men - senate - 1970

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

First of all, I answer the honourable senator by saying that he is charging men and women dedicated in the service of this Department who work untiringly to do their best for ex-service people. [More…]
My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
Is there any truth in this morning’s Press and radio reports that the Government has decided to withdraw the Sth Battalion from Vietnam in August or earlier and also that the present Army training team will be reorganised into a composite unit and used for training South Vietnamese men in one locality? [More…]
These programmes were put to the Development Bank and in all good faith they were accepted as a viable proposition. [More…]
We find today that the proposals have fallen through because the farmers, who are dependent primarily on wheat growing and to a certain extent on wool growing, can no longer finance the development programme in which they have been engaged. [More…]
They show that these men cannot possibly meet the capital and interest repayments which were budgeted and planned for by the skilled people who advised them. [More…]
In view of’ the number of men employed by the Parks and Gardens Branch, why was an outside contract necessary for this project. [More…]
Is there a rise and fall clause as to labour costs, as is usually inserted in contracts between the Department of Works and the contractor - in this case, Thiess Bros Pty Ltd? [More…]
I further ask: If a wage increase is awarded by the courts, will the contract be adjusted to ensure that the men working on the project will secure wage justice, thereby guaranteeing continuity of employment and the building of the runway free of the worry that proper adjustments of wages will not be made by the employers? [More…]
They deal with proposals for an inquiry into men ally and physically handicapped children in Australia. [More…]
In view of the widespread dissatisfaction with the present provisions of the National Service Act, which dissatisfaction is being expressed in protests and demonstrations which in turn create clashes with law enforcement authorities, will the Minister for Labour and National Service give urgent consideration to amending the hateful parts of the National Service Act and to providing an alternative to young men so that they may perform duties other than combat duties? [More…]
Is it a fact that the Government instead has made some announcement elsewhere that it proposes in future to publish the birth dates that have been drawn? [More…]
Will the Minister raise with the Government the most important question of the publication of the past birth dates that were drawn, so that those young men selected - some of whom are facing death or injury and certainly experiencing disruption of their normal life - will have some independent check on whether they were properly selected in the ballot? [More…]
Will the Minister note that on 23rd June last the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s television programme on homeless men contained a statement that one could not be admitted to the Matthew Talbot Hostel for homeless men in Sydney unless one had money? [More…]
Will the Minister note that this statement gravely damaged the reputation of this worthy institution whose doors are and always have been open to homeless men without charge? [More…]
Will the Minister note that Sir Robert Madgwick, Chairman of the ABC on 24th July admitted ina letter to me that the statement was untrue and promised that it would be put in the right perspective at the first available opportunity? [More…]
In fact, from my experience, the Chinese always have been recognised as being pretty hard headed business men. [More…]
I do not want to make a speech; rather 1 seek enlightenment. [More…]
The Senate will know that since the introduction of conscription a fairly large number of men has left Australia. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) and his advisers believe that there should be a compact committee of expert people, consisting of representatives from the 2 federal wool industry organisations, a chairman and a Commonwealth representative together with 3 men from any walk of life, provided they have the particular quality, knowledge and expertise that the Commission is looking for. [More…]
It is believed to be much better if we can get men who have a thorough knowledge of and expertise in the spheres of marketing, promotion, commerce or something like that. [More…]
Obviously the Commission will have in its membership men with a great number of skills. [More…]
As the Minister was reported as stating inter alia, that all cases of apparent national service default were investigated, and that action has been stayed pending consideration of a civilian alternative to military service; and since the Minister in reply to a question by myself indicated that Australia is technically not at war, is the Government having great difficulty in complying with the Federal Constitution in forcing young men to serve in thefighting forces as though Australia was technically at war. [More…]
Some 2,000 years ago Christ died so that men may live, yet we have a heretic in this chamber who is repudiating all Christian principles and advocating kilting, all in the cause of so-called justice or freedom. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service consider any amendments necessary to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, or to any other appropriate Act, and also consider any other reasonable means by which the blockade of Tasmania and the serious damage done to Australian shipping can be brought to an end and, if possible, a recurrence prevented? [More…]
Will the honourable gentleman make strong recommendations, if he has not already done so, to his colleagues in the Ministry regarding this onslaught on people in no way responsible for the dispute by men who are already overpaid? [More…]
I wish to ask a question of the Leader of the Government in the Senate, supplementary to the question asked by my colleague Senator Devitt. [More…]
Does the honourable gentleman in all seriousness believe that it would be a good idea for approaches to be made to the news media of Australia suggesting that when they accept payment for advertisements which mention the names of public figures at least the names of the people inserting the advertisements should also be contained in those advertisements so that the public of Australia will know whether they are humorists or people trying to damage the reputations of public men? [More…]
Tonight I want to refer to what I believe to be a very important subject in view of the fact that 32 men today almost lost their lives in an incident on a Bass Strait off-shore oil rig. [More…]
Marlin A4, the rig from which these men were evacuated today, is in the same area as Marlin 7, which in December 1968 was the scene of a similar incident in which 52 men were involved. [More…]
I wonder why the Government has been very silent about this matter today. [More…]
I inform the honourable senator that I am not aware of the meeting to which he referred or of the resolution attributed to the men, but as soon as it is communicated to me the matter will be considered. [More…]
Has the AttorneyGeneral seen newspaper reports indicating that the Victorian Young Labor Association decided at its conference last Sunday in Melbourne to establish a committee of draft resisters to incite young men to defy the National Service Act? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware that a strike by 3 men who are in key positions in a factory at Devonport and who apparently are the only members of a certain union employed there has caused that factory to cease production, incurring the resentment of at least some of the other employees who have been thrown out of work? [More…]
1433 to the Minister for Works, but on perusal of its terms and as the men concerned have all been sacked by the Commonwealth Department of Works, I do not now propose to ask the question. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
From the time when national service was introduced it had been recognised that some men would find themselves in circumstances which would make it difficult for them to register for national service when required to do so. [More…]
This applies for example to men detained in gaol or other penal institutions, those who may be hospitalised because of illness or injury or who are inmates of institutions. [More…]
Steps are accordingly taken to ensure that all necessary information about the national service scheme and the means to effect registration are available to the responsible authorities and that the requirement to register is brought to the attention of the men affected. [More…]
No complete record is available as to the number of men who were in gaol at the time when they were required to register for national service. [More…]
However, the experience is that the arrangements outlined here work satisfactorily. [More…]
This is part of the propaganda put out by some elements in the community opposed to national service who, for their own purposes, endeavour to mislead young men into thinking they can break the law of the land with impunity. [More…]
It obviously makes no impression on the vast majority of young men, almost 700,000, who have registered as required. [More…]
However, I point out that when it was discussed with the Treasurer and 2 legal men on the Opposition side they could not agree whether 1 was right in my contention. [More…]
As a layman the Minister’s proposal meets my requirements. [More…]
I accept it as an improvement on the present Bill. [More…]
I wish to speak tonight on behalf of one of the unfortunate young men especially singled out by the Government for prosecution under the National Service [More…]
I wish to speak about the sentences imposed on men who breach the Act. [More…]
These line young Australians are being forced into the courts not because they are criminals and not because they are common lawbreakers but because they are opposed to an unjust law which has been put on the statute book by a government and its supporters, all of whom are renowned for conducting election campaigns on the fear complex and on the policy of there being a Red under every bed. [More…]
It is unjust because it was imposed upon the young men of this country to force them into the Army to fight an undeclared and illegal war in Vietnam. [More…]
Is the AttorneyGeneral aware of a recent poll indicating that only 5 per cent of Australians believe that young men who refuse to register for national service should be gaoled? [More…]
Does the Commonwealth Constitution provide for the States to accommodate prisioners gaoled under a Commonwealth law that is distasteful and unpopular in the State, where the State Government is required to detain the prisoners on behalf of the Commonwealth? [More…]
Has his attention been drawn also to the recent election advertisements of the ALP in Tasmania which carry the message Teamwork’s the Thing - and Labor’s Got it’? [More…]
If so, can the Minister confirm that some of those advertisements also have carried a photograph of 2 men in earnest conversation? [More…]
Is it a fact that those 2 men so pictured are respectively the Secretaries of State of Socialist West Germany and of Communist East Germany? [More…]
Are young men, who become eligible for national service registration while serving a gaol sentence, exempt from tbe requirement to register; if so, are they required to register on release from gaol. [More…]
Men in gaol are liable to register for national service in the same way as other men in their age group when required to do so. [More…]
1344 in which I detailed the steps taken to ensure that all necessary information and the means to effect registration are available to the responsible prison authorities throughout Australia and that the requirement to register is brought to the attention of men in gaol who may be required to register within a particular registration period. [More…]
Is he also aware that the recent closure of the concrete sleeper factory at Whyalla through lack of orders has resulted in 20 men losing their employment and that another 20 men have suffered a similar fate in the David Shearers foundry at Mannum? [More…]
If the letting of this contract is to be further delayed, will the Minister make provision to allow the South Australian Government and the Cement and Concrete Association of Australia to put further submissions before the Department of Shipping and Transport? [More…]
Too many young men and women are dying today as a result of the road toll or in unexpected aeroplane crashes for us to be complacent or undisturbed about these events, lt strikes fear into one to read of the death of these young people, some of whom are of very tender years and others of whom are in their young manhood or womanhood. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed at senior levels in the Department of Labour and National Service and its regional offices. [More…]
How many men and how many women are employed as senior staff of the Commissioner of Trade Practices. [More…]
All of these positions are occupied by men. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to reports that a small group of militant left wing and Communist unionists have by their actions caused the closure of a$120m alumina refinery expansion project at Gladstone, Queensland and the dismissal of 1,200 men employed on the project? [More…]
As the Federal Government is investing$80m in a super-powerhouse at Gladstone to help expand alumina production, will the Minister make it quite clear to the unions concerned that their action could jeopardise the whole aluminium refinery industry in Australia by forcing the companies to do the work elsewhere and so cause the loss of jobs to many thousands of Australian workers? [More…]
All appointees were men. [More…]
Certain repatriation benefits are available to men returning from Vietnam. [More…]
I suggest that the document be tabled so that we can have a close look at it. [More…]
because he is compounding his act tonight by referring to an authority which 1 believe to be not properly based and not to represent truly what the men referred to have said. [More…]
and (2) I was in the fortunate position at the time of arranging representation for the Primary Industry portfolio in the House of Representatives of having two extremely competent men in the field of agriculture to choose from the Minister for Northern Development, Dr Patterson, and the Minis ter for Immigration, Mr Grassby. [More…]
I am not very concerned with paragraph 2 of the motion except to say that we are entitled to take note of the statements which have been made by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard), by Mr Hawke who warned the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) that he had to take note of the Federal Conference of the Australian Labor Party and by men such as Mr Hartley and Mr Crawford who are very prominent in the Victorian branch of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
What, if any, were the total numbers of security men from Yugoslavia here during the visit? [More…]
Were any restrictions placed on their movements by Australian security forces during the period that any agents may have been here? [More…]
Yes, the statement that was issued by the Yugoslav Government did indicate that these men had been participants in the illegal incursion into Yugoslavia and that, in the course of that incursion, a number of Yugoslav soldiers were killed. [More…]
I think the honourable senator is correct when he says that there was a reference to those persons in the documents tabled. [More…]
I am not at this moment quite certain of that, but I think he is correct. [More…]
On present indications the Army is increasing at the rate of about 2,000 men a year, which is greater than was anticipated. [More…]
The rate of re-engagement has indeed been very encouraging. [More…]
Successive Liberal-Country Party governments dodged the issue of an all-volunteer Army. [More…]
In October of last year the present Prime Minister and the present Minister for Defence, in a joint statement, said: [More…]
He had been associated with people who had been guilty of the same crime, and history records that the 2 men each threatened the same course of action. [More…]
But having listened with great interest to everything that has been said by all previous speakers, I feel that those honourable senators who are supporting these amendments are indicating that they do not really want the death penalty abolished. [More…]
As for these amendments, I will support them because they have been put forward by men who, I believe, really do not want the death penalty abolished. [More…]
1 will support these amendments; in fact I will be voting against abolition of the death penalty. [More…]
Is a Press statement correct that an Aboriginal child of about 7 years of age was transported with the assistance of the Commonwealth from her foster parents back to her parents in order that the child might be married to one of the older men of her tribe? [More…]
Whether the report is true or not, what is the Australian Government’s policy regarding the compulsory marriage of under-age Aboriginal females to older men of the tribe? [More…]
To make men of stature into vegetables is a new method which only the Russian mind seems to have seized upon. [More…]
But to turn men of stature into vegetables, to make them things of pity, is a new method which only the communist mind seems to have seized upon . [More…]
The motion was brought forward in the hope that from the security of this chamber we might be able to send help to a number of incredibly courageous men. [More…]
I commend the motion to the Senate. [More…]
Is the Attorney-General aware that in the documents tabled by him recently there is no evidence of any extremist or terrorist background to at least one of the executed men, namely Mirko Vlasnovic? [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
That the undersigned men and women of Australia believe in a Christian way of life; and that no democracy can thrive unless its citizens are responsible and law abiding. [More…]
As at 30 June 1974, 1,438 applications had been received from ex-service men and women who had served in a theatre of war for treatment of malignant cancer under the new provisions of the Repatriation Act. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation provide the number of ex-service men and women who have applied for treatment of malignant cancer? [More…]
What is the frequency of absence from work because of illness between unskilled workers and professional men and women. [More…]
The point I should like to make is that these days businessmen throughout Australia accept shorts, open-neck shirts, long socks and shoes as common dress. [More…]
Apart from all those things, it is my own personal opinion that men are much more masculine in shorts, shirts and long socks. [More…]
My question, addressed to the Minister for Manufacturing Industry, refers to a report today by the New South Wales State Secretary of the Clothing Trades Union, Mr Watkins, that 600 men and women in the clothing industry in and near Sydney are to lose their jobs next week. [More…]
I refer also to the statement by Mr Watkins that unemployment in the industry is caused solely by the Federal Government’s tariff policy. [More…]
Why has the Government failed to safeguard the employment of these people? [More…]
What does the Government intend to do to rectify the matter? [More…]
Does the Minister still share the Prime Minister’s stated view that it is garbage to suggest that tariff cuts have caused substantial unemployment? [More…]
Has the Lon Nol Government requested Australian assistance and, if so, how did we respond? [More…]
If not, has Australia offered assistance or is the Government unconcerned about the fate of thousands of men, women and children who appear to be desperately short of food? [More…]
So I regret that in a difficult situation men who ordinarily have a high level of debate have stooped to referring to my personal wealth, my integrity as a Minister and my participation in confidential Party room debates. [More…]
As if political votes afford any advantage to me at my stage of parliamentary experience! [More…]
My Department has made inquiries into the matters raised by the honourable senator and there is no evidence to suggest that Commonwealth Engineering (NSW) Pty Ltd has vetoed the employment of workers made redundant by the recent closure of Tulloch Ltd. Of 185 employees retrenched by Tulloch Ltd, 94 sought the assistance of the Commonwealth Employment Service in obtaining alternative employment. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service subsequently approached various firms including Commonwealth Engineering in an effort to assist these men and Commonwealth Engineering indicated at the time that they had received some applications privately from retrenched men and were trying to place them. [More…]
It should perhaps be pointed out that the various categories of workers retrenched by Tulloch Ltd did not match the categories of employees being sought at the time by Commonwealth Engineering through the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
It 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 to 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 1 9 July 1 974 while a Royal Australian Navy contingent of 47 officers and men will be posted to the station before the end of June 1975. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
This is the esteem in which he is held by the men with whom he used to work. [More…]
He has been charged by the Indian Government with anti-national activities. [More…]
The matter of Fernandes ‘s imprisonment and trial is of concern to many members of the Senate, especially those of us who have just returned from the visit to India about which Senator Wheeldon just spoke. [More…]
Are many divorced men who are paying maintenance for children of former marriages disadvantaged because (a) child endowment payments are paid to the person caring for the children, usually the former wife, and ( b ) the withdrawal of the rebate for children in taxation returns; if so, will the Treasurer undertake a review of this situation and ensure that divorced men obtain the tax relief that was previously available to them. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the contents of an article published in the Lancet of 3 April 1 976, at page 734, indicating an increased genetic risk to children born of men exposed at their work to vinyl chloride monomer (VCM). [More…]
How many Australian men work in industries where they are exposed to VCM. [More…]
Action was taken immediately to provide adequate funds and the men were re-employed. [More…]
Did Queensland Titanium Mines Pry Ltd advise its workforce in September that its main dredge would not continue its Fraser Island operations any longer than the end of November because it was uneconomical to extend its operations further, if so, what arrangements did the (a) Queensland Government and (b) Commonwealth Government have in hand for alternative employment for the 120 men who were about to be retrenched prior to the Commonwealth Government’s adoption of the Fraser Island Inquiry report. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
A report in a Sydney daily newspaper asserts that there has been a dramatic drop in the number of skilled tradesmen in the work force in the period since 1971. [More…]
The magnitude of the drop is estimated at 1 56 000 men. [More…]
Can the Minister approach the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations in the other place and inquire as to whether there is any validity in this report? [More…]
If so, has the Government considered the serious long term effects on business and the economy as a whole that a shortage of skilled workmen involves? [More…]
Furthermore, the lists required in this case would contain the payments made to the producers because the bounty is actually paid to the producer of the superphosphate; it is not paid to the end user. [More…]
A list of the people who purchased from the producer would not necessarily be a list of end users either, because there are many middle men who buy from the producer who receives the bounty. [More…]
So even that would not achieve the vindictive purpose that has been so correctly ascribed to the amendment moved by Senator McLaren. [More…]
As far as the Government is concerned the proposal is completely wrong in principle. [More…]
Men- Diddums Street, Petrie Bight; [More…]
-I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate a question in relation to the questions already asked. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Prime Minister used the loans affair to achieve government and in view of the statement apparently made by the former AttorneyGeneral that the Prime Minister wanted the Sankey case to be taken over so as to terminate it, would the Minister not consider that it would be the general public’s thinking that it is rather odd, in view of the Prime Minister’s previous views before the election, that he does not want the matter to be prosecuted to the full, and that if there is nothing wrong this case should proceed in order to prove that the men charged are innocent or to prove that they are guilty if they are guilty? [More…]
and (2) One of the major recommendations of the June 1973 Report of the Working Party on Homeless Men and Women was that the Homeless Persons Program should be reviewed after three years. [More…]
As a result, a survey was undertaken by the officers of my Department among voluntary organisations in the homeless persons field, the men and women in their care, and the Advisory Committees on Homeless Persons in each State, on the services and facilities provided to the homeless in Australia. [More…]
The findings of this survey were incorporated in a departmental paper, ‘The Future of the Homeless Persons Assistance Program ‘, which has been distributed to the Advisory Committees, interested organisations and individuals for their comments. [More…]
1 ) How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men- two employees of the Sydney City Council who were members of the Municipal Employees’ Union, and a member of the New South Wales Police Force- killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive. [More…]
Will the Minister explain the apparent contradiction whereby shopkeepers who lost trade as a direct result of the security arrangements for the Conference will be paid full indemnity while three families who lost providers will not be compensated for the loss of future income nor for the emotional stress caused by the violent deaths of the men concerned. [More…]
I support the Bill and congratulate the Government. [More…]
I congratulate the Government on the introduction of such an institution and on the choice of its site. [More…]
I congratulate the Government for choosing a provincial city, not a capital city. [More…]
Far too often, organisations are established in capital cities, on the recommendations of very sound, sensible men. [More…]
I am pleased to support any government proposal for the establishment of an institution outside of those capital cities, because Australia comprises far more than just the metropolises of Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
The Government chose Launceston and a site adjoining the Tasmanian College of Advanced Education. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
In view of the fact that the AuditorGeneral’s Office employs officers in a different age group, what action is it taking to replace those elderly people in the Public Service with younger men while they are on long term sick leave? [More…]
Does the Government’s staff ceiling prevent it from doing that? [More…]
Has any action been taken to recruit younger personnel into the Service to take up that slack or is the Office unable to do so because of a Government instruction? [More…]
-by leave- I was present at the meeting of the Joint Select Committee on the Family Law Act this morning when the decision was made to release the statement which Senator Coleman put before the Senate tonight. [More…]
We are dealing with the lives, the happiness, the stability and the wellbeing of men and womenthe family unit in particular- of this country. [More…]
Therefore, I think it was timely that the Committee drew the attention of the Parliament to the situation that has existed. [More…]
It is something of an understatement to say that I find the rules and actions of the unions incongruous as well as disturbing. [More…]
The Australian Council of Trade Unions and many other unions are on record as being vehemently opposed io penal provisions being applied against them. [More…]
They threaten confrontation over what they see as some form of injustice in the socalled penal provisions in legislation, which has been enacted by universally and freely elected governments. [More…]
Where is the justice for the three men to whom I have referred? [More…]
At least the union movement has access to and the right to legal representation; not so the victimised three, the so-called defendants. [More…]
The statement which has been put down tonight will drive men to take further industrial action. [More…]
The Government is exposing its position and its attitude. [More…]
My view is that the Government’s attitude should be fully exposed. [More…]
The arguments should be thrust back at honourable senators opposite because this is not the way to solve industrial disputation. [More…]
1 ) How many women and men received training under the National Employment and Training Scheme in the year 1977-78. [More…]
In which areas did those women and men receive training. [More…]
I thank the Opposition for its contribution to the debate on the Wheat Industry Stabilisation Amendment Bill 1979 and the Wheat Industry Stabilisation (Reimbursement of Borrowing Costs) Bill 1979. [More…]
He made critical comments about my very esteemed colleague from Shepparton in Victoria, Bruce Lloyd. [More…]
The type of comment that Senator Walsh would make is amazing. [More…]
Bruce Lloyd is one of the most outstanding men in the field of primary industry that we have in the Parliament. [More…]
The comments that he made in the Shepparton News about Senator Walsh were undoubtedly correct. [More…]
On the television program Four Corners or the program Nationwide there was a report concerning 12 boilermakers who, after the Radium Hill mine had been closed, were employed at Thebarton by the Mines Department in dismantling machinery, cleaning it up and doing any necessary maintenance and repairs. [More…]
The person who made the investigation did not know what happened to all 12 of the men but he knows for certain- he supplied names, the dates they died or where they were treated- that eight out of the 12 have cancer, or had had it, somewhere in the body. [More…]
However, towards the end of the War, the Government decided to establish, from surplus canteen profits, the Services Canteen Trust Fund to assist men and women who served in the Australian Armed Forces between 3 September 1939 and 30 June 1947, and their dependants, who were in needy circumstances. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the National Women ‘s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council’. [More…]
On those aircraft are two oil men as well as a man from the Department of Shipping and Transport in Canberra. [More…]
Last year, about June, in the province in which Australia is involved, so as to open up a huge area of rice growing country to the farmers our men replaced a bridge that had been out of commission for 15 years, having been repeatedly blown up by the North Vietnamese or the Vietcong. [More…]
The income tax relief promised is not a new idea, lt was mentioned by the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) in his policy speech last October. [More…]
I am sure the promise which was made then and the action which has been foreshadowed in His Excellency’s Speech will provide a great deal of encouragement to a section of the community which is in need of encouragement, that is, young men with families. [More…]
Many of these young men are at a stage of life when their greatest expense is upon them, when their greatest interest in work is with them, and when they have the problem of bringing up a young family and paying a relatively high tax. [More…]
They feel that some of America’s best men have been shot there. [More…]
It will come down to our Government and the governments of our allies. [More…]
On this remarkable subject of faceless men, nobody knows the views of the Federal Executive of the Liberal Party. [More…]
I look around here and see my colleagues who have served in very high positions on the Federal Executive of the ALP who were once referred to as faceless men. [More…]
We have had a build up in the Press and in other mass media of this new united Australian Labor Party which is going to fight the Government and which is the alternative Government. [More…]
We have had a build up of the fine young fighting’ men who have come into this Parliament from the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
We have been told thai the Government will be under the greatest pressure. [More…]
For the first time that 1 can remember in my period in this Parliament, an amendment has not been moved to the Address-in-Reply to the Governor-General’s Speech by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
and which Mr Whitlam has said has no right in this Parliament is the only party .which has moved an amendment to the motion for the adoption of the Address-in-Reply. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government should provide the necessary finance to permit industrial research, if we are to compete with the other highly industrialised countries of the world. [More…]
This can be done by the implementation of Labor’s policy on education. [More…]
If Australians are given the opportunity there is no doubt that they have the ability and intellect to compete favourably with their counterparts anywhere in the world, and the Government has an obligation not to deny them that right. [More…]
We are conscious of the fact that some foreign capital is required to stimulate our economy and provide industries, but there should be strict control by the Government on the extent of the capital, with permits granted only after approval by a foreign investment committee. [More…]
Other countries which have effectively controlled the import of capital investment include France, Japan and the United Kingdom. [More…]
Wherever possible, our skilled men should be sent to other countries to learn new techniques which can be put into use in our own industries. [More…]
A comparison of research and development engineers shows that in Australia there are very few for every 10,000 people - far less than the ratio of 25 for every 10,000 in the United States of America, 22 for every 10,000 in Sweden, 12 for every 10,000 in Japan, 1 1 for every 10,000 in the United Kingdom and 7 for every 10,000 in Canada. [More…]
In our lifetime, men may well be making 30 million-mile journeys into outer space which might last for approximately 9 months. [More…]
There has been some public comment about the implications of article 20 of the agreement, which deals with a Yugoslav settler’s liability for military service in Australia. [More…]
However, in accordance with section 35a of the 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 force of a country other than Australia are granted recognition of such service in determining their national service liability. [More…]
The new Agreement merely gives expression to this provision of the National Service Act. [More…]
This is not unique to the Yugoslav Agreement, and in any event the benefits of this provision of the National Service Act are applicable to migrants from all countries irrespective of a migration agreement. [More…]
This is the first migration agreement signed with a Communist government. [More…]
by leave - J join with my leader in welcoming this Agreement on the residence and employment of Yugoslav citizens in Australia. [More…]
Mr Hawke will not be the first representative of the trade union movement to visit overseas trade unions. [More…]
I have in mind men who could be defined as middle-of-the-road trade union officials like organiser Shorthall of the Electrical Trades Union and Peter McMahon, State Secretary of the New South Wales Branch of the Municipal and Shire Council Employees Union. [More…]
Each of these men have spent several months in excursions into Yugoslavia. [More…]
I have noted the comments of Dr Bell, an economist. [More…]
Perhaps he suggested my thinking on this matter when he issued a sound warning to the community against depositing too much faith in mineral exports to the detriment of primary products. [More…]
Perhaps it would be wise for him to chat with some of the Tasminex men on that point. [More…]
On several occasions over the past 4 years or so it has been suggested that young Papuans and Tolais could be brought to Australia and given leadership training so that they could return to the Territory and give great encouragement to other young men to take some part in the community. [More…]
I refer to the activities of the Young Men’s Christian Association, of which I am a very proud member. [More…]
There have been occasions when we have sought assistance from the Commonwealth so that we might bring young men to Australia for a period of training in our national YMCA leadership training schools in -Sydney or Melbourne. [More…]
I have just made the comment that this proposition was before the Government, to my knowledge, a number of years ago and it should have prompted the Government to act prior to this. [More…]
The Government is acting now and that is fine; but I say, as 1 have said in relation to proposed expenditure by Government departments, that it should have been happening before now. [More…]
I congratulate the Government for the action it has taken. [More…]
The Minister suggests that it is a backhanded compliment to say that we are doing it now but did not do it previously. [More…]
The Commonwealth will need to watch very closely the organisations which, in the goodness of their hearts, offer to bring young men and women from the Territory to Australia to enter into training programmes. [More…]
I said that one of the six men who were detailed to round up the girls and take them to the bush to be raped was carrying a rifle at the time. [More…]
I also said that the responsible Minister would not be able to find out the true position by inquiring among officers of his Department. [More…]
My allegation was so damaging to the Government that shortly after midnight on 26th September 1969 Senator Scott, then Minister for Customs and .Excise and Minister representing the Minister for the Interior in this chamber, read a statement -which had been prepared by the Minister for the Interior denying all these allegations. [More…]
Mr Nichols informed me that these girls were chased around Ihe settlement before being thrown on a truck by Aboriginal men. [More…]
lt is alleged that at least one of the men carried a rifle during this incident, which took place in August or September 1967. [More…]
Three girls were thrown into a truck against their will by six Aboriginal men, one of whom had a rifle, in August or September 1967. [More…]
The method of obtaining the statement of the Aboriginals may be important to demonstrate that this is a statement which is fully understood and has the full support of all who signed it. [More…]
I then typed the draft statement for presentation and discussion with all those who eventually signed it. [More…]
The draft statement was corrected by the group and the last paragraph was added at their specific request as they had gone away and had a further discussion during the time I was drafting the statement. [More…]
When the corrections lo the draft were finally agreed to I retyped the statement for signature. [More…]
The final statement was read to the group by myself and read personally by Harry Nelson who assured the group of the contents of the documents. [More…]
They then signed the statement in each other’s presence and asked Mr Juttner and myself to be witnesses to their signatures or mark and I would point out that among the signatures of this document are a number of men who gave Nichols their support when he was about to be dismissed and two of these. [More…]
A welfare officer of the Department selected a man who then approached a group of men who then told him a story; he went and typed a statement; he brought it back and said that if there were any corrections to be made to the statement he would make them. [More…]
The group of men insisted on adding a final paragraph to the draft statement. [More…]
So the only part of the statement which was original was the last paragraph. [More…]
The men signed the statement and it was witnessed by the welfare officer and by Mr Juttner. [More…]
for permission to take three young women with their promised husbands 35 miles from the Settlement. [More…]
The three young women were causing considerable trouble in the camp by refusing to go to the men to whom they were promised, and were instead prostituting themselves with the young men in the native village. [More…]
and the three husbands assisted by four young men - [More…]
My claim was that there were six young men, and that is the only inaccuracy in my claim so far - [More…]
The plan of the village council failed lo reconcile the women to their husbands, and the)’ have since married yoting men of their own choice. [More…]
This form of punishment has been meted “out to young- women ‘who have interfered with, or ridiculed, some of the secret corroborees, but not here at Yuendumu, lt is part of the tribal law of the northern tribes, so has rarely if ever been used as a disciplinary measure among- the Wailbri people. [More…]
The publishing of the story iri the southern press has made the people here very angry as they consider it a .slight upon their character, and some df the men have requested, if possible, Mr Nichols be gaoled for lying. [More…]
Let us look at the matter against the background of the previous statement. [More…]
The position is that the girls went bush with the men as a result of force. [More…]
If intercourse did occur, one of the worst crimes in the Australian criminal calendar can be proved against some Aboriginal men on the reserve by the Superintendent who has knowledge of it and who is upholding the principle involved, as shown by a letter from the Minister for the Interior to which I will refer directly. [More…]
They were young girls who desired to marry men of their own age. [More…]
They were sent 35 miles out into the bush for a fortnight because although they desired to marry men of their own age apparently under some tribal custom they had to go to the men to whom they were promised. [More…]
One of the reasons why I did not read out the council lots’ report, which is here for anyone to see, is that it mentions the names of the girls and the men concerned. [More…]
But, having found out the names, we could trace the men. [More…]
They were three old men, all with at least one wife. [More…]
The men, with a rifle for the purpose of shooting kangaroos, forced them, with the help of four other men, into a truck and took them into the bush. [More…]
The very purpose of taking them out into the bush was to get them to live with these men. [More…]
Is that the development that our civilised society has given them? [More…]
Amongst all the people interviewed, why was not one of the men concerned or one of the girls concerned asked their version? [More…]
With all the power the Commonwealth has, how can the Government talk of its desire to assist Aboriginal people if it is not going to take any action in regard to this incident? [More…]
The view has always been taken that the call-up is conducted with such integrity that nobody has really doubted the veracity of birth dates when the men concerned have been notified. [More…]
Despite the statements of Rev. [More…]
Fleming and the 13 councillors who signed the declaration for the Minister’s purpose, I say definitely that it was proved that in 1967 three girls were abducted by six Aboriginal men; there was a breach of Australian law and accordingly those men should have been or should be prosecuted. [More…]
This conduct has been excused somewhat on the ground that it was Aboriginal custom because the girls were promised as brides to the men concerned. [More…]
Initiations, male and female circumcisions, the promising of young girls in marriage to old men are all parts of traditional culture which are still practised in Aboriginal communities of the Territory but which, judged from Western eyes, are repugnant. [More…]
Harry Nelson and Tim Jabanardi who are the two men involved, have expressed their feelings in correspondence and have described their efforts to gain support for Nichols. [More…]
In an affluent society such as we have in Australia today, with virtually no unemployment, one will not get many volunteers to join the Army. [More…]
It does not matter what type of advertisement is placed in the newspapers or what form of payment is offered one will not get many volunteers. [More…]
The Government endeavoured to increase the number of volunteers by considerably increasing the rates of pay. [More…]
The Government also endeavoured to increase the number of volunteers by advertising but it did not get the desired results. [More…]
The Governor-General said that by June there will be 86,500 men in our permanent forces as against the figure of 83,794 at present. [More…]
Many men on this side of the Parliament are just as concerned as they are. [More…]
However, we recognise that unless poverty, unemployment and disease are removed and unless security is given to people in all parts of the world Communism will always be a great threat. [More…]
The Government can do something if it wishes to. [More…]
This is a question that should concern us not only here in Australia but also in the United Nations and in other parts of the world where our spokesmen voice our opinions. [More…]
If we members of the Australian Labor Party were in government today we would produce once more a man of the calibre of Dr Evatt - a man who won world standing as a fighter for small nations and made Australia’s name respected throughout the world. [More…]
The Aboriginal people have pointed out that we have sent men to the moon but Aboriginals are not allowed into theatres in some country towns. [More…]
They recognise the desperate plight which is facing them, and they frequently repeat the statement: ‘You can send men to the moon, but unfortunately you are not able to do very much for us.’ [More…]
1 make a plea on behalf of these people to the Government, which now has power to deal with these matters, to go ahead with the job. [More…]
Tremendous changes have taken place in the past 10 years. [More…]
We long to see that day for we on this side of the Parliament look forward to a world in which men and women the world over can live in peace and contentment. [More…]
This is the policy for which my Party stands and the policy that we want to see implemented in this country and throughout the world. [More…]
The sense of sadness relates to the changes that take place in the Parliament of which we are members. [More…]
Men who were serving on both sides of the Senate when I first came here have now left the Senate. [More…]
We have a whole new group of members of Parliament. [More…]
But the interesting point is that the continuity of Parliament maintains itself. [More…]
Although great numbers of them have left the Parliament - I made a note of how many were left after 20 years; the number is ten or eleven and includes the Deputy Leader of the Opposition (Senator Willesee) and Senator Byrne - in going through the names of those who had left the Senate I was heartened to find that not all of them have gone down to the river bank and thrown their copper coins on the thwarts of the skiff manned by that curious character Charon, who I must say becomes more familiar to me as the years go by. [More…]
In these 20 years there has been this great change in the pattern of the Australian Labor Party so that instead of being filled with representatives of the people - men and women - who were of the people and were part of the people, the men who sit on the Opposition benches in the Parliament are men who belong to a so-called self-elevated elitist group who believe that the mass of the people are bridled and saddled waiting to be ridden. [More…]
All of the Opposition’s comments in relation to Papua and New Guinea are directed to the belief that all the money that can be screwed out of the Australian taxpayers should be placed in Papua and New Guinea so that it will reinforce an elite community inside Papua and New Guinea which will then begin to ride the already bridled and saddled rest of the community which, if I can vary the simile, will become the dumb driven oxen to satisfy the elitists’ capacity for power. [More…]
The Government that honourable senators opposite support has not even declared war. [More…]
Surely one cannot say that this is other than war when such numbers of our young men are killed or wounded. [More…]
Does the Government not declare war in order to protect the people who have gained most out of war over the years, whether it be this, that or any other war? [More…]
We can go around living our lives without any extra taxes and without any burden at all in order that for some whim, some alleged request by - I suppose - one of the worst governments that the world has seen, as proved by what the Americans did- [More…]
When the Government first announced its intention to intervene we were told that it bad received a communication from the South Vietnamese Government asking us to come to their assistance. [More…]
The late Senator Sir William Spooner and the late Senator Sir Shane Paltridge also took part in the debate, but the document was never produced. [More…]
The next thing to happen was that we heard the Government asking: ‘Is it not better to fight there than fight here?’ [More…]
The Government did not take any notice of the military experts who said it would take at least 2 million men to make a successful invasion of this country. [More…]
The Government also ignored the Oppositon when it pointed out that naval experts had found during the last war that it took 4i tons of shipping to shift a man. [More…]
I believe that Australia will be much better served the moment the war in Vietnam is ended. [More…]
I think the United States of America with all its power - if I am correct it is somewhere in the vicinity of half a million men - has learned that it cannot subdue this country. [More…]
Our purpose in Vietnam is, along with our allies, to see that the people of South Vietnam have the right - the sort of right that he and 1 have - and freedom to select a form of government of their own choosing, lt is deplorable for the honourable senator to draw such an inference from a statement made by a gallant soldier who represents a gallant battalion of men coming back to Australia. [More…]
When the Parliament met on 25th November 1969 warm tributes were paid to the late Sam Cohen. [More…]
I sincerely believe that our country, and indeed the world, would be a better place if more men were cast in the same mould as my late colleague Senator Cohen. [More…]
We ought to review the events that led up to the point where the Commonwealth Government was obliged to find some way of modifying the arbitration system to avoid what obviously was developing into a very nasty condition of industrial unrest. [More…]
This of course culminated in the gaoling of a trade union secretary and a welling up of support throughout the Commonwealth by working men and women who objected to the use of the penal clauses of the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
The letter related to certain agreements which had been reached, at least in terms of preparedness to enter into discussions. [More…]
Whilst the Government was prepared to concede on the one hand that there ought to be ways and means other than by the use of the penal clauses to settle industrial disputes the Minister said finally: [More…]
If I thought it was disgraceful I would not stand in this chamber, as he did as a propaganda measure, and read the names of men who, mostly voluntarily, gave their services to this country and died in Vietnam. [More…]
It is only a week or two ago that the departure of the Empress of Australia’ was held up and she could not leave port because three men walked off the ship when it was due to sail. [More…]
There is no argument about it. [More…]
I have thought for a long time that wage fixing should not be the prerogative of legal men. [More…]
I believe that men with industrial and commercial experience should be included in the Arbitration Commission because they would examine the effect of their decisions on the economy of the country as a whole and would not have regard only to the simple act of adjusting wages in according with the cost of living, particularly having regard to the fact that one important section of the community is left right out of calculations and cannot share in the cutting up of the cake. [More…]
As to that scheme, the Commonwealth Government made a most generous offer to the States. [More…]
They are not the type of men who would down tools because a decision handed down by one commission or another did not suit them. [More…]
Such men are of a different vein altogether. [More…]
J believe that it is the duty of the Government to try to keep those men in production and to place them in a stable position. [More…]
Meals on Wheels and a few other little devices which gloss over the tremendous problems which have to be faced by families and those who are living below a reasonable level of comfort and dignity. [More…]
There are families which face enormous problems in coping with other payments. [More…]
What else is it but mismanagement when we can see this squalor alongside splendour? [More…]
If we turn to the financial pages of the Press we see where men are making millions of dollars and others - the ones whom Senator Lillico speaks about - have to go to the Arbitration Commission and fight to get a few cents or dollars. [More…]
Is this what those who support the Government stand for? [More…]
It is rather remarkable and something which should be noted by all Australians that in this country of now 12 million people we have provided in a matter of only a few years three Prime Ministers, all statesmen in the eyes of the world. [More…]
It is a proud record for a country and a party to produce in such a short period at short notice three men who became statesmen in the eyes of the world and who were able to state Australia’s case in the parliaments of the world. [More…]
The Government is building up a man of straw in order to knock him down into its own image. [More…]
If he believes that young men should go to South Vietnam to fight aggression then he should take an active, conscientious stand on the matter. [More…]
Then we would respect him for his arguments which at present do not seem to us to be arguments about the defence of Australia but rather jingoisms which do not do the honourable senator much credit. [More…]
National servicemen who were employed in railway industries are being sent overseas. [More…]
If these men become national servicemen which ought to give them some sort of prestige - the Government says it does - they lose something and their dependants lose something. [More…]
The Minister, if he wanted to, or the Government ought to say: ‘Well, at least in respect of our own railway’ - that is the Commonwealth Railways - ‘we will make sure that you get your interstate travel privileges while the boy is in the Army.’ [More…]
That is one of the things the Government ought to do. [More…]
The railway unions have written to the Government and I have written to the Government about it but nothing has been done. [More…]
At a time when a large number of our heavy engineering workshops are not getting the work they need to keep their skilled staffs going, it is believed that there should be a policy of ensuring that equipment of this nature is made in Australia. [More…]
1 understand that the workshop has the skilled men, including some who have migrated from the United Kingdom, to carry out this work if the workshop is modernised. [More…]
If the Government is of the opinion that it would be too expensive to commence work on constructing passenger cars there immediately it could place orders for their construction with the Islington workshops in South Australia, which are the most efficient workshops in Australia and which have specialist staff with many years experience in this sort of manufacturing work. [More…]
The only reason why Islangton is not given the opportunity to do the work is that the Government does not take the matter seriously. [More…]
A change of attitude by the Government is necessary in relation to the wages it pays the workers, particularly those men who work in the fettling gangs. [More…]
The railways departments try to compensate their men for their low wages by giving them overtime, but this is not a very satisfactory system. [More…]
1 shall not mention the issue of the Eyre Highway because representations have been made, and the Chowilla project is a subject which, I hope, I will have an opportunity to debate at a later stage. [More…]
The South Australian Government and the members of the South Australian Parliament have for many years discussed the need to bituminise the Woomera road. [More…]
The matter has also been raised in this Parliament. [More…]
We know now that there will be extra activities at Woomera and, as a result, there will be more traffic on the Woomera road, but the South Australian Government cannot get a penny from the Commonwealth Government to seal the road. [More…]
Regardless of its function, the fact is that the centre is sometimes isolated because of the poor road and the Commonwealth Government is not prepared to put in a cracker towards servicing it. [More…]
These unions were calling on national servicemen to scab on their fellows - to use a word which I have heard used in this place - although they would not have permitted one of their unionists to do it in his own union. [More…]
I mention this fact because Senator Milliner asked me to give an example. [More…]
He said that he chaired the meeting in his capacity as a union president or union secretary and not as president of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Labor Party; yet he owes his position in the Victorian Labor Party to the self same unions because a ticket is put up before every State Council meeting of the Victorian Labor Party and that ticket is selected not by the rank and file of the Australian Labor Party, diminishing as it is with so many expulsions, but by a group of unionists and within that group of unionists are men who owe their position to the control which is exercised by the Communists. [More…]
I believe that when they concluded their speeches, honourable senators who were responsible for this conduct must have felt lesser men for having indulged in that type of activity in the Senate. [More…]
Charges of parliamentary incompetence and opportunism were directed at the Opposition because of the amendment which was moved on our behalf by Senator Murphy. [More…]
After so much smoke, it is interesting to note that, apart from the 1 day sitting of the Parliament last year, the last occasion on which an amendment was moved to the motion for the adoption of the AddressinReply, was in 1961. [More…]
On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families’? [More…]
I should like to bring to the Senate a few figures which show just how important the wheat industry is to Australia and the contribution that it has made to Australia’s economy, and to set against that the cost in terms of payments by the Commonwealth to wheat growers. [More…]
During that period the cost to the Australian Government has been $155m. [More…]
The pundits, the economists, the wise men, tell us that this injection of 3% has caused a tremendous upsurge in the production of wheat in Australia. [More…]
The Minister said in his second reading speech that the Board’s indebtedness, which really means the industry’s indebtedness, to the Reserve Bank is in the vicinity of $250m and that it is estimated that recoupment of this amount from subsequent sales of wheat to overseas markets will take up to about 15 months. [More…]
Whilst Senator Young and Senator Prowse, representing the Liberal Party on the one hand and the Country Party on the other, certainly this evening have quoted figure after figure, statistic after statistic and percentage after percentage in respect of the Government’s general economic and rural policy, so far as wheat is concerned we say it is about time that the Government stopped looking only at figures, statistics and percentages and came down to the real and pressing problems of the man on the land, the small grower, his wife and family and those who live in rural areas, who rely on the stability of the wheat industry for their livelihood and economic security. [More…]
It is men, women and children who rely on the growing of wheat for their livelihood who are involved in this situation. [More…]
Because of the number of reporters and photographers from the various news media awaiting the arrival at Essendon of the aircraft carrying Mr Burchett, the TransAustralia Airlines assistant airport manager at Essendon Airport addressed the gathering of news men and informed them that photographers only would be allowed to enter the restricted tarmac area and that the reporters were to remain in the holding area adjacent to the terminal building. [More…]
These instructions given by the TAA assistant airport manager were acknowledged by the late Mr Pugh in a written statement made by him. [More…]
TransAustralia Airlines and Department of Civil Aviation traffic staff were given these directions to hold the reporters at the terminal end of the TAA finger and formed a line across this finger to ensure that the plan was implemented. [More…]
Statements received from TAA and DCA officers, from reporters and from a member of the Commonwealth Police on duty at the airport on the night in question, present conflicting information and it is obvious that there was a good deal of confusion at the time. [More…]
It would take a long time for competent legal men to argue whether the Commonwealth Government had any constitutional power over Australian coastal waters. [More…]
This is a question of Commonwealth and State powers, and you can imagine the argument that could take place on a question such as that. [More…]
If the order of the Minister is not enforced the oil will continue to flow into the sea while legal argument goes on to determine the limits of power under this legislation. [More…]
What is the cubic measurement of the 3P Mess on Whitby class vessels, do fifty-four men sleep, eat and live in this type of cabin, and what steps will be taken to remedy this scandalous state of affairs. [More…]
The sailors have meals in three sittings, and the dining hall caters for 60 men per sitting. [More…]
The first and main allegation is that, in August or September 1967, 6 Aboriginal males were directed with the approval of the Superintendent of the Yuendumu Settlement to round up 3 girls, throw them into a truck and as punishment for an offence take them into the bush to be continually raped. [More…]
The other account of events at Yuendumu in August or September 1967 has been given by 13 men who are members of the Yuendumu Council or who were members of the Yuendumu Council in 1966-67. [More…]
Their account is supplemented by information by Rev. [More…]
At the time that we were Councillors at Yuendumu in 1966 or 1967 there were three young girls who were causing a lot of trouble breaking into staff houses and the Government store and causing trouble with young men at Yuendumu. [More…]
We, the Councillors, talked about this problem by ourselves for a long lime and we decided to suggest to the Superintendent that these girls should be taken by their parents and promised husbands away from the Settlement for a while. [More…]
We thought that this would stop their bad behaviour because they would be away from the place where it could most easily take place, that they would be under the close supervision of their parents and would have to live hard in the bush for a while, and they would start to come under the influence of the men to whom they were promised as wives and these men would begin to take some responsibility for their future behaviour. [More…]
There were a number of other men on the truck, some of them Councillors and some of them were men who worked on the truck. [More…]
These men went out and back on the same day. [More…]
One of the men was Harry Nelson who was a councillor and who has made the statement that no rape took place and everyone behaved properly. [More…]
Some of the men had rifles as they often do when there is an opportunity of a hunting trip of this kind but the rifles were not used as a threat to the girls and the girls would not have been frightened by the rifles as they would have known that if any violence had been intended it would not have been rifles which would have been used. [More…]
We know of no time when ‘six Aboriginal males were directed with the approval of the Superintendent to round up three girls as punishment for an offence take them out to the bush to be continually raped’ and we do not believe that such a thing or anything like it happened here. [More…]
I accept the statement by the councillors, with the support I have mentioned, rather than the statement of Mr Nicholls. [More…]
There was an incident at Yuendumu Settlement in August or September 1967. [More…]
Three girls were taken away from the Settlement when they did not want to go. [More…]
They were not taken for the purpose of rape as a punishment. [More…]
There is no evidence whatever that they were forced to have relations with any men against their will. [More…]
They were forced to go 37 miles into a bush environment for the purpose of living with their promised husbands in the hope that, after associating with the men, the girls would possibly marry them. [More…]
That is the whole context of the Minister’s statement. [More…]
Harry Nelson, who is subject to the Administration - whatever pressure has been applied at Yuendumu - has now made a statement that no rape took place. [More…]
We are told that a number of other men went to the bush. [More…]
The Superintendent gave permission and lent a departmental truck for the purpose of carrying this out. [More…]
Did not these girls ask for protection when they had to be chased around by certain men, one with a rifle on his shoulder? [More…]
When the departmental truck was supplied, was not there an appeal for protection under the white man’s law which we were prepared to extend in the incident at Gove Peninsula but which we are not prepared to extend here? [More…]
The Minister’s statement to exonerate his Department supports the allegation that was made and does not deviate from it one bit. [More…]
If necessary, private action should be taken for the purpose of obtaining evidence from men such as Harry Nelson and others involved in the incident. [More…]
I ask the Minister why there is not a statement from anyone concerned - either the 3 girls or the promised husbands - about the incident. [More…]
Statements are available from these individuals, if not from some other source. [More…]
Men who are interested in and are active in the industry are on the Board, with representatives of other authorities to give it a pretty well balanced background of ability and knowledge. [More…]
The Senate is not being informed whether the Government has plans to dispose of this wheat to underprivileged countries. [More…]
I can assure members on the Government side that the people of Australia in particular and people generally throughout the world today will not tolerate the precedents of the past. [More…]
As to disposing of Australia’s wheat crop in such a way, I assure the Government that it wants to give very serious consideration before adopting any policy as negative as that. [More…]
The understanding of this problem is not beyond the wit of decent men. [More…]
This Government is always bleating about the so-called private entrepreneurs, and giving the small man opportunity. [More…]
In Canberra he was known to be a man who was all things to all men. [More…]
On behalf of all Opposition senators I support the motion moved by the Leader of the Government (Senator Anderson). [More…]
It is always difficult in any country to represent an electorate which incorporates the seat of Government. [More…]
Special problems arise in electorates in which the seat of Government is situated. [More…]
In Australia extra burdens have been placed upon the representative for the Australian Capital Territory because of the absence of any real local government in the Territory, and because of the absence of the physical facilities necessary to enable the representative to do his job adequately. [More…]
No greater tribute could have been paid to him than that which was paid on the clay of his funeral when great numbers of the people of Canberra turned out - the men, the women and the schoolchildren. [More…]
The places of entertainment, the hotels, and the clubs were closed. [More…]
In that gentle way which we associate with big men - big in mind and big in body - he certainly went a long way. [More…]
This was exemplified not only in his funeral, which I understand was the biggest the national capital has ever seen, but also in the tremendous record majority that he obtained at the last election. [More…]
In this Parliament there are certain men - I do not exclude members of other parties but I have in mind several people in my own Party because I have been associated with them more than with members of other parties - whose bigmindedness, bigheartedness, ability and humour inevitably rub off on to others. [More…]
I believe that Jim Fraser was one of those men. [More…]
These men inevitably leave something with others. [More…]
I feel the loss to Australia; I feel the loss to this Parliament; I feel the tremendous loss to the Australian Labor Party; and I feel a personal loss in having lost a very good friend and a good mate in every sense of the word. [More…]
He must have no history of illness or disability which will prevent him from undergoing hard physical exertion, eating a normal balanced diet without choosing his own food and be able to keep up with other healthy men of good physique. [More…]
So far the Queensland Government has provided 22,000 only for the establishment of a research station at Mourilyan to investigate this problem. [More…]
1 trust that the Federal Government will lake the initiative and see that the investigation is much more extensive and that the whole problem is treated with much greater urgency than in the past. [More…]
One views with suspicion the lack of interest on the part of some responsible men in Queensland, especially since some of them are involved in the development of an oil industry in the Barrier Reef area, lt has been stated with some support that the reason for the neglect in dealing with the crown of thorns is that the destruction of large areas of the Reef by the starfish will make it much easier to support exploitation of the Reef for minerals. [More…]
I am not strongly in support of this explanation, but in view of the record of the Queensland Government over the past 4 years in connection with the preservation of the Reef one cannot blame people for making statements of this kind or for writing letters to the Press in this vein. [More…]
Many men who have served this country in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Malayan campaign and now in the Vietnam campaign are being deprived of their just entitlements under the War Service Homes Act because of the incompetence of this Government. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister and to the members of the Government to take this matter up with the Cabinet and to bring a Bill before this Parliament as a matter of urgency so that this Parliament can make money available to the War Service Homes Division in order that the wants, needs and requirements of the ex-servicemen who are affected can be satisfied before the end of this financial year. [More…]
If he says that there is a scandal then he is charging men and women- [More…]
We have become accustomed to the tears in her voice and the ready sympathy she has for aged persons seeking homes; for homeless and home hungry people; for people seeking social service benefits; and for returned servicemen. [More…]
1 am not influenced by that attitude, knowing the urgency of the situation and knowing of the promises made to men who have accepted their responsibility to this country. [More…]
The position is now that we cannot immediately fulfil on the return of servicemen to this country the promises that were made to them. [More…]
We find that these people, ex-servicemen, are being put on a par with other sections of the community to whom we do not owe so much, people who are in a much better position than others to own their own homes. [More…]
This is a repudiation of our offer of preferential treatment to men whom we asked to fight for us. [More…]
I refer to all those men who served in the Torres Strait Islands Regiment during the Second World War. [More…]
The excuse made by the Department is that there are no freehold title. [More…]
We need the land for the Defence Department. [More…]
As Senator McClelland has pointed out, the 1967-63 Budget was brought down at a time when the Government was attempting to justify the introduction of the National Service Act to conscript young men for Vietnam. [More…]
Some 150 men went there and they showed great courage. [More…]
However, although the cyclone occurred on the Sunday morning and the Army came quickly to give assistance, it was not until the Thursday morning - 4 days and 4 nights later - that Army equipment started to flow into the Airlie Beach and Cannonvale area which was still cut off from the main communication between north and south. [More…]
For some reason, after the equipment arrived at Airlie Beach - some by helicopter and some by Army barge - just when the Army assistance was about to take effect the Army withdrew. [More…]
It is of no use to say that the Army did not withdraw becauseI was there in a briefing room when a major gave the order for the Army to withdraw, leaving behind only 10 men. [More…]
Of the 120-odd men who were available in the area to give assistance to the people only 10 remained in spite of the fact that a considerable amount of equipment had arrived. [More…]
At the same time the Department of Supply has reported that it is proposed to increase the work force at the end of next year to cope with a project in 1972. [More…]
In view of the great loss to the Department and the specialised space tracking project which would occur if these men were retrenched, will the Minister cause these retrenchment notices to be withdrawn until some employment in the Commonwealth service is found at equivalent pay rates and service conditions to ensure, firstly, that they will have continuity of employment and. [More…]
secondly, that their services will nor be lost to the Department? [More…]
If these young men are forced to tight in a futile conflict while life in Australia goes on as usual, why will not the Government at least give them a chance to re-establish themselves adequately if and when they are returned from Vietnam. [More…]
The Opposition is concerned about the hardship which has been and is being caused to the young men who have served their nation, particularly those who have been conscripted against their will to fight in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
These young people have served their country in a manner which this Government has demanded of them. [More…]
But now when they in turn are asking for their just entitlements they are told that their applications for war service homes finance are being put into cold storage for the time being - indeed, for an indefinite period, as I will show later. [More…]
This is happening not because they have been in any way remiss in their applications but because the Government has underestimated - and considerably underestimated - the demand for war service homes, particularly as regards finance to purchase existing dwellings. [More…]
Although the Government underestimated initially it is apparently not prepared to do anything about the matter by way of immediately making more money available lo the War Service Homes Division to cope with the outstanding applications. [More…]
This trend towards an extended waiting period that has again developed with war service homes applications, and the Government’s cavalier couldn’t care less’ attitude, are deserving of condemnation by this Parliament and the Australian people. [More…]
A mere $4m or $5m should immediately be made available by this Government for the housing needs of ex-servicemen, particularly young men who have gallantly served their country in Vietnam at the dictation of this Government. [More…]
I suggest that if $4m or $5m was required as a subsidy for some big business enterprise then this Government would be jumping because certainly the whips would be cracking. [More…]
But so far as the Government is concerned, these young men and their wives who have waited for a home for so long can just wait a little longer. [More…]
That is obviously the attitude of the Government and it is to be very loudly and hotly condemned. [More…]
A great deal has been made of men returning from Vietnam; but, as I understand the position, the reasons for this unusual demand are not clearly known. [More…]
With a history of an 8% reduction in applications over a period of 5 years, I think the Department was quite justified in believing that the demand would not increase. [More…]
Therefore I do not believe that it is fair or reasonable to criticise the Department or the Government for not being able to judge accurately this increased demand, which has arisen not because of one reason, as we are led to believe, but because of a number of reasons, some of which are unknown. [More…]
The fact is that there are very few conscripts in Vietnam in comparison to enlisted men who are volunteers. [More…]
This shortage exists today, and will undoubtedly become accentuated with the return of the men who are still at the Front. [More…]
Now we find that ex-servicemen who are eligible, acceptable and who comply with all of the other conditions laid down for war service homes finance have to wait for finance for a period of up to 6 months. [More…]
Previously, reference was made to the fact that these men are being made the bunnies of the inflationary squeeze that is being imposed on people, unjustly, because so many other sectors of the community are escaping their responsibilities. [More…]
According to the Auditor-General’s report, an amount of $50m was made available for war service homes in the last financial year, and repayments of principal and interest on war service loans amounted to $72,395,398. [More…]
When Senator Greenwood was searching his own mind and trying to find an excuse for the policy which the Government is pursuing, surely he could have suggested that Treasury could make an amount available from this money which is going into Consolidated Revenue, which is the difference between the amount of $72m for the repayment of principal and interest on war service homes finance in the last financial year and the amount of $50m which was provided for war service homes finance in the last financial year. [More…]
The facts are that there has not been the upsurge in the number of applications from returned servicemen from Vietnam and the other theatres of overseas active service as there was after the Second World War. [More…]
1 go along with Senator Little and Senator Greenwood who said that the reason for this is that these servicemen are young men who are coming back from war service and who have not yet decided how, where and when they want to purchase a home. [More…]
We are living in an affluent society and many men - not only those who served in the Second World War but others who are eligible for war service homes - have decided that they will give up renting a house or a flat or living in a house that they have inherited or brought under some other plan, and, because their savings are greater in the affluent society, take advantage of the increased amount available to them, still on the same generous terms, to purchase the home in which they want to live in what are becoming the later stages of their lives. [More…]
No government could be accused of lack of foresight in not being able to assess that in 1969-70 there would be an increase in the number of people who fought in a war which ended in 1945 and who would desire to take advantage of a loan. [More…]
This also has been a very good part of Government policy because if there is one industry that does an amazing amount of good for the economy and gets men employed it is the building industry, the housing industry. [More…]
Once a contract to build a home is let the axe and saw start working in the forest and every branch of industry that has to provide the wherewithal to complete a furnished home is put into action, and so the money flows through and this helps the employment of many people. [More…]
The second choice in priorities for war service homes under all shades of government has been the purchase of an existing home. [More…]
There is another factor which 1 believe is quite important when one comes to consider Senator Little’s suggestion that a special supplementary grant should be made now to the War Service Homes Division to allow the purchase of existing homes by successful applicants. [More…]
But I realise, and anyone who has any common sense and knows business in this country or any other today, realises that if people selling homes that were wanted and being waited for by ex-servicemen eligible for war service home loans knew that $2m or more was to be pumped into the home buying economy between now and the end of July, up would go the price of homes. [More…]
These men say: ‘I am sorry, Sir; this cannot be revealed’. [More…]
I do not want to sidetrack myself, but the American practice of interviewing ambassadors and putting them before the public immediately they return has involved the American people to a tremendous degree. [More…]
Perhaps it has embarrassed the American Government on the question of Vietnam because the people have been involved. [More…]
I do not see anything wrong with moving some of the senior men from the Department of Trade and Industry into the Department of External Affairs and then sending them back to the Department of Trade and Industry. [More…]
There are all sorts of ways this idea could be implemented. [More…]
One of them is by the Foreign Affairs Committee holding public hearings and another is by allowing not only the Minister but also the Parliament to refer matters to the Committee. [More…]
At the moment the Government is nurturing the suspicion that the Department of External Affairs is a very close preserve. [More…]
I remember in the days of the Labor Government, the Liberals - of those days the old United Australian Party - said that foreign policy was the province of one man - Bert Evatt. [More…]
The Government has only to develop the present situation a little further and people will be saying the same about this Government. [More…]
They will say that the Government is developing a hierarchy in the Department of External Affairs and that the employees of that Department are a bit superior to other civil servants. [More…]
The very charge that the UAP levelled against us will be levelled against the Government. [More…]
Employees of that Department are becoming restrictive and are developing a bureaucratic approach, which will spread into other sections of the Public Service. [More…]
The Government thinks that the situation should be enlarged in every possible way. [More…]
I do not know whether that aspect has been considered by the Government. [More…]
It may be that such a proposal would be difficult to implement at the present time. [More…]
Certainly it must be expensive to deliver a meal, but I am sure that every honourable senator knows of the great work which church institutions are doing in providing on the spot 3 times a day a parcel of food for homeless men and others in the community. [More…]
I suggest that the basis has been laid for giving considerable encouragement for new organisations to develop in this field. [More…]
They have the help of Socialists throughout the world who believe in the brotherhood of man, that all men are God’s creatures and that there is an equality of man. [More…]
At page 1278 of Hansard the Minister is reported as having stated that clause 7 of the Bill, when implemented, would mean that Australian women living abroad and married to men of other nationalities and wishing to have their children become Australians by birth, could register the birth of the children at any Australian consulate or embassy. [More…]
“And since the oil men had nowhere else to go, Maine held the ace.” [More…]
As a result, a bipartisan legislative committee, helped by Governor Curtis’ staff, confidently wrote tough new bills to control the future industrial development of Maine. [More…]
I do not agree with the sentiments expressed by Mr Floyd but I was very interested to see what the leading speaker for the Labor Party in the Victorian Parliament had to say about the concept of Chowilla. [More…]
Are they here as members of the South Australian Labor Party or are they here as States men representing their State of Victoria? [More…]
If it is the latter, I ask them what is the reason for the difference between their expressions and actions in the Senate and those of their colleagues of the Opposition in the House of Assembly in Victoria, because the Bill in Victoria was agreed to without amendment and without even taking a division. [More…]
As indicated in the Victorian Hansard at page 3479, no amendment was moved and no division was necessary. [More…]
If there is doubt about the accuracy of the assessments the ability and integrity of these experts must be in doubt. [More…]
These are responsible men. [More…]
They are experienced and capable and have been able to come out with accurate assessments fairly based on fair assumptions. [More…]
If they have the type of attitude towards their fellow men that they want to burn and kill them, they should be in Vietnam. [More…]
This is the only logical extension of the statement which he made and he cannot escape from it unless he is prepared to withdrawn it. [More…]
It was an incredible statement. [More…]
It was the most disgusting slight upon the finest body of young men that it has ever been my privilege to see. [More…]
We hear some low degrading statements in this House. [More…]
Tonight we heard that the great men who are concerned with peace and are leading the peace movement in Australia were associated with 8 mysterious fires that occurred in schools in Victoria. [More…]
No-one believes that there is a connection between the fires and the people concerned with the peace movement yet there are those low enough to make that connection. [More…]
They have no support from any avenue and they are forced into making despicable statements that no-one else would ever think of. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the only pronouncement that was ever made related to a bombing attack at Double Bay. [More…]
It cannot be said that this was an internal Slav matter because, as Senator O’Byrne will appreciate, one of the men involved was Police Constable Patrick Halpin. [More…]
I point out that 85% of the Slav community have been clamouring for action by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
This docs not include men who have been granted or applied for exemption after enlistment. [More…]
We have consistently said that the National Service Act is a bad law and that all of the restrictions on civil liberties that exist in this country are bad laws because if one has not the sense of freedom and the sense of democracy at heart, if one is not prepared to speak up for one’s fellow men, then all democracy is lost. [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 2 years’ gaol because they have the courage to defy conscription and oppose the Vietnam war, I am compelled to stand with them. [More…]
This is the ballot for men in the age group turning 20 years of age between 1st January and 30th June this year who were required to register between 20th January and 3rd February 1969. [More…]
About 49,000 men, British and non-British subjects, are involved. [More…]
I remind the Government that the boys who are being sent to Vietnam are not only sons of members of the Liberal Party or of members of the Country Party or of members of the Democratic Labor Party but also they are sons of members of the Labor movement - sons of men and women who are violently opposed to participation in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
The young men themselves are violently opposed to the war in Vietnam. [More…]
Is it not our responsibility and our duty to see that their voice - the voice of those who cannot cry out by way of the ballot box because the Government will not give them the right to vote - is heard in opposition to their continual conscription in this war? [More…]
This is why men, women and students of all faiths, all beliefs and all political persuasions are fed up with the present Governmen’s policies. [More…]
This is why men like Denis Warner reported, as he did in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of 3 1st December 1969, that the laying of a minefield from Nui Dat to the coast was the worst of all Australian mistakes in Vietnam. [More…]
Denis Warner, in his article, attributed the mistake at that time to ignorance of the social and political realities of Vietnam, for which he blamed the present Australian Government. [More…]
In June 1969 the 12th platoon of the 5th Royal Australian Regiment lost 3 killed and 19 wounded in an M-16 mine blast in Dat Do village. [More…]
Why should we not, as Australian citizens, be concerned about the role that this Government is asking these young men to play in Vietnam? [More…]
The massive American buildup in men and fire power has put an entirely different complexion on this conflict’, he says. [More…]
I think those words highlight the fact that the Government is desperate and desperate men resort to desperate measures. [More…]
I am not as acquainted with the Standing Orders as I would like to be - I guarantee that I will be in due course - but it seems to me that the raising of this matter tonight in the debate on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate was aimed at trying to carry on from where the matter was left in another place yesterday in the hope that the Government might be able lo score. [More…]
Massacres such as the one alleged to have occurred at My Lai gave the soldiers momentary illusion that by shooting people equated with the enemy - even babies, women and old men - they were finally involved in a genuine military action, he said. [More…]
1 would not want to comment on what personal problems Senator Greenwood may have, but Senator Greenwood consistently accuses honourable senators on this side of the House of lack of patriotism. [More…]
He continuously makes imputations against the honour and patriotism of men in this country who have given positive proof of their patriotism. [More…]
I believe in one fundamental principle. [More…]
One should not stand up and harry men when one is in that position. [More…]
But I do not withdraw the remark that the honourable senator has tried to make his career by assassinating the characters of other people, by destroying the reputations of other men and by debasing any democratic quality of life that remains in this country. [More…]
The purpose of the Moratorium is to seek an end to violence, but the purpose of the Government is to turn the Moratorium into a violent act. [More…]
This is obvious from the expressions of Government supporters here tonight. [More…]
We brutalise our young men. [More…]
Horror upon horror; we have mentioned it time and time again. [More…]
Peace could have been achieved in Vietnam if the Australian Government had taken a firm stand at the time of the peace talks in Paris because Mr Averell Harriman showed clearly in an article is the ‘Canberra Times’ of 6th March 1970 that President Thieu of South Vietnam ruined the Paris peace talks. [More…]
The Leader of the Government (Senator Anderson) mentioned that the motion appeared to be pin-pricking in nature, but I can assure the Leader that that was not the purpose in moving the motion. [More…]
During the time that I have been Chairman of the Committee I can safely say that we have had as members some of the most able men in the Senate. [More…]
It is, but it has been happening because of the desperate position of these men. [More…]
There was no question of conscription of men to fight in the Middle East or to travel to England or to the islands in the Pacific in order to save Australia. [More…]
I am appalled, Mr President, to think that men who are ready and willing and were able to take a role in the armed forces of Australia have used this chamber to attack people who have a conscientious objection to fighting in this war. [More…]
Some of the finest men in the Australian Labor Party that I have known have said categorically - and they had war records themselves - that whether or not a man went to war was, in their opinion, his own business. [More…]
The men who at that time took a prominent- [More…]
One of those men was a reservist in 1914. [More…]
When the Labor Cabinet determined on conscription he sent 20-year-old men to war and he did not resign from the Cabinet. [More…]
We must, therefore, put up with what we were afflicted with last night because one man has determined that he will try to stop people demonstrating in a peaceful way their opposition to the action of this Government in forcing young men to go to Vietnam. [More…]
He condemns those who by mass demonstration want to alter the policy of this Government. [More…]
If there is a domino theory and if we are to chase the progress of the domino theory which is said to be the aspiration of the liberation movement throughout South East Asia, then we will kill more than the 400 young Australians whom we have sacrificed already in the calamity that i,s Vietnam. [More…]
I would say that that statement was accurately recorded by the Hansard stall’. [More…]
They are men who have a vested interest in perpetuating warfare. [More…]
There was no other purpose for the debate last night, for the debate tonight or for any subsequent debate which will take place in the Parliament from now until the Moratorium. [More…]
The big profits are not made by the men who undergo all the hazards associated with wool growing. [More…]
Surely allowing the men who make the wool industry - the merino breeders - to sell their product overseas gives them some incentive to do the work that they have been doing over the years. [More…]
The men who are breeding rams go to a great deal of trouble and heavily commit themselves financially to build up their flocks, but honourable senators opposite wish to leave them with about one-half of the progeny on their hands. [More…]
I presume from remarks made by members of the Opposition that they regard these people as irresponsible men and men not worthy of being recognised as being associated in any way with the Conference. [More…]
Dr EARLE PAGE ; Those men represent only one State; but i point out that there are federal organisations of farmers, graziers, and stockowners, who are willing to come to Canberra and discuss the matter with the Minister. [More…]
The late Government was always prepared to, and always did, consult the unions in regard to industrial matters; but i am informed tonight that the leaders of the organisations interested in sheep-grazing have not been consulted. [More…]
They were not prepared to accept the report of responsible men. [More…]
I mentioned the other night, when I spoke on this issue, that they had the opportunity, through the man who was Premier of South Australia al the time, to oppose any investigations of any alternative storages on the River Murray in October 1967 if they were so sure that Chowilla was the best and only dam they were prepared to support in the interests of South Australia. [More…]
1 ask members of the Opposition at this moment, if they did oppose the investigation at any time or if they can recall Mr Dunstan opposing it at any time, to please fell me. [More…]
Even in that 1 restricted year with Dartmouth in operation South Australia would have received 1.4 million acre feet of water, which would still be more than that State would have received under the old arrangement involving the building of the Chowilla dam. [More…]
South Australia will now have equal sharing and it will also have security, lt appears that honourable senators opposite are not prepared to take the word of responsible men who have ability and experience and who have looked at this position very closely. [More…]
It seems to me that what they are saying is: ‘We very much doubt the ability and the integrity of these men’. [More…]
After all, these experts have made definite statements and I for one accept the statements of experts. [More…]
Following a review of the progress in 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, to work with the regional and popular forces in Phuoc Tuy. [More…]
We are also developing a further proposal that Australia will provide instructors and other assistance to a South Vietnamese training centre for junior 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…]
As it is a function of the Parliamentary Draftsman, as is delineated in the Bill, to be responsible for the drafting and supervision of regulations there is obviously a very great need for an expansion of his staff and that, to a major degree, is the purpose of this Bill. [More…]
Now that the position of the Parliamentary Draftsman is to be considerably elevated in status - with the appointment of 2 assistants who will occupy particularised positions - the job could present itself to young men and women as a viable administrative Public Service career which has at the end of it a rewarding position not only from the point of view of the financial return but also the status it holds and the work it presents. [More…]
I conclude on the note that the Parliamentary Draftsman and his staff have tremendous power. [More…]
I think this power should be recognised because, as I have pointed out, circumscription of the time and opportunity to draft legislation and the entrusting of drafting to men who do not have great technical ability or a keen sense of the duties, responsibilities and limitations of their office could in later years embroil a nation in situations which it wanted to avoid. [More…]
However, in general terms, the DLP looks to a major expansion in this office and the facilities it will be able to provide, to a quick consolidation of the Commonwealth statutes, to a closer control of the drafting and supervision of regulations and, in all senses, to assistance in the more efficient functioning of the parliamentary institution. [More…]
Not long ago the same ship was tied up because just before it was due to sail 3 men walked off. [More…]
The newspapers said that they did not know what the grievance was, but the men walked off, and the ship was tied up. [More…]
I feel that generally speaking the inspectors are experienced men and do a very good job. [More…]
In respect of other types of legislation the Government has said on many occasions that there should be a right of appeal. [More…]
Do day labourers employed by the Department of Works at Woomera who are resident in single men’s quarters pay S6.50 per week for accommodation and messing? [More…]
Do Department of Supply employees pay $9 for equivalent accommodation and messing? [More…]
Do employees of the Department of Works who occupy single quarters receive an area allowance of $7.30 per week? [More…]
Department of Supply employees occupying single quarters receive an allowance of only $3.07 a week if single and $5.37 if married? [More…]
Is the transfer of work to which I referred being made to reduce the area allowance and accommodation allowance awarded to these men? [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…]
1 stand here talking today while my young fellow countrymen are dying on the fields of Vietnam and I am not paying 2 bob extra in taxation. [More…]
We will not go along picking up a few young men. [More…]
Apparently boats shuttled up and down the river bringing new batches of men listed for execution, and . [More…]
As men were killed their bodies were thrown into the river. [More…]
Have we had any explanation of this incident from the Government? [More…]
All the points I have raised should be examined much more forcefully by this Parliament and the Australian people than they are being examined today. [More…]
Is the regime of this Government of the type that is told nothing and explains nothing? [More…]
Were 600 men murdered in the Mekong River area and thrown into the river or not? [More…]
Does the Government not have any views on this incident? [More…]
All of the burden of war is being unloaded on to a certain small group of young men who are being conscripted and on to their families. [More…]
We believe that this protest has to take place because it is only by the people going out into the streets and showing how they feel that changes can be brought about in the policies of this Government. [More…]
There would not be as many civil rights for black people in the United States, as there are at present, if it had not been for the campaigns of passive resistance by brave men such as Martin Luther King. [More…]
There still would not be civil rights for a very vast section of the population of Northern Ireland if it were not for the civil rights movement which is taking place in Northern Ireland at present. [More…]
Australian people will take the same kind of action to see that the Government and the rest of the people- know that they are just as opposed to what is a brutal and unjust war as are the people of the United Stales and the people of other countries who have made similar protests. [More…]
I do not suppose the reaction would be so great if it were not for the fact that men with conscientious objections to participating in this war are called up under an Act of this Parliament and are forced into gaol if they obey the dictates of their consciences and will not go to this war. [More…]
1 have been in demonstrations outside gaols in which men have been incarcerated for 2 years under the National Service Act. [More…]
Here we see a situation in which men are forced, against their consciences, to fight in a war that they do not think has anything to do with them. [More…]
When we have failed in the past to stop wars, then we have failed to stop Australian participation in conflicts and when we have not succeeded up to now in this campaign to stop our involvement in the Vietnam war, which in the opinion of the Australian public is no concern of Australia, some members of the community hold the honest opinion that we should demonstrate and continue to demonstrate until the mass of demonstrations is such that we can influence governments on this matter. [More…]
It is no use saying that governments cannot be influenced. [More…]
It is said that we who have a duty to civilisation, a duty to democracy and a duty to the young men of Australia should keep out of this Campaign because there are some Communists in it or Communists may be in the leadership of it. [More…]
As I have said in adjournment debates, there are big possibilities of violence. [More…]
When we came back into this building, after seeing a number of policemen in front of it, we observed the black maria at the back of the building, waiting for the call that was supposed to come. [More…]
We saw men young enough to volunteer for service holding up We support Nixon’ campaign placards for the purpose of provoking a disturbance. [More…]
The proposed Vietnam Moratorium is a betrayal of our national interests and of our young men on the battlefield. [More…]
If one looks at the advertisement for the Moratorium in the ‘Australian’ one sees that the organisers are asking everybody to gather at some place in Sydney on Friday morning, and what is the first thing they are going to do? [More…]
I quote from the advertisement, which states: ‘Folk singing and other activity’. [More…]
On the following morning activities are going to commence in the shopping centres. [More…]
lt is very significant that when men like Dr Cairns cannot persuade the Australian electorate, they find a minority, a rowdy minority, and they encourage them to break laws and to promote anarchy. [More…]
The last thing we want to see arise in this country is the unfortunate situation that has developed in the United States of America recently, but I fear that if this sort of movement gains credence and popularity, we run the grave risk of anarchy of this kind developing in Australia. [More…]
But I am looking now at a statement made in Perth by the Minister for Defence (Mr Malcolm Fraser) who said that we sometimes believe that the peace that we desire is the peace that is shared in the same way by all nations. [More…]
I direct a question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
When can we expect a Government statement from the Minister condemning the wholesale massacres of innocent men, women and children by the Americans in Vietnam, reports of which have been published in the Press over the last 6 months? [More…]
- Employment in charge of Divisional or auxiliary Divisional Lines Store involving control of at least two other men. [More…]
In charge sub-party of 3 or more Men (including himself) - salary range applicable to Lineman Grade 2 plus allowance. [More…]
The Attorney-General said that it had been chronically difficult to find men lo fill positions in this office. [More…]
He asked for the right to determine payments other than annual allowances - presumably because of differences between what was required by these officers and what was required by other officers. [More…]
That is why, in relation to payments other than annual allowances, the Bill uses the words ‘as the Attorney-General may determine’. [More…]
I want to ensure that the method arrived at is one over which the Parliament will have control. [More…]
The financial agreement between the Commonwealth and the States existed until about 1959 when it was renegotiated on a new basis, lt was in the years from 1959 to 1965 that the real problems began to make themselves apparent to the States. [More…]
Many people were inclined to believe that the problem arose perhaps through the States’ mismanagement of their finances and that the States should have been managing better than they were. [More…]
The figures show that the problem arose because of the agreement that had been reached, because of the growth rate in income tax in this rapidly expanding nation, circumstances which could not have been dreamed of in 1946. [More…]
At that time there were for our people none of the practical problems which now face the people of this country, whether they were politicians in the State or Federal sphere or whether they were tradesmen, businessmen or professional men in the community. [More…]
Nevertheless, it left the States with tremendous problems of development that they had not expected, and the financial agreement with the Commonwealth left them little margin to continue with what was required in terms of hospitals, schools and all the other requirements of a growing community. [More…]
lt is true that the States brought their problems to the Commonwealth, but their indebtedness to the Commonwealth, because of a system, to which the States had agreed, of allowing the Commonwealth to collect all the income tax, because of the tremendous growth of income that came about with our development and our improved prosperity for the families which were already here and the new families which were being added from day to day, meant that the returns to the States were inadequate to meet the demands for expenditure on education and hospitals and all the other expenditures that the States were required to meet. [More…]
Secondly he refers to the Prime Minister and the Treasurer who would have been with the Prime Minister on that occasion as confidence men. [More…]
If the legal men on the Government side are correct in what they have said and in their interpretation, a true record has been kept in accordance with the Standing Orders. [More…]
They went across the road to Parliament House and commenced to tear down banners. [More…]
When 5 of them were arrested by the Adelaide police the Army authorities at Woodside next day stopped further leave and to avoid police court proceedings the men were dealt with by the Army. [More…]
These 2 young men came to be together because the second young man had been to Vietnam on 1 occasion as a conscript and had been in the same unit as the one who had volunteered to serve in Vietnam. [More…]
I asked: What if there were women and children?’ [More…]
He answered: ‘Women and children in Vietnam fire as many guns as soldiers do’. [More…]
statements of 2 men who were in Vietnam. [More…]
They are not isolated statements. [More…]
I am prepared to supply to any inquiry other than an Army inquiry the names of the 2 men who made the statements. [More…]
I am confident that they would support their statements before any inquiry. [More…]
Whatever was the result of the Moratorium, it demonstrated that not only in South Australia but in Australia - South Australia is one of the smaller States and one of the most apathetic States in any demonstration - there is a huge mass of public opinion opposed to Australia’s involvement in Vietnam and to the National Service Act. [More…]
The subversive comments of Senator Cavanagh a few minutes ago are directed against the security of this country. [More…]
If our policy is to have an army and a National Service Act which calls on some young men in the community to go overseas to support the defence of this country, I do not believe that we can stand for people marching in the streets behind the Vietcong flag. [More…]
When a government., rightly or wrongly, makes a decision which involves my compatriots, my fellow Australians, in bearing arms in fighting for this country ] feel - Senator Cavanagh, who is trying to interject, can speak for himself - that irrespective of whatever point of view I might hold, I owe a loyalty to these men. [More…]
I am prepared to admit that even the men in the front line may have some qualifications and doubts but they do not express their doubts by stabbing one another in the back. [More…]
The position is that the Parliament of this country supporting the Government has required compulsory service of its youth and has voted the money of the public to support the engagement in South Vietnam. [More…]
Anybody who subverts those armed forces is a traitor and is guilty of treachery and subversion of the most abhorrent kind, not only in the eyes of the men whose duly it is to hold the line tonight, not only in the eyes of their relatives, but also in the eyes of every decent Australian. [More…]
If there is any legislator who cannot bring himself to the degree of conviction as to his undivided loyally to the armed forces which the democratic, freely elected Government of this country compels in part and organises in another part to engage in that conflict - if there is any legislator who cannot bring himself to the degree of conviction that his duty is to support them, he is wanting then those elemental human qualities of judgment and character which alone can create the defence of this country. [More…]
As for the Vietcong flag, honourable senators might be reminded that in 1967 this Parliament passed a statute which outlawed and made illegal the sending of money, goods, services or financial assistance to any of the following: the Government of the country known as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam; the body known as Dang Lao Dong Vietnam or as the Communist Party of North Vietnam. [More…]
This is the method on which the Government works. [More…]
Wherever an opposing ideology raises its head, the Government has to break the head even if it kills 9 innocent people9 civilians to get the one. [More…]
Whatever the enemy does and whatever the Nuremberg trials found in their final analyses the responsibility for the actions of a government fall back not only on the individual who has to make the decision but also on the men who directed such action. [More…]
In the past judgment has been passed on those who directed such operations. [More…]
I propose to say what I intend to say and that is that we have seen the Government trying to suppress free discussion by the branding of those people who come out peaceably to make their demonstrations, despite the provocations of people like Senator Greenwood who desires to build a career by the destruction of other men’s characters. [More…]
But why did these young men, wearing the returned soldier’s ribbons of the Vietnam campaign, see fit to try to take away from some of the marchers Vietcong flags and other banners that indicated support for the Vietcong, the very enemy against whom these young men had been fighting? [More…]
So 1 pose the question again: Why did these young men see fit to provoke some of these marchers in the Moratorium demonstration? [More…]
On behalf of the young men and women involved, will the Minister try to adjust the petty difference that has arisen between the respective Education Departments and overcome this problem, which affects a number of young Australians and their families? [More…]
I am prepared merely to read the names of the men who follow but I was incited to read the qualifications of every one of these men because Senator Young foolishly indicated that these people would be - shall we say - Communist orientated and therefore their opinions would be suspect and the only way that one can counter such an accusation is by reading the qualifications of the men who are on this committee. [More…]
It would involve a very serious situation as most of these men are in the employ of the Government. [More…]
I hope that the Government will take some action prior to that date to prevent anything happening. [More…]
1 am like a lot of other people in that I am a little disturbed about things that I hear regarding the organisation of our Public Service and the treatment that is often received by its employees. [More…]
I have come to the conclusion that the organisation of our Public Service is, to a large extent, at the stage at which it was in about 1940 and that it is completely incompetent to deal with the tremendous increase that has taken place since then. [More…]
I am impressed by the remarkably tortuous system that has to be followed for the purpose of making appointments, and I cannot help noticing that in the case of wage determinations some sections in the employ of the Government seem to do all right, particularly the tall poppies in the Public Service, while other sections appear to get the brush off. [More…]
The Government should be warned that there is intense dissatisfaction among professional staff and technically skilled staff - persons, for example, such as members of the Association of Professional Engineers, the Association of Architects, Engineers, Surveyors and Draughtsmen of Australia and others. [More…]
This body, in its membership, has just over 4,000 professional officers, all in the Commonwealth Public Service or Commonwealth instrumentalities, and many in senior positions including the Second Division of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Most of the Association’s members are in the professions of engineering and science and therefore they are skilled men - men who are very scarce at the present time. [More…]
The result is that these highly skilled professional men are being left behind. [More…]
1 think it is scandalous when people who are prepared to do the right thing and act as the Government says they should act and are prepared to resort to the arbitration system, have placed in their way every possible obstacle, legal and otherwise, and are prevented from getting justice and satisfaction. [More…]
But I point again to the powerful industrial strength of the professional engineers employed by the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
I hope that the Government will take the threat seriously. [More…]
Professional men will not put up with this situation when they can see other organisations using the strike weapon and can see that when those organisations use the strike weapon their demands are satisfied. [More…]
Senator Georges put up as the authority on whether the war was illegal Senator Georges, and he reinforced that authority by referring to eminent legal men in the United States of America. [More…]
They are only 3 or 5 out of all the legal men in Australia. [More…]
In the book the eminent men have set out their reasons for finding that there was no legality in the American entry into Vietnam and have set out the details, which Senator Georges has asked everyone to read. [More…]
If an honourable senator opposite can read the book and say that in his legal opinion these learned jurists in America erred in making their findings, we will be interested to hear his arguments. [More…]
Having read the book I accept the opinions of the legal men who have published them in the book. [More…]
If it is suggested that I am accepting wrong advice, I would welcome a constructive criticism of those opinions by the legal men in this chamber who can make such a criticism. [More…]
The Citizen Air Force comprises 2 active elements, namely, the Citizen Air Force auxiliary squadrons and the RAAF university squadrons. [More…]
The Citizen Air Force auxiliary squadrons are stationed in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, that is, in each State capital city, and their job is to train a proportion of men for ground crew duties in the event of war. [More…]
They mentioned that when they were in a desperate position and thought that perhaps they could get money to tide them over for a while, a certain firm had lent them money at 14% but was now threatening to take over their farms. [More…]
I have heard from one of the men since that he has received notice of action being taken. [More…]
The Minister made, to my mind, the incredible statement that this is more a measure of the sensitivity of analytical techniques than an indication of potential danger to fish. [More…]
I am not concerned so much about the fish as about the livelihood of the men who depend upon the fishing industry for their incomes and for the maintenance of their families. [More…]
For the majority of Vietnamese, poor peasants in the defoliated countryside and destitute workers in the city slums, it is what they have been witnessing for a long time: the search and destroy missions; the ‘free zone’ strikes; the BS2 saturation bombings; the Phoenix operation which from December 1967 to December 1968 killed 18,393 civilian Vietcong cadres; the Song My (‘Pinkville’) type of breakfast massacre in which an American infantry unit allegedly shot down some hundreds of men, women and children in a captured village in the early morning of 16th March 1968; the atrocities regularly described in national United States magazines. [More…]
The first is easily dispelled by a reading of Western history; the religious wars, the Inquisition, the lynchings, the world wars, the American Indian and Civil wars, Hitler’s ‘final settlement’. [More…]
It knew that the Government of Australia did not care very much about the young men of this country, that it was more concerned about private enterprise and the profits of the big combines than about our youth, so it asked the Australian Government if it would put forces into Vietnam. [More…]
Our Government agreed and our troops have been there since. [More…]
Not only the Americans and the British but also the Australian Government completely overlooked that event. [More…]
Consequently our men are now manning ships which are inferior to those of other countries. [More…]
If this happens we do not want to see the same situation that we saw 30 years ago of men flying in aeroplanes and sailing in ships which were outdated. [More…]
I do not know whether any Minister intends to comment on what 1 have said, but J would say to the Government that it should reconsider the decision which is apparently close to being made. [More…]
In my opinion, and in the opinion of the Opposition, the Corporation should be composed of men who know the industry and what appeals to the general public. [More…]
While we remain in Opposition we of the Labor movement will continue to watch their activities with an encouraging but nonetheless critical scrutiny because, in the interests of Australia, the film and television industry must get oil the ground. [More…]
He supported his denial by a statement by officers of the Department of the Interior in the Northern Territory and a statement by Rev. [More…]
Shortly after 25th September the Parliament was adjourned until the new Parliament assembled. [More…]
Fleming and 13 men who were Aboriginal councillors at Yuendumu. [More…]
Fleming’s statement, I expressed the belief that he supported my argument that in fact the superintendent had agreed to this muss rape of 3 girls at Yuendumu. [More…]
Whilst the 13 councillors named the girls and 3 of the men involved in the incident, I was not prepared to submit their names to the Senate. [More…]
The surprising feature is that we have travelled a long way in order to get a denial of my accusation, but no-one has been prepared to bring along here a statement from the girls involved or the men involved, which I think would be conclusive. [More…]
We have travelled right through the Department of the Interior, getting statements from anyone we can; but we have never sought a statement from those who could tell us the actual position. [More…]
When I first raised this matter I said that there would be a complete denial from the administration at Yuendumu and the Department, and the guilty men in the affair, if information about it was sought from people under the control or jurisdiction of the administration of the Yuendumu settlement. [More…]
The Minister, in reaching the conclusion that there was no credence in my accusation, relied solely upon the statement of 13 councillors. [More…]
That statement was obtained under very peculiar circumstances, as I have previously recited to the Senate, However, I think it is worth repeating them to show that the Minister did not attempt to obtain impartial evidence. [More…]
A description of the method used to obtain the statement from the 13 councillors or former councillors was conveyed to me by the Minister in his letter of 4th February. [More…]
In the opinion of the Senior Welfare Officer they were trusted men. [More…]
They decided amongst themselves on the other people to join in the discussion and to sign the statement. [More…]
They then signed the statement in each other’s presence and asked Mr Juttner and myself- 1 believe that Mr Juttner is another official of the Department - to be witnesses to their signature or mark and I would point out that among the signatures of this document are a number of men who gave Nichols their support when he was about to be dismissed- [More…]
The Minister went on to read the statement obtained from the persons who were councillors at Yuendumu in 1966-67. [More…]
That statement of the councillors said: . [More…]
there were 3 young girls who were causing a lot of trouble breaking into staff houses and the Government store and causing trouble with young men at Yuendumu. [More…]
If they were misbehaving with young men and wanted to associate with them, they could not do so if they were taken out into the bush with older men. [More…]
The statement went on: they would be under the close supervision of their parents and would have to live hurd in the bush for a while- [More…]
The statement continues: they would he under the close supervision of their parents and would have to live hard in the bush for a while, and they would start to come tinder the influence of the men to whom they were promised as wives and these men would begin to lake some responsibility for their future behaviour. [More…]
There were a number of other men on the truck, some of them Councillors and some of them were men who worked on the truck. [More…]
These men went out and back on the same day. [More…]
One of the men was Harry Nelson. [More…]
One of the men was Harry Nelson who was a councillor and who has made the statementthat no rape took place and everyone behaved properly. [More…]
Let us see what the various statements say. [More…]
The Reverend Fleming, in his statement which has been put before the Senate, says that the 3 husbands assisted by 4 young men in the native village took the girls out. [More…]
There is a discrepancy between those 2 statements amounting to 1 man. [More…]
They say that other men went out on the truck but that they returned the same day. [More…]
The Minister interpreted what I had said as being that the Superintendent said to throw them into a truck and as punishment for an offence take them into the bush’, that this happened against their will. [More…]
Where is there any disagreement in these statements? [More…]
I said that the girls were to be taken out into the bush as punishment for committing an offence, which is what Mr Nicholls alleged. [More…]
The Reverend Fleming said that the 3 young women were causing considerable trouble in the camp by refusing to go to the mcn to whom they were promised and were instead prostituting themselves with the young men in the village. [More…]
Were these girls not sent out into the bush as punishment for an offence? [More…]
But the Reverend Fleming says that the girls were prostituting themselves with young men in the village. [More…]
The councillors said that 3 young girls were causing a lot of trouble breaking into staff houses and the government store and causing trouble with young men at Yuendumu. [More…]
In the opinion of the authorities there, there was some misbehaviour and anything that happened as a result was because of the misbehaviour and the punishment was for the offence. [More…]
My accusation is that one of the men carried a rifle. [More…]
This does not appear in the Minister’s statement. [More…]
Mr Nicholls said that one of the men rounding up the girls carried a rifle. [More…]
The councillors said that some of the men had rifles as they often had when there was a hunting trip of this kind. [More…]
I hope that there are not too many hunting trips of this kind on Aboriginal settlements. [More…]
Another matter which is not in the statement we are discussing is that I am informed by Mr Nicholls - and I have stated in the Senate - that the manager of the reserve, not the Superintendent, after 4 days feared for the welfare of the girls and sent out a truck to return the party to the camp. [More…]
The Reverend Fleming makes no mention of the return of the girls. [More…]
The Reverend Fleming said that they have since married young men of their own choice. [More…]
The Minister, in his statement, said that one of the girls has since married the promised husband. [More…]
It had young people who were being discharged from the Services, including capable pilots who were coming out of the Royal Australian Air Force and men who wanted to make a success of this enterprise. [More…]
The standards that were achieved at that time were absolutely phenomenal. [More…]
On 14th May it was reported in the Sydney ‘Daily Telegraph’ that Dr Forbes, the Minister for Health, had told a meeting of the Government Parties that the Government could not get any agreement with the medical profession as a whole and that it should now - I emphasise the word ‘now’ - consider the position of patients and the public. [More…]
Although we of the Opposition intend to move a considerable number of amendments at the Committee stage of the debate, we do not oppose the Bill. [More…]
We take that course only because the Bill represents an improvement of the existing costly, wasteful and anomalous national health scheme. [More…]
It eases from the shoulders of wealthy people their share of responsibility for the health of the Australian community and a heavier burden is consequently placed on the shoulders of the poor people or men supporting large families. [More…]
The policy of the Government at that time was one of laissez-faire - leave well alone - as was instanced in an answer given to me by the Minister for Health about 2 years ago when I asked about the purchase of a private aircraft, at a cost of about $40,000, by a large health insurance fund operating in New South Wales. [More…]
While the Government adopted that attitude, costs were increasing for the ordinary men and women in the street. [More…]
Refunds from the funds were diminishing in terms of money value and the amount of Commonwealth benefit was static as were, by coincidence, child endowment payments awarded by this Government. [More…]
I have been impressed by the large amount of evidence that has been placed before me that this Bill, if implemented as it stands, may have very serious effects upon a very important section of the medical profession, that is, the general practitioners who, I am informed, constitute 40% of the medical profession in this country and who, if I am to judge from the number of them who have got in touch with me individually and in a representative capacity to protest against the Bill, regard its provisions as seriously threatening their future. [More…]
I believe that there is abundant evidence of the truth of their claim that if the Bill is passed as it stands it will discourage young medical men from undertaking one of the most important duties in the community, the duty of the general practitioner. [More…]
Even if we accept that this legislation is the best the Government can suggest, it does not help to solve the problem of hospital costs. [More…]
The Blue Cross system of health insurance was pioneered in the United States but it is now admitted there that fragmentation has occurred. [More…]
It has happened there, as it has happened here, that sections of the medical profession - as Senator McClelland said - would prefer to have no health insurance funds at all than to have greater government supervision. [More…]
The law must apply equitably to all, irrespective of whether they are professional men or workers on the workshop floor. [More…]
Irrespective of the political colour of a government, it has to devise an effective health scheme. [More…]
I have mentioned them before. [More…]
I know at least 2 of the members of the Committee and they are 2 of the most upstanding men in the profession. [More…]
1 think they are excellent men. [More…]
I think it is their association with the Commonwealth Department of Health which has made them a part of this ludicrous band of humorists. [More…]
I knew that he would almost certainly ventilate his spleen, on occasions amounting almost to haired, against the officials of the Department of Health. [More…]
I disagree with him on this point because I believe that the officials of the Department of Health are extraordinarily capable men and I appreciate their sincerity of approach. [More…]
Perhaps Senator Turnbull, in his tolerance, might sometimes think that they are the servants of a parsimonious government and that, when there are restrictions on the prescribing of pharmaceutical benefits, economy might dictate their actions. [More…]
1 believe that the Government might well give consideration to the idea of sending out to practitioners a short note giving the reason why a drug is taken off the list, particularly when a drug is taken off the list and the members of the Committee realise, as they must realise, that the average practitioner thinks that that drug is of value to his individual patients. [More…]
Perhaps the Government does not want to make it known to the public that this is an economic measure rather than the result of a medical approach. [More…]
It embraced not only medical care but also the training of dentists, the training of nurses, the research requirements of the community, the remuneration of practitioners in the field of health and so on. [More…]
The personnel of the royal commission embraced men of all callings who had a thorough knowledge of health and health needs. [More…]
The royal commission in Canada had a permanent staff of 167 researchers engaged full time researching the health requirements of the community. [More…]
But it is unusual for working men to be so concerned about such a matter, regardless of whether they are flight officers. [More…]
I suppose one of the things which caused the Minister grave concern was that industrial trouble had been threatened, because the Minister produced regulations which would permit the payment of a remuneration to Professor Isaac. [More…]
It has been necessary for this section of the community - the Flight Crew Association - to take drastic action to protect the position of the appointee of the Minister because the Minister has not made any provisions for the payment of his salary. [More…]
I do not know if I read rightly in the Press, but the other day I saw a statement to the effect that a strike was being threatened because 2 pilots were going to be superannuated at the age of 55 years. [More…]
Having obtained astronomical sums in superannuation on the ground that they are burnt out at an early period of their lives, they then turn round and threaten to go on strike because 2 men may be superannuated as air pilots at the age of 55 years. [More…]
They are men with 6 years of undergraduate training and at least 4 years of postgraduate training. [More…]
If the Government can do this for one section of the community it can do it for other sections of the community. [More…]
Why should not the wage workers and the professional men have the benefit of the expert advice of the Taxation Branch? [More…]
If the Government wants to distribute to the public, in the form of information, literature that is related to health and limited to the prevention of disease, I have no quarrel at all with that. [More…]
We know of publications which the Government distributed to school children putting its case on Vietnam. [More…]
We got support from Senator Gair in that regard, lt appeared to me that he came into this debate because he felt that he was one of the guilty men to whom the amendment is addressed seeing that he had offended in this regard when he was the leader of a State government. [More…]
However his complaint was that the Government’s propaganda on Vietnam was not as advantageous to the Government as it could have been. [More…]
I want to take a few minutes of thetime of the Senate to refer to cases of acute hardship in South Australia which could be relieved bythe Department of Social Services if it had some means of getting decisions down to the lower levels of the administration. [More…]
For the past few weeks there has been a cement workers strike in South Australia which has resulted in loss of employment for all the men employed in all the industries that rely on cement. [More…]
He said that he had inquired into the matter and he set out the details as follows: If the men were members of a union that was engaged in a strike they were not entitled to social service benefits; if they were members of a union whose members were out on strike in sympathy with strikers they were not entitled to social service benefits; but if they were members of a union whose members were unemployed by virtue of inability to carry on because of lack of supplies as a result of a strike they were entitled to unemployment benefits. [More…]
I immediately rang the union concerned and told the union officials the position, namely, that the notification would be in Adelaide and that if the men applied they should receive payment. [More…]
They were left there necessarily at the beginning - we can understand that - but as the new provinces have settled down the time has come for us to take this out of the enactment and put in something which will preserve the rule of law. [More…]
By that I mean preserving the rights of citizens whether they be contributors, patients or professional men in the various disciplines covered by the Bill. [More…]
Will the Government make a statement condemning wholesale massacres of innocent men, women and children in Vietnam by the Americans, as alleged in newspaper reports over the last six months; if so, when. [More…]
Do day labourers employed at Woomera by the Department of Works, and resident in single men’s quarters, pay $6.50 per week for accommodation and messing. [More…]
The accommodation provided for employees of the Department of Supply for which $9 per week is charged is permanent hostel accommodation whereas that provided for employees of the Department of Works resident in single men’s quarters at Woomera West is construction camp standard. [More…]
She would clock on at school and then she would go to this place at Paddington and there she was initiated by 12 men in purple hoods around her and she stood in the middle of the floor. [More…]
The whole floor was covered with mattresses and she was subjected to tremendous atrocities when she was 14 or15 years of age. [More…]
Sydney, Thursday.- Television personality Bobby Limb spoke today of ‘atrocities’ carried out on a teenage girl drug addict by a dozen men al Paddington. [More…]
He said they had been carried out by 12 men in purple hoods. [More…]
However, in seeking the opinions of a number of people here in Parliament House who read newspapers fairly avidly, I found that practically every person to whom I spoke had seen the original report damning Mr Limb as a man who would stand there and watch 12 men commit atrocities on a 14-year-old girl and do nothing about it; but, although the newspaper turned round and printed that small correction, of the people who saw the original report I did not strike one who saw the correction. [More…]
I have spoken to men who fought with Bob Joshua in the Middle East and in New Guinea. [More…]
Our proposals are designed to ameliorate the problems of men with low incomes, particularly those with large families. [More…]
We do not say that this is the millennium by any means, but we suggest that our proposals are a great improvement on the present proposals of the Government. [More…]
In our opinion, it certainly does not carry out the recommendations of the Nimmo Committee, as the Minister for Health (Dr Forbes) suggested in his speech on 4th March. [More…]
But, be that as it may, because we believe that our amendments are an improvement on the Government’s proposals I have moved them on behalf of the Opposition. [More…]
Sena or TURNBULL- I will nol read out the terms of my amendment at this stage. [More…]
This is solely a mailer for the Department of Health and the Minister for Health. [More…]
But every time we ask the Department and the Minister for the names of the members of this Committee, we are told that they want die names of the members io remain anonymous because drug companies could apply pressure to the doctors and pharmacists who are members of the Committee. [More…]
This is just a part of the nonsensical attitude that is adopted towards the question of drugs by the Minister and the Department. [More…]
They have both been honoured by the Government. [More…]
They are both honourable men. [More…]
But something happens to them when they get in touch with the Department of Health. [More…]
So it is clear that the whole strength of the Committee lies in the recommendations it makes to the Minister. [More…]
As I said earlier, the members of this Committee are men of high calibre and we wish to retain their services. [More…]
If the proposed amendment is carried it could result in a situation in which these men of high quality, working in the medical, pharmaceutical and pharmacological fields,’ with high attainments and standing, would not be willing to serve upon the Committee. [More…]
Why would men of eminence refrain from serving on a committee because their names were published in the Commonwealth Gazette? [More…]
There can be no substance in that argument or in the argument about pressures upon them. [More…]
The names of men serving on health, industrial and commercial committees are known to the community at large, lt is true that pressures are exerted on those men. [More…]
My name and the names of my colleagues are published in the Government Gazette, lt is true that pressure comes from certain directions, but the members of committees have to determine the correct attitude to be adopted to a particular problem. [More…]
I suggest, with great respect to the Minister, that to imply that men of such calibre and of such high professional standing need protection by way of a form of secrecy is to impugn them. [More…]
I do not believe that men of the professional integrity and with the qualifications required to serve on this Committee would do other than welcome the opportunity and see it as an honour to be selected for service on such an important committee. [More…]
I support the amendment. [More…]
What the amendment seeks is that when the Committee makes a report recommending the removal of a certain drug from the list the name of the drug and the information should be laid before both Houses of Parliament. [More…]
I do not think that it could see any harm in making the reasons available to members of Parliament or to the public. [More…]
I would therefore say that these professional men who comprise the Committee would feel justified in making public the reasons they had. [More…]
I am pleased that Senator Greenwood referred to the acceptance of a recommendation of these committees. [More…]
If the Minister sees fit to establish these committees I think he should be obliged to accept their recommendations. [More…]
I presume that the committees will be composed of men who are well qualified to decide on the qualifications for registration of specialists. [More…]
I heard her say that in the States where there is recognition of specialists laid down in Acts of Parliament the specialists approved by the medical boards in those States under the terms and conditions laid down by Parliament might not be registered in terms of the State requirement but might be acceptable for purposes of the National Health Act. [More…]
Both the Commonwealth and Queensland Governments were determined that the best men possible should be selected to conduct the inquiry and thatthe terms of reference should be comprehensive enough to allow a thorough examination of this important matter. [More…]
It is natural that the settling of these matters between the two Governments should take some time. [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…]
Al 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…]
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 the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) has stated that he is willing to look at this question again as experience accrues in the operation of the marginal dairy farms reconstruction scheme. [More…]
From my own experience as Minister for Labour and Industry in a Stale Parliament I know that particularly in the years immediately following the war ex-servicemen and other young men who desired to establish industries on their own account, to give effect to and to provide an outlet for their own enterprise, initiative and talents, were unable to follow out their plan because of their inability to obtain capital. [More…]
To some extent I was responsible for the establishment of the North Australian Cement Ltd works at. [More…]
I was a Minister in a government which grew tired of importing cement from southern States. [More…]
It is not much use banks and other lending institutions bemoaning the introduction of this legislation and reading into it a lot of dire results, at least before this experiment - one might classify it as such - has been tried. [More…]
Statistics indicate that factories which employ more than 20 men are not great in number. [More…]
Major industries, such as the motor vehicle industry, which are employing hundreds of men are 90% foreign controlled. [More…]
Again I say that I appreciate that on these chambers of commerce there are many able and qualified men whose opinions must be taken into consideration. [More…]
But do honourable senators not think that if the Government could achieve what it aims to achieve in this legislation by merely modifying the constitution of the Australian Resources Development Bank it would have been only loo ready and happy to take this course of action? [More…]
This would have been the course that would have caused the Government less worry and would have achieved the same result, according to the Chamber of Commerce. [More…]
lt functions under State legislation, but we have as members of the Queensland Cabinet men who have a financial interest in the concerns with which they are dealing. [More…]
The Emergency List and the Royal Australian Fleet Reserve, which officers and men respectively are requested to join, are non-active and membership involves no weekly parades or compulsory training of any kind. [More…]
Men join the Royal Australian Navy Fleet Reserve for five years with a maximum age limit of 55 years. [More…]
The industry is again running down and experienced men are being lost to the industry. [More…]
Men who know the industry - not just skilled workers but management and men with production and specialist techniques - say that the Government does not seem to be insisting upon our industry getting its share of the production necessary to meet our requirements. [More…]
To summarise our position, we suggest that the Government should take a positive stand. [More…]
When the men working in the industry heard the statement made by the Leader of the Government, they were frightened because they thought it sounded like a depression technique. [More…]
Rationalisation is good only if the component parts of the Australian capacity - the Government aircraft factories and the private manufacturers - get together and work to a studied plan. [More…]
In my opinion, the Government does not have a plan. [More…]
The Government does not insist upon an Australian share in this manufacturing. [More…]
We would be interested to find out from the Government what it proposes to do in future to maintain the skilled sections of the work force in constant work, to the benefit of the country and certainly to help the defence industries. [More…]
We have had the Minister for Supply apologising for 30 minutes for the fact that the Government has no positive plans for the continuity of this industry. [More…]
We have been in this silly situation over decades of having these hills and valleys in the industry that have been highly detrimental to its whole future. [More…]
We had exactly the same thing occur some 12 months ago in relation to the Government Aircraft Factories when men who were recruited in England for the purpose of entering this industry in Australia were dismissed from the Government Aircraft Factory at Avalon after being given verbal undertakings on their recruitment of continuity of service in the industry. [More…]
They were conned into coming to this country on the basis of information given to them verbally at the recruitment centres in the United Kingdom and they found themselves in the intolerable position of purchasing homes close to the factory at Lara and then having to sell them on a depressed market if they desired to continue in the industry by finding work in the metropolitan area or at Hawker de Havilland in Sydney. [More…]
These people, in deputations to the honourable member for Cocrio (Mr Scholes) and me have indicated that they will never go back to the aircraft industry, that they will not be put in the situation where they are recruited for one project, sacked for the next and then expected by the Government to go back as soon as it gets another small project to go on with. [More…]
That is the kind of treatment which in the past has lost for us many skilled trades men whom we should have retained in the industry by providing continuity of employment for them. [More…]
About 70% of RAAF maintenance work, which includes overhauls, major services, major repairs and the incorporation of modifications to aircraft and associated equipment is done outside the Air Force. [More…]
About 95% of the servicing of ground telecommunication equipment is done by local industry, as is about 60% of the maintenance of ground support equipment. [More…]
8m will be spent by the Air Force on the repair and overhaul of its equipment and spares. [More…]
On the servicing side, private industry is receiving the greatest amount of work that we can possibly give it, while at the same time retaining sufficient work for our own men. [More…]
There is one further point; if we do not provide opportunities for men who in themselves have a burning zeal and conviction that they wish to be engaged in aircraft design and manufacturing, we will lose these men with their considerable education and qualifications. [More…]
My colleagues and I have seen men in the industry out of work. [More…]
We know that lots of skilled men are doing work which they should not bc doing. [More…]
All I am saying is that these men are doing little jobs to keep the place going when they should be doing skilled work. [More…]
The Opposition believes that in its present proposals the Government is ignoring the recognised professional talents of a large number of outstanding Australians who, for the time being, shall remain nameless. [More…]
Undoubtedly there are men of great professional ability in Australia who could contribute much to the more effective development of this Corporation. [More…]
The Opposition believes that these men, who have wide experience, background and training in the industry, should be considered for appointment to the Corporation. [More…]
The Opposition believes that this amendment is in the best interests of the efficient development of the Corporation. [More…]
It is for this reason that I have moved this amendment on behalf of the Opposition. [More…]
I have one or two observations to make in relation to the comments of Senator McManus. [More…]
Senator McManus said that he had a discussion last week with a member of the Australian Council for the Arts, which is a different organisation from the proposed Australian Film Development Corporation. [More…]
I do not know whether a member of the Arts Council is qualified to speak on behalf of the Government in relation to a corporation which will be set up under ministerial control and responsibility. [More…]
This is a matter upon which the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) may wish to comment. [More…]
The Government believes that no-one with a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in a matter of this nature should be appointed to the Corporation. [More…]
being one which has to face international competition and international cartels, members of the Corporation, if it is to be successful, must be men of ability, experience and expertise in all facets of film production. [More…]
They enter into the economical arrangements and daily concerns of every family. [More…]
The knowledge of them, as in established use, is among the first elements of education, and is often learned by those who learn nothing else, not even lo read and write. [More…]
This knowledge is riveted in the memory by the habitual application of it to the employments of men throughout life. [More…]
I understand that the Stale Government is still negotiating a price with 2 giant overseas firms which are likely to be customers. [More…]
I said how unwise it would be to allow these 2 gentlemen to have sole control over the negotiations for the construction of this power station and for the supply of power, lt is with considerable astonishment that I read in this morning’s Agc’, under the heading ‘Cabinet men get Comalco shares’, the following statement: h igh-rank ing politicians in 3 States - including nearly half the Queensland Cabinet - arc being allotted thousands of shares in the controversial Comalco Lui share issue. [More…]
Mr Chalk, is one of the men who has accepted a parcel of shares. [More…]
Previously I have expressed the personal view, which I repeat, that a parliamentarian does nol cease to be a citizen or to enjoy the rights of a citizen when he becomes a parliamentarian, lt seems to me to be completely unreal to suggest that because a man chooses to represent the people of this country his own personal affairs should become public property. [More…]
That is a matter of judgment. [More…]
That is an occupational hazard, lt seems to me that that is vastly different from suggesting that because a man chooses to do one of the highest things that a man probably can aspire to, namely, to represent his fellow men, the whole of his domestic life and the whole of his rights as a citizen in the matter of the investment of his savings or anything else should become public property. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services and MinisterinCharge of Aboriginal Affairs, ls the Minister aware that a conference between Commonwealth and State Ministers for Aboriginal Affairs and departmental officers was held at Brisbane on Monday, 8th June and that no Aboriginal or Islander was present? [More…]
In view of the fact that the Aborigines and Islanders Council sought and was refused a hearing by the Commonwealth Minister on that dale, will the Minister agree that in all future discussions of this nature white men alone be not allowed to make decisions and that a majority of Aboriginals and Islanders be included in such conferences? [More…]
Many young men and women who were called up for Army service during that time contracted it and for a time, because of its severity, the diagnosis of rubella was in doubt. [More…]
Perhaps it would not look good, politically, if the black man who regularly beats the best any nation can oiler went on to beat die best white men in South Africa. [More…]
There is no room for racism of this sort in international sport, which ideally provides a way for men to meet and test each other on their merits, without the intrusion of politics or racial inequality. [More…]
To preserve a theory of white supremacy, the South African Government refuses to submit its athletes to the challenge of coloured men. [More…]
I do not recall any allegations that I made which would justify the belief that I was making allegations about the behaviour of those 2 men. [More…]
Men in many sections of the building industry, including Government employees were unemployed, because materials were not available. [More…]
Among those men were 9 carpenters, from various jobs, who had no association with the strike at all. [More…]
Their union had never instructed its member at the cement works to go out on strike. [More…]
The man of whom I have spoken went out on strike by decision of the men on the job concerned. [More…]
At the only 2 meetings at which the delegate of that union was present, the disputes committee brought back a recommendation to the striking cement workers that work should be resumed pending negotiation. [More…]
Everything would indicate that the union did not participate in this strike and that it was anxious to get the cement workers back to work for the purpose of permitting the carpenters to resume work. [More…]
Obviously these men were not direct participants in a strike. [More…]
The Minister has taken the attitude that because one out of 4.000 or 5,000 members of a union acted in accordance with the decision of the men on the job where he worked, no-one dismissed from employment because of shortage of materials or for any other reason qualifies for unemployment benefit. [More…]
I think that I have a fair amount of resource, but my endeavours have failed to obtain elementary equipment. [More…]
We need the equipment and facilities to do our jobs properly. [More…]
Men of the calibre of Dr Cairns and others have spent most of their working lifetimes in the service of the public in this great institution. [More…]
They are not even provided with a secretary when they attend Parliament. [More…]
It must seem incredible to people outside Parliament that we are working under such conditions. [More…]
The trouble is that in this Parliament we have fallen into the error of allowing many of the facilities and much of the equipment to be supplied by the Executive and not by Parliament. [More…]
I think it is quite wrong that we must turn to the Prime Minister’s Department to ask for these resources. [More…]
Sometimes there are arguments about whether it is the responsibility of the Prime Minister’s Department, the Treasury or the Department of the Interior to supply them. [More…]
On occasions the Department of the Senate would supply the facilities. [More…]
I suggest that the Parliament should make a fair and proper allocation to each House. [More…]
I do not think it is right that members of Parliament, especially those in the Opposition, should have to go to the executive branch and ask for facilities. [More…]
These men are not clock watchers. [More…]
They go to the Reef, spend unlimited hours in the search for fish, shells and growth which they examine and on which they carry out experiments with a view to determining the commercial and other value of their experiments. [More…]
I commend the Government for this progressive step. [More…]
At the Townsville university Professor Burden-Jones leads a small team of very dedicated men and women. [More…]
Will grants such as that of $3m authorised by this measure be made only when an election is in the offing, or should we expect that sums of money will regularly be made available so that a proper continuity of scientific research will be maintained with adequate equipment? [More…]
If that is to be the case, obviously there is great merit in the establishment of the Institute. [More…]
I understand that the sums of money concerned are $454,930 for the Roberts Hall at Monash University in Victoria and $47,241 for the Women’s Hall of Residence al the University of Tasmania. [More…]
In my young days during my university course I was fortunate to be resident at a college, and I believe that a college is of immense advantage to any young student. [More…]
The mere fact that a couple of hundred young men live together, talk together - the play of mind on mind - is, I believe, of immense value to them. [More…]
The South Australian Railways will not have its permanent way men employed on the line. [More…]
If it is a responsibility of the South Australian Government to maintain the fencing it can be done only at very great expense to that Government, which will have to transport men to the site. [More…]
I should have thought that it would have been in the Commonwealth’s interest, because of the damage that, cattle can cause to rolling stock and other equipment, to accept that responsibility. [More…]
These drugs have been approved by what I should imagine is a most wonderful body of men who are attempting to do their best by releasing particular drugs to the community, although they do not know what the effect of the drugs will be. [More…]
He must at all times be certain that he has no interest in a company which has dealings with him in his particular portfolio; for instance, he has to be certain that he will not have to make a judgment in relation to a company in which he might have a share investment. [More…]
That is the criterion which I personally would apply, and I am sure it is the criterion which all the men whom I know in public life would apply. [More…]
He supports the Bill, as all men of intelligence will. [More…]
The International Sugar Agreement has been renegotiated after some years of desuetude. [More…]
The Commonwealth preference agreement for sugar on the British market is continuing. [More…]
All these factors, taken in conjunction with the efficiency of the industry, the mechanics of its operation and the international and national agreements enable the sugar industry to function on a competent level of efficiency and to produce a return to farmers, in general terms. [More…]
I believe that there will have to be a rethinking on the part of the Government in relation to its policies in regard to the primary industries of this country. [More…]
I regret the contents of this Tariff Board report because it deprives dairy men of another outlet which they are anxious to exploit. [More…]
It is happening at a time when the men who have contributed so much towards the progress and development of Australia are going in the other direction. [More…]
III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; [More…]
Does the Minister representing the PostmasterGeneral recall that recently producers of an Australian Broadcasting Commission Four Corners’ programme relating to the Duntroon Royal Military College were criticised by the Minister for the Army and certain back bench Government supporters for giving a false impression of military life at the Duntroon Royal Military College in that they produced simulated films of men being forced to do push-ups and taking showers fully clothed? [More…]
In view of the findings of the Fox Committee which inquired into the Duntroon Military College - specifically the findings that unauthorised forms of push-ups and the like should be completely eradicated and that bathrooms should be used only for the purpose for which they are intended - will the Minister agree that the ‘Four Corners’ producers have been completely vindicated in having simulated for public edification some of the intolerable acts that have been going on for some years, and rather than being criticised they should have been congratulated for having fairly portrayed the type of humiliating treatment that was meted out to new recruits at Duntroon? [More…]
Senator Wilkinson referred also to the provision of additional capital for the acquisition of more land for development purposes. [More…]
According to the information provided to mc, the built-up dairy farmer will be in a position to compete on equal terms with other farmers for a share of the development finance available from the normal sources of such funds. [More…]
An explanation of the position is that 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…]
I think Senator Prowse also asked who would say what a farm was worth in the event of one man wanting more for the improvements than the other. [More…]
As for the risk that a continuation of rising costs will require the setting of higher limits for marginal farms, the Agreement makes provision in clause 5 that the present level of 12,000 lb of butter fat can be amended to such other level as may from time to time be agreed by the State and Commonwealth Ministers. [More…]
1 heard the other day of 3 warrant officers, indispensible men to our Army, who are resigning to become members of a security service because the inducements which that security service offers them are far greater than the inducements to remain in our armed forces. [More…]
The difficulty which the men feel they face is that any Army regulations they are prohibited from putting their case with the strength and the publicity that they would like. [More…]
I know that there are long standing regulations regarding discipline which state that members of the armed forces shall not take certain steps by way of publicity and approaching members of Parliament. [More…]
I think that in the new Army of today a lot of those regulations are out of date and should be replaced by provisions which will enable men to make representations in a proper way to a tribunal which can examine their claims, report upon them and make decisions on them. [More…]
1 do not want to labour the question, but I believe that the future successful organisation and development of our armed forces depend to a considerable extent upon the retention of trained officers and non-commissioned officers and upon a feeling of satisfaction amongst the other ranks. [More…]
Unless and until the Parliament does something to ensure that they get adequate wages and conditions so that they will regard a position in our armed forces as a career, the shortage of adequately trained officers and noncommissioned officers will continue; men will not re-enlist at the end of their term of enlistment, and 1 do not believe it will be possible to develop our armed forces effectively so as to face the serious problems of the future. [More…]
I support the Bill, but I wish that it had been a Bill to give a similar improvement in conditions to the general body of the forces. [More…]
I will move an amendment that will reduce the price. [More…]
Any man with red blood in him would be trying to get the wheat out of the bins the best way he could, lo making a judgment on the price of over quota wheat the Board has to consider whether it should fix a price that will enable the grower to clear his storages and just to cover his costs for the year, or whether it should allow stock to starve. [More…]
This requires the judgment of experienced men. [More…]
The Board consists of experienced rural producers and it is the body best able to make a judgment. [More…]
Men seem to fall over. [More…]
No scientific basis is applied to the assessment of entitlement to compensation. [More…]
Surely the life expectancy of each of those men is different. [More…]
I suppose it could be said that for a long time we have been the people in Australia who have done the most pleading with the Government not to allow the Snowy Mountains Authority to run down but to keep the skilled staff together as the Snowy scheme drew to a close. [More…]
I trust that enough of those men are still available to form a nucleus of the new organisation. [More…]
Over the last 20 years we in Australia have seen the Snowy Mountains scheme progress and we have seen the great success that has accompanied the efforts of the engineers and other professional men and the skilled and unskilled labour that have been engaged in that wonderful project. [More…]
I notice from the Bill that in addition to the Corporation having a director and 2 assistant-directors - and I take it that these gentlemen will be professional men - there will be a consultative body of 6; 4 members appointed in relation to engineering work in Australia and elsewhere of whom 2 shall be representative of the engineering profession, and 2 members appointed in relation to engineering works outside Australia. [More…]
lt occurred to me that if there are going to be 4 members and 2 of them could be men in the engineering profession outside Australia- [More…]
Two shall be professional men from outside Australia, but then there are to be appointed a further 2 in relation to engineering works outside Australia. [More…]
I agree with Senator Willesee that lbc Government must give an explanation for that. [More…]
They will continue to be of service to the Commonwealth Government, to the State governments and to other people in need of their advice in designing and other works to be carried out. [More…]
These people are men of competence. [More…]
1 have been advised by the Association of Professional Engineers that on behalf of professional engineers - dedicated men who had worked for the Authority for 20 or 25 years and who were concerned about their own future and that of their families - it tried to get before the inter-departmental committee, but the committee sat in secret and was not prepared to listen to any advice from the professional engineers. [More…]
The Association then went before the Deputy PublicService Arbitrator and was able to receive for its members by way of redundancy payment a fortnight’s pay for every year of service with the Authority. [More…]
1 know that the Government will endeavour to select the most responsible men available for the’ job, but because of the heavy responsibilities they will bear the Opposition says that their remuneration should be determined by this Parliament. [More…]
That is provided for in paragraph (a) of the proposed amendment. [More…]
I remind the Government that the excuse it made on previous occasions was that these men were not entitled to aid of this nature because this country was not at war. [More…]
In the last few days my colleague, Senator Brown, and I have endeavoured to find out whether any documents exist to show that Australia is al war in Vietnam. [More…]
I think this question will have to be resolved if men. [More…]
On Tuesday, in reply to a question I put on notice and in which I asked for a copy of the document which it was claimed set out in detail the request of South Vietnam for Australian military assistance to be tabled, I received the following answer from the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton): [More…]
The Commonwealth Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony) has agreed to make available to the State committee a senior officer of the Department of Primary Industry. [More…]
The committee is comprised of practical men with experience in these matters. [More…]
But at the present time there is no Government policy providing for the re-establishment of a Vietnam veteran under the terms of the War Service Land Settlement Act as we know it. [More…]
A Vietnam veteran is re-established on the land by obtaining a sum of money - 1 think it is $6,000- through (he Defence (Reestablishment) Act. [More…]
Money is made available in the Budget each year to accommodate these men. [More…]
First, they seek to impose unfair taxes; taxes which are of an inequitable nature in that they will fall ultimately on the consumers, the family men, the people least able to bear them in the community. [More…]
Let us examine the statement to which Senator Greenwood gave so much credence. [More…]
This is the statement thai it was recognised that if there was substantial revenue loss and no replacement tax the inflationary effects on the country would be severe. [More…]
Inflation is the big bad stick which the Government produces to beat everybody into submission, as though none of us understood the workings of the economy of a country. [More…]
If the Government were to tell the housewife that she was living cheaper as the result of a 1% increase in interest rates, she would laugh at it. [More…]
She would be right, not the economists who are telling the Government that this action ultimately will prevent inflation. [More…]
The Government has been increasing interest rates over the last 12 years from 4% to 8%. [More…]
What marvellous faith and confidence we should have in men who have such illusions. [More…]
1 did say at the beginning of my speech that I would prove that the statement that this was what the States wanted was not an accurate statement. [More…]
I have in my hand a document which was tabled in the Legislative Assembly of the Victorian Parliament by Sir Henty Bolte on 26th February 1970. [More…]
I propose to read some extracts from this document to prove my contention that Senator Greenwood was completely wrong in his assumption that the States, as represented by their Premiers, favoured this receipts duty tax and that it was at their request that the Commonwealth decided to introduce this legislation. [More…]
Over the last 6 or 7 months the Prime Minister and other members of the Government have been stumping around the country with promises. [More…]
In other words, they have been all things to all men. [More…]
If it was pensioners who wanted a dollar, the Government said: ‘We will give that to you’. [More…]
If it was the Public Service which wanted an increase in salary, the Government said: We will give that to you’. [More…]
Then in the 1930s we saw the rise in the trade union movement for the first lime of the power of the Australian Communist Party. [More…]
All I wish to say about collective bargaining is that it might work well if there are men of good will on both sides, but in a system where we cannot be assured of men ot good will on both sides collective bargaining could provide a system under which we would have a continual situation of industrial disorder. [More…]
Therefore adherence to arbitration is still the policy of the Australian trade union movement. [More…]
In conversations over the weekend with 2 men who have had a lifetime of experience in the trade union movement and who have been associated with the arbitration system, both of them assured me that they shared my pessimism. [More…]
We have been in a period of full employment and of considerable prosperity. [More…]
I made reference to thai in a speech in early 1969 when I recited in the Senate complaints which had been made to me by men in the trade union movement who were by no means Communists, who by no means could be described as extremists’ and who could be described, I suppose, as ‘moderates’, if I may use that term. [More…]
He pulls his members out on strike and as a result they get an improvement in their wages and conditions. [More…]
The young man tells all the members of his union that the official of the other union took his men out on strike and got. [More…]
If the Government wants to apply price fixation in terms of the cost of labour, it should likewise apply it to the cost of the goods and services that the people have to buy in order to live. [More…]
In other words, if the Government expects the trade union movement to accept its proposals, likewise the trade union movement expects the Government to apply some system of rationalisation to costs and prices which at least will create an integrated economy. [More…]
Until that happens I am sure that members of the trade union movement will not accept in any circumstances such restrictions, limitations and prohibitions on their rights as free men. [More…]
In the interests of this country we should aim to keep the wheels of industry moving so that the mass of the people, the men we want to be connected with in life, get a fair go. [More…]
1 atn amazed that the Government, by demanding that certain fines imposed in the past have to be paid, expects to achieve that by this Bill which I think is a waste of the paper it is printed on. [More…]
We know what its incidence is We know very well that honourable senators on the Government side are only too pleased to be able to smooth off a debate on such an important clause as this is. [More…]
He had the intestinal fortitude to go to gaol on behalf of his fellow men and to say: I am the symbol of dissent against these unjust laws which take from men the right to decent terms and conditions of employment. [More…]
Then we have had that garrulous little group led by 2 aging ulcer-ridden leaders continually interrupting the debate and continually voting with the Government in order to bash the trade unions and every member of trade unions into the ground. [More…]
These so-called former Labor men have no desire to see justice granted to those people who have to earn their living with their muscles and their brains. [More…]
If the Government is to do the right thing by Australia, by the trade unions and by the millions of members of trade unions, it will do as we request. [More…]
After discussions with the State Minister for Transport and the Commissioner for Road Transport the following resolution was carried by a meeting of the men on the job: [More…]
This was a group of men doing just a humdrum job but a vital job. [More…]
This is what amasses me: When working men want to better themselves - in this case the dispute related to the supply of overalls which would have cost peanuts - there is great objection from other people who in the main are receiving much higher remuneration, and there is a complete impasse. [More…]
I notice that the resolution commences with the words ‘We resume as from midnight.’. [More…]
lt is part and parcel of a parliamentarian’s work to attend various functions. [More…]
Do honourable senators ever realise that those men are performing a vital function? [More…]
This is a case that the trade union movement did not win. [More…]
I indict the Commonwealth Government for its lack of action in this matter, because if sufficient disbursements of Commonwealth funds had been made available to the Stales the Premier of New South Wales and his Transport Minister who is responsible for matters of this sort would have said: ‘What does the cost of 4 or more sets of overalls for these offers matter?’ [More…]
These are some of the problems facing these men. [More…]
If one looks at the records of the Industrial Welfare Division of the Department of Labour and National Service one finds that there is a higher incidence of dermatitis today amongst workers using fuel oil than there has ever been before. [More…]
In fact they are making a contribution to the development of our nation. [More…]
It was brought in for the protection of the worker at a time when the employer had a big reserve of finance and could wait until the men had reached the point of starvation and were prepared to return to work. [More…]
Now we have the reverse position where the capital investment in machinery is so great that the employer cannot afford a stoppage of industry. [More…]
It is alleged that the arbitration system awards the wage which industry can afford to pay, but over award payments have been gained outside arbitration to a degree that demonstrates that arbitration has not fulfilled that requirement. [More…]
Much more has been gained through over award payments than the arbitration system has been prepared to give. [More…]
At that time, when events were burning themselves into the brains of those who were experiencing hardship as a result of the depression and when men were out of work, women were worried and children were hungry, Sir Wilfrid Kent Hughes was in charge of State relief. [More…]
He was enlisting the support of the Government and voluntary organisations. [More…]
Have any national servicemen who, prior to call-up. [More…]
were employed in the Commonwealth Public Service, since been discharged medically unfit, Class’C’; if so, were such men re-employed by the Public Service Board, or were they retired and, if so, were they given full pensions under the Commonwealth Superannuation Act. [More…]
The Government seems to be incapable. [More…]
The Government cannot do anything about the weather pattern, but later I shall have something to say about how the Government has failed. [More…]
It is only now that we have before the Parliament measures to complete the emasculation of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority. [More…]
The Government has no vigorous policy for water conservation, irrigation and fodder conservation. [More…]
lt has none of these great national objectives that any government worth its salt would have. [More…]
The Government should have anticipated that this cycle would come eventually, but it is finding today that these critical things have caught up with it and it has only palliatives - little sticking plasters to put over the cancers in our society. [More…]
Senator Webster, other members of the Country Party and other Government supporters are whistling in the dark to keep up their courage. [More…]
The worst feature is that the economic conditions combined with the drought are forcing good men off the land. [More…]
I wonder how many Government supporters who are interjecting really know the ravages of drought. [More…]
How many Government supporters know of the utter hopelessness of a drought period as stock search fruitlessly for any sort of fodder - for roots or dry grass of any kind? [More…]
How many people in this Parliament or in the cities have watched the recent stock and wool sales and sensed the depressed spirit of farmers who are forced to take market prices that they know very well will be insufficient to cover their costs of production? [More…]
These men are the victims of a ruthless Government that is telling them that their only choice is to get big or gel out. [More…]
What a cynical approach for any government. [More…]
The only concrete statement made this afternoon by Senator O’Bryne was that the men in primary industries need help now. [More…]
The Government realises that they need help now. [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 - pagans are those who live in the country. [More…]
Today we have this situation of depression among farmers in the most fertile areas and the threat of foreclosure, particularly for the small men. [More…]
Employment in the country areas is in such a bad state that large numbers of people previously employed in rural production are forced to go to the cities. [More…]
This has been detrimental not only to the rural industries but also to the interests of the workers because every time there is an increase in the costs of goods that means a little more money comes out of the pockets of the men who cannot afford it. [More…]
For years honourable senators in this place - Senator Wright was one of them - and men throughout Australia have been warning the people as to what must eventually happen unless something was done to halt the spiral of wages chasing prices, ever onwards and upwards. [More…]
I shall come in a moment to the something else which could happen. [More…]
The Committee, presumably understanding the situation, has deliberately brought in a regulation, for which it seeks approval of the Senate, which will deny promotion from the Fourth Division to the Third Division of a large number of men in the Public Service. [More…]
Most of the members present were not legal men but 1 firmly hold to the belief that the old regulation 112 would no longer apply. [More…]
There may be a number of men who hold the qualification necessary for transfer but their transfer and promotion is determined by section 35 of the Public Service Act. [More…]
On April 26, 1967, I stated in a speech: ‘What kind of men have we at the helm of government who would deliberately coerce the public into accepting their policies on the threat of being branded traitors?’ [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has always said that there has been a weakness in the Government’s concept of foreign affairs. [More…]
I exclude Harold Wilson because the Government never accepted him in spite of the economic problems he faced. [More…]
One can go through Hansard and see that until Neville Chamberlain received his walking ticket supporters of the Government said that he had all the answers. [More…]
But the moment Churchill took over they shifted ground. [More…]
In relation to Vietnam this Government is doing the same thing. [More…]
Many prominent Americans who were Republicans or Democrats have been big enough men to realise that a basis for a successful Vietnam policy has not been established. [More…]
The low and middle income earners, especially the family men, are hammered by this Government’s policies. [More…]
Apart from the Budget the Government has over the last year tolerated and encouraged an increase in interest rates, lt has forced up the interest rates. [More…]
I asked the Leader of the Government, who is the Minister representing the Treasurer in this place, but he could give no answer. [More…]
That is to his credit, but it does not relieve those forced to pay interest at rates which they never dreamed of when entering into a home loan or other commitment. [More…]
Instead of doing that, it is much easier, because they are an easy chopping block, to turn around and attack the trade union leaders and to say that they are terrible men, when they are trying to obtain justice for their own members. [More…]
Violence on trains and on unmanned station platforms has caused thousands of commuters, men and women to abandon rail travel after dark once the peak period if over. [More…]
I also mention the spectacle of what have been called treason rooms. [More…]
I believe that these are set up in the capital cities - in trades halls and other places - to advise young men how to evade their national service obligations; in effect, how to break the law. [More…]
I have in fact read - and nobody has challenged the statement - that Dr Cairns did invite certain people from the countries concerned to come to Australia as a part of the Moratorium Campaign and matters associated with it. [More…]
I think it would be deplorable if we encouraged those people to come here having regard to the fact that we have an Australian involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
It would be a complete affront, having in mind the policy of the Government in this matter, to those men of ours, and also women in certain fields, who are in the South East Asian area representing Australia and who are confronted by enemies from North Vietnam. [More…]
Senator Milliner said that the Commonwealth Government printery is obviously well behind in ils work and the reason for that undoubtedly would be a shortage of trained manpower. [More…]
We will continue in that unfortunate condition unless we stimulate the printing industry generally and provide it with work on an economic basis which will attract employment and attract apprentices to the industry. [More…]
First, it will assist Australian publishers, Secondly, it will expand employment and training opportunities for young men in Australia interested in printing and ultimately will help to relieve the tremendous shortage of technicians which has the consequences to which Senator Milliner has referred. [More…]
I do not think it is reasonable that any body of men such as ourselves should start, as we do, at 9 a.m. - whether in party, executive or Cabinet meetings or elsewhere - and then sit here until 11 or 12 o’clock at night. [More…]
PMG public relations men say this happens when there’s a shortage of staff or vehicles. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the Postal Department incurs a loss when some telegrams and small parcels are delivered by taxi because of a shortage of personnel or vehicles. [More…]
This is due to the bad administration of the Postal Department. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has been agitating for some years for the administration of the Postal Department to come within the responsibility of some sort of board and not to be under ministerial control, which has led to waste, extravagance and loss. [More…]
The number of men who now operate that port is infinitesimal. [More…]
The Minister for Shipping and Transport has occasionally spoken rather tersely about the shipping companies but the Government has never really got tough with them. [More…]
Senator Branson referred to the mythical millions and it is significant that the Government did not at that time answer his question. [More…]
It was jettisoned from the notice paper until the next session of Parliament. [More…]
Even if I am wrong in that statement I defy anybody to give me figures showing a comparison of the cost of man-hours lost in industry during the protest against this Budget held last week with the cost to the rural industries of increased shipping freights. [More…]
I had the very great privilege of representing this Parliament as an observer at the United Nations in late 1968. [More…]
This is one of the greatest experiences that any member of Parliament can have. [More…]
When the United Nations was constituted and built on the ashes of the old League of Nations, which was the hope of the people of that day, we all hoped that it would be a tremendous force for world peace, that it would be a council where men representing the various countries of the world could go and discuss dispassionately and in a friendly way the great problems of the time. [More…]
Let me say from the Government side that the Senate will be the worse for not having the benefit of his comments over future years. [More…]
I imagine that the loss felt by the Senate will also be a loss felt by him because I know that he has a love for the institution of Parliament, and particularly for the institution of the Senate. [More…]
1 rise to support the motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), namely, that the Senate take note of the Budget Papers. [More…]
That advice is given and put in writing by men who, I believe, have every desire to see the Australian community progress and improve the very high position that it has obtained in world circles as at 1970. [More…]
Most international Hying drops down and then goes up to the Northern Hemisphere pattern and there is considerable importance through time in the development of a Southern Hemisphere pattern. [More…]
Captain Sir Gordon Taylor, was one of the men who pioneered this route and I think was the first man to land on Easter Island. [More…]
He was one of nine Airmen at a table, some playing cards, the others watching. [More…]
The caption said ‘Awaiting any urgent call for action, RAAF men pass the time playing cards’. [More…]
There was a time in Australian history when we knew what Australian governments and Australia as a nation stood for. [More…]
They were men and women who believed in social justice. [More…]
But, as I look closely at the Budget Papers presented by the present Treasurer, I see in them no evidence that this Government believes in social justice or that it is prepared to face up to the need for social reform in our society of the 1970s. [More…]
In fact, the Government itself admit1;, to use the Treasurer’s own words in his Budget Speech, that inequity has grown into the taxation system. [More…]
Senator Drake-Brockman, who in the Senate represents the Minister for Primary Industry (Mr Anthony), told us today at question time that men engaged in this industry have not been able to take holidays for 3 or 4 years because of the shortage of Commonwealth meat inspectors. [More…]
Men have had to be brought from New Zealand to work in our abattoirs to get our exports flowing. [More…]
Our objection is to the failure of the Budget to contain an indication of a co-ordinated plan for the future defence of our country - a plan which should be based upon vital proposals such as one for a naval base in the west for the defence of northern Australia and also for our commitments to the assistance of allies, particularly those in South East Asia. [More…]
The ALP amendment makes no reference at all to what is perhaps a vital issue in regard to our defence - the increasing number of resignations from the forces and the failure to maintain the strength particularly of officers and noncommissioned officers. [More…]
We believe that an essential feature of the defence vote in any Budget is that provision should be made for improved remuneration for those who enter the service of their country so that in future young men may make the armed forces a career. [More…]
The recommendation to the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party to oppose the receipts tax Bill in the Senate was a recommendation made, Mr Calwell said, by a parliamentary executive of aging men desperate to implant their rears upon the back seats of ministerial limousines. [More…]
It has been pointed out before in this chamber that it is very difficult for a woman - even a man - over the age of 50 to obtain employment. [More…]
However, because a married couple are permitted to earn only $17 a week part time employment has to be found. [More…]
Some men who are forced to retire on reaching the age of 65 have wives who are not eligible for the age pension. [More…]
If these men have contributed to a superannuation fund or receive a lump sum payment in the form of a retirement benefit restrictions are placed on how much the wife can earn if she wants to work. [More…]
1 suggest to the Government that one way this sort of problem could be overcome would be to increase the permissible earnings of pensioners whose wives are not eligible for the pension. [More…]
Also, if the wife’s permissible earnings were increased 1 feel that she would have a better chance to obtain employment than she has under the present circumstances. [More…]
Senator LILLICO (Tasmania) 1 10.42] - At the outset I would like to say that 1 cannot commend too strongly the maiden speech that was delivered in this chamber this evening by Senator Douglas Scott. [More…]
As he pointed out, there is a danger even in this country of organised defiance of the law, when people in public places and when prominent men openly advocate defiance of the law. [More…]
Here in Australia month after month we hear of cases of men being stopped from going into New Guinea and, in fact, of being stopped from coming to Australia. [More…]
I need only mention the names of Mr Semenov and Dr Mandel. [More…]
This repressive Government is destroying the freedoms to which we are entitled. [More…]
How is it that the great United States of America can allow men like Mr Gregory to speak freely against the war in Vietnam7 How is it that Australian citizens, including members of this Parliament, can go across to the United States and speak against the war? [More…]
The Government’s refusal to grant a visa is not merely a denial of freedom to Mr Gregory; it is a denial of freedom to all of us. [More…]
It is set out in the Declaration of human rights, as it has been set out in the other great documents through history, that we are entitled to freedom of speech. [More…]
Why should Australia be deprived of the right to listen to the views of men such as Mr Gregory regardless of whether the Government approves of these views? [More…]
The Government’s policy is to allow the maximum freedom of travel to Australia and people are not prevented from visiting Australia just because their political views may differ from those of the Government. [More…]
The Government is not willing to authorise visits by persons whose activities are considered to be contrary to the national interest and where the stated purpose of the visit is judged to be not bona fide. [More…]
In the Government’s view this applies where the intentions are related to a one-sided, distorted anti-war Moratorium Campaign which is inimical to the objectives for which our troops are fighting in Vietnam. [More…]
If authority were given to people to come to Australia for the purpose of this Moratorium Campaign I believe it would be betraying Australian servicemen in Vietnam. [More…]
1, as are thousand of other Australians, am proud of our servicemen wherever they may be. [More…]
I oppose anything that would betray those young men. [More…]
Those 2 men were allowed to go to England on a diplomatic mission. [More…]
Senator Murphy’s broad thesis is that the Government seems to be completely unforgiving in regard to this ban. [More…]
Obviously in British governments, whether they be Labour or Conservative - I am linking Ernest Bevin with 1 or 2 Conservative Foreign Secretaries - There have been latent feelings about the Stern Gang and some of the atrocities that were perpetrated against British servicemen. [More…]
Let me say that in my own Australian Labor Party branches I have men who were members of the British Army and who have reservations on that score. [More…]
But those men do not say that because a particular gentleman who warned to go to New Guinea had a Stern Gang background he should have been denied entry to New Guinea - in effect the past was forgotten. [More…]
We can read some of the speeches made by a former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies. [More…]
Nobody has objected when people have been a menace in that way. [More…]
Super-confidence men may have been admitted to this country. [More…]
We object now because the Government is trying to equate criminals with people who hold non-conformist political views. [More…]
That is where we part company with the Government completely. [More…]
The Government adopts the attitude that we are always wrong and the Government is always right. [More…]
It takes only a half a dozen committed men to bring a city to a standstill. [More…]
Ten thousand black folks in the streets of the ghetto are like, wind and snow; a momentary storm which runs its course in a few days. [More…]
Great conscience men, are they not? [More…]
kind of things that are going on and the kind of people who are complaining about the action of the Government. [More…]
Why does not the Government use the laws it has at present? [More…]
Why are the young men who refuse to register for national service not gaoled? [More…]
Why did not the Government carry out its proposal to put them to work on isolated farms or sheep stations in the centre of Australia? [More…]
Has not the Government the intestinal fortitude to enforce the laws that it has? [More…]
People break the law, and the Government says that the law has to be obeyed. [More…]
But it has not the intestinal fortitude to enforce the laws that the Parliament has authorised to be put on the statute book. [More…]
People have been convicted of offences against the National Service Act and the Government is not prepared to collect the fines imposed on them. [More…]
If it is good enough for the Government to ignore the law and to have the courts used for the purpose of convicting people, and if the Government is not prepared to enforce the sentences imposed by the courts, how can the Government gain any respect from the people when it tries to say that other people are encouraging a breach of the law? [More…]
Obviously the law must be a bad one if the Government is not prepared to enforce it. [More…]
If the Government is of the opinion that the law is a bad one, how can it substantiate criticism of people who say that a bad law should be protested against. [More…]
If the Government were honest about our involve ment in the undeclared war in Vietnam, if it believed in what it was doing and believed that Australia would be affected in any way by the struggle, it would have declared war, in which case everyone would have played some part in the struggle, by contributing their money, or their life as has happened in a number of instances. [More…]
But as Senator Cant has said, all the Government has done has been to conscript a number of young men and send them to Vietnam because it could not attract volunteers by putting up a case to show why Australia should be involved. [More…]
I believe that the Government by adopting the attitude that it has in this case is displaying one of the worst advertisements that this country has had in the councils of the world. [More…]
A Commonwealth Minister and his Government, for example, rising in the Parliament to tell the world thai Australian democracy would be threatened by a short visit from one of America’s vocal, but non-violent, rebels. [More…]
The thing that has disturbed me the most is the fact that Senator Murphy has accused the Government of the crime of refusing an entry permit to Mr Gregory because he is a negro. [More…]
I recollect distinctly that Senator Murphy accused the Government of racism. [More…]
The applications for visas were made by both men on the appropriate form at the same, time at the office of the Consul-General. [More…]
At the same time as he made this statement 2 men appeared in the office of the Consul-General in New York - Mr Gregory and Mr McGraw - and applied for a visa to come to Australia. [More…]
The 2 men were Mr Gregor)’ and the man who edited his book. [More…]
A function of government is to ensure that law and order is maintained. [More…]
I suggest, in the strongest possible terms, that a reasonable deduction to he drawn is that the intention in bringing to Australia men who are known to have been involved in civil disturbances of one kind or another in their own country, if nothing else is known, was to set in being some of the circumstances by which civil commotion may or could arise in Australia. [More…]
I think that, in those circumstances, the Australian Government cannot be accused of refusing entry to men who wanted to come to Australia for sightseeing nor can it be accused of refusing entry to men who wanted to come to Australia to bring alien ideas to Australians. [More…]
The Government is refusing entry to two men whose arrival will be coincidental with a period when civil disturbance and commotion may take place in Australia. [More…]
Any government that has any responsibility or any concept of the responsibilities that accrue to it as a government inevitably is bound to ask itself: Are these innocent sightseers or have they an ulterior motive?’ [More…]
The Government could have used the services of the Security Service, which seems to have enough time and money to spend investigating the affairs of men such as this. [More…]
Apparently the Government considers that the taxpayers’ money should be spent on investigating and surveilling the activities of citizens of another friendly country such as the United States of America. [More…]
Where is the proof that these men told a lie, that in particular Mr Dick Gregory told a lie when he put ‘sightseeing’ on his application? [More…]
With all the resources at its disposal, the Government cannot produce proof. [More…]
If it could have produced the proof, its members would have said that the Government had an application for a visa, that an invitation to speak at the Moratorium Campaign had been issued before the date on the application, and that what he put on the application at the time was a lie. [More…]
His statement is that at that time he had not been approached by either the NUAUS or the Moratorium Committee. [More…]
use of the word ‘sightseeing9 was quite a reasonable statement to make. [More…]
At that conference the representatives of the 67 nations will be told that Australia insists upon excluding from our country men who want to speak to Australians in a way which is not palatable to the Government. [More…]
The Government does not object to that. [More…]
That is crystal clear from what the Government has said. [More…]
Do not let it be said that Australia would stop men from coming here because they wanted to speak on political matters.’ [More…]
This is the kind of talk that is coming more and more from this Government. [More…]
This is our land as well as the Government’s and we do not like what the Government is doing to it. [More…]
We do not like the fact that the Government is keeping out men of world renown, apart from other citizens, on these kinds of grounds, what is the Government’s excuse for keeping out men like Dr Mandel? [More…]
Men and women all over the world are trying to stamp out the colour bar in South Africa. [More…]
There we would have merely an interplay of back stage men using the table of this House as the focus on which to put their paper. [More…]
1 would not vote for any curtailment of the present right to ask questions on notice and to have answers stated orally in Senate assembled. [More…]
I think the Government ought to have a close look at the matter and try to relate the pension to the basic level of earnings. [More…]
What is required in Australia in our social service system, simply on the money level, is a determination of the needs of a family according to the size and rate of benefit adequate to meet their needs, regardless of whether the breadwinner suffered a setback due to poor seasons or loss of markets in the case of a farmer, or due to unemployment or physical incapacity. [More…]
present the minimum wage could hardly be claimed to be an adequate income for men with large families. [More…]
Such men are not helped by this Budget in which the maximum tax cut of $500 per annum goes to the man with a taxable income of $16,000 a year. [More…]
Perhaps it is too much to expect of this Government that it should apply the ordinary rule of justice when it comes to providing for the needs of the ordinary people in the community. [More…]
If the intention of tax deductions is to assist the lower income man with dependants, he would be much better off if deductions were abolished and the extra revenue raised given back either as a form of negative taxation or as drastically increased child endowment. [More…]
The dairy farms reconstruction scheme will not force men off their land. [More…]
By Government assistance they will be helped to leave the land with dignity. [More…]
We hear of such things as mad hatter’s parties and the Leader of the Australian Labor Party talking about his Executive as witless men. [More…]
From the subjects chosen for debate and from the lack of interest in debate displayed by the Opposition we find there is a one-track mind of pure unadulterated destructive criticism of Government policy. [More…]
I do not deny the right of an opposition to critise but I do believe it is the right of every public man in this public forum - this national Parliament - to try to add something by way of speeches and representation to improve the lot of the people and to improve the Government. [More…]
One could go on suspecting until the end of time everything which is done by governments. [More…]
Surely we have some faith in governments? [More…]
Surely we have some faith in the integrity of the men whom we consider to be suitably qualified to put on a tribunal of this kind? [More…]
Does anyone suggest for a moment that the men who are appointed to our judiciary are subjected to influences from outside sources? [More…]
1 know of governments which have been threatened because they refused to submit to outside pressures as to when legislation should be introduced and what it should do. [More…]
The Government was expected to throw overboard all regard for the economy of the state and any responsible conduct just to answer the dictates and the directions of the people in control of trade unions and a political party. [More…]
Is it any wonder that the honourable senator would suspect that a Treasury officer would suborn the gentlemen appointed to a tribunal? [More…]
If some of those Press men who wrote the articles to which I have referred had had any experience of administration they might appreciate what is involved. [More…]
We believe that if the blame could be sheeted home to a particular person or shipping company, each and every one of those fishermen who have lost because of the pollution of the Bay should have a legitimate claim against the polluters for compensation and recompense of the money they have lost. [More…]
It is an absolute tragedy to see dozens of boxes of what would otherwise be beautiful fish thrown into the tips because of the effects of pollution, and it is a tragedy also that hours and even days of work can be lost by the men who are engaged in this industry. [More…]
I hold the very strong view that the penalties now being imposed for pollution are peanuts and are not commensurate with the offences committed. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson), the man who ought to be taking the full responsibility for this shambles, is not prepared so to do. [More…]
I had a commitment that I had entered into 2 weeks ago. [More…]
1 did not intend to walk out of a commitment on which I had given a solemn promise 2 weeks ago after somebody had come to my office this morning with an hour to spare and had said: ‘We will be meeting to elect a chairman’. [More…]
As my colleague Senator Poyser said, the election of a chairman did not matter anyway because a meeting in the Government party room had it cut and dried. [More…]
The Government’s great hope was that it would keep Labor men out of these Committees. [More…]
I thought that they were men of stronger determination. [More…]
As regards Senator Keeffe’s statement that he will debate the Estimates in this chamber, if he looks at what I said this morning he will see that I said there will be no inhibition on anybody who wants to come into this chamber, after the committees have concluded their deliberations, and debate the Estimates de novo. [More…]
On 25th August Senator Greenwood asked me how many men had refused to comply with call-up notices given under the National Service [More…]
Since the inception of national service in 1965, less than 0.2 per cent of the men liable to render service have failed to undertake service when required to do so. [More…]
All cases of apparent default and failure to comply with the requirements of the Act are investigated and, depending on the outcome of that investigation, prosecution proceeds. [More…]
I wonder would the apathy of wealthy men endure (f their windowsills were level with tbe faces of the poor. [More…]
Then we went through a depression which brought further unemployment and privation, and starvation in many cases. [More…]
Men of industry, men of qualifications, men of education, were required to work on roads for 2 or 3 days a week, according to the number of their dependants. [More…]
Single men were required to walk the roads from one point to another to get 6s worth of rations. [More…]
So in the main most of these pensioners are men and women who have blazed the trail, worked hard for very little and never had an opportunity of accumulating any money. [More…]
When they reach the age of retirement we say: ‘All you are worth, particularly today, is $15.50.’ [More…]
1 repeat what I said the other night: Not at any time in our political history have pensioners been properly treated by governments, irrespective of their political colour. [More…]
The landlord has the case that rates have increased and that his maintenance costs have gone up because of increased wages and other things, that he is required to increase the rents to enable him to pay the rates and to meet the other commitments which, as a landlord, he is required to meet to keep the premises in decent order and to comply with local government requirements. [More…]
As I said the other night, they are humiliated by the ignominy associated with these public discussions of what they are receiving from the Government, and which is not a charity but a right to which as taxpayers they contributed in the active periods of their lives. [More…]
That is why the party which I am’ privileged to lead has repeatedly asked that the question of pensions be taken out of the field of politics, where it has been made into a political football, and that the responsibility for determining this vital question be handed over to an independent tribunal of men who have some knowledge of social services and a humanitarian outlook, a tribunal which would have regard to wage increases, cost of living increases and all the other vital factors in arriving at a proper determination of what is a just pension for these people who are our responsibility. [More…]
On another occasion I was informed at lunch time that 2 security men had been sitting out at the reception desk all the morning. [More…]
I went out and said: ‘Are you security men?’ [More…]
I am not afraid of the decent elements in South Australia. [More…]
When we first suggested the provision of free hospitalisation for war veterans the Government objected and said that at that time it would cost between Si Om and $12m. [More…]
The Returned Services League has investigated the matter and has been able to prove that from the Boer War and World War I there are about 11,000 exservicemen who are at present not receiving repatriation benefits which would entitle them to free hospitalisation. [More…]
On that basis the cost of free hospitalisation for those men would be about only $1,783,000. [More…]
It is only a small amount in view of the service that those men have given for their country. [More…]
We realise that repatriation benefits result from promises made by governments of varying types and at various times - when recruiting for a war, while men and women are fighting in the war - and from representations that continue after the war when the ravages and results of war become known. [More…]
If I may mention a personal matter very briefly - I am not trying to be humorous - my own father was blinded in France in the First World War. [More…]
For some months after he came back to Tasmania he could not get a pension because there was no provision for blindness in repatriation arrangements. [More…]
What the Leader of the Government in the Senate is saying, and we could not quarrel with it from his point of view, is: ‘Of course you are entitled to go and protest against the war. [More…]
Yet men like Senator Greenwood and others like the Premier of Queensland are setting out to undermine that democratic right in this community. [More…]
This has been surrounded by the kind of activities where men have been spied upon - the two senators - and dossiers compiled. [More…]
All right; they did attack him, but is that to be the reason why these two men - not all the other people who went in the Moratorium demonstrations, not the other senators who marched in the Civil Liberties march, and not others who engaged in such activities - should be subjected to this kind of underhand attack instead of repudiating the suggestions which were made against the Queensland Premier whether right or wrong. [More…]
Those who were attacked in Queensland could stand up and say: ‘What we have done is right and proper’, but instead there has been an underhand method of attacking these two men, of getting dossiers compiled on them and of undermining the political rights of everybody in this country, because if their rights are undermined the rights of everyone are undermined. [More…]
Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate noticed the recent article in the Melbourne ‘Age’ headed Government Acts on National Service Breaches’, in which the Minister for Labour and National Service, Mr Snedden, is reported to have stated, inter alia, that all cases of apparent default were investigated and that action had been stayed pending consideration of a civilian alternative to military service? [More…]
Could it be that, since the Government, in reply to a question by me - namely, is Australia at war? [More…]
- indicated that Australia is technically not at war, it is finding great difficulty in avoiding the technicalities of the Federal Constitution in forcing young men to serve in the fighting forces as though Australia was technically at war? [More…]
So that if the Government says it cannot afford to pay these pensions it is pulling the wool over nobody’s eyes, least of all the eyes of the Opposition. [More…]
The percentage increase in the rate of expenditure for the Department is insufficient to justify the case that the Government has put up. [More…]
The Government is adopting an attitude to a very large section of this community that it does not care about, except for those from which it thinks it may be able to buy votes in a political campaign. [More…]
Wherever it can the Government is trying to buy votes. [More…]
But it has not used ils last election bait to the degree of compensating those who probably are not greatly affected, because many of them, generally speaking, would be able to continue in fairly normal employment. [More…]
Tn the days of a Labor Government when the standards for these things were set, the standards which the Government has failed to maintain over the intervening years, it was looked upon as a form of compensation for injuries suffered, lt was looked upon as some sort of return to both the men and their families for the time that they had devoted, in most cases, during the early years of their lifetime to the service of this country. [More…]
[ mentioned a moment ago that I had received a telegram from the Queensland sub-branch of the Incapacitated Returned Servicemen’s League. [More…]
This is a copy of a telegram which was forwarded to the Prime Minister (Mr Gorton) and two or three others requesting - move for payment of all meagre pension increases to be made retrospective to 1st July. [More…]
He would see with his own eyes the disablements that these men have suffered. [More…]
The other point raised in the telegram is that payment ought to be made retrospective to the 1st July. [More…]
It is significant that the Government has adopted by practice and custom an attitude of always making pension payments at the latter part of the year. [More…]
In this case payment will be made on 1st October. [More…]
It is equally significant that when the Government fixes taxes or increases taxes they virtually operate from the day of the Budget. [More…]
When it comes to dealing with ex-service and other pensions the Government finds it convenient to postpone for as long as possible the payment of any lousy increase it makes. [More…]
I am willing to co-operate in any way I can to bring to the notice of the Government the treatment meted out to these men. [More…]
lt is not my intention to speak at length on this Bill; but I take advantage of it to highlight to the Australian people the niggardly treatment that is handed out by this Government to men and women who have given their utmost in the service of this nation when their service has been required. [More…]
At page 70 of the annual report of the Repatriation Commission for 1969-70 we see that, as regards the 1914 War, the total number of appeals to entitlement appeal tribunals for action was 2,313; the number allowed was 138; the number disallowed was 1,492; the number referred back to the Commission and allowed was 9; and the number withdrawn or lapsed was 72. [More…]
Can anyone tell me that at the stage of life at which these men are - these men served this country at Gallipoli and in France, Egypt and New Guinea in the 1914 War - and having regard to the onus of proof that rests on the Repatriation Commission, the law of averages is 10:1 against their having an appeal allowed? [More…]
As regards special overseas service - this covers the men in the hostilities in which this country is engaged although the Government refuses to declare the war to be a war - the number of appeals outstanding at 30th June 1969 was 65; the number lodged during the year was 166; the total for action was 231; the number allowed was 50; and the number disallowed was 87. [More…]
These are the appeals of young kids who have been conscripted by this Government and set to the jungles of Vietnam, often against their will. [More…]
Therefore, on those figures alone, apart from the individual cases that one has brought to one’s attention from time to time, I say that the entitlement appeal tribunals are not honouring their obligation under the [More…]
The point I am making is that I believe that an examination in depth would find many instances of ex-servicemen who feel that their appearance before tribunals has not been considered in a correct and proper manner. [More…]
I have other examples, as, no doubt, have other honourable senators, of the lack of sympathy extended to many elderly pensioners, particularly those with total and permanent incapacity and those receiving the 100 per cent pension and who are hospitalised in the late years of their lives, f know of cases of men in their 80s who receive either a Service pension or a TPI pension and who are entitled basically to full medical and hospital benefits but whose illnesses have been declared to be chronic and who have had all payments taken from them at the time when they have a few weeks to live. [More…]
We find that the Repatriation Department does this. [More…]
I want to add my voice and my views to the belief that the benefit of the doubt provision is not being followed in the spirit in which it appears in the Act but that in fact it is being carried out in direct contradiction to the intention of the Labor Government which inserted this clause in the Act after the Second World War. [More…]
After we have examined them in depth we should ensure that the proper legislation giving these men their entitlements is carried through both Houses of Parliament. [More…]
If the Government did decide to publish the drawn birthdays because, as reported, it is considered to be a matter of great importance to the young men involved, why is it that future ballots will not be made in public? [More…]
I have not been informed as to the comment made by the Minister for Labour and National Service at the drawing of the ballot. [More…]
All I know is that the Government decided that future ballots would be publicised as far as disclosing the birthdays drawn was concerned. [More…]
The reason why the Government decided to make the birthdays public and available to all concerned was that it was thought that the interest of the young men concerned in knowing the dates selected by the ballot overrode any possible interest to the contrary in that previously the view had been taken that it would enable defaulters to contrive excuses after the event. [More…]
If we go back 25 or 30 years, and somebody advised young men in the Services during the war against Germany and Japan- [More…]
Suppose someone advised young men at that time that if they did not like fighting against Japan they should say to their commanding officer, and should also put it in writing: ‘I am prepared to fight against Germany but I am not prepared to fight against Japan’. [More…]
What would members of the Labor Party at that time, who were in Government, say of persons who gave that advice? [More…]
The advice he gave indicated that he would advise young men objecting to going to Vietnam, to register and enter the Army and then to refuse to obey orders to go to Vietnam. [More…]
What Senator Wright said was fair comment on the facts which he meticulously stated and which permitted the broad comment he gave to them. [More…]
I would like to thank the Australian Post Office, the Postmaster-General and the departmental men for giving consideration to this matter. [More…]
It is not a new suggestion in the Senate, lt is not new to hear an amendment from the Labor Party in these terms: the Bill be withdrawn and that in the opinion of the Senate a Joint Select Committee be appointed to inquire into the desirability and practicability of removing the Australian Host Office from the administrative influence of the Public Service Board and of establishing a public corporation to manage the business of the Post Office’. [More…]
was the payment to each of the three men (Gerry Ngalgardji,Inverway Georgie and Mainu) $50 per month, less tax, and is it a fact that they have not received payment for the fifth month. [More…]
Will the Minister take appropriate urgent action to ensure that the men concerned will receive back payments at the correct award rate, and that all arrears in wages are paid. [More…]
The publications include: Australian House and Garden, Australian Country, Tailor and Men’s Wear, The Textile Journal of Australia, Wheels, Australian Outdoors, Seacraft, Flair and others. [More…]
One of the innovations has been the encouragement of women to do certain operative work. [More…]
The trade union movement has not objected to women doing such work purely on the basis of their sex. [More…]
The trade union movement has argued for equal pay. [More…]
Many industries have been able to employ women operators on certain jobs at 75 or 80 per cent of the male rate. [More…]
In the waterfront industry, the sugar port of Mackay has been able to operate with fewer than 40 waterside workers whereas previously 400 men might have been employed there. [More…]
Irrespective of whether the Senate or the other place or, for that matter, any other Parliament is concerned, it is imperative that members should have the assistance of the accounts covering the previous year’s operations when dealing with budgetary matters so that they can address themselves to the position and make comparisons with activities in previous years. [More…]
1 emphasise that this is a big department which calls for and merits expert management and efficient control. [More…]
As I said previously, I am not suggesting that the Post Office does not have such management and control but 1 have reason to believe - and I am supported in my belief by no less a person than a former Director-General of Posts and Telegraphs, Mr Frank O’Gradywho points out in an article for which he was responsible, and which appeared in one of the leading Australian newspapers, the embarrassment he felt and the awkward position in which, from time to time, he found himself because he was subject first to the Treasury and secondly to the Public Service Board. [More…]
Surely we must be guided to a great extent by the opinions, based on experience and knowledge, of men who have seen the Post Office grow from something comparatively small to something great in its ramifications and its services to the community. [More…]
Its service particularly to people in remote parts of this continent has been tremendous. [More…]
We pay tribute to those who have comprised the staff of the Postmaster-General’s Department over the years. [More…]
I believe that frequently the work in radio and television done by men who are experts on the technical and electrical side goes unnoticed. [More…]
On this occasion, as happens always when attempts are made to put the Post Office on a more profitable basis, the increases fall on the small men in the community. [More…]
The action taken is in line with the policies of the Government relating to its budgetary considerations. [More…]
The financial arrangements of the Post Office have been adapted to meet the policies of the Government. [More…]
The payment of interest charges by the Post Office is dovetailed to meet the views of the Government. [More…]
However we have found that after retiring from service with the Department they have frequently come out and spoken about the disabilities under which the Post Office operates. [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 know that feeling has run fairly high in many places, particularly among cattle men. [More…]
In order to stop this commercial exploitation of young Australians, will the Minister ask the Australian Broadcasting Control Board to confer with the Australian Boxing Federation for the purpose of laying down specific rules to protect these young men when they appear in bouts on television? [More…]
Apart from world and national championship bouts which naturally attract the nationalistic sentiment of Australians and which are properly policed and medically controlled, will the Minister insist that all boxing programmes be not used for Australian content purposes in peak viewing times? [More…]
My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
No doubt he has seen Press reports about a presidential panel advising President Nixon of the United States of America that the call-up of youth in that country is costly, inequitable and divisive as a means of recruiting men for the armed forces, and introduces needless uncertainty into the lives of all young Americans? [More…]
When can we expect the Australian Government to abandon the national service scheme which is also divisive, costly and inequitable, and to adjust the pay conditions of all servicemen so as to restore the traditional Australian volunteer defence force? [More…]
The Australian Democratic Labor Patty had circulated an amendment to the motion for the second reading of the Bill. [More…]
If carried, the amendment will have no effect on the legislation. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party, having indicated in reasoned speeches its attitude to the Bill, wants to delay the passage of the Bill because it has not made up its mind collectively on whether it will vote for or against, the amendment to the motion for the second reading of the Bill. [More…]
I say, with great respect to those who have tried to explain the awkward situation in which the Labor Party finds itself, that I honestly do not believe that any honourable senator opposite cannot make up his mind on whether this amendment should be supported or opposed. [More…]
From the very reading of the amendment, I believe that any honourable senator should be able to make up his or her mind on whether he or she will support or oppose it. [More…]
The amend men I to the motion for the second reading of the Bill reads: but the Senate is of the opinion that the charges imposed on domestic and international airlines fur the hsc of Commonwealth aerodromes and facilities should be at an identical rate for all aircraft of the same type. [More…]
Single aged persons - that is, residents of Australia aged 65 or more for men and 60 or . [More…]
over for women - previously paid no tax if their taxable income did not exceed $1,300. [More…]
He stressed by way of some opposition that this was legislation which fell heavily on the family man and on business men, and that it was one of the worst ways of raising revenue. [More…]
But aso I think it should be recognised that arguments against indirect taxation of 30 years ago are not arguments which have the same applicability today. [More…]
Why does the Government indulge in secrecy regarding fallout from nuclear tests? [More…]
Why does it have no knowledge of what will happen about the establishment of the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay? [More…]
1 make this charge - and i make it with sincerity and with some misgivings - that either the senior advisers - and I ani not talking about the run of the mill scientists or the men who do all the hard work - have misinformed the Government or the Minister does not want the country to know what the fallout is, particularly in the milk producing areas of Queensland. [More…]
Men granted total exemption are moreover not required to perform any service, military or civilian. [More…]
A number of prosecutions for failure to undertake service were stayed pending the Government’s examination of whether it was possible to evolve an acceptable and viable civilian alternative. [More…]
Following its conclusion that it was unable to find such an alternative which was equitable to the overwhelming majority of men who do undertake and satisfactorily complete their obligations, the [More…]
There is inherent in that situation a dangerous condition wherein the traditional growers of grapes - the men who have their own vineyards - could be in difficulties. [More…]
We appreciate that the middle men must get their margins. [More…]
If they choose to’ be critical of the Government and say that the excise is wrong by 100 per cent, all 1 can say to them is that they must be 50 per cent wrong. [More…]
Another part of this industry is the International Harvester Co. at Geelong in Victoria, lt will have to dismiss 300 men. [More…]
People on the land cannot afford to buy the products of these tractor companies because men on the land are faced virtually with bankruptcy. [More…]
The Government should not allow the situation to deteriorate so far that these people will fade out gradually. [More…]
Yet this is what the Government is permitting to happen. [More…]
The men on the land find that although the Government makes all these promises it lets them down badly. [More…]
We of the Australian Labor Party believe that the Government has badly failed the men on the land. [More…]
They need the assistance that only the Government can give. [More…]
The Government has presented us with a case that those companies are facing serious damage as a result of import competition. [More…]
But I believe that the Government is evading the issue. [More…]
This is a very real threat to the livelihood of many honest family men in this country. [More…]
The Government has granted a niggardly handout of an extra 50c a week to the pensioners. [More…]
Many men and women in the lower and middle income brackets who have been over burdened in trying to maintain their own families at a reasonable economic level will be digging deeper into their pockets in order to give some financial succour to their elderly parents. [More…]
Where is the economic justice that is supposed to exist in the fiscal measures of the Government? [More…]
The only hope that people have is to ensure that this Government is thrown out of office and replaced by a government which has a full realisation and understanding of the tremendous burdens that they have had to bear and that they are bearing. [More…]
They must ensure that it is replaced by a government that will do something tangible and constructive for the men and women who are entitled to real relief - not relief which is camouflaged, which is deceptive and which is a subterfuge measure of the type encompassed by this legislation. [More…]
This Government, for its legislation, deserves the severest censure of the Australian people. [More…]
By derivation, civilised men are those who live in cities - pagans are those who live in the country [More…]
This will enable men on the land to have some security of tenure by taking out what is virtually an insurance policy. [More…]
I could go on citing many things that this Government is doing and has done for primary industry. [More…]
By derivation, civilised men are those who live in cities - pagans are those who live in the country’. [More…]
I have mentioned the man who has plumbing work done in his bathroom and the man who has to buy parts for his lawn mower. [More…]
Assume that after doing his day’s work one of those men goes out for a game of golf. [More…]
If the Government had challenged my remarks in the Budget debate in relation to tax reductions and said: ‘Look, Senator, we will cite all the restaurant chains which profiteer on the excise on wine’, I would have said: ‘You cannot as our unfair trade practice structure is too weak.’ [More…]
I am talking about a sense of fair play and the Government’s inability to grapple with this cancer in our society. [More…]
It is on that theme that I have developed my arguments a lot further than did Senator O’Byrne. [More…]
We of the Opposition believe that the Government could have done considerably more for the community if it had reduced sales tax, because people on different incomes have to pay the same price for a commodity. [More…]
I think the Government could have done something there. [More…]
Although the Government is feeding back to the taxpayers millions of dollars, I feel it would mean something in terms of real money if it could convince me that it will curb some of the profiteering activities of middle men. [More…]
That has come about because under the system of assistance given by the Commonwealth Government there has been no security of employment in the industry. [More…]
Because of that situation, workers have looked for other avenues of employment. [More…]
The Minister exposes his lack of knowledge of the industry in saying that the gold mines have unfilled vacancies and that there are plenty of opportunities offering for men in nickel mining exploration. [More…]
In the view of the Government it is likely that any men displaced from the gold mines will be absorbed in that field of employment. [More…]
The Minister also said that in addition to this subsidy the Government had allowed taxation concessions to the gold mining industry. [More…]
It is not right to say that the Government would lose the benefit of that income tax if the operations at Kalgoorlie were to close down because the workers would have to find employment elsewhere and thus continue to pay income tax- They might pay more or less depending upon where they got employment If these men remain in the gold mining industry the Government will continue to receive income tax from them approximating the amount that it pays out in subsidy. [More…]
It would not cost the Government a great deal more to pay the amount of subsidy sought by the industry. [More…]
Stories are circulating suggesting that some Press men who wanted to attend Committee meetings were told that they could get in providing some of their colleagues got out so that there would be seats for them. [More…]
The only way in which the Government will be able to get rid of the Estimates is to apply the guillotine. [More…]
The Government will do this because there is no other way around the problem. [More…]
His technical knowledge, ability, his business acumen and his capital. [More…]
Sub-contracting is a system which has been devised to avoid paying award wages, to avoid the payment of payroll tax, to avoid the payment of workers’ compensation and to avoid safety regulations as laid down in various scaffolding acts throughout Australia. [More…]
The New South Wales committee found that there is a dearth of skilled tradesmen in the building industry. [More…]
If building activity increased substantially there would be some difficulty in getting experienced men. [More…]
A builder does not employ tradesmen these days. [More…]
The basic wage of $36.45 for men and $27.88 for women should be regarded as fatuous. [More…]
They are the greatest exploiters but the Government does not do anything about them. [More…]
The Government knows that but does not have the courage to do anything about it. [More…]
Some time ago 400 men were working on the waterfront there. [More…]
I put those questions to the Government which is surrounded by a lot of Treasury experts and which talks about credibility. [More…]
One will see from a reading of the enlightened speech made by the honourable member for Hindmarsh (Mr Clyde Cameron) in another place that the Department of Labour and National Service has never attempted to implement here the productivity methods which are in use in West Germany and the Scandina vian countries where there is a much higher degree of industrial harmony because the trade union movement has been convinced that there are no lurk men taking the profits. [More…]
1 suggest that having lodged a complaint to his superior officer and having received such a curt answer he would be a real man among men even to contemplate taking his complaint to the commanding officer of the establishment. [More…]
Admittedly some men have persistency and determination in their make-up. [More…]
Mr McNally has great praise for such men as Mr Morphett and for Lady Elizabeth Wilson who helped him in his position. [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…]
The whole purpose of that provision and the proceeding regulations is that the Minister will in respect of these classes have a more ample power of deferment. [More…]
Some examples of the occupations being undertaken by registrants who registered during the first registration for national service in 1965 and whose courses will have to be interrupted in the absence of this amendment are as follows: fitters; toolmakers; draftsmen; laboratory technicians and technicians completing apprenticeship or courses of training now undertaking a diploma of mechanical engineering; printers; electricians; radio technicians who have completed apprenticeships and who are now undertaking higher grade certificates; electronics technicians proceeding to a certificate in electrical engineering; building industry employees pursuing certificate courses in building technology; draftsmen proceeding to diplomas in architecture and civil engineering; metallurgists; industrial chemists; laboratory technicians proceeding to diplomas of science; and men pursuing various degrees including dentists, teachers, doctors, computer programmers, finance officers and bank officers. [More…]
As at 20th October 77,112 were students or are being considered for deferment as students. [More…]
Only 144 have prolonged their deferment by taking up post-graduate studies. [More…]
These regulations will give the benefit of deferment to 4,078 people. [More…]
Without them, it would be possible to give it to only 144 There are 3,634 men undertaking nondegree courses, that is, other than university courses but including technical college courses; 5,612 are trainees or are being considered for deferment as trainees; 3,828 are apprentices undergoing various apprenticeship courses; 1.326 arc not apprentices but are undergong recognised courses of training and are bound to their employers in respect of that training. [More…]
There are at present some 1,000 registrants who will not complete their courses of study or training in time to permit them to commence their national service liability before they attain the agc of 26 years. [More…]
It is patently clear that the amendments contained in these regulations are in the interests of these men. [More…]
range of people to whom deferment can be accorded because authority for this cannot he exercised by the Minister so as to be equated with exemption. [More…]
As these people have entered upon courses of study and as their deferment has been granted up to this time it is desired that their courses not be interrupted by their having to be called back to do their compulsory service so that they will be in camp before they are 26 years of age. [More…]
We hope to be able to accord deferment to them until they complete their courses. [More…]
If they are disallowed it will be imperative, under the Act, to call them up for national service because the Government will not have authority to continue the deferment. [More…]
1 did not doubt for a moment, Mr President, that you were fully aware of the position. [More…]
Senator Keeffe said that many young men have left Australia. [More…]
I do not believe for one moment that the buyers would have said: Oh, yes. [More…]
we can give you another 5c,’ or We will increase the price by 2c’ They are business men and they know what they are doing in the field of profit making. [More…]
The authority that the Government proposes to set up looks all right on the surface. [More…]
The Government has said all along that it believes that the Australian Wool Industry Conference represents the industry. [More…]
Every time this matter is brought up the Government insists that this is the only body it can go to because it does provide the view of the industry. [More…]
They consider that if an authority is to sell our wool they should have more representatives from men on the land and less from buyers and brokers. [More…]
The Government has had numerous warnings about the situation. [More…]
In 1961. at the time of the Government-made recession in this country, when thousands of men were out of work because of the economic policies pursued by the Government, the wool indus’ y was facing a crisis. [More…]
In 1961 the Government appointed the Wool Marketing Committee of Inquiry for the purpose of reporting upon the marketing and promotion of Australian wool. [More…]
Among other things it recommended that wool promotion, research and testing should be brought under the control of a single body. [More…]
In its first annual report to the Parliament in 1964. the Wool Board said, among other things- [More…]
Whilst it has many misgivings about the effectiveness of this legislation, the Opposition does not oppose it because it hopes that something will emerge from it which might put the great Australian wool industry and those who rely directly or indirectly upon it for their livelihoods - the farmers, shearers, shed hands and the town workers and business men in country towns - back on (he long hard road to recovery. [More…]
I want to refer to some of the comments made by members of the Opposition in this debate. [More…]
But let us be honest and factual; this authority must be composed of some of the best men that we can get in this country. [More…]
We must have some of the best men from the wool industry to accept responsibility as representatives of the industry. [More…]
We also must have some of the best men we can get from areas of trade, commerce and finance in order to make the Commission function. [More…]
The Commission will not be an ordinary type of committee consisting of a few gentlemen meeting and discussing what might happen. [More…]
I believe he must be one of the top marketing men in Australia, competent and experienced. [More…]
There is to be a member to represent the Commonwealth Government and 3 other members. [More…]
These 3 men will have to come from areas involved in the handling and marketing of wool or wool products, the processing of wool or the manufacture of wool products, or they must have experience in commerce, finance and economics. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry saw the need to ensure that this Commission will be a very competent one comprising men of ability and experience. [More…]
I commend the Minister and others associated with this Bill for making sure that the kernel of this marketing change will be the best possible. [More…]
We need on the Commission men who have been proved in trade and commerce because the wool industry is Australia’s biggest business and I do not think that growers, with perhaps odd exceptions, are sufficiently qualified to run a Commission of the magnitude and importance of the proposed body. [More…]
World trade is of tremendous importance and only men of experience can give the best help to the Commission in this regard. [More…]
I have mentioned already that the reasons for the low prices that are prevailing are not hard to deduce. [More…]
I believe that men will be selected who will do the job as economically as possible. [More…]
I hope that the original members who are appointed to the Commission are men of responsibility and trust - 1 believe they will be - but there have been instances in the past where people who have been appointed to positions of authority, responsibility and trust have fallen by the wayside. [More…]
There have been instances in the past when men of responsibility who were acting in positions of trust fell by the wayside. [More…]
Because the person concerned had not been appointed to the position by the Minister, the Minister would always have the outlet when questions were asked of him in the Parliament that he had no say in the appointment of the deputy member. [More…]
Frankly, I think the rights of this Parliament would be undermined if a provision of this nature were to be included in the legislation. [More…]
After all is said and done, what objection does the Government have to the Minister saying that he approves of an appointment? [More…]
Is it because the Government is frightened, that the administrative affairs and functions of the Commission will not be carried out successfully, ls the Government leaving the way open for the Minister to dodge his responsibilities? [More…]
I believe thai it is vital to the maintenance of parliamentary democracy that the amendment which has been proposed by the Opposition be supported. [More…]
Not only is the amendment in the interests of this Parliament and the Executive in its responsibilities to the Parliament; more particularly it is vital to the interests of the growers and the protection of the people of Australia. [More…]
It seems that the intention of the draftsman and of the Government is to appoint to the Commission 7 members who it is thought are the most highly qualified men to do this job. [More…]
Me said that it would be composed of highly qualified men. [More…]
If very respectable and very highly qualified men in their particular fields are selected for the Commission surely they will be sufficiently qualified to appoint deputies to attend a meeting which they may be unable to attend. [More…]
For the reasons I have outlined we have no hesitation in saying that this is not of tremendous importance and we are wasting a lot of time on it. [More…]
We are not prepared to vote for the amendment. [More…]
This raises a new argument with respect to the Commission itself. [More…]
If it does not, the 7 experienced members of the Commission will not be young men. [More…]
These men will be subject to illnesses. [More…]
It may well be that these men could be attending to their own affairs outside Australia for considerable periods of time and will require a deputy to attend meetings in their place during their absence. [More…]
If for this reason members can be removed by the Minister after they have failed to attend 3 meetings, we will very soon run out of qualified men to appoint to the Commission. [More…]
Senator McClelland said that he did not think that members of the Commission, who will be men of responsibility, will do anything they shoul dnot do. [More…]
I ask the honourable senator: If there were a meeting of 5 members consisting of the Chairman, a government representative, a representative from industry and 2 special appointees, does be think that the deputy of an appointee on that day could do something wrong and could involve the Commission in the expenditure of some substantial sum of money? [More…]
So the Government does not feel that it can support this amendment. [More…]
These amounts will largely influence this Parliament in fixing remuneration and allowances. [More…]
I would have thought that there would be some attempt by the Government to inform the Committee of the remunerations and allowances that it intended to pay these people. [More…]
The Government will not get these men for peanuts. [More…]
We know that the Government will not get for nothing the qualified persons provided for in the Bill. [More…]
The Government will have to pay these people. [More…]
I must inform Senator Cant that clause 12 was drafted in this form in order to meet the wishes of the Senate as expressed in regard to legislation previously brought before the Parliament. [More…]
It would have been much easier for the draftsmen to put this information in the Bill and have the Governor-General fix the salaries. [More…]
The honourable senator said that we must go out and get the best type of men and the best equipped men for this job. [More…]
All of us have seen advertisements in the paper calling for applications for positions as top men in the business world. [More…]
This arbitrary power may react against our being able to recruit to serve on the Commission the best types of men or those with the qualifications required by the legislation. [More…]
I would expect that members of the Commission would be strong minded men. [More…]
If the Government puts this power into the hands of one or two men it can forget all about the Commission. [More…]
Contrary to the assurance which was given by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) that I would be permitted to attend Committee hearings, I was not permitted to attend the meeting of Estimates Committee B. [More…]
All that Senator Webster has done is to name the guilty men. [More…]
I am happy with it but 1 should like to know whether the Department draws a distinction between people who come back to Australia like this and who are debited against the Department of Immigration and those who return and are debited to the Department of External Affairs. [More…]
What would be the position of an Australian boilermaker who was working in the shipyards on the Clyde when there was industrial dispute and union solidarity prevailed and the men were out on the grass and the employer took back some but not all of the men - and I do not say this in a derogatory way - all members of the Clydeside trade union, but the Australian did not get his job back? [More…]
Would such people be included in the categories of the 174 who returned to Australia or is the Department looking only for academics? [More…]
Provision for the re-training of officers and men; [More…]
Points of view were adequately put by persons who had been serving officers of high rank and who mentioned some of the problems which have contri buted to resignations .mci to the general feeling of dissatisfaction. [More…]
The Government, the Department of Defence, and heads of the Services recognised that there were great injustices and accepted actions by serving officers and men that in other days might have been regarded as mutinous. [More…]
1 agree that on this occasion the Government sensibly blinked its eye at what was taking place and attempted to correct the situation which had developed over the years. [More…]
The situation must be considered against the background of what has been taking place with serving men and officers. [More…]
Up to now no lasting solution to the problem has been proposed by the Government. [More…]
It is an inquiry set up for a special purpose when what is needed is an examination of servicemen’s pay and conditions and of all the things that go to make up their role in the Services and in the community for which they should be adequately compensated. [More…]
We know that some short term adjustments have been made which have partly satisfied the serviceman, but at the same time resignations have increased. [More…]
We know too that there are general complaints about the standard of housing and the rates which are paid by servicemen for housing. [More…]
In many cases serving officers and men have to pay more for a house than public servants do. [More…]
This brings up the important question of why the Department is letting all of its contracts to builders. [More…]
Why is it not building Commonwealth Government buildings? [More…]
Has the ability of this Department to erect types of buildings as cheaply as contractors been studied? [More…]
If the Department of Works is to be part of the Commonwealth’s scheme of activities in development, this work must become an essential part of the activities of the Department of Works. [More…]
This Department is a main Commonwealth Department which has some responsibility to see that the utmost opportunities are provided for the training of men to a skilled degree. [More…]
Yet, it is unable to play its proper part in the training of skilled building tradesmen because of a lack of opportunities to perform the types of works that it undertakes and contracts to someone else. [More…]
The work that the Department lets out at present is work that could be used in the training of skilled tradesmen. [More…]
I would think that a study of the report presented on the housing industry to the New South Wales Parliament recently would show the need in any proper housing programme to have skilled tradesmen to perform the work of building construction. [More…]
Perhaps at this stage the Commonwealth Department of Works could not or should not provide plant for multi-storey build ings. [More…]
Nevertheless, many contracts for construction work which could be undertaken by the Department on a day labour basis are let to building contractors. [More…]
The Department is justified in refusing this work in view of its responsibility to provide facilities for the training of skilled men, only if the cost of such work is exorbitant in comparison with what it would be by private contract. [More…]
I ask: Has any study been clone on the work that this Department could undertake such as the building of the additions at the Adelaide Airport or any other construction work of a similar type? [More…]
Why is it impossible for this Department to become a building authority so that it can play its part in the Commonwealth scheme of training skilled tradesmen in the proper ratio to employees as awards permit? [More…]
I query very seriously how the Department can claim any credit when it is unable to compete with private enterprise in the construction field. [More…]
The sole proprietor of a firm in South Australia which presently is undertaking work for the Department of Works was formerly the manager of a pickle factory. [More…]
How can experience gained from being the manager of a pickle factory qualify someone to establish a building firm which is able to carry out work for the Department of Works? [More…]
Something is wrong with the Department if it cannot compete with private enterprise in the building field because of lack of economy or efficiency. [More…]
While I accept that possibly private enterprise can build more economically than perhaps the Government can, there is a tendency for the Government in its operations to appoint men with qualifications other than those related to ability in the craft or ability to organise. [More…]
If private enterprise can carry out this work more efficiently, it does not speak too well for the Department, and it is time that the Department considered competing with private enterprise in the building field. [More…]
Senator Wriedt’s last question I point out that if he looks at the Department’s annual review for the year 1968-69 he will see that the day labour force employed in Tasmania in 1964-65 was 81; in 1965-66 it was 95; in 1966-67 it was 69; in 1967-68 it was 72 and in 1968-69 it was 76. [More…]
One must envisage the number of trades into which those men would be separated and the type of work on which they would be employed. [More…]
One will readily see that there is no real opportunity for the employment of apprentices with a miscellaneous day labour group of that small size. [More…]
It wholly misconceives the basis upon which the Department of Works operates to suggest that it is an apprenticeship training department. [More…]
I think it would be quite natural that employment in the Electrolytic Zinc Company and the Hydro-Electric Commission, to which Senator Wriedt referred, would have far greater appeal to- apprentices than would the Department of Works day labour force numbering between 60 and 80 in the circumstances 1 have mentioned. [More…]
The first is the appropriation for Division 370, Administrative, within the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
Dr Cook explained that what had been announced was the establishment of an employment office in those places but not inspectorate services. [More…]
I have indicated that over the years there have been occasions both in respect to disputes and award infringements and also in respect to matters concerning young boys who have been retrenched from employment. [More…]
Consequently a challenge arose as to whether these young men were properly protected under the terms of the Act and whether an inspector be appointed to these places. [More…]
The Minister indicated that the matter would be distributed throughout his Department and there would be some consideration given to it and some reply given to me. [More…]
We find throughout history that men following in His occupation and in His footsteps have received similar treatment. [More…]
Charles Martin, following in Christ’s footsteps, receives no more salvation under this Government than Christ would if he were here at the present time. [More…]
We find first the planters and the business men who own probably 98 per cent of property in the Territory. [More…]
Below these groups are the 2 million-odd black people who do not count as individuals at all in spite of the many rosy things that are said of them by Government members from time to time. [More…]
Why have so many wise and clever men criticised this law? [More…]
We saw it in the Bougainville area in the Solomons when the Government stole from the local people their land on behalf of a major mining organisation with international foundations. [More…]
The Government took the land from the people, not by law and order but by force of weapons and men. [More…]
The Government spends tens of thousands of dollars to shift policemen in special planes to what it suspects are trouble spots. [More…]
What is the Government perpetuating in that country? [More…]
If that is the scale that is to be maintained, it is not surprising that there is a loss of men of this skill, which is of extremely high value to a rapidly developing country, especially in the mineral sector. [More…]
Having obtained answers to those questions I now ask: What has been done by the Department to prevent this flow of geologists from the Department? [More…]
It is obvious to me that the suggestion could be made that an approach be made to the Public Service Board for an increase in the salaries of these men so that they will not go elsewhere. [More…]
If the market value of these men is $14,000 a year it follows that the Public Service Board or the Department ought to be doing something about this matter. [More…]
This does not answer the question asked by Senator Georges which was: Is the Department going to approach the Public Service Board to alter the salary structures with a view to either attracting more men or retaining those that it has against the competition offered? [More…]
I am unable to answer that question; nor can the departmental officer answer it for the moment. [More…]
Older people tend to be a bit more constant in their employment capacity. [More…]
However, it does tend to lose its experienced men and to gain new staff straight from the universities. [More…]
Though it has recruited well it always has a gap between its establishment and its strength. [More…]
The recent amendment to the National Service Regulations empowers the Minister to refer cases to the courts in order to provide an opportunity and a procedure by which men, who refuse to apply themselves for recognition as conscientious objectors, may have the beliefs they claim to hold heard and determined by a court. [More…]
The essential requirement in such cases is that the man shall have raised the question envisaged in the legislation as to whether he is entitled to exemption from military service or from combatant military duties.It is for the court to determine the nature of the beliefs which the man holds and the depth and sincerity with which he holds them. [More…]
Men who on being referred satisfy the courts as to their entitlement to exemption will be recognised in the same way as other men who made an application; those who do not remain liable for service and to prosecution for any breach of the National Service Act. [More…]
with the present provisions of the National Service Act, which dissatisfaction is being expressed in protests and demonstrations which in turn create clashes with law enforcement authorities, will the Minister for Labour and National Service give urgent consideration to amending the hateful parts of the National Service Act and to providing an alternative to young men so that they may perform duties other than combat duties? [More…]
Men who fail to register for national service and who are convicted of that offence are not liable under the National Service Act to a penalty involving imprisonment. [More…]
A penalty of 2 years’ imprisonment, which the poll stated as the penalty for failing to register for national service is imposed only in the case of men who are convicted of failing to report for service with the military forces when required to do so and who, on being convicted, refuse to enter into an undertaking to obey a notice calling them up for such service. [More…]
The most that can be judged from the results of the poll, therefore, is the marked impression that most people believe that men who fail to meet their obligations should be required to render some form of service and that in the armed services. [More…]
1 do not believe that the poll results in this light warrant consideration of amendment of the National Service Act. [More…]
Members of Parliament continuuously receive requests for help to get out from under the act. [More…]
lt is also notable that Aborigines refer to the ‘unassisted’ as ‘free men’ and talk about getting their freedom when making application for exemptions. [More…]
If young men, particularly those who have applied themselves in school and who show promise, are taken in hand by the authorities and trained in the management of a station or any other business for which Aboriginals are naturally fitted and which will enable them to live in the country, something could be done. [More…]
I. feel that all governments have failed to a great measure because of their inclination to adopt a paternal attitude to these people, as instanced on settlements where they are given foodstuffs sufficient to enable the maintenance of a family without requiring them to accept any responsibility. [More…]
I exclude those who have joined the police force at Cherbourg or other settlements. [More…]
I appreciate that the draftsmen frequently draft legislation with brevity in mind as far as possible. [More…]
In its context here it did not mean anything to me, so I discussed it with some trained legal men and I found out the meaning of it then. [More…]
People should not have to go to so much trouble to find out what a Bill or an Act of this Parliament means. [More…]
The remuneration of the Director of the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation is set out in the Bill as being at such a rate and with such an annual allowance, if any, as the Parliament provides. [More…]
Australia has been indeed fortunate to have had men like Sir William Hudson and Mr Dann at the helm of this great and world recognised organisation.We all know the tremendous engineering, administrative and organisational capacity of Sir William Hudson in the early days of the great Authority. [More…]
It ill becomes the Minister to make statements that cannot be substantiated. [More…]
Even that is open to very great argument, because no proof at all was submitted of the hours that men at sea work, whether it is a 40-hour week, a 50-hour week or a 60-hour week. [More…]
He was one of the first Labor men to associate himself with Australian peace groups and worked for peace, despite criticism that came, particularly in those days, because of the misunderstanding of what the people in those groups were doing. [More…]
lt is a personal loss and a political loss and (he Australian Labor movement extends its sympathy to Jim Ormonde’s widow and family. [More…]
He was a general who looked after his men and won their support. [More…]
Men who fought under him apparently took to him because he never strutted, posed or played to the crowd. [More…]
With apologies to Sir Thomas Bracken 1 wish to say: ‘I would to God that men could see more clearly or speak less harshly where they cannot see’. [More…]
: who are in need of unemployment relief and. [More…]
of course, I am asking for the most sympathetic attitude to be taken in this field by departmental officers. [More…]
The cotton has been completely destroyed and the men who were working in that field are in need of assistance. [More…]
I repeat that while the hour is late there are many men, women and children who are not sleeping soundly tonight in these flood towns. [More…]
This is the situation at the moment and 1 appeal most sincerely to the Government to give immediate and substantial help. [More…]
As regards the future let us have our engineers - the men who constructed our dams in the Snowy Mountains scheme - investigate this problem and try to advise us of a solution. [More…]
I ask the Government to do everything possible to help these people who are desperately in need. [More…]
The 3 men were a mile up the Gotley Glacier at 1,000 feet elevation on Saturday when Mr Holmes broke a leg. [More…]
Is it a fact that as part of the austerity campaign lawns surrounding Parliament House are now being cut only once a week instead of twice? [More…]
Is it also a fact that these lawns are now being cut by 4 men with hand motor mowers instead of a mobile mower drawn by a tractor? [More…]
In obedience to the charter of the United Nations the Commonwealth Government is determined to pursue the path that it is pursuing at present and is determined that the 2i million to 2$ million people in Papua and New Guinea will -not become a quivering mass under the control of men who will seize power- and -they will seize power as men have seized power in Africa - and who will use the sanctions of armed police, security services and perhaps the soldiery to impose their will on the people. [More…]
Although it has been the practice to date to have summonses for offences relating to unlicensed broadcast and television receivers served on defendants by members of the State police forces, there have been indications for .some time that, in some States at least, this arrangement was not satisfactory. [More…]
summonses is not a proper police function and that it diverts trained men from more responsible activities. [More…]
My remarks concern the rather inflexible attitude adopted by the Minister in relation to what is broadly termed ‘deserted seamen’. [More…]
On-4th January 1 was approached by spokesmen for the Lebanese community in Sydney on behalf of 2 Lebanese seamen named Jacob Kabra and Elia Konzamee, who had been members of the crew of a Greek tanker. [More…]
It was pointed out to me that these men had deserted their ship about 8 or 9 days previously. [More…]
In substance the story appeared to be that these men had signed on to the Greek tanker ‘Valiant Colocotronis’ which is controlled by Greek Petrol Tankers Ltd. Their complaint was that, although it was then the year 1970, proper maritime conditions were virtually non-existent on the tanker. [More…]
I think Senator Cavanagh, with his trade union background, would appreciate that it is well known that the present Greek Government is concerned with the virtual extermination of trade unionism, particularly the Greek Seamen’s Union. [More…]
These are the sorts of men who have the destiny of thousands of seamen in their hands. [More…]
Will the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service make the necessary inquiries to ensure that copies of the National Service Act and Regulations are available in metropolitan and country areas for those who want to purchase such documents? [More…]
Will the Minister ensure that his officers in the respective States make available private consulting rooms so that young men may discuss their individual problems in private with officers of the Department? [More…]
He pointed out all the various reasons.- He said that there would be a tremendous increase in interest rates. [More…]
He mentioned one or two other things. [More…]
So there seemed to be a divergence not of economic thought but of political thought between 2 senior men in the Government. [More…]
From the experience of inflation occurring in the community over some 10 or 20 years, one can be assured that governments are not opposed to inflation, but they are opposed to an unreasonable escalation of inflation. [More…]
I believe that the demand which has been created for money, for men and for materials in recent years is the main accelerator of this problem. [More…]
If the LiberalCountry Party governments of the past 21 years have failed in any important regard I believe it has been in not getting the best brains in this country to work to introduce a new system of wage fixation. [More…]
As I understand the situation our judges, legal men of high reputation, sit in judgment and hear legal advocacy for and against this and that. [More…]
Once the judges of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission have given their decision - not a suggestion or recommendation to the Government or the Parliament - that wages will rise as from a certain date, the increase flows on. [More…]
I do not deny that one element of the cost structure is wages; but I do not say that that alone - bearing in mind the added productivity in industry over the years. [More…]
- has placed us in a less favourable position than that which we enjoyed prior to the arrival on the scene of this tremendous scourge called inflation. [More…]
Today people in the ..rural sector have tremendous worries. [More…]
The Government is providing $27m to; keep dairy farmers on the land. [More…]
Some years ago Mr McCarthy, who was Secretary of the Department of Commerce and Agriculture, conducted an investigation into this industry. [More…]
He was respected by people of all shades of political opinion because he was one of the big men of -.the administrative staff. [More…]
(2) and (3) Migrants to Australia who are requiredto register for national service have the same obligations under the National Service Act as men born in Australia. [More…]
Prior to the commencement of call-up action such men are given the opportunity to leave Australia rather than be called up. [More…]
Should any such men return to Australia before reaching 30 years of age they remain liable for national service in Australia. [More…]
Under the National Service Act 1951-1968, how many young men, to date - [More…]
(a) Up to 31st December 1970, 46,838 national servicemen had been called up and enlisted in the Army. [More…]
282 applications for total exemption as conscientious objectors had not been determined at 31st December 1970; in most cases the men have not wished to proceed with the hearing of their application pending termination of their period of temporary deferment of call-up and/or determination of their fitness for service. [More…]
(e) and (2) Records ofmenwho have not sought to hide that they have failed to meet their national service obligations are not separated nor distinguished from those of other men who have breached the National Service Act. [More…]
Obviously this is a matter on which Mr Lynch will have to make a decision but I should like specific answers to the first and second questions and, in relation to the third question dealing with the readmission of the 2 Lebanese seamen, I feel 1 should get something clear cut on their prospects of coming back to Australia as bona fide migrants. [More…]
The idea of economy in Government circles is prevailing and I should like to know about other seamen who have been deported. [More…]
If the latter were the case we would have the Gilbertian situation of those men coming back as migrants. [More…]
The Minister no doubt remembers the case of the Dalmatian seamen who came back as migrants. [More…]
The honourable senator will recall perhaps that J made a statement relating to the commencement of this contract in April last. [More…]
Considerable progress has been made with the construction of the cableway, and although some delays have occurred due to very heavy weather conditions on Mount Bellenden Ker preventing use of the helicopters and limiting the time when men have been available to work on the mountain we expect to have the cable completed by December 1971 unless, of course, we encounter exceptional weather conditions in the meantime. [More…]
The hauling equipment, passenger cars and cable and other associated gear are under manufacture or in process of delivery from Europe and the United States of America. [More…]
It is hoped that the Postmaster-General’s Department can be given some limited access to the top station before the completion of the cableway in December 1971, and I am informed by my colleague the Postmaster-General that on that basis transmission can be expected to commence about the middle of 1972. [More…]
The ‘Nella Dan’ is now proceeding to Mawson, where she will unload equipment and supplies and pick up expeditioners for return to Melbourne. ] [More…]
1 am most grateful to Captain Neilsen of the ‘Nella Dan’ for the support of his officers and men throughout this episode. [More…]
With all sincerity and with the greatest respect I ask the Minister to consider adjourning this matter so that the Postmaster-General’s Department can study it and decide whether a new approach to it should be taken. [More…]
When I rose previously 1 stated that it was of concern to me that people, with legal minds and with a reputation over generations of upholding the rights and civil liberties of the individual, were prepared to accept the amendment. [More…]
They recognised the importance of the matters I raised and on no account would they be parties to an infringement of civil rights. [More…]
These men with legal training have influenced the Department to introduce the present amendments. [More…]
They thought that the Act contained the necessary protection to prevent the infringement of the civil liberties of any individual. [More…]
He does not know any legal men. [More…]
The State governments are not renowned for possessing men who have a conscience in relation to civil liberties. [More…]
I hope the Federal Government has such a conscience. [More…]
We must be practical men dealing with the practical affairs of the nation. [More…]
All we can rely on is the experience of 29 years during which no person, to the best of the Department’s knowledge, has ever been imprisoned for this offence. [More…]
I think it is reasonable for the Senate to act on that supposition and to support the Bill as proposed to be amended. [More…]
Senator Gair says that from his point of view the university of hard knocks hasalways produced the best men. [More…]
There has been a tremendous change in technology and that change has produced great industrial changes. [More…]
The Government sees fit to say that it will not have that number but that it will have one less. [More…]
If a body of men selected to run the University says that it wants this representation of students on the Council, why on earth should the Government say that it will not give what the Council is asking but that it will give one less? [More…]
734 on 29th October 1970 and a statement made by the Minister for the Interior in the House of Representatives on 3rd September 1970 regarding Aboriginal land rights. [More…]
Will the Minister contract to withdraw the statement made in the House of Representatives as it can only be described as Government pressure on the Northern Territory Supreme Court? [More…]
If the Minister is not prepared to withdraw the statement referred to, will he undertake to allow Aboriginals to obtain land in the same way as tribal lands were seized from Aboriginals in the first place, that is, by making it legal for Aboriginals to use force in their struggle to obtain land rights just as previous governments made it legal for while men to use force to obtain land owned by Aboriginals? [More…]
A permanent complement of men is stationed in the United States in connection with the Fill mission: I do not know the exact number stationed there and I would have to do a bit of research to obtain that information. [More…]
The mission is made up of scientific and technical men, with one or two officers in charge. [More…]
A target date was mentioned in the Fraser-Laird agreement. [More…]
The decision at that time will depend on whether the aircraft then meets the technical and operational requirements of the RAAF. [More…]
ls the Minister representing the Minister for Primary Industry aware of the significance of a report in the Melbourne ‘Sun’ of today’s dateline headed Tasmanian Wool Sale A Disaster’ and stating that wool men described the Launceston wool sales as the most disastrous for years, representing a fall in prices of up to 65 per cent in the overall clip compared with last year, despite the purchase by the Australian Wool Commission of 60 per cent of the merino clip? [More…]
In the course of the debate one finds that people indicate that they are insistent that in some way their values ought to be the values of everyone; that in some way the younger generation - these young men and young women - have Strayed from the path of virtue. [More…]
The plain fact is that the young men and women more and more are rejecting the myths, the superstitions, the beliefs and the values of those who are supporting this amendment. [More…]
Whatever the worth of those beliefs and values may be, that is a matter that will be sorted out by the young mcn and women. [More…]
I am quite certain - I can speak from my knowledge of members of various university organisations - that these people hold their universities in very high esteem and that they are men of responsibility. [More…]
The matter is entirely a matter of individual judgment as to what should be done with material such as this. [More…]
They want to be party lo the decisions which affect them, and that is the attitude of the oung men and women in the University. [More…]
They are’ not children; they arc young men and women and they want to know why decisions are being made. [More…]
After all, they are the people who are the reason for the existence of the university, lt is not there for the professors, nor is if there for the businessmen or the parliamentarians who are on the Council: the reason for its existence is the education of the students. [More…]
Obviously the relationship between the University, the Parliament and the executive administration is both important and delicate. [More…]
The distinction between the supervision of our statute making power and the supervision of the University statute making power by the Executive as at present, or by Parliament as proposed, is a difficult one to draw. [More…]
Not least important in this balance is the presence of parliamentary members on the Council - that is to say, two members representing each House. [More…]
Nor would the Parliament wish to be concerned in detail with such matters as the policy and administration of student discipline, the qualifications for enrolment, the prescription of courses, the award of degrees or other matters of university administration which are by this statute of Parliament laid upon the Council itself. [More…]
The Council is composed of most experienced men from all fields of life, including the academic sphere, appointed by the Government for that very purpose. [More…]
All these matters are vital to the autonomy and public stature of the University, and they are firmly on record in the University Calendar and in carefully detailed annual reports to the Parliament. [More…]
On the same day Mrs Dalton telephoned a person on the staff of the Attorney-General’s Department, requesting the names of security officers in Sydney whom she could contact and advise of the intended attack. [More…]
Mrs Dalton visited 2 security men in Sydney. [More…]
The name is available if it is of any interest to the Government and can be made available. [More…]
Whilst I am on this subject I wish to pay tribute to the officers of the Department of Immigration in Sydney and their counterparts in the other States for the manner in which they handle the crash programme of higher grade English classes. [More…]
1 know that they are extremely dedicated men. [More…]
I think, a clerical calling in the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
It is to the credit of the Department in Sydney that, as a result of a couple of last minute withdrawals by people whom one would define as having the European equivalent of the higher school certificate, she was elevated to the position and made good at it. [More…]
I believe that it should be possible for somebody to be recommended to attend these courses, even the more progressive ones. [More…]
As I stated earlier, the Minister has not answered some of my comments, particularly the one about bilingual instructors. [More…]
In addition to some of the groups I mentioned which could be coopted there is no reason at ali why some of the ethnic groups could not be used in this field. [More…]
Territory is that although the Department of the Interior handles education matters, in the strict sense there is no equivalent to a State Education Department. [More…]
If honourable senators follow the case histories of men who arrive in Australia and go from hostels they will find that many of them follow the higher wages in isolated areas. [More…]
This is a time when, because of the lack of entertainment, with trained teachers they could be educated. [More…]
I think Senator O’Byrne has mentioned on different occasions that when people have gone to isolated areas they have taken up other interests. [More…]
I remind the Minister that these men are engaged in mining operations and heavy construction work. [More…]
He said that in addition about 50 other people are concerned with prawn processing and about 800 Aboriginals and 30 Europeans are on settlements. [More…]
I think the Minister’s own statement indicates the necessity for more adequate medical facilities to be made available at the island, especially in view of the fact that the men there are engaged in mining and heavy construction work and that 1,630 people live within the immediate area. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article headed “Funds Scandal’ in Jobson’s Investment Digest of 3rd March relating to an analysis of the Australian Fixed Trust group? [More…]
This group advertises for public investment and has succeeded in attracting thousands of dollars from small investors. [More…]
In view of the clearly scandalous position disclosed by the article, will the Government ascertain whether the interests of the many thousands of small investors are adequately safeguarded? [More…]
Does the Government consider that directors whose negligence or downright dereliction of duty is so plainly shown in their failure to detect the shocking position now revealed, or their deliberate acquiescence in a perpetuation of the same, are fit and proper persons to remain in control of such a vast aggregation of the savings of men and women with small resources? [More…]
Does the Government agree, that there should be some public warning to such investors to the effect that the mere inclusion of a titled person on the directorate of an investment company is no guarantee of the soundness of the investment but that sometimes the position is to the contrary? [More…]
From my parliamentary experience, I am afraid that unless the Senate has a formal proposition placed before it, supported by a close examination of what is required to be done the Senate because it has the character and quality of men sitting in large committees will patch the situation. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate has placed before us a concrete set of arrangements in the form of order of the day No. [More…]
To illustrate this, if I may be forgiven for doing this, 1 refer to a select committee, of which 1 am Chairman, which at the moment is examining the securities industry in Australia. [More…]
There were not within the Commonwealth Public Service, so far as we were able to discover, men who could provide the analysis, the examination, the pursuit and the investigation of matters which the Committee was charged to examine. [More…]
The Committee went outside the Public Service and drew men from the universities. [More…]
Supported by my colleagues on the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange, I have brought men from the universities of Australia on to that Committee. [More…]
The importance of attaching men or women from the universities lo committees of the Parliament is that it provides the nexus between the intellectual and academic world and the active world of politics. [More…]
are responsive, those total concepts that will enable the Senate to make a judgment on the matters it has referred to its committees. [More…]
deprecate the committee system at all but simply to point out to my Senate colleagues that, if we wish to make the committee system work as effectively, as I believe we all do, we must step outside the area of conventional management of committees and conventional responsibilities of committees. [More…]
I am grateful to you, Mr President, for endorsing the new concept of bringing men from the universities. [More…]
1 wish to tell honourable senators that I was able to obtain an enlargement of the initial appropriation of $20,000 for the Select Committee on Securities and Exchange only through your ability to pull levers, press buttons and turn wheels in relation to the Treasury. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Leader of the Government. [More…]
In view of the fact that the former Prime Minister who is now Minister for Defence is leaving this week for a 4-day visit to Vietnam and that the publicly stated reason for this visit is to assess the military position in Vietnam, I ask: Is it fair to expect a freshly appointed Minister for Defence who is racked by the humiliation of his recent fall from high office and who has only a hastily acquired concept of his new Department to be able to sum up the critical situation in Vietnam? [More…]
Can the people of Australia be assured that with the security of our men in Vietnam becoming more in jeopardy each week Mr Gorton will use his visit to make arrangements for all our troops to be withdrawn from Vietnam as soon as possible? [More…]
There comes a time to all men when circumstances change. [More…]
This is contrary to my code and I know that it is contrary to the code of all men who think about it for a moment or two. [More…]
Are these lawns now cut by 4 men with hand mowers instead of a tractor-drawn mower as before. [More…]
Men with small motor mowers cut grass around trees and edges. [More…]
There is only one sector in Government and private industry where significant use of money, men and materials is demanded. [More…]
1 believe that that sector needs the closest attention and the every ready assistance of Government to see that it remains profitable. [More…]
The association between Government and private industry is necessarily based on that concept. [More…]
A similar concept must be impressed on the Government in relation to private industry. [More…]
This Bill does not go far enough and that is why the Labor Party would like the Senate to consider the amendment I have moved. [More…]
Are not some of the great men associated with the Snowy Mountains Authority still available to us to plan the future safety and security of this nation by avoiding national disasters? [More…]
Men can be sent to the moon. [More…]
Such works are regarded as very important by my Party but I ask .the Senate to consider the advantages which would accrue from acceptance of our proposed amendment. [More…]
I referred earlier to tremendous losses in human lives, property and stock caused by floods. [More…]
Floods result in the loss of employment in the towns and surrounding districts. [More…]
I have mentioned this matter in the Senate on several occasions. [More…]
No words or sentiments of mine would be able to express the full credit which is due to the men and women of the civil defence organisations. [More…]
In its weighing up of the overall situation, the Government has decided that further reductions of the Australian forces in Vietnam are feasible and desirable. [More…]
With the agreement of the Government of the Republic of Vietnam, and following consultations with United States military authorities in Saigon, some forces will now be withdrawn. [More…]
These are; Selected combat and supporting forces of the Army task force, including the tank squadron, totalling about 650 men; Royal Australian Navy personnel, about 45 in number, serving with the United States Assault Helicopter Company; the RAN Clearance Diving Team - clearance of underwater explo sives - of 6 personnel; No. [More…]
2 Canberra Bomber Squadron involving 280 men: and 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 total Australian personnel by about 1,000 men. [More…]
The Australian forces then remaining in South Vietnam will comprise 6,000 men compared with a peak of 8,000 in the period 1968 to 1970. [More…]
Events in South Vietnam, to which our own fighting men made such a . [More…]
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…]
I speak not only of cost in terms of government expenditure, but of the tragic waste and loss of human resources, the unhappiness that is caused, the erosion of human character and the breakdown of families. [More…]
In this field, therefore, parliaments and governments should no longer confine themselves to law making and law enforcement. [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 rea 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…]
I was one of 5 men who helped to fix the Australian quota and I say categorically that no pressure from any company, from any producer or from any organisation was brought to bear upon me or to my knowledge on any other member of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board. [More…]
These men form a Special Investigations Branch (SIB). [More…]
This Bill is not one of any great moment, but nevertheless it is important to a fairly restricted number of people in the community. [More…]
Today there is not the same attraction for young men to seek service in the Royal Australian Navy as there was 20 years or so ago. [More…]
I think one of the reasons for this has been the greater competition for young people in other fields of interest and consequently there has not been the number of young men coming forth who have been prepared to accept naval careers. [More…]
Nevertheless the general purpose of the Bill is to streamline the manner in which young men are trained for naval service. [More…]
One point I make in mentioning the general position of the Navy at the present time is that I think to some degree the Government could promote the Service more effectively than it does. [More…]
Today young men are not especially militarily minded. [More…]
It has also helped greatly in the training of young men who have been interested in naval affairs. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to co-ordinate more effectively the various means by which young men have been trained for naval careers. [More…]
I think it is important that when we talk about people who are beginning a career in a particular branch of the Services we ought to think of some of the failings which occur for men who adopt these careers on a full time basis. [More…]
Some are matters which will deter naval men from continuing in the Service and making a career of it. [More…]
If young men who are training as naval cadets become aware of the shortcomings of the conditions which exist then obviously this deters them from entering the Navy in a permanent capacity. [More…]
After the First World War these men were allotted holdings of between 17 and 20 acres. [More…]
At that time that average was probably quite sufficient for these men to produce crops and to make a decent living, but as costs rose and as the price of fruit decreased in some instances, and because of the adverse climatic conditions under which they worked, it was found that a holding of this size was not sufficient. [More…]
It has been termed a dirty, filthy, immoral war in which we have no right to participate and sacrifice the lives of our young men. [More…]
We find support has come even from those progressive elements in South Vietnam which wish that they could be left in peace to settle their own affairs and which believe that Vietnam should be left for the Vietnamese. [More…]
The Liaison Committee of Peace Forces in Vietnam proclaims that: The action of landing troops to intrude into Laotian territory violated rudely the Geneva Agreement of 1954 on Indo China, the Geneva Agreement of 1962 on L;os, and seriously violated the international laws on the principle of respecting the territory of any nation. [More…]
The action of intruding into Laotian territory is obviously aimed at widening the war, revealing once more the warlike nature of the Nguyen Van Thieu government which always uses the citizens’ lives to serve its own interests. [More…]
The action of sending Vietnamese troops into Laos in order to decrease the loss of American forces, as is President Nixon’s declaration, reveals the submissive nature of Nguyen Van Thieu’s government, using the lives of Vietnamese young men as cannon fodder for the American expeditionary soldiers in Indo China. [More…]
The action of widening the war of invasion into Laos reveals once more the savage ambition of the United States Government, using the native servants of undeveloped nations to kill each other, serving the interests of the imperialist state. [More…]
Critics of American involvement in Vietnam are now asking if men like Lyndon Johnson, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, Walt Rostow, Richard Nixon. [More…]
I do not think that anybody who lives in New South Wales and has some knowledge of what has happened recently has any doubt - I do not think this is arguable - that a high degree of raw sewage is being put into the sea because 6 men are carrying out work in an industrial situation normally concerning 40 men. [More…]
Can the statement made in the House of Representatives on 3rd September 1970 relating to Aboriginal land rights be withdrawn, since it can only be described as Government pressure on the Northern Territory Supreme Court; if not, will he undertake to allow Aborigines to obtain land in the same way as tribal lands were seized from Aborigines in the first place, that is, by making it legal for Aborigines to use force in their struggle to obtain land rights and in the same way as previous Governments made it legal for white men to use force to obtain land owned by Aborigines. [More…]
This Bill now before the Senate provides for higher war compensation payments by way of increases in the rates of war pension for totally and permanently incapacitated ex-service men and women and those who, because of the severity of their warcaused disabilities, receive payments equal to the TPI rate, namely, the war blinded, those temporarily totally incapacitated, those receiving the special rate of war pension for tuberculosis, and those double amputees who receive additional amounts under the first 6 items of the Fifth Schedule. [More…]
The Bill also incorporates some amendments to the Act of a machinery nature necessary for applying to service pensioners the increases which are being proposed for age and invalid pensioners. [More…]
Had the Government kept to the same basis, today those people would receive not S7 a week but $8 a week. [More…]
Honourable senators must remember all the time that the Government boasts that the average weekly earnings are $84.80. [More…]
It is amazing to find Government supporters trying to justify the 50c pension increase by a comparison with what happened over 20 years ago. [More…]
In 1949 we were still recovering from the effects of the Second World War and we were rehabilitating our service men and women. [More…]
We were returning them and the workers engaged in war industries to peace time employment. [More…]
But that did not stop the Chifley Government. [More…]
This was carried by 55 per cent of the people voting for the proposals and 45 per cent voting against the proposals put forward by the then Chifley Government. [More…]
The Government has urged the saving of money, but it has done stupid things such as changing the brand of toilet paper in the Treasury Department and switching off one light where two lights operated in a room in this House. [More…]
Another silly act was to bring out 4 little garden-hopping lawn mowers to mow the lawns in front of Parliament House. [More…]
Surprisingly enough, 25 minutes after my colleague, Senator Poyser, mentioned this at question time, the 4 men with their 4 little garden-hopping lawn mowers were taken away. [More…]
The Government carries its so-called, economy measures to the extreme in some directions, but it is not prepared to make concessions to those most in need in the community. [More…]
The very nature of service in the armed forces, especially in time of war, sets it apart from other forms of employment. [More…]
The harshness of the conditions under which men serve, the element of danger, the strain lo which mind and body are subjected- [More…]
That is true, not to mention the situation in Vietnam today, which 1 will talk about shortly, lt continues: the separation from home and loved ones, the burden of responsibility for human life which so often must be accepted, all combine to impose exceptional demands on all who serve. [More…]
All this means that the conditions under which men serve, especially those relating io compensation, medical treatment and re-establishment in civil life, must be the best the community can afford. [More…]
Against a background of Government agitation to get more men to serve in Vietnam, it pays a very paltry pension of $16 a week to widows of men killed in Vietnam. [More…]
As at 21st October 1970 the number of wounded ex-servicemen who had served in Vietnam and who were entitled to a special total and permanent incapacity pension was 22. [More…]
Most of those ex-servicemen would be working in industry if they had not been injured. [More…]
Twenty-two soldiers, who were wounded in Vietnam and about whom we are always hearing great platitude from Government speakers, will receive an extra $1 a week pension. [More…]
I understand that 43,000 young men have failed to register under the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
In view of this massive opposition to the National Service Act can the Government justify sending 6 men - Zarb. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service aware that 2 young Australian men are currently serving long gaol sentences for allegedly refusing to comply with the provisions of the National Service Act? [More…]
Will the Minister use his good offices and prevail upon the Governor-General to exercise his prerogative of mercy and release both men forthwith? [More…]
Do over 1,100 young men now face prose cution for various breaches of the National Service Act. [More…]
When it comes to my Department’s notice that a man does not appear to have registered or has 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 time 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.In addition, particularly where the men have registered only after coming tothe 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 registered as required. [More…]
- 311,853 men registered for national service; [More…]
- 5,039 men, or 1.6 per cent of those registered, were denied the benefit of the ballot for failing to register at the proper time and of this number 727 were prosecuted. [More…]
Again the great majority’ of men attend for medical examination when requiredto do so. [More…]
Over the past 3 years to 3 1st December last 66,780 men had been medically examined; 50 men, or less than 0.1 per cent, have been prosecuted. [More…]
Men who have been medically examined and found to be fit, or have refused to undergo a medical examination and been prosecuted for that offence and persist in their refusal, are called up for Army service. [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…]
Over the past 3 years of the national service scheme to 31st December last, 11 men have been convicted of refusal to obey a call-up notice to render service, or 0.04 per cent of some 25,487 who have been calledup and enlisted during this period. [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 themto 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…]
Two men are currently imprisoned following conviction of failure to obey a call-up notice and render service. [More…]
I am only commenting on a report which was given over a network of American radio stations and which related to an admission that an individual did attempt the slaughter of a particular Vietnamese agent. [More…]
The report stated that some 7 men were on trial at that time but the trials could not proceed because the CIA refused to release the evidence. [More…]
I am endeavouring to make them so minded for the purpose of securing the release of poor victims of a tyrannical government which seems to imprison those who will not be trained to kill. [More…]
So the Government picked on Charles Martin. [More…]
I would support conscription if the urgency or the necessity were there, but I am opposed to the National Service Act which conscripts men to be taught to kill victims in Vietnam. [More…]
The children of those killed by Diem’s men organised themselves into decapitation groups, - For the benefit of Senator Keeffe I will explain that ‘decapitation groups’ refers to people who cut ofl the heads of other people. [More…]
So one can appreciate the fact that Senator Hannan is crying crocodile tears and other men have to bleed blood while he is looking after the affairs of these companies. [More…]
I can recall mentioning it in this chamber, by way of a question, at the time. [More…]
The usual thing is that the death marbles are drawn out and then all those at the draw go off and have a cup of tea, chortling, chuckling and telling each other blue stories as if nothing had happened, whereas in each of these draws they have just consigned to their death probably 200 young Australian men who have no my as to whether they are to be sent to war or not. [More…]
Were 3 members of the Gurindji tribe employed on Inverway Station in the Northern Territory for 5 months in the first half of this year; if so, was the payment to each of the 3 men (Gerry Ngalgardji, Inverway Georgie and Mainu) $50 per month, less tax, and is it a fact that they have not received payment for the fifth month. [More…]
Will the Minister take appropriate urgent action to ensure that the men concerned will receive back payments at the correct award rate, and that all arrears in wages are paid. [More…]
We have read a lot in recent times, by those people who seem to be able to get Press coverage, of the need for sending into the parliaments of this country, particularly the national Parliament, those whom they regard as the best men. [More…]
Whom do they regard as the best men? [More…]
If they think that they can get the class of person whom they consider to be the best for the job, having regard to what is paid to members of this Parliament, they have another think coming. [More…]
Last Friday morning in Brisbane 3 young men - David Robert Franklin, David Martin and Bill Cochrane - appeared before Mr Smith, a magistrate, for failing to register for national service. [More…]
Two of these young men - David Franklin and David Martin - are associated with an organisation known as the Revitalisation of Christianity. [More…]
In a moment 1 want to raise a subject bearing on this matter. [More…]
I will make this point quite clear when I touch on it in a moment. [More…]
I now ask the Minister why 6 men have been sentenced to 2 years gaol out of the 10,600 who I understand have been under investigation for a considerable time as allegedly contravening the National Service Act. [More…]
The answer lb Senator O’Byrne’s question was a long answer, very deliberately given, lt showed how of those men who were included in the ballot some were called up, some were rejected after medical examination, and the others were winnowed down to a very small number of recalcitrants and defaulters. [More…]
Of the very small number who actually were proved to have deliberately resisted their obligations, there were a number of prosecutions - I think they were of the order of about 100 - a number of convictions, and a very small number - I think it did not reach double figures - of men who were penalised by imprisonment. [More…]
I would point out to Senator Prowse that the Department of Trade and Industry is very aware of the position as a result of the information supplied by its Trade Commissioners in the area, who are alert to the possibility of the sale of mutton in this area. [More…]
If there is any change of policy in India and Pakistan these men will be pushing Australia’s case for the sale of our mutton. [More…]
However, I should remind the Senate that both Pakistan and India have at the present time very strict foreign exchange requirements. [More…]
These strict requirements prohibit the importation of non-essential goods and meat is low in priority in the list of non-essential goods. [More…]
I preface it by asking him whether he is aware that most young men who obtain deferment of national service call-up in order to complete university and other higher education courses are called up immediately they fail an end of year examination - frequently through no fault of their own - and after 2 years national service a high percentage do not resume their studies. [More…]
Can the Minister advise whether the Government is prepared to examine a scheme whereby such young students can be given greater latitude in their endeavours to complete their studies, or alternatively, in appropriate cases can call-up be deferred indefinitely? [More…]
In that period there has been virtually a 100 per cent increase in the national financial appropriation for immigration but only about a 16 per cent increase in the appropriation for child endowment. [More…]
Surely we should be encouraging large families, not merely because they will provide men and women in this community but also because of the very grave social and economic consequences if we do not do it. [More…]
All profit comes from the working men in Australia. [More…]
I heard on the radio your speech in the Senate on 7th April on the subject of conscientious objection to compulsory training to kilt our fellow men, women and children. [More…]
For a notable example of a Christian man who could not practise the use of sword or bayonet or do any violence to his fellow men, we have Ronald Knox. [More…]
As for myself I also could not be trained to use violence to my fellow men and could not be trained to kill in the Army. [More…]
When the second World War came, I at once volunteered and joined the Navy which ‘fights ships not men’ and went straight to the protection of convoys in the Battle of the Atlantic as an Anti-Submarine Officer and was the first Australian to be First Lieutenant of a corvette in that Cruel Sea. [More…]
But we should not give it by forcing some only of our immature youths to kill and do violence to their fellow men. [More…]
It is wrong and a tyranny and against Christian charity to gaol young men who refuse to join the lottery of death and violence. [More…]
And my thought was that if I could come here to pay my tribute of respect to the great responsibilities that you men as the executive heads of your states must carry on behalf of our people, then that alone would justify my trip. [More…]
Civil defense is absolutely impossible without complete and enthusiastic cooperation, not merely of governments, not merely of men, but of every man, woman and child in the United States. [More…]
However.- the Australian Government still refuses to face realities. [More…]
This Govern-, men fs policy of refusing to recognise a nation of. [More…]
Indeed it is acknowledged in the Parliament. [More…]
But I have lived: long enough to witness a so-called thaw in the attitude of the Union of Soviet: Socialist Republics in 1953 and the subsequent freezing that took place after Mr Brezhnev became the First Secretary of the Communist Party and to wonder what the attitude of the People’s Republic of China will be in another 5 or 6 years when Chairman Mao, the present great Khan of China, goes to the heavenly kingdom, and Mr Lin Piao and another group of men who are mostly Army men who have themselves embedded in the matrix of power in the People’s Republic of China take his place. [More…]
The Minister for Labour and National Service has provided me with the following answer to the honourable senator’s question: (1), (2) and (J) The honourable senatoris presumably referring to the procedures under the National Service Regulations whereby the Minister for Labour and National Service may refer to a court for determination the cases of men where the question of their conscientious beliefs with regard to military service has arisen and the men have not applied for recognition as conscientious objectors. [More…]
The position of such men is identical with that of men before the courts as a result of then own application for recognition as conscientious objectors.If they establish to the satisfaction of the court that they hold beliefs which do not allow them to engage in any form of military service they are not required to render any service at all. [More…]
In addition to these two cases, there are five men who on being referred to the courts by the Minister have established that they hold conscientious beliefs which do not allow them to engage in any form of military service and who have been recognised accordingly. [More…]
There is a strong suspicion that a unique social experiment undertaken by enlightened men who had seen the evils that flowed from the wholesale alienation of land by the Crown and who were determined to prevent a repetition of this in the new Territory, could in the end become no more than an empty legalistic shell. [More…]
How can such men be expected to give any intelligent consideration to such legislation unless they take the trouble to make a thorough study of the system and its problems? [More…]
Perhaps the greatest problem confronting any one trying to gain the assistance of members of Parliament in support of an attempt to improve the leasehold system in the Territory is the problem of gaining their interest. [More…]
Fortunately, there have always been some men who have looked beyond the bounds of their own electorate and concerned themselves with the interests of the nation. [More…]
Such men will readily be interested in the problem. [More…]
Even others not so readily interested and more concerned with the interests of their own electorates will surely become interested if they realise that the whole of the people of Australia have a big investment in the lands of the Australian Capital Territory, and that this investment is now endangered by hasty and short-sighted legislation. [More…]
The Department of the Interior seems to be closing its eyes to another factor with regard to the shortage of hire cars. [More…]
This is that 12 so-called rentacars are operating as hire cars in Canberra, carrying tourists and business men and catering for weddings, funerals and the like. [More…]
There is an old saying that strong men create precedents and weak men follow them. [More…]
We are hearing a lot of humbug about a rush by the Government. [More…]
The Government is just as eager to conclude this session as anybody else is, so let us be honest with ourselves and with the people when dealing with this issue. [More…]
Although these men had come into my office without permission, threatened my secretary, examined my private papers and taken possession of my office they were discharged. [More…]
But under the National Service Act itself young men can be charged for not registering. [More…]
People who have not registered can be charged for incitement, and there is a lot of hoo-ha about this too, particularly if they are themselves eligible to register and have incited others not to register. [More…]
The Government fears public reaction and the protest of the multitude outside of this chamber. [More…]
In order to preserve itself from public “criticism the Government has found it necessary to bring in restrictive laws qf, this nature. [More…]
On 30th June of this year this country anil every other free country in the world will see a mass demonstration of resentment against the laws’ that commit or compel young men to be murdered in Vietnam. [More…]
The Government- will use the provisions of this ‘ legislation as far as it can to restrict this moratorium campaign. [More…]
Whether it is a demonstration against war, against the raw deal being received by primary producers in this ‘ country or against a raw deal in the field’ of restriction of worship, the Government will use the provisions of this Bill to its worst. [More…]
Therefore the constable should be given the credit that is due to a number of men in the force. [More…]
He was one of those short-term men. [More…]
I think he makes a statement of fact there. [More…]
It is one of the fundamentals of maintaining law and order that people have respect for the police. [More…]
I believe that we, who are charged with the public responsibility of making the laws of the country, should be the last to undermine the respect of the community at large for a very hard working body of men in all the States of the Commonwealth who happen to have the obnoxious task of maintaining the law and order that all of us wish to see maintained and who are employees of ours. [More…]
I will have more to say about gasolene in this context in a moment. [More…]
These men go there to do their duty, and they do it as instructed by their superiors. [More…]
I believe that we, in the Parliament of the nation, should be the last to help to undermine the confidence of the community in the police forces that we employ to do the job which the rest of the community desires them to do, , which needs to be done and which we are not in a position to do ourselves. [More…]
I invite Senator O’Byrne to read this morning’s Melbourne newspapers in which are reports of 2 young men before the courts. [More…]
Evidence has been given of their recorded statement about a most malicious and brutal murder of a young girl aged 15 years. [More…]
He means that it is a matter of personal judgment and. [More…]
Two misguided brothers who, because they were alleged to be intelligent young men doing university courses, should have known that a visiting dignitary such as a President of the United States would be accompanied by armed guards to protect his security in an intensely crowded area, by their actions ran the risk of those guards opening fire on them thus involving women, children and babes in arms around them. [More…]
These young men threw bags of paint at the presidential car. [More…]
It is very unlikely that I shall become Attorney-General because we have plenty of competent legal men on this side of the chamber - although it does not -necessarily follow that the Attorney-Genera! [More…]
AttorneyGeneral at the present time I am sure I could use legislation such as the Consorting Act to deal with some df these ultraright wing elements and have peace in no time. [More…]
It was explained earlier by Senator Kennelly how little pressure was needed to prick this balloon of the Establishment. [More…]
Under the practice of resale price maintenance people could, on the one hand, get together and arrange to withdraw, if necessary, their goods from the community unless a usurer’s price was obtained whilst, on the other hand, the very same people said to the men working in industry: ‘If you do not deliver up your labour at the price that we set we will not only fine you but also gaol you’. [More…]
I am certain they will wonder about our standards of measuring the morality of intelligent men who manufacture and store deadly germs, nuclear bombs, lethal gases and all the other terrible weapons devised to destroy other sections of the human race. [More…]
I am sure that they will query the sort of yardstick that is used when they study the war trials of the Nazi war criminals and consider that the very nations which set up those courts were at that time discussing the possibilities of atomic war and searching for devices which could lead to massacre on a far grander scale than was ever contrived by Hitler and his gang of wicked men. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Repatriation whether it is a fact that members of the Australian merchant marine have restricted repatriation rights vis-a-vis the other arms of the Services, particularly in regard to medical and hospital treatment. [More…]
If so, as these men served in the front line and as their casualty rate has been reported to be 400 per cent greater than that of any of the other Services, would the Minister examine the position and correct the anomaly? [More…]
It is so that these men have restricted repatriation benefits. [More…]
The reason for that has been stated by the Government time and time again. [More…]
If so, was the Minister’s attention drawn to the portion of the article which said that those gentlemen had been working for S years on 846 elderly men; that those who stayed on a diet low in saturated fats and high in poly-unsaturated fats were found to have a lower incidence of heart disease than those who stayed on a diet of saturated fats; but that those whose diet was high in poly-unsaturated fats showed a death rate from cancer twice as great as in the case of those stick-in-the-muds who had gone on consuming the old meat and potatoes, apple pie and ice cream, highly saturated all- American diet? [More…]
Is he also aware that Messrs Pearce and Dayton were alarmed by their finding that many of the old men who popped off with cancer had been oh a poly-unsaturated diet for only a few months? [More…]
Certainly, the senior pilots were most competent men who knew their business as well as any other airline pilots. [More…]
Whilst on the subject of the Department of Civil Aviation, the Minister may care to say whether or not 2 and possibly more senior officials in DCA purchased shares in Barton’s enterprises at that time. [More…]
Their knowledge was great and they brought back-up experience to the Committee which was of immense value. [More…]
They demonstrated that they were keen to give guidance to the Committee and to members of the Parliament. [More…]
Those who appeared before the Committees are busy, hard working men who had to find time late in the evenings to come and give evidence before us. [More…]
In his very long speech Senator O’Byrne tried to classify young men into two types - the goodies and the baddies. [More…]
I think this is an unfair comment, an unjust comment and an untrue comment. [More…]
The fact is that a minority of young men demonstrate, and the ones that do are in the main those who cannot stand up to the pressures of modern life. [More…]
1 put to the Senate that in fact the great majority of young men and women are not good time young mcn and women. [More…]
They are not the destructive element which Senator O’Byrne sees as being the goodies, the ones who want to tear down what they do not understand but do not know what to build in its place. [More…]
Were the authority of government so trifling as to permit anyone with a complaint to have the vast power to do anything he pleased, wherever, he pleased, and whenever he pleased, our customs and our habits of conduct, social, political, economic, ethical, and religious, would all be wiped out, and become no more than relics of a gone but not forgotten past. [More…]
Men and women who hold public office would be compelled, simply because they did hold public office, to lose the comforts and privacy of an unpicketed home. [More…]
I believe that our Constitution, written for the ages, to endure except as changed in the manner it provides, did not create a government with such monumental weaknesses. [More…]
But picketing and demonstrating can be regulated like other conduct of men. [More…]
I believe that the homes of men, sometimes the last citadel of the tired, the weary, and the sick, can be protected by government from noisy, marching, tramping, threatening picketers and demonstrators bent on filling the minds of men, women, and children with fears of the unknown. [More…]
Our Government should not be the chopping block because of the evasiveness of some Asian governments. [More…]
Senator Greenwood and Mr Forbes, the Minister for Immigration, are aware that J have already raised the problem of another group of Asian men and women who have qualified in accountancy. [More…]
However, I believe that it is time that Australia had a confrontation with the governments of Malaysia and Singapore, and perhaps other Asian countries. [More…]
As the Chairman stated, the Hansard staff helped considerably in preparing the document presented to the Senate today. [More…]
It is an immense report, of 100 pages. [More…]
I conmend the report to honourable senators and members and I hope that the Government will endorse its recommendations, for I feel sure many thousands of men, women and children who are handicapped in so many ways - ‘I have in mind, too, families who have the major responsibility of caring for their loved ones who are handicapped - will gain great assistance when the recommendations in the report are acted upon. [More…]
I ask honourable senators to think of that statement again: There is no such thing as addictive drugs, there are only addictive people. [More…]
A number of men eminent in their professions did agree with it. [More…]
That is why juries over a long period consistently refused to find men quilty of it and eventually, with the approbation of the judiciary and the whole community, they point blank refused to enforce the law because it was a bad law. [More…]
Immediately before the introduction of the permanent employment scheme there was a uniform charge of 48c 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 insofar as 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, where in previous circumstances attendance money would have been paid, the employer should be reimbursed from the charge for full shifts paid for when there is no work for the men. [More…]
Attendance money payments continued 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…]
During my speech on the second reading of this Bill I cited to the honourable senator only the other day the case of 2 young men in Melbourne who wanted to kill a girl. [More…]
I suggest that the proposition that for minor offences, such as sitting in the street and obstructing traffic, there has to be a trial by jury because it can be said that some people do this for the purpose of criticising a government, either here or abroad, is a ridiculous proposition from anybody, and it is most certainly a ridiculous proposition from a lawyer. [More…]
There is a shortage of firemen in the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
Because of this it is necessary at times to have these men on stand by duty. [More…]
There may be some demand for these men to work overtime but still not get a day off because of the heavy work load at that time. [More…]
I should first of all explain that the National Service Act imposes on young ‘men in the 20 years old age-group, who are ordinarily resident in Australia, the liability both to ‘register and to render service. [More…]
I am advised that, while you were born in the United States of America, you have resided in Australia since 1951 and therefore have a clear liability for national service; Under provisions made by the Government in. [More…]
You chose to’ remain in Australia and as you are not otherwise eligible for exemption or indefinite deferment, your liability can only be discharged by completion of the required period of service. [More…]
prescribed for a period not less than the unexpired portion of the period of his engagement to serve in the Regular Army Supplement. [More…]
Men are not meant to be antagonists but people who can live together, and through organisations such as the International Development Association we can show our goodwill towards other people in the world who are much less fortunate than we are. [More…]
I am advised that 7 of the 12 men on the committee, including 1 man from South Australia who is a director of a meat company, are stud breeders. [More…]
The comment has been made to me - I am uncertain as to its accuracy - that 7 of the 12 men on the committee are stud pig breeders. [More…]
Provided that there are wise men on the council, I imagine that the new body will not get into any trouble. [More…]
The Australian Commercial Pig Producers Federation has achieved recognition by the Federal Government and the Australian Agricultural Council. [More…]
Senator Murphy says this clause has been included because the Commonwealth Government does not want to do the job ot does not want to pay out more money. [More…]
What happens is that the Department of Primary Industry has a number of men who are responsible for visiting factories periodically in connection with all these research funds. [More…]
These people make up a team of highly skilled men who have to be trained. [More…]
It was first proposed by the Manager of Qantas that the training scheme for Qantas pilots should have commenced as far back as April. [More…]
We come to understand men and women in the activities of life. [More…]
Through the Parliament there is a recognition of the humanities and of the need for men and women to live in understanding. [More…]
He has been unassuming and modest about his achievements and patient and forbearing in his capacity as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
It is a pity that he is leaving this chamber when the rural crisis poses such a challenge to men of his Party and his background as well as to the whole of this nation. [More…]
I hope that he can make further contributions to rural industry after his retirement from parliamentary life and bring to bear on rural problems the added expertise he has gained from his 7 years in the Senate. [More…]
Bert is one of the most knowledgeable men on horse racing in Australia. [More…]
Since he entered the Senate in 1965, Bert has always been a dedicated and loyal Labor parliamentarian. [More…]
Out of curiosity I took the trouble to tally up the number of years given to the Parliament by the men and women whom we are farewelling today, and it conies to a staggering total of 198 years. [More…]
It would be wrong to assume that the men who will replace the 12 senators to whom we are saying farewell today will not bring to this chamber equal talent. [More…]
It is not my intention to mention every one of the honourable senators by name. [More…]
However, I would like to mention one or two of them. [More…]
Sir Alister McMullin, who has already been mentioned, is one man to whom this chamber is deeply indebted for the way in which he has conducted the affairs of the Senate and the distinction and honour he has given to the Presidency. [More…]
Their performance is all the more creditable in the light of them being women in an establishment which is occupied predominantly by men. [More…]
These 2 men have been of great assistance to me. [More…]
I wish each and every one of you the best of health and I hope that your retirement will be a happy one and that at times you will come back and see the friends you have made while you have been members of the Senate. [More…]
It is one of my great regrets that I leave the Senate at a time when the rural industries are facing unprecedented difficulties, which are acknowledged by the Parliament, and I trust that ways and means will be found to assist them in the crisis that confronts them today. [More…]
But knowing the men on the land, the great incentive that they have and their great determination to overcome difficulties, I am sure that in the future we shall see once again our rural industries making a contribution to the Australian economy. [More…]
A set of circumstances which some people in this chamber may recall forced my entry into the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
Very few men succeed in life without the help and encouragement of a partner in life such as I had. [More…]
In adding to the thanks that go to you, Mr President, to the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) and to all those with whom I have been associated politically, I should like to thank the staff because, as I mentioned the other night at a small party in this building, whilst politicians, parliamentarians or whatever we might like to call them, may come and go, the Public Service and the staff of Parliament House go on. [More…]
Therefore, it is essential in the interests of the nation that we have men and women of integrity, dedicated to their jobs, and I believe that we have such people in this Senate. [More…]
I should also like to thank members of the Hansard Staff because, like every other member of the Parliament, I have benefited greatly from their expertise. [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, women and children of all age groups. [More…]
Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that the Senate 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 neardestitute men, women and children of all age groups, and for those in a non-pensionable 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 ask: Has the Minister seen a statement attributed to the New South Wales President of the Returned Services League that national servicemen who have been conscripted by the Government to fight in Vietnam and who, upon their return to Australia, have sought entry to a university are finding difficulty in gaining admission? [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to raise this matter with the universities to see Whether national servicemen are finding difficulty in gaining admission to a university, and if so, will he take steps to ensure that these young men are given every assistance to re-establish themselves in civilian life? [More…]
was in the chair and the purpose of the meeting was to consider a proposal to His Majesty’s Government for founding a colony on the southern coastof Australia. [More…]
This was the beginning of the South Australian Company and was the first step taken by white men towards the settlement of that part of Australia, for the proposal was approved by them for submission to Viscount Goderich, His Majesty’s Principal Secretary of State for the Colonial Department. [More…]
We think that the Government not only should clearly state the extent of its commitments in relation to the Fill but also should tell us that in respect of the Phantom order it is pressing the American Government - that is, if it has to continue to extend the lease of those aircraft - for some offset work for the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation which is now sacking a further 140 skilled men. [More…]
The debate on the Bill before the Senate is being used by the Opposition as a vehicle to express its concern over what it calls the Government’s mishandling of the Fill. [More…]
I want first to reply to a statement made by Senator Bishop about the 18 serious crashes by Fill aircraft. [More…]
Opposition members have seen fit to say that the Government has mishandled this situation and that the Government should not have gone into this purchase in the first place. [More…]
It is all very well to have hindsight but I point out to honourable senators opposite that they are not criticising the Government but in fact are criticising the expertise and technical knowledge of the men in the Royal Australian Air Force and the Department of Air. [More…]
These are the men who, with Government representatives, went to Europe and America to evaluate aircraft and they made the decision that the Fill was the- [More…]
Senator Bishop may say what he likes but really he is criticising the expertise and knowledge of the men of the RAAF. [More…]
I understand that there is a vacancy at the present time, After all, over the years the trade unions have produced some of the finest brains in the Commonwealth, having a background knowledge of the needs, the hopes and the aspirations of the ordinary working men and the salaried people of this country. [More…]
I hope that this recommendation will be considered very carefully by the Government when it is appointing the next member of the Tariff Board. [More…]
I would think that a member of the trade union movement would be of advantage as a member of the Tariff Board. [More…]
I am just putting the simple fact that at the present time, the members of the Tariff Board are very capable, well selected men with a vast range of interests and activities. [More…]
But I do not think any of them have been closely associated with the trade union movement or the work force. [More…]
I would like to make one or two comments before we proceed to a vote. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne made the comment that the Tariff Board consisted of very capable men but it could well stand amongst its membership someone from the trade union movement or the work force in general. [More…]
Members of the Tariff Board are appointed by the Government and it is open to organisations of any kind to forward names for consideration for appointment to the Board. [More…]
The trade union movement is quite capable of doing, this if it wishes to do so. [More…]
Senator O’Byrne also suggested that the Parliament could stand more details being given to it. [More…]
I observe the pile of information, Tariff Board reports and the detail which has already come forward in connection with this Bill and I rather shudder at the prospect of the Parliament getting much more detail to handle in an already fairly heavily detailed world. [More…]
As I have said, the Minister for Trade and Industry has indicated a very substantial change of attitude and development of attitude m regard to the Tariff Board. [More…]
That in itself should give assurance to honourable senators of the Government’s attitude towards the present situation. [More…]
Australia has to devise policies for the rural community based on a cold, pragmatic assessment of the likely future, where the trends are for increasing difficulties in selling and declining prices or growing surpluses. [More…]
It will do no good to rant at middle men. [More…]
Certainly selling methods can be improved, but this will not work miracles and affect the fundamental problems. [More…]
I think there are economies to be gained by having bigger farm units although there are big disadvantages, one of which is the need for more capital when in the present situation men on the land are having difficulty in financing their capital structure. [More…]
For instance, sometimes the men engaged in them cannot turn to other enterprises. [More…]
Just a few moments ago I told the honourable senator who said this. [More…]
The next section gives credence to the contention, often advanced, that this tribunal should not be the prerogative of legal men only. [More…]
My next experience of this problem of Australian life occurred in the tragic years, which I have never forgotten - men of my generation will never forget them - both in the city and in the country. [More…]
I am relating my remarks at present to the problems of the country where I saw people who literally, as Senator Milliner mentioned just now, had to leave their properties. [More…]
When we turn to the present we find that the reason for the economic depression in the primary area of this country, in which there are great resources in terms of money, is that the cost structure in other areas of development has pushed the cost of producing everything on the land up to a point where the primary producer no longer is able to bear the burden of the cost structure that has been placed upon him. [More…]
1 know that the learned men on the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, when national wage cases are considered and the cost structure of primary industry is mentioned, merely say blandly: That is a responsibility of the Government. [More…]
We have the illustration of the wool industry in the high rainfall area of south eastern Australia, where men of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, after looking at the problems in wool production, encouraged a great number of wool producers in that area to go in for high density stocking. [More…]
I quote that only to illustrate the fact that governments, both State and Federal, along wih other people, bear a large share of the responsibility for producing the circumstances in which primary producers find themselves at the present time. [More…]
All of these people - either those who stay within the rural sector of the economy or those who because of the financial policy pursued by this Government, are being forced to get off their properties - are entitled to receive assistance. [More…]
Young men living in country towns are going broke. [More…]
Only yesterday an article in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ stated that industrial observers believed that unemployment figures for this month may be the highest for some months in western New South Wales. [More…]
There are 200 workers unemployed in the towns of Bourke and Cobar and if this legislation is passed as is contemplated by this Government, a great number of the 2,000 land holders in the western division of New South Wales will be forced to leave their properties and the Government will be doing nothing to assist them. [More…]
Allied with that situation on the north coast of New South Wales is the situation in Bourke and Cobar today where 200 men are unemployed. [More…]
This scheme fails completely, as all the other schemes that have been proposed by the Government have failed. [More…]
I have said that at the present time we have no knowledge of how many men will be involved under this provision; nor have we had any experience to tell us where the cut-off point will be for those who will have to move off their farms should that be necessary. [More…]
Therefore, taking that view the Government cannot support the amendment moved by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
The attitude of the DLP is that the emphasis should be on people and not on properties; on the men and women of the rural industries and not on the industries themselves. [More…]
Very many farmers do not want to leave their farms, and every effort should be made, we say, to ensure that their income is a decent one by providing them with financial arrangements that the rural finance corporation could provide. [More…]
Sometimes it will be possible to ensure this on the existing farm by switching crops, by using new techniques and by using more efficient equipment. [More…]
Sometimes it will require property enlargement so that the farm can operate on a larger scale. [More…]
Some farmers will be willing to shift to more productive employment if given a chance to do so. [More…]
The rural finance corporation proposed by the amendment we have moved could make grants and loans for the re-establishment of men wanting to leave their farms. [More…]
We could visualise, if something does not happen, that there could be an abandonment of properties in the western parts of Australia and that the western towns could diminish and disappear. [More…]
That is a very bad prospect and it will come if men cannot be kept on their properties. [More…]
So are they all, all honourable men. [More…]
there is an obligation placed upon the State Government - I am speaking now of my own State of Victoria - to ensure that instrumentalities over which it has no direct control pay the money. [More…]
Senator Sir KENNETH ANDERSONI think we are all reasonable men and women when it comes to the question of time. [More…]
If we got reasonably close to finishing by mutual agreement we would sit on but if there were no mutual agreement we would automatically come back the next day. [More…]
Speaking specifically about price fixing by groups of business men, he said that such a practice was pernicious and destructive of the element of competition that is supposed to be the hallmark of a free enterprise society. [More…]
I hold the view that in monopoly companies in Australia, where the boards of those companies are made up of sound thinking men who see their interests as being identical with the interests of Australia, a price structure will evolve which certainly can be described as orderly marketing. [More…]
Such comments may apply to the situation in certain instances, but 1 have a great regard for the various levels of business production and distribution in Australia. [More…]
Senator Murphy mentioned the glass industry. [More…]
I commend the Bill. [More…]
Today there is tremendous pressure on men of commerce, manufacturers and traders because of intense competition in the market. [More…]
We can expect that the Bill now before us will require from time to time adjustments and amendments as practices are discovered which quite properly should come within the disciplines of the Bill. [More…]
On behalf of the Democratic Labor Party I support the Bill and commend it to honourable senators. [More…]
In lieu of every 8 hours of stand-by the men, at the discretion of the base commander, are given a day off. [More…]
I rise to support the Bill and to oppose the amendment. [More…]
I rise more particularly to answer a few of the statements made by Senator Wheeldon in his irrational and personally offensive speech this afternoon which was prompted by nothing other than prejudice against the independent schools. [More…]
Had it not been for the existence of independent schools, Queensland’s young men and women who wanted higher education and those who desired to study law, medicine or other professional subjects would have been lost to the State of Queensland had it not been for the Grammar Schools or the few independent denominational schools available to them at that time. [More…]
In all its statements on economic matters in this Parliament the Commonwealth admits that it has the responsibility to control the economy of this nation, and I support that view, lt is able to fix rates of interest through the Reserve Bank of Australia. [More…]
Really I suppose that the necessity to make this loan available to the Shepparton Preserving Company in order to rescue this industry in its present circumstances is almost as great as the reasons which drive us to make available at rates of interest which are lower than those applying generally in the community money for the purpose of building homes for the men who served this country in the hours when our freedoms were being challenged. [More…]
In Longreach since 1967 the following businesses have closed: 2 grocery businesses; 2 electrical businesses, which include contracting sales and services: one refrigeration and air conditioning company; 3 building contractors; 4 mixed stores; one cafe; one men’s hairdresser; one florist; one solicitor’s practice; one accounting firm; one petrol service station; one sewing machine centre; one office supplier; one optometrist; one laundry; one dry cleaning firm; one stock and station agency branch; one valuer; one fruit and vegetable business; one long-established motor business; another, dealing in 4-wheel drive vehicles, has been placed in the hands of managing agents; and one established private air charter service. [More…]
There are many new techniques which the Americans have suggested in order to meet their requirements. [More…]
In some cases those techniques have had pitfalls in the form of hernias caused by men lugging carcasses. [More…]
These are some of the problems with which workmen are confronted. [More…]
The next point that I wish to make is directed particularly to the departmental committee on this matter. [More…]
Whatever is achieved legislatively either today or tonight, the fact of the matter is that unless the Treasury and the other departments involved can be galvanised into acting more quickly these very serious delays will continue to occur. [More…]
I wish to convey to the Treasurer (Mr Snedden) and his officers something of the bad relations that exist between the employees of the naval dockyard at Garden Island and the Department of the Treasury. [More…]
Mindful of ministerial commitments, I ask for leave to continue my remarks later. [More…]
I understand from the Minister for Foreign Affairs that the Government was not overkeen about this matter. [More…]
The men involved were concerned only about wages. [More…]
Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood will support me to the full when I say that when the Standing Committee on Health and Welfare was inquiring into matters relating to mentally and physically handicapped people we found what I would call a lack of an even break for people who happened to be injured while working at a rural quarry, for example. [More…]
1 know that my learned colleague, Senator Jim McClelland, who will be following me in the debate, can speak from his extensive legal experience, but I emphasise that no matter what the Government legislates for and despite its statement that in the eyes of the law all men are equal, there is no doubt that rehabilitation goes in tandem with compensation. [More…]
I know that the present trend is to make an injured worker a productive unit in the work force rather than give him a mass of dollars and allow him to undergo a mental upset and develop a certain complex. [More…]
To prove that statement I need only mention that on each occasion when we have raised questions about work codes in the Northern Territory - I think both Senator Georges and Senator Keeffe have been involved’ - we always have received evasive answers. [More…]
After a week he was reinstated and the men went back to work. [More…]
A senior member of the department concerned - something akin to the Department of Labour and Industry in the southern States - admitted that the crane driver was right in what he did. [More…]
T believe that there was a fire on a rig in Bass Strait today and that the men had to jump off. [More…]
From memory I believe that normally these men would be covered by the Victorian workers’ compensation Act, but that Act does not apply to persons whose annual wages exceed $6,000 a year. [More…]
Clearly a serious calamity could have occurred today and the men concerned possibly would not have been covered by any workers’ compensation legislation. [More…]
I can only presume he suggests that these men are receiving a weekly allowance to cover the absence of workers’ compensation. [More…]
The States and the Commonwealth have entered into ad agreement relating to offshore oil exploration. [More…]
In view of the near catastrophe today, I ask whether some consideration can be given to ensuring that men working on oil rigs are covered by workers’ compensation Acts in the future. [More…]
Does the Minister realise that Mr Hawke represents the national trade union movement and that his policies and decisions are endorsed by that movement throughout the States. [More…]
Does he realise that Mr Hawke is also a member of the National Labour Advisory Committee that in this capacity and in other capacities in relation to labour matters heads the trade union delegation to the Government which confers with the Minister for Labour and National Service and his colleagues, and that in the circumstances the degree of conciliation and good relations which exists between labour and management must be preserved? [More…]
Does the Minister accept the fact that his published comments, including his speeches as reported in Hansard, are highly offensive not only to Mr Hawke but also to the trade union movement because the policies which Mr Hawke enunciates are supported by the trade union movement? [More…]
Therefore, having regard for the objectives of conciliation in Australia to which I have referred, I ask the Minister whether in the future he will be more moderate when he criticises the men of the trade union movement. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement attributed to the New South Wales President of the Returned Services League that national servicemen who have been conscripted by the Government to fight in Vietnam and who, upon their return to Australia, have sought entry to a university are finding difficulty in gaining admission? [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to raise this matter with the universities to see whether national servicemen are finding difficulty in gaining admission to a university and, if so, will he take steps to ensure that these young men are given every assistance to re-establish themselves in civilian life? [More…]
In many cases where men work in isolated places - whether they are employed by the Department of Supply, the Department of Civil Aviation or any one of many departments except the Department of the Army - the dependants of the deceased would have to bring the body back home. [More…]
One can visualise the provision applying in single men’s quarters and in married men’s quarters in Army camps, but one has to recognise that this provision extends beyond the Army. [More…]
The employee is covered if at the time of an accident incidental to his employment he is living in accommodation provided by the employer, provided it is not accommodation that includes cooking, bathing and sanitary facilities. [More…]
Why should a man on stand-by in single men’s quarters be covered while in his quarters when a man in separate living accommodation is not covered while in his quarters? [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Senate that while these troops are being withdrawn no overzealous commander will undertake any action or manoeuvre which might lead to the death or injury of any of these men? [More…]
In case he is tempted to brush off this question will he specifically deny that the recent deaths and injuries to our men in Vietnam resulted from training in action missions which need not have taken place? [More…]
Are most young men, who have obtained deferment of national service call-up in order to complete university and other higher education courses, called up immediately they fail an end of year examination, and after two years national service, a high percentage do not resume their studies? [More…]
and (2) Temporary deferment of call-up for national service is granted to students or trainees to enable them to pursue, and, if at all practicable, to complete the primary qualification being sought at the time of registration for national service, before they are called up. [More…]
This deferment may be continued in respect of further studies or training they may undertake where it is a normal progression of the primary qualification and is necessary to their chosen career. [More…]
Continued deferment is dependent upon the course being pursued without interruption and satisfactory progress at a rate which would in normal circumstances be expected of a diligent student. [More…]
Reasonable allowance is made for some lack of success and if a student fails some or even all of the subjects attempted in one year his deferment is not necessarily cancelled; but, if progress with the planned course is generally unsatisfactory or the educational or other authority concerned does not permit the student to continue in the course, there is no alternative to discontinuation of the deferment and steps taken to proceed with call-up. [More…]
The student deferment provisions cannot be isolated from the cardinal national service principles of universal liability and equity as between all registrants, both students and non-students, or from the firm policy of arranging call-up at the earliest practicable stage after registration. [More…]
As at 30th June 1971, 14,140 registrants were either deferred or being considered for deferment on account of the studies or training they were undertaking. [More…]
It is a measure of the attitude of these men that the great majority of them are expected to complete the primary or other qualification in respect of which deferment was granted before they are required to be called up. [More…]
It should also be noted that post-discharge vocational training is available for national servicemen when desirable for effective resettlement. [More…]
There is no provision for granting indefinite deferment or exemption to particular students or trainees because of the studies or training they are pursuing. [More…]
There are three forms of entry for young men: Firstly - As Cadet Midshipmen at the Royal [More…]
Young men are tested with the forms of testing appropriate to the type of entry, undergo medical examinations and are interviewed by Recruiting Staff Officers and Psychologists before selections. [More…]
Psychiatry, as such, plays no part in the selection of young men entering the Navy. [More…]
For example, in 1970, a total of 18,558 men and women enquired about service in the RAN as sailors and WRANS. [More…]
Has the Minister seen a statement attributed to the New South Wales President of the Returned Services League that national servicemen who have been conscripted by the Government to fight in Vietnam and who, upon their return to Australia, have sought entry to a university are finding difficulty in gaining admission? [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to raise this matter with the universities to see whether national servicemen are finding difficulty in gaining admission to a university, and if so, will he take steps to ensure- that these young men are given every assistance to reestablish themselves in civilian life? [More…]
Men who fail to attend when required for medical examination without prior notification to the Registrar for National Service, are normally sent a notice to attend on a later date together with advice of the penalty for non-attendance provided in the National Service Act. [More…]
Cases of continued failure or refusal are investigated and men prosecuted where this is warranted. [More…]
In the 3 years to 30th June 1971, 69,408 men were medically examined and 55 prosecuted for failure to report for medical examination. [More…]
Political disputes, disputes against the civil law, or disputes against international law are quite beyond the range of the constitutional power of this Parliament or the arbitration court and quite beyond the range of any purpose for which industrial organisations were set up. [More…]
Because the Constitution has limited the power of this Parliament to legislating for conciliation and arbitration in industrial disputes extending beyond the borders of any one State, it is quite obvious that the court is limited to industrial disputes. [More…]
When that legislation made provisions as one of its objects to register organisations of labour so that men would not have access to it as individuals but could combine in their organisations so as to present their case before the court, quite obviously the purposes of those organisations were limited to the purposes of the court - purposes defined by the Constitution, namely, industrial purposes. [More…]
One has only to state those causes and those results to see the damage that the exertion of this industrial organisation power does to the men who are working bona fide in their industry and wish to use their organisation for the betterment of their industry. [More…]
One has only to see the damage that it can do to the economic fabric of this country and to make mere mention of the Glasgow dockyards, the collapses that have taken place in big manufacturing concerns in America and the general economic situation in that country, which has industrial unrest to a greater degree than we have in this country, to see that the economic welfare of the trade unionist is at risk. [More…]
Finally, it makes a challenge to the fundamental basis upon which we Australians wish to have our political government conducted, that is, after free elections at which trade unionists and others exercise their franchise. [More…]
In this Parliament and in the other parliaments of Australia, those who are elected make the decisions by which this country should be governed. [More…]
It is because of that fundamental principle that I believe the proposition that Senator Kane put forward tonight is most appropriate for debate. [More…]
I hope that as the debate continues this Senate will show in no uncertain way that it stands for the prin ciple that Parliament, and not any section of this community, should be the dominant influence with regard to the laws under which Australians shall be governed. [More…]
That comment was reported in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ on 24th June 1971. [More…]
1 am one of those people who believe that a trade union or any other organisation is quite entitled to express its opinion on any matter, but when it converts that opinion into an onslaught on the general community and on the economy of this country, when these people inflict hardship upon their fellow workers and fellow men in an attempt to advance a particular political view I do not go along with them. [More…]
In supporting his contention that it was legitimate for a trade union to do that, Senator Murphy mentioned employer organisations and said that they expressed opinions, as of course they do. [More…]
the debate, gave the history of the trade union movement. [More…]
The initiation of the trade union movement in Great Britain brought about a revolution against the British system of justice at that time. [More…]
In accordance with British justice, which Senator Wright upheld tonight, these men were sentenced and were transported to Australia. [More…]
We are not here to debate whether the Australian Labor Party supports strikers going on to building sites, tearing down the work and assaulting the men on the site. [More…]
I can understand the disappointment that a big union should be led by members of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
But I cannot understand why members of the Australian Labor Party do not exhibit exactly the same disappointment when they realise that a great many of the most powerful unions which were once led by Labor men are now led by members of the Communist Party. [More…]
That may be one of the fundamental reasons why we are discussing the proposition that we are discussing here tonight. [More…]
lt is a very clear cut proposition, namely, the misuse of the tremendous economic power that has developed in the great trade union movement of this country for purposes that are not industrial. [More…]
If members of the community, trade unionist and others are prepared to continue to permit the development of this trend, then the day must come, of course, when there will be retaliation, when others in the community must have the same right to break the laws and to try to force the hand of Parliament in order to have their wishes imposed upon the community as a whole. [More…]
There is no doubt, unfortunately, that politics in this Parliament where they should be at their zenith are now at their nadir. [More…]
It was so because of all the things he mentioned. [More…]
There is no doubt that the Government has taken its eyes off the business of government. [More…]
All the weaknesses of men, the hate, the envy, the spite and the ambitions, have taken over from the jobs the Ministers were appointed to do. [More…]
Will the Minister, without using emotional terms such as ‘stupid’ and ‘nonsense’, assure the Senate that contingency measures will be introduced immediately to protect our men in Vietnam from any unnecessary action which may lead to their injury or death? [More…]
Does this campaign involve sending business men a package of 4 spring loaded ping pong balls which pop out when the package is opened? [More…]
I ask the AttorneyGeneral whether he will now treat my request as an application for remission of sentence in respect of the 2 young men in gaol? [More…]
Will he without further ado investigate the cases concerned and see whether as a result of his own inquiries it would be proper in the circumstances now, without waiting for any legislative changes, to have these young men released or substantial remissions made of their sentences? [More…]
I press him to do so, especially in the light of changing circumstances in Vietnam and the fact that in the United States system the man responsible for the dreadful massacres at My Lai is still not in prison, whereas 2 young men who have refused to be involved in that dreadful war are languishing in an Australian prison? [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 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…]
I believe that a committee was set up under Mr Justice Fox of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court to study this important question and that it comprised eminent legal men who have made a study of the law of evidence in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
The legal men in the Senate should explain all these matters to us and justify the implementation of these provisions. [More…]
There is also the matter of dying declarations, documentary evidence and oral statements in the case of a person who dies after making the statement or who is out of Australia or who, for some other reason, cannot attend court. [More…]
Under the British system of justice it is far better for 9 guilty men to be found not guilty than for one innocent man to be found guilty. [More…]
A confession or admission tendered in evidence against the person charged in a criminal proceeding shall not be rejected only on the ground that a promise, threat or other inducement (not being the exercise of violence, force or other form of compulsion) has been held out to or exercised upon the person making the confession or admission, if the judge is satisfied that the means by which the confession or admission was obtained were not in fact likely to cause an untrue admission of guilt to be made. [More…]
We must have a nice balance, always in issue, between individual rights and community rights, between the facilities that a government must have at its command if it is to function in the interests of all as against the rights and entitlements of individuals. [More…]
In men tioning this 1 intend no criticism of the Committee. [More…]
1 rise to comment very briefly on one theme which has run through the comments of all speakers who have spoken in favour of maintaining the Ordinance. [More…]
I refer to the proposition that in some way it is almost impertinent for Parliament to presume to examine with any closeness a measure which has had the attention of distinguished experts. [More…]
I do not yield in any respect to any of the speakers in this debate when agreeing that in this Ordinance we have had the assistance of some very distinguished legal men. [More…]
The names of Mr Justice Fox of the Australian Capital Territory Supreme Court and Mr Justice Mason of the New South Wales Court of Appeal have been mentioned. [More…]
From my experience of these men I know that they are very eminent lawyers. [More…]
But I think it would be a sad day for the Senate and for Parliament generally if legislators were intimidated in any way by the distinguished qualifications of whose who have assisted in the drafting of legislation. [More…]
Sometimes I think it would be better to have a legal man as chairman but as a layman I do my best to interpret what is suggested and what is recommended or decided. [More…]
From that point I try to be absolutely impartial and fair, at all times keeping in mind what is best from a parliamentary point of view. [More…]
Briefly I mention the words of the late Senator Pearson when he discussed the Regulation and Ordinances Committee with the late Sir Robert Garran. [More…]
Sir Robert Garran said to him that in his opinion it was the most important Committee in Parliament. [More…]
Its duty was to see that Parliament ran the country with legislation, not the Executive with regulations and ordinances. [More…]
Those words came from the great mind of one of the men who helped to write the Constitution. [More…]
The recommendation that this regulation be disallowed goes forth to honourable senators as a majority recommendation of the Committee. [More…]
I should like to refer to some of the oftquoted pseudo-reasons for the presence of our young men in Vietnam because they are referred to again by the Prime Minister in his statement. [More…]
We have been given various reasons why this should be done to them and why they should be forced to do these things to others of their fellow men. [More…]
We are told this by a government whose sensitivity to the plight of small countries suffering from aggression has been clearly indicated by the action it has taken in relation to the situation in Bengal in recent weeks. [More…]
Of course, the Geneva Agreements give the lie to the claim that we are there in defence of a small independent country. [More…]
It was a fictitious stooge country created by the American Government. [More…]
Has the United States Government said: ‘But of course, we have to make one exception to all this - dear little Australia and Mr McMahon. [More…]
If Ted Hill had been Prime Minister of Australia instead of Billy McMahon, the treatment we have had in respect of the floating of the United States dollar would not have been one whit worse than it is at present under the present Government which has sent young Australians to murder and to be murdered in Vietnam in order to build up these treasures in heaven.It has been said that the United States would make great sacrifices on our behalf because of our young men we have had murdered in Vietnam. [More…]
The United States Government consults with China without telling us a word about it. [More…]
It could well be that a matter of very grave urgency, where notice was not given, could be crowded out by something which in the subjective judgment of others was more urgent. [More…]
After all, it is a fair conclusion that honourable senators coming to this place are men of judgment and some experience and that when they make a definitive judgment that a matter is of some urgency their judgment can be accepted and relied on, and that when the matter comes before the Senate it will be regarded as an urgent matter and be discussed as such. [More…]
Whilst overseas I also attended a meeting of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, at which Australia was invited to become a member. [More…]
At that meeting it was agreed to establish a very 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…]
That is particularly important with younger criminals and younger men and women are coming before the courts. [More…]
After all, the parole boards in Victoria and New South Wales are not staffed by men whose sole function is to act as members of the parole boards. [More…]
I realise that Government senators are having a joint caucus meeting in an endeavour to belt the Democratic Labor Party and Independent senators into line so as to enable the Government to get its new Assistant Minister in the Senate. [More…]
1 make an appeal on behalf of 7 young men who will face a court in Brisbane at 10 a.m. on Friday, 27th August 1971, charged with various offences under the National Service Act. [More…]
I make this appeal knowing that over the years some people of conscience have elected not to comply with the terms of the Act and that many of those young men are no longer in Australia. [More…]
1 also make the appeal in the knowledge of the announcement made by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) a few days ago to the effect that by Christmas this year there will be no Australian troops in Vietnam, except possibly a few advisers. [More…]
This country is now in the very unhappy situation that 474 people have already given their lives in a war which this Government knew could not be won when it entered into it in the early 1960s. [More…]
As I understood what Senator Keeffe said, he stated that he could not say that any of the young men to whom he referred were pacifists but they were persons who, for some reason or other, had some objection to the National Service Act. [More…]
There is an obligation under that Act that young men of a certain age shall register for national service. [More…]
I should have thought that it would be totally unfair to the 98 per cent or more of young men who, in circumstances where probably, if they were left to their own choice, they would prefer to do anything rather than register, not to indicate that those who are not prepared to register are not immune or are not subject to the full processes of law enforcement if they do not obey the law. [More…]
I cannot see in anything which Senator Keeffe has said a reason for treating these young men as in any way different from other young men who have chosen to adopt a course in which they express objection to the National Service Act. [More…]
The honourable senator said that 7 men are to be prosecuted for breaches of the National Service Act. [More…]
Despite that fact that they cannot take the first step, such men may have conscientious reasons for not serving in any conflict or for not taking up arms. [More…]
Because of their early conscientious objection they are unable to comply with the requirements of the Act by making an application to the court. [More…]
Because there were such men in our community we amended the National Service Act so that where it comes to the knowledge - or some other word with which I disagreed at the time - of the Department of Labour and National Service that there may be a conscientious objection, the Minister can set up the procedure for establishing the existence of a conscientious objection, even where there is no application by the person. [More…]
We amended the Act to permit the Minister to refer such a matter to a court, not to prosecute someone but to examine whether that person had a conscientious objection. [More…]
I gathered from the reply to my question that consideration was being given to the introduction into the Parliament of an amendment to the Act for the purpose of achieving the reduction that seems to be justified in the case of national service. [More…]
I asked further whether special consideration would be given to the application of a reduction to men already in gaol, and I referred particularly to Charles Martin who possibly has already served a sentence of 18 months. [More…]
The situation is more dramatic from the point of view of young men seeking to expand the supply of tradesmen by offering themselves for training. [More…]
Are the following figures correct for apprentices employed in the Victorian section of the Department of Works to June 1972: Carpenters, 16 apprentices compared with 272 tradesmen employed; plumbers, 8 apprentices compared with 129 tradesmen; painters, 1 apprentice compared with 295 tradesmen; and electricians, 12 apprentices compared with 54 tradesmen? [More…]
Will the intake of apprentices this year in this Department be only as follows: Carpenters, 4; plumbers, 3; painters, none; and electricians, none? [More…]
Is the ratio of apprenticeship allowed still 1 apprentice for every 3 tradesmen? [More…]
In view of the evidence of an abundance of young men offering for apprenticeships as referred to by the Minister for Labour and National Service, will the Minister for Works give immediate instructions to the Victorian section of his Department to take steps to implement Government policy by having a large intake of apprentices and so also set an example to private industry? [More…]
I do not believe that we are men of such weak character that we will change our opinion in order to attract some goodwill from the Liberal Party or the Labor Party. [More…]
The first thing that we should remember is that the motion was moved originally as a result of a recommendation made by the Regulations and Ordinances Committee. [More…]
And what do they find on their retirement? [More…]
They find that after all they have done, the result of their sacrifices is that they have relieved the Commonwealth Government from paying them an age pension. [More…]
1 was asked, in the absence of the Minister for Lands, to make presentations to 2 men who had served 50 years in the Queensland Lands Department. [More…]
Because he was prepared to make sacrifices and take out as many units as he could afford, Mr B on his retirement got nothing. [More…]
Well, whatever the figure was, the critics live on that argument. [More…]
I could mention similar cases. [More…]
When the S25m rural reconstruction scheme was introduced I described it as chicken feed and pointed out that the average assistance of $1,000 for farmers eligible under the scheme gave no incentive to men on unprofitable farms to go through the difficult and often harrowing task of finding employment. [More…]
For that reason I am disappointed that the Budget makes no provision for the establishment of a rural finance corporation, which my Party has frequently urged. [More…]
It would lend generously on long term and provide for repayment moratoriums for all kinds of reconstruction and adjustment projects. [More…]
Of equal importance, it would make finance available not only for farm adjustment but also for rural readjustment so that service industries and businesses in rural towns could also reconstruct if necessary. [More…]
We men are strange creatures. [More…]
Other men have thought that they would get out of it by forming companies. [More…]
Other gentlemen leave their wives an annuity of, say, $2,000 a year. [More…]
It is very easy for the Government to malign the Committee or its members. [More…]
I look back over the records of the Committee and I find that a number of times we have been told by the Minister or bv the Leader of the Government in the Senate that we are wrong. [More…]
It became a menace to the Government. [More…]
The Government received nothing but abuse over the matter. [More…]
From the point of view of the Government we were the worst people in the world. [More…]
Eventually the Government knew it was going to be beaten. [More…]
When the Government compromised and said that it would set up an import licensing appeal board comprising 2 business men and only one public servant the Committee said: ‘We will allow the ordinance to stand if you do that’. [More…]
This took all the nastiness out of import licensing and 12 months later the then Minister for Customs and Excise, Senator Henty, moved that his Department have an appeal board based on the successful import licensing appeal board. [More…]
The Government introduced the appeal board. [More…]
There have been complaints from time to time throughout the Services in regard to pay matters, both on a comparison with alternative civilian employment and between the ranks. [More…]
The Kerr Committee has made a recommendation which the Government has accepted. [More…]
At the present time, particularly in my own Service, there are men in the field with tapes and documents explaining the various pay groupings to the troops and answering any questions they have. [More…]
But let me refer again to that very fine statement by the Prime Minister. [More…]
He said that he wanted very young men to be brought in to be trained. [More…]
One had hardly ever heard of those 2 men. [More…]
Another is Mr King, who no doubt could qualify for student child endowment. [More…]
It is all very well for the Government Whip to say: ‘Haw, haw’. [More…]
In any case, he did not come into this raffle because the position had already been refused by 2 younger men. [More…]
If Senator Sim cannot find out through the normal channels of his party room, he can ask me publicly another time and I will tell him who the 2 men were. [More…]
This was in my view a rather hurtful argument when referring to men who, because of their dedication to the parliamentary institution, dedication to the Party which they serve and dedication to a job of work associated with the management of Australia, feel that it is a great honour to be sought for appointment as Assistant Ministers, in many cases at financial disadvantage. [More…]
Australian workers are expected to live on $17.50 a week upon retirement after 50 years service. [More…]
This is what is handed out to men after 50 years of service. [More…]
No-one in this chamber can deny that a worker is entitled to a retirement allowance many times above that which he receives now after such a period of faithful and loyal service. [More…]
He should be entitled to free medical treatment, free education for his children, guaranteed employment and decent homes. [More…]
Surely no honourable senator would challenge the right of the trade union movement to intercede in these matters. [More…]
Surely no-one would challenge the right of the trade union movement to interest itself in these matters. [More…]
Here and outside I have heard the Government attack the trade union movement for its stand on apartheid. [More…]
History will prove the trade union movement right in relation to apartheid, just as history has proved the trade union movement right in its stand in opposing the shipment of pig iron to Japan, in its support of independence for Indonesia and in its stand in opposition to the phoney war in Vietnam. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party is proud of its association with the trade union movement. [More…]
I hope that while I am a member of this Senate I will be able to work to see a strengthening of the great ties that exist between the Australian Labor Party and that most important section of the working class - the trade union movement. [More…]
Across the board subsidies are granted which will provide payments for interest and payments to the wealthy farming community. [More…]
Men who returned from the Second World War were granted scrub type land which they were expected to clear and bring into production with the aid of money lent by the Commonwealth Government through the State hank. [More…]
Today the responsible State department is in the process of selling many of the properties on Kangaroo Island because of the inability of the farmers to succeed. [More…]
Farmers with heavy commitments who have been sold up cannot get out of the financial difficulties which face them. [More…]
While there is talk and plans of further land settlement for returned servicemen I think that some proposition should come from the Federal Government to keep on the land men who have already been settled there. [More…]
I said that there is a degree of culpability in the Senate, and the legal men of the chamber are not excluded from that reference. [More…]
The next part comes in the Senate’s motion to adopt the recommendation of the Committee. [More…]
Therefore all the Committee could do was make a recommendation, which it did. [More…]
When the Senate adopted the recommendation of the Committee as regards punishment, it adopted it in those precise terms; that those 2 gentleman be called to the Bar and reprimanded. [More…]
I think it is unfortunate - no more than that - that the Committee framed its recommendation in those terms. [More…]
I think the Committee should have framed it in terms that the gentlemen be called to the Bar to show cause, why they should not be reprimanded or otherwise dealt with. [More…]
But the Senate finished in the position that it adopted the recommendation that these men should be called to the Bar and reprimanded. [More…]
A crucial point in the whole argument is whether judicial support exists for the proposition 1 put forward. [More…]
If my proposition is upheld I think the punishment should be quashed. [More…]
I do not think these gentlemen should be again called before this chamber. [More…]
I submit therefore that the 2 crucial stages in the whole of this procedure were when the Senate adopted the report of the Privileges Committee and when the Senate called the gentlemen to the Bar. [More…]
The Senate should then have called on them to show cause why they should not be dealt with by imprisonment, fine, reprimand or in some other way. [More…]
Those men were denied an opportunity which is available in the humblest court of this land to the humblest citizen of this land. [More…]
For those reasons I say this: I do not ask for the retrial of these men; I do not ask for them to be brought to the Bar again. [More…]
I said before that I think we should quash the punishment. [More…]
The finding that these gentlemen breached privilege stands. [More…]
But I think the punishment in these circumstances should be revoked and to that extent should be quashed. [More…]
I do not suggest that these gentlemen be brought back again to the Bar. [More…]
Today we have 12 new senators who have not the background and who have not heard the arguments put forward in this case. [More…]
Yet Senator Byrne is asking that these men and women make a decision tonight that an injustice has occurred. [More…]
I listened carefully to Senator Byrne for more than an hour and I did not hear any indication that an injustice has been done to these 2 men. [More…]
The Committee consisted of seven of the most experienced senators in this chamber, including 4 legal men. [More…]
Having said that, I would like to say further that there was clearly a breach of privilege by the newspaper men in question. [More…]
Senator Byrne, as a lawyer, should know that the common law doctrine of natural justice must cede to express provisions in a statute, even if the Parliament were to be regarded as a court. [More…]
What did be suggest should have happened when those 2 men were called before the Bar of the Senate? [More…]
It is only necessary to mention these things, Mr President, to point out the hopeless confusion into which Senator Byrne has fallen in an attempt to equate this Parliament with a court of law. [More…]
When dealings with these journalists this Parliament was not acting as a court of law; it was acting as a legislative body in defence of its privileges in accordance with the powers conferred on it by the Constitution. [More…]
But what sort of an injustice was done to those men? [More…]
If we overlook the pettifogging, hair splitting approach which Senator Byrne has adopted in neglect of the Constitution and in a confused equation of a court of law with the Parliament of the land, let us have a look at what was done to these men. [More…]
But very briefly what was done was that the men were called before the Committee. [More…]
In case Senator Gair thinks that they have suffered any gross personality damage or that their futures have been put in jeopardy by the way they have been dealt with, I can assure him that when the procedures were finished I accompanied one of the journalists, Mr Richard Walsh, who happens to be a long term personal friend of mine, to the refreshment room in this building and had a cup of coffee with him. [More…]
Far from being bruised and far from feeling that he had been badly done by he commended the Senate for its dignified and very lenient way of dealing with him. [More…]
In fact the only voice that was raised as these men were leaving the chamber was that of the eloquent Senator Gair whose contributions tonight have been the usual neanderthal grunts that we get from him when his slumbers are disturbed. [More…]
As reported in the Press at the time he remarked as the men were leaving the chamber ‘Flogged with a feather’! [More…]
Surely we can assume from that comment, if it means anything- [More…]
On that Committee were 3 legal men, including the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), 2 QCs, a lawyer, some other people and myself. [More…]
We have to study precedent coming to us from the House of Commons, the Mother of Parliaments, but not solely from there. [More…]
I was tremendously impressed by the way honourable senators applied themselves and when we had finally cleared our minds on every possible point - Senator Drake-Brockman, Senator James McClelland and Senator Greenwood have pointed out how these men were allowed counsel, and the rest of it - after we had come to the final decision we said: ‘Let us examine the position. [More…]
I was not sure whether or not he had a case but I thought that if any senator felt the way he did about the manner in which this Senate - not the Privileges Committee - had acted in the circumstances in imposing sentences upon these men, in spite of what Senator Willesee says to the effect that it should not have come before the Senate, I believe most strongly this matter should have been brought before the Senate again. [More…]
Whether Senator Byrne is right or wrong, it most certainly should have come before the Senate at this time if we accept the case presented by Senator Willesee that we are endeavouring to establish our own rules of law and to give to the public at least a knowledge of the privileges that this Parliament has to protect itself under its laws. [More…]
He said that these 2 men had the right to counsel when they appeared before the Privileges Committee. [More…]
The Committee merely made a recommendation to this Senate, and this Senate confirmed the guilt and passed sentence. [More…]
When that was taking place, these men did not have the right or the privilege of being represented by counsel, or even of raising their voices to say that there were mitigating circumstances as a result of which the severity of the sentence should be reduced. [More…]
I can affirm confidently that questions were asked deliberately of members of the Committee on whether they were satisfied that these men had every opportunity to advance any excuse that they might wish to advance before the Committee. [More…]
Men of the experience that I have referred to as members of the Committee, with the legal experience of judicial procedures that I have referred to, were satisfied that the editors, having admitted their offences, knew that they were then to be dealt with by the Committee. [More…]
They very proudly conducted us over the area, showed us their engineering achievements and what has been done in the generation of electricity to meet Australia’s requirements, in the storage of water and in the useful reticulation of that water to areas which most need it. [More…]
It is a project which has received world acclaim as one of the great engineering achievements. [More…]
1 believe that in October this year a further large number of men will have to be dismissed from the Authority as there is no further work available for them on the project. [More…]
As experts in their fields they will be lost to Australia’s development. [More…]
Some will go overseas while perhaps some will take employment in private enterprise. [More…]
1 would especially mention, as a result of discussions with Mr Dann, the Commissioner of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority, that the Authority is now participating successfully. [More…]
We could review the activities and consider whether there may not be some restrictions in the present Act which the Government should reconsider. [More…]
A lot of men were put off because the mill had lost its overseas markets. [More…]
That is a sorry commentary on Australia when one thinks that the Japanese can purchase at least a good part of their requirement of raw material from other countries - some of it from Australia - take it to Japan, process it into paper, send it back to Australia and still undersell us on our own Australian market. [More…]
It is all very fine to push up costs, to make unreasonable demands, to have payments made far beyond the measure of production in this country and in that way cause inflation, and then say ‘Look, the Government is not doing anything about it; it is responsible’. [More…]
I believe the value we get out of the pound is the value that the people as a whole put into it and 27 men who form the Government cannot by themselves and by their own efforts alone put value back into the pound. [More…]
I have taken note of the fact that 2 prominent men - one was a man who last stood for the presidency of the United States and was defeated - have complained about the havoc that the EEC is playing in the agricultural markets of the world. [More…]
We know that by very heavy subsidisation the EEC has increased production, but that did not seem to bring contentment to the farmers. [More…]
Does the Minister see any real difference between the alleged conduct of those 2 men and that of respectable broker firms and others in the short selling operations in connection with shares in Antimony Nickel, none of whom has yet been prosecuted? [More…]
Finally, will the Minister, in considering any legislation arising out of the anticipated report of the Senate Select Committee on Securities and Exchange, recommend to the Government the inclusion of penalties for conduct such as that of the short sellers in shares in Antimony Nickel? [More…]
Messrs Thompson and Rogers together employ between 8 and 10 Aborigines and pay the same wages as those paid to Europeans in similar employment. [More…]
Mudginberry and Munmarlary abattoirs each permanently employ 6 Aboriginal men and 2 Aboriginal women. [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…]
Of its total expenditure of $8, 833m over $2,095m is related to social services and various repatriation payments. [More…]
Greater assistance - more than that which State governments can provide - will have to be given to church institutions and other bodies which are looking after unmarried mothers, homeless men, and children who have been displaced as a result of the break up of marriages in our community. [More…]
I recommend to the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) that these areas should be his constant interest in this coming year. [More…]
But I am of the opinion that men of goodwill would have extended the term natural justice to the Ronald Walsh case. [More…]
If members of the Waterside Workers Federation withdrew their labour in support of a friend, a mate or a co-worker then I believe that that union was only carrying out its traditional role - a role which has ever been the role of the trade union movement wherever injustice has been done. [More…]
At no time did he seek to vilify, castigate or make any rash statement about any person irrespective of whether that person persecuted him from this chamber or other places of privilege or through the news media. [More…]
In that case Mr Ronald Walsh proved himself to be a man among men. [More…]
Demographers, social planners, men of learning generally never cease to warn us of the acceleration of change and the social consequences. [More…]
He was more afraid of the grave deterioration in our environment, pollution and the destruction of resources. [More…]
The sciences to which most of us looked to help mankind, might well bring destruction in their wake if people, and governments in particular, do not heed the effects of unrestricted, unplanned development and production. [More…]
It is with very deep and mixed emotions that I participate in the debates of this Parliament for the first time. [More…]
However, I shall play the role which my State of Queensland, my race, my background, my political beliefs, my knowledge of men and circumstances dictate. [More…]
Traditions are preserved and honoured in the Australian Parliament also. [More…]
Through the valour of its fighting men in two world wars and by the vigour and skill of its leaders Australia has earned an honoured place in the world. [More…]
However I am conscious of the fact that I am the first member of my race to participate in parliamentary proceedings. [More…]
The staggering size of the national Budget indicates the rapid rate of development of Australia. [More…]
I am sure all honourable senators will agree with me when I say that I regret that there are problems presently facing rural industries, but I find, looking through the Budget, that the Government has recognised these and has provided for them by including payments to rural industries amounting to at least $275m. [More…]
Having lived and worked in the western sections of Queensland, particularly on cattle and sheep stations, I am not unaware of or unsympathetic to the problems and heartaches faced by men on the land at this time. [More…]
It is for that reason that I feel a great sense of opportunity and responsibility in being a member of the national Parliament. [More…]
If one has not an overpowering desire to be loved or even respected by one’s fellow men, an interest or life in the law and politics is one of great satisfaction. [More…]
But I am sure that the satisfaction I will receive by pursuing that profession in the national Parliament will outstrip any satisfaction I have received previously. [More…]
The Commonwealth might well consider setting up a national development advisory council to draw upon the great wealth of talent and experience that exists in the men who have played a very prominent part in the development which already has taken place. [More…]
The Commonwealth might well consider, too, setting up a national development fund into which an allocation of money could be made each year by the Budget. [More…]
A small outlay might mean the development of a tremendously profitable investment if made at the right time and in the right place. [More…]
A fund of that kind would be of great advantage to people concerned with development projects. [More…]
Honourable senators may be aware that this building is patrolled at night by 2 nightwatchmen who are on the staff of the Joint House Department. [More…]
Some few weeks ago it was established that one of these men, without specific authority, had adopted the practice of stationing himself at the front door during the night instead of patrolling the building. [More…]
The housekeeper who is in charge of the nightwatchmen was informed that no changes in the duties of his staff should have been made without the approval of the Secretary of the Department and that, before such approval would be given, some evidence to justify the need for an officer to be posted at the front entrance all night would need to be produced. [More…]
Unfortunately, however, it seems that the officer concerned misunderstood his instruction in asking for the names of persons he could not personally identify, which led to the incident which Senator Poyser mentioned in the question he addressed to me a few minutes ago. [More…]
At the present moment I am arranging for 4 additional officers, for example, to be stationed at the Senate end of this building in order to maintain the security of the lobbies and the corridors. [More…]
He was one of the great men who worked as a kiap in the Territory. [More…]
All I can say about his speech is that I hope that the departments to which he referred will read, mark, learn and inwardly digest what he said. [More…]
I believe that one of the reasons, if not the only real reason, why we prepare our speeches and are upstanding here is because we know that the speeches are read by officers of the Public Service who decide whether any action will be taken and, if action is to be taken, what action can be taken on any worthwhile suggestions that might flow from the members of the Parliament. [More…]
The Senate has been enriched by the new men and new lady who have joined us as a result of the last elections. [More…]
It is also of benefit to the public because it is imperative that as this Senate really develops itself and becomes something of note in the parliamentary life of this country the calibre and ability of its senators should be maintained and, if possible, increased. [More…]
I say this to remind us that on 30th June last we lost some record breakers from this Senate - some men and women whose names will live forever in the annals of the parliamentary history of this nation. [More…]
I know it is dangerous to mention names because one might omit someone who is worthy of mention. [More…]
I refer, first of all, to our former President, Senator Sir Alister McMullin, and the 2 lady senators, Senator Dame Annabelle Rankin and Senator Dame Ivy Wedgwood, both of whom broke records in many ways during their membership of this Parliament. [More…]
I mention also Senator Bull, Senator Toohey and Senator Kennelly - a name well known throughout every nook and cranny of political life in Australia. [More…]
He was a dour fighter but a man who loved life and loved parliamentary life and who, in my opinion, adorned it. [More…]
I mention also Senator Hendrickson, big Senator Malcolm Scott, my very close friend Senator George Branson, Senator Dittmer, Senator Toohey and Senator Ridley. [More…]
The Country Party always seems to be able to provide us with amiable and capable men to fill the position of Chairman of Committees, and it has done it again. [More…]
The other main basis upon which 1 believe most people speak against capital punishment is religious grounds. [More…]
There are, within our society, many people who hold the view that capital punishment should be abolished and refer to biblical quotations to indicate how sacred life is. [More…]
In more recent times the correctional systems stress reform and the discoveries of the behavioural sciences are being utilised so that the penal institutions will tend to turn out better men than they receive. [More…]
I suggest this as a point for contemplation by those who would see that, instead of carrying out capital punishment in the case of a heinous crime, the offender should be incarcerated for the term of his natural life. [More…]
On the points made as to the reasons for opposing capital punishment, I remind the Senate that the existence of capital punishment is an anachronistic retention of the concept of punishment which has been replaced by the concept of reform. [More…]
Every day innocent men are being adjudged guilty, but 1 do not know that the honourable senator is on his feet every day to plead their cause. [More…]
Every day in our courts in this country innocent men are being charged and are drawing penalties for some crime which they have not committed. [More…]
This Budget, while it is not all things to all men, plays a very important role in the total economy and has become a regulator of the economy. [More…]
This was manifested by the last speaker, Senator Milliner, who suggested that small business men in the country towns of Queensland, because of the recession in the primary industries, would be benefited by tax concessions. [More…]
Does this campaign involve sending business men a package of 4 spring loaded ping pong balls which pop out when the package is opened? [More…]
With the retirement of such men as Jim Toohey, Bert Hendrickson and Pat Kennelly. [More…]
Being a South Australian, I knew Jim Toohey best, and over the years came to admire and respect his judgment, ability and integrity and, like many others in the Labor Party. [More…]
Does this mean that the Government plans to continue conscription for at least another 19 years or, alternatively, is it thinking of widening the scope of the National Service Act to include 70-year old women? [More…]
If the boy fails to register will the Government guarantee to prosecute him with greater fervour than it is currently doing with the estimated 1,100 young men who have refused out of conscience to register for conscription? [More…]
There is a need for government cash to flow to religious and other institutions which are catering for these various areas of poverty in the community - whether it be homeless men and women, former prisoners who need aid, babies who need homes or societies which at present are looking after physically and mentally handicapped children. [More…]
I think there should be an ever changing interest by the Government in overcoming some of the vast problems to which we see the American type society heading. [More…]
I have spoken about the increasing evil of men walking out on their wives and leaving them to the State to maintain and nothing being done to correct the situation because governments are not prepared to expend money on the extradition of these people from one State to another. [More…]
The governments know where these people are, but they will not bring them back to their home State to make them stand up to their obligations. [More…]
Cowardly men walk out on their wives and children, go to another State and get a job. [More…]
The personnel concerned were orally informed on 13th September 1971, that due to a shortage of work in the Plant Workshop it was probable that they would have to be retrenched and the date of 1st October 1971 was mentioned. [More…]
No individual retrenchment notices have as yet been issued. [More…]
The Department of Works plant workshop at Townsville, has for a number of years, undertaken work for the Army which was beyond the capacity of Army Workshops. [More…]
There has been a considerable reduction in the workload of the Department of Works plant workshop over the last 2 to 3 months mainly as a result of decreased requirements of the Department of the Army which are related to the withdrawal of Australian Forces from Vietnam. [More…]
Work does not now exist for the number of personnel currently employed at the Plant Workshop and no alternative or additional work can be found, either from the Department of the Army or elsewhere in the Townsville area, to employ these men for any length of time. [More…]
I remember when unemployment in Queensland was more rife than it is today. [More…]
The government of the day introduced legislation which provided for an unemployment benefit scheme. [More…]
The worker paid 6d a week, the employer paid 6d a week and the government paid 6d a week. [More…]
Those who had continuity of employment, such as public servants, railway men and others who were in steady jobs and who were not likely to be beneficiaries under the scheme, paid for casual workers and others who were out of work but who contributed while they were in work. [More…]
The War Widows Guild is, once again, asking the Government to give more consideration to Ihe conditions of the widows of men who gave their lives in the service of Australia. [More…]
I hope that you will support the Guild in its endeavour to have an amendment made to the Repatriation Act to. [More…]
enable the Department to assume responsibility for the chronically ill war widow. [More…]
When the young men of Australia enlisted they were told that, should they die, their country would care for their widows and orphans. [More…]
He went to the Repatriation Department. [More…]
The Department asked, very reasonably I would believe, for him to support his claim with some evidence from those who were at the scene of the accident at the time. [More…]
Speaking from memory, I believe that he obtained about 10 letters from these men. [More…]
These men are apparently in good health and good condition and are able to play rounds of golf. [More…]
Not only ex-servicemen but also others neglect themselves and wear themselves out in other ways. [More…]
Perhaps he is not aware that the record of these men compares more than favourably with his own reputation and that of his- [More…]
1 do not think the honourable senator is doing any good for the men he is trying to represent with the verbiage he is using in bis question. [More…]
There would indeed appear to be a strong case for a basic re-examination of present methods of educating and training men for work at sea in all work categories. [More…]
Whether there should be a single training facility was one of the questions that could be examined through studies and discussions of the ideas in the departmental paper. [More…]
When men are sent to the moon in a spaceship the air that they breathe is recycled, as is the water that is consumed. [More…]
Both men can talk for as long as they like for the local call charge. [More…]
The Bill gives effect to the Government’s decision to reduce the period of full time national service from 2 years to 18 months, as announced by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) on the 18th August. [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…]
Subsequent developments have fully vindicated the Government’s judgment. [More…]
Since the introduction of national service, while the increase in the volunteer clement 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, the actual annual increase has been decreasing, particularly since 1969 and, indeed, there was a fall in the volunteer element in 1970-71. [More…]
In the 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. [More…]
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…]
Contrary to what has been said in another place by Australian Labor Party spokesmen, this is surely a significant contribution. [More…]
In summary, to 30th June last 51,000 national servicemen have been called up and enlisted; they have comprised more than one-third of our full time 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…]
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 I 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; they sought to be enlisted as national servicemen and were accepted. [More…]
It was introduced in November 1964 but national servicemen were not sent to Vietnam until 1966. [More…]
In fact, of all national servicemen called up only one-third have served in Vietnam. [More…]
Were it to be abolished now the Army would be reduced, virtually overnight, from 40,000 to 28,000 men, a level which no-one, even in the Labor Party, has accepted as adequate. [More…]
This would be unthinkable for this Government. [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…]
There has been mention of the policy adopted by the Labor Party permitting a graduated response, but, in view of what I have already said about the effect of their policy in real terms, 1 ask what it is that that graduated response would be based on - the 28,000 men comprising the volunteer element of the Army - that is inadequate and it admits it. [More…]
The Government, however, has adopted a more flexible approach than would be possible for a Labor government encumbered as it would be by domga 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 manopwer 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’s policy apparently presupposes that the men which it would hastily draft in an emergency could be trained to the necessary proficiency in a sufficiently short time. [More…]
1 only mention in passing that in practice the number and range of specialists which a modern army demands often take considerably longer than this to train before they can serve in a full capacity. [More…]
The basic recommendation of the Gates Commission was that pay for recruits should be brought into line with civilian pay levels and that this would have a substantial effect on recruitment levels. [More…]
It identified service pay as being about 60 per cent of comparable civilian pay and its recommendation was not therefore without justification. [More…]
The pay of servicemen, including national servicemen, is already aligned with civilian pay scales with a loading to compensate for the particular conditions of Service life. [More…]
Our situation is quite different and such a decrease would reduce the Army to the existing level of volunteers, 28,000 men, which is not considered adequate for our needs. [More…]
Such an approach is completely unacceptable to this Government and, I believe, the people of Australia. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to place Australia’s defence effort at risk. [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 is to be expected; 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 40,000. [More…]
The reduction in the number of men serving fulltime in the Army will not diminish the [More…]
Reserve of more than 20,000 fully trained men that national service maintains in the community, indeed the number will increase. [More…]
Government recognises that. [More…]
If society is to protect itself as an ordered society, not for cowards but for courageous men, and equally courageous women and children, it must protect the man who must go against a criminal gang in the line of law enforcement and could be murdered when carrying out the obligation of the law. [More…]
I wish to add only one comment: So far I have dealt with the civil law. [More…]
But unhappily in the law jungle of this international world we are not free of the prospect that some of our men will be required to participate in warfare. [More…]
When men are engaged in military duties they are subject to military law. [More…]
I have yet to be persuaded that there are not cases for which the penalty of death is properly reserved, as it is today, for punishment. [More…]
I believe that we all are indebted to Senator Wright for the arguments he has placed before this chamber. [More…]
1 am not so completely sure that my own point of view is right that my mind is closed to the arguments of others. [More…]
I am dealing with what I consider to be the fundamental principle rather than the Bill itself. [More…]
When I talk of the abolition of capital punishment I talk of it in the field of civil law. [More…]
I have to admit that I have not exercised my mind or my conscience as to how the death penalty would apply in the circumstances Senator Wright outlined, namely, in time of warfare when treason and treachery are involved and when the wellbeing of a whole nation and the lives of perhaps thousands of men who are serving their country can be endangered by the act of treachery of one individual. [More…]
The fact that the victim was a policeman acting in the execution of his duty may have a sentimental connotation and may invoke the sympathy of those of us who recognise that we as a community give these men a horrible job and pay them inadequate wages to apprehend criminals and to preserve law and order. [More…]
There are those in our community who want to demean the hard working men who happen to be policemen and who hold that those men are less than the best in the community although they perform one of the finest and most difficult tasks on behalf of the rest of us. [More…]
1 am on the side of the policemen. [More…]
It is unfortunate if a man happens to be a policeman when somebody, in a moment of desperation and when driven by the instinct of selfpreservation, kills him. [More…]
Many people desire the retention of capital punishment on the statute book, but at the same time they feel a little reticent about its implementation. [More…]
Further implications in relation to capital punishment open up the whole philosophy of punishment, which was raised very thoughtfully the other evening by Senator Withers. [More…]
The whole subject of punishment and the whole structure of what society may demand of people who endanger it or who offend against it need to be appropriately and suitably examined. [More…]
In my view capital punishment tends to perpetuate the practice that some think it cures. [More…]
They concern life and death, the legal and moral responsibilities of people who are close to a given situation and decision as it relates to men at war and medical men who in the treatment of people hold in their hands the balance of life and death. [More…]
All those matters are totally associated and related to the wide and complex problem of crime and punishment. [More…]
There are other circumstances in which I could conceive of punishment of death. [More…]
1 could accept punishment of death in the case of, to express it in television terms, the hot gun killer - the man who kills not in a state of emotion but for money, whether it be Si 0,000 or some other sum. [More…]
Having planned the crime, he goes away, gets the money and he kills, not because he has any regard for the person he murders, not because he gives even any thought to it, but because he is getting a payment. [More…]
Having shared my life with men who have given their all for their country, to have any concern for me lite of a person who would sell bis country for money would stick in my craw. [More…]
We read of cases where people have attacked young women and men. [More…]
Are you aware that members of the Freedom From Hunger Campaign are currently conducting a fast in front of Parliament House; that yesterday campaigners were given permission to sit on the stairway at the front of Parliament House and that this permission was withdrawn today? [More…]
Can you advise the Parliament who was responsible for cancelling the message of permission previously given to members of the deputation to sit on the stairs? [More…]
Will you use your good offices to allow this small and orderly group of young men to move from the street kerb to the steps of Parliament House for the balance of their very worthy campaign? [More…]
I regret the statements made from time to time in which police forces are regarded as the Aunt Sally for everybody who has a grouch against somebody. [More…]
I will consider the honourable senator’s request and 1 will also consider what I will convey to the Commonwealth Police Force but I certainly share with him the thoughts that he expressed - that its members are a body of men who, on their performance last Thursday, behaved very well under extreme provocation. [More…]
Those honourable senators should realise that they would be imposing upon those people who had the initiative to start businesses in the community - manufacturing, retail and others - a situation they would not attempt to impose on people simply working for a salary, whether they be professional men or employees in industry. [More…]
If there is a discernible crisis it is not likely that he would be advocating a change in the present system of conscription, which would have the effect of almost immediately reducing the level of our armed forces by 4,000 men. [More…]
Under the amendment which the Australian Labor Party proposes to move at a later stage in this debate the armed forces would be immediately reduced to 28,000 instead of the 40,000 which has been suggested by the Government. [More…]
Even if the number of volunteers cannot be increased - I will be submitting that with a proper effort and with proper conditions the number could be greatly increased - with no crisis looming, as has been admitted by the Minister, as has been admitted by Mr Gorton and as has been pointed out so eloquently by Professor Howard, what additional safety is it suggested this country would attain by having 40.000 men in the Army instead of 28,000? [More…]
Some have cited the Australian decision to return to a draft as evidence that an all-volunteer force is not feasible for the United States There are several’ reasons why this argument by analogy is inappropriate. [More…]
Once ‘he decision was made to use conscription to raise force levels, no serious effort was made to increase voluntary enlistments either by raising pay or redoubling recruiting efforts. [More…]
Second, the Australian economy is heavily unionised and apprenticeship programmes requiring 4 or more years deplete the pool of men available for military service. [More…]
Third, Australia has enjoyed a rapid growth in its economy (the unemployment rate is about 1 per cent)- [More…]
1 am not being carried away in suggesting that that may be possible under the new conditions created by the Kerr Committee’s recommendation’s. [More…]
An unfortunate stimulus to recruitment also may be supplied by other policies of the Government which are, for instance, creating an increasing pool of unemployment in the countryside and, if one may believe the signs, soon will also create one in the cities. [More…]
But 1 believe that, even along the lines I have suggested and in accordance with the prediction of Mr Jess, we can confidently expect that with an increase in the rates of pay, as recommended by the Kerr Committee, it will be possible to obtain, and in a reasonably short period of time, a strength in the armed forces which is the same or roughly the same as that which the Minister suggested in his second reading speech was sufficient in the present circumstances, that is, 40,000 men. [More…]
It is, of course, interesting to point out that the Minister admitted in his speech that even under the adverse revruiting conditions we have had in recent years and even with the Government not trying to get together a volunteer force, there has been a steady increase of roughly 1,000 a year in the number of volunteers since conscription was introduced in 1964. [More…]
That, I think, is a fanciful comment, even from a man like Churchill, on what happened. [More…]
But these young men, who were like the young men we have around us today and who were pilloried by the likes of Churchill and all the conservatives of the country, including the Mosleys, the Chamberlains and the people who wanted to make a deal with Hitler, were the very men who provided the nucleus of the Spitfire pilots when England was really under threat. [More…]
I suggest to those who decry the youth of this country that if there were a genuine threat to this country, instead of a phoney threat, instead of an artificial scare designed to keep a certain government in office or instead of involvement in a completely immoral and singularly unsuccessful war which has no appeal whatsoever to idealistic youth, there would be no problem of volunteers at alt. [More…]
There was no justification for its birth and its death will not be lamented. [More…]
Let me, if I may, attack the argument, as I see it, of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Presumably it is one that the Labor Party would declare but not one that some other lawful government might declare. [More…]
It frequently argues that it is immoral to conscript young men against their will. [More…]
Thirdly, the Labor Party argues that this legislation forces men against their will to go to foreign wars, to undeclared wars, to use its term, and specifically to go to Vietnam which to the Opposition is a hateful war. [More…]
Fourthly, it says that the legislation regarding conscientious objection as drafted by this Government is wrong in concept and immoral. [More…]
Indeed, freedom and democracy have been made, by corruption, words and weapons of war at this moment. [More…]
I repeat that a Government has a responsibility to decide on its defence, then to decide on methods and then to decide on the equity of those methods. [More…]
But a government having decided its responsibility the adjudication lies in the ballot box. [More…]
Many of us who were in the militia when World War II broke out and who were forced to go with the tide to war know that tens of thousands of men were killed unnecessarily because they went to war improperly trained and improperly supported. [More…]
I would like to do that as I lost some 88 men because they were untrained. [More…]
But we are dealing with the statement that we can train sufficient volunteers. [More…]
But you cannot get, sufficient volunteers in times of full employment, despite the talk tonight about Professor Hy Men’s pool. [More…]
If the Australian Government gave $10m and there are 10 million refugees, it is likely that this would provide one meal of the ingredients 1 have quoted for each refugee for not more than 4 days. [More…]
On the first occasion these 3 young men conducted their fast, it extended over a period of 18 days. [More…]
I ask any responsible member of the Government whether he would be prepared to sit outside Parliament House and demonstrate in a genuine way, as these lads are doing, with one cup of lentils for the day, or to sit out there with his cut sandwiches and bottle of milk, without anything to fortify the milk, in order to fight for a cause. [More…]
I respectfully suggest, Mr President, that you reconsider your ruling that these young men be required to sit across the road on the kerb to conduct this very genuine appeal, and that you allow them to sit either to the right or to the left on the steps of Parliament House where, at least, it will not be so windy on the cold evenings that this city is still experiencing and where they will be able to carry out their appeal with dignity on behalf of the 10 million people who require this assistance. [More…]
This Bill seeks to reduce the period of national service training from 2 years to 18 months, with attendant arrangements in that regard. [More…]
As a third point it criticises what it claims is the forcing of men against their will to go to a foreign war, and specifically to Vietnam. [More…]
I congratulate the honourable senator on the address which he made about capital punishment. [More…]
We have reached the stage where he has shown the whole hypocrisy of his attitude by trying to defend a discredited Government over its actions of conscription and involving us in Vietnam. [More…]
Among his untruths was a statement about the recognition of the independent sovereign state of South Vietnam. [More…]
Under the terms of the Geneva Agreement Vietnam was divided into 2 sections. [More…]
The Agreement was between North Vietnam and the French. [More…]
Following the agreement an election was to be held to decide on a sovereign government for Vietnam. [More…]
We have entered Vietnam and sacrified the loves of young Australian men for the sake of discredited military governments which have taken power as coup has followed coup. [More…]
I excuse the honourable senator as he is new to this chamber He does not know that Senator Greenwood has been repeating the untruth night after night during previous sessions of Parliament. [More…]
He has said that those whose consciences would not permit them to become national servicemen because of the possibility that they would be sent to Vietnam had the alternative of joining the CMF. [More…]
But they sign on in the CMF for a period of 6 years to serve where the Government directs in any case of emergency. [More…]
Subsequent developments have fully vindicated the Government’s judgment. [More…]
Since the introduction of national service, while the increase in the volunteer element of the 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, the actual annual increase has been decreasing, particularly since 1969 and, indeed, there was a fall in the volunteer element in 1970-71. [More…]
In the 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…]
I understand that we have 12,000 men in the citizen forces and a reserve force with a strength of 21,000 men. [More…]
In this Bill it is proposed to reduce our total Army manpower, a third of which is made up of national servicemen, from 44,000 to 40,000 to meet today’s defence requirements. [More…]
The first question I ask is why this is necessary to meet today’s defence requirements. [More…]
Recruiting to our Regular Army is on the decline, as the Minister said, and our need for an army obviously has increased from our requirement in 1964 when national service was introduced. [More…]
But it was decided by the Government that we needed manpower in the Army and that we had to send a group to Vietnam or somewhere else. [More…]
In particular, in South Vietnam the continued instability of government has made the task of resistance more difficult and to some extent frustrates the massive efforts of the United States and our own necessarily small contributions. [More…]
The aggressive attitude of North Vietnam towards South Vietnam is demonstrated by continued political and ideological support given to the military insurgents, and the infiltration of thousands of trained men. [More…]
the Regular Army should be built up as rapidly as possible from the present 22,750 to an effective strength of 33,000 men, which means a total force of 37,500. [More…]
Having successfully fulfilled our obligations we find today that we need a force of 40,000 men although we are not faced with the threat in Vietnam or the threat in Malaysia. [More…]
What is the reason today for the additional number of recruits and national servicemen who, according to the advice of the military experts of this country, are not the most desirable servicemen? [More…]
On 20th December 1917 a second referendum was held and it was even more disastrous for the Government. [More…]
Twenty years ago the Government tried to force on the people of Australia the Communist Party Dissolution Bill, the purpose of which was to annihilate a political party in this country and to deny to. [More…]
men the right to organise in a particular political group. [More…]
A law that is broken by normal lawabiding citizens in large numbers is a law that should never have been enacted by a government which claims to be administering government for the people. [More…]
We have a fanatical Attorney-General at present who forgets about breaches of federal law in encouraging the damaging of property and authorising 40 men to chase around a building for 3 days. [More…]
He allows 100 men with conveyances and breaking implements to raid a university in which are 4 men who in a month’s time could be picked up anywhere. [More…]
Four men are defying the Attorney-General on this question and actions are taken under laws that should never appear on the statute book. [More…]
In the event of a conflict we will be able to mobilise reasonably trained men in a very short time and be able to meet any situation in a very short time. [More…]
One of the most regrettable factors of the war is that while Australia has been participating in this illegal war many business men in this country were exporting the sinews of war. [More…]
As a result of the scaling down of the commitment in Vietnam, as the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) said the other day publicly in reply to a question asked in this chamber, the Government intends to sack employees of the Department of Works because of a shortage of work due to soldiers returning from Vietnam. [More…]
If the Government was morally sincere in relation to this issue it would bring home the soldiers straight away. [More…]
Money has been made by some business nien because we have engaged in a war - a war to which the Government has not ve’ been able to prove that Australia was properly invited to commit itself, lt is true that the Prime Minister, who gets played like a flathead. [More…]
was able to say recently that: he had some letters inviting our commitment. [More…]
1 suggest that the blood of 500 men is on the heads of. [More…]
the Minister and every supporter of the Government. [More…]
The implementation of the National Service Act is another disgrace. [More…]
Young men have been gaoled and hounded throughout this country. [More…]
But the Government has hounded them all around Australia. [More…]
Today in Western Australia, South Australia and New South Wales 3 young men lie rotting in prison because the Government says that they must be there. [More…]
The Government will not even tell his mother why he has been shifted around. [More…]
They ought not to stay there for another hour, but that is not the way the Government looks at it. [More…]
I am supported in that opinion by men who occupied the Cabinet benches at that time. [More…]
But this lack of vision was in keeping with the thinking of the whole Parliament. [More…]
That is why the Australian Democratic Labor Party, which I am privileged to lead, for as long as it is here, is intent on alerting and prodding the Government - irrespective of which party is in government - about the necessity of having adequate defence. [More…]
But America responded and it was because of that response that we continue to enjoy the freedom and liberty which we have and for which so many noble men and women made the supreme sacrifice in many theatres of war during World War I and World War II and in Korea and Vietnam. [More…]
But they get plenty of encouragement. [More…]
The only thing wrong with it, I feel, is that we should be in a position to do more in training young men for the defence of their native land or the land of their adoption. [More…]
It would overcome the complaints which some people have because some men are called up and others are not. [More…]
The history of conscription goes back to the early days of the Labor movement in this country and in older countries. [More…]
Conscription was adopted as a means of ensuring that the sons of the rich bore as much of the burden as the sons of working men. [More…]
Rather they will carry as much of the burden as working men’s sons. [More…]
We do not want a repetition of what happened at the time of the Second World War when young men of the age of 18 years - not 20 years - were called up and, with very little training, were sent, as nephews of mine were, to Milne Bay or the Kokoda Trail. [More…]
As Senator Carrick said earlier in the debate, they were less equipped to defend themselves and their fellow men than they would have been if they had had adequate training. [More…]
Nothing distracts or frustrates young men more than being tied up with an outfit where they are not learning anything. [More…]
Give young men something in which they can interest themselves and they will go along with it, but to call them to a parade on a Saturday afternoon and march them around 2 or 3 times, leaving them then to sit down and engage in pebble throwing at one another, when they would rather be playing football or cricket, is not good enough. [More…]
Young men will not mind going into camp or undergoing training if they feel that the time they are giving is properly used with advantage to themselves and the Army to which they belong. [More…]
For the benefit of those who blow into the Labor movement with any little bit of wind that blows, I point out that the Australian Labor Party was not known as an organisation until 1918. [More…]
Until after the First World War we had Labor movements in each State. [More…]
In 1911, 3 years before the outbreak of the First World War, when Australia was fully protected by the military and naval might of the British Empire, the Fisher Labor Government - Fisher was a Queensland representative and a good Scot - implemented a scheme of universal and compulsory military training. [More…]
This 1911 Labor scheme embraced not only men of 20 years, not only young men of 18 years; it embraced all those who were between the ages of 12 and 26 years. [More…]
I would not, but I can imagine the hue and cry of the present Australian Labor Party if the Australian Government today proposed to extend the operation of our national service training scheme to boys in Form I. [More…]
Fisher recognised the necessity of training and discipline, and he knew that even if they were never needed for war it would at least do them no harm, that they would grow up to be bigger and better men for what they learnt and for the training they had received. [More…]
So when we go back through the history of Labor and Labor governments we see that we are now, at a time when the world was never more disturbed, dealing with this proposal with less enthusiasm than they had back in 1911. [More…]
It will consist of 28,000 regulars and 12,000 national servicemen. [More…]
If our military leaders think that 18 months is long enough to give our young men sufficient training, well that is good enough for me. [More…]
I am not an expert military strategist or educator but I know from long experience just how young men react favourably to the discipline and training they are receiving. [More…]
A few of those women afterwards said to me: ‘The best thing that ever happened to my boy was that period in camp. [More…]
Another aspect of national service training which has been completely overlooked, and which I suggest is vital to the defence of Australia, is that this scheme builds up a substantial force of reserve troops who are fully trained and who are available at a moment’s notice. [More…]
At the moment, I think, about 21,000 men have been fully trained. [More…]
In a time of emergency these men could be called up. [More…]
Over the years since national service training has been in existence, I suggest, the number of reserves would be nearer to 50,000 men. [More…]
The next point I wish to make concerns statements made about experts. [More…]
I wonder, as the Australian Labor Party has placed such great faith in an expert such as Professor Howard, what faith it would place in its expert advisers - the men who are trained to advise a government on what type of forces are required? [More…]
I am in a very jovial and generous frame of mind and I will accept just for the moment accept that fact because the honourable senator felt that he could assist Labor supporters. [More…]
What would the Labor Party do with the advice of its expert and military adviser if the departmental advisers on defence said: ‘Mr Minister, we require an army of 50,000 men to be available’. [More…]
Would he just ignore such a recommendation? [More…]
During the second reading speech the Minister for Works (Senator Wright) put forward some of the important aspects of the Government’s view in relation to this matter. [More…]
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…]
If 1 hold an independent view that there is a threat in the north and that it is important that not only is it necessary to have a voluntary force but also to require national service by young men of our country, then I think I can hold to that view. [More…]
If one investigates the propositions put forward by the Opposition as amendments to the National Service Bill one must agree that the first move it wishes to make is to eliminate national service. [More…]
The other important matter which it wishes to see implemented by amendment of the Act is the provision of a means of avoiding national service if a conscientious belief can be found. [More…]
A most interesting document was put forward by Senator James McClelland in relation to this matter. [More…]
I do not know whether honourable senators on the Government side have taken time to study it, but a basis is put forward whereby if a person whose conscientious beliefs do not allow him to engage in military service either generally or while particular circumstances exist, so long as he holds those views he is exempt from liability to render service under the Act. [More…]
We do notice a feeling developing in this country that for too long you have carried the burdens of defence and of economic development of the free world, and that you attribute some of your current domestic problems to this and that you should carry degrees of commitment and call on others to carry a greater share of the burden. [More…]
1 mention this simply in this context that since 1939 Australia has had its troops overseas continuously and over 50 per cent of that time they have have been in active combat. [More…]
Europe, the Pacific, occupation of Japan, at the time of the blockade in Berlin, our planes in the Berlin airlift, troubles with NATO, our troops in Matta, Korea, the Malaysian terrorists where we were with the British and assisting Malaysia, the time of the confrontation in Indonesia where our troops were fighting and in Sabah and Sarawak, and finally in South Vietnam with you and at the present time our planes are in Butterworth in Malaysia and our ships and our men are in Singapore. [More…]
On this question of national service I think Senator Carrick made a tremendous impression upon the Senate. [More…]
He analysed the principles of compulsory military service with great advantage to those whose understanding yearns with anxiety on the question of compelling men to serve for defence. [More…]
He established the equity of a system of compulsory military service when the defence force requirement is only a percentage of one age group. [More…]
That argument was not answered in any way by those propositions of Senator Cant who quite properly, as I see the position, drew our attention to the fact that all members of the CMF are under the obligation, upon proclamation of a state of national emergency, to serve wherever the Government requires, in active combat if need be. [More…]
That is an obligation which at that stage of national emergency can extend not merely to national servicemen then recruited but to any men of whatever age in the country. [More…]
When those figures are examined it must be admitted that Australia’s establishment of 40,000 men could not, with real responsibility, be reduced. [More…]
I am totally unable to understand how the Australian Labor Party can build any argument upon what some people in that Party call a lottery. [More…]
The simple fact is that out of a great number of young men who are available for national service only few are chosen. [More…]
How could one establish any fairer means than the birthday ballot - a secret choice of selection by reference to, not their class, their creed, their education, their income or any other distinction that might cause invidiousness, but their birth irrespective of all the other things that divide men. [More…]
1 regret as much as does anyone in the House the fact that casualties, some of them fatal, have been suffered by some national servicemen. [More…]
I compare that number with the number of fatal casualties sustained by national servicemen in Vietnam. [More…]
Some 437 Australian servicemen, 234 of whom were members of the permanent forces and 202 of whom were national servicemen, have met their death in Vietnam. [More…]
To emphasise the situation I repeat that 596 of those registered for national service met their death in civilian life whereas 202 national servicemen met their death while on military service. [More…]
With the concurrence of honourable senators I incorporate in Hansard a table showing that 643,039 young men registered for national service to 30th June 1971 and that 51,279 were called up and enlisted in the Army. [More…]
I also pointed to the fact that to suggest that we are any more adequately protected by having 40,000 men than 28,000 men is sheer fantasy. [More…]
I pointed out also that no serious attempt had been made by this Government to make the volunteer system workable. [More…]
I referred to the prospects of increased recruitment in the wake of the improved pay and conditions recomended by the Kerr Committee. [More…]
I cited in support of this proposition the statement of a well known and not very radical supporter of the Government in another place, the honourable member for La Trobe, Mr Jess. [More…]
I referred to the hypocrisy of the Government in being unwilling to admit that now that the Vietnam commitment is drawing to a close any justification which ever did exist for conscription has ceased to exist. [More…]
All of these are possibilities in the uncertain world depicted for us by the Government, and where does it stop? [More…]
Perhaps this is the reason why the Government considers it necessary to maintain conscription. [More…]
But, of course, once more Government supporters are out of step with their ex-leader who, in one of his memorable contributions to the journalism of this country, pointed out that in his defence policy he did not want Australia’s young men dying in jungles and swamps because of possible Balkan-like quarrels which he felt were the responsibility of the local government. [More…]
I now come to the most glaring misconception, to put it no higher than that, of Senator Carrick when he suggested that honourable senators on this side of the House and all of those who have opposed conscription and the involvement in Vietnam over the recent years have been living some sort of a lie by suggesting that men who are subject to the draft are subject also to being involved in a war overseas in which they do not believe. [More…]
That statement was disproved by speakers from this side of the chamber, by Senator Cavanagh and by Senator Cant. [More…]
There has been plenty of opportunity since then for the pundits on the Government ride, including Senator Sim, to show that this was false. [More…]
In 1964, because of the possibility of having to fight in Vietnam and because we were fighting in Malaysia, it was necessary to have a strength of some 30,000 men. [More…]
With no possibility of any dispute arising at present and, according to the previous Prime Minister, with no visible possibility of an invasion of Australia or of a necessity to defend Australia in the next 10 years, it is apparently necessary to have a strength of 40,000 men in the defence forces. [More…]
If we had adopted the advice of military experts in 1964 we could have today, by way of normal recruiting methods, sufficient servicemen from whom we could get 5 years’ service. [More…]
The Government is sacrificing Australia’s defence by following a useless system of training men at a colossal cost to the nation. [More…]
With the withdrawal of Australian troops from Vietnam it may be thought that this amendment is largely academic. [More…]
We also look to the fact that the end of our commitment in Vietnam does not - on the indications that we have not only in this debate but also from our experience of this Government - exclude the possibility that we may be quickly embroiled in another war. [More…]
A government which could, behind the backs of the people, with no formal declaration of war and with a total absence of moral, political or military justification embroil us in the Vietnam tragedy might well decide with the moral flexibility for which it is notorious to involve us in a war with, for instance. [More…]
Though I loathe apartheid 1 could defend their right to object to being conscripted for a war in South Africa just as I object to our young men being conscripted into a war in Vietnam. [More…]
I nm not saying that because a certain group of Catholic clergy or laity puts forward an argument Senator Greenwood or anyone else is bound to support it. [More…]
But I would suggest that arguments as serious as those which have been put forward seriously tonight by Senator James McClelland should be given more serious consideration by the Attorney-General than merely his usual performance of insulting members of the Australian Labor Party, impugning their motives, impugning their patriotism and attacking men who are in gaol. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon quoted the Catholic laity and said that men should not fight in an unjust war or in wars to which they object. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon probably believes in that view and is probably closer than arm’s length to the comment made by Senator James McClelland, who, during his speech tonight, admitted that the whole ambit of change to the National Service Act was contained in the Labor Party amendments and finally said: Yes, if we were the Government we would have to gaol an individual such as that.’ [More…]
As time is going by and as we are anxious to complete the Bill tonight I will explain briefly the purport of the amendment. [More…]
For example if a magistrate sentenced a man to 5 years imprisonment he may set a minimum non-parole period of 4 years which is, in effect, a way of shortening the sentence, subject to certain conditions imposed by the Commonwealth Prisoners Act. [More…]
We believe that men convicted of an offence against this Act are in no sense to be considered more criminal than people of the type that I have named who have the benefit of this non-parole period. [More…]
That is the purpose of our amendment. [More…]
The Government will oppose this amendment. [More…]
At present section 51c of the principal Act, which is sought to be repealed by the amendment, has the effect of excluding section 4 of the Commonwealth Prisoners Act from operating in respect of the sentencing of men convicted of failure to report for or to render national service. [More…]
It also precludes the operation of the parole arrangements. [More…]
In short, as I understand it - and Senator James McClelland put it neatly - what is designed by this amendment is to enable a parole provision to be inserted. [More…]
The Government opposes that. [More…]
In addition to the basic reasons which the Government has, there are a number of considerations which have escaped the Opposition’s attention or to which it is not prepared to give any consideration. [More…]
The basic reason why the Government opposes this amendment is that it is clearly essential that men imprisoned because of breaches which they have committed against the National Service Act should, as far as practicable, be subject to a uniform period of civil imprisonment in the different States in which they are committed to custody. [More…]
To provide for parole arrangements would introduce a situation of unnecessary and potentially inequitable variations in the periods of imprisonment. [More…]
The effect of the amendment would be to enable courts in New South Wales. [More…]
Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia to fix a non-parole period or a minimum period of imprisonment to be served by a prisoner before becoming eligible for release on parole. [More…]
In some States, therefore, a national service defaulter would serve only a very short non-parole period, but in the other States the full term of imprisonment would have to be served. [More…]
Therefore there would be an inequality in provisions for punishment for national service defaulters. [More…]
The effect of the amendment would be to attempt to give the State parole boards the power to release a national service defaulter serving a nonparole period in New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. [More…]
We submit that it would be unsatisfactory for the administration of the Commonwealth criminal law to have a situation in which 4 States had the power to release a Commonwealth prisoner before the expiration of the full term of imprisonment, that power being vested in a State board. [More…]
Perhaps the AttorneyGeneral (Senator Greenwood) is not in a position to give me answers tonight but I would like them next week.I refer to 2 categories of young men. [More…]
Some have done so on temporary visas for 3 months and others have done so on a business appointment for 2 years. [More…]
I would like the Minister to ascertain on- a government to government level what is the situation.I made some private inquiries from the American Embassy and from our own Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
As I understand the position, the United States authorities do not take any action against young men who have fulfilled the normal call up requirements in Australia and who can produce a discharge paper. [More…]
But when those young men who have registered but were not called up go to the United States there is some confusion as to whether they are there on a temporary visa. [More…]
I will quote one case in a moment or I will give the details to the Minister after this debate has concluded. [More…]
He could be over there on the appointment not for 3 months but perhaps for 2 years. [More…]
This is a sort of by-product of this legislation on which I would like government to government discussion so that I can get some answers. [More…]
She summed the position up when she said: ‘We are hearing plenty of utterances by British spokesmen, both Government and Opposition, but nobody at Australia House seems to be able to tell us what the situation is’. [More…]
I say this on behalf of the men and women who are on what might be termed working holidays: They do not want to feci that the boom will suddenly be lowered and that they will be told: ‘You have to pack up your bags and go’, lt is all right to talk about idle speculation. [More…]
There is a report in today’s Melbourne ‘Herald’ that a suggestion was made in the House of Lords that Australians who are in Britain on a permanent business appointment could receive United Kingdom citizenship at the end of 3 years. [More…]
Is he aware that the Prime Minister personally complimented the 3 young men who commenced a fast outside Parliament House in their efforts to raise money for refugees in India? [More…]
Is the Government prepared to make a further increase in the donation previously granted to the refugees? [More…]
If the Government is of the opinion that it is not possible to make an increase in the donation because of the economic depression now being experienced in Australia, will the Minister take the necessary action to set up the machinery for an appeal to the Australian people in an endeavour to raise at least $10m for this very worthy cause? [More…]
There were several middle men. [More…]
But the return on capital invested in the apple and pear industry which is a fairly high capital investment industry, must be considerably below 2i per cent. [More…]
Apparently with the development of production, increased trading and things of that kind they are able to do a bit of bargaining here and there and the devil take the hindmost. [More…]
This is a pretty poor attitude when one considers the tremendous amount of money which has been paid into shipping over the years by people who produce fruit and export it. [More…]
Men of goodwill sat as a committee and brought down a report of such importance to the Commonwealth that it should have been examined urgently. [More…]
They are brought on for debate on alternate Thursday evenings because that is the measure of importance attributed to them by the Government. [More…]
That is why this important Bill which was introduced by my Leader for the abolition of capital punishment is the subject of a proposal that it be referred to a committee. [More…]
This most important announcement was made by the Prime Minister and almost 8 weeks has elapsed before the Government brought the debate back into the Senate. [More…]
It is because the Government does not want to debate its failed policy on Vietnam - a policy which has failed completely; a policy which has left this Government without one shred of credibility; a policy which has dishonoured this country; a policy which has led to the death of nearly 500 Australians; a policy which has led to the death of countless Vietnamese; a policy which has inflicted misery on some of our neighbours in South East Asia; a policy which has rendered fatuous, futile and utterly unworthy of serious consideration the arguments put by the Government over the past 6 years as to why we should be sending young men to die or to be maimed in Vietnam. [More…]
No wonder the Government does not want to debate this subject. [More…]
The presiding officers and poll clerks were mostly school teachers and other young men and women who were, no doubt, clerks. [More…]
I have discussed this matter with the Minister for the Army who has advised me that they were officers and other ranks, that they were all volunteers and that the average weekly number of members of the CMF in Vietnam has been between 25 and 30 officers and men. [More…]
I agree with his remarks about this stabilisation plan and how the Government tailors such a plan to suit the circumstances of an industry in consultation with that industry. [More…]
Senator Webster went on to point out, as I have just done, the complexity of the plan and the negotiations that have been conducted between the Department of Primary Industry and the industry generally. [More…]
He referred also to the performance over a long period of years of the Tasmanian ports and how the Chairman of the Tasmanian Fruit Board had this month expressed the industry’s thanks lo the men at these ports for the work done by them! [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
All national service registrants selected by ballot for consideration for call-up who are not otherwise eligible for exemption or indefinite deferment of their liability are medically examined at the earliest practicable stage after registration. [More…]
Expenditure in each financial year since 1965-66 in connection with national service medical examinations (including some examinations for men who opt for service in the Citizen Forces as an alternative to full-time national service) is listed below: [More…]
Are young men of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islands descent required to register for national service? [More…]
If not, why is a young Aboriginal currently being threatened with legal action by the Department of Labour and National Service for failure to register for national service? [More…]
The National Service Act imposes on young men in the 20-year old age group who are ordinarily resident in Australia the liability both to register and to render service. [More…]
I had an opportunity at a Legacy dinner this week to listen to the Reverend Colin Craven-Sands, a leading seamen’s chaplain in Sydney, who made a plea on behalf of refugee seamen. [More…]
He said that it was time that removed impediments to the Convention having legislative application to seamen from various countries. [More…]
He mentioned also that today a 200,000- ton tanker might be manned by a crew of only about 22 men. [More…]
In many cases the men involved find that they could have to answer serious charges under the criminal code of their homelands. [More…]
I suggest to the Minister that foreign seamen should have some alternative to action of that kind. [More…]
Perhaps some travel document could be provided. [More…]
I do not suggest that these men regard themselves as potential migrants to Australia. [More…]
They want to continue with their careers as seamen. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs any knowledge of the allegation that on 17th February 1971, Mr V. E. Tulayev, the second secretary of the consular section of the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, personally led a party of men to a home in Auburn, Sydney, and sought by great psychological pressure to persuade Dr Soloviev, a defector, to return to the Soviet Union? [More…]
Is it true that Soviet diplomatic personnel need the Government’s permission to travel outside a 40-mile radius of Canberra? [More…]
There are instances in the reports which have been tabled in the Victorian Parliament of unscrupulous conduct and incompetence, and of a scandalous position throughout the field of general insurance. [More…]
It is rather strange to read the answer given yesterday in this chamber by the AttorneyGeneral who is in charge of the parliamentary draftsmen, the men whom one would think would be consulted in this matter. [More…]
The matter of urgency which has been raised on behalf of the Australian Labor Party expresses a concern which is shared by the Democratic Labor Party and obviously, in view of the statement by the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), by the Government. [More…]
The difference between the Opposition and the Government and the Democratic Labor Party in this regard is in the measure of that concern. [More…]
The measure of the concern expressed in the statement of urgency is reflected in the fact that the matter is introduced as a matter of urgency which requires the immediate attention of the Government. [More…]
The terms of the statement of urgency refer to the neglect of the Government. [More…]
In the light of the Minister’s statement, and more particularly in the light of his advertence to what the Government has done, the complexity of the legislation and, more especially, the fact that the proposed insurance legislation will perhaps cover fields wider than those embraced in the terms of the matter of urgency, it would appear, in fairness, that the term ‘neglect’ may be used inappropriately. [More…]
1 can say to the Senate that I have men tioned this matter to Senator Murphy and suggested that the word ‘neglect’ be deleted and that the word ‘delay’ be inserted in lieu thereof. [More…]
I know that the Minister and the Government would not be prepared to concede that that would be an appropriate term, but I think it would be more appropriate than ‘neglect’. [More…]
I believe that the Government is alert to the situation: but in our opinion it has not been sufficiently alert, nor was it alert sufficiently early. [More…]
I am reading the names of prominent men in the insurance field - managers, secretaries and directors of reputable insurance companies who have said about this matter even harsher things than have been said today by members of the Opposition. [More…]
If we are to believe Senator Greenwood and Senator Marriott these men are all part of some irresponsible Labor conspiracy. [More…]
They would have us believe that these men are Labor stirrers who are painting an alarmist picture of a imaginary problem. [More…]
If Government supporters believe that proposition, they have lost even more credibility than I thought they had lost. [More…]
Senator Greenwood was even bold enough to quote from an editorial in the ‘Financial Review’ in which the editorial writer of that paper suggested that it would be wrong for the Government to be stampeded into drafting hasty legislation in this matter. [More…]
I do not doubt that Senator Webster was prompted to take the point of order because during the course of his speech, in which he referred to certain diseases of cattle, he failed to mention the very important and dread disease called brucellosis. [More…]
It has to be considered within the ambit of this Bill because it concerns not only the future of our meat exporters but also the welfare of the slaughtermen, the meat exporters and the veterinary men who have to slaughter and prepare these beasts for export. [More…]
We had to wait until Senator Primmer spoke before brucellosis was mentioned. [More…]
I turn now to the human element and the need to carry out research to control brucellosis because of the dreadful consequences which can flow to men who work in the industry. [More…]
In particular it is transmitted to the men who work closely with the preparation of these beasts for the market. [More…]
In fairness to the department concerned, it keeps on the payroll for as long as it can men so afflicted, but that is no compensation for the complete loss of family life. [More…]
A vaccine is available, but unless we face this problem, bring it out into the open and taken action to clear our herds of this disease we will face, firstly, the economic problems that I have mentioned and, secondly, the disastrous consequences which flow to the men who work in the industry. [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…]
Does the Minister accept Professor Salisbury’s statement, reported in the Sydney Morning Herald’ of 30th August 1971, that his time on the Gazelle had convinced him that all Tolai leaders were progressive men? [More…]
Why is the Administration so unwilling or unable to come to an accommodation with the Mataungan Association comprising, as Professor Salisbury vouches it does, all progressive men? [More…]
He said today that his time on the Gazelle had convinced him that all Tolai leaden were progressive men. [More…]
It is interesting now to note that the Government has decided to add to the Interim Council 2 men who, according to the Minister’s statement, are long experienced in radio, television and film making. [More…]
I understand that he is virtually in charge of Sir Frank Packer’s interests in radio and television, and this man is now being appointed by the Governmentto the Interim Council of the Australian Film and Television School. [More…]
I express the point of view that having regard to the close association between the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) and the Packer organisation, and bearing in mind the criticism that was made by the Federation of Australian Commercial Television Stations of the original proposals to establish the training school, we of the Opposition must be very circumspect about such an appointment. [More…]
When I was in England a mere 2 months ago I met many Australian expatriates who have made names for themselves in the creative and performing arts, i met men such as Michael Noonan and Peter Yeldham, 2 of the foremost scriptwriters in England who very proudly call themselves Australians. [More…]
But unfortunately because the Government to date has done little to develop opportunities for Australians in the fields of the arts and culture, both creative and performing, there is nothing in this statement to give people of that ilk encouragement and confidence to come back to this country and to ensure that they can make a contribution in their own country comparable with that which they are in fact making abroad. [More…]
On 18th August the Prime Minister announced that there would be a reduction in the period of Citizen Force service complementary to the reduction in the period of full-time national service. [More…]
In future men rendering Citizen Force service as an alternative to full-time national service will normally serve for five years. [More…]
Men who are confirmed as being in this position will be advised accordingly by the Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
Upon receipt of this official advice they will be bound only by the conditions of their enlistment with the particular Citizen Force in question. [More…]
The article reminded its readers that 82 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 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…]
This statement in itself would be quite acceptable were it not a complete reversal of everything that the Government has been saying for the past 20 years, a reversal of the points it has made consistently in support of its election programmes for the past 20 years, lt seems to me only the other day - it cannot be very much longer - that we were being shown maps with red arrows leading from China to Australia. [More…]
We were told that th: first duty of all Australians was to resist this menace from the north and that the ultimate proof of the treasonable intent of members of the Australian Labor Party was that they argued that there should b: recognition of the Government of Pekina, and admission of the People’s Republic of China to the United Nations, lt was not more than a few months ago that we were told about the domino theory. [More…]
Indeed, young Australians are still being killed and maimed in Vietnam and young Australians are still killing and maiming people in Vietnam in pursuit of the Government’s policies which have been based, so we have been told, on the threat of China to this country. [More…]
However, the Government at least has decided to put up with what it cannot change. [More…]
It realises now that China is here, that it is not going to go away, however hard the Govern men may wish that it would go away, and that it is firmly and securely within the United Nations. [More…]
I have mentioned some of the nations in the Pacific that will be affected. [More…]
The late John Curtin was a conscientious objector and he sent men to war when it was necessary for this country’s defence. [More…]
Sending troops overseas and stationing them in other countries, which causes resentment because they are foreign troops, is no solution at all. [More…]
We are now adopting a 2- country arrangement to control the Butterworth base. [More…]
As the Government speakers said rather primly - I would rather they had said it more strongly - Britain’s entry is going to produce a stronger Britain if the terms are good. [More…]
We can do this if we give aid to the industries about which I have spoken and if we take a positive stand about the importation of aircraft, defence equipment, war stores and munitions. [More…]
The figures show roughly our importation of this equipment but it has been greater. [More…]
A large part of the imported equipment we need not have. [More…]
While we are importing this equipment honourable senators from both sides of the chamber are talking about rationalising the aircraft industry. [More…]
We should force the Government to make sure that orders for a large quota of imported equipment which is related to aircraft and defence requirements are given to Australian industry. [More…]
We can decide to give near neighbours aid in the form they most need such as advanced equipment, technology and capital. [More…]
Once we- start exporting men and materials we reach the situation which has been reached in Asia today. [More…]
I say, frankly, that the people who were putting the story out were the greatest con men in Australia. [More…]
These intakes involve examining 4.000 to 5,000 men 4 times a year at examinations conducted throughout Australia. [More…]
As it is essential that only fit men be called up for national service, examinations must be conducted so that the final determination of fitness is related precisely and closely to the time of call-up. [More…]
At the same time, every effort is made to examine such people as apprentices and students who will be seeking employment, and to advise them of their fitness or otherwise in sufficient time prior to their becoming available for employment for them to make the necessary arrangements with their prospective employers. [More…]
Without the risk capital which came from the United States in the 1930s Mount Isa would have closed down and 1,000 men would have lost their jobs. [More…]
Not only have these companies been restored but they have been expanded, thus providing more employment opportunities, greater skills for Australian workers and gains to the Australian economy. [More…]
I think the Minister for Civil Aviation quoted figures in relation to investment in Australia which showed that, by far, Australians are the greatest investors in our industry. [More…]
Is this the sort of investment that honourable senators opposite want. [More…]
I am a little sad about the Angelas deposits, because no sooner did the Western Australian Government have those deposits returned to it through court action than it granted them to an American company, Armco Resources Pty Ltd. Again the big reservations of iron ore go into overseas hands. [More…]
If any honourable senator wants to know what Australia gets out of this, I remind him that the latest figures I have been able to get were the 1968 figures in relation to Hamersley Iron Pty Ltd. That company produced 10 million tons of iron ore, made a profit of $20m and employed 357 men. [More…]
It paid no tax on that profit because of the capital investment. [More…]
I think of what men of the calibre of the late W. S. Robinson, the late Sir Essington Lewis, and some men of the present generation, would have done. [More…]
Ivor Trescowthick, manufacturer of one of the best men’s shoes in Australia - Julius Marlow - was taken over some years ago by overseas interests which incorporated not only that organisation but Joyce and Howes Pty Ltd, which had purchased the name of Marshall shoes which older members of the Senate would know was a household name in shoe manufacturing. [More…]
Recently there has been the spectacular situation with tremendous conspiracy of the major electric companies - General Electric and Westinghouse. [More…]
These men, not in most cases the presidents of the companies, but vice-presidents and sales managers, would meet incognito, and would use codes and communicate with one another but not on the stationery of the company, and they would alter their expense accounts to conceal the place where they had met, and they would telephone one another from public telephone booths to the home of the other, instead of to the office, and they had codes, and one of the codes dealt with the allocation of contracts, and was referred to under the code title of ‘Phases of the Moon’. [More…]
They were found guilty ai?d they were fined total fines of almost two million dollars and 7 executives were sentenced to 30 days imprisonment. [More…]
I was very sorry to hear Senator Bishop move the amendment on behalf of the Opposition. [More…]
I do not think that Qantas deserves that sort of treatment. [More…]
]f we look through the history of this company we can bc very gratified and proud of what has been achieved since the establishment of Qantas. [More…]
I note the increment in assets through the years. [More…]
Overall this is an organisation which is operating with these results because it is directed by a body of men who are businessmen. [More…]
All men dream: but not equally. [More…]
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find thai it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. [More…]
I want to supplement briefly the remarks made by Senator Bishop. [More…]
While Senator Bishop confined his remarks to the simple transfer of union membership from the North Australian Workers’ Union to the Waterside Workers’ Federation, after conversations with Mr Paddy Carroll and other union officials, I hope that the apparatus of the Department of Labour and National Service - the industrial hygiene section and other sections - will be adjusted to some of the problems which confront men in heavy manual work on the waterfront in Darwin. [More…]
I say that because while we are talking in terms of the fork lift superseding the trolly and other kindred things the fact is that today if men are handling lubricants and other chemical substances the effect on the hands in a tropical climate can result in dermatitis and other things. [More…]
I know some of the top men in the Department of Labour and National Service who are pretty well dedicated to many of these matters about which I am talking. [More…]
If we are aware of something that is happening on the Pacific or Atlantic coasts of the United States affecting longshoremen we can anticipate that a similar happening here will result in an industrial complaint. [More…]
No official statistics have been compiled, up to the present, as to the reasons for rejection of men for national service who are found not to meet the medical standards required for Army service. [More…]
Though these sample studies may not be completely representative of all men liable for national service, they are an indication of the main medical reasons. [More…]
I would emphasise that a man who suffers from one or other of these conditions would not necessarily be affected in his normal everyday life but if he were called up for Army service any disability which impaired his efficiency could have serious consequences for him and the men he served with. [More…]
That we express our deepest concern for our fellow men suffering in the refugee camps in India. [More…]
The Government is not selective in the persons whom it prosecutes. [More…]
I have read the statement which appears in the newspaper attributed to the President of the Australian Union of Stude. [More…]
He mentions 7 names. [More…]
An examination of records shows that 2 of the 7 persons named by Mr Macaulay have had registration forms lodged with the Department of Labour and National Service at the required time but they were balloted out. [More…]
The cases of the other 3 men are still being investigated. [More…]
The statement made by Mr Macaulay appears to fall somewhat short of being completely accurate, to say the least, and that is consistent with certain things that he is alleged to have said at about the same time. [More…]
What protest has the Government made to the Government of Thailand following the imposition of martial law and the dissolution of the Thai Parliament? [More…]
As Thailand has now followed Cambodia in the process of non-democratic government will the Australian Government, which has used men and money to support so-called democracy in South Vietnam, make public its displeasure at the way in which democracy is being challenged by our former allies in Indo-China? [More…]
What was a very encouraging and exciting development in the Senate seems now to me to be signposted for disaster. [More…]
It reminds me of this famous comment: All men are equal but some are more equal than others. [More…]
A factory has to find money to do its own job, to purchase all kinds of supplies and to pay its men, so it must have a programme of orders and it needs to know that it will be paid when the orders are ready. [More…]
Do over 1,100 young men now face prosecution for various breaches of the National Service Act [More…]
Where no mitigating circumstances exist, however, and the men failed lo 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 . [More…]
But nowhere do we find in the reply to the question that there are 1,100 men now facing prosecution. [More…]
The Minister goes on to state that during the last 3 years to 31st December 311,853 men registered for national service and that 5,039 men or 1.6 per cent of those registered were denied the benefit of the ballot for failing to register at the proper time. [More…]
So there we see that 5,039 men had no mitigating circumstances. [More…]
About 5,000 men are without any circumstances which’ justify their being considered in the ballot according to their birthday dates. [More…]
But still we did not receive a reply to the question of whether 1,100 men were awaiting prosecution. [More…]
Again the great majority of men attend for medical examination when required to do so. [More…]
Over the past 3 years lo 31st December last 66,780 men had been medically examined;50 men, or less than 0.1 per cent, have been prosecuted. [More…]
Men who have been medically examined and found to be fit, or have refused to undergo a medical examination and been prosecuted for that offence and persist in their refusal, are called up for Army service. [More…]
The Minister says that 66,780 men had been medically examined. [More…]
According to the Minister’s statement. [More…]
250,112 men are known to have failed to attend for medical examination. [More…]
Over the past3 years of the national service scheme to31st December last,11 men have been convicted of refusal to obey a call-up notice to render service, or 0.04 per cent of some 25,487 who have been called up and enlisted during this period. [More…]
Two men are currently imprisoned following conviction of failure to obey a call-up notice and render service. [More…]
Where in the Minister’s reply can we find reference to the fact that 1,100 men are now facing prosecution for various breaches of the National Service Act? [More…]
Men who fail to at tend when required for medical examination without prior notification to the Registrar for National Service, are normally sent a notice to attend on a later date together with advice of the penalty for non-attendance provided in the National Service Act. [More…]
Cases of continued failure or refusal are investigated and men prosecuted where this is warranted. [More…]
In the 3 years to 30t*i June 1971, 69,408 men were medically examined and 55 prosecuted for failure to report for medical examination. [More…]
This is part of the propaganda put out by some elements in the community opposed to national service who, for their own purposes, endeavour to mislead young men into thinking they can break the law of the land with impunity. [More…]
It obviously makes no impression on the vast majority of young men, almost 700,000, who have registered as required. [More…]
In the 5 years’ operation of the Act to December last year the Government had prosecuted and convicted only 1,007 young men- [More…]
Only about 17 men each year are prosecuted for failure to register. [More…]
The Government is falling down on this question. [More…]
Today there are men who are escaping the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
There are men who are unable to follow useful occupations. [More…]
Their skilled services are lost to society while they play this game of cat and mouse with the Government which is not prepared to act and which has no desire to enforce its Act, and I do not think that the public believes that it should be enforced, either. [More…]
The Government is keeping this Act on Australia’s statute book in order to create fear in the minds of the public about a threatened invasion and to justify its stand that we must have national service. [More…]
I have been told - these are other figures that have been suggested - that the Government has failed to prosecute 11,823 men who have failed to register for national service, 451 who have failed to attend for their medical examination and 80 who have failed to obey a call-up notice. [More…]
Why will the Government not give us the figures? [More…]
The Government should not say that we have not made any effort to obtain the figures, and it should not say that there have not been deliberate attempts made to avoid giving the figures to the Parliament. [More…]
The Attorney-General is irving io slip away from the question by saying that when they mentioned a draft resister he thought it was someone who was opposed to the Act. [More…]
It indicated by comment that it was a situation in which the Attorney-General ouch not to have placed himself, and 1 agree. [More…]
The position arose today that some ( my colleagues felt that the approach to this whole problem indicated that a series f Attorneys-General trying to carry out Government policy were not, in effect, serious in their attempts to arrest those who were in direct conflict with the Act. [More…]
Looking back over the figures that Senator Cavanagh has given, I would say that a reasonable conclusion might be that the Government is embarrassed by the Act which it has inflicted upon young men and is embarrassed by the tremendous task that faces the authorities in imposing the provisions of that Act on many thousands of young men. [More…]
One conclusion could be that all of these attempts are just attempts to satisfy the militants within the Government parties, to show them that the Government, through the Attorney-General, is making some attempt to arrest draft dodgers. [More…]
I have the feeling that the person who now, after a series of changes, holds the office of AttorneyGeneral is a person who is determined to impose the law against thoi-e who resist the Act and who is determined to treat these young men as criminals in breach of an Act. [More…]
He is determined to treat these young men in the same way as those who are guilty of an indictable offence are treated. [More…]
As this offence carries the penalty of 1 8 months’ imprisonment - the period of imprisonment once was 2 years - one would have thought that the offence was an indictable one. [More…]
The Attorney-General has never properly considered, nor does he understand, the position of young men who are strongly opposed to the selective type of conscription which has been imposed upon them by this Government. [More…]
The Attorney-General would be wiser not to impose his will upon these young men but to advise the Government to scrap the ..’hole Act. [More…]
Might 1 suggest to him that he gains very little credit and that his standing is affected by the manner in which he is beginning to pursue these young men who seek to expose the Act for what it is. [More…]
Our case is this: It has been asserted in the newspapers and it has been asserted by us in this House that in 5 years 1 1,000 young men who have failed to register for national service and who have no legal reason for not registering have not been prosecuted. [More…]
If he looks back at the record to be found in Hansard he will have to admit that he and every other Government spokesman has evaded the question that we asked and which we ask again for the final time: Is it a fact or is it not a fact that 11,000 men who have evaded national service have not been prosecuted? [More…]
It proves that this is a catch-cry which he and the Government wish to use for electoral purposes and that it has nothing at all to do with enforcing law. [More…]
That is the simple matter that we put tonight to the Government. [More…]
I regard it as an iniquitous Act, an Act brought down not for any honourable purpose but as part of an election gimmick by men of military age. [More…]
who would not dream of serving in Vietnam themselves, in order to conscript young men to go away and kill and maim or to be killed and maimed. [More…]
He uses it to engage in a blackguardly attack on a man who cannot defend himself in the same way as he used this office to engage in blackguardly attacks on young men throughout Australia who have had the courage of their convictions in refusing to go to Vietnam, while Senator Greenwood and his colleagues of military age have shown their lack of courage by not going to fight in the war in Vietnam to which they have been sending these young men. [More…]
But these young men we have been speaking of tonight have shown great courage in refusing to go and I for one applaud them. [More…]
lt has been said repeatedly by speakers here, in Press reports and reports from many sources, that at least 11,000 young men have refused to carry out their obligations under this Act. [More…]
Up to this stage the Government has taken action to the extent of gaoling for the maximum of 2 years - now 18 months - fewer than 10 individuals. [More…]
I ask: If he cannot, as the representative of the Minister for Repatriation, give any details of entitlements available to ex-ser vicemen, can he, as the Minister representing the Minister for the Army, give some indication of the entitlement available to men who come directly under the responsibility of the Department of the Army? [More…]
Is it not a fact that repatriation benefits available to members of the Army serving in Vietnam are severely limited and is not the Minister’s hesitation in answering the previous question asked by Senator Murphy because of his embarrassment in having to reveal the true situation? [More…]
In addressing a ques tion to the Attorney-General I refer to my question yesterday regarding the statement by the President of the Australian Union of Students and, in particular, to the list in that statement of 7 student leaders whom the Government is unwilling to prosecute, namely, Messrs Yates, Zerman, McLean, Marginson, Varley, Joyce and McDougal. [More…]
Further, will the Minister specify which other names apply to the case histories he quoted in his answer so that it may be determined whether this information accords with the documents in the possession of the 7 young men whom I have mentioned? [More…]
We have lost at least 473 men killed and at least 2,980 more have been wounded and maimed. [More…]
This Liberal and Country Party Government went into a country where the troubles were a legacy of history, where the solutions were to have reforms, to have democracy, to have land reform, and to have equalisation of wealth. [More…]
Bui what did the Government do? [More…]
I remember, when Diem was assassinated how the South Vietnam Embassy itself set out to attack his character and attack the corruption of the regime which our Government sent our young men to that country to support. [More…]
That is the government that we recognise and are still supporting. [More…]
At no time did we on this side share in that involvement. [More…]
What has happened has been the sacrifice of our young men in an illegal, immoral, unjust and undeclared war. [More…]
1 have heard young men of this nation - some in uniform - expressing their concern that they were involved in this kind of war. [More…]
We believe that, along with this expression of gratitude to those young men who have served in Vietnam, the Senate should express - members of the Opposition want to express this, whatever the rest of the Senate might wish to do - its disapproval of what the Liberal and Country Parties have done in this military intervention, and also should express its opinion that those who have been maimed or injured as a result of their war service, and their dependants, should be given repatriation entitlements that will compensate them adequately for their sacrifices. [More…]
Therefore I move the following amendment: [More…]
We have heard a statement dripping with insolence, assault and all sorts of things not associated with the men who served Australia and who died for Australia. [More…]
His speech was not associated with the men who served Australia and died for Australia but was dripping lousy with politics. [More…]
I am not going to degrade those men who served Australia or degrade thosemen who fought for their country and gave their lives in fighting for this country by replying with the kind of tirade of abuse and politics that we heard from Senator Murphy. [More…]
One wonders at the state of frenzy into which the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) worked himself because the Leader of the Opposition stated clearly that we consider the sacrifice these men made was a sacrifice that ought not to have been asked of them. [More…]
Let it be known clearly by the Government that if the Opposition’s advice had been supported in the early stages of this war these men would not have been killed, injured or maimed and it would not have been necessary for this Senate to place on record its sympathy to the relatives of those men. [More…]
What a pious and hypocritical resolution it is coming from the members of that Party because they more so than the Government are responsible for the deaths of these men and the position in which the relatives find themselves. [More…]
If it had not been for the support of the Party which they represent in this place there would not have been a commitment in Vietnam. [More…]
If men have died or have been maimed in Vietnam then those honourable senators must accept the responsibility. [More…]
Mark you, if this Government stays in office much longe with the support of this crew of unmitigated humbugs, then further men will die. [More…]
I say that further men will be sent to fight wars that we ought not to support. [More…]
He has made a statement that the Democratic Labor Party, in introducing the motion played politics. [More…]
Senator Gair merely placed before the Senate his motion because he thought that this was the appropriate time for the Parliament to express one thing and one thing only - its appreciation to :he men who had carried out in a very wonderful manner a responsibility on behalf of this country. [More…]
But this is hardly the time or place to re-hash the opinions that we may have had about the degree of responsibility resting in the Government that may have caused these men about whom the motion speaks to do the job that they have done. [More…]
Because of the trend that the debate has taken it is necessary to review what those men have done. [More…]
Tn the main they were members of the permanent armed forces of this country who volunteered to serve in a military capacity wherever the elected government thought that it was necessary that they should serve. [More…]
Others were young men who were conscripted into national service when the defence structure of this country was threatened, because of a lack of manpower, with being unable to remain a viable force. [More…]
Many national servicemen who fought in the area believed that the cause for which they were fighting was right and just. [More…]
Men from both groups who have been there have expressed their opinions to me. [More…]
No-one more than I recognises that the men of our armed services are made up of average Australians who have different points of view. [More…]
That may be the opinion of Senator Keeffe or others both inside and outside Parliament, That has nothing to do with the Parliament expressing its appreciation to the armed services for the job done. [More…]
This is hardly the time, in fairness to those men, to seek to divide the responsible Parliament of this country by our using vicious words against each other. [More…]
I did not know him when I was in the Party to which he belongs - it was not my privilege - and I do not think I missed very much, but I do not wish to answer his arguments. [More…]
But is this the proper occasion when we are speaking about men who gave their lives, about men who were prepared and who did day by day, hour by hour and moment by moment risk their lives, and about men who were injured and maimed? [More…]
Let us place on record the unanimous appreciation of the Senate for the sacrifices that these men who served Australia in Vietnam made, and at this point of time let us leave it at that. [More…]
I have not discussed them nor have I alluded to them other than in advancing my argument to reject the amendment. [More…]
We are expressing in terms that only a parliament can express our appreciation of the men who gave all that they had to give because their country asked them to - and their country is represented by the Government. [More…]
Senator Little staled that he understood that the motion moved by Senator Gair would be carried unanimously, but Senator Little and the members of the Democratic Labor Party have been in the Senate long enough and have been involved in the political working ofthe nation long enough to appreciate andto understand that the Labor movement in this country has consistently been opposed to Australian involvement in Vietnam. [More…]
It is our responsibility to the Labor movement, to the people whom we represent andto the majority of Australians who oppose Australian involvement in Vietnam to continue to express, in accordance with our consistency to dale, the attitude of disapproval of thepresent Liberal-Country Party Government’s military intervention in Vietnam. [More…]
In addition to expressing our disapproval of the Government’s involvement of young Australians in this war - kids who have been pulled out of their jobs against their will and sent to this horrible, filthy, dirty war - we have consistently deplored in this Parliament and elsewhere the paucity of repatriation payments made to young men, and in some cases to their dependants, who have been called upon to make the supreme sacrifice or who have been maimed, wounded or whose health has been impaired for the rest of their days because of the demands placed upon them by this conservative Government. [More…]
And the Government, appreciative of the services that those men gave to their country, paid for and accepted responsibility for ensuring that they received complete training to make them skilled tradesmen or to equip them for professional life in this country. [More…]
As a result of the Commonwealth rehabilitation training services which were available to men discharged after the Second World War and because of a government that was grateful to them and appreciated the services they performed there are today many lawyers, doctors, scientists, dentists and veterinary scientists carrying out their professions. [More…]
Compare that sort of training which was given by a grateful government after the Second World War with the miserly educational training given by this Government to men who have been called up for national service today. [More…]
What educational assistance is the Government giving to these young boys who just shortly after they leave school are grabbed out of their jobs, shoved into the Army and sent to Vietnam? [More…]
These young men are entitled to more than a mouthed expression of appreciation. [More…]
They are entitled to more tangible assistance from this Government and from those who support it. [More…]
one must say that the Government,far from being generous to these young boys who have been called upon to serve their country, has adopted a most niggardly and mean attitude having regard to the services they have been called upon to render and the sacrifices they have made at thedirec? [More…]
tion and behest of this Government. [More…]
It is the responsibility not only of , the Opposition but also of all members and senators of this Parliament to see that men who have served their country, wherever they have served and whether it was voluntary or conscripted service, are repatriated at a reasonable rate and compensated for the great disabilities with which they have been afflicted. [More…]
If the Opposition did not express such an opinion now in support of its amendment it would not be fair dinkum to any of these men. [More…]
We ask honourable senators in the Australian Democratic Labor Party and in the Government parties to think wisely when they vote on this issue. [More…]
The motion and the proposed amendment have been referred to so often in this debate that I do not need to refer to them again. [More…]
Our people who have served there in both the military and civil fields should be commended and thanked. [More…]
1 hope it will be understood that the relatives of the men who served and died in Vietnam - I am one - will receive no comfort or help from the remarks of Senator Murphy or the amendment proposed by the Labor Party. [More…]
This subject has been introduced as a device to cover up the principal fact of the amendment. [More…]
The fighting men of this country served Australia and deserve the total support and respect that can be expressed through the national Parliament. [More…]
It is the least we can do out of the respect that we owe to the men who have made this country safe and great. [More…]
Just before he left Australia .in his recent trip the Prime Minister indicated that the October employment figures would be a ‘pleasant surprise’. [More…]
They show that 62,000 men and women were unemployed compared with 44,000 for the same month last year. [More…]
The fate of governments is to take the responsibility for doing what appears to be the right thing based on the best combination of advice available. [More…]
Both preBudget and post-Budget - particularly preBudget - the Government has carefully to analyse the considered opinion of every government department and all the economic advice it can get. [More…]
It receives a tremendous body of information compiled by a great many very dedicated and most competent men. [More…]
It has a tremendous body of information coming in on the international side,, on its own governmental side, on the agency side, and from everybody with whom it is jointed .in the world secne. [More…]
So it is not lacking information as to what governments are thinking and what its own Public Service and experts are thinking. [More…]
However, irrespective of whether a Labor or a Liberal Party government is in office, South Australia is more subject to unemployment than any other State because of its reliance on the motor car and electrical appliance industries. [More…]
In times of recession the sales of motor cars and electrical appliances are the first to suffer in all the States, but employment is hardest hit in South Australia. [More…]
Just as South Australia is the first to suffer employment difficulties, it is the last to recover from those difficulties. [More…]
It is not a question of which party is in government. [More…]
General Motors-Holden’s Pty Ltd has had to put off some men at its Elizabeth plant in South Australia because of a demarcation dispute, but its main difficulty comes from the fact that a slowing down in sales of its line of cars has occurred and it is permanently reducing its employment force in South Australia. [More…]
Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd is completely closing down one of its plants at Whyalla and this will result in anything up to 160 personnel being dismissed from employment. [More…]
What is going to happen to such men who live 250 miles away from other employment in Adelaide and who have settled in homes in Whyalla and possibly have their wives working there? [More…]
This unemployment is not the result of the activities of the Labor Government in South Australia but, in the words of BHP, is the result of a falling off in steel orders placed with that company. [More…]
Because of the high standard of musicianship maintained, RAN Bands are in constant demand to support a wide variety of non-service functions throughout Australia The numbers of requests received are such that if they were all to be accepted, the prime role of meeting ceremonial and training commitments of the Fleet and HMA establishments would inevitably suffer. [More…]
The cost for travel and accommodation for 30 men with their instruments is quite considerable and is a charge against Naval funds. [More…]
While there is a certain element of Public Relations benefit and goodwill to be gained through participation in such events, it cannot be said that participation in such non-service activities is essential, or that they should receive priority in allocation of Naval funds for expenditure. [More…]
As the honourable senator will be well aware economies have become necessary in all government departments this year and since March, funds available for travel and accommodation have been significantly reduced. [More…]
In these circumstances the nonservice commitments which can be accepted by the shore based bands of the RAN have been restricted to the local areas around Sydney and Melbourne which will not involve the use of nonservice accommodation overnight. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Social Services aware that people applying for unemployment assistance, especially in some rural areas of New South Wales, have to wait for 3 or 4 weeks before they obtain unemployment benefit cheques, and when they do so the benefit is calculated retrospectively only to a date 7 days after lodgment of the application? [More…]
Does the Minister know this is causing considerable hardship to a great number of unemployed workers, particularly those who have young families, and that lack of money is hindering those men in their search of employment avenues that might otherwise be available to them? [More…]
Will the Minister request the Minister for Social Services urgently to consider this matter and also to consider calculating the unemployment benefit from the date of lodgment of an application, and not 7 days thereafter? [More…]
Does the Attorney-General see any real difference between the alleged conduct of these two men and that of respectable stock-broking firms and others in the short-selling operations in connection with shares in Antimony Nickel Company, none of whom has been prosecuted? [More…]
Does the Minister accept responsibility for the safety of young men who have been imprisoned under the provisions ofthe National Service Act 1951-1968? [More…]
Hundreds of men are at present walking the streets of this country looking for work. [More…]
Didthe Prime Minister personally compliment (the 3 young men who commenced a fast outside Parliament House in an effort to raise moneyfor refugees in India, and is one of the fasters Paul Poernomo, continuing the fast. [More…]
(2)Isthe Government prepared to increase its aid to the unfortunate refugees or. [More…]
if the Government is of the opinion that this is not possible because of the economic depression now being experienced in Australia, will the Prime Minister establish machinery for an appeal to the Australian people in an endeavour to raiseatleast $10mfor this very worthy cause. [More…]
Following detection by my Department a great majority of men who are liable to register do so. [More…]
Other men may register late on their own initiative and some refuse. [More…]
Men who fail to register at the proper lime lose the benefit of the ballot, that is, they are considered for call-up irrespective of the result of the ballot. [More…]
Particularly where they have registered only after being detected by my Department or have refused to register at all they could also expect to be prosecuted for their offence. [More…]
In 1970-71, 1,924 men who registered during that year were denied the benefit of the ballot and 192 men were also prosecuted [More…]
In the period from the 1st July to 24th November 1971, 706 men who registered in that period were denied the benefit of the ballot and 172 men prosecuted. [More…]
The cases of 854 men who have registered and 70 men who have refused to register were outstanding at the latter date. [More…]
Where men fail to attend for medical examination, it is the policy of my Department to give a second and, in some cases, even a third chance to men to attend. [More…]
In view of the reasons which may cause men not to attend as required this is no more than reasonable. [More…]
If men persist in their refusal to attend for examination or if they endeavour to evade attending, they are considered for prosecution. [More…]
In the year 1970-71 19 men were prosecuted. [More…]
Since 30th June 1971, 29 men have been prosecuted and prosecution action is in train in respect of a further 29 [More…]
Some men do not attend on the dale set down for their call-up because, for example, of illness, family death or other unavoidable cause’s; 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 and arc subsequently granted exemption or are enlisted. [More…]
Men who had previously refused to undergo a medical examination to determine their fitness for service may following their failure to report for service decide to attend. [More…]
Thus of 19 cases of men who had failed to obey a call-up notice which were finalised in 1970-71 only 2 went to jail the others ended their non-compliance in one way or the other. [More…]
Seven of these men chose to go into the Army when given that chance either before or during a court hearing andonly 1 man has persisted to the stage of being sentenced to imprisonment. [More…]
At the 24th November 1971 the cases of 100 men who had refused to report for service were outstanding. [More…]
Prosecution action is already in train in 2 cases including 6 where warrants forthe apprehension of the men have been issued by the courts. [More…]
The scheme is part of a comprehensive range of repatriation benefits for Australian ex-service men and women and their dependants. [More…]
The present maximum loan of 8,000 came into operation in November 1968 and the increase in the maximum loan to $9,000 is designed to assist eligible persons to meet increases since 1968 in the costs of acquiring a home, lt will directly benefit eligible persons by reducing the amount thev would otherwise have to provide from their own funds or from supplementary borrowings. [More…]
I refer particularly to women in the Arts faculties. [More…]
The same applies also to certain men. [More…]
No, 1 am not opposed to any financial aid, but I do feel that the first preference should be to the govern men I -opera led schools. [More…]
Does the Minister representing the Treasurer know that, if the gold mines in Western Australia are forced to close through lack of subsidy, possibly 2,000 men will become unemployed? [More…]
Does he realise that, if this happens, many of them will have to apply for unemployment relief? [More…]
Is it not better to subsidise the gold mining industry in Western Australia and keep the men employed than to have to pay out social service funds? [More…]
Does he realise that 2,000 men and their families on unemployment relief will cost approximately $2,500,000 a year and that all that is required to keep the gold mining industry alive is for the Government to contribute approximately$3m by raising the subsidy paid on gold from $8 per oz to $12 per oz? [More…]
So I moved from that area of questioning to find out whether there was an arrangement to justify the existing policy. [More…]
If I may quote the New South rugby league officials - men of wide experience in the sporting world - the reason why Sydney matches are not televised is that the Australian Broadcasting Commission failed to make a reasonable offer to have them televised. [More…]
In any case the extreme advocate of parliamentary accountability really must face up to the essential issues involved. [More…]
If he warns the Minister to be answerable in Parliament for every detail, if he desires the public corporations to be run as if they were departmental^ managed undertakings, if he wishes Select Committees of Parliament to exercise functions of investigation and crossexamination of witnesses as if the concerns were run by, a Ministry, then he must logically advocate that the socialised undertakings should be managed by a Government Department and not by a public corporation. [More…]
What he is not entitled to do is to say: ‘Well, let the business be vested in and managed by a public corporation, and let us hold the members of the Board responsible for efficient management, but let the public corporation be treated as if it were a Government Department.’ [More…]
It would not be fair to the eminent men who undertake the responsibility of management as members of the Board, nor would it be fair to the Minister, who in these circumstances could not reasonably be expected to answer for every detail of management. [More…]
The fact has to be faced that if we decide for the public corporation then certain limitations on parliamentary accountability must inevitably follow. [More…]
Therefore, the decision should be made after foreseeing and accepting the consequences; and one of the consequences of plumping for the public corporation is that the carefully chosen members of the Board should have the right of independent action in the field of daytoday management, for which they should feel a sense of social responsibility, but for which they cannot in detail well be held responsible to Parliament. [More…]
We are imposing upon these men, even thrusting down their throats, as I said in Socialisation and Transport, responsibility for commercial success or otherwise. [More…]
I feel that even when that evaluation has been carried out by officers of the Department of Immigration, sufficient scrutiny will not have been given to the matter. [More…]
The question is not one of men using jackhammers; it concerns the use of massive earth moving machinery which reduces the size of the work force required for the task. [More…]
Senator Gair and Senator Byrne, who are from Queensland, well know that mechanisation has reduced the employment of cane cutlers. [More…]
In Newcastle if men were not being dismissed, dismissals were potential. [More…]
But the Government drives people to violence. [More…]
One has to look at the other side of the penny and see that it is white men who drive those who are not white into desperate situations from lime lo time. [More…]
We ought to have a serious look at whether the statement made by the Minister before dinner is the correct interpretation of the policy of his Government. [More…]
Just about the only time that the Government and Senator Greenwood - and I regret that I must now add Senator Wood’s name - show any colour tolerance is when they are using kid gloves to deal with the Taiwanese fishermen who enter Australian waters and ruin our reef fish life. [More…]
1 asked the Minister what he proposed to do with clam meat confiscated from Taiwanese fishermen in northern Queensland We will probably find it on the parliamentary dining room tables next week. [More…]
Another time when the Government is very tolerant to non-white people is when it is busy making deals to turn Queensland into a quarry through the sale of coal and other minerals. [More…]
On that subject Senator Wood is probably one of the best equipped men in the Australia Parliament with his extensive mining speculation interests. [More…]
There is complete racial tolerance when the Government, as I have said on so many occasion, sells Australian minerals at bargain basement prices. [More…]
If 1 wanted to be offensive - and I do not - I could have taunted the Minister about his faceless men. [More…]
Did the article state that the Minister seemed to have neither the background nor the inclination to understand the views of professional men. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with the President of the Society in his comment that general practitioners are frustrated and angry about the present health scheme? [More…]
Government supporters talk blandly and say that as the year goes on the staff of the Department will be increased, but it will be a belated effort. [More…]
He, Senator Byrne and other legal men were the architects of the concept of a big brotherhood in this field. [More…]
At present we are getting fragmented reports. [More…]
1 would like to hear the final details of the anti-pollution measures favoured by the Department of Shipping and Transport. [More…]
1 appreciate that after the conference in Perth it was almost felt that the milennium had arrived, but I do not accept that, lt gets back to my idea of the functions of an Office of the Environment. [More…]
1 think the Minister for the Environment should be a sort pf administrative filter who would vet all these ideas and determine what is true and what is false. [More…]
The question is posed: How can the Department cany out the surveys which are necessary to meet the suggestion put by the Opposition? [More…]
If it is impossible for the Departmentto hold these specialists because of the disparity in the returns, what action is the Department taking to make certain that there is not a continuing drain ofgeophysicists in particular from the Department? [More…]
No organisation responsible for national development can operate successfully without the men to carry out the surveys necessary to establish the extent of our mineral resources. [More…]
This means that if the Government should make a decision to accept the Fill aircraft, crews will have to be sent to the United States for training. [More…]
Included in those crews there could be a number of men who had previous training under the Fill programme, but they would be very few. [More…]
If the decision should be taken a number of men, both ground crew and air crew will be sent to the United States for training. [More…]
I also ask: Does the Government believe that it needs top level guidance and assistance from America in every move it makes, even on such a domestic matter as Australia’s federal elections? [More…]
Is the Government aware of the dangers for itself and the country in hiring a Arm which has been described in the Press as ‘a handful of smooth-suited men who closet themselves in a private office in a big organisation, study the books and the system- [More…]
In addition to, and at the end of, the Committee’s report is a dissenting report submitted by Senators Cant, Keeffe and O’Byrne who indicated their agreement with the Committee’s report subject to the reservations expressed in their dissent. [More…]
Apart from these reservations, the Committee’s conclusions and recommendations are unanimous. [More…]
Only those who served on this Committee can fully appreciate the great amount of time - including weekends - and the personal sacrifices made by these 2 men. [More…]
Employees of the Department who cannot agree with what the Department is doing cannot always find alternative employment. [More…]
I know of one man who left the Department to join the Department of Social Services in South Australia which has a good field for developing and making artificial limbs. [More…]
That Department has developed a new technique whereby within a fortnight of an amputation a man can be returned to employment with an artificial limb. [More…]
This avoids the necessity of a man having to go through doctors to the Reparation Department and wait for the manufacture and fitting of an artificial limb. [More…]
Men with an amputation above the knee are returned to work within a fortnight. [More…]
This situation cannot be achieved by the Repatriation Department, but it is the only body whose particular skills in this field are recognised by the Public Service. [More…]
MiFrank Simpson was employed by the Repatriation Department and was granted a Churchill Fellowship and left the Department. [More…]
Accidents with weapons caused injuries to 57 members of the permanent military forces and 29 national servicemen, a total of 86. [More…]
Accidents in training accounted for injuries to 29 members of the permanent military forces and 22 national servicemen. [More…]
Of the permanent military forces 34 were such casualties, and 14 national servicemen, making a total of 48 casualties as a result of emotional illness. [More…]
There must be incompetence somewhere in the training of these men so that they could not conduct themselves in a safer manner in Vietnam. [More…]
I reply briefly to some points made by Senator Cavanagh about the entertainment troupe that recently went to Vietnam. [More…]
On most occasions the aircraft is almost filled with troops and other requirements for Vietnam. [More…]
There were vacant seats available for the entertainment troupe. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh said that he thought the Government had promised that all troops would be home by Christmas. [More…]
I know from my Department that some Air Force personnel will be there. [More…]
They will be required to ferry equipment and men who are in Vietnam at present. [More…]
There must be someone there to tidy up our equipment that is left there. [More…]
It has been stated that the entertainment troupe that recently went to Vietnam will be the last troupe to go to Vietnam lo entertain the Australian forces. [More…]
Two men with a knife could open paper bags of cement quickly enough for the most efficient concrete mixer without an expenditure of $83,000. [More…]
I suggest that future expenditure on such machinery which is not normally used or which could be used only occasionally, if ever, should receive serious consideration before being approved when there are other areas of need within the Department. [More…]
Officers of the Department stationed at Darwin work in areas which are not air-conditioned. [More…]
It is terrible that men should have to work under these conditions in Darwin because the Department has not money available for air-conditioning. [More…]
It is possible that for less than the cost of a de-bagging machine the men stationed in Darwin would be able to work in air-conditioned comfort. [More…]
The Clerk of the House is equal to a Permanent Secretary >n a first class department such as, for instance, the Head of the Foreign Office. [More…]
They are both equal to Deputy Secretaries in a first class department. [More…]
They rank as Under-Secretaries in the government service. [More…]
That is now we manage to keep men in our service for very many years. [More…]
Does the Minister agree with a statement by Professor Salisbury, reported in the Sydney Morning Herald of 30th August 1971, that he was convinced that the Tolai leaders were progressive men? [More…]
If so, why is the Administration unable to reach agreement with the Mataungan Association? [More…]
I ask: ls he aware that, notwithstanding the amounts the Government might have spent to date on rural industries in this period of rural uncertainty and economic crisis, there Is in fact growing unemployment in the rural areas of Australia, particularly in the North Western, South Western and Western Districts of New South Wales? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this growing unemployment in country cities, towns and districts will be very much aggravated next month by a record number of school leavers coming on to the Labour Market for the first time? [More…]
Will the Minister draw this matter immediately to the attention of his counterpart in the other place and ask the Government to state what action it intends to take to overcome this growing unemployment in rural areas and to stop the drift of people, particularly young men and women, from country areas to the large coastal cities? [More…]
Finally, will he agree that the situation has reached such a serious stage that it warrants the presentation to the Parliament of a white paper of the subject? [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…]
I commend this Bill to honourable senators. [More…]
The most serious complaint of the workmen in the Northern Territory - it is shared by some of the Administration staff - is the practice of the Department of letting work by contract, particularly work on roads. [More…]
While there is difficulty in getting men for day labour work for the Department they face periods of uncertainty of employment. [More…]
There is great dissatisfaction about uncertainty of employment and the inability of the Department to increase its labour force because of the Department’s policy to give preference for this work to contractors. [More…]
In view of the difficulty of construction in the Northern Territory I think the Department should consider whether it is making any saving by using the contract system, lt should provide security for its own men. [More…]
These men are doing a valuable service in view of the climatic conditions under which they work and the construction difficulties they meet in such areas. [More…]
They are loyally carrying on the operations of the Department. [More…]
Why does the Taxation Office not make a proper investigation into the real emoluments of the people who are at the head of this crusade? [More…]
Surely it would be in the national interest for us to be able to believe in the sincerity of these men. [More…]
We appeal to the Government to give consideration to some of the more modern circumstances that exist today. [More…]
There were several casualties among the men who served there. [More…]
Those men would go on virtually military patrols in the same way that Australian troops at war would go on patrols. [More…]
The Returned Services League considered the eligibility of these men to join that organisation. [More…]
The League decided unanimously that the qualifications of the men were such that they were eligible to be admitted. [More…]
If the principle of the Act is that it should cover persons who have served in a war zone - it deliberately covers not only members of the fighting forces but also members of the medical and nursing forces as well - it should cover these people who have given service in a war zone at the behest of the Australian Government. [More…]
We appeal very strongly to the Government to look at this set of circumstances. [More…]
We are not being in any way critical because this has not been done, but we are drawing the attention of the Government to the fact that if we are to move with, the times the Act should be amended to cover these men. [More…]
That is the fundamental principle. [More…]
It is a tremendously interesting subject. [More…]
The whole question of the financial relationships of the 3 levels of government must be looked at. [More…]
We will not solve the problem merely by turning our backs on it and saying: ‘In the case of our assistance grants to the States and the other financial arrangements that we have with the States, we leave the arrangement of the affairs of local government in the hands of the State instrumentalities’. [More…]
The performance of local government in Australia at the present time is falling away or dropping back. [More…]
The standard of people offering themselves for local government - the unpaid jobs in the administration of the affairs of local government - must fall away. [More…]
Men with capabilities and qualifications to run the affairs of local areas will not offer themselves to an institution which is poverty-ridden and which cannot provide the services, installations and other things that they see as requirements of the community to be provided at a standard which is acceptable and economically right. [More…]
I repeat the statement that I made at the commencement of my remarks: The Opposition approves this grant and supports the Bill. [More…]
In supporting the amendment which has been moved by the Opposition we do hope, and we hope sincerely, that this tragic situation will be quickly rectified and that these men who are required to make this sacrifice - men who assume tremendous responsibilities, whose salaries, I trust in the estimation of those who have the responsibility of determining them, are not unrelated to comparable salaries in the Public Service and outside it, of men performing similar tasks of heavy responsibility - will have restored to them very quickly wage and salary equity. [More…]
Personally I have the very highest regard for men holding office in public corporations and men holding positions of high distinction in the Public Service - men who are dedicated to their tasks and who bring a tremendous amount of knowledge and personal sacrifice to the work of the nation. [More…]
If that response is adequate and if it is immediate then we may restore very quickly a position in which once again we can hand out to people their just salary and wage entitlements without having the corresponding detrimental effect of striking at the very heart of the economic stability of the nation. [More…]
With those comments on this rather unfortunate situation, the Democratic Labor Party says with a great measure of reluctance, but in pursuance of a principle of restraint which has been espoused by the Government, which has been accepted by members of this Parliament as being consonant with the demands of national financial and economic stability, that it supports the amendment which has been moved by Senator Willesee on behalf of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
However, 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…]
I wish to mention only two or three matters. [More…]
The first matter is that the Minister knows that long before this accident occurred I was concerned at the method by which the Depatment of Civil Aviation investigates air accidents. [More…]
I have been concerned because the Department through its officers could well be heavily involved in an air accident. [More…]
I believe that they are men of integrity, but they can be placed in a difficult position because their credibility can always be questioned. [More…]
Everybody makes errors of judgment. [More…]
I am not going to be hard on the men in the control tower. [More…]
Errors of judgment are made. [More…]
The ‘Labor Party moved an amendment to delete this tax. [More…]
They are the guilty men. [More…]
What facilities are available in Australia for the training of young men who are keen to work in the maritime industry as deck officers, cadet marine engineers, ship’s cooks, stewards and seamen. [More…]
He then realised the things that were, happening between employer and employee - unfortunately they still exist - and he realised also that unless men stood up for their rights, were properly organised and were prepared to stand up as men they would continue to suffer injustice. [More…]
In forming the Sugar Workers Union, which later became associated with the Australian Workers Union, he made a great contribution to the history of the trade union movement and the political movement of Australia. [More…]
He embellished a family record that was already one of great’ worth, for the Courtice family has produced in its time very many distinguished men. [More…]
lt has produced one Rhodes scholar, a very distinguished scientist and men’ of commerce. [More…]
Has the Minister any knowledge of an allegation that on 17th February 1971 Mr V. E. Tulayev, Second Secretary of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Embassy in Canberra, led a party of men to a home in Auburn, Sydney, and sought, by great psychological pressure, to persuade a defector, Dr Soloviev, to return to the Soviet Union. [More…]
I express disappointment that the Government which I support did not accept it. [More…]
It is quite true that we could not have manned the ship immediately but the Navy has never had any difficulty in recruitment. [More…]
In my view, it would not have been at all difficult over 2 or 21 years to recruit and train a suitable crew - about 1,800 to 2,000 men would be involved - to man the Hermes’. [More…]
lt is probable that if diligent search and inquiry were made we might be able to obtain one of the 2 United States ships which are in moth balls at the moment - the USS ‘V……….a’ of about 40,000 tons fully loaded, which is not as modern .as the ‘Hermes’ but is still a good ship, or the ‘Bennington’, which is about the same displacement but perhaps 2 years older. [More…]
I think all of us in the Senate and in this Parliament, in fact people throughout Australia, would agree that we should do whatever we can to lessen the tensions between nations throughout the world. [More…]
Gone are the days when a government representative can walk into some manufacturing firm, in either this country or some other part of the world, and get a piece of sophisticated equipment off the showroom floor like buying a car. [More…]
An order for equipment must be placed a considerable time before delivery is required. [More…]
Also, I think we need to take into consideration that, to man this sophisticated equipment these days, we must have men who have been well trained to use it. [More…]
Having lost the scare which operated particularly to Senator Gair’s advantage in whipping up a few votes in Queensland on the supposition that the little yellow men who were waiting beside their sampans to come down here and rape our womenfolk were closer to Queensland than they were to anywhere else, they are now trying to compensate by perhaps winning back a few seats in Western Australia by this newly manufactured fantasy that we are about to have Russians land on the coast of Western Australia. [More…]
Our best defence is to establish good relations with as many Indian Ocean communities as possible and to abandon this philosophy of fear and xenophobia which may have kept the present coalition Government in office for 20 years but which has been of poor service to the people of Australia. [More…]
In the event of disaster, committees are established within the 13 Inspectorates by the senior police officer and planning is carried out in advance by these committees which consist of men from essential services such as works, health services, fire services and so on. [More…]
That may effect some liaison with the State Government. [More…]
The men of the Postmaster-General’s Department and the people associated with electricity reconstruction performed magnificently throughout. [More…]
If he is now not prepared to do something about: the situation I believe it ought to be made the subject of a massive public campaign to tell the truth about this Prime Minister and this Government. [More…]
So I now ask the Government to look at these things. [More…]
The Federal Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) yesterday warned commercial television stations against broadcasting interviews with seven men “ On the Run “ from national service. [More…]
I did not warn commercial TV stations not to broadcast interviews with ‘seven men on the run from national service “. [More…]
who did in fact order the raid and will he take action to ensure that the rights and privileges of ordinary, decent Australian people are preserved and protected at all times, and above all else on Christmas Day, the day of peace on earth and goodwill to all men? [More…]
“The Federal Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood) yesterday warned commercial television stations against broadcasting interviews wilh seven men “on the run” from national service. [More…]
As Senator Douglas McClelland has said, this is a house normally occupied by 4 women but on the clothes line at the back of the house was men’s clothing. [More…]
I think it is not denied that a warrant was shown by the policemen together with the warrant under which they were entitled to search the place and they concluded by presenting to Mrs Matteson their cards -so that they could be identified. [More…]
Policemen have a duty under laws which have been passed by this Parliament to execute warrants and to seek to apprehend those people who are to be arrested. [More…]
From their own observations they could see that men’s clothing was hanging on the line. [More…]
Parliament, deliberately locked out 3 shifts of men for a week. [More…]
The matter was taken before the Industrial Commission of New South Wales and the BHP was ordered to pay the men. [More…]
If Senator Carrick reads the judgment in that case he will notice that Mr Butler, one of the big wheels in BHP and a man to whom 1 think the Government gave a knighthood after the war, was castigated by the judge as a virtual industrial saboteur. [More…]
If the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has the conception of administration of a legal department that the police force should bring to the notice of the Attorney-General all the inquiries that they are making and all the individual interviews, this is the height of ignorance and distorted understanding. [More…]
I conclude on this note: The real reason why the Australian Labor Party wishes to join Senator Douglas McClelland tonight in subverting the administration with which the Attorney-General has promised honourable senators he will persevere, that is, of supporting the laws of this country, is a statement from the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in another place that if Labor gets into office it will repeal the National Service Act. [More…]
You will notice, Mr President, that they are taking the same adamant position to an Act which now requires the training of young men for military service as they took when they based their objection to the Act upon compulsory service in battle engagement in a war of the issues of which they did not approve. [More…]
That is the stalwart enforcement of the Parliament’s law that we can expect from this rabble that still claims credit in the country as a party to be entrusted with the administration of the law and which has that sense of either ignorance or humour to come in here and purport to be critics of the Attorney-General’s administration of the law. [More…]
These are the men in the United States concerned with United States interests and, for those who want to use the terminology as they have done with great frequency and emphasis over the years, the interests of the free world. [More…]
Here we have these men saying that what is required in the east is political stability as the best means to promote an environment conducive to our own interests. [More…]
Do they think that people who are committed to a hire purchase company or who have to meet repayments on washing machines, refrigerators and other almost indispensable domestic units in our domestic life welcome these stoppages? [More…]
Particularly do the wives of these men deplore such stoppages which add to their difficulties and which cause many of them to seek employment in order to try to make ends meet. [More…]
declares its support for all those young men who have refused to be conscripted for the undeclared war in Vietnam. [More…]
The payment to these people by way of normal emoluments, salaries, allowances and overtime was nearly $ 1,050m. [More…]
The Opposition is not asking for anything outrageous when it seeks to have referred to the Standing Committee on Finance and Government Operations the structure, recruitment and management of the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
The Public Service is involved not only in the administration of government policy; it is involved also in the formulation of government policy and, in some cases, the implementing of it. [More…]
We are seeking to deal with the Public Service not only from a governmental point of view but also from a tremendously important financial and industrial point of view. [More…]
They are mainly men in the Post Office - postmen, linemen, labourers, mail sorters and persons in that category. [More…]
Senator Byrne mentioned the PostmasterGeneral’s Department. [More…]
I have the figure for the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
By far the largest number of employees in one Department is to be found in the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
The 110,00 employees of the PMG received $460m of the emoluments that I mentioned. [More…]
Obviously the Opposition itself is not fixed in its own mind on the more appropriate type of body to conduct art investigation of this great magnitude and of such immense proportions. [More…]
The terms of reference would be so immensely widethat they would require attention by experts in that field who perhaps, if the job was done properly, would have to be drawn from the British public service or the American public service and then, with the assistance perhaps of experienced men from some of the States, one might constitute a top body of inquiry which would draw upon personal identification with the operation of public administrations in other English speaking countries such as Canada, America and so on. [More…]
Such people would bring their knowledge not merely as advisers to a committee of the Senate, but would act judiciously in the final determination of what the committee’s recommendations should be. [More…]
In conclusion, I offer this comment: I wonder how the members of this Government and its supporters sleep at ease in their beds at night when some of the young men of this nation are rotting away in gaols in the company of convicted criminals because of their belief that the National Service Act is unjust. [More…]
In the present serious economic period, especially for rural areas and rural workers, and when we hear so much about the Commonwealth Government taking action to reduce unemployment in country areas we now find that, as a direct result of the policies pursued by the Commonwealth, very essential timber production programmes are being curtailed. [More…]
Men who have become unemployed as a result of these policies are being engaged - if they can get engagement - by local government organisations on non-productive work, such ns clearing patches of weed. [More…]
At least hundreds if not thousands of timber workers are affected by the policies of this Government. [More…]
The Labor movement requests the Government to take action which will enable full and effective development of this softwood plantation programme to continue in New South Wales, it is a programme which will not only provide employment for many men but also enable others to be constructively and effectively employed. [More…]
The Government’s decision can have very serious economic consequences for all the towns 1 have mentioned, particularly Casino on the far north coast of New South Wales and Gloucester on the mid north coast of New South Wales where virtually the only industries existing, as the Minister representing the Minister for National Development will know, are the dairying and timber industries, and we know how many poeple have had to leave the dairying industry in order to seek other employment as a result of this Government’s policies in recent years. [More…]
I urge the Minister representing the Minister for National Development - there is no-one in this Parliament more qualified than he is to speak about the timber industry - to take this matter up immediately with his colleague in the House of Representatives, to discuss it urgently with the New South Wales Government and, if necessary, to take it into the Cabinet room so that very speedy action can be taken to restore the planting programme in the State that I and the Minister to whom I have directed my remarks represent in this Parliament. [More…]
In response to Senator McLaren, I can only express the personal viewpoint that one regrets the fact that young men who choose not to obey the National Service Act find themselves in gaol for a period of 18 months. [More…]
In Australia there is a big group of men of whom anyone could be proud. [More…]
In that group are men whom any person would be proud to call his son. [More…]
But those men are in gaol today and the Government wants us to brand them as criminals. [More…]
1 remind the Senate that the provision whereby compulsory military service for defaulters was repealed and compulsory civil imprisonment was substituted, was passed with the approval of the Labor Party, upholding a claim by several seclions of the community at that time. [More…]
I can understand that when compulsory overseas military service was imposed upon young men, all sorts of emotions were generated when that overseas service involved immediate battle service in such a campaign as the Vietnam campaign. [More…]
How absurd in a democracy for grown men to suggest that if a contravention of the law is incurred consciously by a man, and he appears before a magistrate and that law requires that as an alternative to 2 years compulsory military service he should be subjected to 18 months civil imprisonment, they should say: T refuse to do the military service because 1 consider that the Act is unjust’. [More…]
I suggest that honourable senators opposite who hold those views should renounce their parliamentary salaries, return to their homes and carry on with other parliamentary occupations if Parliament is as innocuous, as vacuous and as silly as that. [More…]
In a democratic country it is the Parliament which writes the laws that apply to one and all. [More…]
Mr Hughes justified his non-prosecution of men who had not complied with the National Service Act and also of those who, it is said by some, had incited others not to comply with the Act, in the following terms: [More…]
This occurred in the period after the introduction of the Banking Act of 1947, when the late Sir Frank Clarke, who was a leading Liberal Party member of the Victorian Legislative Council and a member of the Board of the National Bank of Australasia, which is a very respectable law abiding body, made certain statements. [More…]
He called on young, spirited, democratically minded men to resist, physically if need be, the shocking, communist socialist laws of the Labor Government of that time which was proposing to nationalise banks. [More…]
The Vietnam engagement was then in progress and our men unfortunately were committee to battle duty in that campaign. [More…]
I can understand, as a very arguable proposition, the attitudes which legitimately could be formed on both sides in relation to compulsory service for young men in that campaign. [More…]
But now that campaign has ceased as an active engagement and our troops have been withdrawn. [More…]
We do not think that we should have a system where, sby a decision of a lottery, men are taken out of useful occupations and given obligations to defend Australia. [More…]
It is cheaper to conscript men rather than pay wages which would compete with those paid by industry today. [More…]
As Senator O’Byrne has reminded us, the shopkeepers of New South Wales were gaoled with monotonous regularity by the Labor Government in that State which thought it appropriate to put men in gaol for keeping their shops open. [More…]
He said further that it was disgraceful that such men should be on the ALP Executive. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the majority of those men aire still on the Victorian ALP Executive. [More…]
Provided these men on the other side of the chamber refrain from suggesting that Mr Johnston is guilty, they may be as harsh as they wish about the Labor Party’s role in allegedly condoning or applauding his failure to appear before the court. [More…]
It is interesting, by the way, to compare Senator Greenwood’s approach to law enforcement with that of his predecessor, Mr Hughes, who now, by contrast with Senator Greenwood, appears as a great libertarian Attorney-General. [More…]
As Senator Murphy pointed out, Mr Hughes justified his nonprosecution of men who had not complied with the National Service Act, and also of tho o who were alleged to have incited other. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies and his successor Mr Harold Holt created this situation for him. [More…]
You can get the best men voluntarily. [More…]
You bring out the worst of men by conscription and compulsion. [More…]
Not only that, but the Government got these men on the cheap because they are unmarried. [More…]
The Government does not have to pay the lousy pittance it is paying ex-servicemen from the first and second World Wars. [More…]
The Government is receiving complaints about that. [More…]
It pays them the least amount possible because these men have no dependants. [More…]
This is the type of Government which talks about the rule of law. [More…]
These men of conscience like Barry Johnston have chosen in their own way to follow the dictates of their conscience and of their own soul. [More…]
One of the interesting things which Senator O’Byrne said in the first part of his speech was that the best, men are obtained from volunteers but that in conscripts lesser persons are enlisted. [More…]
I do not think men in either of those categories were any less men or less soldiers than the volunteers. [More…]
There is nothing in the report to indicate that the so-called senior men at the school who have been engaging in these practices have been in any way reprimanded or punished. [More…]
On making enquiries I find that Gordon Curtis registered for national service as required with other men in his age-group. [More…]
He sought and was granted successive deferments of call-up to enable him to complete an apprenticeship in photoengraving with the firm of Press Etchings Pty Ltd of Brisbane. [More…]
He attended, was examined and found fit for service and notified to this effect on 14th February and that he could expect to be called up in the Army intake commencing in April 1972. [More…]
Mr Curtis was notified of his dismissal from his employment with Press Etchings Pty Ltd on 17th February. [More…]
I have explained the precise protection afforded to men in Mr. Curtis’ position. [More…]
Mr Curtis’ existing employment in February this year was with Press Etchings Pty Ltd. [More…]
He had been advised in January on completion of his indentures with that firm and quite separately of any consideration of his liability for national service that he should seek employment as a tradesman elsewhere. [More…]
As mentioned, he was held-over in employment pending clarification of his national service position on the contingency of an engagement with an associated, but separately incorporated, printing firm located in Townsville. [More…]
His non-employment with Press Etchings (North Queensland) Pty Ltd, on the other hand which was clearly related to his acceptance for national service was not in breach of the provisions made in the legislation which seek to protect men in their existing employment. [More…]
Will the Attorney-General consider my request for a review of the gaol sentences of those young men now serving a term of imprisonment for non-compliance with the National Service Act? [More…]
Now that no Australian national servicemen are serving in a declared combat area, in particular Vietnam, and now that there appears to be no ground for a person objecting to the Act because of the possiblity of serving in a non-declared war such as the Vietnam war, will the Minister seek means of granting to these young men now serving gaol terms a further opportunity to elect to undergo national service? [More…]
It must be most gratifying to the Board, its directors and staff to find that in another place, as was pointed out by Senator Primmer, a great compliment was paid to the Board for the manner in which it has conducted its affairs over past years. [More…]
This Board is composed of men who have demonstrated to Australia and to the Parliament tha’ they have a capacity for sound management. [More…]
I would like to mention the general ramifications of what the Board has done. [More…]
That idea appealed to the Board and perhaps it is starting to appeal to the management of some other industries. [More…]
At the last meeting of the estimates committee which dealt with the estimates of the Commonwealth Department of Health I think the Minister said that the Commonwealth was considering engaging in the construction of homes for the aged. [More…]
They are men who are more than 65 years of age and women who are more than 60 years of age. [More…]
Having been intimately involved in CommonwealthState financial relations - as honourable senators will understand, I have been part of it - I want to tell the Senate that the situation will be something like this: The centre will be concerned with expenditure (unctions, intergovernmental co-operation, taxation, grants and constitutional issues affecting financial relationships, lt will be detached. [More…]
It will have asscociated with it men of great ability, integrity and experience in administration in the Australian governmental scene who will give up some of the leisure of their retirement to engage in work which they regard as so important and so serious that they are prepared to do that, and who believe as 1 believe and as I think most honourable senators believe that the resolution of this matter is of urgent and critical importance. [More…]
Tory governments have not interfered to any degree with the British health scheme. [More…]
To my way of thinking, when we are talking about the trade union movement and strikes we should remember the position of the men who are seeking an extra $5 a week. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite might say that these men are getting 80 per cent back from the health fund. [More…]
My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
In view of the nation wide concern over Mr Snedden’s revelation that new forms of taxation are under consideration, can the Government give a firm assurance that any re-arrangement of the taxation schedules will not result in increased taxes, either directly or indirectly, for family men with working wives? [More…]
This Government should be indicted. [More…]
It has a Department of Labour and National Service, it has study groups and it has had surveys and researches done into job problems facing us in the next 10 years. [More…]
I know that many of the Government’s top officers are very approachable men and I like them, but what happens when all this information gets to the Minister’s desk? [More…]
When the federal secretary of that union, Mr Riordan - incidentally, in the not too far distant future he might adorn this Commonwealth Parliament - raised in the arbitration court the question of severence pay, he got a lecture about the right of the employer to hire and fire - hardly a fair attitude. [More…]
But the Government cannot expect the trade unions to remain docile in the face of job insecurity. [More…]
These are the problems the Government has to face. [More…]
It has been said - 1 do not doubt for a moment that it is correct - that we have the second lowest priced steel in the world. [More…]
I am not saying for a moment that the recent increases brought: about by BHP in the price of steel were justified. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the Tariff Board is composed of men with no political axe to grind, that it is a body of men who surely would be impartial in these matters. [More…]
I know of a sawmill in that State that used to employ 200 men. [More…]
lt is doing the same amount of work now with 8 men. [More…]
He used to employ 7 men. [More…]
However, he put in a machine that cost several thousand dollars and he now does the work with 3 men. [More…]
Mr Hughes is not the only distinguished lawyer in the Government’s ranks. [More…]
We do not believe that the new interpretation of the High Court does confer this power on the Federal Parliament’? [More…]
If they believe so it is about time that we heard from them.I suggest that these men are sufficiently versed in the law to know that this alibi has disappeared for them, that they can no longer shelter behind the plea of constitutional inadequacy and that there is constitutional power to refer the matter to the committee and for it to recommend, if it thought fit, legislation which would be within the constitutional power of the Parliament. [More…]
So it is strange that what we might call ‘legal experimentation’ is much more an accomplishment in New Zealand than it has been in Australia. [More…]
New Zealand over the years has produced many eminent jurists- men like Salmond and others. [More…]
To my recollection Australia has never been in the forefront of legal experimentation and pioneering, but I see no reason why we should not be in that position. [More…]
As one of those provisions of the law which make the fabric of the law and ordinary men’s understanding of their mutual obligations accepted as a matter of common decency among members of the Armed Forces. [More…]
In any unit there are men who are good, bad and indifferent. [More…]
I say to honourable senators, not for the first time, but now in about my 22nd or 23rd year in this Parliament, and still persevering - not always in a cause in which 1 know I shall win, but, as heretofore, persevering in a cause in which I believe there is justice - that we cast a great deal of disadvantage and a great deal of injustice on the Armed Forces if we relieve the traitor who commits the offences that I have mentioned form the supreme penalty simply to gratify a sociological generalisation. [More…]
Certainly the instances that Senator Wright has mentioned are such as to make any of us feel indignation. [More…]
We also view wilh horror the sort of instances that he has given of actions by cowardly men which may imperil the lives of thousands of their countrymen. [More…]
We have heard learned and thoughtful contributions from men like Senator Carrick, men who have studied the matter in depth and who have considered every type of crime. [More…]
Senator Carrick had looked at every sort of horrendous action for which men are usually tried and, hitherto in the more primative uncivilised corners of the world, put to death. [More…]
After leaving the hotel we were interviewed by 5 white men who told us that they had overheard the whole incident, and were not impressed, and also stated that 8 regular customers had almost followed us out of the hotel, and in the future would find somewhere else to drink. [More…]
So, here we have a company of the Citizen Military Forces which has been playing around in an area near Macksville since 1970 and if a few ‘ifs’ are carried out by the Government the depot might be completed by the end of 1974. [More…]
How this Government can say that it is interested in getting young men to serve in the CMF when units are being treated like this, frankly is quite beyond me. [More…]
How the Government can say that it is anxious to solve the unemployment problem in rural areas, when it does not take advantage of this perfect opportunity to take up some of the slack in unemployment, is quite beyond me. [More…]
Macksville comes within the employment district of Kempsey, which is about 40 miles from Macksville. [More…]
The figures indicate that for last month 396 men and 229 women were unemployed in the Kempsey district and there were only 36 unfilled vacancies for men and 24 for women. [More…]
Members of the Government parties go around the countryside of New South [More…]
If the Government thinks it is fooling itself, it might be; but it certainly is not fooling the people of Macksville or the electors of Cowper. [More…]
If this is any indication of how genuine the Government is in trying to overcome the unemployment problems in rural areas and if this is any indication of how it wants young men to serve in the CMF, just as Mr Frank McGuren won the seat of Cowper in 1961 so will Mr Cronin, the Labor candidate for Cowper, win the seat in 1972. [More…]
The people of Macksville are entitled to far better treatment than that which is being accorded to them by this Government. [More…]
I point out to the honourable senator that the headquarters of A Company, 2nd Battalion, Royal New South Wales Regiment, is at present operating from rented buildings located at the showground and the training of the men is carried out in the showground area. [More…]
I asked myself whether these, contractors would not already have had their men working on some other jobs. [More…]
This executive again emphasises the ALP’s opposition to the principles of the National Service Act, and declares its support for all those young men who have refused to be conscripted for the undeclared war in Vietnam. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Commonwealth Banking Corporation to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
These take several forms and are awarded to young men and women who have recently completed schooling who seek (and appear suited to) a career in the Commonwealth [More…]
The most serious criticism, of course, is that the Government, in restoring the investment allowance, has shown no notion of priorities. [More…]
In short, the Government seems to have missed a golden opportunity to use this investment allowance as a tool to secure the sort of economic development we want. [More…]
No evidence is provided by the Government in support of the restoration of the allowance as to which companies are going to employ more men because of this legislation. [More…]
Has the Government made any survey in this regard or has it just blindly succumbed to pressure and hopefully introduced this measure because certain people talked about it as being one of the things which might restore confidence? [More…]
Is it the sort of reflex action we are accustomed to getting from the Government whenever it finds itself in trouble? [More…]
Has this been done with the encouragement or support of the Treasury? [More…]
If one listens to spokesmen for the Opposition, profit is something to be abhorred. [More…]
There are sufficient left wing men of strength, both within the Parliament and behind closed doors who direct the. [More…]
members of Parliament, to make us believe that a Federal government of a Labor complexion is to be resisted by all businessmen in this community. [More…]
The present Government is aware of its obligation. [More…]
lt could be said that the Government must be more alert to the many problems of business during these times. [More…]
Dealing with some of the economic problems and the basis of concern in the business community, I believe that the Government must be alert at the present time to the influence of high taxation in the community. [More…]
If efficiency is represented by taxable profits in which this Government- must be ever interested, the general climate which is set by the Government must be conducive to higher profits by companies as they progress. [More…]
The Government must be alert to the incursions of overseas manufacturers who perhaps have far greater government encouragement to produce and to export to Australia than have Australian manufacturers to export to other countries. [More…]
It is my view that the attitude of the Tariff Board as an independent body advising the Government has caused some dismay and distress in areas of industry. [More…]
The Government and in particular some senior Ministers must speak out in strong support of Australian industries more than has been the case in recent years. [More…]
I said: ‘Why do you not persuade these young men to put themselves at the service of their country?’ [More…]
The answer I received - honourable senators can probably anticipate what it was - was that it is not possible to get a young executive of ability and drive, the sort of man who ought to be in the Government of this country, to stand for parliament because the salary is such that he would not be able to afford to live and to educate a family on what he would receive as a member of parliament. [More…]
I believe that they have been too concerned with their own industries and too concerned to retain the best men from their own organisations. [More…]
The trade union movement offers its people. [More…]
Australian Labor Party as a candidate, said that he was making a very real sacrifice in standing for Parliament because as a law? [More…]
yer he would make the equivalent of the parliamentary salary between Christmas and Easter. [More…]
The situation is, therefore, that in present salary circumstances Parliament is being deprived of the services of a large number of men of ability who are unable to accept a position here simply because they feel that they could not live on the salary and because the financial opportunities outside parliament are much better. [More…]
My question also is directed to the Minister for Health and it concerns something which I mentioned towards the end of last year. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that many top medical research men are still leaving this country apparently because of lack of finance made available by the Commonwealth for medical research? [More…]
Will the Government give favourable consideration to making more money available for this field of endeavour? [More…]
It is equally true that men who have received their tertiary education and gained university degrees in Australia, have gone overseas, acquired extra knowledge, come back here and given this knowledge in the interests of the nation with great distinction. [More…]
I have just been handed a document from the Department of Health referring to the National Health and Medical Research Council, which states: [More…]
What criteria would be used by the Government in selecting members of any wool authority body established to control a wool acquisition scheme? [More…]
In creating such a powerful body would the Government insist that the Board be composed of top marketing men rather than politicians and activists from among the ranks of wool growers? [More…]
Also in selecting members of an authority what limitations would the Government place upon people who are directors of or who have major associations with large wool broking firms? [More…]
If my recollection is correct, this recommendation to the Senate was carried unanimously by the Standing Orders Committee. [More…]
We are referring the question to the Privileges Committee because, on the argument presented by the Minister for Health (Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson) in introducing the motion for the adoption of this recommendation, the Standing Orders Committee considered that there was more legal talent among the membership of the Privileges Committee than there was among members of the Standing Orders Committee. [More…]
We may be doing the wrong thing in sending questions to the legal fraternity if the legal men cannot provide more clarity than they have offered us tonight. [More…]
I wish to take up a few minutes of the time of the Senate to raise a very serious matter relating to the development of the Australian animation film industry. [More…]
That industry, as a result of very hard work on his part and as a result of the efforts and dedication of the men and women who have worked for him during that period, has developed into a very successful industry. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Overseas Telecommunications Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
Not even a Press conference was held after that meeting, lt appears to me that those who were once faceless men have now become wordless men. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to newspaper reports that 4 Royal Australian Air Force officers and one civilian employed by the Air Force have mysteriously died from unnatural causes - by strangling and shooting - since December of last year and that these men were all involved in top secret preparation of the Fill aircraft in the United States of America? [More…]
In view of these disturbing allegations, will the Minister make a full statement on these reports and table the full report made by the RAAF court of inquiry at Laverton, as well as the results of the courts martial which reportedly have followed that inquiry? [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Commonwealth Serum Laboratories to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [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…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Supply aware that there have been further dismissals of top grade electrical technicians by the Goverment Aircraft Factories at Avalon, Victoria? [More…]
Does this mean that the Government has no immediate plans to place orders for the excellent STOL aircraft known as Project N? [More…]
Is the Government aware that technicians of the quality of the tradesmen dismissed are hard to come by and that it is being very shortsighted in dismissing men of their calibre if it has any intention of rehabilitating this very important industry in Australia? [More…]
As the Government has announced that it will take no action against the illegal activities of the Rhodesian Information Centre and that it will change the law to suit the Rhodesians, can the Attorney-General indicate what other areas of the law he intends to change to suit the wishes of the people opposing those sections of the law? [More…]
If it is deemed desirable to support Rhodesia against the United Nations, would it not be reasonable to amend the National Service Act so that thousands of young men who object to this law can have their wishes met by a government which apparently is ready to amend and apply the law to suit its beliefs and attitudes? [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
The forms of cadetship made available in recent years by the Australian Broadcasting Commission to young men and women are as follows: [More…]
I know that my Queensland colleague, Senator McAuliffe, has raised a question concerning confidence men who again are in the top bracket of crime. [More…]
Air and rail transport are charged with considerable public interest and are not, except in the arrogance of so-called self-made men, just part of the money game. [More…]
The wages lost by these men in 1970 - and they have every right to lose these wages if they want to- amounted to $528,027. [More…]
It commenced on 21st September. [More…]
When the refusal of 4 people to carry out their duties creates a situation like this, I believe - and I suggest this to those interested in the trade union movement - that this is where industrial anarchy begins and where industrial blackmail can be so clearly illustrated. [More…]
When a trade union official can create this sort of’ chaos by using only 4 men who are likely to lose wages, we must wonder how much of the public purse would have been plundered during the course of the stoppages that have, taken place already in the postal industry, when 557,959 man hours werelost and $855,057 in wages was lost by the’ participants in those strikes. [More…]
Is the Leader of the Government in the Senate aware that delegates to the annual conference of the Victorian Country Party expressed the desire to abolish the ballot system for national service and the wish for all young men to serve instead 6 months in one of the armed Services? [More…]
Did the Minister also notice that the conference decided to press for an amendment to the legislation to make service outside of Australia voluntary, which is again the policy of the Australian Labor Party? [More…]
How does the Government now reconcile its policy on national service with that of the Victorian Country Party? [More…]
Is that expression of opinion likely to place further stresses on the already strained relations between the 2 parties of the coalition Government? [More…]
I am attacking the Government. [More…]
lt is the weakness of the Government, not George Slater’s weakness, that I am criticising. [More…]
He may have been cunning and said: ‘I can see how the Government can be embarrassed by stopping telephones from being connected to a business house’. [More…]
What did the Postal Department do? [More…]
The Government knew, as I know, that it could have suspended every employee who refused to carry out the proper order properly given under the terms of his employment by his employer. [More…]
We shall have to call all our men out on strike and they shall go without wages until we get him reinstated’. [More…]
But no, the Government was prepared to allow the employees to refuse duty, on the instruction of their union. [More…]
The clear responsibility of the Government was to suspend and dismiss those who did not carry out the proper order properly given. [More…]
That would not have taken as long nor penalised as many people as the course adopted by the Government. [More…]
If ever there was in this country a body of men who have reason to cry aloud about their grievances, it is the primary producers. [More…]
If honourable senators are to except one body of men, it could be the Qantas airline pilots. [More…]
There is the situation in which these men are refusing to collect the very wherewithal that is used to pay their wages. [More…]
Could honourable senators contemplate anything more asinine or destructive, or anything more calculated to compel a government which accepts its responsibilities as it should to do something? [More…]
So it is that the Government has brought down this legislation which contains penal clauses. [More…]
It is only about 3 years ago that the Conciliation and Arbitration Act was amended by the present Government, in my opinion weakly and supinely. [More…]
In my view the Government showed deplorable weakness in making that amendment. [More…]
I also said that it was hard to believe that a section of men would be so callous as to inflict on their fellow citizens the hardships caused. [More…]
If a Labor man today were to speak out as Mr Chifley spoke out in 1949 he would be relegated to the limbo of forgotten men. [More…]
While the majority of Labor men opposite do not believe in industrial chaos, strikes and all the rest of it, not one will speak out in condemnation of those things. [More…]
1 believe that the present Government would ensure its position on the Treasury benches if it were to take up the cudgels on behalf of the ordinary rank and file trade unionists. [More…]
I do not think the Commonwealth Government had any other course. [More…]
I appreciate full well the entire necessity for introducing something which, while it may not succeed, is an attempt to end theintolerable situation that arises when a body of men can tie up or attempt to tieup one of the Commonwealth’s essential services and so penalise the whole of the Australian economic system because they are not satisfied with the conditions that are meted out to them. [More…]
As a result of the shearers strike, in which force was used - men were shot and the military was used to break it up - the New South Wales Government established an inquiry into the strikes that were hap pening to see that there would be no recurrence of what happened throughout northern New South Wales and Queensland in that strike. [More…]
Possibly the matters mentioned by Senator Bishop who told of long delays involved in arbitration were indicative of the reasons why strikes occur. [More…]
Senator Little spoke of an instance in which 4 men engaged in a strike had put such and such a number of employees out of work. [More…]
1 have mentioned penalties. [More…]
If we, as human beings, live and act rightly towards our fellow men and women there should not be any need for laws to put people in prison and to inflict other forms of punishment. [More…]
When industrial trouble of that sort arises the union leaders, with the leaning they have a certain way, drag out a cou ple of key men. [More…]
They bring out a couple of key men, who in turn drag out probably another 20. [More…]
Under this legislation, those other 20 men, with the 2 or 3 key men, will not be paid. [More…]
I know that the Government has talked very glibly about re-training people, but what happened in the famous case when, with the introduction of computerisation by Golden Fleece Petroleum, about 50 clerks were made redundant? [More…]
The Minister was most polite, but after 6 weeks those men have not got their jobs back. [More…]
I say this to some Government senators: If somebody says that his union secretary never does anything do others every say that he is a good secretary because he does not take them out on strike? [More…]
Dealing with collective bargaining and understanding, Charlie Fitzgibbons, the successor to- Jim Healy, is one of the most able men in the trade union movement today. [More…]
Attorney-General who hounds young men to go to Vietnam and, if they refuse, hounds them into gaol but refuses to prosecute when an offence is committed by his friends from the Rhodesian Promotion Council. [More…]
Today, many young men who joined Qantas as junior commercial trainees are occupying responsible supervisory and management positions throughout the Company. [More…]
the need had arisen to examine the scheme in the light of the aspirations of young men entering business today and the Company’s changing manpower requirements. [More…]
For three of those years he was a colleague of mine while we were in government and in a majority in the Senate. [More…]
He started his life on the west coast of Tasmania and was employed in the Tasmanian Government Railways as a blacksmith. [More…]
He had a great interest in his fellow men in union affairs being always a staunch unionist. [More…]
He was a life member of the Australian Labor Party, Tasmanian branch, and was very highly respected by all its members, being a very regular attender al our conferences where bis wisdom, experience and good judgment were constantly sought. [More…]
As everybody knows, what is happening is that retrenchments or fear of retrenchments are still in the air. [More…]
During the early part of this year another 26 men were dismissed from the Government Aircraft Factories at Avalon. [More…]
After representations from the Australian Council, of Trade Unions some few men were kept on. [More…]
It must be clear to the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman), to the Department of Supply, the Department of Defence and their ancillaries that there is a competence in the industry which ought to be used. [More…]
Retrenchments have continued. [More…]
In March this year 26 more skilled workers were retrenched from the Avalon factory, lt might be appropriate to give figures showing the serious decline in employment in the industry. [More…]
Once they lose that employment, these highly skilled and well trained men get work in a more stable industry and tend not to return to the aircraft industry. [More…]
That is a sensible arrangement for a worker. [More…]
In my own State, as people know, there have been retrenchments in the industry. [More…]
For example, part of the Department of Supply aircraft establishment in Salisbury was discontinued a couple of years ago. [More…]
This year one of the Hawker Siddeley subsidiaries in Salisbury, very close to the Weapons Research Establishment, which is a very convenient location for an electronics manufacturer, was discontinued. [More…]
We put to the Minister for Supply the proposition that the Department should feed into the subsidiary of Hawker Siddeley some extra work which would keep men in employment in South Australia. [More…]
It would be very good for the State and for the industry if the Government would accede to that proposal. [More…]
Enterprises such as Hawker Siddeley and the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, and our own people in the Government Aircraft Factories, are enterprising as well as efficient. [More…]
In yesterday’s ‘Financial Review’, a statement by Mr Abbott was reported as follows: [More…]
I think the Opposition’s suggestion that the Government has failed to safeguard the Australian aircraft industry is invalid. [More…]
We have 3 major contractors in this country, namely, the Government Aircraft Factories, the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation and Hawker De Havilland Australia Pty Ltd. [More…]
Along with other lesser contractors, these factories employ about 7,000 men. [More…]
When we look at the factories individually wc see that the 3 main ones employ the following numbers of staff: The Government Aircraft Factories about 1,990 men; the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, I understand, about 1,950; and Hawker De Havilland, I believe, about 1,700 employees. [More…]
This means that the balance of 1,360 men are employed in the other 5 factories. [More…]
Senator Bishop spoke of retrenchments. [More…]
One regrets that retrenchments do occur, but the honourable senator knows as well as I do that the industry is characterised by ups and downs in employment. [More…]
Recently we had the situation where the Government, through its policy of continually endeavouring to stabilise the work load in the industry, directed certain defence projects. [More…]
Senator Bishop went on to refer to some of the retrenchments of more recent times. [More…]
From information supplied to mc I find that 10 mechanical tradesmen and 6 electrical tradesmen were issued with retrenchment notices as late as 7th April of this year. [More…]
Retrenchment notices were issued also to 6 electrical tradesmen at the Fishermen’s Bend plant, but a review of the situation enabled those latter notices to be withdrawn. [More…]
This review also brought to light the fact that the management could offer employment at Fishermen’s Bend to 8 of the 10 mechanical tradesmen under notice of retrenchment at Avalon. [More…]
The fifth was found upon interview to be unsuitable for the work available and the remaining 3 men declined the offer. [More…]
In this financial year, 1971-72, the value of the work load for the industry for the 3 main organisations which I have mentioned exceeded $40m. [More…]
The Opposition’s doubts about the future of the industry are not reflected in the confidence held by the Government and by the industry in respect of works capitalisation. [More…]
When we look at this situation we must remember, for example, that the value of Commonwealth owned land, buildings, services and plant used in this industry amounts to about $24m while privately owned investment in the same categories totals a further $16m. [More…]
This amounts to a total capital investment in the industry of well over $40m. [More…]
Obviously, in time of war and during periods of reequipment by the Services the industry booms. [More…]
So we have a situation in which some men have to be stood down. [More…]
I think if we examine this whole matter properly we will find that one of the major reasons why the Services have not as yet placed any orders for the aircraft is that there is an internal battle being waged within the Service departments. [More…]
Perhaps the battle is not in relation to their requirements, because I understand that the Army would be happy with this type of aircraft, but it is in relation to whether the Royal Australian Air Force or the Army will fly it. [More…]
It is not a matter of whether it is a suitable aircraft; it is an internal argument. [More…]
By the time the Government takes any action the world markets will not be open to us because we will have been beaten to them. [More…]
I have spoken to the top men we have in the industry and they have shown grave concern about the fact that we may be beaten to the markets of the world with an aircraft which they believe will be readily saleable. [More…]
Yet today the Minister states that although the 2 prototypes of this aircraft have been tested and found satisfactory, the Government has not yet committed itself to production of the aircraft. [More…]
Why are skilled men dispersed through frustration because the Government in this, as in everything else, takes a long while to make up its mind? [More…]
I think anyone who has considered the record of the ‘Ikara’ and ‘Turana’ missiles and realises the intense interest that has been shown overseas in these weapons can only come to the conclusion that we are very fortunate to have in our aircraft industry men who are capable of developing those weapons. [More…]
Surely this project deserves every support from the Australian Government. [More…]
I realise, as has been said, that the Government has given millions of dollars towards the development of this aircraft. [More…]
I feel that the Government is being too slow in making up its mind about this project and as a result is inducing a feeling of frustration in the minds of many of the expert personnel and this could well lead to their leaving the industry. [More…]
If there is an answer, it may be that we are wrong in opposing this proposed new section, but up to now the Government has not been able to give an answer. [More…]
The Government will now have a situation in which it can stand down men under this proposed new section and also impose a penalty under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
But the Government would not permit even a common criminal to suffer 2 prosecutions and 2 convictions for the one offence. [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…]
He knows in his heart as do the men who sit behind him that this is an attempt to use the character of a person in a political exercise. [More…]
The people of Victoria have just shown they prefer Bolte … to Labor under its present management. [More…]
The Victorian Executive included an influential handful of men who had flouted ALP policy on unity tickets, organised or led political strikes in defiance of the ACTU, disregarded and repudiated Party and ACTU policy on the manning of ships to Vietnam and organised demonstrations against the Trades Hall Council Executive. [More…]
It is disgraceful that these men should be on the ALP Executive which can appear to influence Federal policies and selections. [More…]
1 will exercise my right to repudiate such men as I believe disloyal to the ALP, disruptive of its electoral prospects and destructive of all the ALP stands for. [More…]
I know some of the men in it personally and I am proud to know them but I do not know their organisation. [More…]
Most of the matters mentioned in the newspaper refer to defence, foreign policy, the influence of communist subversion in Australia, the Vietnam war - all matters which are good solid points of Liberal Party policy. [More…]
In my own State, George Crawford and Bill Hartley, just fresh from his unlawful occupation at the La Trobe University - are still powerful influential men in the Victorian State Council of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Their lamentable and deplorable resolution supporting the North Vietnamese aggression against our own 150 instructors who are still in Vietnam, our American allies whose naval, air and sea forces are involved, and our South Vietnamese allies alongside whom so many of our own men fought and lied, is only echoing what was said by Dr J. F. Cairns in another place in a speech on which Mr Whitlam congratulated him. [More…]
Does the AttorneyGeneral concede that there are great numbers of young men who have not registered for national service? [More…]
Does he know of any instance where political influence has been used to relieve any eligible youth of his obligations, as the Government sees them, under the National .Service Act? [More…]
In answer to the first part of the question I say that I am not aware that there are great numbers of young men who have refused to do national service. [More…]
This is an allegation constantly repeated notwithstanding constant denials made by the Minister for Labour and National Service and myself inside and outside the Parliament. [More…]
All I say to anybody who would challenge what I have said and what the Minister for Labour and National Service has said is: Give to me or the Minister for Labour and National Service the name of any person who has not registered for national service or who has not complied with the Act and we shall indicate whether the statements are correct. [More…]
If the statements are correct, we shall oblige by ensuring that the processes of law are enforced’. [More…]
Will the AttorneyGeneral agree that it is more urgent to prevent possible loss of life through bomb explosions and other Ustashi violence than to arrest young men who have the courage of their convictions? [More…]
While my recent trip to Papua New Guinea was officially to represent the Commonwealth at Anzac services held in the Territory, the main purpose for me personally was to pursue matters associated with the expansion of establishment and developmental work for the National Young Men’s Christian Association of Australia. [More…]
Yet the work and interest may be wider than the Australian body as the Vancouver YMCA of Canada and the Canadian Government have a direct interest in the work which has been conducted for many years and which was being pursued during the visit to which this article refers. [More…]
In 1963 the National YMCA, a body representative of all associations in Australia, sent a secretary to Port Moresby to commence work and lay a basis for acceptance of typical YMCA activity. [More…]
The traditional activities of this body in those areas of physical, mental and spiritual uplifting was impaired by the attitudes of various ethnic groups and individuals in the local community. [More…]
The movement has spread its work to many areas in the Territory. [More…]
Young men who have shown ability as leaders in the community have been further involved in YMCA activities and have been given advanced training in the National YMCA’s Youth Leadership College in my State of Victoria. [More…]
I am concerned about the matter because I can recall, certainly only as a lad, these men who went to serve in World War I. [More…]
As a child living at Somerset I travelled on more than one occasion to the Buurnie railway station and to the Burnie wharf to see men embark for service in France. [More…]
Those men were waved off with flags. [More…]
They were given every encouragement to enlist for war service. [More…]
Now we have to face up to the fact that they have reached an age and a stage at which they need medical and hospital treatment. [More…]
It is time that the government of the day, whatever political colour it may be, had due regard to the requirements of these people. [More…]
While I admit that the issue which I have brought forward is a parochial one - it deals with a particular case - my main purpose in bringing it forward is to direct attention to the fact that many returned servicemen from World War I, from World War II, from the Korean conflict and later still from the Vietnam war will require hospital and medical treatment. [More…]
It would appear that on many occasions when returned servicemen become sick they become only a statistic on the books. [More…]
What forms of cadetship, if any, have been made available in recent years by the Australian Airlines Commission to young men and women who have recently completed their schooling and intend going on to a university, a college of advanced education, a technical college or similar educational institution. [More…]
It is open to young men of Matriculation standard and covers rotational training in the Operational, Commercial, Financial, Supply and Personnel divisions. [More…]
Cadets are generally appointed at the age of 18 years and their appointment is subject to their agreement to continue approved educational courses at various educational institutions for which they are reimbursed on obtaining the necessary passes. [More…]
That institution contains mainly young men and women between the ages of, I suppose, 16 and 25 years who have sustained terrible injuries, principally in motor car accidents. [More…]
The Department of Social Services, at the specific request of the Senate Standing Committee, carried out a survey of the number of handicapped children in Australia. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that these children are entitled to all the assistance that they can possibly be given. [More…]
I urge the Government to heed their pleas and the pleas of their parents for greater assistance. [More…]
To me, the problems of these people, as we saw them, should be given a much higher priority by all governments - Commonwealth and State - irrespective of political persuasion or colour. [More…]
The Commonwealth has a tremendous responsibility in this sphere. [More…]
The greater the number of people who are rehabilitated and the greater the number of people who can receive training to enable them to take a proper place in society, the greater will be the easing on our national health costs and our social service payments, and the greater will be the taxation revenue that will flow to the Commonwealth. [More…]
More than anything else, it will mean that men, women and children will not be merely existing. [More…]
This is a matter of prime importance for the Australian Government. [More…]
If the Government of New Guinea wants the senior men from this country, the expatriates, to stay on there for an indefinite or for a limited period, the position of the people about whom we are concerned, the senior expatriates, should be looked at in a more responsible manner. [More…]
People in senior positions would not be worried about trying to obtain employment in some other sphere, perhaps well away from the Territory. [More…]
They would be prepared to see it out and to act in the way in which they should act to help the new government establish itself throughout the country. [More…]
Senator COTTON (New South WalesMinister for Civil Aviation) (4.571 - in reply - The purpose of this Bill is specifically to provide a guarantee by the Commonwealth to the Asian Development Bank in respect of a loan of money to the Papua New Guinea Development Bank. [More…]
Senator Keeffe made the comment that Australia had exploited Papua New Guinea without mercy. [More…]
I thought that that comment was unfortunate and quite unnecessary and did nothing for anybody. [More…]
The good work that Australia has done in Papua New Guinea for so many years, both under Liberal-Country Party governments and under Labor governments, deserves something better than that, as do the men who have served that country in its Public Service over many years and equally in the area of developing its economy. [More…]
Since that matter has been raised, may I say that I would very much like to commend the great dignity, restraint and courtesy - as one would have expected - of those who invited us into their homes, who talked to us quietly and with restraint about their problems, and who helped us to some undertstanding of them. [More…]
Those people had never before been confronted with such a volume of Press men, radio men and TV men. [More…]
Although these men were legitimately going about their job, nevertheless these people were involved in something that was quite terrifying to them, and they behaved extremely well and with great dignity. [More…]
We are told that, at the age of 25, most persons who in their youth took drugs - be those drugs alcohol, heroin or certain other drugs, including drugs of addiction, which have not had a detrimental effect upon their health - find that they have solved the problems that forced them into drug taking and discontinue the habit. [More…]
These are educated men who have reached the heights of their profession. [More…]
They have been a success in life and have academic achievements. [More…]
But they are unable to give up drug taking and they are reduced to mental and physical wrecks. [More…]
The Minister acknowledged receipt of that letter last week, but in that letter there was no reference by the Minister to the advice he may have received from the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
I think it is fair comment that that is strange conduct indeed. [More…]
I think the charge fairly could be laid on the Government that the Government’s treatment of Fox reeks of discrimination and political persecution. [More…]
In the interests of not only Paul Fox but also other young men who may fall foul of this Government, the Government’s treatment of him must be exposed to the public. [More…]
I believe that I have exhausted every avenue that is available to me in trying to obtain an answer to the simple question whether Paul Fox has an entitlement to have his application as a conscientious objector tested. [More…]
I wish to speak briefly on a matter which I have mentioned to the Minister for Works (Senator Wright). [More…]
At the present time there is being held in Canberra an international training course in management services. [More…]
They are attending this course at present in Canberra where lectures are being given by a number of people on the problems of management and the problems of administration. [More…]
No doubt in many circumstances they could be very valuable to those who attend them, but the problem as it has been put to me is that a very great number of the persons who are attending the course, namely men and one lady from Singapore, are very senior civil servants who have had a great deal of experience in administration. [More…]
What some of them, at least, believe would have been appropriate would have been for them to work in Australian government departments in conjunction with their Australian counterparts. [More…]
However, they have found that the course they are attending is one which many of them feel is rather elementary compared with the level which they have already reached and the training which they have already had. [More…]
Is it merely coincidental that this plan for the special confidential freight concessions was concocted in the same year as that in which the coalition Government in Queensland decided to discontinue the publishing of freight concession rates? [More…]
It seems to me - and I am trying to be fair minded about this - that all this happened in 1959 when -members of the Liberal Party, in their determination for their Party to become the senior member of the coalition Government in Queensland, were prepared to railroad their Country Party colleagues by entering into this sort of business arrangement whereby low, secret and confidential concessional freight rates could be granted to southern businessmen to the disadvantage of Country Party men. [More…]
Many of them are married men with families. [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 story of the development of Queensland is a very fascinating one, particularly in the mining field. [More…]
I will not accuse the previous State Labor Government of having fallen down in its dealings with matters such as coal because in days gone by, I think when Senator Gair was the Premier, coal was a drug on the market. [More…]
For years it was impossible to get people to take coal at all and a great deal of credit is due to the late Ernie Evans, the previous Minister for Mines, for encouraging men like Thiess Bros to go out into this area to drill and to find coal. [More…]
Very often, of course, such endeavours come about by the development of markets. [More…]
This is the way the situation goes, lt is a fantastic story of development and decentralisation. [More…]
It is an exciting story of employment and a more exciting story of prosperity for the State. [More…]
The national development authorities in the Federal sphere estimate that mining exports will be worth $l,000m to this country by 1973. [More…]
Six hundred men are employed by Queensland Alumina Ltd at Gladstone, at a plant which processes the bauxite from Weipa. [More…]
Some idea of the immensity of the project can be gained from the fact that that expansion meant the addition of 10,000 tons of steel, 32,000 cubic yards of concrete and 45 miles of piping. [More…]
The capital investment of $115m for the original plant and $40m for stage 2 represented the greatest infusion of capital into any Queensland industry in such a short space of time. [More…]
The statements are being refuted but what I am telling is the truth. [More…]
The lines ultimately will become the property of the Queensland Government at no cost and will over the years return a handsome profit to Queensland, much greater than the piffling royalty honourable senators opposite are talking about. [More…]
I understand that one of the men who encouraged the State Government to seek grants was Mr Kevin Cairns, the Minister for Housing in this Parliament. [More…]
I am very pleased to see this grant being made because I know it will be handled very well by the very capable Government of Queensland which will still be the Government after 27th May. [More…]
In raising this question with representatives of the armed forces, I have been told that for 10 years the Parliamentary Counsel has been looking at this situation. [More…]
That is why I urge the Government to act speedily. [More…]
It is a cruel imposition for young men who have been away fighting to return to a situation of the type that I have described. [More…]
But I do feci that an immense amount of money is being spent uselessly on those 2 drugs. [More…]
I remember that in the early days of the Australian Labor Party, leaders of that Party - men in prominent positions - advocated the prohibition not merely of alcohol but also of tobacco on the ground that the worker was wasting on them money which ought to have been spent on his wife and family. [More…]
In view of the evidence that we had from medical men on what LSD can do to people, I think it is criminal that in our community there should be permitted a book which tells young children, who are not equipped to make their own decisions on these matters, that it is possible to take LSD regularly over long periods without any bad effects. [More…]
Many medical men do not appreciate properly the effect that their prescriptions can have on their patients. [More…]
Consequently, one of the Committee’s main recommendations was in this field. [More…]
I understand that the National Standing Control Committee on Drugs of Dependence, which includes representatives of the Commonwealth and State departments of Health, has the matter in hand and that a considerable amount of money has been allocated for the purpose of education. [More…]
The article in the ‘Australian Medical Journal’ states thai a recent survey in Sydney of aspirin use showed that 8 per cent of men and 15 per cent of women ingested it daily. [More…]
Dr A. I. Adams, senior lecturer in the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine at the University of Sydney, pointed out in a recent letter discussing the survey that aspirin has no properties which could justify its use in the management of emotional states. [More…]
He comments: [More…]
The bungle itself was conceived by Senator Greenwood because in the first place he did not accept the document or check up on the facts of the case. [More…]
The allegations by the AttorneyGeneral in his statement are denied by Chris Shanley. [More…]
In fact, as the Minister has already stated, Mr Wood waited in front of Parliament House, as he said he would, to be arrested. [More…]
Chris Shanley says that the AttorneyGeneral’s statement in relation to his actions and intentions has such unbelievable content that he challenges the AttorneyGeneral to prosecute him for obstruction. [More…]
If he feels that he has been justified in putting the Commonwealth Police into this position by his haste, not only should he apologise to them but also he should apologise to Chris Shanley 1 say in conclusion that I quite understand the concern of Senator Turnbull that we should see before our own eyes in the precincts of Parliament House, the centre of democracy in this country, this fascistlike conduct. [More…]
This is the outcome of legislation that was conceived for the purpose of prosecuting a policy that the Government has learnt to its great cost has been a false policy. [More…]
But the defence of this country should be performed by men who are properly paid volunteers, thoroughly trained. [More…]
National service is an unpopular and devious way of attaining the numbers to carry out this unpopular policy which not only is resented throughout this community but also is a policy that this Government will live to regret. [More…]
Does the Attorney-General concede that there are great numbers of young men who have not registered for national service? [More…]
I am not aware that there are great numbers of young men who have refused to do national service. [More…]
This is an allegation constantly repeated notwithstanding constant denials made by the Minister for Labour and National Service and myself inside and outside the Parliament. [More…]
All I say to anybody who would challenge what I have said and what the Minister for Labour and National Service has said is: ‘Give to me or the Minister for Labour and National Service the name of any person who has not registered for national service or who has not complied with the Act and we shall indicate whether the statements are correct’. [More…]
While sitting in this chamber on many occasions I have been staggered at the way in which a number of honourable senators, senior men who allegedly have been trained in the noble art of the law, have sought to denigrate and destroy the reputation of citizens of this country without their having any opportunity of defending themselves. [More…]
Supporters and members of the Government sitting in this chamber have attempted to destroy the reputation of a young man by innuendo and the use of words which I think ill become a member of this Parliament. [More…]
It is very easy for members of the Government, its supporters, and supporters of the Government’s policy on the National Service Act and Vietnam, to be so critical of these young men who are prepared, because of their consciences and their convictions, to go through the tortures of a court case and be imprisoned for their beliefs. [More…]
I often see in Liberal youth organisations young men and women who are not in uniform but who are prepared to support a policy that puts people into uniform against their will to undergo national service. [More…]
I believe that the young men, and sometimes the women, who demonstrate and express their opposition to the National Service Act deserve the gratitude of this nation, not the denigration that they get in this place. [More…]
I think the record subsequently will show that that advice has been wrong and that the Senate has been misled, as the nation has been misled, by the comments made in the Attorney-General’s statement that was released this evening. [More…]
The Government has had abundant opportunity to show that it is not adopting a policy of selective national service. [More…]
It has had abundant opportunity to act against those people who have encouraged young men not to register for national Service. [More…]
A number of the 1,000 or more of our leading citizens who signed the statement of defiance were subsequently arrested and charged, summonsed and fined. [More…]
There are in our community today many young men who have not registered, or who have registered and have refused to attend for call-up or in some way or other refused to comply with the National Service Act. [More…]
I think it might be shown that, whilst there might not be thousands of young men involved, certainly the numbers of men who are not being prosecuted are more than the Attorney-General was prepared to concede. [More…]
The reason they are not being prosecuted is that the Government does not wish to pursue these policies. [More…]
Chris Shanley is entitled to an apology, not only from Senator Greenwood but also from Senator Rae, for the statements they made this evening about him. [More…]
In 1950 the 2 mines,, Gunnedah and Preston Extended, produced 152,000 tons and employed 131 men. [More…]
Markets were the Government Railways, the power station at Tamworth and a number of local consumers. [More…]
By 1968 this trade had contracted, employment at the mines had fallen to 41 and production for the year was 79,000 tons. [More…]
In 1970, 251,000 tons of coal were produced and employment at the end of the year was 126. [More…]
Employment in the 2 mines reached a peak of 138 in August 1971. [More…]
Some 55,000 men have been called up and enlisted. [More…]
The percentage of men who have not responded to their call-up notices is ! [More…]
Those figures indicate that observance of the National Service Act in this community is at a tremendously high rate. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Trade and Industry aware that figures published in the ‘Sunday Australian’ on 21st May show that overseas firms have cornered the Australian market in cosmetics and toiletries, indicating opportunities for high price arrangements and restrictive trade practices? [More…]
Does the Department of Trade and Industry have details of this overseas control of an industry which has such a marked effect on the cost of living of most Australian women and many Australian men? [More…]
Will the Minister direct the Department to make investigations into this industry and submit details of its findings to the Senate Select Committee on Foreign Ownership and Control for a thorough evaluation to be made of this trend? [More…]
They are like men who are looking down a barrel. [More…]
Under that clause a person shall not be appointed as a Deputy President unless he is a person who ‘has had experience at a high level in industry, commerce, industrial relations or the service of a government or an authority of a government’. [More…]
I think there is great justification for the placing in such positions men who have had industrial and commercial experience. [More…]
Honourable senators know perfectly well that the parties to the amalgamation are men who have a vested interest in the breaking down of the economy of this country and that the reason they want to amalgamate is to create a bigger, stronger, more amenable organisation to put their aims into practice. [More…]
If the outlook of all trade unions in this country was the same as the apparent outlook of trade unions in Western Germany and if the trade unions in this country were not controlled by men with a vested interest in a breakdown of the Australian economy no-one would have any worries about amalgamations or the number of trade unions we had. [More…]
But I come from a State which was nearly brought to a standstill because of the actions of some men who influenced certain trade unions on matters which had nothing whatever to do with terms and conditions of employment Action was taken because, through some mental quirk or other, these men did not like something that was going on in their own State. [More…]
Do honourable senators not think that penalties should be enforced upon such men? [More…]
They have agreed outside of the arbitration process altogether and outside of any jurisdiction that was competent to make a proper assessment of the claims. [More…]
It was also Chifley who put men in gaol. [More…]
The present Government would never do that. [More…]
But when men make statements such as those made by Aarons and Carmichael, I cannot conceive of that co-operation being forthcoming. [More…]
But I do say that it behoves the Government, on behalf of the people of Australia, to see that this legislation is enforced. [More…]
I notice that the Heath Government in the United Kingdom - Wilson threatened to do it but did not do it - has imposed a penalty of $170,850 on a trade union under threat of taking over its assets if it did not pay. [More…]
At that time the Secretary of the Seamens Union came on television and, as one man put it, preached bloody revolution. [More…]
This situation went on until the people and the Government of New Zealand were fed right up to the teeth with it. [More…]
He broke it altogether with the co-operation of the Secretary of the Federation of Labour, Mr Skinner, whose attitude is so different from that of some leading men in the trade union movement in this country. [More…]
Since that time there has been no trouble whatever with the New Zealand seamen as far as my information is concerned. [More…]
I thought I would get a comment on that one. [More…]
I say that if it is fair for one section of the community by means of strikes to blackmail and hold the rest of the public to ransom to better its own conditions then surely it is just as reasonable for professional men, people in every other walk of life and for primary producers if they could be so organised to come out on strike and say: No, you are not going to get any more food to eat until you give us this, that and the other’. [More…]
There was another occasion when one of the men went into a certain place too often. [More…]
The rest of the men went on strike. [More…]
Because of these facts I say that it behoves this Government to enforce the penalties provided in this Bill. [More…]
I mentioned at the time that one of their greatest grievances was in relation to the principle of comparative wage justice. [More…]
If men are of the belief that someone is doing comparable work or less arduous or less skilled work but receiving a higher salary, it could well be justification for their taking industrial action if they have no other method of approaching the question. [More…]
One must remember that a trade union movement has the right to exist on only one principle, namely, to maintain and improve the conditions of its members. [More…]
That is the basis of the movement’s existence. [More…]
If that principle is not carried out there is no justification for men paying into a trade union. [More…]
It is very interesting to go back 100 or 120 years only and read in the Hansards of Great Britain the speeches that were made by members of the legislature of that country when propositions were before the Parliament to relieve the dreadful industrial conditions that had developed out of the first attempts at modern-type industrial produtcion, with no recourse to the legality of controlling wages and conditions in the industrial enterprises. [More…]
I think that quite sincere men in their day and time, with only the knowledge that they had of that period to guide them, made very sincere speeches along those lines. [More…]
I want to refresh the minds of honourable senators on the legislation that was brought down in this country, not by a boss’s government or a conservative government, but by a Labour government. [More…]
I refer to the time when the last Labor Government under the leadership of the late Ben Chifley was in office. [More…]
After the strike had been current for only 2 days a Labor Government found it necessary to introduce legislation into this place to protect not only the people of the nation but the arbitration system of this country. [More…]
After 2 days of a strike the Labor Government had sufficient evidence to justify producing before this Parliament legislation to slop the destruction of the arbitration system of this country by the Communist Party, as Labor men of the day labelled it. [More…]
I know that among legal men he is regarded as the doyen of industrial advocates. [More…]
I welcome the amendments and improvements to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which are proposed by this Bill. [More…]
Before dealing with the Bill, which perhaps might be a revolutionary development in this chamber this evening, .1 think I should traverse one or two points made by my friend Senator Milliner, who is a kind, well meaning soul. [More…]
Does he not know that very nearly one-half - it is not quite one-half - of the trade unionists of this country vote for the Government parties? [More…]
They revealed that of the trade unionists in this country 38 per cent voted for the Liberal and Country Parties and 41 per cent of their wives voted in a similar fashion, which may mean that women are more intelligent than men. [More…]
I have no intention of discussing many of the amendments to the Conciliation and Arbitration Act which make this Bill such a milestone in our industrial legislation. [More…]
As a simple suburban lawyer myself, I commend this decision to welcome into the ranks of Deputy Presidents men with a university degree or substantial knowledge and experience in industrial and economic affairs. [More…]
The question of equality before the law is a matter which the Government and the draftsman had in mind when traversing the whole of the 69 clauses in this Bill. [More…]
The Government proposes to make all people equal before the law. [More…]
I believe that the normal union organiser has the right to protect his men, to make sure that they are not exploited and to take every advantage of industrial legislation which this Government, in the main, has introduced to protect the rights of workers. [More…]
I refer now to a statement made by Mr P. Clancy in support of Mr R. J. Hawke’s presidency of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
Let us get this matter of strikes in perspective before we decide whether the Government had any justification in doing what it has done in the BUI - that is, set the clock back in the matter of sanctions. [More…]
As other speakers on this side have pointed out, serious and all as it may be, the time lost through strikes - half a day per man per year - is a drop in the ocean compared to the loss in production due to industrial accidents and due to the unnecessary time and production lost through the Governmentinduced unemployment which has plagued this country during the last year. [More…]
If one thinks in terms of 60,000 men unnecessarily out of work over a period of a year and the production lost during that time one does not give a great deal of thought to the half day per man per year which is lost in strikes. [More…]
Of course, if we want to put the matter into perspective I suggest that we should look to none other than the Minister for Labour and National Service himself and what he said in the statement of intent in December last. [More…]
In the face of this situation we find in the legislation before us an attempt to put the clock back, as I have said, on the matter of machinery for the settlement of industrial disputes and in the matter of sanctions which the Government seeks to have at its disposal to enforce its will on working men seeking wage justice. [More…]
That was the award in which the Commission attempted to say that the minimum wage would be the maximum wage by inviting employers to absorb over-award payments they had been making up till then in the rises that had then been given. [More…]
The Government itself acknowledged that these penalty provisions were unworkable. [More…]
This is based on the idea that men on the job have nothing to do with strikes. [More…]
It is said that men go on strike - and I heard this echoed again last night by none other than the pundit from Tasmania, Senator Lillico - because of some wicked men up there in the union office who call them out on strike. [More…]
One wonders how these men who do these things that are so contrary to the will of their members ever get to be re-elected. [More…]
However, this is part of the mythology of this Government. [More…]
It thinks that the cure is to have a strike ballot when men are talking about a strike because somehow or other this will get behind the backs of their wicked union officials. [More…]
The Government ignores the evidence of history. [More…]
How does one hold a ballot when men are out for a day, or a day and a half? [More…]
Of course, once one held such a ballot and the men voted for it, what would be the result? [More…]
I believe that this matter of strike ballots alone indicates either the total unreality of the Government’s thinking, as instanced by the remarks of Senator Lillico last night, or its total cynicism. [More…]
I do not believe that the Government is silly enough to think that this system will work. [More…]
I believe that the Government has no intention of trying to apply these provisions. [More…]
I would remind the Government that provisions such as this have been in the Act for many years and have been available to this Government. [More…]
Why has the Government put these provisions in the Bill? [More…]
I believe it has done it so that it can say to the public: We are the law and order Government. [More…]
We say to the Government that it always had these provisions but has not used them. [More…]
It is mentioned with admiration in text books throughout the world as a pacesetter in industrial reform. [More…]
Against the background of that Act we must look to the amendments in this Bill. [More…]
It is derived from an industrial power that was written into the Constitution after the fights of 2 great men whose names were well known afterwards - the one Higgins, who became the judge of the court; the other Charles Kingston, well known in South Australia. [More…]
In his book, ‘The Development of Trade Union Law’, Portus says: [More…]
The Stevedoring Industry Authority assigned another 21 men to the ship, but they failed to appear. [More…]
But when the members of the union arrived outside the premises of the Sydney ‘Daily Telegraph’, last Thursday night they were confronted with what the union official described to me - I quote his words - as ‘five or six big burly men of large build, anything from between 5 ft 10 to 6 ft and above in height, some wearing big black boots’. [More…]
One of these men was recognised by a member of the union as being a member of the Australian Army Provost Corps. [More…]
Military personnel, and particularly military policemen, should not be allowed under any circumstances to be used in an inflammatory manner relating to any industrial dispute. [More…]
Unfortunately I cannot say that there were others until I know their names but there were, as I have mentioned, on the information given to- me 5 or 6 big burly men, one of whom was identified. [More…]
If he or others knew the job was available by advertisement, when and where was such advertisement published? [More…]
Since this information was given to me I have been through the issues of the ‘Daily Telegraph’ back to Saturday, 13th May - 5 days preceding this incident - in an endeavour to find such an advertisement, and I have not been able to find one in the time available. [More…]
Was someone in the Provost Corps telephoned or approached in any way to provide men for the type of task involved? [More…]
When he found out that one of the five or six big burly men of whom the honourable senator spoke was a serviceman, he took action. [More…]
The honourable senator said that he had information that one of the five or six big burly men was a man who, the honourable senator’s informant believes, is a serviceman. [More…]
So, he said, the Government was using the military for an incorrect purpose. [More…]
I think that that statement is a little unfair. [More…]
Unions which are small and fragmented are not in a position to pay the salaries necessary to attract skilled people and men with initiative to take up the union work and to give the leadership that unions require. [More…]
Many smaller unions find themselves in the position where their organisers and officials are being paid for their work less than the men on the job whom they represent. [More…]
A great need exists for them to amalgamate for continued efficiency in the trade union movement. [More…]
If the Government wishes to see inefficiency in the trade union movement, by all means fragment the unions, keep them small and keep them poor. [More…]
I am reminded of this by the Minister’s statement yesterday about difficulty in getting commissioners because suitable people were not attracted to the position. [More…]
I know several men in industry who I thought would make admirable commissioners and who applied for commissioners’ jobs, but were rejected. [More…]
The conciliation commissioners are a group of men who have not had a salary increase for 4 years. [More…]
I think that this was brought home to us when the recommendation by the Kerr Committee for a salary increase for parliamentarians here was proposed to be reduced by the Government by $1,000. [More…]
We also had the Government intervening in the federal court to ask for restraint upon wage increases. [More…]
The Attorney-General has just stated that there is difficulty in attracting suitable men to this occupation because of the low salary. [More…]
The Minister’s reply was to a question I had posed relating to the recommendation by Sir Richard Kirby in 1970 for the appointment of 2 additional commissioners, one of whom was to take the place of Commissioner Winters. [More…]
This surprises me because I know at least 2 people who have made application for appointment as conciliation commissioners. [More…]
The request for the appointment of 2 conciliation commissioners was made by Sir Richard Kirby in 1970. [More…]
Was an advertisement calling for applications inserted in any publication? [More…]
I claim that the Government is trying to persuade the Senate, by deceitful means, to agree to the proposed increase. [More…]
Over the years there have been applications for promotion to the position of commissioner but those promotions have not been made to the detriment of the good working of the arbitration system and in defiance of the recommendation of Sir Richard Kirby. [More…]
The Government has not been concerned about arbitration. [More…]
Therefore, it is not a matter of increased salaries being necessary to attract men to the position. [More…]
It is the doing of the Government. [More…]
Today in this House we heard Senator Wright, representing the Minister for Labour and National Service (Mr Lynch), who is responsible for the Act and whose department has authority for the administration of the Act, stating the danger of wage increases as a cause of inflation. [More…]
He can see danger in an agreement granting a 9 per cent increase to members of metal trades unions who are getting $70 a week at the present time. [More…]
How can we as responsible parliamentarians, on the same day as the Minister says this, support an increase of some $4,400 a year in the salaries of the men affected by this Bill? [More…]
It is an increase as great as the weekly salary given by the Commission to men under awards. [More…]
I want to proceed along the lines advanced by my Leader, Senator Murphy, a few moments ago and also in line with what I said during the second reading debate, that is, that amalgamations are not new. [More…]
Amalgamations have been part of the labour movement ever since workers banded together to form trade unions. [More…]
The Government has not shown where any of these amalgmations have been disadvantageous or have prevented development in the nation or have not been in the nation’s interest. [More…]
While amalgamations have been part and parcel of trade union activity in the past they are even more so now because as a result of technological changes men in smaller unions are becoming redundant and those unions are finding it impossible financially to carry on. [More…]
The success or failure of the United Nations International Development Strategy, and therefore the future of millions of men, women and children in the developing countries, will depend on the decisions taken at UNCTAD III and, even more important, on what governments do thereafter. [More…]
There is no shortage of pious statements; what the world now needs is action, [More…]
Let me refer to the amendment. [More…]
I do not want to quarrel with the Attorney-General on this point, but I think he will concede that he, as a man of law, holds a view that the amendment is not retrospective. [More…]
If these 2 men cannot agree on the wording of something, how could one possibly expect workers on the job, secretaries of trade unions or secretaries of employers organisations to agree on the interpretation of the amendment whichtheAttorney General has submitted.I think the AttorneyGeneral would agree that it -would be a sheer impossibility. [More…]
If legally minded people cannot reach agreement, how could one expect others who are not skilled in the law to reach that agreement? [More…]
I know that the Attorney-General will get up and say that in this case a retrospective date is not involved, but I repeat that men of equal standing in law in the community say that it is. [More…]
What happened only the other day demonstrated quite forcibly that the Attorney-General is not appreciative of the work of the trade union movement and, in particular, the secretaries and organisers of unions. [More…]
Senator Brown, in addressing himself to the motion for the second reading of the Bill, said to the Attorney-General: “Apparently you have the belief that trade union secretaries sit in their offices in Trades Hall or wherever it may be and just, get on the telephone and bring out all the men on a job’. [More…]
All he did was nod his head in agreement. [More…]
The amendments state that in the first instance a dispute will go before a conciliator. [More…]
The conciliation commissioner, as he is called - this is the new title which is created in these amendments - will attempt as best he can in conferences with the parties to settle the matter. [More…]
Then at a given stage when he has failed to do that he will bow out of the proceedings altogether In our view, this is a completely artificial and unreal approach to the settlement of industrial disputes and could be conceived only by men who have had no experience of the way in which industrial life proceeds. [More…]
Mr Lew McKay, a leading official of the New South Wales branch of the Australian Workers Union visited the area, so did other officials to seek a resumption of work, lt was impossible to get the men to go down the mine again even though the officials pointed out that Conciliation Commissioner Manuel had said that the men were over-rating their fears. [More…]
It was an honest opinion about modern urban development stresses. [More…]
I am one who does not always give compliments easily to the judiciary, but I say that under the existing Act Mr Justice Robinson played a notable role in the way in which he alternated meetings with the union and with the New South Wales transport department representative. [More…]
He tried to reach some agreement. [More…]
Again referring to safety, it is also significant that after those protracted negotiations the men went back to work in an orderly manner, lt is true that the decision was not unanimous but very few settlement decisions are. [More…]
The men finally went back to work and they received a pretty effective review of industrial haz ards. [More…]
the concession is only $312 per annum; if so, (a) would it not be consistent and in the interest of family men that the allowance should be about $750 per annum, (b) is it becauseof such obvious anomalies that the Government has ordered the present inquiry into the taxation system, and (c) will the Treasurer assure the public that such anomalies will be removed following this inquiry. [More…]
The enormous history behind this matter is well known to many honourable senators and was set out at some length in the great judgment of the High Court of Australia in the case of Williams v. Hursey. [More…]
Men were transported here because they had the temerity to get together in small groups and ask for meagre improvements in their wages or conditions. [More…]
Leader writers are a special race of men. [More…]
I simply state that as a Liberal parliamentarian I am disagreeing with his judgment. [More…]
In fact, I am simply exercising the freedom which is given to Liberal Party members of Parliament - a freedom which was so favourably commented upon by the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon) last Monday at the meeting of the Federal Libera) Party Council. [More…]
We have seen that, on a seasonally corrected basis, the unemployment situation is not improving at the rate at which the Government would have us believe. [More…]
The position is practically static at the moment. [More…]
A few days ago we had brought to our attention the situation at Broken Hill where Broken Hill South Ltd proposes to close down its mine at very short notice and in doing so will put some 640 men out of employment. [More…]
The families of those 640 men possibly will be denied their livelihood. [More…]
The Government was aware of the impending closure of this mine. [More…]
I have here the report of a geological survey conducted by the New South Wales Department of Mines only this year. [More…]
The Broken Hill South company proposes to close this mine and to put 640 men out of work, with consequent effects upon their families, because it says it cannot continue at this rate. [More…]
It does seem to me - this course is recommended in this report - that one of the things that could be done would be for the Government to subsidise this operation for a short period of 3 years, the men there would then have 3 years notice of the fact that their employment was coming to an end. [More…]
This would give them the opportunity to look for other employment. [More…]
I propose this as an alternative to the sudden ultimatum on the part of the Broken Hill South company that employment will cease in the very near future. [More…]
This is the sort of thing that the Government, with an ear to the ground to determine what is happening in the community, might have been aware of and it might have taken some steps in last year’s Budget on the lines that I have suggested to try to smooth over this most regrettable situation. [More…]
The unemployment situation throughout Australia will be aggravated by the closure of this mine. [More…]
If these employees move from Broken Hill, the effect on South Australia will be reflected in an increase in its unemployment figures. [More…]
I was involved in this .matter because, as an elector of Lowe, which is the electorate of the Prime Minister (Mr McMahon), I was aware that the engineering establishment of Tulloch Ltd at Rhodes had dismissed over 100 men. [More…]
I am trying to paint a picture of how the trade union movement, has followed the normal textbook approach. [More…]
1 should mention in passing that the Minister claimed, as he was entitled to do, that sizable grants which had been given to the New South Wales Premier could have been spent more expeditiously. [More…]
What is involved is the dismissal of possibly 250 men at Tulloch. [More…]
What is more important is that these men could gravitate from the various engineering trades into other fields of endeavour. [More…]
I say that because the situation could arise where the Government will be bound up in an extensive defence policy requiring a large number of tradesmen to do particular jobs and it will find that there is a denuded work force in the engineering trades. [More…]
Exmembers of Parliament have taken on jobs as public relations men and lobbyists for the tobacco companies. [More…]
We have been fortunate enough to rear 2 young men who do not smoke at all. [More…]
Industrial Research Organisation which comprises a quite remarkable body of men, some of whose discoveries are of world significance. [More…]
The other is the technical research group in the Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]
Some of these improvements have already been established. [More…]
It is being done by our own Department in conjunction with the School of Electrical Engineering and Astronomy of the University of Sydney and the CSIRO. [More…]
Others have spoken of the affection and admiration which all men and women of the Bar and people having business before the Court held with abiding feeling for him. [More…]
His unfailing courtesy and attention to the arguments of even the most unable of the Bar signalised him as a man to whom genuine respect was accorded always. [More…]
Does the Government plan to heed the recent statements by the New South Wales Governor, Sir Roden Cutler, V.C., when he questioned the need for conscription? [More…]
Will the Government recognise that Sir Roden was speaking for the great majority of Australians who believe that it is time to scrap the National Service Act and release from prison the young men who have courageously defied it? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service been drawn to this morning’s Press statement from Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Daly, former Chief of the Australian General Staff, on the abolition of national service? [More…]
If so, does the Minister concur with Sir Thomas’ statement that such abolition would cause the disbandment of five of our 9 battalions, involving 4,000 officers and non-commissioned officers, and reduce the strength of the Citizen Military Forces by 10,000 men? [More…]
So an impact study is not merely a study that looks at whether one will conserve as much water by the growing of pines as by the growing of eucalypts but the whole effect on the environment and the ecology of the area. [More…]
Surely it is not too much to say in this new concept of environmental concern that is developing all over the world that this is a matter that should be taken into consideration in any developmental project where there is a danger of disturbance of the ecology or the environment by the contemplated commercial venture. [More…]
In New South Wales recently the State conference of the Democratic Labor Party opposed the development of the Boyd Plateau on the ground that it would be better to include the land in the proposed Kanangra-Boyd National Park. [More…]
I do not speak with great authority about it, but our conference did, and there were men .there who were intimately associated with the area and who knew something about it. [More…]
Apparently there was a reasonable and available commercial alter native to the projected development of the Boyd Plateau. [More…]
It is all very well for this Government to say that it is taking steps to reduce unemployment particularly in country areas; but, according to the New South Wales Government, as a result of financial stringencies imposed upon it by the Commonwealth Government workers in the timber industry are being thrown out of work. [More…]
The Tumut planting programme - that is in the electorate of Hume, a marginal seat - has been reduced by 3,000 acres and men have been put out of work. [More…]
The Glen Innes programme will not be expanded and the commencement of the Barrington Tops programme in the Gloucester district has been deferred by the New South Wales Government. [More…]
It seems to me that the various governments should provide a forest service to advise the first 2 categories that 1 have mentioned on the suitability of the sites for growing pines and on the proper methods for the establishment of forests and their management. [More…]
At present large numbers of professional foresters are being provided through the Forestry Department of the Australian National University. [More…]
I do not see why these men should be made available solely to the State forest services, as is the case at present. [More…]
But I am concerned that practically none of the farm foresters or investment forestry companies apparently can afford to employ them. [More…]
The State forest services so distrust the investment forestry companies that sometimes they will not even permit their forestry officers to advise such companies. [More…]
As the Minister said, there are men in this place skilled in this field who have brought their ideas to bear. [More…]
Surely those ideas quite rightly can find some fruitful operation and the effect of their presentation can find expression in an amendment carried in this place. [More…]
Since the time whe the 1967 agreement, the last agreement and the presently operating agreement, was concluded a completely new concept has emerged in the thinking of the whole world, including Australia, on the significance of environmental control. [More…]
It would seem that if that was not a concept embodied in the original agreement it is because it was not at that time considered to be of the importance that it is considered today to be. [More…]
Therefore it would appear completely logical that we should write this new concept, if we have the opportunity, into the agreement to be concluded. [More…]
I am unable to accept that as an interpretation of the action that my amendment proposes to take. [More…]
The official Opposition regards this amendment as a natural corollary to the amendment which we sponsored at the second reading stage. [More…]
Without being impertinent to anybody, I want to say at the outset that when I saw this united front tonight for the cause of conservation I thought of Leon Blum in the French Parliament before World War II. [More…]
I regard them as very dedicated men, but I believe it is a cardinal concept of the Commonwealth Parliament that if the Commonwealth provides the money it should have the overriding determination of how it shall be spent and what the ground rules shall be. [More…]
Naturally the honourable senator is saying that we should oppose the amendment. [More…]
But I am saying that the amendment is so confused I do not know what will happen. [More…]
One cannot simply cast aside the environmental considerations in clearing any site for commercial gain. [More…]
I have some doubts as to whether the amendment gives those protections because I am unable to interpret it properly. [More…]
The Opposition has indicated through its spokesman that it will support the amendment with all its imperfections, that has been moved by Senator Byrne. [More…]
The Bill will then be submitted to the other House as amended by this chamber. [More…]
I suggest that rather than leaving loopholes to provide picnics for legal men in the future, the Minister should realise the possibility that this amendment will be carried. [More…]
In view of its possible acceptability to the States and a change in the agreement, perhaps there should be a short adjournment of this question so it can be framed in a way that will eliminate all the anomalies which I see in the amendment and in order to avoid the necessity of court applications from time to time to explain what the amendment actually means. [More…]
I listened carefully to Senator Byrne’s proposed amendment which is supported by the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
I think we have agreed to put the amendment in a form in which it would be acceptable to (he Chairman. [More…]
Although I listened carefully I was unable to find myself in the slightest degree persuaded by Senator Byrne that we are not doing something which instinctively to me, in my understanding of what the Senate should do and the relationships with State governments in a federal system, is intrinsically wrong. [More…]
Therefore I am unable to support the amendment, either on behalf of the Minister or for myself. [More…]
: that State, forestry officers are capable and dedicated men and that no-one would want to suggest otherwise. [More…]
As someone who has had some activity in the Young Women’s Christian Association and who knows how that Association and its corresponding organisation, the Young Men’s Christian Association, work in serving the youth of our community, I realise that youth workers, who are close to the people in the relevant age group, have much to contribute in the way of giving information, developing education programmes and in actually taking these programmes to the people who can best use them. [More…]
They, too, hold in their hands the intelligent handling of our environment in the future. [More…]
We think of another age group and realise that drug dependency is a consolation to that species of man called woman, some of whom find intolerable burdens and pressures in social isolation and some of whom do not find personal fulfilment in their present role in our society. [More…]
They should not have to rely on government money. [More…]
If government money is provided there has to be supervision. [More…]
If there is government supervision the young people will not come to these places. [More…]
They want to go where they can receive help and encouragement and a bed for the night, if possible. [More…]
There is a home in Sydney, Wistaria House, which is run by a great doctor, Dr Stella Dalton, where men live while they are recovering from the effects of their dependency on drugs. [More…]
In my belief, we want this help to come from the people for the people, not from the Government. [More…]
In my belief, persons with a drug problem will not go to a government instrumentality for help because they feel that they will become names on a list of suspects, that they will be treated as probable criminals and that they will be followed for the rest of their lives or until the authorities can catch up with them. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General: Were passports granted to the 10 men recently killed in a clash with Yugoslav soldiers and, if so, could it fairly be said that the Australian Government’s failure to prevent this armed incursion against a state with which Australia has diplomatic relations was more detrimental to our international reputation than the use of passports by Australian people who are trying to establish, after years of governmental untruths, the real situation in Vietnam? [More…]
Fortunately, the diplomats who have come here have in almost every case been men of very high quality; there has been nothing to fear from them. [More…]
These magazines need the automobile company advertising but probably more important, they require the technical assistance of company liaison men for pictorial materials and the loans of cars which they test-drive and write about each month. [More…]
I have had drawn to my attention the statement made by the honourable member referred to. [More…]
There are 2 such men entitled to use VIP aircraft and one of them. [More…]
I think that they were a great achievement by the men who made them; the engineers who designed them; and the surveyors who surveyed them. [More…]
There is little doubt that in their own time the channels were something of a marvel for the amount of work and time that were expended by men and horses to construct them. [More…]
In my early life, prior to becoming a member of Federal Parliament, I always recalled the arguments that were put in another place by an early leader of my political Party. [More…]
I refer to Sir Earle Page who, I think it could be noted, was one of the men who led the arguments in Australia for great water storages and for the benefits to be derived therefrom if this country was able to provide sufficiently for many of its productive areas through the introduction of adequate irrigation schemes. [More…]
It is completely negative to say that the benefits that have been granted in so many areas to pensioners and to those on lower incomes, the benefits that will be conferred through the various social service measures or through an easing of the means test, through the repatriation benefits that are proposed, the child care benefits that we see before us and, indeed, the increase in the home savings grant that will be payable to the younger people in the community, are areas of influence designed to encourage a vote from the rich men in this community, if that is what the Opposition is attempting to say. [More…]
I would suggest that, if it is said that at election time a Liberal style of government would normally use some of its influence to encourage business, there is very little encouragement in this Budget for the business community generally. [More…]
I would think that that is one area in which encouragement should take place wisely. [More…]
Between 1930 and 1970 the number of factories in Australia has decreased, but factory employment has increased. [More…]
Therefore, in order to maintain full employment we have to put men into occupations in big selling staffs for the purpose of selling to the community the factory production of goods which the public does not need. [More…]
The company which the honourable senator criticises provides employment for 11,500 men, pays an enormous amount in taxation, which undoubtedly enables the Government to do that which it has done in relation to pensions and other benefits, and pays an enormous amount in sales tax and excise duties on the goods that it imports. [More…]
I say that the argument of the honourable senator last night was quite hollow. [More…]
23 August 1972 Adjournment [More…]
Senator Wriedt has suggested that we would not have men going to sea if it were not for the wages and conditions granted through our arbitration system. [More…]
I am not concerned as to the arguments of relativity in these respects but rather that, along with these conditions, should be a more responsible attitude and more awareness of the damages that are inflicted and the dangers to sea transport which will result from continued disruptions. [More…]
The final recommendation by the Committee was that the Government give urgent consideration to a scheme designed to enable shipping operators to finance shipbuilding on a deposit of no more than 20 per cent with the balance payable over 10 years at nominal interest rates. [More…]
In its consideration of the Tariff Board report the Government endorsed the Board’s comments that forms of assistance additional to the high level of building subsidy would be inappropriate and undesirable. [More…]
This was in response to requests for assistance made by the shipping industry for cheap loans, deferred payments for the purchase of ships, grants to operators and accelerated depreciation rates. [More…]
Having accepted a lift with 3 young white men, the 2 children were driven into the bush, followed by another 2 carloads of white youths. [More…]
Mr Albert Monk and other leaders in the trade union movement had very illustrious careers but the day has gone when a union leader can go out and meet 500 men and dominate them intellectually and physically. [More…]
When you go to any workshop site today and try to sell an idea to the men, whether it be the acceptance of a log of claims or anything else, it is pretty hard work. [More…]
Despite some comments that have been made here and elsewhere, these men have rendered magnificent service in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As young men they went out as patrol officers, health officers and agriculturists into the various parts of the Territory. [More…]
They are the men to whom much credit will be due when Papua New Guinea finally gains its independence. [More…]
Unless they have that assurance they will leave the Territory, and if they leave it will be disastrous to development in the Territory. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Bill types of men who were part of the Administration. [More…]
If we go back over the years, particularly the postwar years, and look at the contribution made by people who acted as patrol officers and district commissioners, we in Australia, as well as the people of Papua New Guinea, can pay a great deal of gratitude to these men who have spent their lifetime in some cases and many years of their lives in other cases to assist in the development of this country. [More…]
Many of these men have stayed behind in this country. [More…]
I was a little concerned when I heard Senator O’Byrne speak rather critically of some of these men tonight because of the fact that they had taken up land in the Territory. [More…]
For many of these men, this work has become their lives and in so many ways, Papua New Guinea has become their land. [More…]
They are making an important contribution to this country because, without these men firstly, going in to assist the development and the education of this country and, secondly, taking a stake in it to develop it and get commercial viability in certain areas, this country would not be in the situation that it is in today - moving towards complete selfgovernment and eventual independence. [More…]
There are men in Papua New Guinea who have virtually amassed a fortune in real estate there. [More…]
I would not accept criticism in regard to these men. [More…]
On the contrary, I would extend to them praise for what they have contributed to the development of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I refer to another area, as did Senator Sim tonight, and to many of the men in the Administration. [More…]
Although Senator O’Byrne does not like the word ‘tolerance’ I will go further and say that tolerance, patience, respect and, as I said earlier, wisdom will be foremost and that many of these men will be retained in Papua New Guinea when eventually it attains self-government because they can continue to make a great contribution to the further development of the country. [More…]
When speaking of increasing the number of Ministers in the Parliament of the Territory, accepting that the Territory is moving towards self-government, one must remember that the country is still a long way from development. [More…]
I am confident that if the members of the Territory’s Parliament to whom I spoke recently have their way they will progress slowly and with caution and so give their country time to develop. [More…]
My hope is that there will not suddenly come into areas of power men of impatience with perhaps extreme ambition who could bring tragedy to the Territory. [More…]
But I do not draw the conclusion from that fact that members of the Commonwealth Police Force find more encouragement and job satisfaction in being able to investigate the cases of people who, as I have said before, are welshing on their fellows by not undertaking the obligations which the National Service Act imposes. [More…]
I am quite sure that the Commonwealth Police Force is a police force of dedicated men who do their job to the best of their ability. [More…]
There is a tedium in the work of some of the uniformed men because it involves guard duties. [More…]
Before going on with the main part of my speech 1 shall mention just a few matters. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt made a plea in relation to 2 important issues, namely, unemployment and Commonwealth support for the States. [More…]
I point out that we have one of the lowest unemployment rates in the world. [More…]
When he was asked what he thought of the 2 per cent unemployment rate he said that in Great Britain it would be considered a luxury. [More…]
Let us face it: At the present time we have unemployment. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite always talk about unemployment but they will not do anything to stop the reasons for unemployment. [More…]
They have to do something about the employment part of their cost structure. [More…]
What they have done in many cases is to put men off. [More…]
Further, 1 rather resent - I use the word resent’ because J do not think that I could rind a word more appropriate to express my feelings - the continuous attack by the Government on the trade union movement for what the Government alleges is the sabotage of the Australian economy by the trade union movement. [More…]
The worker in primary or secondary industry is the person who produces the wealth of this country even though he may not use his brains to obtain better employment in the labour field. [More…]
I do not know why the Government continues to attack the worker. [More…]
Let us face the fact that the Government would be out. [More…]
Why the Government virtually kicks in the teeth the persons who support it is beyond comprehension. [More…]
One sits here and listens to attacks made on workers, on the trade union movement, on the President and the Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, by Senator Wright and Senator Greenwood who are 2 of the most vicious men in this chamber for attacks on the workers. [More…]
Perhaps it does appeal to the rich men among them. [More…]
This situation has been brought about only as a result of the high standard of men and women in those Services and the equipment which the Government seeks for the use of the Services. [More…]
A close and detailed study is made of all equipment available throughout the world that would be suitable for purchase by the armed forces of Australia. [More…]
When a piece of equipment is purchased, an end of life standard is placed on it and the Services try as far as possible to utilise it until that end of life standard is reached. [More…]
Before the end of life standard of a particular piece of equipment is reached, however, a detailed study is made of how long the life of that piece of equipment may be prolonged as a result of renewal of parts and so on, and whether it would be economic to prolong it for some years. [More…]
AllI can say to the honourable senator is that the Navy is keeping a close and detailed watch on its equipment. [More…]
No doubt it is fully aware of the available equipment in the world at the present time but it would have to be a matter of whether the Navy could replace or purchase the aircraft carriers about which the honourable senator is talking and whether this fits into the 5-year rolling programme. [More…]
I ask the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate: Is the Government aware that the United States Government has ended conscription in America and that no more young men will be called up after 30th June next year? [More…]
In view of the fact that the nation which we followed so disastrously into the Vietnam conflict has ended conscription, will the Australian Government now follow the same course? [More…]
Therefore, the Government adopts the attitude: ‘We must stifle that criticism’. [More…]
Government supporters, who favour the Budget, take the view that they must use up the time when the proceedings are being broadcast in the hope that they will gain support from someone who may be listening. [More…]
Today we have been engaged in a debate on the Budget and we are facing an election in the near future at a lime when the threat to the Government is the greatest it has ever been. [More…]
Therefore it is regrettable that men whom we have admired before for honouring arrangements, men whom we looked up to for honouring promises, sank to the degradation that we saw tonight in order to stop members of the Opposition who oppose the Government’s policy. [More…]
If Senator Carrick likes to come with me to the far west of New South Wales he will see men who used to be shearers and farmhands now engaged in burr cutting 2 or 3 days a week, or shooting kangaroos for 1, 2 or 3 days a week, in order to earn their livelihood rather than go on the dole. [More…]
He would then know the extent of unemployment in the western parts of New South Wales. [More…]
I suggest that he talk with officials of the Australian Workers Union, the Clothing and Allied Trades Union and the Australian Textile Workers Union who are very seriously concerned about rising unemployment in their industries as a result of increased imports. [More…]
On the day before the Budget was introduced the Press, using the Government’s own figures, stated that 112,000 men and women were out of work. [More…]
As Australians, we live in dangerous times for our country - dangerous only because this Government has been in office for too long. [More…]
History has confronted us with great problems as a nation but never so many as have been created by this Government. [More…]
The Government is composed of old men with tired minds and of young men with narrow minds. [More…]
The fact that the Government parties cannot find a leader is in itself deplorable because there are some good men in the Government. [More…]
There is no reason why the Government should not be able to find a leader. [More…]
I will deal with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee now and I do not want any Minister to get up and tell me what a wonderful body of men are on the Committee. [More…]
I do not want to be told that they are the leading men in Australia, because once they fall into the trap of accepting a position on the Committee they become civil servants. [More…]
I will not mention them today, but previously I have pointed out the innumerable mistakes that these men have made. [More…]
I will mention just briefly one of them. [More…]
When the Committee is doing something good the Government takes credit for it, but when it is doing something terrible the Government says: We have no control over it; it is an organisation by itself. [More…]
The education departments in the various States have attracted young men and women to undertake a course in teacher training by offering the bait of certain living allowances which generally are higher than those offered to holders of scholarships or attenders of universities In general. [More…]
Having weighed all the evidence that we took on this vexed question of bonds and inducements to students to embrace the education profession, the problem of retaining teachers in the education system and the problem of deploying them in remote, unattractive locations without the sanction of a bond, which many education authorities pointed out had been an important factor in persuading young men and women to teach in remote unattractive locations, and appreciating all the difficulties, the Committee recommended: [More…]
I commend to honourable senators and to all education authorities in this country the recommendations and the suggestions in the report. [More…]
I believe they show a sensitive regard for the feelings and aspirations of young men and women who are prepared to accept the onerous task of teaching children but who do not necessarily wish to be bound as bond slaves to a calling about which they may be tentative in their original approach. [More…]
I have had telephone discussions from time to time with Lady Anderson, the wife of Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson, the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
Lady Anderson informs me that the doctors recommend convalescence, to end not earlier than 25th September. [More…]
aware that more than a quarter of a century ago the Leader of the Government in the Senate underwent an experience which falls, fortunately, to the lot of few men and he requires this rest. [More…]
I support the motion which has been moved by the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Drake-Brockman). [More…]
It was especially frightful because throughout the long history of man this has been one of the occasions when men have agreed not to commit acts of war against one ‘ another and to hold those Games from ancient times in a spirit of peace and to suspend their hostilities during the period of the Games to permit persons to come and go freely and to participate in them. [More…]
Young men, driven by hate, took a suicidal position and died and, in dying, destroyed innocent people. [More…]
This was violent opposition against a law imposed by insensitive governments. [More…]
This was the base of the opposition and this was the base of the reaction against governments which permitted the entry of such a team into Australia. [More…]
No matter what the Government does to misinterpret this situation and no matter what Senator Gair does to misinterpret it, it is clear that those men who were excluded from the South African Springbok team were excluded for no other reason than the pigment of their skin. [More…]
Now I want to refer to 2 other matters which concern the Department of Health and then 1 might let the Department off the hook. [More…]
Then 2 men come on board the aircraft with canisters in each hand and they walk up the plane spraying and all the insects drop dead. [More…]
The latest census figures available show that more than onehalf of the men engaged on electric power works and transmission lines are migrants; that one-third of the men engaged on water supply and sewerage are migrants, and that from one-third to one-half of those engaged in building and building materials industries are migrants. [More…]
The honourable senator says: ‘Under a Labor Government’. [More…]
I heard the then Mr Robert Menzies say with great gusto that the greatest foreman any employer could get was a line of men waiting at the gate for another man’s job. [More…]
He implied that you did not need a foreman when you had other men waiting for a job. [More…]
This is one of the reasons why this pool of unemployment was created. [More…]
This Government has neglected them completely. [More…]
Yet we hear Senator McManus interject that the Labor Party conscripted men. [More…]
I wish that it had been declared so that we could get justice for some of these young men who have returned from it. [More…]
I thank the honourable senator for reminding me because I now want to tell the Senate that immediately on the election of a federal Labor government we are going to release all pol itical prisoners who have committed a breach of the so-called National Service Act. [More…]
I say here and now that these men who are in gaol have more guts than have some of the people in this place who are criticising them for their actions. [More…]
He has more courage and guts than these 2 honourable senators will ever have, yet repeatedly in this Parliament they have criticised that man. [More…]
We have decided to abolish the means test within the next 3 years for age pension eligibility for residentiary qualified men and women aged 65 years and over. [More…]
The purpose of privilege is to allow members and senators to expose certain things without fear of retribution from powerful men. [More…]
There are in this country powerful men who misuse the forms of government and who through the use of close association and by taking advantage of patronage gain for themselves an advantage. [More…]
My reaction would be that I believe it would be a drastic step if 4,000 men immediately lost their jobs, as the honourable senator said. [More…]
In a democratic society, as far as possible every person affected by government decisions should have an opportunity to play a part in the process by which these decisions are finally reached. [More…]
Reduction of the voting age to 18 would give these young men facing conscription a voice in the political process which will decide their future participation and involvement in our country’s political life and the chance to play a part in the governing of their country. [More…]
This is the key factor behind the rapidly spreading youth power movements here and abroad. [More…]
Surely those men and women who have comprised the standing committees and who have worked so hard, compiled reports and presented them to the Senate do not want the Senate to rise and an election to be held without some discussion having taken place on those reports. [More…]
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. [More…]
But part of our education system which has been extremely successful in producing very great men and women in Australia is the boarding school. [More…]
I believe that it is because of the neglect of the Government to utilise these facilities adequately in these areas that the problems of these people are so serious. [More…]
I believe that the Government and the Parliament must go out of their way to assist wherever they can to overcome the problems of children of the outback. [More…]
These problems concern families, the children of men and women from all walks of life. [More…]
He suffers a tremendous disadvantage when compared with his counterpart in a capital city or in the urban areas of Australia. [More…]
I have no objection to this matter being referred to the Standing Committee, but I regret that nothing was done by the Government in the last Budget to assist people to overcome their problems, as a result of which it has become necessary to consider a proposition of this nature. [More…]
While the fate of Lin Piao must be a matter of concern to all men, it is likely that if the matter were raised for enquiry or debate in the United Nations, article 2 (7) would be raised as a bar. [More…]
We certainly do not want to see dangerous machinery legislation invalidated for one moment. [More…]
We do not want to have working men deprived of their rights because of some doubt about regulations of that nature and purport. [More…]
It should be perfectly clear from our proposed amendment that we are not attacking the idea of validating such legislation. [More…]
As Senator Murphy has pointed out time and time again in discussing this exer cise that we are going through today, the real vice of this legislation is that it represents an abandonment of the rule of law by retroactively making criminal actions which were not criminal when committed. [More…]
As I pointed out yesterday, in the case of the Attorney-General and the other lawyers on the other side, we are dealing with men who constantly boast of their devotion to the rule of law. [More…]
This is a government whose members, we are told, differ from the prospective Labor government in being upholders of the rule of law and in being respecters of literal obedience to the law. [More…]
When pressed to highlight the significance of the phrase ‘the rule of law’, most jurists would emphasise 3 fundamental characteristics. [More…]
Well, the previous Bill was validating a situation in which many men had been put in gaol. [More…]
There is no argument about it, no matter what you might say now. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Attorney-General, is supplementary to that asked by Senator Douglas McClelland in which he implied that there have been no successful prosecutions resulting from bombing incidents. [More…]
Is it also a fact that both men admitted that their intention was to blow up the statue of Mihajlovich in the Serbian Orthodox Church in Canberra? [More…]
ls it a further fact that both men were sentenced to 9 months gaol? [More…]
Has the AttorneyGeneral seen a copy of the ‘Sydney Morning Herald’ of 6th July 1972 in which Mr W. D. Crowley, of the Victoria Police said that the police had seized explosives from a group of Croatian men who had tried to set up a training camp near Melbourne? [More…]
A number of men had been questioned and police were still investigating. [More…]
I ask also whether the Minister is aware that this report says that there was a Croatian group in Victoria opposed to the Yugoslav Government and consulate? [More…]
Will the Attorney-General agree that it is more urgent to prevent possible loss of life through bomb explosions and other Ustashi violence than to arrest young men who have the courage of their convictions? [More…]
Commonwealth Police have investigated allegations reported by the Australian Broadcasting Commission concerning the use of premises at the rear of a shop in Shannon Avenue, Geelong and that Croatian men and youths met in Geelong and proceeded to different parts of the You Yang mountains for training. [More…]
There is no evidence to support the claim that groups of more than 30 men met in the shop or slept in the shed in the backyard of a house behind the shop. [More…]
It does not seem any more remarkable to me that a man like Pavelic should attempt to do a deal with Hitler than that Mr Churchill and President Roosevelt should sit down at a later date with Joseph Stalin, one of the most evil men ever - certainly the most evil since Cromwell. [More…]
During one of my earlier speeches in this chamber in relation to foreign affairs I hinted that we would probably have trade and cultural agreements with Eastern European countries. [More…]
Some of the wild men on the Government back benches scoffed at the idea. [More…]
When the Government made that decision it should have been fully conscious of what it entailed. [More…]
I just wonder whether the Government realises how far some of the minorities here can step out as far as demonstrations are concerned. [More…]
Senator Negus referred to the fact that 2 young men have been arrested in Melbourne for allegedly having planted a bomb in the office of the Department of Labour and National Service in Perth. [More…]
We are going to have to live with the man in the hood for a long time; certainly until the present generation of terrorists, the Slack September men- [More…]
and the rest, has expended itself in death or defeat; and very likely longer than that, until the force that drives such men, the calculation that such methods can bring them what they want, has been disproved by repeated failure, and they have no more imitators. [More…]
It could take years, perhaps even the rest of the lifetime of people who are now barely middle-aged, before this phenomenon is destroyed, or destroys itself. [More…]
Until then we shall have to live with the possibility of men with concealed faces, and concealed minds, breaking with machine-guns and bombs into the normal life of many people in many different countries. [More…]
As Senator Georges knows full well - I do not refer to this in any partisan way - men, painters and dockers, have been murdered in Melbourne and others have been shot. [More…]
But we have received some assurances, and the Government has acted upon the basis that it makes no payment until after the expiration of 15 sitting days to see whether there is a notice of objection to the ordinance. [More…]
If objection is taken during that time, no such payment is made to the men to whom the ordinance made the payment due. [More…]
Therefore, if action were to be taken on an ordinance without Parliament having a say, it would be useless for the Regulations and Ordinances Committee to meet, consider the ordinance and move for its disallowance, inasmuch as the objection procedures would be carried out at such time as the ordinance would already be law. [More…]
By the action of the Government we continue on in this operation- [More…]
They told us about the adulterated grog which was made available to black people mostly by bad white men. [More…]
I give full credit to officers of the Department of Customs and Excise for the search they made to catch the publican who was selling that grog. [More…]
I should not have publicised the matter before referring it to the Department. [More…]
But to date the procrastinating Department in Queensland has not allowed the establishment of one canteen. [More…]
We arc now told that the Department is waiting for the regulations which will come down under the 2 new amended Acts. [More…]
I saw plenty of evidence of huts that I would not have called houses that had been built for Aboriginal stockmen to live in. [More…]
I do not criticise the Aboriginal people here, but because they had become accustomed to their environment they did not even leave the tin huts in the middle of the night but urinated against the wall until they had rotted the walls away. [More…]
I say that the medical men of the Department of Health in the Northern Territory today, who are collating the evidence, are able to fulfil a requirement by slowing the high infant mortality rate through finding out why it is so high. [More…]
Just prior to the rising of the Parliament for the last recess I went out on to the lawns outside Parliament House and spoke to my fellow Aborigines there. [More…]
I know from travelling around Australia, and particularly from travelling around my own State, that 90 per Cent of Aborigines in my own State, and perhaps throughout Australia, were not in favour of the idea of our young men camping on the. [More…]
lawns outside Parliament Honse. [More…]
However, Aborigines generally did not agree with our young men camping there. [More…]
They asked me to come to Canberra and to talk more along the lines of the Government providing for Aborigines a building in Canberra which they could use for a permanent lobby. [More…]
I was also negotiating with my fellow Aborigines on the lawns outside Parliament House. [More…]
I believe that it could have been successful if some of the so-called friends of the young Aboriginal people who were camped on the lawns outside Parliament House had left them alone. [More…]
I cannot recall seeing on the television programme which screened that incident any Labor men standing with arms jinked. [More…]
In the National Fitness Act 1939, provision was made for the establishment of the Commonwealth Council for National Fitness. [More…]
This body of 9 people was under the chairmanship of the Director-General of Health, or his Deputy, another representative from the Department of Health, a Government representative and a representative of each of the 6 States. [More…]
It was placed under the chairmanship of astronaut James Lovell who was provided with 14 committee men, 6 of whom were specialists in their field. [More…]
We are grateful that the Government has lifted the base income which attracts taxation from $416 to $1,041. [More…]
We recognise that the Governmentis aware that income tax has become out of proportion to Commonwealth revenue, and that is why the Commonwealth has seen fit to appoint a committee of inquiry into the taxation system. [More…]
One would have expected that to be one of the first things that a Liberal Government would have done when it was elected to office in 1949, not that it would do it at the end of its term of office, after 23 long weary years. [More…]
One can only assume that they are men of worth who are capable of carrying out this taxation review. [More…]
It was on 11th April 1972 that the Treasurer announced that the Government had decided to institute a full-scale public inquiry into the taxation system, but it took him almost another 5 months to appoint the committee. [More…]
One must comment upon the composition of the committee. [More…]
At the end of the 10 weeks introduction to Army training an open day is held at the camp which parents can attend to see the advancement of their children who have been conscripted into the camp. [More…]
Approximately 5,000 parents, sweethearts and wives of the men in training assembled at this Army camp last Sunday week. [More…]
It should never have been used in the Government service. [More…]
It was such that those present protested by raising their voices and shouting to the officer to treat these men like humans and not like animals. [More…]
Do you deny them the right to have a liberation movement, and the Czechs and the Poles? [More…]
I ask Senator O’Byrne and I ask the Labor Party whether they know anything specific that will in any way implicate the 2 men who have been named tonight with any kind of violence at all. [More…]
If the answer is no - and it is - then a terrible potential injustice has been done, because we have set up a star chamber here tonight, we have convicted these men by implication. [More…]
They have said that these men are leading members of the Croatian Liberation Movement, and then the Labor Party spokesmen have said it is the Croatian Liberation Movement which has caused this violence - that is what has been implied - and that these men are guilty men. [More…]
The AttorneyGeneral as the protector of freedom in this country has stood proudly in this Parliament to defend freedom. [More…]
The men named tonight have had no specific allegations made against them, and the people of Australia should know that that is so. [More…]
As a matter of fact, I agree with Senator Carrick and his comments about publishers who inflame people. [More…]
Mr Ubantick and Mr Menart are men who, while I do not say they are members of the Liberal Party, are active and prominent supporters of it in many ways. [More…]
If we accept that these men in this camp found it necessary to make attempts upon their own lives to draw attention to their shortcomings, this demonstrates that, in the first place, these people were not fit for service and were wrongly selected for service, lt is no use the Government simply trying to brush off these allegations. [More…]
1 do not know how many men from the South Australian Egg Board the union seeks to involve. [More…]
What concerns me is the number of times I have been questioned in this place about government action, both Federal and State, in regard to surplus eggs. [More…]
Statements have been made by some witnesses and by some independent people who have communicated with the Press, as well as by people who have published books and pamphlets, suggesting that some ex-servicemen - according to some of the writers, many ex-servicemen - bludge on the community. [More…]
Ex-servicemen as a body are basically an honest group of people. [More…]
They learnt it by suffering together and by making sacrifices on behalf of all their fellow men. [More…]
If some people try to catch the Repatriation Department they represent a very tiny minority. [More…]
In a national service ballot drawn recently, the birth dates of 53,000 men were placed in the barrel, and 4,200 were drawn. [More…]
If one looks at the new release issued by the Department of Labour and National Service, one can only feel ashamed at one’s own fellow Australians. [More…]
The lives of 4200 men - if the Government desires to become involved in a war again - may well be placed in jeopardy in a few weeks lime. [More…]
The Government turns them into gala occasions. [More…]
When one looks at the pension rates one must recognise, as Senator Keeffe rather grudgingly admitted, that because pension payments are free of income tax they therefore mean a greater sum in the hands of the recipients than they may bear on their face value. [More…]
I again express my pleasure that the invidious discrimination between officers and men has been eliminated. [More…]
They have, by direct statement, by inference and by criticism, alleged that the profession of the soldier was that of a murderer. [More…]
I am thankful that, especially in peacetime - of course, we take it for granted in wartime - there are honourable men and women who are prepared to devote their lives and their energies to the service of the nation in our defence forces. [More…]
One has only to consider for a moment the unfortunate ‘Voyager’ disaster to realise that in peacetime the men of the Navy are dicing with their lives for the benefit of the nation’s security. [More…]
The serviceman must be given fair and just treatment when he is no longer serving. [More…]
1 believe that this legislation, together with the .projected defence forces retirement benefits legislation, will give the serviceman and his dependants at least that degree of frugal comfort and security to which his endeavours on behalf of the nation have justly entitled him. [More…]
Honourable senators on this side of the House could have blown up Senator Keeffe’s argument, but it was not worth our while to chase all the hares that he put before the chamber. [More…]
The increase proposed in this Bill takes that pension to $48 a week, which will exceed the minimum wage less income tax deductions for both single and married men. [More…]
So, I do not think the argument Senator Keeffe advances is valid. [More…]
He talked about the way ex-servicemen are treated. [More…]
At the present time every one of those bodies is manned by ex-servicemen. [More…]
Surely Senator Keeffe is not saying that those men, who are men of great experience and who belong to ex-servicemen’s organisations in this country, will let the ex-servicemen down. [More…]
How many women and how many men are serving on the Commonwealth Immigration Advisory Council and the Commonwealth Publicity Council. [More…]
It is open for those organisations which have mixed membership to nominate either men or women to represent them. [More…]
It is said by BHP and by Tubemakers that, in effect, they have not had fair treatment in the supply of these materials, that they could have supplied at least part of the pipeline and the steel, that men will lose their employment because of the failure to allow them proper treatment in the tender, and that they could have complied with at least a great deal of the contract if they had duly been given the specifications and the proper opportunity to comply. [More…]
That statement was by a Mr John Avieson, who said that industry needed the order to keep going. [More…]
It is time the Government faced up to these questions. [More…]
It may be of importance to know in what form payment will be made for the steel. [More…]
Is it true, as is alleged on one side, that some 300 or 500 men will not gain employment which they otherwise would have gained and the steel and pipeline industries will be severely prejudiced in making plans for their future involvement in the construction of steel or pipelines for future use. [More…]
A national decision should be made on these issues in the context of what is to be done in the development and piping of natural gas in Australia. [More…]
I have great sympathy for many young men who 1 know in our affluent society. [More…]
Here we find an inequality and it can be applied to members of Parliament as well as to business executives. [More…]
The fact that companies can supply individuals with vehicles - this comment applies in the various areas which I have mentioned - provides a wonderful tax-free advantage. [More…]
The Committee then goes on to recommend the use of the constitutional machinery of an Interstate Commission which, it says, it might be desirable to set up with powers in this regard. [More…]
We know that under the present constitutional arrangements the States are very jealous of the powers they have in this regard. [More…]
What we as practical men should be debating tonight is the situation of the South Australia-Sydney pipeline and not debate on the assumption that the States will agree to surrender powers or that by some referendum the Commonwealth powers will be enhanced. [More…]
I mention that because it enters into the consideration of how we can expect the States to make agreements today. [More…]
The first thing I want to say about that is that Senator Murphy has moved this motion today in the wake of an announcement last week that if the proposed contract between the Australian Gas Light Co. and the Japanese companies goes ahead a ban would be placed upon the work by trade unions. [More…]
I believe that it is unfortunate that Senator Murphy can put himself in the position of supporting a viewpoint that has the purpose of paralysing all the potential elements of this proposal. [More…]
Of course, the Government always listens to the thoughts of Mr Short upon this matter. [More…]
What I want to point out is that it is inescapable that the whole policy of Labor has been developed to point up its purpose - that if it were to attain government it would be a government dominated by unions for the purpose of unions. [More…]
When we are faced with an accusation that the Government has failed to protect employment in this country in this respect, I ask honourable senators to bear these matters in mind: Firstly, the Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd has said that there is no likelihood of a reduction of its employment by reason of this matter. [More…]
That would take some 6 months and possibly it would provide employment for 250 men. [More…]
It is that employment potential which we all would like to see utilised in this country but at the present time there is no such employment group. [More…]
When the unions come forward and say that the Government should arrange for the contract to be given to an Australian company in order to gain that employment potential, which, as I say, would give employment to about 250 men for some two or three years I believe, the first thing we must take note of is that, if the Government does not do so, they simply would destroy the opportunity of working on the construction of the pipeline. [More…]
I believe work on the construction of the pipeline would be infinitely more rewarding to workmen than work in the pipe factory. [More…]
Australian men. [More…]
The Building of the pipeline will provide employment to many men in the local labour market, lt will provide ancillary requirements in branch mains for some hundreds of thousands of tons of branch pipeline. [More…]
Overall, it is a major business proposition generating employment and providing power facilities in a way which is typical of Australian development over recent years. [More…]
I respect them immensely. [More…]
But to say that men in the steel industry are facing unemployment is to fail to repeat what the steel industry is saying. [More…]
He said that he would go to the relevant Ministers and obtain statements from them. [More…]
But there were no answers, because the Government has no answers. [More…]
In fact, it has failed to take action to protect Australian employment and industry in the supply of the Moomba-Sydney pipeline. [More…]
It is clear that in failing to plan for the development of the transportation of natural gas throughout Australia it is failing Australian workmen. [More…]
Men such as Laurence Short spoke out with courage in defence of the entitlement of their members to work. [More…]
The companies concerned are in confusion because of the refusal of the Government to give any kind of guidance or leadership. [More…]
The Government has failed in this instance. [More…]
It is not unlikely that in an office like mine at a time like this when the place is full of Press men information will get out. [More…]
It concerns me very much that a senior military officer rather than the Minister for the Army (Mr Katter) can reply to accusations made by an honourable senator in this Parliament. [More…]
They referred to men who have been conscripted and called up for military service attempting suicide because of the conditions that have been imposed upon them. [More…]
A member of this Parliament, who has been elected by the people of Australia;, makes accusations in this Parliament. [More…]
It is not the Minister in charge of the Department who replies but the colonel who is in charge of the military establishment! [More…]
When that is tolerated by the Australian people and by this Government we will be at a very serious stage. [More…]
1 suggest to the Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman), who is sitting at the table, that he should confer with the Minister in another place to see that any reply that is given to accusations made in this Parliament should be given by him as the ministerial head of the Department and noi by some Army officer who is in charge of men, be they volunteers or conscripts. [More…]
The accusations that Senator Cavanagh made caused the Minister for Air last week to make the statement that he would call for an inquiry into the Army conditions at Puckapunyal. [More…]
After the Minister’s statement last week that he was ordering an inquiry Into those conditions- [More…]
It is my understanding that 60,000 national servicemen have been called up and have served. [More…]
They are examined by men who have a reputation in the medical world. [More…]
I think that men with suicidal tendencies will be found in the same percen tages in the community as a whole. [More…]
When the Minister for the Army is in a position to make a statement I feel sure that he will do so. [More…]
I am unable instantly to verify the date which the honourable senator attributes to the statement. [More…]
That statement was a statement of such aspects of the transaction as seemed to be material at that time. [More…]
I would have thought that it was quite appropriate and a fair and substantial statement for public information with respect to the transaction. [More…]
The matter was pursued then with innuendoes suggesting a personal involvement by the Prime Minis ter in this transaction. [More…]
The papers that have now been tabled show how absurd that suggestion was and now Senator Keeffe and one or two like-minded colleagues are teasing the matter out because they have discovered a technical breach of a Treasury regulation which was based upon the assumption that the division of the Department of Supply responsible for aircraft was keeping the division of that Department responsible for contracts informed of the matter. [More…]
They see in that expression ‘technical breach’ a means of attracting Press publicity to superficial matters which no reasonable assemblage of men or public officials would think it proper to waste further time in discussing. [More…]
If we have allowed our servicemen to vote at the age of 18 years, I believe we should give every youth of 18 years the right to vote because we should classify every youth in Australia as being willing, if called upon, to take some part in the defence of his or her country. [More…]
I am one of those people who know quite well that many men and women served their country just as valiantly by staying at home, with much sorrow, as those who went to foreign climes. [More…]
1 refer to this nonsense that we hear, that men in uniform at 18 years of age are children or kids. [More…]
I am disappointed that the Government arrived at this decision because I believe that these men who served their country in Vietnam or, if they were in the permanent Army, in Malaya, should be considered. [More…]
Why does the Government not concede that these people are just as much entitled to the same consideration as people who served in the 2 World wars. [More…]
I do not want to go too much into the fact that they were rejected from the scheme in 1965 and 1966 but what I am asking in this case is that priority be given under the existing scheme to ex-servicemen from Vietnam and those in the permanent Army before these dispossessed blocks are put on the open market if there are no applications from persons qualified by reason of service in the First or Second World War. [More…]
Surely that is not too much to ask the Government to do in consideration of the men who have served their country. [More…]
These men should be given some priority before the blocks are placed on the open market. [More…]
In the particular cases I have mentioned, if there are no applications by ex-servicemen from the First World War or the Second World War. [More…]
then surely priority should be given to ex-servicemen who have served either in Vietnam or in the permanent forces before any block is placed on the open market. [More…]
There is no great difficulty, as I see it, in the Government adding to the Act a provision to give this priority to those ex-servicemen. [More…]
The Minister for Air (Senator Drake-Brockman) has said that perhaps men who have served in Vietnam or in the permanent Army would not have had rural experience. [More…]
Surely the Government can do something to reward those who have served their country. [More…]
There is no great problem in amending the existing Act. [More…]
The Commonwealth does not ignore young men who have completed national service and who have had previous farming experience. [More…]
Many former national servicemen have asked me how they should apply for assistance, and no doubt every other senator has had similar experience. [More…]
The honourable senator can rest assured that, if there was a bigger intake of national servicemen and a corresponding demand by national servicemen with rural experience for farms or further assistance, the responsible Minister would be aware of this and no doubt would examine the situation and, if necessary, would make recommendations to the Government. [More…]
But on present indications there are only 30 to 40 such ex-servicemen in the whole of Australia in any one year and this number is not likely to become greater, as the national service intake has fallen in recent years. [More…]
I am not asking for an overall scheme; all I am asking for is that a provision be written into the Act to give ex-servicemen from Vietnam or men who have served in the permanent forces priority to available blocks before they are thrown on the open market. [More…]
The Minister said twice that in the whole of Australia there would not be more than 40 or 50 exservicemen with the required qualification. [More…]
I accept that, but I cannot understand why the Government is not prepared to make some provision for priority to be given to these ex-servicemen before a block is put on the open market. [More…]
I point out that most of the ex-servicemen settlers in the up-river districts of South Australia are First World War settlers and therefore are about 70 years of age. [More…]
I am confident that the young men who have returned from Vietnam or who have been discharged from the permanent Army are both young enough and able enough to work these blocks. [More…]
The Government should at least make it possible for them to apply instead of rejecting them with the blanket statement that they are not eligible and that, if there are no applications by qualified men who served in either the First World War or the Second World War, the block must be offered on the open market. [More…]
Surely the men I have mentioned should be given some priority and should at least have their cases examined. [More…]
Then, if the departmental officers believed they could not make a go of it, I think most of them would be satisfied; but they are very unsatisfied that their applications have not even been considered. [More…]
The least this Government should do is give them some consideration. [More…]
The people who were associated with the choice of this land for war service land settlement purposes, who worked in developing the pastures and in recommending the types of top dressing, the various fertilisers and the like to be used have succeeded only in developing a combination of circumstances which have broken the hearts and the financial standing of those who took up these blocks. [More…]
These men who have grown old on their farms have no alternative employment to which to go. [More…]
Many of these men who fought in the Second World War were 25 years of age or older when they obtained their farms. [More…]
These men are now well in their midfifties. [More…]
All we are drawing attention to is that research is being done, but because of the high mortality rate amongst lambs and wethers the objective of these exservicemen, the production of lamb and mutton, is being negatived as the result of some blunder in the selection and recommendation of the clovers to be introduced on these war service land settlement, farms. [More…]
As I said on a previous occasion today when dealing with the allocation of Commonwealth funds, we are not coming to grips with the fundamental financial illnesses that exist today; nor are we coming to grips with the morale problems suffered by these ex-servicemen. [More…]
Each year when we discuss war service land settlement, we find that the responsible Minister is quite sympathetic in expressing his views about the battle that these people are having. [More…]
When we visit these soldier settlement blocks today we should find that after 25 years of operation these men are relatively prosperous, established and secure. [More…]
Clover disease has been prevalent in Western Australia for lengthy periods and respected farmers - men of great experience - have had lambings as low as 25 per cent because of the clover problem. [More…]
But there has been no bungling in regard to the war service land settlement scheme. [More…]
The Department is trying to assist these men to overcome the problems. [More…]
Because of the falling value of primary products, the Government has allowed a partial remission of rents to the settlers. [More…]
I have spoken to the South Australian Minister of Lands and to the officers of the Department of Primary Industry, both in Adelaide and in Canberra, by telephone. [More…]
That is why I want the Act to be amended. [More…]
Surely it is not asking too much to ask for a slight amendment of the Act so that before a block is put on the open market the ex-servicemen in the categories I have mentioned - men who have returned from Vietnam or who have left the permanent army - at least have the opportunity of applying for the block. [More…]
If they did not qualify, I do not think anybody on this side of the chamber would have any argument if the block then went on the open market. [More…]
Dealing with the subject that is contained in the amendment, we feel that the whole matter of land settlement and primary industry in this country is something that must fit into the general pattern of the economy. [More…]
In the economy there should be a place for war service land settlement that has served this nation and its citizens very well in the past. [More…]
It has not always been successful, but in many areas it has been.It has given to men who have served this country in time of war and who have the necessary ambition and drive at lest an opportunity to see whether they can succeed in this area. [More…]
One viewpoint about the age of 21, which I think is supported, is that in British countries a person assumed adult responsibilities at the age of 21 because that was the age when young men were considered strong enough to bear arms. [More…]
In the business and commercial world today we find very young men occupying very senior executive positions. [More…]
We often hear that men are too old at 40 whereas in past generations men were probably 55 or 60 years of age before achieving any great responsibility in the business or commercial world. [More…]
Today men in their 20s and early 30s are holding very senior positions. [More…]
I think, one of the competent men in the Austral/an Labor Party, and apparently this is his view. [More…]
1 mentioned that matter only because I think that the Opposition is trying to tag on to this proposition in order to get publicity within the community. [More…]
I do not know whether men speak from experience, but I am putting to the Senate that in a State in which the Labor Party is in control a Labor Minister amended a Bill in the Upper House. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Treasurer aware that in making funds available to local government organisations in rural areas for unemployment relief the New South Wales Government is insisting that the local government organisations utilise the money only for the employment of married people and not for the employment of single unemployed persons? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that this policy makes it imperative for single unemployed people, particularly young men in country areas, to drift to the large coastal cities in search of work? [More…]
If any policy of decentralisation exists, does the Minister agree that it is being negatived by this attitude on the part of the New South Wales Government? [More…]
Will the Minister take the matter up with the Premier of New South Wales and ask that State to make funds available for the employment of both married and single unemployed people - a policy which I understand is carried out by all other States? [More…]
The Committee is reluctant to see the men concerned deprived of the pay to which they are entitled for any further period of time. [More…]
They have already been deprived of their rightful entitlement for over 2 years by the inefficiency of the Department. [More…]
It is for this reason, and not out of any wish to save the Department trouble, that the Committee is inclined to accept the Minister’s assurance that this will not happen again. [More…]
The Committee considers that it ought to give the Service departments one more opportunity to put their houses in order and overcome the administrative problems. [More…]
After the assurance given by the Minister, the Committee and the Senator have the right to expect that there will be an improvement in the area of the retrospectivity of financial regulations. [More…]
Three major tanneries have closed down in Melbourne in the past 3 years with 800 men laid off and other tanneries and manufacturers are threatened with closure. [More…]
In the case of one major tannery I have mentioned hundreds of workers could be thrown out of work. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed at senior levels of the Department of the Interior in the Central Office, Management Services and Property Division, Australian Capital Territory Services Division, the Australian Capital Territory Lands Division and the Northern Territory Division. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed as information attaches or senior executives in the Australian News and Information Bureau. [More…]
One woman and 123 men are employed at senior levels (above Clerk Class 8) in the areas of the Department of the Interior which now encompass those mentioned. [More…]
Fifteen men and no women are employed as information attaches or senior executives in the Australian News and Information Bureau. [More…]
Are the advertisements inserted in the weekend press by the Northern Territory Administration seeking men for positions as gaol guards for service at either Darwin or Alice Springs the result of complaints that the Darwin Gaol, in particular, is understaffed. [More…]
In August 1971 the Minister replied confirming the earlier advice that the stalling position in the Queensland Police Force was such that the State was unable to agree to continue participation in providing men for the Australian Police Contingent in Cyprus. [More…]
The resolution and the amendment which are before the Senate are both very important matters because they are concerned with employment in Australia. [More…]
Both of these men are adamant in their contention that this country needs a national guideline on the utilisation of natural gas and the establishment of a sensible pipeline network without the bedlam that has accompanied this development in other countries. [More…]
To give honourable senators an idea of how big a problem this is in the minds of the wide spectrum of the Australian people, I point out that the efficiency of industrial development and cheaper power and the provision of job opportunities for hundreds of Australians could easily be hampered and jeopardised without a national approach to this problem. [More…]
The Senate Select Committee on Offshore Petroleum Resources was able to obtain the opinions and the sworn evidence of some of the leading men associated with the oil industry. [More…]
One finds it hard to understand the reluctance of the Government to give any serious consideration to how it will best use this new-found resource. [More…]
The Government said in the document presented by Sir Reginald Swartz to which I referred previously that it will not permit, except in the most exceptional circumstances, the export of natural gas. [More…]
It is prepared to exercise some controls in these matters but when it comes down to fitting this into a national plan, the Government seems reluctant to take even the first step of planning. [More…]
It was pleasing to hear Senator Little draw attention to the fact that the trade unions, whose members’ livelihoods are affected by the inability of the Government to play any meaningful role in the matter of the pipeline, have had to move themselves into somewhat of a vanguard position. [More…]
Men of such eminence in the trade union movement as Mr Short of the Federated Ironworkers’ Association of Australia, Mr Garland, one of the joint secretaries of the Amalgamated Metal Workers Union and Mr Bevin, the federal secretary of the Boilermakers and Blacksmiths Society of Australia which has now amalgamated with other unions and formed the Amalgamated Metal Works Union have been active in drawing the attention of the Government to the grave consequences of its failure to recognise, failure to prepare and failure to plan for the needs of Australian industry in this matter of providing component parts for this very important new industry. [More…]
To come back to the point I am making, we are just not yes men to obey an outside body. [More…]
In addition to the work that Mrs McLean has done over the years to make young men of this nation aware of their rights under the National Service Act, quite recently she was responsible for the release of a statement calling for an end to the blatant bombing of women and children in North Vietnam. [More…]
This statement was signed by prominent Australians, including the Reverend Professor R. Anderson, Dr Max Charlesworth of the Melbourne University, the Hon. [More…]
Her action in releasing this statement within the last few days was highlighted by a statement released by Senator Edward Kennedy on 9th October this year when he said, as a result of testimony given by Major-General John Pauly, Vice-Director for Operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at a hearing by the United States Senate Sub-Committee on Refugees: [More…]
Is it a fact that this reference brought a passionate defence of these 2 men from Dr Cairns, ending in oleaginous adulation? [More…]
Is it a fact that Mr Gorton then asked Dr Cairns whether the 2 men were communists and that Dr Cairns said that he did not know and it did not matter? [More…]
Would the Minister not agree that, in view of his own statements on this programme, it is important in the national interest that telecasts should be accurate and that Australians should be made fully aware of communist influence on any political party, especially the Australian Labor Party and some of its members? [More…]
The Government’s decision to introduce means-test-free 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 free-of-means 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…]
Boys having to prove themselves before they are men and some of the physical things which girls are forced to go through as part of tribal rites are things which, if we leave the Aborigines alone, they will not try to bring with them across the bridge from the environment which they once knew to the environment in which it is inevitable that they must some day live, unless the fools in the Opposition force them to do it. [More…]
They were the sort of things which helped to sustain them in the environment in which they were forced to extract a living - which they did - and which would have caused many other races and many other nationalities to disappear from the face of the earth. [More…]
The understanding was that they would be introduced in the normal way and passed through - the Parliament. [More…]
I do not think that that is the way in which reasonable men would interpret what the Attorney-General has stated. [More…]
If it was, it was an avoidance of payment of a considerable sum. [More…]
Legal men may be able to distinguish the difference between evasion and avoidance. [More…]
Some of the men from those 2 organisations will be given jobs different from those which they are doing at the present time. [More…]
A tremendous amount of work will be involved in setting up the Corporation. [More…]
These men will face terrific problems in trying to establish and get the Corporation functioning. [More…]
I heard Senator Primmer say that a few moments ago. [More…]
Where men are employed to push the bales of wool around the store or something of that nature and they come under the Federated Storemen and Packers Union award they, of course, will be paid the award rates for that appropriate work. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed in senior levels of the Attorney-General’s Department as draughtswomen, secretaries or assistant secretaries. [More…]
How many women and how many men are employed as Deputy Crown Solicitors in State Offices of the Department and in senior levels of the Legal Service Bureau and as Chief Reporters in the Commonwealth Reporting Service. [More…]
How many women and how many men are serving on the Commonwealth Practitioners’ Board and the Board of Examiners of Patent Attorneys and in the Trade Marks and Designs Office. [More…]
(2) (3) There are no women employed in any of the categories mentioned. [More…]
A statement is attached showing the number of men employed in the categories mentioned in each question. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Attorney-General, relates to the 2 recent Sydney court cases concerning Yugoslav terrorists and statements made by the New South Wales Police and the victim of a bomb blast in Sydney. [More…]
Did the Attorney-General note the police allegations that the 4 men who had been charged were members of the Croatian terrorist movement called the United Croats of West Germany and that one of the men was president of the movement in Sydney and Australia? [More…]
Is he aware that all 4 men had been before courts on other occasions on charges of extreme violence? [More…]
Can the Attorney-General tell the Senate the extent to which the involvement of Commonwealth policy has included investigations of possible breaches of the Commonwealth Crimes Act by Croatian terrorists? [More…]
Police alleged that 4 men charged in Redfern Court today were members of the Croatian terrorist movement United Croats of West Germany. [More…]
I thought that many of the men in those 2 bodies would have similar jobs in the new Corporation. [More…]
There would be some men who would have to take up new positions. [More…]
Of course, there would be the appointment of members to the Corporation itself. [More…]
If the corporation is to do what the Opposition is asking it to do, it will have to finalise a plan within 4 months or so because it will have to present it to the Minister for Primary Industry and to the Australian Wool Industry Conference before presenting it to Parliament. [More…]
I might have commenced my comments on this Bill with a survey of this industry but perhaps it is not warranted in this closing stage of the Parliament. [More…]
But there are one or two points that 1 would like to mention. [More…]
The men who were in charge of the industry were able to take advantage of that and expand the market. [More…]
Difficulty has been experienced in implementing the scheme because of the necessity to include a means test as a way of establishing eligibility for participation in the scheme. [More…]
The argument advanced by the 2 previous speakers was not put on the basis that there should be no means test. [More…]
I think that the argument extends to the degree to which the means test should be applied. [More…]
In many industries we have seen men whose production was quite large and who had substantial assets behind them, but because their liquid situation was rather poor at a certain time they could rightly say: ‘Our financial position is difficult at the present time and we believe that we should be helped’. [More…]
These 2 men will go out on the hustings and will be presenting the Country Party’s policies and attitudes. [More…]
The honourable member for Riverina, Mr Grassby, and other Labor men who sit in the other place, together with members of the Australian Labor Party in this Senate who represent South Australia, have pressed for this action. [More…]
They are prepared not only to argue for it throughout Australia; they are prepared also to vote for it in this Parliament. [More…]
I ask honourable senators who want to see the end of this tax to vote for this amendment. [More…]
If it is not carried now I pledge that the Australian Labor Party, in the new government, will remove this tax from the statute book. [More…]
I am concerned that the Minister should get up and make an irresponsible accusation against the unions without an iota of foundation for the statement. [More…]
The Minister assures me that what he said in his statement has happened. [More…]
I can tell him of a number of employees who have resigned from the Department for other reasons, and I can assure him that the trade union movement will check on why employees have left the Department. [More…]
When a private firm can find all the skilled labour it wants, yet the Postmaster-General’s Department - which one would think would give security of employment - cannot attract men. [More…]
I have had protests from linemen in Adelaide because their jobs have beengiven to sub-contractors. [More…]
These are men who want to work in the Post Office and who will put up with industrial turmoil in the Post Office. [More…]
Yet one sees this insistence by the Department, which seems to be committed to overseas contracting firms. [More…]
There are still job opportunities for many more people in relation to the telephone service in every capital city in the Commonwealth if the Postmaster-General’s Department would employ them. [More…]
We see that there is a slight increase in the number of men employed. [More…]
Everyone had finished with the estimates when Senator Greenwood’s pet hatred against the trade union movement appeared. [More…]
The Minister made the statement that one of the reasons why the Postmaster-General’s Department is not attractive is the continual industrial turmoil which exists. [More…]
In effect it was an accusation that a public department cannot carry on its normal function in the normal way because of the activities of the trade union movement. [More…]
I should think that the Minister would have an abundance of information to back up his allegation against the trade union movement before he would make it. [More…]
But I have found that if industrial turmoil does exist in the Post Office and that is why the Department cannot attract new employees it is certainly not the reason for anyone’s terminating employment because the Minister knows of no termination. [More…]
An allegation has been made that this is one of the reasons why the Postmaster-General’s Department cannot attract men to its work force. [More…]
When we are dealing with the estimates of another department I will say something about statements which have been made by the Minister in relation to such questions. [More…]
If this is one of the reasons why we cannot attract employees to the PostmasterGeneral’s Department let us investigate it. [More…]
I ask the Minister what advertising has been done by the Post Office in the last 12 months to recruit new employees to the Department. [More…]
We may be able to find the number of people who have refused employment or the job opportunities which were not availed of. [More…]
I know of many people who sought to obtain employment with the Post Office. [More…]
So it would appear that there were suitable applicants as a result of an advertisement being inserted in the Press. [More…]
As the simple solution to any difficulty of filling the positions os to place an advertisement in the Press, can the Minister for Works honestly say that the Attorney-General (Senator Greenwood), who was in charge of the Bill which provided for the appointment of these men, was justified on 26th May in saying: [More…]
Earlier, by way of interjection, I mentioned Harry Bath, the New South Wales equivalent to Victoria’s Ron Barassi, in relation to physical fitness. [More…]
On one memorable occasion here no less a person than a man for whom I have the utmost respect, a former senator and a former Prime Minister, John Grey Gorton, objected when I questioned the appointment of a certain conciliation commissioner. [More…]
If we are to do more than give lip service to the importance of the role of conciliation commissioners, we should be certain that the men appointed are fit and able to do their job. [More…]
Senator McAuliffe asked whether these appointments were political. [More…]
It is not that, we believe that politics should play a part in any appointment. [More…]
The accusation now is that politics did play a part in these appointments. [More…]
When I raised this question I did not wish to denigrate someone who had received an appointment. [More…]
I still will not reflect upon the qualifications of these men at all. [More…]
But Senator Wright must remember that there are many on this side of the chamber who are Still active in the trade union movement. [More…]
My point is that by any test, there are men who would appear to have greater qualifications to fill these jobs than those who have been appointed. [More…]
If desired, we could name those men. [More…]
Can the appointment of these 2 men be justified on their capabilities in view of the capabilities of the 186 other applicants for these jobs? [More…]
The tests that could be applied to those seeking appointment to the positions include trade union experience, ability to negotiate, and experience in the settlement of diputes. [More…]
The appointments should ‘ have been decided on the physical and mental capabilities of the applicants and on their experience. [More…]
I do not know whether he is trying to say that there was something wrong with the appointment, that the Democratic Labor Party appointed Mr Saker or something like that. [More…]
I believe that Mr Saker was appointed wholly and solely on his very excellent record in the trade union movement and because at that time not only the Liberal State Government but also people in the working class movement had confidence in his ability to carry out the duties of that position in the manner in which he has carried them out for more than 10 years. [More…]
He has carried out his duties in the best traditions of the trade union and labour movements of this country. [More…]
His politics had nothing to do with his appointment. [More…]
I deprecate that paltry minded members of this Parliament grizzle about men being elevated from the trade union movement to some of the highest positions in the land. [More…]
These people may be mentally deficient - I sometimes think they must be in respect of political questions. [More…]
The Government has appointed to the arbitration tribunals men from the trade union movement. [More…]
It ill behoves anybody in the trade union movement to deprecate such appointments. [More…]
The Government made the appointments. [More…]
It need not have appointed anybody who had an active role in the labour movement in this country. [More…]
I compliment the Government on the broadness of its point of view. [More…]
I compliment it on the appointments it has made. [More…]
The reply went on to explain that the men who are qualified get an allowance of $15 for being competent in first aid. [More…]
I refer to that because there seems to be no solution to the problem of giving first aid treatment or ambulance attendance to isolated workers, particularly in the Commonwealth Railways. [More…]
But consideration might be given to an association between the Royal Flying Doc tor Service and the Commonwealth Railways in relation to lines the locations of which do not afford proper first aid facilities when men cannot be trained in first aid. [More…]
These aircraft are produced in a government aircraft factory and they are very suitable for outback conditions. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will arrange for the Department to give special consideration to what action might be taken to meet emergencies. [More…]
In such situations where first aid men are not available and nobody will accept training the Commonwealth [More…]
As Australian aid is given on a government to government basis, the opportunities for middle men in recipient countries to profit by it are diminished. [More…]
There are a Principal Registrar, a Deputy Registrar, a Marshal, 6 District Registrars and 7 Deputies of the Marshal of the High Court, all of whom are men. [More…]
How many women and how many men hold positions on the Australian Broadcasting Control Board, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Australian Broadcasting Commission News Service. [More…]
The number of men and women holding senior positions is as follows - [More…]
acknowledge the work that has been done by some of the excellent men who have led the Australian Council for Balanced Development. [More…]
Those gentlemen have played a great part in having this legislation introduced. [More…]
Mr G. V. Lawrence of the Murray Valley Development League has been prominent among those who have worked towards decentralisation. [More…]
I think the comments of all honourable senators who are interjecting are correct. [More…]
Senator Gietzelt referred to the proposed meeting of Premiers with the Federal Government as a rare dish. [More…]
A meeting of men of such ability will be to the advantage of Australia in forming a two-fold approach to rational development of the urban areas of the great cities. [More…]
1 do not envisage an immediate reversal of the development of the suburban areas of Melbourne but there may be a new approach to the allocation of people. [More…]
Commonwealth and State government offices will be encouraged to go to centres such as the Wodonga/ Albury centre. [More…]
The most important thing is that 2 weeks after I made these statements in the Senate a gentleman who works hand in glove with the 3 people whom I mentioned and who is a very close associate of the 3 men was at a function that was attended by my parliamentary secretary. [More…]
I want you to tell him that if he continues to make in Parliament these allegations about my friends or mentions me in the Parliament in future he will be dead within 2 years - 6 months on either side’. [More…]
As if that was not bad enough, 3 weeks ago after I alighted at Mascot from an aircraft from Brisbane and while I was in a queue waiting to re-book to Canberra, I was approached by one of the 3 men whom I had mentioned in the Parliament, and a conversation transpired. [More…]
Before the suspension of the sitting I was expressing concern that individuals whom I mentioned in the debate on the Queensland Grant Bill in May were allowed to continue with their intimidation and standover methods not only against other people in their profession but also now against a senator of the Commonwealth Parliament. [More…]
One would have thought that these men would have heeded the warnings that were given to them in this Parliament last May, that they would have mended their ways and started to behave themselves. [More…]
I take into consideration that this happened in the early hours of the morning when the patience and tolerance of honourable senators had been severely tested by the reading of 9 lengthy documents. [More…]
But at the same time I cannot let what he had to say go unanswered because the people to whom I have been referring, or their agents, have circularised in Queensland, to my embarrassment, Senator Wright’s remarks that I was cowardly in my action. [More…]
The company has suspended operations and, as a result, 1,200 men have been dismissed from their jobs. [More…]
The trade union movement and the ALP in Queensland accept that there has been an excessive number of disputes at Gladstone. [More…]
It behoves the Commonwealth Government, the Queensland Government and the Gladstone Town Council to shoulder their responsibilities, do some planning and arrange some finance to alleviate this position. [More…]
There is a responsibility on the tripartite system of government - local. [More…]
They should join forces with the local authority, the State Government and the Commonwealth Government in planning, making finance available and providing the workers of this town with decent living conditions - housing and hostel and caravan parking. [More…]
If they did this they would eliminate the industrial unrest that is worrying not only the people of Gladstone - the men and their families - but also the State of Queensland generally. [More…]
They are just as much concerned with the issue of women in society. [More…]
For too long men in legislatures such as this Parliament have been prepared to compel women to stay at home and occupy themselves with domestic duties. [More…]
While most women who work are forced to do so for purely financial reasons, large numbers of them are seeking employment for other than financial reasons. [More…]
They are seeking mental stimulation in an effort to break out of the kitchen, bedroom and vegetable bonds in which men of the past have kept them. [More…]
Every assistance must be therefore given to women wishing to break out of the traditional housewife role. [More…]
As I said earlier, it is disgraceful that the commencement of any initiative has not occurred until the end of 1972. lt may seem ridiculous to be talking about women’s rights in 1972, but it is even more ridiculous that there is a need to do so in 1972. [More…]
While there is a shortage of places in child care centres, we agree that priority should be given to the children of working mothers and that special arrangements should be made to enable the closest relationship between the working mother and the child. [More…]
However, in the long term, when these shortages are overcome I feel that free child care centres should be available to all mothers so that those who wish to pursue careers and interests in the same manner as men may do so. [More…]
The provisions of this Bill in our view are totally inadequate and display just how out of touch the Government is with trends and sociological changes occurring in Australia and all over the world. [More…]
We suggest that the Senate consider the amendment that we have proposed because it will place the question of priorities rather than the needs of industry in the forefront. [More…]
I am further informed that on 13th Octoberthe men returned to work and negotiations recommenced. [More…]
As a result of these further discussions between the parties it is understood that agreement was reached on all matters in dispute and a consent award will shortly be made. [More…]
I understand that the current petrol supply situation is satisfactory with immediate requirements being met and that the position is slowly returning to normal’. [More…]
Around 200,000 ‘names’ are checked each year by my Department to see if they are recorded as registered. [More…]
Where men are found not recorded either as registered or previously checked or require further identification, further checking is necessary to: [More…]
Between 1st January 1968 and 30 June 1972 9,013 men had been denied the benefit of the ballot and prosecution action had been taken against 1,625 of them. [More…]
The information sought is not available because separate records are not maintained of subsequent action in respect of men denied the ballot. [More…]
Action towards their call-up proceeds in the same way as with men balloted in. [More…]
What warrants a capital grant in respect to land, building or equipment, how much shall be granted and to what organisation it shall be granted are all matters which are the subject of the Minister’s approval. [More…]
Of course, the Minister’s aproval generally means the approval of the Secretary of the Department, acting on the reports o officers of the Department. [More…]
The information the Secretary of the Department receives in reports that may not be appropriate. [More…]
While I am reluctant to raise this matter, the making of these grants is wide open to abuse by officers of the Department who make the inspection and report upon the subject. [More…]
There is always among a body of men the possibility of corruption in such matters. [More…]
He stated clearly that these 5 men advocated the use of marihuana. [More…]
I seek a withdrawal, especially when such an allegation comes from a man like Senator Little and by way of interjection from Senator Gair, because these men, who on a variety of occasions can see nothing wrong with getting stoned on alcohol or puffing themselves to death, can turn round- [More…]
This Parliament and State parliaments have legislated for increased penalties to be provided against the polluters. [More…]
There is no way in which the professional fishermen can receive just compensation for the loss which they sustain because of oil pollution. [More…]
The losses amount to thousands and thousands of dollars, not only in relation to their catches that have been rejected but also to the equipment that has been ruined because of the oil pollution and other types of pollution by the oil industry. [More…]
We now have a chance to legislate at Commonwealth level to put adequate compensation clauses ir the legislation, not only relating to the big people that are losing but also the small men. [More…]
I do not want to hear the nonsense that States have certain rights and the Federal Government has certain rights because the Commonwealth has deliberately dodged its obligation to bring down legislation in this area. [More…]
At least 2 members of the Liberal Party in another place crossed the floor because the Government failed to face up to its responsibilities in this matter. [More…]
I sincerely hope that the amendment will be a deterrent to the owners and masters of tankers who pollute areas while their vessels are at the wharves. [More…]
The hearts of many of them have been broken and they have had to leave the industry because of lack of action on the part of both the State and Federal governments. [More…]
I understand that the Torres Strait Islanders were part of a light infantry regiment that was raised in that area on the same basis as the CMF. [More…]
The main requirement for the granting of a war service loan is that a member of the Services must have served overseas. [More…]
All honourable senators know of any number of men who served during the 1939-45 war who are not eligible for a war service loan. [More…]
I should like to associate the Country Party representatives in this place with the tributes which have been paid by both the Leader of the Government (Senator Murphy) and the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers). [More…]
While I knew personally all 4 men to whom they have paid tribute, I did not have the opportunity of working very closely with them because they all served in another place. [More…]
However, I agree that any man who represents his electorate or his State in Parliament must have proved to his electors that he is hard working and prepared to represent them. [More…]
He was certainly a great representative for the seat of Perth in the Parliament, and I believe he earned himself a great reputation in Western Australia by working for the slow learner group in that State. [More…]
Both men came from humble rural beginnings in the United States heartland. [More…]
Mr President, both men provided a great service to the free world democracies and both will be long remembered by those who support liberal, free institutions as opposed to the militant, illiberal and degrading institutions of the communist world. [More…]
It will be interesting to see how history judges these 3 men because Mr Pearson took a somewhat different line from that followed by the 2 great American Presidents. [More…]
He was a firm believer, as Senator Murphy has mentioned, in the use of the United Nations to bring about world peace. [More…]
I think history is yet to judge which of these 3 men followed the best course of action. [More…]
The Opposition joins with Senator Murphy and supporters of the Government in extending its sympathy to the relatives of those 3 deceased gentlemen. [More…]
Mr President, the members of the Australian Democratic Labor Party desire to join with the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) in the sentiments they have expressed regarding the 3 gentlemen who have recently gone to reap their eternal reward. [More…]
However, I believe that it can be said with safety that both American Presidents about whom we are speaking were men of great character, great fortitude and great determination and men who had a genuine sympathy for the less fortunate sections of their own country and other countries. [More…]
Both Harry S. Truman and Lyndon Johnson were thrust into the presidency of their country, and both men were able to win election in their own right. [More…]
I know that President Johnson was responsible for the passage through the American parliament of more legislation granting civil rights and fighting against poverty than was any other President. [More…]
On behalf of Country Party senators I extend to the families of the 3 men our deepest sympathy. [More…]
For better industrial relations, for the training of skilled men and for the protection of employees one of the considerations to be looked at in allocating contracts will be whether the firm is a notorious subcontracting firm or a day labour employing firm. [More…]
About a fortnight ago I visited the Torres Strait area and talked to the chairmen of the islands. [More…]
There are 3 chairmen in the different groups of islands, all very able men who speak for their people. [More…]
The article begins with this statement: [More…]
The men and women on the Torres Strait islands do not want the Australian Government to give away their birthright that was given to them not by man but by God. [More…]
The wise old gentlemen to whom I was referring when I was so rudely interrupted said that they have a problem. [More…]
Of course they have an equal right to say whether they want the boundary moved.I do not believe that any government would be entitled to act otherwise.I am amazed that alleged Australian Labor Party men would deny them the right of having a say in their future.I am amazed that these islanders are to be treated with utter disdain and contempt. [More…]
This attitude confirms the deterioration that has taken place in the Labor movement since I was in it. [More…]
A lot has been said from honourable senators on the Government side. [More…]
We have had tremendous numbers of capable men and women leave Queensland because they have been blacklisted. [More…]
Obviously hospital boards will be yes men for the Minister and Government policies. [More…]
The Townsville General Hospital is an outstanding example of departmental neglect. [More…]
The type of doctors who serve in Queensland under the public hospital system are highly qualified and highly dedicated men and women, so there is no criticism of them either. [More…]
But there is tremendous criticism of Mr Tooth, the State Minister for Health, who has carried out a toothless campaign, if 1 may use that phrase, ever since he was appointed Minister. [More…]
He has been severely criticised in his own government and he has been criticised by medical experts all over the State and all over this country. [More…]
When you read those documents you will see that the officials of the AWU are inclined to feel the same way about it.I am not interested in who the guilty party is butI am asking the Minister for Minerals and Energy to intervene and to place an embargo on the products of the V.C. [More…]
Every honourable senator here knows that I am critical of any State Government, irrespective of its political colour, if it does not face up to its obligations. [More…]
In this particular instance these men had not been in Australia very long and as the correspondence from the AWU indicates, there has been earlier litigation. [More…]
Does the Minister not agree that no matter what barbarities we may have committed against its original Latin derivation the term ‘media’ would normally be understood by simple -men to include the daily newspapers? [More…]
For the first time these officers and men have been related to their counterparts in civilian employment, [More…]
The death penalty was carried out on 2 occasions in the Northern Territory, once in 1913 and again in 1952, where 2 men convicted of murder were hung. [More…]
None of the unions which ‘ are beneficiaries under the determinations could be accused of imposing levies for donations to political parties, as was mentioned in. [More…]
Various organisations outside the trade union movement apply particular tactics in relation to the obtaining of and feeding in of donations to political parties.- That does not apply to the trade unions mentioned - in. [More…]
As a former shop steward, 1 cad assure the Senate that sometimes we have been a little liberal in providing legal assistance to men who technically owed more than one year’s dues. [More…]
Is the Government holding any hopes of substantial trade relations with China? [More…]
Is the Government aware that the overseas trade figures for Taiwan are slightly better than those for the whole of Red China and mat such trade is conducted by free men? [More…]
If this is so, will the Government in the exercise of its independent foreign policy seek Chairman Mao’s permission to set up at least a trade mission as has been done by Austria, Belgium and other countries? [More…]
I wonder what those young men who were subjected to the administration of the National Service Act by Senator Greenwood, as Attorney-General, would have to say about that. [More…]
As Attorney-General he pursued the Act with such zeal that he persecuted, prosecuted and jailed young men who had the temerity to exercise the freedom he now suggests ought to be available to all and sundry. [More…]
I hope that all those good ladies of the Women’s Electoral Lobby are listening in because Convention No. [More…]
100 concerns equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value. [More…]
That Convention would not support that part of the Labor Party platform and the Government’s policy which has the effect that pregnant women who are unionists are first class citizens and are entitled to extensive maternity leave but pregnant women who are non-unionists are second class citizens and are not entitled to maternity leave. [More…]
100 in Hansard tomorrow they will find that the term ‘remuneration’ which relates to equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value includes the ordinary, basic or minimum wage or salary and any additional emoluments whatsoever payable directly or indirectly. [More…]
I emphasise the words ‘all workers’; without qualification - of the principle of equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value. [More…]
I can fully sympathise with those decent trade union leaders who want more people in their unions, who want more money for their unions and who, as one Government Minister said, need it because unionism is becoming more costly. [More…]
Let us reflect and remember this: Of all the men and women in Australia who are eligible to join a trade union, despite the abilities of the trade unions to bring their facilities to the attention of these people, approximately half of them at this moment have elected not to join. [More…]
Whether it has regard to hours, annual leave or equal pay, let us not forget that all women are equal with men except that some women, being unionists, are more equal than others. [More…]
All pregnant women are equal, but pregnant women unionists are more equal than unpregnant women. [More…]
The whole of the ILO conventions are based not only on the fundamental acceptance of the Declaration of Human Rights but on the freedom of the right of people to organise, and the freedom of the right of people to organise means the freedom if they wish, not to organise. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that under the guise of claiming that they are helping decent Australian working people - men and women - and under the unqualified promises in the policy speech regarding extra leave, equal pay and extra maternity leave, there now emerges the proposition that you must read the policy speech together with the platform; that all these matters are qualified. [More…]
I leave it to the Senate to judge the legal acumen and the accuracy of analysis of members of the Opposition when they are capable of a confusion as blatant as that. [More…]
How often have we heard purple patches of indignation from men like Senator Wright and the other members of the Opposition whenever unionists went on strike, because they were disputing the umpire’s decision. [More…]
I suggest that honourable senators should not be fooled for one moment by the emotional protestations, the high sounding principles to which honourable senators opposite have given voice in the course of this debate, but that they should treat this motion in the way it deserves to be treated - throw it out and allow the determinations of the Public Service Arbitrator to stand. [More…]
How many times does this question have to be asked of Government supporters? [More…]
I hear only 2 honourable senators sitting in the back benches on the Government side attempting to deny that what those 2 men said did not embrace the whole truth. [More…]
It is regrettable that the Opposition has to come into this place and point out to the Government that 2 of its leading members, the Prime Minister in particular, may have treated the truth a little lightly when indicating that all Commonwealth public servants were to be given 4 weeks annual leave. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the fact that the use of concrete sleepers as against timber sleepers by the Commonwealth Railways may have a very serious impact upon the timber industry in Western Australia and create a great deal of unemployment in that industry, estimated at 300 men? [More…]
If so, what does the Government intend to do about it? [More…]
He remained a member of Parliament until the division occurred in the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Bill Bryson was one of the kindest and most courteous men that I have known. [More…]
He was a man of tremendous courage and although for what he believed in he sacrifices a very promising political career, I never at any time heard him complain about the results of what he did. [More…]
Ever since that time every progressive move of the trade union movement has been opposed by the Conservatives. [More…]
Men they called the stick orderlies were selected for the job because they could not afford to take their annual leave - and the rest of the men starved over the Christmas period. [More…]
They are here to make political propaganda They have posed in this Parliament as the saviours of freedom, the freedom of people. [More…]
In view of the fact that working women who receive pay and status equal to that of a male worker can retire at age 60 years and receive the old age pension, when equal pay becomes the rule in this country will the Minister consider reducing the retiring age for the male to 60 years instead of the present 65 years? [More…]
This would seem particularly fair when we consider that women outlive men. [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 is the penalty visited on them by the blundering economic policies of the last Government. [More…]
One of the most objectionable aspects 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 practised by mean men for too long. [More…]
It has reached the point where it understands that it cannot go on indefinitely expanding its industry and trade at the price of the environment, its people, pollution, urban overcrowding and urban under-development. [More…]
I want to pay a particular tribute in the Senate to the Japanese Ambassador in Australia, who of all men has been most helpful, and, secondly, to Mr Kinase who was then a counsellor of the Japanese Embassy and who became our friend and very great helper. [More…]
I should at this stage make some mention of the powers and function of the Parliament. [More…]
I believe that the powers and function of the Parliament should transcend any Party political considerations. [More…]
All Australians pin their faith on their parliamentary system and on the power of their representatives, and they are very jealous of their heritage. [More…]
It is dangerous to tell the people that a parliament will exceed its constitutional powers. [More…]
I point out to people, and particularly to the Premier of Queensland, that the Constitution has given Parliament authority to make laws in certain directions beyond the limits of State control. [More…]
These powers have been conferred upon the Parliament; they have not been conferred on any Party political organisation. [More…]
Yet there are men in the community who, to gain some slight political advantage, are prepared to inflame the minds of the people by suggesting that the Government will exceed its authority and will flout the expressed will of the people. [More…]
We have an abundance of talent in Australia - men who have made their mark on a national and international level by their energies and efforts through activity medicine or through the Australian Sports Medicine Association. [More…]
I seriously suggest to Ministers in the Senate that they suggest to their colleagues in the Cabinet that serious consideration be given in the near future to upgrading and reconstituting the National Fitness Council of Australia so that it can function in accordance with the requirements of the 1970s. [More…]
My Government is determined that the men and women of the Australian work force will share fairly and fully in the nation’s prosperity and productivity. [More…]
During a recent debate on the motion for the adjournment of the Senate I said that in 1973 a group of 4 men was still waiting for 8 weeks pay for work which they slugged out in the heat at Dampier Sound last year. [More…]
There has been mention in this chamber of federal intervention. [More…]
My colleague the Federal Minister for Immigration, Mr Grassby, intends to set up in the near future in Perth a citizens committee which Mr Joe Berinson, the member for Perth, will chair to try to energise that State Government. [More…]
The proliferation of federal agencies shows that we are sick and tired of all State governments using so many rubbishing arguments to explain why they do not do something. [More…]
From this one can draw only 2 inferences: Either Mr Barnard was so inept and inefficient that he did not know what he was putting down and therefore what he put down did not represent the policies of the Labor Party in Government, or, since Dr Forbes moved his amendment the Left has put pressure on the Government so that Senator Willesee now espouses a different line. [More…]
I think we all recall those days of the leaders of the Labor Party standing outside the Hotel Kingston waiting for their instructions from the 36 faceless men. [More…]
In a new Government with an inexperienced Ministry he should divest himself of the very serious responsibilities of being Foreign Minister and devote himself to making his Ministry work smoothly. [More…]
Mr Whitlam, as Prime Minister in a new government with inexperienced men, should be in the country doing the job of Prime Minister, taking control of everything and keeping everything in hand. [More…]
I believe that if steps were taken by the Australian Labor Party to place the Foreign Ministry in other hands and allow the Prime Minister to concentrate on his main task, and if Mr Barnard were given some relief, the Labor Party would find its program functioning much better than it is at the moment. [More…]
Mr Marshall Green was one of the great men who, over the years from Sukarno to Suharto, did more than anyone else to bring about the stability and the non-Communist character of Indonesia. [More…]
So insensitive was Mr Whitlam, our Prime Minister and our part-time Foreign Minister to an understanding of Indonesian history that whilst making a proper gesture of putting flower petals on the graves of the dead generals, he talked about bringing mainland China into a rapprochement with Indonesia. [More…]
What has happened in relation to this document is this: The Labor Party, having come to government, has had to come to terms with the truth, a difficult thing for a Party that has behaved, as I say, like a rogue elephant. [More…]
It has said in this first document in the clearest terms that what the successive non-Labor governments - the successive Liberal and Country Party govern ments - did regarding the basis was absolutely right. [More…]
Let me test these statements: Has the ALP said, whether in the Barnard version, the Willesee version or the caucus version, that it has looked at this base, that it is a threat to Australia, that it does not involve a question of dialogue with the United States or any other nation, that it must be removed from Australia because it is a threat to Australia or that it is an aggressive, dangerous war machine? [More…]
The reason is that the Prime Minister knows that the men who want the job are completely untrustworthy and would do great damage to the Party and to Australia. [More…]
The present dilemma of the Government in another place, in its difficulty over press secretaries, lies in the fact that the Minister for Defence has not 5 jobs but 6 jobs. [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 Deputy President, the Government is committed to abolishing the means test within the life of this Parliament, but 1 will not dwell on that particular point at the moment. [More…]
The Bill before the Senate 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 whilst 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…]
We all know that during the period of what was sometimes known as the ‘dumbvirate’ the Labor Government was able to effect all sorts of changes because they did not have the squabbling and fighting which has been going on since the Government has consisted of more than 2 men. [More…]
But not withstanding even that fortnight, I do not think the Government can possibly claim to be responsible for the fall in unemployment figures. [More…]
I think I can say proudly that it is only as a result of the overall sound economic management of the Liberal-Country Party Government in the past 23 years that this country is able to provide the extra $126m a year needed to grant the increases provided for and welcomed by the Opposition in this Bill. [More…]
He sought in his second reading speech to criticise the previous Government. [More…]
Among the numerous statements he made - I will read some of them - were the following: ‘seriously unjust’, ‘objectionable forms of discrimination’, ‘ending the punishing meanness with which unemployment and sickness benefits were paid’, ‘no more poor house alms giving mentality’, ‘official meanness’, ‘invective in suffering’, ‘social casualties of disastrous economic policies’, ‘meanness of unemployment benefit rates’, ‘blundering economic policies of the last Government’, and actions by mean men for too long’. [More…]
I do not think that those comments are reasonable in these circumstances when in fact this Government is able to act at the present time because it has inherited reserves provided by the former Government. [More…]
This socialist Government is acting on the basis of the reserves it inherited at an early date in December 1972. [More…]
Having regard to the present circumstances and the publicity on this subject I am wondering what type of employment may be made available to an unemployed senator. [More…]
1 do not know whether the employment offices would not say immediately: ‘We cannot find similar employment for you, Senator, therefore you must be given unemployment benefits immediately.’ [More…]
Thus we have available these 2 forms of encouragements which have been thought up by stupid men. [More…]
They will encourage individuals whom I regrettably see from time to time, poor men I see as I go to work of a morning, men who have slept in the city gardens. [More…]
Yet that is the basis on which this Government says it is entirely acceptable that he should be given immediately the advantage of unemployment benefits. [More…]
A third aspect of this Bill which does not meet my line of thinking is that a person on reaching 16 years of age should be entitled immediately to full unemployment benefits. [More…]
I do not suggest that all 16-year-olds are likely to take advantage of the $21 allowance which is payable as the unemployment benefit. [More…]
I suggest to honourable senators that all of us saw a variety of young people over the Christmas period who will fall into just this category, who are willing to join with two or three others on unemployment benefits and so live very well, thank you - and they are able to do so as a result of the wonderful actions of this Labor Government. [More…]
I do not think that it is in the interests of this community for it to provide a full unemployment benefit for the lad who cannot find employment immediately after leaving school. [More…]
I think that situation would be conducive to encouraging young men to stay unemployed. [More…]
I think it is regrettable that the Labor Government should have taken that initiative. [More…]
The Government has to contend with the problem of inflation in our community. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that the benefits it has granted should be made known to the community by improving the already excellent standard of the publicity leaflets that the previous Department of Social Service put out. [More…]
In attempting to control the situation of making payments only to those in the community in need, I suggest that the Government should consider making grants to those churches and other institutions which have demonstrated an interest in assisting and making their services available to the unemployed, the aged, the homeless men and women, those in the community who have suffered a broken marriage or children who have been left without parents. [More…]
The careful allocation of these grants to the extent of Sim or $2m to those institutions would be of great benefit to the Government and of immediate benefit to those people in whom they have demonstrated an interest in helping. [More…]
I congratulate the Government for some of the actions it has taken in this Social Services Bill. [More…]
I only wish that the proceedings of the Senate were being broadcast this evening so that the young men and women in Victoria, particularly those between the ages of 18 and 20, could have heard the address delivered by Senator Greenwood tonight. [More…]
The principal contractor, A and L Thompson, engaged 20-odd contractors and more than 1,000 men were employed on the job. [More…]
The terms of employment were based on a negotiated agreement between the contractors collectively and the various unions which had members employed on the job. [More…]
The agreement expired and was due for renewal. [More…]
When applications for unemployment benefits were lodged at the Morwell district office they were initially refused. [More…]
If honourable senators know the particular location in the State of Victoria they would know that there is no alternative employment available. [More…]
The men had to draw up their roots, leave their homes and take their families to the city in order to try to find employment. [More…]
They retained no equity for the investment which they had made in their homes. [More…]
Others stayed around the district and tried to obtain employment here and there, but as soon as an employer knew they were from W station they were refused employment, and this is a known fact. [More…]
In my view the Department - acting, I believe, on advice from a higher level - was attempting to bludgeon these workers back, to starve them to the point where they had to go back and to agree to the terms of employment, which were unacceptable to them, that were being offered by the employer. [More…]
I found that he had to rely on the advice that he received via the Melbourne office of the then Department of Labour and National Service. [More…]
Of course, we have deleted the national service element from the Department, In other words, the Minister for Social Services in Canberra had to rely on advice from his office in Morwell, which was transferred through the Melbourne office of the Department of Labour and National Service to Canberra. [More…]
Those men never knew why they were being denied their unemployment benefits, and there was no way in which one could test the reason for their being denied these benefits, which reason was given in secret by one department to another. [More…]
1 say without hesitation that it is a deplorable situation, and I would expect that the Labor Government will amend that section of the Social Services Act, to say the least. [More…]
He claimed that the Government had ended the punishing meanness with which unemployment and sickness benefits have been paid’. [More…]
He went on even further to say that in his view there will be ‘no more of this poorhouse alms-giving mentality which sees merit in official meanness and virtue in suffering, as long as it is in others’. [More…]
They do not reflect in any degree whatsoever the creditability of the program which the previous Government employed and which it put into action. [More…]
The Minister blamed the last Government for the bulk of the unemployment today. [More…]
He even went so far as to say, with the almost untried arrogance of the nouveau riche: ‘We have ended this injustice practised by mean men for too long’. [More…]
I am sorry that the Minister put this on record as his comments on a social services program which has been built up over a long period of years and, in recent years, with great intensity. [More…]
This Government has built upon that program and it has brought down a Bill which the Minister asks us to support in this place. [More…]
These statements, Mr President, I think you will agree, do not suggest for a minute that this responsibility for social welfare in our community under that Government were characteristic of what the Minister described as ‘mean men in practise of a poorhouse, alms giving mentality’. [More…]
I ask the Senate whether it thinks this Bill will stand up to the test of time in this Government’s administration and effectively remove all forms of injustice and inequality from the community? [More…]
The Govern ment has claimed - it has put down in chapter and verse - that it proposes to remove, and that it will effectively remove, all forms of injustice and inequality from the community, and it has pointed out that common needs deserve common rates of benefit. [More…]
Any discussion relating to social welfare and social security invites, of course, reflection and comment upon the means test. [More…]
I draw the attention of the Government to a statement made by a former Leader of the Labor Party, the late right honourable Ben Chifley. [More…]
I am aware that this extract I am about to quote is taken from a speech made a long time ago, in 1950; but Mr Chifley is often quoted in this House by members of the Labor Party, and they rightly regard him as one of their great men and a most distinguished Treasurer. [More…]
lt is interesting to speculate what would be the reaction of a Minister of today to that particular philosophy and to a statement like that. [More…]
Each government has tried and does try to do its best in this regard. [More…]
May I suggest to those honourable men that they themselves withdraw this motion because, after all, it is not a question of doing justice to any individual, whether he is a communist or not. [More…]
This had to be prised out by a Government senator. [More…]
Senator Rae, Senator Wright and Senator Greenwood who has left the chamber are also men of the law. [More…]
I want to know why, when there is action pending in the court, the Opposition wants to precipitate a debate in this Parliament about a man whose whole reputation is to be tested in the court. [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 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 it was 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 a Bill to lower the franchise age has been passed by the lower House and is likely to become law shortly, thus enabling the 18 to 20 year olds to enrol in time to vote at the State elections which, 1 understand, are expected to be held about the middle of this year; the Queensland Cabinet approved the lowering 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…]
By any standards men and women are as mature at 18 years now as they were at 21 only a generation ago. [More…]
I congratulated the Labor Government on winning office in its own right, I understand for the first time in 35 years. [More…]
1 cautioned the policies and actions that the socialist Government had followed in the few months since it assumed office. [More…]
It appears to me that the anti-socialist government of the Liberal and Country Parties lost office mainly by acts of omission and not necessarily by acts of commission. [More…]
Most people in the community will be anxious to see how we fare for a period under a socialist Government because they have not previously had experience of control in the Federal sphere b> a Labor government. [More…]
The immediate reaction of the Labor Government was to demonstrate that it was possible in its opinion for 2 men to govern this country for a period of time. [More…]
Undoubtedly the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) was able to say that the actions that he and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) took were purely in line with the Labor Party’s election promises and, as has been emphasised on many occasions, that the Labor Government had a mandate to take just those actions. [More…]
Some of their statements were in my view most dangerous to the wellbeing of Australia. [More…]
Undoubtedly I speak from an opposition camp to that in which the Labor Party finds itself at the moment. [More…]
Finally, for the purpose of my substantial statement of objection, I come to what is called ‘legal costs’. [More…]
But ever since this jursidiction has operated the fees of every legal practitioner have been capable of being presented to the taxing master for assessment to see whether they were reasonable and justified in every detail. [More…]
For Senator Murphy’s benefit, I state that in 4 compartments or in 40 items of one bill the taxing master is unrestricted as to the detail to which he shall submit the legal fees. [More…]
I mention that situation because it has prevailed in the legal profession for 100 years, in contrast to the position of medical men who have never had to submit to such a system. [More…]
In the same newspaper in which Mr Brown, the secretary of the industry organisation, made these grim comments there appeared another statement which relates to a 25 per cent rise in the minimum basic wage. [More…]
I am not arguing about that matter at all, but the statement went on to say that employers of men on the minimum wage will face a total extra wages bill of S200m a year. [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 body in Germany. [More…]
A number of photographs of armed men were also found, including one in which Suljak can be seen standing beside a Ustashi flag in the company of other armed men. [More…]
AH 3 of these men were named in the Yugoslav Government aidememoire as participants in the Bosnian incursion and it will be recalled that Jure Marie had also maintained contact with Vegar. [More…]
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…]
Now that it is clear that the new Government intends to cope vigorously with the problem of Croatian terrorism we hope and believe that it will be possible to gain the cooperation of that vast majority of peaceful Croatian citizens who are the first victims of the fanatical minority of their countrymen who engage in terrorism. [More…]
The documents tabled show that Croatians have been intimidated to contribute money to the terrorists. [More…]
I point to the case of the Bulgarian terrorists, Daskaloff and Petroff, who were convicted of throwing a bomb into the grounds of the Russian Embassy in Canberra and were sentenced to terms of imprisonment. [More…]
Despite that these men were clearly liable for deportation, the previous Goernment did not deport them and they are still in our midst. [More…]
Document B7 is a series of photographs taken at Wodonga, Victoria, during a training camp organised by the Croatian Liberation Movement (HOP) in 1963. [More…]
A Unit of the Citizen Military Forces associated itself for reasons of public relations, with the training by these men of the Croatian Ustashi Movement within the HOP. [More…]
These photographs corroborate the statements attributed to Lovokovic in the Kovac/Rover correspondence in document B3 for he was at the Wodonga training camp. [More…]
Of course the real position was that the senior law body of the world, the United Nations Organisation, through resolutions of the General Assembly and also by certain other resolutions of its constituent bodies called upon persons - that is, governments and people everywhere - to do what they could to object to the crime of apartheid. [More…]
I think that the action of those who protested in a peaceful manner against the endeavours of the previous Government to break the decisions of the United Nations was to be highly commended. [More…]
I hope that this Government will continue to observe United Nations decisions, noi only in the letter but also in the spirit, and will not want to have any cultural, economic or social ties with those countries which are practising a form of conduct towards their fellow men which is detestable. [More…]
Two men in plain clothes immediately pushed me back into the room, and walked in. [More…]
I asked these men who they were, I asked them to identify themselves. [More…]
I ask a question of the acting Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
Has a check been made on the number of men and women who have terminated association with [More…]
I have seen only the Press reports of this matter which is mentioned by the honourable senator. [More…]
Of course I have heard the statement that there will be consultations between the United States authorities and the Trades and Labour Council. [More…]
Everybody hopes that arrangements can be made to settle the dispute. [More…]
What was proposed was that the men would be offered leave without pay. [More…]
I make that statement at the outset to highlight the magnitude of the subject we are considering. [More…]
Many fine types of men and women have visited my office - one visit occurred as recently as last Monday - and have literally pleaded with me to do what I could in the Senate to prevent the disallowance of the rules we are now debating. [More…]
One would think from some speakers that the amendment of the Matrimonial Causes Rules is a grotesque system designed to destroy the institution of marriage. [More…]
I refer to the occasion when the then Minister for Customs and Excise, Senator Scott, was merciful to an employee in his Department who had sought mercy and in respect of whom supporters of the present Government, had they been trade union officials representing the men, would have asked the Minister to do precisely what he did. [More…]
Firstly, the shipyard employs 750 men. [More…]
The Government is concerned at the announcement which was made at the stock exchange that the company operating this yard intends to close down. [More…]
That was a decision of the company and one over which the Government has no control. [More…]
that the Australian National Line will build a 70,000-ton replacement for the ‘Tolga!. [More…]
The Government is not responsible for the decision of the company which thinks that it is in its own interests to close down and throw 750 men out of work. [More…]
The increased prices are placed on the backs of the working men when they marry and wish to buy a home in which to raise their families. [More…]
In view of the fact that working women who receive pay and status equal to that of a male worker can retire at age 60 years and receive the old age pension, when equal pay becomes the rule inthis country will the Minister consider reducing the retiring age for the male to age 60 years instead of the present 65 years? [More…]
This would seem particularly fair when we consider that women outlive men. [More…]
Commonwealth Police have investigated allegations reported by the Australian Broadcasting Commission concerning the use of premises at the rear of a shop in Shannon Avenue, Geelong and that Croatian men and youths met in Geelong and proceeded to different parts of the You Yang mountains for training. [More…]
There is no evidence to support the claim that groups of more than 30 men met in the shop or slept in the shed in the backyard of a house behind the shop. [More…]
The local President of the Shooters Association has stated that the presence of 40 or moTe men on the You Yang rifle range was common and had no connection with political matters. [More…]
I hope Senator Greenwood will remember that memorable phrase when the charges against these men are ultimately heard. [More…]
Senator Murphy’s statement proved beyond doubt that there was not only one but also more than one, and Senator Greenwood, despite the mass of words with which he has deluged us today, has made no answer to the principal charges laid against him. [More…]
There were hundreds of men including middle-aged fat men, whom one would not see going for a little training run just for the good of their health. [More…]
One would never see this sort of men out training. [More…]
All kinds of allegations have been levelled against a variety of people in the course of this debate but nobody has named the really guilty men in regard to the Croatian question. [More…]
They are David Lloyd George, Georges Clemenceau and Woodrow Wilson, the 3 men who dominated the conference which in 1919 parcelled out Europe, at the end of World War I. I think the history is instructive because so much has been said by Government supporters to suggest that the Croatian people are simply terrorists by nature and are engaging in crimes and terrorism without any cause or responsibility. [More…]
In 1919 the Croatian people approached that conference in the belief that the war had been fought for the rights of small nations, and in the belief that the leaders of the democratic world at the time believed in their own slogan that government was by the consent of the governed. [More…]
These documents established the fact of transmission of funds from the Australian branch to the parent body in Germany. [More…]
A number of photographs of armed men were also found, including one in which Suljak can be seen standing beside a Ustashi flag in the company of other armed men. [More…]
All 3 of these men were named in the Yugoslav Government aide-memoire as participants in the Bosnian incursion and 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…]
Senator Murphy has pointed out the incompetence, the inability or the refusal of the Attorney-General to see - because of a judgment of the High Court - that it was not necessary to deport this man to his country of origin. [More…]
On the judgment of the High Court the Department of Immigration could deport him to any country which would have him. [More…]
What Senator Greenwood appealed to the Department of Immigration to protect this man from need never have been a threat. [More…]
Senator Greenwood desired to protect men who had served the system and the government which he represented. [More…]
This man represents the extreme of the elements whom Senator Rae wants to imprison and to whom he wants to refuse passport. [More…]
They have appealed to the Department of Immigration not to deport him. [More…]
I think that this Government has been realistic in the matter. [More…]
I would say that there are many such men. [More…]
There are many men in Australia in relation to whom there is insufficient evidence on which to obtain conviction if a prosecution were desired. [More…]
The attitude of the previous Government was that the criterion for naturalisation was whether one would make a good Australian citizen. [More…]
We are not importing those elements of danger to Australia from other countries. [More…]
When they reach the stage of acceptability for Australian citizenship - unless they obtain it by fraud or false statements - they will be secure. [More…]
Any punishment which may be necessary will be carried out under the Crimes Act. [More…]
The penal provisions which were put in the Crimes Act so that seamen union delegates could be gaoled will be repealed. [More…]
Therefore there will be no declaration of an organisation under this Government. [More…]
The previous Government had this power, but it was not prepared to use it against terrorists. [More…]
1 want to make a reference also to the photographs of the; armed men, these dangerous characters. [More…]
Before the luncheon adjournment I was dealing with some matters which were raised by Senator Murphy’s original statement and by Senator Geenwood’s reply to it. [More…]
A great deal of nonsense has been spoken by honourable senators on the Government side about an alleged training camp at Wodonga. [More…]
The training camp at Wodonga was turned from a holiday camp, at which a number of men joined with units of the Citizen Military Forces to have photogaphs taken, into a real cloak and dagger type of preparation for incursions into Yugoslavia, lt is, of course, drivelling nonsense, and in support of that I would quote from a reply which Senator Greenwood gave to the Senate about September last year. [More…]
This dreadful camp was so secret that the men involved actually circulated these photographs of the so-called secret camp. [More…]
One matter which has been raised by honourable senators of the Government relates to the people who were arrested in Sydney at the weekend. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have claimed that these men were very hostile to Tito’s Yugoslavia, lt seems to me to be a strange criticism of Croatian nationalists when even the Croatian Communist Party is at daggers drawn with Tito. [More…]
This is a matter which our friends on the Government side seem to overlook. [More…]
I will not go into details what happened after the war, but it will be recalled that the Croatian army sided with the Axis powers, and that after their defeat it surrendered about 300,000 men to the British Army at Beiberg in the south of Austria. [More…]
The Army contained normal units of the Domobran and 60,000 to 70,000 men of the Ustasha corps. [More…]
We have in the past few days witnessed a degrading and disquieting spectacle of men being tried by the Parliament, men who have no opportunity to reply and against whom nothing has been alleged but smear and humbug. [More…]
In the old days, members of Parliament were subject to impeachment. [More…]
But I know that this man has been savagely traduced in the Parliament and without comment, without necessarily believing or disbelieving it, I propose to quote from an affidavit by a man known to Senator Mulvihill as Srecko Rover made on 4th September 1970. [More…]
A tremendous number of crocodile tears have been shed by honourable senators opposite about the ghastly inroad into Yugoslavia from Bosnia in June 1972. [More…]
According to the Yugoslav Government’s report, upon which we cannot place much reliance, 19 people made the incursion into Yugoslavia. [More…]
According to the handout from the Yugoslav Government, all of them were killed. [More…]
One of the men who was said to have been killed is still living peacefully at Mount Gambier. [More…]
I would not be the least bit surprised if those men who have not been killed have been interrogated in a way which would horrify this chamber [More…]
Imagine the impact that the 19 men who went into Yugoslavia would have had upon the 3,000 who were prosecuted by Tito. [More…]
For months the Labor Opposition in the Queensland State Parliament has been trying to get out of the Queensland Government the admission that Croatian training camps or Croatian extremist activities exist in Queensland. [More…]
In fact, the Queensland Opposition has been trying to do it for years and the Queensland Government has been denying it. [More…]
It was admitted by the Queensland Government. [More…]
On 19th April 1972, while 9 men were inside the building having a meeting, a bomb was thrown into the building. [More…]
The lives of 9 men were put in jeopardy, because the 9 could have been killed. [More…]
The police prosecutor Detective Senior Sergeant F. G. Donaghue told the court that Mangan admitted having been aware when he gave explosives to 2 men that they were going ‘to blow up some Commie place*. [More…]
August that the Commonwealth police were searching for a man charged with complicity in the Brisbane bombing following a telephone threat to the Department of Civil Aviation to blow up an airliner unless 2 of his friends were released from Hobart gaol. [More…]
Another report said prison authorites had intercepted a letter to two men in Hobart gaol promising to hijack an aircraft to secure their release. [More…]
Today, at the CIB, a special conference of 35 detectives is reviewing information received yesterday when 10 members of the Yugoslav community - 5 men and 5 women - were questioned for several hours. [More…]
Detectives yesterday took possession of documents and other materials. [More…]
I am quoting from a statement published in a Paris newspaper - how the Italian officers stationed along the Adriatic coast speak of you - murders, fires, crimes of every kind and pillages are the order of the day in these regions. [More…]
How such acts can be perpetrated by civilised and cultured men, lel alone priests, is inconceivable. [More…]
I think he is one of the most honourable, honest and trustworthy men that anyone could ever meet. [More…]
Like the former occupant of the position of Attorney-General, I believe that no-one has a higher regard for the standards of the Parliament than Senator Murphy has. [More…]
Knowing his aims and desires, I could not believe that he would carry out such work with the idea of denigrating in any shape or form this Parliament or its various activities. [More…]
But let us look over our own work as public men. [More…]
I know that we have in the Senate quite a number of legal men of outstanding ability and quality who probably look at things in a different way from me. [More…]
No-one would want to denigrate the position of Attorney-General or this Parliament. [More…]
When all is said and done not only the Attorney-General but also the Government of the country is being castigated if criticism is to be made. [More…]
I happened to ring one of the parliamentary officers in the Senate and he said that he had not seen any of these agents. [More…]
I noted that until the day that Senator Murphy made his statement he was surrounded by guards. [More…]
He came out of his room flanked by 3 or 4 detectives or security organisation men. [More…]
I believe that in this chamber we have 2 men who are equally good and sincere, one who has held and the other who holds one of the highest offices - the Attorney-Generalship - and yet here certain honourable senators are denigrating both. [More…]
Although I do not agree with what has been done on both sides of the Senate, I think that the Opposition is killing the 2 men concerned. [More…]
I think that they are pretty mean, petty, little men to allow this to go on. [More…]
I suggest to them that they take out the words contained in the amendment to the motion that state that the Senate has no confidence in the Attorney-General. [More…]
The public are not worried about the little talks of honourable senators about who left out a statement, who quoted out of context and whether an act was committed by an organisation or by an individual. [More…]
They should be thinking of Senator Greenwood and Senator Murphy before they vote on this stupid amendment that is presently before the Senate. [More…]
We have a Government in Australia which is determined to see that not only the migrants but also the rest of the Australian people will be able to live free of this terror and violence. [More…]
Whatever might be the result of the use of numbers in this chamber, I reject the amendment to my motion that has been moved by Senator Withers. [More…]
It ought to be rejected because it is a worthless amendment which was moved simply out of guilt. [More…]
The guilty men opposite know that they have allowed terrorism and violence to persist, and this attempt to assuage their guilt will not prevail because they have been convicted in the eyes of the Australian people. [More…]
All men in our society are adjudged to be equal before the. [More…]
These amendments provide an opportunity for this Parliament to assert the principle of equality in our democracy - to say whether people in the city are just as equal as the people in the country - not more, not less. [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. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]
I tried to control the price of clothing for men, women and children. [More…]
I tried to control the price of men’s working clothes and working boots, school children’s clothing and foodstuffs. [More…]
He must have agreed to and approved without documentation an increase in the price of petrol because there is no way in the world that he could have seen any documents. [More…]
To state that world opinion is inclined one way or the other is to make a subjective rather than an objective judgment. [More…]
If the Government really wished to test the views of the Australian electorate it could put the matter to a referendum. [More…]
1 think it is well known world wide that the United States Government is considering at the moment the drafting of legislation which will overcome the objections of the United States Supreme Court to capital punishment as expressed in its decision of June, last year. [More…]
While I am referring to this aspect I should like to take some time to talk about that judgment. [More…]
One of the things that could madden one but really saddens me is that the proponents of abolition, who project themselves as men of great conscience, integrity and all that sort of jazz, have completely distorted what the United States Supreme Court said in its judgment of June last year. [More…]
It is generally said that the United States Supreme Court held that the death penalty was unconstitutional because it was a ‘cruel and unusual punishment and therefore offended against the Constitution’. [More…]
When I was a lad my father saw fit to bring young men from various institutions - young men who had not had opportunities but who had committed crimes - to work on his property. [More…]
I believe that when an opportunity arises for men to regain a place in society they should be able to accept it. [More…]
If the Israeli Government can fossick out somebody here - I qualify this statement in case there is an ambush - and if he is an Australian citizen he is protected. [More…]
I am surprised that Canada is not a party to this extradition arrangement. [More…]
In recent times there has sprung up what one could call multi-national criminals - some of the leading con men and manipulators of the stock exchange. [More…]
They go over much better if they have a language similar to ours - such as Englishmen or Americans. [More…]
Mr Giles never made any move to bring on the debate on that motion in the Parliament. [More…]
But it took the election of a Labor Government to put in a position where they could vote against the wine excise these members of the Liberal Party who tell the electors they are men of free choice. [More…]
Even if enough money was made available for the recruitment of doctors in sufficient numbers to service these areas and even if doctors were found who could accept the harsh conditions and loneliness of such areas, this still would not necessarily mean that they could cope with the problem immediately. [More…]
I think that too much criticism has been made of the medical men who have been dedicated enough to go to these areas. [More…]
Acknowledging the magnitude of the problem of the prevention of infant mortality, we should learn to respect the dedicated men who are attempting to maintain the level to which they have reduced the incidence of infant mortality, It is wrong that the doctors should be criticised in any way at all because of the facts contained in the statistics that they have produced to alert this nation to the problem that exists in these areas. [More…]
I am mentioning now only one of the problems with which these people, in such a primitive environment, must learn to live as they feel the impact of modern society on their lives. [More…]
Perhaps some of them are not psychologically suited for this type of employment and are not capable of achieving the maximum results. [More…]
The Senate could be called together by 3 men. [More…]
I do not say that they would act only for 3 men. [More…]
But taking the question to the extreme, it is possible for only 3 men to call the Senate together. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite go out and speak to the men in the street they will learn at least one thing that Senator Murphy has convinced them of, that is, that beyond doubt terrorist organisations and terrorist individuals exist in this country. [More…]
Firstly, I puzzle why honourable senators opposite, when they were in government, could not see or perhaps chose not to see what was obvious to the whole world around them, particularly to the whole Australian nation. [More…]
I puzzle, too, about the reactions of honourable senators opposite to the vast pile of documents which were tabled before their eyes but which they have apparently fatted to see so far. [More…]
When extracts were read by members of the Government honourable senators opposite closed their ears, as they have closed their minds now. [More…]
lt puzzles me mostly to find that honourable senators opposite must take this matter up time and time again when it is as plain as a pikestaff to the Australian public that the greatest disservice done to any democracy is that done by men in authority who refuse to provide the strongest weapon which any democracy has to defend itself against attack, namely, the weapon of information. [More…]
In approximately October 1971 4 such men visited Sydney and asked questions about my brother. [More…]
I am the only member of the Australian Country Party presently in the Senate who served in the Parliament with Sir Arthur. [More…]
Men are fortunate indeed if they possess such a combination of qualities, but he possessed other equally fine attributes.. [More…]
He understood men, particularly working class men. [More…]
I have seen for myself the respect that working class men have shown him and the devotion and admiration that they had for him. [More…]
The long term served by Artie Fadden in this Parliament was of advantage to this country which is the poorer because of his passing. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate whether the secret documents declassified as a result of those raids were made available or could have become available to any persons associated with the Yugoslav Embassy? [More…]
Will the Minister ask the Prime Minister whether the Government will inquire whether the release of the ASIO documents prejudiced in any way the lives of these men? [More…]
If the men could not have been proved guilty of crimes charged by the application of Australian law, will the Government pay compensation to the Australian widows and children of the men executed? [More…]
When did the trials of these 3 men take place? [More…]
Has the Australian Ambassador in Yugoslavia or any of his officers or any official acting on behalf of the Australian Government visited or sought to visit the Australian citizen Ludvig Pavolovic who is reported to be serving a long gaol sentence for alleged offences similar to those for which the 3 men were executed? [More…]
I did not question Mr Bijedic or Mr Vidovic with whom I had talks because the information which we had at that stage was that these men had been killed in the raid on Bosnia. [More…]
I ask the Special Minister of State, in his capacity as Minister assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs: Is it a fact that the Yugoslav Government at all times claimed that the 3 executed Australians were killed in the Bosnian raid until it claimed on 13th April 1973 that these men had been executed? [More…]
Which statement does the Government now believe to be the lie? [More…]
Was it a particularly serious breach of diplomatic relations, in view of the fact that it is now alleged by the Yugoslav Government that the executions took place only a few days before the Australian Government, at great expense, entertained the Yugoslav Prime Minister? [More…]
I ask: Is the AttorneyGeneral aware that in the documents tabled by him there is no evidence of any extremist or terrorist background to at least one of the executed men, namely, Mirko Vlashnovic? [More…]
And whereas God hath made the head of man the highest and most supreme part, as being his chief grace and ornament, he must be drawn with his head declining downward and lying so near the ground as may be, being thought unfit to take benefit of the common air. [More…]
For which cause also be shall be strangled, being hanged up by the neck between heaven and earth as deemed unworthy of both or either; as likewise, that the eyes of men may behold and their hearts condemn him. [More…]
And lastly, his body to be quartered and the quarters set up in some high and eminent place, to the view and destestation of men, and to become a prey for the fowls of the air. [More…]
When did the trials of these 3 men take olace What was the nature of the trials- court or military, secret or public? [More…]
Has the Australian Ambassador in Yugoslavia or any of his officers or any official acting on behalf of the Australian Government visited or sought to visit the Australian citizen Ludvig Pavolovic who is reported to be serving a long gaol sentence for alleged offences similar to those for which the 3 men were executed? [More…]
Is it a fact that the same Press release also stated that these people supported the Attorney-General and the Government in their efforts to stamp out the terrorism and violence of a small minority? [More…]
Is it not a fact that 2 of the people present, Drago Bratusha and Ivan Budkovic, were actually named by the Attorney-General in his documents dealing with alleged terrorism? [More…]
Is it not a fact that the said Drago Brutusha is a member of HOP and a former member of Ustasha, and that Ivan Budkovic is alleged to be a former member of the Croatian Revolutionary Brotherhood and was refused naturalisation by the previous Government? [More…]
Having named these men as ferocious terrorists, what is the Attorney-General’s excuse for consorting with them? [More…]
For these men, praised by an Australian Cabinet Minister as the heroic defenders of a just cause brutally assailed by Australians and their allies, are not only representatives of those responsible for shooting down Australian soldiers. [More…]
They are representatives of those who have demonstrated that to them murder, torture, intimidation and extortion are ordinary instruments of policy. [More…]
These are men with bloody hands. [More…]
Yet these are the men to whom the Federal Government [More…]
Government side who were opposed to the war are dishonouring the dead in some way if they support the peaceful resolution of the problems of Vietnam, I think it has to be said that if it had not been for the Opposition, acting against our advice, there would not have been any dead. [More…]
We were opposed from the start to conscripting those young men and sending them to Vietnam. [More…]
The blood of those young men does not lie upon the, head of the Australian Labor Party because from the very beginning we said that they should never have been sent to that country. [More…]
As I believed at the time, and still believe now, it was a shameful thing that there were so many people of military age eligible for service in that war and so enthusiastic about the conflict being undertaken there, who sat in this Parliament and voted continuously to conscript young men to go off and be killed there while they remained in this Parliament and in Australia denouncing as traitors those people who were not prepared to conscript their fellow Australians to go there and be killed. [More…]
I saw men, women and children without arms and without legs. [More…]
The major part of this matter of urgency seeks to express disgust at a senior Minister of the Government entertaining these people who have the audacity and impudence to visit this country, no doubt at the invitation of somebody. [More…]
If they were invited privately, why is the Government put to the expense of entertaining them? [More…]
Furthermore, are we not entitled to register a protest, having regard to the fact that more than 400 Australian men were killed in action in the Vietnam war and hundreds more were wounded and maimed in the service of this country? [More…]
Yet, we find this new Labor Government welcoming these people and inviting them to join us, although they have failed to observe the terms of the ceasefire. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are prepared to cast their minds back and be honest about this, they will concede that in the 1939-45 World War, when it was a question of defending Indo-China, the then colonialists in IndoChina, particularly in Vietnam - it was then one nation - were collaborators with the people against whom we lost more than 27,000 men from this country alone. [More…]
The Vietminh forces created a resistance movement. [More…]
I repeat that we lost 27,000 men - the cream of the youth of this country - apart from those who were injured and incapacitated for the rest of their lives. [More…]
Unbeknown to the then President of the United States of America and by some devious means, the American nation started to support the re-establishment of colonial rule in Indo-China. [More…]
That was the commencement of the real force behind the former Vichy French collaborators who were opposed to us in the last World War and who decided to take over and then expose themselves to the world. [More…]
I say it with great respect, because it was not their fault that our young men, as a consequence of a decision of a former government led by the then Prime Minister, Mr Menzies - so-called Sir Robert - which committed the first battalion of troops to !>hat conflict in April 1965, fought in Vietnam. [More…]
Those young men were not responsible for being in Vietnam. [More…]
You members who now sit on the Opposition benches were responsible for sending those young men there. [More…]
Now I look at these people who used to sit on the cross benches, particularly Senator Greenwood and a few others who were young enough to carry arms and never had the guts to do it but pursued young men who they believed ought to have gone to Vietnam while they enjoyed the sanctuary of this place. [More…]
They persecuted and prosecuted and gaoled young men - for what? [More…]
He represents a substantial section of men who have fought for the right to be heard. [More…]
He has said that if the Government has the slightest respect for those Australians who died in Vietnam it should cancel this visit as a matter of urgency. [More…]
The significance of these events is added to by the outrageous piece of presumption that members of the Government, together with their supporters, have just brought into this Parliament House tonight for the purpose of entertainment that very delegation which consists of traitors and enemies of Australia. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, you can judge the true bent and purpose of the actions of this section of the Austraian Labor Government by the fact that they are using the propaganda of this delegation to undermine the purpose of Australia to withstand everything for which the Vietcong and the North Veitnamese Government stand. [More…]
Senator Greenwood refers to the actions of the previous Government. [More…]
When we found that there was a changed attitude on this, we instructed our Ambassador to proceed and to mention the names of these 10 people of whom 2 subsequently have been returned to Australia. [More…]
We grabbed that opportunity then to instruct our Ambassador to inquire about the men about whom we had received complaints. [More…]
I am very happy to participate in the debate and to support the remarks of the Minister for the Media (Senator Douglas McClelland) because on the last day of the previous Parliament the then Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Greenwood, and myself each had a 7-minute burst about the merits of what his Government was proposing and what the Opposition, if elected, would do. [More…]
The second reason is that as early as 1956, on the first occasion that 1 went to Eastern Europe, I was very pleased to meet men in their 60s and 70s who had given the best years of their lives in the big steel mills in Pittsburgh in the United States, many of whom had gone there as young men and had remained unmarried, who had come back at the age of 66 or so. [More…]
We on this side of the chamber can go among the various ethnic groups and tell them that this is the first instalment. [More…]
I am far, far happier to see thousands of petitions, such as those that flowed in from the Sydney Italian community, and equally from the Slovene community, than to see somebody be so misguided as to believe that this Parliament can stop everything and try to redraw the boundaries of Europe. [More…]
This Bill will affect men who have given the best years of their lives to this country. [More…]
Labor Party - those men who have consideration for the public purse whilst they are in Government - to be alerted. [More…]
He killed 3 men and left the conductor of the train, who heard the disturbance, in a deplorable state for many years. [More…]
Therefore, I put this forward with considerable concern as a Queensland senator who has been through these engineering works, who has spoken to the operatives, who knows the people employed in them, who knows how important it is that their volume of work should be maintained and who knows the dedication of the men who have built the industry and the very low labour turnover in the enterprise concerned. [More…]
I want to go a little further and say that this company, which employs 360 men, not only is in shipbuilding but also covers heavy engineering and many other fields including chimney stacks for our sugar mills. [More…]
In all its commitments it has been able to operate profitably and has really given a lead to the shipbuilding industry of this country. [More…]
I feel strongly about this because, as Senator Byrne has mentioned, this firm has done a tremendous job in northern Queensland. [More…]
It employs 360 men. [More…]
Yes, he may have had those words written on it I do not mind him attacking members of this Parliament or making fun of us; we are fair game in that respect. [More…]
These men are highly incensed at this article and they have approached me about it. [More…]
As honourable senators 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…]
Al 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 the title of the Principal Act to be amended to ‘Defence Service 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…]
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…]
I said in the course of my remarks that some murders are committed by people who suffer badly from mental sickness. [More…]
I believe that in cases in which it is the opinion of psychiatrists that the perpetrator of the dirty deed was mentally sick, such people should be confined to and treated in an institution, not for any specific period, but until they are certified as being cured. [More…]
I instance to honourable senators the case of 2 men who have an argument in an hotel bar or on a street. [More…]
We are going to have to live with the man in the hood for a long time: certainly until the present generation of terrorists, the Black September men and the Provos and the rest, has expended itself in death or defeat; and very likely longer than that, until the force that drives such men, the calculation that such methods can bring them what they want, has been disproved by repeated failure, and they have no more imitators. [More…]
The mcn who do things, the Munich and Ultser and other places, are men who have found that their objectives are not supported even by most of their own people, and who try to break out of their isolation by acts of melodramatic brutality that in fact horrify many of their remaining friends. [More…]
This is the new international community of the possessed, lt could lake years, perhaps even the rest of the lifetime of people who are now barely middleaged, before this phenomenon is destroyed, or destroys itself. [More…]
Until then we shall have to live with the possibility of men with concealed faces, and concealed minds, breaking with machine-guns and bombs into the normal life of many people in many different countries. [More…]
I refer to the Press reports prior to the visit to Australia of Mr Bijedic, to the Press statements following his departure and also to the stories of rumours of violence and threats not only to Yugoslavs but also allegedly to our own Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and Attorney-General. [More…]
As some honourable senators must have done,I tried, sitting here, to count the number of security personnel in the chamber and in the corridors of Parliament House. [More…]
Whilst I respect the responsibility of the President and Mr Speaker, it is no great credit to this Parliament and to the people of Australia that the guard around Parliament House had to be doubled. [More…]
No one has yet explained to me why, long after Mr Bijedic had departed, plain clothes and uniformed security men were sitting in the Parliament - 3 on this side of the chamber, four on the Government side of the chamber and 6 outside the Attorney-General’s office. [More…]
Honourable senators should read the reports of committees on violence and civil disobedience written by John Lindsay, Percy and others - men with whom 1 spoke, studied and wrote. [More…]
They are magnificent documents. [More…]
They said that the real danger - a danger which, with respect, the Government has not understood - is that there is in the community at any time a fringe of people who are neurotics, who are on the border of being psychotics, who are inadequate and who have a great feeling of inadequacy, of depression melancholia and who want, for once in their lives, to do something to get their names in lights. [More…]
As to murder, where the law requires the death penalty, we have a most widely accepted situation whereby it is still a matter of mercy for the Crown - being interpreted that means the Attorney-General who is the highest law officer in the State - with a proper assimilation of the purposes of punishment and the degrees of punishment to review all the facts, not merely the admissible evidence against the accused but all the facts that are brought together on a file, and to make a recommendation to a responsible group of men who are the Cabinet of the day. [More…]
That shows that the people like public men to be strong on matters on which they should be strong. [More…]
One cannot understand the mentality of these people. [More…]
They have introduced elements and activities into this country which are completely foreign to our way of life. [More…]
Yet, when men like Senator Murphy have the courage to come. [More…]
Does the Australian Government and the Attorney-General, who is singularly inattentive, not regard seriously the fact that the Yugoslav Government falsely represented to the Australian Government the circumstances of the arerst and ultimate death of 3 Australian citizens? [More…]
I remind the Senate that the Yugoslav Government let it be known to the Australian Government that these 3 men were killed in active combat in what is called the Bosnian incident. [More…]
That is what the Yugoslav Government said. [More…]
Later, because of circumstances, a statement has been forced that this was not so at all and that these men who were apparently arrested under various circumstances in June last year were tried in a secret military court, had a secret appeal and, subsequently, were executed. [More…]
If a responsible government were told on the one hand that people were executed by being shot in the field, in the heat and blood of conflict, that is one thing. [More…]
If, 9 months later, they are told that that is not true, that the Government has had them in gaol and has just executed them, should we not then query the whole situation and ask ourselves: Do we have any satisfactory proof at all that these men committed the offences which they are alleged to have committed? [More…]
Surely a government, if it is responsible for its Australian citizens, would say: ‘We will put on query the circumstances of these men.’ [More…]
Even when they were executed the protest was not to try to find out whether these men were innocent but a protest because the Government was irritated at being told late. [More…]
This was what upset the metabolism of the Government - not the lives of the survivors of 3 decent Australians. [More…]
I remind this Senate that statements have already been made that at least one of those 3 men who was executed - Vlasnovic, whose widow and children live in Geelong, Victoria - never at any time had active association with Croat political activities in any organisation of violence, and did not go to Croatia under any circumstances of incursion but went for the innocent intent of visiting his parents. [More…]
Honourable senators on this side of the Senate will assume that these 3 men and others were innocent until we have it proved to us that the situation was otherwise. [More…]
We have also statutory declarations made by other Croats about people who died in gaol under the most suspicious circumstances which suggest elements of torture and of brutal execution. [More…]
Men of reason and honour - all of us. [More…]
Tension has been building up ever since the Parliament reassembled in February and its became very obvious that something had to happen to resolve the impossible position in which the combined vote of the Opposition was placing the Government. [More…]
It is a matter of regret that we have reached this stage but I think it was an inevitable development. [More…]
It is a matter of great regret that the men I see on the Opposition side of the chamber, men I know to be reasonable, men with whom the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and other Ministers were able to work in cooperation in past years, have remained silent and have allowed themselves to be the willing tools of a group that has set out to thwart the Government and to embarrass the Attorney-General. [More…]
They are the ones who are guilty of the breakdown of parliamentary democracy. [More…]
Every effort that has been made by the Government to establish its legislative program has been thwarted in the 7 sitting weeks since the Parliament resumed this year. [More…]
Every Wednesday we have been subjected to motions which took away the right of the Government to place its business before the Senate. [More…]
There seems to be no end to this disruption of the work of the Senate and the disruption of the program of the Government. [More…]
I think that it is to the detriment of the reasonable men who sit opposite that they have not stood out and tried to curb the abuse of power from the Opposition benches. [More…]
If he genuinely holds those sentiments, surely the tension that we have seen in this place would not have reached the point of crisis that it did this evening. [More…]
I can recall honourable senators opposite making very favourable comments about the leadership of Senator Murphy. [More…]
In the last few weeks of the last Parliament I can recall Senator Hannan saying that Senator Murphy was a gentle and kind person. [More…]
We on the Government side have not found any change in Senator Murphy’s attitude. [More…]
The Government has not endeavoured to abuse its power. [More…]
If there is any lesson to be learned at all from the events of this evening it is that men of goodwill on the other side of the chamber have to start asserting themselves to ensure that there are normal relationships of the type which were evident in this place under the previous Government, the type which enabled the Opposition over the last two or three years that I have been a Senator here to defeat the Government from time to time but at the same time enabled the Government of the day to carry forward its legislative program. [More…]
At the end of each sessional period it was often necessary for 1, 2 or 3 extra sitting days to be devoted to the conclusion of the Government’s legislative program. [More…]
Has the Department of Foreign Affairs drawn the attention of the Government to the edition of 23rd April of the German left wing magazine ‘Der Spiegel’, at pages 104 to 106? [More…]
I have a copy here for the Minister if ‘ the Department has not done so. [More…]
Will the Government urgently Investigate the opinion of Mrs Keskic, wife of one of the 3 executed Australians who is now living in Strasburg, who is reported by ‘Der Spiegel’ as having said that her husband in fact was not executed on 17th March as alleged but possibly was still alive? [More…]
Although this theory is completely contrary to other evidence which I have and which the Government has, which suggests that 10th April was the actual execution date, because of the remote possibility of saving the lives of innocent men will the Government take immediate action to check the facts of the execution, the Yugoslav Government already having given 3 different dates of execution or death? [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…]
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…]
As a former Party official I know that there have been occasions in the past when sitting Liberal Party members, with all their talk about hatred of socialism, have thrown out feelers to sitting Labor Party men in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney. [More…]
I assure the Senate that this Government is bringing ethics into redistribution. [More…]
The whole principle of rural electoral bias was to offset any swing against the nonlabor Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Today when the Acting Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Willesee) indicated the order of business we were determined to make this an issue in the future of the Government. [More…]
There is no question but that they are men of honour. [More…]
So that honourable senators need not only take my word for this, and in order that it is recorded in Hansard for future research, I refer to page 47 of the report of the Committee, which was presented by command on 26th November 1959 over the signatures of these illustrious men. [More…]
Mr Clyde Cameron went on - I would expect silence because this is one of the men who run the show in another place. [More…]
When P. R. ls adopted for the House of Representatives 1 believe the truths preached by Henry George so many years ago will begin to become something which public men will not be able to resist. [More…]
In its summary the committee, which was a Labour committee consisting entirely of top men in the Labor Party, such as Jack Tripovich and the late Sam Cohen, stated: . [More…]
Against that is one segment of this Bill which appears to be all innocence. [More…]
When 1 refer to distribution commissioners I atn talking of people who, tinder the previous Liberal Government, were men of massive integrity, senior public servants who discharged their jobs with complete objectivity. [More…]
The fact is that the distribution commissioners, men of great integrity, used with great discretion the tolerances provided. [More…]
1 will spell out that argument. [More…]
The aim has always been to try to achieve a situation in which the’ commissioners would place the enrolments of seats that were growing in population as such a point below the quota that half way between that redistribution and the next redistribution the number of electors in those seats would reach the required quota. [More…]
I remind the Senate and the people of Australia that nothing the previous Government did in the electoral field was unacceptable to the Chifley Government, the Curtin Government or the Scullin Government. [More…]
Government doing this? [More…]
The Government that mouths the principle of one vote, one value is seeking to bring about a gerrymander of a massive kind, despite the fact that gallup polls are now starting to run against it. [More…]
If there is one reason for which a parliament exists, it is for the sovereignty of the individual elector to be expressed in the ballot box. [More…]
This is the one time in 3 years that the elector can say: ‘ have the power to decide who shall and who shall not form the government. [More…]
That is 4he elector’s moment when he decides at the ballot box. [More…]
Opposition senators have sitting opposite us on the Government benches men who have signed a pledge to commit a kamikaze act to support a party platform to abolish the Senate and themselves. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite are not too proud to own men like Ben Chifley, John Curtin, and Ned Hanlon in Queensland. [More…]
Those men comprise a very substantial board of advice. [More…]
In short, it was the experts who recommended the continuance of the 20 per cent variation. [More…]
In spite of the fact that the report lays down a 10 per cent tolerance, the recommendation was contrary to the professional advice sought by the Committee. [More…]
It is worth recording that the Labor Government of Western Australia had the good sense to take the advice of the professional committee. [More…]
It is most obvious that in the short time that this Government has been in office we have seen some radical changes. [More…]
With the new administration has come a proliferation of Government departments and a great growth in the Public Service. [More…]
I have a great respect and regard for the Public Service as such and for the men and women who work in it. [More…]
The proliferation of Government departments, bearing in mind the Australian population, has become a matter of concern to us. [More…]
When reference is made to the structure of the Australian society during the life of this Parliament, we can certainly see that there are changes which are, at base, potentially dangerous. [More…]
I support the motion, as amended by Senator Withers. [More…]
He described Opposition senators as ‘arrogant, fearful men’. [More…]
It is Incredible but true that this rabble, this mish mash of vested interests, factions, bitter old men and frustrated new ones, this motley crew of incompetents still believe themselves to be our natural heaven born rulers. [More…]
I wanted to show that the Prime Minister, who has been so keen on deriding some mem bers of this chamber, is himself not the type of person who is spotless in his judgment of others and that he can be guilty of stabbing his own Ministers in the back. [More…]
A story is going around the city of Melbourne at present that there are Australian Security Intelligence Organisation men in Dr Jim Cairns’s entourage in China, reporting every little thing that goes on. [More…]
It is not surprising that the types of men he attacks are those who could well be rivals to his position as Prime Minister. [More…]
I hope that the people of Victoria will show their good sense on Saturday and that the Prime Minister then will be prepared to admit that the people have shown the right judgment insofar as the Senate is concened. [More…]
But I remind the Senate that pairs were called off some 2 years ago during the debate in the House, of Representatives on a Bill introduced by the men Prime Minister, Mr Gorton, and it was necessary for members of Parliament to be brought back from Perth because they had lost their pairing. [More…]
The substance of the dispute within the Liberal and Country Parties at that time, as enunciated by the then Minister for National Development, Mr Fairbairn, was that there should be consultation with the States before certain legislation was put to the Parliament for enactment. [More…]
It seems to me a rather shallow move, since the LiberalCountry Party coalition Government had been in office for some 18 months after that dispute between Mr Gorton and Mr Fairbairn over consultation with the States and when no consultations took place during that 18 months period, for the Opposition in this place now to want to defer the Bill until consultations do take place. [More…]
While the then Government held office and a dispute was splitting open the ranks of its members over non-consultation with the States, that Government took no action to hold consultations with the States. [More…]
But now that there has been a change of Government and the present Government wants to take the natural course of asserting its rights by legislation over these off-shore areas, the Opposition moves that the Bill be deferred until consultation takes place. [More…]
I do not believe that we will necessarily have the efficiency which is required of private industry in order to maintain its role where there is a monopolistic enterprise such as the Federal Government will have in this pipeline authority. [More…]
Honourable senators will not necessarily find that there is the greatest efficiency or control over men and materials or rigid competition so that the consumer will pay the cheapest delivery price of a product. [More…]
I have mentioned the great powers which this pipeline authority is given. [More…]
There is only one matter upon which I congratulate the Government and that is that in the setting up of the various methods of control and of the establishment, of the authority- . [More…]
I wish that those ardent supports of the Snowy Mountains scheme would compare the history of this bare and exiguous Bill with the deeply studied, fully documented proposals that came before the Parliament when it passed legislation for the establishment of the Snowy Mountains scheme. [More…]
At page 151 of this work, the author says: the task referred to the Officers Committee had given a selection of Australia’s senior public servants a chance to show what they could do with some of the biggest problems of engineering linked with economics which have faced men anywhere at any time. [More…]
There were no medical men on the Health Insurance Planning Committee. [More…]
If the Government denies the GP his right to prescribe pharmaceutical benefits for the patient, then obviously the patient will say: ‘As much as I love you, dear doctor, I will not pay you $8 to $10 for a prescription when I can go next door and get it for $T. [More…]
If the Government wants a national health scheme, the first thing it must have is cooperation, and it is not co-operation when its spokesman says: ‘We will hit you over the head if you do not do what I tell you to do’. [More…]
I want to mention several other points which are irritating doctors at the present time. [More…]
I cannot really ask honourable senators to try to imagine that they are old age pensioners - old women and old men living on their own - but if they were, would they not want a doctor to call to see them? [More…]
So the doctors wrote to the DirectorGeneral of Health Services and asked that the after hours locum services - the emergency services - be given an extra amount of these doctor’s bag drugs which is a reasonable request, lt should not take much effort for two or three men - departmental officers and doctors - to get together and work out some scheme under which there will not be any cheating of the Government or drug addiction of the doctor. [More…]
Public servants have been living with their little hidebound ideas, saying no, no, all the time until they get to the top and become the head of their department. [More…]
I raise that matter as another point in concluding my remarks dealing with the troubles of our medical men. [More…]
If somebody has the initiative to form an industry and wants finance, as anybody who starts a small industry always does in the initial stages - business men will appreciate that - he must go to a bank which has ramifications throughout the Commonwealth and which already has provided huge overdrafts to great concerns which are producing, say, shoes in the big cities. [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 officers and employees, 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 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…]
I conclude by reminding the Senate that this Bill not only provides improved conditions of employment for Australian Government employees but also facilitates the retention of women in the work force. [More…]
Many of these women are experienced and expensively trained. [More…]
I commend this Bill to the Senate. [More…]
In addition, these men who do so much research work are landed with an iniquitous 27i per cent sales tax on their electronic equipment. [More…]
True it is that certain transmitting equipment is exempt from sales tax but, in the bulk, amateurs are compelled to pay this 27i per cent. [More…]
I commend him for the energy which he is showing in establishing his new portfolio. [More…]
However, a far more insidious thing has crept into the Government of this country which, if perpetuated, will destroy the Westminster system of government, the democratic or parliamentary style of government to which we are pledged. [More…]
I must say that in a moment of aberration, or in the Doctor Jekyll side and not the Mr Hyde side of the Prime Minister, the Prime Minister said that this was the type of idea which was so successful in America where there are special advisers. [More…]
Nothing could be further from the truth than to suggest that there is a parallel between the special advisers insinuated into the Westminster system in Australia and the special advisers who are fundamental to the congressional system in America. [More…]
The public of Australia must understand the white-anting and the destruction of the Westminster system which is taking place and the development of a new breed of faceless men who must be flushed out. [More…]
One of the serious things that this Parliament and this Government will face in the months ahead is the clear intention of the Prime Minister and the Treasurer (Mr Crean) to have Dr Coombs supplant the Treasury as the Treasury adviser to this Government and to this Parliament. [More…]
There is no doubt in the world that Dr Coombs is supplanting the Under-Secretary of the Treasury and his advisers, men who have given magnificent service to this country over the years. [More…]
People are being appointed advisers and the reason claimed for their appointment is that they are carrying out a specific function of the Government of the day. [More…]
If there is to be a breaking down of Treasury and a breaking down of departments one by one, there will be a destruction of the kind of government which we have come to find is of absolute importance. [More…]
There is very little difference between the Ministry today and the Whitlam 2-man government of the early weeks of December. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the main purpose of my rising in this debate was to draw the attention of this Senate to the grave danger of the special adviser system which is destroying the Westminster system of government in this country and to the need, if this is to be a true Senate whether in Committee of the Whole o: In part, to inquire into the estimates, to probe appropriations, to flush out these people, and for this Government to make them available. [More…]
If the Wilenskis are to be the Kissingers of this country then the Government should make them available for public scrutiny so that the spotlight of communication and examination may be placed upon them. [More…]
What is happening today is that the Hotel Kingston episode of the faceless men has been replaced by more faceless men and a group of special advisers who owe no responsibility to anyone. [More…]
To use Disraeli’s statement, like the courtesans of old - and I think he was referring to the newspapers - I would say they have absolute power with no responsibility. [More…]
This is intolerable in the Westminster system of government. [More…]
We will take that risk rather than have the situation of men sitting in Commonwealth hostels with no work to do, twiddling their thumbs. [More…]
It happened with the previous Government but it will not happen with this Government. [More…]
Most of the sting of my remarks has been taken away by the fact that the Government has, quite rightly I think, altered the board of Qantas. [More…]
Really, it was a dreary board of old, tired men who had been given their rewards. [More…]
I see recent criticism of one Labor appointment as being a reward. [More…]
1 do not know why the other members of the board were appointed by the previous Government if it was not a reward. [More…]
The plane lands but one waits for 2 able bodied men, each with 2 cans in their hands, to walk along the aircraft and spray it. [More…]
The doors have been opened already and the little insects have been crawling out while the men have been walking in. [More…]
The aircrafts all have lockers now so the men are spraying the lockers instead of the inside shelves. [More…]
At least this shows that the Department of Health is on its toes and looking after our interests completely. [More…]
But of course we cannot do that here because I presume it would cause a reduction in the staff of the Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]
The Department would have to take about 10 men from each aerodrome. [More…]
This is hardly conducive to achieving a smooth flow of locally-recruited workers even though the Company’s officers maintain that many Australians prefer to precede their families and stay in the single men’s hostel in order to ‘look Whyalla over’ before bringing their families. [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 Array under the National Service Act and all pending prosecutions would be discontinued. [More…]
The first major action following the swearing in of the new Government on Tuesday, 5 December, was to do just this by administrative action. [More…]
The Government 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 under the Act to grant deferment to classes of persons liable to render service under the Act, the liability of all men who had not as at that date been enlisted for service in the Army was deferred indefinitely. [More…]
This affected 2,200 men 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…]
Arrangements which the Department of Labour and National Service had brought into effect on the Monday morning following the election were also confirmed. [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 decisions abolishing conscription which were taken 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 fulltime service. [More…]
The date on which the new Government came into office was 5 December and the then 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 are 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 re-establishment 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 Senate. [More…]
According to information I have received, if TAA were to be phased in on an equal operations basis with MacRobertson Miller Airlines up to 30 highly .trained pilots would no longer have employment. [More…]
The Department of Civil Aviation certainly has a copy of it. [More…]
The committee prepared a reasoned submission which did not oppose the entry of TAA but which .pointed out the danger of the loss of experienced pilots to Australian aviation and, from a humanitarian angle, the effect that any loss of employment would have on young men who have made aviation their life and on their families. [More…]
It is on that subject that I wish to make a few comments. [More…]
If we were to lose, say, 30 young first officers - I have been advised that they would be men of 28, 30 or 32 years of age with 4 or 5 years experience as first officers who could be expected to be in command of aircraft in the next 3, 4 or 5 years - we would not have in Australia the experienced first officers to take command of aircraft and fill the tremendous gap that will occur when the senior pilots retire. [More…]
In other words, we cannot afford to lose these men from the aviation industry in Australia. [More…]
But their chances of reemployment in Australia are pretty well negligible. [More…]
What is more important is that many of these young men have tire opportunity of being employed by overseas airlines. [More…]
What I am trying to say is if these men go overseas they will be lost to Australian aviation for ever. [More…]
Senator Bishop did not make it clear that this legislation applies to Commonwealth government employees who are employed in a civilian capacity. [More…]
It applies to employees of Commonwealth instrumentalities such as Trans-Australia Airlines, the Australian Broadcasting Commission and the Australian National Line. [More…]
It does not apply to any of the great mass of working men or business executives in private industry; nor does it apply to employees of State governments, either the civil servants or the great mass of railway workers, electricity workers and other public servants of the States; nor does it apply to self-employed persons such as members of the farming community, 40 per cent of whom have been on less than $2,000 a year for 10 years; nor does it apply to the housewives, who for the purposes of law are not regarded as employees at all. [More…]
Having dealt with the widow of a State public servant and of a private industrial worker, let us consider a few of the men who died in the First and Second World wars, the Korean War and in Vietnam. [More…]
He is paid $55 a week if he is entitled to all the allowances, yet the Government reckons the average medical man in his practice is worth $30,000 a year. [More…]
Before then, it would have been half that amount, lt is a blatant, rude deprival of justice to bring in a provision whereby the widows of public servants can receive $15,000 or $20,000 a year for the rest of their lives while the widows of men who were killed in the First and Second World wars and in other wars are left on midget pensions. [More…]
I now mention the ordinary worker, whether selfemployed or employed casually in industry, who becomes an invalid pensioner on social service without recourse to any damages at the law court because he cannot prove negligence and without recourse to any workers compensation because he had the misfortune to be, say a self-employed bricklayer. [More…]
The Government pays him an invalid pension of $21.50 a week - about $1,000 a year. [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 polices 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…]
Once again we have the loud noise men from north of the border. [More…]
I hope he has a better understanding of the problems of local government than honourable senators opposite have. [More…]
I believe that these 3 men form a good Commission. [More…]
The Commission necessarily, in its expanded situation, will take its reports in the Parliament. [More…]
lt is quite clear that the Commission will aid local government from a central financial pool. [More…]
This is a good arrangement and it is supported by us. [More…]
However, the arrangement has been based on the Whitlam proposition that the States should be present at their own dissolution. [More…]
The Government is adding an expensive device to do work that can now be done in a simpler form. [More…]
Why would it not have been possible to provide finance by way of per capital grants direct to the State governments which could use their own local government knowledge to do the same thing? [More…]
The Grants Commission Bill which is before the Senate provides for direct Commonwealth assistance to local government authorities. [More…]
As I look around the Senate chamber I see many men who have spent a considerable period in local government and who know the problems that face it. [More…]
I say to Senator Gietzelt that there are a number of men on this side of the chamber who, for some years now, have represented their States on local government matters on what is known as the Canberra Committee. [More…]
This Committee generally has on it one representative from each State, who is a Government supporter, who liaises with the Federal Council of Local Government Associations. [More…]
The men who come to mind readily are Senator Davidson, Senator Lillico and myself. [More…]
Until the change of government I represented Western Australia for some 10 years on the Canberra Committee. [More…]
I take it that some honourable senators on the Government side are filling those positions which we have vacated. [More…]
I believe that as time goes on and as more measures like this one are passed, men who think along those lines will become legion and that this Government will eventually go out of office. [More…]
Last evening I referred to R. G. Menzies and a statement he made when he was AttorneyGeneral of Victoria. [More…]
He said: There is one strange thing about a central government. [More…]
The last thing I want to do is to refer to this snide suggestion that if we carry the guillotine motion the time for the debate can be extended if the Leader of the Government in the Senate does not disapprove. [More…]
How honourable it is for men to accept that denigration of their positions. [More…]
How deceitful it is of the Leader of the Government in the Senate to put it forward. [More…]
It is deceit and humbug to put through an arbitrary proposition that simply makes a travesty of the Parliament. [More…]
Those were the words used in a Government paper put out by the Wilson Labour Government and specifically authored by Mrs Barbara Castle. [More…]
That legislation was enacted against the declared opposition of the organised trade union movement which, of course, has not yet been quelled. [More…]
However there is a resolute Conservative Government applying all the measures of moderation that are necessary to deal with great groups of men. [More…]
It recognised the danger applying to agreements made in that country without any arbitration system applying legal sanctions making those agreements enforceable. [More…]
Consequently, it made available the ordinary process by which agreements in commerce and contracts of employment are enforceable under the ordinary law of the land, namely, compensation for the loss that a party to an agreement suffers by repudiation of the agreement. [More…]
Christopher Hollis, who was probably the most progressive of English conservative thinkers, when referring to the end of the last century wrote that capitalism in England would have collapsed under its own weight if it had not been for the existence of the trade unions which protected the men who had- only the labour of their own 2 hands to -sell. [More…]
What has happened since the days about which Christoper Hollis wrote is that far from being a persecuted downtrodden organisation, the union tail is now wagging the entire community dog, and it is the very strength of the trade union movement which may well bring the trade union movement down in ruins, as the very dictatorship of Hitler, Stalin and the rest of those people have brought their own organisations down in ruins. [More…]
It sought the advice of members of the trade union movement. [More…]
It - sought the advice of employers and men who had been in the arbitration system over the years and who knew it through and through. [More…]
They went further to say that the best Bill that has ever been passed in regard to arbitration and conciliation in this country was the 1947 legislation passed by the Chifley Government. [More…]
They said that if the present Government wanted to make any real contribution towards industrial peace it would try to get back to the principles of the Bill that was passed by the Chifley Government in 1947 and to which the only worthwhile measures that have been added are those on amalgamation and trade union ballots. [More…]
It concerns reports today of the trial of 2 men in Yugoslavia. [More…]
Are the 2 men Australian citizens? [More…]
What provision is being made for observers to be present at the trial and for the 2 men to have adequate legal representation? [More…]
Finally, will the AttorneyGeneral give an undertaking that no papers or documents seized in recent police raids have been or will be provided to the Yugoslav authorities for use by the prosecution in this case? [More…]
This mine is the largest employer on King Island, employing no fewer than 362 men. [More…]
According to the explanatory notes which were handed out by the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) in another place, the Broadcasting and Television Bill deals only with the question of licences for certain pensioners - a matter with which the Opposition is in full agreement. [More…]
However, clauses 3 and 4 provide that the remuneration of the Chairman and members of the Australian Broadcasting Control Board and the General Manager of the Australian Broadcasting Commission shall be fixed by the Parliament. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether any action has been taken regarding the fixation of this set of salaries because I think - I am not quite sure of this, I am speaking from memory - that the salaries of these men and women were before the Senate last year. [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…]
Why are members of the Australian Labor Party in Government so intent on destroying this edifice which was the conception of the fathers of Federation? [More…]
Those great men worked tirelessly for years to get a federation of the States on the basis of equality of all States and of protection for the smaller States against the larger States. [More…]
It came about because great men, big men, saw the need to protect the weak against the strong. [More…]
I believe that our parliamentary system of government is a model for many other countries. [More…]
In 1967 the people showed in a very decisive manner that they recognise, realise and appreciate fully the necessity to have a responsible Senate, a Senate made up of men who will have regard to the welfare of the States they represent, men who will act judiciously, honestly and responsibly in the decisions that they make on the issues which come before the Senate. [More…]
Is that a sample of open government? [More…]
Why not transfer the executive of this Government to the trades hall and be finished with it? [More…]
Why not take it out of the atmosphere of Parliament altogether and take it into the halls of their dictators? [More…]
They may as well be open about it instead of going on with this repeated dictatorship through their representatives in Parliament? [More…]
The person to whom I referred - I know this because I was on the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party in 1955 - was responsible for the destruction of the Labor Party and the Labor movement in Australia because he placed himself over and above the elected representatives of the people on that Executive and in other places. [More…]
I was closer to the Labor movement at that time than Senator Murphy was. [More…]
I had not heard of his name in the Labor movement at that time. [More…]
The destruction of the Labor movement was based on the destruction of men who had been cradled in the Labor movement and who had fought in a reasonable and commonsense way - in a balanced way - for the advancement and the improvement of the social standards of the people. [More…]
The rightwingers, as we were described, had to be thrown out because we were an impediment to the forces which wanted to destroy the Australian Labor Party and also to destroy Australia in the course of their machinations. [More…]
You can understand my feeling, Mr Acting Deputy President, as one who was cradled in the Labor movement and who saw the grand political edifice and the movement which had achieved so much destroyed by men who had not had the same experience but who were hell-bent on exercising their power, wherever they could get it and however they could get it, to take over the Labor movement. [More…]
I hope that the people of Australia will awaken, to a greater measure than they are awake at the moment or were awake on 2 December, and will realise just what is taking place at the present time under the present Government, the attempts on all sides to centralise power in Canberra and attempts by gerrymander and by fixing the numerical strength of this Senate to gain complete power and domination over people in a free land. [More…]
The Government believes that the ordinary man in the community should get some benefit from the technological advances in the sophisticated society in which we live. [More…]
The Government does not believe that it is the prerogative of the profiteer to skim all the cream off the improvements brought about by the work of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and the unselfish men in laboratories throughout the world who devote their lives to trying to lift the burden from the shoulders of the human beings inhabiting the earth. [More…]
It is not the exclusive prerogative of the profiteer to be able to get all the benefit from improvements. [More…]
Whether people receive 3 or 4 weeks’ annual leave is really a matter for the courts and not for a joint committee of the Parliament. [More…]
As has been stated by Senator Marriott, the Government has declined to carry out the provisions of the National Service Act. [More…]
There is therefore no purpose while this Government is in power in arguing about theBill. [More…]
I merely say that the AustralianDemocratic Labor Party sees nothing wrong in training the young men of Australia to defend themselves. [More…]
While I do not agree with suggestions that the Government can claim a mandate for everything in its election policy, it made the repeal of the National Service Act such a prominent feature of its policy that it can claim to have a mandate in that regard. [More…]
In those circumstances we will not oppose the Bill, but I can assure the Senate and the people of Australia that we believe in training young men to defend themselves in time of crisis and that on other occasions we will support national service. [More…]
About 2,200 men had been passed fit for service and would have been liable for the call up. [More…]
There were another 30,000 men who would have been included in futureintakes, subject to fitness. [More…]
All men who were liable for call up would be advised as soon as possible that their liability had ended. [More…]
Senator Webster claims that an incorrect statement was made yesterday. [More…]
Of course, no incorrect statement was made yesterday. [More…]
It became concerned with the environmental aspect after it was unsuccessful in receiving the contract for the job. [More…]
Quite a deal of experimental work was involved in this question. [More…]
According to my notes and the material before me - that is mainly a file of correspondence from the firm, not only to myself but also to a number of politicians to try to have representations made to the Minister - the work hi planned and constructed by the National Capital Development Commissi oil with the Department of Works carrying out investigations, design and supervision of construction on its behalf. [More…]
Therefore, it is neither my Department nor the department of any Minister I represent in the Senate that is making the decision. [More…]
In view of the minute that I received on 2 May, I referred the matter to the Minister for Urban and Regional Development who has replied to me. [More…]
He possibly would be one of the men in the Parliament most concerned with environmental matters. [More…]
This Bill will make certain extensions of benefits to surviving widowers of female members of the Parliament, a proposition with which I think in justice we must agree, and also provides for extended benefits such as portability to those who come from other Parliaments and it provides benefits to some members already on superannuation who have married or remarried. [More…]
But I am unable to see why the position of single men or single women in the Parliament should be denied acceptance and acknowledgment. [More…]
If they pay the same percentage of salary they certainly should have the same right, within the limits of reason, to pass on their entitlement to a mother by way of right or to a dependent brother or sister above a certain age - because I think it would be improper to give that entitlement to a very young brother or sister. [More…]
I desire to support the arguments put forward by Senator Byrne in regard to his amendment. [More…]
I also endorse the sentiments which he expressed. [More…]
It amazes me that over the years so little consideration has been given to the single men and women who serve in the Parliament and who contribute to this scheme. [More…]
I know that there has been a peculiar attitude in Canberra about single persons in Parliament. [More…]
When I asked who I would dance with I was told that I would dance with the other men’s wives. [More…]
This shows the warped view that has been taken in regard to single people in this Parliament. [More…]
The married members of Parliament - both men and women - now have been very well catered for. [More…]
The married women had to fight for some time to obtain these benefits. [More…]
The husbands of the married women who have been in this Parliament may have been in quite good positions but the trustees sponsoring the fund eventually recognised that they had rights because of the contributions made. [More…]
The husbands of married female members of the Parliament will receive the same benefits on the deaths of their wives as do the widows of deceased married male members. [More…]
I think the only area that is now neglected is that of the single men and women who serve in this Parliament. [More…]
Surely in this enlightened twentieth century we should not have the situation that existed when I first came to Parliament in Canberra when spinsters or bachelors could not even bring a partner to a function. [More…]
Therefore I shall strongly support the amendment that will be moved by Senator Byrne. [More…]
It is of no good for us to say that we are in favour of the amendment; unless we take a strong stand on these things we might as well say goodbye. [More…]
If such a course is not possible, it appears that there is no alternative to recommending the payment of special contributions by existing members to eliminate the deficiency of $114,600’. [More…]
I think that a sense of responsibility belongs to every member of the Parliament to heed the Actuary’s advice that the deficiency should be provided for by the payment of special contributions from existing members. [More…]
I think that as men we ought to face it. [More…]
Sydney Opera House’, ‘Paddington Lace’, ‘Eighteen Footers’, and ‘Where Dead Men Lie’). [More…]
Where Dead Men Lie’- Gold Camera Award (First Place in History, Biography Category) U.S. Industrial Film Festival, Chicago U.S.A. [More…]
Merit Award Certificate to Dean Semler, Short Films or Documentaries Category, 1973 A.C.S. [More…]
The late Right Honourable Arthur Augustus Calwell had one of the lengthiest and most dedicated careers of any member of Parliament. [More…]
Elected to the House of Representatives as the member for Melbourne in 1 940, he retained this seat for the Labor Party at 11 consecutive Federal elections until his retirement last year. [More…]
He was one of the youngest men ever to take on the onerous tasks associated with Labor Party officialdom, being elected to a post within the Victorian Branch of the Party in 1914 at the age of 18. [More…]
-I would like to associate myself with the condolence motion relating to the late Arthur Augustus Calwell, I was closely associated with him in this Parliament for the past 26 years. [More…]
I first met him when he was a Minister in the Chifley Government. [More…]
He had an immense capacity for work: He applied himself diligently to every task that he undertook and with a determination that was inspiring. [More…]
He had a capacity to give generously of his great gifts to his fellow men. [More…]
He was a tough fighter for the causes in which he believed, yet outside the Parliament and in ordinary every day life he had a degree of generosity that was quite extraordinary. [More…]
When a man dies and his friends say He was a mate was Arthur’ Labor to the soul, a fighting chief To the men who will come after. [More…]
I have listened with great interest to the remarks of Senator Rae, who has initiated a discussion concerning education and the Government’s attitude towards the report of the Interim Committee for the Australian Schools Commission. [More…]
One of the most outstanding men in the new Labor Cabinet is the Minister for Education. [More…]
At the commencement of his remarks Senator Rae said that a wave of anger is sweeping this country about the way in which the Australian Government is approaching the educational situation. [More…]
A lot of noise is being made about a very small number of schools but little is being said about the enormous benefit that will accrue to a very large number of schools - government and non-government - throughout the Australian community. [More…]
I believe that that is typical of the attitude of Ministers in the Labor Government. [More…]
He proudly said he acknowledges that Mr Kim Beazley is one of the best men the Labor Party has. [More…]
During 1972 Mr Beazley was asked what would be the continuing attitude of the Labor Party in relation to education, should it become the Government. [More…]
We have the situation whereby immediately this Party came to office it commissioned a most responsible body of men to go into the depths of the education system and to root out the bad features of it. [More…]
In the first place the previous government started by buying the votes with 5m, and so far as I am concerned in every succeeding Budget the education vote has been pitched to the securing of votes. [More…]
The Labor Party has broken away from that practice, and the very fact that there is a condemnation from honourable senators on my right of the performance of the Government in this field indicates clearly that they believe that the Labor Party has not done so for a political purpose at all. [More…]
It is the lot of few men to be given sufficient self-reliance to be able to be selfsufficient unto themselves and not to welcome and cherish the friendships of their colleagues and the common man. [More…]
How can he or his Government align those honeyed words with his sustained attacks not only on the present Nixon Administration - that is not good enough because he could lecture on it day by day - but also on the late Lyndon Johnson and his Administration and on the late J. F. Kennedy and his Administration. [More…]
This was done because the faceless men had spoken. [More…]
The same thing occurred, of course, with the Five Power Arrangements. [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…]
I shall be extmining critically the various combat and supporting elements, the need to maintain particular military skills at particular levels, and their balance in relation to the likely strategic situation. [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, 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…]
That economic loss has been the direct result of government inaction and ineptitude, principally on the part of the Tasmanian Government. [More…]
It employs 362 men. [More…]
I am amazed at the squeamishness of so many of our parliamentarians who defend people who destroy the lives of other people, sometimes in a most dastardly fashion or in ways which have great national consequences. [More…]
Our own men were taking the lives of people opposed to us. [More…]
Does any honourable senator want to tell me that if one of our men or one of the enemy had moved over to the other side, committing a disloyal act of treason by going over, the natural reaction of the side he left would not have been to shoot him? [More…]
I rise to support the amendment which has been moved by Senator Greenwood. [More…]
I have thought often of the awful position in which the British Government has placed itself in regard to Northern Ireland - although I doubt that it could be said that treason is involved in this instance. [More…]
Senator Webster spoke of people who with deliberation, forethought and premeditation can attempt to sell this country or part of it and to sell their fellow men down the drain. [More…]
It is being gradually recognised that the threats that are being engendered, aided by the most modern methods and mechanisms that man has devised including the development of instruments of violence and opportunities for man under the influence of stimulants to commit violence are such that a Parliament that today persistently proceeds, just because of an ideological idea that it has a conviction that there should be no capital punishment, is, I believe, blind completely to the destructive threats that are evident in our community. [More…]
As Senator Webster has so cogently said in a speech to which I listened with great appreciation, individual men have defects and deserve punishment for particular crimes. [More…]
Men, women and children are now able to go about their lawful avocations only because of the efficacy of our prisons and the efficiency of our police force. [More…]
With all this before our eyes - a growing tendency towards organised crime, terrorism and prison riots - it is a humiliating moment for the Senate that it should be constituting a majority that will precede with the breaking down of these safeguards and the depriving of prison officers and policemen of that to which they are entitled, that is, the deterrent of the possibility of a capital punishment penalty being imposed upon anybody who takes the life of a prison officer or policeman. [More…]
Certainly the length of the term of imprisonment which can be imposed - life- would be, we would hope, a deterrent. [More…]
We ought to have - I think we will have- better methods of ascertaining whether such persons are mentally ill and of dealing with them in order to prevent the crimes being committed. [More…]
It is not right that in a society there should be persons who are obviously in need of treatment. [More…]
To retain the approach of the past when men were more ignorant than they are today, and in the face of an understanding which is growing around the world that the death penalty does not serve a useful purpose, I think would be wrong. [More…]
It is not on undue sympathy or any false sentiment that the proposition is based, but we believe that the general principle ought to be adhered to. [More…]
He began to fossick around and found that 3 young men had been killed. [More…]
Not all that has happened in this House even under this Government is bad, and I should like to place on record an event which took place yesterday in the quadrangle of Parliament House and which pleased me greatly. [More…]
I am an executive of the American field service scholarship scheme in Australia and I was privileged to obtain the Government’s authority for the Government to entertain these young people to morning tea. [More…]
The great privilege which they were granted - this really pleased me - was that you, Mr President, and your Presiding Officer colleague, Mr Cope, both of you busy men, were waiting in the quadrangle when they arrived. [More…]
I spoke with them afterwards, and they said they were very thrilled and honoured that they had been accorded this distinction in Parliament House. [More…]
This is because the Senate consists of 4 groups and the Government. [More…]
Custom, tradition, the thoughts of men and women are such that a Bill is introduced, the Minister makes a second reading speech and when thi debate is resumed the Opposition, the Country Party, the Democratic Labor Party and the independent group each have the right to have at least one of their senators speak. [More…]
Every three or four speakers possibly but not always necessarily are against the measure or against the Government. [More…]
It is then necessary to interweave a government supporter between each group, it is necessary to have a closing speech in reply by a Minister so that for every important Bill 8 speeches are made. [More…]
Both are men of attractive appearance. [More…]
They said: ‘He is such a tremendous figure, so attractive on television. [More…]
Obviously, he would be the person to carry out the next act of capital punishment if it is ever carried out again in Australia. [More…]
I came home from a war a pacifist because I had seen men die. [More…]
When I am a free member of the Parliament I act as a free man, unlike the members of the Labor Party who, when they are ostensibly free men, act as Caucus cronies even in respect of a matter so important as capital punishment. [More…]
J hope that I have done somthing to allay the criticism and instill an understanding of faithful parliamentary duty. [More…]
Having voted in Cabinet against my government’s proposal to extend the law regarding capital punishment to an attempt to hijack an aircraft, I point out that when you are not a member of a government you have a duty to vote on the floor of the House according to your individual judgment. [More…]
I appeal to the members of Caucus who are not members of the Cabinet to give expression to this principle in matters of capital punishment. [More…]
I do not think that it is a worthy response to Senator Greenwood’s amendment to indulge in a rather spiteful denigration of war as such. [More…]
Anybody who recalls the men in captivity who were relieved from death staring them in the face by the abrupt ending of that war by the delivery of the bomb will never shrink from supporting those who took the decision to end the War abruptly in mercy to mankind even if it killed Hiroshima. [More…]
Nor do I listen with any admiration or acceptance to the sneering reference to Lieutenant Calley who is in a jurisdiction, as the Attorney-General, the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) at once says, has not accepted these Conventions. [More…]
What Senator Greenwood is putting to the Committee is that if there is a Lieutenant Calley in our community subject to our laws, we will not have him living in honour, or in immunity or at all because the community that Senator Greenwood’s proposal expresses is nobler than that which gives continuance to the life of a person who has shot women and children and nobbled men in massacre. [More…]
He has 3 women and a man held as hostages. [More…]
This is going on now because of the weakness of our public men who are not game to stand up to what should be done. [More…]
No limit has ever been placed upon the number of journalists, news-letter writers or party publicity men who may use the press galleries and the facilities of the House. [More…]
Press men are chosen, 1 presume, by their editors. [More…]
So far as I can learn, no attempt has ever been made to examine the relationship of the press to this Parliament. [More…]
The status of the press, and the freedom of pressmen within this building are matters within the control of the President of the Senate and of the Speaker, until the Parliament determines otherwise. [More…]
I believe that the purpose of the press in Parliament is to report parliamentary proceedings fairly and accurately in order to enable the public to judge the facts. [More…]
1 think that the House might well establish a committee to examine the relationships which exist between press and Parliament. [More…]
Is it a fact that three or four young men who were members of the staff resigned in protest against the lack of objectivity and political impartiality on the part of Mr Holgate? [More…]
Perhaps the most scurrilous of the Government’s broken promises, and its biggest blunder, is in its cavalier attitude towards defence. [More…]
Mr Barnard, in his statement to the nation, tells us that Labor’s policy calls for a strong and valid defence capability that will demonstrate beyond all doubt the nation’s intention to defend itself and its vital interests’. [More…]
The Royal Australian Navy, denied new ships and with stripped manpower, must be proud that the Minister envisages that it could ‘deter to a great extent any minor harassment and interference with Australian sovereign control’. [More…]
It will lose not only onequarter of its fighter strength but also, to save a little more on the defence budget, 1,200 men. [More…]
The Army will suffer in a like manner, with cuts in equipment and manpower. [More…]
I take this opportunity to congratulate the Government on the first real Budget which has been brought into this chamber in more than 20 years. [More…]
The Budget, as enunciated by my Party, has catered for all sections of the community, in spite of the statements that we have just heard from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (Senator Withers). [More…]
Before I expand on some sections of the Budget, I wish to reply to some of those statements. [More…]
I think I can truthfully say that he tried to be all things to all men. [More…]
For that reason he concentrated not only on the Doomsday sections of his statement but tried to be a Colonel Blimp and an expert on defence; and from there he went across the board to become Mr Chipps and’ to pride himself on being an expert on education. [More…]
In other words the Opposition will not give credit to the will of the people who elected the Labor Government. [More…]
They are doing this because the faceless men of the Liberal Party, the minions of big business sitting behind their ranks, have told them that they have to do it or else. [More…]
Labor in its first 6 or 8 months flush of government has attempted to publicise some very radical policies which it has followed. [More…]
I think that the period of Labor Government has to be judged in relation to the outcome to date and the financial proposals will have a major control in financial matters for this ensuing year. [More…]
Undoubtedly both men are very intelligent in their fields, but I believe that for a government to completely throw away its responsibility for decision and hand it to men such as this only reflects the reputation which Labor has and that is its inability to make decisions and carry out policies which it thinks are right. [More…]
When Labor came into office it immediately proliferated to an enormous extent the expense of the Federal Government. [More…]
It immediately moved up departments, as we han seen, such as the Department of the Environment and Conservation. [More…]
Advertisements were placed for hundreds of staff at most excessive figures for the leading men. [More…]
The Government has attempted to attract into the Public Service people of the calibre to lead these departments. [More…]
It is interesting to note that this Labor Government cannot carry out its program without greatly extending the direct ongoing cost to the community. [More…]
I believe that in many areas the Labor Government is demonstrating how wasteful and extravagant it can be in the proliferation of government expenditure. [More…]
I noted with interest that none of these Minister suggested to the Parliament that they themselves were tall poppies on very high salaries or that perhaps their use of Commonwealth cars and aeroplanes, or their extra allowances and other Government perks, could perhaps be shared by their fellow backbenchers. [More…]
I say, without any hesitation, that in my view to allow the men who want to export as many peas or beans as possible to sit in judgment and say what that quantity should be is a thoroughly scurrilous proposition. [More…]
If we are : to have a trading partnership in these commodities which are produced in a sufficiency in the 2 countries, surely it is possible to appoint a panel of men, if it must be a panel, who are not themselves financially interested in the commodities and who are able to adjudicate without bias or without benefit to themselves as to how many peas shall flow from one country to another. [More…]
-The Opposition supports this Bill, as it would support any measure that contributed to improved conditions of service and improved welfare for our servicemen, although I seriously doubt, if the Government pursues its defence policy as outlined in the Budget, that there will be many servicemen left in Australia’s forces to benefit from these rehabilitation decisions. [More…]
As the Minister for Defence (Mr Barnard) has stated, this Bill has 2 purposes- to apply to regular servicemen the rehabilitation and retraining benefits which have applied in the past to national servicemen, and to put into legislative form Labor’s preelection promise to pay a re-engagement bonus of $1,000 after 6 years of service on the basis of a further 3 years of service. [More…]
It is of great wonder to me that this double-dealing Government, after slashing the Defence vote from its promised 3.5 per cent to 3.2 per cent of the gross national product, to 2.9 per cent, effectively removing the teeth from our defence forces, has the gall to grandstand on this Bill that it is honouring an election promise by providing these benefits. [More…]
It seems most inconsistent to me that the Government should institute measures aimed at retaining servicemen with one hand while the other hand is sweeping men out of the Services. [More…]
He apparently feels that his Government can afford to take advantage of this superiority and take it easy for a while. [More…]
Whilst there may be some argument that the manufacturing of war tools could be instituted reasonably quickly if any future enemy had the cricketing decency to give us a year of so notice of its intention, we would find it very difficult at short notice to find trained men to direct and lead mobilisation. [More…]
Already there have been reports that 22 scientists have been ‘axed’ from the Weapons Research Establishment at Salisbury in South Australia, along with, I might mention, some 100 technical staff, 177 tradesmen and 57 clerks. [More…]
And surely the Government must realise, now that chances of promotion have been denied to career officers, that many of the better, more intelligent officers who have the skills and the ability to get good jobs outside the forces will be the first ones to resign. [More…]
Will those officers and men, deceived by this Government, come rushing back to the Services? [More…]
Whilst supporting this Bill for the two advantages it will give remaining servicemen, we in the Opposition, question its ability to attract able young men to the Services and condemn the Government for its overall approach to defence. [More…]
I believe that we should get these men to reengage because they are trained men. [More…]
But, on the other hand, I believe that we can have reengagement only as high as 80 per cent. [More…]
We only hope that it has the effect that the Government believes it will have. [More…]
If so, will the officers and men of the Squadron, which has done a magnificent job of work and which is at present the only squadron of its kind in the RAAF, be absorbed into other branches of the Services? [More…]
Was trade union pressure a factor which caused the Government to disband the Squadron? [More…]
What is to become of the costly equipment and the portable houses which were specially built for the Squadron at Learmonth? [More…]
This is a problem for the Government and for capable men to assess. [More…]
I understand that the assessment was left in the hands of Mr Whitlam, Mr Crean and Mr Barnard. [More…]
I would imagine that those 3 men have never had a hand in running a business in their lives. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate was not included in discussions on the matter. [More…]
But unless an increase in interest rates is considered disastrous in the community, no moderate 1 per cent, 2 per cent or 3 per cent interest rate will ever deter a business from logically, in the requirements of its own affairs, having to borrow money for its particular on-going purposes, either of a revenue or capital purchase nature. [More…]
The fact is that real interest rates on loans and deposits in banks and on government securities are negative at today’s rate of inflation. [More…]
For example, who is it but the little men who hold more than $ 10,000m in deposits with savings banks, the proceeds of which are invested in government securities and housing loans? [More…]
If we add the 5 per cent currency revaluation to the effect of the 25 per cent cut in tariffs on those items, yes, the decision will hit the Australian man in the street, the men who work in boot factories and the girls who work in shirt factories. [More…]
It will affect such people engaged in those secondary types of industries throughout Australia on which we depend for a great proportion of our industrial employment. [More…]
Perhaps that is the reason why Labor men stood up and supported me on the numerous occasions on which I condemned the previous Government for resorting to the fallacious economic theory that higher interest rates would control inflation. [More…]
I pointed out to that government that over the period of 1 5 years in which it had indulged in this practice it had not controlled inflation. [More…]
I received great commendation and support from Labor senators. [More…]
He admits that during years gone bylast year and the year before- he stood in the Parliament and rejected, one by one, every doctrine that he mouthed today. [More…]
He said he is the little man, financially, because the little men are the ones who have tens of thousands of millions of dollars in savings bank accounts. [More…]
If inflation runs at 10, 12 or 15 per cent a year, the Government is robbing him. [More…]
We read in that paper yesterday how the men who were named had milked, as it were, the little persons with their few shares, and of the sorts of things that had gone on. [More…]
There is a fundamental issue on industrial relations which the Opposition never seems to understand. [More…]
There is no trade union official, be he an organiser or an ACTU official, who today can go to any gathering of men in industry and be sure that they will accept his viewpoint. [More…]
That is democracy, it is healthy, because today with higher educational standards and schools of industrial management, it is a case of jack being as good as his master. [More…]
This is the new era of the trade union movement. [More…]
One of the few Soviet military men with the courage to buck the system is General Pyotr Grigorenko. [More…]
He is now in a mental home for his pains, receiving injections of the drug halobiridol which damages the brain. [More…]
Sakharov told 14 Western journalists that Soviet psychiatrists were injecting the depressant drug halobiridol into sane men and women in asylums. [More…]
He urged the foreign psychiatrists to demand the right to visit dissidents held in mental hospitals and, if permission is refused, they should not have any contact with Soviet psychiatrists who, Sakharov said, were accomplices in these crimes. [More…]
Prospectors, mining men, company men and shire leaders have met with the common bond of saving the industry and their towns. [More…]
This is the fundamental fault in the whole Budget proposition- not that an increased share is wrong in itself in certain economic circumstances but that the Government will do it at the expense of the private sector. [More…]
The Government will not admit this but I think that this is the truth of the situation. [More…]
So I believe that with this Budget we are back in the days of what I call the unreal men- men who know what is best for us all and whose opinions and views cannot be questioned. [More…]
These people are the big time spenders and in my judgment are out to dissipate the resources very carefully built up over a long period of time by a better style of operating in a market economy with a strong free enterprise emphasis. [More…]
If woolgrowers can afford to pay $36,000, a world record price, for a merino ram, why cannot they afford to provide proper accommodation and decent working conditions to the men who have to shear their sheep? [More…]
I hope, now it has been proved that the wool industry is back on its feet- the Government is not claiming credit for this- and wool growers can afford to pay prices such as these for merino rams, that they can afford to update the accommodation and the working conditions for shearers so that young people can be attracted into the shearing industry to do a workmanlike job. [More…]
Now for honourable senators opposite to come back at this stage with such a hypocritical motion on the notice paper shows them up for what they are- tiny, pokey little political men who were making money out of the war for their own greasy little fingers and for the companies with which they were involved. [More…]
At the same time as they were taking the money behind their backs they were shouting out from the Government side of the chamber in support of the war in Vietnam. [More…]
There were men who were then in government who were making a fortune out of the Vietnam war. [More…]
Now they come here with the greatest show of hypocrisy of all time and say that this Government has double standards. [More…]
The Labor Party has never had double standards either in Opposition or in Government. [More…]
If the wise men opposite who are following a star want to question that figure let them get up and do so. [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…]
There will be increases in the rate of payment of most pensions and allowances. [More…]
Free medical and hospital treatment will be provided for all ex-servicemen of the Boer War and the 1914-18 War. [More…]
Ex-service men and women who served in a theatre of war and who suffer from malignant cancer will be provided with free medical and hospital treatment for that condition. [More…]
These changes, Mr Deputy President, are an indication of the responsibility that this Government accepts in relation to those who have served their country in time of need, and now those who voluntarily make up the country’s defence forces. [More…]
We also recognise that, when and where capacity exists, the facilities and expertise of the repatriation treatment services should sensibly be made available to the community generally. [More…]
They have not been overlooked; but, as a matter of priority, benefits for ex-service men and women, and the dependants of deceased ex-servicemen, have been given preference on this occasion. [More…]
About 190,000, or 90 per cent of those ex-service men and women who suffer war-related incapacity, are pensioned under this rate at percentage from 10 to 100 per cent. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier. [More…]
The previous Government saw fit to leave the general rate pension unchanged for 8 years between 1964 and 1972 and consequently the value of the payment declined significantly. [More…]
It is the intention of this Government to restore its value; but, because of the need to bridge such a wide gap and the numbers involved, this cannot be achieved in one step. [More…]
We have heard some extraordinary statements made about inflation. [More…]
It has been said that is the product of the policies of the previous Government. [More…]
That is one of the comments we have heard, but it is not worth answering. [More…]
If Australia were to have another 23 years of progress and development similar to that of the last 23 years, even despite the faults- we all have faults- the population would double again, the development of potential would more than double and, what is more important, we could be reasonably certain that we in this country could go on with a reasonable sense of security that we would continue to be here to develop it. [More…]
Instead, the position at the moment is that we have men in responsible positions going around insulting those people with whom we should be friends and cringing to those people who want to be friends with us. [More…]
The only way in which this could happen would be for the Chinese to take it over by force of arms, which proposition I understand this Government, without doubt, would accept. [More…]
Is it a fact, as reported in this morning’s Financial Review’, that the Air Force now has too many pilots and flyers and that these men are being encouraged to leave the Royal Australian Air Force? [More…]
Will the Government find suitable alternative employment for these men as it plans to do for civilian defence workers? [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the Government in an endeavour to honour the promises which it made in an attempt to outbid the previous Government during the last election campaign, found itself in difficulties in framing the present Budget. [More…]
The first thing which the Government did to cut back on defence expenditure was to say to the Air Force: ‘You have to take a cut of 25 per cent in flying hours’. [More…]
This immediately raised a problem which the Government never foresaw. [More…]
We find Mr Hawke coming up here and saying: What about the jobs of my men in the defence works?’ [More…]
Now the Government has to try to find a way out of this situation. [More…]
One can only applaud the wisdom of the men who drew up the Constitution for their action in giving this House of Parliament concurrent powers with the House of Representatives. [More…]
It is the Senate which acts as a check on the hasty and ill-considered actions of this Government and the Liberal Party hopes that it is the Senate which will once again rally and throw out an illconsidered and hasty proposal. [More…]
I should point out to the Senate that for 23 years of LiberalCountry Party Government, the inflation rate was kept within reasonable limits. [More…]
In 1971 he brought down a Budget which so heavily discriminated against the wage and salary earners of this country that he put 130,000 men out of work. [More…]
Because he could not stop that growing swell of unemployment, 4 months before the last election he brought down another Budget in a desperate attempt to push money into the economy. [More…]
He might have reduced the unemployment rate from 130,000 to 120,000 but he brought about the dual problems of unemployment and inflation. [More…]
The Labor Government will not take the action, which the Liberals took on so many occasions in setting out to curb inflation, of creating unemployment. [More…]
Under no circumstances will a Labor Government adopt policies which will bring about that situation. [More…]
In an endeavour to slow it down every three or four years they created unemployment. [More…]
The method used by the Liberal and Country Parties to tackle inflation is to create unemployment for countless thousands of Australian workers. [More…]
But whilst they did all this- whilst they threw men out of work and could not at the same time solve the problem of inflation- they refused to do anything about the price rise spiral. [More…]
Their constant answer to the problem was a duo of inflation and unemployment. [More…]
A celebrated statesman of earlier years, when stating why constitutional amendments had a long history of defeat, said that it was obvious that they always would have because of the way the Constitution was set up. [More…]
When he was asked why, he said: ‘Because in Australia there are more women voters than men voters and they have always been taught to say no’. [More…]
Ordinarily a prudent government would enter into consultation with elements of the Parliament to see what degree of support was forthcoming for a constitutional proposition, which should be above party politics. [More…]
Any prudent Prime Minister who had the capacity to act according to his judgment, as distinct from being compelled by an intransient Caucus, would have had consultations by now on possible alternative and additional subject matters. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) not so insistently to concentrate his mind on the one little word ‘prices’ as to exclude the possibility of other considerations. [More…]
I rise to protest against a Bill dealing with a constitutional alteration being shovelled through as if it were sand on a cart to be dealt with by the workmen of the Caucus. [More…]
It is a matter of high constitutional consideration for all elements of Parliament. [More…]
Our Standing Orders, very thoughtfully prepared by wise men - [More…]
Yes, I emphasise ‘wise men’ to suggest that some should think of the alternatives that operate today. [More…]
The Government is using the false argument that the Commonwealth needs the powers in order to control prices and therefore to control inflation. [More…]
I believe that the Australian people must be made aware of the fact that this is not the old style Labor governments that we have known in the past- those led by men like Ben Chifley and John Curtin, and a lot earlier by Andrew Fisher. [More…]
This is, without a doubt, a reactionary type Government. [More…]
I shall commence by dealing with the clothing manufacturers and by isolating some section of the industry. [More…]
There could be a reduction of 8 per cent in employment opportunities in those industries engaged in the manufacturing of women’s and girl’s blouses and frocks. [More…]
In general women’s and girl’s clothing there could be a reduction of 7.6 per cent in employment opportunities. [More…]
In hosiery manufacturing, the reduction in employment opportunities could be 6.9 per cent, in household textiles 5.9 per cent, in textile floor coverings 4.6 per cent, in men’s trousers and work clothing 8. [More…]
1 per cent and in men’s suits and coats 9.6 per cent. [More…]
I could cite a whole range of reductions in employment opportunities at about the 6 per cent level which could be a direct result of the 25 per cent tariff reduction. [More…]
This action was taken without consideration of those industries which may need special protection and which may have provided opportunities for decentralised employment for which there is no alternative if employment opportunities are reduced. [More…]
The present Government must have been well aware, not because of the long history of inflation but because of statements made since it gained office and in particular in the fortnight before it sought election that one of its great problems would be to control the economy of the nation. [More…]
Comments have come from both sides of the House as to what degree inflation existed before the present Government took office. [More…]
I think we can only judge the Government’s approach to the problem from its actions immediately it took office. [More…]
Of course, we all know that the Government took control with a form of dictatorship for a short period of a month in which 2 men were practically able to do almost anything they wanted. [More…]
If this Government now wishes to proclaim that it has always been aware that the people who were previously in government had created factors which were likely to cause inflation surely the first steps taken in those days of new government should have been steps to control inflation to some degree. [More…]
It is when they are unanimous that I despise them because, having regard to the number of honourable senators on the Government side, it would be impossible for them all to think identically. [More…]
They are not men if they do. [More…]
In my opinion, that statement is proof positive that the penal provisions of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act, in spite of the agitation to have them removed, were an impediment to industrial chaos. [More…]
I say without any hesitation that in most countries there is a coterie of men whose aim or objective is to seize control of the trade unions. [More…]
It happened in New Zealand, but the New Zealand Government was able to cope with the situation. [More…]
On more than one occasion the New Zealand Government has said to communist controlled unions in New Zealand: Unless you get rid of so-and-so we will deregister your union and we will freeze your funds’. [More…]
And the New Zealand Government did just that. [More…]
The moving of this motion gives the Senate an opportunity to strike a blow for real freedom, to break a lance with the controllers of a totalitarian dictatorship and to provide real and genuine help to men whose courage and fortitude almost defy description. [More…]
It will be recalled that 8 days ago I asked the Government to refer the question of the persecution of Soviet dissidents to the United Nations. [More…]
It would have been following the splendid precedent set by the LiberalCountry Party Government, which was successful in obtaining some small benefits for Soviet Jewry by referring that question to the United Nations, just on 11 years ago. [More…]
So far I have had no response from the Government to my appeal. [More…]
Prize winner, he issued last year a series of statements criticising Soviet society, its tyranny and its conformism. [More…]
His colleague, mentioned in this motion, one Andrei Sakharov, is the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb. [More…]
It might well be thought strange that we in the Australian Parliament seek to do something which could result in freedom for a man who gave the Soviet its most powerful weapon; and yet Sakharov has indicated clearly in his statements from behind the Iron Curtain that he is disgusted with Soviet society and the way in which it controls men’s minds, and for that reason I have no hesitation in bracketing him with Solzhenitsyn in the resolution which is before this chamber. [More…]
But to turn men of stature into vegetables, to make them things of pity, is a new method which only the communist mind seems to have seized upon and to have regarded as more effective than actual execution. [More…]
It is a particularly well recognised fact that in dealing with their citizens, communist governments concentrate particularly on writers and artists and those people who are capable of influencing public opinion. [More…]
The mere fact that they are still both out of prison- they are not actually free men- is due to some degree to protests from the West and is one of the matters which should encourage us to make sure that our protest is lodged. [More…]
The astonishing thing is that the mere fact that the man is in disagreement with the establishment in Russia is taken as grounds of insanity. [More…]
It is only recently that the story of his imprisonment has come out. [More…]
Previously, I mentioned Bukovsky who is serving 7 years in a psychiatric hospital. [More…]
It is extraordinary that dissidents in the Soviet Union who receive treatment are not placed in an ordinary prison. [More…]
But often they are put into mental asylums in order to degrade them and to make them a thing of pity- an abject vegetable. [More…]
Amalrik, whom I mentioned earlier, and also Bukovsky were offered their freedom if they would confirm the convictions of 2 intellectuals, Yakir and Kruson. [More…]
I will not weary you, Mr President, by attempting to pronounce a whole series of Russian names of men who have suffered or who were persecuted for their dislike of Soviet tyranny. [More…]
As I mentioned earlier all sorts of moral pressures have been exerted on these men. [More…]
There was another writer whose name, for the moment escapes me. [More…]
I do not want to get too political on this but I think it is impossible to conclude this subject without contrasting the Government’s refusal to act in this matter with what happens when Marxist communists are in trouble. [More…]
Please God, this protest will ring around the Soviet Union and may spring the traps which imprison so many courageous men. [More…]
What a terrible thing it is that this should be said by one of the great men of this world- one of the most courageous voices in contemporary history, a man who is speaking out at the risk of his life. [More…]
I say that the Government has been unwilling to bring forward the information which has been sought because it has been unwilling to accept publicly the advice which has been tendered to it. [More…]
I want to canvas that for one moment. [More…]
I, in common with other people in this Parliament and in Australia, am opposed to increasing man-made nuclear fall-out where it is possible to stop it. [More…]
The country that these men represent is nuclear testing on a scale infinitely greater than the scale on which the French are testing. [More…]
Your people have one of your warships, the ‘Otago’ patrolling the French area and tormenting for all they are worth the French people in that area. [More…]
Surely to God that is ambiguous morality if anything in the world is- the same morality that this Government practised in this country. [More…]
It reported a statement by the Mayor of Auckland. [More…]
Yes, it was feted by the Government. [More…]
Thank the Lord that there are men in New Zealand- it is a pity that there were not a few more in Australia- with the same guts and the same forthrightness that the Mayor of Auckland has. [More…]
The effect of this policy on the child can only be guessed 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 know that men and women with whom lam associated have been looking forward to the implementation of the promise of the Labor Party that the means test on pensions would be abolished. [More…]
These people took the view that on retirement they would receive some benefit from any investment that they may have made. [More…]
But they have found that the benefit of the promise that was made to them by the Labor Party has been eroded completely by the fact that the Government now intends to tax the pension they receive. [More…]
The Government has indicated that it will give pensioners an increase of $ 1.50 every now and then so that pensions will reach 25 per cent of average weekly earnings. [More…]
But in this year of 1 973 they will be getting less benefit under this Government than they, ever got under the previous Government. [More…]
Only the other day on my way back from a New South Wales country town I called into a rural property and was advised that shearers, who are well known to be men who work only for a season but who earn enough money in that season to keep them for the whole 12 months, are usually posted an unemployment benefit application to fill in as soon as the shearing season finishes. [More…]
They fill it in, claim the unemployment benefit and get it. [More…]
I have heard men with families say that it is ridiculous to work because they can get $60 a week unemployment benefits and only $55 a week if they work. [More…]
The Government is allowing this to go on. [More…]
I sincerely trust that the Government will look into this situation and tighten the system. [More…]
Senator Dame NANCY BUTTFIELD (South Australia) (8.0)- I am very pleased to have something to say about this Bill because like all Australians- I think I am right in saying ‘all Australians’I feel very patriotic towards, and very much under an obligation to look after, the men who fought for this country, and I feel the same way about their dependants. [More…]
I believe that no community anywhere feels more under a responsibility to carry out its obligation to look after its fighting men than Australia feels. [More…]
I’ congratulate the Government on the many improvements that it is introducing in these Bills, and I am wholeheartedly behind it in those improvements. [More…]
The draft report was finished in May, but the report still has not left the Government Printer. [More…]
I do not know whether everybody will agree with me, but I feel that there is a very good reason for delaying the publication of that report, and that is so the Australian Labor Party can claim credit for improvements in the repatriation scheme which were brought to light through the publicity of the media at public hearings of that Committee. [More…]
Officers and men alike are bewildered, frustrated and disenchanted. [More…]
I believe that to bribe men and women now to join the forces by saying that the Government will provide repatriation benefits if they stay in the forces for 3 years- [More…]
This is a lot of geography to be defended by a population of 1 3 million people of which only 31,000 Regular Army men are to be under arms at any one time and I would not discount the theory that this country could be invaded with comparative ease. [More…]
I concede that the Government deserves some credit on a front which could be associated with morale because the Government has taken action, for which it has to be commended, to improve the conditions under which members of our armed forces operate. [More…]
Having said that, I can only say that all the efforts that have been made to make service in the armed forces something of a career and all the efforts that have been made to improve morale in that direction must fall to the ground when young men who hope to make the armed forces a career find that the armed forces today are being downgraded and that they will be left without adequate training and without adequate weapons with which to fight. [More…]
What is happening, of course, is that the retirement benefits which the Government improved and made available in the belief that they would encourage people to stay in the armed forces are now being used by disappointed officers and non-commissioned officers who feel that the Army has been so downgraded that it offers nothing at all to a man who wants to make the best of his profession. [More…]
These men of priceless experience who could not possibly be replaced will now take these improved benefits and get out of our armed forces in complete disappointment and disillusionment. [More…]
The Government is taking the action of getting rid of a large number of men whose services are vital if we are to have any sort of armed forces and will be more than vital if war comes and our armed forces have to be expanded. [More…]
That doctrine indicates, we are told by our own experts, that limited military response by the US or other external powers to communist insurgency is unlikely to be affected unless accompanied by the fullest self-help by the government concerned. [More…]
Everybody knows that we could not be regarded as in any sense a credible ally under the arms and military establishment which this Government proposes. [More…]
The Army has about 3 1 ,000 men, perhaps a couple of thousand more; but the experts tell us that of those 3 1 ,000 or 32,000 men, most of them- the overwhelming majority- will be engaged in supply work, communications and all kinds of other work, while those available to bear arms will number about 5,000 or 6,000. [More…]
he should not believe the stories that were being put around that the present Government was adopting an isolationist policy, that it intended to retreat to Australia. [More…]
But how could Australia be anything but isolationist with only 5,000 men in the Army able to bear arms? [More…]
Those 5,000 men will make it completely impossible for us to make a contribution if one of our ANZUS allies is attacked. [More…]
Our Government should admit straight out that it is now completely isolationist and that it has no intention under any circumstances of having forces which our allies could regard as credible from the point of view of playing our part in the event of trouble in the world today. [More…]
There are reports- I think this was mentioned by Senator McManus- that there are between 44 and 49 Russian divisions along the border between China and the Soviet Union and that they are faced by an equivalent number of Chinese divisions. [More…]
No one knows what is in the minds of the men in the Kremlin. [More…]
$97 1m of this sum goes on maintaining the forces of 8 1,000 men (backed by 52,000 civilians) - [More…]
The report stated that there were 81,000 men including 52,000 civilians. [More…]
I am not a mathematician, but subtracting 52,000 from 81,000 gives a total of 29,000 men in uniform. [More…]
The Defence statement brought down by Mr Barnard has the Army strength at 3 1 ,000 with an increase of 1 ,000 a year until 1976 when it will reach a total of 34,000, at which time another review will be made of our situation. [More…]
We have been told that 3 1 ,000 men- that is the number of the Army at present- constitute divisional strength and could quickly be built into greater strength by the expertise that remains in the Army. [More…]
These men have been professionals since the Second World War and they take pride in their professionalism. [More…]
It is all very well for the government of the day to say: ‘Our advisers say it will be 10 to 15 years before there is any forseeable threat to this nation ‘. [More…]
So the Government has no idea what will happen in 3 or 4 years and whether it will require armed Ser1 vices. [More…]
But we must keep the top officerstrained men- and we must keep moving into the armed forces new, modern weapons at a fairly regular rate so that the pipeline of munitions production and maintenance people is maintained. [More…]
The Government just cannot operate the defence forces with obsolete weapons and it cannot expect maintenance people or trained experts in this field to be able to switch straight on to new and modern equipment. [More…]
What does the Government intend to do? [More…]
History could repeat itself and our gallant young men may have to go into battle without the equipment and training they should have. [More…]
I suppose the reason for that is that the urgency motion which has been put to the Senate is based upon 3 assumptions- that there is a decline in the morale of members of the armed Services at present, and this is based upon a number of factors which were outlined to us at the commencement of the debate; that we have somehow got offside or will get offside with our allies; and there is a threat to the security of this nation. [More…]
Of course the defence structure is based very largely upon the twin considerations of money and men. [More…]
Certainly it is acknowledged that there has been a cutback in the number of men in the armed Services. [More…]
I would not accept for a moment the proposition which Senator Maunsell put up, that is, that it takes 7 years to train a soldier. [More…]
In the other areas of the armed services- the Navy and the Air Force- there were first class fighting men. [More…]
So I think it is a gross and very serious reflection on the capabilities and capacity of Australian servicemen in uniform to attain the point of efficiency that they have attained. [More…]
No bribes in respect of recruiting, reenlistment or discharge will attract young Australian men into our armed Services if the morale of those Services drops as I believe it is dropping today. [More…]
Also I do not believe that we should have one person employed in uniform or as a civilian purely to take up slack in employment. [More…]
This Government has been highly critical and insulting about South Africa, but we who know our nation’s history remember that South Africans fought side by side and bravely with our men in 2 world wars, and those who may be blind in their ideology and criticism of a country that they know little about should remember that the naval base at Simonstown, the ports of Cape Town and Durban and the sea routes around the Cape will be of great importance to Australia and its allies should our defence Services ever be called upon to defend this country. [More…]
That was said by the Minister for Defence and all the other portfolios in a statement in the House of Representatives on 22 August 1 973. [More…]
It has been done to such a degree that some units in the field have so few men that training is a farce. [More…]
Senator Marriott said that he opposed the use of bribes- I think that was the word he used- to get men to volunteer to join the armed forces. [More…]
For the sake of the record I wish to state some of the inducements which this Government has offered not only to recruit men to the armed forces but to keep them in the armed forces. [More…]
For example, the recommendations of the Joint Parliamentary Committee on Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Legislation, which was chaired by Mr Jess, have been accepted by this Government. [More…]
There has been a range of improvements in salaries and conditions and a bounty of $1,000 for members who voluntarily re-engage. [More…]
Yesterday Senator Bishop quoted from a letter in which the Returned Services League of Australia commended the Government for the initiatives it had taken not only to recruit people into the armed forces but to keep them there. [More…]
They are the sorts of initiatives which have been taken by the Labor Government, not by those people who claimed that they were the only ones who could represent members of the armed forces. [More…]
That was one of the inane decisions of the previous Government which has been changed by this Government. [More…]
Therefore, there has to be a re-assessment of the type of equipment that the armed forces need. [More…]
Recently my attention was drawn to the fact that 7 out of 10 men in uniform in Australia are civilians. [More…]
What has happened since this Government came to office and since the Minister for Defence started to cut back on defence spending? [More…]
Officers and men alike are bewildered, frustrated and disenchanted. [More…]
The Government claims that there is no threat to Australia within the foreseeable future- within the next 10 or 15 years. [More…]
I am quite sure that that is the Government’s prerogative to decide that there will be no threat to Australia in the next 1 5 years. [More…]
But I feel that the Government ought to have kept such an important matter to itself as being classified and top secret rather than spouting it to all and sundry. [More…]
To use one of the Government’s own phrases, it is time that the people of Australia woke up to the fact that because of the actions of this Government, particularly of the Minister for Defence in regard to what is happening with our armed forces, the morale is low and the men are wondering what will happen to them next. [More…]
The Government talks so much about a volunteer Army. [More…]
The main argument produced by the Government to substantiate its reductions in our defence forces has been that the main theme of our policy must be to make friends with the countries around us. [More…]
I remember, too, that Japan had been our ally and was our friend until we had to sacrifice some of the best men of this country by sending them up in Wirraways to defend our country against an aggressive Japan which was armed far better than we were, even though we always had the idea that Japan was incapable of modern armament. [More…]
Yet those who are supposed to be the leaders of this nation- men in Parliament- say we can depend only on resort to neighbours who are friends and who have peaceful intentions. [More…]
I would like to draw the attention of the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) to the plight of these unfortunate men. [More…]
We have before us the plight of 2 men who cannot speak English, who have no money and no clothing, who are bewildered and frightened in a strange country, who have no means whatever of paying the fines and who have been arrested on the orders of someone and placed in gaol. [More…]
There is no possibility of these 2 unfortunate men paying $4,000 unless it is raised by the local Chinese community or by public subscription in Western Australia. [More…]
So these 2 unfortunate men are being held in custody and may be held for several months. [More…]
If the sentence is reduced and if the fines are paid the Commonwealth Government will have to refund some of the fines. [More…]
The men cannot leave Australia, they cannot do any harm, yet today they are languishing in gaol and are likely to remain there for at least 2 months, bewildered and frightened, with no warm clothing in a strange country. [More…]
I can only appeal to the Minister in the name of humanity and common decency for the release of these men. [More…]
Mr Chew said that the Commonwealth’s action in ordering the men ‘s arrest seemed to serve no useful purpose. [More…]
They can’t appreciate the plight of these men’. [More…]
It is hard to believe that the Commonwealth expects the skippersmarried men with families to SUPport-to pay the fines out of their own pockets. [More…]
Nor can it believe that gaoling the men is necessary to discourage others from entering our waters. [More…]
And we know this to be true- the 2 men face the prospect of losing their skippers’ licences and further court action. [More…]
I appeal to the Minister in the name of decency and humanity and for Australia’s good name throughout Asia to see that these men are released from gaol immediately. [More…]
This is a most unsual case in the judgement of legal people in this Parliament. [More…]
The ‘West Australian’ newspaper comments that if these men came from mainland China perhaps the situation would be different. [More…]
I am merely appealing in the name of decency and humanity that these frightened bewildered men should be released from gaol. [More…]
If the Government is not prepared to remit the fines and allow them to return home to their families whom they have not seen for many months because they are being held in AustraliaI think it would not be beyond the bounds of reasonableness for the Commonwealth to do this- at least it should let them out of gaol and allow them to lead ordinary lives among their own community, which has been looking after them. [More…]
For God ‘s sake, get those men out of gaol immediately. [More…]
The increased postal charges also affect very substantially the printing and allied industries and could well cause the loss of the jobs of many men in these industries. [More…]
If the Government has its way, Australian printed books will be faced with savage increases of up to 17.5 per cent. [More…]
For example, a 750 gram book now costs 31c, whereas the increase proposed by the Government will bring this up to 85c. [More…]
Referring again to mail, for the sake of emphasis let me say a letter weighing between 20 grams and 28 grams will cost 15c if the Government has its way, as against the existing 7c. [More…]
I urgently press the Postmaster-General’s Department to try to conclude something quickly with the ‘Evening Advocate’ at Innisfail in order to prevent the closure of this newspaper. [More…]
These men over a period have developed the ‘Evening Advocate’ into a newspaper of a very fine standard. [More…]
It culminates primarily from the action of 2 men- 2 quite remarkable Russians- in recent weeks, one a great author and the other a world famous scientist who decided by their actions and words to put their lives and the lives of their families at risk in telling to the world their firm belief that in the country of their birth things were happening in the suppression of human liberty that they could not tolerate. [More…]
I say that here we have actions of unique and naked courage by 2 men who are projecting to the world a message which is not only a message that in Russia there is the supression of freedom- intellectual freedom as well as physical freedom- but a message which must be understood in its other implication. [More…]
In so doing we should draw to the attention of the world the fact that the challenge runs to the very peace of the world and to the integrity of those kinds of agreements like SALT- the Strategic Arms Limitation Agreement- which in our view have created a significant hallmark in the form of a detente between the great powers of the world. [More…]
I refer to 2 men. [More…]
He is a man whose sons have been expelled from universities and whose son-in-law has been denied employment; a man who has spoken up despite all these threats because he believes that unless there is intellectual freedom not only Russia but the world will suffer; a man who is not willing to go outside Russia to attend scientific conferences at this moment because he knows that in common with his colleagues who have done so before he will be denied return, that he will be exiled if he does so. [More…]
What a remarkable thing it is that we have these 2 men. [More…]
Andrei Sakharov, who founded the Soviet Human Rights Committee, was one of the great leaders in establishing the underground Press called ‘Samizdat’ or ‘the Chronicle of Current Events’ through which vehicle dissidents- the men I have mentioned and others- who wanted to fight for intellectual freedom promulgated their ideas. [More…]
But if the Minister does not believe this, he has the same right as I have to rise in the Parliament and say so. [More…]
I merely produced the evidence that is being produced internationally at this moment. [More…]
What is happening is that these 2 men are running huge and unbelievable risks to get a message across to us. [More…]
There is evidence of imprisonment on a massive scale, of brainwashing, of the destruction of the dignity and the minds of individuals. [More…]
We are asking it not only because we should try to give freedom to these great men but because we have to treat with this nation which shares parity of power with America in this world. [More…]
We do no service to the brave men to whom he has referred by indulging in any hymn of hate against the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. [More…]
I think we should bear in mind that civilised men throughout the world also should be appalled and disturbed at what has happened in Chile in recent weeks. [More…]
The dissident movement in the Soviet Union developed following Khrushchev’s admission to the 20th Congress of the Communist Party that the horrors of the Stalinist period, which had long been known to discerning people throughout the rest of the world but which had been denied by the communist movement throughout the world, in fact had occurred. [More…]
The criticisms of Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, even of Pasternak, were really based on the notion that the ideal of the Soviet system was not something with which they quarrelled, but they did quarrel with the implementation of that ideal. [More…]
They believed it had gone astray in the hands of ruthless men who had put- the familiar thing of people who love humanity but hate human beings- ambition and a sort of schematic, soulless planning above the interests of the people they were supposed to be serving. [More…]
It developed a movement of its own. [More…]
I believe that the Soviet authorities have had the dissident movement well and truly under control, and I believe that they could have have allowed a much greater amount of freedom than they have done without any threat at all to the system. [More…]
I do not believe that the basic, fundamental Soviet structure is in any peril. [More…]
These brave men, despite the risks that they know they run in saying their piece, have been able to get their message to the world in general. [More…]
We should give comfort to those great brave men like Solzhenitsyn, whose works I have also read. [More…]
I thought that it was a wonderful beacon of hope for the human species that a man like Solzhenitsyn could go through what he has been through in a physical, mental and spiritual sense and still devote the rest of his strength to try to persuade the rest of his fellows to his vision of what sort of world it should be and how a man should behave. [More…]
The Australian Government has on many occasions made its view known about denial of fundamental human rights. [More…]
I am assured that it will give consideration to whether there are grounds for bringing the recent developments in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics to the attention of the United Nations in some form or other and in this regard will consult with other friendly Governments which share similar views. [More…]
Australia- this present Government- believes, together with other Western countries, that this detente is in the interests not only of the people of the Soviet Union but also of the people of the world at large. [More…]
As I said at the outset, we do no service to these men in seeking to make political capital by name calling of opposite parties. [More…]
If we are sincere- and I give credit to the mover and seconder of the motion as being sincere- in our attempt to help these men I believe that we can do so by being restrained, temperate, avoiding hymns of hate and by reminding the Soviet Union that it lives in the world, that it needs the goodwill and the help of the world to develop its own system to nourish in the world and that the cause of detente is served by paying regard to the liberties which are considered to be a minimum requirement of civilised society. [More…]
That means that it must begin to treat men like Solzhenitsyn, Sakharov, Amalrik and others better than they are treated at the present time. [More…]
Wherever in the world we see a gross violation of human rights I believe it is the duty of all mankind and certainly any men or women in the position in which we are, as representatives of others, to speak out and to do what we can to declare these basic truths. [More…]
This happened with the more notable ones, no doubt the others were liquidated or sent for the rest of their lives to labour camps in the Siberian forests, and vast numbers died as a result of that type of treatment. [More…]
At least when men are treated with great physical cruelty there is some possibility that they will retain their integrity as human beings and particularly the integrity of their minds. [More…]
But putting people into psychiatric hospitals and administering to them mind destroying drugs which Senator Carrick has mentioned and which Solzhenitsyn particularly emphasises, is, I believe, the ultimate in human cruelty because it results in the destruction of the last refuge which man would have under these circumstances, and that is his free mind and a freedom to exercise his mind. [More…]
I have said on previous occasions that the fact that the 2 fishermen involved were from Taiwan was of no consequence whatsoever. [More…]
If that is the basis of the honourable senator’s criticism of my decision or the Government’s decision, 1 suggest that he look a little more deeply into it. [More…]
As I told the Senate some 2 weeks ago, these 2 Taiwanese fishermen came to be apprehended because they were fishing inside the declared fishing zone in Western Australian waters. [More…]
When I was in Perth only last Friday week I said then, and I repeat, that the Australian Government had been asked time and again by Western Australian interests, including the Western Australian Government, to exercise its authority to ensure infringements did not take place. [More…]
Mr Chew presumably made the comment that it did not seem to matter as far as he was concerned whether the 2 men were in the migrant hostel at Greylands or whether they were in gaol. [More…]
It is a great pity that those Opposition senators who allegedly represent Western Australia are just using this as some sort of emotional issue to drum up a little opposition to the Australian Government. [More…]
Does the AttorneyGeneral recall that during his statement on alleged Croatian terrorism some months ago he mentioned the name of one Josip Devic charged with unlawful possession of explosives at Warrandyte with 2 other men? [More…]
Is it not a fact that two of these men are now living openly in Tito’s Belgrade? [More…]
I readily agree that because of the tremendous increase in exports we must have a increase in staff. [More…]
The inspectors have just had a 12.5 per cent rise in wages and overtime is to be paid to these men. [More…]
I have heard a rumour that the Government proposes to establish laboratories in all export meatworks to conduct on-the-spot research. [More…]
I would like some details as to how these laboratories will be staffed and by how many men; where these men are to come from, where they will be housed and who is to bear all these charges. [More…]
Dr Coombs stated in the report of his task force that in April this year the Labor Government gave an assurance that it would continue its support for the brucellosis campaign until 1975. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether his Government did give that assurance. [More…]
I want to refer the Senate to a speech by my Leader, Mr Doug Anthony, in another place, who referred to a statement made on 27 July this year-a statement I have been unable to lay my hands on- in which the Minister for Northern Development, Dr Rex Patterson, called for cattle men to give their full support to ridding herds of tuberculosis and brucellosis. [More…]
Dr Patterson said that the Australian Government recently approved increased finance over the next 2 years to eradicate brucellosis and tuberculosis. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Primary Industry whether the Labor Government has now withdrawn from that stance of assisting this particular rural industry, ls the Government, by imposing this levy on beef producers, going to make them fully support the export meat inspection program which it has set up? [More…]
But if producers are to be forced to provide the money to do both these things the Government must give them a say about whether the money is being spent efficiently on behalf of their industry. [More…]
I believe that the cattle men in this country will demand some say from now on, not only in regard to the standards aimed at but the methods to be used, the type of scheme to be followed and the scientific approach to the elimination of brucellosis and tuberculosis. [More…]
I believe that is the case but I am not positive at the moment. [More…]
However the fact is- the Minister should have got this point yesterday during the Estimates Committee hearing- that if the Commonwealth Government is going to recoup the costs of all these various campaigns from the producers, the producers may feel that they can add something to the efficient expenditure of their money and will demand some say. [More…]
The Opposition will be moving a number of amendments during the Committee stage which may improve this Bill in some way. [More…]
I certainly will support those amendments during the Committee stage but I had no pleasure in seeing this Bill brought into the Senate. [More…]
Senator Laucke ‘s figures seem to indicate that there could be a surplus of $ 15m at the end of 3 years, and I am very serious when I say that if $ 15m of growers’ money is to be tied up by the Government over a period of 3 years, the growers are entitled to receive interest on it. [More…]
The money should not be placed in a trust fund and the growers should not be told, like the holders of savings bank accounts of less than $4,000 were told, that they can whistle for any increased rate of interest; that they are not going to get it but that the big men in the country will get it. [More…]
For those reasons I should like the Minister to be very specific when he replies because at this point of time we feel disposed to vote for the amendment. [More…]
The large scale cease fire violation by Egyptian and Syrian troops, with the movement of thousands of tanks, heavy artillery, missile batteries, transport columns, bridges, helicopters and assault barges, was witnessed and reported by the United Nations observers in the Suez Canal region and on the northern front of the Golan Heights. [More…]
Even if those independent witnesses and authorities had not confirmed the fact that it was the Arabs who struck first, anybody who has the slightest understanding of warfare would know that an invasion force involving, as it did, 3,000 tanks, 2,000 pieces of heavy artillery and almost 1,000 aircraft on the Egyptian side alone, not to mention the 1,200 tank force on the Syrian side, totalling a minimum of 350,000 men in these 2 armies, cannot be put together without months of planning and preparation. [More…]
It is for the benefit of all of us to see a healthier and more economically sound labour force in the community and to see that conditions are provided for working men and women so that they will be interested in their work and have genuine enjoyment, or as much as there can be, in a life which they must spend gaining income for themselves or their families. [More…]
Talking about the imposition of sanctions, I commend to the attention of members of the Opposition a book entitled ‘Welfare and Strikesthe Use of Public Funds to Support Strikers’. [More…]
Talking about lengthy stoppages and strikes, in the free enterpise Mecca of the United States about which Senater Webster has spoken, trade unionists on strike have access to food stamps, public assistance and unemployment compensation. [More…]
There is no need to go over a lot of the criticism that has been expressed about the indirect hardship caused to other trade unionists and about the denial of unemployment benefits to Australian trade unionists. [More…]
I am not questioning whether overtime is necessary on a production line, but I would suggest that it should not be a question of Brown having to work 5 nights a week overtime if a trade union or the work force can provide the men and either Smith or Jones is available. [More…]
The men are being paid. [More…]
However, the power workers are presenting an alternative to the New South Wales Government, and that is the alternative of worker control. [More…]
This is one of the things that came out of union amalgamation and it is one of the problems that will confront this Government in the very near future. [More…]
They are the intermediaries between the men on the job and the union officials. [More…]
If a shop steward takes such responsibility and acts accordingly in the case of some disagreement between an employer and an employee, we seek to protect him against any action the employer may take, provided that his intentions are good notwithstanding whether the matter is lawful. [More…]
If at any time he cannot get justice by negotiations with the employer and he thinks it better that he should lead the men and he does so and suggests to them that they have a stoppage of work to consider things, he is possibly acting contrary to the award covering the industry and engaging in an unlawful act. [More…]
Therefore, for some sudden action designed to solve the dispute the amendment seeks to put him in breach of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
Now we come to the position under the amendment. [More…]
As I say, there is no need for the amendment if it is a lawful act. [More…]
The Opposition wants a legal debate, or a legal holiday for the purpose of arguing about Tom Smith who, as shop steward for the storemen and packers, stopped his men from working for the purpose of discussing some questiona grievance about intimidation by the employer- and whether it was lawful or unlawful. [More…]
But section 13 of the Act may contain a provision that shop stewards are responsible to the management committee for all actions within the workplace. [More…]
One can imagine the legal men before the Commonwealth Industrial Court arguing the effect of section 13 on rule 4 and whether a discretion was left with the shop steward for the purpose of arguing this question. [More…]
The amendment moved by Senator Greenwoodthis comes from a legal man who knows the implications- is for the sole purpose of giving this protection to shop stewards throughout Australia who are doing a yeoman job in preventing industrial disputes. [More…]
Those with a knowledge of factory employment know the number of times that a shop steward is responsible for preventing industrial disputes that could occur. [More…]
The Opposition wants to take away his responsibility; it wants to intimidate him so that he will not act on behalf of his men; and it wants to throw the responsibility on to the men. [More…]
In practice, union representatives on the jobs are elected by the men. [More…]
During the period that elapses while notification of appointment of the representative is being forwarded to the branch office or the head office, acts may occur. [More…]
The previous government recognised in the legislation that it brought down that it is not always possible to be able to comply with the law. [More…]
Yet the Opposition wants to introduce this clause into an area involving ordinary working men who perhaps have not even attended high school. [More…]
I think that it is worthy of note that the only vocal opposition to this clause came from 2 legal men of the Opposition. [More…]
This seems to confirm the statement which I made when I rose to speak previously that the lawyers want this amendment carried because it creates a legal paradise in which to argue this question. [More…]
I do not know how this statement will affect my preselection for the Senate but I agree with Senator Wright that we should not adopt something which is undesirable because of a faith in a particular Minister occupying a portfolio at a particular time. [More…]
Senator Greenwood knows very well that under the rules of the organisation the men could be dismissed for pushing down the fence of the Ford factory. [More…]
He says that this is the reason why we should not carry this amendment tonight. [More…]
Mr Chairman, it is necessary to refer to that provision to destroy completely the argument put by Senator Greenwood. [More…]
If the honourable senator has considered this he will see that there is no justification for going on with his amendment. [More…]
It is an essential clause of this Bill because a Labor government in power should protect those who represent the trade union movement on the job, who fight for the protection and the interests of the workers on the job with all the pressures against them. [More…]
We should protect them in their security of employment or we cannot maintain shop stewards in industrial relations. [More…]
They are elected, most times with the confidence of the men on the job, because they see injustice in the factory which is never realised in a briefing in a legal office. [More…]
Senator Milliner, Senator Mulvihill and Senator Cant told us about their history in the trade union movement. [More…]
We are seeking to protect him from the victimisation of the employer because the employer does not like him representing the men in a particular factory. [More…]
His employment shall not be affected because of any action taken in protection of the men. [More…]
There is no justification for the proposed amendment. [More…]
I hope that the amendment will be rejected. [More…]
There is only one point to which this particular amendment refers and that is we wish to see that if a shop steward in the course of his action steps beyond the law he should be unprotected. [More…]
I think that that would be the united view of this Parliament. [More…]
I support Senator Cavanagh in saying that excellent work is done by these men beyond the general terms of their employment in the interests of the individuals whom they represent. [More…]
I pose the suggestion for reasonable men that the work of committees is unlikely to be effective if they start work after an exhausting day in the chamber and after a good dinner, which people would want after an exhausting day in the chamber. [More…]
While we have been condemned for all the industrial disputes in Australia at present, we have sought to amend the machinery to enable us to control the disputes in directions other than the directions which the previous Government took- that is, of enforcing penal provisions. [More…]
The clause emphasises the sanctity of agreements. [More…]
There have been some public statements by the former AttorneyGeneral that he would go so far as to agree to the enforcing of penal provisions for breaches of agreements. [More…]
We believe that agreements should be observed and carried out. [More…]
We think that if an agreement is entered into, until the period of that agreement expires there should be no breach of the agreement. [More…]
In the opinion of the Minister, these breaches will continue because there can be no guarantee that the members of the organisations are parties to the agreement. [More…]
A small management committee of one of the smaller unions- it could be half a dozen men- could reach an agreement which is basically unacceptable to the membership, and the members must abide by the agreement. [More…]
Industrial disputes are re-occurring because members do not accept an agreement. [More…]
Industrial agreements cannot be enforced. [More…]
It is thought by the Department of Labour that if the agreement is an agreement between employers and employees- between employers and the unionit will be observed. [More…]
The words proposed to be added by the amendment are: a member of the Commission shall not certify a memorandum in accordance with this section unless, in relation to each organisation that is a party to the agreement to which the memorandum relates, there is produced to him a statutory declaration by an officer authorised by the committee of management of the organisation declaring that the committee of management has approved the principal terms of the agreement.’. [More…]
Even the committee of management does not have to approve the whole of the agreement. [More…]
But the committee of management has to approve the principal terms of the agreement. [More…]
Perhaps not more than half a dozen men who comprise the committee of management approve of the principal terms of an agreement which is not acceptable to the men working in the industy. [More…]
If this is the case it will be found that the agreement will be broken as soon as it is made. [More…]
Surely, an agreement is not an agreement between the union and an employer; it is an agreement between employers and employees. [More…]
The proposed new sub-section 2a which the Opposition proposes to introduce states: a member of the Commission shall not certify a memorandum in accordance with this section unless, in relation to each organisation that is a party to the agreement to which the memorandum relates. [More…]
The ballot will be financed by the Government. [More…]
This all emphasises the need to get the men involved, the employees themselves participating, to be part of the agreement. [More…]
The De7 partment of Labour believes that such agreements will not be broken because they will be entered into solemnly and the members will know what they are all about and will have voted accordingly. [More…]
They will be agreements prescribing the terms which the members have agreed to accept. [More…]
They will not be agreements that have been reached between the employer and the delegate of an organisation, the contents of which the employees may not know. [More…]
Having obtained an agreement in which the employees have participated it is unlikely that during the period of that agreement there will be breaches of it. [More…]
A union might have rules which provide for quarterly meetings of the board of management and the executive may meet between meetings of the board of management. [More…]
Consequently it might not be so easy as Senator Greenwood might think to secure the approval of the board of management when the various unions involved have different rules. [More…]
Settlement of a dispute starts on the job, not in the board room of the union or wherever the committee of management or executive of the union may meet. [More…]
That would have no relationship to any other establishment in that industry. [More…]
If a dispute arises it will be resolved on the job in that establishment. [More…]
The men on the job can accept or reject whatever the negotiating committee brings before them by way of terms of settlement. [More…]
If the approval of boards of management of such like has to be waited for I am afraid there will be difficult times and the dispute could break out again. [More…]
Then the Commissioner would not certify the agreement and the matter could go to arbitration. [More…]
If the agreement can be made to work what is wrong with members of the AWU scattered around Australia and the employers scattered around Australia operating in agreement. [More…]
What Senator Greenwood is trying to say is that in such cases if the management committee is sitting in Sydney and is composed of a majority of brick makers with eligibility for membership of the Australian Workers Union, that management committee can enter into an agreement which binds stockmen and shearers throughout Australia- and the honourable senator would expect them to observe the conditions of that agreement. [More…]
His own argument destroys his proposal. [More…]
Satisfaction cannot be achieved and agreement to the proposed conditions cannot exist unless the men participate in the making of the agreement. [More…]
It may be impossible to get agreement of the majority of members of the Australian Workers Union but agreement can be reached in certain other instances. [More…]
But an industrial dispute on the Sydney waterfront is decided by a stop work meeting of the men in Sydney, and their union takes up the demand made by the men. [More…]
After discussing all the pros and cons the demand is made by a majority vote of the men assembled at the meeting. [More…]
Therefore at one meeting we see the requirement that the men should be participants in the agreement fulfilled. [More…]
The demand has been discussed and made by a majority decision, and the men are parties to that decision. [More…]
Senator Greenwood has divorced himself from any strong argument by citing a scattered membership and a dispute which affects the whole industry. [More…]
-One of the advantages of the Westminister system is that the consideration of a question like this can have the benefit of the mind of men like Senator Cavanagh, men who have been experienced in trade union matters and who have actually been in the workshops and who know the realities of life and can bring these considerations to bear on such questions. [More…]
I am not suggesting that a man like Senator Greenwood with his legal experience and his mental subtleties is not capable of contributing something to this question. [More…]
All that money on one building and one ceremony while black babies continue to die and while black men and women continue to rot in their tin shanties and prison cells. [More…]
I am not aware that either of the other men appointed is a member or was a member of the Australian Labor Party. [More…]
Last year a number of appointments were made by the previous Government to the very same body. [More…]
Equally, it should be recognised that under the Conciliation and Arbitration Act as it has been administered over the years by all governments, people may be appointed who have been active on the trade union side. [More…]
I direct my question to the Attorney-General and refer to allegations of Croatian terrorism made in this Parliament in recent months. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether, among other items in the highly publicised dawn raids in Sydney on Croatian homes on 1 April last, 6 men were charged with possession of dynamite and explosives. [More…]
Although I know that the Crown does not normally pay costs- I concede that point- in view of the overwhelming failure of this whole group of prosecutions, amounting almost, one might say, to an abuse of process, will the Attorney-General recommend the making of some ex gratia payment to these men? [More…]
This is one unfortunate incident in which the Department has become involved in setting up its own company. [More…]
The Government gives money to many outside private bodies, to many charitable and church organisations, and to companies to assist them to run farms. [More…]
However, taking the matter overall, this Department is keen, its officers are sincere in their work. [More…]
I think that Ministers who have taken on this job have become attached to the Department and have accepted the challenge. [More…]
If we go forward with our policy, more activities will take place in the central administration but let us forget the idea that has been mentioned that everything is centred in Canberra. [More…]
For the first time in the life of the Aborigines since white men occupied Australia, white men are listening to Aborigines, although perhaps not sufficiently in the opinion of some Aborigines. [More…]
That was the reason for the demonstration on the front steps of Parliament House. [More…]
We are establishing the National Aborigines Consultative Council which will advise the Government and will report back to the Aboriginal people about Government policies. [More…]
This Government has in the Northern Territory a bigger Aboriginal organisation operating, with more success and among more difficult sections of the community, than has any State Government. [More…]
Then, 14 years after that we were involved in a world war in which 60,000 young men from this very small nation died. [More…]
I was talking more of Australians who are working there as part of the public service and who do not know for how long they will be wanted or what encouragement they will be given to remain. [More…]
Among them are men and women who went there at an early age and who have devoted their lives to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I understand that in recent weeks there has been considerable improvement in the situation with regard to letting these people know whether they are wanted. [More…]
If it is good for the individual to accept a principle on conscription, as honourable senators opposite did when they sent young men for service in Vietnam, it is good enough for private enterprise to accept a heavier burden. [More…]
I take the opportunity on the motion for the adjournment to make a brief announcement on behalf of the Minister for Transport (Mr Charles Jones) in regard to the survivors of the ship ‘Blythe Star’. [More…]
I know all honourable senators 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 the Federal Department of Transport, 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 Hobart Hospital. [More…]
I know the Senate 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, Lenton Power, and M. T. Doleman. [More…]
But if at the expiration of 3 or 5 years the agreement, which was perhaps serving a purpose up to that point of time, becomes obsolete and the workers suddenly become restless because of their belief that the terms of the agreement are not satisfactory at that point of time, we could have industrial turmoil or industrial disputes during the period in which negotiations are being conducted for a new agreement or an amendment to the old agreement. [More…]
Of course, there is always scope then for the legal claim that the parties involved are governed by an agreement entered into perhaps 8 years ago. [More…]
But this is not sufficient inducement to men who could see themselves disadvantaged in comparison with their fellow workmen in a similar industry or some other industry. [More…]
At any rate, I give notice at this point of a further amendment which I understand can now be distributed. [More…]
We do not share the view that there may be no necessity for this amendment. [More…]
The judges in this jurisdiction are not necessarily young men. [More…]
Apparently, from what was said today, there are men in the legal profession who would be prepared to make a decision that accorded with the views of a particular government if it appointed them as judges. [More…]
I suggest that Senator Wright would never stoop to the extent that the professional men on the other side of the chamber are suggesting their legal colleagues would stoop to if they were appointed judges by a particular government. [More…]
It has never been the intention of the present Government to encourage that. [More…]
It has never thought that a professional man who took an oath of office to carry out the law in accordance with his strict interpretation of it would be influenced in his interpretation of the law by the views of the government that appointed him as a judge. [More…]
That may be the opinion of honourable senators opposite of the attitude that their professional colleagues would adopt, but I am not of the opinion that it would be the attitude of those whom the Labor Government appointed to high positions in this country. [More…]
As I have said, the Government will accept the amendment moved by the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
There are many men who have given enormous service in a completely satisfactory way and proved the point. [More…]
It is not only in the area of inspectors that such appointments have been made. [More…]
From both sides of the industrial field men have been selected on a State and Federal basis to sit as chairman of wages boards. [More…]
Men from industry or commerce have been appointed. [More…]
I think that by rejecting Senator Wright’s amendment we will get the best of both worlds. [More…]
The whole history of the Public Service shows that they have been men to whom a person could always go for practical advice. [More…]
The ranks of Commonwealth inspectors are strengthened by the injection of these specialists who are developed in the trade union movement. [More…]
That is the reason why we will vote against the amendment moved by Senator Wright. [More…]
I support the original proposition moved by Senator Kane and also the amendment to that proposition moved by Senator Byrne on behalf of Senator Kane. [More…]
I would like to remind honourable senators that for evil to triumph it is only necessary that honest men remain silent. [More…]
Are we to endeavour to establish peace by blinding our eyes because we believe that if we crawl on our bellies we are more likely to get peace than if we stand up like men and reiterate the facts, and let it be known that we observe what is happening and are not trying to fool ourselves and everybody else with an imaginative picture of doves of peace flying around the world? [More…]
Now the situation has changed with the pouring in of the extra equipment. [More…]
It relates to Croatian terrorism and follows a question asked by Senator Hannan on 23 October and the conviction, by a jury, of 4 men who were sentenced by Judge Hicks in Sydney Quarter Sessions last Friday. [More…]
Is it a fact that the 4 men who were found guilty of a terrorist assault against a 61-year-old Croatian were referred to in documents tabled by the Attorney-General in March of this year as being associated with the terrorist group called the United Croats of West Germany? [More…]
Is it also a fact that one of the men, Jakov Suljak, was named in the Attorney-General’s statement as the leader of this organisation and a man ‘with a particularly violent record ‘? [More…]
Is it a fact that Judge Hicks, in sentencing Suljak, recommended that he be deponed? [More…]
Is it a fact that on 1 1 November 1969 the Commissioner of Commonwealth Police, Mr J. Davis, also recommended his deportation and that that recommendation was not acted upon by the members of the previous Government, including the Attorney-General’s predecessor, Senator Greenwood, during whose term of office this vicious, politically motivated attack took place? [More…]
He assured us recently that he fervently believes that the aberration, as he sees it, which put the present Government into office will be corrected at any moment, that he will be back again as AttorneyGeneral and that he will be able to grant assistance to those odd sorts of unionists who really did not know what they were doing. [More…]
I point out for Senator Hannan ‘s enlightenment that one of the 2 men who had taken the action had not worked at this trade for over 12 months. [More…]
I agree fully with Senator Hannan ‘s right to criticise the judgment of the court. [More…]
The honourable senator appears to be mystified as to why the court could make the comments about what had happened and about the facts of these ballots and yet reach the conclusion which it did. [More…]
Lance Sharkey said repeatedly in his book on the blueprint for the Communist Party in this country that the communists must seek to amalgamate the trade unions and then must use the shop steward movement for the purpose of achieving their ends. [More…]
It has been stated repeatedly by communist leaders that amalgamation is essential to the achievement of the shop steward organisation under which they will run the industrial life of this country. [More…]
Whenever I hear men of experience in the trade union movement talking as though the trade union movement was an idealistic organisation in which everybody is as pure as the driven snow - [More…]
If the Government’s position in respect to this Bill were to be sustained it would simply mean that a meeting of 3 members, two of whom voted in favour, could deregister a union and make arrangements for amalgamation. [More…]
That is just too silly to be put forward seriously by men as experienced in the trade union movement as Senator Cavanagh. [More…]
Men will leave their employment more quickly because they believe that they are underpaid compared with someone else than for any other reason that comes up in industrial undertakings. [More…]
That increase represents a reduction of $4 in the relative wage of the men who were receiving the extra amount. [More…]
Senator Greenwood would like to be the Attorney-General today and to say to these men: ‘Go back to work or be prosecuted. [More…]
The whole purpose of this Bill is to get workers participating in the fixation of wages and to enable them to be parties to agreements. [More…]
-It is right that at all times the actions of governments should be scrutinised in the light of our attitude to human rights. [More…]
As to the particular instance the honourable senator raises, I am disturbed about the case in question and I am disturbed not for the reason that the honourable senator raises but for the reason that 2 men were in gaol and certainly at one stage the Government indicated that no opposition would be made to their release on bail on reasonable conditions. [More…]
The matter has operated in such a way that no application was made by the fishing captains for bail although the Government was willing, as far as it could, to facilitate the matters and see to it that they were not in gaol. [More…]
From the time the matter came to my notice and as far as I know to the notice of any member of the Government, the Government acted properly in relation to the 2 men. [More…]
The Commonwealth indicated and suggested to the solicitor acting for the 2 men that application be made for bail. [More…]
The Commonwealth indicated that it would not oppose the application for bail on the reasonable condition that the men would be available when the appeals were prosecuted. [More…]
I am now having discussions with the 3 men who compiled the report. [More…]
It is suggested that the report should be tabled after it is considered by the Government. [More…]
It has been pointed out that rehabilitation has proved most successful when it is carried out in a work orientated atmosphere, with men and women of all ages and with varying degrees of disability all working together under the supervision, guidance and encouragement of a well-balanced team of experts. [More…]
We commend the Repatriation Department on the rehabilitation units that it has established, but they are of a special type and are directed more towards geriatric patients. [More…]
Why did Mr Whitlam talk to Prince Sihanouk, no doubt against the advice of his Department? [More…]
Why did he talk to a deposed leader while this Government recognises the existing regime of his former country? [More…]
If he will not tell us, is this the kind of secrecy that disguises the nonsense of open government of which this Government has talked? [More…]
Was it not good of those great men to talk to me?’ [More…]
It is true the statement says that Mr Whitlam expressed opposition to the continued explosions of atmospheric weapons by the Chinese in Lop Nor in Sinkiang Province. [More…]
The greatest defect of thinking of this Government of ours is that not only are men an island but Australia is an island unto itself and that Australia somehow can be isolated against the world- a world in which an oil crisis in the Middle East is being engendered and which could create world war; a world in which some 2 years ago at the time of the Bangladesh outbreak it was feared with some justification that Russia might seek to knock out the nuclear establishments of China. [More…]
It is in this sort of world that the Prime Minister went and came and has not mentioned anything except that the food was good and they played ‘Advance Australia Fair’ when he arrived. [More…]
As I said in my opening remarks, it is a direct contempt, in my judgment, upon the Parliament and upon the people of Australia because the people of Australia are entitled to a thoroughly detailed knowledge and understanding of what is happening in the world. [More…]
I recognise that as time goes on those measures of trade which materialised or not will be the measure of statements. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Repatriation aware that there is considerable dissatisfaction amongst the ex-servicemen in the seriously disabled category- that is with 75 per cent to 100 per cent assessed disability- and in receipt of the special compensation allowance, who effectively received no increase in their repatriation pensions in the last Budget? [More…]
Will the Minister reconsider the withdrawal of the $3 special compensation allowance which appears as unfair discrimination against these men and their families? [More…]
Is it a fact that the issue of pistol licences is regarded by law enforcement authorities as a matter of great importance and that often even the most reputable businessmen, who have strong reasons for carrying a pistol, have been refused licences? [More…]
If so, is there any basis for suggestions that special representations have been made to assist these men to obtain pistol licences? [More…]
When I mention page numbers I will be referring to the ronoed transcript of evidence. [More…]
Professor D. P. O ‘Connell, who is regarded as one of the top men in the law of the sea in the world, not just in Australia, gave evidence before the Committee in Adelaide. [More…]
A pay packet was stolen from one of the men on a pipe-laying barge. [More…]
The legal men can have opinions as to whether it is valid but only the Justices of the High Court will say whether it is. [More…]
But the control is not uniform despite the Act of Parliament which was passed because the directions given by the designated authorities are not uniform. [More…]
At page 1447 he said that there should be sole Commonwealth government control. [More…]
The next man I intend to quote is known to pretty well everyone here, particularly the legal men who decorate this chamber. [More…]
He was referring to the Act that fragmented the responsibility among 7 different authorities. [More…]
I will get away from the legal men for a while although this is a very legal Bill. [More…]
The company that employs the men is no longer resident in Australia. [More…]
It was bought recently by the Australian Government for US$2 m. Surely there is no one in this place who would attempt to justify such a proposition. [More…]
If 2 men, whether one of them is the Prime Minister or whoever he may be- we are told that it was 2 men who did this business- can irresponsibly commit the Australian taxpayer to such unwarranted expenditure, there should be some way by which restraint can be put upon them. [More…]
We have seen statements by the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard) splashed across the front page of a Tasmanian newspaper. [More…]
-I thought Senator O’Byrne said that he might have been looking for a job with this Government. [More…]
We are told that thousands of cheering men, women and children lined the streets of Peking, presumably shouting Vive l’Emperor’ or ‘Vive Whitlame’, or whatever way one says it. [More…]
Surely nobody in this country beside comrade Aarons, Ted Hill and a few others, would agree with that statement. [More…]
Let us look at the 2 gentlemen over whom our distinguished leader was slobbering. [More…]
Chou En-lai, a man who has murdered 16 men- not killed them in battle- and Chairman Mao who, on his own admission, is responsible for the death of 20 million of his own people are the two to whom I refer. [More…]
Was Adolf Hitler, whom all of us regard as the embodiment of all evil, a man whose ideas are to be shunned and criticised, evil only because he lost? [More…]
Senator Wood in particular lodged criticism and said that 2 men were irresponsible. [More…]
I do not know those 2 men and I do not know whether Senator Wood knows them. [More…]
He chose to stand in his place and abuse 2 men who do not have the opportunity of reply. [More…]
You called them 2 irresponsible men. [More…]
I merely say that this is quite different from what happened when the then Government was in this situation in 1971. [More…]
Having revealed the primitive, immature, political device whereby Gough should have 2, 3 or 4 territorial accretions in this place to overcome the democratic majority which has been established in this place by an electoral vote, let us examine the reconciliation which can be made between this proposal and fundamental constitutional conceptions. [More…]
In 1900 and the decade before, the thoughtful and responsible people of Australia, then numbering 2 million to 3 million, saw that unity of government in this continent was essential to its development. [More…]
The first and foundational agreement which was made by the prudent men who crusaded for the creation of a new nationhood was that there should be equal representation in the Senate for the 6 States. [More…]
Without that fundamental, prescient and prudent agreement we would never have got to the beginnings of federation. [More…]
In his manuscript letter, which is in the basement, he states: ‘I suggest that you get a German gunboat into Melbourne and give it a few shots one night, and a fortnight later get it into Sydney and give them a few shots there. [More…]
I remind these Johnnies-come-Lately of the fundamental influences which forged federation in this country. [More…]
I for my part stand here in my twentyfourth year in the Senate- some will scream ‘too long’ but that I am prepared to put to a votehaving seen a terrific development of this chamber on the basis of equal representation of the States. [More…]
When we come to think of it, we find that the Australian Capital Territory- the Territory which lies within the environs of this budgetary organism- can, through Senator Willesee who represents the Treasurer, expand its overflow of government appropriation in one year from $10,000m to $12,000m. [More…]
Now we are asked to believe that the citizenry of the Australian Capital Territory, who were rejoicing in their emoluments until we exposed the avalanche- fabulous in any conception- in addition to their riches and in addition to their representation in another place through Kep Enderby- God forgive them for the quality- want representation here among men who represent the States. [More…]
The Government presented a similar Bill to the Senate in the last session and it was rejected. [More…]
The Government has presented it again and after a vote is taken tonight we will know the Senate ‘s reaction to this Bill. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party are men without stomach. [More…]
They have in their platform that they propose, and will work for, the abolition of the upper House in this Federal Parliament. [More…]
The way that they will do that is by the very legislation which they have proposed and introduced during their first 10 months of office in the Australian Parliament in 20-odd years. [More…]
2), is the commencement of that action. [More…]
I have no doubt in my mind that if this measure were to be passed it would commence the weakening of the stature of the Senate which it has at the present time. [More…]
One finds that there has been a reaction against any government which has determined a policy of interfering with the constitution of the Senate. [More…]
The previous Government, in its wisdom, attempted to break the nexus so that the House of Representatives could escalate in numbers compared with the number in the Senate. [More…]
If the Acts are removed and dignity is restored to the black people, then dignity will also be restored to the whites, because many of the officers of the Queensland Department of Aboriginal Affairs are men of integrity. [More…]
They are men who are trying to do the right thing by the Aborigines, but always they are weighed down by the system. [More…]
While we are about it maybe we could petition also for the removal of the Premier who seems to have some sort of obsession that there is something wrong with the Australian Government. [More…]
Whether they are employees or whether they are partners they work like men and they pay their taxes like men. [More…]
That is the Government’s ideas of partnership. [More…]
I wonder what the Government would say about a company which consists of a husband and wife and 2 grown-up sons who are all equal shareholders and all derive remuneration- four working partners in a company producing for export 40,000 bushels? [More…]
It is therefore a question of how much we subsidise an unprofitable industry, or a question of whether the money paid in subsidy would be better employed in redeveloping a primary industry in which men could make a living. [More…]
The money that the Commonwealth has been giving them in the form of subsidies should be given to them for the purpose of redevelopment so that they can have viable land holdings. [More…]
That is Government policy. [More…]
Where hardship can be shown on the part of any Tasmanian growers or people in any other primary industry as a result of revaluation, payment will be made by the Australian Government. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of an unfair hardship that has arisen in the payment of the $1,000 bounty to re-engaging servicemen? [More…]
Have over 5,000 men qualified for this bounty? [More…]
Have a small number- slightly in excess of 100 men- been disqualified and of those disqualified are a much smaller number excluded from receiving the bounty because their enforced retirement at 55 years of age leaves them short by less than one month of the 3 years re-engagement service necessary to qualify? [More…]
Minister give some consideration to such cases, as some men excluded have a total service of from 20 to 30 years as against some of those eligible having less than 10 years total service? [More…]
Is it possible for eligibility to be denied after 30 years service because enforced retirement at 55 years leaves a serviceman one to five days short? [More…]
That is Mr Sin, not Mr South- had employed at least 16 standover men as bouncers in clubs with which he is connected in Kings Cross. [More…]
The Bill also deals, in clause 15 (2) with the right of women to hold public office on equal terms with men, without discrimination. [More…]
The enactment of this provision will enable Australia to ratify the Convention on the Political Rights of Women which has been in force since 1954. [More…]
I defy anyone here to say that the incomes received by the parents of pupils who went to Riverview College, Barker College or Sydney Grammar School in the 1 930s were not far in excess of the incomes received by the gas workers and railway men who provided money for the Burwood and Ashfield Catholic schools which their children attended. [More…]
A campaign is now under way urging that the Department of Aboriginal Affairs should be controlled purely by Aboriginals, that no white man should be in the Department because white men do not understand Aborigines. [More…]
Because, firstly, it was said that they are people who are in varying stages of development. [More…]
I do not know to whom the reference ‘in varying stages of development’ referred. [More…]
It has been said that they should have a parliament like ours and also that they are not up to our standards. [More…]
The Government has been asked: ‘What do you want to do- give them power and money?’ [More…]
Should we give them revolvers, as the early white settlers of Australia did, to shoot down their fellow men? [More…]
They will liaise between their people and the Department. [More…]
The purpose of this ballot is to give the Aboriginal people a voice in Australian government. [More…]
The people elected will not be the government of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
But never before has a government attempted to hear the voice of the Aboriginal people as has this Government on this occasion. [More…]
It should be made plain that the system devised by these students requires the complete replacement of the tube of the television set by a new colour tube. [More…]
In the electronics area it is often possible to make technical developments that are quite feasible on the laboratory bench but less feasible in the market place where costs have to be taken into account. [More…]
No one is more eager than I or the Board to see these young men make a successful breakthrough that may be of benefit to the Australian public, and the Government will assist where it can. [More…]
All of these men made no bones about their attitude towards this organisation. [More…]
I merely mention that because later on we will have an opportunity of debating the Bill on human rights. [More…]
I do not want to transgress by referring to what is contained in that Bill, but I simply say what a lot of humbug it is because for 23 years under a democratic government we did not need such legislation; for 23 years there was no call for it. [More…]
Our rights were never impugned because we had a democratic government. [More…]
He was allowed to do so because this Government has an obsession to the point, one might say, of oleaginous servility and obsequiousness towards what it calls anti-racism. [More…]
The figures are such that I think they call for action by the Government. [More…]
How can any government justify sending students to universities and giving them tremendous subventions if, when they get to the universities, between 20 per cent and 30 per cent obviously should not have gone there? [More…]
The Government ought to have a system of examining students who wish to go to universities to see whether they should go there or whether they should go to a trade school, a vocational school or somewhere else. [More…]
Some of the most highly qualified men whom I came under at universities- men with degrees from Oxford, Cambridge and Harvardwere the most appalling lecturers I have ever met. [More…]
But, for myself, without any personal interest in the matter different from that of any other senator here, I say that the reason why we arranged to get this on this afternoon before interest dropped out of the matter was to follow on- showing that we are men of action- the resolution that we put in another form last week. [More…]
Then I hope to attract immediately the consideration of the House of government. [More…]
I shall address myself to the 2 clauses which Senator Murphy mentioned in Committee. [More…]
He was defeated in the general swing against the Government in the 1 949 general election. [More…]
He was a great figure in the Australian Labor Party, best known for his able leadership, his great endeavours to bring Australia out of the difficulties of the Second World War into an area of prosperity and to overcome the social difficulties which had arisen to allow the young men who had had their lives disrupted to find their way back into society and to make it easier for families to be founded, and for society to reestablish itself in Australia after that terrible war. [More…]
I associate the Opposition with the words of the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) and his message of condolence to Mrs Dedman and her family. [More…]
For many men in public office, one action or one label can overshadow much of the good they have done. [More…]
I am the only senator in this place today who was a contemporary of John Dedman when he was in the Parliament. [More…]
I would like to pay a tribute to the dedicated service that he gave to his fellow men and to the nation, and to express my very deep sympathy to his widow and his family. [More…]
He was a man with very high ideals who had the opportunity to implement them. [More…]
In his position as Minister for War Organisation of Industry he had to cut across the traditional Australian attitude towards regimentation. [More…]
Some of our most notable men had gone overseas and he saw the opportunity to bring them back to Australiamen such as Sir Howard Florey, Professor Stanner and Sir Marc Oliphant. [More…]
Great men like these were brought back to Australia and were able to contribute to the cultural and intellectual life of this country. [More…]
I would like to place on record my appreciation of the great service rendered by John Dedman to this country and his fellow men. [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 means-tested. [More…]
Some elements of taxable pensions, such as allowances for the payment of rent or for the support of children, will remain exempt and, in the latter case, concessional deductions will also be allowed in assessments for the maintenance of children. [More…]
This is a national and international problem that should be dealt with by men of vision who have the interests of the nation and our international agreements at heart. [More…]
The honourable senator said that we would be seeking to solve by litigation matters that could not be solved by the process of arrangements with the States. [More…]
In April 1970 representatives of Senator Durack ‘s Government of the time, with a lot of support, introduced legislation similar to the Bill now before us. [More…]
Representatives of that Government expressed the view that Australia’s national and international interests would be best served if the legal position of the Australian continental shelf was resolved. [More…]
Pressures were applied by the State governments and eventually the Commonwealth Government of the day dropped the whole subject. [More…]
But at one time the Government which Senator Durack supported was in favour of this legislation. [More…]
That Government saw the wider issues that are involved. [More…]
But it is quite easy to understand the pressures that would have been placed on the then Government by people who were involved in selling us the other, what one could nearly call, scandalous arrangement. [More…]
I have had representations from Opposition members of the Tasmanian State Parliament, particularly from the Leader of the Opposition in the State, to the effect that we should recreate that structure in relation to resources other than petroleum. [More…]
I cannot conceive of newspapers and public men today, confronted with that stark reality where there is such an unequal division purely on the newly projected boundaries of States whereby one State takes $47m in royalty and another gets not a cent. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Repatriation aware that there is considerable dissatisfaction amongst the exservicemen in the seriously disabled category- that is with 75 per cent to 100 per cent assessed disability- and in receipt of the special compensation allowance, who effectively received no increase in their repatriation pensions in the last Budget? [More…]
Will the Minister reconsider the withdrawal of the $3 special compensation allowance which appears as unfair discrimination against these men and their families? [More…]
So this clearly being the philosophy and policy of the Prime Minister, the Labor Party and Labor members in the Senate and in the other place, it is not surprising at all that this should have been the keynote and dominant feature portrayed by this Labor Government in its first 12 months of office. [More…]
I think we should always emphasise and certainly never forget the spectacle of the 2-man Government which ruled this nation for 2 weeks after 2 December. [More…]
This country was governed by 2 men- the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister (Mr Barnard). [More…]
The 2-man Government acted in an arbitrary manner. [More…]
Now that I am dealing with the subject of arbitrary power, let me mention some of the changes that have been made to the uses of excessive and arbitrary power by this Government since it was elected. [More…]
What could have been a more arbitrary and excessive use of power than the conscription of young men to go to Vietnam to be killed and to kill other people? [More…]
Which government stopped doing that? [More…]
It was the Australian Labor Party Government. [More…]
Go to those people who would have been conscripted to fight in a war in which Australia had no business to be involved and say to them that there was not arbitrary and excessive power in the hands of the Government that wanted to send them to Vietnam and see what they say. [More…]
Let honourable senators opposite tell them that they are labouring under a government whose power is so excessive and arbitrary that it will no longer send them to Vietnam because it has abolished the National Service Act. [More…]
This Government has refused to conscript young men to serve in the armed forces. [More…]
At the same time, it has improved the conditions of service in the armed forces so that we may attract men who will be prepared to volunteer for our armed Services, so that we will have a loyal and dedicated defence force within this country made up of people who joined it because they wished to join it, not because they were compelled to do so. [More…]
I believe that the centralised power of the Government is being increased and extended. [More…]
I believe that today it is more necessary than ever that Parliament should take action to exert its power and deny this excessive increase of power by the Cabinet and the bureaucracy. [More…]
I agree with Senator Durack that this increase in power probably began when the Government took office. [More…]
For a period of time Australia was governed by 2 men. [More…]
I would like to take a referendum in his Party as to whether Labor Party members agree that 2 men should have constituted the Government. [More…]
I would like to look over the shoulders of some men who are now Ministers. [More…]
I would like to look over the shoulders of the 5 Ministers who are in this place, including the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy), and get their impression as to whether 2 men should have governed Australia. [More…]
(Government senators interjecting)- [More…]
Immediately these 2 men took over as the Government of this country we had the remarkable situation that there was a spate of government by executive act and by regulation. [More…]
The Parliament was bypassed and was not consulted. [More…]
There was an obvious intention that power should be taken out of the hands of the Parliament and innumerable things were done on which Parliament was not allowed to adjudicate. [More…]
The present Government is raising the cry: ‘All power to Cabinet’. [More…]
Speaking on behalf of the Government, I want to take up the challenge that has been made particularly by honourable senators from Western Australia. [More…]
The only thing that I can say about the speech made by Senator Sim is that on this occasion he indicated the Government as Nazis whereas on previous occasions he has regarded the Government as unrepentant Marxists. [More…]
If I had a text with which to preface my speech I would say that men who suffer injustice and have the power to remove it deserve not compassion but contempt. [More…]
Matters have been mentioned as being likely to have very grave repercussions. [More…]
Men in commerce and industry are very deeply concerned that the full operation of the AIDC and the National Investment Fund in this field might very well disturb the capital market. [More…]
I certainly would not be so opposed to this Bill if I felt that the expertise that this kind of people can present was allowed to continue because certainly none of these men would be in favour of public or government control of industry. [More…]
But I am afraid that the way in which the Australian Industry Development Corporation is now proposed to be set up, it could become an instrument of the Government to gain control of industries throughout this country. [More…]
If the honourable senator who interjects does not believe me he should look at the other side of the argument. [More…]
The honourable senator knows that what the Government is doing is providing groups of young men with a comfortable living without having to work. [More…]
Honourable senators will remember that it was a Labor government, as far as I can recall, which tried to get price control unto the Federal Government. [More…]
At that time Queensland had a Premier who was looked upon as one of the great men of the Labor Party of that time. [More…]
One of the legal men in Mackay went to Proserpine, and in a display depicting the history of the area, saw on show an edition of the Proserpine ‘Guardian ‘ of an earlier era. [More…]
Apparently it carried quite a big spread, in the form of an advertisement or statement, which said: ‘Don ‘t give any more power to Canberra, Forgan Smith, the Premier of Queensland, said so’. [More…]
That advice might well be taken to heart by true Labor men today. [More…]
I believe that the people of Australia should say that to this Government on 8 December. [More…]
During the last days of the administration of the previous Government a great deal was said about our Government being an unemployment Government and so on. [More…]
But I remember during the last days of the previous Government when a great hullabaloo was being made about the unemployment situation the New South Wales Employers’ Federation said that many industries could not find labour. [More…]
This statement by the Federation was confirmed by a report in the ‘Sydney Morning Herald ‘ that more positions were being advertised as vacant than was the case in the previous 12 months, so much so that various industries could not get the people they needed. [More…]
One concern said that it wanted some hundreds of men and it could not get them. [More…]
But at the time it was being said that unemployment was so great that our Government was a government of unemployment. [More…]
I wish to raise a matter in respect of the estimates submitted to Senate Estimates Committee E by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
In one line there is a proposed appropriation of $70,050,000 for Aboriginal advancement. [More…]
The money is to be paid into the Aboriginal Advancement Trust Account. [More…]
Are there legal men retained consistently to be on hand in the event of a request for legal assistance? [More…]
The points raised by Senator Laucke were discussed by Estimates Committee E. The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) said in his policy speech that his Government would make all Aborigines equal in law with white men. [More…]
At the time the Government took office many solicitors and barristers in Sydney were giving their time free of cost to a voluntary legal aid service for Aborigines. [More…]
The Government decided that the cheapest way of honouring the election promise of the Prime Minister was for it to work through such legal aid services. [More…]
Voluntary Aboriginal legal aid services which are funded by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs have been established in all capital cities. [More…]
In addition to the payment which the Department makes to legal people employed permanently by these organisations it also pays for the services of private counsel who are required to assist in legal cases. [More…]
Both of these men have produced separate reports which are receiving the consideration of the Government. [More…]
Without disclosing what is in the reports I can say that the recommendations are not consistent with the recommendations in the report of the Parliamentary Committee which has been tabled in the Senate. [More…]
The Government must decide whether to continue turtle farming as it is operating at the moment, to eliminate expenditure on turtle farming, to adopt the recommendation of the parliamentary committee and use turtle farming as a conservation project or to adopt the recommendations of Dr Carr or Mr Smart which would ensure a continuation of the project for some time. [More…]
The Minister then went further to tell us what was happening in his Department. [More…]
He said that the Department of Primary Industry had established a wheat stabilisation review group and that that group had drawn up a work program. [More…]
I know very well that there has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes which is not made public, but the point I want to make here is that there are also many knowledgeable men in the Department and in the Wheatgrowers Federation who know what they want. [More…]
The Government knows what it wants to give them. [More…]
I turned around and said to him ‘Troglodyte’, in happy memory of the visit which we paid to New Guinea, where we saw the mud men. [More…]
This Government offered $8m to drain Lake Pedder which is a magnificent body of water, 93 square miles in area and 50 feet in depth. [More…]
The Government offered $8m to drain that. [More…]
So the position is that under the arrangement put forward by the Labor Party we would have certain electorates in which there would be inevitably far more adults who are entitled to vote than in other areas. [More…]
Members of the Australian Labor Party have sat down with their experienced men in electioneering and worked out that such a proposition would suit the Labor Party down to the ground because such an arrangement would favour them. [More…]
The Government has now introduced this proposal which it says would give one vote one value. [More…]
All we have asked is that every penny continue to be given to the government and the underprivileged schools. [More…]
We have said that we will vote to give them every penny the Government proposes to give them. [More…]
All we ask of the Government is this: Having made a promise before the election and received thousands of votes because of that promise, it should keep its promise and give to the small number of A class schools that are left the basic per capita grants which Mr Whitlam and Mr Beazley pledged themselves as honourable men to give. [More…]
How can this Government now claim that the promises were not made? [More…]
The Minister for Education made them repeatedly throughout the year and they are documented. [More…]
Of this present Government the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Treasurer and the Minister of Education have repeatedly made the promises throughout the year. [More…]
Does this Government now turn round and say that they were not made? [More…]
Do honourable senators opposite deny those men? [More…]
We have even the colourful Mr Grassby putting advertisements in the Press on 24 and 25 November, or whenever it was about that time, that this sort of aid would be available on an increased basis under a Labor Government. [More…]
It has dishonoured the promise, dishonoured the advertisements and dishonoured the statements made by the Leaders and by Mr Grassby, who is at least a Minister. [More…]
It can concern itself with training men and women to be teachers, but hardly to be purveyors of a ‘Catholic theory of education’. [More…]
Queensland who was prepared to attack one of his own Government’s administrative acts, for which I give him credit. [More…]
But there are men opposite who are ashamed of this switch- this betrayal- which is being imposed upon them by their Cabinet. [More…]
We know that Mr Beazley is ashamed of what the Government has done. [More…]
I have heard it said in this debate that, if this amendment is carried, the matter will be dealt with expeditiously at the beginning of the next session, and I hope that is so. [More…]
However, I must say that some of the most outstanding figures in the Liberal Party opposite- some men who have been in this chamber and who are well aware of what goes on- have said to me: ‘Do you think you will get that law through? [More…]
I refer now to the amendment which it has been foreshadowed will be moved to the Air Navigation (Charges) Bill. [More…]
It could very well be that what is stated in the foreshadowed amendment is the broad policy that the Government has in mind. [More…]
As the foreshadowed amendment represents an expression of opinion- quite a rational opinion although I do not think it will be possible to carry it out in exact detail- the Democratic Labor Party will support it. [More…]
I do not know whether it is possible today for the Government or anyone else to look into the future and gain a clear and precise understanding of what future charges will be. [More…]
If we looked back at the times when we could buy a pair of men’s shoes for 3s 1 Id or 4s lid and tried to relate that to today’s prices we would say that we are living in a crazy world. [More…]
I have seen it happen in the Parliament of my own State of Queensland. [More…]
I feel that some of the legislation which has been deferred probably will be all the better for its deferment. [More…]
I know them to be honest men. [More…]
We used to acquire land for local settlement, to get men settled and decentralised on the land. [More…]
I believe that it excludes improvements erected on the land since the base date unless those improvements have been put there by consent. [More…]
The Government is proposing to give to this complex outfit the right to prevent improvement of the land. [More…]
If it is improved without consent nothing is paid for the value of the improvements. [More…]
I regret that I have had to descend into those details on a matter which is so exciting in one way but not in comparison with the things I mentioned at the outset of my speech. [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 senators 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…]
The Federal Government’s scheme to replace voluntary health insurance with a compulsory, tax-financed scheme is a creation of men- not doctors, mind you, but male academics and economists. [More…]
In 1936 the chaotic conditions of health services in Australia became so evident that the Government of the day, comprised of men who gave allegiance to the present Opposition parties- they were men with the self-same political persuasions of those who sit opposite- determined that there should be better co-operation throughout Australia in relation to public health. [More…]
Therefore it established the National Health and Medical Research Council which consisted of representatives of the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal College of Physicians, and officers of the Commonwealth and State Departments of Health. [More…]
At the same time that this Council was formed and concern was being expressed by the Government,, there had been introduced in Great Britain a form of national control over medical services. [More…]
The Australian Government invited experts from the United Kingdom to come to Australia to advise it on health matters. [More…]
Those experts were brought here from Great Britain at great expense by the Government and history shows that they submitted very valuable reports. [More…]
I have shown earlier that in 1936 the National Health and Medical Research Council, which was established by the United Australia Party Government, recommended a salaried medical service. [More…]
The members of the Council included doctors and officers of the various Commonwealth and State Health Departments. [More…]
On 1 July 1943 the 6th report of the Joint Committee on Social Security was tabled in the Parliament of this land. [More…]
In the unanimous findings of this report of the Joint Committee on Social Security on 1 July 1943 these 3 men came strongly down on the side of a salaried medical service in this land and that health centres should be established at various areas in it. [More…]
As I mentioned in my speech yesterday, there has been much talk about wealthy schools. [More…]
I also pointed out how the Government discriminates against certain people. [More…]
Yet the Government speaks about the abolition of the means test so that everybody will have an equal right to receive a pension. [More…]
One of the interesting things about this question of education is that apparently when the Government took up this attitude its judgment was based not on the wealth of the individual but on the supposed wealth of certain schools. [More…]
It is rather interesting to note that if a wealthy man sends his child to a state school his wealth does not matter because the Government provides all the schooling. [More…]
It does not apply to everybody when, of 2 wealthy men, one receives aid and the other does not. [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 resouces, both men and materials, this year. [More…]
On 29 August the Prime Mininster (Mr Whitlam) announced that the Parliamentary Labor Party had considered the results of the Public Service Board’s review. [More…]
Honourable Senators 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 women 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…]
The Government has emphasised that it has a role and responsibility as Australia’s largest employer in promoting the status of women. [More…]
This amendment is one of the steps taken by the Government since coming to office in its endeavour to eliminate possibilities of discrimination and promote opportunity for those women wishing to contribute to the economic prosperity of Australia as members of the work force. [More…]
Clauses 10 and 1 1 of the Bill amend sections 73 and 74 of the Public Service Act to reduce the qualifying period for long service leave purposes from 1 5 to 10 years and to remove all long service leave penalties associated with misconduct or unsatisfactory service. [More…]
Other provisions in the Act regulate conduct and therefore the inclusion of a good conduct requirement in the long service leave provisions simply means that public servants may be subjected to penalties twice for one disciplinary offence. [More…]
There is no room in its membership for people with any real expertise in the field of mining exploration, mining development or even of commercial enterprise. [More…]
One needs men or women in this field who have the highest expertise and experience in order to carry out major explorations and developments. [More…]
Yet, this Authority will be dominated by a Civil Service mentality and a trade unionist. [More…]
Firstly, Senator Withers dealt with one section of the Bill only, that which concerns the salary of members of Parliament. [More…]
He said that he wished the Government well but did not think we could duck the opprobrium and the abuse at this time. [More…]
I have had an interest in this BUI because it was in my Department earlier in the year when I was able to bring for the first time a lot of salaries into the one basket. [More…]
It has been obvious for many years, but the previous Government did not grapple with the problem. [More…]
There will Stil be a degree of delay in the Public Service because not all the senior men are being brought under the Bill. [More…]
I suppose as the Christmas season approaches one should have peace and goodwill towards all men, not being ashamed of attempting to be a Christian which is very difficult. [More…]
Therefore I perceive it to be my Christian duty to wish you, Mr President, all honourable senators, parliamentary officers and staff a very happy and merry Christmas. [More…]
May we all come back in the New Year more refreshed than we are as we leave the Parliament this day. [More…]
As announced in the Budget Speech, the means test on age pension eligibility for residentially qualified men and women aged 65 years and over is to be abolished within the life of the Parliament. [More…]
-The honourable senator should know that the Minister for Foreign Affairs made a statement expressing Australia’s disapproval of what had been done and that that statement was supported by the Federal Executive of the Australian Labor Party at one of its meetings. [More…]
The Australian Government takes the view that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ought to be observed by every country. [More…]
It is very important to preserve the rights of persons to communicate ideas, and the Australian Government’s view is that every nation ought to observe the rights of those who wish to impart ideas to others beyond their borders. [More…]
One would think that there would be a greater obligation on such a nation to observe the rights which have been declared as the common standard of men everywhere. [More…]
I would say that Kevin Gilbert is one of the most interesting men to whom I have spoken . [More…]
I wonder where men of their equivalent are to be found today. [More…]
Three Aboriginals, 2 men and a woman, came into my office. [More…]
One of the men had a gun. [More…]
I managed to calm one of the men down a bit, but when Mr Charles Perkins (the Aboriginal public servant) arrived and spoke to him the situation gradually defused. [More…]
There were 8 men in the room and one gun. [More…]
There was no agreement between me and anyone who was in that room because what was going on in the room was unknown to me and to anyone outside, although I believe that messages were being taken out by Mr Charles Perkins. [More…]
They are honouring their agreement. [More…]
No one is going to tell me that he got up and made a deliberately untruthful statement. [More…]
He made the statement in the court, which was repeated in the Press the following day. [More…]
It stated that 2 men and a woman went into the office armed and held up 5 hostages. [More…]
There was never a women in there. [More…]
Because I knew that I would be asked a series of questions today and because of rumours which were going around the building yesterday, I went over to consult those who were in the seige on Thursday so that I would have first hand information to give to those to whom I am responsible- the members of the Parliament of Australia. [More…]
I had no leave to make a statement. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite did not wait to see whether I would make a statement. [More…]
My God, if men’s lives are threatened and the matter is resolved without loss of life or injury- and injury could have been caused if there had been an invasion of the office- we have not done too badly in the siege. [More…]
To both is the Australian Labor Party and this Government opposed. [More…]
We find that a number of senior ministers in the United States Government, a number of people very close to the Presidency, including, as Senator Mulvihill reminds me, the Attorney-General, the principal law enforcement officer of the United States, the holder of an office which has been held by some of the most distinguished men in Western history, are under indictment. [More…]
We find steadily increasing pollution and destruction of the environment despite all the wealth and the many admirable and desirable features in the United States- and there are many admirable and desirable features. [More…]
The Government’s negative defence policy is fast producing a negative defence force. [More…]
Whenever the fast escalating list of resignations from any of the 3 Services is produced, we are told that the resignations are because the Labor Government has made retirement benefits so attractive that officers and men just cannot resist the temptation to resign. [More…]
I put it to the Senate that the object of improving benefits to the Services is surely to encourage men to stay in the profession which they have chosen, not to encourage them to resign. [More…]
Morale in the defence forces is so low at the moment- it does not show any signs of improvement- that many servicemen, seeing no prospects of job satisfaction or advancement, are resigning their commissions or failing to re-enlist. [More…]
The east coast is now and, if the Government continues its present policies, will continue to be protected by a small force with antiquated equipment. [More…]
Our Army has now been cut to 30,000 men, 25,000 of whom are engaged in logistics, transport, clerical duties and manufacturing. [More…]
This Government promised, before being elected, that it would not reduce the size of the Army, the Navy or the Air Force. [More…]
The reason that those men are leaving the Army, the Navy and the Air Force is that they know the position is hopeless and that nothing will ever be achieved in the defence area with this Government. [More…]
The result is that in a period when violence reigns throughout the world the Australian Government is reducing every form of defence that we have and is placing Australia in a situation where we are worse off in defence than we were in 1939. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in this Senate: Is it a fact that 3 Soviet Russian trade or presidium delegates were visiting Canberra on Tuesday last? [More…]
At a time when the rest of the civilised world is expressing its condemnation of the treatment of Solzhensitsyn by the KGB, can the Minister explain why his Government chose this moment to allow an entry visa to this man and in fact seemed to welcome him with flags and an official luncheon? [More…]
Will the Minister give an assurance that known KGB or Gestapo men will not be allowed into Australia in future? [More…]
My question is directed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
Will he seek information and inform the Senate if anything is being done or could be done to give financial help to overcome the problems caused by inflation for those retired Australian Government public servants who received Provident Fund payments on retirement? [More…]
I refer particularly to those ex-service men and women who were not accepted for superannuation entitlements because of war-caused disabilities but who have soldiered on and now, in retirement, are in great financial difficulties which they would not have suffered had they not enlisted for war service. [More…]
If people wanted to get something from the tight, lousy-bagged government which existed until we came into power, they had to bond themselves. [More…]
They had to agree to be bound to follow a particular line whereas our view is that by investing in the minds of men- our greatest asset- we set them free and they can choose where they want to go. [More…]
Not so the previous Government. [More…]
In directing my question to the Attorney-General, I say by way of preface that it is asked with the knowledge that the matter of the 2 men to whom he referred is sub judice. [More…]
I refer to the statement of the Attorney-General that charges of assault were laid against 2 men this morning. [More…]
I refer also to various statements of both the AttorneyGeneral and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs last week that everything that possibly could be done in that matter had been done. [More…]
I ask: Why did the Minister not initiate a departmental investigation on the day of the incident or the following day instead of waiting until the pressure of the Senate Opposition forced him to do so? [More…]
Do not the forced and belated investigations of the Government prove the utter falsity of the Government’s earlier stand and the full justification of the Opposition’s assertions? [More…]
To say that the farmers or the men on the land have never had it so good is really stretching the imagination. [More…]
So again we find that the Government does not seem to have any true conception of the problems which are faced by people in the rural industry as well as in other spheres. [More…]
When governments fall it is obvious that somebody has to come to the rescue. [More…]
The fact that trade unions today are applying green bans and deciding that something ought to be done in certain areas is unacceptable to those people who formerly comprised a government which had all its policies made for it by organisations and people outside this chamber. [More…]
Quite frankly, the onus falls back on to the companies which accept the premiums of the ordinary men and women of this country in terms of insurance payments. [More…]
The bulk of the Government’s policy on foreign affairs revolves around pleasing the Chairman and because, as I said before, it is sometimes difficult to deal with both Chairman Mao and Brezhnev, we have all sorts of odd results emerging from that. [More…]
Last week in this very chamber we had a representative of the KGB, Lieutenant-General Evgeni Pitouranov, who had been invited to this country by a Government which keeps out girl guides from Rhodesia and boy scouts from South Africa but brings in men like Pitouranov a former General in the KGB. [More…]
At last report- I do not know whether it has been confirmed 300-odd officers have resigned since this Government took office. [More…]
Despite all the excuses which honourable senators opposite make, we cannot replace overnight men with this experience. [More…]
Someone wrote a book once and called it: Menzies- The Last of the Queen’s Men.’ [More…]
When the book was brought to the attention of Sir Robert Menzies he said ‘I am not the last by a long, long way’. [More…]
I call to mind that even in the little Tasmanian Parliament the AddressinReply debate was carried on for a very long time, that nearly everyone spoke in it and that all the pros and cons of State jurisdiction were discussed at fair length. [More…]
So regardless is the Government of this important factor that not long ago I heard the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) talking about sewering every city and every provincial town in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Prime Minister’s policy speech recounts the wonderful things that would accrue to poor suffering humanity in Australia if the Labor Government were elected. [More…]
He went on to tell the people that that was their choice or that they could return Australia to the same men who have presided over the worst inflation for 20 years. [More…]
-Has the Minister for Primary Industry noted the comments of Colonel McArthur, the Chairman of the Australian Meat Board, in today’s Press urging cattle men to put more stock on the market to avoid abnormally large yardings later in the year and a consequential price slump? [More…]
I rise especially to defend the members of the Grants Commission who, in my view, are dedicated men. [More…]
They are quite acceptable to the State governments. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the State governments, particularly in my home State of Tasmania, have every reason to be thankful to the Grants Commission. [More…]
Now I come to the statement made by the Chairman, Mr Rogers. [More…]
I think Senator Greenwood would agree with me that Councillor Rogers would be one of the most respected men in local government in Australia. [More…]
Again there is silence from the honourable senator, and that means agreement in his legal language. [More…]
Mr Rogers, one of the most important men in local government in Australia today, said: 1 emphasise again that it is implicit that if local government is to play its part in providing the services required of it, it must be an established arm of government recognised by the Constitution. [More…]
That is what we aim at- not to be a level in place of any other level of government, or to take away from any other level of government but to become properly established throughout the nation as a third level in a 3-tier system. [More…]
If an Australian Government elected by the people wishes to put a proposition to the people to vote to change their Constitution, will any person in this Parliament deny the right of the Australian Government to go to its own people and say: ‘We ask you to change your own Constitution and we want you to vote in a free and regular election on whether you choose to change your own Constitution’? [More…]
These men opposite want to deny the right of the Government to go to its own people and say: ‘Are you willing to change your own Constitution?’ [More…]
Now these men who are anti-democrats are denying the rights of their own people- they are doing it here day after day- and are using every device to prevent their own people from having a say in changing their own Constitution. [More…]
I do not care how honourable senators opposite put up their arguments and try to shout us down. [More…]
The Australian Government is simply wishing to approach its own people and ask them whether they will say yes or no to a change of the Australian Constitution. [More…]
Any electoral system which does not comply with this requirement- this straight-jacket which is being imposed by this suggested amendmentwould not be subject to decisions by the Parliament or the people of that State. [More…]
In other words, every electoral law which is passed by the State is not to be finally determined by the people or the Parliament of that State but will come under the scrutiny of a few judges of the High Court who will determine whether it fits the requirement and the straight-jacket of this Bill in aspects that are included here as basic requirements. [More…]
It will not be the people of the State or their parliamentary representatives who decide it; it will be decided by a few judges of the High Court of Australia. [More…]
How are they fitted, for the sake of argument, to determine what is the best and fairest electoral system for the State of Western Australia? [More…]
That is a decision of practicability, of common sense, and it will be decided by men none of whom would have the foggiest notion of what practical considerations are needed and must be considered in determining what is the fairest and best system of parliamentary representation for a State the size of Western Australia or, for that matter, Queensland or almost any other State of Australia. [More…]
This inevitability of all men failing to agree on important questions meant that the Prime Minister has had to take steps to put a Bill through the House of Representatives, meeting the very strict requirements of an absolute majority of both Houses of Parliament, which is one of the safeguards in the Constitution, then have the matter go through the due processes and ultimately to be placed before the Australian people. [More…]
I do not suggest for one moment that there is anything irresponsible in the matters tha’, have come before this place. [More…]
Even if he held those views, they are not necessarily the views held by the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
Yet we have this calamity howling, this great interest for protection of democratic rights and civil liberties and so on which is always plucked out of the wardrobe when honourable senators on the other side of this place have nothing else to present in their arguments. [More…]
This is from Opposition senators who, when in power, were prepared to gaol young men for their convictions about the war in Vietnam, to deny Australian citizens the right to travel outside their own country, and to implement a whole number of issues which denied the normal democratic liberties which we defend in this country and regard as an inalienable right. [More…]
There is no substance in the view that the Labor Government, or the Prime Minister, is seeking to curtail democracy. [More…]
Its management took a fiendish delight as late as 1937 and 1938 in saying to men looking for work: ‘Get off the premises or we will prosecute you’. [More…]
That cannot be interpreted in any other way than a deliberate statement of policy, lt is clear that the Prime Minister of this country was discarding completely the interests of the little men buying a home, people endeavouring to buy on time payment a refrigerator or washing machine, and the other people in the indebted class in the community. [More…]
I hope there are Labor men in this House who will try to explain it away. [More…]
The increases in interest rates that were forced upon the community were a deliberate act of policy by the Government and had nothing to do with the market circumstances of the time. [More…]
These facts show quite clearly that the Government recognised what the results could be. [More…]
Yet, this was done to the detriment of those people in the community who could least afford to pay. [More…]
That the undersigned men and women of Australia believe in a Christian way of life; and that no democracy can thrive unless its citizens are responsible and law abiding. [More…]
We in Australia need time to produce the men and the rigs capable of doing these things. [More…]
It is all very well for the Government to say: ‘Let us take this over ourselves’, but it is too big a job at the present time. [More…]
As a Western Australian I know that Sir Charles Court could not attract the money from within Australia- from any State government or from the Federal Government- to commence the industries which have been established in Western Australia. [More…]
It then continues: -for Labor Government. [More…]
.This country today is run by Australia, thanks to Labor and men like Whitlam who - [More…]
The next words are: -men and women are standing behind Whitlam because of his courage and ability and we wont be put off by the hillbillies or the hicks who represent that section of the community who . [More…]
As I said, I am prepared to accept the fact that these men, if they feel they have a grievance, can legitimately express their displeasure. [More…]
They were out to foment a disturbance, and when they found that they were being taken by this group which was making a procession into the area they then took the opportunity of augmenting that disturbance. [More…]
I assume that it was because of that that he made these derogatory statements about the people who were obstructing the course of free speech. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, and whereas our existing Australian flag and our national anthem, ‘God Save The Queen’ are perpetual reminders of these hard-won freedoms and of the wise British principle of the division of power, so well reflected in our own Australian Constitution with its careful separation of powers as between the Crown and Commonwealth Parliament, the Senate, the State parliaments, the Government-General and State Governors, and the independent courts of justice, and whereas all such rights, liberties, heritage, advancement and prosperity, etc., are of no avail if our armed forces are unprepared or incapable of repelling invasion of our shores or withstanding other military threats, so therefore must all these things be accorded the highest national concern and priority. [More…]
Since this Government assumed office our defence forces have been emasculated. [More…]
It has lost one quarter of its fighter strength and 1,200 men. [More…]
The Army has been decreased, demoralised and denied equipment. [More…]
Never before have so many senior Service officers written so much in criticism of an Australian Government’s handling of defence issues. [More…]
It is of no good the Government claiming this is a product of open government, for some of these men are retired and those still in the Service are facing disciplinary action. [More…]
The Government is, in fact, trying to muzzle these very articulate, dedicated men. [More…]
In its defence re-organisation it has surrounded the servicemen by so many public servants that our highly trained and efficient Service personnel are being denied a voice in the defence planning and policy making decisions of the Services. [More…]
He said the Department of Defence was keen to acquire an area of about 2,000 square miles stretching eastward from King Sound and south from the McLarty Range. [More…]
What an extraordinary statement for even Mr Barnard to make because if as he professes, he is concerned about the continental defence of Australia, and particularly the defence of the western seaboard, I ask why then is there no form of surveillance on any part of Australia’s coastline from Perth to Brisbane. [More…]
With only a 6 Battalion Army, with a fighting force of less than 6,000 men, there is little likelihood of a battalion being stationed in the west, or, despite pre-election statements, facilities being developed for the use of such a force. [More…]
But the facts are that because of the buoyant labour market outside, and everybody knows what that situation is, men in various ranks in the Services are looking for positions outside because they see workers outside in comparable jobs or professional people who can often temporarily earn more than they do. [More…]
The pension arrangements under the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits scheme, which the previous Government refused to provide and messed about with for many months, made it possible for these officers to resign so they would have the opportunity early to take advantage of whatever there was in outside industry. [More…]
Under the previous Government, officers were obliged to serve until they reached the prescribed age for retirement, otherwise they could not attract the benefits provided under the then Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Act. [More…]
One of the effects of the recently introduced Defence Forces Retirement Benefit Act is that officers may now avail themselves of resettlement opportunities prior to reaching retiring age and qualify for payment of the pension. [More…]
The Government was fully aware that an increased number of officers would wish to avail themselves of this opportunity, and this is precisely what is happening at the present time. [More…]
The re-engagement rate in each of the Services in the past 12 months was good. [More…]
Re-engagement rates for the December 1973 quarter compared with the December 1972 quarter for male other ranks were as follows: For the quarter ended December 1972, it was 59.3 per cent for the Navy, 72.3 per cent for the Army and 72.3 per cent for the Air Force. [More…]
But at least the Government is trying to build up our defences. [More…]
The present Australian Government promised the people in 1972 that if it were elected to office Australia would withdraw from the Vietnam war and that national servicemen would be discharged. [More…]
Approximately 10,000 or 12,000 national servicemen were discharged from the Army bringing the strength down to about what it is at the present time. [More…]
The Minister for Defence has stated that at the moment the enlistment figure for the Army only is in the vicinity of 3 1 ,000 men and that this figure will be made up by voluntary enlistment until 1 976 when it is expected that the enlistment figure will be approximately 34,000 men. [More…]
The Minister has stated that the enlistment numbers will remain at that level but that a further review will be made of the position and if necessary the numbers will be increased. [More…]
It is all right to talk about the number of men in the defence forces, but it must be remembered that defence forces cost money. [More…]
Although the expenditure for defence as given in the Defence Budget last year was less than it was in the previous year, the Government has, by its management of the defence of this country, been able to do what it promised to do in regard to the servicemen. [More…]
On page 138, paragraph 340 of the report on defence reorganisation it is stated- it was mentioned by one of the Opposition speakers that - [More…]
We need to muster, foster and develop those resources so that if a situation arises where we have to put men into the field and have the backup systems which are necessary to sustain the men there, at least we can do that from within our own capacity. [More…]
What I said earlier about the interest in debates on defence and foreign affairs is borne out by the fact that as soon as a debate on these matters commences the chamber clears. [More…]
So we ought not to be thinking of defence in terms of numbers of men in uniform. [More…]
Senator Maunsell ought to know this because recently he and I were members of a parliamentary delegation which visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
I assumed that they were servicemen on leave. [More…]
In fact, they are so inadequately developed that the Soviet Union is now calling in expertise from the United States of America, France, Japan and other countries because it has been so committed- this is my view, and I am stating it publicly- to the proposition of having huge numbers of” men in uniform that many of the resources which the Soviet Union could have been developing for the good and the benefit of its people were left undeveloped. [More…]
We will not do as the previous Government did and not take the appropriate action to sustain industries. [More…]
It went to New Zealand because the Government of the day was not prepared to support the light aircraft industry in this country. [More…]
So the defence of Australia does not mean men in uniform but means a total capacity from within our resources to mount the defence of this nation. [More…]
We have an Army which has been reduced to ineffectiveness, a Navy which has been reduced to ineffectiveness, an Air Force which has been reduced to ineffectiveness and a Department of Supply which could not adequately maintain Australia’s forces in being. [More…]
The Army has been reduced to the stage that today it has only about 30,000 men, and we who are on the Senate Committee which is inquiring into the Australian Army have been told that with 25,000 of those personnel required for other duties only 5,000 men would be availale in the event of hostilities. [More…]
With a force of 5,000 men Australia could never be anything but isolationist. [More…]
When one asks those men why they are getting out of Australia’s forces they say that they trained for the forces as a career and are finding that they are completely disheartened. [More…]
There is a shortage of equipment. [More…]
There is a complete lack of sympathy with the armed forces on the part of the Government whose attitude towards our Army, Navy and Air Force seems to be: How much more can we screw out of them to spend on other things such as ‘ Blue Poles ‘. [More…]
I was a member of that committee for a considerable period and what impressed me was the number of men, experts in the field of defence, who came before us and said that the plans of the present Government to defend this country were completely inadequate and that should there be trouble Australia’s security would be gravely endangered. [More…]
A Thai diplomat told me that when one of his own country’s principal ministers went to Peking to discuss with the Chinese the insurgency and subversion movement on their borders which is supported and financed by China, he asked Chou En-lai whether China would agree to stop interfering in his country’s affairs. [More…]
Australia’s Foreign Minister (Senator Willesee) has just delivered an abject apology for the Government’s lack of any defence or foreign policy. [More…]
What he does not appreciate of course is that millions of men, women and children have been killed by conventional weapons from conventional aggressors ever since World War II ended. [More…]
The obvious thing which this Government overlooks is that because of the balance of terror it is unlikely in the near future that atomic weapons will be used at all. [More…]
The truth is that this Government is not interested in defence. [More…]
There are, as Senator McManus pointed out, between only 5,000 and 6,000 men capable of bearing arms in the Australian Regular Army. [More…]
Whilst the Australian manufacture of hardware has been good and successful, much of it is old and badly in need of replacement. [More…]
The question of replacement tanks has been under review for some considerable time. [More…]
I do not blame this Government solely for the tank situation. [More…]
It is a very complex and expensive matter which engaged the attention of the previous Government for some little time. [More…]
This Government- and I will say this- has done a good deal to improve the conditions of service of men in the armed forces; but that has been its single, solitary contribution to defence. [More…]
But despite improvement in wages and conditions, the resignation rate has increased. [More…]
My recollection is that up to August last there had been 3 times as many resignations by Army officers as occurred in the whole of the previous year, the reason of course being that the Government not being interested in defence has conducted a policy by which Army officers can see that there is no future for them in the Service. [More…]
Denis Warner, perhaps the most knowledgeable of all Australian comentators on defence and South-East Asian affairs, has pointed out in 3 articles in the Press the rock bottom to which Army morale has sunk; he did so not with pleasure but with great sadness. [More…]
Warner has of course been sort of warned off by Government circles because of his outspoken criticisms in these matters. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
They are, to a large extent, the result of the lack of interest given the CMF 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…]
As 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 fullscale mobilization, 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 President, 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…]
It has been one of the risks of politics ever since the game began that the Crown should benefit its men, and members of the legislature who appeared to be capable of being useful to the Crown were the objects of its patronage and preferment. [More…]
I am not aware whether the gentleman is visiting Australia or whether the Australian Government is contributing towards his expenses. [More…]
If he is visiting Australia at the invitation of the Australian Government I think it is relevant to remind the honourable senator that in this modern day and age Mr Khrushchev once visited the United States of America and President Nixon visited the Soviet Union. [More…]
1 hope that the honourable senator will realise that men of good will still exist in this country. [More…]
I believe that the Prime Minister and his Government can be likened to a group of men who set out to plan the perfect crime. [More…]
Honourable senators can imagine these men examining all the wherefores and the whyfores. [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…]
Reengagement 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…]
The Government has recently approved- what our predecessors failed to do- the establishment of an Australian Defence Academy. [More…]
It will provide, in the one establishment, education at a tertiary level for officer cadets of all 3 Services, for some cadets from overseas, and for selected serving officers. [More…]
The Government has also approved proposals under which the orientation and initial military training of Army officers will be centralised, in the early 1980s, in one training establishment. [More…]
Turning to matters of Service organisation, I am pleased to be able to say that the Government’s decisions that I 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…]
By its ineptitude this Government is doing great harm to industry which needs to be kept in motion and trained and prepared in materials and men in case we are called upon to defend ourselves or to help defend our treaty partners. [More…]
This is one of the reasons why I see no fun or joy in the Minister’s statement. [More…]
This has been truly said by commentators who in recent months have not shown favour towards Opposition parties or to individual members of the Opposition. [More…]
One commentator writing about our defence Services said that the Government was so ashamed but so impressed with its lack of policy regarding the defence services and so ashamed of what it was doing by whittling them down that the Minister or any other member of the Government would not be game to stand up and make or have prepared by their dozens of writers a statement setting out fully, unequivocably and truthfully what comprises the Services as fighting Services. [More…]
There is a reduction in the forces and in procurement. [More…]
The statement which has been made is a statement outlining the indefinite deferral of defence equipment procurement. [More…]
The people of Australia should understand that those items of equipment in regard to which the Government is silent or in regard to which it confesses it will take no action, in fact are vital to the defence of Australia. [More…]
If we want young men to serve in our forces it is our primary duty to give them the best military hardware on earth. [More…]
This defence statement is outrageous. [More…]
I think that the honourable senator was unfair in speaking harshly of the 2 gentlemen he named, gentlemen I have not met. [More…]
I know that he is anxious to make statements outside the Parliament and to state that these men are super bureaucrats who receive $25,000 a year. [More…]
This is his Government’s scheme. [More…]
It is his Government’s trickydicky explanation to the people of this nation. [More…]
Mr President, do you know what the Government does with this alleged intelligent table which is the only one to show the cost? [More…]
The yearly taxable income jumps from $2,200 to $2,210 which is $10 a year extra; and the Government gives a table for those amounts. [More…]
The difference in the 5 categories which the Government gives is $62 a year. [More…]
In this table the Government shows that in relation to the extra $10- which is the difference between the taxable yearly income of $2,200 and $2,2 10- if one claims $ 100 for dependants the Government takes $5 out of the $ 10 which leaves one with $5. [More…]
If one has the princely income of $2,272 which is where the table cuts out and which works out at about $45 a week, one is getting $62 a year income over the fellow who is paying nothing with a $100 claim for dependants, and out of that extra $62 a year income, the Government takes $30.67 for hospital and medical benefits. [More…]
That is the Government’s free medical scheme for the little man; and one has to have dependants to get that. [More…]
But we cannot find any little men on $45 a week. [More…]
The great tragedy of this Parliament today is that those things which are thought to be clever in order to get one’s own way in politics are becoming the accepted standard. [More…]
Previously, even in the little State of Tasmania, when somebody found that he had inadvertently given an untruthful answer to a question he immediately resigned his seat in Parliament. [More…]
I suggest that if one looks at the records of this Parliament in the last few weeks one finds that there can be no other conclusion but that deliberate lies have been told to trick not only the people but now the Parliament. [More…]
They are the things that are making honourable men stand up in this place and say the things that we say. [More…]
Where Dead Men Lie 5th International Film Review at Columbo (Sri Lanka ) [More…]
Where Dead Men Lie [More…]
Where Dead Men Lie 16th International Gold Mercury Film Prize Competition, Venice (Italy) 1973 [More…]
Where Dead Men Lie 4th International Review of Tourist and Scientific Documentary Films. [More…]
Two policemen who went to the scene attempted to pacify the group, but they themselves were stoned and returned to Alice Springs. [More…]
The police returned with reinforcements and one policeman was hit by a stone. [More…]
It was a reaction of a group of men who had too much to drink. [More…]
The Northern Territory section of my Department has arranged for Mr John Hunter, who has great experience and who is acceptable to the Aborigines, to undertake an in-depth study to see what, if anything, can be done to reduce any such incidents or prevent a recurrence of such incidents in the future. [More…]
It is to be a body of 5 men consisting of a chairman who is to be appointed by the Governor-General, the secretary to the Department of Minerals and Energy, an executive member and two other members. [More…]
These 5 men are to be entrusted with this fantastic area of responsibility which is one of the most important aspects of governmental or national interest, that is energy. [More…]
I propose to move an amendment to the second reading of this Bill. [More…]
I know from my own knowledge of the sheer tragedy of situations in the past, in fact since Federation, when inadequate provision has been made for Governors-General on retirement in this country. [More…]
They have been men who have given magnificent service to their country. [More…]
In the culmination of that service they have accepted the high office of GovernorGeneral only to find on their retirement that they are in a situation almost of poverty. [More…]
I will not keep the Senate for more than a few moments. [More…]
I do not suppose I have been a very easy member of Parliament for a chairman to deal with. [More…]
As we are men- I think that we would not be here unless we were men of some capacity- we do not all think alike. [More…]
The three men deported were: Milorad Stankovic Ibrahim Dedukic and Boris Ninkovic [More…]
His period as Minister for Health and Social Services was especially significant to the Labor Government of the time and to the people of Australia. [More…]
He was the first Minister to operate under the new powers achieved for this Parliament by the referendum of 1946. [More…]
The Senate will recall the great width of that important amendment to the Constitution. [More…]
It gave this Parliament power to legislate with respect to the provision of maternity allowances, widows pensions, child endowment, unemployment, pharmaceutical, sickness and hospital benefits, and medical and dental services but not so as to authorise any form of civil conscription, benefits to students and family allowances. [More…]
It was typical of the former Senator McKenna that he advocated these great causes in the interests of the ordinary men and women, especially the young people, of Australia. [More…]
He sponsored the Act and made the arrangements under which tuberculosis in Australia has been virtually eliminated. [More…]
He made arrangements with every State under which hospital treatment throughout Australia became free. [More…]
Only now, again under a Government of his political character- an Australian Labor Party Government- are we returning to his grand design. [More…]
He was one of the very great men who have passed through this chamber. [More…]
I think that everything that he did in it was good for the advancement of the institution and for building bonds of goodwill between those in the chamber, lt may be said that he was a great Australian. [More…]
In 1953 he was elected secretary of the South Australian Branch of our Party, a redoubtable training ground for parliamentarians. [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 who do not seek high office. [More…]
This Parliament could scarcely exist and certainly could not long survive except for men like Joe Sexton. [More…]
He was a kindly, courteous and hardworking man who looked after his electorate well and did the work which it is necessary to do if the Parliament is really going to maintain its links with the people of our nation. [More…]
It is men like Sexton who provide our parties and our Parliament with that balance. [More…]
He was a good parliamentarian and a good man. [More…]
I would look to the Government to take many more steps to ensure that more is done, because the future of a nation depends on its children, and its children are its wealth. [More…]
Another area of very great need concerns migrant women. [More…]
A home tutor scheme has been introduced so that women- some of the mature women who do not really want to go back to school but who really do want to communicate with others- can have a tutor in their own homes or can get together in groups with a tutor to learn the language and to communicate. [More…]
The other area I spoke of concerned women also. [More…]
The thing that impresses me about women at the moment is that one-third or more of our work force is made up of women and that the commercial world, it is obvious, could not get on without them. [More…]
When this Government came to office it found that there had been a long period of neglect but that some things could be done immediately. [More…]
The International Labor Organisation Convention on Discrimination in Employment was implemented. [More…]
The Government as an employer set an example and put into effect those principles which we have held dear for so long. [More…]
No longer may the Government advertise for a male clerk or for a female clerk but must advertise for a person who can do the job. [More…]
That is one thing that women require that men do not. [More…]
It is a rather essential requirement in the community. [More…]
So, the Government brought into effect maternity leave so that women could take time off work before and after the birth of their babies if they wanted to continue working. [More…]
The Government did those things and set an example. [More…]
Only then can women be truly equal in the work force. [More…]
Philips Industries in South Australia is fearful that it will have to put off 1,850 men. [More…]
The Leyland Motor Corporation of Australia has already put off 1,000 men in Sydney. [More…]
None of these people thinks that there is full employment today. [More…]
The textile industry is suffering the effects of policy initiatives, and unemployment is one of the things that has come to this industry. [More…]
It has come from a Government, which is committed- I quote again from yesterday’s Speech- ‘to the principle of full employment’. [More…]
The imposition of those extra interest rates makes the average monthly repayments so much more expensive. [More…]
If a person borrowed from a building society an average loan of $15,000 repayable over 25 years, bis repayments would have been increased over the period that I have mentioned by $49.50 a month. [More…]
The Labor Party is asking the little men and women of Australia to find an extra $50 a month out of their pockets to finance the inflation which has been introduced and which is being fed by this Government. [More…]
If he was borrowing over 20 years at 1 1.5 per cent and if he could not increase his repayments, he would never pay out the loan. [More…]
If a person were borrowing over 15 years and if he elected not to increase his repayments, his loan would not be paid out for 2 1 years- an increase of 6 years. [More…]
I point out that the number of housing commencements in New South Wales in the March quarter of 1974 was the lowest number since March 1972. [More…]
I wish to mention briefly our defence capability and capacity. [More…]
Our defence has been weakened under this Government. [More…]
In June 1974 it numbered 68,000, a loss of 6,000 men or approximately 7 per cent if my arithmetic is correct. [More…]
In May 1973, 5 men at or above the rank of lieutenant-colonel left the Services. [More…]
A year later 39 men of that rank left. [More…]
Concerning defence it states: A Labor Government will transform Australia’s defences’. [More…]
I believe that this is one promise that the Labor Government has kept. [More…]
We have less equipment. [More…]
Our procurement programs are behind. [More…]
There are also the consumer protective areas of industrial activity and legislation- the important legislation designed to protect the living standards, the skills, the welfare and the safety of the working men and women of this great country. [More…]
The Senate may be even more male chauvinist than is thought because, according to one of the books in the lobbies, the word ‘Senate’ comes from the Latin word ‘senatus’, which refers to a body of wise men. [More…]
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…]
For 16 months from 2 December 1972 the old men of the Liberal and Country Parties who sat on the other side of the chamber refused to believe that there had been a change of government. [More…]
They thought the government had not changed at all, in the same way as the old men of the Australian Medical Association worked consistently to oppose the introduction of Labor’s health insurance schemes and ultimately were joined by the old men of the General Practitioners Society. [More…]
Both Houses of Parliament ultimately were dissolved as a result of the political anarchy of the Opposition when it threatened to block Supply in this chamber. [More…]
The Committee also included Mr Hamilton, the then member for Canning and a distinguished member of the Parliament and a Country Party man also; Mr Downer, a former Minister and a former Australian High Commissioner; Mr Joske, who later became Mr Justice Joske; Mr Whitiam, now Prime Minister of Australia; Mr Ward; Mr Pollard; Mr Calwell. [More…]
There were 2 Country Party members, 4 Liberals, all of whom were lawyers, 6 Labor men, of whom two were lawyers, and four were former [More…]
If anybody had attended the opening of Parliament and heard some of the Labor men from the Territory speak they would have heard them say that since the central government, since Labor has been in office, it has taken unto itself nearly every power from both the Northern Territory Legislative Council and the Administrator’s Council. [More…]
Government senators know it- that is why Senator McLaren is so quiet. [More…]
The Government, in proposing to give the Northern Territory Senate representation, is paying a tribute to the people of the Northern Territory. [More…]
In questioning certain witnesses about the criminal pollution of the Finniss River I was approached outside the hearing by a number of men who represented the cattle industry who commended me for what I was doing. [More…]
I do not know how I should have taken that, but the moral of the story is that if the Northern Territory had Senate representation those senators would have been vigilant and there would not have been the gigantic rape that has been indulged in in the Northern Territory by certain elements that operate there, whether they be mining interests, oil interests or any of those sorts of people. [More…]
I apply again the second test to this question because we have said that we are standing here as men and women of principle. [More…]
But knowing the tenacity of members of the Opposition, who according to them did not lose the last election even if they did not win it, I believe that they are determined to delay and frustrate good government in this country. [More…]
I respectfully suggest that on this Bill, as on other Bills, they are being dictated to by the multi-nationals, the wealthy drug companies, the old men of the Australian Medical Association and all other groupings in this category who are opposed to the ordinary people of the Australian community. [More…]
I regret to say that the speech made by Senator Guilfoyle this evening apparently was written for her by the old men of the AMA. [More…]
I regret that some of the quotations used by Senator Guilfoyle are consistent with those that appeared in AMA journals and which I would think have been provided by the old men of the AMA. [More…]
If Senator Marriott wants to wriggle around on the pavement sideline, he may do so. [More…]
But let us have a look at the history of the last Parliament when the old men on Senator Marriott’s side of the chamber refused to believe that they had been defeated on 2 December 1972. [More…]
Five old men have disappeared from that corner of the chamber. [More…]
The rest of the old men in the honourable senator’s Party who thought that the previous Government had not been defeated on 2 December have also disappeared into the political limbo. [More…]
Why do not honourable senators opposite face realities and realise that for the second time in less than 2 years the Labor Government has been elected and pass these Bills? [More…]
The people will pass judgment in 3 years time. [More…]
If we have done the wrong thing they will be the people who will pass judgment on the Government, not a little coterie of some 29 selfish people on the honourable senator’s side run by the multi-nationals. [More…]
Senator Guilfoyle said during her speech that there would be diminished health care, that we cannot afford the system, that people have a preference for private hospitals, and a whole lot of things which were copied from the documents which the AMA has been propagating in this country ever since 2 December 1 972 and even prior to then when they knew that there was going to be a change of government. [More…]
A majority of the doctors belonging to the AMA and the General Practitioners Society are not behind the old men who are leading them. [More…]
The churchmen involved including the Rev. [More…]
Daniels and 2 other church men were released on 4 July on the understanding that they would voluntarily leave the Philippines. [More…]
We believe- and we make no bones about it- that we consider that the provision of an adequate medical health system in this country is a part of the social services for which it is appropriate that this Government should legislate. [More…]
In fact, to suggest that this Government would conscript doctors in peacetime when it is opposed to the conscription of young men to go to war in times of peace is, I think, a bit rich coming from the Opposition. [More…]
Patients once saw doctors as men of principle, people who cared about their fellow human beings and, in fact, took an oath saying just that, namely, that their prime concern was the care of their fellow men. [More…]
Is consideration being given to an upgrading of these facilities which would have a beneficial effect on the morale, happiness and efficiency of the men now stationed at Woodside? [More…]
Not only would the men go from the Northern Territory to Western Australian law but they could come to one or the other across that as a base. [More…]
I was interested to hear Senator Steele Hall’s remarks over the last few days about a commonsense approach to many problems and about the traditions of parliamentary practice and parliamentary democracy. [More…]
It does not have anything to do with the time at which a particular program might go to air in a certain State or the time at which certain newspaper men might want to see one so that one is well reported in the Press. [More…]
-The honourable senator is one of the most honest and sincere men on his side of the Senate. [More…]
I was interested in Senator Cavanagh ‘s statement that the whole operation of this Remuneration Tribunal was to take the question of politicians’ salaries out of the realm of politics. [More…]
For those who are interested, we must have been sitting late because I spoke at 6.26 p.m. and said that this was a Bill to take the salary of members of Parliament out of the realm of politics. [More…]
We can sit in at the meetings of many committees of which legal men are constituent members and hear from those legal men arguments that are diametrically opposed. [More…]
In fact, we have seen instances on many occasions in the Parliament upon which there have been very dramatic differences of opinion between one legal mind and another as to the interpretation or the meaning of a particular thing. [More…]
I suggest to members of the Opposition who pursue this amendment that the effect ofthe report be delayed until 1 January 1 975 that they examine whether, in fact, they can chop the report about. [More…]
The management of the economy is carried out by a Government, by a cabinet, by a ministry. [More…]
We provide the support system by which governments come into being, but we are not responsible for the management of the economy. [More…]
Irrespective of the quality of Government, whether it is an Australian Labor Party Government or one that is drawn from the Liberal and Country parties, the facts are that Government derives its strength and authority from Parliament. [More…]
When we are advised, as we have been advised by the leading men in the Government, that Parliament should act with restraint in the context of its own emoluments, then it is the duty of members of Parliament to act in the interests of the people and not in their own interests. [More…]
Mr President, I turn to another example which is also within my area, that of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel. [More…]
As a result of increases granted to the Public Service since the salaries of statutory officers were last fixed by the Parliament in April last year we have now reached the position where the salaries of the 2 second Parliamentary Counsel, Mr Quayle and Mr Kolts, are $480 below the salaries of the 3 First Assistant Parliamentary Counsel, Mr Sexton, Mr Munro and Mr King, and $4,122 below the salary of the Deputy Secretaries in the AttorneyGeneral’s Department. [More…]
When the positions of Second Parliamentary Counsel were createdthe Senate will recall how it was regarded as most important to create those positions and to attract men of calibre into the office of Parliamentary Counsel- the salaries fixed by the Parliament were at a level above that of the Deputy Secretaries. [More…]
The present figures for the positions are as follows: Second Parliamentary Counsel, $22,758; Deputy Secretary, $26,808; and First Assistant Parliamentary Counsel, $23,338. [More…]
Rejection or deferment of the increases would cause a greater telephone waiting list and would greatly affect the telecommunications industry. [More…]
Members of the Opposition said that Government action would throw a great number of men out of work. [More…]
But they made no mention of the fact that 2 years ago a section of the same industry was closed down and moved to another State for economic reasons. [More…]
I believe that if implementation of these charges were deferred until after the Budget, Post Office receipts this year would be affected by $30m. [More…]
While we are considering this proposal to increase postal charges in the context of financial management, what is the justification for instituting this inquiry other than to receive another report? [More…]
I just point out that in 1 972-73 Post Office payments for superannuation liability was $49m, in 1973-74 they were $ 104m, and the projected figure for 1974-75 is $130m. [More…]
So in the period of a cool 24 months, in one hit payments for superannuation liability increased from a finishing figure of $49m at the beginning to a commencing figure of $ 1 30m at the end. [More…]
If the Government can give me or my constituents, particularly the self-employed farmer, the shopkeeper and the men who really work, superannuation protection comparable with that applying in the Post Office, I will go along with the Government’s efforts to increase the cost of delivering a letter from here to somewhere over the Molonglo River. [More…]
If the Government can provide for increased superannuation to that degree to everybody without increasing inflation, I might go along with the Government in its efforts to get us into the mad house of increased charges like those proposed in this legislation. [More…]
As honourable senators will know, the first phase of the Government’s program to abolish the means test on age pensions was taken in September last year and applied to all residentially qualified people aged 75 or more. [More…]
In that same year 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 became taxable. [More…]
One individual member of Parliament could be destroyed by the malice of the person who is controlling the camera. [More…]
All these things are canvassed in the report of the Joint Committee on Broadcasting of Parliamentary Proceedings and in its supporting evidence. [More…]
Even in the radio broadcasting of parliamentary proceedings we have what is known, I think accurately and properly, as the prima donna hour. [More…]
That is the time regarded as the best listening period of the broadcasting of Parliament, and it is usurped by the leaders of various parties. [More…]
Parliament is an assembly of men and women. [More…]
There are moments of parliamentary tension, such as we had last Thursday night in discussion of the emoluments of members of Parliament, and the television camera will focus directly on the prima donna, or the prima donnas to use the plural. [More…]
The other members of Parliament, who sit here equally by right as does anyone else, will not have access to the telecast. [More…]
This Bill proposes to create a system for the telecasting of the joint meeting of the Parliament whereby certain individuals sitting in their places will be the people who will receive the accolade of public notoriety, if one likes to put it in that way. [More…]
Why has the Minister not discussed the matter with the men and women of the Territory who know? [More…]
Is the Government interested only in the metropolitan areas? [More…]
We have heard no comments about Executive powers, about what the Administration will do, or about what the salaries or allowances will be. [More…]
What encouragement is there for the introduction of this Assembly at the present time? [More…]
What co-ordination has there been between the Federal and Northern Territory parliaments? [More…]
The statement made by the Minister for the Northern Territory indicates his view I think that government can be arranged on the instant coffee principle. [More…]
You can take 19 elected members, 2 teaspoonsful of hope and a dash of finance and you can have instant government. [More…]
It is tragic that past Australian LiberalCountry Party governments have failed to accept their responsibility in this field. [More…]
They hid behind the tired 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…]
However, in 1856 property qualifications were abolished, and all men over 2 1 were given the right to vote in elections for the Assembly although requirements regarding residential qualifications were retained. [More…]
According to the Victorian Year Book, 1973, this right (of men over 2 1 to vote in Assembly elections) was- effectively restricted by an Act of 1 863 which provided for automatic electoral enrolment of ratepayers and qualification of others (to vote) only by payment of a fee and strict residential requirements.’ [More…]
-The Prime Minister has made a Press statement on this matter. [More…]
Replacement of the Hercules fleet has been under consideration since 1970 and the Department of Defence thinks that a second-hand Boeing 707 would be a good buy for its purposes. [More…]
The Boeing 707 is well suited for the long range transportation of freight and men as well as for VIP use. [More…]
If purchased this would be the first phase of a replacement program which, like any replacement program, will be expensive. [More…]
It is quite wrong to approach this matter as though it were a private extravagance on the part of one government or successive governments. [More…]
Who says that the Government does not understand the problems in metropolitan Sydney? [More…]
My Party is made up of a great number of men and women who have been involved in social welfare programs, in local government and with many other planning problems associated with the great developments of our cities in recent years. [More…]
Yet it is suggested that the Government, which is endeavouring to bring to fruition its dreams and aspirations in these matters, does not know what it is doing. [More…]
The Government knows what it is about. [More…]
Its basic principles have been recognised by the Supreme Court of the United States for 10 yean 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 2 lh 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 1899 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 like 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…]
1 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…]
Why should the Government be asked to take seriously the claim that Senator Cotton has made today- that there is still important work to be done by the Committeewhen both he and Senator Guilfoyle have retired as serving members of that Committee? [More…]
It is true that the 6 new members of the Committee are men with experience and expertise in this field. [More…]
Also in attendance was a host of Press men estimated by Mr Medcalf, who spoke to me, as being as many as fifteen. [More…]
The Government has not seen fit to ensure that this young man has an opportunity of a discussion free from the influence of the Russian Embassy official, an opportunity to talk with men of goodwill who have been his friends and to whom he has, as I have said, indicated his wish to remain in Australia. [More…]
Only urgent action by the Government, and in particular by the Minister for Foreign Affairs can, in these circumstances, prevent this event taking place before this young man has been able really to indicate free of any influence whatsoever what his real intentions are, whether he really wants to return to Russia or to remain in Australia. [More…]
We believe that this is the very minimum to be expected of the Government. [More…]
I ask those who think that it is being fastidious to consider the textile manufacturer who produces only boys’ wear and not women’s wear or men’s wear. [More…]
Let me go on from there to the case of an enterprising manufacturer in the hardware field- I have nobody in mind; I take this case simply as an example, but I know of other fields in which this has occurredwho has built up a trade in heating equipment and who has, say, 80 per cent of the market for the 3 leading towns on the north-west coast of Tasmania. [More…]
Let us assume that his business has grown to such an extent since he started in Ulverstone IS years ago with a turnover of $50,000 that his turnover in the 3 towns today is $200,000, that he has no competitor who sells more than $20,000 in equipment and that as he grows he gets more up-to-date equipment with which he can produce more economically and undercut any other contractor who puts in a tender. [More…]
Here we would have the situation whereby if I were to go along there and set up a similar business the original manufacturer, who would be in a position substantially to control that market in heating equipment, shall not take advantage of that market to deter or prevent me from engaging in competitive behaviour in that market. [More…]
The consensus of the working men and women with respect to the fundamental institutions of a free economy will be secured, for strong and vigorous unions will continue to exist. [More…]
But they will function at long last within the context of a government of laws rather than of men, within a context of competition rather than monopoly. [More…]
The alternatives which Tace the nation if the indicated action is not taken are grim and they are disturbingly nigh: further internal economic decay and international decline on the one hand, or government wage and price controls on the other. [More…]
The undersigned men and women of Australia vigorously protest against your Government’s reported provision of Government funds amounting to $150,000 to African Liberation Movements this year, which amounts to contravention of United Nations Charter and is direct interference in internal affairs of African countries. [More…]
We are aghast that the Government of Australia should involve itself in furthering unrest and warfare between racial groups on the continent of Africa and direct public funds to this end, and we request that senators take up this matter with the Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs immediately. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
-I ask the AttorneyGeneral: How many young Australian men were imprisoned by the previous Liberal-Country Party Government under the provisions of the National Service Act 1964 because of their refusal to be conscripted? [More…]
-I cannot give the exact number of young men who were imprisoned because of their refusal to be conscripted during the regime of the previous Government. [More…]
None of those young men should have been imprisoned. [More…]
-On 2 August the Minister for Social Security made a statement in which he said that supporting fathers who had to remain at home to care for children may be paid a special benefit by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
I suppose that within our traditional male chauvinist society it did cause a little confusion that the Government was at least recognising the fact that there were men who were placed in the position, which has traditionally been ascribed to women, of having the responsibility of looking after children without the assistance of the mother of the children. [More…]
Naturally criteria would have to be applied in the allowing of such assistance to the supporting fathers and clearly somebody within the Department of Social Security would have to have the responsibility of determining whether the claim were a legitimate claim and one which ought to be met by the Department. [More…]
I do not know precisely what the criteria are for the awarding of such payments and it may in fact be rather difficult to neatly specify them, but I shall ask the Minister to let me have a detailed answer as to what needs to be established before such payments are made. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
This Government has approved interim grants of $2.5m to South Australia, $1.7m to Queensland, $4,083,000 to Western Australia and $500,000 to Tasmania. [More…]
If the legislation is not passed the Commonwealth Government cannot proceed with the interim grants. [More…]
New South Wales councils, which are complaining about how many men they will have to put off, will have to put those men off if it does not get the finance proposed under this legislation. [More…]
The Minister then went on to indicate how he had requested the Stevedoring Industry Council to supply him with views and how he had appointed Mr Norman Foster who had previously been a member of the House of Representatives and whom he called ‘one of the most knowledgeable men on the stevedoring industry in Australia’ to inquire into and to report on certain aspects of stevedoring operations. [More…]
-The 4 clauses constitute one basic amendment. [More…]
The purpose of the amendment is to re-establish the Legislative and General Purpose Standing Committees in exactly the same form as they were in during the previous Parliaments- in the first Parliament under the Labor Government and in parliaments under Liberal-Country Party governments. [More…]
I can recall its being referred to as a lush grazing paddock for political hacks, an old men’s home and in all sorts of other fairly derogatory terms. [More…]
They felt a personal involvement in what they were doing in the Parliament. [More…]
Amongst the commentators, the media and the political scientists the Senate as an institution - [More…]
We may assume that he would be impressionable, as most sensitive young men of his years are. [More…]
My recollection is that Senator Greenwood asserted positively that there was evidence upon which we should form a judgment that this man was spirited out of this country against his will. [More…]
Looking at this matter in a human light, it is eminently understandable that this young man, having on the spur of the moment decided that he wanted to stay in Australia, without any pressure from GPU men and without any pressure being exerted on the Australian authorities to intervene, could have changed his mind and decided that in the final analysis and on balance he preferred to go back to his own native country. [More…]
That, I say, is supported by the evidence of the conduct, behaviour and literary works of men who have suffered, as presumably he had not suffered, at the hands of the regime in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The next clue that one can get is that some 12 months ago in answer to a question, as I recall it, Senator Willesee said that our foreign policymeaning the foreign policy of his Government -is based upon fraternal relations and not paternal relations. [More…]
Senator James McClelland just mentioned that the fraternal relationships are the fraternal relationships with fellow socialist parties or as he said, splitting hairs, with socialist democratic parties. [More…]
They are the nations where the concepts of law and order, justice and the rights of free men and freedom of speech are maintained. [More…]
The words should be that I disagree with the unqualified support that this Government gives to everything that the communist countries do. [More…]
We had a few questions yesterday and today about fishing boats off Western Australia Men were put in gaol and we complained because Senator Wriedt said that we did something about it. [More…]
Those men happened to be Taiwanese. [More…]
They got different treatment altogether. [More…]
Whenever there is someone from the Western world the Government has to give him different treatment. [More…]
Why don ‘t you want to see the men? [More…]
During the years thousands of Australians have taken up residence in other countries, but at no time has it occured to the Foreign Minister of those countries to ask the Australian charge d’affaires or ambassador for clemency should those people desire to return to Australia. [More…]
Significantly more than one other Minister, including the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy), has spoken in the debate, so they must attach some degree of importance to this matter. [More…]
Does this not prove to the Senate and to the whole nation that here is a situation in which both men know that the U.S.S.R. is a country which could be described as a virtual prison and where its inhabitants are virtual prisoners and are kept in check and prevented from any form of escape by that essential ingredient in any totalitarian society- the secret police. [More…]
If there is a matter that this chamber would be far better off discussing for the betterment of the people of this country, it surely is a matter which has been raised in the Press around the world because it concerns countries right around the world. [More…]
It has been raised in the Press and by various political spokesmen in Australian in recent weeks. [More…]
The development of these forces will play a far bigger role in the politics and history of this nation, if they are allowed to continue than would the Ermolenko affair or the recognition of the Baltic states of Eastern Europe. [More…]
People such as Mr Colin Hines, the New South Wales President of the Returned Services League, are talking about the formation of a private army of 100,000 men. [More…]
Both these men have rather interesting political pasts. [More…]
The political allegiance of both these men is significant. [More…]
They support extreme right wing political movements. [More…]
The dedication with which Mr Harding and Mr O’Brien continued efforts to confuse the situation in Perth and to prevent Mr Ermolenko ‘s departure after all others concerned had been satisfied that it was his wish to leave can be explained only by the personal bipartisan commitments of both men to damage the interests of the Australian Government. [More…]
I think that is sufficient information for those of us who have knocked around the political movement for a number of years to get a fair idea of the motives of some people who claim that Mr Ermolenko wanted to stay in this country. [More…]
It has been said so many times by so many wise men that it takes a big man to admit a mistake. [More…]
I ask: Are you then, Australia, composed of big men? [More…]
I think it is not unfair to say that it goes something like this: ‘Really, in our society, trade unions cause a lot of trouble and for that reason it is desirable that they do not become too big, because if they become bigger they will cause more trouble, and we on the Opposition benches know that unions are manipulated by malevolent men who run the unions from the committee of management level and tell the unfortunate slave members what they have to do’. [More…]
Those who are most aware of what is desirable and what is rational are employers engaged in the particular industries and the best informed members of unions engaged in those industries, who are, of course, the members of the committees of management. [More…]
We say that the Opposition, by the proposed amendment to the provisions for determining the result of a ballot, is seeking to insert in the Conciliation and Arbitration Act conditions in relation to the administration of the internal affairs of trade unions which are not imposed on anybody else in our society. [More…]
The philosophical view behind that, as I understand it, is either that it is desirable to keep unions weak or that unions are more prey to malevolent men than is any other corporate organisation in our society. [More…]
The composition of organisations changes from time to time and should in the circumstances be subject to a much more flexible arrangement than presently exists. [More…]
In the PostmasterGeneral’s Department there are 28 unions involved. [More…]
The men and women employed by the Commonwealth Railways belong to 14 unions. [More…]
The fragmentation of union resources, in terms of staff, finance and facilities, imposes limitations on the unions and makes the effectiveness of a union very limited. [More…]
The resources for research by the unions is limited where each small union has to have an industrial officer and a research officer doing exactly the same work as others in small unions are doing to try to compete with the rising cost of living and to keep the working conditions of the members of the union up to a standard that is accepted by the trade union movement. [More…]
I suggest that there are plenty of able men from himself down who could put these factors before the unions if there is a good case for an amalgamation. [More…]
It is quite true that in this country the other elements of the industrial picture, the companies and similar undertakings, are already under very great control, whether it be as to mergers, foreign capital or the structure of their organisations. [More…]
But in the case of the trade union movement I suggest that it cannot be denied that it does have a significant influence on the community and the economy. [More…]
It is important that members of the trade union movement should be well aware of the significance of amalgamations which very often are highly desired by powerful and ambitious men. [More…]
To prove this interplay of ideas, I ask Liberal and Country Party senators to read in the journal Common cause’ an article relating to a wage settlement in the coal industry. [More…]
That involved an interplay of motions and amendments. [More…]
In most of these disputes there are motions and several amendments before a settlement is reached. [More…]
My argument is that in a lot of these disputes it is not possible to settle them clearly in terms of black and white. [More…]
A conciliation commissioner offered the men a set sum of money to operate the buses. [More…]
It is to the eternal credit of Mr Justice Robinson that he appreciated that the men’s fears in regard to safety were well and truly founded. [More…]
The result was that from a motion which was opposed outright by the State Secretary in all sincerity, through a system of filtering amendments there was settlement. [More…]
In any free society, whether it be shareholders or trade unionists, a settlement cannot be rammed down people’s throats. [More…]
After all, I suppose I must admit that Senator Drake-Brockman and I- even though we may belong to different parties in our States- perhaps have a far better relationship than senators on the Government side who, as yet, have not had the courage to declare whether they belong to the Whitlam Labor Party or to the Cairns Labor Party. [More…]
Perhaps we might have a declaration as to which of those 2 men honourable senators opposite voted for as their leader after the last general election. [More…]
Yet for the sake of paltry short-term savings, as the price of losing the time and talent of men and women who have agreed to serve their country, judges, academics, State public servants and businessmen our opponents propose to throttle these new activities; they intend to cut off the source of expert and public advice so essential to any planning for the effective, efficient, most humane and least expensive ways of dealing with Australia’s accumulated social and economic problems for the rest of this century. [More…]
In the ‘National Times’ of last weekend Mr Fred Miller, who is described as a director of the largest number of companies in Australia, is reported to have said that the Government’s attitude could be expressed in terms of: ‘We’re in, whacko. [More…]
That may be a valid comment to make. [More…]
Those 23 years were marked by an utter lack of liaison between the private sector of the economy, the business community, and both the Liberal Party of the time and the Labor Party, particularly in the latter years before this present Government assumed office. [More…]
I say quite frankly, as a member of the Goverment Party, that I think it is important that the Government encourage greater dialogue with the private sector of the economy. [More…]
Sir Peter Abeles, the Managing Director of Thomas Nationwide Transport Ltd, is reported in the National Times’ of last weekend as saying: ‘the initiative for a dialogue between men of good faith has to come from our side, from the employers’ side. [More…]
He recognises that our economic problems at the moment cannot be cured merely by pointing a gloomy finger in the direction of the Government. [More…]
They must be cured by an approach of men of goodwill in all sections of industry, in the unions, in the Government and, one would hope, in the Opposition. [More…]
Firstly, one cannot finance big government merely by taking from the rich. [More…]
When we get up into the league of the Ministers who sit opposite- the $20,000 a year and up men- we are dealing with a category that contains less than half of 1 per cent of the population. [More…]
These higher taxation aspects of the Budget are self defeating and will give rise to great problems for the Government. [More…]
The greatest of these problems will be growing unemployment which is chiefly the result of a complete lack of confidence in the private sector. [More…]
The recently reported figures showing unemployment growing at 1,000 a day are a tragic reminder to the Government of the direction in which it is pushing the economy. [More…]
I wish to associate the senators of the Australian Country Party with this motion of condolence and to support the tributes made by the Leader of the Government in the Senate and Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson who spoke on behalf of the Opposition. [More…]
Sir Eric Harrison had retired from the Parliament before I came to the Senate, but I did not have to work with him to know him and to admire his many qualities. [More…]
From a working community background and with very little education he graduated from the ranks to become one of Australia’s most important men and certainly one of the most respected. [More…]
Would it be an invasion of the privacy of the heads of any of our departments if a similar proposition were put forward about men who are advising the Government in relation to legislation and who are guiding our affairs under the Constitution? [More…]
If members of Parliament are to be included, surely the whole of the Public Service ought to be included. [More…]
Honourable senators on the Government side smile. [More…]
If any person Jiving in this great land, and certainly any member of Parliament- and any Minister, more so- on his very high salary cannot demonstrate that over the years he has been able to achieve an interest in developing a commercial organisation for the benefit of providing employment or exploration in minerals, displayed an interest in developing sporting complexes or has not made any investment in those things, he ought to be castigated for his lack of public interest and public enterprise. [More…]
Will it show that all that a member of Parliament who receives $18,000, $20,000, $30,000, $40,000, or even the Prime Minister with his $50,000-odd a year, does with that money is blow it up on some venture which never produces anything? [More…]
It would be very interesting if this inquiry were extended to discover what a member of Parliament does with his income during the year, the way that he distributes and disburses it. [More…]
It would be interesting to learn how men in public life spend their incomes, particularly when a conflict of interests arises. [More…]
He may work towards the development of industry in this country. [More…]
I was prepared to go along with the arrangement though I never co-operated. [More…]
My Department got a good report only to find that the Committee did not know what it was talking about because the Auditor-General came out and condemned everything the Committee had endorsed. [More…]
The Auditor-General found the weaknesses of the Department and reported them. [More…]
We had men waiting around in corridors. [More…]
Senator Townley and Senator Steele Hall could only be on 3 committees and they would lose their right to have a thorough examination of the other 24 departments. [More…]
I would like to mention, also, the proposed abolition of the means test. [More…]
As honourable senators are aware, men receive the age pension at 65 and women receive it at 60 years of age. [More…]
In its first year in office this Government completely abolished the means test for all people over 75 years of age. [More…]
As women become eligible for the age pension 5 years earlier than men, why could not the Government abolish the means test for women over 70 years of age? [More…]
We are told in the Budget Speech that next April the Government will abolish the means test for men and women over 70 years of age. [More…]
Why could the Government not abolish it for women over 65 years of age? [More…]
Why should there be this difference when women are paid the pension 5 years earlier than men? [More…]
He cuts the basis of the future development of Australia’s defence. [More…]
The cuts do not affect men in the field who can be trained in one or two years, depending upon the scientific needs in their training and their capacities. [More…]
So this Government will continue to increase by 43 per cent the vote for the arts, and other provisions by even more. [More…]
The Government will reduce the basis not of next year’s defence but of the defence for which it says it is planning- in 1 5 years. [More…]
If the Government means anything when it talks of its program for 15 years, which, I think, is the lead time which the Government mentions before there is any possible danger of aggression to Australia, it would maintain this vital defence development area for this country. [More…]
The Treasurer announced in the Budget Speech that eligibility for service pensions would be extended to ex-service men and women of Commonwealth countries who had theatre of war service in wars or warlike situations in which Australian forces were involved. [More…]
The proposed legislation will apply not only to British exservice men and women but also to ex-service men and women from other Commonwealth countries. [More…]
For example, Indian ex-service men and women who now reside in Australia also will be eligible for those benefits. [More…]
The proposal is that Commonwealth ex-service men and women who had theatre of war service in these conflicts will be eligible for the same service pension entitlements as Australian ex-service men and women. [More…]
They will be eligible for this entitlement after 10 years residence in this country. [More…]
If I may add something to this, I am at the present time having inquiries made to see how it will be possible for us to extend these benefits not only to Commonwealth ex-service men and women but also to ex-service men and women of other allied countries who were engaged in wars or warlike conflicts alongside the Australian forces. [More…]
For example, is a member of a resistance movement to be classified as an exserviceman? [More…]
With regard to Commonwealth ex-service men and women, they will become eligible for the benefits as soon as the appropriate legislation has been passed through the Parliament. [More…]
I hope that the Opposition will not display the same obstructive tactics on this Bill as it has on other constructive measures which the Government has brought forward. [More…]
Once the Bill does become law, Commonwealth ex-service men and women will be eligible for the benefits and they will be able to obtain them by applying to the officers of the Department of Repatriation and Compensation in their respective States. [More…]
The eligibility of Commonwealth ex-service men and women will be widely advertised throughout Australia. [More…]
He should look into the position one day and see just what a hole the Government he supports has put them in. [More…]
The simple reason is that this Government wants to restructure society. [More…]
That might be a nice sounding phrase but it is a dangerous idea put out by one of the dangerous men of Australia. [More…]
Another of the Labor Party’s dangerous men, in my opinion, is Dr Jim Cairns. [More…]
The more businesses that go broke and are forced out of existence the better that this mob that is in Government will like it. [More…]
As I have said, the Whitlam Government Budget is concerned with education, health, social welfare and urban improvement. [More…]
On the subject of urban improvement, I sat on the Senate Select Committee on Water Pollution with Senator Davidson, Senator Ridley and one or two other senators. [More…]
Nobody has greater vision than Mr Tom Uren in regard to urban improvement. [More…]
The New South Wales Housing Commissioner, Mr Bourke- he was a Labor appointment; I have no objection to the man in one sense- was harping about the fact that the New South Wales Government wants to build houses on that section of the Parramatta River with which we dealt in our report. [More…]
The thing is that the Federal Government has great ideas and vision in relation to water pollution and such things and these mean little men with mean little minds at the State level try to sabotage what we propose. [More…]
Successive South Australian Governments, including Senator Hall’s Government and the present State Government under the leadership of Mr Dunstan, have been aware of the recommendations contained in the Committee’s report, but because of hang-ups at State level about Canberra ‘s motives nothing has been done. [More…]
If they get those attitudes out of their minds, so much of what we are trying to do will be implemented much more speedily. [More…]
The bus employees union in New South Wales is not overtime conscious at the present moment. [More…]
Yet Mr Morris will not respond to my requests to provide the number of additional men required on the traffic grades or even the number of additional bus conductors required. [More…]
There are pockets of unemployment. [More…]
We are trying to grapple with this problem but we can succeed only if we get the co-operation of the States in letting us know their labour requirements. [More…]
It creates community wealth, of which I have just spoken, and because of free enterprise, with people going out to work and gaining for themselves more of the things of life in return for money, it creates tax revenue with which this Government is able to introduce its program of welfare. [More…]
Because of falling prices overseas Western Australia was finding it difficult to compete and, if you like, to keep up with the development that was taking place in the States on the eastern seaboard. [More…]
Some big men were involved in this and I remind Senator Mulvihill that if he goes to Kalgoorlie in Western Australia he will find one of the most knowledgeable men in the mining industry there. [More…]
He is one of the most respected men there and is the son of a former Labor member of the Western Australian Parliament. [More…]
Because of the serious situation caused to Tasmania and the other States by shipping I shall set into the record some of the main statements, promises, platitudes and criticisms which have been made in recent weeks by other men in public life. [More…]
I commence by saying that the gravest causes of the problems of shipping to Tasmania are strikes and industrial unrest. [More…]
Anything that can be done by anybody in Parliament to try to overcome demarcation disputes will help the whole of Australia ‘s economy. [More…]
One notes that the formation of the idea of turtle farming and the misuse of funds occurred during the time of the previous Government. [More…]
He appointed to the board of the company which had been formed men in whom he had some confidence and trust. [More…]
In various fields one goes to the tradesmen who operate in those fields. [More…]
I answered there that this seemed to be an incident which had blown up between the two men, that the waters had been muddied pretty badly by people pursuing this matter and I certainly did not intend to muddy them any more. [More…]
I said further that some disagreement had blown up between two intelligent people. [More…]
I am quite certain that this matter will be worked out between the two gentlemen concerned. [More…]
In fact, the reduction of the allowance to which he refers results from the phasing in of the abolition of the means test by the Labor Government. [More…]
On 11 September last year the Government announced the first phase of its program to abolish the means test on age pensions. [More…]
In the same year the Income Tax Assessment Act was amended to make pensions and similar benefits payable to people of pensionable age, that is, 65 years for men and 60 for women, taxable, as from 1 July 1973. [More…]
But the decision to tax those pensions received by persons of pensionable age would have been to the detriment of blind age pensioners. [More…]
From now on those people who previously were described as ex-service men or women are being described as veterans. [More…]
There has been an extension of various benefits to national servicemen, for example. [More…]
I bitterly accuse the State Government and the top people in charge of our prison system of living in the last century, and if Senator Sir Magnus Cormack wants to make something of that he too is living in the last century. [More…]
Men and women who offend against the laws of society, as we accept them, must pay for their social sins but we have no right in a so-called civilised society to treat those who have been deprived of their liberty and personal freedom with physical punishment and undignified procedures that label them as less than animals. [More…]
If the Premier- and I am referring to my good, close, personal friend, Holy Joh- and his Cabinet evade the issue they should be prepared to hand over the whole prison system in Queensland to the Australian Government, and those who have been accused by society will then at least be sure of justice. [More…]
I draw the attention of honourable senators 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 efforts. [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…]
as if they were men from the moon. [More…]
Because of the efforts of men like Roy Fagan, the [More…]
I commenced by mentioning the value of petitions and I have in mind other parliamentary methods of obtaining objectives also. [More…]
In this regard I simply want to place something on record with all deference to members of the Government who made this matter a feature of their 1972 election campaign. [More…]
I should like to place on record the names of a few men who have given tremendous citizenship service in this country. [More…]
I mentioned these people in alphabetical order. [More…]
To strike a sympathetic note I might mention that in the 1930s John Kosovich was a young Yugoslav worker in the gold mines and some of his contemporaries are among these people who gave the best years of their lives in Australia, which would be of interest to Senator Durack. [More…]
By way of preface I mention the following facts: Recently I was informed of a situation in Burnie in Tasmania where an employer needed 3 men. [More…]
After advertising without result, he resorted to asking the Commonwealth Employment Service to send him 3 people. [More…]
After the men had been employed he received a letter from officers of the retraining scheme asking for his estimate of how long it would take to retrain these men. [More…]
But he received reimbursement for 22 weeks. [More…]
I emphasise again that the Commonwealth Film Unit, as it was known- it is now known as Film Australia- has been in existence since 1942.I cannot remember one instance where that film production unit under any government of any colour has ever been accused in this chamber or publicly of making a political film. [More…]
The unit has in it men of outstanding ability. [More…]
What the Opposition is saying is that when that film about India is made by the film production unit of the Australian Government it cannot be exhibited or it cannot qualify for certification for exhibition as a short film in an Australian cinema. [More…]
If the President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Hawke, or the Minister for Labor and Immigration, Mr Clyde Cameron, appears on the television program ‘Monday Conference ‘ or a similar television program and accuses the members of the Opposition of being guilty men, they will come into the Senate and say that those remarks represent a gigantic smear. [More…]
As I see the position, a neon sign showing the word ‘obstruction’ could be placed in front of the Opposition’s amendment. [More…]
It was good enough for one of the people involved in this dispute, Mr McBeatty, to say to me on 6-hour day that he hoped that when I came back to Canberra I would support action to implement speedily the product of the mind of Mr Justice Sweeney. [More…]
I only say to the 2 wise men who have just spoken and who are no doubt somewhat fixed in their views: So far as Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson is concerned 1 just want immediately to disabuse his arithmetic and to assure him I am one person who has long felt that there is only one place for the new and permanent parliament house, and that is Capital Hill. [More…]
But I think that we should look back at the arguments of the leader, if 1 may call him so, or the first follower who has set out in front to try out the ground, Senator Button. [More…]
His arguments, if I may dignify them in that way, fell into 2 categories. [More…]
I think that he really identified with small men, small aspirations and small vision when he saw the new and permanent parliament house sitting on some low place on the same line as other buildings. [More…]
Last year 2 gentlemen from abroad called upon me and I entertained them in a suitable way, I hope. [More…]
These 2 men represented an era of rebuilding in Washington. [More…]
But in the course of conversation both of them- separately and together- put the point of view that notwithstanding anything that may be said by architects in Australia, or certainly by those who are not architects and who regard this as a pretty glum looking Parliament House, they thought the reverse of that. [More…]
They said that they thought of all the parliamentary buildings that they knew of in the world that had grace, dignity and quality there was none that exceeded this Parliament House. [More…]
They thought therefore, that it would be an act of vandalism if any Parliament were to consent to the destruction of this Parliament House. [More…]
In 1960- the latest figures I have- 6 per cent of women and 7 per cent of men only were unmarried in Australia. [More…]
Remarriage rates in the U.S. and U.K. are high (local figures are not available), with around 75 per cent of U.S. divorcees being remarried within five years of divorce, and the divorced-not-remarried group representing at any one time around 2 per cent of the population for men and around 3 per cent for women. [More…]
In an era when women are asserting more and more successfully and more justifiably their equality before the law and in all respects with men, I suggest it is not appropriate that marriage should be regarded as constituting a right to permanent support no matter what the circumstances and no matter whether or not a woman is capable of taking her place in the work force. [More…]
The provisions for maintenance, commencing with clause 50 of the Bill, establish a new code based primarily on the matter of need. [More…]
On this question which is embedded in the modern debate on the relationships between men and women, on authority- Professor L. Neville Brown- had this to say on the general philosophical question of maintenance: . [More…]
Non-support by spouses or parent will be ranged alongside those other vicissitudes of life- unemployment, sickness, industrial injury, child birth, death itself- for which social insurance should make provision. [More…]
So far we have had 2 speeches from men with legal backgrounds. [More…]
That law is peculiar to this country, but the relationships between men and women tend to be more universal and more important. [More…]
They depend upon the mores of society as they exist at any moment. [More…]
Many of the patients to whom I have spoken in the last few years- young men and womenhave impressed me with the morality of their relationships. [More…]
For example, each of us understands, whether we are men or women in terms of our genetic make-up, that we are caught in a situation in which we see our functioning in terms of our being male or female. [More…]
If women become better educated and liberated they may wish to return to the work force, and the men in society may have to take over more of the role of home making and child rearing. [More…]
If we are to protect the institution of marriage, if we are to stop women being slaves, caught in the home, and men being free and able to work, we may need to look at this social aspect. [More…]
If one examines the death rates, sickness rates and psychiatric illness rates of married men and single men and married women and single women one will find that married men are healthier than single men and have lower mortality rates. [More…]
One will find also that married women are worse off than single women. [More…]
Marriage, as it exists at present in Australia, has a very marked medical disadvantage for women. [More…]
I am anxious that we should get justice for the women who have been a disadvantaged group in our society up to now. [More…]
They have been deprived of the same educational opportunities as men, they have been deprived of the same work opportunities, and they have been deprived of the same financial opportunities. [More…]
Up to this stage they have not been able to compete equally with men in the divorce arena, except perhaps as regards their rights to maintenance. [More…]
He commented, as we all know, that divorce is a crisis in the lives of all the people involved- the two parents and the children. [More…]
I see them operating to offer therapy to people at a time of crisis, to help children through a period when they are likely to get very disturbed, and to help men and women who have to make decisions about their own worth and future. [More…]
That committee reported in 1959 and recommended, regarding counselling services, as follows. [More…]
I am not saying that all the proposals put up by the commission are necessarily correct but the fact that almost none of them has been accepted is a sorry commentary upon the social welfare capacity of this kind of socialist government. [More…]
The proposals put up by the Henderson Commission as matters of urgent need included a major increase in child endowment payments but in that regard there has been no action. [More…]
It recommended changes in taxation deductions for dependent children and further increases in the basic rate of pensions, and sickness and unemployment benefits, special benefits, and supporting mothers’ benefits, but in not one of those areas has the benefit been increased. [More…]
The commission recommended an increase in the mother’s or guardian’s allowance from $4 to $8 a “week but no action has been taken. [More…]
It recommended fringe benefits for fatherless families but there has been very little improvement in that field. [More…]
It recommended that a pension and fringe benefits as are paid to widows and subject to similar conditions be paid to men bringing up children on their own, but again no action was taken. [More…]
We have talked much in public and in the Senate today about equal treatment for men and women in Australia. [More…]
I can think of no area in which there is a stronger case for totally equal treatment than there is in this one. [More…]
I am in fact sorry, in a way, that there has been specially privileged treatment given to women in this area in the past. [More…]
I do not think it has done the women of Australia any good to have this special privilege in the area of widows pensions because it makes it look as though it is a problem germane only to women in Australia instead of what it truly is, namely a family problem in Australia. [More…]
I make a strong plea to the Government that, in these inquiries and considerations that it appears to be undertaking, it look at just the simple facts, and that is that we have a family situation in which there is only one parent. [More…]
There may be special mitigating circumstances in the case of women in terms of their earning capacity. [More…]
I think in the case of a man who wishes to stay at home to care for his children full time or who wishes to take a part-time job and receive a part-time pension, there should be no difference made between him, in that reduced earning capacity, and women who have been in that capacity traditionally for a long time in Australia. [More…]
I was of the understanding- I thought it was a fairly clear understanding- that no pensions were available for Australian family men in this situation. [More…]
I checked with the Department of Social Security in Brisbane. [More…]
I asked him whether it was true that fathers of children suffering chronic or long-term illness could obtain extended periods of payment of this benefit only in very special circumstances. [More…]
I was informed by the Department of Social Security in Queensland- I am sure I have breached no confidence because the information has been repeated since then- that in recent years there have actually been only a couple of such applications from Queensland approved. [More…]
Decisions were made at a distance, while individuals at the Department of Social Security in Queensland were certainly aware of the problem because they faced the problem- they literally came face to face with the men who were in this invidious position- and there was virtually no support available. [More…]
Under those circumstances the Minister’s statement that there was support available along the lines of benefits payable under the provisions for unemployment or sickness benefits was highly misleading. [More…]
He certainly was not backed up by the information given by his own Department. [More…]
If honourable senators want to see the greatest discrimination in Australia we have it in the Queensland Parliament against the Aborigines. [More…]
Under the laws of the land, whereby Aborigines are on enclosed settlements, white men cannot go there without the permission of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs in Queensland. [More…]
He quoted an anonymous document that he found on his desk. [More…]
He never quotes an authority on any question and it is contrary to the principles of Parliament to quote anonymous documents in the Senate. [More…]
Let us remember that the things that Senator Webster hates about discrimination in Australia and the things that Senator Coleman dislikes about Western Australian legislation are hated by all free men and all democrats. [More…]
Two of them that readily come to mind are the production ‘Marion’ which was scripted by an Australian, Mr Cliff Green, and also ‘Three Men of the City’ which was scripted by Mr Ted Roberts. [More…]
It is of the essence of our recommendation that the Judges appointed to this Court (men and women) - [More…]
While that goes on- we all know that it does; it is not a thing of the past- we have not a work force or a community of women who are fitted for outside work. [More…]
Those who do work generally work in the lower paid jobs at the moment, and many women in professions are more lowly paid than the men in those professions are. [More…]
The women who do work ease the financial burden on their husbands. [More…]
But one absolutely fatal deficiency in the proposal to set up a purely Federal Family Court is the requirement in the Constitution that all judges appointed by the Federal Government under the Constitution have to be appointed for life. [More…]
In this field we must have men who have their feet very much on the ground, who are part and parcel of the community and who understand the changes that are taking place in the community. [More…]
The only way in which that can be done is the way which was suggested in the Senate Committee’s report, namely, that the Family Court should be set up under a co-operative arrangement between the Federal Government and the State governments so that a majority of the judges of the court will be appointed by the State governments and will be subject, as State judges can be, to retirement at a suitable age. [More…]
The only way that that can be achieved is to have an arrangement for a court whereby the appointment of the majority of the judges is by the State governments. [More…]
The only way to get around it would be to amend the Constitution. [More…]
One would assume from the argument of those people that the Victorian era with its low divorce rate was a period of unparalleled marital bliss, but today few men and women would wish to return to those days when a wife was frequently just one of her husband’s chattels. [More…]
Many personal contracts are undertaken between individuals in our society and between men and women which are voluntarily broken. [More…]
The stage before marriage is the formal engagement stage. [More…]
It is a fact that individuals at that stage can break the engagement. [More…]
As I under.tand it, the Australian Government made available to the grain growers of central Queensland or to the State Government certain Army personnel and equipment on the condition that the State Government, or whoever, should pay the cost of relocating the Army personnel and supporting them while they were in the area. [More…]
The people who were concerned about the plaguethe State Government and the local producersalso had to provide all the insecticides and all the other equipment necessary for aerial spraying. [More…]
The State Government and the growers have incurred enormous expenses. [More…]
While undoubtedly they are very grateful to the Army for providing the manpower which meant they did not have to seek additional men who could not be found at the time and also for providing the equipment, in a rather limited sense one must admit, nevertheless it was not an overly generous gesture. [More…]
Was it not the Government which by its action in January last year virtually eliminated the European selective immigration scheme and cut out 50,000 workers, all of them scheduled to go into the steelworks, the building and automotive industries? [More…]
Was it not the Government which had deliberately set out by that action to create over-full employment in those industries and therefore a scarcity of men and materials for those industries, a scarcity which emerged within 3 months? [More…]
Was it not the Government which by that action made the simple 3-inch building nail scarce to the point where there was a 3 months delay on them? [More…]
Was it not the Government which through the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) urged upon the country the proposition that the trade unions should bypass arbitration, go in for collective bargaining and yell for and obtain above-award wages? [More…]
Was it not the Government which then called upon the unions to do the very things it now says they should not do? [More…]
Was it not the Government which, when the bond rate at the lowest level was still yielding sufficient money for loan funds, put up the bond rate by 2 per cent and increased interest rates to the highest they have been in Australia? [More…]
Was it not the Government which switched 10,000 workers from the private sector to the public sector and thereby denuded the private sector? [More…]
Was it not the Government which cut out tax incentives and subsidies to agriculture and thereby forced up the price of food? [More…]
Was it not the Government which went in for the greatest credit squeeze we have seen in this country? [More…]
Otherwise, without any more wars at all, Israel will be virtually liquidated because of the cost of its current rearmament program which is necessary to enable it to survive. [More…]
When I see the constant movements that he is making I realise that he has a very difficult job. [More…]
I say respectfully that we must get some of these wild men around the table and we must convince them that they have to accept responsibilities, just as militant unions sometimes have to accept responsibilities when they appear before a judge. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech movement and the communication of knowledge and information, [More…]
Furthermore, our women-folk must surely and inevitably become chattels or things for men to take as they please, as could also happen in reverse. [More…]
As Chairman of Estimates Committee F, I want to thank the Minister and his officers for the expeditious way in which the Committee was able to deal with all these departments. [More…]
With all due respect to the drafting of this statement, which says that there will be consultation between the services and the Department of Agriculture, I should like to revise that to the extent of saying that I have written to Mr Broomhill and I will be writing to other State Ministers. [More…]
Although the report refers to departments of agriculture, there are dedicated men like Mr Broomhill who are confronted with offshore vandalism by nomadic fishermen slaughtering fauna and if the Minister for Conservation in a State seeks the support of a service for a more frequent surveillance I hope that it will be forthcoming. [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was clearly developed as a Federation to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement and the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
-The Deputy Leader of the Opposition ought to know, if he does not know, that the calibre of the men who have been appointed to each of those bodies is such that they would not be amenable to any improper Government pressure or improper pressure from any quarter. [More…]
The fact is that these men have been appointed to carry out their duties and they will carry them out. [More…]
I think that everyone, with the exception of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, would have confidence in the ability and integrity of these men. [More…]
There have been cases in the past of native protectors- white men- fiddling with the bank accounts of Aboriginal people. [More…]
In the wet time when the river ran, in the previous settlement it ran through the latrines, the kitchen and the dining room. [More…]
I am informed that when the last few people were taken away the only guns in evidence belonged to a couple of the old men who took their fowls, dogs and everything with them. [More…]
Statements have been published- I do not know to whom they are attributed- to the effect that the site was cleared for bauxite mining. [More…]
That is not quite right either, because the Queensland Government has reserved an area up and down the coast and to a certain extent inland which, as an Aboriginal reserve, cannot ever be used for rnining. [More…]
But one matter has not been mentioned, and I know it well. [More…]
I have seen the men who run the ferry for a distance of about 2 miles have to cut back their engine to one-half or one-third speed in order to try to dodge these logs in Thursday Island harbour. [More…]
In relation to what Senator Keeffe said, from my experience I think it is ludicrous that he should say that these things were never provided in these communities because in my day on Palm Island I was the assistant settlement overseer responsible for a workforce of some 350 men and women. [More…]
Last week many young Aboriginal people were out in front of Parliament House demonstrating and trying to show to us here in Parliament that all is not well in the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
As many of the young men said to me, they were not demonstrating against Government policy. [More…]
Although I sit on this side of the chamber, I do not condemn many of the policies that have been brought forward by the present Government. [More…]
I give credit to the Government for many of its policies. [More…]
I think that it has instigated policies that perhaps my Party when in government should have instigated. [More…]
The people who demonstrated outside Parliament House were demonstrating against the implementation by the Department of some of the policies. [More…]
Then the Queensland Government refused to go along with the Federal Minister’s plan to take over the Aboriginal reserves in Queensland. [More…]
Imagine the vastness of the administrative problems that would create, particularly if white men are not allowed to go on these areas, as was proposed. [More…]
Three respectable and responsible men were assaulted. [More…]
Now we hear mention of the left wing. [More…]
The Opposition would have us believe that it is composed entirely of teetotallers, men of total abstinence in all fields, men who have never experienced the carnal lusts of the flesh, men who never touch a drink at any reception. [More…]
So bereft are they of policy arguments that they have to resort to personal abuse. [More…]
-The Australian Government has sought the views of all State Governments on this matter and replies have been received from all State Governments except the Government of Western Australia. [More…]
The Tasmanian Government has put forward the point of view, in which the Australian Government concurs, that however desirable it may be to have women trained as school dental therapists, men should not be precluded from undergoing that training and becoming school dental therapists. [More…]
In fact we are informed that the Tasmanian Government is considering legislation to amend the existing law relating to this matter so that men may be trained as school dental therapists. [More…]
New Zealand Labor Government has been able to achieve for its own people. [More…]
That achievement has been recognised by no other than one of the most conservative men in Australia, Senator Greenwood. [More…]
He holds up the New Zealand Labor Government as an example to the world of what has been achieved in controlling inflation and holding down unemployment. [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 aged groups often suffer from handicaps or disabilities which result in them 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: First 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…]
I said a minute ago that in fact the Family Law BUI can only reflect the situation of women and children in society today. [More…]
There is an argument advanced that there should be a notion of child maintenance instead of wife maintenance, and in theory I would like to agree with that theory. [More…]
But I suggest to the Senate that Australian society, having been what it is for so long and only so recently undergoing change, does not put Australian women generally in the same economic situation as men are. [More…]
It would be nice if the theory could be carried out that women did not need maintenance and that child maintenance were the only sort of maintenance we needed to consider. [More…]
But there has been very little recognition given to the fact that the overwhelming majority of women who have undertaken what we call home duties, who have occupied the traditional social role of wife, housewife and mother, have had a very large bearing in many cases on their husband’s earning capacity. [More…]
I think it is probably very obvious to all those married male senators who are present that if they did not have wives prepared to support them strongly and to supplement the job they do here in the Senate and also in their home States then they would not be able to do the same job. [More…]
There are many people we ourselves know who have been prevented from pursuing a political career at all because their wives were not prepared to undertake the sort of responsibility that goes with being the spouse of a member of Parliament. [More…]
There are many examples of cases such as this where, through their supportive dependent role, women in our society have enabled the men to reach a higher degree of proficiency and a higher earning capacity. [More…]
The Divorce Law Reform Association is making quite a noise about this at the moment. [More…]
We have always known that there were battered wives and battered children in Australia, but only recently have enough of these women come forward, had access to groups like Women’s Electoral Lobby and others which have made their mark in this area, for us to start to count just how big a problem this is in Australian society. [More…]
Previously these women were too ashamed to admit that this was their way of living. [More…]
A conservative assessment currently is that approximately 5,000 families in Australia are in a situation where the husband habitually batters the wife and, almost inevitably in those circumstances, the children. [More…]
We have to recognise now that there are some men in our society who, whether under the influence of alcohol, because they are mentally disturbed, or because they are just plain bullies, do severely mistreat their wives and their children. [More…]
It is appropriate that there be some sort of safeguard in this Bill for women and children in that situation whereby they can be protected promptly through a court injunction so that they may be given some hope of getting out of this absolutely appalling situation. [More…]
We can surely apply but one main and basic yardstick when we are considering measures as fundamental to society as this. [More…]
We must surely ask ourselves what this legislation contributes to the betterment of the relationships between men and women in the total Australian community. [More…]
These are the yardsticks and the problems which, of their own immensity, require that we as individuals and as a community take our time before we decide on the sort of legislation that we believe must be appropriate. [More…]
In recent times, along with many other members of this Parliament, I have had an opportunity to meet and to mix with a large number of people, men and women of varying religious and political attitudes, and it has become more and more evident to me that in reference to this piece of legislation there is in their minds a determination that they need a full measure of time to examine something which is basic to them, something which must come with a measure of change but something which they are not prepared to admit in its present immense and virtually unresearched form. [More…]
This appears to me to be very largely the attitude of an immense crosssection of our society. [More…]
We are indebted to the Committee for its study, for its collection of opinions and for the recommendations which it has made. [More…]
Family law, as I understand it, is the law which governs the relationships between men and women and parents and children and particularly when that relationship is governed by the institution of marriage. [More…]
So I suppose the areas covered by family law legislation could be said to include the establishment of marriage and the dissolution of marriage, the wellbeing and the protection of children and the maintenance of affected persons in this relationship, the arrangements connected with property and all of the legal consequences that are similarly connected with these matters. [More…]
In this simple statement is an extraordinary and diverse network of responsibilities and disciplines which sustain this ideal. [More…]
Men and women may marry when and whom they will, provided that they are sufficiently mature to undertake the commitment … [More…]
It was disquieting to hear earlier in the debate that in the marriage situation men are bad for women but women are good for men. [More…]
Perhaps we owe women a debt that has to be settled now. [More…]
The affairs of men and women are no simple matter. [More…]
I point out to the Senate that most of the major wars in history have been fought over love between men and women or the want of it. [More…]
The advent of the pill and other advanced means of contraception has emancipated our women in a most unprecedented way and it has altered our outlook on the man/woman relationship. [More…]
In emancipating women it has brought them to a position where they are able to philander in much the same way as men have been able to do always. [More…]
We see communal living which is aided and abetted by the huge social welfare payments that are passed about now. [More…]
This Government intends to change the free enterprise system to a public enterprise system. [More…]
This sort of system has been tried all round the world and has failed lamentably. [More…]
I think that one Government senator was referring this afternoon to this equality that socialists feel is so important. [More…]
I would point out that 62 per cent of the work force in China is women because most of the men are in the armies which police the country because being a socialist country it has to be a police state. [More…]
In addition, the Public Service Board has approved a proposal for the employment of 12 Aborigines as police liaison assistants to be attached to 6 of the larger police stations in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The object will be to fill these positions with mature persons (both men and women) who have a respected status in the Aboriginal community in these areas where they are stationed. [More…]
Details of a six week training course have been finalised and recruitment is proceeding with the assistance of the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
An announcement of successful applicants will be made in the near future. [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…]
Will the Minister inform me whether all those people, men and women, who enlisted in the forces are eligible for a housing loan? [More…]
The organisations are continually meeting and sending on to the Minister for Housing and Construction proposals to extend the eligibility for loans or to extend the time for payments. [More…]
The brief answer to the question of whether all men and women who enlisted are eligible for a housing grant is no. [More…]
It is anticipated legislation increasing the grant from $12,000 to $15,000 will be introduced during this session of Parliament. [More…]
We hear the Government yelling about multinationals. [More…]
The men working in those areas got much higher wages than they ever had before. [More…]
This is all back pedalling and exactly the opposite of what the Government said before. [More…]
-Senator Brown is laying back in his seat and has made some inane comment. [More…]
What the Government created then is going to bring about the greatest level of unemployment this community has ever known because employers are unable to meet the costs arising from what their employees have been granted. [More…]
I am an employer of a number of men in the joinery industry and I add something to this community, something that I doubt any Labor man has ever done in his life, and that is to create a position - [More…]
That whereas our constitutional parliamentary democracy was developed on the Rights of Magna Carta to preserve for all time to the Australian people their cherished right to live as free men and women, enjoying complete liberty of worship, assembly, speech, movement, the communication of knowledge and information. [More…]
I turn now to Senator Sir Kenneth Anderson’s amendment relating to the tide of the Bill, in which he is asking the Committee to insert the phrase ‘Marriage Dissolution Act’. [More…]
As I said during the second reading debate, family law is the law which governs the relationships between men and women and parents and children, and particularly when those relationships are instituted by marriage. [More…]
As the law provides for the establishment of marriage and as the law provides for families as established by marriage, so the law must provide for the difficulties that arise if, due to unfortunate circumstances, that particular marriage breaks down. [More…]
I think that, as we embark upon the Bill and the many amendments to be debated, it should always be kept in mind that the ultimate aim of the Bill is the protection and preservation of the family according to law. [More…]
Therefore, I think that the title ‘Family Law Bill’ meets the needs of the situation and I oppose the amendment. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s continual boasting about the quality of pay and conditions in the Services, for which the previous Government was largely responsible, I ask: Does the unprecedented number of resignations of senior officers indicate that far from being a bed of roses something is seriously amiss with the defence establishment? [More…]
Does the Minister deny that the cause is the Government-created intrusion of non-military personnel into areas which traditionally and rightfully are the domain of trained military men? [More…]
Can Australia afford such a heavy loss of its military expertise, even at a time when the Government places low priority on defence needs? [More…]
No there is no justification for continuing the discrimination and, in accordance with the suggestion by Senator Drake-Brockman, the Government is acting responsibly and intends to remove this discrimination. [More…]
As honourable senators will remember, the Treasurer in his Budget Speech stated that he intended to amend the Defence Service Homes Act to remove this restriction which has been in the Act since it came into operation in 1919. [More…]
We know that many single men or widowers who have the necessary period of service do not qualify for a housing loan because of the restrictive provisions of the present Act. [More…]
Last year we amended the Act to permit single women with the necessary service to qualify. [More…]
Of course defence service homes loans are not available to those who have already bought a home although they can be made available for the repayment of certain mortgages. [More…]
A Bill has been introduced into the other House to amend the Act and take away the discrimination against single men and widowers. [More…]
In development and expansion the Court should be enabled to look to the executive arm of one governmentnot seven- for the necessary finances, appointment of judges and other personnel, legislative changes and supportive services. [More…]
The judges of the Family Court will need to be men and women of compassion who have a deep understanding of the subtleties of human conduct and marital relationships. [More…]
ls .the Minister aware that reports have been issued within the last week which indicate that at least 60 people were executed without trial following their being held in custody and that one of those citizens happened to be a Mr E. Makonnen who was the World President of the Young Men’s Christian Association and who had done much to bring assistance to the less fortunate people of that area? [More…]
Is concern felt by the Australian Government as to this action and to possible future action? [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 widows with the necessary qualifying service from receiving assistance. [More…]
The general position that I take in this matter is that which I elaborated in 1971 and, I think, ever since in the great hope that one day somebody will seek to do something positive in the Australian Federation on financial and monetary management, rather than standing off and shouting at each other, which I think has been inimical and not at all useful for the total Australian community. [More…]
So what becomes extremely important is for men of goodwill in government, wherever they may be found, to seek to make the Federal system work efficiently. [More…]
Are those who have small aircraft and those who have aerial services in the outback the little men? [More…]
Should we pay $65m a year out of contributions made by taxpayers to keep these little men in operation? [More…]
The Opposition wants the kiddy who goes down the shop to buy a lolly or an ice cream, the low margin worker and some of our pensioners to be taxed to keep these little men who own small aircraft in operation and to provide them with services. [More…]
Should we forget the low margin worker, the kiddy buying ice cream, the pensioner who is paying tax and other disabled people who are paying taxes to provide services for these socalled little men? [More…]
We know, as Senator Sim has said, air fares have gone up since this Government came into office. [More…]
These are intelligent men and women who were elected by their community to serve their communities. [More…]
I suggest that they are a dam sight more clever because they will play the Federal Government against the State Government to get what they want. [More…]
Secondly, it liberalises the eligibility of persons for loans and now proposes to include single men and widows. [More…]
Fifthly, it reviews the interest rate, which has been 3% per cent since the commencement of the main Act, and provides that for the $3,000, or part thereof, above $12,000 there shall be a higher interest rate. [More…]
That higher interest rate shall be a prescribed rate, and the measurement of that prescribed rate is that it shall be 2 per cent below the most favourable rate that is charged by the Commonwealth Savings Bank on housing loans. [More…]
That rate at the moment is 9lA per cent, so the prescribed rate at the moment would be 714 per cent. [More…]
Sixthly, it seeks to provide a measure of relief in relation to certain of the instalments to be paid by certain persons such as pensioners. [More…]
In common with the Opposition I would acknowledge that last year the Government made amendments to the Act which widened the eligibility within the Act and were a step forward. [More…]
To the extent that the latter 5 measures that I have mentioned do so, they are meritorious and we will of course fully support them. [More…]
The amendment to the motion for the second reading is similar to the policy that the present Government, when in Opposition, claimed was its written policy and which it sought to assert as amendments in November 1971. [More…]
I am somewhat in agreement with the Minister for Urban and Regional Development (Mr Uren) who said in a statement, which was quoted, that he was in favour of increases in the amount of loans made available for war service homes. [More…]
On this occasion we are extending the eligibility provisions, which was not done under the previous Government. [More…]
This is the second occasion on which we have extended the eligibility provisions since this Government came to power. [More…]
The Government came down with the decision that we should give concessions to all; that we should extend the eligibility provisions. [More…]
As Senator Devitt said, loans under the Act are now extended to those on Norfolk Island who, despite their service, previously could not qualify because of their land lease arrangement. [More…]
Eligibility has also been extended to those single men who want a home. [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 recognized 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, was excluded from the Kangan Committee’s terms of reference, it will be recognized 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…]
100 on equal remuneration for men and women workers for work of equal value, adopted at Geneva on 29 June 1951. [More…]
Honourable senators 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, the Minister for Social Security (Mr Hayden) established a working party to examine and report on the problems of homeless men and women in Australia. [More…]
Millions of dollars are spent on the enforcement of archaic laws against these casualties of society 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 the Minister for Social Security released the report of the working party on 17 July 1973, he 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 the 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 1974, the Minister for Social Security gave further details of the policy the Government had endorsed. [More…]
He said then that this was an area of need to which the social conscience of the Government was being directed, the basic aim of the program is to assist, by the provision of funds, counselling and resource expertise, organisations undertaking special programs on behalf of homeless people. [More…]
The homeless men and women to be assisted are in poverty in the sense that they have few independent resources and lack 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 Bill provides for the establishment of advisory committees to help develop a coordinated program of assistance. [More…]
The Bill is an expression of this Government’s social conscience and its commitment to assist in a tangible and practical way, people who have become casualties within our competitive society. [More…]
The measures proposed within the Bill are based on a compassionate understanding of the needs and very real problems and 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 commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]
There is provision in the Bill for the tabling of agreements between the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
I commend that. [More…]
I would hope that this Senate would have the opportunity and the facilities made available to it to debate such agreements because they are important. [More…]
In the past the Department has sought to do by individual pieces of legislation what it now seeks to do under an umbrella piece of legislation. [More…]
It does, however, urge the Government in reaching agreements with the States to be less coercive and to be more co-operative and to give the States the opportunity to function according to the principles employed in carrying out their jobs in the way they know. [More…]
The Opposition urges the Government to stop the nonsense of this paper war, to cut out the gross and lavish expenditure on form filling that is going on, to stop the irritation caused by the little men with forms and questionnaires tearing all over Australia and to get on with the job of achieving true co-operative federalism. [More…]
On that basis and in the spirit that the former Liberal Government set out the guidelines and set out some major policies running into hundreds of millions of dollars for this purpose, I support the Bill and give it a speedy passage through the Senate. [More…]
I deplore this type of legislation which imposes upon thrifty people additional taxation which, as Senator Greenwood has pointed out, can be passed on to girls, women and young men who are renting flats from people who will have to pay this additional tax. [More…]
I have noted the amendment moved by the Opposition to this Bill. [More…]
Instead of trying to amend this Bill by the amendment which we have moved we should have taken the bull by the horns, should have thrown out this legislation and should have let the people see that we really mean business. [More…]
Of course, that is an airy fairy statement or promise. [More…]
It has been supported by a number of business men and publicity has been given by the organs of the media which support the Australian Labor Party of the fact that business men are supporting the appeal. [More…]
It has been suggested in some places that the business men supporting this appeal have been pressured in various ways by the Australian Labor Party because it is in government. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite are alleging that in society today there are no men of principle. [More…]
I say that Sir Richard Kirby and Sir Thomas Playford are men of principle who believe that the leader of a great political party ought to be commemorated. [More…]
That is a very very good suggestion but the effect of the implementation of it on the communities does worry me because I lived on a government community for a number of years. [More…]
I lived on Palm Island for nigh on 17 years and I was for a time the assistant settlement overseer with some 250 to 300 people under my charge. [More…]
In its Budget the Queensland Government allocated a certain amount of money for various things that would be done on the settlement. [More…]
Now under the Queensland Government Budget a certain amount of money is allocated for each one of those things. [More…]
Employment opportunities were created for those who wished to earn some money. [More…]
When the superintendent of the day and other members of the staff got together, we worked out how much money we had and how many men we could employ. [More…]
I am quite sure that if the Australian Government were prepared to make available sufficient money to the authorities in Queensland so that all the people employed on the communities could be paid the award wage, then the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and particularly the Director of Aboriginal Affairs would be only too happy to pay every person on the communities the full award wage and slightly better, that is, if they had sufficient money. [More…]
But here again, I believe that in some respects the Australian Government does not live up to its responsibilities. [More…]
I think it is reasonable that the renovation of the constitution of the Australian Wool Corporation in this fashion is reasonable in view of the Government’s support of the industry. [More…]
While the industry will put in proportion of the funds which will be employed in market support, as Senator Maunsell has said, the Government certainly is taking some risk in what it is doing. [More…]
I believe that within his province he would appoint men whom he believed were good for the industry. [More…]
I see no real reason for increasing the number of men on this Corporation body, nor can I see the logic behind the suggestion that the Minister should have the capacity to literally continue asking the industry to keep on submitting names until he finds four that are acceptable to him. [More…]
I knew one of the young men who were removed from Palm Island. [More…]
For the Minister to say that these men were removed because they would have worked for the Australian Labor Party in Queensland is not quite correct. [More…]
Certainly five men were removed from Palm Island. [More…]
The Minister said that the men were removed because they might influence the vote. [More…]
Labor’s representation in the State Parliament dropped from 33 seats to 12 seats- not a bad effort for a government that allegedly has not done the right thing in Queensland. [More…]
It has only 12 members in Parliament. [More…]
The Queensland Government, which senators opposite say has done so many wrong things, certainly has the support of the Queensland people. [More…]
The second big point we should mention with regard to this loan is that the appropriation is for housing loans; it is not necessarily for housing construction. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill provides money for the purpose of assisting men and women to purchase, erect or extend homes. [More…]
We want to make sure that this money actually works to provide employment opportunities for those Australians who need employment. [More…]
The other measure which is related to the Department of Social Security provides for assistance to homeless persons. [More…]
We are delighted to see that the Government has introduced this new proposal which will provide assistance which has not previously been available. [More…]
Grants totalling some $2.2 m are now paid to organisations which will be caring for homeless men and women throughout the community. [More…]
On 10 April 1974 the Premier approached the Prime Minister for Australian Government assistance to help combat the outbreak of spur-throated locusts. [More…]
He stated that ‘the basic requirement in locust control operations in central Queensland at present in manpower’ and ‘SO two-man teams are considered the present requirement’. [More…]
The Prime Minister on 1 1 April 1974 advised the Premier that 100 men and spray equipment would be made available. [More…]
and (4) Australian Defence personnel and equipment were made available to assist in control of locust infestations in Queensland in April and May 1974. [More…]
The Australian Government agreed to provide up to 100 men and such spray equipment as was available from defence resources, subject to the Queensland Government agreeing to meet any additional direct costs involved. [More…]
The Government has asked the Textiles Authority within the Industries Assistance Commission to inquire into and report on a wide range of men’s, women’s, children’s and infants’ clothing, hosiery and gloves. [More…]
The reference seeks the advice of the Authority on whether action should be taken in terms of the GATT Textiles Arrangement to restrain imports into Australia. [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…]
Let me assure the Senate that I shall be adopting exactly the same principle as that enunciated by my predecessor in 1970 under the previous Government. [More…]
They will be people- I must not say ‘men’- with commercial experience. [More…]
It was, of course, this Government which took the step last year of appointing a woman to the Wool Corporation, and a most competent member she has turned out to be. [More…]
I can assure the Senate that the only basis on which these appointments will be made will be the capacity of these people- their commercial and marketing ability- to ensure the best possible effort on behalf of the wool industry. [More…]
Senator Maunsell also referred to the amendments which had previously been moved concerning the inclusion of employer groups. [More…]
There is not a great deal of difference of viewpoint here between the Government and the Opposition. [More…]
I am saying that Cabinet recommended the appointment of 3 Aborigines out of 5 members of the Loans Commission. [More…]
Of course, of necessity the best qualified men must be appointed to a loans trust that is to give out money. [More…]
If there are 5 qualified Aborigines who have accounting experience in regard to loan moneys, then 5 Aborigines shall be on the Commission, because the Minister makes the appointment. [More…]
He makes the appointments. [More…]
The honourable senator wants to take this power from the Parliament and hand it over to this Commission. [More…]
I invite all members of the Senate, men and women, to join us at a small function this evening without any great prolongation of this adjournment debate if the Leader of the Opposition, as I am sure he will, and the Deputy Leader of the Opposition will permit. [More…]
What are the main items of additional expenditure involved, in terms of (a) men; (b) equipment and (c) other items? [More…]
-I think that probably every Tasmanian read the statement of the Leader of the Liberal Party in that State following the visit to Tasmania by leading personalities of the Country Party including, I understand, the Premier of Queensland. [More…]
The Tasmanian people are wise enough to know that they have had many years of good rule under the Labor Party and the leadership of men like Eric Reece, and if they wish to have an alternative they will turn to the Liberal Party. [More…]
The situation amounts to this: However much we may draft constitutions or standing orders or involve ourselves in practice the facts of life of course are that constitutions are made for men and men are not made for constitutions. [More…]
However carefully we may draft the Standing Orders of the Senate there always occurs a time subsequent to the amendments of the Senate when crafty or able men can find a way around them. [More…]
The fact is that all we are trying to do is bring down Standing Orders that deal with matters as they arise, say, over a period of 20 years and try to avoid the pitfalls that crafty and ingenious men have found by which to evade them. [More…]
But they are happening in these days of socalled enlightened law enforcement. [More…]
Instances have been reported by the same man in the same area of young men who are in constant employment, who are good young workers, good people and respected employees being threatened by the police, who have gone out on to the jobs, with all sorts of actions if they do not admit to certain crimes that they have not committed. [More…]
In one instance a policeman is alleged to have said: You have a white man’s job working with the local railway department, and we will make sure you lose your job unless you submit and give us the information that we require’. [More…]
I do not say that all members of the law enforcement agencies are this way inclined. [More…]
There are very fine and respectable gentleman within the law enforcement agencies. [More…]
I have a great admiration for those men who do their duty conscientiously and to the best of their ability. [More…]
I believe that a royal commission of some kind would bring to light not only the atrocities which are being perpetrated against Aborigines and of which Senator Keeffe has spoken but also the fact that there are occasions when members of law enforcement agencies need to chastise and bring to justice Aborigines who are not doing the right thing. [More…]
Will you again entrust the government of the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately but needlessly created Australia’s worst unemployment for 10 years. [More…]
Everybody knows that the Regional Employment Development scheme has been of great advantage not only in absorbing unemployment in regional areas but also in providing in areas of local communities, local councils and regions the sort of improvements which they would not have if it had not been for the Labor Party. [More…]
The aid which has been given there since we have been in government, not only through the RED scheme and other schemes but from all Australian Government sources, has amounted to $400,000. [More…]
This work includes the provision of sewerage facilities, flood mitigation works, council work, and the provision of facilities for the Young Men’s Christian Association and recreation areas. [More…]
The Government’s program has been a fine one. [More…]
On the records we know about and on the things we can trace, the Commonwealth Government has given $44m to these projects. [More…]
Another $8m or $9m has come from State government sources to make all these things possible. [More…]
Employment has been given to nearly 20 000 people out of work. [More…]
Many of the projects are not like those undertaken by the previous Government to combat unemployment. [More…]
The previous Government gave men jobs digging up weeds. [More…]
We have undertaken projects which have been useful in the community instead of undertaking all sorts of unproductive work as the previous Government did. [More…]
So far only one Liberal State government is taking action against the Federal Government because in some way it is jealous of the Federal Government’s intervention in assisting the Australian community. [More…]
I wonder how he and other Labor men feel about the betrayal that has taken place, as we now have 31 1 000 people who are unemployed. [More…]
The record of past years shows that Australia is a high employment country. [More…]
We are a full employment nation, except when we have the Whitlam Labor Government in power, and we have seen a steady erosion in employment and employment opportunity in the last 2 years. [More…]
What type of a Government do we have? [More…]
I would encourage attempts to bring overseas employers to Australia to create jobs for our men and to pay us income and taxation. [More…]
But not this Government. [More…]
A level of unemployment of over 300 000 persons or 5.2 per cent of the work force is entirely unacceptable. [More…]
Again, 1 take the opportunity to cite the case of one or two very great Australian companies which have been beset by the encouragement of labour in so many fields to seek higher wage structures. [More…]
Higher wages have been granted in the government sector which has forced employers in the private sector to meet similar increases for their employees. [More…]
The Labor Government will have a higher unemployment rate on its hands in the ensuing months. [More…]
The article states that certain men in that industry will have lung cancer by the time they have reached 50 years of age. [More…]
It does not matter what our Government does. [More…]
Dunlop Australia Ltd, because it suited the company and irrespective of what government was in power, rationalised its operations and closed one plant in Sydney and moved across the border to Victoria. [More…]
If in their anxiety for power, men lose sight of great principles they put at risk the safety of their institutions. [More…]
Justice Latham; Mr Justice Spicer, whom I consider to have been a conspicuous success in the Australian Industrial Court and who, I might say, many people from the trade unions and from the other side of the political fence concede to have been a just, impartial and sensible judge; and of course more recently, Mr Justice Bowen who went to the Appeals Court of New South Wales only 3 months after having been reelected to this Parliament. [More…]
These gentlemen, I think, illustrate the fact that courts are not diminished in any way by having added to their numbers men who have had distinguished careers iri this Parliament. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the report on apparel- section 1- men’s shirts, woven pyjamas and other woven night wear by the Textiles Authority within the Industries Assistance Commission, and the report of the Industries Assistance Commission on mushrooms. [More…]
If there was that gap before his appointment to the High Court- I did not think there was- it makes no difference whatsoever to the point that was made by Mr Snedden in 1964 and by Sir Garfield Barwick in 1965. [More…]
To my mind that argument ignores the fact that the courts are interpreting matters, so far as the High Court is concerned, of extreme constitutional and social concern. [More…]
For courts to be living and to be able truly to reflect social mores they ought to bc comprised of men not only of distinction but also of differing social backgrounds and of different philosophies, and I am not speaking of party political philosophies. [More…]
Does anyone suggest that Mr Justice Denning, now Lord Denning, was not a complete adornment to the courts through which he marched in England over a period of some decades? [More…]
I must conclude, but before doing so I wish to refer to some of the personal qualities of the former Senator Murphy which in my judgment will make him an adornment to the High Court Bench. [More…]
Above all- this surely is of the essence of the right to be a judge- he has a love for his fellow men. [More…]
It is significant that, in a television interview this week, when Mr Murphy was asked to state what he considered were his best achievements in the past 2 years he put legal aid for needy persons at the forefront of what he considered he had accomplished. [More…]
But the third point about it is that these disciples of elevated constitutional integrity- I notice that Senator Everett is out of the chamber at the moment, and I wish expressly to bring him within the aura of the phrase- ought to give credit to the Opposition in the Senate when it does maintain the Constitution and established conventions, and when the Opposition goes further and commends to the parliaments of the States the practice that has been observed in this regard they might become a little generous in their understanding. [More…]
In addition to constitutional provisions and conventions the Opposition commends the acceptance of and compliance with the practices that have been observed in regard to section 15. [More…]
Now someone seeks to write my trunk into it solely because these little men are possessed with the consciousness of their own handicaps. [More…]
We ought to be mindful of the things that Senator Georges said when he gave credit to people who were deeply involved in restoring order to the city and to the people who worked beyond the bounds of duty in trying to help their fellow men. [More…]
Government reaction to the Darwin tragedy was vastly different from what it was when Althea struck Townsville. [More…]
It was 48 hours or more after the event before any member of the then Australian Government showed any interest in the devastation that Althea caused. [More…]
I might say that we fought for many months after that and did not ever get the government funds that we hoped we would get to repair the city. [More…]
Senator Carrick ‘s criticism was strange, coming from a supporter of a government which conscripted and sent young men to Vietnam without allowing them any opportunity to determine their involvement in a war in which they wanted no part. [More…]
I will not say that there were guilty men in Darwin, because I think that most people who serve the public interest and most people who go into public life do so with the best of intentions. [More…]
Did they make any attempt to upgrade the standard of development? [More…]
I think it would be a matter of great regret and irresponsibility if the Australian Government were not to say: ‘Well, we are in a position. [More…]
We have examined the experience of the National Capital Development Commission here in Canberra. [More…]
We have the men and women who can properly advise us in these matters. ‘ [More…]
Are they speaking on behalf of the Australian Government which surely must have some responsibility when we talk of the sort of public investment which it has been suggested is required in these circumstances? [More…]
As a result of his visit he said that the Government will rebuild Darwin. [More…]
His companion, the Leader of the Opposition, stated that his Party was with the Government all the way and that no politics would be involved. [More…]
Those 2 men were concerned with the welfare of the people after they had seen their plight on that occasion. [More…]
The Government, supported by the Leader of the Opposition, has undertaken to rebuild Darwin. [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…]
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 Senate. [More…]
Of the other 3 members on the Interim Reconstruction Council, it is intended that they be representatives of the 3 government departments with the responsibilities and the professional skills in their particular areas necessary for the rebuilding of this city. [More…]
The Opposition seeks today to deprive Sir Leslie Thiess of the assistance on the Commission of such men as [More…]
We have Mr Alan O’Brien who has been a resident of Darwin for a long time representing the Department of the Northern Territory. [More…]
We now tell honourable senators that the manager will be a resident of the Northern Territory for 5 years as at the time of his appointment. [More…]
Do not let honourable senators opposite tell me that those men are not concerned with the development of Darwin. [More…]
We are doing the most we can to get this development. [More…]
On no account could we agree to the proposal with which the Opposition has come forward of stacking the Commission, or having another representative on it from the Legislative Assembly, another hand-picked representative from the Citizens’ Commission to defeat the aims of this Government to rebuild the city. [More…]
We accept that the Government may do this. [More…]
We are not privy to what the Government proposes to do about the deputy chairman. [More…]
Undoubtedly, he will be a ministerial appointment under the terms of the Bill. [More…]
But let us get this quite straight: In the first place, our real charge at this moment is that this is a stacked Commission. [More…]
We accept the fact that the gentlemen concerned are men of considerable quality. [More…]
Has he heard radio news reports this morning that an Aboriginal required treatment -at Alice Springs after being painted from head to toe with white paint by a group of men, and of other incidents of racial violence between whites and blacks in the town? [More…]
One needs to look no further than Government instrumentalities to get an idea of the number of unions one “employer may have to deal with. [More…]
A total of 28 unions are represented in the Postmaster-General’s Department. [More…]
The men and women employed by the Commonwealth Railways belong to 14 unions. [More…]
I would not mind if some of the legal brains in the Opposition came up with some skilful amendments to this Bill but it is quite obvious that the Opposition has put up the shutters. [More…]
Many men have prospected in this country but did not have any luck and Hancock did. [More…]
They definitely did not emanate from the Labor Party; they came from business elements who felt that he should not be Prime Minister. [More…]
He was one of the men who brought about the downfall of John Gorton. [More…]
I say that all the Commonwealth Electoral Officers are fair men and are efficient. [More…]
Some restrictions should be placed on the format of paid political advertisements. [More…]
Political candidates should be required to appear personally in their television films rather than the present practice whereby inept candidates are hidden away while the ad-men create a new image for them. [More…]
We have coined a word in Australia to describe Senator Button and others on the Government side these days. [More…]
They are people who go round in a sort of legal slip slop with sandals which go flip flop along the pavement. [More…]
There is a collection of legally trained men on the Government side at present who I can describe only as legal ockers. [More…]
Their mental processes can be demonstrated quite clearly by looking at the sort of characters who go round with flip flop sandals on their feet. [More…]
Senator Sir Magnus Cormack is 69, Senator Lawrie is 68, Senator Ian Wood is 74 and Senator Reginald Wright, one of the most eloquent men in that august house, is 70. [More…]
I suggest to the Parliament that in fact it would be a retrograde step to create this system, to create it and ignore the evidence of the experience and the opinions of men of the eminence of Sir Owen Dixon who wrote what has already been read into the record. [More…]
So, having given to the Government the right to test its constitutional authority to mine for minerals in the off-shore zone, we are unwilling to apply to that off-shore zone- whereas to oil there is a co-operative arrangement with the States, each State administering its own designated area- an administrative patchwork, for other minerals in the same area, that has its origin in the genius of Connor to give directions on any subject notwithstanding the laws of the Australian Capital Territory purported to be applied to it and with the Minister having the right to delegate any of his powers to any officer of the Public Service. [More…]
As practical men, members of the [More…]
I am hopeful that some arrangement will be made which will prevent a loss of work to the men involved. [More…]
There is no assessment of skills; it is an ideological matter. [More…]
The Government wants a salaried staff and when the salaried man arrives, 4 ENT men are sacked. [More…]
The men who must face up to this issue in practice want this legislation. [More…]
I have in my possession that poor, pathetic amendment I had last year that cannot see the light of day and cannot be argued in detail because this side will deny the Bill a second reading and deny all possibility of altering it and fashioning it as a Liberal ethic would have it fashioned. [More…]
Surely we can ask that the people who must make the decisions about amalagmations should do so on a compulsory basis, as we must do at elections of Australian parliaments, and on a secret basis, as we now enjoy in the ballot box for Australian parliaments, and in this case they could be made by postal ballot. [More…]
-Will the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation tell the Senate what women’s rights are under the existing repatriation legislation? [More…]
Is their status equal to that of men? [More…]
If the answer is no, and if he has not already done so, will he take action to ensure that any discrimination against women is eliminated, particularly during International Women’s Year? [More…]
I wish to ask a supplementary question. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation: If there is this discrimination, be it against men or against women, will he make recommendations for it to be removed, particularly during International Women ‘s Year? [More…]
1 do not have to remind the Senate of the criticism that was levelled at Sir John Dunlop at the time by the Bank of New South Wales and the subsequent events that led to his retirement from the directorate of that company. [More…]
He was a director of the Australian Industry Development Corporation and he stated publicly that the fears of the banks and the other financial institutions that the Australian Industry Development Corporation Bill and the National Investment Fund Bill were attempts by the Australian Government to socialise were without foundation. [More…]
I believe that the most far-reaching implication is that in the future men with experience and knowledge will be reluctant to serve on Australian Government committees or corporations for fear of retaliation by their fellow directors. [More…]
I think his statement was a reflection on the men who constitute the board of the AIDC. [More…]
In sharp contrast to his opinion of these men is the opinion of the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) of the directors. [More…]
But in making an address supporting a motion for referral of the matter to this Committee for the second time, in reply to an interjection from me they said that they wanted the Bills referred to the Committee for further consideration because they had important further amendments to bring up. [More…]
The amendments were so important to both of them that they did not think they were good enough even to remain as members of the Committee to see what the fate of the amendments would be. [More…]
They left the amendments to be handled by 6 men who said that they were inexperienced to handle them. [More…]
He said he thought it would lead to a more efficient service because men would be satisfied with their location and place of residence. [More…]
The gratuitous advice that he issued so freely to the Government at about that time could not have been more inept. [More…]
Dazzled by Mr Anthony’s visions of a glorious future in which the only blemish was an alleged socialistcentralist government, which oddly enough at that time opted in respect of this industry for the laws of the market to be free to operate but which declined to offer all sorts of incentives to promote even further the boom in cattle prices, beef men generally increased their herds. [More…]
They involve human emotions; they involve human happiness; and they involve the quality of life of some 35,000 men, women and children in or near the affected area. [More…]
Their employment has been affected. [More…]
It is a matter of regret that in a debate in this chamber concerning remuneration of members of Parliament we hear an attack on an increase recommended by a duly appointed tribunal; an attack by probably two of the wealthiest men in this Parliament. [More…]
Is it not a fact that the 2 honourable senators concerned, namely Senator Wright and Senator Wood, are members of this Parliament who have been in receipt of incomes outside their parliamentary allowances for many, many years? [More…]
I would have thought that we might have heard some comment from him as to what his income is outside this Parliament. [More…]
I did not intend to make those sorts of comments and I do not like making them but until such time as they are proved to be otherwise I believe them to be true. [More…]
It is for that reason, Mr Deputy President, that perhaps I did err in making the comments I made when I rose to speak. [More…]
I do not know the extent of the publicity which had been given to this pamphlet, but those men had a concern on the very same matters, and I was referring to that document. [More…]
Those who seek power and who have never conceded that the Australian Labor Party is in fact the Government- I am referring to the Opposition- will stoop to anything, stoop to any tactic or technique to try to undermine this Government. [More…]
I am not necessarily an avid supporter of the institution or the establishment, but for the time being it is here and until something else can be put in its place then we have to have some regard to it. [More…]
But as long as the Opposition continues to hold a threat over the duly elected Government of the day and so long as one has regard to what Mr Killen and Sir Robert Gordon Menzies said as to the way in which the Opposition has abused and prostituted this establishment and the Constitution- so long as there exists the instability that is presently within our community- then likewise the security of this nation is threatened. [More…]
And I name men like Senator Greenwood as the people responsible for the insecurity in this nation right now and I make no apology for saying it. [More…]
Centralism is one of the greatest menaces to this country in the dire circumstances of today. [More…]
I refer to only 2 areas for the moment. [More…]
The Regional Employment Development scheme is providing a measure of employment, but it is doing so in areas which rate probably No. [More…]
20 on the priority list of the people who count- the people in the local government councils, the people in the areas where men and women are unemployed and where they must be employed. [More…]
Is the Minister, or his Department, aware that there are a number of instances where men previously holding two positions and having been dismissed by one employer, then proceed to claim unemployment benefits and continue working for the second employer; if not, does the Department intend to make enquiries into this matter and require particulars from applicants to ascertain the extent of this practice. [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…]
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…]
The Minister might explain how the Government got its finances and its home costs into such a deplorable state that that is the case. [More…]
Firstly, will he assure us that nothing contained in the Bill will do anything to alter the preference which has applied in the past in respect of interest rates charged to ex-service men and women for defence service homes? [More…]
It was a Labor government- the Whitlam Government- which recently substantially increased the additional rates of interest on defence service homes by making the interest rate for extra borrowing in the defence service homes area much higher, much sharper. [More…]
One can develop advanced management skills and can develop good, safe labour working relationships. [More…]
People can begin in quite humble positions on the factory floor and rise to levels of top management. [More…]
We have all seen in Australia men in the top levels of management who have come from the factory floor and the technical colleges and have worked their way up. [More…]
But Dr Cairns is not the only member of this Government who evinces delight when a North Vietnamese victory appears to be imminent. [More…]
His close colleague, the Minister for Urban and Regional Development, Mr Uren- another man of peace- also had difficulty in containing himself. [More…]
Do Mr Uren’s colleagues, the men who pressed the Government to relax its migration requirements to take communists and pro-communist refugees from Chile to Australia, share that view? [More…]
But the Prime Minister of the day, the then Mr Robert Menzies, shortly afterwards contradicted the statement made by his Cabinet Minister and said that conscription would be introduced. [More…]
However his statement was qualified at the time. [More…]
It was said that none of the young men conscripted in this manner would be used in overseas service. [More…]
From 1965 to 1972 almost 500 young Australians were killed in the Vietnam conflict and almost another 3000 were either physically or mentally crippled as a result of the compulsion that they be in that particular type of conflict. [More…]
It was the old men in this House, who now sit on the Opposition benches but who sat in those days on the Government benches, who decided that it was right on every occasion when a debate took place in this chamber on our involvement in Vietnam to send their neighbours’ sons to war, but they never sent any of their own. [More…]
It was significant that people who sat on the Government side in those days were young enough to volunteer to go to Vietnam if they believed so impliCitly in the conflict. [More…]
I recall Senator Rae- it is no reflection on him that he is not in the Senate at the moment- walking into the chamber one night while a member of the then Government. [More…]
These men are not cowards. [More…]
It accepts phobias created by labels, instead of seeking to understand the fundamentals of Vietnam ‘s problems. [More…]
He became a drainer and he worked with the Ipswich City Council for about 40 years with many men, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, under his charge. [More…]
Summerville, who was the driver of the car that allegedly took these men on their rampage, and Michael Davidson. [More…]
I would like to pay a tribute to the men of the Commonwealth Raiways who will be largely responsible for that project. [More…]
I refer to men I know very well because I lived in the town of Port Augusta with them for a number of years. [More…]
I refer to men like John Walker, who is the Chief Civil Engineer, and Jim Green, George Ryan and others who are too numerous to mention. [More…]
In fact, I think a tribute ought to be paid to the Commonwealth Railways from the Commissioner down to the fettlers involved in the running of this important railway for the tremendous work they have done over the years in this important transportation area. [More…]
I am concerned, as many of us are, about the State railway systems and the tremendous losses they incur. [More…]
I think a glance at the financial result of the operation of government railways in Australia proves that this aspect of our economy needs to be given much attention. [More…]
I refer to a document that was given to me by the Parliamentary Library. [More…]
I ask the Postmaster-General General (Senator Bishop) whether he will agree to my incorporating this document in Hansard. [More…]
I should like to mention one or two things, because Senator Jessop just skated on the edge of them. [More…]
In addition to the important matters of finance and operational costs, honourable senators will see in the agreement that the Commonwealth Government has given certain assurances about the pay and conditions of the railway men in the State. [More…]
Such assurances are necessary and are the subject of some concern by Commonwealth Government employees. [More…]
In the document entitled ‘Principles to Govern the Transfer of the Non-Metropolitan South Australian Railway System to the Australian Government’, paragraph 10 states: [More…]
I thought there was quite an imbalance between the number of men and the number of women, and I suggested that my Department should take action to employ more women journalists. [More…]
The number of women journalists in the employ of the Australian Information Service is now about ten. [More…]
This will cover others who served, such as merchant seamen, civilians with other forces, the Red Cross, the Australian Comforts Fund, the Young Men’s Christian Association, war correspondents and photographers, and a host of other persons who all played their part- a valuable part- in assisting Australia in time of war. [More…]
There has also been mention of the proposed change in polling hours from 8 o’clock in the morning until 8 o’clock at night to 8 o’clock in the morning until 6 o’clock in the afternoon. [More…]
I have heard statements to the effect: ‘Why is the booth open till 8 o’clock? [More…]
These men have to get ready to go to the poll, particularly the southern dairy farmers. [More…]
This aspect has often been mentioned to me. [More…]
These are men who have taken an active interest in politics over many years, and they have said in those articles that the optional preferential system is one that is long overdue. [More…]
It was a matter for amendment to the South Australian Electoral Act in connection with voting for the Legislative Council at the election next year. [More…]
So in many cases we see that the Liberals and the Country Party members in this Parliament have supported the system because it is in practice in other areas, but when we bring it home here, where they themselves might be affected, they oppose it. [More…]
So they in effect are the people who want to manipulate the boundariesnot the Government, as has been stated by them. [More…]
Senator Withers started off talking about suspicions but there will be both types of government in the future. [More…]
There is not going to be a Labor Government forever and ever. [More…]
I see this provision as merely broadening the present provision to give the Government more flexibility in getting a person who still has to be qualified. [More…]
Here is an opportunity to get younger men to act as Distribution Commissioners. [More…]
I do not think there is any need for any great argument about this. [More…]
It is true that some of the women are connected with the SYA and SWL. [More…]
We are basically all working together to make the woman’s lot, in this country, a more equal one with men. [More…]
We were not the main organising force behind the International Women’s Day march, and we have not been organising large public meetings. [More…]
We combined with many other women s groups on International Women’s Day to organise and take part in the march. [More…]
As a result of the lack of sufficient funds for shire roads- a shortfall of 50 per cent and more, consequent upon reduced actual allocations and inflated costs- councils are faced with the immediate prospect of laying off experienced men of lengthy service. [More…]
Would it not be reasonable for councils to retain their impending redundant staff in employment by using Regional Employment Development scheme moneys on council works, within the proper guidelines of that scheme? [More…]
Would this not avoid a break in the continuity of their employment with consequent disaster to their long service and superannuation benefits? [More…]
Alternatively, would the Government make available to councils urgently sufficient funds to enable them to retain their full complement of valued employees in continuing service and so secure at least the rates of maintenance and development of recent years, particularly in the area of rural roads? [More…]
Would not one of the above methods also provide a chance for local government authorities at least to stabilise their levels of rates? [More…]
They are fundamental to the dignity and the standing of the Senate. [More…]
Both are necessary in the public interest and in the Parliament’s interest. [More…]
However, these allegations have cast a cloud not only over Senator Webster but also over other members of this Parliament. [More…]
These sections came about because abuses, both apparent and real, were taking place in the colonial parliaments in the 1890s. [More…]
They were determined to ensure that this Parliament was composed not only of men of probity but also of men who were obviously of the highest moral character. [More…]
I have no doubt that at that time- in fact I know- I was on the files of what was then the predecessor of the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation, but I would have been terribly flattered, as would all my colleagues, to have been thought to be any sort of a menace to the security of Australia. [More…]
In all societies there have been romantic young men and romantic young women who thought that they could take society by storm, that they could rush up to the barricades. [More…]
He regaled Senator Greenwood with this horrifying tale, and Senator Greenwood then came into this Parliament and regaled us with it. [More…]
He did not mention wild revolutionaries such as Senator Poyser, Senator McAuliffe or Senator Milliner; but, undoubtedly, the implication was that there were people in the Labor Party with whom any cloak and dagger men who wanted to bomb Australia could get in touch, and they would fix it all up with the police and conceal all these crimes. [More…]
We would be just as entitled to accuse Liberal Party members of being identified with the League of Rights, because a few madmen on the Right seek them out and infiltrate them, as Senator Greenwood is in branding us with the extremists of the Left because a few of them have infiltrated- as I have no doubt they do- the Labor Party. [More…]
As Mr Tripovich has said, there are arguments for and against. [More…]
This is probably something which both he and I, as non-legal men, do not fully understand. [More…]
The Houses of Parliament- the Senate and the House of Representatives- set up a joint committee to examine matters relating to pecuniary interests of members of Parliament. [More…]
In the course of the deliberations of this Committee a man named, I think, Brown and a newspaper reporter of the Melbourne ‘Age’ appeared before the Committee and drew to the attention of the Committee certain matters in which it was felt that Senator Webster, who was my Deputy, Mr President, as he is your Deputy, was in breach of the Constitution, under sections 44 and 45 of that document. [More…]
At that stage the Joint Committee of both Houses which, I have no shadow of doubt, is composed of honest men was confronted with a situation in which it had to do certain things. [More…]
I conclude where I started in seeking the support of honourable senators to do all in their power to assist local government to maintain its place in the trinity of government. [More…]
With the passage of time and changing conditions there must of necessity be modifications in government administration. [More…]
But with respect, I suggest the principles outlined by the wise men of Federation were sound and should be retained together with the retention of authority within the partnership of government as implied at the time of Federation. [More…]
Australians are a happy and contented people and local government, that form of government which is closest to the people, has played a major part in bringing about this contentment. [More…]
I count on honourable senators to play a part in this fulfilment. [More…]
I refer to a case in Melbourne at the moment. [More…]
The Board of Works there obvionsly regards women as second class citizens. [More…]
If women who work for the Board of Works marry they have to resign. [More…]
A female employee who marries is required to resign and apply for reappointment to a temporary position even though she does not need to stop work. [More…]
Temporary employees- married women- cannot be members of the Board’s superannuation fund. [More…]
Married women, as temporary employees, are not eligible for paid study leave. [More…]
The same Board of Works lays down conditions of dress for its women employees to wear. [More…]
Unless the women wear the uniform that is picked out for them they are liable to be sacked because it is said they are not amenable to discipline. [More…]
I wonder how many men would agree to wear the one coloured suit and the one coloured tie day after day irrespective of whether they liked them and were comfortable in them. [More…]
I wonder whether they would be sacked as not being amenable to discipline if they did not agree to wear these clothes. [More…]
These women wear a blue dress and a blue cardigan probably because the members of the Board, being men, think blue is the loveliest colour. [More…]
According to a spokesman for the Board of Works the thinking is that a single woman has greater claims to preference in employment. [More…]
Obviously this employer does not take into account the fact that so many families now are 2-income families and that so many women do not work to fill in idle hours; they go to work because they have to work. [More…]
Work is a necessity to keep their families in the state in which the women think their families should be kept. [More…]
Look how honourable senators opposite rise now to the bait when I remind them of the days when good, decent, honest Labor men talked good, decent, honest things. [More…]
All things to all men when it is a question of money- Dr Cairns says: ‘I will not restrain Government expenditure if it will put only one man back into employment’. [More…]
Well, if that is not a crazy outlook in these .circumstances when the Government had budgeted for an increase of expenditure of 34 per cent, now Dr Cairns has ratcheted it up on the ratchet principle. [More…]
On 10 April 1974 the Premier approached the Prime Minister for Australian Government assistance to help combat the outbreak of spur-throated locusts. [More…]
He stated that ‘the basic requirement in locust control operations in central Queensland at present is manpower’ and ‘fifty two-man teams are considered the present requirement’. [More…]
The Prime Minister on 1 1 April 1974 advised the Premier that 100 men and spray equipment would be made available. [More…]
and (4) Australian Defence personnel and equipment were made available to assist in control of locust infestations in Queensland in April and May 1974. [More…]
The Australian Government agreed to provide up to 100 men and such spray equipment as was available from defence resources, subject to the Queensland Government agreeing to meet any additional direct costs involved. [More…]
First of all, it indicates rather apologetically that the Government may feel that what it is saying may interrupt an outright military victory. [More…]
But apologetically the Whitlam Government says: We hope that it will not be taken that we are trying to interrupt an outright military victory’. [More…]
The cable does not mention the basic breaches by the PRG, its escalation of men or armaments or its aggression, except by using some wonderful euphemisms. [More…]
It mentions the PRG’s sense of frustration. [More…]
The cable then gives some gratuitous advice as to how the PRG might seek to explain to the world why it was breaching the Paris agreements and why it was driving with its full military forces on to Saigon. [More…]
In respect of men and equipment in South Vietnam at the end of the period which culminated in the Paris Agreements, I quote from one of the most authorative journals in the United States known as ‘Foreign Affairs’. [More…]
We are proud of the fact that we stood up in this Parliament against Liberal and Country Party senators and members of the House of Representatives who declined to serve when they were of military age but who showed their patriotism by conscripting their fellow countrymen to go off and be killed and injured. [More…]
We have a former AttorneyGeneral who sent out the Commonwealth Police to arrest those men who with courage refused to go and fight in that filthy war in which we should never have been involved. [More…]
We are proud of that record and we are proud of our record since we became a government. [More…]
Seeing that we are dealing with a subject which might concern my own portfolio, let us have a look at the difference in repatriation benefits made available by this Government for those people who were conscripted to go to Vietnam and those benefits made available by the previous Government which conscripted them to go off and be maimed. [More…]
If honourable senators opposite are going to talk about honesty, let us have a look at honesty and fair dealing in the treatment of those veterans who came back from that war. [More…]
Our view has been that even though we were opposed to people being sent there we were not opposed to those men who were sent there. [More…]
The difference between what we have done for those men compared with what was done by the people who sent them off and who were responsible for their deaths and maiming is fantastic. [More…]
Government brought in a decision to terminate the superphosphate bounty at a time when world prices were rising and the combination of the two priced one of the products of the Electrolytic Zinc company completely out of the market. [More…]
In February this year the superphosphate branch of the company which employed 100 men closed. [More…]
If I heard him correctly, Senator Cotton said that he would take no part in denying employment to men, but he asked whether any member of the Government could explain why assistance of this sort should not find its place in an appropriation for the Department of Labor or the Department of Social Security. [More…]
That is an important matter which will serve to create a decision by the Government to put this on a proper plane. [More…]
The other thing that I add is that an item of this sort should require purposeful consideration, especially in view of the decision by the Government that assistance to industry can only be given after consideration by the Australian Industries Assistance Commission and a report from it. [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 of lack of education. [More…]
My question to the Minister representing the Attorney-General relates to 2 prominent public figures who are not members of the Government but both of whom have given distinguished service to this Parliament. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of widespread rumours fed by the media, falsely suggesting that these 2 men have been named as co-respondents in a petition for divorce filed in the Victorian Supreme Court? [More…]
-To try to answer in some way the last remark made by Senator Everett might I say that one of the greatest criticisms of the 2 governments concerned is that the people do not know what will happen and when it will happen. [More…]
Like Senator Everett, I welcome the announcement by Sir Allan Knight in the ‘Mercury’ today that a progress report will be made on Monday. [More…]
It is quite obvious that because of the complexity and the magnitude of this disaster the estimate as to the time needed to rebuild the bridge is not known at this moment. [More…]
While a lot has been said by the State Government, which is the real agent in this matter, the people do not know as yet what will happen and when. [More…]
I agree with Senator Everett and the other speakers in the debate that the work done by the men who are undertaking this work should have drawn to them the highest possible credit for a job well done in a very short space of time. [More…]
A group of women desired to have a drink in a bar of a hotel and they were told that it was a public bar. [More…]
A public bar is for the use of the public and yet this group of women was told by the management that it was for males only. [More…]
But this particular bar was for men only. [More…]
Women were required to drink in another part of the hotel where they also had to pay more for their liquor. [More…]
If we are looking at discrimination against women in general we cannot bypass what happens in the Parliament. [More…]
I remind Senator Wright, who is trying to interject, that Aboriginal women are included in the Racial Discrimination Bill. [More…]
It comes into this Parliament. [More…]
We do not find women in this chamber except as senators- there are precious few of us- and as Hansard reporters. [More…]
But I do know that not long ago there was an application from a woman who had had the audacity to answer an advertisement that was placed in the men and boys’ column of the Press for the position of Clerk of Papers in the New South Wales Parliament. [More…]
I think the important matter is contained in the reply from the Clerk of Parliaments who said that he had not allowed her the benefit of an interview because ‘the position of Clerk of Papers calls for someone capable of lifting heavy loads. [More…]
It involves shifting files and papers, sometimes in considerable bulk, and we did not think this appropriate employment fora woman’. [More…]
You can take your pick between a motley gang of bushrangers holding up the nation with a gun pointing the wrong way, the men behind it all, communists who have openly declared they will stop everything and take over- or the men with unlimited money, who have stooped to the lowest criminal means of making more. [More…]
The Government hopes to bring this Bill in by the use of its external affairs power which I submit is an abuse of that power because it will give rise to an internal affairs power that will alter the distribution of power between the Commonwealth and the States. [More…]
It refers to the fundamental human rights, the dignity and rights of a human person and the equal rights of men and women, and of nations large and small. [More…]
If they wish the documents to be tabled or incorporated in Hansard that can be done. [More…]
I refer to an article which quotes from a book written by Professor Egon F. Kunz, Senior Research Fellow in the Demography Department of the Australian National University, entitled ‘The Intruders, Refugee Doctors in Australia’. [More…]
This period, in my view, is the most damning indictment of the Australian Medical Association and the State and Commonwealth governments from 1948 to the mid 1960s when they permitted this very small organisation which I think represents approximately .07 per cent of the population, to be kept out of that little closed shop. [More…]
That little union of prejudiced men and women practising as doctors, aided and abetted by conservative governments, denied any opportunity to these people, who were more eminent in many respects than those who were practising medicine in this country, solely because they were displaced persons from war-torn Europe, to carry out their profession. [More…]
Worse still occurred because they were placed in the most menial tasks. [More…]
The Bill seeks to foster education programs and settlement programs which may deal effectively in time with some of the minor breaches of the Act. [More…]
Substantially the Bill seeks to re-educate the Australian people, to bring about the understanding that all men are brothers and that race is not a question that ought to divide us. [More…]
An unspoken inhuman discrimination- which I am sure was the substance of the behaviour of the insurance companies and of many others- from time to time manifests itself in a racist comment or joke and maintains the alienation felt by the migrant and the Aboriginal from the so-called original Australians. [More…]
Unfortunately our governments have developed the view that we must have legislation for everything. [More…]
Unfortunately there is often in public men a timidity that they may offend someone, may lose some votes here or may do something else, but so far as I am concerned it is a case of making a decision on whether it is right or wrong. [More…]
Can the Minister tell me whether there is any difference between the benefits enjoyed by men who served with any of the defence forces during the last war and those enjoyed by women who served in any of the women’s auxiliary services during that period? [More…]
Senators opposite, when in Government, created the circumstances in which there was a subsidised service. [More…]
The Commission comprised men of reputation in their particular areas, and as I have said, the chairman is an internationally renowned economist, Sir James Vernon. [More…]
Members of the Commission have made major recommendations after enlisting the best consultative advice that the world could offer and after visiting other countries to see how the postal services operated there. [More…]
I am not a member of the Australian Telecommunications Commission, but I know the calibre of the men appointed to it. [More…]
Our amendments are of a nature that will, I trust, prove, in the Government’s view, to be a constructive addition to the legislation which we are discussing. [More…]
We believe it is important that this legislation should provide the Government, through its Minister, with the capacity to have some sort of policy control in relation to postal and telecommunications facilities. [More…]
It seems to me that if we establish commissions whose sole objective is to make some sort of laboratory type maximum profit then we will set up in our midst commissions and operatives which will pay perhaps scant regard to the total social and economic requirements of the Australian community. [More…]
If the Commission were to concern itself purely with its economic viability or its profit making capacity, there is a very real possibility that significant numbers of professional staff, engineers, maintenance and technical men may be removed from their present areas of operation and concentrated in larger areas in which it may be considered they could operate more effectively, on the guideline of profit making alone. [More…]
As I have said, I was surprised that Mr Gibbs made the statement. [More…]
The 3 men I have mentioned constitute the majority of the whole of the Board of OTC, and they made public statements over the weekend saying they favoured the merger. [More…]
How could anyone be asked seriously to take account of this argument. [More…]
Yet in this debate the Minister has been constantly riding to death the argument that the OTC Board, or his own 3 appointees to it, are all in favour of the merger. [More…]
These men are responsible, top public servants who have been appointed on their merits. [More…]
If ever there was a need for the establishment of an InterState Commission it is properly borne out in my own State of Queensland where the Premier and his Government have refused over a considerable period of years to allow the Australian National Line to operate in that area. [More…]
The excuse, of course, is that allegedly it will displace men working in the Queensland railways system. [More…]
But people living in isolated areas of Queensland have to pay additional freight rates on the very necessities of life because of the pig-headedness of the Government in one State in not allowing some sort of rationalisation of the transport system. [More…]
These old men of the Senate, these incompetent men of the Senate, are unable to do what their brothers did in another House. [More…]
They want a longer time to consider this proposition in order to put up an effective argument or to line up thinking against particular clauses. [More…]
They want to delay this Bill to another session of Parliament so that they can consider the matter at the weekends and during their vacation and come up with effective argument. [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…]
The third amendment is an amendment to article 14, which limits the Australian financial commitment to the cost associated with the location of elements of the Royal Australian Navy at the station. [More…]
We understand that there will be a contingent of about 47 officers and men there as from the end of June 1975. [More…]
I think I can say that the amendments proposed in this legislation have failed to stir either our patriotic fervour or our opposition. [More…]
The legislation does not in any way alter that arrangement or weaken the importance of the base as part of the United States naval radio network. [More…]
Labor Party were pictured in the early hours of the morning awaiting their instructions from the faceless men who then controlled the Labor Party and who still control the Labor Party. [More…]
When this Government came to power there was a great conflict within the Labor Party. [More…]
Does the Government think that legislation of this kind will stop people being racist, if we think they are being racist, that they have feelings about this person or that person? [More…]
I remember not so very many months ago that four black men were sitting on a very nice seat which the council had built outside my own premises in the business area of Mackay. [More…]
I walked out to them and being keen on the cleanliness of the city- we should commend civic pride and not try to destroy it- I spoke to the men in a very courteous manner and told them that we were trying to keep the city clean. [More…]
Would the police be accused of racism if they had caught the men? [More…]
The men knew what I was doing and they galloped off. [More…]
She attacked the whole problem of racial discrimination on the basis of sexualism that is to say, women are a deprived element in the community. [More…]
The problem in the city of Canberra, for example, will not be solved on the basis of the arguments that I have heard Senator Coleman advance. [More…]
Racial discrimination against women as a sexual problem will not be remedied by passing laws. [More…]
Her argument was that we could pass laws to solve the problem. [More…]
There is one bar which the men regard- apparently the licensee of the hotel regards it in the same way- as a place which should be a male refuge. [More…]
There is discrimination against men who wear their hair long. [More…]
Draw this thing to its natural conclusion: People who are of a different race and who are dissatisfied with their lot in life, could quite likely present a case to the Commissioner because they were perhaps unsuccessful in obtaining employment. [More…]
A person could think: ‘I did not get this employment because of racial discrimination’. [More…]
In ail probability he did not get the employment because he did not have the qualifications. [More…]
It is all very well for governments to put down measures. [More…]
It is all very well for governments to introduce Bills. [More…]
It is all very well for Houses of Parliament to pass legislation. [More…]
In any program for the abolition of racial discrimination which involves the well being of a total community, a state or a nation the community must be reminded over and over again that it has a role and there are steps that it must take and that it has involvement and a responsibility in such a program. [More…]
The Convention to which I have referred takes up this reference to the community’s role and the role of men and women in society. [More…]
Since its adoption numerous countries have implemented various provisions of the Convention but they have not sought to implement the Convention in its total form. [More…]
It is worth noting, particularly in the light of the Bill introduced by the Government and which is before the Senate now, that in a similar measure the United States of America reserved the right not to implement sections of the Convention which, as the Americans put it, contradicted America’s own constitutional provision for the freedom of speech. [More…]
While it may be said that in a general way the Government’s Bill implements the United Nations Convention, the details of domestic legislation are left to the countries concerned. [More…]
The Government’s claim that the Bill implements the United Nations Convention in a direct way may be fairly straightforward but I have some questions in my mind as to whether it actually achieves that end. [More…]
There were writers in those days who talked about men and sub-men. [More…]
This policy of integration is a process of diverse elements that are combined into a unity. [More…]
We must recognise, as I am sure we do, that there is value in diversity, because it not only broadens horizons and improves knowledge but also gives us a greater appreciation of other cultures and other men. [More…]
They have become angry young men and angry young women. [More…]
We have had examples of this in demonstrations against the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
I refer to demonstrations in George Street, Brisbane, and in Canberra, against the previous Government and against the present Government. [More…]
Because of past discrimination and things that have happened in the past, a group of young Aboriginal men and women could become angry, and outside this place they could shout, ‘Down with the whitey ‘, or something about some race of people. [More…]
I reserve my right to say more on the amendments that will be moved at the Committee stage. [More…]
I have been informed that if we were getting somebody from a State we would be taking him for a particular period and would be entering into an arrangement with the State. [More…]
The States would be covering their men whom we borrow. [More…]
I must deal just briefly with the sort of concept which Senator Scott raised- that there was perhaps some sneaking desire on the part of the Government to establish some sort of isolated intellectual ghetto for trade union officials to which they would be spirited away, indoctrinated by malevolent men and returned to society to bring the capitalist system crashing to the ground. [More…]
They will know something of the feeling in the minds of men about events overseas. [More…]
Men ought to be judged by their record, and their record is contemptible. [More…]
Before I was interrupted I was speaking in support of the proposition to train men who, by the very nature of industry, when they are appointed as delegates, organisers or secretaries have no basic training, although they use their native wit and they do that successfully. [More…]
However, they have not had any basic training in general management or organisation, but they survive despite this. [More…]
I think Senator Wright is to be complimented on investigating this matter and bringing forward the point he has made. [More…]
As one who is in favour of the Bill, 1 want to say that 1 am disturbed to know that our Constitutional and Legal Affairs Committee comprised of legal men mostly, I understand, should come to the chamber today and admit that this particularly important aspect was not noticed. [More…]
This could apply to medical men, to lawyers and so on. [More…]
The only exclusion found in sub-clause 9 is that the person is not excused from answering a question or producing a document in pursuance to this section on the ground that the answer to the question or the document may tend to incriminate him. [More…]
Women will have equal employment rights and opportunities as men. [More…]
I strongly supported the Prime Minister when he said that the Government will encourage the AGIC to extend to women the same opportunity to take out policies as men now enjoy. [More…]
I again reaffirm that statement. [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 Inter-state 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 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. [More…]
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 Senate makes provision to ensure that employees’ superannuation, long service, sick leave and other entitlements are maintained. [More…]
That is what legal men do when they send their clerks to the Supreme Court to get a subpoena ad testificandum. [More…]
There was a time when one could fairly have said of Australian society that employment in the Public Service in the prime instance offered to people great security of employment and in general rather lower pay and higher benefits in the form of superannuation, leave and conditions of that kind, whereas in the open market place, in private enterprise or for self-employed people the reverse tended to be the case. [More…]
Outside the Public Service there was greater insecurity of employment, a tendency for higher pay and equally a tendency for lower benefits. [More…]
This situation in Australian society is tending to become reversed in that the Public Service, with great respect to a body of fine men and women, is tending not only to receive higher pay and higher benefits but also to retain better security of employment. [More…]
Having laid that bird to the ground, let me remind the Senate that we are dealing with the superannuation of public employees of the Commonwealth Government and its instrumentalities. [More…]
The employees in this country who enjoy superannuation number only 25 per cent or thereabouts of the total wage earners of the country at present- that is, employees of State governments and of private firms- and all other wage earners who receive superannuation do not number more than 25 per cent of total wage earners in Australia. [More…]
To the Commonwealth Public Service have been recruited men of dedication and great ability, but they are not the loudest advocates for unreasonable benefits; they are the men who are probably working tonight and not engaging in advocacy of their own interests. [More…]
The trouble goes back almost 2 years when Mr Anthony, the Country Party Leader in the other place, desperately seeking to preserve his own political prestige and from the ravages of a shrinking electoral base, persuaded the Western Australian Branch of the Party to enter into an alliance with these politically stone-age men, the denizens of the Democratic Labor Party. [More…]
As a result of further meddling by the emissaries and hatchet men of Mr Anthony from Canberra, which is on the other side of the continent, and from Queensland, which is in another world, the Country Party of Western Australia is on the brink of selfannihilation. [More…]
I do, however, regret that those of its members who were sincerely committed to certain beliefs, however misguided they may have been, should have been publicly humiliated by people who were recruited from other parties and imported from other States and who are dedicated to nothing but selfish ambition and the fulfilment of what they see as their divine right to rule. [More…]
In the business world, if one has a top class legal adviser one must make some arrangement so that he is more or less paid a fee to be on tap when some legal problem arises. [More…]
If one wants to maintain an experienced stevedoring force one must provide some incentive to ensure that the men are on tap. [More…]
Fundamentally, if the work force is maintained there will be an efficient army of workers who will be able to maintain a reasonable turnabout rate. [More…]
I know that it is common for people like Senator Greenwood who have legal training to be critical of a group of men working on the highway, with 3 men standing around waiting for somebody with an excavator or a rock buggy to come along. [More…]
If the legal profession can cling to the old shibboleths that it has about legal procedures, long and drawn out as they are, and say that justice has to be done, then on the other side of the coin the waterside worker is entitled at times to be a bit wary during inclement weather about performing certain duties because it is his arm or his leg that is on the block. [More…]
Charlie Fitzgibbons, Tassie Bull and others like them are men who keep any agreement they make. [More…]
There is no monopoly in the recruitment of labour on the waterfront. [More…]
A tripartite arrangement exists between the ship owners, an independent chairman and a Waterside Workers Federation representative. [More…]
Such people will not merely be accident prone but could be a menace to their workmates because of dizziness and other physical limitations. [More…]
Opposition senators can talk until they are blue in the face, but unless we have a police state and regiment people, added incentives have to be given to workers to induce them to do the work we are talking about. [More…]
I know of one official there- I think his name is Mr Gleeson- who agreed with Senator Greenwood on Vietnam, but he did not lack the guts to pull out his men at the port of New York when he thought that they were suffering an injustice. [More…]
At the present time it is a government protected system of corruption, inefficiency, waste and destruction of our whole effort. [More…]
The Waterside Workers Federation is making whoopee under the encouragement that is it getting from men like Senator Mulvihill, Mr Foster and the Minister for Labor and Immigration (Mr Clyde Cameron) as well as the Labor Government. [More…]
If we look at page 55 and the following pages in the report, under the heading ‘Permanent Employment’ we see a situation of which you, Mr Acting Deputy President, and I as fellow legislators, ought to be downright ashamed, even as members of the Opposition. [More…]
But I say to Senator Mulvihill and those who sit on the Government side that this deplorable, inefficient and corrosive situation is inexcusable. [More…]
The author of the report points out that in one company 5000 man hour days were lost through men being idle. [More…]
Men who were on the payroll were doing nothing, but on another section of the wharf a stevedore wanted 5000 man hours and no labour was available. [More…]
In one particular week at Melbourne, one employer had surplus labour ranging from 435 to 716 men on each of the normal working days- a total of 2954 man days which cost the Authority $50,908 for idle time reimbursement. [More…]
During the same week, other employers were unable to supply fully the labour requirements of the vessels they were stevedoring, the shortage ranging from 225 to 509 men, a total of 1877 for the week. [More…]
However regulations have been drafted to introduce new early retirement provisions for older and unfit men. [More…]
This should have the effect of reducing the numbers of surplus men at the ports. [More…]
The employers have always said to the Authority: ‘We want more men’. [More…]
They have said that they want more men than they have finally been able to get. [More…]
In some cases this has been said not only by the employers but also by the State governments. [More…]
The first professor of optometry in the British Commonwealth was Professor Joseph Lederer of Sydney, and his Department of Optometry in the University of New South Wales was the first university school of optometry in the British Commonwealth. [More…]
Men such as Dr Barry Cole and Dr Barry Collins, who are principal lecturers in the Victorian College of Optometry, are among these prominent optometrists. [More…]
I should mention a South Australian who is distinguished in the optometric field, particularly in the field of scientific instrumentation. [More…]
I mention also Mr G. Henry of Melbourne, who was one of the first Churchill Fellows to return from Cambridge University to join a team led by Professor Peter Bishop of the Australian National University. [More…]
I could highlight many more examples of Australian optometrical achievement if time permitted. [More…]
Among the doctors and medical professors who deal with these subjects are men from the disciplines of pharmacology, dermatology, neurology, physiology, psychiatry, genetics and many others. [More…]
Burnie is almost entirely dependent on APPM for employment. [More…]
In view of the fact that this was a unique situation in the paper industry in this country, in view of the fact that the north-west area of Tasmania would suffer dire consequences of large scale lay-offs, and in view of the fact that this was unacceptable to this Government- a Government which is concerned about people as well as figures and moneys and ledgers- the then Minister for Manufacturing Industry, the then Treasurer, the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) and the whole Government of the time agreed to take this course of making a section 96 grant. [More…]
The company had to put off men. [More…]
The Government of the time- I need not remind honourable senators that it was a conservative governmentrefused aid altogether because it was more concerned about figures and percentages than the effects on a unique industry in a unique town. [More…]
Would Senator Greenwood have preferred that, instead of giving this $650,000 to APPM in an effort to keep it going and to keep up the morale of the work force and keep the work force in being in this town of Burnie and other places while it weathered this storm, we should have let the market take its course, let these men be put out on the grass and spend taxpayers’ money on sustaining them and their families? [More…]
From the Commercial Law Association I have received a similar, tremendously well documented and reasoned case. [More…]
The Commercial Law Association is a voluntary organisation of a wide and representative group of business men and lawyers engaged in the practice of commercial law. [More…]
It is likewise of the view that the advantages suggested by the Government for the Superior Court are far outweighed by other serious practical and constitutional problems. [More…]
The arguments which have been advanced are arguments of weight. [More…]
They are the arguments of people who have experience in the consideration of the proposals for a Commonwealth Superior Court. [More…]
They are decent, honourable and generous men and they have gone to some lengths to find arguments to rebut. [More…]
To suggest that a group of men or an institution is to be subject to strangulation is an accepted use of the English language and in my view is in no sense objectionable. [More…]
There is a proper way to borrow money overseas and there is a past practice to be observed in this matter, whether the Government likes it or not and whether in the process of its discussions it seeks to denigrate people who have been occupying positions of high office in this Government in the past. [More…]
Australia has overseas a substantial body of men who represent the Treasury, and they are in contact at all times with the overseas loan market. [More…]
I seek leave to table a document entitled Treasury Officers Stationed Overseas ‘. [More…]
Government over the last couple of years, for reasons of its own, has broken substantially with past practice. [More…]
Once upon a time Australia used to be country noted for breeding and exporting confidence men, but it seems to me that we have lost that talent. [More…]
We seem to have become the victims of confidence men both overseas and local, and the local ones were not bred here. [More…]
I suggest to the Senate that the whole Government is responsible in this matter. [More…]
It is not good enough to leave it to Senator Wriedt to defend the Government’s position. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) is responsible; Mr Connor is responsible; the whole Government is responsible. [More…]
I believe that the Government has a responsibility properly to itself and properly to the country to explain this whole position to Australia through the Senate, lt is true that in all situations- people become involved in difficult affairs- this is sometimes very difficult, but in the sense of corporate responsibility, which we are all engaged in from time to time, in the end the men of integrity and capacity have to clear themselves. [More…]
The wool industry, without a shadow of doubt, is the most efficient export industry Australia has had since it was settled by white men. [More…]
Only last week Messrs Fraser, Sinclair and Anthony were doing their best to undermine the confidence of the wool trade and the wool buyers overseas by their continual spurious remarks about the Government’s decision, even after the Government had clearly made a decision that the floor price would be 250c. [More…]
They continually harped on the proposition that the Government did not really mean what it decided because the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) had said nothing. [More…]
These are the guilty men. [More…]
I am sure that the wool growers realise the extent to which this Government is prepared to stand behind them, and this legislation does exactly that. [More…]
It might interest Senator Georges to learn that many years ago when men like Mr Romeo Lahey was the President and Mr Groom was the Secretary of the National Parks Association of Queensland I co-operated with them and had discussions with them as to which Queensland islands should be made national parks. [More…]
I think that the State governments over those years, irrespective of their political colour, have done a good job in looking after this very valuable asset. [More…]
The people Senator Georges mentioned are mostly Brisbane people. [More…]
We need people like Bert Milliner around us and we can 111 afford to lose men of such calibre from the public life of this country. [More…]
He gave himself unselfishly and unstintingly to the service of his country, to its people, to this parliament and in particular to the Senate. [More…]
I am bound to say, the level of that commitment contributed greatly to his untimely death. [More…]
Milliner belonged to that fraternity of men which prizes honour and virtue above the external advantages of rank and fortune. [More…]
While reflecting on the service that the late Senator Milliner has given to these committees, one wonders just how government committees would function without men like Senator Milliner and the other trade unionists who give so much of their time in an honorary capacity. [More…]
In one of the most shabby episodes in Australian journalism, rival newspapers in ‘chequebook journalism’, offer unheard of sums to shabby continental ‘fringe men’, beyond the jurisdiction of the Australian courts, for fabricated documentation suitably slanted to support their malice. [More…]
The way to destroy the policies is to destroy the men who promote them. [More…]
On 8 November 1 967 he moved an amendment to a motion, that the House take note of a statement, in exactly the same terms as the one Senator Murphy moved in the Senate, namely, that an officer of the PublicService, the Secretary of the Department of Air, be summoned to be present before the Parliament. [More…]
I will not give the name of every member of Parliament who voted for that amendment, but I will list the Ministers in the other place who voted for it. [More…]
They were Mr Bryant; Mr Clyde Cameron; Mr Connor, one of the men now claiming privilege; Mr Crean, the new Deputy Prime Minister pro tern; Mr Daly, the great parliamentarian down there and the man who runs the Parliament; Dr Everingham; Dr Patterson: and one E. G. Whitlam, currently Prime Minister. [More…]
Mr Beazley, again a great proponent of the parliamentary system; Mr Hayden, one of the signatories to the letters; and one Charles Jones, another Minister. [More…]
We could assume that they would have voted for the amendment. [More…]
Finally, there is of course the authority of the former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, in the statement which was quoted in the Prime Minister’s letter to the President of the Senate on this very subject matter. [More…]
The former Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, made his view quite clear in that matter which was quoted in the letter to the President. [More…]
What a tragedy for the Liberal Party that it does not sometimes hearken to the great voice from the distant past of Sir Robert Menzies, because on these matters he had about him a sort of essential grandeur which enabled him to conceal the essential shoddiness of the Liberal Party. [More…]
There is the strict legal view and the view which Senator Greenwood has which might be expressed in these terms: Wherever 2 Labor men are gathered together there must be a conspiracy. [More…]
But that is not the son 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…]
Men of Senator Greenwood’s and Mr Ellicott ‘s reputation in the legal profession do not come into the legal scrum and forget their reputations. [More…]
Senator Greenwood stands by this statement and backs it with his reputation. [More…]
There has been an attempt by unlawful means to subvert the Constitution, to by-pass the Parliament and to raise, so that one might govern without Parliament, $4,000m. [More…]
First of all, she was a woman who understood parliamentary procedures. [More…]
I say that in no term of deprecation, because a woman who comes into Parliament and finds herself confronted with standing orders which have been devised for the character and quality of men and the peculiarities which they exhibit to each other from time to time sometimes feels slightly ill at ease. [More…]
But the late senator understood that perfectly well and when deputising for the President and when acting as Temporary Chairman of Committees she exhibited an understanding of parliamentary procedures and a firmness of grasp as to how the Senate should conduct itself. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
Later on I will give some illustrations of how this operates, but the important thing is to observe the words ‘the equipment that the user has to live with’. [More…]
The purchasing agent or Purchasing Commission in this context will designate to the Department of Defence through the procurement authority the type of equipment that has to be used. [More…]
This will not be done upon the basis of the user’s requirements and the efficiency of the equipment which the defence people would want for their services, but simply on the basis that the Commission thinks it would be good for Australian industry if a piece of equipment were used which was produced in Australia with no acknowledgement as to its efficacy or its use. [More…]
If there is one thing that causes the men in the Navy, the Army or Air Force in the face of the enemy the most concern it is a lack of trust in their weapons. [More…]
Therefore the defence people have to have some more control over the procurement of their equipment. [More…]
I see a risk of the disappearance of chief executives drawn from the ranks in favour of professional managers unless we get the balance of insurance men with broad experience in finance, current affairs, and human behaviour to take their place as leaders in the industry in the immediate future. [More…]
Government will encourage the AGIC to extend to women the same opportunity to take out policies as men now enjoy. [More…]
Many women do work in that way. [More…]
If you are a professional who is paid a fee for service, if you are a musician, an artist or a singer or if you work in the area of advertising- if you work not for a full 12 months but on a fee for service basis- and on top of all those things or any of them you have the audacity to be a woman, at the moment you need not expect to be able to get coverage from an insurance company because the policies specifically state that women are excluded if they work on a commission, fee for service or part time basis. [More…]
I wonder just how many women who earn their living as doctors and are paid a fee for service are aware of those discriminatory clauses. [More…]
I am rather shocked and disturbed to find that many women do not even appear to be aware of the discriminatory clauses. [More…]
I am shocked and disturbed that the men who work with those women, who live with those women and who rear those women, have not done much about the situation. [More…]
Imposing any limit on expenses gives an undoubted advantage to the Government. [More…]
The Government can use taxpayers’ funds to campaign for itself. [More…]
The Government can use the vast resources of government. [More…]
The Government can use its huge team of public relations officers, the men who perpetuate the Government’s communications gap, because they do not understand what the people want. [More…]
This Bill would not interfere with the propaganda machine the Government has set up throughout the country. [More…]
It would not interfere with the Government’s advertising program. [More…]
Since it came to power the Government has spent more than $24m of taxpayers’ money of paid advertising- advertising telling the people how good it is- and this Bill will not put an end to that misuse of public funds. [More…]
My question to the Minister for Labor and Immigration is related to eligibility for assistance under the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]
Currently in Stanley in the north-west of Tasmania there is an 8-week course in trawl fishing being conducted by an officer of the Tasmanian Fisheries Department and a Mr Koga of Nippon Suisan Kaisha Ltd of Japan. [More…]
As many of the fishermen are self employed and are not eligible under the terms of the NEAT scheme, will consideration be given to varying the eligibility criteria of the scheme to enable these men to gain experience in a new field that will fill the gap caused by the diminishing returns from what could be termed the recognised methods? [More…]
That an Australian Government Insurance Corporation will benefit all Australian women and men by offering equal opportunity for employment and insurance cover. [More…]
Although the spokesmen have said that the Australian Government Insurance Corporation will not be subject to the Trade Practices Act it is our advice that it will be. [More…]
The only people who have been saying it are Mr Renton and other public relations men who work for the insurance companies. [More…]
It is interesting that although a couple of days ago I incorporated in Hansard a letter from the Secretary of the Attorney-General’s Department giving an opinion as to why the Australian Government Insurance Corporation would be subject to the Trade Practices Act, nobody representing the insurance companies or the Liberal Party has attempted in any way to rebut the opinion that was there given. [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…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who deliberately, but needlessly, created Australia’s worst unemployment for 10 years? [More…]
In 1972 we had the total freedom of the stock market to behave as it wanted- 3 Vi years later we are still hearing rumblings from that- and at the same time we had a different sort of freedom for young Australian men who were conscripted to fight in Vietnam. [More…]
We can all be grateful that Mr Fraser would not want to restore to Australia the pre- 1972 notion of freedom if he were ever to lead a government in this country. [More…]
All the laudable plans for providing better living standards for those dependent on the enterprise are incapable of implementation in a situation such as that. [More…]
The new management frantically seeks further financial accommodation at any price but it cannot raise the money. [More…]
There is a reduction in outlays, men are dismissed, production is reduced and finally a bankruptcy situation faces the enterprise. [More…]
This may be an oversimplification of the situation which we face in Australia, but it is a fundamental one, in my opinion. [More…]
It is time that this Government came down from its high pedestal and viewed the scene realistically. [More…]
The fact is that basic business principles apply equally to government as they do to private enterprise. [More…]
The production of national wealth through the whole gamut of primary and secondary industry, and into the tertiary section, is the basic requirement in providing the means to enable government to meet the obligations of the community to provide those services which are expected from government. [More…]
Perhaps it was written by one of his 46 professional public relations men. [More…]
Whilst it is acknowledged that it is ultimately a value judgment as to whether this principle should be applied, I should like to remind Senator Martin that in repudiating the principle that the user should pay she is also repudiating the fundamental beliefs of her Leader’s guru, Ayn Rand, who asserts quite dogmatically that governments should never interfere in the market place in that way. [More…]
I also remind her- she is not the only one who can do arithmetic- that if she is very concerned about the plight of the poor pensioners who have to pay an extra 8c for a postage stamp, by way of comparison, that the difference expressed as a percentage of average weekly earnings in the pensions paid by this Government and the pensions paid by the last Liberal-Country Party Government would be enough to pay the increased postage charge on 17 letters a day or about 6000 letters a year. [More…]
These two men are now in Fretilin-held territory and we have tried, and arc still trying, through Portuguese channels, to make direct contact with them. [More…]
We should not reject alliances or downgrade friends but should be prepared to assert our requirements where necessary by developing independence and self reliance in defence policy. [More…]
Within that policy the Australian Government has introduced the legislation that is now before the Senate for the re-organisation of the Department of Defence so that the individual Service departments- Army, Navy and Air Force- are eliminated. [More…]
However, the men and women in the Services will retain their separate entities but will be responsible to the Minister. [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 sea 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…]
Senator Georges can laugh, but the simple situation is that this is not only the report of the Committee, it is the report of the Millar Committee, it is the recommendation of every senior Service officer. [More…]
When such an officer makes a recommendation he says: ‘Look to lead times’. [More…]
Today honourable senators opposite can take pride in the army, yet they cannot put into the field, on the advice of their experts, more than 3500 fully trained first line fighting men. [More…]
This fact in itself is a tremendous indictment. [More…]
I return to the fundamental: If this Senate chamber has any responsibility at all, it is a responsibility not to let a piece of significant legislation pass through it until it has thoroughly absorbed and digested every significant aspect of the legislation and is satisfied in every way that what the executive Government says the legislation purports to do it will do. [More…]
On not one of these fundamentals do these things parallel at all. [More…]
Since the Government has not alleged in any way that there is any urgency about this Bill, I plead with the Government to ask the Senate Standing Committee to put aside its other business for some 8 weeks to 10 weeks and then to come forward to the Committee and justify to the Committee that this is a good Bill. [More…]
If the Government’s arguments are correct, this Bill will be back before us in its present form long before we rise for the Christmas recess, and of course the Government will have established a great deal of credibility. [More…]
On the other hand, if the Committee itself seeks out and finds defects, are we not men and women enough to look at those defects and to correct them? [More…]
We are facing up to the social fact that making incest a crime for people over the age of 18 years is at least something which grown men should examine calmly. [More…]
I repeat what I said originally: There has been no decision taken by this Government in the matter. [More…]
Of course, they all are honourable men. [More…]
The Minster for Repatriation and Compensation (Senator Wheeldon), who nods his head, must now be suffering from delirium tremens because in all his lectures to us he has said that all he innocently wanted to do through the Australian Government Insurance Corporation Bill was just to introduce a little nervous competition here and there. [More…]
We do not see high unemployment in communist or socialist countries. [More…]
As we travel around the community we see 2 men doing work in some areas of commerce and industry which, 40 years ago, would have been done by possibly 1000 men. [More…]
Perhaps we no longer need to wonder why we have high rates of unemployment. [More…]
If Senator Cavanagh would like to climb down from his ivory tower and get around the country and talk to small businessmen I am quite sure that he would realise the truth of that statement, because the indications are that under these pressures more and more small businessmen have decided that the struggle is just not worthwhile. [More…]
The Government, in its Budget and in its policies, has shown no acknowledgment or appreciation of this problem. [More…]
Recently Senator Cotton, on behalf of the Opposition, made a statement in which he outlined in general terms the type of attitude that we would be taking to restore the confidence and viability of small business men. [More…]
He also suggested other small cut-backs such as zero growth in the Public Service, a denial of further funds to the Australian Industry Development Corporation, which would involve $75m, and a denial of an additional $20m to the Australian Housing Corporation for new housing lending. [More…]
I must say that I commend Mr Fraser for having made a serious attempt to give us an alternative to the Budget, which the Government considers to be the most responsible Budget possible at the moment, but with respect to him I suggest that he has grievously understated the cost of his revenue proposals and has substantially overstated the potential savings from his proposed expenditure restraints. [More…]
I submit that the net result of a Fraser budget would be a greatly increased deficit and that the measures he sees as savings would mean greatly increased unemployment. [More…]
So whilst admitting to some imperfections in the Budget, I defend it as being the most responsible that was available to the Government in its present situation. [More…]
I hope that in examining our present economic situation and the measures which the Government has taken to resolve our difficulties, Opposition spokesmen will maintain the level of responsibility which the situation betokens. [More…]
I think all men of good will should bend their endeavours to help to get us out of this plight, and I hope that the criticisms which I know will be forthcoming, while they may be forthright and hardhitting, will at least be responsible and worthy of the difficult situation in which the country finds itself. [More…]
I want now to direct my attention to the private sector because the Opposition, the newspaper nabobs and other people throughout Australia are criticising this Government by suggesting that it is the fault of this Government that there is a downturn in the private sector. [More…]
In 1962 Sir Robert Menzies caused to be elected a committee, which comprised a number of the most eminent men in industry, commerce and public service in this country, and which was subsequently known as the Vernon Committee. [More…]
That Committee presented reports to the Parliament in 1965. [More…]
It is not very easy because the people who belong to the Miners Federation are amongst the people who put this Government into office and were prepared to stand up and be counted during the Vietnam war and many great struggles. [More…]
When Senator Greenwood was conscripting young men to go off and be killed the Miners Federation was standing against those policies. [More…]
Mr President, the allegations that have been made against this Government are allegations that we have attempted to do too much and that we have attempted to do too much too quickly. [More…]
We have not attempted to curry favour with little old ladies in white tennis shoes by conscripting young men to be sent off to be killed in Vietnam. [More…]
Despite the fact that there may have been some setbackswe agree that there have been- we believe that we do have a command of the economic situation at the present time and that with the co-operation of the trade union movement and the Labor movement generally we will be able to restore - [More…]
In the circumstances of a century ago, these people were wild men’ and the established order of those days came violently into conflict with them, as it does time after time, and will continue to do, against what is regarded as irresponsible and dangerous. [More…]
In my city of Mackay I have occupied various positions and have endeavoured to promote development. [More…]
Wages were about $70 a week, but when these terrible overseas companies came into the Mackay region the men received double what they normally would have received. [More…]
The way they are talking, one would think that there was a great division between men and women. [More…]
As one who has always had a very high appreciation of women because of the wonderful mother I had, it disgusts me to hear the sort of nonsense they go on with. [More…]
What has this women Reid, who is the chief adviser to the Prime Minister on women’s affairs, done for the money that she is getting? [More…]
That is the type of woman who is appointed as the chief adviser on women’s affairs. [More…]
When that matter was disclosed to the Senate those men who are capable of doing so immediately attempted to degrade the Government for exposing such information, which should be made available to the public. [More…]
In short, the Government must take and must assume the total blame for the crisis situation in which we are placed today. [More…]
This imposes an intolerable burden upon the great number of what I would call middle range income earners who have tried to run, own and operate their own businesses- the sort of people that the Government is constantly proclaiming that it is protecting and assisting. [More…]
Sometimes these people are called the ordinary men and women. [More…]
I think such an event does alert this chamber to the dangers that are inherent in a situation when men of good repute in the eyes of the public will act this way when in control as a socialist Government. [More…]
Never in my lifetime in Federal politics have I made any investigation as to the finances of any member of the Parliament. [More…]
In the corridors of Parliament a former Minister said to me in a glancing fashion when I was asking awkward questions of him: ‘Well, you run a business, don’t you? [More…]
One does not know what might happen to one’s detriment. [More…]
I believe that any of those things I mentioned could be initiated by some of the men in the community who claim to be socialists. [More…]
I refer to the question I asked the Minister last week in which I foreshadowed that the coal export levy would cause unemployment, and to the Minister’s response that he would investigate the matter. [More…]
Is he further aware that this is likely to cause unemployment of at least 400 men in one area alone? [More…]
Mr Paltridge said that in many cases young men were necessary to the viability and continuation of small properties in the district. [More…]
We also recognise that the vast majority of Australian employees and Unionists recognise the interdependence of labour, management and capital in the important process of creating the wealth of the Nation, lt is also clear that many of the Trade Union leaders in Australia today are responsible men. [More…]
It teaches that the wealth of a society should be administered in the interest of all; that every one of us, men, women and children, has an equal stake in our community, and equal duty to it- to do our best- and an equal right to share in its fruits. [More…]
That is why it is inseparable from democracy and why, to be true to itself it must work through a government responsible to a universally elected assembly. [More…]
The union was not a socialist instrument. [More…]
It was not a political instrument at all. [More…]
It was an economic function of the capitalist system, a defensive leaguing together of desperate and exploited men to enable them to meet the owners of capital on something like equal terms. [More…]
Will you again entrust the nation’s economy to the men who . [More…]
created Australia’s worst unemployment for 10 years . [More…]
Do they say that we should index wages for professional men? [More…]
Mining men have been the front row men in the development of any country. [More…]
They were the front row men in the development of this country. [More…]
Those industries are recoiling punchdrunk from the belting that this Government has given them. [More…]
What would be said then about foreign ownership, conservation and environmental protection? [More…]
How much say would we have, particularly when this Government has run down our defence forces to brooding impotence? [More…]
Mining men have been the front row men in the development of every country. [More…]
They were the front row men in the development of our country. [More…]
These industries are recoiling and punch drunk from the belting that this Government has given them. [More…]
He is typical of the free market men who demand sternly that the free market place is the place where wages and prices are best fixed, but at the same time demand protection, bounties, subsidies and cheap public utilities for their own supporters. [More…]
I should point out that the Henderson Commission was set up by the previous Government and some of the statistics it used precede this Government. [More…]
When we come to consider the Opposition’s attitude to this Budget and the attitudes put by Opposition senators in this debate, I find it very difficult to follow their arguments. [More…]
As I said before, some of the good free market men like Senator Marriott demand higher and higher subsidies on all sorts of goods and services. [More…]
They then complain that the free enterprise Press- and Senator Wright joined in this- had been too kind to the Government over the Budget. [More…]
Apparently when this was suggested it was said it would not have had any effect on the community, it would not have flowed through the community, but of course any levy put on by the Government does. [More…]
I suggest they tell the whole story, but because I think they are clear examples of areas in which alternative policies were available, in which alternative policies were advocated by the Opposition, and in which the Government ploughed ahead and made disastrous mistakes for Australia. [More…]
I welcome the greater courage which is being shown by some members of the Government now in facing up to economic reality, and in particular to the sort of efforts which are being made by Senator James McClelland to introduce some rational views into the area of wages. [More…]
If those men are not supported by their own Party- I sometimes wonder whether they will be- then of course this Government will become an even more hopeless proposition than it has been to date. [More…]
If that is the view which is held in the community, then how in the world does the Government expect to find a return of private confidence? [More…]
We have a situation where the Government acknowledges that tax is too high. [More…]
This is in an economy where the Government is trying to restore confidence to the private sector. [More…]
Quite honestly, I cannot see how rational men can arrive at that sort of reasoning in company with that sort of arithmetic. [More…]
The industry has an entitlement- I should say an obligation rather than an entitlement- to provide 40 hours of work a week for each waterside worker. [More…]
Even if the stevedoring industry is not sufficiently efficient to provide 40 hours of work a week for these men, these men still have a right to receive a living wage. [More…]
-We find that all the people whom I have mentioned equally will have to pay this tax along with the wealthy men in the community. [More…]
Out of the mouths of the two chief economic men in the Government we there have confirmation that these indirect charges are not only inflationary but they also impose a heavy burden upon individuals. [More…]
If he had been honest and if he had had any morals he would have sold his home, he would have paid those men the wages that he owed them and he would have gone back into the mineshaft and worked. [More…]
She was allowed to buy her first drink in the saloon bar and, as she was served by a female bar attendant, she was told that she could have that drink but any further drinks would need to be purchased in the lounge; that she was in a men’s domain and her presence was not required. [More…]
We are now finding that women who started smoking some decades later than men are starting to show the same increase in relation to the risk of lung cancer. [More…]
Thiess Peabody Mitsui, which employs 1000 men at Moura, a town very close to Biloela and which has had an effect on the Biloela economy, spent a total of $.721m on infrastructure $.077m on power and water and $0,382 m on the town itself. [More…]
The company’s contribution in 1974 towards the development of railways and ports, which are of benefit to all Queenslanders and all industries, was $0.262m. [More…]
Constituents in my State have suggested to me that this Government’s policy in relation to indirect taxation was clearly expressed by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) as being totally opposed to indirect taxation. [More…]
The Minister mentioned that a tax of some $360m is now being levied on those ordinary working men who drink or smoke or enjoy those normal pleasures which I have heard many members of the Minister’s Party attack previously. [More…]
In 1971 the Prime Minister, when referring to indirect taxes which the former Government had introduced, said: [More…]
In 1973 the Minister for Justice in Queensland, Mr Bill Knox, set up a Commission of Inquiry into the Status of Women. [More…]
While many women welcomed it, it was not in response to any specific pressure or request from women or from any group within the community. [More…]
This commission of inquiry was asked to recommend to the State Government areas in which legislation or policy initiatives were needed, which would combat any complaint based on fact about disadvantage to women in Queensland, insofar as the State Government is capable of legislating. [More…]
That commission had 4 members- 2 men and 2 women. [More…]
The report was given to the State Government towards the end of 1974. [More…]
As an election promise in the 1974 Queensland State election campaign Mr Knox stated that the recommendations of that commission of inquiry would be implemented. [More…]
In Queensland women have served on juries for a number of years, but they were able to claim certain special exemptions. [More…]
Generally, they did not serve in the same numbers that men did. [More…]
Women in Queensland serve on juries, in response to their stated desire, on exactly the same terms as men. [More…]
Since that legislation was passed there have already been several juries in Queensland comprised entirely of women. [More…]
He is within the Parliament- within the debate- with the Speaker in charge of the House and with the Premier present. [More…]
But I shall give you one of your National Party men in a minute. [More…]
Let us put all those things aside, because they merely indicate the level of debate, the level of, shall we say, parliamentary standards that exist in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
I would say that many of the decisions of that Parliament are a reflection of those standards. [More…]
It has never been my experience previously- I doubt whether it has been the experience of any of the legal men in this Senate- to witness such a disgraceful performance on the part of a group of politicians and on the part of a premier who led those politicians. [More…]
The evidence was based upon a questionnaire of a police officer, upon which the Police Department did not proceed. [More…]
I refer to the comments by the Coroner, Mr Leo, in the Cooma Coroner’s Court, following the death of 2 men in July when a bus plunged down a ravine near Thredbo. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to an article which appeared in the Bulletin on 6 September and entitled Fraser ‘s Faceless Men’? [More…]
I am curious as to whether the Minister, if he has seen the article, can tell the Senate whether he regards the description ‘faceless men’ as a fair and accurate description. [More…]
It is a terrible thing to come into a chamber such as this Senate and hear men pronouncing the theory of one vote one value and demanding that this proposition should be applied throughout Australia when those same men, who have complete control over the Northern Territory, introduce a disparity of about 50 per cent in electorates in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Senator Melzer referred this afternoon to what has been said by Mr Mackerras who is one of the top men in this country in relation to electoral matters. [More…]
He was saying, in effect, that every electoral officer in this country who has been appointed for years as a public servant succumbed to pressure from the Government to rig the boundaries. [More…]
Let him go outside this chamber and say that the electoral officer for the seat of Corio succumbed to pressure from this Government to gerrymander the electoral boundaries of that seat so that we would stay in power. [More…]
In those capacities, each of those 3 men necessarily gave advice to their governments on the interpretation and constitutionality of numerous laws and proposed laws. [More…]
If they were not to sit on matters in which they had given relevant advice to the governments then in office, very little work would have been done in the High Court. [More…]
I have not been able to get any information about the question regarding Adelaide, but I am now told that currently a series of trials are being done by professional men from the United Kingdom who have had wide experience in the operation and handling of these birds at aerodromes in that country. [More…]
The information from the Department is that the use of these birds is regarded as successful in other countries, and we expect the same thing to happen in Australia. [More…]
I would have thought that honourable senators opposite in these troubled times would have been combing through the history books to get whatever guidance they could from the great men of the past as to how they should behave today. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies, Mr Menzies as he then was, wrote: [More…]
Public finance becomes a remote problem to most people who, once they have elected a government to manage their national affairs, presume that financial negotiations made on behalf of the people will be carried out with legality and integrity. [More…]
In the early stages of progress towards bankruptcy in private business the holders of shares in companies often appear to be in a mental trance, an attitude of disbelief relating to the financal affairs of their corporation, until these financial problems come to an immediately extreme financial state and to a point of disaster. [More…]
So it appears in these days that Australian Labor Party Government control of the Australian public purse has reached that state. [More…]
I ask: Is bankruptcy threatened in this country by this Government? [More…]
Do these men, these Labor Ministers, who show a face of confidence to the people really understand the outcome of their actions? [More…]
No political party would look forward with pleasure to the next 2 years of federal management in government. [More…]
That position has been brought about by the mismanagement of this Government, and the citizens of this once great stable country, where men and women were keen to work and to achieve, were proud to know that as good Australians they were creating one of the most outstanding countries in the world, now face a position where their country is noted abroad for the double standards and irresponsibility of its political leaders. [More…]
On the death of the late Prime Minister Harold Holt the heads of the Liberal Party looked to New South Wales for a successor but they could not find one because during the period in which Senator Carrick had hold of the reins in New South Wales he surrounded himself with old men like Mr Bury, Mr Turner, Sir John Cramer and Mr McMahon. [More…]
As a consequence the Liberal Party’s officials had to look to another State for young, industrious men who may have been able to carry out the duties of Leader of the Party. [More…]
The only purpose of stating that loan to be a loan for temporary purposes was to give a facade of legality because if a loan is for temporary purposes under our Constitution and the Financial Agreement it is not necessary to have the approval of the Loan Council. [More…]
So Mr Whitlam and his 3 colleagues, each one of whom now has left his company, then vouched in the official documents that that was a loan for temporary purposes. [More…]
He could not conceive that men who put their signatures to that transaction with that false badge of deceit were honest men. [More…]
I may say that there are some men of principle among the Liberal Party whom I admire for the stand that they have taken. [More…]
They are the alternative men of a proposed alternative government- Senator Greenwood, Mr Lynch, Mr Anthony, Mr Sinclair and Mr Chipp. [More…]
They are the men of the Vietnam war, the men who led this country in to the greatest political deception of our history which cost Australian lives and millions of dollars. [More…]
They are the men of the McMahon Government under which lies to the Parliament were excused on the basis of lapse of memory. [More…]
They were the men of the Government to which Mr Howson belonged. [More…]
He misled the Parliament over the VIP aircraft but did not bother to resign. [More…]
It was the Government of Mr Lynch who misled the Parliament over water torture in Vietnam. [More…]
These are the men who made the decision about what should happen here tonight. [More…]
These are the pure men of Australian politics who made the decision. [More…]
Opposite us sit the men who are to carry it out. [More…]
It is these people who seek to interfere with the right of a government to fulfil and carry out the 3-year term for which it was elected. [More…]
These are the conditions imposed by men whose conduct is no better but who rely hopefully on the lapse of memory of the people of Australia. [More…]
There is nothing in the amendment to the Loan Bill which was moved by Senator Withers which suggested for a moment that the Oppositionthe men of 1971 coming back, or at least seeking to come back, into the situation of 1975 or 1976- has any appreciation of the solution to the issues which a country undergoing rapid change as this country is or has the answers to our problems. [More…]
Yes, but I do not go around using dead men. [More…]
ablution block with two showers for men, two for women, two wash tubs and two washing machines, built in about April 1974, hot water added in December 1974, two new washing machines in February 1 975 and improved drainage in July 1 975; [More…]
That just shows the unreliability of the statements of Senator Hall. [More…]
As a matter of fact, it has been reported to me by a Senate colleague that Senator Hall is famous for the number of Press men he entertains every evening with drinks or eats. [More…]
As a consequence, it has been indicated that because of this continuous entertaining of Press men no doubt he gets a very good Press. [More…]
He made certain statements in regard to the Government. [More…]
In trying to exonerate the Government in respect of the position in Australia he said that the unemployment situation is caused to a certain extent or to some considerable extent by the mechanisation of industry. [More…]
At one time, men cut the sugar cane by hand, stick by stick. [More…]
The cane is not only planted by machine but also loaded and processed mechanically, but there is still no greater unemployment on average throughout the year because of that. [More…]
So this mechanisation has not taken place in the 3 years that the Labor Party has been in government. [More…]
Senator Bunton also talked about how the Government had helped primary industry. [More…]
The development of 3 mines- Norwich Park, Hail Creek and Nebo- has been held up for several years. [More…]
The development of the mining industry in Australia has more or less reached a stalemate. [More…]
Now the Government in its desire to try to stimulate industries after having knocked back and blunted development programs over a period of years is saying that it has to get them going. [More…]
Costs have gone up in the development of these fields compared to what they would have been a few years ago. [More…]
This has happened because of this Government’s frustration of the development of those coal mining areas. [More…]
If they had been allowed to develop, there would have been thousands more men employed than there are at the present time in those spheres. [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…]
They will make sure that not only the 70 000 Service men and women but also all the people in the civilian services will not have funds and will not receive wages after 30 November. [More…]
I hope that we will get some sense in the Parliament before that time. [More…]
I am not prepared to ask men to work without pay or salary. [More…]
Although there may be policemen who will work, I think the morale of the force will suffer greatly. [More…]
The equipment available in the Army is of a light aluminium construction and is unsuited to long term use in salt water. [More…]
There would be a very heavy maintenance requirement for a bridge of this type involving the continuous employment of at least 50 men. [More…]
Those are points which are fairly minor, I daresay, in the totality of what the Australian Government has committed itself for in respect of this bridge. [More…]
-I second the amendment. [More…]
This Bill seeks to have compulsory disclosure to the Government of the cost of manufacturing pharmaceuticals so that the Government can negotiate more easily with drug companies in the purchase of pharmaceuticals. [More…]
The reason the Government gives for bringing in this legislation is that the Government supplies 80 per cent of dispensed medicines under its pharmaceutical benefits scheme. [More…]
The Government claims that if negotiations break down between it and the pharmaceutical companies the only remedy it has is to delist the medicines from its pharmaceutical benefits, which would thereby disadvantage patients. [More…]
Therefore, says the Government, it must force information out of the drug companies so that it can determine the price it shall pay for these medicines, thereby controlling the companies’ profits. [More…]
It is not the companies’ fault that the Government supplies 80 per cent of dispensed medicines. [More…]
Yet here we see the Government trying to control their profits. [More…]
It is a good example of the hazards involved in negotiating with governments. [More…]
The Bill would turn the Director-General of Health into virtually a drug dictator who could make or break a pharmaceutical company by using the 3 faceless men in his pricing bureau. [More…]
He could create enormous unemployment and even drive a pharmaceutical company out of Australia. [More…]
Under this Bill, the Director-General of Health and his three faceless men in the pricing bureau would have huge powers. [More…]
The decision on price rests entirely with the three faceless men of the pricing bureau. [More…]
I wonder how constitutional it is that these 3 bureaucrats should have the power to fix prices when government price fixing is not included in the Constitution and was rejected at the last referendum. [More…]
If the Government were sincere in its desire to cut drug costs it should be looking at its own actions and not those of the private drug companies. [More…]
The way to get cheap drugs is to allow the free market to operate freely, unfettered by Government interference. [More…]
If the Opposition is even to consider the Bill, major amendments will be necessary to guarantee confidentiality, and to provide for the inclusion of overall profitability, reasonable time limits, reasonable requirements on the information supplied, the question of an independent arbitrator and the role of the three faceless men in the pricing bureau. [More…]
The National Country Party supports the amendment recommending that the Bill be set aside until the publication of the report by the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
I would hope that the Minister representing him in this place can confirm his corrections and reassure some of us, particularly on the point of confidentiality of the information which is given to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Pricing Bureau of the Department of Health. [More…]
The first point I would like to make about Senator Sheil’s statement that the 3 members of the Department involved in this are faceless men and they are in some way sinister. [More…]
They are senior public servants; they are experienced public servants who have worked in this same job, pricing and arranging price agreements between the Government and the pharmaceutical firms when the Opposition was in government. [More…]
It is a Bill to enable officers of the pharmaceutical pricing bureau of the Department of Health to negotiate in a fair manner with the various pharmaceutical manufacturing and distributing firms. [More…]
I pointed out that these men are honest men. [More…]
They are experienced men. [More…]
They are senior public servants who have served both this Government and previous governments very well with no suggestion that there has ever been any breach of the confidentiality which is necessary in their job. [More…]
I do not believe that they deserve the statement which Senator Sheil made- that they were a group of faceless men who somehow were going to take over the whole pharmaceutical industry in this country and wreck it. [More…]
It seems to me that it is quite unfair to suggest that these men will be used in some evil way to destroy the pharmaceutical industry in this country. [More…]
This Government, like every other government, realises that the pharmaceutical industry- both the Australian companies and the multinational companies- has been very important and that it will continue to be very important in the supplying of drugs in this country. [More…]
The Government has been saying that for weeks. [More…]
Where are these men of strong principles I do not see them all in this chamber on the Opposition benches at the moment; I see one of them; I do not see the second one; I see another possible one- who were prepared, according to statements made previously, to stand up and be counted in their Party room. [More…]
I do not believe that the men of principle had anything else done to them other than had their heads temporarily placed under water. [More…]
I register my complete and utter protest at the fact that, after more than 2 months during which the Appropriation Bills have been before the Parliament, when they come back from the House of Representatives and when an attempt is made to put them back on the notice paper for immediate debate the Neros on the Opposition benches fiddle. [More…]
It is on that basis that we oppose the amendment of the Opposition to defer this matter at least until tomorrow and thereby deny the people of Australia the chance to get a speedy solution to this problem which probably cannot come unless the men of principle arise. [More…]
As is always the case with the Opposition whenever there is a debate of this kind, it does not stick to the issues before the Parliament. [More…]
The ghost of Fu Manchu is summoned forth with the 3 faceless men. [More…]
The suggestion has been made that somehow we will obtain information which will be provided to these evil socialistic government makers of pharmaceutical products and that they will use their illgotten information in order to sabotage these great benefactors of humanity, the private pharmaceutical companies. [More…]
Is this Government using here the precedent it set in regard to other statutory corporations which it has set up to operate in the commercial area, namely, the ill-fated Petroleum and Minerals Authority which was never fully constituted, the directors of which, I think, in the end were simply 2 public servants and a trade union secretary with not one mining man amongst them? [More…]
If this happened now how could we as a Parliament have any trust in this Government setting up a corporation which did not have on it men with the proper experience to conduct its affairs? [More…]
I refer to a report in today’s Melbourne Age which is headlined: ‘Police probe robberies on jade men’. [More…]
Can the Minister confirm that officers of his Department are conducting an investigation into the possible illegal importation of jade by the person named in the article? [More…]
In this article he is referred to as one of the most powerful men in the Western Australian media. [More…]
These men (no women on the bridge at W.A. [More…]
Which means that if these men decide that an event will be ignored or a viewpoint rejected then the chances are high that you will remain forever ignorant. [More…]
So whether we like to measure the increase from the time that this Government attained power on an annual basis or on a quarterly basis, the facts show that this claim which is made so constantly by members of the Opposition and which was repeated by the Leader of the Opposition (Senator Withers) in the motion that he moved is simply untrue. [More…]
I suggest that to men of honour that should be sufficient reason for either voting against this motion which states a demonstrable untruth or moving for its further amendment. [More…]
They have the view that in labor unions a few standover men force the rank and file to do things that they do not want to do. [More…]
The unemployment rate is unparalleled in our history. [More…]
On present trends, the unemployment rate could increase to 8 per cent of the work force or close on 500 000 people by early next year when school leavers commence looking for jobs. [More…]
It is soul-destroying in my opinion for good young men and women looking for a job simply to be unable to find a place. [More…]
This situation, to my sorrow, in no small measure is due to the horrible mismanagement of the Government over recent years. [More…]
I suppose legal men could argue at length on the matter of the interpretation of the Constitution. [More…]
But there is only one central issue about which we are concerned and that is the stability of the parliamentary system in Australia. [More…]
It is quite obvious that the Opposition will defeat the motion which has been moved by the Government. [More…]
All this is because of the mad desire of the Opposition to get back into government and to grab power again. [More…]
-I ask a question of the Minister for Labor and Immigration in his capacity as Minister in charge of Regional Employment Development scheme grants. [More…]
Is he aware that following payment of the initial 25 per cent of RED scheme grants to allow projects to commence, further costs are met on the basis of periodic reimbursement of expenses which have first been met from the resources of the organisation concerned? [More…]
For instance, where, say, 12 men are employed it involves a weekly expenditure in the vicinity of $2,000. [More…]
To make the position quite clear to organisations involved, will he outline the financial position regarding reimbursement of funds expended by these organisations on RED scheme projects in view of the present financial crisis arising from failure to pass the Appropriation Bills? [More…]
Senator Durack, from his comments, appears not to have read the Bill. [More…]
Also, if his comments are to be taken at their face value, he does not have the slightest comprehension of the effects of currency revaluations, tariff imposts and charges of that nature on external trade. [More…]
The faceless men of the Liberal Party from outside this Parliament have obviously yet again dictated the Opposition’s policy. [More…]
It seems to me that if that is the view of the Opposition, the appropriate action pursuant to that view would be to agree to the second reading stage of the Bill and at the Committee stage to implement amendments or to remove the clauses which the Opposition finds objectionable. [More…]
So the faceless men will again pull the strings which activate the puppets in this chamber. [More…]
Senator Scott mentioned wheat sales to Chile. [More…]
I must say this for Senator Walsh who has just resumed his seat: I am glad to see that he is back at his best nasty method of attack in the Parliament. [More…]
He claims that if we quote a submission from the Chamber of Commerce it is because we are faceless men doing as our masters tell us. [More…]
It is interesting, of course, that we do not hear about the faceless men in these circumstances. [More…]
We do not hear that people outside the Parliament were making considerations as they did with respect to the possibility of a normal election of the Senate, which is due to take place before June 1 976, and how the Federal Council of the Liberal Party in fact gave the riding instructions to the four anti-Labor conservative Premiers to deny certain elementary facilities for the purposes of holding normal Senate elections. [More…]
The quesion that has to be raised in this place relates to the conventions upon which the whole parliamentary system operates. [More…]
We find, for example, that conventions are the basis upon which Parliament functions- conventions which are not readily identifiable or found in the Constitution or in any decision of the High Court, but conventions upon which the Parliament itself could not operate without some degree of understanding and some degree of common sense, bearing in mind that many of these conventions are related to the Westminster system of government. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Labor and Immigration: Is he aware of reports that most of the men employed in the forestry operations of Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd of Tasmania are to be stood down for a month. [More…]
If so, what action is contemplated by the Government to alleviate the problems which are causing this position? [More…]
Surely Senator Greenwood can understand this difficulty: The word has gone around among the criminal element in the Croatian community that, if one is sent to gaol and one has rendered oneself liable to deportation under the Migration Act, the thing to do is to spread it about that one is a member of a Croatian terrorist organisation; that way one will not be deported to Yugoslavia. [More…]
We do not propose to have people who are ordinary common criminals, who should be deported, who will be deported and who normally would be deported to Yugoslavia preserved from being returned to Yugoslavia merely by some phoney story that they are men of great principle, although they may be anarchists or terrorists, and that they will be in some peril if they are deported to Yugoslavia. [More…]
Two men by the names of Vladimir Menart and Ljemka Ubantich have laid low for a number of years, but these two men have resurrected a newspaper in which they make attacks on people. [More…]
Many of the people who do not buy it are men who did not serve in World War II but who got Australian citizenship in the 1954-59 period and were called up as national servicemen. [More…]
That is the sort of atmosphere that this Government has tried to cool down. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and follows to some extent the questions referred to him a moment ago by Senator Davidson when he drew attention to the reports from reputable observers sent by the Australian Council for Overseas Aid to Portuguese Timor. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Do not these reports confirm previous reports from newsmen, aid groups, Red Cross doctors and parliamentary visits that the Fretilin movement represents the overwhelming view of the Timorese people and that Indonesia is actively involved in the fighting? [More…]
Is it not now apparent that these men, in pursuit of the truth about the current war in Portuguese Timor, have lost their lives? [More…]
What is the current position about inquiries into the cause of the deaths of these brave men and is there any truth in the consistent reports that the Australians were shot by either Indonesian troops or Indonesian backed troops and then their bodies burnt? [More…]
Along with other members of the Opposition I was impressed by the views expressed by some legal men who wrote to the newspapers and suggested that what the Opposition was doing was unconstitutional. [More…]
1 agree that the attitude taken by some sectors of the public, namely that what the Opposition was doing was unconstitutional, was in the first place inflamed by the immediate statement made by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) to the effect that the Senate was acting unconstitutionally. [More…]
That statement was supported by Professor Howard and Gareth Evans, senior lecturer in law at Melbourne University. [More…]
During the hearing of the relevant Senate Estimates Committee we examined the attempted investments and investments of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority on behalf of this country in no liability mining companies. [More…]
We saw the stupidity of the investment of our money in various companies by the Government to develop mineral proposals. [More…]
This is the most stupid and idiotic thing that any group of men could do. [More…]
But today we- the Australian people- are shareholders through our investment in companies such as Mareeba Mining No Liability. [More…]
Where else will the Government invest our money? [More…]
Again, the Government said that it would invest in the development, of minerals and the search for oil by the purchase of the floating oil rig Ocean Endeavour. [More…]
But we find that the Government’s activities are such that it has removed that opportunity for investment. [More…]
The South Australian Methodist Conference meeting in Adelaide and comprising men and women of differing political party sympathies, believes that there are times when matters of principle and national well-being must clearly be put above party loyalty. [More…]
The South Australia Methodist Conference meeting in Adelaide and comprising men and women of differing political party sympathies, believes that there are times when matters of principle and national well-being must clearly be put above party loyalty. [More…]
Goodness me, with the way this Government is carrying on we are heading fast for that situation. [More…]
They were times when once proud working men were reduced to shambling wrecks through no fault of their own, unable adequately to support their families, stripped of their pride and robbed of their dignity. [More…]
I want to see this Government face the people and let the people make the judgment, as we on this side of the chamber are prepared to let them do. [More…]
We can look at a long list of scandals involving this Government: The Murphy-ASIO raids; the unethical attempt to manipulate Parliament by the Gair affair; the shocking impropriety of the sacking of the Speaker, Mr Cope; the Phillip Cairns affair; the Morosi affair; the Hayden Budget leak; the loans affair and so many other matters. [More…]
I ask the Government: If it considers that that is a temporary purpose, what if one of them were suddenly picked up and put away in solitary confinement for 20 years? [More…]
Both of these senior men, men who in their periods of time have led Australia in the absence of the Prime Minister, have been forced to resign because they misled the Prime Minister, they misled the Cabinet, they misled the Parliament and they misled this country. [More…]
But experienced communications men in Canberra believed that the message at the foot of the form could be a cryptic- yet genuine- Treasury message leaked deliberately to the Press. [More…]
But their London men must be . [More…]
Why on earth was a War Criminal given a visa to this Country, and no wonder he never left his Hotel, he just may have run into someone who remembered the men of our Army who were kicked to death by Indian and Pakastani deserters, or is their memory too short. [More…]
The RSILA is also strangely silent on the Subject, but kick up a great fuss about the attempts of the Labor Council in Brisbane about the realignment of Anzac Square with the cry ‘Lest we Forget’. [More…]
In the past few weeks the following things have happened: Every headline on a political story is vetted by 2 top men, and made as anti- Whitlam as possible. [More…]
We had the unhappy situation yesterday of the great Khemlani documents, or was it a dirty pair of underpants as one cartoonist put it, being examined by none other than an eminent member of the legal profession. [More…]
I wonder what sort of pressures are being applied to Mr Ellicott when he is able to make one statement in Sydney and after holding a conference with the Leader of the Liberal Party he makes a contradictory statement. [More…]
It is obvious that physical and mental pressure of tremendous depth are being applied to people opposite who dare to make something in the line of a public statement that is not strictly consistent with the orders which are received from the faceless men behind the Liberal Party. [More…]
-Before the luncheon adjournment I was quoting from a statement of the Prime Minister made on 5 June this year in another place. [More…]
I pointed out that, in relation to the reforms which the Labor Government had promoted since 1972, the Prime Minister had said, amongst other things: lt is not achieved by spending more money, though money is certainly needed. [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…]
Did they feel that because of the sort of information they were being handed by the FBI and because of the sort of information they were being handed about all sorts of other transactions of government which were going on, they really were the rulers and that they could use any means they liked- such as the FBI obviously used- to get back on to the government benches of this country? [More…]
It is a strange thing that men, whose only thing they have to sell is their labour, and who go on strike for decent wages or conditions are vilified by honourable senators opposite for holding up the country and the whole manufacturing industry to ransom. [More…]
The Opposition will not amend the Budget. [More…]
But why do they not act like men and at least reject the Budget? [More…]
Why do they not amend? [More…]
They do not know what to amend or what to do. [More…]
That is why we cannot have honourable senators opposite as the government of this country. [More…]
So are they all honourable men. [More…]
We are talking of the President of the Federal Labor Party, who is a man of immense partisan interest and therefore of immense motivation in a partisan fashion, and good luck to him, in a cause which I oppose. [More…]
Why is it that in past Liberal-National Country Party governments only one or two of the main Ministers and not the whole Cabinet were ever told before 8 p.m. on the night of the Budget what was the nature of the customs and excise and sales tax charges? [More…]
The capacity to buy up stocks of tobacco, cigarettes and spirits is, of course, immense in the time program. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that in some cases single men who are responsible for the upbringing of their children are worse off than single mothers? [More…]
If so, will he undertake to have this disease accepted as war-caused in respect of these men so described and affected? [More…]
I think that the whole business was a Gilbert and Sullivan comedy exercise which desperate men were hoping would bring forward something, but what it brought forward after all that was a statutory declaration, a copy of which I received only as I came into the chamber. [More…]
From reading it, I think the thing which my Department must be interested in is the contradiction between what is stated in the statutory declaration and the statements made by Mr Karidis who was on oath when he appeared before the Senate. [More…]
Obviously both statements cannot be correct when there is such a contradiction. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of a differential of up to 25 per cent in rates of pay for men and women in the Australian defence forces? [More…]
Is the National Committee on Discrimination in Employment and Occupation consulted in the formulation of rates of pay for members of the Services? [More…]
Has the Department of Labor and Immigration been involved in any studies of the usefulness or work value of women in the defence forces? [More…]
Then only last week Mr Khemlani returned and made a sort of a Dick Tracy foray into the national capital, flitting from hotel to motel accompanied by his legal adviser and 8 suitcases full of documents which were perused by various eminent legal men who belong to the Opposition parties. [More…]
As a result of wading through all of those documents the unfortunate Mr Ellicott Q.C., who must well regret the day that he took down his shingle and came into this place, said that there was nothing which seemed to involve the Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) in any of this affair. [More…]
I think that nothing more whatsoever has been heard from Mr Howard who also had the painful task of sifting through these 8 suitcases full of documents. [More…]
-The main basis upon which Senator Scott mounted his attack on the Government on the one hand and attempted to justify the Opposition’s unprecedented action in blocking the Government’s Budget on the other hand rested on what he called ‘the exercise of the responsible powers of the Senate by the Opposition’. [More…]
He then attempted to justify the Opposition’s actions as being responsible by asserting that the present crisis- it is a crisis that Australia faces at the moment- is the direct result of, and relevant to, the Government’s performance. [More…]
It certainly is a desperate action; it is a desperate action by desperate men who can be seen for what they are in their grab for power. [More…]
I think it is essential in the interests of the Australian public to understand precisely what has happened since the Australian people elected the Labor Government in December 1972. [More…]
On examining the catalogue of events which discloses the conduct of the Opposition from that point of time until this present moment, when as Senator Scott has stated, the country has been brought to a crisis by a desperate decision made by desperate men, it will been seen who in fact is responsible for that crisis. [More…]
The Australian people elected the Labor Government on 2 December 1972. [More…]
It was abundantly evident when the Parliament met for the first time in the autumn period of 1973 that the Opposition did not accept- I repeat ‘did not accept’- the decision of the people on 2 December 1972. [More…]
Even in those early stages of the new Parliament veiled threats were made by the Opposition to destroy this Government at the earliest opportunity. [More…]
Surely there can be no argument against the proposition that those who have the greater need will pay less than those who have the lesser need, who will pay more. [More…]
About 3 million Australians- approximately two-thirds of all taxpayers- will receive substantial tax cuts under the Australian Labor Government’s new personal tax scheme, the scheme of which we are speaking now. [More…]
Many men either through inability or other extra responsibility at home, are unable to take advantage of overtime or of other means of employment. [More…]
The tax grab from overtime payments and from other additional earnings will be slashed by almost 30 per cent for the average weekly wage earner. [More…]
Without basically agreeing with the principle of such people having to work overtime, since it is a reality, one must accept that the proposal is a considerable improvement. [More…]
One would have imagined that one of the main aims of Labor when it came to office would have been to see that the jobs of wage earners, the ordinary working men in the community, were protected. [More…]
I remember dozens of statements being made which suggested that the main plank of Labor’s platform would be to see that there was full employment. [More…]
What a disgrace this Government has been in that respect. [More…]
There has been a rise in unemployment over the period Labor has been in office. [More…]
The Government has taken action which has totally wrecked some industries. [More…]
I well recall the comments of leading unionists in the footwear, textile and clothing industries who were complaining bitterly, as best they could against their own Party, about the stupidity of the action which the Government took against those industries. [More…]
The Government is playing a cruel trick on these people. [More…]
The age rebate, which has been referred to by several speakers in this debatethe rebate allowed to aged persons who are men aged 65 years or more and women aged 60 years or more and the wives of some of these personshas been abolished. [More…]
This will have the effect of increasing their tax payments. [More…]
Sir Robert Garran … the Federal Solicitor-Gen., said Sir Samuel was one of the greatest men Aust, has ever produced, and one of the few Austn. [More…]
With Chou En-lai ‘s death, China lost one of her great leaders and the world lost one of this century’s outstanding men. [More…]
In those circumstances, he must be regarded as one of the significant men of the twentieth century. [More…]
Without exception, every person who has had an opportunity to visit the People’s Republic of China must pay tribute to his leadership and to him as an administrator and as a leader in all aspects of human activity including the great improvements in the living standards of the people of China. [More…]
In all these achievements, Chou En-lai must be regarded as being a central part of that evolutionary as well as revolutionary movement. [More…]
Such a body should have a board comprised of professional men and businessmen whose purposes are well known and who understand business in the broad meaning of the word. [More…]
I believe also that there could be some government involvement in this area. [More…]
That was the day on which the Australian nation, the Australian people and the Australian Parliament witnessed what I hope was the most violent political convulsion that this nation will ever see. [More…]
At 1 1 a.m. on that day His Excellency the Governor-General was laying a wreath at the Australian War Memorial in Canberra in remembrance of Armistice Day and in remembrance of men and women of this country who had given their all in defence of the principle of the right of democratic government. [More…]
It was being done at a time when the Governor-General must have known that 2 hours after the event he would be bent upon a course of action that no Australian citizen ever thought he would live to see- the dismissal by the Governor-General of Australia of a properly elected government with a mandate awarded to it in 1 972 and reaffirmed in 1 974. [More…]
All in this chamber knew at that time that quite frequently the then Leader of the Opposition was being summoned to Government House to confer with the Governor-General in order, we thought, to overcome the ‘crisis’- I use that word in parenthesisthat had developed because of the Senate’s insistence on deferring consideration of the Appropriation Bills and the Loan Bill. [More…]
I want honourable senators on the Government side to ponder seriously these events because I believe that those honourable senators are as interested as we are in seeing the preservation of parliamentary democracy in this country- a system whereby men and women are elected to come to this Parliament to speak on behalf of their constituents and whereby the party with the greatest number of people elected to the floor of the House of Representatives forms the constitutionally elected government. [More…]
My friends opposite and those who write for the media have to understand the feelings of men and women- the little men and women- and kids who worked, toiled, strained and fought for nearly a quarter of a century to see a Labor Government elected. [More…]
They realised that their hopes and their aspirations for their future and the future of this country could only be protected, expanded and developed by the continuance in office of a Labor Government. [More…]
True it is that some of them were disappointed in some members of the Labor Party when we were in government. [More…]
Some of them were carried away with the enormous weight of the most powerful propaganda machine that has ever been assembled in any country against any government. [More…]
My own government at that time was not directly at fault. [More…]
I do not say that the union secretary concerned was the most active of men; far from it. [More…]
I am sure that if this Parliament had in it more men like Senator Drake-Brockman it would be a happier place. [More…]
If they all decided to come back into the work force tomorrow and, by continued effort, were successful in finding jobs, because we cannot use our total work force their efforts would result in the displacement of men who at present are in comfortable positions and are providing for a family. [More…]
I do not believe that it has been in the best interests of the Labor movement. [More…]
I think that the absence of the Labor Party last Tuesday at the opening of Parliament was foolish. [More…]
I would have expected leading Labor men- such eminent men of the Opposition as Senator Mulvihill who has been trying to assist me with interjections- to be looking towards tomorrow, towards the development of new policy and towards some means of returning to office. [More…]
Vox populi, vox Dei, as Senator Mulvihill and I often say to each other in our lighter moments, Mr President. [More…]
If we believe this then the time has come to accept the judgment of the people. [More…]
Many people in Australia have told me that they are sick of the Opposition being so obsessed about the mess it made last October; that it seems to be unable to get down to the job that lies ahead of it, the job of providing the Government with proper parliamentary opposition. [More…]
The result is that 26 men were put off their jobs a fortnight ago- in an area where the unemployment rate is such that 43 people vie for every position available and where 1722 people are registered as unemployed. [More…]
Under the guidelines laid down by Mr Fraser and his Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, all of these young people from 16 to 18 years of age will be liable to conscription in that they will have to move away from their homes or they will starve. [More…]
The oddity of this situation is that two socialist parties nominated and obtained the sovereign’s consent to the appointment of a Governor-General over and above the Commonwealth of Australia, and on each occasion those men had to assume the responsibilities of the office to which they had succeeded and to which they had been appointed. [More…]
On each occasion they had to make a determination which resulted in the dismissal of a government. [More…]
Sir William McKell had to make a decision to cause a double dissolution in 1951 and Sir John Kerr had to make a decision to withdraw the commission of the Whitlam Government and have double dissolution. [More…]
I assume those men were appointed in terms of their previous associations and when they were appointed and had to fulfil the job to which they had been appointed they were then met with circumstances which they had to resolve. [More…]
I can recall what happened last year- Liberal senators who were members of the Estimates Committees would also be aware of this- with the development of certain Spanish architectural considerations in the building industry. [More…]
When these questions arose the general pattern was that it was not impossible to get the applications for men in these trade classifications processed within a month. [More…]
There is provision also for assistance for the Women’s Child Care Collective in Canberra. [More…]
Marymead family day care scheme, for the Woden Community Association family day care scheme and for assistance to the Young Men’s Christian Association ‘children in need’ program. [More…]
The development of those programs has been greatly assisted by nearly 1000 experts, both men, and women from all over Australia who have given their time and energies freely to the work of those committees. [More…]
One wonders whether the Government understands what it intends to do. [More…]
One journalist, commenting on the Governor-General ‘s Speech, said that portions of it were prepared by officials and recast in ‘Fraserology’. [More…]
‘Fraserology’ as I interpret it from reading the collected wisdom of that man, enunciated in various speeches, involves a rather Leaving Certificate standard statement or dissertation on notions of freedom and equality in society. [More…]
It is no good to say that poor men in Australia have the same freedom of choice as rich men and think that is the end of the problem. [More…]
I was pleased today to hear that United Milk Products Limited, a local Tasmanian firm, has secured a Canadian order involving some 12 000 head at a return to farmers of about $ 1 m. That will take a lot of the immediate pressure from northern Tasmania and King Island and I hope will allow the beef men to keep their cattle through until 1977. when it appears that a recovery should be on the way. [More…]
Although honourable senators will have heard many comments on the fact that there are now 6 women members of this chamber- and, indeed, some of those comments have been so phrased as to suggest that a membership of 6 women senators is almost an excess- I think that there will be agreement that neither the Government nor the Opposition has cause for complacency on this matter. [More…]
But the sexist organisation of our society has many more important ramifications than the fact that there are not many women members in Parliament. [More…]
Until very recently, women in our society, through a variety of formal barriers, traditional prejudice, and sheer neglect by policy makers, were denied equal access with men to education, health care, job training, employment, wage justice- in all, to the possibility of real independence. [More…]
While such fields as defence, foreign affairs and some areas of national resources and trade are logically handled nationally, I feel that the Commonwealth should reduce its interest in such fields as health, housing, education and the environment. [More…]
It has been argued, firstly, that the States have little expertise and, secondly, that they have little interest in these matters, but if the State and local governments were given more independence in raising and spending their own revenue the voters in each of those 2 important areas of government would soon make sure that they were being well served. [More…]
When we talk about returning government to the people we should not be thinking about just returning responsibility to the States. [More…]
The States also have an obligation to give more autonomy to local government. [More…]
Many thousands of men and women throughout Australia give one and sometimes more days a week to local government. [More…]
We all have a great admiration for those men and women. [More…]
If you listen for a few moments you might learn something from an Aborigine. [More…]
They believe now that no one- white, black or brindle; no government, State or Federal- gave them this land. [More…]
Land rights are a good thing only while the land has not value to white men, whether it is for mining, agriculture or anything else. [More…]
We sat under the trees at the Aurukun Mission surrounded by some 500 or 600 Aboriginal people- men, women and children. [More…]
They are not asking for a whole range of things that will break the rnining company or take money out of the coffers of the State Government. [More…]
I have worked with men on all types of labouring work and I am conscious that when a number of men live in an isolated area such as this one they tend to wander. [More…]
I am not saying that all miners are unscrupulous, but in any community there is always an element of unscrupulous people. [More…]
If there are some of these unscrupulous men and they go on to the Aboriginal community, which is a group of 700 unsophisticated simple-living people, with flagons of wine and with certain thoughts in their minds and they do take advantage of some of the young men and perhaps some of the young women, what protection are the Aboriginal people going to have from that kind of behaviour? [More…]
There is the community council, which has a certain amount of authority delegated to it by the Department of Aboriginal Affairs through the Director. [More…]
If this sort of behaviour occurred and the police arrested one or two men and put them in their local gaol and the councillors sat in judgment on them, would that judgment carry weight? [More…]
But if he went to the Aboriginal community and said: I want 3 stockmen, 4 men to put up a fence, and another 2 men to dig ditches, and to use a shovel’, he will get them; there will be no trouble about that. [More…]
They want some kind of training schemes to be established for their young men. [More…]
They have pointed out to us that dozens of young men from the age of 17 years to 25 years are strong and intelligent but unfortunately are untrained for these fields of employment. [More…]
A scheme was introduced by the Labor Government known as the NEAT scheme- the National Employment and Training Scheme. [More…]
It is a scheme that was designed to provide training for varying types of people- not only women. [More…]
There was another scheme that was designed to deal just with getting women back into the workforce. [More…]
We realised that with changes in technology and with areas of manufacture going out of business there were men who had to be retrained in order to earn their living and that there were people coming out of school with certain skills and who could not get jobs although there were jobs in the community waiting to be done. [More…]
At the moment we are in a state of limbo. [More…]
We know that many of them have been caught up in the establishment of kindergartens. [More…]
I, as a woman, say that a lot of that has to deal with the fact that there are so many men in positions where money is paid out to kindergartens. [More…]
There are so many men in government, including local government, who truly and honestly believe- they are not bad men- that in establishing kindergartens one is providing child care, whereas we know that that is a tiny part of educating a child in some ways and that it does not get down to the root of child care, of after school and before school care when mothers and fathers have to go to work, of care for children whose mothers and fathers have taken ill, have gone away or have had accidents. [More…]
Men can now walk on the moon. [More…]
It gave a chance for teachers to implement a new way of getting through to children who were in difficult circumstances. [More…]
The Labor Government introduced a scheme that would have given people a chance to go to somebody to find out the truth, to ask, ‘Can they do that to me; what are my rights under the law?’ [More…]
But it is difficult for lawyers to read it, let alone for lay men to read it. [More…]
But we know that the Australian Legal Aid Service has been told that this Government does not see it has any part to play in the legal aid services of this country. [More…]
I am waiting with interest to see what the Government does about equal pay for women. [More…]
That was one of the first things about which my Government did something when it was first elected in 1972. [More…]
It introduced equal pay for women. [More…]
Women become machinists and men become technicians. [More…]
Some allegations were made during the last Federal election campaign, and never denied, that confidential talks had taken place with employers who employed large numbers of women and that certain things had been said about terminating equal pay. [More…]
Of course, it was felt by honourable senators opposite that they would have the numbers in both Houses of Parliament to do this. [More…]
I say to them: You just try to knock back equal pay and take us back to the days when women received 60 per cent of the male wage. [More…]
Some women were lucky to receive 40 per cent of the male wage. [More…]
Women in the textile industry will not go back to receiving 60 per cent of the male rate and neither will the rest of the women in Australia even countenance the idea. [More…]
The staffing arrangement for Ministers was issued over my signature. [More…]
That woman has worked for me for some 3 years and is better at the position than most men one could find. [More…]
But if one looks through the ministerial staffing arrangements over a range of 24 Ministers one will find, as I recall it, that there are some Ministers who have a woman as their principal private secretary. [More…]
Women of such quality will be employed irrespective of their age, race, religion, colour or any other form of discrimination which anybody might be able to dream up. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate in his reply, amongst a lot of chin-waffle, said that the Attorney-General had authorised an investigation to be made in view of allegations in the Press and because to use his words, ‘questions have arisen whether a serious breach of the Banking (Foreign Exchange) Regulations may have been committed or attempted’. [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government in the Senate ascertain how information came to the AttorneyGeneral that foreign money had been brought to Australia by 2 Iraqis in breach of regulations, and whether the Attorney-General had put his seal of approval on any report from a so-called London correspondent who was, in fact, Rupert Murdoch? [More…]
Is this country to continue to be run with governments being made and broken, and men being made and broken, by snide, slick innuendoes of a lying, perjuring pimp- Rupert Murdoch? [More…]
Men at some time are masters of their fates: [More…]
Very eminent legal men and professors all over Australia have made their comments on this and they are all undivided in their opinions. [More…]
These comments have been put forward by honourable senators on the government side of the chamber. [More…]
Many legal men have given interpretations of that section which give no foundation for the actions of the Governor-General on 1 1 November last year. [More…]
Only recently in an editorial in the Melbourne Herald newspaper dated 18 February 1 976 these comments were made: [More…]
This is obviously not possible in my case but mention might be made of 3 people from amongst all those who have fought for the constitutional development of the Northern Territory. [More…]
Territorians generally owe a debt of gratitude to these men and those who went before them. [More…]
The building trade is heavily dependent upon government contracts and if these are not forthcoming we could well see massive unemployment and an exodus of men whose expertise we can ill afford to lose. [More…]
The Master Builders Association of the Northern Territory, a group which gave strong support to the present Government’s campaign last year, has expressed grave concern. [More…]
Its executive officer, Mr M. Elliott said in the Northern Territory News of February 26: ‘There will be catastrophic consequences if the Government does not reverse some of its decisions ‘. [More…]
Mr Elliott went on to say that the Government could not expect to turn off the tap for 6 months without some substantial ramifications developing. [More…]
The situation has been compounded by the Government’s freezing of low interest loans promised to people wishing to build their own homes. [More…]
It is difficult to understand how a government committed to private enterprise can stand by and see building contractors go to the wall for the want of what is a fairly simple decision. [More…]
Unless work is forthcoming men will be stood down, equipment disposed of and experienced supervisors deployed elsewhere. [More…]
We urge the Government to give careful consideration to this matter. [More…]
If the present Government wishes to make a significant contribution in the field of education it might look to the area of vocational training of Aboriginal and other rural youth. [More…]
The whole system of post-primary education of Aboriginal children is in danger of collapse because of the lack of both employment opportunities and appropriate training. [More…]
The Government’s stated intention of continuing financial assistance to voluntary welfare organisations will be welcomed by the Young Men’s Christian Association, the Young Women’s Christian Association, the Northern Territory Council for Social Services and other agencies at present operating in the Territory. [More…]
Three regional councils for social development have been established in the Territory, and each is at a critical stage of growth. [More…]
On 1 8 November an article appeared in the Melbourne Sun under the caption ‘Kerr calls in top PS men’, and the date line showing Canberra, in the following terms: [More…]
Greater men than I have taken on causes for a longer period than 10 years. [More…]
To proceed to my bone of contention the purpose of the establishment of a national park in the Australian Capital Territory was to encompass the Mount Kelly ranges. [More…]
The highlights relating to its establishment are these: In 1972 the then Minister for the Interior, Mr Hunt, virtually announced that the area would comprise 278 square miles. [More…]
Subsequently the Whitlam Labor Government introduced the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Bill, and that Bill was adopted. [More…]
-The Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations will be aware that many men and women presently training under the National Employment and Training Scheme are about to be forced to take a wage cut- in fact, a cut of approximately $68 or $70 in their weekly income. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate whether this drastic action has been taken by the Government because some people supposedly have abused the scheme? [More…]
The Government ceiling on Public Service appointments has prohibited the employment of thousands of youngsters throughout this nation. [More…]
I do not know what the Government will save as a result of this restriction. [More…]
Many young men and women who have a tertiary education probably are unable to obtain a job in society. [More…]
The number of young school teachers I notice who are now getting jobs around Parliament House is amazing. [More…]
I know the Government is very proud of what it has done in this area but it should think again about this aspect. [More…]
We deliberately have made and shall make local government a vehicle for our legislation on aged persons homes and hostels, sheltered employment, handicapped children, Meals on Wheels, home care and nursing, nursing homes, and homeless men and women. [More…]
These are all activities which cannot be closely regulated from the centre and are best planned and implemented by local government working with local communities. [More…]
Additional responsibilities were imposed on local government there because the train services either broke down or were otherwise delayed. [More…]
A vast number of men are employed on the manual operation of clocks. [More…]
It is because of the plight of local government in Victoria that the question of railways becomes relevant. [More…]
The situation is farcical when it is considered that 2 men- a Commonwealth inspector and a State inspector, both highly qualified- stand side by side on the killing chain, each looking for exactly the same thing, each inspecting glands for various diseases. [More…]
In that situation there is a requirement only for a State inspector. [More…]
I have heard the point made so often over the years, and Senator Scott made it again, that it is a great compliment to the Country Party when we oppose it because it shows how well it stands up for the interests of the man on the land. [More…]
As Senator Scott said, for half a century the National Country Party by means of an interesting gerrymander has been able to keep its representation in the Parliament. [More…]
But what has happened to the people it is supposed to represent, the men on the land? [More…]
After all the concessions and socalled mollycoddling that the Country Party has given to the man on the land, the Country Party would like to blame the former Labor Government for his plight. [More…]
What has happened to -the men on the” land? [More…]
Women in Australia, the wives and mothers of our society, face a very difficult situation at present. [More…]
I remember vividly that one of the theories being put forward by economists at that time as a means of dampening down the population explosion was that government should so arrange the economy that it was necessary for just about every adult in our society to work. [More…]
Their theory was to arrange the economy so that it would be just about impossible for a family to subsist on one wage and, by doing so, men and women would be discouraged from having children. [More…]
The theory was, therefore, that people could be persuaded- not in so many words and not explicitly or honestly- by governments to keep down the size of their families, and thereby do something about the population explosion. [More…]
While ever men dare to go to sea in ships to engage in the fishing industry there will be problems. [More…]
Is he aware that these 2 companies employ some 800 men, all of whom are in danger of retrenchment unless some form of protection by way of increased tariff or quotas is applied? [More…]
I have a note in front of me which states that the medical evidence given by Dr Hawkins also ruled out the possibility of the men inflicting the injuries from which Perla Sweet died, the injuries having been inflicted at least 14 hours later. [More…]
I think from reading the evidence that that is an accurate statement. [More…]
Power men and horning into Aurukun and similar places. [More…]
The Commonwealth Employment Service in Caloundra is located in and administered by Carrigans Real Estate. [More…]
It has come to my notice that this office is refusing to register as unemployed those men and women who do not conform to Mr Carrigan’s idea of being well dressed. [More…]
It was my belief that the dress rule applied to the payment of benefit and not to registration with the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
You can, of course, see the logical implication, that is, that if sufficient number of unemployed are refused registration the figures begin to look quite good for the Government. [More…]
Any mining company or fishermen or forestry men or any occupation they can come and talk to the Aboriginal people finding out no yes if Aboriginal people say no or yes this way is proper way. [More…]
Other areas in which women needed the establishment of some sort of community centre were the areas of health, shelter, refuge, counselling and rape. [More…]
Some very hard things have been said about the sort of women who have taken advantage of these centres and the sort of women who have set up these centres. [More…]
But I suppose that it is a bit hard for men to understand that there are times when women want to talk to people who understand exactly what their health problem is- and that is not a man. [More…]
For very little outlay and upkeep such centres can be established where women can go and find out that they are not freaks, that the things that happen to them happen to other women and that somebody ought to be taking some notice of the things that happen to them. [More…]
By the same token, women who because of their domestic difficulties, because of overworkthere will be more of them- have broken down and have found that they cannot stand the pressure of working, keeping a family and looking after a house, need some place where they can go after the first violent reaction so that they can find their way back into the community, talk to their fellows or their peers, talk about ways to manage their lives and ways to manage the seemingly endless problems that come up. [More…]
When that breakdown comes, when violence occurs in the home that seems to be happening with increasing frequency these days- there needs to be a place of quiet where people can go, talk to other people, talk out the problem and be assured that things can be better, that something can be done, that they are not mad but that it is just the pressure of modern society that has pushed them out of kilter for the moment. [More…]
Increasingly- I do not want to go into this argument- it is not the church anymore. [More…]
I am not saying that there does not need to be a place where men can go in such circumstances. [More…]
But in this instance I am very much aware of the fact that there needs to be a place where women can go to seek shelter and refuge and some advice. [More…]
What employer would dare ask a man what arrangements he had made for his children or whether he was being a proper parent before he gave him a job? [More…]
Only men would do that to women. [More…]
Men would not do it to other men. [More…]
I desire to ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate a question. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Women’s Liberation Movement believes that women and men should be equal and that the Government has appointed a women’s adviser at a salary of $24,000 a year, following the silly nonsense of the previous Government, will the Government consider appointing a special men’s adviser to the Government on such problems as abandoned husbands in order to spend more of this country’s money and to bring about equality of the sexes, as desired by the Women’s Liberation Movement? [More…]
Therefore I do not really think there is need for a special adviser to the Prime Minister on men’s affairs. [More…]
Men tend to look after themselves reasonably well. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that those of us who are happily married certainly get the right advice on how to look after women properly. [More…]
I am concerned that it is heavily weighted against women and, perhaps, only lightly weighted against men. [More…]
I fully appreciate that there are circumstances in which men in particular positions are discriminated against. [More…]
At the moment my prime concern is that women are discriminated against whether they stay at home or choose to go to work. [More…]
As a taxpayer he may be interested to know that there is discrimination against women. [More…]
Perhaps this is why there are only 5000 women among the 46 000 top money earners in Australia. [More…]
I am prepared to say that because of my parliamentary and community duties it is necessary for me to employ a housekeeper for the welfare of my son and my family but that the Commissioner of Taxation has seen fit not to allow me a $364 deduction in respect of that housekeeper. [More…]
I am concerned that this is perhaps one of the reasons that women stay out of Parliament. [More…]
After all, we have only 6 women in this chamber while there are 58 men. [More…]
I assure honourable senators that many men and women in the community also await that decision with interest. [More…]
While I am speaking on this matter I refer to the matters mentioned by Senator Coleman in relation to women’s refuges. [More…]
The Department of Social Security has responsibility under the homeless persons assistance program. [More…]
The persons eligible for assistance under this program are men and women without a settled home through social factors such as alcoholism, inadequacy, domestic conflict or similar reasons. [More…]
However, it is felt that refuges for women and children made homeless by domestic conflict are funded under the community health program which is administered by the Hospitals and Health Services Commission. [More…]
The arrangement with regard to women’s refuges is being reviewed by the Department of Health and the Department of Social Security. [More…]
As the honourable senator knows, the women’s health centres and refuges, as we refer to them at the present time, come under the responsibility of my colleague the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt). [More…]
As a government we recognise the role of the States in the provision of health care services. [More…]
Any review or discussions which we undertake in these matters will take into account that State Government’s responsibility as well as Federal Government responsibility. [More…]
If there is any further information which I am able to offer with regard to my program for homeless persons or the women’s health centres and refuges I shall obtain it for the honourable senator. [More…]
I direct a question either to the Minister for Social Security or to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, whoever has the responsibility for the matter. [More…]
Did some one hundred and twenty of these men apply for unemployment benefits? [More…]
Has the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, instructed the Registrar of Social Security at Hamilton in Victoria that these men are not to receive the benefit? [More…]
Did the chief industrial officer of Thomas Borthwick & Son Pty Ltd send a telegram to the Registrar seeking to influence the latter’s decision on the workers’ entitlement to benefit? [More…]
I draw the Minister’s attention to the fact that in the past women have been extremely severely disadvantaged in obtaining access to technical education. [More…]
This has not been the result only of negligent government policy; it has been the result also of prejudice on the part of employers and also, I admit, on the part of trade unions. [More…]
However, the time has come in our society when women are called upon for a number of reasons to support themselves and, as that time has come, it is incumbent upon a responsible government to ensure that technical education is available equally to women as it is to men in our society. [More…]
The TAFE in Australia report of 1975 contains recommendations regarding this matter. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will take steps to implement those recommendations. [More…]
I have mentioned in this chamber before that the latest census figures available showed that 80 per cent of women in the work force had no skills. [More…]
I did not mention at that time that the parallel figure for men was something like 60 per cent. [More…]
They are the most vulnerable to retrenchment in times of economic hardship, such as the present time, and they have no opportunity, particularly with the current reduction in opportunities, to acquire skills through the National Employment and Training scheme. [More…]
On the committee was an assistant secretary from the Department of Labor, Miss Stephen, for whom the committee was named, a representative from the Department of Education and 2 representatives from the Department of Aboriginal Affairs. [More…]
It is interesting that members of this group found as they moved around the communities that the old men were unhappy to see the young people go away. [More…]
For example, is the alternative government of this country prepared to condone a situation where there is invasion of privacy and where members of that Party will hire private investigation agents to spy on their fellow members? [More…]
Over the last eight or nine years there has been one member of that Party who has been denied equality of opportunity with all the others, and one of the first to deny him that equality was the former Attorney-General in the previous Government- and I am not referring to Mr Enderby. [More…]
What is the situation at the moment? [More…]
The minutes of the Federal Executive meeting held in Canberra show that these men were cross-examined by Mr Whitlam, and the cross-examination makes very interesting reading. [More…]
From 2 p.m. to 2.40 p.m. 8 men entered the R. A. [More…]
From photographs I identified the men as Mr Haynes, Mr Harradine, Mr Moxon, Mr Shanahan, Mr Grove, Mr Unsworth, Mr Bray and one other who I could not identify. [More…]
At 4.30 p.m. these men left the R. A. [More…]
I leave aside several important issues dealt with in the statement, such as child care facilities and taxation. [More…]
I ask: Can the Minister say whether this proposal might be considered, particularly as it would expand the degree of choice for womenand in some cases for men- as to whether they work in employment outside the family and home? [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Security aware that 3 men employed by the Dewez Export Co. of Brisbane were given one week’s notice because they refused to pay a voluntary levy of $10 a week sought from members of the Storemen and Packers Union to fund workers sacked in the wool bale dispute in which that Union is demanding a reduction in the maximum bale weight? [More…]
If the Minister is aware of the news report, does she also know that two of the men, according to that report, do not have other jobs to go to and will join the ranks of the unemployed as from this week? [More…]
In the circumstances of their dismissal, will these men be eligible for unemployment benefits? [More…]
I am not aware of the circumstances surrounding the dismissal of the 3 men who have been referred to by the honourable senator. [More…]
However, I would point out that a condition of eligibility for unemployment benefit under section 107 of the Social Services Act is that the applicant must be unemployed and his unemployment must not be due to his being a direct participant in a strike. [More…]
Members of striking unions at the establishment at which the industrial dispute is in force are not eligible for unemployment benefit according to section 107c of the Act. [More…]
Persons who are stood down at other establishments as a result of the dispute in the first case are to be granted unemployment benefit subject to the normal conditions, irrespective of their union membership. [More…]
Whilst the honourable senator has asked a precise questionI will obtain an answer on that for the honourable senator- I would point out that the conditions I have just mentioned with regard to members of striking unions are matters that have been upheld by honourable senators opposite on previous occasions. [More…]
I can only reiterate that these are the provisions of the Act under which my Department works. [More…]
Is it not a fact that by an action of the Government the Australian Broadcasting Commission is now $8m short of its needs for this year? [More…]
Is it not correct that as a result of an action by the Government many programs have been cut and many men have been sacked? [More…]
Will the Minister be careful to state that where permanent members of the ABC have not been dismissed, many men in the category of temporary employees or under contract have been sacked? [More…]
Half the ablebodied men in many villages are blinded and crippled by disease and that has drastic consequences on agricultural production in a primitive society. [More…]
Of course, the Government has the numbers. [More…]
Therefore, I leave with the Minister a genuine suggestion which the Government may investigate. [More…]
I am aware that many of these arguments have been repeated over and over. [More…]
If Senator Walsh would like to listen he might learn that the wage earner in Australia has been hit by the Labor Government’s action. [More…]
The machinery and aircraft which these men use have either been dispensed with or put into mothballs. [More…]
On Senator McLaren’s list the people whose names are marked by an asterisk are those who are getting this bounty- the middle men. [More…]
It works for the release of prisoners of conscience- men and women detained anywhere for their beliefs, colour, ethnic origin, religion or languagealways provided that they have neither used nor advocated violence. [More…]
Amnesty International opposes torture and capital punishment in all cases, without reservation. [More…]
It is independent of all governments, even though members of this Parliament in their individual capacities support the movement. [More…]
If I may disgress for one moment, I simply remind the Senate that a year ago an Australian Amnesty International mission went to Indonesia, in respect of which concern had been expressed about the rights of prisoners. [More…]
At the time we sent that petition to Mr Kosygin neither of those men had been charged, neither had been brought to trial. [More…]
The members of the Amnesty International group pay tribute to the courage of these men, for what they have done, for the work that they are doing on behalf of political prisoners in their own country and in other countries, and for the fact that like other Amnesty International groups, they have taken an interest in political prisoners around the world. [More…]
Accordingly, we have produced a petition, which has been circulated in this Parliament, to be forwarded on to Mr Brenzhnev. [More…]
Already 122 members of the Thirtieth Parliament- more than twothirds of all the members of the Australian Parliament- have signed this petition. [More…]
It is an expression of bi-partisan support for the principle of human rights and for the desire that these men should get a fair trial. [More…]
I put Mr Woolcott, our Ambassador in Jakarta, in the category of being one of the guilty men. [More…]
He sent a cable to Mr Peacock suggesting that the Australian Government should lay low in respect to the issue of East Timor. [More…]
To the everlasting credit of some individual, that cable was leaked so that we knew what the Department of Foreign Affairs was endeavouring to do. [More…]
It was also endeavouring to influence the attitude of the Labor Prime Minister and the Labor Government prior to the dissolution of the Parliament on 1 1 November last year. [More…]
This document I have before me states that all the people shown on itthey were Apodeti members- were detained in Dili, that they had been taken away by the Fretilin’s gang. [More…]
Sitting at the next table having a cold beer, as Australians normally would do, was this gentleman, the secretarygeneral of the Apodeti movement. [More…]
This document is a tissue of lies. [More…]
The Indonesian Government ought to hang its head in shame over it. [More…]
It is a document that perpetuates the lies that have been poured out on Indonesian radio over the last year or so. [More…]
One of the saddest things that I have ever witnessed in my whole life and which I will never forget happened during this time that I was in East Timor when young Jose took me around on my own as an Australian- as a member of Parliament. [More…]
I was able to meet a lot of East Timorese people and in particular old men of 60 to 70 years of age. [More…]
These elderly men said: ‘You from Australia. [More…]
It is of concern that the present Government has seen fit not to reconvene that Committee. [More…]
1 think it is rather a strange determination for the Government to make when in actual fact its policy, it says, is to look very closely at what is happening to prices, price controls and wages. [More…]
The previous Government produced, under the auspices of the responsible Minister, the National Shopping Basket Survey which was conducted on 16-17 October 1975 in all States. [More…]
I think the National Shopping Basket Survey was a most comprehensive guide to the ordinary consumer, normally the woman of the house who does the shopping each week or to some men of the house who like to keep their hand in and keep their eye on prices too. [More…]
1 ) Did four Aboriginal men and women, a John Lester, Dianne Mumbler, Andrea Carriage and Neil Thorne graduate as primary school teachers from Armidale Teacher s College in 1975. [More…]
Obviously the men did not need it. [More…]
Two of the five newsmen were, of course, not Australian citizens and so, strictly, their protection abroad was not the primary responsibility of the Australian Government. [More…]
Nevertheless the Department was happy- and indeed considered itself obliged- to do what it could to ascertain the facts in regard to all five men and to keep their families informed. [More…]
On 11 November, that is the day after publication of East’s report in the Sydney Morning Herald, the Department contacted the International Red Cross in Geneva to ask whether they would arrange for their representative in Dili to interview the militiamen concerned. [More…]
Efforts were made by the ICRC to locate the militiamen but were not successful; in response to our inquiries we were told by the ICRC on 26 November that the men had returned to the border areas but that the FRETILIN authorities in Dili were being asked to assist the ICRC to locate the militiamen. [More…]
In the event, the ICRC team was evacuated from Dili on 6 December without having been able to interview the militiamen. [More…]
Despite persistent inquiries, it was not until 12 November that the Government received through Indonesian channels firm evidence that the five men were killed during the attack on Balibo. [More…]
As you will be aware, this evidence included documents, personal effects and human remains. [More…]
The Government was also passed a letter from the Raja of Atsabe, a leader of the Apodeti party, describing where the bodies of the newsmen were found. [More…]
I rise to make just a few points in the debate on the motion for the first reading of the Wheat Export Charge Amendment Bill 1976. [More…]
It seems to me and, indeed, to most Australians, in view of the decisions they have made over a period of 12 months or so, to be strange that the Whitlam men in this place are still intent, regardless of the thoughts and wishes- Quorum formed). [More…]
The industry is tremendously dependent on and liable to the vagaries of climate not only at home but also in the major producing countries. [More…]
I think of the manufacturers of farm machinery, maintenance men, skilled mechanics and tradesmen, salesmen, superphosphate spreaders, carriers, the State railways which earn so much from freight, and so on across the board. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Leader of the Government, and I preface it by referring to the sentiments I expressed when I first spoke in this chamber about the late Senator Sir Shane Paltridge, whom I regard as being one of the finest men ever to sit in this Parliament. [More…]
Can the Minister comment on this scurrilous defamation of a deceased senator? [More…]
I have heard from Western Australia that copies of the royal commission’s report have been sent to Canberra and that it is expected that a copy of the report will be tabled in the Commonwealth Parliament tomorrow. [More…]
As we were joint parties to the setting up of this royal commission I do not know why we must follow behind the Western Australian Government and learn of the report of the royal commission after it has been published in all the newspapers in Western Australia. [More…]
The royal commission found that there was great neglect of duty by the police in Western Australia; that there was a conspiracy by the police in Western Australia; that they arrested men who were not in breach of the law; that they made up cases against men who were not in breach of the law; and that they made up claims of having arrested men whom they never arrested. [More…]
In Western Australia today 22 men have been convicted for offences that they never committed. [More…]
But the police are not the only guilty men. [More…]
But the information contained in this finding of the royal commission was known to the Western Australian Government in March last year. [More…]
That Government had this information but it did nothing about the matter. [More…]
They have not long been in contact with white men. [More…]
We had financed the construction of certain buildings and a sewerage treatment plant at their settlement. [More…]
I endeavoured to convince him that, as the Department was paying for the cost of the trip, he should permit the truck, which after all was the Aborigines’ truck, to be used for conveying these Aborigines to this ceremony and organise the work for the 3 days for which the Aborigines would be away so that he would not have any use for the truck. [More…]
When the Aborigines arrived at Skull Creek 22 policemen raided them. [More…]
They had brought in reinforcements under Senior Inspector Brown of Kalgoorlie. [More…]
There were 40 men, 15 women and 21 children in the 3 vehicles. [More…]
The police sent some of the elderly men, the women and the children into the bush and promptly proceeded to arrest the others. [More…]
The royal commission found that there was a conspiracy among the policemen. [More…]
Anyone who sought to protect them from that time on was seeking to protect guilty men and therefore became partly guilty himself. [More…]
I do not uphold what these policemen did and I will send Mr Parker’- I believe he was the Deputy Commissioner of Police- ‘out to investigate the whole matter as a result of the Syddall report and to take action against any policeman who has done wrong in the execution of his duty’. [More…]
Naturally, there are more ways than by solely using Parliament to ensure that a permanent record is made of my comments on the 2 vacancies. [More…]
The circumstances which have persuaded me to speak on the 1975 casual Senate vacancies include the many self-righteous statements made by Government senators during the Address-in-Reply debate. [More…]
Certain of my comments later will indicate that honourable senators opposite were not entirely the men and women of high principle that they have suggested this year that they were. [More…]
Additionally, many deliberately incorrect statements have been made recently about the vacancies. [More…]
What did the Indonesian Government say about the death of these journalists? [More…]
He said that pictures of the house where the journalists are said to have died and their remains which were forwarded to the Australian Embassy in Jakarta were inconsistent with the story that the men had been incinerated in the house. [More…]
I salute those brave men who were prepared to go to the front line, as indeed many journalists are prepared to go to the front line in order to tell the rest of the world what is happening. [More…]
The Joint Intelligence Organisation informed the Department of Foreign Affairs of Indonesian involvement two days after the men died on October 16. [More…]
The JIO was in possession of messages that confirmed that Indonesia knew exactly how the five men died- although Jakarta authorities have continued to deny any involvement or little knowledge. [More…]
One thing I should say about the attitude of the present Government is that it is no good trying to make political points out of any criticisms it might have of the conduct of the Australian Labor Party when in government in relation to this matter. [More…]
The assumptions on which the present Government came to power and the circumstances in which it came to power in November 1975 carried with them the implicit promise that it would do better than the Labor Government did in respect of all these things. [More…]
Grand design strategies are played by the dice men of international relations and the argument goes something like this: It is desirable in an area such as South East Asia that there not be small nation states; it is desirable from the point of view of Australia that we should be able to deal with our immediate neighbour, Indonesia, without the embarrassment of an independent state anywhere in between; it is desirable from the point of view of the whole region, having regard to a genuine desire, which I think is shared by all parties, for stability in the area, that there should not be any area in which any form of instability is allowed to arise. [More…]
I asked myself whether it was possible for the Department of Foreign Affairs, with men who have served for years in various posts in ports of call around the globe and who surely have built up some expertise in information gathering, to be misinformed about a situation which is occurring only 600 miles from our backdoor, or front door, which is the term that I am sure my colleague, Senator Robertson from Darwin would demand that I use. [More…]
Whichever door it be, this situation is occurring 600 miles from our shores, and our own Department of Foreign Affairs could not give the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence any information of a factual nature. [More…]
In fact, I am told that prior to leaving the meeting Mr Renouf admitted to at least one member of the Committee that it was patently obvious that the department would have to update its information on East Timor. [More…]
I mention that at the outset because I think it is worth while noting that its significance- I say this with no disrespect to the 2 Press men in the Press Gallery- by way of Press coverage of the debate on the Bill seems to be minimal, even though, as I say, it will have far reaching consequences in Australia. [More…]
Some years ago any debate on education would have received a tremendous amount of coverage. [More…]
They have made mention of various aspects of the Schools Commission. [More…]
Those are the circumstances in which a scurrilous, disreputable, irresponsible member of this Parliament has taken up a scandal 1 5 years after the event and 10 years after the demise of the Minister and put to the country, without one tittle of evidence, an allegation that our former colleague, who is now deceased, was corrupt. [More…]
Mr President, I am most obliged that this Parliament has provided a forum in which in measured terms, not in any degree exceeding the gravity of the terms of the defamer, I can defend as best I can one of the most honourable men ever to serve the Crown as a Minister or as a member of this chamber. [More…]
The cases admitted, or alleged, before the American Senate sub-committee on multinationals are only the tip of an iceberg that everyone knew was there but which nobody cared much about until the figures grew enormous and the names of the men said to have been bribed strayed from the Middle East to countries where such things are not supposed to happen. [More…]
I think my colleagues on the Opposition side are decent and honourable men. [More…]
I do not think there is one of them who is prepared to get up tonight and echo the words of their Leader in another place, that a man who served in this Parliament, a man with whom many of them served and knew as I knew him, was a corrupt Minister. [More…]
There were 5 police cars of different types conveying the policemen. [More…]
Two policemen in one car, who were strangers to the town because they were part of the reinforcements, stopped the station wagon and found that there were 5 Aboriginal men in the station wagon. [More…]
Two other policemen hailed the Land Rover, put the Aboriginals in the police paddy wagon, drove down to where the lorry was and arrested all the young able-bodied men at the lorry. [More…]
Having arrested the young able-bodied men in the lorry the police took them to the police lock-up. [More…]
The policemen had a conference and decided that they could not identify who had arrested whom. [More…]
You charge him with this, this and this’, and so the arrangements were made. [More…]
I do not have any desire to condemn or find any pleasure in condemning policemen. [More…]
I think that we must come down on the side of more lenient treatment of Aborigines. [More…]
But what do we do in respect of ordinary policemen acting under instructions of their sergeant who have gone into Laverton, made mistakes, and lied their way through all the processes, lied even to the Royal Commission, for the purpose of covering up their defaults? [More…]
Are these men who should properly be in the police force? [More…]
Are these men who should have powers of arrest? [More…]
I point out that nothing can be done because the West Australian Government is trying to protect its police force. [More…]
Therefore, the only appeal I can make is to the Federal Government which has the right to intercede on behalf of people. [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…]
I am quite sure that the Australian people would be eager to see and to hear interviews with a man such as Solzhenitsyn who must be one of the most courageous men of massive integrity alive in the world today and also one of the great fighters for freedom. [More…]
I want to advert to one final matter, namely, the distressing situation in which we saw our newsmen killed in East Timor. [More…]
But there are some guilty men who have not been exposed. [More…]
The guilty men are the newspaper proprietors who sent those people in there to obtain a sensational story. [More…]
Sensational story they got with the deaths of those men. [More…]
I ask: Who are the guilty men? [More…]
On whose shoulders rest the deaths of those newsmen? [More…]
Mr President, I apologise to you and the Senate for having taken its time but I hope that the Government will get the message that when a senator wants to speak on a particular matter, the Government should not gag the debate in future. [More…]
Has the Minister seen an article in yesterday’s Daily Mirror headed PMG Men Accused of Swindle’ which contains allegations by a former Telecommunications Commission linesman that telephone subscribers are footing the bill for Australia-wide calls recorded on subscribers’ meters but made by Commission technicians with tapping devices, achieved by the technician either by clipping a portable automatic dialling device onto overhead lines and then attaching markers to cables to remind him when a householder is away, thereby allowing others to misuse the line as well, or by attaching a dialling device to a subscriber’s severed cable in a metal street terminal box? [More…]
I do not know specifically the composition of the delegation as between men and women but I shall certainly seek the information for the honourable senator and let her have an answer. [More…]
He set out quite clearly the need for the Maritime College to train officers and other men who will man our ships in the future. [More…]
On the first page of his report, without beating around the bush, when referring to the need of training requirements for seagoing personnel he stated: [More…]
It is quite clear that the training of deck officers and men in our maritime industry is a mixture of the acquisition of experience and of passing examinations for certificates of competency. [More…]
The examinations for the certificates, in the words of Mr Summers which are found on page 3 of the report, are: not always up to date in their references to operational requirements on board. [More…]
Nor do they thoroughly test an applicant’s practical operation of modern equipment, such as radar, or of hyperbolic navigation systems such as Decca and Loran. [More…]
Moreover, it is very 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 types of shipping and cargo handling that are developing. [More…]
It is equally important that if we are to produce an efficient fishing industry capable of competing around our own shores with the Japanese, the Russians, the Taiwanese and others who fish here, we must produce the men with the knowledge and skill to efficiently man those modern vessels. [More…]
This is not to denigrate those fishermen we have now or those mariners we have in our merchant marine. [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…]
Is the Government giving urgent consideration to bolstering the Australian shipbuilding industry and. [More…]
in particular the Whyalla yard, as the jobs of 2800 men are involved. [More…]
I know it to be a fact in the case of many young men in Queensland, particularly those who work in the construction and the mining industries where huge sums of money, more than the annual wage of many people in our community, can be earned in perhaps 6 months. [More…]
It is because of people in the second category who do not seriously attempt to get work and who would choose to live, as I said earlier, off their ‘fat’ and on a taxfree income that the Government must set up machinery to make sure that that additional income is not tax free. [More…]
Many supporting statements have been put on this matter. [More…]
There is a slightly higher range in which, given the fact that the persons concerned may have dependantssay, a wife and 2 children- their normal deductions at income tax time would cover whatever tax they would pay on that additional payment from the Government for the rest of the year. [More…]
Why is it necessary for a socialist regime that practices equal opportunity to allow 600 000 to 700 000 of its men in their best ages to go to work for the capitalist exploiters? [More…]
Why do these men not stay in a socialist paradise? [More…]
Who prevents migrants from becoming skilled tradesmen? [More…]
They should be told in their own language about the Australian way of life, about the services which the Commonwealth Government provides and about the numerous facilities which are provided by local, State and Federal governments. [More…]
I feel that a certain percentage of the time allocated in ethnic radio to each ethnic community, especially for those who have arrived in Australia recently, should be devoted to the teaching of English by their country men who speak their own language. [More…]
Turning to the construction industry, the Government has decided to cut $25.7m off the funds available for the National Capital Development Commission for the development of the Territory. [More…]
Of course, this means even greater unemployment particularly in the building and construction areas. [More…]
These were men who, in most cases, had been employed for several years in this Territory and who had their homes here. [More…]
Big construction firms operating in the A.C.T., such as Leighton Contractors Pty Ltd and Citra Constructions Ltd were, at the beginning of the year, each employing about 600 men. [More…]
Now they are down to 200 men. [More…]
All of the remainder are unemployed with no possibility of employment resulting from last Thursday night’s decision. [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…]
Cadet service for girls will be given consideration after the new scheme is properly established and then the Government would welcome submissions on this. [More…]
Is the Department of Construction currently engaged in extending the Governor-General’s study at Government House in Canberra by two feet; if so (a) how many men are engaged in this project, and what is the expected time of completion - [More…]
They are men of the land. [More…]
Where would they get employment if they sold their properties? [More…]
However, there were enough men who had enough faith in the wool industry and enough faith that wool was the best fibre that man would ever know, and who stuck by the industry. [More…]
How would it have been if these courageous men had not had faith in their product. [More…]
In our State we have enough men who have faith in the apple industry. [More…]
We need the employment it creates. [More…]
There are men who have the faith to believe that given time and a little technology we will soon have more competitive prices and the tariffs can be reduced. [More…]
For example, this will mean the transfer of long service leave provisions from legislation to the award, the construction of some form of registration system between the employer and the employee, maybe by a preference clause in the Waterside Workers’ Award, introduction of new funding methods, reorganisation of employment in the major ports including methods of transfer of men between companies. [More…]
I emphasise those words: ‘Methods of transfer of men’. [More…]
Fairly high payments have to be made under the award. [More…]
We have found that the waterside workers have negotiated some agreements, but the only satisfaction they have received is for some uninformed people to refer to the agreements as sweetheart agreements although smooth transport operation have ensued. [More…]
Due largely to wage increases under the 1974 National Agreement, the average weekly earnings of waterside workers showed a general increase over 1973-74. [More…]
Those of men employed under the normal award provisions rose from $ 1 34.28 to $ 1 62.89 per week - [More…]
The average weekly earnings of men employed under special agreements increased from $162.73 to $208.64 - [More…]
The document refers then to the three or four very vexatious problems that have arisen as a direct consequence of the permanent employment situation. [More…]
Sevedoring A has 2000 men and employment for only 1000 and Stevedoring B has 2000 men and employment for 3000; yet ships are locked up and men are idle. [More…]
It refers also to the subject of redundancy and the pensioning off of surplus personnel which, as I have said, under the terms of this arrangement was to be done in the same way as other employees are retired, that is, on proper notice and with fair compensation on the application of either the employer or the employee, but since 1972 the employees have insisted that it is their sole prerogative to say when they will retire. [More…]
The Stevedoring Industry (Temporary Provisions) Amendment Bill and the Stevedoring Industry Charge BDI for 1976 constitute very simple legislation for they merely seek to extend the provisions that apply to this most important industry from the end of June this year to the. [More…]
It seeks in the first mentioned Bill to provide the authority for reimbursement of the Fremantle Port Authority for the employment of some 30 crane drivers and it gives authority to the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority to reimburse those men who worked for that Authority and who have since become members of the Waterside Workers Federation and therefore to whom are relevant all those conditions and payments that are due to members of that particular Federation. [More…]
Mr Clyde Cameron, when Minister for Labor and Immigration in the Whitlam Government, looked at the possibility of nationalisation in this industry, but he did not proceed along that course. [More…]
The Northrop recommendations are related to the problem of mobility and transferability of labour on the waterfront. [More…]
In this regard I think Senator Wright highlighted the circumstance that occurs from time to time when in the same report one stevedoring company can be short of 1000 men and another can have 1500 men too many. [More…]
I was quite amazed last night to hear Senator Baume, speaking for the Government, claim that this Bill, which increases child endowment payments, represented some sort of radical program for a genuine redistribution of wealth throughout the community, that it was innovative and that nothing like this had ever been done for women or families before. [More…]
I suggest that programs started under the Labor Government, such as the National Employment and Training scheme which for the first time gave women and men an opportunity to train for employment on an allowance comparable to average weekly earnings, were a much more radical step. [More…]
The setting up of a national child care program, which I am pleased to see this Government will continue in some way, was much more radical. [More…]
Of course, the removal of discrimination within the Public Service gave more opportunities to women, as did the introduction of maternity leave and, to a lesser extent, paternity leave for government employees. [More…]
Some criticism has been levelled at the Labor Government during the period 1972-75. [More…]
He said that the Whitlam Labor Government had started to face up to the basic problems confronting agriculture and the dairy industry in particular. [More…]
It will be remembered that the Labor Government did not, in fact, have a 3-year term of office. [More…]
It is asking a little too much for any government to overcome the residue of problems as a result of 23 years of mismanagement by another government. [More…]
But, as I have said, the Labor Government when in office set out to restructure the industry by the implementation of some of the McCarthy Committee recommendations. [More…]
For the first time in the history of the dairy industry there was an authority looking after it which contained men with marketing expertise. [More…]
The problem must not be compounded by allowing young men to enter the industry, as thousands are doing at the moment, and finding themselves at the mercy of the money lenders of this country, with their wives and children being forced into work in the dairy and the cowyards Such a situation only brings the industry back to the state in which it was when I grew up. [More…]
But that is the future for the dairy industry in Australia unless this Government moves urgently, firmly and heavily. [More…]
Among the men, women and children who marched were dairy farmers who had travelled many miles to attend, trade unionists in their overalls and dust coats, and businessmen in smart suits and ties. [More…]
Last year we paid just $8m to about 13 000 gentlemen on the waterfront and expect to pay about $ 12m this year for idle time- idle time, defended by Senator Primmer, defended by Senator Walsh, and, of course, by Senator Gietzelt, who led for the Opposition in this debate in his new found role, with that charm of novelty that a new proposition brings to him. [More…]
He has even grown a little benign because some acquaintance with the farming features of a decent life where men work has given his otherwise class-pursuing attitude a little benificence. [More…]
He defends the payment of $8m to 13 000 waterside workers for idle time. [More…]
We will be paying $3.5m as a supplement to dairy farmers and $8m for idle time for the waterfront workers. [More…]
These little men, these miserable men, these socialist men who only give public money where they cannot multiply votes and in this area because the agriculture industries as a whole provided only 6 per cent of the votes, they ignored them, But they gave $8m for idle time on the waterfront, $500m for the unemployed, and all the rest of their squandermania. [More…]
I know from what I hear in Victoria that judges in that State, men of calibre and excellent appointments, are doing a magnificent job. [More…]
In the history of our country few men have attracted, or earned, the respect due and paid to the late Lord Casey. [More…]
The Australian people can count themselves immensely fortunate to have had him as a servant over such a long period. [More…]
Senator SIR MAGNUS CORMACK (Victoria) From time to time over many years I have had the melancholy duty of sitting in this place when the Senate has been asked to mark the passing of distinguished men who have served this country and of notable companions who have sat in the Senate. [More…]
But today I have an even stronger sense of melancholy in relation to the motion which has been moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Withers, and supported by the Leader of the Opposition, Senator Wriedt, and by Senator Webster. [More…]
In the past 70 years 3 men who have served this Parliament have been ennobled by their Sovereign. [More…]
The interesting thing is that there were 3 factors common to these 3 men, but particularly common to Lord Bruce and to Lord Casey. [More…]
For example, both these men served in war with distinction. [More…]
They both entered Parliament to serve their countrymen in their respective philosophical interests. [More…]
Both served the world in various areas which Senator Withers has already mentioned and which Senator Wriedt has acknowledged. [More…]
These are a mere part of the record of the notable events in the lives of both these men. [More…]
In these 3 men whose names I have mentioned there is a singular purpose in common. [More…]
Notwithstanding all the xenophobic characteristics and qualities which mark all of us from time to time, these 3 men loved their country and their people with a devotion for which it is hard to find an expression. [More…]
This was not only because he was in a position of power, as Senator Wriedt has already mentioned, but also because of a personal sense in that he often served people from his own purse. [More…]
I asked the soldier whether he knew Lord Casey because he had mentioned his name. [More…]
About a week or two later the soldier was stupefied when he received a letter from the bursar of a well known Australian school indicating that Lord Casey had made arrangements for the soldier’s 2 children to be educated at Lord Casey’s expense. [More…]
A younger generation of members who sit not only in this Senate chamber but also in another place will little understand the life of this notable man and will little know how much the men and women of this country owe to men of Lord Casey’s nature. [More…]
When I was a Minister and had the privilege one day of accrediting the Ambassador for Turkey at Government House at Yarralumla when Lord Casey was the Governor-General I referred naturally to the conflict in which the Turks and the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps had been engaged and to the fact that Lord Casey had won a decoration in that conflict. [More…]
Of course, in the aftermath of war it was a matter of infinite satisfaction to both of those great men, each from his respective nation, to recall the respect that war had earned and the good will that peace had allowed. [More…]
While supporting this motion of condolence in respect of the 4 men concerned, I should like to take the opportunity of saying just a few words about the late Senator Bull. [More…]
To me, as a freshman in this Parliament, Senator Bull was the essence of kindness and generosity. [More…]
But let me mention just two or three things that occur to me as being relevant to the measure of the greatness of Tom Bull. [More…]
Far from turning the lights on as members of the Government Parties undertook to do, they have dimmed the horizons of many hundreds of thousands of young men and women in this community. [More…]
I have already said that members of the Government Parties are finding other people to blame. [More…]
-Senator Cavanagh says that Labor, is proud of its record on unemployment, and I really believe that that is so. [More…]
It was the first time in the history of Australia that a government had led the country into the sort of unemployment that we had under Labor. [More…]
As a Minister, Senator Cavanagh knew the situation because he was one of the men directly responsible, and he knows that well. [More…]
I can remember Senator Cavanagh criticising the Government in those days, saying that the level of unemployment was too high. [More…]
It is those men who are now attempting to say that this new Government is not performing correctly. [More…]
How could the people make a judgment on the statements which come from such people? [More…]
How can they judge those people who are now rising to condemn this Government? [More…]
They know that they, along with their leader, Mr Whitlam, sacked every Treasurer in a Labor Government within a year of his taking office. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh as a Minister was capable of speaking out for the Labor Government on financial matters, I ask: Where was Senator Cavanagh ‘s information wrong? [More…]
The Labor Government brought disaster not only to the workers but also to the pensioners and, indeed, everybody who had saved for years in the hope that they would be safe in their old age and that their money would be worth something. [More…]
The Labor Government also wrecked small business during its 3 years of inflationary rule. [More…]
It did so intentionally for the implementation of its socialist theories. [More…]
I say to Senator Cavanagh that he is one of the greatest socialist left wing men who ever sat in the Senate. [More…]
We have a situation today brought about by the Labor Government in which because of the cost of labour we are unable to compete on internal or external markets. [More…]
The Labor Government brought about a situation in which nearly every major employing industry from the boot trade or the rag trade through to the electronics industry was driven out of this country. [More…]
It was proud to open the flood gates to imports and to see their own men put out of business. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party ought to be ashamed of themselves and ought to be backing the Government at this time. [More…]
I do not doubt that they are pleased this Government is in power. [More…]
Their aim is to help in the cause of publicising and, if possible, freeing those who are prisoners of conscience- persons who are not men of violence but who appear to have been dealt with unjustly. [More…]
In the first months after the Conference at Helsinki, the official departments concerned with the emigration policy from the U.S.S.R., simply ignored humanitarian Articles of the Final Act. [More…]
Those who pointed to this Declaration, heard in answer that it had nothing to do with emigration to Israel, since Israel did not sign it, or as the matter is not specifically mentioned in the Declaration, there is no need to refer to it. [More…]
On 16 April, 1976, the Assistant Head of the Administrative Section of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R., in meeting with Jewish people who asked to emigrate to Israel, stated that the Soviet Government intends to carry out and does carry out its international obligations, however without bringing harmful effects to the State. [More…]
He stressed that the Soviet powers regard that ‘the interests of the State stand above the rights of men ‘. [More…]
Indeed, in the course of the last years, the call up for the Army of young men was continuously used as a weapon to fight emigration after an application for exit has been lodged. [More…]
Such a threat hangs over many young men wish to emigrate from the U.S.S.R. [More…]
These 9 men have prepared this document in which they set out, among other things, the conclusion that, the Soviet Union does not intend to carry out its international obligations relating to the human rights of man and refer, to Article VII. [More…]
The first of them, Sergei Kovalev, has been tried since the Helsinki Agreement, on trumped up charges. [More…]
Did the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development see a report in The Australian on Wednesday, 21 July 1976, headed Boycott Team has Eyes on Brisbane Games, in which Mr Ram Samy VicePresident of the South African Non-racial Olympic Committee, stated that a group of Londoners, most of them exiles from South Africa, organised the Montreal Olympic Games walkout by representatives of some African countries? [More…]
Will the Minister make inquiries into the proposals of these men in relation to the proposed Brisbane Commonwealth Games and endeavour to obtain a guarantee from them that they will not take such action? [More…]
One presumes that had the supply ship bringing the 6-monthly cargo to the Islands not been in on the day we were there and had not all the men been working on it we would have met a great number of the men of the community who also would have expressed some grave apprehensions about their future on the Island. [More…]
The 6 head men who comprise the Island council and court are appointed by Clunies Ross and are presided over by Clunies Ross. [More…]
Apart from about 600 acres or 150 hectares owned by the Australian Government on West Island, all land, including Malay housing sites, is owned by the estate, which is Clunies Ross. [More…]
The destruction of property and propriety for shabby political ends is no more acceptable now than it has ever been, and this Government condemns it. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that on 2 May he told the University of Western Australia that the Labor Party would have to act outside the parliamentary processes if it could not make the changes to the establishment that it thought were necessary. [More…]
It was reassuring to learn, as we did in the Senate yesterday, that all members of the Labor Party do not share their Deputy Leader’s view and that most good Labor men abhor those pronouncements and that contrived action. [More…]
Expenditure on these items is not contained in the Budget documents. [More…]
The Government has failed to effectively suspend the export levy on beef or to honour obligations to beef producers indirectly by increasing Commonwealth Development Bank funds which could be directed to assist the industry. [More…]
He has failed to take any initiative in respect of the fishing industry and he has ignored the plans to facilitate entry of younger men onto farms in what the National Country Party called at its conferences the young farmers establishment scheme’. [More…]
Need more mechanics for training young men in how to look after vehicles. [More…]
We want all people to work, but it is hard for young men and old men to get out of bed if there is not any wages. [More…]
We have had debates over the years also about whether people of certain ages should be free to go into hotels, whether women should be free to go into hotels, and so on. [More…]
Only some 4 years ago we had a government which decided that 18-year-old young men were not free to determine whether they should go to fight in Vietnam. [More…]
The freedom to decide that people who could not vote could still be sent to Vietnam was reserved for the government of the day. [More…]
Has the Minister seen an article in yesterday’s Daily Mirror headed PMG Men Accused of Swindle which contains allegations by a former Telecommunications Commission linesman that telephone subscribers are footing the bill for Australia-wide calls recorded on subscribers’ meters but made by Commission technicians with tapping devices, achieved by the technician either by clipping a portable automatic dialling device onto overhead lines and then attaching markers to cables to remind him when a householder is away, thereby allowing others to misuse the line as well, or by attaching a dialling device to a subscriber’s severed cable in a metal street terminal box? [More…]
You can point to some waste, some neglect, some mismanagement and some misuse of money, but there have been many achievements. [More…]
They saw that men are working and have a purpose in life. [More…]
Finally, I point out that in my short time in the Senate I have been quite interested in the different attitudes of Government senators and Opposition senators on rural problems. [More…]
It seems that there is a concerted effort on the part of the Opposition to make as many producers as possible dependent on governments. [More…]
The present Opposition certainly went a long way towards achieving that when it was in government. [More…]
I point out that rural producers are the largest single group of small business men in Australia. [More…]
It has been proved in the last election and in many other ways that the Government’s objective of creating a situation where rural producers can help themselves is the right one. [More…]
I can understand that Aboriginal affairs is a sensitive area for the Government. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh tonight outlined very clearly some of the major achievements of Labor during its 3 years in office. [More…]
Perhaps the most important area of development in Aboriginal affairs was that of self-determination. [More…]
He made the point, which I support entirely, that there was more real development since that term is becoming popular, in terms of self-determination for Aborigines in 3 years of the Labor Government than in the 23 years previously. [More…]
Of course, when we look at this we find that the Government has a job to do. [More…]
We hear most astonishing statements about gross extravagances, inefficiency and white men leading the black man to death. [More…]
The Government seeks to say that the business enterprises had been most ineffective and wasteful. [More…]
There was about 12 or so policemen sitting keeping an eye on us. [More…]
I ran into the fire while the policemen stood and laughed trying to salvage what I could- I only managed to get a pack with a few things in it- all our blankets an expensive guitar and most of our clothes went up in smoke. [More…]
They were all laughing hysterically, like mad men. [More…]
All clothes, personal belongings and food in the houses were destroyed and the fires left about 18 men, women and children homeless. [More…]
You were not sure why you were in government; you were surprised because you got there. [More…]
There are thousands of men around Australia who deserve the award more than he does, who are more fitted to receive such an award and who should have received it. [More…]
It is a matter of complete irresponsibility and weak State government. [More…]
People are waiting for what is in them but nobody intends to move them at the moment. [More…]
In today’s Australian there was a headline ‘Transport Men Driving Hawke to Despair’. [More…]
They are young keen men who want to work and who are capable of work. [More…]
The unemployment benefits received by some farmers are certainly appreciated. [More…]
These men are hard working and efficient. [More…]
I also remind the Senate and the Government of an answer given to me by Senator Guilfoyle yesterday in response to a question about the Prime Minister’s visit to Wilcannia. [More…]
That was a very important visit because we now have an indication from the Government that it sees the operation being undertaken in Wilcannia as a successful one. [More…]
I have spoken to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner) and he has to some extent supplemented the answer given by Senator Guilfoyle. [More…]
It is running an efficient housing association, men are in work, alcoholism has almost disappeared and children are in school instead of in hospital while, most importantly of all, the Aboriginal people of Wilcannia have done it themselves. [More…]
I mention those matters simply because they underline that there are areas where further expenditure is warranted on projects which can be usefully carried out. [More…]
I hope that the recognition that has now been given by the Government to the upgrading of the defence of Australia will give a much needed boost to the morale of the Australian Defence Force. [More…]
In the last few years we have seen many resignations from the Defence Force; many valuable men have been lost to the defence of Australia. [More…]
I have here a copy of the Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organisation Environmental Research Bulletin of May 1976. [More…]
The Bulletin states that at the moment there are too many cattle in central Australia. [More…]
I put clearly to the honourable senator the point that, whether under his Government or a Labor government, cattlemen cannot be permitted to overstock. [More…]
Some men would be aware of this fact; others would not. [More…]
It is of no good for the honourable senator to seek to get away from this fact by saying that we should let the cattlemen do as they like or that we should let the miners rape our land. [More…]
There was nothing sinister about England’s appointment, as readers of this column will remember. [More…]
Malcolm Fraser offered the job to two other men who wouldnt or couldnt take it; and he didnt offer it to any woman. [More…]
Moreover, England’s appointment has made little political difference in the Territory, which is already in the best of hands- Country Liberal party hands. [More…]
He was the principal architect of China since 1949 and one of the very few men who have had a major impact on the course of world history. [More…]
It is interesting to look at Mao Tse-tung ‘s development as a political figure. [More…]
Subsequently he was a director of a Kuomintang propaganda department and a labour organiser and was associated with one of the great epics in world history- the Long March- in 1934-36. [More…]
Undoubtedly, they contributed something towards the defeat of the Imperial Army of Japan because of their long involvement from 193 1 to the end of the war in 1945. [More…]
In the period from 1934 to 1936 Mao Tse-tung led a small group of men and women from one end of China to the other, and 15 years later- on 1 October 1949- he proclaimed the People’s Republic of China. [More…]
As I understand Senator Sim’s speech, it was in total agreement with Government policy. [More…]
Even if it was not, and I just said that it was, whether honourable senators like it or not we do not run our affairs in government in the way that their ramshackle Party ran them when it was in government. [More…]
Government policy will be announced by the Prime Minister and his Ministers and no one else. [More…]
It will not be announced by any federal executive of faceless men. [More…]
It will not be announced in newspaper advertisements by the President of the Party. [More…]
Government policy will be announced by the Prime Minister and his Ministers, and no one else. [More…]
Others were brought in also as place men in the strategy to undermine the Government. [More…]
I should like to draw the attention of the Minister for Industry and Commerce, Senator Cotton, who led the debate for the Government, to a statement he made in this place last week in reply to a question asked by, I think, Senator Georges about the statement of financial transactions for 1976-77. [More…]
Senator Georges drew the Minister’s attention to the fact that the Budget deficit for 1975-76 was $ 1,071m and that within the first 2 months of this financial year this Government’s Budget deficit was $ 1,456m, which is an increase of $385m or 27 per cent. [More…]
That was a fair enough comment, but what a pity it was that his leader did not share the same point of view. [More…]
It is all very well for Senator Webster to say ‘Oh rubbish’ but it is on record that that is what this Government is doing. [More…]
Every utterance from the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street), the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), and the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) sets out to create fear in the minds of the people that they may lose a job if they do not knuckle down and accept wage restraint. [More…]
This Government believes that the workers should not ask for any better conditions on the job. [More…]
Of course, we are getting back to the Menzies era. [More…]
The word would go down the line: Menzies ‘s policy is 50 men waiting at the gate is the best foreman you can get on any job. [More…]
Their main aim being to employ their own men to work and improve Mowanjum, hence the need for capital expenditure on a tractor and fencing materials. [More…]
The confidence, enthusiasm and work force all being at the ready, to implement these ideas. [More…]
One finds that the members of those boards are drawn from the Northern Territory community according to the responsibilities of those particular boards and the capabilities of the men involved. [More…]
PMG Men Accused of Swindle. [More…]
The Islanders, or ‘Kanakas’, as white men so degradingly christened them, were proud people, kidnapped from their Pacific Island homes and brought to Australia as black slaves to white masters. [More…]
Liberal governments alike. [More…]
I mention the following previous appointments as Chairmen of the ABC: Sir Richard Boyer, Sir Robert Madgwick, Dr Darling, Professor Downing and Dr Earle Hackett. [More…]
Every one of those men was an eminent Australian in his own right, independent of government and public service. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies, who appointed three of those men, understood the role of Chairman of the ABC and made appointments in that light. [More…]
Every one of those men was capable of making statements consistent with the sorts of statements which have been made over the years by the great chairmen of the British Broadcasting Corporation like Lord Reith and Sir Hugh Green. [More…]
I would say that the Treasury hit men went in to do their job- a job which they really enjoyed. [More…]
Of course commercial stations have a role to play in respect of documentaries. [More…]
I know that one or two commercial television stations have produced some reasonable conservation documentaries. [More…]
But documentaries of this sort did not become a reality until they were introduced by the ABC. [More…]
-I thought that Senator Georges said that it was the incompetence of the appointee but Senator Georges now says that it is not so, that it was in fact the incompetence of the appointment. [More…]
It has attacked someone who has great ability, who was appointed to this job and who follows a line of many other chairman of the ABC who have not been weak men, have not been insignificant men and have not been the sort of men on whom we would expect governments to put pressure. [More…]
People who have been appointed to this position- 1 include Sir Henry Bland in this- are people who have been shown to have character, some ability and minds of their own and who will not be susceptible to pressures by governments or Oppositions in this way. [More…]
I cannot recall him ever speaking about any subject, irrespective of the subject matter of the Bill he was discussing, without his finding a way to launching an attack on the trade union movement. [More…]
Let me say loudly and clearly that the working men and working women of this country are those who produce the real wealth of Australia. [More…]
The present Government, in its election campaign last November, said that it accepted that Medibank was a fact. [More…]
No sooner was the Government in office than the Medibank Review Committee was set up- a committee of 3 wise men. [More…]
I am not denying that they may in fact have been 3 wise men but we have no idea what they decided, what they reported, if anything, or to whom they spoke. [More…]
They did not report to the Parliament. [More…]
There has been no attempt by them or the Government to justify or even to report their decisions. [More…]
I believe that following the Whitlam beach head on Medibank, on to which we are grimly hanging, a future socialist government will expand the Medibank scheme. [More…]
However, even under that type of government I would like to think that we had regional authority. [More…]
They are men with real hang-ups. [More…]
The speech I am making tonight, as have others I have made, will be kept in a scrapbook by Mr Turner and he tells people what a so-and-so I am for making my statements. [More…]
These were the people, advised by the men who allegedly drew up this proposal, the Medibank Review Committee, who know what was going on. [More…]
Most men to whom I speak are quite satisfied with standard ward care in a public hospital. [More…]
The only exceptions are members of the Government Parties, who do not like the idea of sharing a public ward with an ordinary wage earner, and executives and members of such organisations as the chambers of manufactures, who like to get into a private room and discuss amongst themselves and with their friends how they can further exploit the workers whom they employ. [More…]
The Australian electors, bombarded for months by stories of the incompetence, the bungling, the corruption, the jobbery, etc, etc., etc., 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 - [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…]
A spokesman for the Marist Brothers College is reported as saying at the time that the demolition was a parentsandfriends operation supervised by professional demolition men. [More…]
The Age today reports this matter on its front page under the heading ‘Mr Fraser, please bring back our men’, and outlines the problem as being one of not being able to save quickly enough for the fares before the option expired on 30 June. [More…]
Is not the report erroneous and is not the true situation that, as there has been no contact with Timor for several months, aircraft or shipping cannot go there by either a regular schedule or charter, that the Australian Government has indicated it would permit the Timorese to enter Australia and that, as in the Darwin case, finance would have been and still is available for the chartering of aircraft? [More…]
Can the Government give an assurance that it is very aware of the plight and hardship in which Timorese refugees are living in Australia and that it is the Government’s intention to find ways and means of assisting communication between Timor and Australia to help the people of Timor, to assist in providing urgently needed supplies and to use its influence to bring Timor back from a’ state of siege? [More…]
-The Government certainly believes and hopes that in all industrial disputes there will be the greatest opportunities for consultation and co-operation. [More…]
That is no doubt what the efforts of the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations are intended to achieve in many spheres and in particular by the means which Senator Mulvihill has mentioned. [More…]
I understand that a meeting was held this morning, which was adjourned until tomorrow, and that it is the intention of the State branch of the Australian Workers Union to recommend to the meeting tomorrow that an application be made to the High Court to endeavour to resolve the very vexed and real legal problems which arise in regard to the conflicting jurisdictions of State and Federal laws in these matters. [More…]
It is to be hoped also, and perhaps expected, that the recommendation of the employees will be to return to work pending the litigation before the High Court. [More…]
I understand also that the oil companies- the employershave indicated that they will not seek to impede in any way the return to work by these men under whatever jurisdiction is determined, so there is some reason to hope that by tomorrow good sense will prevail and this dispute will be resolved. [More…]
One has to examine why the Government got into this economic malaise- there is no other word to describe it. [More…]
Of course it is being advised by the same advisers who advised the previous Government about economic policy. [More…]
The men of stone who gave the Labor Government the sort of advice which sometimes we hear criticised in this chamber are the same men of stone who are now giving this Government advice in respect of the economic situation in this country. [More…]
The advice given was that there should be an unemployment pool of 6 per cent. [More…]
The Labor Government rejected that concept, but this Government is clearly accepting it as an important part of its whole ecomonic program. [More…]
By emphasising and stressing inflation the Government is going against all of the experiences in the Western world; it is going against the experiences within even our own country. [More…]
I refer to bulletin number 276 of the Australian Industries Development Association- this is not a trade union body; it is a body that represents ten of the major industries of this country. [More…]
Restoration of the income tax rebates to divorced men who are paying maintenance for their children would result in the Government paying double assistance in respect of the children, as the mothers would also be in receipt of enhanced family allowances. [More…]
Apart from the cost to revenue which this would involve, the payment of a double benefit to divorced or separated parents in respect of the maintenance of their children could hardly be justified while other parents are in receipt of a single benefit [More…]
We draw your attention to the plight of the aboriginal people at Saunders Street, Henley Park, Western Australia (approximately seventy women, children and men) particularly that they are in danger of eviction by the Swan Shire Council because they cannot conform to the Building and Health by-laws. [More…]
I have said before and I say again that without Ivor’s support, encouragement and assistance I believe the Opposition which I led during that period would have been far less effective. [More…]
After the Liberal Party returned to government he became Minister for the Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
Men with the qualities of Ivor Greenwood, with a deep sense of personal commitment to a wide variety of causes and a determination to follow up that commitment vigorously and forcefully, a passionate devotion to work and yet a sense of compassion and a sense of humour, are rare. [More…]
I remember those hectic days of Vietnam when he so strongly took the Government’s position in the adjournment debate on many nights- a position with which we on this side of the chamber, of course, disagreed. [More…]
That, in itself, is no sin or crime against one’s fellow men, providing one really believes those views are right, and he believed his views were right. [More…]
There is no question that the Parliament is the poorer now that he has gone. [More…]
That was an intellectual observation which I had made to the Government Whip when he told me of Senator Greenwood’s death. [More…]
I went on then to say to the Government Whip that I had a sense of overpressive sadness in an emotional sense that this man had gone from among us. [More…]
I listened to the observations and comments by honourable senators about this quite remarkable man. [More…]
He was a member of an Australian society that is highly mobile, and may it long continue that men of his quality can aspire to and reach the positions of power, authority and prestige which Greenwood reached through sheer ability. [More…]
The last thing I want to do is to misquote Ministers and spokesmen in the Government Parties. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that Mr Sinclair has stated that this Government can do better on a government-to-government basis than the Labor Government did in the agricultural marketing areas. [More…]
The truth of the matter is that Messrs Lynch, Fraser, Sinclair and Anthony are men of straw when it comes to their intentions on rural industries. [More…]
We will have to put off large numbers of skilled men on various projects. [More…]
At the outset I indicated that the Victorian Government supports in every way the Federal Government’s determination to overcome inflation as a first priority. [More…]
I pointed however to the need for discretion and flexibility in selecting areas for cutting back expenditures, because many areas of private enterprise are dependent on Government contracts. [More…]
The resources which they use, and the employment they provide, are in a very real sense part of the private sector already, and to diminsh them is to diminish the private sector itself. [More…]
Reductions in the real level of spending in important areas, and in some cases, such as sewerage and urban transport, reductions in money levels, represented a drop in activity and hence in employment, in an important area of private industry. [More…]
I suggested that particularly in the areas of welfare housing, roads, public transport rolling stock, and sewerage- areas in which activity is very much in the private sector- spending by Governments in 1976-77 should be held at the same level in real terms as in 1 975-76. [More…]
1 suggested also that special measures should be taken to support employment in rural areas where alternative employment is not available for those who lose their jobs through the rural recession or factory retrenchments. [More…]
There would be a saving in Social Security unemployment benefits, and I hold the view on the grounds of economic considerations and of human dignity and self-respect, that it is preferable for men to be engaged in useful employment rather than to be left idle with their unemployment benefits. [More…]
I am not an economist, but I must confess that I am somewhat dismayed at the modern jargon of economistsinputs and outputs, macroeconomics and microeconomicsand the tendency to forget that man, his fulfilment, and his destiny, is what life is all about. [More…]
-The points made by Mr Hamer were these: When the Government indicated in February that there would be cut-backs in the public sector Victoria kept a tight rein on expenditure, and the savings made have been transferred to support the works programs in the current year. [More…]
He made a submission to the Prime Minister that the cut-backs by the Commonwealth would damage the private sector and that it was preferable for men to be engaged in useful employment than to be left idle with unemployment benefits. [More…]
Clearly the Government can draw no comfort from those remarks of Mr Hamer. [More…]
We will have to put off large numbers of skilled men on various projects. [More…]
I preface my question by reminding the Minister that the classification which suffers most from unemployment comprises unskilled workers and that a number of unskilled workers are seeking to retire at the age of 60 years. [More…]
What action has the Government taken to assess the effect and cost of reducing the pensionable age for males to 60 years thus providing an opportunity for those who desire to retire to do so at that age? [More…]
Would not a reduction in the pensionable age for males to 60 years eliminate the current sex discrimination upon which the age for retirement is based? [More…]
Would the Minister not agree that a reduction in the pensionable age to 60 years for men who desire to retire would have the dual beneficial effect to the community of allowing those members of the work force to retire as they desire and to make employment opportunities available to unemployed people in the same classifications thus reducing the overall unemployment benefit payable? [More…]
Before members of the Opposition become too excited by my statement, I must say that I believe that with the exercise of goodwill and intelligence- there are certainly men of great intelligence in our State governments- centralism will not triumph in this country. [More…]
It is not good enough that we should hand back a very large amount of money to State governments with the aim of making government closer to the people and more responsible, when State governments express the sorts of attitudes towards the participation of local government members that we have seen in recent days. [More…]
It is undoubtedly tempting, but if State governments have rights to finance because they have responsibilities local government also has rights to finance because it has responsibilities. [More…]
Nevertheless, these men died. [More…]
All I am saying is that by investigation the Indonesian fault should be established, if it has not already been established, and we should take the initiative to pay some further compensation, reparation, call it what you will, I think that the Government ought to take a look at the situation 12 months after the tragic deaths of these 5 men. [More…]
The men were caught in a situation and apparently we cannot pin the blame where it belongs and seek justice for the families of these men. [More…]
It may have been paid contrary to the Act because these men were outside Australian territory. [More…]
Very prominent men in the British Commonwealth, such as Sir Ralph Wilenski, who rose from a humble railwayman to be the Prime Minister of his country, and Garfield Todd, another very fine man who has an equally fine daughter, were good Rhodesians. [More…]
The bulk of the white component of Rhodesia are people who went there after the Ian Smith Government, in its stupid unilateral attitude, defied former Prime Minister Wilson and the present occupant of the throne. [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…]
I exhort therefore, that first of all that petitions, prayers, requests, and thanksgivings be offered to God for all men; for kings and all others who are in authority, that we may live a quiet and peaceful life, in all godliness and honesty. ‘ [More…]
I worked in the Queensland Police Department for many years. [More…]
I would place in that category the people who worked for me in the Department. [More…]
Senator Keeffe mentioned this earlier. [More…]
He said that 90 per cent are men of integrity, or words to that effect. [More…]
I would not like to put a percentage on the number who are men of integrity, but I would say it is at least that. [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 the Minister 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…]
February 1974- $32,000 to Kempsey Municipal Council for Special Work Project grant to employ 4 men for 12 months on various projects on Green Hill Reserve. [More…]
November 1974- $48,000 to Kempsey Municipal Council for Special Work Project to employ 6 men for 12 months on footpath concreting, kerbing and guttering. [More…]
All enemy plane raids, enemy ship troops movement on American and Australian bases. [More…]
There were three men to each station, had to do our best to keep on air 24 hours a day, and dodge enemy coming in on our radio beam. [More…]
Mr Gent and the other farmer who agreed to sell to Darra, Mr Laurie Davis (who has been an unsuccessful farmer for years) are the two men held in high repute by Darra. [More…]
I am disillusioned and dismayed by the men in the highest political positions in this State of Queensland as it seems to me they have a total disregard for humanity and a preoccupation with cement and dollars. [More…]
How would our Government answer our Queen Elizabeth when she said in her Commonwealth Day message ‘ We must struggle to feed the world ‘. [More…]
We live in a world striving to find ways for men and women to improve their standards of life and, at the very least, to achieve one of the fundamental freedoms- freedom from want. [More…]
The cement industry in Australia would employ less men if this project commences. [More…]
The plant would not increase overall use of cement but would reduce labor with improved handling and greater mechanised production. [More…]
The Rockhampton District Warden’s report for the quarter ended 31 March 1975, in the Queensland Government Mining Journal for July 1975, quotes a production of 48 210 tonnes of limestone in which an average of 10 men were employed. [More…]
I noticed quite a few vehicles inside the police station yard and various men and women also there. [More…]
Two of the Bills we are discussing introduce minor amendments which are necessary. [More…]
Honourable senators will know that Professor Henderson, in his first report which became available during the term of office of the Labor Government, during the term of office of the socialist government which supposedly was working for the benefit of ordinary men, drew attention to the inadequacies, shortcomings and failings of the means test as it existed. [More…]
He described the existing means test in these terms: a treatment of assets which is a relic of far less generous days . [More…]
It is very hard to face a girl who finishes up in your office after she has been to 49 different establishments looking for a job and still has not got one and who by that time is starting to believe there must be something wrong with her. [More…]
She is told by the Government that she is a dole bludger. [More…]
Some of the people who say those things ought to sit in the employment offices in country towns and look into the eyes of the kids sitting there who believe there is not any place for them any more. [More…]
It appears that the old men in this Government have forgotten what it was like to be young and have forgotten how one can be hurt by these things. [More…]
I suggest that honourable senators opposite go out and sit in some of these employment offices- country or town offices- and look at the kids who sit there day after day. [More…]
I am referring, of course, to unemployed women in the community. [More…]
The Institute of Public Affairs review came out with an interesting article, with which I am sure all the Government senators would agree, which pointed out that of the 279 000 unemployed in November, 130 000 were females. [More…]
It went on to say that of that 130 000, 52 000-40 per cent-of those were married and, therefore, mostly second income earners and it was likely that relatively few of the recorded unemployed would be in serious economic straits due to loss of job opportunity, which shows how much the old men in the Institute of Public Affairs know about people. [More…]
By the same token, real concern should be shown by this Government for women who need rape crisis centres, women’s refuges and women’s health centres. [More…]
Unfortunately, I know it is still likely that when one talks about rape crisis centres there is likely to be amusement. [More…]
I think the amusement or the sly grins of people come from the fact that so many men these days are starting to think that perhaps it is an urgent situation but they are too embarassed to talk about it. [More…]
If one examines the statistics and realises that, of all violent crimes, rape is the crime that is increasing at the greatest rate, one has to acknowledge that the community at large and governments in particular have to do something about it. [More…]
It is not, I believe, a failure on the part of the Government to understand what the situation is but rather a cynical rejection of the need for refuges and centres of this kind. [More…]
Has she seen a report in the West Australian of 27 October of an incident in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, in which an Aboriginal man was set upon and sprayed with white paint by 3 white men? [More…]
I make a point to the Minister concerning members of the Defence Forces Retirement Benefits Fund who join as married serving men, whose wives subsequently die, who marry again and who leave the Services. [More…]
Appointments have been made to the Great Barrier Reef Authority. [More…]
I am a little regretful, without in any way denegrating the men appointed, that we did not appoint people with an international reputation in this field, having in mind that the Great Barrier Reef is not only a national responsibility but also an international responsibility. [More…]
Many ecologists and environmentalists from overseas have made specialised studies of the problems that face the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
There is no doubt that eventually, if the Department of Science gears itself correctly and the Department of Environment, Housing and Community Development supports it, our experts will become the leading experts. [More…]
The dismissal had to be withdrawn under threat of disclosure of the fact that Hoffman’s wife was working for the Australian Government and the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation as a spy in the Japanese Embassy. [More…]
This was for the purpose of restricting the expenditure on the development of turtle farming when there was no return on the investment. [More…]
I think the 3 men Mr Bryant appointed to the board did a good job. [More…]
1 ) Have reports emanating from the National Congress of the Returned Services League of Australia urged the Government to (a) build a nuclear reactor so that it can manufacture nuclear weapons, (b) reintroduce conscription to raise the strength of the Army to 38 000 men, and (c) double defence expenditure so that not less than 5 per cent of gross domestic product is spent on defence; if so, has a reply been made on behalf of the Government. [More…]
-The comments which I shall make tonight refer to the question of staff ceilings in the Public Service and opportunities for employment of young people as apprentices and trainees and are related to some extent to what Senator Sir Magnus Cormack said. [More…]
I shall use the evidence which was put before Estimates Committee F in respect of staff ceilings and how they affect 3 commissions to claim that the Government is not doing all it can about employment opportunities for the young. [More…]
For many months in this place and in the other place members of my Party, including myself, have been arguing that Public Service ceilings inhibit the employment of young people. [More…]
Not only that, they restrict and inhibit the efficiency of the various departments. [More…]
The replies from the Government have always been that staff ceilings and cutbacks are there to make economies and that the Government will see that the opportunities for training are kept to the sort of requirement needed by the particular department. [More…]
I have argued on the basis that if there is a need in Australia today it is a need to have skilled men available in the years to come. [More…]
None of us, I suggest not even the most conservative member on the other side, would say that because there is reduced activity there should be a reduced requirement to train young people. [More…]
Where previously perhaps 2 men were required we took a calculated risk and had only one. [More…]
I recently made a survey of this situation and found that we now need another 80 men in order to catch up on this work which resulted from a lack of overtime and manpower last year. [More…]
If we look at the appropriation we find that there is not enough increase in funds to be able to engage an extra 80 personnel to carry out the work for which Mr Harper said he needs the men. [More…]
Although the Whitlam Government had appropriated $25m it was not in office long enough to be able to expend that money. [More…]
The people who are now in government spent only $ 1 8m. [More…]
Where previously perhaps 2 men were required we took a calculated risk and had only one. [More…]
I recently made a survey of this situation and found that we now need another 80 men in order to catch up on this work which resulted from a lack of overtime and manpower last year. [More…]
The Major-General insisted that the evacuation should continue and that the work force of Darwin, able-bodied men, should also be evacuated. [More…]
It was at that point that we had a disagreement. [More…]
All my time had been spent at the airport and the instructions were that only women and children should be evacuated. [More…]
It was when the men began to arrive seeking to evacuate that I decided to discuss the matter with MajorGeneral Stretton It was then that we had the disagreement. [More…]
Against this backdrop, the announcement that was made to the men last Thursday, 4 November, came as a shock. [More…]
The company said in a statement to the employees, which was phoned through to my office by the secretary of the Australian Workers Union on Thursday morning: [More…]
Which subsequently the State Government has decided to continue- single men’s and single staff quarters, and a general reduction in total manning in line with the reduced scale of operations. [More…]
In total some 400 staff and award employees will be retrenched, leaving an operating establishment of approximately 600 persons. [More…]
I am bound as generations before me have been to do all I possibly can to sustain this industry so that men in future can have employment here. ‘ [More…]
This is the sort of involvement people had and still have in the west coast mines. [More…]
It could more intimately ascertain the facts and get them before us so that we could consider them together with the efforts that will be made in the department to see what can be done in a business-like way to prevent this crisis from causing undue hardship. [More…]
But one does not deal with that sort of thing by ‘women’s weapons, water-drops’. [More…]
One deals with it by considering factors which are designed to get money for the men who have to keep their families. [More…]
The lamentable situation is that Whitlam and Neilson have so damned this enterprise that it is almost doomed. [More…]
I concur with Senator Devitt’s statement. [More…]
Some of these men are due to be dismissed on 14 December. [More…]
The test will be whether the Government acts on the committee’s findings. [More…]
Has the Minister any legal men advising him now who could indicate to the Senate what the position is when we find an escalation in cost, as Senator Kilgariff has mentioned, and whether the Government has any justification for going on with the project? [More…]
The fact is that the other men there are not fit. [More…]
I do not want to jeopardise anybody’s job but some of the men who may have to operate a fire tender do not have a car licence. [More…]
They are a mixture and one can hope that one of those men will exhibit some aptitude to handle the situation. [More…]
As I understand this particular establishment, there are numerous hydrants to examine. [More…]
I would like to know what the Government thinks it will save in the event of a tragic fire. [More…]
Honourable senators should reflect on the statistics: There are 600 portable extinguishers, 109 external hydrants, and there are fire tenders and other equipment. [More…]
There have been fires in this hospital and it has been the expertise of these men that has kept them to a minimum. [More…]
If there is any demarkation dispute between the New South Wales Fire Commission and an establishment like the Concord Repatriation Hospital I do not want to see a fire of the dimensions of the Towering Inferno film which I am sure some honourable senators have seen. [More…]
In our opinion this would be a retrograde step, as at the present the Fire Control is manned by S experienced men. [More…]
These being 2 Senior Firemen, 1 Captain, 1 Second Class Fireman all of whom received their training with the N.S. [More…]
These men maintain over 600 portable extinguishers, 109 external hydrants, a fire tender and other equipment in first class order. [More…]
If as proposed the two sections are amalgamated the Hospital Fire Officers would be expected to tram the Patrol Officers as Firemen, some of these men are over 60 years of age, others are approaching 60 while others do not have a drivers licence. [More…]
Collins Street, Melbourne, is no longer the place it used to be because decisions have been made in board rooms in New York, London, Melbourne and Sydney which have completely changed the environment of the city in which I live. [More…]
Those decisions presumably were made by men in grey flannel suits who were responsible to nobody except their shareholders. [More…]
As I understand the position, the group comprises the captain and 3 crew members, 14 men, 13 women, and 19 children aged between 5 and 17 years. [More…]
Let us see whether under this new system a moderate member of that union can stand against these 2 wealthy, financially backed men and have effective opposition in that union. [More…]
The Government now does not provide a collegiate system of voting where everybody faces the ballot. [More…]
At the moment the National Civic Council supporters have 19 votes, compared with 17 votes for people such as Phil O Toole. [More…]
It is very significant that Mr Maynes and his 3 hit men have been excluded. [More…]
If Senator Harradine, who is an ex-member of the Australian Council of Trade Unions, is afraid of allowing me, as a member of the Federated Clerks Union as well as a member of the ARU, to have the document incorporated in Hansard, I am staggered. [More…]
The industrial landscape wears a perennially dark horizon: you would need a pocket computer and a thick file of newspaper clippings to work out how many days of this year the men in the wool stores actually have been working, or how many times the normal conduct of Australian society has been threatened by wildcats in the oil industry. [More…]
If we look at other statements, one made under the privilege of this House, the first thing we find is that the 2 documents on which Senator Harradine relied were affidavits, not statutory declarations. [More…]
Four men signed statutory declarations and two of them were members of a well-known inquiry agency. [More…]
The statutory declaration of the inquiry agent reveals that he watched the airports to see what times the Melbourne and Sydney men arrived for the purpose of conducting a campaign. [More…]
After the election the Commonwealth police made certain inquiries and as a result 2 men were charged with depriving members of the Miscellaneous Workers Union of their votes. [More…]
So the time of the Senate has been taken up in hearing a case put for the defence of these men. [More…]
This is the stupidity of corrupt men. [More…]
This man has been leading all these men at the State Labor Party conferences for years. [More…]
On IS September 1976 Senator Martin, referring to the answer provided by the Minister for Post and Telecommunications to questions he asked in the Senate earlier this year in relation to an article headed PMG Men Accused of Swindle’, which appeared in the Daily Mirror in May, asked the following further question without notice: [More…]
-I do not know whether I was fortunate or unfortunate to have been looking at the program on the night mentioned by the honourable senator. [More…]
I must say it surprised me somewhat because I thought that the senator had some reputation around the Parliament for accuracy. [More…]
It is interesting that, at the moment, the Liberal senators have an average age of 51 years 6 months, whereas the average age of the Labor senators is 51 years 9 months. [More…]
I now understand why Mr Whitlam talked about ‘yesterday’s men’. [More…]
It is quite obvious that today’s and tomorrow’s men sit on the right hand side of the Presiding Officer in each chamber. [More…]
Why cannot the Government fund technical colleges for extra courses and teachers to provide those sorts of workers for Victoria? [More…]
So far the Department of Education in Victoria has made bungling, futile attempts to cope with the twentieth century. [More…]
We hesitate to think what it will do in the twenty-first century unless funds are earmarked to provide skilled tradesmen and skilled craftsmen- men who take care and pride in what they produce- so that we might get back to providing goods that we need rather than goods to throw away. [More…]
I think it is clear from what I said earlier that the Katherine Rural College, like colleges in other areas, could act as a centre from which trainers would take their equipment from the college and work in the community. [More…]
As I have mentioned before in this place, the Darwin Community College cannot cope with the needs of the apprentices because of the shortage of staff brought about by staff ceilings; but that does not mean that at this stage we should not draw attention once again to the need for centres to be set up within the Territory for the training of apprentices. [More…]
I think parents will agree that it is much better to have the young men and women stay at home than go interstate. [More…]
So I would urge the Minister to see the establishment of the Katherine Rural College as a real priority. [More…]
It has suffered the fate of quite a number of other things at the moment. [More…]
I praise those rational men of both political parties, including Mr Batt, Senator Rae, the present Minister for Education Senator Carrick, who looked at the problem and made their judgments after a dispassionate look at the problem. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of allegations made by Ms Elizabeth Reid, a former adviser to the Labor Prime Minister, that the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, has blocked her application for a senior position in the women’s section of the United Nations Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs? [More…]
What bearing did applications from 2 men, being supported by the Government, for other United Nations posts have on the Minister’s or the Government’s decision? [More…]
I have a feeling of uncertainty whether the 7 wise men or women will be able to radiate out far enough. [More…]
Whether it be the Fraser administration or a future Whitlam administration, proposals have to run the gauntlet of a Cabinet comprised of people of all different temperaments. [More…]
Again that is a bugbear with the present Government as it was with ours. [More…]
There were a few agreements on the acquisition of wildlife habitat. [More…]
Both Liberal and Labor Premiers were lined up when Mr Berinson was the Minister for the Environment but unfortunately the then New [More…]
It may be that through these men the castings came out of the foundry. [More…]
Before continuing with my remarks in the second reading debate on the Australian Heritage Commission Amendment Bill, I make the comment that the recent announcement by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) has rather aggravated the situation, because if it shows up one thing it is that it looks as though Sir Frederick Wheeler is on the skids and that the Treasury has been divided into 2 groups. [More…]
The money for the tea and bickies will now be transferred to the broom cupboard next to the ladies loo and the petty cash tin will be kept around near the men’s washroom, and the Treasurer (Mr Lynch) will be out looking for a new job. [More…]
Con men are well known around the community because they can talk smoothly, but I would think that for a fourth year primary school child the question I am asking ought to be simple enough to answer. [More…]
I should like to draw attention also to the first Director of the Council, Mr Ray Norman, who was the Executive Director of the Young Men’s Christian Association and was lent to the Council for 5 months by the YMCA. [More…]
There are references to 121 lives being lost, to ships missing with all hands, to 3 lives being lost, to 8 lives being lost, to 10 men being drowned, to 4 lives being lost, to all the crew either perishing on the wreck or being killed by natives directly they landed, to one man being saved, to 9 lives being lost, to all hands being saved, to the crew never being heard of again, and so on. [More…]
The loss of life was tremendous. [More…]
At the moment sometimes there is no transport after 6 o’clock, 8 o’clock, 10 o’clock or 12 o’clock at night. [More…]
It is ridiculous that in the modern 20th century when we can put men on the moon the whole of a city can close down at 8 o’clock unless a person has a motor car and unless he can drive a motor car. [More…]
Hail Creek development and, if we say that 75 per cent of that goes on infrastructure, it means that at today’s prices, which will undoubtedly have changed by the time it is finished, approximately $300m will go into the building industry, into the building of roads and railways, dams, ports and other facilities. [More…]
There will be $300m direct investment in the permanent development of Australian society. [More…]
The Norwich Park investment was previously costed at approximately $240m. [More…]
The Moura and Kianga fields which are run by the consortium now employ 1000 men. [More…]
It plans to develop Mount Nebo which will employ an additional 800 men and will cost certainly in excess of $500m. [More…]
Planning commenced in 1974 and came to a halt, all planning suspended, in the last 18 months of the previous Government. [More…]
It was only with the change of government, with changes of attitude and policy towards the mining industry, that there were indications that the Mount Nebo project would go ahead. [More…]
It also inhibited expansion and new developments. [More…]
The Australian coal industry directly employs more than 2 1 000 men. [More…]
Many producers had to reduce their capital replacement expenditure to a level much lower than they otherwise would have. [More…]
To put men and women back to work. [More…]
We have to recognise the limitations that governments have in these areas of trade relationships when governments overseas want to make decisions. [More…]
If we accept that as a principle, we should cut out all this nonsensical propaganda from National Country Party leaders suggesting that everything that happened in the decline of agriculture in the post-war years- the ups and downs; the slumps and the good times; the general decline in agriculture, whether it be in terms of beef, fruit or dairy products- was the result of just a measly 3 years of Labor Government. [More…]
Are they not men and women who understand and comprehend, or will they always resort to petty party political jibes to try to fool all the people all the time? [More…]
This Government is threatening a disruption of trade relations with Japan. [More…]
Many of them are largely outside the control of governments. [More…]
The beef industry has a great potential for employment and for earning overseas credits. [More…]
It is an industry which is significant in the employment of men on the producing properties, in the transport system, the meat works, the processing works, the wholesale business, the retail business, and so on. [More…]
Unfortunately the result of this is that management on properties is being wound down. [More…]
Pasture that ought to be looked after and improved is not being looked after let alone being improved, and there is no attempt at stock improvement. [More…]
The situation is so drastic that one of the senior officers of the department said to me that there is a possibility of returning to an almost no management situation with no fences and the stock running wild. [More…]
Men all over the Territory are leaving their stations to the bank and walking off. [More…]
I had another letter today from one of the leading pastoralists in the Territory indicating that yet another group of men had been forced to walk off their properties and leave them to the bank. [More…]
Therefore, members of those Forces raised for active service abroad, the AIF, the RAAF and the RAN, some members of the Nursing Service and persons enlisted for service in the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (AIF), are eligible for benefits. [More…]
On the other hand, persons who were enlisted in the Citizen Military Force, the Australian Army Medical Women’s Service (CMF) and the Women’s Auxiliary Forces, which were raised primarily for home service, are not eligible unless they actually served outside Australia. [More…]
There is, therefore, no distinction, in this regard, between men and women. [More…]
To my mind, there is a very great distinction between the men and women who can be covered. [More…]
That is the attitude of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack to women. [More…]
The work that those women performed freed a lot of men and enabled them to go overseas. [More…]
Those men are eligible for housing benefits and the women who replaced them are not. [More…]
Those women worked hard and they worked long. [More…]
They worked extremely well and they deserve the same form of compensation as that of which the men are able to take advantage. [More…]
I want the Government to explain to me why it does not have the guts in this day and age, when it is abolishing the Australian Housing Corporation and replacing it with the Defence Service Homes Corporation, to cater for those women. [More…]
Honourable senators will know that in December 1972 Mr Whitlam and the then Minister for Defence put forward a number of amendments. [More…]
Some of those amendments were passed. [More…]
So we are now talking about women as well as men who have served in the defence forces in peacetime as being eligible for a benefit which is not available to women who served in wartime. [More…]
They are the women about whom I am talking; they are the ones for whom I am seeking the benefit. [More…]
Those women have the same difficulties as men in saving for a reasonable deposit on a home in an endeavour to keep monthly repayments at a minimum. [More…]
I am talking about women who are no longer young. [More…]
I am talking about women who are now in their fifties and who may find that it is not possible to commit themselves for a great amount of money at widely varying monthly repayments which they may not be able to afford. [More…]
The excuse that the claims of these women could not be considered unless the claims of the men who served in the Citizen Military Forces could be considered is, to my mind, quite spurious. [More…]
I am not saying that the CMF men are not entitled to have consideration given to them. [More…]
I think the claims of the CMF men are very real ones. [More…]
But I wish to make the simple point that the women to whom I am referring volunteered; the men of the CMF were conscripted. [More…]
The women voluntarily enlisted out of a desire to serve their country. [More…]
May I say, for the benefit of Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, that in 1944 women comprised two-thirds of the defence forces serving in Australia. [More…]
Men could not have gone overseas unless the women were prepared to step in and do the messy work that the men had left behind here. [More…]
At this point of time, those women want an assurance of proper, permanent, decent accommodation for the rest of their lives. [More…]
I hope that the Defence Service Homes Corporation will bring before this Parliament in the very near future a Bill for an allocation of land so that a housing project, a block of units perhaps, could be established for the aged amongst those exservice women and, if necessary, for their husbands who may not necessarily have contributed in the war effort. [More…]
Senator Coleman raised a matter concerning discrimination against women in relation to the defence service homes scheme. [More…]
I point out that there is no question of discrimination against women because the defence service homes scheme always has been confined to persons who have served on active service outside Australia or on a ship at war. [More…]
That applies to both men and women. [More…]
Therefore, there is no discrimination against women. [More…]
There were plenty of men in the Citizen Military Forces. [More…]
There is no discrimination between men and women as far as service in Australia is concerned. [More…]
All parties to the industry and the Government are agreed that the present level of the work force in the industry is in excess of that needed for effective operational purposes. [More…]
The precise extent of the surplus is not agreed upon by all parties, but he is 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 senators that, as a result of efforts the Minister encouraged, the labour force in the industry has already been reduced by some 300 men this year. [More…]
He is 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…]
The precise manner in which they will be borne will depend on the overall arrangements decided upon for the industry. [More…]
June 27- Back-swamps: ‘After breakfast, I sent two men down the river to examine our route for tomorrow in the course of the afternoon they both returned; one who had gone a little way inland on this side, could make no progress for extensive swamps, covered with water of a depth of from 2 to 4 feet, and abounding with black swans and wild fowl. [More…]
I do not think there is any need to deal chapter and verse with the provisions of this Bill, the purpose of which is to provide for the assessment of the quantity and quality of water and to emphasise the extent of our underground water resources. [More…]
I am reminded of an unanswered question that I placed on the notice paper seeking to determine who were the guilty men in the Australian Atomic Commission years ago whose action resulted in the despoiling and ravaging of the Finnis River. [More…]
I still have not received an answer to that question, even though I raised the matter publicly in the columns of the Australian Financial Review to see whether I could smoke out the guilty men of that Commission. [More…]
Just to show honourable senators what this means from the point of view of the men in the industry who have to export their products, transfers of waterside workers between adjacent ports were effected on 633 occasions at a total cost of $262,213. [More…]
We have to get rid of such an incongruous set-up for 12 000-odd men. [More…]
It had turbine operators who were in Federal Engine Drivers and Firemens Association classifications. [More…]
The then Minister, Pat Hills, decided that all the men who had any leave at age 40 could not accumulate it until age sixty. [More…]
There were rigid retirements and, of course, the slack was taken up. [More…]
When containerisation came in nobody knew whether the same numbers of storemen and packers, transport workers or FEDFA members would be required. [More…]
No government has been able to deal with them completely. [More…]
Many watersiders, men in their fifties, may be minus a thumb or have a splayed foot or something like that. [More…]
This does not mean that one has to be a giant, either physically or mentally. [More…]
It is all a product of the mismanagement of the capitalist system. [More…]
Senator Wright was one of the people who were never very happy at times when we talked about keeping the legal profession out of conciliation and we said it should be left to the non-legal men. [More…]
It is much easier to work in the Parliament or in an air conditioned office. [More…]
In his second reading speech the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) outlined the problems that have to be resolved, and I will refer briefly to them. [More…]
They relate to a provision for adding and removing labour from the work force; provisions to allow allocation and transfer of labour between stevedores; the development of special arrangements to meet fluctuating requirements at the ports, and we have heard quite a bit of discussion in this debate about the idle time which seems to be a concomitant part of the waterfront; an improvement in industrial relations procedures; methods for preserving the interests of smaller ports around the country; and arrangements to allow all relevant interests on the waterfront to have an effective voice in its affairs. [More…]
The Government has been able to identify probably the most immediate and urgent problem and has already taken steps to do something about it, namely, the surplus labour on the waterfront. [More…]
The Government has participated in arrangements whereby already about 300 men who were redundant have been removed from the industry under the arrangement entered into, and hopes that in future months some 1200 men, who at this stage are probably redundant, will be the subject of such retrenchments and special arrangements which will be made in order to entice them to leave the waterfront. [More…]
These arrangements are being made in discussions under the chairmanship of Mr Justice Robinson of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, and the Government is very pleased that the President of the Commission has been able to make available a judge of Mr Justice Robinson’s distinction in this field. [More…]
That is typical of the sort of thing that has occurred in the community, even though it is quite clear of course that small business men do not need to report to the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
This has been one of the very sad side effects of the implementation of this legislation some 3 years ago. [More…]
in replyThe matters that have been raised by Senator Button speaking on behalf of the Opposition in opposition to the Bill call for some brief comment, although it appears that any detailed consideration of the Bill is either going to be ignored by the Opposition or pursued at the Committee stage. [More…]
Senator Button started off with the very broad statement that all the problems that the Government faces in this area of prices- and presumably he included wages- stem from a lack of power in the Commonwealth Parliament to legislate directly in regard to this matter. [More…]
The position is that the questions of resolving the fundamental problems of inflation are very complex over and over which require adequate laws, adequate institutions, and an adequate number of men to administer the laws and to negotiate within the institutional framework together with a good deal of expertise and understanding by governments. [More…]
I merely make the point that I regard the substitution for fee for service payments of a salary or any other system where the state is paying as effective nationalisation of that part of that person’s activities. [More…]
The moment the state moves in to pay a salary for portion of their activities, most professional men regard it as being effective nationalisation of that portion of their activities. [More…]
In the intervening 30 years, despite the warnings and the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, men, and to avoid being a chauvinist I would say women also, do not seem to have learnt much. [More…]
-The decision on where, when and whether to mine uranium in Australia and to export uranium from Australia and where we will go with nuclear technology in Australia is one of the most difficult decisions and difficult problems that this Parliament will have to face. [More…]
Unfortunately the argument will tend to be very divisive in the community. [More…]
I think to put things into perspective it is worthwhile remembering that at the moment we are still in the early stages of nuclear technology. [More…]
From 1900 to 1906, despite theories that had been in existence for a long time before, there was still a great argument in the world as to whether the atom even existed. [More…]
All the work, both theoretical and practical, that has been done on nuclear technology by men like Thomson, Max Planck, Niels Borhr, Einstein, Rutherford, Zillard, Enrico Fermi and all the others, was done this century. [More…]
This is the establishment system. [More…]
He got a knighthood, and I know of many good men in industry who have been suspended. [More…]
I do not want to indulge in a filibuster, but I always believe in documenting any assertion that I make in the Senate. [More…]
I say unhesitatingly that the credibility of Sir Philip Baxter and the men who succeeded him is certainly in grave doubt. [More…]
One of the proudest moments of my life was when I came out of the Darwin Court House and cattlemen who would always vote for the National Country Party said to me: ‘Senator, we admired you for taking on the Atomic Energy Commission’. [More…]
Senator Webster will nod his head and say: ‘Well, that was certainly a proud moment when National Country Party voters eulogised Australian Labor Party senators for standing up to these wicked men who comprise the uranium mining lobby’. [More…]
Honourable senators should have a look at the United States figures relating to the devastation of the lungs of those poor men. [More…]
Time and time again the present Government has argued that we have a powerful alliance with some of the super-powers, including the United States and Britain. [More…]
They cannot answer that challenge because they are guilty men. [More…]
I regret that Senator Mulvihill referred to people in the nuclear industry in Australia as wicked men who are more interested in making money. [More…]
Those words are unnecessary in a debate in which we are trying to understand the points of view of both sides of the argument. [More…]
When Senator Keeffe commenced his remarks he referred to the ‘lightweights’- I think that was the term that he used- on the Government side of the chamber in this debate. [More…]
But it has given me an interest in the subject and it has given me an interest in the men who are mining uranium there. [More…]
As has been mentioned, some places have a higher radiation than others. [More…]
It has been mentioned that it is more dangerous to fly in an aircraft from Sydney to Perth than it is to live beside a nuclear power station for 25 years. [More…]
For those who are betting men and like the odds, let me say that there is one chance in 5000 million of being killed from a nuclear power station. [More…]
The men themselves know the problem. [More…]
If the amount of uranium which is present as a toxic substance just like lead is above a certain level, the men are removed from that section of the plant. [More…]
The men just work in another section until the level gets back to normal. [More…]
The men themselves will tell you this. [More…]
So we are not talking about a major impact upon our unemployment position. [More…]
I think the findings of the report illustrate that the employment benefits are limited. [More…]
The new mining development is highly capital intensive compared with the figures for the old Mary Kathleen uranium mine which has been employing for the last year 300 men for an annual production of 800 tonnes. [More…]
The argument has been put that the indirect employment benefits are much greater, but this claim has not been substantiated in the Australian context. [More…]
There are between 100 and 150 people at Wingellina with no employment possibility due to your Department’s policy. [More…]
Hence we currently have 25 men registered as unemployed with more to follow. [More…]
It is from the National Cp-ordinator of Action for World Development, Bill Armstrong. [More…]
It was signed by the top men at Areyonga. [More…]
In March 1976 1500 elders and representatives from numerous Northern Territory communities travelled for periods of up to 3 days to Alice Springs to demand rights to their land, and that of course is where my colleagues on the other side of the chamber talked to the Aboriginals, agreed with them, went home and issued a Press statement disagreeing with them. [More…]
The Northern Territory News of 12 November carried a Press statement by Mr Neville Perkins, and I quote: [More…]
However, these people stand in the relationship of mother’s mother and mother’s mother’s brother to Djawa, Djilminy, Rungurr, etc., of the Gupapuynu clan, so Milingimbi also belongs to these men. [More…]
The elderly Aboriginal men are wise men. [More…]
This is my thought and the other Aboriginal men. [More…]
Mr Eli Rubuntja and we other men. [More…]
The background is that twice a year the Lutheran Finke River Mission conducts a church leader’s course and about 30 men come to town for that. [More…]
But typically the Aboriginal men talked of their major worries first. [More…]
They took over the meeting for a discussion of the Land Rights Bill, due to be debated in Parliament this month. [More…]
Asked why they had attended Land Council meetings they said they had come to listen but were reluctant to talk about their land because there were outsiders and unitiated men present. [More…]
I follow that statement with a further letter. [More…]
As I have not sufficient time to read these statements I wish to incorporate them because I think it is necessary that the air be cleared in relation to this matter. [More…]
I would say that he is ohe of the most experienced men in Aboriginal matters now, in clan ownership, in understanding the traditions of Aborigines and so on. [More…]
Yet unfortunately these days it is evidently not the thing to do to look at these old men who have spent their lives with the Aboriginal people. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development. [More…]
As the performances of Australian athletes at the last Olympiad have now been analysed and I understand are in the process of being studied by the Government with the intention of endeavouring to improve our standards with better training methods and facilities and greater Government sponsorship of overseas competition, will the Minister consider supplying to all sporting bodies comprehensive literature denouncing the use of anabolic steriods by many overseas countries to achieve questionable improvement in their athletes’ performances, with scant or no consideration of the present controversy raging in medical circles as to the long term injurious effects on such athletes? [More…]
I urge the publication of this material on 2 grounds; firstly and most importantly, to protect the health and well being of our young men and women and, secondly, to ensure that at least the Australian athlete will be able to exhibit all the high ideals of true amateurism and not be tempted to succumb to this outright cheating by the use of drugs to attain tainted international honours. [More…]
We want recognition of our entitlements. [More…]
We do not want to do what white men did to us. [More…]
We do not want to force on other people that which was forced on us, but we do want what is rightfully ours and we want just treatment in whatever is to happen in relation to land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
Then we will be able to examine this Bill and make sure that the spirit of it is carried out, we will be able to examine what the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly is proposing in these very important areas in relation to complementary legislation, we will be able to ensure that the Aboriginal commissions are doing their jobs satisfactorily, that they are the servants of the traditional owners and that they will be working to ensure that the rights of the traditional owners are preserved, and we will be able to exercise an oversight to ensure that the Aboriginal people, that my tribal elders in the Northern Territory, will have their lands and that their lands will be protected. [More…]
I, as the lone Aboriginal voice in this Parliament, together with my colleagues- men like Fred Chaney, Peter Baume, Alan Missen and quite a few others who have shown a great concern in regard to this Bill and who will be supporting me- will be watching very closely the implementation of this land rights Bill to ensure that my people are not deprived of that to which they are rightly and justly entitled. [More…]
Criticism has centred on the persons involved in recording and translating these submissions and conversation which has had the effect of distracting attention away from what these Aboriginal men have to say. [More…]
The additional information is given because various individuals and organisations have made written evaluations and appraisals of the transcripts primarily for the enlightenment of the Government but at the same time giving them wider general circulation. [More…]
To the best of our knowledge these evaluations have been made without any attempt to communicate with the Aboriginals who made the statements. [More…]
Men who make profound statements in this Senate and expect to be accepted as people who are interested in the cause are now more clearly than ever before faced with the conflict of interest between an applicant for renewal of rights to mine land and the traditional owners of the land. [More…]
If Senator Harradine would like it, I could arrange a repeat of that ceremony for this time next year and he can then get up on the adjournment debate with his vilifications and accusations against the Board of Trustees of the War Memorial, and against people who went there yesterday with a genuine desire to express their appreciation in a number of ways. [More…]
They were showing their appreciation to the families of the men who died in the Second World War, to the families of the journalists who died 14 months ago and to the families of the East Timorese who are suffering now after the invasion by Indonesia. [More…]
I think it is proper that members of this Parliament as well as members of the Australian community should commemorate such a sad occasion when men lost their lives trying to bring to the world the story of what was happening at that time in East Timor. [More…]
Senator Harradine showed a lamentable lack of knowledge of the events of World War II. [More…]
The Trustees have approved of the request on the basis that the wreath is to commemorate Australian service men who were killed in Timor during World War II. [More…]
If Senator Walters wants to bring some evil intent into this situation and make some political capital out of an earnest desire on the part of people to commemorate those who fell in Timor, both Australian and Timorese- if she wants in some way to convert that into some evil intention on the part of members of Parliament- she may by all means go ahead and endeavour to do her best. [More…]
Senator Carrick and possibly Senator Missen and a number of other honourable senators can give evidence of the valour of those men who died alongside Australians. [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 facility to enable loans to be made for essential carry-on purposes in times of severe market downturn or similar situationbut 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…]
The comments of economic journalists have been most interesting over the last three or four years. [More…]
Mr Davidson of the Age said in September 1974 under a comment about the then devaluation that it was a risk worth taking and that it would lead to upsurge in capital inflow; it would lead to a growth in domestic money supply; and it would allow business men to carry on with their growth in real investment. [More…]
Then of course he at the same time gave a lecture to the then Government on how it should run its affairs. [More…]
We are all used to getting these daily lectures from people who do not have the responsibility of government. [More…]
Other States were actually paying money to Victoria via equalisation schemes when the Labor Government decided- and correctly so- to phase out the subsidy. [More…]
If the men now in Government were genuine about their protests at the Labor Government’s action, let them now advocate subsidies or act to restore the former inequitable system. [More…]
It is certain that in the past, and until recent times, the industry has been so structured that promotion was either not encouraged, positively discouraged or bungled to the detriment of the industry. [More…]
Any industry that is unable properly to look at itself, which allows itself to be fragmented and which has squabbling among its own leaders as well as being saddled with an impotent and irrelevant government and having an outdated industry structure would be in the mess that the dairy industry is in. [More…]
We hear a great deal about the need for the rank and file to assert themselves in the trade union movement. [More…]
I am not saying that there have not been men of goodwill in the industry. [More…]
Of course there are men of good will in it and in the Government and in the organisations, but the dispute between the various organisations, particularly in Victoria over the years, and the dispute between the quota and non-quota holders in New South Wales, have done nothing to help the general interests of dairy farmers. [More…]
I hope that honourable senators opposite will accept that as a fair comment. [More…]
I am tempted to comment again on the two women who may be members of the Commission. [More…]
May I say in passing that I think it is patronising nonsense, and I wonder what this Government will do if it finds that 8 women are eligible to sit on that Commission. [More…]
It will have to bring through legislation providing for 2 men to sit on the Commission. [More…]
In closing, may I say that I should like to see this Government show real concern for the proper use of radio and television and proper responsibility for spending the nation’s income in this area. [More…]
I suggest to the honourable senator that he might commend to that gentleman a discussion with his own union officials who talk to me regularly about these problems and whom I have found extremely reliable men to talk to about the industry. [More…]
There are a couple of other comments which I wish to make as an ex-public servant. [More…]
I have mentioned this matter here previously. [More…]
My view is that there should be free movement at all times. [More…]
Certainly at the moment there appears to be no such opportunity. [More…]
We have had enough experimentation. [More…]
My discussions with the Public Service unions have led me to believe that they are very frightened that the cream of the Public Service at the present time is not prepared to stay in Darwin and that they are frightened that good men will not be attracted if the legislation goes through at the speed at which it is being proposed. [More…]
I guess the honourable senator does not know much about the economics of our export industries, so perhaps he can be forgiven for such stupid statements. [More…]
They agree that in that export industry alone the general devaluation will save the jobs of those 400 men who have been threatened with dismissal. [More…]
Regarding the rural industry I shall quote some remarks to show the feelings of men associated with that industry. [More…]
1 ) Have sections 9 and 10 of the Northern Territory Fire Brigade Ordinance been amended to allow the Chief Fire Officer, or a Station Officer, to delegate men of a lower rank to take control of fire fighting operations. [More…]
This action will not reduce the standard of fire fighting in the Territory, but in actual fact will provide for more efficient utilisation of the senior men on more important duties. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Leader of the Government in the Senate as the representative of the Minister for Defence, refers to questionnaires and notices sent to members in Adelaide of the Weapons Research Establishment of the Department of Defence concerning employment either at Salisbury or Woomera, and to a newspaper report that 300 people are to be sacked during the year. [More…]
If it is correct, will he take up with the Minister for Defence the question of requesting a stay in the notices sent to employees, officers and other skilled men? [More…]
As he well knows, the employment position is worse now than it was earlier; that is, in the first year affected by the redundancy target for the area. [More…]
They were men of Yugoslav origin. [More…]
But when a factory inspector or health inspector visits the island, the company officers make a telephone call to the men who are working on the day to tell them to keep down the dust, the noise or something of that nature because the inspectors are on the island. [More…]
In discussing this matter of urgency, we are looking at the development of one of these areas in Western Australia. [More…]
I have mentioned previously that this industry directly employs 2 1 000 men. [More…]
In the future, new projects in Queensland alone could lead to about 10 000 construction jobs and eventually could lead directly to the employment of 4500 men in the coal mining industry itself. [More…]
The consulting firm of W. D. Scott and Associates in its economic advice to business on 14 February put out some very interesting figures on this subject in terms of total civilian employment on a State by State basis. [More…]
The White Paper states that it is a strategic appreciation of the circumstances which, within the wits of men, can be envisaged. [More…]
It was the first divisional exercise since 1945 in which men were on the ground, aircraft were used and naval ships were operating. [More…]
First of all, in order to simulate an attack by a sporadic raid on the Australian coast we had to obtain from the United States of America a force to represent a regimental combat team. [More…]
So we had a United States marine regimental combat team to produce that portion of the exercise, with its vertical take-off and landing aircraft, its cover coming from the vast resources of the nuclear carrier Enterprise, and so on. [More…]
If there were anything on which I could agree with Senator Sir Magnus Cormack, it would be his comment that there would be a possibility of there being a bipartisan policy in relation to defence in Australia if people were prepared to grasp the nettle. [More…]
If one analyses his speech one will find that it was full of what I think I might fairly describe as rather phoney name dropping and quotations from faceless men in South East Asia- mythical Asian politicians. [More…]
What Senator Sir Magnus Cormack did earlier in this debate- he has been followed by, I think, more realistic men in the Liberal Party- was to try to introduce the notion of threat into Australia’s defence policy. [More…]
He did that, as I have said, by quoting examples of discussions with Asian politicians whose names and credentials he did not mention and about whom he had nothing to say except that he had had private discussions with those people and that they were of the opinion that Australia was subject to threat from the very fact that a European nation occupied this continent in what was predominantly an Asian area. [More…]
There are 2 regions in Australia- Queensland and Western Australia- where foreign capital investment now is the major influence. [More…]
Perhaps it is this factor that accounts for the continual conflict between those States and the central government, whether that government be Labor or Liberal. [More…]
We want to place it on the public record that the Australian Labor Party is a full employment party; the Australian Labor Party is for a proper utilisation of the resources of this country, whether they be men, material or funds. [More…]
The report which was put out at the end of the year states: it is essential for industry to know the Government’s policies and plans, by virtue of the fact that it is a mixed economy, in which the Government exerts a major influence. [More…]
At this time we have the spectacle of a group of men who brought this country to its knees having the audacity to say to the new management that they could do better than it. [More…]
-It was men and women who did that. [More…]
He was here every week advising Labor men and women what they should do. [More…]
Speaking about the level of unemployment in the community- undoubtedly Labor was pleased to cause the unemployment situation that it created- believe you me, Mr President, I am disappointed at the unemployment rates at present. [More…]
Not having had any experience in their life of employing men, the group of people who now sit on the Opposition benches did not have any understanding of the employment costs one must face before one starts to consider whether the opporunity exists to engage labour. [More…]
The demands of Clyde Cameron and others who said to those in employment in the community ‘Go for all the benefits you can. [More…]
Until this community is able by its scientific effort to raise the income producing level of private industry we will not be able to reduce the high unemployment figure that we have today. [More…]
When the Prime Minister made the initial announcement in 1975 concerning this legislation, he 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 Austraiian Government Administration that are currently under examination. [More…]
-I rise to support the Bill because it gives recognition to what one can call the forgotten women of Australia, those in the Women’s Auxiliary Services who volunteered to defend Australia in the Second World War. [More…]
These women are now approaching the age when they want to make provision for old age and this Bill goes some way to giving them some peace of mind about their lives in the next few years. [More…]
It provides for women who are in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
There are in the community women who served in the WAAAFs and want assistance to help themselves and to buy a home. [More…]
Under this Bill men and women, comrades in war, are equal in receiving help when they are in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
However, although the same men and women, widows and children and women who are currently in the Services receive assistance by way of loans to buy homes, the women who served in wartime auxiliary Services do not. [More…]
Women in the Services now serve beside the men. [More…]
Women in time of war went even further. [More…]
In 1944 two-thirds of the defence forces serving in Australia were women. [More…]
In wartime the musterings, working hours, duties, leave benefits, courses, living conditions and food were the same for men and for women. [More…]
The motif that these women wore on their wartime caps was the RAAF motif. [More…]
If they were ill they were hospitalised in RAAF hospitals or in repatriation hospitals in exactly the way the men were. [More…]
They volunteered for service in the women’s Services. [More…]
They are not asking for grants or for Government to give them houses. [More…]
There were 40 000 Australia servicewomen during the last war. [More…]
There are at the moment 280 financial members of the exWAAAFs organisation in Victoria. [More…]
Those women estimate that 12 to IS of their comrades require a loan and one would expect the same sort of proportion to apply in all other States. [More…]
So we are not talking about a tremendous number of people or a tremendous amount of money. [More…]
It has been very successful and there is no reason to believe that these women would be any less successful than the men and would fall behind in their commitments when their male comrades have not. [More…]
I am talking about the women who worked in hard circumstances without complaint in Australia to enable men to go overseas to fight in that wretched war. [More…]
Unless these women had volunteered and left their homes and loved ones there would have been many fewer men able to go overseas. [More…]
The WAAAFs were posted, as were the men in the RAAF, and were told where to go. [More…]
Nobody can say that the Women’s Auxiliary Services were well paid. [More…]
So I ask the Government, even though it has presented this Bill which is very good and extends the benefits as they should be extended to the women who served in the Air Force during the war, to remember more than the WAAAFs in necessitous circumstances. [More…]
I shall come back to discuss each of these men. [More…]
In order that the honourable senator opposite will not have apoplexy I point out that I intend to make it clear that I consider them men of eminence and capacity. [More…]
I depore the fact that under the conditions then operating their entry meant permanence in the Public Service and it blocked for all time the career opportunities of men who had come through the service. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party would help us if it examined the problems which the entry of people from outside the service can pose to those officers who have made a career working themselves through the service and who see that all promotions to top level can be blocked by a government simply bringing in its own people. [More…]
The position of Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet is one of the 3 pivotal positions of power in Canberra. [More…]
Those positions are the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, the Secretary of the Department of the Treasury and the Chairman of the Public Service Board. [More…]
The Labor Party put one of its men into one of those positions when it was in office. [More…]
Lest it be thought that I am attacking these men, I am not. [More…]
Mr Medadue had been private secretary to Mr Whitlam, and he was Secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet between 16 December 1974 and 20 September 1976. [More…]
He was private secretary to Mr Whitlam and was appointed Secretary of the Department of the Media, Labor’s propaganda department, between 30 June 1975 and 22 December 1975. [More…]
Under the provisions proposed in this Bill, those appointments could have been made and, with a change of government, the services of those officers could have been terminated by negotiation. [More…]
I believe that the Public Service would benefit from a greater capacity to allow in outsiders, but that the conditions attaching to such appointments should be regulated as suggested in this Bill. [More…]
There is nothing wrong in a government bringing in its own men, however partisan they may be or however dedicated to a particular political view, provided that with a change of government their services can be terminated, as happens in the United States. [More…]
That is a consistent and proper approach, and I suspect that career officers in the Public Service would find it far less threatening than the position at the present time, where any appointment from the outside means an appointment with life tenure. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland asks where in the Australian nation would one find a person who would possibly accept a position as permanent head of a department for only one or two years. [More…]
I suggest that if people in the Australian community who have special expertise that would interest a government were asked to come forward and serve the government and the community for a brief period, there are men and women who would accept that challenge, knowing that the position they would hold would be for a limited period. [More…]
I have always been interested in encouragement being given to Australian women to participate in industry, politics, the Public Service and so on. [More…]
It is certainly surprising that there are only a few women in senior positions in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The fact that the senior positions have been described in this legislation as being for men and women must surely give some encouragement to those women who wish to become involved in or who are involved in public life. [More…]
I do not think Australian women are not in senior positions in the Public Service because of a lack of efficiency, competence or whatever. [More…]
I believe that it is because Australian women have become frustrated by the restrictions that have been imposed upon them over the years. [More…]
I commend the Government for its endeavours to overcome the situation in that respect. [More…]
I am sure there are many women who are capable of participating in public life. [More…]
I believe that eventually we will see such women come forward. [More…]
I look forward to seeing more women occupying senior positions in the Australian Public Service. [More…]
The program is not working out as was expected last Thursday when men of good will on both sides in the 2 Whips put together a program. [More…]
I have been motivated to rise by articles in the Melbourne Herald yesterday and the Melbourne Age today wherein it is claimed that Mr Jim Dunn, after visiting Portugal, released a report containing some rather frightening allegations, including allegations that Indonesian troops in East Timor at the time of the initial occupation and thereafter rounded up young girls in trucks and raped them, shot 1 50 men in a south coast town because they tried to stop troops interfering with their women, shot entire families which lived in houses which displayed Fretilin flags, killed as many as 500 Chinese in the first days after the invasion, dug up graves and removed valuables, and used cigarettes and electrical instruments to torture women in a special interrogation unit in the top floor of the Tropical Hotel in Dili. [More…]
For that reason, I wholeheartedly support the call by my colleague the Opposition Whip Senator Georges, for the establishment of a Senate select committee to inquire into such matters, particularly the matter of the death of 6 Australian journalists and the manner in which they have been alleged to have been killed. [More…]
The Government and bodies such as the Young Men’s Christian Association have been active in introducing sporting and recreational programs to Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. [More…]
As I understand it, elders in a number of communities impose their own punishment on youths found to be sniffing petrol. [More…]
He mentioned lack of sewerage and so forth. [More…]
It is reported that on one occasion in Sydney Mr Whitlam said: ‘By derivation civilised men are those who live in cities; pagans are those who live in the country’. [More…]
During the wet season when the men are camped out mustering. [More…]
Far from this being something which can be turned against politicians by saying that we do not want more of them so we should vote against the proposal, I think the Australian people will be ready to say that we have had over the years too many elections and too often and that situation will be solved by the proposed constitutional amendment. [More…]
I believe that the sorry history of reform which we have had over the years could well be changed by this series of constitutional amendments. [More…]
The proposals have had overwhelming support by rational men from all Australian parliaments and from all parties who met in November and therefore will have the type of endorsement which calls for support by the people of Australia. [More…]
If that time ever comes the matter will have to be decided by some method and we will have a fight between democracy and the establishment. [More…]
The establishment desires to maintain its power and glory. [More…]
As a result this Parliament was destroyed in November 1975. [More…]
He cannot have a censure against his Government this year or next year as a result of a half Senate election. [More…]
It is a further recognition of the fact that a Senate of the same political composition as the House of Representatives is essential if a government is to continue in office. [More…]
Men’s thinking has changed. [More…]
He argued that the founding fathers were wise men. [More…]
I agree that they were wise men. [More…]
They thought seriously and deeply about the Constitution and they came up with a document that, I will agree with him, is a good document. [More…]
But Senator Wright consistently rises to praise the founding fathers for the great document and this great House that they produced. [More…]
Not so long ago the Government of honourable senators opposite found that there was a bit of a problem concerning uranium and the big American corporations. [More…]
A Liberal government brought in legislation late at night so that it could control things. [More…]
Let us take the situation in Chile with the Frai government. [More…]
It was a christian democratic government; it was not a socialist government. [More…]
It had its moment of glory and what happened then? [More…]
Then we have the situation of the Allende government which tried to go the other way. [More…]
It tortures men and women in that country by applying electrodes to the various parts of their bodies. [More…]
If that is the sort of government that honourable senators opposite want us to get, they can go ahead and vote no. [More…]
I particularly ask Senator Harradine: What will be the situation if you happen to be sitting in the gallery at the ACTU Congress and Bob Hawke and Souter and others have to tell Halfpenny, ‘Yes, a future government will do it’? [More…]
If we all are to be men of absolute consistency it seems to me that we will never make progress with constitutional change and reform. [More…]
In the case of one of the men I have been dealing with he has, or had, a wife and 6 children in Cambodia. [More…]
Representations have already been made to the Government but the Government is totally unable to obtain any information. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Prime Minister aware of a statement attributed to the Prime Minister recently that apparently deplored the trend to replace men with machines, presumably because this would further worsen the unemployment postion? [More…]
Will the Minister not agree that the 40 per cent investment allowance introduced by this Government does the very opposite to that which the Prime Minister suggested should be done? [More…]
If there is a contradiction between the effect of the introduction of the 40 per cent investment allowance and what the Prime Minister wishes to see, will the Government discontinue the 40 per cent allowance? [More…]
The first thing that Senator Missen said in this debate was that all of these wise men sat down at the Constitutional Convention and carried this proposition. [More…]
Why does the Government not come forward with that proposal? [More…]
Although I am not legally qualified- Senator Button is- I join with Senator Button in commending Senator Wright’s draftsmanship. [More…]
As I mentioned, from a political point of view I do not mind simultaneous elections because 1 was returned with 2 quotas at a simultaneous election. [More…]
There is another such matter that I would like to mention. [More…]
These people called a strike on the basis of some alleged rumours which were denied immediately and without reservation by the Victorian Minister, Mr Lindsay Thompson, and the Victorian Director of Education, men of complete integrity. [More…]
You just say: ‘Well, it is all the fault of the Labor Government and of the workers’. [More…]
Senator Young, are you going to see the Whyalla shipyard defunct and 3000 men shifted out of Whyalla and then blame the Newcastle dockyard workers? [More…]
The DEPUTY PRESIDENT- Who are the unscrupulous men? [More…]
I believe that our newly installed senator will be able to pursue an opportunity that is not given to many men in this country. [More…]
I do not wish to mention particular senators but my Party colleague, Senator Tehan, was mentioned by Senator Wriedt. [More…]
I was interested in the comments and presentation of Senator Tehan. [More…]
Senator Messner seems to think that it is the Labor Party’s fault-the Opposition’s fault- that the economy refuses to respond to the expertise which is being brought to bear upon it by this Government. [More…]
Is it surprising that the economy refuses to respond when the person who is making all the crucial economic decisions- I mean the Prime Minister- bewails the fact that machines are replacing men in industry, as he did in the House of Representatives 2 weeks ago, when his Government introduced, at massive cost to the revenue, a 40 per cent investment allowance designed to encourage precisely that and when his Government subsidises the substitution of capital for labour or, to put it in his terms, of machines for men and then deplores the fact that the very trend that the Government is encouraging at great cost to the revenue via the investment allowance is becoming apparent? [More…]
By way of preface, I state that I was particularly impressed by the spectacular parade of 1600 service men and women in the Silver Jubilee Review by the Queen in front of Parliament House on Tuesday. [More…]
Before continuing my remarks in this debate I should like to add my congratulations to the new member of this chamber- Senator Lewis from Victoria, who was so correctly and properly appointed by the Victorian Parliament- on the occasion of his maiden speech. [More…]
My only regret was that, although Senator Lewis undoubtedly would have ultimately become a member of this chamber, he is here on this occasion because of the untimely death of Senator Ivor Greenwooda member of this chamber who must surely be ranked among the most elegant men in mind and manner ever to have graced the Australian Senate. [More…]
The late Mr Armstrong was a man who loved people, a man with a great sense of humour, a man who had a love of life and an understanding of men. [More…]
Within the Labor movement he was known very affectionately as the ‘Golden Barman’. [More…]
He was of tremendous assistance to me, both before and during the time I was Minister for the Media in the Whitlam Government. [More…]
I had many discussions with John Armstrong about the way in which the Australian film industry should be developed, and only a handful of people would know of the large part his knowledge of the industry, coupled with his great political acumen, actually played in the course the Labor Government charted in order to bring about the successful establishment of a commercially viable Australian film industry. [More…]
It is very rare that men are made with the capacity, the temperament and the understanding of John Armstrong. [More…]
I support the motion of condolence moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate. [More…]
He was one of the youngest men ever to enter the Senate. [More…]
He brought to the Senate some knowledge of local government, which stood him in very good stead during his time here. [More…]
His attainment of the positions of Lord Mayor of his own city of Sydney and High Commissioner in London has already been mentioned. [More…]
I am certain that this would have been a great culmination to a life well spent in the service of his fellow men. [More…]
But, with all the liberties that we give and concessions that we make in respect of standing order 406, and all the things we do under it, if we abolish it this chamber will turn into a chamber of old men. [More…]
People such as Senator Chaney and others who come here when they are young will sound like old men while they laboriously read their speeches. [More…]
As one who has heard the reading of speeches in the Parliament, I think that Senator Baume has touched upon a very important aspect of reading speeches. [More…]
I refer to Prime Ministers, Ministers and other public men who go along to an opening ceremony and read a speech in front of the gathering. [More…]
Has the Minister read a report in a Sydney newspaper alleging that 6 men believed to have been involved in the invalid pension fraud have left the country? [More…]
Is it a fact that the persons concerned received an invalid pension after paying a suburban doctor $2,000 for false medical documents? [More…]
If these statements are true, what action has been taken to ensure that the medical officers from the Department of Health were not knowingly involved in the conspiracy? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Defence and concerns the garment which has succeeded the humble greatcoat worn in the Army. [More…]
The garment is known as ‘men’s coats, field, olive green’ and is issued to members of the Army. [More…]
-My colleague, the Minister for Defence, in the other place, advises me that ‘coats, men’s field, olive green’, are provided on the same conditions for all ranks of the Australian Army during field training and combat operations. [More…]
Issues of ‘men’s coats, field, olive green’, are made under the same conditions of need to both Army Reserve and Regular Army soldiers with the exception of Army Reserve soldiers in the tropics. [More…]
The Army Reserve soldiers in the tropics are not entitled to battle dress or greatcoats but do have an entitlement to additional tropical garments. [More…]
Again I express my thanks to you and your men and I would be pleased for you to advise them of my comment. [More…]
Everyone knows that the office itself destroys the men. [More…]
I remember when I was a candidate in 1973 that Senator James McClelland commented to me that it was distressing to see the front bench of 27 people working themselves into the ground while many of the very able men on the back bench were under utilised. [More…]
They have no thought for their fellow men. [More…]
The abortion question is a highly emotive one but it is a fundamental one. [More…]
How many of us have tried to comfort and support a loved one mentally tortured and torn by the desire to be rid of the burden or shame caused by a wanted or unwanted intercourse? [More…]
The thought goes through a person in such agony that ‘though all men should desert you my faith will not grow less, so keep that single virtue of simple thankfulness’. [More…]
The directors are the 2 men. [More…]
As mentioned earlier, the hospital experienced good fortune in 1975, with a profit of $58,945 after providing for income tax, compared with a profit of only $975 in 1974. [More…]
Dr Davis and PSI are studiously ignored by the ideologically motivated Women’s Abortion Alliance Coalition and its journal. [More…]
The Abortion Counselling Service in the Australian Capital Territory, which I mentioned before, is apparently linked with Preterm, and not with PSI in Sydney and Wainer ‘s Fertility Control Clinic in Melbourne. [More…]
This indicates that the Abortion Counselling Service is prepared to give reluctant endorsement to PSI in Canberra. [More…]
I remind you, Mr President and the Senate, that this is the case despite statements that have been made by the Minister for Health (Mr Hunt), despite the votes that have been taken in the House of Representatives on this subject and despite the referendum that was held in the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
As one who has taken a stand on this issue in the hope that people will vote No I sincerely hope that the people will preserve the independence and character of the Senate and that they will not be carried away by the second voice being used by members of the present Government as distinct from that which they used in 1974. [More…]
Unfortunately it is a fact that sometimes when men get high positions they get a love of power. [More…]
Many of the sub-contractors are getting out and their men are leaving. [More…]
I shall read a comment made by the President of the Master Builders Association. [More…]
The matter I discussed with the Minister was a possible deputation of cattle men to locate markets . [More…]
It would probably cost $4,000 or $8,000; it might cost $10,000, but it might get the cattlemen in the Northern Territory off the back of the Treasury. [More…]
The Minister said he could not get the money and yet we find that one of the main functions of the Department of the Northern Territory is matters related to the production and marketing of beef and the production, processing and export of minerals. [More…]
For some years the Department has had a recreation program, with an officer appointed to conduct it. [More…]
Certainly some work is being done by the Young Men’s Christian Association, but it is an outside organisation receiving government assistance. [More…]
The Department has the responsibility of providing this program and is not meeting it. [More…]
I commend him for the quality of his speech which he presented to the Senate, for the manner in which he has entered the life of parliament and the way in which he is going about his responsibilities. [More…]
It is a tragedy that it was the death of Senator Ivor Greenwood which made it possible for Senator Lewis to enter the Parliament. [More…]
I was a very close friend of the late Ivor Greenwood and I wish to say that I respected him as being one of the finest men I have ever known. [More…]
These men have proved it. [More…]
The Government alone cannot do this. [More…]
No government can do this by policies. [More…]
We all have a responsibility, not just the Government. [More…]
I should like to see the Government, the unions and management sit down together and have real talks-not just to score points off each other- and see what can be done to get this country moving again. [More…]
That is what Government is all about. [More…]
The present Government has forgotten about other areas of poverty. [More…]
The changing roles of men and women in our society make it less unthinkable than it once was for a man to contemplate trying to bring up a family on his own. [More…]
Now, many men regard it as their duty to do so, if faced with the responsibility. [More…]
A deserted father should have the same entitlements to social welfare payments as a deserted mother with dependent children has. [More…]
I hope that the Government will consider this matter during the Budget session this year. [More…]
She can go to a community welfare department or the Department of Social Security, but for the sole male parent there is very little assistance offered. [More…]
I am not saying that the women who find themselves in this situation are not entitled to have someone or some department to turn to. [More…]
I am simply saying that the same facilities should be made available for men in similar circumstances. [More…]
If a woman goes to a community welfare department or the Department of Social Security, she is told of the pensions to which she is entitled not only for herself but also for her dependent children. [More…]
All this Government did was take money out of the men’s pay packets and put that money in their wives’ hands. [More…]
Under the previous Government the husband of a family with 2 children received $8.70 tax rebate and $1.50 child endowment, which adds up to $10.20 a week. [More…]
Under this Government’s scheme such a family receives no tax rebate and receives a family allowance of $8.50 which, from what I learned when I went to school even though I did not learn new mathematics, is less than $10.20 a week. [More…]
A family with 4 children under the previous Government received $17.40 tax rebate and $5.75 child endowment, which adds up to $23.15 a week. [More…]
Let us have less of this nonsense about having finally done something for women. [More…]
It was said at one stage that it was women’s finest hour. [More…]
All the Government has really done is divide a real family into two. [More…]
Senators Kilgariff and Tehan talked of the woman’s place being in the home and especially the woman’s place in the home as a wife and mother in times of unemployment. [More…]
But they are not very realistic and they do not look on women as human beings. [More…]
Women make up 39.3 per cent of the Australian work force. [More…]
Some 40 per cent of Australian women are in paid employment. [More…]
More women were registered as unemployed than men, even though women are discouraged from registering by the employment offices and by their own life style. [More…]
It is outside their life style to register, because they do not get unemployment benefits even though the family depends very much on the money they bring in. [More…]
The report alleges that 150 men in the town of Suai were murdered because they attempted to prevent the Indonesian troops form interfering with their women. [More…]
Finally, and most disturbingly, the report recounts a refugee’s witness of the killing of all the Chinese men in a Dili apartment which had housed 20 refugees. [More…]
Outside this particular apartment there was an Australian flag. [More…]
We have a responsibility as men and women concerned with human rights and justice not to let the situation in East Timor fade. [More…]
To do so would be in effect to allow further atrocities to continue and if the Government parties in the party room have decided not to accept this motion or to send it to the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, let them have on their consciences the fact that every day that we fail to take up this challenge, every day that we fail to deal with this issue, people are suffering, people are being killed, and people who look to Australia to assist them will regret the day that they placed their faith in Australia. [More…]
Were both men placed on good behaviour bonds and were each ordered to pay costs of $40? [More…]
Did the presiding magistrate tell them that their actions had been an embarrassment to the Victorian police force? [More…]
One of the committees which I am on heard evidence which has been made public about his involvement in the narcotics trade which is now operating on the east coast of America. [More…]
What we should all agree upon is that Colonel Gaddafi is one of the most sinister men in world politics today. [More…]
Men who have led India at different times over the years, men such as Jayaprakash Narayan and Jagjivan Ram and Morarji Desai, would now seem to be at the helm of India, and we must wish them well. [More…]
We gave him a travel document to return to Australia. [More…]
He happened to be with a couple of other men who made a terrible mistake. [More…]
He said that this fellow is in a gaol in Paraguay at the moment and that the Government is waiting to see what will happen. [More…]
I am deliberately picking out Yugoslavia because of what could happen, if things go wrong, the moment that Tito dies. [More…]
At a time when Senator Wheeldon and I were members of a committee dealing with the Croat problem, Senator Wright came into the Senate and admitted that it was the view ofthe Liberal and National Country Party Government as well as of the Labor Party that any fragmentation of Yugoslavia could upset the balance of power between the North AtlanticTreaty Organisation and Warsaw forces. [More…]
The records of the time, taken from departmental vaults and available to all Australian administrations since the 1950s, show that 2 apparently abandoned British vehicles, which cannot with certainty be said not to have been exposed to radiation in the early 1950s, were refurbished during 1956, some years after the possible exposure. [More…]
The records leave no room for reasonable doubt that the men knew what they were about, and that they had access to, and used, relevant health physics monitoring equipment to check safety aspects. [More…]
Both men appeared at the Ringwood Magistrates Court on 17 March 1977. pleaded guilty and were placed on bonds of $ 100 to be of good behaviour for 12 months and ordered to pay $40 costs. [More…]
The Magistrate when dealing with the case said: ‘The radio set involved, in the wrong hands, could be an embarrassment to the Victoria police’. [More…]
The Magistrate did not say that their actions had been an embarrassment to the Victoria police. [More…]
We are not getting anything out of Liberal Government We use our own money. [More…]
We want to vote for Labor and twist the Government around. [More…]
Some people, men and women miss out of voting. [More…]
The Department of Aboriginal Affairs handed money to the Victorian Housing Commission for it to administer Aboriginal housing. [More…]
The Aboriginal section is run by 4 white men. [More…]
We talk about unemployment. [More…]
Unemployment for Aborigines is off the planet; it is not just high. [More…]
She told this to 3 men that evening. [More…]
The people involved are Mr Justice Bright, of the Supreme Court of South Australia, Mr George Kennedy, the Surveyor-General in the South Australian Government and Mr Norman Douglas, the State Electoral Officer. [More…]
In a strange and yet deliberate speech the Minister for the Capital Territory, Mr Staley, last week utterly defamed those 3 gentlemen. [More…]
Near the beginning of his speech he mentioned the situation in South Australia and said that he would return to it. [More…]
I shall quote what he said to make clear to the Senate the basis of my protest in defence of these men. [More…]
Those criteria are the only criteria which govern the deliberations of 3 honest men and they have produced a redistribution on that basis. [More…]
I mentioned some of the detail of the Bill this evening to assure the Senate that, in the Electoral Distribution Bill which appointed the commissioners, there is little which prevents them from giving the fairest results. [More…]
No direction is given by Parliament in South Australia which would direct them to given any biased or unfair result. [More…]
But if in the midst of this program we are to have a Minister set the matter back by saying that the best is the worst, we will prolong the day when all Australians will have an equal chance of say in their government. [More…]
I ask that he apologise to the men whose character he has so impugned. [More…]
It was introduced on the front page as ‘The Guru’s Message is Muddled’, which was a reference to a number of people in the Australian Labor Party who had commented on Gregory’s article. [More…]
Hallows’ article in the Australian was introduced under the heading Labor’s money men embrace the Gregory thesis but John Hallows finds out that they don’t quite understand it’. [More…]
They would not listen to them; they were the white men. [More…]
It is written up in the Bulletin, and in my opinion it could do a lot of harm, not only to the people who are mentioned in the article but also to the articulate urban Aborigine who in many instances is trying to improve the lot of his fellow Aborigines in the Northern Territory and other parts of Australia, who unfortunately are not so articulate. [More…]
It was very unfortunate because what they had to offer to the festival I believe was tremendous and would have been appreciated by all the African people, all the black people who attended the festival. [More…]
Because of the 2 men who caused all the trouble the exhibition by the tribal people surely was a failure. [More…]
Mr Cameron warned business men that the Social Security Department would not take responsibility if they cashed stolen cheques. [More…]
It is of the essence of our recommendation that the Judges appointed to this Court (men and women) should be chosen for their experience and understanding of family problems and should be drawn from existing Judges, members of the bar and solicitors, according to their particular suitability. [More…]
Those appointments have been made. [More…]
Approximately 30 judges have been appointed to the court- men and women, barristers and solicitors. [More…]
I think one can say that in nearly all cases the most admirable choices have been made in the appointments to that court. [More…]
No, there was no Liberal Movement then. [More…]
The Liberal-Country League Government was returned to office with 43.82 per cent of the vote in a fully contested election. [More…]
The atmosphere of politics has been taken out of this area by the appointment of 3 holders of public office who we would suggest have the highest credentials in the State and whose honesty and integrity is beyond question. [More…]
Therefore, any suggestion that a gerrymander exists under the present conditions implies that these 3- men are corrupt in their administration. [More…]
The credentials of the 3 men appointed are beyond question. [More…]
Surely that statement represents a deliberate and determined attack upon the Commission, a Commission with the responsibility of drawing up electoral boundaries. [More…]
In the eyes of the Minister for the Capital Territory these men have lost all right and respect. [More…]
One would have thought that Senator Messner, as a South Australian knowing the standing of the 3 gentlemen concerned, would have spoken in support of Senator Hall on this question because there was an attack against these 3 individuals. [More…]
Senator Hall is to be commended on the attitude he has taken. [More…]
In response to the requests for assistance in following up statements by Mr Martins alleging that certain Indonesians possessed knowledge of the event at Balibo, the Indonesian authorities stated that they believed that they had cooperated as fully as possible and could not agree to pursue the matter further. [More…]
The Government has studied other accounts of the deaths of the journalists. [More…]
The Government investigations, as the papers placed in the Parliamentary Library by the Minister for Foreign Affairs show, have not led to a substantial account of the tragic event. [More…]
But it cannot be claimed that the Government has failed to do what it can to determine the facts surrounding the deaths of the 5 men. [More…]
The experience of the Government on this issue to date suggests very strongly in fact that any new inquiry would achieve little more than going over the same ground with the same results. [More…]
However, I agree with the comment that it is essential that in the very near future this country develop an oceanographic research potential. [More…]
In relation to the honourable senator’s question as to whether this Government will give consideration to vessels which may suit the purpose, I assure him that at present an interdepartmental committee is looking at the matter of transport which, basically, falls into 2 categories, namely, one for getting supplies and men down to our bases and one as to the possibility of our having some air transport system so that we can more rapidly relieve the people who serve our bases. [More…]
On many occasions the women did not see another white woman for perhaps 6 months or a year, but at least they had friends among the Aboriginal people. [More…]
As an example, I mention Silas Roberts, who is a leader today. [More…]
They are very dignified, wise old men who could live anywhere. [More…]
Many are grown men now living in extreme difficulty. [More…]
They are forgotten people because there is much more concentration these days on the education of Aboriginal people on missions and settlements with insufficient thought given to these part coloured children who are living under extreme difficulty. [More…]
Special assistance needs to be given in this area and I hope the Committee will address itself to the particular problems faced by these young people at school and by the men and women living in the community to see what assistance can be given to allow them to make an adaption to the community. [More…]
I remind the Minister of the saying: ‘The best laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft a-gley’. [More…]
The quantum of support given by the Minister and his Government will be the test of the Government’s commitment. [More…]
The Aboriginal people will know then just how dinkum the Government is by the kind of assistance it gives to the Committee and then by the amount of support it gives to the recommendations of the Committee. [More…]
We have mentioned already that actions are the measure, not plans. [More…]
I am pleased that the Minister for Social Security (Senator Guilfoyle) is taking an interest in this statement. [More…]
In one family there may be 4 people of working age and another person who is denned as a septuagenarian who would be in receipt of some form of superannuation from the Portuguese Government. [More…]
Many of these men and women who came here were not backward in accepting menial tasks. [More…]
I think those of us who were on the Estimates Committee which inquired into the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations were aware of the high turnover of people in these jobs because the salaries are not very high but the Timorese have struck as such tasks. [More…]
The point I take up with Senator Guilfoyle is that in cases like this, which will be intensified with family reunions, we ought to have a clear cut understanding with the Portuguese Government that if people come to Australia who are more than 65 years of age their cheques will continue to flow from Lisbon or, conversely, if that is not satisfactory I think we should examine further the formula whereby we lump together three or four people in a family who may be working as domestics and whose salaries are not very high. [More…]
I hope that the other points I mentioned can be fed back to the Minister. [More…]
I agree entirely with the general provisions against recruitment. [More…]
I point out that in the present state of the world, especially in the state of a depressed economy like Australia ‘s, there is a great temptation to bewildered, despairing young men who have been extruded from any real activity in their own society, to grasp desperately at almost any straw to make themselves feel relevant and wanted in the world. [More…]
It is possible to imagine combinations of idealism and despair which would make young men easy prey to high pressure recruitment activities in a period like the present one. [More…]
I applaud the general measures against recruitment. [More…]
Suppose a Labor government had been in office in Australia between 1936 and 1939. [More…]
It could be safely assumed, I think, that such a government would have had no difficulty in specifying that the armed forces of what we would have considered the democratic combatants in that war would have come within this exemption. [More…]
It should be noted in passing that we would have alleged that they were the correct government. [More…]
We would have cast a benign eye on the recruitment of volunteers to help repel what we would have seen as the fascist threat of the Franco insurgence. [More…]
In fact, of course, it is common knowledge that a great deal of idealistic young men in Australia actually volunteered to go and fight with the Spanish Republican Army. [More…]
If a conservative government had been in power in Australia at the time I have no doubt that even though it may have been a little chary of openly stating its preference for Franco, it could have brought itself to specify that the armed forces of Franco were those that came within the meaning of this provision and could have lifted the embargo on recruitment of volunteers or mercenaries to go to fight with the Franco forces. [More…]
It may be that a government of one political coloration in this country has a preference for certainforces in another country and a government of a different coloration has a preference for the opponents of those armed forces. [More…]
1 believe that the intentions of the Bill are commendable. [More…]
Some of the clauses of the Bill, particularly clause 7 relating to the training of armed men within Australia and the drilling of armed men within Australia, are essential and I do not think anybody on either side of the Senate could oppose these propositions in any way. [More…]
I refer to the problem which arises if, in pursuance of the powers which would be vested in the Minister under clause 9 (2) of the Bill, the appropriate instrument were published in the Gazette permitting the recruitment in Australia of persons to serve overseas in a manner which is otherwise precluded by the provisions of the Bill. [More…]
When I was in that country one of the things which touched me most was when I was taken around to meet many of the men 50, 55, 60 and 70 years of age. [More…]
The only crime of those old men. [More…]
I hope the conscience of the people in this chamber tonight will be pricked and that they will support the amendment so ably moved by my colleague, Senator Missen, who also has shown his humane and sincere attitude towards the people who are unable at this moment to protect themselves. [More…]
Surely that is the least we can ask of this Parliament and the least we can ask of the Australian people. [More…]
Although fewer than 400 in number, they succeeded in holding down 20 000 Japanese troops, killing 1500 of them and losing only 40 of their own men. [More…]
Such people would support men like Duvalier of Haiti or Battista of Cuba in all their abuses against humanity. [More…]
If it could add to the chances of this country taking a more positive line in future situations like this, no matter which political party is in government here, I believe it would be more than worth while. [More…]
1 met many old men who came out to me in the villages. [More…]
During this period some of the Timorese men who had assisted the Australians in Timor trained wilh the Australian troops. [More…]
The peninsula has its share of dole bludgers and they ure married men with children. [More…]
These statements are incorrect. [More…]
Mr Hunt sought agreement to the appointment of an outside arbitrator. [More…]
Mr Hunt was able to secure the agreement of one of the most eminent men in Australian medicine, a former President of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, a professor at the University of Melbourne, to come to this city to examine the situation and to produce a report. [More…]
It is not really helpful to the argument to indicate, even by inference, that he has not played his part in taking the kind of initiatives which will lead to a resolution of the situation. [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…]
But because of a deep seated feature of human nature they have been a fairly constant phenomenon in legal history. [More…]
This framework, not being an amalgamation, is a two-tired system- in the first place a Tertiary Education Commission co-ordinating, rationalising, a visionary body in itself, a body which will look forward to the future; look forward to the dreams and hopes of men and women; look forward to the things of the heart, the soul and the mind in the quality of education and its fulfilment; look forward to vocational orientation, and in doing so recognise a changing world; recognise the need for changing institutions, recognise that in a world of limited resources there is a need for a balance, a rationalising or a co-ordinating. [More…]
No one took any action or moved any motion to complain about the action of the Government of the Republic of India. [More…]
I have never heard in this Senate any form of complaint against the powers which moved into the vacuum created by the movement by Portugal out of southern Africa. [More…]
I have never heard a single word uttered in this Senate about the movement by aerial lift of highly trained and competent Cuban soldiers into southern Africa, a Cuban legion variously estimated to be in the vicinity of 20 000 men. [More…]
I have never heard in the Senate from either honourable senators on this side of the chamber or honourable senators opposite any comment about that armed incursion by a foreign power into Angola and Mozambique. [More…]
Now in these circumstances the question must be asked: Why was no complaint made going back nearly a generation against the Indian Government s incursion into the Portuguese territory of Goa? [More…]
I tell this story only because it is important to the argument that I first put forward, that is, that the conduct of foreign affairs is a prerogative power, not a parliamentary power. [More…]
As a result of this enlargement, the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence began to gather some sort of quality and character. [More…]
I think it has served the Australian Parliament well. [More…]
Honourable senators who sit opposite me at the present moment and members of the other place from the opposite side of politics to me are members of that Committee. [More…]
These are men of inestimable conduct on that Committee. [More…]
But what we understand on that Committee is this: It is not the function of that Committee to conduct foreign affairs because the moment Parliament attempts to conduct foreign affairs we will get ourselves into the greatest mess of all times. [More…]
It is impossible for a Parliament to conduct foreign affairs. [More…]
Foreign affairs must be conducted by the echelon of government which exercises the prerogative power. [More…]
I have already mentioned the fear of Indonesia that so many of them had. [More…]
I can paint a picture for honourable senators of one interview I had when I met with a group of Portuguese Timorese, a group of 7 men aged perhaps from 28 years to 50 years, all of whom were immersed in their national cause. [More…]
I suggest that honourable senators put themselves in that position for a moment and wonder how they would feel. [More…]
How would they feel in the situation of those men standing there listening to the radio and getting that terrible information? [More…]
This group was extremely critical of the Australian Government for taking away from them the transmitter that would have given them contact with their people. [More…]
If honourable senators think about it for a moment they will feel a little hurt too. [More…]
What the Opposition is proposing, and what some supporters of the Government are proposing, is that a committee of the Australian Parliament should undertake an inquiry and make a determination upon the events which have occurred in East Timor. [More…]
It is not sufficient for the executive government to make a declaration. [More…]
It is the responsibility of this Parliament, this Senate, through a committee, to seek out the facts available and to determine the truth of the submissions brought before it. [More…]
As far is many members of the Opposition are concerned it matters not whether the original motion as supported or whether the amendment proposed by Senator Missen is supported. [More…]
It would be able to make some recommendation to the Government as to what sort of support should flow from Australia to East Timor and to the refugees of East Timor. [More…]
It would be able to seek out information and make a recommendation regarding the death of the 6 journalists and to undertake an inquiry as to the position of the families of the 6 journalists and whether they have been suitably compensated for the loss of their men in East Timor. [More…]
He had better earn his money and get the men back to work. [More…]
I will be having discussions with the Leader of the Opposition to see what arrangements can be made so that honourable senators are not inconvenienced. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs become aware of the fact that a number of Australians, particularly members of Amnesty International, are concerned about the imprisonment for alleged political offences of large numbers of Indonesian men and women particularly on Buru Island? [More…]
Could the Minister find out from his colleague, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, what information the Australian Government has at present about the confinement of these people, apparently without trial, on Buru Island; whether any representations have been made by the Australian Government as to their wellbeing; and, if that has not been done, whether any such representations can be made? [More…]
My colleague Senator Douglas McClelland pointed out that the Committee was a highpowered committee consisting of some of our leading industrialists, economists and a leading pubic servant in the person of Mr Neil Currie, the then head of the Department of Manufacturing Industry, and Mr Hawke representing the unions. [More…]
The Committee members went into the work places of manufacturing industry and because they were bigger men than the people that we are used to dealing with on the other side of the chamber they were able to reach a consensus and come to grips with the real malaise of Australian industry. [More…]
They are flesh and blood- men and women who work in factories and men and women who supply the factories with materials and services. [More…]
It is likely to be a long-term benefit rather than shortterm and this is a fundamental economic and social matter to which governments must give their attention now, not in the future. [More…]
I do not suggest that a Labor government would not have difficulties also in selling, say, structural adjustment. [More…]
With men like Senator Cotton and Messrs Anthony, Howard and Macphee monitoring it on a daily basis and doing their jobs well, I think we have much to be thankful for. [More…]
With the new and improved Department of Industry and Commerce, the Bureau of Industry Economics, the updated arrangements with the Industries Assistance Commission, the Temporary Assistance Authority and the Department of Productivity, industry has now more voice and more places in which to be heard by experts than ever previously was the case. [More…]
This, to me, appears to be the crux of the matter: ‘A deeper overall appreciation of the importance of development assistance in Australia’s foreign policy’. [More…]
To understand why it is a shameful act to dismantle the independent Agency established by the Labor Government, it is necessary to look at the background of the establishment of the Australian Development Assistance Agency. [More…]
We could put that development in human terms. [More…]
Those members of the Senate who have been in contact with the various aid programs sponsored by this Agency will have come in contact with thousands of young men and women who have come from underdeveloped countries for training within Australia and they will be aware of the effectiveness with which that program has been carried out. [More…]
This Government is now putting up a similar confidence trick. [More…]
Under the Whitlam Government it was about 0.6 per cent. [More…]
This Government has effectively decreased the amount of foreign aid. [More…]
We had that argument out in this chamber on several occasions. [More…]
It was not until the Vietnam conflict had been going on for two to three years that the Government decided to clamp down on those exports. [More…]
On the one hand, people on the other side of the chamber were sending young men to the Vietnam conflict. [More…]
I would like the Minister representing the Minister for Defence to inform the Senate who is responsible for approving an advertisement currently being shown on commercial television aimed at seducing young men to join the Australian Army by suggesting a number of totally unrealistic enticements to Army life, in particular by a most blatant and offensive piece of visual sexism which suggests that the army provides its soldiers with the use of beautiful young women. [More…]
That is a very long question, and perhaps the best thing I can do is to offer to the honourable senator after question time all the information which I have on this subject, which was brought together in the Press statement to which he referred. [More…]
The people on the processing side of the industry had a long talk to me prior to the setting up of the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation, and the views they expressed to me were passed on to the Department of Primary Industry and to the Minister for Primary Industry. [More…]
In addition, and not to be forgotten, are the men and women who work in the industry in the various processing plants and shops. [More…]
The Minister for Primary Industry has had a tremendous number of representations from groups with wide ranging interests. [More…]
The Government is in constant liaison with the industry in relation to local production, imports and the overall market position. [More…]
The Automotive Industries Advisory Council meets regularly to advise Government on industry problems. [More…]
Because of developments in this matter I have asked the Council to meet again next Wednesday to talk about the industry position. [More…]
I observe that the Industry Advisory Council consists of manufacturers of automotive vehicles, automotive parts manufacturers, the sellers of motor cars, the importers of motor cars, motor vehicle associations like the National Roads and Motorists Association, people from consumer associations and parliamentarians. [More…]
We have 2 parliamentarians on the Council. [More…]
One is from the Opposition, Mick Young, and one from the Government, Mr Bert Kelly, whom nobody can say is a great protectionist in our society. [More…]
They are both valuable men because, with the unionists and everybody else on that Council, they will talk about the problems of the industry. [More…]
It was said this week, I think quite truly, by Mr Thompson, one of the union officials who is very familiar with the operations of GM-H and the other motor manufacturers, that obsolete capital equipment was to blame for GM-H’s economic problems. [More…]
He accused the company of spending as little as possible on modernising its capital equipment so it could send its profits overseas. [More…]
He said there was very little capital replacement. [More…]
He said there was no automatic spray painting equipment in Australia. [More…]
At the General Motors plant at Lordstown, Ohio, 3 people could spray 103 cars an hour, using automatic equipment. [More…]
In Australia this has to be done with many more men, by hand, thus adding to labour costs. [More…]
He said there was no automatic spot-welding equipment in Australia. [More…]
1 appeal to the Government for orderly planning. [More…]
I think the work force has accepted those developments, although it knew that in many cases the promotions of some men in their 40s could be jeopardised. [More…]
I am thinking about whether tally clerks, storemen and packers assumed duties normally performed by other trade unionists. [More…]
-Could the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs inform me why returned soldiers from other Commonwealth countries who are eligible for and receive Service pensions in this country do not receive any of the supplementary concessions such as medical, main roads registration, rates, rail and bus, etc., that are presently enjoyed by their Australian counterparts? [More…]
Does not this appear to be unfair discrimination against those men who also fought and made many sacrifices in the cause of world peace? [More…]
As far as my Department is concerned, that is eligibility for hospital and medical benefits at the expense of my Department. [More…]
The other matters to which the honourable senator referred such as relief from rates and concessions for rail fares, bus fares, motor vehicle registrations and so on are all matters for State governments and State parliaments. [More…]
The principle is that each allied country or Commonwealth country accepts responsibility for their ex-service men and exservice women by giving them benefits similar to our repatriation benefits. [More…]
The simple answer to those questions is the cost to the Government of providing such benefits in the circumstances I have already outlined. [More…]
Cost is certainly the overriding consideration of the Government in regard to this type of matter at this time. [More…]
I refer to a report in today’s Press that 60 employees in a paper mill in South Australia have launched a work sharing scheme taking one week off without pay every month to save the jobs of 28 men. [More…]
Is it a fact that these men cannot obtain unemployment benefits for the off week? [More…]
If so, why do employees on the same scheme in mills in other States receive unemployment benefits. [More…]
Why has the Minister referred the matter to the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations? [More…]
Two years ago welfare organisations in Melbourne calculated that there were 3500 homeless men in the inner Melbourne area alone. [More…]
Today welfare organisations tell us that the numbers with which they are dealing are increasing rapidly and that the number of men who need a bed and breakfast is increasing rapidly. [More…]
They point out that what worries them is that a larger number of those men are younger and that they appear quite hopeless about their future. [More…]
There is no indication that this Government knows or cares about the situation. [More…]
I suggest to the Government that they are not bludgers but are people performing a necessary task, a task that we had hoped governments would have seen to be necessary and would have taken note of. [More…]
I hope that before the Budget negotiations are concluded the Government will look at the entire field of elderly care. [More…]
Before this grant runs out we hope that the Government will accept responsibility for all pensioners and will accept that it has some responsibility to make sure that all and not just some pensioners have proper accommodation. [More…]
Even if they are people who have not been able to provide bricks and mortar during their lifetime or the wherewithal to buy bricks and mortar, they are still human beings and unless the Government takes the responsibility for shooting them and putting them out of their misery, we have the situation where men spend nights in kiosks, parks and railway carriages, where old people cry themselves to sleep cold and hungry, where people who have the concern to look after them do not know where the next penny is coming from to carry on that task. [More…]
I would like to think that before we get to the end of the Budget session the Government will have shown that it has a proper plan to cope with all aspects of problem of pensioners and their accommodation rather than continue the patchwork we have seen up to this time. [More…]
-Vitriolic comments from honourable senators opposite have come into this debate. [More…]
That is a good comment, I must say. [More…]
Well, the main part of her speech was taken up with vitriolic attacks on what the Government was not doing. [More…]
Senator Melzer devoted half of her speech to the problems of homeless men which is, of course, the basis of debate on another Bill. [More…]
I refer the Minister to the decision by Mr Justice Forster in the Northern Territory Supreme Court to uphold the appeals by 3 men against a conviction of attempting to export illegally firearms and medical supplies to East Timor from Darwin. [More…]
In view of the determination of the Prime Minister in 1976 to have the case prosecuted, does the Government intend to appeal against Mr Justice Forster ‘s decision? [More…]
It refers to some alarming statements about South Australian rail jobs made by the General Manager of the Australian National Railways in Adelaide recently. [More…]
As these reports created a lot of concern among railway men and railway organisations and were rebutted in the newspaper the next day, will the Minister have the statement clarified? [More…]
If necessary, will he ask the General Manager or the Australian National Railways Commissioner to make appropriate statements to clear up the matter? [More…]
On 5 May last, Senator Coleman asked me a question without notice relating to facilities provided for the police officers who maintain an external guard on Parliament House. [More…]
I am informed by the National Capital Development Commission that 4 police guard boxes of a standard design are in store at Fyshwick. [More…]
These were constructed with a view to their installation at Parliament House but would be available for installation at other sites. [More…]
The National Capital Development Commission advises that the cost of manufacture and installation of the boxes is expected to be of the order of $25,000. [More…]
If it is decided to continue with the existing foot patrol, appropriate arrangements for the protection of these men from the elements will be taken. [More…]
I think the use of the word ‘consequences’ there is a mere coincidence- and thus show they are in full sympathy with the spirit of our people whose political system rests upon the proposition that this is a government of law, and not of men. [More…]
Traditionally adult men make up the bulk of unemployed, but last month women and junior men comprised 60 per cent of the city’s workless. [More…]
Of the 563 out of work 1 1 1 were junior men, 137 junior women and 86 adult women. [More…]
There were 229 unemployed adult men in the city. [More…]
I might say that a letter was shown to me by one of the bigger cattle men of Queensland at the time allegations were being made, but as it came from a very confidential source I merely sighted the letter. [More…]
The newspaper which reported his statement indicated that Richard Todd was not employed as an agent of the Queensland Government. [More…]
As I mentioned a few moments ago, the Premier is a member of the Loans Council and acted in this capacity, or indicated publicly that he acted in this capacity, when he started his famous loans investigation. [More…]
There must be better con men on the other side of this chamber than the Premier of Queensland because he thought the Government was going to pay all his debts for him. [More…]
Did the Minister approve an advertisement currently being shown on commercial television aimed at seducing young men to join the Australian Army, which suggests a number of totally unrealistic aspects of army life, in particular a most blatant and offensive piece of visual sexism, suggesting that the army provides its soldiers with the use of beautiful young women. [More…]
To put men and women back to work. [More…]
I think that it is still following the old philosophy of the former Prime Minister, Mr Menzies, who said that the best foreman one could get on a job results from 50 men waiting at the gate for one man’s job. [More…]
That is what the Government wants and what it is endeavouring to achieve. [More…]
The Government wants to break down working conditions and rates of pay. [More…]
That is the whole basis of what the Government is trying to do. [More…]
That is the crux of what the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said he would do when he had discussions with the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) some time ago and which I reported to this Parliament. [More…]
When we arrived the second in charge who speaks very little English came to us in a halting but urgent way, said the commander wanted to speak to us and then for the next hour sitting on woven mats under a thatched roof in a hut with no walls and were the target of a barrage of questions from men who know they may die tomorrow: And cannot understand why the rest of the world does not care. [More…]
Senator Melzer has mentioned on several occasions the resignation as a delegate from Victoria of David Anderson. [More…]
Under the conditions of appointment provision is made to hold an election of the Aboriginals living in his electoral area. [More…]
The Government is letting members of this body resign, It has a report. [More…]
The Government policy apparently is to keep the body going, but it is letting members resign. [More…]
There are areas where Aboriginals are not represented on the Consultative Committee, which is a body for the purpose of advising the Government on Aboriginal Affairs Also, the NACC is not allowed to meet. [More…]
The Government is paying men to sit in their offices or at home. [More…]
The Opposition hopes that, if the Government is going to eliminate the NACC or if it is going to act contrary to the Hyatt report, it will let us know. [More…]
Whatever it is going to do, I think it should advise the Senate of its intentions as a result of the Hyatt report for which the Government was waiting in order to make a decision on this question. [More…]
-This is the second time this week I have spoken on the adjournment. [More…]
He was one of the best known business men in north Queensland. [More…]
I am informed that some departments- in particular the Bureau of Customs in the Department of Business and Consumer Affairs- in fact do advise people of their right of appeal to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in respect of departmental decisions. [More…]
It is one which is being looked at for further application by all departments concerned. [More…]
With regard to Senator Missen ‘s point concerning the non-legal chairman of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, I think the Government would share the concern that he has expressed and the views that have been expressed by the learned men who have considered this question that there is a great deal to be said for chairmen of these tribunals having legal qualifications although other expertise is required on these tribunals. [More…]
As was pointed out in the second reading speech, it is certainly the intention of the Government that in practice legal training will be required for appointment to the position of senior non-presidential member. [More…]
I notice that the Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) refers in his second reading speech to the multitude of awards, as though the State governments had hoodwinked the then Federal Government when it took over the State railway systems. [More…]
I want to make one thing clear to anybody from the Government side who has any misgivings about the Government meeting its obligations to superannuated railway employees. [More…]
In the 2 States to which I am addressing my remarks, most of the railway men spent their working life doing long hours on various shifts. [More…]
I feel that any tab that the Federal Government has to pick up on their behalf is certainly justified. [More…]
We should compare the annual hours worked by a railway shunter, a locomotive engineman or those who work in many other grades with the hours worked by one or two of those retired gentlemen to whom Senator Wright rightly referred and who work only eight or nine months of the year. [More…]
So let us have no more of these shenanigans about how good a Federal Government would be to meet these obligations. [More…]
People such as Glen Moorehead, Federal Secretary of the Australian Federated Union of Locomotive Enginemen, and Ralph Taylor, the National Secretary of the Australian Railways Union, do not have Utopian concepts. [More…]
They are men who have their feet on the ground. [More…]
I was disturbed to read recently in the Adelaide Advertiser of Tuesday, 10 May, of a statement made by Mr V. H. Dyason, the General Manager of the Australian National Railways. [More…]
What he is reported to have said has caused great concern to many railway men in South Australia. [More…]
He suggested that the consistent favouring of Western Australia, as he saw it- the consistent allocation by the Commonwealth of a greater percentage of road funds than had been recommended by the Commonwealth Bureau of Roads- was a sign that it pays to be unco-operative. [More…]
I would have thought that if one bore in mind the different characters of these 3 men it became fairly obvious that it was an oversimplification to suggest that some form of uncooperative behaviour lay behind the significant excess over the Bureau of Roads recommendations which have applied for the last 10 years. [More…]
It suggested to me that the significant increase over the Bureau of Roads allocation could be related to a great contribution which Western Australia has made and is able to make to the economic development of Australia and to the peculiar difficulties that Western Australia suffers because of its vast area and long distance. [More…]
We have no amendments prepared. [More…]
It has been suggested that the Government should amend this legislation so that it refers to persons rather than to men. [More…]
Can he appoint men of his own choosing? [More…]
Would he have the power to reject the leader of a union involved in a dispute when the application for appointment was made? [More…]
As a basis from which to work, we must accept that a strong industrial trade union movement is a part of our industrial life. [More…]
But after the Bill was introduced into the House of Representatives and before it was debated the air traffic controllers dispute occurred, which clearly showed the Government that it could not succeed in crushing the trade union movement through a confrontation with the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
That dispute clearly showed the Government that industry today relies so much on technology and machinery and the labour force is so specialised that a small group of employees can simply paralyse the nation. [More…]
As we have experienced in South Australia, a dispute with the maintenance men at a power station for even a short period can paralyse that section of the community which that power station supplies. [More…]
The approach to be adopted with the workers is to try to find a means by which government can confer with them and their organisations as equal partners in this system of running the country. [More…]
Mr Willis in the other place said that the Government is already breaking its agreement, but of course everybody knows that this is not true. [More…]
I cannot understand why Mr Willis or any of his colleagues should suggest that there has been a breaking by the Government of the agreements that have been reached between Mr Hawke, the ACTU and CAGEO. [More…]
It is a recognition of the public interest that is perhaps paramount in the establishment of a working circumstance between labour and capital, employer and employee- call it what you will- because that sort of circumstance will be found in every sort of society in every country, and it is our job and our duty to ensure that it is a circumstance to which there is a real and proper solution. [More…]
Indeed, responsibility is the very hallmark of a democracy and responsibility is the very essence of the legislation that is before us in this Parliament this afternoon. [More…]
I note that in the other place a day or two ago Mr Clyde Cameron, in speaking on this legislation, said: the trade union movement of this country could bring down this Government simply by bringing out a few key men. [More…]
Trade unionism is probably the greatest force in this country today and men in control qf it have used their power in a way which was never intended when trade unions were created. [More…]
At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative qf every adult male and female in the community. [More…]
I know that very grudgingly the men went back. [More…]
I notice that great stress has been placed on the partnership arrangements of the various groups which will constitute the National Labour Consultative Council. [More…]
That firm engaged 20 men to go about 300 miles from Perth to operate bulldozers and other equipment to lift overburden in the expectation of a nickel mining operation. [More…]
In fact I criticised the Mines Minister of a Liberal government and the Mines Minister of a Labor government for not moving fast enough. [More…]
If we want the arbitration system to represent the whole of the spectrum of the judiciary we need men like Mr Justice Staples. [More…]
If it is good enough to tell the trade union movement that Bill Smith is a good union official or that he should not be a union official, it is good enough to refer to members of the Bench and say, for example, that Justice Staples has his virtues and ask what his future will be. [More…]
They had strike after strike, and they caused so much trouble that the men on the Harbour Board decided that they would introduce bulk handling of sugar; and they did. [More…]
The requirement for waterside workers in Mackay fell from about 450 to about 50 at that time. [More…]
-The honourable senator states that I would make the wrong impact on unemployment. [More…]
I put it to him that at the present time this trade practices legislation not only is adding significantly to unemployment in the petrol distribution area, but also is breaking down the conditions of the people employed in the industry. [More…]
At the present time because of a heavy discounting war in Brisbane and possibly in New South Wales and Victoria, senior men who have worked in the industry for a number of years are being dismissed and juniors are taking their place. [More…]
To get away from being emotive and to return to the Bill, since we have it and since we find it hard to understand I hope, as I said, that I will be assisted by our legal men in this chamber, who may be able to provide me with some understanding and some comfort. [More…]
The major grounds upon which my opposition to this Bill and these amendments is based are, firstly, that I believe that proposed new section 45D will provoke a direct confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
I know that the Government has moved away from the position of imposing a $50,000 fine on an individual who is engaged in a so-called secondary boycott, but it has still left a $250,000 penalty. [More…]
The Trade Practices Amendment Bill was described by the first speaker in the second reading debate today as, I think, beyond nearly everyone but 2 members of the House of Representatives. [More…]
As the Bill is essentially one dealing with business practices, and as 2 professional men- a legal man and a professional accountant- had difficulty in understanding it, it is nearly impossible for the layman to interpret the Bill. [More…]
Therefore I am not in a position to offer any comments on the effects of the Bill on ordinary trade and business. [More…]
If two men on the street decide that they will not work for such and such a firm because they do not like its attitude and, so, deprive the firm of their services, this is a breach. [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 Proprietary Co. Limited, the Australian National Line and officers of the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations, 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 whilst primary responsibility for administrative arrangements rests with the employers. [More…]
The Government will introduce legislation to achieve this. [More…]
Undoubtedly the dairy industry is fortunate that at the moment it is exporting only around 26 per cent of the total production, as against SO per cent in times past. [More…]
What was once considered to be something of a way of life for many men, women and children has become something of a trauma. [More…]
Within days of my election last year I started seeing dairy men, quite a few of whom are friends of mine whom I have known all my life. [More…]
In view of this, there is some doubt as to whether the men are now unemployed as a result of direct industrial action or whether, as some sources indicate, Consolidated Meat Holdings Ltd has closed down for purely economic reasons. [More…]
Accordingly, it is not possible at this point to say whether the 355 men stood down as of 1 June can qualify for unemployment benefit. [More…]
Inquiries are being made with the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations and as soon as further information is available a determination will be made with regard to their eligibility for unemployment benefit. [More…]
I am closely in touch with Mr Street, the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, to have his advice with regard to the industrial situation and whether the men are eligible for unemployment benefit under the Act. [More…]
During the time of the Labor Government, as Minister for Agriculture I had the responsibility of piloting through these new reforms. [More…]
But really no problems arose by that time because the new boards, with the new expertise appointed to them- men of very great ability- had demonstrated the value of that form of restructuring. [More…]
He had confidence in the men he appointed to those corporations and from then on played a hands off policy. [More…]
I believe the men are there and the Minister should get out of the field and leave it to the people who know something about it. [More…]
A very excellent investigation recently completed by the Department of Overseas Trade sets out the position. [More…]
Of course, we would need to get a little co-operation from men like Mr 0 ‘Toole in Melbourne. [More…]
I met a lot of cattle men who came to Canberra yesterday. [More…]
Some of the men who are going out under this redundancy program are men in their early fifties, perhaps in their middle fifties. [More…]
It is not as if these men are going into seclusion in a very easy life because the redundancy money involvedwith all deference to Senator Wright- is not that much when we consider some of the retirement programs of people higher up on the wage and salary scale. [More…]
Governments then have the problem of finding alternative employment for them. [More…]
It is true that many of these men in their middle or late fifties will take part time work. [More…]
If they do not work, I say to Senator Wright that if these men in their fifties have worked long hours to pay off a home and if they have given 30 years of their life in summer and winter, this is well and good. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Federal Government’s new scheme of family allowances, which was introduced in 1976 to replace child endowment, ‘effectively means higher taxation for most family men’, as was claimed on page 100 of Taxpayer, the national journal of the Taxpayers Association, dated 23 April 1 977. [More…]
Will the Minister investigate and following his investigation inform the Senate of the number of men and women who are not attending universities or colleges of advanced education and who have been issued with student travel concessions on Qantas Airways Ltd by the Australian Union of Students travel service? [More…]
Will the Minister undertake to investigate the men and women engaged upon ministerial and departmental staffs who hold student concessional tickets on Qantas issued by the AUS Travel Service Pty Ltd? [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; 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…]
-The Government ought to be finding jobs for those people. [More…]
Skilled men are required in the Public Service and in most of the statutory authorities but they cannot take on skilled men who are unemployed because of the staff ceiling policy of the Government which has been applauded by Government senators. [More…]
Then, the Government introduces a Community Youth Support Scheme- this is where I was interrupted. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) stated that this scheme would improve the ability of young people to apply for jobs and to find employment. [More…]
Men like me and I suppose women in the Parliament sometimes can be most frustrating to a committee secretariat. [More…]
The evidence suggests that it was never intended that if Aboriginals had control of the two kilometres adjoining their coast that area would be closed to white man’s interests, but that permission would have to be given by the Aboriginal community as to what white men would be allowed entry and for what purpose. [More…]
Senator Bonner’s report has recommended that provision be made for the right of Aboriginals to full use of the sea adjoining their land. [More…]
If that is accepted, no ordinance of the Northern Territory or action of government can deny them the right to the use of that area. [More…]
For example, on behalf of the parliamentary Labor Party I have attended meetings of the industry advisory council that the Minister established for the printing industry. [More…]
I have represented my colleague, Mr Young, at meetings of the industry advisory council that has been established within the purview of the Department of Industry and Commerce to examine the metal manufacturing industry. [More…]
I believe that a lot of common sense is spoken around those tables by men who come from the employers’ section of the industry, men who come from the trade union section of the industry, men who come from the Department and men who are connected with, involved with or whose businesses are associated with the respective industries. [More…]
I think it is about time that the Government adopted that attitude and asked the IAC to adopt that attitude. [More…]
In discussions that I have had with my colleague Mr Young we agreed that in view of the high degree of unemployment that exists in these industries and the problems that are created by men and women being put out of work in these industries, there is little that the Government can do other than what it is doing. [More…]
As a representative of the Federal Parliamentary Labor Party I have heard the views of employers, workers and trade union leaders in the printing industry and in the metal manufacturing industries. [More…]
I view with scorn- if I may say sosome of the arguments that have been put forward by our friends opposite in debates on unemployment when I sit around a table at a meeting of that nature and see the great desire of men who employ workers and the workers in industry to solve the problems of the industry. [More…]
The company applied for a special work project to employ 14 men for 12 weeks on the preparation of building sites on the Mallee and the employment of one woman for 12 weeks’ cleaning. [More…]
For example, in the State of Colorado where a small amount of mining was carried out by men in their physical prime in their twenties, they had cancer eating into their lungs by the time they were in their forties. [More…]
I asked the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, about our code on radon gases. [More…]
I do not think that anybody can be sure that some of the men in these mines will not be affected by the ravages of cancer of the lung because it has happened in the United States. [More…]
At that time our party told the then Government of the futility of being engaged in wars on the Asian mainland. [More…]
The men went back to work and in six months the company had recovered that loss. [More…]
That is why the present Government has had to intervene on certain coal mining developments. [More…]
The gentlemen involved do not work under the Marquess of Queensbury rules. [More…]
On the basis of the information that we have been given about the doses of radiation that the men are likely to have received, we are not persuaded that any notable hazard has existed. [More…]
All honourable senators will be aware of the objections raised by some eminent Labor men to some of the proposals. [More…]
Those are the words of Labor men about some of the consequences which might flow. [More…]
I am disappointed at the Labor Party which has argued not for a moratorium but for an indefinite halt to the development of uranium in this country. [More…]
I should like to draw attention to one of the statements by a very great American- one of the great men of this century. [More…]
There is no evil in the atom, only in men ‘s souls. [More…]
During that time, during the time of the Labor Government and, in particular, during my own time- I am not applauding myself; it is the sort of technique that should be used by a Minister- I used every device to make sure that a troubleshooter was available to solve disputes. [More…]
We have the greatest record of any government in respect of the Post Office. [More…]
What has this Government done? [More…]
Since the Labor Government went out of office there have been more disputes in the Post Office than ever before, particularly in the Postal Commission. [More…]
Despite that, the new Postal Commission, which the Labor Government handed to this Government on a plate, actually made $29m. [More…]
Now the Government is so miserable that it will not allow the Arbitration Commission to decide this question. [More…]
I am not defending men who take arbitrary action. [More…]
The Government should do the same thing as I did when I was Postmaster-General. [More…]
It was an agreement signed during my time and later extended by this Government. [More…]
Having done that, this Government said to the men: ‘You can have 363A hours, but you will lose $40 a fortnight’. [More…]
The men bucked the Government. [More…]
How many men will put up with that sort of nonsense? [More…]
Instead of that, the Government should have said: ‘We will consider what rosters might be developed in the Redfern Mail Exchange’. [More…]
When it said that it was going to apply the rosters, naturally the men decided to take industrial action. [More…]
We want to see the great majority of ordinary members of trade unions, decent working men and women, having their say. [More…]
The procedure these days in any place of employment where disputes over rosters are required to be settled is to have the matter discussed between the employer and the union which represents the men. [More…]
It is clear also that it gives not only the Government but also the employing authority or some small-minded bloke in charge of a department the power to sack a man arbitrarily. [More…]
The Minister could delegate authority to a foreman on the line down at Redfern who is there possibly because of bis power to push the men around. [More…]
The Government is creating this situation. [More…]
If a dispute occurs the Government says it can take certain action. [More…]
Few industrial disputes occur that are not brought about by a decision of the men involved in it. [More…]
A recommendation has been made for the men to return to work at Redfern, but the men in control of the dispute, the men who have to suffer as a result of it, have decided to stay out. [More…]
The men on strike could meet tomorrow and decide to go back and the dispute would be over. [More…]
They are not in employment. [More…]
Today no one will take the place of men on strike. [More…]
The Government will be in the position of prolonging each dispute and stopping settlements being reached. [More…]
If an employee is suspended he loses all his entitlements to salary, allowances, et cetera for that period. [More…]
This would mean that men involved in the dispute would not be paid one week because there was a declaration but the next week it could be said that there was no declaration. [More…]
Surely there is an entitlement to payment under the contract of employment for that period. [More…]
That is what the amendment seeks to do. [More…]
That is why I feel that those in doubt- Senator Hall and Senator Knight- should consider supporting the amendment so that we can get clarity on the positions I have raised. [More…]
In association with his colleagues in the State Parliamentary Labor Party who served in that area at the time, Mr Rex Jackson who is now a Minister in the Wran Labor Government, and the late Mr Howard Fowles, a member for Illawarra in the New South Wales Parliament, Mr Connor secured the establishment of the Wollongong Teachers College which is now the Institute of Education. [More…]
Mr Connor also successfully moved a motion in the Labor Caucus in New South Wales in 1953 to amend the Liquor Act in order to liberalise the granting of club licences from the then restricted area. [More…]
He is considered by many to be the father of the licensed club movement in New South Wales. [More…]
He always believed that working men and women should be able to enjoy the benefits and facilities of licensed clubs as much as those who had the benefit of membership of very prestigious and salubrious institutions. [More…]
He was closely associated with the development and financing of the Port Kembla Leagues Club, the Port Kembla Ex-servicemen’s Club, the Wollongong Leagues Club, the Corrimal Leagues Club and the Berkeley Sports and Social Club. [More…]
He was active in reviving the credit union movement and was a very strong supporter of co-operative building societies. [More…]
Continuously since 1 950, when he entered the New South Wales Parliament, he was the sole patron of the Illawarra Rugby League and subsequently the Illawarra Division, and was a strong supporter of the surf club movement. [More…]
He was a great Australian and a great parliamentarian. [More…]
Rex Connor was a man among men. [More…]
I pay this tribute to the man who, I believe, will be put down in the records of this country as being one of our most outstanding, courageous and idealistic men and one of our best visionaries. [More…]
On an occasion like this when we all feel so sad about his passing, we can feel assured that if there is such a thing as everlasting life it comes when a man writes his name into his family and into the affairs of his fellow men. [More…]
Parliament. [More…]
If one spoke to the people of Wollongong- irrespective of their political points of view- one would find an acceptance of the role that Rex had played in the development of that city and the way in which he had represented the diversity of his electorate in politics. [More…]
I think that he was unique because he was one of the few men- I cannot readily recall any women qualifying for this distinction- who had served in the three arms of government. [More…]
Not many people are able to record that sort of achievement. [More…]
It must be emphasised that this Government’s borrowings are mainly for short term purposes and that in fact since 1 1 November 1975 it has borrowed no less than $3,000m and, as I said, mostly for short term purposes. [More…]
Those borrowings will add substantially to Australia’s interest costs and will complicate the refinancing task of future governments. [More…]
It is a series of frequent, inevitable changes administered by a small group of men at the top on a day-to-day basis. [More…]
The list of incompetent and bad business management is endless. [More…]
Now the Government blames the arbitration commissioners for its own failures. [More…]
When will the Ministers in this Government accept the responsibility for their misgovernment of the country? [More…]
When will they make way for a government which at least will accept the responsibility for governing Australia instead of seeking to shift the blame on to a series of scapegoats. [More…]
The Government wails that men are being replaced by machines in manufacturing industry because wages are too high. [More…]
Simultaneously it subsidises the machines with a ridiculously expensive 40 per cent investment allowance and it forces the States to impose a 5 per cent payroll tax - [More…]
Simultaneously with that decision to increase the price of petrol by 1 lc a gallon on the grounds that it would conserve supplies, the same Government in one of the few areas of Australia where it has direct control- the Australian Capital Territory- increased more than proportionately the registration fees on small cars which use less petrol. [More…]
I find it quite amazing that even this Government on the one hand can say that it will put up the consumer price index by one per cent to conserve fuel- not being able to produce any evidence that it will have that effect incidentallyand on the other hand say it will increase the registration fees on small cars by more than it will increase the registration fees on big cars. [More…]
That is amazing even for this Government, a government which has a 40 per cent investment allowance to subsidise the replacement of men with machines and which then bewails the fact that this is happening. [More…]
Senator Walsh, in his comments indicating the harsh effects that he believed this Budget would have on rural people, did not tell those listening that he was one member of the Labor Party which, when in government, took away tax concessions from rural people. [More…]
He supported the Labor Party through its three years in government, when tax concessions to farmers for fencing, drainage and fuel and fodder conservation were taken away by the vote of that honourable senator. [More…]
They are the men who brought this country into disrespect and who ruined the finances of Australia. [More…]
Senator Walsh, the advisers to the Labor Party including Mr Hawke, who is so vocal at this time, are the advisers to a government which dragged Australia into the dirt by its socialist fiscal policies. [More…]
The South Australian Government, which is condemned for not doing anything about the number of unemployed, has out of its surplus funds put in $20m to absorb the unemployed, to keep the pressure off the Commonwealth for unemployment relief and to get thousands of men employed on relief schemes in South Australia during the past 6 months. [More…]
It was only when the State Government used its surpluses and was unable to carry on the scheme that it appealed to the Federal Government, and the Federal Government knocked it back. [More…]
The Federal Government would not give the State Government lc to carry on the unemployment scheme. [More…]
Now we are told that if the State Government built a petrochemical works or developed some road works Mr Dunstan could assist the unemployed. [More…]
We have been appealing to the Federal Government for assistance on these things in order to absorb the unemployed that the Federal Government has placed on the unemployment list. [More…]
The only avenue of appeal is to the Federal Government, and that is hopeless. [More…]
But today we have seen a parochial attitude shown by these men. [More…]
It is a soup kitchen mentality and it goes back to the dole days. [More…]
If he had studied the history of South Australia he would know that the greatest violence that occurred in South Australia was when men with meat coupons demonstrated in Victoria Square in Adelaide in the 1930s to be allowed to buy beef with their meat coupons. [More…]
He is an advocate for the election of a Liberal Government in South Australia. [More…]
Killington, ‘Use of Health Services by Aboriginals’: S. Treloar, D. Petritsi-Jones and C. Kerr, ‘Use of Health Services by Greek Immigrants’; G. Rawson and I. Webster, Health Screening of Homeless Men in Sydney’; in Health Studies of Selected Disadvantaged Groups-Printed copies recently received from AGPS. [More…]
W. Crabtree is one of the most dedicated men ever to have assumed to role of Lands Minister in New South Wales, and I know that he is feeling frustrated about the difficulties there. [More…]
The male hairdresser is continuing to be in attendance each Tuesday and he is competent to attend to ladies’ as well as men’s hairdressing requirements. [More…]
Both men consistently aid and espouse the cause and policies of the Communist Party of Australia. [More…]
In addition, Thorne has paid money into the funds of the Communist Party of Australia, which payment has been acknowledged by the Communist Party’s Tribune. [More…]
This rules committee, rejecting the call by ALP President Hawke in Launceston on 19 February this year for unity to throw out the Federal Government and ‘not our colleagues within the movement’ and defying the plea made by Premier Neilson to drop the charges, pressed on secretly obtaining what they could from a collection of informers whose credibility is zero. [More…]
They relied on T. Keogh, who describes himself in his statutory declaration against the two charged men as ‘a retired trade union official’. [More…]
It is serious that a senator will degrade himself by using the privileges of a coward’s castle to slander men no matter what truth there may be in the question. [More…]
He came into the Senate to slander men knowing that they have no redress and can do nothing to him. [More…]
The honourable senator has sunk to a very low level to take on such a job and carry it out in this Parliament. [More…]
I dare Senator Harradine to repeat outside the Parliament the accusations he made against any of these men. [More…]
Those two men were involved in a disputation which went to court. [More…]
I believe that Forrester was fined for breaches of the Conciliation and Arbitration Act when he forged documents and acted improperly in the conduct of elections for the purpose of getting NCC members elected to the Miscellaneous Workers Union in Victoria. [More…]
I am hopeful, if these men are NCC members, that they will be expelled from the party and that they will be expelled from every working class tribunal. [More…]
They would support a pro-communist movement rather than NCC members. [More…]
These two men have been charged with belonging to an organisation, membership of which automatically puts them outside the Labor Party. [More…]
We should not slander men under the protection of this Parliament for the advancement of our own political ideology when we are not prepared to make the same statement outside this Parliament. [More…]
Although there are some opportunities for employment in the steel works at present the work being offered is generally not the sort of work for which the men to whom it is being offered have been trained. [More…]
Men with skills are finding no satisfaction in being told that there may be opportunities for employment for them at the steel mills at work involving less skills than those they have attained. [More…]
Everybody knows that, presently, the Government, in attempting to ease the unemployment position in ways urged by us, is starting various training schemes. [More…]
We should seek to maintain skilled men as effective units in our community. [More…]
As I said earlier, in our visits to the shipyards we talked to men involved in ship construction. [More…]
Government supporters themselves were surprised at the great support that was coming from the unions who would take part in such a package deal. [More…]
Our shipbuilding capacity should be an urgent priority of the Government. [More…]
The Whyalla shipyards were commenced at the direct request of the government of the day that there be set up a shipbuilding capacity for naval vessels. [More…]
They were hot and bitter men [More…]
Surely, said the old men, it’s history back to front, [More…]
About 100 men, women and children have traditionally camped out under the bridges of Guildford, 20 km from Perth, until this winter when the church grounds were made available and white supporters gave them tents. [More…]
I have a tremendous admiration for those Australians who serve on shire, town and municipal councils throughout Australia. [More…]
They receive no payment, no remuneration or reward, but they spend long hours in the interests of their local community. [More…]
Surely if anyone knows how the money ought to be spent within the confines of the municipality, it is those good men and true who are elected by the ratepayers of the municipality to serve their interests and to decide how the money will be spent. [More…]
So I wish to say this in conclusion: I have, as Senator Tehan has, a strong regard for local government authorities throughout all the States of the Commonwealth but in Queensland in particular. [More…]
In that State, small groups of men and women in their own time take on a massive responsibility to meet a program of needs for their communities with very little funds indeed. [More…]
Their ability to provide to those isolated areas the amenities which we take for granted in the cities is very difficult indeed. [More…]
But I again indicate to you, Mr President, just how biased the State Government of Queensland is in its approach to local authorities. [More…]
The work of local aldermen and alderwomen is unpaid work which they have to do in their spare time. [More…]
But because of an action of the State Government in Queensland it is impossible for many men and women who seek to be represented on local authorities to do so. [More…]
By an Act of the State Government in Queensland, initiated by Mr Bjelke-Petersen, it is impossible for a State public servant to obtain leave of absence to attend a council meeting. [More…]
By that Act and that Act alone, he has prevented people such as teachers, railway workers and other State Government employees from serving in what I consider to be one of the most important areas of government. [More…]
It seems to me that we are rapidly reaching a stage at which we need to provide funds to these local authorities in order to pay the aldermen and alderwomen to carry out their activities so that any person who wishes to nominate, stand and achieve election should be able to carry out the work of local authority representation. [More…]
Again, it is a legal matter and I think it is for the legal men to argue the point. [More…]
I do support Senator Wriedt ‘s proposed amendment to clause 7. [More…]
The Minister for Education (Senator Carrick) in justifying rejection of the amendment said that it is not necessary because the Acts Interpretation Act gives power to either House of the Parliament to disallow a regulation. [More…]
While that is true, the amendment in fact does not seek acceptance or rejection; is seeks an explanation. [More…]
When it was pointed out to Mr Gallagher that cement pours had also been included in the disruptions he said that there had been only one disruption in that regard and that was in Victoria, but I know that in Tasmania there was also an interrupted cement pour. [More…]
A $15m project at the Royal Hobart Hospital was held up for a month when 70 men went on strike. [More…]
A cement pour was in process when the men were due to go off work. [More…]
The cement pour was half completed. [More…]
According to the construction engineers it certainly would have been detrimental to the building not to have continued the cement pour at that stage. [More…]
So other people on the project continued the cement pour for the safety of the project. [More…]
Senator Cavanagh had asked me the cause of the strike at the Hobart building site and I had said that a cement pour had been interrupted at the end of a day’s work and that the men had refused to work an extra hour to finish the cement pour, and that because the construction engineers decided that it would be detrimental to the safety of the building if the pour was not completed the other people on the site continued the pour. [More…]
Seventy men were on strike. [More…]
That project catered for the jobs of 150 men, yet the Commonwealth has had to give up the whole project because of the disputes. [More…]
Those are the sorts of things going on at the moment. [More…]
If there were no industrial disturbances in the building area I should not think for one moment that there would be much need for a government boost. [More…]
One might observe also that the Australian capital flow position is very much affected, as is our balance of payments, by uneven movements of money for export receipts and uneven movements of money being paid out for imports. [More…]
It is possible for the funny money men in other parts of the world to manipulate our currency. [More…]
The Director of Social Services in Queensland has indicated to me that two of these men were in receipt of social security payments but neither had used the provisions of the Social Services Act to have any sort of warranty arrangement. [More…]
In other words, the people involved in the raid yesterday were people who held pensions in their own names and were not subjected to any of the warranty arrangements or the claims that may have been made by other persons regarding these matters. [More…]
The most outstanding example of such handouts is the investment allowance. [More…]
A 40 per cent subsidy was granted on capital spent on machines to replace men, to use the words of the Prime Minister. [More…]
This has been much less successful than the Government believed it would be. [More…]
When the Government originally announced the policy, it was forecast that the cost to revenue in the financial year just ended would be $600m. [More…]
In fact, the cost to revenue was $475m, so it is quite obvious from those figures that the investment allowance has failed to stimulate private capital spending in the way this Government expected it would. [More…]
That failure was totally predictable to anyone who can make a more astute assessment of these matters than the Prime Minister can. [More…]
High tariffs are a manifestation of big government, not of small government. [More…]
In his speech in Sydney on 26 August the Prime Minister returned to the small government theme. [More…]
He said that his government is committed to small government. [More…]
This comes from a man who is committed to market shares for domestic manufacturers, who has a ministerial review committee which meets in secret to grant protection over and above that provided by the tariff and the quotas to people who tender for government contracts, who seeks to emasculate the Industries Assistance Commission so that there will be no independent scrutiny of his big government actions, and who constantly wants to jack up import tariffs and quotas. [More…]
We see the contradiction between the Prime Minister’s professed concern about men being replaced by machines and the Government’s toleration of the existence of a payroll tax of 5 per cent, which obviously discourages the employment of labour. [More…]
The Government, by its own initiative, introduces a capital subsidy for machines and then stands back in horror when the machines which it is subsidising by means of the 40 per cent investment allowance replace the men. [More…]
If we are tied to the program which the Commonwealth has given us this year, we will have to immediately get rid of men from Government employment. [More…]
It is possible for the funny money men in other parts of the world to manipulate our currency. [More…]
In view of the disastrous increase in unemployment in this country- it is expected to rise to more than 420,000 people by early 1978, a trend which is shown clearly on page 15 of Treasury document 56 headed ‘The round-up of the economic statistics for September’- is there any truth in the report that the Government has accepted the need for a $100m job creation program? [More…]
If so, why is the Government procrastinating in the implementation of this program while increasing numbers of people, especially young men and women, are being thrown out of work or are unable to find jobs? [More…]
Why was there not any mention of such a plan in the Budget? [More…]
Is the Government merely using the proposal as a pre-election ploy? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for Social Security and refers to the incident in Brisbane two weeks ago when six or eight men were allegedly rescued by Commonwealth and State police from a condition of apparent slavery. [More…]
I ask: As there were accusations at the time by the Press and by members of the Minister’s Party of abuse of the warrantor system and of people being held against their wills, and because the Minister promised at that time that there would be an investigation, can she tell us what stage the investigation has reached at the moment? [More…]
When can the Parliament expect to have a report on this matter? [More…]
There is no pension for men comparable with a widow’s pension yet the family needs are the same. [More…]
of spouse) for men (or women) comparable to the ‘C class widows pension. [More…]
It should not be necessary for supporting fathers in desperate straits to plan a hunger strike to draw attention to their problems, as a group of Perth men proposes. [More…]
I should now like to deal with the subject of women and unemployment. [More…]
I have a document which is rather dated because this Government has seen fit to cut funds in necessary areas- that is in the public sector- and we find that we are not able to get up to date figures. [More…]
One must presume that because of the ceilings that have been applied since this Government took office and because of the cuts that have been made in the various departments it is impossible for them to come down with later statistics. [More…]
But at that time the report said that almost half the married women in Australia were income earners in the 1973-74 year but that most received less than $5,000 a year. [More…]
That does not surprise me because we live in a society which has always tended to say that it does not matter how much work women do, they are not entitled to the same facilities or to the same wage rates as men. [More…]
It is only in recent years that we have found that women are gradually getting equal pay for equal service. [More…]
Evidently, Mr MacKinnon wishes to see women remain in the lowest paid, lowest status jobs. [More…]
If women move out of these jobs, who is going to fill them. [More…]
This is a valid concern, and I do not doubt that some people will support Mr MacKinnon’s view because they do not wish to see the better jobs (men’s jobs) filled by women. [More…]
However, women must not remain the lackeys. [More…]
They found the black nations well settled on their home lands, the best grazing lands, for they were herdsmen or warriors. [More…]
They had no cash mentality let alone a cash economy. [More…]
But the Bantus gained great respect for these hardy white men and women who were fiercely honest and prepared to fight to the death for their rights and freedom and, Mr President, they still are. [More…]
I mention here the wage differential that exists. [More…]
If 10 men mine an ounce of gold they can share a tenth each but if a thousand men do it, they will receive less each. [More…]
The Bantu women understand work a lot better than do the men. [More…]
Government senators talk about penalties being imposed on trade unions for not keeping agreements. [More…]
Many of the people like Gale should finish up in an old men’s hostel without a penny. [More…]
There are many people who made this country great- stockmen, shearers and railway menwho finished work at 65 and are in ill health. [More…]
One would hope, Senator Lajovic, that this Government might have learnt from many conclusions it might have liked to draw about the purchase of the Blue Poles painting. [More…]
It is not Blue Poles now; it is the things that I have mentioned such as Gold Coast apartments. [More…]
These things are devisive in this nation and they amount to a form of moral bankruptcy in the Government, a government of yes men who are pulled by the nose by a totally arrogant and insensitive Prime Minister- a totally insensitive person in relation to these problems, a person about whom the Financial Review said yesterday: [More…]
I rise to support my colleagues in condemning the Government’s disregard of increasing unemployment. [More…]
The first is that I grew up in that other unemployment situation that was called the Depression. [More…]
I witnessed men fighting virtually for the opportunity to do a day’s work. [More…]
I appreciate of course that, thanks to the enlightened policies of governments which have come to office since that time, this is not likely to happen again. [More…]
To put men and women back to work. [More…]
or to the same men who inflicted on you the worst inflation- not in ten years, but in our whole history. [More…]
All measures shall be taken to guarantee women’s right to work as the inalienable right of every human being and to revise, as necessary, existing laws, collective agreements, practices or customs which limit the integration of women in the workforce on a footing of equality with men. [More…]
The State Parties shall undertake to adopt all appropriate measures to ensure to women, married or unmarried, equal rights with men in the field of economic social life and, in particular [More…]
The right, equally with men to social security; particularly in case of retirement, unemployment, sickness, invalidity and old age or other incapacity to work, as well as the right to paid leave. [More…]
What is unfortunate is that those principles are very far from being implemented in Australia in the current economic situation. [More…]
What is even more unfortunate is that the government of the day, the Fraser Government, has taken absolutely no steps to ensure anything approximating the implementation of those principles of equality in the Australian situation. [More…]
Despite the fact that women have constituted one-third of the work force until very recently, the unemployment rate for women as measured is higher than the rate for men in every category, and this is despite the fact that the mechanisms for recording the number of unemployed women are quite unsatisfactory. [More…]
By that I mean that the recording of the unemployed takes place when unemployed persons go to the Commonwealth Employment Service office and register themselves as looking for employment. [More…]
Those registers are the method by which unemployment in Australia is measured. [More…]
The position in Australia is that the current practice in regard to the payment of the unemployment benefit, for which being registered as seeking employment is a necessary prerequisite, discriminates quite disastrously against married persons. [More…]
I say ‘married persons’, not ‘married women’, because the Act does not discriminate on the basis of sex. [More…]
However, it does discriminate against spouses whose partners are in employment to the extent that if persons who are married lose employment they are ineligible for the unemployment benefit if their spouse earns in excess of $6 a week. [More…]
Because of that extremely discriminatory situation, most married women who lose their jobs and whose husbands remain in employment simply do not go to a Commonwealth Employment Service office to register as unemployed. [More…]
The overworked and understaffed staff at the Commonweath Employment Service offices do discourage women in these circumstances from registering as unemployed because they recognise that those women, or men if that happens to be the case, are not eligible for the unemployment benefit and indeed their chances of finding employment through the Commonwealth Employment Service are very small indeed. [More…]
Generally speaking, married women do not register as unemployed and therefore they are not counted in the unemployment statistics which are measured regularly by the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
Despite the fact that so many women do not register, for the reasons that I have just explained, the unemployment statistics still show a higher rate of unemployment amongst women than amongst men in every category and in some categories it is quite disastrously higher. [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics, which of course surveys unemployment in a different way from the Commonwealth Employment Service- it generally conducts surveys based on random sampling of persons in houses rather than people who come along to Commonwealth Employment Service offices- recently carried out a survey of the work force called ‘The Labour Force, May 1977 ‘. [More…]
It shows that the unemployment rate amongst females generally was 6.5 per cent in [More…]
So, in a way that is quite different from that for men and in a way that shows that they are much more disadvantaged than men, women often are judged to be too young or too old for work which they would be qualified to do. [More…]
Yet I understand that this Government has done nothing by way of education programs to improve employer attitudes in this area. [More…]
It was one of my boasts that the men in the Queensland railways were the only men in the world who could run a locomotive and get steam using blue metal. [More…]
They agreed to a rearrangement of terms and conditions such that union members now receive the wages set under the International Transport Federation Award and better conditions. [More…]
I must point out that at no time did these seamen complain about their wages and conditions. [More…]
As a matter of fact, when the Seamen’s Union of Australia bought into this subject a telegram was sent from the overseas union asking the Seamen’s Union of Australia to desist and saying that the men were quite satisfied with their wages and conditions. [More…]
So we have this problem now that the Seamen’s Union is using guerrilla tactics at Hay Point. [More…]
We have the very real problem that if perchance, by some misfortune, the Seamen’s Union were to win this dispute we could not economically compete because of the increased freight rates on the European market. [More…]
We have a typical case of union leaders pricing their men out of the market. [More…]
This is in conformity with what we have seen in the last few weeks as mentioned constantly in this Senate. [More…]
They are using the innocent men and women of the union. [More…]
They are quite content with the conditions that they arranged with the Utah Development Co. [More…]
If the Seamen’s Union is allowed to win, these men would have to be stood down. [More…]
These men at Hay Point are now operating under very subtle pressures to try to make them feel that they are the pariahs of the union movement; yet they are operating under the terms and conditions they have arranged. [More…]
At one stage the Mackay branch of the Federated Engine Drivers and Firemen’s Association even tried to initiate a kangaroo court to take the Hay Point delegate’s union membership from him. [More…]
Fortunately, that move failed; but we have what appears to be a concerted effort within the union movement by only certain sections and certain leaders to destroy our way of life and to use the men and women of Australia to do it. [More…]
If those two men had acted in a democratic fashion, you would not have been able to pull the trick you pulled and on the second occasion force the Labor Government out of office and force them to go to the people. [More…]
But the people are going to be able to judge you because when you were in government year in, year out for 23 years there were no guidelines for the people voting for the first time to allow them to compare a Labor government with a Liberal-National Country Party coalition. [More…]
They had a Labor Government from 1972 to 1975 and they have had a Liberal-National Country Party government from 1975 to 1977. [More…]
If we read the barometers correctly and if we can believe all the chit chat thrown around by various Ministers, unless those Ministers have been misinformed by their parties, there will be another election before Christmas and the people of Australia will be able to make a comparison: three years of Labor and two governmentsone of 17 months and another of about 18 months- compared with two years of LiberalNational Country Party government. [More…]
Every election in this country in recent times basically has been about the government of the country, about the running of the economy and about those who are most able to develop the country. [More…]
We have had elections that perhaps were thought would be elections on other issues, but basically the Australian people are concerned with what group of men and women is best capable of continuing to operate the economy of this country. [More…]
Prior to the purchase of the hotel the men rarely worked more than two days a week. [More…]
The hotel is controlled by a board of management in accordance with guidelines set down by the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs at that time. [More…]
I commend Senator Cavanagh for the action he took. [More…]
I point out to Senator Lewis, although he was not in the Parliament at the time, that the Party to which he belongs was strongly in favour of the present system of advantages to the two-income family when we debated the Medibank levy as it was originally proposed by the Labor Party. [More…]
This will probably involve the establishment of a guaranteed minimum income scheme in the form suggested by Professor Henderson rather than by way of legislation which I believe, in the case of Senator Lewis’ suggestion, will in fact actively discourage women from working. [More…]
One wonders why women should not be allowed to use their skills and get the same satisfaction as men in the community if that is what they wish to do. [More…]
Beneficiaries and pensioners have suffered from this lack of concern, but they have suffered indirectly from another lack of concern by the Government. [More…]
The Government caused to be set up inquiries by Mr Norgard and Dr Myers into the system of unemployment benefits in this country and the operation of the Commonwealth Employment Service. [More…]
These men have made reports with suggestions for changes in the administration of benefits and they have been ignored or dismissed out of hand. [More…]
In one instance the Government claimed to have taken note of Dr Myers’ recommendations, and in that instance the Government deliberately distorted the situation. [More…]
Dr Myers suggested that payment of unemployment benefit two weeks in arrears would in fact be a good thing, but he suggested another change which, as he put it, would have to go hand in glove with it. [More…]
So in this area of social security, as in the area of the taxation system, the Government, by using carefully phrased words and careful phrases proclaiming great changes, has not done what it proclaimed it would do. [More…]
Honourable senators opposite have always been interested in funny money men, Iraqi breakfasts, Khemlani kickbacks and all sorts of things. [More…]
I speak in particular of the Hunter Valley region which, on the June 1977 figures has a 46 per cent youth unemployment problem. [More…]
In the great city of Sydney, youth unemployment is shared disproportionately with the lower income areas bearing the brunt of such unemployment. [More…]
The rate of unemployment amongst young people is presently three times the average rate of unemployment for the labour force as a whole. [More…]
Young men are facing a 14.6 per cent unemployment rate. [More…]
Young women are facing a 19.1 per cent unemployment rate. [More…]
The severe effects of unemployment on women generally are evidenced by the fact that two-thirds of those who are unemployed in the clerical and administrative category in New South Wales- which comprises some 25,500 people- are females and the clerical and administrative category represents more than 25 per cent of total unemployment in New South Wales. [More…]
Sixty-two per cent of the total female unemployment comprised women under 20 years of age. [More…]
Thirty-six per cent of the total male unemployment in that great city comprised men under 20 years of age. [More…]
In numerical terms, 1,259 young women were looking for jobs in Wollongong in September- last monthand registered job vacancies totalled a mere 27. [More…]
For the 1,073 young men looking for work in that city there were only 17 registered vacant positions. [More…]
Volumes have been written on the psychological effects of enforced idleness on young men and women. [More…]
The Labor movement sees the problem of unemployment as the first priority to be tackled by government. [More…]
In government we will take every step possible to alleviate the dire situation in which young men and young women are now finding themselves. [More…]
That has been evidenced, might I suggest, by the Wran Labor Government’s Budget introduced in the New South Wales Parliament last night. [More…]
The cynical attitude of the Fraser Government towards assistance for the unemployed can be gauged by the level of per capita assistance it has devoted to retraining and adjustment schemes. [More…]
Under the last Labor Government, $754 was made available per head of employed persons for unemployment assistance schemes. [More…]
The Fraser Government allocated only $240 a head in 1 976-77 and on conservative estimates of growth rates relating to average unemployment this figure rose to a paltry $257 a head for 1977-78; in other words, $5 per week per head for schemes supposedly intended to assist those out of work because of the Government’s policies. [More…]
Assistance at these niggardly levels represents the actions of a government which is arrogant, elitist and incompetent. [More…]
Remember that many angry young men of the 1930s who walked the streets looking vainly for work in later life sought to introduce radical changes into a political system which they felt was heartless and unfair. [More…]
The Honourable Clyde Cameron laid the foundation in regard to beefing up our apprentice intake, but there are guilty men. [More…]
I believe that from the middle 1960s- again I refer to this trade fair syndrome- there was very little done by the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations on forward planning. [More…]
That mission came back with recommendations but, of course, under this awful federal system in which we live it is very difficult to obtain unanimity. [More…]
The Opposition moved this motion, not to throw scorn on some of the interim measures, but rather to suggest to the Government that unless it is prepared to resurrect and revive engineering generally, particularly the shipbuilding and telecommunications industries, at best, when some of these boys and girls come out of these schemes the journeymen who are ahead of them will be out of work. [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 figures- 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 guerrilla action, there would be employment opportunities for very many of the men who currently are unemployed. [More…]
Mr McLEAY; In drawing my answer to a conclusion, I direct attention to a Victorian project, the State Savings Bank of Victoria project, which is worth $50m, which will employ 1,150 men at its peak and which has been closed down for nearly six weeks because of action taken by the Builders Labourers Federation. [More…]
I table the document.I trust that those who are interested will take the time to inspect it [More…]
Remember that many angry young men of the 1 930s who walked the streets looking vainly for work in later life sought to introduce radical changes into a political system which they felt was heartless and unfair. [More…]
Furlonger, I do not think that the Government could have made a better appointment. [More…]
I believe that this new Office is attracting applicants of the highest possible order and that when the final choices are made these men will carry out the functions which the legislation intends them to carry out in the manner in which we hope they will be carried out. [More…]
I do not blame the Department of Foreign Affairs in Australia for not producing hardgrained intelligence, for the simple reason that it is a department that has grown and expanded very quickly as a result of the changing circumstances in which Australia has found itself since at least 195 1. [More…]
There is in the Department a great number of very able younger men who have had no training in assessing intelligence; yet the curiosity is that when an attempt was made some years ago to set up a new structure known as the Joint Intelligence Organisation, the JIO, the Department was powerful enough to insist that the Chairman of the Joint Intelligence Organisation should be an officer from the Department of Foreign Affairs. [More…]
Now there is to be superimposed on the whole structure another intelligence assessment operation, in this instance headed by a director-general appointed without a Bill going through this Parliament but by the use of the Executive and prerogative power to make such appointments. [More…]
What will happen is that unless the hard raw inputs come from the intelligence services that are available now the National Assessments Board will not be worth twopennyworth of beer drips. [More…]
I grew up in a mining area and it is perfectly true that much of the great rnining industry was originally the product of some men who put up with a hell of a lot of trouble and difficulty to find ore bodies. [More…]
I feel the encouragement of that is well worth considering. [More…]
The RALAC has lost a number of experienced limbmakers who have been replaced by trainees whose productivity cannot be expected to be as high as that of experienced men. [More…]
In view of the fact that 169 of the 197 persons to be laid off at the Mannum plant are married men and as there is no alternative employment available in this country town with a population of 2,000 people, will either the Minister or his Cabinet colleagues take emergency measures to assist the South Australian Government in preventing undue hardship to the work force and business people of Mannum? [More…]
The allocation for capital works, which supplies most of the on-going employment in the Northern Territory, has been reduced by $847m from the appropriation for 1 976-77. [More…]
This area is an important employer in the Northern Territory, of course, and I have said before that employers are leaving the Northern Territory because they cannot find work for their plant and for the men in their work force. [More…]
The much vaunted uranium industry which is going to be used as a source of employment will not work out. [More…]
The company applied for a special work project to employ 14 men for 12 weeks on the preparation of building sites on the Mallee and the employment of one woman for 12 weeks cleaning. [More…]
During my term of office as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs there was one member of the Department who never ceased to criticise the Government, the Department and many other aspects of what the Government was doing. [More…]
He has never been heard since the change of government. [More…]
As soon as the government changed, he went to Mr Viner with a proposal that a statutory authority should control Aboriginal affairs and that he should be the chairman of the statutory authority. [More…]
There are as many con men in the Aboriginal community or amongst those who pretend to support Aborigines as we will find in white communities. [More…]
I recommend to everyone to get away from making the cheap political speeches we hear, get out and meet the Aboriginal people and come back and discuss whether there is anything else we can do in a humanitarian way for the purpose of protecting and giving justice to people whom we have robbed in the past. [More…]
The Budget Papers disclose that, whilst we have a high level of unemployment, there are certain areas in which there are shortages of skills. [More…]
This leads me to the point that the situation which gravely concerns me- it is one which will concern us all in the immediate years ahead- is that we are going to be desperately short of skilled men. [More…]
I wish this point to register with the Government. [More…]
We are going to be desperately short of men with skills in the trades. [More…]
There can be no argument about that. [More…]
Butand it’s a big ‘but’- the big issue is that supplementary to this there should be a system whereby older youths or young men who for various reasons did not or could not procure apprenticeships can be afforded the opportunity, even when well into their twenties if need be, to obtain theoretical and practical training to permit their entry into a skilled trade. [More…]
-No, the measure the Government wants to get on to by hurrying this Bill through the House. [More…]
I am talking about the program of the Government. [More…]
It wants to have this measure brought on and passed or adjourned without the deliberation and review which we claim we could give to it in the Parliament. [More…]
I make the point that the Senate is being turned into a charade and a farce by political hit and run men. [More…]
I describe Government people as hit and run men because they are doing to the Parliament and to the institution of the Senate what ruthless and reckless power crazed road hogs do to the pedestrians of this country. [More…]
Members of the Government are doing their evil worst to divert the Parliament from its traditional role into an authoritarian role which is to be equalled only by the pre-war days of Hitler’s Germany when trade unions and the Parliament in Germany faced farcical things like the burning of the Reichstag and all the other ploys which were used to fool the people. [More…]
This is exactly what this Government is doing. [More…]
I take the opportunity in relation to this motion to voice my strong disapproval of the Government’s proposed program, including its proposal in relation to this measure. [More…]
I hope the Government will adjourn debate on this Bill in order to give us full discussion on it in the future. [More…]
The commission was set up after an incident on January 5 last year in which vehicles carrying 74 men, women and children were intercepted by a party of police at Skull Creek, near Laverton in western Australia. [More…]
I think we must come down on the side of more lenient treatment of Aborigines. [More…]
But what do we do in respect of ordinary policemen acting under instructions of their sergeant who have gone into Laverton, made mistakes, and lied their way through all the processes, lied even to the Royal Commission, for the purpose of covering up their defaults? [More…]
Are these men who should properly be in the police force? [More…]
Are these men who should have powers of arrest? [More…]
I point out that nothing can be done because the Western Australian Government is trying to protect its police force. [More…]
Therefore, the only appeal I can make is to the Federal Government which has the right to intercede on behalf of people. [More…]
He had received reports of police dragging aboriginal men and women from Gertrude Street hotels by their feet and hair, and taking them away. [More…]
Three Aboriginal men who were patients in the same ward as Mr S were witnesses to this incident but when questioned by a field officer from the Townsville Legal Service, they refused to say anything. [More…]
Rather than be subject to any further intimidation or harassment they prefer to remain silent. [More…]
To say that the police are unpopular amongst the Aboriginal community would be a gross understatement. [More…]
These statements were taken from a group of homeless Aboriginal alcoholics. [More…]
It is well known that there would be approximately 30-40 Aboriginal men and women in Townsville who are forced to live in the parks in and around the city area. [More…]
As one of the men said to me recently, ‘We don’t know where we are, the cops move us here, then they move us over there. [More…]
It is a lovely situation for the contract of employment in Malcolm Fraser’s free society, in Malcolm Fraser ‘s rugged society of Australia, that an employer is jammed virtually from sacking a man who is a conscientious objector. [More…]
What sorts of contracts of employment will we have in this country from now on if that sort of provision is to apply? [More…]
These criticisms add up to the fact that this is not the way to solve industrial problems in this country, and the more intelligent and responsible members of this Government know it. [More…]
It is a tragedy for Australia that industrial relations policy is in the hands of a few men who like to talk tough and do nothing. [More…]
They produce nothing and every recent dispute has shown that they produce nothing by way of settlement or resolution. [More…]
He is one of the men who is concerned with industrial relations policy in this country. [More…]
If it gives power to scourge a union of the militant troublemakers, often communists, one can see the advantage of that because it will enable the majority of men to get back to work while excluding the troublemakers. [More…]
If it is not wanted to exclude them from membership, the court can suspend their entitlements and benefits both from the point of view of economic benefit and their right to exercise office in the union. [More…]
That of course operates against the segment that is really saying that anarchy in a situation can be most effective. [More…]
While the Government is saying every day of the week that it supports the trade unions, the fact is that day by day and year by year it is bringing in legislation to make it more difficult for trade unions to work. [More…]
Industrial disputation is based on the economy at the present time and on the failure of the Government to produce a situation in which the economy is working satisfactorily, in which employment is high and in which men can apply themselves to productive work. [More…]
Men cannot so apply themselves. [More…]
That is the fault of the economy and the wages policy of this Government. [More…]
I have been involved with many disputes and I know what occasions men to stop work. [More…]
Has he ever worked with railwaymen or heard their disputes? [More…]
Because of the amount of time I have at my disposal I will not be able to cover a quarter of the examples I would like to mention. [More…]
Senator Bishop said the number of days lost in the life of this Government due to industrial disputes is less than those under previous governments. [More…]
They are putting out key men in various areas. [More…]
This is causing far more disruption to the community than was ever experienced under the previous Government. [More…]
I believe there has been an actual attempt in these last two years to overthrow the elected government. [More…]
Should it be the elected government or a union? [More…]
I ask honourable senators opposite to answer that question because at the moment the union and not the elected government of this country is saying whether we should trade our wheat with Chile. [More…]
Like Senator Bishop, I have had some experience in the trade union movement. [More…]
Whether the leadership is communist, militant or reactionary, the men involved who make sacrifices, who deprive themselves and their families of income and the necessities of life, of their savings and of the goods they have on time payment, do not make these sacrifices at somebody else’s persuasion unless a just cause is involved. [More…]
Everyone recognises the fact that arbitration could give them the rise to settle this disagreement. [More…]
Because of wage indexation, the maintenance men at Latrobe Valley cannot receive an increase in wages. [More…]
These men were unknown a few weeks ago. [More…]
It is a reaction to persecution, a wrong doing towards decent citizens who are co-operating and assisting in the development of Australia. [More…]
In assisting in the development of Australia, Mr President, they are assisting in the support of you and me. [More…]
Today’s Melbourne Sun reports a meeting of the Municipal Officers Association and a statement by its industrial officer, Mr Ken Minster, that if the State Electricity Commission sacked strikers or employed outside labour MOA men would strike after securing the plant. [More…]
In other words, notwithstanding the fact that the Victorian Government has revived the 1948 Essential Services Act with all its powers that go far beyond any other piece of legislation bar probably the Atomic Energy Act 1953-1973, and notwithstanding the repressive, excessive powers contained in the Essential Services Act, other workers in the Latrobe Valley are prepared to say that if certain things happen they will join the SEC maintenance workers in the Latrobe Valley. [More…]
We, as a government, at least are aware of this situation and are prepared to face up to these problems. [More…]
We as a government are prepared to stand by the honest, decent working men and women of this country. [More…]
We have introduced these amendments to the legislation to make sure that the rights of the working men and women of this country will be protected. [More…]
Everyone would appreciate that in these times with equipment like masks and visors there is protection. [More…]
Twenty-one days after the award was made those men were still using the old fire irons. [More…]
It was proposed that those eight men be cited for contempt. [More…]
I think that if Senator Withers had been employed by that company as a stoker he would have been in it, too, because I know his temperament. [More…]
The whole concept of this measure is that the Government is going to meddle in every union because the right of an individual to take on his trade union secretary at State or federal level is there. [More…]
One of the products of our education system is a better educated trade union movement. [More…]
The men in that movement will not be talked down to. [More…]
I think the Government would insult the air traffic controllers if it suggested that they were part of the Peak Council or of the Australian Council of Trade Unions. [More…]
But it seems that the Government is saying: ‘Here is a power dispute.^ People are disadvantaged’. [More…]
They are men with a lot to lose. [More…]
They are men who have never been ahead. [More…]
They way it looks at the moment they will never be ahead. [More…]
The Government supports companies which demand a return for their capital. [More…]
The Government says that if the companies put up the capital and the expertise they are entitled to a fair return. [More…]
We are not quite sure how large that return has become, but that is what the Government believes. [More…]
They are entitled to go out for the highest return for their investment. [More…]
Honourable members opposite sit there and smirk because men have the guts to go without for 10 weeks and to demand some sort of wage justice. [More…]
All the Government can do is to bring in this fascist legislation so it can tell people what to do. [More…]
As Senator Walters said, the Government will not beg people to go back to work; it will tell them to go back to work. [More…]
The way the Government is heading, it will be telling them to go back to work with a machine gun in the middle of their backs. [More…]
That is what the Government wants this country to come to. [More…]
So much for the Government’s brand of democracy. [More…]
Who controls the wages in respect of which this Government applies pressure in the courts? [More…]
So many companies are saying at the moment: This strike has been a God-send in some ways! [More…]
They have been able to put off their men on a fortnight’s holiday at a cheaper rate than they would have to pay at Christmas and they have been able to reduce the great backlog of goods on the floor that they cannot sell. [More…]
It is because this Government has reduced the power of people to buy. [More…]
Government supporters have the nerve to blame shop stewards in the Latrobe Valley and not the people who really have the power. [More…]
Those are the people the Government supports. [More…]
Why do they not take away the fascist legislation that they have introduced to undermine the ordinary working people in this country and give decent men a fair go? [More…]
I would have thought that the Australian Labor Party, which is seeking to gain government in Australia, would promote Mr Whitlam and Mr Uren. [More…]
It is an interesting commentary on the state of affairs in the Australian Labor Party that it is necessary to go outside the parliamentary party and promote people who not only are not in the Parliament but also have no intention of coming into the Parliament. [More…]
I remember the great election campaign of 1963 which dealt with the 36 faceless men. [More…]
Is it two faceful men? [More…]
Are the people to be asked to vote for ALP candidates for House of Representatives seats in the full knowledge that if they are foolish enough to elect sufficient of them the government will be run by Mr Dunstan and Mr Hawke, neither of whom will have a seat in this Parliament? [More…]
It is a sad commentary upon, and a state of affairs for, a once great party that it is now saddled with a leadership that it is not game to promote in the community. [More…]
Some 73 per cent of men who had committed violent crimes had drunk alcohol prior thereto. [More…]
It is a report of which we want the Government and the community to take special notice. [More…]
We truly believe that Australian society is drunk at the moment; we believe that Australians are drowning in drugs. [More…]
We believe that at the moment men might be the greater drunks, but they are addicted also to tobacco; that at the moment women might be in even greater danger with the use of analgesics and sedatives, but they are turning increasingly also to tobacco and alcohol; that our children are turning increasingly to alcohol and tobacco and we are afraid that they are now turning also to cannabis. [More…]
Sedatives/Tranquillizers: 10 per cent of men and 23.6 per cent of women are regular users and 30.5 per cent claim to be taking them every day. [More…]
I say respectfully in relation to the incident which happened in Doncaster Avenue, Kensington, today, that I am pretty certain that the violence came from some of the wild men of the right. [More…]
From the speeches made last Friday one would think that the Government wished to achieve a complete confrontation with the trade union movement. [More…]
However, that is what this Government seems to wantconfrontation which it believes will result in electoral victory. [More…]
That is where the Government is wrong because even Premier Hamer realised that the men in the Latrobe Valley could not be replaced. [More…]
The Government could pass any legislation it wished but legislation will not solve the problem. [More…]
Accordingly Premier Hamer of Victoria was extending the time at which the sackings were to take place from last Friday to Monday of this week, then to today and finally he has been saved from taking that action because the men have gone back to work, at least for the time being. [More…]
Trade unionism is probably the greatest force in this country today and men in control of it have used their power in a way which was never intended when trade unions were created. [More…]
At times they have not hesitated even to dictate to this Parliament, this great democratic institution which is representative of every adult male and female in the community. [More…]
The health centres, which are admitted to be of great advantage, were established and enlarged by the Labor Government. [More…]
The women’s shelters meet a great need in our society. [More…]
Any humanitarian will admit to the need for women’s shelters because of the inconsistencies of the capitalist system, whereby profit, selfishness and greed are the No. [More…]
1 priorities and men are influenced to the extent that they feel as though they can use women as their serfs or vassals and can ill treat them and get away with it. [More…]
There are now places where women can go for shelter. [More…]
There are people in this industry who are saying today that the reason why the textile industry failed was that the Labor Party supported the principle of equal pay for women. [More…]
Be that as it may, many women hold the opinion, and I support them, that they are as capable as men of putting an effort into the economy on any level. [More…]
That great advance was made, but it had been opposed for generations by the people who have occupied the government benches. [More…]
The Labor Government introduced, supported and developed the concept of urban growth centres. [More…]
The Victorian power strike has now become a veritable chamber of horrors and open to exploitation by the political hit men of the extreme right and left. [More…]
The communist secretary of the Amalgamated Metal Workers and Shipwrights Union, Mr John Halfpenny, commented after trie Latrobe Valley maintenance men went back on strike, that it could be the most serious industrial dispute in the history of Australia. [More…]
As I said yesterday, I should have thought that on 28 October 1975 there would have been an enormous exodus from the Whitlam Ministry upon Mr Whitlam signing that document to mine and export uranium from the Ranger field. [More…]
As I understand the situation now, not one of yesterday’s men in the Parliament does not now say- whether he believes it or not, it is in accordance with directions laid down by his masters in Perth at the Australian Labor Party Conference earlier this year-that he is opposed to the mining and export of uranium. [More…]
The electorate is treated to Ministers wandering around like rag and bone men scouring for election finds, their perceptions and decisions warped by electioneering necessities. [More…]
Or to the same men who presided over the worst inflation in twenty years? [More…]
I have not seen the actual statistics that Senator Ryan mentioned but I certainly will refer them to the Minister whom I represent. [More…]
As to her question regarding employment opportunities for women and what action has been taken by the Government in this regard, I simply point out that the various schemes the Government has intitiated in regard to employment, particularly of young peopletraining under the National Employment and Training scheme and the expansion of that scheme which the Government has undertaken, and the many other schemes to which I have referred from time to time- make no discrimination between men and women. [More…]
Those schemes are directed towards assisting and are intended to assist both men and women, without any discrimination against one sex or the other. [More…]
Not only are distribution commissioners men of probity and integrity; they have also done their job very well. [More…]
The men involved in the recent dispute in the Latrobe Valley- and I commend them and their wives who supported them for having held out during a ten week strike- have had to go back to full arbitration. [More…]
This Government denied them some of the things they were asking for because it argued that their claims would break the indexation guidelines. [More…]
This Government made no complaint about that situation. [More…]
It is somewhat remarkable that the great ministerial defeat, recorded in the preceding paragraph, was so quietly accepted by the government, and did not lead to a ministerial crisis. [More…]
But the true doctrine on this point is that which was expressed by Lord John Russell, in 1851, after the government had sustained a defeat on some financial proposition. [More…]
He remarked that ‘questions of taxation and burdens are questions upon which the House of Commons, representing the country, have peculiar claims to have their opinions listened to, and upon which the executive government may very fairly, without any loss of its dignity-provided they maintain a sufficient revenue for the credit of the country and for its establishment- reconsider any particular measures of finance they have proposed.’ [More…]
To the same effect, Mr T. Baring, the undersecretary for war in Lord Palmerston ‘s administration, said, in 1861, after the rejection by the House of Lords of the bill for the repeal of the paper dutieswhich formed part of the financial measures of government for that year-‘ I am happy that we live at a time when experience has shown that a budget may be modified or rejected without any change in the position of the ministry. [More…]
In faa, a change of the budget does not involve a change in ministry; and I rejoice that it is so, because I think it would be most unpardonable obstinancy on the part of public men to adhere to the terms of a budget which was opposed to the wishes and feelings of parliament. [More…]
It would be unfortunate for the free exercise of the judgment of this House, if the rejection of any portion of a budget were to be construed into a vote of want of confidence. ‘ [More…]
This program had the immediate effect of some 900 men being induced to leave their employment. [More…]
The total industry workforce 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…]
Referring now to Western Australia, I want to serve up to Senator Chaney the matter of Sir Charles Court’s appeasement policy towards renegade mining companies. [More…]
There was a case involving the famous VC mining company which had sent 1 5 men to remove overburden at a possible nickel mining project. [More…]
I have no way of getting to this man but sometimes I would like to be a layman attorney-general because I would send the G-men over there to get action. [More…]
That shows clearly what were the views of these men, who went so far in supporting uranium mining. [More…]
You are not going to name names obviously but are there too many of yesterday’s men still in the Parliamentary Labor Party. [More…]
When the people who have been branded by their parliamentary leader as yesterday’s men- people who are regularly reported in the newspapers as leading revolts against their parliamentary leader and as being desperately anxious to depose him -get up and go back to Senator Steele Hall’s comments of November 1 975, 1 for one laugh. [More…]
I would say that the members of the public of Australia who wanted to hear a group of desperate men in action had only to tune into the radio this afternoon and hear yesterday’s men damning one of tomorrow’s men- Senator Steele Hall. [More…]
Thus it is unlikely that properties will employ new men under the current financially assisted plan for the unemployed. [More…]
I think something occurred once involving 36 faceless men, did it not, yet honourable senators opposite have the gall to get up here and talk about this. [More…]
The very elements of the Communist Party are leading this attack on so-called secret meetings today and its members throughout the length and breadth of this world are the arch architects of clandestine meetings. [More…]
We are all well aware of the difficulties which the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) has faced in forming this legislation. [More…]
The history of the stevedoring industry shows that the disruption, abuses, blackmail and special privileges which the waterside workers have had conferred on them have not accomplished the long term improvement of the conditions of the waterside workers. [More…]
There was a total of 221,000 men on the waterfront in 1966. [More…]
That total is now just over 10,000 men. [More…]
So, when Senator Walters talks about there being stoppages, she should get away from the idea that these men work in an air-conditioned office or under conditions like those in this chamber. [More…]
The agreement that was made in 1972 between the employers and the Federation was that for the two years following that agreement the employers would not exercise their right to reduce the number of men on the waterfront. [More…]
Then Labor came into office, and when the agreement came up for renewal in 1974 there was no hope of getting rid of the demand of the waterside workers that they should leave the industry only by their own voluntary decision. [More…]
I am saa to have to say that, despite a change of government in December 1975, quietly and almost unnoticed the employers and the Federation were allowed to renew the agreement with that provision in it, namely, that there would be no redundancy on the waterfront except such as was voluntarily applied for by the Federation. [More…]
The average number of men now on idle time is 2,347 - [More…]
That number is almost equal to one-third of the men at work on average. [More…]
The employers agreed to this arrangement for the sake of peace in the peacefully prospective days of March 1976. [More…]
As my colleague Senator Walters said, the results of this agreement have been a strong impact on Austraiian pons, peculiar incidents at Tasmanian ports and on air traffic between the various islands that are supported from Tasmania. [More…]
The consequence was that the number of waterside workers employed was reduced from about 1,200 men 12 years ago to about 300 men today. [More…]
Only one ship came into the port of Hobart in 1977 to take on a cargo of apples due to the decline in performance and the paralysis caused by befuddled policies of governments of the day. [More…]
It was because governments go into the market place appeasing in a special effort, as I explained earlier this year, with money galore. [More…]
The highest individual payment was $30,455. [More…]
What is wanted, before any scheme will succeed, is resolute Government action to support those who want performance on the waterfront, giving proper benefits and proper wages but demanding performance in abetter fashion than we have had displayed there. [More…]
Dealing with the eight Bills in summary, what they do is transfer to the Arbitration Commission the authority that hitherto resided in the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority to fix the number of men required at any port, that is to say, the quota. [More…]
They then transfer to the Arbitration Commission the decision as to the circumstances in which waterside workers will be employed to assist in the performance of the companies’ work, by reason of the fact that the number of such workers regularly employed at the port is insufficient; also, matters relating to recruitment and attendance money. [More…]
I do not know how many people in Australia die from snake bite, but the poem recounts that 10,000 men in India die each year from snakes alone. [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 $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…]
Some men are more equal than others. [More…]
The Labor Government thought it should run for three years initially which would give ample opportunity for evaluation of its effectiveness. [More…]
It was thought that at the end of three years the Government and the Parliament would be in a better position to decide, for instance, whether refuges for women, which are at present funded under the community health program, should become part of the homeless persons program. [More…]
She has said that a wider program may be needed and that the Homeless Persons Assistance Act may be a suitable vehicle to cover such things as women’s shelters generally. [More…]
The previous Government thought that after three years it would be in a better position to consider whether rehabilitation pursuits should have a higher or lower priority than the provision of shelter and whether the provision of day centres should become an important part of the homeless persons program. [More…]
We looked forward to the results of this evaluation to see whether the program was on the right track, to see what sort of difficulties it had come up against, to see whether the requirements needed changing and whether the funding in this area was adequate. [More…]
It provides a base for homeless men to which they can go in the daytime. [More…]
The homeless persons assistance program, like all programs of this type, had some difficulties getting off the ground, mainly because of lack of experience in dealing with this problem of homeless men and because society in general has some difficulty in coping with it. [More…]
These people tend to be rejected and neglected by society, as are criminals and some people who are mentally ill. Society does not like to talk and think about them. [More…]
There is a very real problem in establishing residential centres for homeless men because no one in the community seems to want these people in their area. [More…]
The real problems that can arise when society neglects these people was seen recently in Queensland when the police raided a timber mill and found several of these men being exploited by unscrupulous people. [More…]
The Minister, in her second reading speech, gave no indication that the Government is considering a longer view of the homeless people and their vulnerability in society. [More…]
That vulnerability is obviously exposed when we see such cases as the one I referred to earlier, in Brisbane, of men who are exploited under the present system, men who are lured to work in appalling conditions. [More…]
I commend to honourable senators the research report ‘Health Studies of Selected Disadvantaged Groups’; also ‘Homeless Persons and the Law’. [More…]
I think the honourable senator and I would be in complete agreement on that point. [More…]
It must be combined with programs of active community development to help to give people the capacity they require and to allow society to intervene, if you wish, at an earlier stage in the process. [More…]
We happen to believe that this is one way of intervening effectively at an earlier stage to prevent the emergence of homeless men requiring assistance under this Act. [More…]
During a recent search in Brisbane for a criminal who had been released prematurely the police unearthed new places used by homeless men to survive the nights. [More…]
Homeless men gather at that club during the day for recreational and leisure assistance. [More…]
Through the Brisbane City Council we were able to offer premises in Roma Street and on the south side, but they were of such substantial size that the amount of money needed to establish them in order to carry out the work of the club was beyond the scope of the organising committee, which consists mainly of the men themselves. [More…]
It seems to me to be extraordinary that the 139 Club is seeking financial assistance but is unable to obtain anything beyond payment of half the salary of a social worker, lt might as well get nothing because if it cannot find the other half of the salary the gesture is merely an empty one. [More…]
I have not mentioned the effect of governmental neglect upon homeless women and women who may be seeking refuge. [More…]
I have not mentioned the condition of many young people who are unemployed. [More…]
But in some way they have been able to make their own arrangements conjointly. [More…]
All I have mentioned are one or two cases of homeless men in Brisbane. [More…]
It seems extraordinary that in Brisbane most of the support for homeless men comes through the watchhouse the lockups. [More…]
It seems to be extraordinary that we should depend very much upon that penal type system to support homeless men in Brisbane. [More…]
Admittedly in this case the men do a great deal for the organisation which is part of, shall we say, the salvage program. [More…]
Did the Department of Social Security expect the State Government to come to the assistance of this Club? [More…]
If that is the reason and if the State Government fails to come to the party, will the fact that the social worker finds it uneconomic to continue mean the disbandment of this small group? [More…]
If organisations of this sort are institutionalised certain industrial awards would have to be complied with and as a result the cost to the government would be considerably greater. [More…]
In this situation volunteers, supported by the men are doing a worthwhile job. [More…]
We are now debating the Social Services Amendment Bill 1977. [More…]
This Bill, in common with many other social services Bills presented to this Parliament, is in the form of omnibus legislation which covers many facets of the Social Services Act. [More…]
It also alters the conditions of eligibility for sickness benefits to bring those benefits into line with unemployment benefits. [More…]
It does this by reducing the benefit for married men. [More…]
The Government claims, in classic doublespeak, that it is removing discrimination against married women but, in fact, brings sickness benefits into line with unemployment benefits by altering the benefits available to married men. [More…]
Finally, I come to the change whereby the Government has introduced the new supporting parent’s benefit. [More…]
When the supporting mother’s benefit was introduced by the previous Government, a benefit for supporting fathers was not introduced; it did not seem to be much of an issue at the time. [More…]
In some cases the father has to stay at home and live on a special benefit, which is entirely inappropriate for such men and involves them in considerable personal difficulty in having to front up to the Department of Social Security every week to justify receiving the benefit. [More…]
As I said earlier, the Minister may be able to tell us what transpired at the meeting and whether she has been able to tell Mr Payne and the other State Ministers that the Federal Government will help the States make this emergency assistance available to these unfortunate people who are out of a job. [More…]
Despite the claim of Government supporters that there are dole bludgers and people who will not work, the greatest proportion of the unemployed do want a job but cannot find it under the programs and policies of this Government. [More…]
Otherwise, it will be a very bleak Christmas indeed for many hundreds of thousands of men, women and children, because parents do not have a fulltime job and cannot provide for their families the most meagre Christmas. [More…]
In the opinion of the Premier of Queensland that makes those men political activists. [More…]
Long before I came to the Parliament I advocated that Aborigines should enrol on both State and Federal rolls. [More…]
Also, I encouraged them wherever I possibly could to involve themselves in all tiers of government and in all areas where I believed Aborigines could make a contribution. [More…]
The leader of the Trachoma team, Professor Fred Hollows, was told of the Government’s decision in Brisbane yesterday. [More…]
Speaking by telephone Professor Hollows said last night he was still too stunned to make any statement. [More…]
‘The eye health problems of Aborigines here are so horrific that these men have been too busy working their - backsides- off to help save sight to have time to get into polities’, he said. [More…]
Professor Hollows said the team could not function efficiently without the two men. [More…]
The only objection that the authorities in Queensland- and I take that to be the Queensland Government, the Queensland Premier, the Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement and such like- have to these two men is that they are political activists. [More…]
The organisation is headed by Mr Dirk Bakker, the director of Mission Enterprises, and comprises a considerable number of well known public men including doctors, surgeons, lawyers, barristers and Jim Ramsay M.P. [More…]
who is the parliamentary secretary of the Victorian Cabinet. [More…]
For instance, the school leaver who formerly went on to unemployment benefit immediately if he could not get a job now has to wait six weeks before he gets any return from the Government. [More…]
The qualifying period for the great training scheme for those youths who have been unemployed has been reduced from six months to three months because of the unemployment situation. [More…]
But no survey has been made to determine whether those who have been trained are replacing men already in industry. [More…]
That scheme is not reducing unemployment; it is increasing unemployment and subsidising employers who give preference to a particular type of employee. [More…]
I would like to return to the trachoma program in Queensland and ask the Minister representing the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Minister for Health whether it is not a fact that the Premier of Queensland stated bluntly that unless the two men concerned were sacked there would be no co-operation from the Queensland Government. [More…]
Will the Minister take urgent steps to see that there is no discrimination against these two men at the behest of that most inhuman person from the north? [More…]
Just as I do to you, honourable senators, I express appreciation to those splendid men and women who in all departments serve us so well. [More…]
It will be very pleasing for me to convey the sentiments expressed to all those good folk to whom honourable senators have so kindly made reference. [More…]
His decorations alone indicate a sustained campaign on his part of leadership, valour and courage and this is recognised throughout the whole of the returned servicemen’s community in Australia. [More…]
Anyone who has read, as I have recently, Gammage ‘s book The Broken Years and recalls the dreadful experience that had to be combatted by our soldiers of the Australian Imperial Force in France ought to be permanently conscious of the extreme debt we owe to men whose individual courage sustained the armies which brought success to our way of life. [More…]
But more than this, he became one of the most highly decorated men in the Australian Army during the First World War. [More…]
When the conflict ended Mr Mattner wanted to go on and give further service which he eventually did when he joined the Australian Parliament and served in this place for a number of years. [More…]
I rise to support the motion moved by the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers). [More…]
History probably will record that his contribution in the industrial area proved to be more significant than his contribution in this Parliament. [More…]
I know from my colleagues in the industrial sphere of the trade union movement that, as Senator Withers has said, he was a man of integrity and patience in dealing with the very difficult industrial matters that existed in his time. [More…]
It is fortunate that men of Sir John Spicer’s calibre, of his patience and tolerance occupy positions through which so much of the disharmony in our industrial life can be reduced in some way. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Prime Minister: How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men, two employees of the Sydney City Council and members of the Municipal Employees Union, and a member of the New South Wales Police Force, killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive? [More…]
On what basis will the payment be determined? [More…]
Further, will the Minister explain the apparent contradiction whereby shopkeepers who lost trade as a direct result of the security arrangements for the conference will be paid full indemnity while three families who lost providers will not be compensated for loss of future income or the emotional stress caused by the violent deaths of the men concerned? [More…]
We saw the killing of innocent men. [More…]
However, just recently innocent men were killed, and I still contend that this was the result of allowing violent demonstrations to take place in this country. [More…]
Did it really take a tragedy of this magnitude to bring those gentlemen to their senses? [More…]
Surely those gentlemen and the groups who support them and who are so concerned about the people on whom ASIO have files, should spare a little thought for the three men who were killed- for their rights and for their families. [More…]
The unity which we seek is not the unity of unthinking conformity, but the unity of free men who live by respect and concern for each other. [More…]
The honourable senator, Mr Deputy President, made some comments on the institution of Parliament and expressed a pessimistic view about the capacity of this institution to function effectively in all appropriate areas. [More…]
I simply point out that the complete functioning of the Parliament depends as much upon an effective opposition doing its job as upon a government doing its job. [More…]
One of the challenges facing the Thirtyfirst Parliament is to ensure that the Opposition in both chambers begins at last to function as an effective, active, involved Opposition, doing its job properly. [More…]
We have had a sorry sight before us in the last two Parliaments. [More…]
The Labor Party has made some moves; it has made internal rearrangements which it thinks will assist it in another place. [More…]
There is no point in Labor’s best men sitting on the back benches, never speaking, never contributing. [More…]
We all know that in the last Parliament, some of the finest debaters were never heard from. [More…]
Therefore, if honourable senators opposite are going to criticise Parliament and its functioning, they should think about the contribution their own party has made to debate over the last couple of years. [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…]
Women, individually and as a group, are faced with a similarly frustrating situation. [More…]
Once again, nice noises are made about the necessity to increase the status of women but the only way that the Government can see of going about this is to recommend the setting up of yet another council. [More…]
How can this be more valuable, how can it achieve more than active, positive measures on the part of the Government to improve the general attitude to women amongst the community as a whole and within government departments in particular? [More…]
No amount of advisory counselling will improve the status of women if the Commonwealth Public Service refuses to promote equal numbers of women as of men into senior positions, when married women are singled out by some sections of the community and held responsible for youth unemployment, although these same critics conveniently ignore the 152,000 men who hold down two jobs, when the Federal Government allows into the country, and State governments permit the sale of, the amount of degrading pornographic material which is at present available? [More…]
How can women ever respect themselves if their bodies are photographed being subjected to treatments that are not legally permitted to be done to animalssimply for the perverted pleasure of some men? [More…]
How can they walk with dignity if this son of behaviour by some men has the tacit approval of others? [More…]
When political leaders say the present situation cannot be helped, it is part 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…]
I speak for a number of trade unions which have as their officers men of varied Labor attitudes. [More…]
They do not believe that the Australian Government is giving the same urgent consideration to refugees of this character. [More…]
I understand that the Australian Government has some immigration officers in Latin America. [More…]
In view of the fact that 169 of the 197 persons to be laid off at the Mannum plant are married men and as there is no alternative employment available in this country town with a population of 2,000 people, will either the Minister or his Cabinet colleagues take emergency measures to assist the South Australian Government in preventing undue hardship to the work force and business people of Mannum? [More…]
If she cannot find a job, as so many cannot and this number is increasing, then she who has been contributing to the productivity of this country is not treated as a person who has been contributing and so is entitled to the unemployment benefit while she is waiting for the next job but gets no unemployment benefit. [More…]
Neither is her husband, so it is a choice between leave without pay, which terrifies people in these days of unemployment because it might mean losing their job, or the kiddies are left at home by themselves or are sent to school ill while mum and dad worry themselves sick at work. [More…]
In very few cases is she entitled to maternity leave, and it would appear that in the few areas where it is available at the moment, such as in the Commonwealth Public Service, it will be taken away shortly by this Government because it is supposed by some people to be a rort but more importantly because senior public servants, most of whom are men, dislike the provision intensely. [More…]
We need legislation to ensure that women are not ‘last in first out’ as is happening at the moment- last taken on and the first most easily sacked- because, it is argued, they have a husband to keep them. [More…]
Why do we not have legislation to ensure that they have some rights in respect of promotion as well as the same rights as men to be selected for a job? [More…]
Why are there not training schemes for women in areas where there is a serious and increasing lack of skilled workers, thus enabling women to fill those vacancies? [More…]
The Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs (Mr MacKellar) has said that we hide our heads in the sand, that there is a shortage of skilled workers, that these positions cannot be filled by Australians and that skilled replacements must be brought from overseas. [More…]
Rarely do such men ever have the opportunity of even falling back on a pension. [More…]
The womenfolk and children of these men also suffer hardship. [More…]
I asked her whether she would contact the Prime Minister, then Mr Whitlam, to seek an appointment for me to speak with him and bring to his attention the things that I had learned and some of the requests that had been made to me by the people of East Timor. [More…]
He did not say that I could speak to his private secretary or to someone from the Department of Foreign Affairs, of which he was more or less in charge, but that I could speak to one of his men. [More…]
Madam Deputy President, 1 think it is appropriate that the Northern Lands Council should be under the chairmanship of a tribal Aborigine- not some Sydney radical or some Melbourne radical but a tribal Aborigine- and made up of tribal men controlling the land rights in the Northern Territory. [More…]
I shall obtain the exact figure but I think it increased by about 200 people late last year, ft is not a matter of deciding that another 200 men are needed. [More…]
The establishment of the Commonwealth Police Force at its present numbers is the highest it has ever been. [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations noted in the annual report of the Stevedoring Industry Authority, which he tabled last week in the Senate, that although some $ 14m was paid to 1,079 men to retire from the waterfront in order to avoid the payment of certain idle time, in Melbourne, Sydney, Port Adelaide and Newcastle, idle time was still considerable. [More…]
Without giving all the figures, for Sydney it equalled 522 men for each working day of the week, with the position in Hobart being relatively worse? [More…]
In connection with idle time, the cost for the September 1976 quarter was $4.7m but after the payout in the early part of 1 976 the cost for idle time in the corresponding September 1 977 quarter was not $4.7m but $4.6m, indicating to me that there had been no improvement by reason of the enormous payout for retirement. [More…]
Will the Minister ascertain from the Minister whom he represents the figures for the December quarter- the quarter in which the Parliament was induced to pass legislation reorganising the systemto see whether there is any evidence of improvement? [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…]
This makes Mr Packer, Mr Fairfax and Mr Murdoch three of the most powerful men in Australia. [More…]
Extremely wealthy men in Australia, even a millionaire, are not ashamed to take the $7000 superphosphate bounty. [More…]
The same men are not too proud to set up family trusts that allow them to understate their taxable incomes legally, and to dodge tax amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars. [More…]
Last month’s figures show that unemployment north of Mackay, that is in the far northern area, had risen to 16,994 or 2,780 more than for the corresponding period in the previous year. [More…]
The latest figures on northern districts compared with January of last year show that unemployment went up from 4,207 to 4,340 in Cairns, from 682 to 798 in Atherton, from 1 , 1 1 5 to 1 ,5 12 in Mount Isa and from 728 to 941 in Ingham. [More…]
In Ingham and Atherton one in every seven or eight men, women and children is out of a job. [More…]
For Laurie, there was a silver lining on the cloud of Wally ‘s unemployment, but the clouds got blacker for Wally himself as the months of idleness and dependency on his wife went by. [More…]
Then he gave her a good hiding to teach her the lesson that wives should stay at home and men should work and if a man can’t work then a wife shouldn’t try to prove she can do better than her man. [More…]
Unemployment is a crisis period snagged with unexpected problems that make the going rougher than anybody who has a job could realise. [More…]
Powerlessness can be the most frustrating feature for both men and their wives. [More…]
Men want and need to feel they are in control of their immediate environment.’ [More…]
In the end I couldn’t take any more of his hurt feelings and secret resentments so I left. [More…]
Now I’m critical of all men. [More…]
Other men find they don’t want to make love at all. [More…]
Luckily, sex doesn’t have to be a major problem between couples caught in the unemployment syndrome because the lack of it- like the lack of a job- is, hopefully, temporary. [More…]
A lot of the men interviewed for this story said they tried to live self-imposed routines to give them a feeling of purpose. [More…]
For some men this initiative can end with their jobs and can send them into a habit of morose brooding. [More…]
Joseph, like the other interviewed men, agreed that what they needed from their wives was understanding and confidence. [More…]
‘I simply needed encouragement’. [More…]
The ratio of men unemployed to positions vacant in December 1972 was one to 4.95 whilst in December 1977 it was one to 19.19. [More…]
Even those figures do not reflect the real statistics because the unfilled positions refer to full time, part time, permanent, temporary and seasonal positions whilst the unemployment figure refers only to those people registered with the Commonwealth Employment Service as seeking full time work, that is, of 35 hours a week or more. [More…]
In May 1976 women constitute 32.9 per cent of the work force working part time compared with males constituting 4.5 per cent of the work force working part time. [More…]
Comparing the female unemployment rates for Western Australia with rates in other States over a fiveyear period, we can see just how badly women have fared in Western Australia, the State of excitement. [More…]
Returning to the speech that I was making last night and getting back to my ‘State of Excitement’, because we in Western Australia find ourselves a little parochial, I cited some figures on unemployment in Western Australia, particularly the unemployment of women. [More…]
I expressed my concern that the rural areas are the hardest hit but in some cases it is necessary for men, with families grown up and in need of employment, to determine whether it is of more benefit to them to leave their homes, their friends, and their work in the hope that their children may get employment in a larger town or in the city. [More…]
I said in my speech- and I will repeat it again now- that the children may get employment but they may not get employment and the possibility of one parent or both parents getting employment is much less than it is for the children. [More…]
I hope they have been able to assess the statement I made in respect of two of the three Labor-controlled States, that there has been a dramatic decrease in unemployment as it relates to women and that in the third State there was the minimum possible increase. [More…]
I want to deal firstly with a statement on the first page of the Governor-General’s Speech. [More…]
Over the last 12 months I have spoken to many men who are now in their forties but who gave their best years, when they were in their physical prime, as Snowy Mountains workers. [More…]
They have said repeatedly to me: ‘after each war we build monuments and list the names of those who have fallen; surely we ought to have a tablet listing the names of the casualties on one of our major peacetime industrial projects. ‘ [More…]
I say with respect that the Snowy Mountains project is earning a fair amount of revenue and I see no reason why we cannot go through the archives of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Authority, find the names of the 50 or 100 men involved, and have a suitable tablet erected in Cooma. [More…]
Many men from many countries came here as single men and were killed in industrial accidents and perhaps if their relatives were to visit Australia they could view our recognition. [More…]
With those three men at the top and with a work force that was imbued with making tunnelling history the project was completed. [More…]
I simply say that the Government should pay regard to the wishes of a work force that would like to remember its fallen comrades. [More…]
I propose that definitely and respectfully to the Government. [More…]
That is the first proposition that I wanted to put to the Government. [More…]
I believe most of the Commonwealth Employment Service officers are fairly balanced men. [More…]
When Senator Bishop and I are sitting on the Estimates Committee dealing with the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations we will want to know just what sort of people have been employed. [More…]
There was no technology and there were no markets, no trained men, no ships, no shore stations, and the profits went to the Japanese and their connections. [More…]
It has not been total by any means but we have considerable information on the catching of squid, jack mackerel and other species which were listed in the agreement. [More…]
There are men in Tasmania, for instance Paddles Taylor and Captain Dick Davies, who are well known in fishing circles around Australia and who have done considerable research. [More…]
Some men never spake a wise word, yet do wisely; some on the other side do never a wise deed, and yet speak wisely. [More…]
That is, the Government’s 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…]
It is true that there were faults in the Labor movement election campaign. [More…]
I have no doubt that we misread the political thermometer when we proposed the abolition of the proposed tax cuts in order to get men and women back into work. [More…]
Certainly Senator Rae made some mention of this during the course of his remarks when he said that wherever he went throughout the election campaign he found that a feeling was being engendered or being felt in a lot of industries that people who were out of work need not necessarily have been out of work. [More…]
This, however, was not a new experience for advertising men who spend a good deal of their lives giving the kiss of life to commercial propositions that often look very blue in the face indeed. [More…]
I am reminded of the treachery of Brutus when I hear some of the bitter things which men who were formerly called his friends have said about the former Governor-General, Sir John Kerr. [More…]
When you are on the site, on the scene, you get a feeling about it and you can appreciate the fact that our history in the Antarctic has been made by very great men. [More…]
Somebody described them as men of iron in ships of wood, and that described them very well indeed. [More…]
The men are very confined in their rooms which lack many facilities. [More…]
I make a plea to the Government to upgrade the structures and the facilities provided in the Antarctic and to ensure that the lives of the expeditioners are made a little easier. [More…]
Human beings being what they are, with their normal human reactions to things, have to make a very concerted effort indeed to learn to live with their fellow men there. [More…]
It has already been mentioned but it would do no harm to reiterate the comments of colleagues on my side of the House. [More…]
I wish to make some comments concerning Senator Maunsell ‘s remarks on the sacking from the Queensland Education Department of Mr Bill Wood, who was the Australian Labor Party candidate for the seat of Leichhardt. [More…]
Amongst other things, Senator Maunsell said that Mr Wood had stood for Parliament on a couple of occasions. [More…]
He was a member of Parliament for the seat of Cook in Queensland. [More…]
The brothers are twins and sons of a very prominent member of the Labor Party and member of Parliament. [More…]
Both these young men suffered defeat in the debacle- that is the only way it can be described- when the Labor Party lost many seats in Queensland. [More…]
Yes, but those two young men had many friends and strong supporters. [More…]
They were first class young sportsmen. [More…]
-Yes, the two men who were dismissed at the request of Mr BjelkePetersen and who have not been reinstated. [More…]
I would say that Mick Miller would have less than Buckley’s chance of getting his job back in the Queensland Education Department. [More…]
Of course, immediately following that we have this statement being made, again in order to make sure that the standing of Mr Fraser is in no way impaired. [More…]
According to this statement those instructions were clear. [More…]
We are not dealing with inexperienced fools; we are dealing with the most senior men in the Public Service. [More…]
This firm should learn something from the Richardson case in which the present Government, largely at the persistence of Senator Bishop and myself, had the franchise taken from the company. [More…]
There has been a lot of talk about the acceptance of migrants, and in this case one of the men involved is from one ethnic community and another is from another ethnic community. [More…]
Unlike Mr Bill Wood and other Labor Party men who had been defeated, he quickly obtained a job in the Public Service. [More…]
At Mr BjelkePetersen’s direction, an application for Public Service appointment from a member of the Labor Party who has been defeated at an election is a matter for the Executive. [More…]
What police force is responsible for issuing Press releases which by innuendo identify potential suspect groups as Arabs, Indians, swarthy men, or women opposed to abortion laws? [More…]
On the Red Sea the blood is flowing and the Soviet Government is supplying guerrillas with armed forces. [More…]
But if the Soviet Government is camouflaging its support and sending servicemen in planes camouflaged as civilian aircraft and pretending that its men are Africans one can see on what nice distinctions these things turn. [More…]
It would not be an offence if he were part of the Soviet armed forces directly attacking another constituted government. [More…]
In my state of somewhat detached concern I mention that history has shown, especially in relation to the Foreign Enlistment Act, that there has never been a prosecution, and this Bill will never engage the law authorities in such prosecutions. [More…]
To me it creates the ridiculous situation in that it is lawful to engage with armed forces of a foreign country against the government of another country that we recognise de jure, but if that foreign country undertakes subversive activity and camouflages its forces as civilians and an Australian joins that foreign country’s forces and takes part in hostile activities against another government, it is an offence. [More…]
In the past we have heard suggestions of Ministers wanting ‘yes’ men around them. [More…]
I suggest that by this Bill the Minister or the Government is insisting on a ‘yes’ Commission. [More…]
The Commission in fact will be asked to advise the Minister or to give the Minister the advice that the Minister wants to hear and the Government will then be able to use the advice or the recommendations it receives from the IAC as an excuse or as a shelter for the Government’s economic policies. [More…]
I suggest that the Government has designed the legislation in order to ensure that the Commission becomes not an independent inquiry body but, as it were, a secondary policy arm of the Government- a supporting policy arm of the Government. [More…]
This precludes the Commission making in an advisory capacity recommendations that would be subject to government consideration and parliamentary debate and decision. [More…]
Rather, the recommendations will have to be already made according to or within the framework of existing government policy. [More…]
I am sure that all of us would wish that, when an honourable senator feels it necessary to make allegations against a member of this Parliament or of a State parliament, at the earliest time the facts be made available to the Senate so that the Senate itself can decide whether there is a real basis to the allegations or whether they are made without a firm foundation. [More…]
I think it appropriate for me to suggest to Senator Primmer that perhaps between now and Thursday of next week he should seek an opportunity to confirm his allegations against the two members of State parliament whom he knows, as I do, are most respectable and well-known men. [More…]
Allegations of the nature of those that we heard last evening do not elevate the standing of the Victorian Parliament or of this chamber unless they have foundation. [More…]
We were hampered by lack of men and equipment. [More…]
The Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Withers) might regard them as peculiar people. [More…]
If the Government and the Senate get to a position where they are prepared to face up to those issues as possibilities then we will be able to grapple with the matter in a mature way. [More…]
As I pointed out by implication in a question yesterday, they include Arabs, Indians, swarthy men and women opposed to abortion laws. [More…]
Considerable publicity surrounded the Morgan case and honourable senators might remember that in that case the facts were that a husband invited three men to rape his wife and told them that she liked to pretend that she was not consenting. [More…]
The three men were charged with rape and the husband with aiding and abetting rape. [More…]
I repeat that there was no question that the woman had indicated consent; her husband had said that she was consenting and, despite her words and actions to the contrary, the convicted men claimed that they had grounds for believing that she was consenting. [More…]
They did not win their appeal but the House of Lords upheld the argument. [More…]
In upholding the argument I think it demonstrated the overwhelming need for a fundamental change in the law. [More…]
The development of a national water supply would take a great deal of money. [More…]
It certainly could not be done with the pittance that has been made available by this Government. [More…]
This Government drastically reduced the money available for the deep sewerage program. [More…]
When this work stopped it added not only to unemployment but also to the lack of proper sewerage in the inner city. [More…]
In the management of the water supply the Government should make a special grant for deep sewerage to re-employ the engineers, the contractors and the men with the shovels who became unemployed because of the lack of money for deep sewerage. [More…]
I refer to a reported statement that more Australian men are turning to Asia for their brides. [More…]
I perhaps could assume that this question has more to do with Home Affairs than with the other portfolio mentioned. [More…]
I am unable to tell the honourable senator why Australian men take certain actions. [More…]
It could perhaps be said that Australian women are seeking independence in many ways. [More…]
Perhaps there is a feeling of some threat to Australian men. [More…]
The lesser opportunities given to women in other countries to assert their independence and to express their personalities may be attractive to Australian men. [More…]
But I leave it to the Senate to determine whether it can throw any light on the manner in which Australian men express their preferences for brides. [More…]
However, the assassination rate must be high in respect of heads of state, high government officials such as Prime Ministers, perhaps leaders of the Opposition, Deputy Prime Ministers and some Ministers. [More…]
There is no doubt that strict security measures are justified in the case of such men. [More…]
If there is to be any protection against the use of weapons by someone who wishes to impress someone like that, protection must be based on the ability of a person to have access to the member of Parliament he wants to see. [More…]
In fact it killed two innocent men engaged in their civic duty of clearing rubbish bins. [More…]
I started to walk along the Opposition lobbies- we were then in Opposition- at approximately 2 a.m. and I was rather surprised when I turned the corner into the Opposition lobby to confront two men, one of whom was lifting from its position hanging outside the Opposition Senate party room the notice board which notifies honourable senators when meetings of parties will be held. [More…]
As we were then approximately 10 yards from the doorway into King’s Hall I concluded that those gentlemen did not know where they were and, therefore, they had no right whatsoever to be in the Opposition lobbies at that time of night. [More…]
That incident brought home to me the fact that I could not work here late at night with the previous confidence I had that so long as I was in Parliament House I was secure. [More…]
You would also be aware, Mr Deputy President, that crossing the President’s corridor and forming a T-intersection is a corridor between the offices of the Government Whip and the Opposition Whip. [More…]
One day when the President was in the chair I had cause to proceed from the Opposition Whip’s office to the Government Whip’s office. [More…]
I was at the Tintersection when I was rather surprised to bump into two young men. [More…]
It is a matter of total horror to us that two completely innocent men were killed in Sydney- the number of men killed has now increased to three- because a bomb had been planted. [More…]
Two men who were going about their business, totally innocent and unaware of security problems attached to meetings of leaders of nations, lost their lives. [More…]
I suspect that the general lackadaisical attitude that has prevailed in the past on the part of members of parliament as well as employees has been at least partly responsible for the fact that that could happen; partly responsible for the fact that the two youths to whom I referred earlier could have been within five feet of this chamber and not have been challenged but just took to their heels when they saw someone who appeared to belong in the place and partly responsible for the fact that two men were wandering around the lobbies of this House at 2 a.m. and did not know how to get out although they had managed to get in. [More…]
Before concluding my remarks I wish to mention my particular interest in Aborigines. [More…]
There has been very little research into what makes people, particularly young men- I am speaking here of men aged 12 years and onwards in the Aboriginal sense- sniff petrol or whatever else they can get on the settlements. [More…]
The men employed under normal award provisions averaged, at permanent ports, $22 1 . [More…]
They are men who are extremely effective in their judgment of a situation. [More…]
I have said on a number of occasions that there have been some mishaps in the port in Sydney which have been attributed to one rather modern West German freighter and to the efforts that were probably made to overload the ship’s equipment. [More…]
-I would say that both the Wright brothers in their own way are radical men. [More…]
As was pointed out by Senator Gietzelt here this afternoon, that Commonwealth Heads of Government Regional Meeting could have been held here in Canberra where it should rightfully have been held. [More…]
The main reason why we are now debating the security of Parliament House is the unfortunate bombing at the Hilton Hotel which every right-thinking Australian deplores. [More…]
We deplore the fact that two men working on a garbage truck and a policeman lost their lives. [More…]
Unfortunately, in dealing with the affairs of men we are always involved with the problem of whether reason should prevail, whether emotion should prevail, whether emotion should govern reason or whether reason should govern and control emotion. [More…]
Any honourable senator opposite who sits on that Committee, including for example Senator Wheeldon and Senator Bishop, will known that time after time, with the help of the Department of Foreign Affairs which will willingly concede this, we have had men before the Committee who have actually been in Timor, who know the background of Indonesia’s attitude and who know what has been happening in East and West Timor. [More…]
These men have answered questions. [More…]
The problem concerning the Government is how to solve the problem. [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…]
My wife was talking to the ladies while I was talking to the gentlemen. [More…]
My wife meets the women folk in the town and I meet the men. [More…]
Certainly, abortion is of interest- controversial interest- to all men and women, whether they are working or not, but is the promotion of abortion the purpose for which Federal Government funds are used? [More…]
The material collected from the Centre also includes propaganda from the Victorian Congress for International Co-operation and Disarmament. [More…]
But the benefits were postponed six weeks- a loss of over $3,000 for the nine men. [More…]
I wrote also to the Minister for Social Security complaining of the fact that those people had to wait for six weeks to receive the unemployment benefit, that being the period which must lapse before someone who voluntarily leaves a job can receive the benefit. [More…]
These men were working illegally. [More…]
They were respected men whom we should admire. [More…]
Because they were not prepared to do so they were penalised to the extent of some $3,000 by the Department of Social Security. [More…]
So the Department is encouraging people to take illegal action. [More…]
What I have just outlined represents the actual encouragement that this Government is giving to Aborigines. [More…]
One of the things mentioned about the Premier of my State was the fact that he was a conscientious objector throughout the last World War. [More…]
This was mentioned quite a few times. [More…]
Many men tried to get out of their jobs to go to the front line. [More…]
We heard mention from the other side of the chamber that the courts some years ago decided that equal pay should be given to Aborigines. [More…]
At the risk of being misunderstood, I would say that giving Aborigines equal pay has been as detrimental as it has been beneficial. [More…]
It is a myth that Aborigines are natural stockmen, just as it is a myth to say that white men are natural stockmen. [More…]
Those men who were good stockmen- I know quite a few of them- were treated as such and paid accordingly. [More…]
The men were given jobs and the whole family or clan was tuckered by the properties. [More…]
This was quite a reasonable arrangement. [More…]
The men were given work in mustering and general ringing duties around the homestead and property. [More…]
Of course as soon as the courts decided that these men had to be given equal pay, employment for them of necessity had to cease and many problems started from there. [More…]
They could no longer afford to pay some of the wages to some of the men and tucker the families at the same time. [More…]
But I go on as my third proposition to demonstrate the pitiful political predicament that this measure exhibits from the point of view of government in the national Parliament of Australia. [More…]
It is pitiful beyond expression that we white men, the elected representatives in the State field, on the one hand, and, with one exception- I refer to Senator Bonner, whose advent to this Parliament is a unique achievement; I have no need to flatter him because his abilities are self-evident- in the Federal Parliament of Australia, on the other hand, are exhibiting a contention between one another as to the proper reconciliation of the claims made by the Aboriginals to the two governments, State and Federal. [More…]
There is every evidence that the Queensland Parliament will manipulate that Act to the detriment of the Aboriginal people and to the detriment of what may be the best intentions of this Bill. [More…]
It is a Bill that gives local communities no right to prevent undesirable white men from entering their reserves. [More…]
We know that in many areas Aboriginal people suffer from alcoholism just as in many areas of Australia white men suffer from alcoholism. [More…]
There are men out there who own pastoral lands and whose wives would not join them in those far outback places where life was not easy. [More…]
Their wives and children tended to live in capital cities but those men did not feel that they should be denied the pleasure of having a woman to live with. [More…]
I do not believe Senator Collard when he says that Aboriginals did not make good stockmen. [More…]
We have a dependence on the States in this area, and therefore we are dependent upon the goodwill of State governments, including the State Government of Queensland. [More…]
I hope that we can rely on the Queensland Government to behave with decency in this area. [More…]
I am sure that the Queensland Government is made up of men who have the best interests of the Queensland community at heart. [More…]
Therefore those men have the power to subvert any attempt by the Commonwealth to grant selfmanagement in any short period. [More…]
It seems rather absurd to think that a code of behaviour which is applied to those who live within the reserves, those who are subject to government by a council, should not apply to all of those who come onto the reserves. [More…]
Surely I do not have to remind the Committee of the appalling inroads that alcohol has made in Aboriginal communities or the unwanted sexual advances that have been made by non-Aboriginal men upon the traditional Aboriginal culture. [More…]
In November 1977, sickness benefits for the temporarily incapacitated were made available to women on the same basis as they are available to men. [More…]
No longer do married women have to establish that it is not possible for their husbands to maintain them during a period of illness. [More…]
I am saying only that the taxation burden on men’s earnings in this country is enormous and outrageous. [More…]
Having clarified that point, I have no objection to the article being incorporated but perhaps I should place on record some of the comments that the Government felt needed to be said about the proposal to include divorced spouses in superannuation benefits. [More…]
If the Commonwealth were to provide employer financed benefits for divorced men and women who were formerly married to scheme members or for non-dependent separated men and women married to scheme members, public and private sector schemes would criticise the Government for pacesetting. [More…]
It would benefit only those married to an employee with a pension entitlement. [More…]
It must be admitted-it is certainly admitted by all reasonable men in the apple industry- that we had difficulties also because of the failure of the industry and the producers themselves to come together in a reasonable marketing scheme with single labelling and uniform preparation of the crop for marketing. [More…]
Offshore oil is important to our future energy resources and the men who crew the ships and the tugs to establish off-shore wells can be trained and further educated at the Maritime College. [More…]
The men who man the specialised ships involved with mineral and oil exploration should come from our own country if possible. [More…]
I hope that the Government recognises the need to draw from as wide a group as possible or as is feasible in making its decision on the makeup of the Council. [More…]
Senator Harradine mentioned some unions and associations which he thought could be represented. [More…]
I hope that we do not have a Council which merely mouths the government line but which acts as a truly autonomous council. [More…]
Senator Harradine does not know the pressures that push women to have abortions. [More…]
Most humane understanding men who want to understand the pressures and the problems of women who face abortion do not understand because they are not women, and certainly Senator Harradine with his narrow inhibited view would find it impossible to understand the pressures to which women are subjected. [More…]
He exhibits a great desire to be the keeper of women ‘s consciences but we do not need him as a keeper. [More…]
Might I remind Senator Harradine that that is exactly how the majority of women in Australia feel about the matter. [More…]
If a woman in distress and under pressure facing abortion rings the Centre for advice, she not only gets information about where to find a counselling service but also she is directed to the Women’s Action Alliance which gives information and assistance in some ways to women who do not want abortions and advises women against abortions. [More…]
The Centre does not exist to push working women into having abortions. [More…]
We owe it, I believe, to those adventurous men who, in the early years, set the pattern for polar exploration and to the 12 Australians who have lost their lives in this country’s service in the Antarctic in the last 3 1 years. [More…]
I, and I am sure, all of us would want to see Australia, acting in responsible co-operation with other nations, play its full part towards the achievement of that objective by clearly indicating our fullest commitment towards the attainment of that most worthwhile and desirable goal. [More…]
I have discussed this clause with some eminent legal men who express a view that the words ‘costs and expenses’ are somewhat more limiting than the words that were used, for instance, in the Australian National University Act which refers to any payment or discharge for the purposes, rather than the costs and expenses, of the university or college. [More…]
by leave- One is reminded in this discussion of the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, in talking about the South Pacific and his home in Vailima above Apia in Western Samoa, who wrote: ‘Few men who come to the islands leave them. [More…]
I pay tribute to the successive chairmen of the Commission, particularly Mr Clem Jones who has occupied this position since November 1975 and who has made a most significant contribution to the work of the Commission. [More…]
The members and staff of the DRC are to be commended for their untiring efforts over the past three years. [More…]
On behalf of the citizens of Darwin and the 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…]
That is why wo do not get a response even to the commands of Acts of Parliament that annual reports should be forthcoming. [More…]
It is an insult to the intelligence of an assembly of men and women, 60 in number, maintained at great cost, that a Budget should be presented in which there is not one item out of thousands that their judgment requires to be revised. [More…]
At page 8 of this report there is a reference to the fact that the men employed under normal wage provisions averaged, at permanent ports, $229.60 per week for 24.7 hours- that is to say, $229 a week for 25 hours. [More…]
Under the special agreements for container work, the average was $295 per week for 3 1 hours. [More…]
The report brings to our notice that, despite the decline of 12.4 per cent in the work force, the total gross payments credited to waterside workers at all ports, excluding long service leave and redundancy payments, increased by 4.8 per cent to a total of $129,160,992. [More…]
Total payments to waterside workers, now numbering roughly 10,000 personnel, amounted to $129m. [More…]
Despite a reduction in the number of personnel, payments are increasing to a rate of $22 1 a week for 25 hours work. [More…]
Overtime payments are additional. [More…]
As I have pointed out, one of the cardinal terms of the permanent employment arrangements was, as could be foreseen- and the report I am referring to makes this clear- that as mechanical means developed in the industry it would be necessary to have less and less manual labour. [More…]
Therefore, in decasualising the waterfront and altering the basis of waterside employment from casual work to weekly employment- now called permanent employment- it was a cardinal condition that the Authority, if application were made to it by the employers, should have the right compulsorily to retire men with proper long service payment, with proper redundancy payments, paying all sick leave and annual leave up to date, but if the number of people registered were in excess of labour requirements the Authority, with responsibility to provide quotas and to ensure that the labour was usefully employed, had the power under that arrangement compulsorily to retire people on the terms- quite generous terms- to which I have referred. [More…]
But, when the situation was put to a test in 1972 and the first effort was made at retirement, the employers succumbed to the resistance and the Government acquiesced. [More…]
The next disclosure in this report is a disclosure which completely confirms what I had to say when the stevedoring industry legislation was before us, but the report is so graphic that I must take the opportunity of putting on record, perhaps for the last time, the degree of waste and decay that the Government in this instance, by its own special program, arranged- an entire responsibility of government. [More…]
The Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations, Mr Street, thought that he had to precede any transformation arrangements terminating the Authority and putting the industry back in the employers’ hands. [More…]
He thought he could see sufficiently far enough into the future and he said: ‘We have got about a thousand men too many’. [More…]
Under the advice of a conference presided over by Mr Justice Robinson at first and then the Ministerforsaking the advice of his colleagues and preferring the advice of Sir Richard Kirby, who was paid upwards of $6,000 at the rate of $125 a day- was misled, I believe, into the situation of accepting an extravagant program of redundancy payments, the like of which ought to shock the whole community. [More…]
The total cost of severance payments to the 872 men was $ 12.4m. [More…]
Of that amount, $9.8m was paid to the 558 men over the age of 60, all of whose registrations were cancelled in January 1977. [More…]
Two of those men whose 65th birthday coincided with the date of cancellation received nothing. [More…]
The other 556 men averaged $17,700 per man, the maximum payment being $30,462 and the minimum being $33. [More…]
Pension payments were reportedly paid on the basis of normal age retirement rather than early retirement as had been agreed at the conference. [More…]
As well, they received payment for accumulated sick leave, annual leave and long service leave. [More…]
This was an arranged payment at the insistence of the Government and agreed to by the Government. [More…]
It was recommended by Sir Richard Kirby, with all the inhibitions that that should have created, but it was the Government’s responsibility entirely. [More…]
That was in a period when the Government was asking all other employees to accept a modified increment to their wages because of the inflationary crisis. [More…]
The report says that the cost of severance payments to the 314 men under 60 was $2. [More…]
The maximum payment to those workers under 60 years of age was $ 14,000- that is to six men 59 years of age- and the minimum payment of $4,500 was made to 120 workers. [More…]
Between December 1976 and June 1977 the number of registered regular waterside workers at all ports fell by 1,101 from 11,437 to 10,336 workers as a result of the application of the redundancy arrangements and natural attrition. [More…]
Despite these arrangements to make surplus labour redundant, page 7 of the report states: [More…]
To take Senator Wright’s argument to its logical conclusion we should indulge in some drastic pruning. [More…]
I wonder how and where we would absorb these men who are in their fifties. [More…]
The waterfront work force is down to 40 men. [More…]
The fact is that Charlie Fitzgibbon is one of the most competent men in the trade union movement. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Does the Australian Government contemplate taking parallel action to the extent of holding summit meetings of all State Ministers of Labour and Industry? [More…]
Also, will the Minister give an assurance that any interim action already taken will not be confined to men in the asbestos mining industry but will take into account people in other industries that use asbestos for packing and insulation? [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of this action and the statement by the managing director of the company that the Federal Secretary of the AMIEU had told him in Canberra on 19 April this year that the men would be better off receiving unemployment benefits than working a 2-day or 3-day week? [More…]
I understand that the union contends that the daily hired workers were earning less than the unemployment benefits for which they were ineligible because they were employed. [More…]
I ask the Minister: What is the Government’s attitude to this move and to the precedent that this action may set? [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Ali Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
Even though a consensus has not been reached the discussions have, I understand, been undertaken between men of goodwill and on the basis of reasoned argument. [More…]
All commissioners of police, even faced with visual evidence, defend their men to the extreme. [More…]
He considers it his duty to show his loyalty to his men and to defend them. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Health aware that under the medical benefits tables there is no provision for reimbursement for the purchase of dental mouthguards by sports men and women? [More…]
As the use of mouthguards in contact sports almost totally reduces the incidence of dental damage and the resultant cost of remedial treatment, conservatively estimated at $300 per tooth for plugging and capping, does the Minister agree that preventive dentistry costing approximately $30 is sound economic sense? [More…]
If so, I ask the Minister to give the most serious consideration to amending the schedule to include reimbursement of the cost of this essential equipment and thus encourage its use which to date has been restricted for financial reasons. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces. [More…]
Press reports described dozens of police and plain clothes security men being on duty yesterday at the Vice-President’s hotel. [More…]
Others with binoculars lined the roof of Parliament House while colleagues checked under parked cars for bombs. [More…]
Will the Minister note the comments of one of the visiting delegates who said that Mr Fraser was conservative and oldfashioned, that he was concerned about the Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean, the red hand of Moscow and so on, when all this is passe in Washington? [More…]
Relations seen in today’s Australian Financial Review a letter citing statistics that demonstrate the extent of unemployment amongst women? [More…]
For example, the figures show that the total unemployment amongst women is 10.4 per cent compared with a 6 per cent male unemployment rate. [More…]
The figures go through the various categories showing that in every category, including married and unmarried women and so on, the unemployment of women is very much higher than unemployment of men. [More…]
Do these figures concur with data available to the Government? [More…]
If so, does the Minister agree that they establish that women are severely disadvantaged in the current unemployment crisis? [More…]
Will the Government consider taking special measures to combat female unemployment similar to the special steps it has taken to assist unemployed youth? [More…]
It was signed by four senior men. [More…]
When the letter was not accepted a short Press statement expressing disappointment was issued by the Aurukun Council. [More…]
The statement read: [More…]
That activity was quite intense because at that time the Commonwealth Government realised how disturbed the people of the Aboriginal communities were. [More…]
He said that they are sad and disillusioned men. [More…]
I would say to them that they are present in Canberra today, a day when consultation is being held with Queensland and when progress is being made with regard to the proposed legislation to be introduced in the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
Why is it necessary now for the original owners of that land to go cap in hand to governments to have returned to them that which was rightfully theirs? [More…]
White men came and took it away from them, and now all they are asking for is the return of that land so that they can live on it. [More…]
White men are still squabbling over whether they should give it back to them. [More…]
Elkin was one of the first to comment on this in his book Men Of High Degree. [More…]
The people of Aurukun and Mornington Island and other Aboriginal people believe that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs (Mr Viner), by their very positions, are men of high degree and should be trusted and honoured. [More…]
A lot of people will not understand the point I am making but I have been in this Parliament for a long time and I have been on the hustings in this country. [More…]
We were told many things about containment and the arrows coming from the north, and they were a whole lot of lies. [More…]
Not only did we lose our men and shed the blood of our men in Vietnam; we also lost the flexibility that enabled us to go to the forums of the world and stand up as a people who have always been known to be fair and square with their fellow men. [More…]
For that reason, we on this side of the chamber will continue to use whatever methods we can through the media to warn the Australian people, whenever we have the opportunity, as we have done on so many occasions in the past when we have seen thoughtless people, opportunists, people after a fast buck who have been prepared to sell their fellow men down the drain for the immediate gain, disregarding the longer range view that we have taken on these matters. [More…]
The second Bill, the Environment Protection (Nuclear Codes) Bill, is mainly a machinery Bill which will allow us, when the mines commence, to lay down certain regulations under which the rnining operations can take place and which will allow for safeguards, for the men working there and those who would be involved down the line in transport and other ancillaries. [More…]
Immediately upon his election to Federal Parliament, Sir Robert was appointed AttorneyGeneral and Minister for Industry- portfolios he held until 1939. [More…]
These, Mr President, 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…]
It only served to spur Menzies to embark on a program of re-shaping, remodelling and re-assessing 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…]
We all 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…]
The Menzies era saw the growth of the antihero as a part of Western culture- the ugly, the miserable, became the types to be emulated and respected. [More…]
Yet, in the era of the anti-hero, Menzies was an heroic figure- a giant of a man in intellectual capacity as well as physical size. [More…]
It is a gift bestowed upon few men. [More…]
Menzies had it. [More…]
The memories of their achievements will last far longer than those of their petty critics and detractors. [More…]
When men shall declare that there was no mystery About this man who played a certain part in history. [More…]
Those of us who served in the Parliament with him were particularly privileged. [More…]
Indeed, the Parliament has been served by no more illustrious Australian, by no leader so brilliant or so singularly outstanding. [More…]
At the service to which I referred His Royal Highness, Prince Charles, quoted Ecclesiasticus 44: ‘Let us now praise famous men’. [More…]
Since Sir Robert left political life I have been most fortunate to share with a small group of men the great pleasure of Sir Robert’s brilliant mind in the relaxed circumstances of his favourite private club. [More…]
The passing of Sir Robert Menzies is an event of national loss. [More…]
I extend deep sympathy to other members of the Menzies family. [More…]
In the days when he received the epithet of Pig- Iron Bob ‘ and, indeed, collected some of the tangible fragments and shrapnel which was around, he took it in good faith and, indeed, courage. [More…]
He marvelled that the decision of a Western Australian Labor government to export pig iron should have given him the endearing epithet, which he wore with pride. [More…]
But he, of all men, saw the need to form the strongest of links with our cousins the Americans and he, of all men, with the fine example of Curtin before- this must be acknowledgedtook Australia into the ANZUS Treaty, into links with America. [More…]
I have at home the only disc I have kept of Menzies, which is of a speech he made on the Common Market and on the concept of the European Economic Community. [More…]
Therefore, the headlines tended to be wrong in their judgments. [More…]
Menzies would not wish his forensic career to be referred to without tribute being paid to Sir Owen Dixon of whom he had the privilege of being a pupil. [More…]
I bring those names to the Senate as a galaxy of men of integrity and talent with whom we in this generation should be extremely grateful to have lived. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies’ political career in the Federal sphere began in troubled times, with the growth of Hitlerism in Europe and the onset of the Second World War. [More…]
These times brought political troubles to Sir Robert but he had the great character and that comprehension of intellect and patriotic purpose for Australia that impelled him at the end of the war to bring together the ‘wandering thoughts of men’, if I can invoke Drinkwater. [More…]
I believe I have the honour and the privilege of being the last to leave this Parliament of the delegates who attended that conference and who entered Parliament. [More…]
So I am bound to speak of what I feel was the outstanding contribution that Sir Robert Menzies made to the foundations and purposes of what I believe are political purposes inseparable from the destiny of Australia- that is to say, truly liberal purposes. [More…]
He was a man of great stature, both mentally and from the aspect of education. [More…]
People talk nonsense at times and, when referring to great men, quite often they say: ‘Of course, he was a man of those days; he would not be a man of today. ‘ [More…]
My own assessment of Sir Robert Menzies is that whatever day in which he had operated, he had the flexibility of mind and the ability to gauge what was required at a particular time. [More…]
In the development of all these features Sir Robert had at various levels and at various times strong and intimate connection with such distinguished men as Sir Harold White and our Parliamentary Librarian, Mr Leslie Moore. [More…]
Sir Robert Menzies not only took a personal initiative in the formulation of the National Library but also over the years was personally committed, whether to the site, the building or the purpose of the National Library. [More…]
Who are the guilty men who misdesigned the whole project? [More…]
It is submitted that the Aboriginal Police will be basically Inspectors employed by the Local Authority to see that the by-laws are observed and although such a power is now expressly given to members of the Queensland Police force it is suggested that the Police Commissioner define to his Officers and men when such a control will be exercised so that the Local Authority can consider itself to be independent and able to carry out a similar role to other Local Authorities. [More…]
The ‘assistance’ in Clause 22 means the ministers can put in as many men in to our communities as they want to and they can take control that way. [More…]
A fortnight ago, on 1 1 May, in our debate on the land rights legislation we stressed the problem faced by the Aboriginal people when their men of high degree- their law men- do not keep faith. [More…]
This was supported by the fact that government groups visited settlements and asked the people what they wanted, whether they wanted the land rights legislation to be passed in the Northern Territory or passed in Canberra. [More…]
Senator Baume has prompted me to comment on another issue, namely, the issue of selfmanagement. [More…]
After all, self-management is a part of the land rights issue. [More…]
I mention the names of three people because these men who were working there with their wives were outstanding workers. [More…]
I have mentioned before the wonderful work which these people performed. [More…]
Dan Gillespie and David Bond were support workers in the outstation movement and Peter Cook was a mechanic, also with the outstation movement. [More…]
They were doing excellent work assisting the outstation movement to develop. [More…]
I support the proposition that the Government must make clear all aspects of this issue- both the acceptable and the less acceptable aspectsand must give full details to the Aboriginal people. [More…]
Let us not have one which is going to change every day as the wind blows and as confusion is caused by a Premier or some other person making statements. [More…]
I am convinced that if we do this we will keep faith with the Aboriginal people and they will believe that our law men will keep their word; we will regain the credibility of the Parliament as far as the Aboriginal people are concerned; and we will put stature back into the law men, those men of high degree. [More…]
As honourable senators 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 1 978, if accepted, will necessitate the 1945 Act being amended, and the Reestablishment 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…]
I was seeking to make the point that it would be strange if honourable senators on the other side somehow in the four years since legislation was introduced by the Labor Government had changed their basic views about the role of this chamber as a guardian of the interests of the States. [More…]
I referred the Senate to former statements by a number of honourable ministers on the other side, who I presume are also honourable senators and honourable men in relation to this particular matter. [More…]
In opposing that legislation of the Labor Government Senator Webster made this statement, which honourable senators would have thought at the time was one of profound and lasting principle: [More…]
I have quoted from the speeches of five Ministers and seven back benchers, the seven back benchers being a sample of the people in this chamber who now represent the Government which came to power by talking about probity in government, principle, continuity and all those things which have become part of the rhetoric of Australian politics. [More…]
Of course, if they consult their own words in 1 974 and 1 975 when dealing with almost identical legislation, I suggest that those Ministers, those honourable senators, those honourable men, will have no alternative when weighing the issues in this debate but to maintain the principles which they enunciated with such conviction in 1974 and 1975. [More…]
I fail to understand why it is considered offensive to draw the attention of women and girls to the fact that there are men in the community who could attempt to rape them but had your complainant contacted me at the time to express her feelings I would have immediately and publicly apologised for causing offence where it was not intended, and explained again the educational purpose of the segment. [More…]
R ECOM MEN DATIONS [More…]
1 ) Aerodrome control, one man; area control, one man: flight service, one man; rescue and fire fighting service, four men. [More…]
The staff of the Operational Control Centre has been reduced by two men, and transfer of message switching functions to the Melbourne Centre resulted in the transfer of six men from Launceston Communications Centre to other locations. [More…]
I do wish to place on record, however, that I hold the view that the actions of the Queensland Premier in this whole matter should be soundly condemned by all members of this Parliament. [More…]
Given these events in Queensland, it is timely that we in the Senate pay attention to the problems faced by public servants who wish to stand for election to the Federal Parliament. [More…]
Many members of this Parliament have, at some time, stressed the need for men and women of vision and ability to stand for Parliament, especially if those men and women believe that they can make a significant contribution to serving their fellow Australians. [More…]
3m and that staff housing and single men’s quarters were valued at $3.4m, a total of $8. [More…]
Private houses alone were valued at $1 1.2m, private commercial buildings at $3.1m and government buildings at $ 1.6m. [More…]
As a flow-on we must consider the tradesmen sub-contractors, the storekeepers, the service industries and so on, people who all live in Queenstown and live from the mine. [More…]
What the mine does flows down the line to many people on the way, not least of all the Government. [More…]
This Government also attracts many advantages on the way and the advance at present envisaged is not a reflection of the place this enterprise occupies as far as returns to the Government are concerned. [More…]
I cannot give too much credit to Mr Paterson and the men of the Mount Lyell mine. [More…]
Public men are more vulnerable than they were: and it behoves them even more than ever, to give no cause for scandal. [More…]
That was stated by Gough Whitlam, the then Prime Minister of this country, explaining why he dismissed Rex Connor in 1975, at a time when there was all the hue and cry and statements about the truth having to be upheld. [More…]
Such statements were made in this place by people like Senator Withers. [More…]
That was the statement of a Prime Minister who was concerned about the principle and about the standards to which I have just referred. [More…]
It was not the statement of a Prime Minister who talked all the time about probity and who suspended Ministers in order to avoid dismissing them. [More…]
It was the statement of a Prime Minister who had some sort of standards about these things and who did not seek to hide behind protective rules of this Parliament in order to prevent those standards being applied to his Ministers. [More…]
It is the sort of standard which we should insist on applying here in relation to Senator Withers just as it applied to other men who paid the penalty in a most brutal way because of allegations of misleading Parliament. [More…]
It is that petty type of debate that men avoid. [More…]
When some evidence that was fit to be examined by a judicial tribunal whether there was any impropriety in the course of the Commissioners’ decision to give a name to an electorate in Queensland, this Government appointed a judge whose independence and integrity has not been impuned by anyone; nor could it be. [More…]
That judge this very moment is proceeding actively to listen to evidence from various witnesses. [More…]
All men are made to live among groups of their own kind, competing against their own kind, and using the physical and mental apparatus common to their group. [More…]
Governments which promote this principle do mankind a service. [More…]
No government is perfect and no society is perfect. [More…]
Furthermore, a fairer system of education is possible under separate development. [More…]
Each section can develop its own leadership and feel proud that men like themselves are at the apex of their people. [More…]
He is used for household and industrial labour and to do menial jobs that whites will not do- as in Great Britain. [More…]
Many publicists and church men support coloured immigration in an attempt to justify their unfounded theories and basic insecurities for which the coloured are mere guinea pigs. [More…]
My thesis is that all men of all races are equal but different- and thank God they are so. [More…]
It is wrong to say that black society has not developed because the blacks have not had the opportunity or that their physical and social environment has been against them. [More…]
If Senator Ryan is correct in her assertion that the ABC today is asserting political bias, making biased judgments, what she is saying is that those 1 1 commissioners are in fact deliberately carrying out policies which are politically biased. [More…]
Yet there has been no indication from men like Mr Laurie Short- men whose politics undoubtedly would not support the Government- and others whose politics do not support the Government that they believe these claims. [More…]
It has been alleged that, through political intervention, men like Carleton have left. [More…]
-The Senate is debating the failure of the Government to maintain the independence, objectivity and high standard of the national broadcasting service. [More…]
Secondly, he said that it is not open to the Parliament to criticise men on the Australian Broadcasting Commission who cannot defend themselves. [More…]
Of course the function of this Parliament is to conduct a discussion and debate about the workings of statutory authorities in this country. [More…]
Of course it is the function of this Parliament to criticise, where it thinks it appropriate, officers of statutory authorities and members of a body such as the Australian Broadcasting Commission. [More…]
It is an absurd political proposition for a Minister in the Fraser Government to assert otherwise. [More…]
The third defence he offered was simply to say that this Government never interferes. [More…]
There are classic examples of this Government interfering, but let me cite just one from the report of the Australian Broadcasting Commission for the year ended 30 June 1977: [More…]
Liberal-National Country Party establishment have always regarded Richard Carleton as, at best, some sort of dangerous pinko. [More…]
I never received soft treatment from George Negus. [More…]
I would consider that to be as impertinent as asking a man whether he preferred men or women. [More…]
They were never able to pay off the amount of money they had borrowed to pay the death duties occasioned by the loss of their parents, and the three years of inflation under the Labor Government finished them. [More…]
The result is that the three men now work in various labouring jobs. [More…]
Since the husband died the wife has had to cut back until she is now running the property with the aid of two men. [More…]
The making or amending of constitutions is not easy. [More…]
There are always men of goodwill who have an urge to do something and there are always those who have an urge to prevent something being done. [More…]
The history of Australia, certainly during the 1890s, generally has been that the men of goodwill have triumphed. [More…]
Prison cells were filled to overflowing and, in some, men and women were confined together. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic decorations and medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
I refer to division 130, subdivision 3, item 15 of the Estimates for the Department of Administrative Services. [More…]
Each receives an increment of $75 a day when he is working outside his home office. [More…]
A protest was made by officers that the fee was arranged by the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
I think the AttorneyGeneral ‘s Department must be a way to the moon if it considers that ordinary counsel could not be engaged. [More…]
In fact competent purposeful men would produce better work. [More…]
1 ) How much compensation, other than a trust fund for the children, will the families of the three men- two employees of the Sydney City Council who were members of the Municipal Employees ‘ Union, and a member of the New South Wales police force- killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident receive? [More…]
Will the Minister explain the apparent contradiction whereby shopkeepers who lost trade as a direct result of the security arrangements for the Conference will be paid full indemnity while three families who lost providers will not be compensated for the loss of future income nor for the emotional stress caused by the violent deaths of the men concerned? [More…]
The fact is that besides the education of the children concerned, the widows of the men who were blown up in that Hilton bombing have received no ex-gratia payment. [More…]
When one sees that the Commonwealth is paying out well over $ 1 50,000 one sees that there is a good case for a $20,000, $30,000-honourable senators can think of a figure- ex-gratia payment being made. [More…]
1 put the point of view to the Committee that perhaps that amount of money should have been made as an ex-gratia payment in the same way as money was given to the shopkeepers who were disadvantaged because of the explosion. [More…]
On 14 February 1973, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
I ask honourable senators to consider how she and thousands of other small farmers in this country look upon a government that was elected with such a magnificent majority which took the occasion yesterday to bring in a Bill to give its members additional benefits, and which took into account for the eligibility of those benefits all past service as Ministers, repaying anything that has been returned to them and paying their contribution of 1 1 1/2 per cent of salary. [More…]
The second thing about this Bill is that for the first time in the Federal Parliamentary Retiring Allowance Scheme it is proposed that part of the retiring allowance- any part of it up to 50 per cent- can be commuted to a lump sum. [More…]
On one occasion I was accused of being one of the richest men in Parliament. [More…]
It was then about $2,000 in excess of my parliamentary allowance because in my profession, as in Parliament, I have used my opportunities to moderate the demands that I take from clients or electors. [More…]
It concerns the issue I raised about the possibility of ex gratia payments to the widows of those who were killed in the Hilton Hotel bombing incident. [More…]
I think that if one looks at the costs I have mentioned this afternoon and the people involved, it will be seen that ex gratia payments to the widows certainly would be in order. [More…]
I mentioned last night that the Municipal Employees Union had raised $100,000 for the widows of the men who were bombed. [More…]
I think it is a matter of principle that, if ex gratia payments are to be made to shopkeepers who were inconvenienced as a result of the bombing, such payments certainly should be made to the widows of the men killed. [More…]
They were asked to do a tremendous amount of work and the service they provided was excellent on all occasions. [More…]
As soon as the wage earner who Senator McAuliffe purports to represent gets above the basic exemption of $3,700 a year, the next dollar is taxed at the same rate as my dollar, which some people think is a huge income, which I think is more than sufficient and which is made up of the parliamentary allowance plus or minus $2,000 to $3,000 a year. [More…]
Slaves or free menthe right to earn above $16,000 and be taxed for half? [More…]
Slaves or free men? [More…]
The virtuosos of the tax system applaud every individual who, with any advice, successfully can avoid the outrageously repressive taxation system that the Government is operating against the working man. [More…]
The only escape for members of Parliament is to commute their retirement allowances to lump sums and the only purpose of that is to evade the taxation system. [More…]
Both those men have served as Ministers and as Leader of the National Country Party in this chamber. [More…]
These are the amendments that they have suggested. [More…]
The Government does not consult the blacks at all. [More…]
The bunch of snowy headed white men who make up the Government knew what was best. [More…]
That is the way in which the Government took its decision. [More…]
He is just as anti-black as the rest of the supporters of the Government. [More…]
If the amendment which I have moved is carried, new sub-section (2) will read as follows: (2c) Where the Minister is not satisfied that the request should be complied with, he shall refuse to approve the alteration and shall notify the Association, in writing accordingly, giving his reasons; [More…]
Very recently and subsequent to 16 August 1977 a Curran scheme involving the creation of current losses of $100m which had been implemented through a single company was brought to the notice of the Commissioner. [More…]
Senator Jessop referred to the arguments that have come in many cases from what he called liberally-minded persons. [More…]
Senator Messner I think mentioned that he has received similar representations. [More…]
The lawyers and accountants- particularly those personally known to me- who have made it their business to take the opportunity of speaking to me have said how much they support what the Government is doing. [More…]
They said that they would not, as professional men, have a bar of advising their clients to enter into these schemes or take part in them themselves. [More…]
So I see absolutely no problem whatsoever, following the changeover on 1 July, in the administration of the various responsibilities because the men are now in the Northern Territory. [More…]
They are dedicated men and I believe they have the expertise with which to carry out the administration of the Northern Territory. [More…]
I ask Senator Walsh whether he believes that payments which are made to workers, to executives or others, in kind rather than in money, should be exempt from income tax. [More…]
I would think that the workers of this country, whom I believe you, Mr Acting Deputy President, and Senator Walsh purport to represent, would have said that all men should be taxed equally and fairly whether they receive their salaries in cash or in kind. [More…]
At the time he uttered those words there was a number of front benchers of the Government who knew that statement to be wrong. [More…]
Yet they allowed those documents to be tabled as if they set out the true position. [More…]
They are the men responsible for the cover-up. [More…]
Last night during the debate I drew attention to the danger I saw in the argument that all the States do this. [More…]
That falls into the category of Forty thousand Frenchmen cannot be wrong’, which I do not think we necessarily support. [More…]
I believe that like the Chinese we should stand on the shoulders of those men who have gone before us. [More…]
These signs have mark’d me extraordinary, and all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men. [More…]
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. [More…]
In the quiet corners of my mind I seek my native folk, my own, the quiet folk who wait and understand, men with keen wrinkled eyes, and slow thin smiles, men with firm hands. [More…]
Men who will never cry, whose voices, hard as sunlight, firm as stone, and level as their own calm gaze across the sandplain to the farthest hill, speak the truth slowly like a stockwhip’s coil, cracking with purpose. [More…]
Men who know their land. [More…]
The men who start out early, raise their eyes and see earth ‘s goodness in the coming light and think in kindness of their neighbour’s hope. [More…]
I think of tired men with calloused hands, lips black with sweat and red-rimmed patient eyes, crying for faith in treeless wastes of pain. [More…]
I see the fearless men, the bold, the strong, who stand like poppet heads against the sky and raise their hands with purpose. [More…]
Harsh judgments nor the thoughts of selfish men, nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all the dreary intercourse of daily life, shall ne’er prevail against us or destroy my cheerful faith, that all that we behold is full of blessings. [More…]
I understand that a gentleman by the name of Oscar Wilde said that experience is the name that men give to their mistakes. [More…]
Parents are involved through contacts made as men tioned in (a) above and (6) below. [More…]
His death has saddened this country and is a great loss to his Church and all men. [More…]
I commend the motion to the Senate. [More…]
As head of the Catholic Church, Pope Paul stood in a unique position of being able to influence the minds of men beyond the territorial borders and national allegiances which constrain moves for peace in a troubled world. [More…]
Better kill us like dogs if you can’t let us live like men. [More…]
Kill us like dogs instead of what is being done at the moment. [More…]
Shoot us and kill us like dogs if we cannot be allowed to live like men. [More…]
1 ) How many vacancies for the positions advertised by the Department of Defence in the Age, dated 29 April 1978, inviting applicants to train as Electronics Technicians in the Air Force which stated female vacancies had already been filled were open to women and to men. [More…]
My statement this afternoon rejects entirely the need for the expenditure of public moneys on the undertaking of such an inquiry. [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…]
Exceeding the terrible examples set by the Nazi masters during the war, they brutally exterminated fellow Croats who dared to hold opposing views, a huge number of our brother Serbs, other Yugoslav nationals and numerous men, women and children of Jewish faith. [More…]
It then goes on to mention pilches. [More…]
As we move down the list we find some very substantial consumer items which concern the every day family, including woven shirts, knitted undergarment shirts, babies napkins, women’s blouses, knitted coats, female outer garments, dressing gowns, swim wear, men’s shorts, men’s trousers. [More…]
I cannot for the life of me understand why the Government- I think Senator Walsh has properly explained the situation- should impose this protection in such away. [More…]
I think this matter may have been mentioned in evidence given in relation to another reference made to the Committee. [More…]
I refer to the matter of the inability of the officers of the Australian Development Assistance Bureau to travel and to look at projects. [More…]
I believe that in the aid area of the Department of Foreign Affairs we have some exceedingly fine young men. [More…]
I say ‘young men’ because they are younger than me. [More…]
He is not with the Parliament at present. [More…]
I refer to Ian Macdonald who presented a submission to the Committee called ‘The Australian Connection: Investment Trade and Aid in the South Pacific’. [More…]
When former Senator Cotton was a Minister in this place he asked about the background to the report and commended the young man who prepared it. [More…]
The amount of work and research that went into this submission indicates a growing interest in the area by the young men and women of Australia. [More…]
I have been appalled to learn in talking to many young people, often well-educated, the number who have lost faith permanently in the system of parliamentary government. [More…]
It has been spelled out to me by these young people that there is no hope of any better society through the parliamentary system because even most members of parliament have no power to influence events. [More…]
Political power, these young people say, which should rest properly and equally with the people, is in the hands of increasingly few men- now possibly, virtually in the hands of one man. [More…]
That disillusionment began with the Vietnam war. [More…]
In May 1977 the unemployment rate for women was 7.3. per cent; a year later it was 8 per cent. [More…]
In May 1977 the unemployment rate for men was 4.5 per cent; a year later it was 5 per cent. [More…]
If we look at the hardest hit group, young persons 15 to 19 years of age, looking for their first jobs, we find that in May 1977 there were 16,100 women unemployed; a year later there were 23,900 young women in this category; that is, 18.7 per cent of women between 15 and 19 years of age looking for their first jobs were unemployed. [More…]
In May 1977, 13,400 young men were unemployed; a year later 18,000 were unemployed; that is, 14.8 per cent of young males looking for their first jobs were unemployed. [More…]
The unemployment rate now for migrant women in the 1 5 to 19 years age group is 1 9.7 per cent and for males 19.2 per cent. [More…]
For all migrants the unemployment rate currently is 9. [More…]
1 per cent for women and 5.6 per cent for men. [More…]
The Minister did mention that there are categories of persons who need special services, including the handicapped, Aboriginal people and migrants. [More…]
However, he did not mention what is perhaps the largest and most neglected category, the category of unemployed women. [More…]
It emerges very clearly in the statistics I have just read to the Senate that unemployment amongst women in all age groups, but particularly in the younger age groups, is significantly higher than unemployment amongst men. [More…]
For the benefit of those honourable senators who may need this fact restated, I will say briefly that it is the Opposition’s view that every person has the right to employment, regardless of marital status. [More…]
What is happening with regard to unemployed married women is that their plight is being hidden. [More…]
Their unemployment is simply not being measured by current techniques for measuring unemployment in the community. [More…]
This stems partly from the fact that an unemployed person whose spouse is in employment is not entitled to unemployment benefit. [More…]
I do not wish at this stage to enter into a debate on the rights and wrongs of that situation, although I do believe it is fundamentally wrong. [More…]
Because unemployed married women whose husbands are in employment are not entitled to benefit they usually fail to register at CES Offices. [More…]
I know that when she referred to the Re-establishment and Employment Act of 1945 as an old model car, she made the observation in good faith. [More…]
Servicemen had to be rehabilitated and the wonderful women of this country who kept the wheels of industry moving and the home fires burning had to be gradually withdrawn from industry and replaced by the men who were returning from the Services. [More…]
I would like the Minister to indicate to me ways in which there could be a link with the Immigration Department. [More…]
In referring to job placement, what happens in the case I have mentioned of the Snap Carpet Cleaning Co. at Drummoyne? [More…]
A man would need a fairly good physique to maintain the tempo of output required and there is a tendency for men when they get to about 50 to feel that they have had enough of the hard work and that it is time for them to get an easier job. [More…]
The Department of Immigation says that if a person has a firm job offer he can come here but the Department of Employment and Industrial Relations tells Firestone that it has to upgrade men or bring in men who are unemployed. [More…]
I hope that we will have a form of more open government and that when Firestone will not co-operate, and it is a multinational, it will be told that its ratio for upgrading people or taking on unemployed people in Granville has got to be improved. [More…]
If it is left the other way, and this is the punch line, and job placement is not consolidated under one authority there will be problems. [More…]
In an earlier answer the Government ‘s deep concern at the recent trial and harsh sentence imposed on Dr Orlov was made clear. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
On 14 February, 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
When the Belconnen Mall is finished at the end of November what will happen to the 400 or 500 men currently employed there? [More…]
So it does not matter whether we are talking about Tasmania with a Labor Government or the Australian Capital Territory with a Liberal Government. [More…]
We are faced with exactly the same sort of problem and the problem flows from the inadequate understanding of this Government about the importance of the building industry. [More…]
I commend the Australian Labor Party for bringing forward this extremely important issue as a matter of public importance. [More…]
We have the incredibly stupid situation in a so-called civilised country of hundreds of thousands of young couples wanting to build homes, with thousands of men and women who can build homes unemployed or being diverted to other industries, and all we can do is to go back to 1972 or 1973 to what the Labor Government did. [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently announced that last year we had the lowest rate of commencements in home building since 1966-67. [More…]
The rate of commencements last year was the lowest for 10 years. [More…]
In its May report on the home building industry the Shrapnel report gave the frightening figures that dwelling commencements in the 12 months to last December were 10 per cent down on the figure for the previous year. [More…]
I am obliged to refer to a letter I received from Brick and Pipe Industries Ltd, which is probably the biggest supplier to the home building industry in Australia, giving figures of men employed in the industry in the last three years. [More…]
In 1 975 the firm employed 1,725 men in the production of clay bricks, clay sewerage pipes and clay roofing tiles and in sand excavation. [More…]
Today it employs 966 men, which is almost half the number of human beings employed in that industry in Victoria. [More…]
I hope I am not naive, but I do insist on the right of all young men to dream dreams. [More…]
It was a survey of 500 men 30 years after they had received five years treatment for being delinquents. [More…]
They had received five years counselling and treatment for delinquency. [More…]
Joan McCord found that a control group of similar men who had not received counselling and treatment but who had committed the same type of delinquent acts had committed fewer major crimes than the group which had received the counselling. [More…]
Men in the control group had more job stability and satisfaction, higher employment achievement and were less prone to nervous disorders and illnesses. [More…]
We have been witnessing the arrival on our shores of the technological revolution, particularly now in communications and information processing, and the accelerating replacement of men and women with machines and integrated circuits at a hitherto undreamed of pace and scale. [More…]
And we have been witnessing, largely associated with that, the conspicuous decline in the ability of an already overcrowded tertiary sector to accommodate, as it always has in the past and as in orthodox theory it is supposed to, the drift of employment away from the primary and particularly the secondary sectors. [More…]
I do not know whether it is the product of ignorance or indifference or, indeed, which of the two is worse, but the present Government seems to be reacting to these developments with all the alert and sophisticated understanding of moo-cows in a paddock gazing at the passing traffic. [More…]
Telecom Australia when massive manpower replacement programs are set in train, then they need apologise to no one for vigorously fighting back to protect the interests of their members, of the ordinary working men and women of the community. [More…]
The New South Wales branch of the Australian Railways Union approached me in relation to a number of Lebanese who unquestionably made false statements which assisted them to get out of Beirut, that unhappy city where bullets were flying thick and fast. [More…]
They came to Australia as single men. [More…]
I have seen a letter from the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs which points out, loud and clear, that a false statement had been made by this man to gain exist from Beirut. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
That is restrictive, contained perhaps by our need for drugs- not a community of free men. [More…]
I hope that in future the debate on drug abuse in Australia will be more rational and will be conducted more by reasonable men and women who look at the facts and at the possibilities of control of abuse in a sensible way rather than just consider the two alternatives of prohibition and complete libertarianism. [More…]
However, if we continue to shout at each other and to air our prejudices in this Parliament and in the media, and if we continue to condemn those whose views differ from ours to gain political votes in political ballots or according to the prejudices we think the community has, we will continue to go the way we are going as an intoxicated society; and the only difference that will occur is that the variety of those intoxicants will increase, the absolute volume of those intoxicants used will increase, and we will get nowhere. [More…]
An unusually high proportion of them are single men living in single men’s quarters. [More…]
These people- I refer to the shift workers in particular- who have very limited opportunities for any sort of entertainment in the area are faced with the alternatives of drifting off down to the pub or watching ABC television. [More…]
In 1952, 2,500 men were employed. [More…]
Today there are 565, and employers recently declared a further redundancy of 65 men. [More…]
The last two intakes of men took place in 1965 and 1967. [More…]
The men recruited in 1967 became compulsorily redundant in the early 1970s under the first permanency agreement. [More…]
Under the second permanency agreement hours of work were reduced to 35 per week, four weeks annual leave was achieved and there was no compulsory redundancy clause. [More…]
The youngest men still working are those who were employed in 1965. [More…]
If those young men and I suppose the young women with whom she was living in the house were to turn her out onto the street because she was not bringing in any income, what would happen to her? [More…]
What type of immorality is this Government forcing on to the people? [More…]
That is the sort of situation into which this Government is pushing women particularly young women. [More…]
There are reports in Victoria that young women are transporting themselves from country areas to the metropolitan area to work in the massage parlours to get money. [More…]
I do not know whether the reports are correct, but this situation is indicative of the sort of thing that is happening particularly in relation to young women in country areas. [More…]
Unfortunately some have done away with their lives because of the unemployment problem hanging over their head. [More…]
Highly intelligent young men and women who call at my office and to whom I speak cannot quite understand why they are in this situation. [More…]
How on earth these young people are ever expected to get work experience to fit them for some form of secure employment I will never know, and I am sure that they do not know. [More…]
So that is verification of the statement he made on the ABC’s news service. [More…]
We were given a statement in the Senate which left us all with the impression that the statement was not made. [More…]
But when one examines the statement one finds that it does not contain any inaccuracies. [More…]
The statement does not at any time say that Mr Aper said that the matter was not mentioned. [More…]
It says that Mr Dearson said that it was not mentioned. [More…]
Mr Hillyer was the third party at the meeting, but there is no report, when he heard this statement, of him saying: ‘Do you verify this?’ [More…]
Then Mr Aper said: ‘I will go to the Canberra Times and get it to correct an inaccurate statement’. [More…]
The Canberra Times contacted him and he corrected the inaccurate statement. [More…]
The inaccurate statement he corrected was in regard to the name of a union. [More…]
Whilst what was reported obviously did transpire, the situation is that three men in the hot seat come up with a statement which could leave people with no other impression than that the statement was never made. [More…]
No one can contradict the fact that it was said, because at the present time Mr Aper is sticking to his statement that it was said. [More…]
Men and women were in fairly close agreement on each of the first four sources of energy named on the card, but nuclear power was favoured by nearly twice as many men as women (29 percent against 15 percent). [More…]
The proposal was favoured by definite majorities of men, older people and Liberal-NCP voters, but opposed by women, younger people - [More…]
One would presume that as the word ‘people’ is used some men would be amongst them- and ALP supporters. [More…]
When the Founding Fathers wrote the Constitution, under section 51 (xxvi) they gave the Commonwealth the power to make laws for the peace, order and good government of the Commonwealth with respect to the people of any race, other than the Aboriginal race in any State, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws. [More…]
We had the power to make laws for the good government of the people of any race except the Aboriginals. [More…]
The American Government wanted to make special laws for a migrant group but an American court found that it did not have the power to make separate laws; everyone was covered by the Constitution and the law had to apply to all. [More…]
At that time we had Chinese men in the gold mines and Kanakas in the sugar fields in Queensland. [More…]
Many of the State parliaments had restrictive laws. [More…]
I believe that the men and women who went to Edmonton and all men and women and boys and girls who go into amateur sport not only devote their time but also go to a lot of personal expense. [More…]
This myth can be exploded and will be exploded when we as a nation realise that when we expect men and women to go overseas to represent Australia in either the Olympic Games or the Commonwealth Games we have a responsibility to ensure that they are not victimised and that they do not suffer any hardships. [More…]
The Government of Canada was able to allocate $25m towards assisting amateur sporting in that country, compared with Australia’s measley Sim. [More…]
If we as an Australian people are not prepared to make the facilities available to them, are not prepared to fund these sporting bodies, why blame the sports men and women? [More…]
They must be given that assistance here before they go so that they are able to compete with other sporting bodies or other sports men and women in other countries. [More…]
Some of these young men came in old broken down motor cars. [More…]
I hope that here as least is an area where governments can lend some support. [More…]
We talked of many things; of problems and of aspirations, and these young men- and they are young men- have a great and a complex responsibility for a vast Territory of comparatively small population, and there will be many problems to be faced. [More…]
It seems to me that they are approaching these with vigour and with a sense of commitment and of proportion, and we wish them well. [More…]
They, with their continuing burdens, and we, as fellow Australians celebrating today with them, have the rare privilege of being present at the creation, for that is what self-government is in the history of the Territory, and I have no doubt that I speak for all Australians when I express to all of the citizens of the Northern Territory our heartfelt wishes for the peace, the welfare and the good government of the Territory. [More…]
This is to allow for full consultation with the 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 senators 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 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 Government has no doubt about the importance of this program or 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…]
Senator Chaney, who is in charge of the Bill knows very well, having sat here during this debate, that we heard Senator Maunsell from the National Country Party and Senator Thomas say that they were not in agreement with a reduction of the bounty, yet Senator Chaney says that they are going to support the Government’s position. [More…]
What I object to is that they try to fool the electors that they are men of free choice, yet when the chips are down how often do we see them stand up to what they have said? [More…]
We talked about the fact that these were typically men who were homeless, destitute and more vulnerable to the problems and illnesses which beset our society than most people in the society. [More…]
The average age, in fact, is dropping because of the devastating social effects of longterm unemployment. [More…]
A common complaint made by those who are helping the homeless men in our community is that the average age is falling because of unemployment. [More…]
They are getting a different sort of person in their rufuges because of the unemployment situation which is facing this community. [More…]
One of the themes implicit in the legislation since its inception, and a strong theme in ‘A Place of Dignity’ and in other papers and documents on this subject, has been the undesirability of treating homeless persons as outcasts and the desirability of considering them as members of our society who need short term or long term help to survive and who can often be assisted to find a more satisfactory way of life- frequently to find a job- as a result of the facilities provided. [More…]
We should always recognise that the problems they face mainly are personal ones which have kept them apart from family and friends, and that their way of life without a settled environment adds to the problems. [More…]
I suggest that those who have not done so will learn a good deal from a reading of the report on the health screening of homeless men in Sydney called Health Studies of Selected Disadvantaged Groups’. [More…]
In general, as I have said previously, they are destitute men. [More…]
Rights, privacy, the opportunity for companionship- even of the opposite sexrights to legal aid and employment are matters raised by homeless men who were asked in the various surveys to talk about their various situations. [More…]
We have always favoured institutions, I believe, because they keep homeless men off the streets. [More…]
Understanding from welfare agencies and even banks and medical services can be a big factor in building up selfrespect in these people, as can the establishment of a rights program to lessen the sort of authoritarian structure that we have used to deal with these people in the past. [More…]
As Senator Grimes has said, this Act was introduced in December 1974 by his party when it was in government as a result of a report by a working party on homeless men and women. [More…]
One of the recommendations brought down by that working party was that the Homeless Persons Assistance Act be reviewed at the end of three years. [More…]
Senator Grimes has already commented on it. [More…]
Few reasonable men could deny that this approach to the issue is both sensible and reasonable. [More…]
In that comment Senator Walsh is denigrating the Australian Wool Industry Conference so, presumably, he would not be having discussions with either the AWIC, Australian Woolgrowers and Graziers Council or the Australian Wool and Meat Producers Federation. [More…]
The major Australian grower organisations throughout their history have shown that they are responsible and not only this Government but also the previous Whitlam Government which brought in the reserve price scheme, accepted them as responsible organisations. [More…]
While Senator Walsh may care to condemn able and conscientious men and organisations, at least governments have not shared his view and have accepted them as responsible. [More…]
I would like to quote something else that Senator Walsh has said in denigration of individuals, and I refer to his comments about Sir William Vines. [More…]
-Prior to the motion for the adjournment of the Senate being put last Wednesday night I was speaking about the soul-destroying conditions being experienced by young unemployed persons in Victoria, particularly in rural Victoria. [More…]
I had outlined what I believed to be the failures by this Government not only to do anything about unemployment as such but also to do anything about or come to any realisation of the sort of souldestroying situation in which thousands of young persons in rural areas of the State that I represent are placed. [More…]
I was pointing out that in fact the Government could well have taken a page from the election platform of the United Australia Party in 1943 when it was proclaiming what it would do once war ended, to wit, introduce a national insurance scheme, on a contributory basis, beginning with insurance against unemployment, immediately victory is achieved and peace returns. [More…]
That statement indicates how far the UAP, the predecessor of this Government, was out of touch with the situation which would prevail at the end of the war because the country went into a situation under a Labor government of employment for all. [More…]
Men brought out of the Services were immediately put to work. [More…]
There was no worry about unemployment or shortage of work. [More…]
It was obvious then that the UAP was completely out of touch with what was happening and what would happen in the community, just as the present Government is out of touch with the situation in Australia today. [More…]
The Treasurer (Mr Howard) has said that experience indicates that special youth employment training programs are unduly advantaging younger age groups to the detriment of older age groups. [More…]
Many middle-aged men and women now find it impossible to get work. [More…]
But for the Government to turn round and reduce the maximum training period from six months to four months and reduce the allowance paid from $67 a week to $45 a week surely does nothing for the youths of the community. [More…]
If the Government wished to do something it should have extended that type of scheme and allowed older people into retraining areas. [More…]
But his unbiased opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightenment and conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you or to any man, or to any set of men living. [More…]
Your representative owes you not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion . [More…]
Deakin and Menzies- in what a tradition to follow. [More…]
Even now there are elements in Australia seeking to replace the government of men by the administration of things, a trend to which we in Parliament have contributed by unthinkingly vesting power over people in non-elected bodies and corporations and by seeking to rely upon ombudsmen and tribunals to protect the rights of individuals when in fact it is we who should be making the decisions and we who should be providing the protection. [More…]
The Telecom dispute need not have happened had a pigheaded management understood that there are inherent risks in putting machines before men and profits before people. [More…]
But these disputes will continue and multiply until we take back some of the powers to make decisions about the future of this nation which previous parliaments have so cavalierly given away. [More…]
Nevertheless it must be recognised that all the science and technology in the world will not solve the fundamental problems of our society- problems which are essentially ones of human relationships and ones which demand human solutions. [More…]
I will illustrate some of the areas where, in my humble and inexperienced view, Parliament itself will need to display greater tolerance, sympathy and understanding. [More…]
I believe that the recognition of the frailness of mankind is as important as the recognition of its strengths, and that a certain feeling of tenderness towards those frailties is the spirit of all great government. [More…]
For instance, where the law is basically made by men, how easy it is to pass legislation about women’s issues that are not worth a tinker’s curse. [More…]
We waste public time, for instance, abusing the women’s refuge movement instead of recognising and supporting its potential to undertake a social task the value of which is beyond measure and which cannot be fulfilled by traditional welfare bodies no matter how well intentioned they may be. [More…]
It is about time we understood the dimensions of the drug problem and the marihuana problem in particular. [More…]
In the final analysis we mere men and women can do no more than our best making way for others if our best is not good enough. [More…]
If we do, perhaps when future generations review what we have sought to do they will not have cause to dismiss us, like poor Smith, but rather will have some respect for what we honestly strove to achieve, and that our memories, like those of the Grecian heroes of old, may be graven not so much on stone as in the hearts of men. [More…]
As if the Government had not been spiteful enough against the workers- someone said that this is a Budget of revenge- 100 per cent of accrued annual leave or long service leave will be taxed in the future instead of five per cent. [More…]
There were many occasions when due to the administration of the department railwaymen were not allowed to take their annual leave on account of staff shortages or some other consideration that arose unexpectedly. [More…]
These men had to forgo their annual leave. [More…]
Now this greedy Government says that these people who through no fault of their own have accrued annual leave will be taxed on 100 per cent of that leave in future instead of five per cent. [More…]
I say again to Senator Puplick that if ever he makes statements like that and someone says: ‘It will not work; you are an idealist and idealism will not work’, do not accept it. [More…]
Where would the problems of the Middle East be today if two men of good will, two idealists, had not stood up and said: ‘We will stop fighting. [More…]
I can understand young men claiming that they are being exploited, but at least they have a job and are learning a skill and the question of exploitation is debatable. [More…]
I am aware of an argument, on a statistical basis, that the proportion of unemployed juniors to total unemployed has not risen substantially beyond 40 per cent. [More…]
On the other hand, I am aware of an argument by Professor Max Corden of the Australian National University that the high level of wages for juniors is a major cause of their being unemployed. [More…]
-We of the Opposition do not oppose this Bill, but that does not mean that we agree that the Government is doing sufficient for the homeless persons who require assistance. [More…]
Since then it has been of tremendous benefit to the homeless people who require assistance. [More…]
In the past those people have been mainly men of approximately 45 years of age, but because of the great stress which has been placed on this community recently, especially by this Government, and the insecurity that has arisen there has been a tendency for this situation to change. [More…]
As I said, in 1974 men of approximately 45 years of age were the main beneficiaries of this Act, whereas more and more young people are now becoming homeless and destitute. [More…]
Women are now to be found in this category, whereas previously it was confined to men. [More…]
The Senate is debating the proposed amendment to the Homeless Persons Assistance Act which, as has already been stated, extends its operation for a further year to permit consultations with the States on future arrangements to take place. [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 all levels of government to participate in a program to assist the homeless and give recognition to the services that have already been established and are being run effectively by voluntary organisations. [More…]
The other matter that I wish to raise is a matter that has caused and is still causing great concern among people who support the trade union movement. [More…]
He wrote a letter which gained the heading ‘Men can be pigheaded’. [More…]
I have seen so many young Aboriginal men in particular and women as well who have lifted their heads above the crowd, have taken responsibility and have started to raise their voices on behalf of their own people. [More…]
Having taken back the agreement in order to allow proper interpretation and proper consultation with the tribal elders, the Council will meet again to discuss the whole matter. [More…]
Then there will be a getting together of the Chairman of the Northern Land Council, who will speak on behalf of his people, and the representatives of the Government. [More…]
I am glad that Senator Gietzelt has turned this debate in the direction of the future of the economy and the problems of employment. [More…]
In fact, they are quite difficult to discuss because he tended to start from a very dubious statement and then draw the most extreme deductions from it. [More…]
The recent speech on employment by the Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations (Mr Street) was as Senator Gietzelt implied, a breath of fresh air. [More…]
The present Minister for Employment and Industrial Relations is one of the most dedicated, compassionate men- he is also one of the most hard working men- ever to have held that portfolio. [More…]
It is a tragedy that he has had to preside over the high levels of unemployment that have been endemic in recent years. [More…]
The Minister has recognised that unemployment will not be polite enough to go away if it is ignored. [More…]
The Minister’s very clear and frank assessment of future levels of unemployment is very valuable. [More…]
I understand that both men have been sentenced to two months imprisonment as illegal immigrants. [More…]
This is, of course, a matter for the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
Let me be the first to state quite unequivocalbly that there should not be discrimination against married women in the work force. [More…]
As I have mentioned in this place previously, I, as a trade union official, was in the forefront of obtaining equal pay for work of equal value. [More…]
That would have meant that women would have had to work under the same conditions, lifting the same weights and working in the same dirt as men, to get equal pay. [More…]
The South Australian Government has no regard for the private sector and it has no regard for private enterprise. [More…]
When I speak to the Budget tonight, I understand that the Budget is not all things to all men; indeed, it is not all things to me. [More…]
I am not attacking individual members of parliament or individual senators. [More…]
I hope I am not so stupid as to believe that these men and women did not achieve public office without some sense of concern and dedication. [More…]
It is because of the two-party system that government proceeds on an erratic three-year cycle of stop and go. [More…]
It is a crying shame that the majority of the trade union movement which is useful, reasonable and decent, should be continually given the tag of association of these few people. [More…]
How many men would be associated with this group? [More…]
Honourable senators in this chamber could sit down and list 20 or 30 men- only that number- who are responsible for this dangerous and divisive tendency, this deliberate campaign of blackmail of society to get short term gains, usually money gains. [More…]
If that is one of the qualifications for a kitchen hand, I do not think it is fitting that it should be the determining factor in the engagement of labour. [More…]
I would like to know how many applicants for the job had the physique necessary to fill the requirements, as well as the other essential qualifications, and how many of the people who had competing claims for the job were married men with families. [More…]
Yes, and the report of the Committee makes many recommendations that I will read to the Senate in a few minutes. [More…]
That is a tremendous figure, particularly when it is compared with the United States and the United Kingdom, where the figure is only 0.2 per cent. [More…]
Women take twice as many analgesics as men and women present with five times more kidney disease than men. [More…]
The recommendations made in the report in relation to the analgesic problem are as follows: [More…]
Women these days are entitled to choose their own path in life just as men have been for some time. [More…]
In the modern age, in our type of society, men have certainly been released from economic constraints which may have held them in subservience to the ruling classes in previous times. [More…]
Women are now starting to be released from those constraints. [More…]
The Women ‘s Action Alliance has never made available to me my score on any basis. [More…]
It has certainly never offered me copies of questionnaires that have been answered by my parliamentary colleagues or by co-candidates or opposing candidates in elections. [More…]
I find it offensive that it offers it on a selective basis to certain members of parliament or candidates. [More…]
One of the things that I find particularly sad about this aspect is that the women in the community who are attempting to organise themselves politically do so from a certain disadvantage compared with most men. [More…]
They do it from the disadvantage that it is only fairly recently that women have become aware of the fact that they have political muscle and that through organising themselves in women’s groups they can exercise that muscle. [More…]
It is very sad to see these women’s groups exploited by male politicians who are well practised in the art of exploitation of community groups. [More…]
I only hope that these women’s groups will learn in time that by allowing themselves to be open to such exploitation they destroy their credibility and the credibility of a point of view which may be perfectly legitimate and which they wish to put in relation to women. [More…]
It is understood that the men who were members of the AMIEU went on strike from 25 September. [More…]
The Department of Employment and Industrial Relations has experienced some difficulty in obtaining details of the strike. [More…]
It has advised that the dispute was a complex one involving two unions, with the employer wishing to deal with only one union while refusing employment to members of the other. [More…]
It appears that, rather than respect the democratic decision of the Australian Capital Territory’s elected representatives, the Government has made the temporary ordinance permanent. [More…]
Its purpose was to prevent the establishment of a commercial clinic while the matter was being discussed. [More…]
A new ordinance should be prepared and introduced by the Government, incorporating the 47 recommendations of the Legislative Assembly report. [More…]
Any other course of action should be repugnant to anybody who believes in the rights and responsibilities of democratic government. [More…]
It should also be repugnant to any senator who has championed the cause of selfgovernment for the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
It would seem that the Minister for Health, Mr Hunt, has preferred the advice of Cabinet, a group of men who are not answerable to the people of the Australian Capital Territory, to that of the representatives of the community affected by his decision. [More…]
Contrary to his earlier undertaking made publicly in the Parliament he has not allowed the people of the Australian Capital Territory to decide on this grave and sensitive issue. [More…]
I have singled out these elements because I wanted to make general comments about them and about the nature of the measures. [More…]
All governments have to take unpopular decisions. [More…]
He shares that sort of pride in unpopularity with the Emperor Caligula and people like Idi Amin who pride themselves on unpopularity of that kind and see their unpopularity as evidence of their being tough men, responsible men and things of that kind. [More…]
It is true, and I challenge the honourable senator to go to the site, to talk to the men and to the management, to look at the figures and to see exactly what is involved. [More…]
The most disgraceful aspect of it is that the Government’s decision in this respect has been made quite without warning, quite without notice and quite without any opportunity whatsoever for the workers in question to rearrange, if management indeed would have countenanced it, their work patterns and to make different decisions about how they would organise their work time. [More…]
I have received many representations from many professions but the employees for whom I feel particularly sorry, and perhaps it is because their reputations have been better than the reputations of other employees, are the Victorian railway workers, men who have dedicated their lives for 30 or 40 years as stationmasters or whatever in rather remote country towns and who have not been able to take their leave. [More…]
For that reason the Australian Democrats will support the amendment. [More…]
The Government admits that this year it will get $70m from taxation on accrued annual leave. [More…]
The working men or women of this country, for various reasons which have been pointed out by speakers on this side, and most forcibly by Senator Evans yesterday and again by Senator Elstob today- Senator Rae said that he had some agreement with Senator Elstob ‘s remarks- will suffer to the tune of $ 1 10m in a full year. [More…]
During the last two or three years prior to retirement these people do not take their annual leave. [More…]
They hope that they will be taxed only on five per cent of their entitlement. [More…]
Carrying the Government is enough to break anybody’s back in the present circumstances, particularly in the field of Aboriginal affairs. [More…]
The Government has wiped all responsibility. [More…]
It has been taken down by one of the best con men in history. [More…]
He has over a period of years taken down a number of Aboriginal enterprises and the Government is not worried about it. [More…]
I was in Darwin in the last year or so and I was told by somebody working in a hardware shop that a departmental officer came in and wanted parts to repair a caravan; it was not for his caravan. [More…]
He wanted parts to repair a caravan that was on a particular Aboriginal settlement. [More…]
When he was told that there was no caravan on that settlement he hastily departed from the store because obviously he was getting the parts to build his own caravan. [More…]
There is at the moment in the Northern Territory a Mr Randell who has changed his whole lifestyle in order to see uranium mining go ahead. [More…]
I refer, in a similar vein to the question asked by Senator Young, to the terrorist attacks in Rhodesia resulting in the murder of many hundreds of innocent men, women and children. [More…]
In view of widespread and continuing public concern about the apparent failure of the Government to establish the reasons for the murder of six Australian journalists in East Timor in late 1975-1 refer to the deaths of five men at Balibo and that of Mr Roger East- will the Minister inform the Senate whether an inquiry into this matter is still continuing? [More…]
What will be the long term implications to Australian national security of our current soft line diplomacy, in this instance aimed apparently at the avoidance of facts rather than the establishment of truth? [More…]
Finally, what might have been the reaction of the Indonesian Government if six Indonesian journalists had been killed in similar circumstances in an area controlled by the Australian Army? [More…]
This Bill represents a brutal assault on something like two million Australian men, women and children who are dependent in some way on social services; two million people whose standard of living lies in the calloused hands of this Government- hands that have become calloused because the Government has spent the last 34 months wiping its hands of every pre-election promise it made. [More…]
The Opposition has outlined only some of the broken promises of the Fraser Government. [More…]
However, there will be many opportunities for honourable senators to remind the people of Australia that this Government cannot be trusted prior to an election or whilst it is in office. [More…]
Though I speak with the tongue of men and of angels and have not money I am nothing. [More…]
I have been proud to say to the staff at all divisions I have visited that I see the central organisation of CSIRO as being composed of a most aware group of men. [More…]
I know that the Government envisages that many noble men and women will make decisions- on what grounds we know not- as to whether a patient is disadvantaged. [More…]
But doctors, like everybody else in the community, will vary considerably in their judgment. [More…]
I see that all the legal men on the Government side of the chamber have run out of the chamber during this debate, but knowing their keenness to see justice done and their interest in the operation of our legal system, I doubt whether, if a proper appeal were made to them, any of them, or any of the legal men on this side, would vote in favour of this proposed new section. [More…]
If it has no application, for God’s sake let us delete subsection (4) of proposed new section 73E and not have any more argument about it. [More…]
Do we, as senators, have the necessary intestinal fortitude to initiate innovative and far reaching legislation, or are we to give truth to the fallacy that we are a chamber of stoic old men and women, deaf to the voice of the people, a mere rubber stamp of that other place? [More…]
I see the wisdom of years, and I pray to God that I also see men and women of principle: men and women of vision, men and women who are not the mere minions of government and bureaucracy, but men and women who are now prepared to stand up and be counted, and are in tune with the song of freedom that is presently resounding throughout this nation. [More…]
I do not care whether it be sympathy, resentment, or criticism, as long as it is some emotive force. [More…]
If honourable member’s choose to ignore this lone Aborigine ‘s words, dare they cast aside the words of these two men of learning? [More…]
To further reinforce the need for the provisions of this Bill, I quote directly from Aborigines, A Statement of Concern, prepared by the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, for the Catholic Bishops of Australia. [More…]
As Senator Bishop pointed out also, Senator Laucke, the President of the Senate, made the statement that day that we ought to go forward as a united body of men and endeavour to convince the Government that it ought to give its full support to this project. [More…]
We were given that day a copy of a submission made to the Government on this very matter. [More…]
I wish to read from page 1 of that document which was in the form of a submission. [More…]
It was introduced in 1918, and I would recommend that everyone read the debates right back to that year. [More…]
We had thousands of returned servicemen who had been on five bob a day and who were returning to Australia with no money, no skills, no jobs- nothing. [More…]
The 700 that was then provided for war service homes purposes presented the only way in which the vast majority of those men were ever likely to get a start in life. [More…]
People who have in the last few years spent a three-year stint in the Army, who have had a wonderful life, excellent conditions, good pay, a high degree of training and have come out better educated men, with careers in front of them, have also had these bonuses offered- quite unrealistically in relation to their situation. [More…]
I fail to understand why men and women who pledge to serve Australia should be charged different home insurance premiums solely because they live in Queensland. [More…]
Why is there to be no legal requirement on any member of the Authority to have experience or qualifications directly relevant to the environmental sciences? [More…]
We believe that many people, conservationists and others, will see this alteration to the professional requirements of the Chairman as an attempt to re-order the legislation and to fit it to a particular nominee for the job. [More…]
The Australian Conservation Foundation is disturbed by this proposed amendment. [More…]
It did not want any change to the legal requirement for relevant expertise. [More…]
Although it is true that the existing requirements make it too difficult to find suitably qualified people for the job of Chairman, I believe that this ought not to lead to the weakening of the qualifications of the status of the position. [More…]
Surely there are many men or women overseas with sufficient status who, given the necessary economic incentive, would take on such a responsible and worthwhile job. [More…]
Senator Georges should recognise that they are men of great quality. [More…]
He is not an ecologist or a scientist in the environmental area. [More…]
But these two men are limited in respect of the basic scientific requirements that are needed for the protection of the Great Barrier Reef and the development of a concept that will protect the delicate ecosystem of the Reef. [More…]
My attention was drawn to an article that appeared yesterday or today in the Melbourne Age headed: ‘ALP men claim Whitlam failure’. [More…]
In this setting I mention the closure of Kelsall and Kemp, regarded for many years as the finest woollen mill in Australia. [More…]
This is one of the reasons for my presence in this Parliament and the tone of my speech tonight. [More…]
At that mill there was a working environment that would be the envy of most industrialists because people were not regarded as cogs in a machine but as contributors to a joint working experience producing high quality products based on a pride in workmanship frequently handed down within the family circle. [More…]
I recall one such dedicated group where 19 members were employed in various departments. [More…]
This was typical of the loyalty of those men and women. [More…]
The effect of government decisions on people was therefore brought home very strongly to me during those tortuous months of closure of the mill. [More…]
On one occasion a government official spoke glibly of the little social consequence of the closure since in his mind most of the men could obtain jobs and a high proportion of the women were married. [More…]
In such a plaintive analysis, by merely examining the prefix ‘Mrs’ to a person’s surname, he did not account for the social implications to the divorced, the separated and the effective breadwinners often because of a strained domestic situation or because work was a means of supporting a family suffering tremendous financial hardship due to illness or accident or even a means for a mother to seek relief and companionship on a five-hour twilight shift while the husband handled the family pressures of a prolonged terminal illness of one of their children. [More…]
I ask honourable senators not to take decisions lightly when people ‘s livelihoods are in jeopardy because the spin-off effects on social life are tremendous. [More…]
The Services start off with a simple piece of equipment but almost always finish up with an enormously expensive and elaborate piece of equipment. [More…]
I do not know of any other words with which to describe the position than these: With 300 men, six 4.5 inch automatic guns and bofors one felt like a bully when bailing up a fishing boat with a Malayan family on board. [More…]
I comment only very briefly on the speech of Senator Walters. [More…]
I am not impressed by that argument. [More…]
That is not the argument that members on this side would have been prepared to advance when our own Government introduced for the first time the conscription of young men to go and fight in Vietnam following an election at which there had been no issue about conscription and from which there was no conceivable way of saying that a mandate was given on one side or the other. [More…]
But there is one time, I believe, when men should have a conscience vote; there is one time when men should have a conscience. [More…]
I expect governments to legislate to protect me from charlatans, rogues and exploiters and to promote a good life for my children, and I will make the decision about whether I should have children. [More…]
I believe that abortion is abhorrent to all men and women of goodwill. [More…]
I do not have the honourable senator’s expertise in this subject so I am sorry I cannot comment on that. [More…]
I believe the noble philosophy that I have espoused that abortion is abhorrent to all men and women of goodwill for the reason that I have given is viable only in a perfect society- and God knows we do not live in a perfect society. [More…]
Very few could argue against the right to life, and I will speak in a moment about what I believe the right to life means. [More…]
The other conflicting philosophy mentioned by Senator Button was the right of freedom of choice, the freedom of choice of a woman. [More…]
To my knowledge, very few men are ever faced with the dilemma of whether they should have an abortion but women are. [More…]
-If Senator Walters could give me the names of those men I believe that a certain institution has a thousand dollars first prize for every man in this country who has ever had a baby or who has ever become pregnant. [More…]
The terrible choice is with women. [More…]
Without going into the morality of that situation, I think one can conclude at least one thing, and that is that there is massive sexual ignorance in Australia today by both men and women. [More…]
To suggest that one can choose between those who will live and those who will not on the basis of whether they are going to lead comfortable and pleasant lives in circumstances of love, companionship and so on, is, I think, the height of arrogance and something which all thinking men should reject. [More…]
This is an essential ingredient in the Seat of Government (Administration) Act to permit a Minister to bring in another ordinance for the period. [More…]
The legal men seem to think that it is a requirement of that Act to permit a Minister to bring in another ordinance. [More…]
With the experience that I gained in the criminal courts in this country before I entered this Parliament, I believe, and have believed for a long time, that abortions should take place in public institutions and that under no circumstances should private profit or gain be involved in such delicate human decisions. [More…]
As I have mentioned, I have seen medical men placed on trial for alleged misuse of instruments. [More…]
If I thought that disallowance of this Ordinance would mean the establishment of a clinic in the grounds of a public hospital, under the control of that hospital and under the supervision of the Capital Territory Health Commission, I would support the proposition. [More…]
I am not blaming departmental officers for this because they have to do what the Government tells them to do. [More…]
It ought to be left to the government parties to find an amount of $300,000 if they want to conduct an advertising campaign to tell people what a great body of men they are in the Government and how they are reducing taxation. [More…]
When I asked the officer in charge- I want it to be understood right now that in no way am I blaming the personnel of the ABS; they are operating under the instructions of the Government and we were told that, in the main, these random sample tests are carried out by middle-aged married women who they claim have certain expertise- did the ABS ever recruit for their surveys any of the people whom they found to be unemployed and single people, I was told that the ABS would sooner have people with a certain expertise. [More…]
My argument is: If these people can acquire the expertise in eight weeks of intensive instruction, why is it that the unemployed people they turn up in their surveys are not given the necessary training? [More…]
The ABS could perhaps find single people or even married men who are unemployed. [More…]
Why are they not recruited, instead of middle-aged married women, to do this work? [More…]
There were no thoughts along those lines during World Wars I and II when the governments made promises to young men of the day to induce them to join the armed services and to go and fight for this country. [More…]
Yet on the eve of war breaking out, we found Mr Menzies standing up in this Parliament- he was the Prime Minister- and making all sorts of promises to the young men to induce them to go and fight for Australia. [More…]
Money was found overnight to encourage people to go into the Army and to provide the armed services with the necessary equipment to fight a war. [More…]
The Committee will note that during the reign of the Whitlam Government we increased quite enormously the rates of pay for ex-servicemen and their superannuation so that many of the older men in the armed services could retire and open the way for younger men to avail themselves of promotion. [More…]
We increased the allowable amount of money for which ex-servicemen could apply in the form of loans for ex-servicemen’s homes. [More…]
We even amended the legislation so that ex-servicewomen could avail themselves of the war service home loan. [More…]
I appreciate the interest of Senator Archer, indeed of all Tasmanian senators, in the development of the College which will, of course, be a very significant industry, apart from an academic institution, in Launceston. [More…]
I am happy to report that appointments to the Council were made on 10 October. [More…]
I think all honourable senatores will acknowledge that these two men are outstanding Australians with very expert knowledge and leadership. [More…]
However, let us recognise that the men who constitute the Wine Board have a particular purpose. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland mentioned that about $7,000 was paid to a Canadian agent. [More…]
If an agent had been contracted it would appear that this payment of about $7,000 in August 1977 represented a monthly payment because it is about one-twelfth of the amount that was paid in the previous year. [More…]
I know that Senator McClelland considers that that amount is scarcely sufficient but there is nothing further that I am able to say other than that my personal knowledge of the business acumen of individuals on the Wine Board gives me confidence that within the limits imposed by the funds available to them, they probably have allocated funds in the direction of advertising in the way that they feel will return most benefit to the people they represent recognising, of course, that the income of the Australian Wine Board is basically by way of levy on the product. [More…]
However, I am quite sure that the comments made in this debate will be taken in the spirit in which they were made, that is, by way of encouragement for greater publicity to get the Australian product on the world market. [More…]
I was given information by departmental officers that the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation interim annual report is expected to be tabled before the end of this session. [More…]
The comment that has been made to me is that the report has been delayed by the unavailability of the Auditor-General’s certificate. [More…]
I accept the criticisms that Senator Martin has made and take the responsibility on my shoulders in respect of the questions that were asked through me by the Estimates Committee and on which we got into some argument over whether they should have been asked. [More…]
In relation to confidential information, if it be considered confidential, I do not accept Senator Georges’ comments. [More…]
If we as a Parliament agree to establish a statutory authority and place in the hands of that statutory authority the operation of a particular business proposition, we should have confidence that the men in charge will have noticeable business acumen. [More…]
When we are of the view that funds are not being expended correctly I think it is quite appropriate, and it is certainly within the hands of honourable senators to do so, to suggest that a department be brought to heel for any looseness that is revealed. [More…]
The Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Chaney) will remember that some concern has been expressed in some Navy circles in New South Wales about a suggestion that a considerable number of men were billeted in huts while it was claimed members of the Women’s Royal Australian Navy Service had far better quarters. [More…]
I know that this is the age of equality and all that, but in this case the men concerned felt that they were being treated in an inferior fashion. [More…]
Can the Minister give me any idea of any naval defence establishments within 10 miles of Sydney where the naval ratings’ billets are inferior to those of members of the WRANS? [More…]
In view of the vote that was taken in this chamber some moments ago on the Stuart Highway I predict that all the proposals that are put forward to South Australian Government members from concerned country people fall on deaf ears because they are not concerned. [More…]
It is all very well for honourable senators opposite to go out into the electorate at large and to say: ‘We are men of free will. [More…]
That vote was conclusive proof that Government senators were not game to vote against the proposition put up by their Minister. [More…]
I have commended him on the way that he handles his portfolio. [More…]
My time is nearly up but I will be allowed another IS minutes to pursue the matter on which I have asked some questions in the Parliament and which have been recorded in Hansard. [More…]
It may be argued that cost savings warrant the adjustment. [More…]
The important point, of course, about this is not only the reaction from the railway organisation and the men employed in the railways but also the response, which has been indicated by Senator McLaren, at the meeting at Tailem Bend from a number of district councils. [More…]
Undoubtedly there were those who were relieved that I was not a member of the Estimates Committee which examined the Department of Post and Telecommunications this year because this is a subject that I have raised consistently. [More…]
In May 1976 an article headed ‘PMG Men Accused of Swindle’ appeared in the Daily Mirror and on 19 May 1976 I asked a question in the Senate about this matter. [More…]
Has the Minister seen an article in yesterday’s Daily Mirror headed ‘PMG Men Accused of Swindle ‘ which contains allegations by a former Telecommunications Commission linesman that telephone subscribers are footing the bill for Australia-wide calls recorded on subscribers’ meters but made by Commission technicians with tapping devices, achieved by the technician either by clipping a portable automatic dialling device onto overhead lines and then attaching markers to cables to remind him when a householder is away, thereby allowing others to misuse the line as well, or by attaching a dialling device to a subscriber’s severed cable in a metal street terminal box? [More…]
It was set up by your Department. [More…]
As you know, it has a majority of Aboriginal men and women, all of whom play a prominent part in directing and advising our small staff. [More…]
The all-Aboriginal Social Club at Finke, Aputula, was very pleased at the news, as there is little possibility for the development of other employment prospects at Finke, and employment is simply not available for most of the men. [More…]
When acquainted with evidence of Pastor Albrecht at obstructive tactics by Mr Jack Cook at Jay Creek, where the Aboriginal Council and people had strongly requested the Aputula house after seeing a demonstration model in Alice Springs, and after calling Mr McNeil to the Settlement with Mr Jim Lester as interpreter, the Finke men decided to write to Mr Calder. [More…]
It is hard also to understand a statement in Mr Evan’s 1970 report in commenting on Mr Reece ‘s claim that the board, on which he as chairman had no vote, only acted on consensus of opinion, he said that this was in direct conflict with the concept of democratic rule which was rule by majority opinion, and further that this proved (?) [More…]
Pastor Paul Albrecht attests this fact, and several Aboriginal men have outlined this to me as the way in which they operate, and not as we try to force them to do with so-called democratic’ procedures. [More…]
He said he had talked with Sergeant Jackson of the Fraud squad, and I understand also to the Internal Audit men who were in town and showing a vital interest in these matters. [More…]
Mr McNeil also had interviews with Mr McDonald, the internal audit men, and Sergeant Jackson, and a member of the Commonwealth Police. [More…]
While we were there we spoke to the men in their work situation in the mill. [More…]
Whether they all agree with some of the philosophical aspects of the arrangement I do not know, but at least they all came away with a far better understanding of the position than they had before. [More…]
One has only to refer to the Hansard of previous debates for that statement to be borne out. [More…]
I do not wish to engage in a debate on matters of ignorance or opinion, but I totally refute the comment by the honourable member for Kalgoorlie (Mr Cotter) that the mine has a life of only two years. [More…]
My colleagues and I established while we were at the mine that there is development and there is stoping for at least five years. [More…]
With rising inescapable fixed overheads and widely fluctuating returns, the men who make the industry possible, unless blessed with alternative sources of income, are doomed to a sub-standard existence or a bankrupt business. [More…]
I recall that in answer to a question in the Senate on 27 September I confirmed that the two Organisasi Papua Merdeka dissidents to whom Senator Missen refers- Jacob Prai, the self-styled de facto president of West Papua, and Otto Ondawame his so-called minister for defence- were arrested by the Papua New Guinean authorities on 27 September and were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment as illegal immigrants. [More…]
As to the second point that Senator Missen makes, he may have noted in the Australian Broadcasting Commission news this afternoon a report that the two men might go to Senegal. [More…]
I am unable to comment on that report. [More…]
I understand that the Papua New Guinean Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have been consulting on this question. [More…]
It is not the practice of the Government to comment on such questions. [More…]
That is all the information I have at the moment. [More…]
A Young Men ‘s Christian Association survey of the Community Youth Support Scheme showed a high level of illiteracy among the people in that scheme- a low attainment in the area of both literacy and numeracy. [More…]
This is the result of years of non-achievement- the syndrome of cumulative deficit that we have talked about in this place before. [More…]
This group faces an almost impossible task in finding employment and very soon these get the people the title of unemployable. [More…]
They are young men with young families who moved to Canberra to work for the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
As I have said, maternity leave is essential to the policy of a government which is committed to equality of opportunity in employment. [More…]
The Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) said in his policy speech last year that the Government was committed to complete equality of opportunity for women. [More…]
Women make up 36 per cent of the work force. [More…]
Two-thirds of those women, or one in five workers, are married. [More…]
I believe that the proposed restriction on maternity leave, and the abolition of paternity leave, will have the effect of forcing some men and women out of the work force, out of permanent employment in the Public Service. [More…]
If women cannot find satisfactory child care or do not feel that they can return to work in the time now allotted, or if they have joined the Public Service too late to qualify for maternity leave, I think that many of them will have to resign from the Public Service. [More…]
This is unacceptable, especially at a time when it is so difficult to gain entry to the Public Service and does deny the policy of equality of opportunity of women that was announced by the Prime Minister. [More…]
A discussion paper was put out by that staff management consultative body to the Royal Commission on Australian Government Administration. [More…]
Part of that discussion paper reads: the Act is seen as providing a disincentive to changes in patterns of parental responsibility between men and women. [More…]
in reply- It does my heart good, as I am sure it does the hearts of every member of the Government good, to hear Senator Walsh speak on primary industry matters. [More…]
The Government must gain great following because of it. [More…]
Senator Walsh, whenever he speaks on primary industry, uses derogatory terms about one of the most excellent men in the Federal Parliament, the Minister for Primary Industry, Mr Sinclair. [More…]
I have said in this place before that those members who attack the performance of Ministers will be required one day to put their own financial affairs before this Parliament. [More…]
But what I am saying is that there is an enormous range of forms of industrial action of the kind in which trade unions and their members have always engaged and will always engage from time to time so long as this is necessary to protect the interests of the working men and women of this country. [More…]
This Government is not following it. [More…]
In my lifetime I have seen men die because of a lack of decent medical attention, which was impossible to get. [More…]
Since 1967 the unions and management have worked together, which goes to show that it is possible. [More…]
If a union such as the Waterside Workers Federation can work with management for the benefit of all people in the industry, it goes without saying that other industries should be looking at what has been done. [More…]
Good relations between management and labour exist on the waterfront today. [More…]
Agreements are made and kept and we have respect for each other. [More…]
For that potential to be realised Australia needed men with a big vision. [More…]
It also needed men who could husband the earth and manage its herds and flocks. [More…]
He sensed that the land and the people who worked it- those who farmed it- were going to play an increasing part in the government and development of this country. [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…]
There is a fundamental difference in the statement last August of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the statement which has now been put down. [More…]
The Opposition wants to know why the Government has taken this course, why it has changed its mind in the last six months, and why it has decided that issues which were important six months ago apparently are no longer relevant in reaching a decision. [More…]
On behalf of the Australian public and those men who apparently will be sent to Namibia, the Opposition calls on the Government to tell the Parliament the precise nature of the request it has received and the conditions which will apply to that force. [More…]
No government should ever take a decision of this nature lightly. [More…]
Last August the Minister made it quite clear in his statement- and I quote the exact extract- when he said: [More…]
But it is fair to say that the Australian Labor Party is opposed in principle to payroll tax, just as it is opposed in principle to the investment allowance. [More…]
The ALP platform seeks the removal of payroll tax and the investment allowance, mainly because they are taxes on activity. [More…]
They seek to encourage the elimination of jobs and they encourage the replacement of men by machines. [More…]
At the same time, the rates of participation in the labour force of women aged 25 to 44 rose very sharply. [More…]
Between 1971 and 1978 the percentage of” women aged 25 to 34 who were in the work force rose from 41.9 per cent to 5 1 per cent. [More…]
For women aged 35 to 44, the participation rate rose from 48.9 per cent to 56.7 per cent in the same period. [More…]
During the same period the participation rate of men aged 25 to 44 fell slightly. [More…]
Some of them, as Senator Peter Baume acknowledged in his rather half-hearted defence of the Government’s position, are aimed at reducing costs and increasing the resources available for legal aid expenditure and otherssupposedly at least- are aimed at increasing the number of people eligible to receive aid. [More…]
Whilst there is certainly some force to that assertion, the difficulty, Mr Deputy President and Senator Baume, is that what might appear simple to Ministers, lawyers or other professional men in this Parliament does not necessarily appear so for ordinary people. [More…]
Part of the problem, and this is rather basic to my argument, is that planning by authoritarian States has been arbitrary and has almost always been imposed downwards without any attempt to consult the community or those business men and women and workers who must inevitably be affected by that planning. [More…]
I believe that it is quite defeatist and wrong and perhaps we are failing in our duty to the public who elected us even to suggest or begin to feel that basic agreement on a future plan should not be laid down with basic guidelines to which every party might agree. [More…]
Our business men work and try as hard as anybody else but they are operating in a society in which they never know from one year to the next what the rules will be. [More…]
We believe that most problems can be solved by a reasonable consensus between intelligent men and women and that if we give that away in this world we have nothing left. [More…]
Alternatively, a rational plan arrived at in consultation with all sections of the community would probably result in people accepting automation as a rational, reasonable first premise of the truism that increasing diversion of repetitive, boring or laborious work to machines should bring a vast new era of happiness and development to all human beings. [More…]
If you can get a machine that can do the work of eight men, right, you sack seven men and make eight times as much money. [More…]
For example, an agreement was made with the previous Attorney-General in relation to the motor traffic law of the Australian Capital Territory. [More…]
However, disputation now arises as to whether that agreement was in the best interests of persons apprehended for committing an offence. [More…]
Now there seems to be a dispute between the lawyers of the Attorney-General’s Department, the lawyer advising the Committee and the eminent legal personalities we have on the Committee. [More…]
Surely, when there is ambiguity to the extent that legal men are not sure what the regulation means, some reason can prevail and we can write a regulation which is understandable and clear to everyone. [More…]
If the Minister and the Department were prepared to amend regulations then that would be unnecessary. [More…]
Such a situation puts the Senate in an invidious position as it either has to support or reject the recommendation of the Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances. [More…]
I do not ask for an adjournment of this matter and I hope that it is not adjourned. [More…]
What a statement of double standards when we refer to what I said earlier about the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. [More…]
What did the Government do then? [More…]
It continued to supply arms and all forms of aid to the Indonesian Government. [More…]
I frankly suggest that any militarist, any general, any battalion commander, any corporal in action who would make a statement such as that would be laughing up his sleeve at the time he was making it. [More…]
Any military commander who goes into battle with one hand tied behind his back, as such statements would indicate, would be a fool and he would be a fool to the men. [More…]
If they were not, even if the best situation prevailed, it is patently obvious to me that other weapons which the Indonesian Government had at that time were released for use in that campaign. [More…]
I believe that is an example of the type of double standards that the Government is applying on this occasion. [More…]
The Government applies one standard when someone else is involved and a totally different standard is applied when it is one of our friends and we perceive some self-interest as happened in East Timor at that time. [More…]
The Minister’s statement continued: [More…]
They say that for the men in the missile silos nuclear war is never more than 20 minutes away. [More…]
A silent implacable killer, the nuclear submarine can remain undetected until the very moment it strikes. [More…]
I mention this because, as a visitor, it seems to me to be a fairly straight-forward kind of operation. [More…]
It is only when a statement such as that which has been made today by the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) is before us that we come to realise that it is not always from occasions such as this, or emergency situations in the Security Council or visits at one time or another of delegations to crisis spots that results emanate. [More…]
We should pay tribute to that considerable group of men and women who, throughout the year and almost around the clock, negotiate on behalf of Australia as well as other nations at a wide range of conferences, seminars and meetings in which the highest standard of intelligence, negotiation and diplomatic effort is called for. [More…]
Therefore, the Minister’s statement today was not only of great importance but certainly of great interest to someone who, Uke myself, has had the opportunity of seeing a great deal of diplomatic effort in progress in recent times. [More…]
The observation is made in a document from the World Bank that, even on the most optimistic assumptions about the future progress of Third World countries and the rate of further expansion of international assistance, by the year 2000 approximately 600 million people are expected to be living in what is described as ‘absolute poverty’. [More…]
Six hundred million men, women and children living in absolute poverty without access to the basic amenities which we take for granted is, of course, a very frightening situation. [More…]
Such widespread poverty, need and distress for peoples of the world has a disastrous effect not only on any development prospects, international aid or assistance programs but also on international relations. [More…]
What the statement does not say- I think this ought to be said- is that the particular submission from the Attorney-General’s office set out in considerable details the results of the correspondence which it had received over a period of some 20 months. [More…]
In fact, 30 of them said that men were being prejudiced under this Act and about 30 people said that women were being prejudiced under this Act. [More…]
Both men received and signed for cheques issued by the Tasmanian Department of Education. [More…]
Since then, the State Government has paid the Trades and Labour Council $10,000 each year to the end of 1977 for trade union education. [More…]
That adds up to $55,000 in State Government grants which have not been properly accounted for, either to the State Premier or to the full Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council. [More…]
Senator Harradine not only received the first cheques paid during his term of office as Secretary of the Tasmanian Trades and Labour Council but also was the person who banked the 1976 cheque after he had entered the Parliament. [More…]
The annual reports of the Australian Trade Union Training Authority for 1975-76 and 1976-77 made no mention of the Tasmanian Government providing any funds. [More…]
I am glad that members on the Government side agree with us on that. [More…]
There are real social, economic and technological problems involved in unemployment. [More…]
Like most people in this Parliament, I am not a Luddite. [More…]
I do not believe, nor should any member of this Parliament, that we can turn our backs on technological change, but we are as Senator Harradine has said, confronted with a very real problem in the nature and rate of technological change as it affects the employment situation of this country. [More…]
It replaced man’s labour; it replaced his misery; it made his work life more tolerable; it increased productivity; and it was responsible for many of the improvements which have taken place in our civilisation over the last couple of hundred years. [More…]
As has been pointed out by many people, the problem that now arises is that it is in these areas that the technological changes are eroding employment prospects. [More…]
They have nowhere to go at the moment and as a community we have not done anything to assist them. [More…]
In fact I suggest that the Government has accelerated this change and this tendency to move people out of these areas by the introduction of technological change and by allowing some $500m each year on investment allowances. [More…]
This has resulted in an increased use of technology and the displacement of men and women in the work force. [More…]
Eighty men will work at the Beauty Point site at the peak of construction and a similar number will be employed off-site. [More…]
65 per cent children ‘s, 25 per cent women’s, 15 percent men’s. [More…]
They were betrayed by the British in the agreements that were made, and they fought again- this time the French again and subsequently the full forces of the United States. [More…]
Perhaps I should amend that, because the United States could not bring to bear the massive armaments it had at its disposal. [More…]
It put into the field half a million men and lost many thousand of them, and it was defeated. [More…]
Overcoming the differences between what we call, in a simplified manner, North and South has become another dimension to peace policy. [More…]
It includes our obligations to our fellow men and, at the same time, a well-understood self-interest. [More…]
However, I think any employment surveys we have had would show that it is not always that the young person and the experienced person are competing for the same employment. [More…]
A person with many years of experience is often able to offer very different employment prospects from a young, untrained, inexperienced person. [More…]
Another factor with regard to the question raised by Senator Chipp would be the desirability of an earlier retirement age. [More…]
I think that is a very big question that ought to be considered, bearing in mind that 60 years is the age at which the pension is payable to women and that 65 years is the age at which the age pension is payable to men. [More…]
In fact, it dealt with the disparity between the ages of men and women at which the age pension is paid. [More…]
The arrangement was for the Commonwealth to collect this tax, to pool it and to distribute the funds to the needy- the families. [More…]
The then honourable member for Richmond, Mr Anthony, stated that few of the taxation measures ever introduced into the House had had a worthier object, that is, the provision of funds to supplement the income of the family man. [More…]
Further, Mr Anthony prophesied that in a few years there would be few young men and women to carry on the work of this nation and to develop Australia. [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, Mr President, to the far-sighted men of 1929 who developed such an appellate scheme. [More…]
I wish also to pay tribute, Mr President, to the many men of calibre who over the years have held appointments to the existing Tribunals. [More…]
Mr President I commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]
They were, however, the finest body of young men ever brought together in modern times. [More…]
For physical beauty and nobility of bearing they surpassed any men I have ever seen; They walked and looked like the kings in old poems and reminded me of the line in Shakespeare: [More…]
In the Medical Journal of Australia of September 1977 it was shown that there had been a continuing downward trend in smoking among men and a continued increase in smoking among women. [More…]
That is an improvement for which the Government can take credit. [More…]
On the other hand, the 1974 survey showed that only 29 per cent of women smoked, but by 1976 that figure had increased to 31 per cent. [More…]
The men are enormous. [More…]
Most of them have arms the size of my legs and a visitor from an alien planet, beholding their horrific, grog-fed bellies, would suppose that on earth it is the men that gestate. [More…]
And the big men wallow. [More…]
They, the men as well as the flies, are blissfully happy. [More…]
Women use analgesics daily twice as often as men. [More…]
The number of women with kidney disease is five to six times more than the number of men. [More…]
Looking first at the topic of the entry to Australia of foreign born wives of Australian nationals, I am prompted to raise this subject because of the problems faced by men in Darwin who have married girls from Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and other such places. [More…]
I will draw my examples from men because they are the ones whose cases I have in front of me. [More…]
I will use that gender in the argument. [More…]
Now, men who go overseas seeking foreign born wives usually do it in two ways. [More…]
The first group- that is, those who have a courtship by mail and then go overseas and marry- do not have a great deal of difficulty if they make the arrangements before they go. [More…]
I stress this: Arrangements must be made beforehand. [More…]
I ask simply of the Government, or the Department in this case, that some publicity be given to the fact that there are formalities that must be observed. [More…]
There would be some challenge to the proposition that the comments made in that statement represented the justification, the rationalisation, the reason for the action taken by the Northern Territory Government. [More…]
I call on the Federal Government to press its rights, to carry out the recommendations of the joint committee which put down its report last year and to take a stance on this issue to protect the rights of the Aboriginal people. [More…]
The Northern Territory Government claims that it is looking to the future. [More…]
I am not knocking the Northern Territory Government as I am so often accused of doing. [More…]
The Government has a clear responsibility in this matter, given to it by the 1967 referendum and the passage of the land rights legislation in this Parliament. [More…]
If I can paraphrase the line that was used so often by people who learnt typing years ago, now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the Aborigines and of justice. [More…]
Among those commissioners was Mr Dyason, one of the head men of the ANR. [More…]
Unfortunately it is a sitting night of the Parliament and of course the Minister will be unable to attend because he will be needed here. [More…]
So, instead of the railway services going forward and progressing, we find that they are going backwards under this Government. [More…]
I know that he too is concerned to see that conditions for railway men which he helped to build up over the years when he was a union organiser are now going to be taken away. [More…]
These railway men will either have to leave the district or find other jobs. [More…]
He had to listen to these men, and he gave them a good hearing. [More…]
At the moment they face the not very bright prospect of having to crowd into Adelaide because there will be no work for them in the country. [More…]
The signs ‘men’ and ‘ladies’ are put up on our public conveniences, but a sign is not put up or a law does not say that in the case of an emergency, or whatever it might be, a person may enter the public convenience of another sex. [More…]
Managers have criticised young Aboriginal men and women for their state of dress. [More…]
These managers have told the Aboriginal men and women that they could not go swimming unless they were covered in something from neck to knee. [More…]
I would like the Commonwealth Government to have a look at what is happening to some of the Commonwealth funds in Queensland. [More…]
If a female receives a term of imprisonment of more than 28 days or some short term which does not involve her going to the lock-up she is sent to Boggo Road gaol in Brisbane. [More…]
In the same way now in our very enlightened State, if a lady is suffering from psychiatric troubles, unless they are of a temporary nature, she must go to one of the psychiatric hospitals in the south of the State, because Mossman Hall, the only psychiatric establishment in north Queensland, caters only for men. [More…]
Children, women and blacks are totally discriminated against in Queensland and there are special laws to discriminate against them all. [More…]
On the night she arrived she was told by the manager of the station that her bed was in the single men’s quarters. [More…]
If time permitted I could mention another hundred cases. [More…]
I am not saying the police force is bad, but 10 per cent of policemen are bigger crooks than the people who are in gaol. [More…]
The other 90 per cent are made up of a mixture of people trying to do the right thing, and they are disgraced by these people who carry out this son of brutality against their fellow men. [More…]
I remind the Senate of the significance both to human rights within the Soviet Union and to world peace and prosperity of this particular issue and these particular men. [More…]
Because of the terms of the motion I am limiting my comments to the Soviet Helsinki group members and not dealing with groups in other Eastern European countries. [More…]
Those men are still languishing in Soviet prisons. [More…]
In an earlier answer the Government ‘s deep concern at the recent trial and harsh sentence imposed on Dr Orlov was made clear. [More…]
The Government has also deplored the trials and sentencing of other courageous men and women associated with the human rights movement in the Soviet Union. [More…]
The issue is this: What will be done by the Australian Government in practical terms? [More…]
Could I suggest that we take up the statement made by the Prime Minister on 20 July 1978 when, after discussing the Orlov trial, he noted that Australia commenced a three-year term on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights at the beginning of this year. [More…]
Unless something like this is done, unless the free world stands up against the blatant breach of agreements and fundamental human rights, then not only will these men be forgotten, but also we will be digging our own graves. [More…]
Most of the divisions under these five top men are headed by first assistant secretaries. [More…]
The 1975 re-organisation of five government departments into one department has resulted astonishingly in an increase in the number of top public servants. [More…]
The Defence Department now has a total of 1 18 First and Second Division public servants- by far the most of any department in the whole Public Service. [More…]
There are 31,377 public servants in the Defence Department. [More…]
I do not want to give the impression that all these public servants are wastefully employed or that they could properly be replaced by servicemen. [More…]
On the contrary, the role of public servants is to support the Defence Force by releasing trained professional servicemen for roles which they can best perform. [More…]
One of the requirements of six or seven of the members serving on that committee was that they be specialists in national fitness. [More…]
We have men of rare skills and experience in the medical sports associations of Australia. [More…]
Never before has Australia been so much in hock as it is today when the balance of payments has us in such a perilous state that we have borrowed $2,000m in the last two years whereas in the five years of the Whitlam Government our indebtedness to overseas ownership was only $175m. [More…]
How did we overhaul our recreational requirements in Australia? [More…]
The Whitlam Labor Government did it, firstly, by recognising the important part being played by voluntary organisations in providing recreational outlets for the Australian people; secondly, by providing capital grants for the construction of sporting community recreation and cultural facilities; thirdly, by assisting Australian sports men and women; fourthly, by stimulating an awareness of the benefits of individual fitness. [More…]
Why should a government allow people in the private sector to take the type of decision which can make or break a sporting partner? [More…]
Imagine the gloom that would descend today upon such an organisation that became the victim of a group of men sitting in some high place who said that they were going to withdraw their support for a team because they did not like the coach or the team itself, or because they believed it had no chance of winning the competition. [More…]
He did so when he was performing his duty as part of the police force, which was supervising a small rally of a group of women who were celebrating International Women’s Day. [More…]
As happens in Queensland from time to time, the police overreacted to the situation and, possibly stimulated by the peculiar attitude of the Special Branch in that State, took action against this small group of men and women who, in any other State, would not have been considered to be breaking the law. [More…]
Newspaper men ran to their cars. [More…]
I took time to put my seat belt on because I was in full view of a group of policemen, one of whom was continuing to transmit. [More…]
Recently in Melbourne I attended a meeting organised for the purpose of bringing together some of these people in an attempt to bring justice to people affected by the Government’s neglect. [More…]
They were men and women from the construction industry, the communications industry, munitions factories and hospitals and Commonwealth car drivers. [More…]
They came from a lot of government departments and instrumentalities. [More…]
All felt they had been let down by the Government. [More…]
All were suffering from the Government’s failure to increase these payments. [More…]
They had a lot to say about the failure to update the legislation and about the general conduct of the Government in treating compensation cases. [More…]
They pointed out, and I point out, that the maximum payment is $80 a week and is taxed. [More…]
These people have no pensioner health entitlements and no fringe benefits. [More…]
Some departments failed to send the weekly cheques at Christmas, at the New Year and at Easter. [More…]
The men had been told when they began work at 6 a.m. on January 28 that they would be given notice before the fields were sprayed, according to a letter written by one of the workers. [More…]
These charges are being made against people who, by and large, with the exception of a few professional men, are migrants to this country; who, I repeat, do not understand our system in general, do not understand our language well and do not understand our legal system. [More…]
What sort of an impression do they get when they hear comments like this from the stipendiary magistrate who is hearing their case? [More…]
Here in the Senate we deal with legislation and, with the greatest respect to the AttorneyGeneral, it is not good enough to say as he has said in many debates in this place that AttorneysGeneral and Directors-General of ASIO are reasonable men and we need not worry. [More…]
The reasonable man in British common law is the man on the Clapham bus and he does not often get to be the Director-General of ASIO or the Attorney-General in the Australian Government. [More…]
A future incumbent of the position of Director-General might believe, as did the former South Australian police commissioner 18 months ago, that his primary loyalty was to the security agency, or even to the British or American intelligence network, rather than to the government of the day. [More…]
The first five of the matters to which we draw attention in our amendment all amount to a series of accountability measures which we believe should be incorporated in the Bill. [More…]
The present Bill proceeds on the assumption that all we have to do is swallow our reservations and doubts and just have complete confidence in the personal good faith and integrity of two men- the Director-General of ASIO and the Attorney-General. [More…]
The Bill makes no provision for any kind of accountability of, the reporting to or the involvement of any other person or body, be it the Parliament, the Leader of the Opposition on any scale, the AuditorGeneral, the judiciary or whoever else. [More…]
We look to men such as Dr Cairns who was an Acting Prime Minister during his period of office. [More…]
Both men were fired by the then Prime Minister. [More…]
Dr Cairns goes down in history as the only Treasurer- probably in all time- who never presented a Budget to the Parliament. [More…]
This was brought about possibly by some indiscretions but particularly by the arrogance and dictatorial attitude of the then Leader of the Labor Party Government at that time. [More…]
He said that Justice Toohey will grant land to the Aboriginal people only when white men do not want it or show little interest in it. [More…]
It does not do the honourable senator credit to make such remarks in the Senate under parliamentary privilege. [More…]
I just make that comment on the honourable senator’s speech. [More…]
I am criticising the Government because the whole question of defence policy is a mess. [More…]
When this is examined carefully by the media, by people who have tried to make themselves expert in these areas, it is seen that we are placing our naval men in a most unpleasant, unfortunate situation. [More…]
But again, I worry about our naval men, the people who man our ships. [More…]
Looking to the future I see with great fear the development of a situation such as occurred in Darwin after Japan came into the war. [More…]
At that time our servicemen will be expected to go out to die in a navy of small ships armed with pop guns, just as the men who flew at Darwin were expected to fly biplanes against Zeros. [More…]
It is a fact that if there were an emergency a Government would feel compelled to say: ‘This is all we have got. [More…]
That is the sort of situation that the Government is legislating for unless it steps in now and insists that some of these ships be re-equipped. [More…]
Since the film opened on February 9 three young men have been killed in Warrior-inspired fights and other brawls have broken out at movie houses in several cities. [More…]
These are boys who rest easy in the present and thus seek out programs which show them likely future social roles, programs which show successful young men and things they might do in the future. [More…]
In modern industrial societies where individuals necessarily lead fragmented and discontinuous lives we need information about our fellow men as much as we need water. [More…]
I am very concerned about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders (Queensland Discriminatory Laws) Act which was a law that I as the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs introduced to stop discrimination against Aboriginals on settlements. [More…]
Under that legislation it was an offence to pay an Aboriginal working on a settlement less than he would have received working off the settlement in the same occupation. [More…]
At Yarragah it was found that despite this legislation men working on roads went on strike to get more than the settlement wage, that is, to get a decent wage for the work they were doing. [More…]
I have described before the efforts I have made in taking action under federal jurisdiction for the recovery of wages to which obviously these workers were entitled under the law of this Parliament. [More…]
I read a report in the National Times which said that such action had been taken and that the court had dismissed the charge because the Commonwealth had no power to impose laws upon settlements under State Government control. [More…]
On Palm Island, and in other areas the names of which are not particularly well known to meYarrabah for example- there has been the same sort of manipulation, and attitudes are adopted by the so-called Queensland Government that make a mockery of any sort of democratic processes and of any sort of protection of the rights of the people of the black communities in the 1 7 or 1 8 reserves that go to make up the areas of our particular responsibilities. [More…]
Is it not about time that those men and women of goodwill in the Government parties asserted themselves, if not successfully in the party room, for God ‘s sake then in this place and said to the Australian Government that the Senate is exercising some of its powers and responsibility as a States’ House which says what it is concerned about is people and not institutions? [More…]
-Has the Leader of the Government in the Senate noted the statements circulated by some of his ministerial colleagues, particularly the Treasurer’s threat to withhold funds from New South Wales, concerning the decision of the New South Wales Government to offer a 37^-hour working week to electricity workers in New South Wales in return for increased productivity? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the decision of the New South Wales Government was made to overcome blackouts during the forthcoming winter and to facilitate the use of maintenance men on shift work, thus enabling the Electricity Commission of New South Wales to utilise the less costly of the power stations which feed into the grid? [More…]
Will the Minister in his dual role as Leader of the Government in the Senate and as a senator for New South Wales insist on protecting and preserving the sovereign rights of the Government of that State, particularly its right to make its own decisions, and the fiscal rights and entitlements of the people of New South Wales? [More…]
Will he lodge objection to the arrogant, capricious, uninformed and wanton statements of his ministerial colleagues? [More…]
Will the Government give consideration to varying unemployment benefit to meet the circumstances of, firstly, retrenched employees, secondly, family men genuinely seeking work and, thirdly, single folk to take account of their domestic living costs? [More…]
I believe it is perfectly proper that somebody disloyal to his whole Government in the way in which these two men were, should be removed from the party. [More…]
Before the Labor Party criticises any government it should be inward looking to see whether its own policies are likely to bring Australia into disrepute. [More…]
The Labor Party would be well favoured if it had a man of the quality of the Premier of Victoria and I suggest that it look very hard not only at its own policies but also at the type of men who lead it throughout Australia. [More…]
I believe that we should query these matters now in this Parliament. [More…]
But at the same time we are a government of laws and not a government of men, as has been said on many occasions by philosophers and writers. [More…]
The inference I draw from those paragraphs is not only that the organisation was incompetent but also that it was quite obvious that those in charge of it had to have their arms twisted up their backs before they would give Mr Justice Hope the information he sought under his charter- a charter from the democratically elected government of the day. [More…]
Such was the power, the feeling and the attitude that was adopted by the hierarchy of ASIO during the early part of that inquiry that they presented themselves to be a law unto themselves, a body of men who were not only out of touch with someone who was given a charter to investigate them but also completely out of touch with what they were purported to be in the first instance and who set themselves above every institution in this country. [More…]
I rise largely to substantiate what was espoused by the Opposition spokesman at the commencement of this debate and restated by my colleague Senator Wheeldon. [More…]
On the other hand, and this is the important issue, the other people were part of the British establishment, former naval men who thought that Hitler was a good bloke, and Morrison put them in too. [More…]
Only last year two unfortunate men were killed when a bomb exploded outside the Sydney Hilton Hotel at around dawn. [More…]
This sounds like a melodramatic statement. [More…]
But one only has to look at the situation in terms of terrorism, subversive action or drugs to see the truth of that statement. [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 McMillan, Mr Barry Simon. [More…]
The Authority will be a body corporate and in carrying out its task will have access to the skills and expertise of officers of the National Capital Development Commission, other Commonwealth bodies and persons outside the Commonwealth service. [More…]
Provision is being made for the Authority to engage specialist consultant services to supplement its resources as necessary. [More…]
In proposing that amendment the Labor movement is saying that it accepts the concept of a security system within the internal operation of Australia but that until such time as the matters that are suggested in our amendment become embodied in the legislation and become part and parcel of the charter by which the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation conducts its affairs any government, particularly this Government, will find it hard to sell the concept of an Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to the ordinary man and woman in the Australian community- men and women who believe that they have a right to say what they want to say, to do what they want to do and to think what they want to think without necessarily being subjected to the spying and Sprying that go on in what is or might become a police state. [More…]
Just because someone says something against the government of the day, it should not be taken by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to be a subversive utterance against the security of the state. [More…]
I think that if the political records of this country are perused it will be seen that we had to get only about 200 votes over about four seats throughout the length and breadth of Australia and a Labor government would have been elected. [More…]
Having been the campaign director for the Labor Leader at the time in the electorate of Barton, I am convinced that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation was used then as a political arm of the Government of the day. [More…]
I have no doubt that that sort of activity continued throughout the 1950s and into the 1960s and was used by the conservative governments of the day for spying and prying, particularly into the affairs of young men and young women who were opposed to Australia ‘s involvement in the war in Vietnam. [More…]
I ask the Senate to note that the charge is that the men worked while the union was in dispute. [More…]
The union ‘s letters of 6 February to the three men involved stated that at a hearing set down to commence at 7.30 p.m. on 2 1 February 1 979 at Perth Trades Hall all parties would be heard and an opportunity given to those charged to put their cases. [More…]
The union committee of management would then decide on their guilt or otherwise. [More…]
The copy of the charge which I have mentioned, dated 6 November 1978, had been signed by four individuals, but the addresses of those laying the charge were not given. [More…]
Whilst Senator Rocher may be excused for displaying his lack of capabilities early in his time in this Parliament, there has never before been anything so lamentable as the complete lack of capability he showed tonight in speaking on the trade union movement. [More…]
We have been given information tonight that four men were called up on charges. [More…]
Two of those men accepted the invitation to defend themselves. [More…]
Some resentment is expressed because they were called ‘defendants’. [More…]
After a fair trial, and in accordance with the rules, the Committee of Management, which had been appointed by the members- the four men concerned had voted on the membership of that Committee- decided in its wisdom to impose a penalty upon the defendants. [More…]
For an incompetent politician to victimise these heroic people whom he will not even name in the Parliament shows a lack of knowledge of the trade union movement. [More…]
Why did not Senator Rocher mention them? [More…]
These men are disappointed about the fine, but they want to pimp on their mates. [More…]
Are these the people whom honourable senators on the Government side defend in this chamber? [More…]
Is this a matter of which the trade union movement should be ashamed? [More…]
Of course, these men will be expelled if they do not pay their fines. [More…]
The Australian Bureau of Statistics releases figures which estimate the number of unemployed males and the Department of Social Security releases figures which, of course, show the number of males who receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
A survey conducted by the Bureau of Statistics can contain sampling errors and as a result the Bureau’s figures cannot necessarily be sustained as an accurate indication of those who actually receive unemployment benefit. [More…]
By contrast, only those who received enough income to reduce their unemployment benefit to zero are excluded from the unemployment benefit figures. [More…]
In other words, those who receive part unemployment benefit would be included differently in a survey conducted by the Bureau of Statistics. [More…]
Many married unemployed men would be ineligible for unemployment benefit because of their wives ‘ incomes. [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…]
What of officer retention rates under those circumstances- not to mention the quality of the professional advice available to governments? [More…]
It is always to be remembered that the task of defence administration under peacetime standards of financial efficiency and scrutiny, properly demanded by this Parliament and by law, calls on experience and professionalism in the Public Service as well as the Services. [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 1 8 per cent for capital equipment and facilities, including 1 4 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…]
It was necessary for five men to lose their lives because of the security in Italy at that time, when at all times the target was only one person. [More…]
Under the Labor Government’s Defence Force Projects Act, no one could go onto defence projects without permission and a security clearance. [More…]
The Government decided to build the township and the bombing range at Woomera, South Australia. [More…]
I received correspondence daily about the poor conditions- the poor food, the lack of sanitation- and the long hours the men were working for nothing more than the city wage plus keep. [More…]
We went before Commissioner Portus with the application for the purpose of arbitrating the men’s claim about the conditions at Woomera. [More…]
This was a case before arbitration when the main advocates for the men on the job were debarred by the security organisation from going to the site for an inspection to decide a site allowance. [More…]
Repeated requests by the two men for contact with Australian . [More…]
Many thousands of Australians and men, women and children throughout the world have long felt deep concern about the activities of whalers. [More…]
A meeting ground of minds across species would indeed be a remarkable event- in some ways more profound than putting men on the moon. [More…]
To destroy any forms interrupts nature ‘s balance to the eventual detriment of man. [More…]
As I said, I believe that there is a very broad agreement about the fundamentals of this legislation and, in particular, the need for this Organisation. [More…]
I take the point that we cannot simply rely on the man who is in charge of the Organisation or on the men who are running it. [More…]
That is why the appointment of the Director-General is a matter of such vital importance and again one on which there will be consultation with the Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
He made several comments about individuals to which I take objection. [More…]
He criticised men like Sir Philip Baxter and Sir Ernest Titterton. [More…]
I do not doubt that those gentlemen took exception to what Senator Keeffe said in earlier years. [More…]
How many men and women are being trained as pilots by the Royal Australian Air Force. [More…]
There were 1 12 naval men and 17 civilians on board. [More…]
Because the Minister for Science and the Environment is not terribly well informed on nuclear matters let me just tell him that since the USS Thresher incident, and up to October 1976- because that is the last date that I have- there were a total of 32 accidents involving nuclear submarines. [More…]
They are in a position to push excessive wage demands, but unfortunately nowadays the economy is so delicately balanced that the result is further and higher unemployment. [More…]
The small businessmen who are unable to pay the wages disappear; the larger business enterprises continue but with machines replacing men. [More…]
In such situations unemployment continues to rise. [More…]
Unfortunately, to counter this we usually find that most governments tend to increase the monetary supply to try to offset some of the unemployment situations, because governments must meet the electorate ‘s expectations about the unacceptably high unemployment levels; and this is one way that it may be achieved. [More…]
That sounds to me like an absolute statement. [More…]
On the question of interest rates, Mr Fraser could be said to be the last of the school men, that is, the mediaeval moralists who believed that interest rates were immoral, were evil, and were usury, and tried to ban them. [More…]
Mr Fraser appears to believe that interest rates can be fixed by government fiat at any desired level without affecting any other important economic variable. [More…]
Who am I to challenge a legal opinion of those three men? [More…]
I say very strongly here tonight that I was very disappointed indeed with a former Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in a former Labor Government of this country. [More…]
One of the leading Aborigines in this country, one of theleading men of this country, Charles Perkins, said in no uncertain terms that Senator Cavanagh, during his regime as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, was nothing but a disaster. [More…]
There was a time when he and I played tennis at lunch time three days a week while the Parliament was in session. [More…]
It is ironical- I think that he would want me to say this today- that during the many times we were away together or had a drink or a cup of tea together, we both agreed very vigorously on one point: The insane way in which men and women are treated in this Parliament in regard to the hours of sitting. [More…]
They are imprisoned virtually from 9 a.m. to 1 1 p.m. on the three days that Parliament meets. [More…]
Australia has produced few men who have made a greater contribution to sport than the late Frank Stewart. [More…]
It is fair to say that Australia has produced few men who have made a greater contribution to sport and to the sporting life of Australia than did Frank Stewart. [More…]
As Mr Bill Young, the Chairman of the New South Wales Olympic Council, has said, Mr Stewart’s appointment in 1972 as the Minister responsible for sport was one of the greatest boons to sport in this country. [More…]
Senator DURACK (Western AustraliaAttorneyGeneral) It was my privilege to know well and to work closely with Sir David Brand for many years, both in the State Parliament for a period and, particularly during his latter period as Premier, in the Liberal Party organisation in Western Australia. [More…]
Sir David Brand was a natural leader of men. [More…]
He showed it in the Parliament and in the Government, and, of course, he finally showed it as the leader of the people of Western Australia who obviously felt, regardless of their political allegiances, a great affection for him and loyalty to him. [More…]
He was the commissioner-general of the American bicentennial arrangements and did an excellent job for Australia in the time that he occupied that position. [More…]
They are all men with expert experience and with entrepreneurial experience. [More…]
They are all men who could contribute substantially to the functioning administration of such an organisation. [More…]
I commend the Government for putting the administrative arrangements into the hands of an authority to be know as the Australian Bicentennial Authority. [More…]
Had the Government made that arrangement with the Silver Jubilee organisation it would not have got itself into the trouble that it did. [More…]
I trust that the 1 7 members of the joint organisation to be appointed will represent a wide cross-section of the Australian community to ensure the success of the bicentennial arrangements. [More…]
I note that it is intended that four of those members will be members of this Parliament. [More…]
Good broadcasting depends on talent- the talents of the men and women who make the programmes and for which there is no substitute. [More…]
Unfortunately, the target of the IRB operation- the Australian Workers Union in Tasmania- proved to be too well known to the Tasmanian public for its integrity, its fairmindedness and its genuine concern that there be employment in the orcharding industry not only this year but also in years to come, and too well known for the respect that it had obtained on both sides of the industry, to be a target that would fall to this operation mounted by the IRB. [More…]
At the moment Bob MacLaughlin, the southern organiser of the AWU, and John Butler, the State Secretary, have established credibility as men of their word. [More…]
-Is the Minister for Social Security aware that three field officers who were retrenched from the Aboriginal Legal Service in Dubbo on 9 February this year and who were able to produce a letter from the DirectorGeneral of Social Services confirming that retrenchment have been refused unemployment benefit in spite of an appeal tribunal recommendation in their favour? [More…]
Will the Minister have these cases reconsidered urgently as the men have been given no reasons in writing for the refusal and have had no payment since 9 February? [More…]
If these allegations are true will the Minister endeavour to see that her Department behaves in a more humane way in this area? [More…]
We would urge any future government to give serious consideration to consulting the Opposition when such appointments are made. [More…]
When it has the opportunity to appoint men from judicial positions and when it can appoint people who can be regarded as being impartial and not lacking in political judgment, it should do so. [More…]
It should take the steps that will avoid the conclusion to which we have come on this occasion, that the Government has not made the sort of appointments which satisfy the members of the Labor Party that we are going to get a fair redistribution in Western Australia. [More…]
If there is no complaint about, or lack of confidence in, the integrity of these men, we are having a debate which is utterly fictitious. [More…]
As Barbara Ward, the distinguished English economist has written: ‘The great Hebrew prophets- from Isiah to Karl Marx- have called on men ‘to undo the thongs of the yoke to let the enslaved go free . [More…]
Well, I know that, but even men on oath have told distorted versions at times. [More…]
In recounting the procedure of today I must say that the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Carrick) was determined to gag everything. [More…]
But Senator Chipp was under the impression that there was an agreement and that he would be permitted to proceed to the second reading of his Bill. [More…]
I have had no opportunity to check the accuracy of the figures that were cited by Senator Grimes, but it is a fact that each year the funds appropriated for this program that was established to assist chronically homeless men and women have not been spent. [More…]
The underexpenditure has occurred because projects have not commenced when anticipated, due to inherent delays in lead-up work. [More…]
Additionally, I think it is important to note that very often there are community objections to local government approvals for homeless persons hostels. [More…]
Women are no different from men in that regard. [More…]
The Australian Workers Union, recognising these difficulties some years ago when it was an affiliate of the TTLC approached the TTLC to obtain a fruit industry agreement. [More…]
Both of these men did a marvellous job. [More…]
The agreement we reached did a number of things to ensure the free flow of fruit during the fruit season. [More…]
The Company Men (7 eps. [More…]
1 ) How many men and women have been employed as trainee technicians in the Air Force, the Army and the Navy in each year since 1975. [More…]
More than that it reflected in his life the love, concern and compassion which he showed for his fellow men. [More…]
It is also the case that statements by Cabinet Ministers and senior Ministers in the Government to the effect that we are spending too much on social security, to the effect that the unemployed are getting too much money, to the effect that the unemployed are not genuinely without employment- statements of the kind quoted by my colleague, Senator Grimes, by the Minister for Finance (Mr Eric Robinson), the Minister for Employment and Youth Affairs (Mr Viner) and particularly by the Minister for Industry and Commerce (Mr Lynch)- do affect the public. [More…]
These men do have status as Cabinet Ministers and what they say publicly is taken by the public- rightly so, I believe- as an indication of what this Government intends to do. [More…]
It may not be the intention of Senator Guilfoyle to reduce unemployment benefits or to reduce social welfare payments, but the decisions in these matters are made collectively by Cabinet and the men making these statements are influential members of the Cabinet. [More…]
I believe that it is not good enough for the public for Senator Guilfoyle to say that the statements made by Mr Robinson, [More…]
It is interesting to note that the three men are men of goodwill. [More…]
I have always had a high admiration of the Minister for Productivity, Mr Ian Macphee, and although I concede the toughness and sometimes ruthlessness of Mr Polites, I acknowledge him to be an efficient person and a person who is susceptible to argument and logic. [More…]
The classic lesson we can learn from this paper is that worker participation- not the kind of worker participation that terrified the unions when such a suggestion was put under another guise in previous years, but genuine worker participation, as Senator Button quite aptly described it- can create an environment for future discussion, for future consultation and for future consensus. [More…]
These three men of good-will at least have opened the door for discussion on this question. [More…]
What the paper does do is open up a vision that if these three men of different political persuasions can get together and at least agree on a formula, what sort of exciting possibilities does it open up in the future. [More…]
Why cannot we find men of goodwill to sit down across the table, not in the glare of publicity where people grandstand but in secretrepresentatives of the Government, of the trade unions and of the employers- to try to resolve these problems by compromise and consensus? [More…]
The national president of my party is the chairman of a company which was the forerunner in worker participation, Siddons Industries Ltd. Not only has that company introduced a cellular structure with a virtual absence of foremen or overseers but it has introduced a scheme of flextime and all sorts of things. [More…]
I have spoken to most of the men in that company. [More…]
By agreement between management and labour, men are working a four day week. [More…]
Management is happy, the proprietorship is happy and the trade unions are happy. [More…]
This has been done by consensus, by getting around the table and compromising as was done by Ian Macphee, Bob Hawke and Ian Polites- three men of goodwill. [More…]
I want to register in the Senate our approbation- it is almost excitement- that this social experiment, and that is what it is, has succeeded. [More…]
Without any equivocation, I commend the Minister for Productivity and the Government on this action. [More…]
Having looked at the whole situation, 1 believe that in this whole area the Government holds all the aces. [More…]
If the Minister has the idea of appointing one of the top men of the ACTU presidium- again I have endorsement from Senator Cavanagh- I would remind him that they are busy men and cannot always specialise or give the time that is needed. [More…]
I believe the more we broaden this tribunal with a composition of nine men or women the more we will have an effective tribunal. [More…]
The Government and Opposition parties have traditionally placed a great deal of faith in the simple fact that people are judges. [More…]
They believe that judges will ensure that they bring to whatever task they undertake an extraordinary amount of wisdom, sensitivity and perspicacity, simply because at some stage some Government appointed them to be a judge. [More…]
I am concerned that a person who has been a judge, who presumably has retired, perhaps as a result of a constitutional amendment relating to age, and who no longer holds the office of a judge shall now be eligible to be appointed to the position of a presidential member. [More…]
It seems to me that just as there are views in the community that change with the nature of society and that there are individuals in the community who are more or less receptive to changing attitudes, so there are judges, eminent men and women as they may be, who, at the age of 65 years and over, are likely to be less sensitive to what the community regards, in a number of matters, as politically subversive or political undesirable and are therefore likely to attract an adverse security assessment- a view that might not be shared by a person appointed to the bench at a considerably younger age. [More…]
The amendment moved by the Opposition simply provides that no proceedings for an offence shall be taken except with the consent of the Attorney-General who has to be satisfied about two things. [More…]
We have heard that they are men of wisdom and discretion in these matters. [More…]
We say that the situation is adequately covered by the amendment which the Opposition has moved. [More…]
In the last few weeks it has been found that men who have been working as machine operators and using machine oil and whose overalls and clothing have been impregnated with the oil have contracted cancer of the scrotum. [More…]
A television station that should be accepting its responsibilities and putting both sides of the argument saw fit to give one side and to ignore some of the most responsible men in Australia who could have put a counter argument not so much about whether Lucas Heights is good, bad or indifferent, but rather about how atomic energy affects the community generally. [More…]
The accusation has been made that the women who run or use the refuges are lesbians. [More…]
These refuges are for women. [More…]
They are run by women because women in trouble or despair find other women more understanding and more supportive of them. [More…]
Because they are all women in those houses does not mean that they are lesbians. [More…]
Because, a group consists of all women, it does not mean that those women are in any way sexually different from the ordinary women in the community. [More…]
If one is to say that groups of all women contain lesbians, one would have to say that groups of all men contain homosexuals. [More…]
There are no women sitting in the House of Representatives but I do not believe that the men in that House are homosexuals because of that. [More…]
It is as absurd to say that they are homosexuals as it is to say that because groups of women are living in houses together those women are lesbians. [More…]
It is unfair to women in States such as Queensland and Western Australia that they do not have at least the resources that States such as Victoria and South Australia have. [More…]
For instance, in Victoria the refuges are used by the police to dump women but the Police Department does not assist with the funding of the refuges and it does not assist with keeping the refuges safe. [More…]
Some funding is used to provide protective doors, fences, locks and windows because the police will not protect the refuges from men who want to fight and bash their way in to get back what they see as their property- their wives and children who are inside. [More…]
It has been reported that entire villages were left without men aged between 20 and 50 years as a result of the reprisals in the Acholi and Lango regions and against the people in the north of Uganda. [More…]
It has been reported that at one stage at least 200 men from that region were being killed each day by the Amin State Research Bureau and its various agents and supporters. [More…]
It is a unit of British origin of about 650 men, designed for limited operations. [More…]
They have four commandoes and a commando logistic unit, each with 650 men; a light artillery regiment of 400 men which provides a battery for each commando; the equivalent of a divisional headquarters; and minor units, such as raiding forces numbering 140 men and permanent ship’s detachments numbering 300 men. [More…]
All of this is provided from a total Royal Marines strength of 8,300 men. [More…]
But at the moment there would be no justification for providing, against a hypothetical requirement, more than an Army Reserve cadre. [More…]
The Regular Army contribution would be to have equipment and skills that could not otherwise be provided in the time scale. [More…]
We should look realistically at the value of a local token unit and consider the alternative, which I mentioned before, of seconding key men to fully operational allied units. [More…]
At the moment the Regular Army is just under 32,000 strong. [More…]
This strength is largely based on a document prepared some years ago, called the FarrandsHassett report. [More…]
This actually recommended an Army strength of 38,000, but anguished complaints by the other Chiefs of Staff and subsequent government decisions have brought it down to its present strength. [More…]
The report is a very odd document. [More…]
It is not based on any strategic requirement. [More…]
I am sure the Chiefs of Staff of the Navy and the Air Force would welcome such a question from the Government about their services. [More…]
According to a report of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence, we can expect only one immediately available infantry battalion out of a total strength of 32,000 men. [More…]
She has the men assisting her who are in a position to say: ‘We will insist upon it’. [More…]
Yes, four Labor men are present. [More…]
After all, we are discussing fundamentally whether the Queensland Government’s attitude that it is perfectly all right to drill for oil on the Great Barrier Reef region is justified and whether the Queensland Government should be allowed jurisdiction. [More…]
I believe that, having made those points, I have said enough to question seriously the credibility of those people, including those people in the Queensland Government, who have said: ‘We we can drill the reef area and cause no damage to the reef itself. [More…]
In a way, I can understand the attitude of foreign oil men who, after all, are interested in running their businesses. [More…]
Another question concerns the method of treatment and machinery involved. [More…]
A further question relates to the number of men to be employed on the surface and underground, and the services required- water and electricity. [More…]
Numberof men to be employed- surface: underground: [More…]
Undoubtedly many young men would benefit from the secretarial type of courses which are offered. [More…]
The point I make is simply that the majority of the people enrolled at those colleges at the moment and the majority of the people who as a result will be attracting government support to the non-government business colleges are female. [More…]
That is the sort of environment in which they live. [More…]
It seems incredible to me that in an age when we can put men on the moon, when we can do extraordinarily difficult things, we cannot find a means of communication for these children, for these people, for these adults. [More…]
Until now, the backroom nature of the involvement of the organisers has made investigation, and subsequent 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…]
I am sure that honourable senators will appreciate that the lives of these men are always at risk. [More…]
So, this Government has set out to see that ordinary men and women have less wages, less food, less education, less health and, in the long run, of course, less security. [More…]
When the mini-Budget containing the Income Tax (Rates and Assessment) Amendment Bill was presented, the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the Treasurer admitted that they could give no assurance that it would have any improving effect on inflation; in fact, they admitted that there were indications that the inflation rate would increase. [More…]
The Treasurer, when he introduced the Bill, admitted that it would have no effect on unemployment and that, in all probability, the level of unemployment would be higher next February than it was this February. [More…]
It is now predicted that the level of unemployment will be 550,000 in February next year. [More…]
I do not believe that men and women are governed by inexorable events beyond their control. [More…]
When political leaders say the present situation cannot be helped, it is part of a world situation, they arc expressing the futility of their own leadership when, if they were men of real stature, they would be saying ‘we can overcome’. [More…]
The third point that I think needs to be looked at very carefully is the need to retain men of the calibre of Professor Ovington as Director. [More…]
But I make the point that whilst Professor Ovington has a lot of authorityand this amending Act gives him more authority- he needs commensurate responsibility in the full sense of the word. [More…]
I call for a strong position to be taken by the Government in relation with the Northern Territory Government. [More…]
At Milingimbi the two men who were in charge of the voting place were both yolngu from that area. [More…]
I simply ask members of the Senate to consider the fact that two men with no axe to grind, both men of considerable standing, have come to quite different conclusions on what is considered appropriate action to take. [More…]
Effective defence is as much a matter of industrial and economic strength as it is of military hardware and men under arms. [More…]
But interaction of defence research and development with industry has been and is, with a few exceptions, poor. [More…]
The men complain of a bad dust problem, of an unreliable power supply and inadequate facilities for the number of people at the construction camp. [More…]
The men are working 10 hours a day, 7 days a week and they say they have no social life . [More…]
The men are not permitted to leave the site compound, and must carry identification tickets with their photo attached. [More…]
Abour 30 per cent of the workers are men with families in other centres. [More…]
For those extraordinary conditions, for the extraordinarily long hours and days of work and for the sort of pay those men are getting, they are running the risk of low level radiation affecting their lives. [More…]
There is a tendency to forget that protection measures have to be implemented by people, and people can fail. [More…]
I ask whether Australia is even yet accepting the published data that was available in 1950 for men who will be working in 1 980? [More…]
The United States National Academy of Science in its BEIR Report, published in May 1979, denies that there is any real threshold of radiation levels to which men can be subject. [More…]
Yet the men who are working in these mines in the Northern Territory will be subject to safeguards that are based on a low radiation level of five rems. [More…]
The men are subject to low level radiation from uranium and from the tailings dumps. [More…]
We feel that this Government should get its priorities right. [More…]
If the Government feels that resources are available we believe that those resources should go into employment in other areas until such times as the problems that are associated with the nuclear area are resolved. [More…]
I support the amendment moved by Senator Tate. [More…]
If the honourable senator would just wait a moment, I am anxious to say a few words and then attempt to get these Bills through with as little problem as possible. [More…]
I think that it is as well to have recorded in the parliamentary record the quality of men who are put forward by the Opposition to fill these important positions. [More…]
I mentioned today that I believe that the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Wriedt, is at some risk from men of the quality of Senator Peter Walsh. [More…]
Indeed, Mr President, as you had advised the Senate that the leaders of municipal government in every State of the Commonwealth were in our Gallery, I thought it appropriate that they should have heard from Senator Peter Walsh and should have known the quality of the men whom the Opposition has put forward. [More…]
I was not making my statement purely for that purpose and I am pleased, Mr President, that you have called in some other members of the Senate. [More…]
Committee stage it really got down to legal technicalities with the legal men on either side of the House making most of the running while we mere mortals just sat- we did not altogether listen- and put up with it. [More…]
The care, competence and dedication of these men who work around the clock to keep these aircraft flying is perhaps often passed unnoticed. [More…]
All are respected senior Aboriginal men and are claimants in the Ayers Rock land claim which at the time was being heard before Mr Justice Toohey. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the reason for not providing service was that some of the men were not wearing shoes and did not meet the manager’s standard of general tidiness? [More…]
When the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission ruled on maternity leave it must have given hope and incentive to a lot of women who want a career other than the career of being a wife, homemaker and mother. [More…]
The Government’s whole attitude to women and women workers is a worry. [More…]
Already there have been statements by Ministers, including Cabinet members, to the effect that women have taken over jobs that men and young people should have. [More…]
Between 1964 and the late ’70s, while the number of men working rose by 25 per cent, the number of women in the workforce increased by about 70 percent. [More…]
We can evade the Act because you can’t prove we have favoured males or females in selection for employment’; What are you going to do about it if the employee (or employer) organisations resist the employment provisions of the Act? [More…]
’; ‘Married men deserve preference because they are the breadwinner’; ‘Deserted wives deserve preference over single people or young people’; ‘People will lose their jobs by victimisation, so cannot be expected to lodge a complaint’; ‘You are telling women to work and this causes marriage breakdown’; ‘Training costs so much, men should get preference because women leave the workforce to get married’; ‘We can’t promote women because they are not dedicated like men’; ‘Men are not as sensitive as women. [More…]
Women add a human face to business’. [More…]
All of those remarks can be developed into areas that would give women in the Public Service cause for great alarm as to where their futures lie. [More…]
I cannot really believe that heads of departments in the Commonwealth Public Service are very different from the people who made some of those remarks. [More…]
I can see heads of departments saying: ‘It cannot be proved that we favoured males or females in the selection we made of the people who should be retired or deployed ‘. [More…]
I can see people giving married men preference, and I can see the situation arising where deserted wives have preference over single women. [More…]
Centralised traffic control, as well as helping with the handling of trains, also means that in a lot of cases we have not got to place men in isolated situations working around the clock. [More…]
It does preclude the railways having to put men in these isolated conditions. [More…]
The situation that I have to describe is no great credit to the present Government. [More…]
From then until the closing of the line there was a lot of track improvement. [More…]
If time permitted I would go through the list of achievements of the North Australia Railway at that time. [More…]
We saw houses being developed at Parap and amenities such as the hall which has been established as an institute of men. [More…]
As a start, put 1 ,000 unemployed men and women on to it, pay them the $300m we would save by cancelling one of the three already obsolete patrol frigates we are about to order from uncle sam for $900m (with planes) and let us enjoy a superb hot-shot inter-capital service while we are awaiting the next war. [More…]
The conditions of employment of officers are contrary to the accepted rules governing employment of all other public servants. [More…]
These features and procedures do not apply to any other police or law enforcement agency in Australia or to any public service instrumentality in Australia. [More…]
The Commissioner is given exclusive and unchallengeable power to make decisions covering transfers, appointments, promotions, disciplinary action, demotions, retirements and dismissals. [More…]
Fancy giving to a new Commissioner the sole right to make decisions which will affect the futures and careers of men who have given many years of their life in pursuit of their careers. [More…]
As the New South Wales Police Association has said in a recent submission to the Government, it is a section of the Australian work force that is not highly regarded by most members of the Australian community but its members perform duties which cannot be described as being very pleasant. [More…]
This legislation provides an opportunity to recognise that men who have joined the Commonwealth police have made many sacrifices and have decided to make it their career. [More…]
The 1 975 legislation of the Labor Government provided for appeals to a promotions appeals board by officers who felt that they were treated unfairly. [More…]
That is why we have included it in our amendment. [More…]
The proposed Federal Police Arbitral Tribunal, which will be established under clause 42, is excluded expressly from consideration of matters relating to transfers, appointments, promotions, dismissals et cetera. [More…]
In the judgment of one NCI official at the House subcommittee hearings, it represented ‘the worst piece of work that has been done to date on fluoride’ Drs Burk and Yiamouyiannis had somehow managed to ignore the most fundamental factors involved in cancer mortality rates- age, sex, and race. [More…]
Old people die from cancer more often than young people; men have a higher cancer death rate than women; and blacks a higher one than whites. [More…]
Although all honourable senators may not share all of his views on the proper role of the Senate, we are all indebted to him for the many developments that he has fostered and guided throughout his service in this chamber. [More…]
He was Secretary to the committee appointed by Government senators in 1964, the report of which provided the basis for the ‘ 1 965 Compact ‘ which has since determined the division of items between the two categories of Appropriation Bills. [More…]
Time does not permit me to refer to all his achievements but, as honourable senators will be aware, Her Majesty the Queen bestowed the Honour of Commander of the Order of the British Empire on him in 1968. [More…]
Mr Odgers has dedicated himself to the Senate and to the institution of Parliament for over 40 years. [More…]
I am sure all honourable senators will join me in wishing him a long and happy retirement. [More…]
His great contribution will be, and is, a living monument to him. [More…]
That is not always available to all men. [More…]
The Committee is representative and expert, comprising three men eminent in their respective fields: [More…]
Is it possible to establish the viability of employing women as trainee technicians in the defence forces when last year there were only 7 women employed compared with 4381 men. [More…]
Why has the number of women employed as trainee technicians in the defence forces fallen from 19 in I97S to 7 in 1978, while the number of men has increased from 3S98 to 438 1 during the same period. [More…]
As I said in the second reading debate, this power- the use of listening devices and the use of telephone interceptions- is desired, and the Government believes properly desired, by the Narcotics Bureau and officers of that Bureau in order to attack the suppliers, the importers, the distributors- the big men in this evil trade. [More…]
I quoted in the second reading debate what have been stated to be the reasons why the Government has moved these amendments to the legislation and sought this increase in power. [More…]
So there are a number of reasons why we believe that if the Opposition amendment were adhered to it would severely detract from and inhibit the value of this proposed amendment and extension of the powers of the Narcotics Bureau in the investigation and pursuit of the major importers and distributors of narcotic substances in this country. [More…]
It is only since coming up against outside influences such as the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act which I mentioned that I have met with difficulties. [More…]
It is not correct for Senator Evans to say that we will not come up against legal argument. [More…]
When the Committee brings down its report to the chamber, all the legal men opposed to it will be saying that it is not a question that the Committee had a right to deal with. [More…]
The legal brains will involve us in great legal argument from time to time. [More…]
I only mentioned this matter to see whether some better wording could be suggested. [More…]
Whether the Committee has power under this regulation even to consider such a matter I still do not know despite the contribution of two highly eminent legal men. [More…]
I want to come back to that point in a moment. [More…]
Because of the existence of the respective inquiry, because of the doubts and allegations which are flying back and forth about the Narcotics Bureau, the police and so on and because of the very substantial penalties and methods of detection which are provided by this legislation, the Opposition says: ‘Should we not pause a moment to look at these various views before we rush on and give these powers to the sort of men who, officially at least, are inexperienced in their use and perhaps inadequately trained in relation to these matters?’ [More…]
If we want to look beyond that, I can think of Government members who have served in high positions on ethnic radio committees and on the Immigration Advisory Council. [More…]
Forgetting the numbers involved in immigration, from a trade union point of view I might believe that there are supressed trade unionists in Chile, Uruguay and the Argentine and another honourable senator might know of people in another area who are being supressed by a different form of government. [More…]
If we do not answer their arguments and produce facts they create an attitude of martyrdom. [More…]
My colleague Senator Sibraa knows of the case of a candidate in the Grayndler by-election who had a complete hang-up about his fellow men. [More…]
Without dragging in the economic climate the fact is that, when there is a scarcity of employment or competition is created people begin to get embittered. [More…]
As for its contention that the Diplomatic Service is using too many good men in jobs that could be done by lesser mortals, the White Paper says stiffly: ‘It is precisely because our power as an individual nation is diminished, while our interests remain global, that Britain’s future is more dependent than ever on the skills of those who represent us abroad ‘. [More…]
This in itself would have been sufficient achievement for most men, but Lord Mountbatten went further. [More…]
Ordinary men may climb up with distinction; only extraordinary men can climb down without some loss of distinction; he achieved the latter. [More…]
The objective was to bring young men and women together to create understanding between people, to avoid fear, hatred, suspicion and war. [More…]
I have not met a more immense man, if one measures immensity by the drive, the leadership, the sheer courage, the all-round talent and- to use an over-used word- the charisma of the man. [More…]
He was a man’s man, with an immense spirit of service. [More…]
Into 79 crowded years he packed the lifetimes of many men. [More…]
I commend the motion to the Senate. [More…]
I do not know the proper philosophy that we ought to follow if we are going to spend millions of dollars, but I do know that we parents make an arbitrary judgment that at a certain time in their lives our children are ready to learn about sex, about alcohol, about drugs, about road safety or whatever. [More…]
We pose as dirty old men and dirty old women telling them things that are dirty, sneaky and smutty, whereas they are facts of life. [More…]
There are honest men in the Australian Labor Party who do support the mining of uranium. [More…]
- Three men were killed instantly- their bodies were so severely irradiated that their exposed hands and heads had to be severed from their bodies and buried in a dump for radioactive waste. [More…]
- Disappeared on a deep test dive; 1 12 navy men and 17 civilians on board. [More…]
Reactor had a major plumbing problem which required the use of 700 men (for a few minutes each) over a 7-month period to weld in the radioactive area. [More…]
Three men were sprayed but “all wore protective clothing and tests had shown no traces of contamination “. [More…]
*Two men died at Western Mining’s Kwinana plant. [More…]
Despite the knockers, both in and out of the Territoryprincipally out of it- uranium is making a tremendous difference to that part of Australia. [More…]
Of course, this is not only because of the development of uranium. [More…]
Despite what the figures show about high unemployment, at Jabiru literally hundreds of men are being employed and there are not sufficient men in Darwin to match the labour requirement in the development of Jabiru. [More…]
An effect of the development of uranium mining is increased employment. [More…]
That will bring about the development of the north of Australia and it will also lead to an increase in the population of the area. [More…]
These men, some of whom are now dead, are telling tales. [More…]
The inhuman and unchristian people who speak in this place to gain votes take the attitude that they do not care whether 5,000 people, or 10,000 people, or however many will be employed at Roxby Downs, will suffer the lingering death of painful cancer and that men are easily replaced. [More…]
Then they put before this Senate a statement expressing the view that the Senate is so heartless that it is concerned about a dollar, and a dollar only. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr Peacock, tells us that we can trust President Marcos and the Philippines Government. [More…]
On 3 May 1979, Senator Mason directed a question to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Carrick, about the reactor in the Philippines being sited in a notoriously active earthquake zone close to five active volcanos. [More…]
Where is Senator Young’s moral obligation to the men, women and children of the Philippines who live in the shadow of that reactor which has been built near a volcano in a geophysical site? [More…]
Senator Messner went on to talk about the tax cuts that the people are to receive on 1 December, but he did not tell us that these would be severely offset by the massive increase in the price of petrol which has been nearly doubled since the Government came to office. [More…]
Also, as the Government has abolished Medibank and people will have to pay probably another $ 1 1 a week to cover themselves for medical care. [More…]
They are the greatest con men ever, and Senator Messner well knows it. [More…]
Will the entitlement to repatriation benefits proposed in the present Budget for those men and women who served in Allied armed forces be restricted to those persons resident in Australia who have taken out Australian citizenship? [More…]
Must they have been and be able to prove that they were bona fide servicemen and women in regular and legally constituted armed forces? [More…]
Obviously we all agree that these residences should not be subject to abuse from these men who are often in an inebriated state; nor should children be terrorised when answering the door to these agitated men. [More…]
The point I am making is that these residents are more concerned for themselves than they are for these desperate women who are seeking a refuge. [More…]
I think we should really commend the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, the Honourable Michael MacKellar, and the Victorian State Minister for Housing and Youth, Sport and Recreation, Mr Brian Dixon, as both of these men have displayed a very humane and sensible attitude towards immigrants, despite strong opposition from the extreme poltical wings of their parties. [More…]
Their arguments are not always based on humanitarian grounds; they are based also on economic grounds, that the increase would cause an increase in the demand for employment opportunities to such an extent, they believe, that the present unemployment situation would be alleviated. [More…]
I hope that the attitude of these two men could be absorbed to some extent in the rest of our community and that our migration policy could be based more on humanitarian grounds than, as in the past, on economic or defence criteria. [More…]
As T. S. Eliot has said: ‘We are now hollow men’. [More…]
On 14 February 1975, the then Australian Government deprived the Officers and men of the Australian Citizen Naval Military and Air Forces of the distinctive and historic Decorations and Medals for long service and good conduct, namely the Reserve Decoration, the Efficiency Decoration, the Air Efficiency Award, the Efficiency Medal and Long Service and Good Conduct Medals, awarded for long and meritorious voluntary service in the citizen forces: [More…]
I do have a brief that says that the Government is aware of Press reports that two Australians, Stephen Eric King and David Rex Prosser, were killed during raids by Rhodesian forces into Mozambique on 6 September. [More…]
The Government has no information as to the basis on which the two men were serving with the Rhodesian armed forces. [More…]
As I have stated, the Government deplores the on-going conflict in Rhodesia with its resultant loss of life on all sides. [More…]
The Government has made it clear that it can give no approval to Australian citizens serving in the armed forces of other countries except where such service is in accordance with agreed arrangements. [More…]
Parliament has passed legislation which, amongst other things, makes it an offence to recruit a person to serve, except with the specific approval of the Australian Government, in any capacity in or with an armed force in a foreign country. [More…]
The Government is, however, not able to prevent Australians from being recruited or enlisting while overseas. [More…]
The Australian Embassy, Pretoria, advised the Department of Foreign Affairs that the parents of Mr King and Mr Prosser had received telegrams from the [More…]
Our medical men are paid more if they do more. [More…]
Let me deal with a number of other matters of concern regarding the medical profession, and 1 wish to refer particularly to what can be described only as rackets- rackets which are perpetrated by very highly paid professional men in teaching hospitals in my own State of Victoria. [More…]
That right of private practice encourages them to spend a lot of time in over-use of hospital facilities which are paid for by the State, by the Government. [More…]
This whole question of the over-use of services, which was referred to by Dr Margarey, in fact is an abuse of the health insurance system, an abuse of the public health system of this country, and is being carried out by highly paid professional men who are the most costly people to educate in terms of taxpayers’ input into their education. [More…]
In talking about an incomes policy in a country such as this, as I said before, the Government cannot on the one hand charge ordinary people more for health insurance, attempt to reduce real wages constantly, and reduce family income standards, and at the same time have insufficient guts as a government to stand up to a system which allows these sorts of incomes to be made without any firm hand or direction. [More…]
The Government cannot allow these sorts of abuses to go on. [More…]
The Minister is prepared continually to mislead the Parliament and the Australian people. [More…]
The document which I presented to the Parliament last evening in my speech on the Budget shows very clearly comparative statistics on PA YE taxation. [More…]
It shows that in the last Labor Budget PAYE taxation represented 41.7 per cent of total Commonwealth taxation revenue, that in the 1977-78 Budget it went up to 45.2 per cent of total Commonwealth taxation revenue and that in the Budget now before the Parliament it represents 44.1 per cent of total Commonwealth taxation revenue. [More…]
Yet he has the gall in Question Time and in his contributions in this place constantly to suggest the contrary of what the figures and the Budget documents actually show. [More…]
It showed that in Australia men were better off than women, that 10 per cent of males got almost 20 per cent of all income received by males and that the corresponding 10 per cent of females received almost 32 per cent of such female income. [More…]
Regrettably, we find men who are not concerned about the loss of democracy. [More…]
If one looks in the year book which was distributed today one will find that the salaries paid to metal tradesmen are below those paid to distributors, far below those paid to building workers and below those paid to transport workers- in fact, below those paid to most workers. [More…]
How can a government be criticised for wanting to keep these men in the industry for the development of the State? [More…]
Confrontation is the Fraser Government’s policy. [More…]
That is to the detriment of the State of South Australia. [More…]
After the employment of 15 employees, South Australia becomes the lowest. [More…]
Workmen’s compensation insurance is one of the things for which South Australia is criticised. [More…]
It is criticised because it provides for the highest weekly payment in Australia. [More…]
Men are compensated on a full weekly wage basis. [More…]
The figures for 1976-77- the latest figures available- show that the premium payable for workmen’s compensation in South Australia was $ 1 82, as against $252 in Victoria and $191 in New South Wales. [More…]
The State does not want to cut out payments to sub-contractors, as alleged; it wants simply to give the arbitration machinery, the industrial court, the power to supervise the payment to sub-contractors. [More…]
My time has nearly expired but I will refer the Senate to an advertisement for the Labor Party in today’s newspaper. [More…]
The advertisement states that for Simpson Pope Ltd, profits have risen by 35 per cent; John Shearer (Holdings) Ltd had a profit of $1.3m; Television Broadcasters Ltd (Channel 7) had a rise in profits of 3 1 per cent; the profits of John Martin and Co. Ltd rose by 37.4 per cent; the profits of Kelvinator Australia Ltd rose by 69 per cent and F. H. Faulding and Co. Ltd had a profit rise of 97.3 per cent. [More…]
With all this trade, wealth and success, and with all the achievements, men come here and want to overthrow the Government of South Australia at the behest of some overseas giant who has allegiance with a minority group in South Australia. [More…]
Senator Bishop, who has just resumed his seat, was a Minister in the previous Government. [More…]
I imagine that he wishes to be proud of his activity and the part that he played in that Government during those years. [More…]
Yet the mismanagement of the economy by the men who stand up and criticise the Fraser-Anthony Government today demonstrated that they had no capacity to control the economy of this country. [More…]
The public needs to consider that when the Labor Government went out of office it had raised inflation to 17.6 per cent. [More…]
When Senator Bishop was speaking, my side of the House did not call quorums, despite the stupid statements that were then being made. [More…]
Senator Douglas McClelland could not stand the comments, because he was a Minister in the Government which, during its time in office, saw unemployment rise by 100 per cent. [More…]
Yet Opposition senators stand up here tonight and attempt to make some criticism of the Fraser-Anthony Government. [More…]
This Government has received the greatest of credit, nationally and internationally, for the excellent situation that it has brought about during its years of office in relation to the low inflation rate. [More…]
As honourable senators will know, if they are timber men, there is often a lot of rot in eucalypt timber. [More…]
Then if prices allow, which I believe they will, future export licences which are governed by the Commonwealth could contain conditions for increased royalty payments, especially to the private land owners. [More…]
During the early establishment days of this chip industry, the primary producers were assured that the small limb logs and what is known as billet wood could be utilised and that mobile forest chippers would make it possible to convert what is known as the limb wood into the chips. [More…]
On the other hand, there is continued pressure by these companies for the replacement of timber. [More…]
Men and women throughout Australia who almost four hears ago saw Malcolm Fraser as the great white hope for this country have had their expectations dashed to the ground, basically I believe for two reasons. [More…]
Firstly, he and his Government have failed to deliver; secondly, the Prime Minister’s performances on television, seen in the lounge-rooms of the nation, have destroyed him. [More…]
Perhaps the kindest thing the Liberal Party bosses could do for the present Prime Minister would be to take him out of the country again, perhaps to Lusaka or elsewhere in Africa where, according to his party and the Australian media, at the meeting of Heads of Government he played centre stage for the entire performance, to the detriment of all other actors in the cast. [More…]
But I fear that ratings in Africa are far removed from the bread and butter issues at home, as the present Government will find when next the citizens of Australia go to the polls. [More…]
Proclaims this Declaration of the Rights of the Child to the end that he may have a happy childhood and enjoy for his own good and for the good of society the rights and freedoms herein set forth and calls upon parents, upon men and women as individuals and upon voluntary organisations, local authorities and national governments to recognise these rights and strive for their observance by legislative and other measures progressively taken in accordance with the following principles. [More…]
He shall be brought up in a spirit of understanding, tolerance, friendship among peoples, peace and universal brotherhood and in full consciousness that his energy and talents should be devoted to the service of his fellow men. [More…]
When in Antarctica ad hoc instruction in safety, survival and first aid procedures is given by those men with previous experience in these areas. [More…]
Regrettably, we find men who are not concerned about the loss of democracy. [More…]
Regrettably, we find men who are not concerned about the loss of democracy.’ [More…]
If it is not, legal men will rake off a fortune as the judicial authorities try to decide what we meant when we agreed to this legislation this evening. [More…]
Why do such conflicts continue to appear in Acts of Parliament? [More…]
If the Minister wants this provision to remain in the legislation and takes the view that its meaning can be argued in the future, the Government has the numbers to ensure that the legislation is passed and its provisions come into operation. [More…]
Rather than this matter being cleared up now in the Parliament, the Government appears to have taken the decision that it will be cleared up at some time in the future before the courts of law. [More…]
For example, as the cost of living increases and the workers compensation payments in the States increase, we may find that a payment of $200 is justified for an injured workman who is covered by the Compensation (Commonwealth Government Employees) Act. [More…]
However, a regulation may come before us proposing that the compensation payment be lifted to only $100. [More…]
Those honourable senators who oppose not giving justice to injured men can only oppose a regulation that gives some increase or accept a regulation that gives some increase, although not a just increase. [More…]
Police confiscated books, private letters and Charter 77 documents. [More…]
On 14 March the police raided their flat again after which a group of men with cameras rearranged the furniture, planted various objects and documents around the fiat and then made a film while the family looked on helplessly. [More…]
It always seems peculiar to me that weak men raise these matters in the forum of Parliament. [More…]
I do not know Senator Colston so well but I would be prepared to take a bet that he does not have the courage to go outside the Parliament and say the things that he says inside Parliament. [More…]
I think perhaps you are likely to be a man who within the next day or so will go outside the Parliament and make your allegations against Ian Rice and prove yourself to be a man of quality. [More…]
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…]
In all, an estimated 2 1,400 deaths in men and 3,750 in women between the ages of 35 and 64 in 1974 were attributable to smoking. [More…]
The result of that can only be- if they succeed- that more and more people will die earlier than they need; that more babies will die young; that more work will be lost through illness; and worst of all, that men and women will spend the last years of their lives as respiratory cripples. [More…]
Moreover, in time of war it will be essential to have Australian ships and men who are capable of manning them. [More…]
It is of course a matter of very great concern requiring recognition that so many men lost their lives during the construction of the Snowy Mountains scheme. [More…]
I understand that some 12 1 men did lose their lives. [More…]
In October 1978 the erection of a memorial to these men was approved. [More…]
When speaking to the National Press Club on Wednesday, 10 October, the Chief Minister for the Northern Territory, Mr Paul Everingham, suggested that the defence establishment, particularly the engineering and service corps, could provide an enormous boost to Aboriginal communities in the Territory by raising a force of approximately 1,000 Aborigines, principally to educate them in trades et cetera, which would enable them to participate more in local government-type activities. [More…]
Having in mind that this type of service appears to attract these young men, as instanced by the Volunteer Army Unit in the Top End, will the Minister take up the matter with the Government in an endeavour to give a much-needed boost to Aboriginal employment, particularly amongst Aboriginal youth, whose numbers are increasing tremendously throughout the Northern Territory? [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…]
When the basis of life is under attack, the public is entitled to expect its Government to protect their interests. [More…]
This proposed legislation recognises that fact, and will provide the Government with the necessary procedures to protect its citizens. [More…]
I commend the Bill to the Senate. [More…]
We have guided missiles and misguided men. [More…]
Employment and unemployment, the deficit, the rate of inflation, the problems of salinity in the Murray River- things of that nature- are problems which are essentially capable of solution by various policies adjusted from time to time, case by case, and which are capable of resolution in a political sense. [More…]
The fundamental issues in science and technology policies are issues about the future of the Australian community. [More…]
They are issues about the role of individual men and women in the Australian community. [More…]
Frankly, if this Government and succeeding governments are not prepared to take a far more concrete look at the funding and organisation of science policy and research in this country and if the dialogue which can take place not between political parties but within political parties and then with political parties cooperating to form a national science policy is to be relegated to something that we get round to one Thursday night once in a year because there happens to be an odd space on the agenda of the Parliament to raise them, then we are going to take the most reprehensible course of action that any parliament can take. [More…]
I am advised that the Australian National Line does not operate a seafarers retirement fund. [More…]
Ratings engaged on ANL ships are entitled to membership of the Seafarers Retirement Fund established by a trust deed dated 9 February 1973 and operated on behalf of the maritime industry by Australian Maritime Industries Ltd of 500 Collins Street, Melbourne. [More…]
The trustees of the fund are representatives of shipowners and unions and include Mr Patrick Geraghty of the Seamen’s Union of Australia, Mr Les Mullens of the Federated Marine Stewards and Pastry men’s Association of Australasia and Mr Bill Heath of the Marine Cooks, Bakers and Butchers Association of Australasia. [More…]
However, each year a statement is forwarded by the fund to each contributor setting out details of the amount contributed by him up to 30 June of that year and the benefits arising as a result of those contributions. [More…]
The statement is accompanied by a report from the trustees setting out the balance of the fund as at 30 June and the manner in which the fund is invested. [More…]
I understand that statements for the year ended 30 June 1979 are today being sent out to contributors. [More…]
As to the audit of those statements and of the fund, I will seek information for the honourable senator and give it to him as soon as possible. [More…]
State grants for roads must be seen- I suggest that the Government has failed to so see it- in the context of Australia’s overall transport system. [More…]
On this, the Government’s record is a sad testimony to ignorance, bad planning and sectional interest. [More…]
Unfortunately today most Australian working men and women are dependent on private cars to get to and from work. [More…]
Despite these surveys, which are taken by reputable community organisations, when the Government drew up its budget- and, after all, this legislation merely seeks to give legislative effect to Budget decisions- their important results and conclusions obviously were ignored. [More…]
I am glad that I am getting through to the consciences of some of the Labor men in this House because they will have to answer in the long run. [More…]
He has spent a lifetime of service not only in this place but also in the trade union movement. [More…]
Another judge has indicated his concern about the Government’s interference and intervention in this area, as have the commissioners of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission, most of whom have been appointed by governments of the same political persuasion as the Government that is endeavouring to force this issue through the Senate. [More…]
In a non-partisan way and, if one likes, in an all-party way, those men and women have decided that they should sit down in conference and examine this very farreaching piece of legislation, that they should have a formal meeting for this purpose for the first time in the history of industrial legislation in this country. [More…]
This Bill is simple propaganda that no reasonable senator or citizen could support in the face of condemnation by Sir Richard Kirby, the elder statesman of the conciliation and arbitration movement in Australia, in the face of published objections, supported by leading editorialists, of Mr Justice Staples; or in the face of the unanimous condemnation by the 25 commissioners of the arbitration system or in the face of the plea tonight by Sir John Moore for full consultation with the Government. [More…]
No honourable senator on the Government benches in the face of those pleas for consultation and moderation- to say nothing about consultation with the trade union movement which is still offered- should accept this Bill. [More…]
I exhort Government senators to reject this attempt to set the scene for an election. [More…]
They should heed the warnings by editorialists and they should heed men of standing. [More…]
They should reject this legislation because it will create an unworkable situation within which industrial disputes will not be solved as readily as they are at the moment. [More…]
Because the strike was a protracted one- it went on for seven weeks and two days- Mr Commissioner Brown recommended that the employer pay for five weeks of the time lost. [More…]
He must make a profit to be able to employ men. [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…]
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…]
Further, honourable senators will recall that when the ‘prescribed period’ of the Act was extended last year, it was indicated that the program was sufficiently well established to warrant discussions with State governments on their views about the sharing of responsibilities in this area. [More…]
The Commonwealth has decided to maintain its commitment to the program, while working as closely as possible with the States. [More…]
These provide overnight accommodation for 3,600 men and women. [More…]
It should be noted also that the program is not directed exclusively towards chronically homeless men and there is a number of centres which cater exclusively for single homeless women; some agencies in developing new hostels have taken the opportunity to provide accommodation for both men and women. [More…]
That, of course, is the familiar employer’s argument that stand-down clauses ought to be available as of right whenever any potential economic loss is about to be incurred by an employer through industrial action somewhere else or through a failure in supply or something of that kind, that all that should be involved is the right of the employer to rush before the Commission, for everybody to drop everything as fast as possible, for the matter to be dealt with expeditiously- as this legislation will now have it- and for the employer to get his men off his payroll as fast as possible. [More…]
Australia, yet we were told by people on the Government side in that other place that the workers really did not want to be on strike, that they were being led around by the nose by some little Pommie commo called Armstrong; that he was the cause of it and there was no real grievance. [More…]
The people met for a long time and almost reached a settlement. [More…]
When independent men and women are prepared to do without Christmas holidays for years, to see their bank savings totally eroded, virtually to starve and to allow their children to suffer, surely we can say: Is there not a basic reason? [More…]
Indeed, it will hold back the settlement of the disputes which will occur more and more in this country in the next four years. [More…]
Again, in September 1977 Mr Justice Alley ordered that a secret ballot of builders’ labourers employed on the State Bank construction site in Melbourne be held to determine whether the men were prepared to accept the terms of settlement of the dispute proposed by Commissioner Brown. [More…]
A significant factor in this case was the union’s refusal to allow its members to vote on Commissioner Brown ‘s proposal for settlement of the dispute. [More…]
During my time in the trade union movement in a secretarial position, when there were strikes I found that they were not all caused by wages claims, they were not all caused by the employees and were not always due to a decision of a union. [More…]
Men out on the job can resent the actions of an employer. [More…]
Men strike and put a ban on a particular job without any reference to the unions. [More…]
We have heard similar statements expressed over and over again by senators on this side of the chamber, men who are experienced in industrial relations. [More…]
Surely, when a man of his experience, standing and industrial knowledge goes on the public record and so strongly criticises the provisions of the Bill, any responsible Government or group of people would sit up and take notice. [More…]
If the criticisms of Sir Richard Kirby were not enough we also have the statements from Mr Justice Staples, a man whose remarks have been quoted by honourable senators who have spoken before me. [More…]
Despite all these outbursts by such eminent men as those whose opinions I mentioned earlier and who are charged with the dispensing of justice in the industrial arena, we have received no responses from the Government. [More…]
A statement was put down this morning, but we need refer only to the last paragraph to see the insincerity of the Government. [More…]
All men of prudence such as yourself would. [More…]
The only objective of Government senators is to protect those who have the monopoly of technology and who will not share with the employees of industry the great advantages that have been made. [More…]
Go off to war’, and encourages its supporters, like a lot of the people who are the top men in industry today to be in B company- be there when they go, be there when they come back, and make the profit while they are away. [More…]
Men have refused to work in those shunting yards under such conditions. [More…]
The Minister says that if anything happens these men have their rights at common law. [More…]
-The Minister said that a moment ago. [More…]
The same applies to men working on the excavation of a building site- we have all seen them and the engineering and waterworks department workers working in a trench. [More…]
In the course of a year many men are killed in this way. [More…]
The Minister says that if these men refuse to work in these conditions they should be stood down, they should have a new award or the Act should be changed. [More…]
Is it any wonder they have been rejected by the trade union movement? [More…]
This Bill seeks to inject into the principal Act a provision which purports to give the Government the power to order that claims for lost wages due to industrial action shall not be awarded by the Commission in any circumstances. [More…]
In the mid-1950s a provision was inserted into the award of the Waterside Workers Federation to cover the very thing that the Government is trying to prevent other unions from receiving. [More…]
If the men decided that the working gear on a ship was unsafe they could stop work. [More…]
If he found that the ship’s gear was unsafe and unworkable, the men were paid. [More…]
If the claim was found to be frivolous, the men were not paid. [More…]
Consequently, on any occasion that there was a stoppage over such an issue, the men were paid. [More…]
I would recommend to any union that it have such a safety clause inserted in its award. [More…]
I do not believe that a union should run to the industrial court every time a safety measure comes up and men have to stop work to safeguard their lives. [More…]
I turn to the next provision that I consider to be entirely unacceptable to the trade union movement, that is, proposed new section 143a. [More…]
Under that provision all that is required is for two men to engage in industrial action and a declaration to that effect can be sought from the Commission. [More…]
The Government should encourage labour and management to get together around the table. [More…]
If they are not there will be resentment. [More…]
There are in this country no bad men merely bad managers. [More…]
In 1956 someone mentioned that certain people intended to put the waterside workers into the ground. [More…]
Men would have been prepared to die. [More…]
It was a conversation that took place in this Parliament 1 1 months before to the day between Mr Street and Mr Fraser when they were organising to get rid of Mr Snedden. [More…]
What I am saying is that this is no legislation that has just come in now because this Government cannot cope with unemployment, cannot cope with many of the broken promises. [More…]
I well recall when I was a boy in the work force ex-Prime Minister Menzies saying that the best foreman you could get on any jobwas 30 men waiting at the gates for one man’s job. [More…]
They are the ones who are passing judgment and condemning people for going on strike to try to get decent wages. [More…]
They are fighting for a principle in the same way as the Government expects men to lay down their lives for a principle. [More…]
I have not heard anything mentioned about the time lost in industrial accidents. [More…]
Men go on strike because of accidents. [More…]
When a rig was to be built by Transfield ( WA) Pty Ltd a big hole was scooped out of the sand and the erection of the rig was commenced. [More…]
I was in the office when the men rang up from Transfield. [More…]
The next time the men telephoned they said: ‘ We are out. [More…]
Those men were on strike for six days. [More…]
The way that the Government completely ignores the accident rate in this country is disgusting. [More…]
Two or three honourable senators have mentioned the strike in Western Australia. [More…]
Did anyone telephone or try to find out why the men were on strike for seven weeks? [More…]
Those men were on strike for seven weeks because they had come to the end of their agreement with the firm. [More…]
Did they want the men to stay and work just to please them? [More…]
When there was a dispute he explained to the men: ‘Look it has to go to arbitration. [More…]
That is what the men named him. [More…]
In the end the men had to pull on a strike to make sure that the matter was dealt with. [More…]
Another of these big bad wolves in the trade union movement is Harold Pedon, a communist, who I believe has very high principles indeed. [More…]
I remember an occasion when he pulled some men out on the grass. [More…]
They are told by the men on the job when they are going out on strike. [More…]
The organisers sat there, the shop stewards lined up and each one told us exactly what was happening in his workshop and how the men felt about a situation. [More…]
The backbone of our movement is the shop steward organisation, which is in touch with the men on the floor. [More…]
I am fed up with listening to this talk about organisers pulling men out on strike. [More…]
Anyone who wishes can make inquiries about what goes on in the union movement. [More…]
The organisers are told whether the men are going on strike. [More…]
The organisers do not tell the men; they dare not. [More…]
The general feeling running through the shop floors now is that the men object strongly to the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission. [More…]
The Government is now taking things to a stage where the unions will draw out of it. [More…]
If that happens, the Government will have plenty of trouble on its hands. [More…]
That is the sort of unholy mess the Government is going to bring on its head. [More…]
Marx and Pedon and the others continually argue for their unions to stay in the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission for the sake of the smaller unions, but the Government is now dragging them to the stage where they will pull out, and that will be on the Government’s head. [More…]
What about the delays that will occur such as those which have been mentioned by Sir John Moore? [More…]
The men are out on strike. [More…]
Will the entitlement to repatriation benefits proposed in the present Budget for those men and women who served in Allied armed forces be restricted to those persons resident in Australia who have taken out Australian citizenship? [More…]
Must they have been and be able to prove that they were bona fide servicemen and women in regular and legally constituted armed forces? [More…]
I ask the Minister for Education: Is it a fact that the Government has cut Commonwealth post-graduate awards by 9 per cent in the current year? [More…]
Is it a fact that a survey which was conducted this year showed that 45 per cent of post-graduate students had no supplementary income above their awards? [More…]
How does the Government expect mature men and women to survive on an amount ofless than $ 12 a day? [More…]
That such a broad and flexible program did not develop is a disappointment to me personally and, I know, to many of us. [More…]
That women’s refuges ended up with the Community Health Program because of impatience with progress at the time- it was done when Labor was in officeand because more funds were available in that area is to be regretted. [More…]
It seems that we are to continue to have a program that is based mainly on the group of homeless men who are traditionally supported by the voluntary agencies in this country. [More…]
I know that the program includes provision for a smaller group of homeless women and that some youth refuges are to be continued, but from the second reading speech of the Minister for Social Security it seems that the activity is to be confined largely to the group of so-called homeless men. [More…]
Whenever we introduce a program for a broad group of people like this, we must make sure that flexibility prevails; for instance, that the artificial cut-off point of 1 8 years is not rigidly applied because there will be many people between 19 years and, say, 24 years of age who are immature and who do not appropriately fit into the sort of accommodation that is usually available for homeless persons, particularly homeless men, in our community today. [More…]
This is another problem to which the Government should be addressing itself at this stage. [More…]
On figures I have there are an estimated 7,000 homeless people in Melbourne, comprising about 5,000 men and 2,000 women. [More…]
I am not joking when I mention secondhand pies. [More…]
I am informed that homeless men often have been fed on unsold pies donated by department stores and the like. [More…]
How can the Government have the coldness and hardness of heart to bring forward these subsidies to the public and to the Senate as a serious contribution towards anything of value at all. [More…]
At the end of June the house owed nearly $70,000 because of the number of men needing shelter and rehabilitation and also because of inflation and a shortfall in promised government funds which had not become available. [More…]
According to an estimate in the report of the Victorian Consultative Committee on Social Development Youth Accommodation there could be up to 15,000 young people in Melbourne who are absolutely homeless. [More…]
Page 2 of the Minister’s second reading speech shows that in total there are 113 centres approved at present and that these provide overnight accommodation for 3,600 men and women. [More…]
I refer, for instance, to those people who come from country areas, perhaps in Western Australia, to the city in search of employment because there is no possible opportunity for them in their country towns where their parents are resident. [More…]
Generally, though, there are only women’s refuges. [More…]
I must admit that there is not the same facility available for young men. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by . [More…]
their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council has not been democratically elected by the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is not representative of the women of Australia; That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council’. [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…]
I was very disappointed that Senator Bonner interjected on Senator Georges when he was making an appeal to the Government and that he insinuated that the people we are talking about do not deserve any assistance. [More…]
We know that people in these organisations go into the field and work their hearts out, for no reward, in an endeavour to raise money and to get assistance to help the people who are mentioned in this piece of legislation. [More…]
Senator Georges has pointed out that it is indicative of the thinking of this Government that it is prepared to allocate to those voluntary organisations only 25c by way of subsidy on the meals that these organisations provide to needy people and to homeless men and women and only 75c towards the cost of a bed provided for these people at night. [More…]
When I wrote the foreword to the booklet ‘A Place of Dignity’ I said that an estimated 10,000 homeless men and women in Australia were being assisted by welfare agencies. [More…]
As I also mentioned last night, a large number of people have been forced to migrate to the cities from country centres because no work is available for them in the country. [More…]
These people are mainly young men and women who have found no employment opportunities in their own home-town centres where their parents reside. [More…]
Many of them are extremely disappointed to find that employment opportunities are just as scarce in those city centres as they are in country centres. [More…]
I thank the honourable senators who have spoken in the debate on the Homeless Persons Amendment Bill. [More…]
He also stated that many of the men and women who would benefit from the improved services for the homeless were people who were receiving income security benefits at rates and under the conditions which had been liberalised since the end of 1972. [More…]
When this Government came to office single fathers were not entitled to benefits. [More…]
Under this Government they are being provided with exactly the same assistance as that given supporting mothers. [More…]
These will be of great assistance to some 56,000 supporting parents, 2,500 of whom are men, and their dependants. [More…]
We have heard that argument many times. [More…]
It is always claimed by people who do not think the matter through- I do not believe for one moment that Senator Grimes honestly believes it- that there can be a great redistribution of wealth in this country. [More…]
If it is considered as such, then we will not have employment; we will have much greater unemployment than we have at the moment. [More…]
I believe that there would not be a thinking person in Australia who would not realise that unless the boss makes a profit he cannot possibly employ men. [More…]
Is the Minister for Social Security aware of the partial retirement scheme which has operated in Sweden since 1976? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that the object of the Swedish scheme is to ease the transition from a full working life to retirement for employees aged between 60 and 65 years by giving them the possibility of a part time job and a partial retirement scheme? [More…]
In view of the current debate on early retirement in Australia, has the Department of Social Security examined the feasibility of such a scheme in Australia? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that such a scheme has merit and might be a convenient way of eliminating the anomaly whereby men receive age pensions at 65 years and women at 60 years, even though the life expectancy of a female is much greater than that of a male? [More…]
Senator Hamer mentioned an anomaly with regard to the different age at which women and men are entitled to receive pensions in this country. [More…]
I only make the comment that both the Henderson poverty inquiry report and the Hancock superannuation report recommended a common pensionable age of 65 years, although the Henderson report also recommended the introduction of a pension for breadwinners aged between 60 and 64 years if they were finding difficulty in working for an adequate private income. [More…]
The Hancock superannuation inquiry was unable to recommend a reduction in pensionable age for males, mainly on the grounds of cost. [More…]
It also rejected a proposal to vary retirement ages, mainly on grounds of administration complexity. [More…]
So far as raising the pensionable age for women to 65 years is concerned, this is not a matter that is before the Government. [More…]
The review of all pension entitlements is one that is conducted very often by the Government and I have no announcements to make with regard to any proposed changes. [More…]
We are totally opposed to this clause because it increases the number of people deprived of unemployment benefits. [More…]
This clause is accepted to be both a penalty against industrial action- to support the industrial legislation of this Government- and an attempt to discipline trade unions. [More…]
As stated in the second reading debate, if only two men stop work over some dispute in a local council in Tasmania it can deprive many people throughout Australia of unemployment benefit who have no control of the action of those two individuals. [More…]
Suppose scaffolding on a job is unsafe and the men decide to go on strike but nothing happens about it. [More…]
The people affected cannot even claim the unemployment benefit, even though they became unemployed through something that had nothing at all to do with them. [More…]
I think it is a very hard piece of legislation and I believe that it is purposely designed to try to break the trade union movement. [More…]
This clause makes it obvious that this is what the Government is trying to do. [More…]
In October 1979 the Australian reported of scuffles which broke out at the Salvation Army offices at Clayton as 500 men and women lined up for vouchers worth some $30 to buy groceries and other items to feed their families because at that time they were not able to get the unemployment benefit as a result of a deliberate policy of the Government to delay payment of the unemployment benefit. [More…]
As a result of that, the Victorian and Commonwealth governments each had to give $50,000 to distribute to relief organisations. [More…]
-I think the discussion on the Social Services Amendment Bill 1 979 this afternoon has demonstrated, as did the discussion on conciliation and arbitration legislation which was before the Senate last week, that the principle being applied by the Government is most reactionary. [More…]
It probably is inconsistent with the recommendations and conventions of the International Labour Organisation. [More…]
It makes almost impossible the normal activities of a trade union movement. [More…]
I instance cases in South Australia of men being injured when digging engineering trenches or shoring up walls on construction sites. [More…]
Signalmen, shunters and locomotive drivers may be marshalling long lines of trains in a yard which is not in good condition. [More…]
These train men and shunters may decide that some urgent action is needed and may put a ban on part of the yard. [More…]
So bit by bit whatever rights men had as free men under the concept that is applicable to Western society- the right to organise into trade unions; all the things that have been treasured in the past- are being closed down. [More…]
Generally, we cannot say how much of our resources, our help or assistance gets to the wealthy who do not need it or how much gets to the professional middle men and women who run the services and how much actually gets to clients in need. [More…]
Do we know who provides and who benefits from the provision of resources for women’s refuges? [More…]
Firstly I should like to thank the Government very sincerely for paying me the courtesy of giving me a prior copy of the statement and the interim report earlier in the day, at 3 o’clock or so. [More…]
I also thank Senator Grimes for paying me the courtesy of allowing me to speak first on this matter, as I have an appointment relating to it later on this evening. [More…]
Let me say at the outset that I hope honourable senators, if they do listen to me, wil allow for the sentiment that I have for the Narcotics Bureau. [More…]
Maybe that will sway my judgment, because I helped to form it in 1969. [More…]
I have said, and I still believe, that it is one of the most efficient law enforcement agencies of its kind in the world. [More…]
Its integrity is beyond question, and it is composed of dedicated, hard working men and women who virtually place their lives in their hands every day. [More…]
So I may be swayed by sentiment or emotion, and my judgment may not be what should be expected. [More…]
I wish to speak briefly on this subject as one who, since I came into this Parliament and before I arrived in this Parliament, has been concerned with the drug problem and the way in which we treat it in this country. [More…]
I feel it important to start by pointing out that one of the things which those of us in this Parliament who have been concerned about drugs and drug trafficking have expressed concern about over and over again, particularly in the reports of the Senate Standing Committee on Social Welfare on drug trafficking and drug abuse in this country, is that debate on this subject and consideration of it should be carried out in an unemotional and rational way. [More…]
We are dealing with criminals, with men and women who are working for huge profits, unemotional and cold men and women. [More…]
The Narcotics Bureau undoubtedly by and large is composed of dedicated and concerned men and women. [More…]
It is obvious to many people that this is a very serious police problem involving a co-ordinated effort throughout this country, throughout the States, and involving none of the backbiting and none of the rivalry which Senator Chipp quite rightly mentioned has been occurring in the law enforcement bodies trying to deal with drug trafficking in this country. [More…]
Mr Justice Williams has recommended coordination and the Government will attempt to co-ordinate the activities against drug traffickers- to co-ordinate the whole operation in this country- because we are dealing with ruthless and sophisticated men. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party has recommended this sort of approach for many years now. [More…]
It has recommended that we have a serious look at the approach that the Government is to take. [More…]
What has to be appreciated by the Senate and by public opinion in our country is that there exists within Government, as a result of advice that is proffered to it by the Department of Foreign Affairs, a belief that our relationships with Indonesia are more important, are paramount, to the rights of people. [More…]
Even as late as a couple of weeks ago, the Department of Foreign Affairs held a seminar in our capital involving Indonesia, academics, journalists and officers of the Department of Foreign Affairs to consider relations between Indonesia and Australia. [More…]
No members of parliament were invited to participate in those discussions which were designed, said the Department of Foreign Affairs, to improve relations between Australia and Indonesia. [More…]
No one has disagreement about the need for relations to be on a proper basis between countries that are in the same region. [More…]
There is blood on the hands of all Australians, the Whitlam Government, the Fraser Government and, of course, the principal culprits, the Indonesians themselves. [More…]
What threat to security were these 1,000 men and /or women in the Fretilin forces to the 130 million people in Indonesia. [More…]
The old men would come out of the villages, salute me and greet me as a friend as they recognised me as an Australian. [More…]
This was their repayment. [More…]
Helicopters from HMAS Melbourne brought in food, materials and equipment. [More…]
Within days the men of this ship had done a tremendous job. [More…]
In fact, those members of the Senate and perhaps of the House of Representatives who met Sir Bernard Callinan, who is the chairman of the new Parliament House Construction Authority, ought to know that Sir Bernard was the leader of the Australian part of Sparrow force in East Timor, and one of the people who, with his men, earned a reputation which is still extant throughout the island. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative “Advisory Council”. [More…]
The Prime Minister, however, has not expressed a view on whether it is reasonable that the findings against these five men, whose photographs appear in the Daily Telegraph, and a number of other men, should have been tabled in the New South Wales Parliament yesterday, much less expressed his outrage that it should have been done. [More…]
because one must remember the great occasions in the past when men and women fought for great rights. [More…]
Our relationship with neighbouring countries like Indonesia is, of course, important, but the sensitivities of the Indonesian Government should not be considered more important than the lives, the freedom, the self-determination and the health of the men, women and children of East Timor who have been sorely abused for centuries by a neglectful colonial power, who have been abandoned in the wake of a revolutionary change in that colonial power and who were then taken over by a neighbour obsessed with unreal fears that a hostile power could develop amongst the 600,000-odd people on the edge of its own country of 1 30 million people. [More…]
There were the old fashioned Parliament men, if I can so describe them, like Jim Killen, who were against what they perceived to be an encroachment by the judiciary on the rights, prerogatives and preserves of the democratically elected representatives of the Parliament. [More…]
That was the kind of environment in which the 1 973 controversy was fought out. [More…]
I shudder at the thought of any repetition, but the risks of creating that kind of opposition have to be taken on and overcome by any government which is concerned to get a rational mechanism for the enforcement of human rights in this country. [More…]
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. [More…]
Article 3 of the Covenant provides for equal rights for men and women. [More…]
Article 7 prohibits torture or cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. [More…]
I think that many, perhaps all, of our present prisons and some of our mental institutions could be regarded as inhuman and degrading. [More…]
Article 1 1 forbids imprisonment merely on the ground of inability to fulfil a contractual obligation. [More…]
We agree that the Human Rights Commission Bill is edentulous and that the amendments to the Racial Discrimination Act will emasculate it. [More…]
Another thing on which I think we could all agree is that the biggest violators of human rights are governments. [More…]
In fact just today the Inter-Parliamentary Union brought out its report on the infringement of the human rights of politicians in several countries in Central and South America. [More…]
We may look at India, at almost any country of Africa, at Romania, Iran, the Middle East and find that human rights are being violated by governments, which are the biggest infringers. [More…]
We can also agree, as has been said today and as was said last week, that human rights are indivisible and should be the same for men and women, black and white, child and adult, whatever one’s race, religion or social or national origin may be. [More…]
all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. [More…]
The men who wrote those undying words were slave owners. [More…]
It was not until the American Civil War, years later, that all men were created equal and endowed with those rights, but they got them. [More…]
But the point I am making is that the men who wrote it saw nothing inconsistent with their ideas. [More…]
People invent governments to do things for them that they cannot do for themselves, and the government has to be for the benefit of the people. [More…]
Any government which can alter its constitution unilaterally is a government of tyranny, and I think human rights are justifiable if they are confined to the agreed amenities which the government is to provide for the people. [More…]
But of course we have activist groups all around the world, and here, wanting the governments to provide more and more amenities to get money for their little neck of the woods. [More…]
I say that also to some of my colleagues on this side of the chamber who have expressed views about what should happen to this Bill, and to all in this chamber who have been critical of this Bill for not going far enough, the ‘progressive reformists’ in this Parliament. [More…]
The best men are not necessarily those who talk about goodness and denounce evil. [More…]
As it is a subject which is of that character, the strength of the protection of human rights is very much a question of attitude of mind and commitment to a principle of respect for the other fellow; for the individual as such. [More…]
Because it is a subject of that kind the strength of the human rights movement in any country depends in the end on education, on promotion of those principles and on the philosophy of people. [More…]
Anybody who has studied the history of government and of law is well aware of the fact that over the millennia of his existence man has made attempts- some successful and some not so successful- to improve his lot and the lot of his fellow men, as well as the rights of his fellow men. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian woman as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian woman as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
The Government looks to the men involved to recognise that consultation on the problems of regulation of the industry is under active study by all parties and calls upon them in the interests of the whole community to exercise restraint and not take the strike action which they have threatened. [More…]
The men are currently working under the provisions of the New South Wales Energy Authority Act which gives the New South Wales Government wide powers to ensure maintenance of oil supplies in the State. [More…]
It will be for the New South Wales Government to use its powers, as appropriate, to ensure that there is no strike. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Treasurer aware that selfemployed persons are allowed taxation deductions for payments to approved superannuation funds to provide maximum retirement benefits at a level of about 60 per cent of those which may be deducted by persons in employment and that most frequently that level is about one-third? [More…]
Will the Government consider the redress of this serious discrimination against self-employed small business men in the forthcoming Budget? [More…]
Now that I have quoted those figures, let us look at what one of the head men of the Master Builders Association of South Australia, Mr G. E. Mill, said in an article in the Adelaide Advertiser of Tuesday, 6 November this year. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representatives without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
However, we believe that in order to achieve this the critical consideration is not a question of geographical balance sustained over time, or at any given point of time, in the composition of the Court, but rather the certainty that the best men and women in the nation are appointed to the Court,, the best both in terms of their scholarly ability and technical expertise across the range of law with which they have to deal- especially constitutional law- and in terms of the kind of vision and breadth of understanding and approach that they bring to their job. [More…]
Every court and tribunal, at whatever level, should surely be able to be independent and to make an argument for independence. [More…]
The Australian Democrats would suggest that this is very much an argument against clause 17, to which we thoroughly object in almost every particular. [More…]
It is not in the nature of things that men of this type have the time, the experience or the knowledge to worry about the details of administration of a large building and everything that goes on within it. [More…]
There ought not to be this annual event of the Government or the Prime Minister rejecting the umpire’s decision. [More…]
What is the purpose of presenting arguments before the Tribunal if its decisions are rejected? [More…]
Its members are men who are regarded as reasonable and competent in their area. [More…]
It seems to me that unless recommendations and determinations are not reasonable the government of the day ought to accept them. [More…]
As you will probably appreciate, Mr President, there is discrimination in respect of salaries and allowances for officers of the Parliament, particularly as they relate to the Senate. [More…]
Leaving aside the controversy and what has been said by even Government members in recent times about the alienation that has taken place as a result of the events of 1975, 1 just do not believe that the salaries and allowances of officers in this place, whether they be the President or the Whips, should be in any way different from those for the House of Representatives. [More…]
Therefore, I believe I am entitled to move the amendment which I propose to move at the Committee stage and which would give to the Senate Whips, and to any honourable senator acting in that capacity, the same sort of emoluments as exist for the Whips in the House of Representatives. [More…]
Here again I think it is fair to say that I am sure that neither Senator Baume nor Senator Georges will travel to Canberra during a period when the Parliament is not sitting just for the sake of receiving travelling allowances. [More…]
It is absurd to suggest that that situation would be abused because I know that they are both family men who want to spend as much time as conceivable with their wives and families in their own homes. [More…]
They are men and women whose jobs and living standards are assailed so often by the Liberal and Country Parties. [More…]
Compared with prices paid by the international oil companies, the Federal Government has imposed excessive charges on Australians who use aviation fuel. [More…]
One can see how inequitable this fuel pricing policy is and it exposes the Government’s interpretation of the word ‘equity’. [More…]
The public is entitled to speculate on the collective mentality of a government that can allow large exports of avgas to overseas countries like Fiji and, of all places, the United Arab Emirates and then to penalise Australian citizens by expecting them to pay more in fuel levies and to accept rationing of avgas. [More…]
Our Department of Transport examiners of airmen are quite competent, good airmen who are keen on their jobs. [More…]
Yet for some unknown reason we send them to the United States of America to become endorsed to examine airmen flying commercial aircraft such as the DC9 and Boeing 727. [More…]
We find that the men they are examining have far more flying hours, far more experience and, I suppose, one could say that they are more competent than those who are examining them. [More…]
We would understand, if not entirely applaud the Government’s attitude, if it simply did not want to create a proliferation of statutory bodies perhaps because of some intimidation from Senator Rae, who seems to regard it as a matter of moral evil for a statutory body to be created these days unless there is some overwhelming justification for it, such that all mortal men, natural or otherwise, would unequivocally agree. [More…]
The Opposition is interested to know precisely why the Government has set its heels against this particular proposal which seems a not especially controversial one. [More…]
Is it also a fact that Vietnam currently has one million men in the regular army, two million men in the militia, 20 armoured or motorised regiments, 35 artillery regiments, 75 other regiments, 495 combat aircraft and 1,000 tanks? [More…]
Does the Government agree that this growth has been uninterrupted and massive and, for a country in Vietnam’s economic shape and with its overwhelming needs for food, is as irresponsible as it is harmful to its neighbours? [More…]
Is the Government concerned about this? [More…]
Would the Government consider taking some action in the United Nations with regard to it? [More…]
It is argued that development is a matter of techniques to be learned and equipment to be provided and that that is something that any country can receive. [More…]
Supply them, so the current argument goes, and economic development will automatically follow. [More…]
It would be nice to believe that the problem of the poor could be solved by the transference of men and machinery. [More…]
Mr Searle, First Assistant Director-General, Quarantine Division, Department of Health, appeared before the Committee. [More…]
During the discussion regarding the work that was carried on, he indicated that he could not say at that stage that his men, in an emergency, could go on to Aboriginal land at a moment’s notice. [More…]
Action will be taken to ensure that the matter is corrected so that Mr Searle and all those other men who protect Australia through our quarantine laws, in the case of an emergency, can go to any part of Australia whether or not it be Aboriginal land. [More…]
1 ) To establish an appropriate basis for expansion the Defence Force uses the equipment it possesses at any time to maintain or enhance a variety of skills and development of tactics, exercising at levels of activity which vary according to the lead time of the skills involved. [More…]
Our aim in devoting attention to training in peace-time is that, should changing strategic circumstances require expansion of the Defence Force, we will have available a core of officers and men with executive and supervisory skills to train incoming personnel. [More…]
We use our equipment not only to maintain operational skills, including command and control, but also to develop management and support skills, including support from domestic industry which would have an important role in any period of Defence Force expansion. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representative without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
Because the aged HMAS Melbourne already spends long periods out of service which will increase as time goes on, is it a fact that the Department of Defence is unwilling to see her tied up alongside to be fumigated against these pests? [More…]
As the Minister would have the health and comfort of the men of the Melbourne at heart, will he or perhaps the Minister for Science and the Environment be able to give advice as to how the vessel could be fumigated or how the cockroaches could possibly be eradicated without the vessel coming temporarily out of service? [More…]
I should mention to the Minister that the cockroach infestation occurred well before the Melbourne came to the port of Hobart a fortnight ago. [More…]
Disappeared ona deep test dive; 1 1 2 navy men and 1 7 civilians on board. [More…]
Senator Primmer can say, if he likes, that they are from biased men. [More…]
Anybody in this chamber who wishes to stand up and accuse them of irresponsibility can go his hardest, but to make statements like that is to be misleading. [More…]
Perhaps it is only latterly, as a result of what happened on Three-Mile Island, that the world is starting to become aware of the immense dangers of nuclear reactors once they start to go wrong. [More…]
The bodies of the three men in charge of the reactor were found stuck to the ceiling, having been penetrated by the nuclear rods that blew out of the reactor when the accident occurred. [More…]
The South Australian Department of Health has recently and belatedly attempted to follow up these men to check on their health. [More…]
The industry will have to examine these matters right from the very basis before any of us can get up and proclaim that this is yet in a condition where we can go ahead full steam, which many of the senators on the Government side would like to see take place. [More…]
Environment report refers to earlier states that exposure should be kept as far below these levels as practicable. [More…]
These men will have left the industry and probably will have moved to other areas before the health consequences of uranium mining become apparent. [More…]
I want to commend the union for its concern for its members working at the Nabarlek and Ranger uranium mines. [More…]
This union is commissioned to report on the radiation monitoring of the mines, and one would hope that the companies concerned would act immediately on its recommendations. [More…]
From the recommendations of the Report, it seems to me to be absolutely essential that a central register of uranium workers be kept so that their future health can be monitored. [More…]
I realise the problems associated with an industry where men might be working under false names and have no wish for their future whereabouts to be traceable, but they should be advised that they might later develop cancer and that they are entitled to compensation. [More…]
I went quickly through those 1 78 references which Senator Coleman incorporated in Hansard and I found that in 1 96 1 at Idaho Falls in the United States of America three men were killed instantly in a nuclear reactor. [More…]
The source of that report is Penelope Coleing for the Movement Against Uranium Mining. [More…]
There were 112 navy men and 17 civilians on board and there has been no trace of them since. [More…]
According to the Commonwealth Employment Service figures published today, the Northern Territory has an unemployment level of 9 per cent, the worst figure in Australia. [More…]
So with all that prosperity in the Northern Territory, it has a higher level of unemployment. [More…]
It does not matter that the CountryLiberal Party is in government. [More…]
When the health of men is at stake, surely we should seek greater assurances than Senator Kilgariff can give. [More…]
Of the sole supporting parents receiving benefits, 57,067 are women and 1,970 are men. [More…]
Almost half the women are unmarried, and 65 per cent of those women have no other income. [More…]
I think it is rather fitting at this time of the morning that I should make a plea in regard to an overdue memorial plaque in memory of the 120 men who suffered fatal industrial accidents when engaged in construction work on the Snowy Mountains project. [More…]
I think that anybody who has read the Snowy Mountains Hydro-electric Authority annual report would know of the millions of dollars which the efforts of those men have contributed in water resources and electrical power. [More…]
I want to be fair to the Minister for National development, Kevin Newman, at least to this extent: I understand that Treasury directives more or less inhibited his ultimate decision. [More…]
The other impression I got was that irrespective of whether the cost of the plaque will be $40,000 or $60,000, the Department has some quaint idea that the plaque will be tucked away in front of the Snowy Mountains Authority headquarters in Cooma. [More…]
But I visualise a situation of the overseas relatives of the men who lost their lives working on the Snowy Mountains scheme coming to Australia to see that plaque. [More…]
I am speaking now for many of the ethnic clubs when I say that the plaque, whether it cost $40,000 or $60,000, should be implanted, as it were, in the location in Cooma where the various flags of the countries of many of the members of that Snowy Mountains scheme work force are flying at this moment. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council is a discriminatory and sexist imposition on Australian women as Australian men do not have a National Men’s Advisory Council imposed on them. [More…]
That the National Women’s Advisory Council be abolished to ensure that Australian women have equal opportunity with Australian men of having issues of concern to them considered, debated and voted on by their Parliamentary representative without intervention and interference by an unrepresentative ‘Advisory Council ‘. [More…]
I presume that the men of HMAS Attack had no objection to the journalist concerned, Miss Penny Kerr, being aboard. [More…]
Does the Minister not agree that the security of Tasmania is of interest to the women as well as to the men of my State? [More…]
For men must work, and women must weep, [More…]
We spotted Benny McGreen and Collin Roll at the garage talking to some men and we went straight away to him and showed him the receipt. [More…]
The Office of Youth Affairs is to develop a list of young men and women who might be interested in and be suitable for appointment to such positions. [More…]
I am sure that Senator Coleman and all other honourable senators will be delighted to learn that in fact there is no discrimination between women and men veterans of the Australian forces and that all are entitled to the same benefits in the same circumstances. [More…]
Possibly it could be argued that there is some discrimination against men insofar as a male dependant of a deceased female veteran does not receive the same benefits, not as high benefits, as a female dependant of a deceased male veteran. [More…]
Although this in a sense could be regarded as prejudice in favour of the women rather than the men, at the same time one would have to acknowledge that this is a result of the many years of inequality between men and women and the assumption that has always been made that the only breadwinner in a household is a man and not a woman. [More…]
1 ) What is the incidence of breast cancer in Australian men and women compared with the incidence in American mcn and women. [More…]
Has the incidence of breast cancer in Japanese men decreased in comparison to American men. [More…]