years. [More…]
Another matter I wish to raise tonight is the matter of the $24,000 which the Government so swiftly donated to the appeal for the families of the victims of the Fastnet tragedy. [More…]
If this is so why did the Government feel so free with the taxpayers’ money? [More…]
Did the yachting fraternity request the Government’s action? [More…]
What the Government was doing was protecting its own interests. [More…]
What this $24,000 represents is a further donation to the already privileged class, this time the wealthy, ocean-racing yachtsmen, the Syd Fischers, the Hardys. [More…]
Why did not the Government step forward to offer financial help to the families of the two men who lost their lives whilst participating in the recent Repco rally? [More…]
All that that boils down to is that the Government’s sustained policy over the last 3Vi years, which has been perpetuated in this Budget has been successful. [More…]
It will result in a substantial reduction not just in wages but also in the living standards of families, of men and women and of their children. [More…]
That is what the Government is about. [More…]
For some considerable time the Government has been discreetly responsible for a sustained devaluation of the Australian dollar. [More…]
Presumably Treasury documentation has no effect on the market place, but the Opposition has enormous influence on what the community does. [More…]
I know that that Committee is composed of sensible men who want to get about their work in a quick and just manner. [More…]
They are men of sense and of sensibility, and they know the work’s urgency. [More…]
The honourable member for Fadden also deserves to be mentioned. [More…]
Our medical men are paid more if they do more. [More…]
The Government has attempted to diminish the level and importance of unemployment by manipulation of figures and a range of measures. [More…]
On page 61 of the Budget document the Government implicity acknowledges that it welcomes a declining trend in the participation rate, that is the number of people in or potentially composing the work force. [More…]
Of course, we can easily isolate three groups- men over 55, married women and young people. [More…]
All these three groups now have large components of people who are no longer registering for employment. [More…]
For too long the Government has tried to divest itself of the responsibility by casting aspersions on the unemployed, on previous administrations or by telling lies. [More…]
Members of the Moonie cult have succeeded in enticing fine young men and women from their family life and have brainwashed them in such a way that their parents no longer have any influence over them. [More…]
It also includes children who go back to’ school because they can’t find a job, married women who give up looking for work, and men who are retired early but who would like to continue working. [More…]
I mentioned the name of Mr Hawke, which I am sure is well known to most people in this House. [More…]
I know these men. [More…]
These men could well establish the basis for a most valuable research in this field in an area which has the sun and plenty of it. [More…]
Recently CRS decided to accelerate exploration and development of the Julia Creek deposits. [More…]
Family men and women realise that this Budget disadvantages them greatly. [More…]
The Government makes no apology for the fact that the Budget is a businessman’s Budget. [More…]
When are we going to see a Budget for the working men of Australia- the great bulk of the Australian people? [More…]
The Government’s economic policies, like the humming bird, fly into the future backwards. [More…]
The latest effort at economic management can best be described as a non-event. [More…]
The strategists of the Budget can best be described as confidence men. [More…]
The Government is attempting to con the Australian electorate. [More…]
I must not forget to mention those people at the Liberal Party headquarters, particularly Mr Tony Eggleton who, if the rumours are true, is soon to be knighted for loyal and faithful service to the Party. [More…]
The industrial relations that were mentioned in that article by the Master Builders Association is a very important matter. [More…]
I have statistics from the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations in 1976. [More…]
A break-up of the causes of disputes in 1976 shows that wage disputes were responsible for 26 per cent of industrial disputes, management behaviour was responsible for 23.5 per cent of industrial disputes, inter-union rivalries and demarcation disputes of one kind or another constituted 1 5 per cent of the disputes, and working conditions and safety matters constituted 12 per cent of disputes. [More…]
Even to the casual listener it is obvious that most strikes in Australia are not caused by wage demands but are caused by matters such as management behaviour, inter-union rivalries- this Government does not support the amalgamation of unions and so stands in the way of union amalgamation which would cut out demarcation disputes- and safety matters. [More…]
Surely nobody is going to be critical of working men and women not wanting to work in situations that are not considered safe. [More…]
Yet this Government, for its own domestic and political purposes, likes to promote the line that all of the difficulties in Australia are brought about by the industrial action of these militant trade unions. [More…]
Our Government believes in the reduction of tariffs but in areas of manufacture which have been fully checked out and investigated to ascertain what effect reductions could have on unemployment, the community and the economy. [More…]
Notwithstanding the unemployment problem, over 4.7 million men and women are employed in the Australian work force at present. [More…]
The Government has many schemes to assist the unemployed to obtain positions. [More…]
This Government has provided these funds to eliminate unemployment. [More…]
Other schemes in the unemployment field provided for in the Budget include the Community Youth Support scheme, which is well supported in my electorate and indeed throughout the nation, and the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]
This program embraces the Special Youth Employment Training program and the Education Program for Unemployed Youth, which seek to assist unemployed youth. [More…]
Whilst these schemes are assisting the unemployed it is in the commercial and business sectors of the community that employment opportunities have to be increased. [More…]
With business confidence returning and company profits increasing there could be an improvement in this area in the future. [More…]
Some improvement is occurring at present. [More…]
Unemployment is slowly coming down. [More…]
With companies like Broken Hill Proprietary Ltd, Mt Isa Mines Holdings Ltd, CSR Ltd, and many other companies that I could name, having increased profits, business activities and confidence in the future, I feel sure that employment opportunities in these fields will increase and thus unemployment will decrease. [More…]
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing. [More…]
The Opposition’s alternatives which would take us right outside our capitalist system are just not on for the working men and women of Australia- the people whom we as a coalition are bent on supporting in the context of the present Budget. [More…]
I would like to mention a few people who have assisted me and who have always been willing to lend an ear and to give some help when it was necessary. [More…]
I mention my good friend, John Ducker, who recently retired from the position of President of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Labor Party; Barry Unsworth, who is standing for election soon to the position of Secretary of the Labor Council of New South Wales; John Johnson, the President of the Legislative Council of New South Wales; my good friend, Graham Richardson, who is the State Secretary of our Party; and the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), sitting on the front bench, who has been an old friend of mine since we were both young men active in the ALP even though he led me down the wrong aisle when I first came into this place some weeks ago. [More…]
I thank those people and, most importantly, all the people in the ALP in Grayndler who were kind enough and who had enough confidence in me to select me as their candidate which allowed me to win my seat in this Parliament. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, the previous members for Grayndler have always been men who have fought for social justice in their State, in their Party and in this Parliament. [More…]
With the assistance of my colleagues I hope to continue that fight in this Parliament. [More…]
Why was not the Government asked to present its views to the ACTU Congress? [More…]
It does not consist of just the affiliates that were represented at the last congress; now the amalgamation of the salaried personnel with the ACTU gives it a combined affiliated membership of something like 2lA million men and women of this country. [More…]
But no Government spokesman is asked to go to the Congress, and honourable members opposite know why the Government is not invited. [More…]
It is because the Government has no credibility with the working people of this country and because the people who represent those working people do not believe anything that the Government says. [More…]
The fact that the major congress of the working people of this country can be held for a week and not one Government spokesman is invited to attend and express a view gives some idea of the extent to which these people are rejected. [More…]
After all, he was one of those slavish followers of the right honourable member for Wannon’s barbecues around Canberra at the time when the honourable member for Wannon was plotting the downfall of the right honourable member for Bruce (Sir Billy Snedden) who is now the Speaker of this Parliament. [More…]
He was one of the conspirators, one of the men who had his hand on the handle of the knife that brought down the former Leader of the Liberal Party. [More…]
In a civilised and orderly industrial relations situation the Government recognises the importance of having responsible trade unions and having them responsibly managed for the benefit of the members of those unions. [More…]
The second point that should be clearly understood is that the Government is not at all opposed to- indeed, it advances- the cause of the working men and women of Australia. [More…]
There are hundreds of thousands of ordinary working men and women in Australia who have voted for the Liberal and National Country parties and will continue to vote for them because they know that their interests are furthered and better served than they would be by the rabble that holds itself out as being the true representatives of the workers of Australia. [More…]
They know that with business confidence, expansion of industry, commerce and business and with the prospect of investors obtaining some rewards from their investments, that jobs will be secure, that more jobs will be created and that the standard of living of the working men and women of Australia will be advanced. [More…]
The working men and women of Australia know only too well that their interests are identical with the interests of an expanding and developing free enterprise society. [More…]
It follows from that that the working men and women of Australia do not support the Labor Party which holds itself out as being their great advocate. [More…]
Nor should they, because they know that in the first place the Labor Party established itself when it was in Government as being the unemployment expert of Australia. [More…]
The ordinary men and women of Australia know that if the Labor Party were returned to government, it would do nothing more than take this country down the same path as the Labour Party in the United Kingdom took, a path that was littered with the monuments of higher taxation, penalties on incentive, endorsement of union extremism, stand-over tactics and the dead hand of government which destroys job opportunities. [More…]
The ordinary men and women of Australia know that of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I ask the question: How many workers in Australia know that the Australian Labor Party is proposing that the Federal Parliament should fix the terms and conditions of their employment and the terms and conditions of individual private contracts that they may enter into? [More…]
It wants to intrude into the private employment and contractual arrangements of men and women of Australia in a way that Australia has never seen before. [More…]
I have wondered how many wives of Australian working men know that if their husbands are killed or injured at a factory or in an office as a result of some industrial disputation, and there was no wilful act but it was only negligence that someone was killed or injured, they, then widows, are not entitled to any damages. [More…]
This is the policy of the party that holds itself out as the advocate for the working men and women of Australia. [More…]
The Government’s proposals, as outlined by the Minister for Industrial Relations in his statement to Parliament, make a rational approach, as I said earlier, to the nation’s second most serious problem. [More…]
I hope that as a consequence of the debate and the contributions made to it, we will see, on the part of the unions that have some real recognition of the facts of the situation, a more realistic approach and that the militants- men such as Halfpenny, who has been mentioned in this debate tonight, and so many others- will not be seen as the leaders of the ACTU. [More…]
I hope that, despite the limitations of the present leadership, the leaders will not come from the men in the group from the Left who are making such a divisive stand against sensible unionism at the present time. [More…]
I should like to deal with one more aspect of that document. [More…]
Let us look at the axis between monopoly control- the people who own and control this country- and the members of the Fraser Government, the individuals who sit on the opposite side of the House. [More…]
They are the men who are in Fraser ‘s business cabinet. [More…]
Apart from that, the effects of this Government’s policy on the building industry at large and on employment are evident. [More…]
There has been an increase in employment in the building industry of 4 per cent in one year. [More…]
In the year 1978-79-1 know that the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) is most interested in this matterthe level of employment in the building industry rose by 4 per cent. [More…]
That represents a positive growth for young men seeking apprenticeships and also for tradesmen who wish to apply their skills to the industry. [More…]
Therefore, for these reasons, the Opposition will not simply bow down to the kind of vacuous rhetoric- reasons of state, defence of the realm, national interest- which has been used down the centuries to prevent and inhibit inquiry into the secret actions and agents of government. [More…]
We are not prepared to leave this legislation unchallenged because the present operators responsible for ASIO, the Attorney-General, Senator Durack, and the Director-General, Mr Justice Woodward, are men of integrity. [More…]
We do not deny that these two men are men of integrity but that is no reason for accepting this Bill. [More…]
We know that organisations like ASIO are themselves corrosive of the integrity of men, and others, with previous reputations ibr integrity, have been corroded by such organisations. [More…]
But, more importantly, neither Senator Durack nor Mr Justice Woodward is immortal and there will be other men working under the provisions of this Bill. [More…]
Certainly one could have no confidence in the future of this organisation unless the Bill before the House is radically amended. [More…]
This clause appears to me to guarantee the rights of any person who may be aggrieved in relation to any assessment made of him under the ASIO legislation. [More…]
I conclude by saying that Australia has secrets which the Australian Government has a duty to protect in the interests of the nation. [More…]
We must at all times remember that the security of our nation is of fundamental importance to the preservation of our way of life. [More…]
Whilst people may be offended when their personal and civil liberties are put under challenge and threat, we must remember that on balance because the people make up the nation it is essential that the nation is secured to enable men and women to live in a free society. [More…]
Mention has been made of people’s being concerned about authorities knocking on their doors in the middle of the night. [More…]
I cannot examine the material which led His Honour to reach his judgment because much of that is secret too. [More…]
I have great admiration for Mr Justice Woodward and can only express my amazement that the Fraser Government has left him in his position. [More…]
He is one of very few surviving administrative appointments from the Whitlam years. [More…]
I suspect that the Government may have used him in order to allay fears about the Australian Security Intelligence Organization Bill, which he has done with great success. [More…]
It should be remembered that ours is a government of laws, not of men. [More…]
In fact, he left the whole subject wide open for consideration and implementation on an ad hoc basis. [More…]
I am sure that the Opposition would cease baying like hounds at the Government’s heels if we were given a verbal commitment that judicial audits should be conducted without breaking into any legislative commitment. [More…]
A verbal commitment from even the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) would go some way towards reaching consensus. [More…]
The Bill proceeds on the basis that the personal integrity and bona fides of two men- the Attorney-General and the Director-General of ASIO- are sufficient to assure our continuance in the security process. [More…]
If the Minister and heads of departments were infallible and immortal, perhaps this trust would be adequate. [More…]
I remember that years ago I got up in this Parliament and defended Fidel Castro after I visited Cuba in 1962. [More…]
He is one of the greatest men this century, for what he has done for Cuba. [More…]
I entirely accept responsibility for that statement. [More…]
These new provisions are designed specifically to protect the job security, safety, health or welfare of Australian men and women and their families. [More…]
They would be used only where these rights, fundamental to any democracy, are threatened. [More…]
What honourable members opposite are suggesting is that, because we use the word ‘ultimately’ in relation to our definition of acts that might lead to the overthrowing of our constitutional government, that is an extension of a power which gives an organisation a significant control over the events of men and their lives. [More…]
If I may say with very great respect, the Premiers of that State at that time- not men of my own political persuasion; men like Mr McGirr and Mr Cahill- had very definite views. [More…]
I am led to believe, if I may say so, that it was only because of a co-ordination of the views of Mr Cahill when he was the Premier of NSW and certain distinguished gentlemen with greater appreciation in higher places than this place that certain events that occurred in Victoria did not occur in New South Wales. [More…]
If there were people in 1937 and 1938 who could have envisaged the fact that Philby was to become an active member of a government that was totally against the welfare of the government of the United Kingdom, is it the judgment of members of the Opposition that that ought not have been stated in some paper about him? [More…]
I have the honour to tell them that what they read will not make them proud men. [More…]
The fact is that the shipping of armaments to men involved in the defence of Darwin and men fighting in the Pacific and in Europe, men who were laying down their lives in the name of this country and in the name of freedom, could well have been affected because some stupid shortsighted people back here decided to pull on a strike. [More…]
I am quite sure that the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner), who is at the table, will be rather stunned. [More…]
After I became a member of Parliament I had in my office a notice which declared my intention to give moral support to young men who were defying what I considered to be an unjust lawconscription for Vietnam. [More…]
He questioned me at length about my attitudes, involvement, knowledge and contacts regarding breaches of the conscription law in force at that time. [More…]
I have had access on occasions even to secret documents. [More…]
That is the organisation which this Government is asking us to have confidence in to define the activities of groups of people who might be guilty of promoting hatred against the Commonwealth. [More…]
Throughout history men of democracy, great writers and thinkers, men such as Cicero from ancient Rome, Jonathan Swift from England and Orwell of the twentieth century, all feared informers with the clearest of vision. [More…]
Two great men issued one very clear edict to me when I entered political life. [More…]
One of those men was John McEwen. [More…]
Let me say to this House and to this nation that if I were to have clear evidence, even a shred of evidence, that the senior members of my party were associated with a scandal of great magnitude and of this nature, not for one moment would I be speaking to this motion. [More…]
Our immigration and ethnic affairs policies and programs are based on Australia’s interests, compassion for our fellow men and women and playing a responsible role in the international arena. [More…]
They provide a firm basis for development of this nation and for achieving individuals ‘ prosperity and security in a free society. [More…]
The result of the elections in South Australia recently was a direct protest by the people of that State against the stand taken by the former Labor Government there in refusing to allow development of three major mining contracts in that State which would have created 7,000 extra jobs within the State of South Australia and would have brought in $4,500m within 5 years. [More…]
The unions involved in the mining of uranium cannot afford to ban it and the men concerned would simply leave their unions if any attempt was made to close down the mines. [More…]
The sooner the Labor Party takes the step of bringing Mr Hawke into this Parliament to give some realistic thinking and leadership to the Opposition, the better it will be not only for that party but also for the nation as a whole. [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…]
Also the Government’s policy of confrontation with the unions has produced a continuous strike situation. [More…]
Only recently we had four very serious strikes in Australia and the Government trumpeted loud and strong to the effect that the working people were bringing down the country with their repeated attempts to go on strike. [More…]
The simple fact is that in each of those four strikesthe one in the Pilbara, the Telecom strike, the oil strike in Sydney, and the strike in Melbournethe industry concerned eludes me for the moment- the men have gone back to work and the court has made a judgment which has pointed up the fact that the strikes were mainly exacerbated by the attempts of the Government and the employers in every instance to perpetuate the strikes with their confrontation attitude. [More…]
The simple truth is that these strikes were merely an example of the working people of Australia trying to catch up with the cost of living and make up for the fact that this Government, since it has been in power, has opposed the wage indexation that it claims to support. [More…]
This has led to the situation where decent and responsible Australian men and women have been forced to go on strike to try to get some sort of wage parity. [More…]
Then again there is the establishment of the Antarctic base and the Maritime College. [More…]
That has fully justified the judgment of the government of the time in providing particular assistance to that company. [More…]
The fact that it has returned to profitability must give great heart not only to the company but more particularly to the employees of that company who would have been foremost in the Government’s mind in providing that assistance. [More…]
It is a remote community, totally dependent upon that mine, and the social upheaval to the working men and women and their families would have been very great if that support had not been forthcoming. [More…]
In this Budget funds have been made available for the commencement of the new bridge. [More…]
There are also funds for the development of Port Arthur as a great tourist resort, funds for the development of a fishing centre and funds for further development of forestry programs. [More…]
About $ 1.5m is being made available for special decentralised programs which, for some reason, seem to have come under criticism from members of the Australian Labor Party in this Parliament because they do not hold any decentralised seats and therefore basically cannot qualify for decentralisation grants in their own areas. [More…]
At six o ‘clock in the morning the group of men standing on the vacant allotment near the corner are looking a bit anxious, standing straight in their working gear, ready for work. [More…]
I think it is pretty important that we realise that in the character of his reaching those conclusions those people are men of integrity whose position and status one must contrast, in reaching a conclusion on this issue, with the status of the special investigator himself. [More…]
Throughout the whole of the text of this document there is a series of references condemning Mr Torok for his attitudes, for his views and for his professional competence. [More…]
Dealing with integrity and the way in which arguments are put in this House, I am appalled at the way in which Ministers of the Crown were allowed to attack the integrity of the AttorneyGeneral of New South Wales. [More…]
The logic of the Government, if one follows it as it has emerged from the Prime Minister and some of his colleagues, is that if the jurisdiction is state jurisdiction which has a Labor government and if the person concerned happens to be a political supporter of this Government or a prominent member of the Liberal Party, no matter what laws under the companies Acts are broken, the Government will simply say that it is all part of a huge political conspiracy. [More…]
When a document is signed by the former Minister for Primary Industry in which he says generally that there has been a misappropriation and that taxation claims were made in respect of that, is that an invention of the State Attorney-General? [More…]
The political conspiracy theory is an act of political fantasy by desperate men. [More…]
Do not think for a moment that the right honourable member for New England is on trial. [More…]
Every newspaper editor in this country is on trial, because one must remember the great occasions in the past when men and women fought for great rights. [More…]
It has made findings, the quality of which I look forward to examining in a few moments time. [More…]
At every point in the implementation program the special needs of migrant women are being taken into account, although it is not always easy to determine the extent to which migrant women are disadvantaged as migrants or disadvantaged as women. [More…]
The Office of Women’s Affairs is overseeing the implementation of recommendation 43 which requires that women’s interests be met in all aspects of the program. [More…]
We are taking into account the National Women’s Advisory Council report entitled ‘Migrant Women Speak’ which my colleague, the Minister for Home Affairs (Mr Ellicott), tabled on 6 June. [More…]
We are taking account of the recommendations of the National Conference on the English Language Needs of Migrant Women held in Melbourne during May this year. [More…]
Women are involved in every aspect of the implementation program as professional planners, as advisers, as service deliverers and, significantly, as community volunteers. [More…]
At least one woman has been appointed to each settlement council and we are urging that women to be included on the committees of management that run the migrant resource centres. [More…]
Material prepared for on-arrival orientation courses is emphasising women’s needs. [More…]
The survey of migrants’ information needs will reflect the views of women. [More…]
More than half the people consulted in the qualitative phase were women and, as far as possible, men and women were interviewed in equal numbers during the quantitative phase. [More…]
Other examples of the emphasis on women’s needs can be found within the document I have tabled tonight. [More…]
Where opposite are the men of honour? [More…]
I conclude by saying that the standard of integrity that this Government has brought to this country is base. [More…]
It has debased the Parliament. [More…]
I refer to a report in the Parramatta and District Mercury of 1 June 1979 concerning the arrest of 23 men from a Stocks and Holdings site in Baulkham Hills on 66 charges comprising trespassing, resisting arrest, hindering, malicious damage and inciting to riot. [More…]
Thursday, the men went on strike because of this and the company called police to remove organiser Nick Harris. [More…]
The company had agreed to withdraw the 23 trespass charges against the men and the Police Commissioner had agreed to withdraw the other 33 police charges. [More…]
The unemployment policies- I stress unemployment policies- of the Government, more especially of this Minister, are discriminatory. [More…]
They discriminate against Aboriginals, who suffer the highest rate of unemployment in this community. [More…]
They discriminate against women as against men. [More…]
That is the measure of the discrimination, the punitiveness and the indifference of the Government towards these young people. [More…]
The Government has the gall to talk about those young people needing more training so they can get jobs. [More…]
For every employment vacancy for a junior, there are 33 young people. [More…]
I pointed out that the basic philosophy behind the thinking of young people is that the 15 to 19 years age group should have a comprehensive range of education, training and employment options available to them which makes unemployment, in the sense of idleness at the community’s expense, an unacceptable alternative. [More…]
Now what honourable member of this House would object to that statement? [More…]
It would give future young Australian men and women opportunities for education, training, work experience or support which would help them acquire the skills and experience needed to obtain a job. [More…]
Who helped it produce this document and who helped it to write its policy? [More…]
Governments do not consult commissioners. [More…]
Governments are judged on their decisions. [More…]
They do not want anybody in this Parliament or from anywhere saying from on high: ‘You will go on strike’, ‘You will have a dispute’, ‘You will have stoppages’, ‘You will use guerilla tactics.’ [More…]
The working men do not want that; they want to work. [More…]
They want a vote because they know that their menfolk are being stood over to yield when they should not yield. [More…]
The wives and the families of these men are the people who will judge the ALP at the next election. [More…]
They will judge it on its policy which says that ‘the unions in Australia will run wild and do as they like; there will be no government interference, no government moderation; the government will stand back from that situation and let them run riot’. [More…]
What does the Government want to do? [More…]
If there is a stoppage and men are not able to work, why should it be a matter of weeks and weeks before an application for stand-down can be dealt with effectively? [More…]
How many union members today break that oath of faith in their movement and go out and work in clubs and pubs around the country doing any casual job that they can get? [More…]
But the Labor Party will not espouse those causes, those principles of the union movement of Australia. [More…]
This legislation sets down firmly and solidly, as it is should, the principles that the union movement itself holds, one of which is: No work, no pay. [More…]
If funds have to be raised to support men in their jobs, if funds have to be raised by any means so that the dispute can continue, that indicates the dedication of the workers involved in the dispute. [More…]
The honourable member for Hume has continued his efforts over this period to have the men capitulate to the employer’s wishes. [More…]
Eventually, on 19 September, Justice Mary Gaudron of the Australian Conciliation and Arbitration Commission handed down a decision against the employers justifying the claims of the men to work under a State award. [More…]
What I am suggesting is that Australia, under the Metric Conversion Board and with the guidance and leadership of the current Minister for Science and the Environment, has been endeavouring to set a new world record in the conversion to metric. [More…]
I do not believe that the aged people of this country should have to suffer simply to meet the whims of a few powerful men. [More…]
I make the plea that every member of this Parliament take note that the United Kingdom has abandoned temporarily, for some years indeed, this program. [More…]
As I said, their government and their stability were destroyed in the course of what was deemed to be the solution to problems in Vietnam. [More…]
Kissinger must bear that indictment. [More…]
That country lost thousands of men trying to help him. [More…]
The honourable member for Dundas talked about what men earn, what they are able to ask for and what their employers are able to pay them for welding pipelines or diving deep into the sea or for doing a myriad of other tasks around the country that neither I nor any other member of this chamber, including the honourable member for Dundas, would be inclined to do anyhow. [More…]
Unfortunately in Melbourne a girder on a bridge collapsed and dozens of men lost their lives. [More…]
The Government of Victoria responded to the situation instantly. [More…]
We find that the attitude of the employer was so unreasonable and so unconscionable that it would be a dire penalty to say that these men were not entitled to their wages’. [More…]
The honourable member for Kingston is saying that in this situation the Commission should have no power at all to resolve the disputes and then to say to the employer: ‘You have acted so unconscionably, so badly and so neglectfully that you have possibly breached State laws or industrial regulations such as safety regulations’- that situation occurs time and time again- ‘and we will make a determination which entitles these men to recover their lost wages’. [More…]
He has a little more integrity than some of the gentlemen who sit behind him. [More…]
They are so one eyed in their attitude towards the trade union movement and its members that any law will do. [More…]
I suppose that in respect of some honourable gentlemen opposite who have never been in the situation I could be tolerant and say: ‘Well, perhaps if you had had the experience and knew what was happening in industry you would have a little more compassion’. [More…]
If honourable members opposite disagree with my statement on the position of the law I challenge them to argue the merits of the decisions which have been made by the Commission. [More…]
I think that the absurdity of this position can be demonstrated by imagining what would happen if a Labor government went to the other extreme. [More…]
Suppose a Labor government legislated to change this Act to provide that there be an automatic payment for all people out on strike, irrespective of the circumstances. [More…]
We say that in the same way, here there is a situation that requires that, whatever the circumstances, no payment can be made when men are out on strike. [More…]
But it was agreed that the men could go home and would continue to be paid- and quite rightly so. [More…]
Even though a variety of fair minded people, on and off the Bench would agree that that was the appropriate way to deal with the matter, this legislation would say: ‘No, whatever the circumstances, the Commission may not make an order for payment’. [More…]
It would occur, no doubt, where the Commission concluded that management was entirely or, very substantially to blame, and the order to pay would be virtually a penalty. [More…]
What the Government says in this legislation is: ‘No: We don’t want to permit a situation where it is possible for the Commission to have the extreme range where it penalises the men on one hand and management on the other’. [More…]
‘No’, the Government says, ‘ We want a situation where management will not be penalised in any circumstances but where the option is always open for the trade unionists, the workers on the job, to be penalised ‘. [More…]
The story told by the honourable member for Melbourne Ports about the horror of the collapse of the West Gate Bridge in October 1970 is a perfect example of the kind of dispute that could have occurred in which the men would have been 100 per cent right. [More…]
I am glad to say that when the men went out the Bolte Government agreed that they would be paid until the situation was resolved. [More…]
But if the men had gone out on strike and said ‘No: We believe it is too dangerous at this stage to continue to work until there has been a clear investigation of what has happened’ I believe they would have had a perfect moral right to receive their wages. [More…]
The common position is that when the men stop work a navigation officer under the Commonwealth powers intervenes and rules either in favour of the employees or against them. [More…]
Under this legislation those men could be considered as having been on strike. [More…]
The Government has obviously not thought through the full ramifications of this clause. [More…]
It remained on the statute books until 1977 when the Fraser Government repealed it. [More…]
If members of the Opposition are sincere in what they are saying about this Bill, about its horrible effects, the dreadful things it will do, the way it can crucify men in this community of ours, why did they not repeal it when they were in office between 1973 and 1975? [More…]
I regret that I was unable to participate in that debate, but I do not want to let this day pass without my making some comment on this very tragic subject. [More…]
On the admission of the Government of Kampuchea there is the imminent death by starvation of at least two million men, women and children. [More…]
Government officials of all countries knew at the beginning of this year that the crops had not been planted in Kampuchea. [More…]
If young men and women in Australia leave school with that sense of frustration and because the nature of training at school is one of the causes of unemployment- I emphasise that it is only one- they have difficulty in getting work, the sense of frustration and lack of achievement can only be compounded. [More…]
Yesterday, a magistrate at Port Hedland imposed fines against five unionists on charges laid under State laws of assembly, and the men have 14 days in which to pay those fines. [More…]
Three men were killed and three more were admitted to hospital. [More…]
I hope that the Government is considering providing service station attendants and service station proprietors with the same privileges as those received by our Federal public servants because this Government has made those service station attendants and those service station proprietors more successful tax collectors than the public servants in the Taxation Office. [More…]
While businessmen and men of the medical profession are daily coming up with tax avoidance schemes and are confounding the bureaucrats of the Taxation Office, people cannot avoid the petrol tax. [More…]
About the only tax avoidance scheme that the Opposition can recommend to the motorist is that he sell his car. [More…]
The Government’s claim that the petrol tax is an energy conservation measure is demonstrably untrue. [More…]
It is estimated that some 56,000 supporting parent beneficiaries, including 2,500 men, with 96,000 dependants will qualify for pensioner health benefit cards. [More…]
Eligibility for fringe benefits provided by State government and other organisations is usually restricted to holders of pensioner health benefit cards. [More…]
In the same article there are comments from other union officers that they have had no trouble with Vietnamese or refugee members of their unions. [More…]
Professional men are prepared to take jobs which are not their particular occupations. [More…]
Refugees will take jobs which other people will not take and are keen to put something back into this country for providing them with a piao this ce of resettlement. [More…]
But I doubt whether the secrecy of its operations improve the quality of its judgment. [More…]
I am quite satisfied that the majority of ASIO’s employees are not hit men but filing clerks. [More…]
If that is the best defence that the Government can produce on this clause, there is certainly not much to be said for the clause. [More…]
Secondly, like all good Labor men, Senator Evans expressed amazement that for once on one particular aspect of clause 8 the Government could act more liberally in relation to the Hope report. [More…]
These actions cloaked under the guise of interceding on behalf of disadvantaged families were in fact hypocritically calculated to manipulate men fighting to retain their employment under the State award. [More…]
Eventually Justice Mary Gaudron ruled against the company and in time enabled those men to go back to work after all that time under all the conditions that they had enjoyed before that period. [More…]
That comment has been confirmed by the general concern about this matter and is mentioned in this letter. [More…]
I think it is worth mentioning that the company involved which the honourable member for Hume sought to support has a very poor record as an employer in the meat industry. [More…]
At the handing down of Justice Mary Gaudron’s decision, the men went back to work under a State award, which was the decision of Justice Gaudron. [More…]
-But unfortunately the award was as written and not as worked before because the company repudiated conditions under which these men had worked under the Conkey and Sons Ltd management for a long time. [More…]
Men who had worked there for 20 years have gone back, starting from scratch because of this dispute started by the company. [More…]
The sad part of this is that people in those little towns where these abattoirs are the main employer have no alternative form of employment. [More…]
So men with families are working for one or two days a week to get something which is less than a subsistence wage. [More…]
Because they work for one or two days a week, they are rendered ineligible for any sort of unemployment relief. [More…]
This situation that these men find themselves in is not to the company’s credit. [More…]
Two men, who did not identify themselves, approached the Australian Embassy in Bonn on an afternoon in mid- June seeking a loan of a film The Land My Mother whose full title is Walya Ngamardiki-The Land My Mother. [More…]
One could have some sympathy for Japanese fisher men if Japan were a poor developing country. [More…]
Some 300 tourist fishermen pay more than $3m each year in charter fees alone, not to mention air fares, food, transport and a whole range of other goods and services that they pay for when they come to Australia, including of course the multiplier effect of - [More…]
I remember speaking at a meeting of the InterParliamentary Union in Majorca how I astounded some of my co-delegates when I set out some of the complaints I had against the laws and the government of this country. [More…]
I said that I lived in a country in which people could be forced to fight against their will in an undeclared foreign war; a country in which men could be sent to gaol for refusing to work at a rate of pay fixed by somebody sitting as an arbitrator. [More…]
The advantage is this: When I go back to Australia after condemning my own government in the manner in which I have, nobody will put his hand on my shoulder as I get out of the plane and say “Come with me”.’ [More…]
If he wants to pick up an ordinary book of practice, he will find far more detail set out in that for the guidance and direction of practitioners- men experienced in the law- than is contained here for the guidance and direction of Customs officers who do not always have the benefit of that sort of detailed training. [More…]
I am opposed to the amendments one and all and I would wish that my colleagues were too. [More…]
We shall be lesser men and women and of lesser use to the community as a whole if they become law. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Home Affairs aware of statements made earlier this week about the standing of Australian sports men and women in world ratings? [More…]
Is the Minister able to state what government programs will help the people of Australia to again achieve excellence in sport? [More…]
Does the Minister consider that government programs already introduced in the area of sport, recreation and the use of leisure time should be further developed? [More…]
The Minister for National Development and the Government must see that supplies of heating oil are kept up also. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will keep in touch with the oil companies to see that adequate supplies of heating oil are maintained until arrangements can be made by the users of heating oil to use other forms of heating, such as solar heating and electricity. [More…]
Let us hope that the men employed in that refinery adopt a national outlook. [More…]
They are the words of men whom every one of us in this House has heard quoted time and time again. [More…]
Once again I congratulate the Government on the increased funds for aged persons’ accommodation. [More…]
Approval has been given for commitments of up to $10m for urgent new projects to enable planning to commence for funding in 1980-81. [More…]
How can any government in a democracy devise such a villainous scheme? [More…]
How can it be that the people who run this country can sit around the Cabinet table and devise this way of denying a person the unemployment benefit when, through no fault of his own, he finds that he has been stood down? [More…]
Such a person has to go home to his family and say: ‘Look, we have been stood down because of an industrial dispute 2,000 miles away but I am told that because I am a member of the same union that went on strike in Adelaide, I cannot receive any unemployment benefit from the Government’. [More…]
What kind of men and women make up this Goverment when all they can do is to sit around the Cabinet table and devise such a scheme? [More…]
It says a great deal about this Government. [More…]
The man who leads this Government is a multi-millionaire. [More…]
That illustrates the type of government that we have in this country. [More…]
I think it is important to point out exactly the sorts of consequential arrangements which the Government is making in respect of clause 35 (4), which the honourable member for Port Adelaide (Mr Young) raised. [More…]
They provided that a person who was involved in a dispute or who stood to benefit from a dispute was not eligible to apply for the unemployment benefit. [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…]
For example, in the railways if signalmen or a few train controllers were to go out it would probably tie up the railways system in most States and other persons employed in the railways would be eligible to obtain the unemployment benefit. [More…]
Unless we get in the appointment of commissioners three men who are practical peoplenot lawyers who specialise in a particular niche of law- people who have practiced in this area, people who have known the game not only in terms of the market but also in terms of accounting, legal practice and with overall experience, we will fail. [More…]
In the establishment of this Commission the people involved must win the confidence of those who operate in that area. [More…]
I wonder whether the advertisement that I have in my hands which calls for applications to fill the three commissioner positions is offering sufficient to attract the people we want in this area. [More…]
I cannot stress too emphatically the importance of having the right people at this point of the establishment of the Commission. [More…]
I give a parallel situation: In the case of two men who are working beside one another in a plant which is not on strike and who ultimately are stood down, the person who stands to benefit financially by the results of the strike but who is not a member of the union will be paid unemployment benefit because he is not a member of the union. [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…]
It is clear from the honourable member for Bendigo ‘s remarks that what the Government is about is, under the Social Services Act, using people’s traumas caused by lack of income to carry out what it sees as an industrial purpose that it thinks will be popular. [More…]
Waterside workers employed at Australian National Line terminal in one Port could be stood down and denied unemployment benefits because their colleagues at another port are on strike over an issue which might have nothing to do with them. [More…]
No doubt the next move of the Government would, be firstly, to effect standdowns and then, secondly, to deny the unemployment benefit to those people and their families along with members of other unions who may be affected by a strike or disputation. [More…]
For the first time members of the Waterside Workers Federation were stood down as a result of other men being out on strike. [More…]
That is what happened as a result of the Government’s stand-downs. [More…]
Now the Government is going further. [More…]
After having stood-down the workers and created the strike the Government wants to pour oil on the flames by denying unemployment benefits. [More…]
I also recognise that the definition of a government in exile is one which will very much make it a lottery situation. [More…]
If some substantial personage went into exile and was able to form a government, those who fought with the allies would be able to obtain some degree of recognition. [More…]
I raise this matter because the Government has moved to extend the payment of a service benefit. [More…]
I hope that the Minister for Veterans ‘ Affairs (Mr Adermann) will pursue the matter and extend the provisions to the maximum breadth to cover service men who served with allied forces during the war, particularly those who took the greatest risks on behalf of Australian servicemen. [More…]
I would like to reply very briefly to the comments of the honourable member for Corio (Mr Scholes) when he suggested that members on this side of the House had less than a passing interest in the welfare of our returned men. [More…]
-I do not know whether it was the Liberal Party or some company but it is quite clear that there was a definite criminal intent from the point of view of financing a malicious charge that it would be on the basis that these men would be removed from public life and be pilloried on the grounds that they did something wrong. [More…]
If one looks at the petitions presented in this House to get certain evidence brought before the court one will see a whole gamut of conspiracy and collusion from a government. [More…]
It is now a little late to talk about some of the other problems that have eventuated in this Parliament because that case has effectively damaged and permanently destroyed the processes of this Parliament by playing with the lives of those people. [More…]
If one does anything wrong from the point of view of the Parliament one should be challenged in the Parliament. [More…]
One should not be subject to challenge from some impecunious solicitor who suddenly dreams up a charge on the basis that he is going to do something that the Parliament was not able to do. [More…]
-Because I was a voting member in this Parliament and I had a lot more votes than had the honourable member for Diamond Valley. [More…]
The honourable member is a very insecure member of this Parliament, and while he is here he might as well make the most of it. [More…]
The facts are that this Parliament passed a motion of no confidence in those caretaker Ministers. [More…]
None of them, if they had been men of faith in the parliamentary system, would have accepted office. [More…]
The Supremacy of Parliament Act ought to require that Ministers shall have the confidence of the House of Representatives. [More…]
It ought to be required that the Public Service will not take notice of instructions from Ministers who do not carry the authority of this Parliament. [More…]
why do women need to be paid a pension at 60 in these days of women’s lib, while men wait until 65? [More…]
The Government of Czechoslovakia would claim, of course, that these matters are entirely domestic and that neither the Australian Government nor any other government has any direct standing in them at all. [More…]
But the fact is that they raise questions of fundamental concern to us all. [More…]
We do not accept that men of goodwill do not have the right to speak out when they see normal human aspirations so ruthlessly swept aside as has occurred on this occasion. [More…]
My recollection is that during World War II the railway system throughout the whole of Europe and the United Kingdom was absolutely crucial in the movement of men and materials. [More…]
It is a matter of some astonishment to me that a person who holds himself out as a defence expert should have offered such a churlish criticism. [More…]
The Australasian Meat Industry Employees Union has been trying for a long time to get the Federal Government to evolve a system whereby these cattle, once they are detected as carriers of a disease, are killed at the nearest abattoir to the point of detection. [More…]
If they are killed at the nearest export abattoir the men there are provided with clean clothing every day. [More…]
This Government appears to be obsessed about controlling cattle diseases when one looks at the amount of money it is raising in order to fight diseases. [More…]
But the response from this Government to the process of enabling these cattle to be killed at the nearest export abattoir is rather sad. [More…]
The Government’s attitude is typified in the reply received by the union from the former Minister for Primary Industry, the right honourable member for New England (Mr Sinclair), who said: ‘It is not possible, nor would it be reasonable, to demand co-operation from meat exporters and processors especially if they would suffer financial loss’. [More…]
What a dreadful statement to make about something that can vitally affect the health of the people who are charged with slaughtering these animals. [More…]
I would think that this Government, obsessed as it seems to be with the eradication of disease, would be equally responsible when it comes to protecting the health of the people who are charged with the responsibility of eliminating diseased cattle from the herd, but such is not the case. [More…]
One would think that the Government would adopt a more responsible attitude by listening to the arguments of the meat industry and of the union and insist that these cattle be killed at the nearest export works that are governed by the Department of Primary Industry inspectors because the men at these works are provided with clean protective clothing every day. [More…]
That is the only way that these men can be protected. [More…]
In addition, the environmentalist is totally opposed to the use of chemicals for the control of weeds or insects. [More…]
I feel that the Government should be looking seriously at providing funding for a great many more professional men in this field so that we can use biological control instead of relying on chemical control. [More…]
The introduction of the legislation in 1974 followed the 1 973 report of the Working Party on Homeless Men and Women. [More…]
The report’s recommendations highlighted the need to concentrate assistance on upgrading existing facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [More…]
Since the program commenced, capital grants totalling $9.668m have been approved to upgrade, replace or construct facilities such as night shelters, reception and assessment centres, hostels, day centres and detoxification units. [More…]
Further, an amount of $4m will be made available this financial year to build two major replacement hostels for homeless people in Brisbane. [More…]
As I have indicated, the Government will be determining the provision of funds for new capital projects at the appropriate time. [More…]
These provide overnight accommodation for 3,600 men and women. [More…]
The program, by assisting with rental subsidies and social welfare worker subsidies, has been able to contribute to the development of the halfway house concept. [More…]
This allows for placement of clients in a residential setting while they are assisted in adjusting to the many demands of a different life style by social welfare workers funded under the program. [More…]
It should be noted also that the program is not directed exclusively towards chronically homeless men and a number of centres cater exclusively for single homeless women. [More…]
Some agencies in developing new hostels have taken the opportunity to provide accommodation for both men and women. [More…]
Apart from being taboo and never spoken of- I do not know if the central office did not ask for permission or central office did not have faith in the men, that the men could do it themselves without having to call in outside agencies to instal and maintain and monitor the equipment- we are now doing it ourselves. [More…]
The introduction of the original legislation in 1974 followed the 1973 report of the working party on homeless men and women. [More…]
The report’s recommendations highlighted the need to concentrate assistance on upgrading existing facilities for permanently and chronically homeless men and women. [More…]
The amending legislation deletes the reference to a prescribed period. [More…]
These provide overnight accommodation for about 3,600 men and women. [More…]
It is important to note that the program is not directed exclusively towards chronically homeless men. [More…]
A number of centres cater exclusively for single homeless women. [More…]
The Labor Party’s attitude to the legislation is one of support but we feel that we should draw the Government’s attention to the lack of increase in the subsidies. [More…]
I support the Homeless Persons Assistance Amendment Bill because it secures the future of the homeless persons welfare program. [More…]
Until now there has not been any guarantee that this program would be an on-going one, which has meant that neither the Government nor the organisations delivering this welfare have been able to undertake long term planning of programs designed to assist homeless men and women. [More…]
Some valuable government assistance also has been provided through capital grants, food and accommodation subsidies, rental subsidies and subsidies for the salaries of social welfare workers, but until now the Act has required statutory extensions following periods of evaluation and review. [More…]
In previous speeches in this Parliament I have referred to the findings of the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into Poverty and to departmental surveys which have highlighted the tragic dimensions of this problem at both the individual and the community level. [More…]
The Minister, in her second reading speech, said that at present there are 113 approved centres and these provide overnight accommodation for something like 3,600 men and women. [More…]
This matter has been examined by the Henderson Commission of Inquiry into poverty in Australia and several departmental surveys have been carried out. [More…]
Surveys have shown that one in four people have been homeless for more than 10 years and for most the incidence of previous illnesses was far higher than that for the general population and that as a group homeless men appear to be prematurely aged. [More…]
I raised this matter during an Estimates committee examination of the estimates for the Department of Social Security in September of this year and it was stated quite specifically that the failure by all political parties and governments to adjust these subsidies has caused some financial difficulties for organisations operating under the Act. [More…]
I keep in close contact with some of the organisations in Perth which look after homeless men and women and youths and their experience certainly shows that there is a need to update these subsidies. [More…]
In the evidence given to the Estimates committee of this House on the Department of Social Security I was told that the cost of providing food and accommodation subsidies in 1979-80 was $1,160,000. [More…]
This may mean that these men, women and youths will be discouraged from entering homeless persons’ hostels and will be forced back into the streets and on to the park benches. [More…]
That figure represents 0.01 per cent of the Budget outlays for 1979-80 which are classified as social security and welfare payments. [More…]
Following this catch-up adjustment, indexation of these subsidies also would be a desirable and necessary policy initiative, as soon as the Government was able to do so. [More…]
Once we used to think of them as old swaggies and derelict old men, but now the army has taken on a different type of characteristic. [More…]
It is one of the surviving initiatives of the Whitlam Government. [More…]
It survived the unrelenting vendetta of the Fraser Government which has taken the form of a devolution program aimed at destroying the Australian Labor Party social reforms. [More…]
Of course, this whole area of homeless people is taking on such dimensions that although it was contemplated to put those original initiatives into the incinerator with the introduction of the devolution program, the Government dare not do that now because it would be criticised on many fronts. [More…]
Following a working party on homeless men and women set up by Bill Hayden in February 1973, which reported later in the year on the feasibility of a program to assist them, legislation was foreshadowed by the then Prime Minister in the 1974 election campaign and introduced by Mr Hayden in November 1974. [More…]
They would cover rent, furnishings and equipment with subsidies for welfare staff members and a subsidised meal allowance. [More…]
The measures proposed within the Bill are based on a compassionate understanding of the needs and very real problems of homeless men and women and of their alienation, their loneliness and their despair . [More…]
Our Government is determined to end such areas of neglect. [More…]
The main provisions of the principal Act which the Labor Government initiated were to support organisations and agencies catering for homeless men and women. [More…]
It has been mentioned by the two preceding speakers that this Bill is about a salary subsidy of 50 per cent of the salary of approved staff, an accommodation subsidy of 75c a person a day and a meal subsidy of 25c a meal in respect of a non-resident homeless person. [More…]
Obviously, the Government is remiss about that. [More…]
That is why the Opposition has moved this amendment which is in simple terms. [More…]
The average age of the homeless men is about 46 years, and their life expectancy far lower than the average. [More…]
The Government’s great obsession is to protect the taxpayer, which is a fair enough proposition. [More…]
The Government has to tackle these fundamental problems and start looking at the whole man, not just his accommodation. [More…]
Certainly there should be a new range of conditions laid down about the operation of homeless men’s institutions and doss houses about which there have been scandals from time to time. [More…]
Despite the flexibility in terms of the new Commonwealth-states housing finance agreement, it is not sufficiently flexible for public housing authorities in this country to house the people who everyone would agree, are amongst the very poor. [More…]
When we have this talk about the need to introduce market rents, paradoxically in order to get the people who are not so poor out of public housing accommodation, I am reminded of the fact that the people in this group- the homeless men and women of this country- as a matter of policy are not housed, as far as I know, by any of the State housing authorities. [More…]
I was privileged to hear perhaps the last major speech made by one of the most eminent and respected medical men in Australia, Sir John Lowenthal. [More…]
The point I make is that Australian intelligence must have known of the tragedy that has been going on and that the Australian Government has been well aware of what has been occurring. [More…]
It is about time that we demanded that parliamentary delegations be allowed to go into East Timor. [More…]
I know that since 1975 this Government has given about $3.9m in aid. [More…]
The Government is starting to build up its aid. [More…]
This Government has somehow found a conscience because of the upsurge of public opinion on this matter. [More…]
The Speaker of this House, Sir Billy Snedden, was reported in the Indonesian newspaper Sinar Harapan on 9 November as proposing that a parliamentary delegation go to East Timor to see how this aid was being distributed. [More…]
Men and women of good will in both Houses of the Parliament are saying: Let us look at the matter in more detail’. [More…]
Surely we want to see people from both sides of this Parliament go to East Timor and make sure that the aid is given where it is needed most. [More…]
It has been reported also that about 70,000 people are in the secondary stage and it may be possible to save them if the right medical treatment gets to them. [More…]
I especially appreciate the presence in the Chamber of the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs for the presentation of this report. [More…]
Such exchanges greatly benefit all who participate and individual friendships forged cannot help but advance the cause of peace and goodwill between men and Commonwealth nations. [More…]
The Labor lawyers spent their time considering strategies for change … it should not be forgotten that a gathering of Labor lawyers is really a parade ground for political aspirants to show off their plumage … the Labor lawyers event degenerated into a back-biting faction fight, Left versus Right, women versus the men . [More…]
A radical politician from the Left is under threat from the establishment and the status quo the whole time. [More…]
Parliamentarians are considered to be people of some substance and some standing in the community. [More…]
Even though one may call for the case to be heard before a jury of 12 just men, one has to pay these expenses before one is found innocent. [More…]
I am not gloating over his predicament because I have some understanding of the struggle that he will have to go through before it is all over. [More…]
It may be, but the fact is that it was not something prompted by the Department and it was not prompted by the then Minister for Foreign Affairs. [More…]
The signals that came back to Australia concerning the murder of those men were suppressed, not only from the public but from Cabinet members as well. [More…]
If the Government were sincere about the difficulties faced by the Catholic schools- and it appears from the recent reports about the deficit in the Vatican that things are indeed grave and could be getting worse for Catholic schools- the Government could at least have abandoned its policy of bringing all schools up to 20 per cent of average costs and given what money there is to the parochial schools; but this is not the case. [More…]
What has influenced Government policy making in the area of assistance to schools is nostalgia rather than need. [More…]
When it comes to the issue of education we have an old boy network rather than men in a government who put memories of the social and economic elitism of their own private school educations ahead of the needs of all schools in this country. [More…]
But today there is a new breed of men from the Snowy. [More…]
They are the men whom we are applauding as we debate this Bill tonight. [More…]
But they were not bargaining on the pioneering spirit and the great expertise that men, not only from Australia but also from many other countries brought to this scheme. [More…]
It is therefore to the credit of the many men who worked on the Snowy Mountains scheme that it has proved to be the undoubted success that it is today. [More…]
One hundred and twenty-three men lost their lives while working on the project and my parliamentary colleague, Senator Mulvihill, is currently engaged in trying to have a monument erected in recognition of the sacrifice made by these men. [More…]
Of course the Snowy Mountains scheme as it stands is mute testimony to the great courage and the great expertise of all the men who worked on it, particularly the 123 men who lost their lives. [More…]
In order not to waste this pool of technical expertise, a body known as the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation was established towards the completion of the project in 1970. lt is a statutory body set up on commercial lines to provide a specialised engineering consulting service to governments, within Australia and overseas. [More…]
Perhaps a more significant measure of the Corporation’s success can be seen further in its success in promoting goodwill between Australia and the countries of the Third World, This has been achieved by its work in improving the living standards of the people of the Third World countries, an achievement of which Australia can be justly proud. [More…]
We have great reason to be grate-, ful to the men who were involved in the construction under the scheme. [More…]
As I have said, the Snowy Mountains scheme, as it exists, is mute testimony to the skills, the pioneering spirit and the wonderful effort that was put in by an enormous number of men who, with the implementation of our early migration scheme to develop the Snowy Mountains scheme, came from all parts of the world. [More…]
I hope that one day the message will scream out from their lonely graves that this Government should make money available to ensure that this very closely populated urban area, which is less than two miles from the demographic centre of one of the world’s great citiesthe Toongabbie system is exactly two miles from Parramatta- is properly drained. [More…]
It is to be hoped that one day this Government will realise that it has a responsibility in terms of humanity, if not in terms of modern progress, to see that the money is made available so that the Toongabbie Creek system is properly drained in accordance with the plan that was drawn up in 1974 by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation. [More…]
Perhaps that would be testimony to some spark of humanity in this Government. [More…]
The Government has before it the responsibility of acting immediately to protect public safety and to ensure that funds are made available to carry out the necessary modifications to that drainage system. [More…]
The Government knows this, but it is taking a punt. [More…]
Some government members are punting men, but members of the public are not punting people. [More…]
When they go through the airport they want to know that they can move through in safety and with the assurance that they are not likely to be victims of this Government’s gambling with human lives and danger because it does not think an accident can occur. [More…]
In fact, 87 per cent of the men, and 89 per cent of the women, were under the age of 35. [More…]
The Commonwealth Police investigator led his carefully briefed squad of men into Sydney suburbs before dawn on Saturday to begin arrests in connection with the alleged fraud racket. [More…]
I believe that at that time some members of this chamber would have held the view that that group of men working within the Customs organisation would have from time to time contact with police but overall that contact would be minimal. [More…]
He can be hissed at and spat upon by an unruly crowd, yet the moment each individual in that crowd needs assistance he or she rings for a policeman. [More…]
People we call upon to protect us at one moment the next moment we look upon contemptuously, and when I use the word ‘we’, I am speaking about the population in general. [More…]
The Government has got inflation down from 1 2 to 1 0 per cent in four years and in so doing has doubled the number of unemployed in Australia. [More…]
That is the testimony to this Government’s efficiency. [More…]
The Government is dedicated to the dismantling or destruction of anything worth while in the public sector in Australia. [More…]
I think that is the testimony of this Government’s small-mindedness. [More…]
It sends the Pipeline Authority back to Parliament with cap in hand like a naughty school boy to get approval to build this small spur. [More…]
I well remember that in a moment of sweet illusion to the Muses Rex Connor stood in this House one night and said: ‘Give me men of vision’. [More…]
I wish there were some men of vision in this Government. [More…]
I wish there were not blinkered, hooded, prejudiced little men who are dedicated to destroying the good, positive things that happened to Australia’s advantage in those years 1972-75 that the Government seems so very keen to malign. [More…]
Then let’s look at one another, faults and merits belong to all men, white or black or brown or yellow, let’s look at our faults and merits, put things right and start along the road walking hand in hand and side by side . [More…]
He was a man of very great sincerity and loyalty to the Labor movement. [More…]
He was one of the great underestimated men in politics. [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…]
Members of the Opposition front bench now- this is partly what this is all about- are men of ambition, men such as my friend, Lionel Bowen, Mick Young - [More…]
The anticipated duration of the assignment is governed by the length of the transitional period leading up to the elections. [More…]
Allowing time for the announcement of election results and the installation of the new Government, and travel between Australia and Rhodesia, the Australian contingent could be expected to be outside Australia for a maximum of Vh months. [More…]
The Deputy Prime Minister indicated on 9 November that Britain had requested 10 teams of 1 1 men each-a total of 1 10 men. [More…]
It is possible that in the event, a smaller Australian contribution may be all that is needed, depending on the final assessment of the monitoring requirement. [More…]
At the moment there are very real tensions, particularly in the Islamic world. [More…]
As we prepare for the Christmas season, the season of goodwill, we must all fervently hope that reason and sense will prevail, that tensions will ease, that men and women of goodwill will be able to comprehend the dangers in the present situation and that compromise and solutions will be found to their many problems. [More…]
I would not try to enumerate the various people, the various bodies which sustain this system in which we all work, but there are some people I do feel about whom I have to make some observation because their work is so proximate to where we are; the people in Hansard who assiduously record what we are saying and report us, thank God, not literally, but well; the Clerks of the House who sit there inscrutably, diligently recording the processes of the House, men of long memory but fortunately silent tongue. [More…]
But on that point, if I can just dally a second, it is sometimes observed that there is some noise- more uncouth people might say a little disorder- in this parliamentary institution and people are a little aghast that it should happen. [More…]
I thank the Joint House people who look after us extremely well- the girls in the dining room, the men and girls in the kitchen and the men in the bar, although I think there are some ladies there too. [More…]
They are deserving of tremendous praise from me. [More…]
I thank also the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Anthony) for mentioning particularly those people in Indo-China and the people of East Timor. [More…]
We are certainly not going through the trials and tribulations that those people are suffering in this time of goodwill to all men. [More…]
This Parliament has to look at the farreaching policies of the 1980s to overcome what we call the curse of unemployment which exists in this country and which affects so many unfortunate people in our community. [More…]
The decorations were included to show the distinguished careers of these men. [More…]
The industry is in trouble but I believe that the tide of fashion will turn and that the smart women, the fashionable men such as the honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) and even the honourable member for Riverina, will see the light and wear woollen suits. [More…]
I am confident that wool will ride out the present crisis with the assistance of this Government. [More…]
Will he confer with the Minister-in-Charge of Aboriginal Affairs and, as recently suggested by me, set up a programme to train men and women so that a team of experienced practical people may be brought into being in order to undertake the long and hard job of leading and teaching the Aborigines in the Northern Territory to develop their own vast resources for their own benefit. [More…]
Thai the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory, military service under the National Service Act 1951-1968 is arrived at by a ballot system, based upon arbritary grounds as to their date of birth. [More…]
That the determination as to which young men are required to undergo compulsory military ser vice under the National Service Act 1951-196o is arrived at by, a ballot system, based upon arbitrary grounds as to their dale of birth. [More…]
It was called to my attention that whilst I was out this evening the honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe) made some references to my earlier career as a part owner of a mens wear store. [More…]
I understand that he referred to me as one of the wealthiest men on the north shore of Sydney. [More…]
Whether they are true or not, I do not think they have anything to do with the Parliament or with the honourable member for Paterson. [More…]
I think that the lie to that comes from the publication in the Australian of 5 September of a complaint by the Leader of the Opposition about statements made by his deputy. [More…]
The 12 witless men now seem to be replaced by the blustering bravado of the 17 members of the ACTU executive who apparently will lead the ALP into any future political posture they may wish to take with respect to uranium without the elected members of the Parliamentary Labor Party having much say or opportunity to condone it. [More…]
On our side of Parliament there is complete unanimity about the way in which any decisions with a significant political content should be taken. [More…]
They do not like the fact that the Labor Party is a high tax party, and that it is a big government party. [More…]
They do not like the fact that under a Labor Government income taxes grew by 125 per cent over 3 years. [More…]
They do not like the fact that he slugged the average working men and women of Australia 45c out of every additional dollar they earned when their income got to $10,000 a year, and 55c in the dollar for every additional dollar they earned over $16,000. [More…]
I believe there is a talented body of men within the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs, and therefore in these matters one has to act with hesitation. [More…]
I believe that this amendment does ensure that, faithful to Liberal principles, we are able to propose an amendment. [More…]