minorities - senate - 1970

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

I think it is a situation upon which every Australian should reflect, because it is of grave concern that minorities can create such a situation. [More…]
With this consideration in mind, and since the question of the status of the Slovene and Croatian minorities has not been proposed for inscription on the agenda of any UN body this year, action by the Australian Government along the lines sought in the petition presented by the honourable senator would not be appropriate at this time. [More…]
Another aspect that concerns me greatly is the growing trend in this country - a trend that 1 feel is a danger to the democracy and freedom that we have won over the years, and a trend that is condoned by many - to buck authority, the laws of the land and our law making institutions under the guise of freedom of speech, the rights of the individual and the rights of minorities. [More…]
I hope he does not believe that minorities are not worth bothering about. [More…]
If you believe in the principle of minorities then you cannot make selections. [More…]
Nevertheless, as the Territory evolves towards self government, minorities will have to accept the decisions of the majority. [More…]
It is meant to limit the power of minorities to operate. [More…]
It is meant to limit the power of minorities which do not agree with government or administrative policy. [More…]
At some of our universities it has been successfully moved at meetings of the students that there shall be no student representative council, that every student in fact shall be a law unto himself and the small minorities can do as they like. [More…]
We have no racial minorities within our boundaries to cause us those unending and so far insoluble conditions so acutely suffered by some countries at this time. [More…]
With regard to that part of the honourable senator’s question which would invite me to admonish members of the Australian Labour Party, I would renounce that operation as something in vain I would let them share the responsibility that is properly in the judgment of the public for supporting violent minorities. [More…]
He has variously described the Government, Ministers and the Government’s policies over the years as cruel, vindictive, inconsiderate, downtreading minorities and having no consideration for people who are the poor and needy in the community. [More…]
Has the Minister seen comments that such radical minorities are using university campuses for the purpose of underground operations in defiance and disruption of law and order instead of study? [More…]
Of course, it is Important to preserve the rights of minorities. [More…]
No government has gone as far as this Government has gone in recognising the rights of minorities. [More…]
No Labor government in the past has ever put on the statute book legislation protecting the rights of minorities as this Government has done. [More…]
But it is a perversion of the truth to believe that we discharge our duties when we look after the rights of minorities. [More…]
Has the Minister seen comments that such radical minorities are using university campuses for the purpose of underground operations in defiance and disruption of law and order instead of study? [More…]
With regard to intervention in aid of protection of minorities, that too is being closely watched. [More…]
While it can be said that there was some mandate by majority at the last election, minorities have to be given some recognition. [More…]
We have a society which is essentially undivided, without permanent minorities and free of avoidable tensions. [More…]
I have been heard to express very strongly in this Parliament my views that our duty is to uphold the rights of both majorities and minorities. [More…]
I am not opposed to re-plays of football on Sunday mornings provided that the rights of minorities are protected. [More…]
But this Government in allowing these programmes at these times has not taken any action at all to protect the rights of those minorities. [More…]
The Government should have taken action by this time to protect the public interest and the rights of the minorities which are so often referred to by this Government and also by the Control Board in its annual reports. [More…]
If it is in the interests of the public to have sporting programmes on Sunday morning and if it is in the interests of the public to protect minorities then the Government should have legislated to ensure quotas at other times for the programmes which the Board itself has described as Australian programmes of merit and programmes for minority interests. [More…]
If this is a minority view for a parliamentarian, at least minorities have their rights. [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…]
It was electoral reform and it gave people and the minorities the right to have a say. [More…]
If we are to broaden the Electoral Act to the extent of granting some form of franchise to people between the ages of 18 and 21 years we should take the further step of seriously considering whether minorities should have the right to representation in this chamber and in the other place in accordance with the number of people who vote for them. [More…]
In the majority decision - stated that it is cruel and unusual to apply the death penalty selectively to minorities . [More…]
I repeat: ‘ … to apply the death penalty selectively to minorities’. [More…]
It is necessary to build a mechanism into a democracy to ensure that minorities get a say. [More…]
I find this surprising for a Government which prides itself on having some concern for the special situation of minorities and which has talked about the special needs of groups of people, of minorities and of people who are in some particular and peculiar circumstances whether in the field of social welfare, education, the arts or communications. [More…]
I find it surprising that a Government which talks about the rights of minorities constantly being protected and preserved does not follow this theme through into the field of electoral reform. [More…]
district then minorities are assured of representation, and in that respect the system has its virtue. [More…]
Will he also make a statement of Australia ‘s attitude and policy towards the Governments of Mozambique and Rhodesia, and allegations made in relation to the alleged persecution of minorities in those countries. [More…]
The Government is not aware of any recent allegations of the persecution of minorities in Mozambique. [More…]
It is true that the Government has supported a minority government in Chile, and it has a tendency to support minorities except when it suits it to go to the people, as it will on another referendum, and say: ‘ We want to oppose minorities ‘. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that honourable senators are well aware- it is fresh in their minds -of the persecution of minorities. [More…]
Certainly the treatment of Jewish minorities in a number of Arab countries is of such a nature as would inspire any Israeli to have the utmost fear of what could be done to him. [More…]
No one could do anything but deplore the treatment of the Jewish minorities in the great majority of, if not all, Arab countries. [More…]
He could not see in it any great reform and he pointed out that the objection always to anything of this nature comes from the fact that it can lock up large minorities in certain seats and in effect give those minorities no say in the government. [More…]
In a number of seats the Australian Democratic Labor Party has quite sizable minorities but it does not get one member in the House of Representatives. [More…]
I suppose the most democratic form of election is the proportional representation system which ensures that the representation in the parliament will reflect completely the will of all the people who are entitled to vote and which will give the minorities as well as the majorities the right to have voices in the parliament. [More…]
I do not think there is any question that the treatment of the ethnic minorities, the culture and the language of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania under the Soviet Union is something of which the Soviet Union cannot at all be proud. [More…]
Except for a few racial minorities that exist around the country- there are 42 million people making up those racial minorities but they represent only 6 per cent of the populationall religion in the socialist State is forbidden by law. [More…]
It relates to a recent article in the ‘Peking Review’, the wellestablished mouthpiece of the Chinese Government, which refers to Soviet control of the Baltic States ‘ as ruthless suppression and a policy of arbitrary assimilation of the national minorities’. [More…]
Where are the considered statements that that sort of insurgency and outside assistance will not come in to help minorities in Indonesia to overthrow the government there, with whom we have good relations, or to overthrow the government of Malaysia? [More…]
The first past the post voting system produces situations in which minorities may well, and in fact often do, govern. [More…]
At this time one million Australians are involved because approximately one million Australians belong to ethnic minorities in various parts of this country. [More…]
The acid test of a state or regime is the nature of its conduct towards minorities and smaller nations. [More…]
On the other hand, neglect or oppression of minorities and the exploitation of other countries, which occurs irrespective of professed ideologies, is the mark of the imperialist state. [More…]
Moreover, the average Australian is in no position to preach to others about the treatment of national minorities. [More…]
Those who support these changes should say whether they believe in optional preferential voting and whether they believe that Independents or minorities should not have a say. [More…]
The Government then brings forward an electoral package and, on its own say-so, will bring in optional preferential voting which destroys the principle of one vote one value, which wipes out the minorities, which fails to ensure the complete transfer of the preferential system. [More…]
Senator Carrick said that it should be determined by the number of electors and that those migrant groups- the ethnic minorities which tend to be heavily concentrated in Sydney and Melbourne- should not be counted for purposes of determining electoral boundaries because they are not naturalised citizens and do not have a vote. [More…]
Senator Scott’s argument, namely, that the effectiveness of representation should be the primary factor determining the size demographically of an electorate, or he is saying that the ethnic minorities, which tend to be concentrated in the inner city seats, and consist of people who are not yet naturalised Australians, are not entitled to any parliamentary representation by the members who represent those districts. [More…]
He informed me that he was looking for a research assistant who was fluent in Greek and Italian because his electoral duties involve so many dealings with ethnic minorities and involve representations on behalf of people who belong to ethnic minorities that it was necessary for him to have an interpreter. [More…]
In fact, they would have more problems than would most Australians and most country people because they belong to ethnic minorities. [More…]
Senator Carrick has just proposed that these ethnic minorities should be ignored by this Parliament. [More…]
I think that these ethnic minorities, whether or not they happen to be Australian citizens, should realise the contempt with which they are regarded by Senator Carrick and presumably by his party. [More…]
Let it be clearly established that the Liberal Party has stated in this Parliament, through its spokesman Senator Carrick, that these ethnic minorities have no rights and deserve no consideration from members of Parliament who represent the areas in which they reside. [More…]
In the view of the Liberal Party these ethnic minorities are made up of some sort of sub-human species which are not to be granted the full rights of citizens or indeed any rights at all but are to be used, as my colleague Senator Mulvihill says, as industrial cannon fodder. [More…]
The Italian Foreign Minister has stated that the agreements would define the border, regularise the juridical status of citizens in the area, protect the rights of families who wished to move from one area to another, guarantee the rights of ethnic minorities in the border areas, assure Trieste of possibilities for development and encourage co-operation in a wide range of sectors between Yugoslavia and Italy. [More…]
He is not a member of the Croatian Soccer Club or any of the other national organisations to which most Croatians belong and to which most of the other ethnic minorities in this country belong. [More…]
If we add to that list the problems created by the behaviour of Parliament itself, the destruction of convention, the defiance of reason, the pursuit of power without concern for the rights or privileges of minorities, then Australians will have little faith in the future of Australian democracy. [More…]
If we add to that list the problems created by the behaviour of Parliament itself, the destruction of convention, the defiance of reason, the pursuit of power without concern for the rights or privileges of minorities, then Australians will have little faith in the future of Australian democracy. [More…]
Then, by the gerrymandering of boundaries, by the rigging of electoral laws, by firstpastthepost type voting, which is what he stands for, by the destruction of minorities and by the destruction of all that get away from him, to entrench himself. [More…]
Given the inevitable close balance between the parties in the Senate, and the fact that irresponsible minorities such as sectional parties and casual appointees may at any time tip the balance, for Mr Whitlam to accept the Opposition’s ‘compromise’ would do as much to guarantee that long-term instability as to have caved in to the original demand for an immediate poll. [More…]
I have noticed Opposition senators saying that they now fear for the future of parliamentary democracy and the protection of minorities. [More…]
Whilst it has been said of me in the Press in some places that I am returning to the old theme of land rights, radical racial minorities and all of those sorts of things, that is far from right. [More…]
We have come far beyond the point where anyone can pretend that the denial of rights to minorities, or of basic rights to majorities, is not a matter of international concern. [More…]
Of particular interest to the Department of Social Security are recommendations dealing with the Australian Government Rehabilitation Service, fringe benefits of a health nature for social security pensioners and beneficiaries, and the particular needs of migrant and ethnic minorities. [More…]
He fearlessly pursued this belief, not only for the ordinary people but also for the ethnic minorities when those minorities were under severe harassment from the powerful and the mighty in this country. [More…]
When I first came into the Senate I was advised that the Senate was a House designed not only to uphold the rights of the States but also to protect smaller communities and the rights of minorities. [More…]
Are we going to force it upon the minorities of the different classifications that they will not have even an ice cream’s chance in Hell of getting an officer position? [More…]
In a democracy the people who suffer most are the minorities and we can reach a situation where they have no say whatsoever. [More…]
However, there has always been the proposition that in a democracy we cater for minorities. [More…]
Indeed, it is a common circumstance for a Government to have only minority support in the Senate, particularly since the introduction of proportional representation in 1949 which has produced closely divided Senates with the balance of power from time to time being with minorities. [More…]
How countries vote on every issue at the United Nations is probably not a matter of general knowledge, but Australia has to be more clear cut in its attitudes, whether they be in relation to Cyprus or in relation to the attitude of Australia towards its minorities. [More…]
Also, under this Government, in the past twelve to fifteen months Aborigines have suffered, as have other disadvantaged minorities in the Australian community. [More…]
We should know how their minorities are treated in Austria. [More…]
I have had a question on the notice paper about how the United Nations deals with the maltreatment of Croatian and Slovene minorities across the border in Austria and I think it is time 1 had an answer. [More…]
Did the State Treaty of May 1955 re-establishing an independent and democratic Austria make it incumbent on that country to protect the Slovenian and Croatian minorities in Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria and to provide them with the rights indispensable to the survival of minorities and their equality in public life? [More…]
Have Slovene and Croatian minorities in Austria in recent years been denied such civil liberties due to violations of Article Nine of the State Treaty? [More…]
Was a United Nations seminar held at Ohrid in 1974, which amongst the other principles adopted, included the following: ‘inseparably connected problems of the abolition of discrimination and promotion and protection of the human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities have a world dimension and significance’? [More…]
14), provides for Austrian nationals belonging to the two minorities to enjoy the same rights on equal terms as all other Austrian nationals (annex A, article 7). [More…]
The principle to which honourable senator refers is conclusion ( 1 ) of the Seminar on the Promotion and Protection of the Human Rights of National, Ethnic and Other Minorities held in Ohrid from 25 June to 8 July 1974. [More…]
The twin problems of the elimination of discrimination and protection of the human rights of national, ethnic and other minorities are of world-wide scope and significance ‘. [More…]
The question of Austrian treatment of its Slovene and Croatian minorities has been referred to on occasion in the course of United Nations debates, but the matter has not been formally listed on a United Nation agenda. [More…]
Right of the Slovene and Croat Minorities [More…]
Austrian nationals of the Slovene and Croat minorities in Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria shall enjoy the same rights on equal terms as all other Austrian nationals, including the right to their own organisations, meetings and press in their own language. [More…]
Austrian nationals of the Slovene and Croat minorities in Carinthia, Burgenland and Styria shall participate in the cultural, administrative and judicial systems in these territories on equal terms with other Austrian nationals. [More…]
I believe very strongly that we, with other small countries, should show active interest and take an active part in the rights of small countries and in the rights of small nationalities and minorities. [More…]
Displaced persons, stateless persons, persons seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of national disasters all have been described at some time as refugees. [More…]
He believes that this House is the protector of the rights not only of the States but also of the minorities in the community. [More…]
I refer to an action I took this week in submitting a petition from a large number of Sydney people of Yugoslav origin in which they sought the intervention of the Department of Foreign Affairs to instruct its United Nations representative to be identified with any move that would curb the Austrian Government’s harassment of its Croatian and Slovene minorities, a situation which Senator Withers, in an answer given to an earlier question, confirmed. [More…]
In Australia at present we are also faced with the tyranny of the minorities. [More…]
Of course, minorities are entitled to their say but today they are not satisfied with the right to put forward their views. [More…]
It is simply this: If two or more persons, each of whom is a member or an officer of the same organisation of employees, engage in conduct outlined in the legislation, that provision could result in majority liability for minority action and would open the gateways to dissident minorities and agents provocateur. [More…]
These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]
But we have reached the stage of seeing the significance of trade union authority when misused by militant minorities and communists. [More…]
Has the Minister received a report from a committee comprised of officers of his Department and of the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs relating to enthnic radio and access radio for ethnic minorities. [More…]
-I present the following petition from 59 citizens of Australia in relation to Slovene and Croatian minorities in Austria: [More…]
That the Government of Austria has breached article 7 of the State Treaty of May 19SS re-establishing an independent and democratic Austria by its denial of civil liberties to its Slovene and Croatian minorities. [More…]
Your petitioners most humbly pray that the Senate, in Parliament assembled, should have the Australian representatives at the UN themselves identify with any resolution aimed at restoring civil liberties to Slovene and Croatian minorities. [More…]
The Westminster system is not catering for the political aspirations of that country’s ethnic minorities, such as the Welsh, the Irish and the Scots. [More…]
The former United States Attorney, whose name was Kaplan, made a similar point with regard to the prohibition of marihuana in the 1960s, that is, that it was a campaign mainly by older, more settled and conservative people against a lifestyle, again to a certain extent that of ethnic minorities, particularly among the socalled Chicanoes- the immigrants from Mexico and other Latin countries, who have taken marihuana traditionally as part of their culture in the same way as people in other parts of the world were smoking tobacco- and also against the young people who had taken up marihuana in the 1950s and 1960s. [More…]
However, for many reasons which are proper to the Committee’s consideration and which it has debated from time to time it came to the conclusion that this was an exclusive area of analysis and examination which should not be confined to the area of Soviet Jewry alone but should relate to the question of minorities inside the Soviet Union in the context of both the Declaration on Human Rights and the Helsinki Accord. [More…]
In the Helsinki Accord it was expressly agreed by the Soviet Union and other participants that matters relating to the freedom of individuals and minorities in countries which accorded in the signing of the Helsinki Agreement could be examined. [More…]
The real question is: How do we ensure that we cater for and provide an adequate opportunity for minorities within the chamber? [More…]
Demonstrations by minorities are no longer allowed. [More…]
The next line talks about the various subsections of the Economic and Social Council and 1 (XXIV) of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities, a summary of your communication will be included in a confidential list of communications which will be submitted to the Commission on Human Rights and to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. [More…]
Welcomes the decision of the Commission of Human Rights to give annual consideration to the item entitled “Question of the violation of human rights and fundamental freedoms, including policies or racial discrimination and segregation and of apartheid, in all countries, with particular reference to colonial and other dependent countries and territories,” without prejudice to the functions and powers of organs already in existence or which may be established within the framework of measures of implementation included in international covenants and conventions on the protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms, and concurs with the requests for assistance addressed to the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities and to the Secretary-General; [More…]
That is the Wriedt statement upon which the gentlemen and ladies of this chamber, responsible in judgment, have been asked by him to vote that they have no confidence in a Minister whose experience as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Government for five or seven years has induced in everyone a solid respect for management of the chamber with due deference to all the requirements of minorities and individuals and a tolerance of discussion amongst members of his Party, who hold the privilege of independently expressing their views, unlike a cartload of Caucus members. [More…]
If the people who clamour about specific autonomy for a new Republic of Croatia are to jeopardise world peace, all countries, particularly those in which minorities take such a stand, have an obligation to submerge that concept for the common good. [More…]
At the present moment it is unusual to have a system of government in the world which embraces the idea of a loyal Opposition- a system whereby the majority has the power to make the laws, but recognises the rights of minorities to dissent in practical ways which do not involve violence. [More…]
They ask, as I would do, what right these minorities have to blackmail us all. [More…]
We rarely have the opportunity in the Senate to debate issues which relate in any way to questions of religious tolerance or the rights of religious minorities. [More…]
Not only has the Shah gone, but Iran does not have a moderate Paris university professor like Dr Mossadegh; it has the Ayatollah Khomeini, who wants to cut off people’s hands, who wants to persecute minorities like the Bahais, the Jews, the Christians, the Zoroastrians and the free thinkers of that country. [More…]
The situation as it might affect people in Iran is still confused and no clear indication of the new government’s attitude to Iran’s religious and ethnic minorities has yet emerged. [More…]
Although I readily acknowledge that citizen initiative does enjoy some current popularity in certain overseas countries, particularly the United States, it is true that the idea of citizen initiative and a referendum dates from the time, and was most fashionable at the time, when nations were essentially run by elites elected by rich and powerful minorities, when full adult franchise was unknown, when representative democracy was not fully developed, and when there was genuine frustration at the absence of an opportunity for the popular voice to make itself heard in the business of government. [More…]
If I sensed his attitude correctly, I believe that he is interested in the rights of individuals and of minorities. [More…]
We have robust compromises, that is true, and all kinds of minorities on occasions which have nothing to do with party political matters. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether the ethnic minorities in Tasmania are included in these studies and when the results will be available? [More…]
It will not include ethnic minorities in Tasmania, but it is hoped that the results of the study will have a general application to other ethnic groups as well. [More…]
Fr.000,000 Net profit before tax 576.3 (431.6); Profit after tax and minorities 365.3 (273.4); Per share Fr. [More…]
The communique made nine points: The Heads of Government: confirmed that they were wholly committed to genuine black majority rule for the people of Zimbabwe; recognised, in this context, that the internal settlement constitution is defective in certain important aspects; fully accepted that it is the Constitutional responsibility of the British Government to grant legal independence to Zimbabwe on the basis of majority rule; recognised that the search for a lasting settlement must involve all parties to the conflict; were deeply conscious of the urgent need to achieve such a settlement and bring peace to the people of Zimbabwe and their neighbours; accepted that independence on the basis of majority rule requires the adoption of a democratic constitution including appropriate safeguards for minorities; acknowledged that the government formed under such an independence constitution must be chosen through free and fair elections, properly supervised under British Government authority, and with Commonwealth observers; welcomed the British Government’s indication that an appropriate procedure for advancing towards these objectives would be for them to call a Constitutional conference to which all parties would be invited; and consequently, accepted that it must be a major objective to bring about a cessation of hostilities, and an end to sanctions as part of the process of implementation of a lasting settlement. [More…]
It was; not savagely, in the way in which the German Reich treated minorities or, for that matter, even its own citizens. [More…]
We must show an active interest in the rights of small countries and the rights of minorities of other countries. [More…]
I reiterate that Australia and this Parliament cannot underestimate the danger of passing these amendments to one Act and thus introducing a new Act which has no teeth and which is merely a window dressing exercise which the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser), on his recovery from flu and pneumonia, will be able to take back to Lusaka and parade on the stages of the world, saying ‘There is no racism in my country’, while the people of this country, including those who are less than white, those who are part of the more ethnic minorities and those who are refugees in this country, will continue to suffer. [More…]
If these measures, as proposed to be amended, are carried through in their entirety, we will have left no laws with any teeth for the protection of the rights of minorities, particularly the coloured minorities, of this nation. [More…]
The erosion of freedoms that will be suffered by minorities is implicit in the very wording of the proposed amendments to the legislation. [More…]
I think this part of my argument demonstrates that the proposition that people can rely upon the operations of the common law, leave it to judges, to tradition, to history and to the good sense of people in the community simply does not exist when there are pressures- the pressures against blacks, the pressures against Vietnamese refugees, the pressures of unemployment or anything else- because one of the first things that is sacrificed when those sorts of conditions prevail are the human rights of other people and essentially the human rights of voiceless and defenceless minorities. [More…]
I say that there is a demonstrable need for the legal protection of human rights which are all too subject to the whim of the majority of the day, to the most base and ignorant predjuices of the day and the situations where minorities receive as limited an amount of protection from majorities as can possibly be eked out by the inadequate measures that we have at the moment. [More…]
It exists where the rights of minorities to dissent by way of verbal expression and even by way of practice, as long as it is nonviolent, are ensured. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs advises that the Soviet Union and governments in Eastern Europe, including Romania’s, continue to deny fundamental civil and political rights to their citizens and that minorities often suffer most in this respect. [More…]
It requires that we recognise the right of dissent, the right of minorities to exist. [More…]
The entire problem is bedevilled by the fate of various minorities in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Africa. [More…]
The Government deplores the fact that Eastern European governments, including Romania’s, continue to deny fundamental civil and political rights to their citizens and that minorities often suffer most in this respect. [More…]