natural - hofreps - 1970

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

I ask the Minister for National Development to tell the House what action has been taken by the Government to plan the distribution of natural gas from the Bass Strait fields to New South Wales. [More…]
Finally, has the Government any plans for the distribution of natural gas from the Palm Valley-Mereenie fields in the Northern Territory? [More…]
In the case of specific purpose payments of a revenue nature, the divergences between budget estimates and actual payments have not been signi ficant in the last 5 years, except tor natural disaster relief payments. [More…]
Natural disaster relief payments are also of significance in explaining differences between the estimates and actual payments of a capital nature. [More…]
A document has been prepared which discusses in depth developments in natural resources, particularly minerals, forests, water and energy. [More…]
I understand that the company has stated publicly that its research and development expenditure in 1967-68 involved the development of a new and improved process for the extraction of resin from natural hops. [More…]
Will he confirm that the description of an accused as a ‘known demonstrator’ in court proceedings unrelated to demonstrations is prejudicial and subversive of natural justice? [More…]
All nuclear power stations which operate on uranium fuel (whether natural or enriched) will produce plutonium. [More…]
What sum specifically for capital expenditure has the Commonwealth (including its banks) in the last financial year (a) spent, (b) transferred as grants or loans direct to (i) State, local or semigovernment authorities, (ii) autonomous health, education and welfare organisations and overseas recipients and (iii) private industry, including all compensation and capital subsidies and price support to private industry except by way of relief of temporary natural disasters, and (c) received, as grants or loans, from other countries. [More…]
1325 (Hansard, 19th August 1970, page 217) which discusses in depth developments in natural resources, particularly minerals, forests, water and energy. [More…]
On 20th August 1969, the Secretary, Department of National Development asked the Queensland Co-ordinator-General of Public Works if he would arrange for an inventory to be provided of the information held by Queensland authorities on the natural resources, agricultural and engineering investigation findings and development programmes relative to the Burdekin. [More…]
Is he aware that natural woodlands, even areas of great natural beauty, are still being destroyed with the encouragement of the State governments and the Commonwealth Treasury which allow Pitt Street farmers to purchase farmlands and use such transactions as deductions for income tax purposes? [More…]
Has he examined the restrictive price structure imposed by Esso-BHP and the Premier of Victoria which has delayed Bass Strait natural gas supplies to New South Wales for several years? [More…]
Every effort is made to conserve the natural state of the area - the animals are untouched, there is no destruction of timber or undergrowth and all rubbish is removed for disposal at Ingleburn Camp. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
Furthermore, many areas are not likely to be cleared because the soils which support the natural vegetation would not be suitable for either agriculture or grazing. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth insisted that as much of the natural environment as possible be retained. [More…]
Natural land features and seasonal flooding make fencing difficult in this area but investigations are being conducted to see what might be done to mitigate the problem. [More…]
What departments other than his Department are represented on the interdepartmental committees established to consider (a) the functions and establishment of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, (b) northern development, (c) development projects other than projects in northern Australia and (d) natural resources? [More…]
Is the Minister for Trade and Industry aware that imported goods manufactured from man-made fibres, frequently in low wage nations, are seriously affecting the competitive position of Australian firms using natural fibres such as wool? [More…]
It is only natural that if the honourable member feels that aircraft noise is a matter of great importance to the people he represents he should be given some opportunity to express his views on the subject. [More…]
Measurements at that time revealed a level only slightly higher than that always present and due to natural causes. [More…]
In this regard, has the Queensland Government over the past 2 years assisted in the development of Carnarvon Gorge National Park, an area rich in natural formations and Aboriginal artefacts, by providing a ranger station, kiosk, cabins and caravan park. [More…]
What further information has he obtained on the extent to which photographs taken by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration are available and useful for mapping and appraising Australia’s natural resources (Hansard 29th April 1971 page 2221). [More…]
These have proved interesting but have not proved as valuable as conventional air photography in appraising Australia’s natural resources’. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural slate. [More…]
and (2) The document discussing in depth the development of Australia’s natural resources was completed in October, 1970. [More…]
What body, if any, was commissioned to make the close study recommended to Prime Minister Menzies by the Vernon Committee (17.77) on 6th May 1965 into the possibilities of accelerating the growth of a limited number of non-metropolitan centres that have already, as a result of natural advantages, achieved some degree of development. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray, that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act On behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
The Labor Party not only wants to cut immigration but also to limit the natural growth of the Australian population. [More…]
My question is addressed to the Minister for National Development: I refer to the rapid development of Australia’s natural resources in all fields and while recognising that national needs and progress should not be impeded, I ask the Minister whether he could give an assurance that attention is paid to conservation and preservation to the greatest degree possible. [More…]
Bearing in mind the concern expressed by many Australians regarding the aftermath of the war in Bangladesh, I ask the honourable gentleman whether he has any information regarding the magnitude of the recent natural disaster in the Philippines. [More…]
Is the Minister for National Development aware of the statement made last week by Sir William Pettingell of the Australian Gas Light Co. of the intention of his company, through a subsidiary, to let a contract for the construction of a natural gas pipeline from Gidgealpa to Sydney, with a forecast of its probable allocation to the Mitsubishi interests? [More…]
Are the Palm Valley reserves on federal territory the most valuable natural resources yet proven in Australia? [More…]
Has the pipe diameter been increased from that proposed in the original tenders to link Gidgealpa with these world ranking natural gas supplies in Palm Valley? [More…]
Has the Government decided to approve or prohibit exports of natural gas from the Palm Valley field in the Northern Territory? [More…]
Is it a further fact that if the all-clear is given by this Government to export natural gas from Palm Valley it will inevitably lead to an even greater density of overseas control of our resources? [More…]
It relates to the flotation of a company known as Weeks Natural Resources Ltd which, it is expected, will seek to raise $15m to $16m on the Australian market. [More…]
When natural disasters of a major kind occur, the Commonwealth, upon request, normally joins with the State in which the disaster has taken place in financing schemes for the relief of personal hardship and distress, usually on a $1 for $1 basis. [More…]
and (3) Details of natural disaster assistance sought by the Queensland Government in 1970-71 and 1971-72 for the relief of personal hardship and distress and other expenditure, and of assistance actually provided by the Commonwealth, are given below: - [More…]
Does the Comonwealth Government pay a subsidy of $1 for$1 to the States for the relief of personal hardship and distress caused by natural disasters where such relief assistance has already been given by the State concerned. [More…]
If so, for which natural disasters has the Queensland Government sought assistance during the years 1970-71 and 1971-72. [More…]
Drought and other Natural Disasters - Commonwealth, State and Territory action. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House on the progress of consultations between the Commonwealth and States concerning petroleum, including natural gas? [More…]
Mr Speaker, I seek leave of the House to make a ministerial statement on Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
I suppose that South Australia had the smallest amount of natural resources of any State of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Considering South Australia’s natural resources, that State progressed better than any other State in the Commonwealth. [More…]
Have 10,000 acres of natural forest been destroyed by the wood chip industry on the South and Far South Coast of New South Wales. [More…]
How many contracts or agreements for the export of natural gas have been approved or are under investigation by the Government [More…]
What is (a) the quantity of natural gas and (b) the price associated with each contract or agreement. [More…]
Briefly the situation is this: It is surprising the number of last minute transactions that were approved, not merely in relation to exploration for oil and natural gas but also for uranium by what was a caretaker government. [More…]
We propose to examine these applications very closely indeed, because the Commonwealth itself may be participating in future in the direct exploration for oil and natural gas. [More…]
There will be a very large increase in revenue in 1973-74 associated with the ‘natural’ growth of the economy. [More…]
to <8) The Australian Government has appointed a study group under the chairmanship of Professor i. Burton, Professor of Natural Resources, University of New England, to inquire into the circumstances leading to the flooding of Lake Pedder. [More…]
This paper attempts to analyse the contribution of immigration, internal migration and natural increase of the growth of the 10 urban centres of more than 100,000 people for the period 1966- 1971. [More…]
The other aspect of this matter is that everyone who was represented in Victoria, including all political parties in Victoria, clearly realised that this was a matter which was within the responsibility of the Minister for Labour, that it was only natural that the main discussion should be concerning him and that State members were not directly involved. [More…]
I support this Bill, which is a natural consequence of the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill which has just been passed. [More…]
People have waited for some considerable time for a decision to be made regarding the distribution of natural gas. [More…]
Yet this afternoon we are facing a Senate amendment that can do nothing but hold up a decision that is vital to the distribution of natural gas. [More…]
In one case which came to my attention and about which I have written to the Minister, the Bathurst City Council in the near future will be compelled to build a new gas works unless the distribution of natural gas is speeded up. [More…]
Therefore, I put to the Committee that we should decide to proceed along the lines indicated by the Minister so that natural gas will be flowing at the earliest possible date and so that the benefits will be distributed throughout the region as proposed in the legislation. [More…]
will purchase natural gas and will convey it to the city gate . [More…]
Any rationalisation of activities would need to be spread over a considerable period so as not to disrupt work, and the aim would be for most staff reductions to be achieved through natural wastage rather than retrenchment action. [More…]
Has the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs seen reports in the Press this morning about an Aboriginal child being returned to her natural parents at a Northern Territory Aboriginal settlement? [More…]
How will the costs of delivering natural gas be assessed in order to supply the gas at an equal price at all points. [More…]
The need for any future retrenchment action will be determined by our ability to secure non-defence work for the factory and the extent of natural separations in employment which occur. [More…]
The ordinary principles whereby the Commonwealth and any State affected agree to repair such natural disasters will apply in this case. [More…]
Of course, the ordinary conditions and practices will apply in respect of this natural disaster. [More…]
All Aborigines jointly to share the benefit from the development of natural resources, including minerals, on Aboriginal lands. [More…]
Can the Minister also say whether the platform was changed at the Surfers’ Paradise Conference to provide for all Aborigines jointly to share the benefits from the development of natural resources including minerals on Aboriginal land. [More…]
If so, could this move add further to the despoiling of our natural bush by indiscriminate disposal of tyres by people avoiding charges. [More…]
Were funds paid to the book publishing firm, Collins, for the publication of Australian Sea Turtles - Their Natural History and Conservation, by Robert Bustard; if so, how much. [More…]
I ask: What initiatives are being undertaken by this Government to foster the natural inventiveness of the Australian community and to ensure that all Australians benefit from inventions which are the result of this Australian characteristic? [More…]
What is the estimated (a) capital cost and (b) annual production capacity of the plant near Gidgealpa to remove CO2 and separate liquid petroleum gas from the natural gas production. [More…]
Because Australia is notably deficient in crude oil reserves having only about 8 years’ supply.Motor spirit derived from natural gas is expected broadly to double our reserves and give Australia further time in which to explore for more crude oil. [More…]
When the present Government came into office steps were also taken to reshape the Commonwealth’s participation in a natural disaster organisation, upon which the Minister for Defence, the Deputy Prime Minister, has reported to the House. [More…]
The present Treasurer has also been pursuing the examination of comparable natural disaster fund schemes. [More…]
Only the blindest of the exponents of private property profit, like the honourable member for Cowper who is harping like a cockatoo on a tree in the honourable member’s electorate, will deny a public corporation like the AIDC the right to share in Bass Strait oil, Northern Territory uranium or North West Shelf natural gas. [More…]
The man hours and time lost through industrial unrest and the growing acceptance that this is a natural state of affairs. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House of progress made in the construction of the natural gas pipeline from the Cooper Basin to Sydney? [More…]
What is the significance of the use of natural gas fluids and their conversion to motor spirit? [More…]
-Will the Minister for Minerals and Energy inform the House of his proposals on the pricing of North West Shelf natural gas? [More…]
It is true that we have access to a large and natural deep freezer in that southern region. [More…]
The only opportunity of getting to the natural deep freezer he mentioned would be during the summer time so that meat taken there would have to remain there for at least a year. [More…]
Radiation: It is perhaps only natural that certain misgivings were expressed regarding the possible effects of radiation on the surrounding population. [More…]
What is the estimated (a) annual volume of gas expected to be carried by the Gidgealpa to Sydney pipeline in the first full year of operation and (b) annual market growth for natural gas so transmitted to Sydney over the decade following the first full year of pipeline construction. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for Minerals and Energy: What stage has been reached in the construction of the Moomba-Sydney natural gas pipeline? [More…]
However, during the period referred to by the right honourable member, the use of natural gas and ‘ associated liquids from the North West Shelf and Central Australia as well as the use of low sulphur coal will result in substantial reductions in heavy crude imports. [More…]
There is not an established world market price for gas of the type contained in the North West Shelf deposits, namely, natural gas, because unless it is conveyed by pipeline, it must be converted to liquefied natural gas or to methanol for transport As the product must be competitive with other energy sources at the destination, there are wide variations in prices. [More…]
1 ) What navigational lights and aids located off the North West coast of Western Australia have been damaged by other than natural causes during the 2 years ended 30 September 1974. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Minerals and Energy: When will tenders be called for the supply of pipes for the natural gas spur line to Wagga? [More…]
Can the Minister assure me that the cost per therm for natural gas will be no more at Wagga than at Sydney? [More…]
With reference to his reply to a question on 30 July 1974 (Hansard, pages 740-1) when he stated that the natural gas requirements of Adelaide and South Australia plus the contractual obligations to the Australian Gas Light Co. were of the order of 4.4 trillion cubic feet, over what time scale was this demand projected. [More…]
Of the 9 consortium members, the smallest is the major oil company known as Total Australia Ltd which in fact has merely an exploration licence in the Pedirka Basin and in Queensland has some 8 per cent of the total natural gas reserves. [More…]
Are negotiations under way concerning the investment by the Petroleum and Minerals Authority in the Cooper Basin natural gas producer, the Delhi Corporation? [More…]
This Committee is no doubt aware of the views of other conservation authorities such as the International Union on Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources which have a wider range of activities. ‘ [More…]
Did the Australian Commissioner to the International Whaling Commission in 1974 vote ‘No’ at the technical committee stage of the proceedings to a quota of 725 on the Antarctic Fin Whale with 6 area divisions, and ‘Yes’ at the same committee to a quota of 1000 with the same area divisions, thus voting the death of another 275 Fin Whales which are classified as an endangered species by the International Union on the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
Did the RSPCA approach the Natural Disasters Organisation immediately after the Darwin Cyclone and offer a team of trained personnel to take control of all animals in the devastated area. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Min erals and Energy: What relevance has the announced contract between the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria and Esso-Hematite to the pricing of natural gas from the North-west Shelf? [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Social Security been drawn to a claim that a Medibank card issued for 2 adopted children in Queensland showed the name of the children’s natural mother? [More…]
Staff of the Natural Disasters Organisation in Canberra on 24 December 1974 were: [More…]
As already stated by the Prime Minister, the Australian Government has taken a leading role in preparedness for civil emergencies, e.g., by the establishment of a Natural Disasters Organisation. [More…]
The activities of The Pipeline Authority since its formation have had bearing on the natural gas needs of New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia and Western [More…]
Have all State Governments and their instrumentalities engaged in power generation and gas supply been consulted on their future requirements for, and sources of, natural gas and/or nuclear power. [More…]
What meteorological installations located on or off the north-west coast were damaged by other than natural causes during the 2 years ended 30 September 1974. [More…]
The cost to the Government, by way of non-repayable grants to non-government bodies to provide assistance to preserve important parts of the cultural and natural heritage of Australia, has been as follows: 1973-745682,900, 1974-75 $1,820,053. [More…]
A natural person who has attained the age of 2 1 years may make application to the Board as prescribed for registration as a travel agent manager. [More…]
That in the opinion of this House the Government should implement forthwith a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
-The Government has followed with deep concern the situation in Guatemala and the tragedy that befell its people as a result of a great natural disaster. [More…]
If I am permitted to proceed without any further interruptions I will point out that the Government intends to sell down the drain Australia’s natural resources, particularly uranium. [More…]
I can confirm to the honourable gentleman that the Government has decided to accept in principle and introduce a natural disaster insurance scheme in Australia and has decided to establish a working party of officials working with the industry to provide the necessary report. [More…]
I can also say to the House that the Government’s approach to the question of natural disaster insurance recognises the existing deficiences in the present arrangements. [More…]
My question, which relates to natural disaster insurance, is addressed to the Treasurer. [More…]
Is the Minister for National Resources and Minister for Overseas Trade aware of the concern which exists amongst the New South Wales councils of Bathurst, Orange, Lithgow, Young, Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga in regard to the delay in the commencement of the natural gas spur lines to serve those centres? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that there are industries which have decentralised to those areas because of the promise made to supply them with natural gas? [More…]
What action can the Minister take to ensure that the commitment to supply natural gas to the central west of New South Wales and Wagga Wagga is adhered to? [More…]
Can he say what is the (a) nature and (b) value of assistance which other governments have given to Guatemala following the natural disaster there. [More…]
-Could the Treasurer say when the Government intends to introduce a natural disasters insurance scheme? [More…]
Does the Government intend to make available some $300m at very small interest rate to a consortium of large multi-national companies to develop the natural gas field off the North West Shelf. [More…]
How does the Commonwealth validate claims from the States under the natural disaster arrangements. [More…]
Are sandbags required for levee bank strengthening paid for by the Commonwealth through its Natural Disaster Organisation or through the natural disaster arrangement [More…]
Will the proposed Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme include grain and horticultural crop losses from either flood, hail, fire or drought. [More…]
) What other forms of agriculture will be included in the scheme, and what other forms of natural disaster. [More…]
I repeat, however, that it is the Government’s hope that an Australian national song will emerge through a process of natural selection and choice. [More…]
What stores or equipment has been given by the Defence Forces to individuals, civilian groups, State Governments or other Commonwealth Departments during natural disasters in the past 3 years. [More…]
The ANZUS Treaty reflects a natural relationship between these countries of the Pacific Its continuation is not questioned by any of its partners. [More…]
) and (2) The Commonwealth Government is prepared to consider any measures which State Governments propose for acceptance under the terms and conditions associated with the provision of natural disaster assistance to the States. [More…]
1) In view of Australia’s susceptibility to many types of natural disasters and the numerous Government and semiGovernment departments involved in coping with natural disasters, will the Government consider following the lead of the United Kingdom by placing the responsibility for natural national disasters under the authority of one Federal Minister. [More…]
What Federal and State Government departments or authorities are involved in dealing with natural disasters. [More…]
1 ) In the Federal-State understanding on natural disaster assistance, is there automatic inclusion of the various forms of aid after a flood, fire, drought, etc., if they are part of an approved list. [More…]
Is the base amount a State must spend before being eligible for Commonwealth assistance allowed to be the total for assistance for different forms of natural disasters or must each type exceed a base figure. [More…]
It was conducted by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation in conjunction with a French consultant, Sofregaz, a major international natural gas organisation of high repute. [More…]
What is the composition of the working party of insurance industry officials and officers of the Treasury set up by the Government to inquire into the natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
I emphasise the word ‘certain’- of the Royal Commission on Petroleum, particularly in the area of marketing and pricing, should be the subject of close and careful scrutiny by this Parliament and should not be treated like some previous commissions’ recommendations have been treated-pigeon-holed for the term of their natural life. [More…]
I am advised that the registered holders of off-shore petroleum exploration permits on the North West Shelf, in which major discoveries of natural gas have been made and concerning which development proposals are under consideration, are as follows: [More…]
Which operating companies and holding companies are involved in exploration and development of oil and natural gas on the North West Shelf. [More…]
For the information of honourable members I present a discussion paper entitled A Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme for Australia. [More…]
) Has his attention also been drawn to the case notes reported in the Federal Law Review, June 1976, page 233, in which the commentator expressed the view that natural justice had been offended in the matter of a man’s liberty and that some of the Court ruled that its own Rules overruled an Act of this Parliament; if so, is there any substance in these points. [More…]
The Government also wants to see that when it puts money into communities, despite their locality and the natural lack of employment opportunities, there is real opportunity of worthwhile work for the benefit of Aboriginal people in those communities. [More…]
It is the Federal Government’s policy to give permission for the export of quantities of natural gas which will make the venture commercially viable. [More…]
Is the Minister for National Resources aware of reports that Sir Charles Court has agreed with the North West Shelf natural gas consortium that the consortium should be allowed to export approximately 6.5 trillion cubic feet of natural gas? [More…]
Will the Minister assert this sovereignty and inform Sir Charles Court that the level of exports should be commensurate with the long term domestic demand for natural gas and that the Australian Government will be the final arbiter of the issue? [More…]
-The violation of the natural rights of people, wherever it happens, is something to be deplored. [More…]
to (3) Australia has contributed towards the relief of disasters overseas, both natural and man-made, by direct bilateral grants of cash and commodities and also by regular financial support for the activities of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the United Nations Children’s Fund and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency. [More…]
What grants were made for relief for victims of natural disasters in each of the last 5 years. [More…]
Will he initiate in the context of a national energy policy a study of the relative benefits of developing natural gas from the Mereenie fields as against the refinery proposal. [More…]
1 ) Would high level exports of liquefied natural gas, e.g. [More…]
180 billion cubic metres, result in Australia’s remaining gas reserves, as known at present, being insufficient to meet estimated domestic demands up to the year 2000, as suggested in the Australian Natural Gas Utilisation and Transportation Study. [More…]
If so, will he ensure that export of natural gas limited to the level of 80 billion cubic metres as suggested in the study. [More…]
Does his Department itself have the expertise and availability of information which would enable it to recommend the levels of liquefied natural gas which can be exported without detriment to Australia’s interests over the new few decades. [More…]
If not, what other information is available to him which would enable him to properly decide on questions of natural gas export. [More…]
Will he give an assurance, before export permits are granted for North West Shelf gas, that sufficient reserves will be retained to ensure that total Australian demand for natural gas can be met, at least until the year 2000. [More…]
Has the Government considered the adoption of an automotive propane specification such as the United States Natural Gas Processors Association Specification HD5; if not, will it do so. [More…]
Will he examine the potential for the use of compressed natural gas and coal gas as alternative fuels for internal combustion engines. [More…]
Tests have also been conducted by the South Australian Gas Company (SAGASCO) on the use of compressed natural gas for this purpose. [More…]
Has liquefied petroleum gas an import role in a national energy policy; if so, will he take steps to ensure that it is given a higher priority in the Government’s management of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
What has been the result of the invitation extended by the Government to State Governments, the insurance industry and interested community organisations and individuals to make their views known to the Federal Government following the tabling in the Federal Parliament in 1976 of the discussion paper prepared by a working party inquiring into a natural disaster insurance scheme for Australia. [More…]
In view of the national importance of the vast energy reserves locked into the North West Shelf and adjacent areas, will the Minister table the heads of agreement and other relevant documents giving the North West Shelf consortium the right to export natural gas and condensate subject to the results of a feasibility study? [More…]
How many positions have not been filled as a result of natural wastage. [More…]
In the performance of its functions under this Part, the Tribunal shall act fairly and impartially and shall observe the rules of natural justice. [More…]
1 ) The Department of National Resources is examining, inter alia, factors affecting Australia’s energy balance, including the contribution of natural gas ana petroleum products to Australia’s energy requirements. [More…]
Has his Department or any other Government source undertaken a study of, or established a priority scale for, the use of natural gas and petroleum products. [More…]
If so, what level of priority is given to the use of natural gas for (a) private motor vehicles and (b) the generation of electricity in areas which are sufficient in coal or water resources for the generation of electricity from those sources. [More…]
From recollection, the question of a natural disaster insurance scheme was before a meeting of Premiers at a Premiers Conference sometime last year. [More…]
This is something which is natural in the order of things. [More…]
Additional requirements for payments to or for the States include $20m to meet Commonwealth commitments to the States in respect of recent natural disasters, principally drought relief, and $2m to cover increased costs of the Tasman Bridge reconstruction and associated assistance for which the Commonwealth is liable under the agreed arrangements. [More…]
Before the debate on this Bill is resumed I should like to suggest that it may suit the convenience of the House to have a general debate covering this Bill, the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Amendment Bill and the Whaling Amendment Bill as they are associated measures. [More…]
Before the debate is resumed on this Bill and on the amendment moved by the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, I remind the House that it has been agreed that a general debate be allowed covering this Bill, the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Amendment Bill and the Whaling Amendment Bill. [More…]
Has his Department conducted or sponsored any studies of the possibility of converting North West Shelf natural gas to methanol or motor spirit. [More…]
1 ) The purpose of the Joint Geological and Geophysical Research Station at Alice Springs is to gather seismic data which aid in distinguishing underground nuclear explosions from natural phenomena such as earthquakes. [More…]
Does this station collect data which would enable nuclear explosions to be distinguished from natural phenomena which cause seismic disturbances. [More…]
Because they have no policies of any kind they always sink back to that natural habitat where they are most at home. [More…]
I am very glad to remove the Leader of the Opposition from discomfort because being in that position he certainly would be away from his natural habitat. [More…]
Australia became a party to the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage on 22 August 1 974 and the Convention came into force on 19 December 1975. [More…]
Why not have an Australian national oil corporation and an Australian natural gas corporation? [More…]
-For the information of honourable members I present a policy information paper on natural disaster insurance. [More…]
-Does the Minister for Foreign Affairs consider that Australia, as an exporter of natural uranium, should be concerned about the eventual disposal of nuclear fuel? [More…]
Has this had the effect of directing Japanese requirements towards North West Shelf liquid natural gas? [More…]
Can the Minister inform the House of the present trend in relation to this important natural resource? [More…]
The most recently published summary of Australia’s reserves of natural gas and crude oil is given in the Petroleum Newsletter No. [More…]
and (3) The companies involved in natural gas exploitation in Australia are: [More…]
The measures may be summarised as follows: a realistic pricing policy for indigenous crude oil, which has led to increased local production and a corresponding reduction in our demand on the world oil market; encouragement of oil exploration; encouragement of extensive electricity generating capacity based on coal; active pursuit of opportunities for interfuel substitution, particularly in relation to natural gas and LPG; stimulation of energy research and development; and a national energy conservation campaign. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that there is an urgent need to raise risk capital in Australia to minimise the escalation of foreign ownership of natural resources. [More…]
Will Australia’s natural resources be a source of strength and leverage, and give this country freedom to dictate the amount of investment and the rate of exploitation of its resources. [More…]
Will he review the 30/20 rule and permit a proportion of the 20 per cent to be invested in our natural resources to help in the fight against overseas ownership. [More…]
in his recent judgment in Bonser v. La Macchia, fix fair and reasonable prices at the well head in Bass Strait for natural gas produced in Commonwealth territory? [More…]
Will he act to provide interstate pipeline transmission of natural gas by public ownership and control and resolve the present discreditable deadlock in its supply to New South Wales? [More…]
In reply to the second part of the honourable member’s question as to whether the Commonwealth would construct a pipeline to convey natural gas from Melbourne to Sydney, this would be a matter for the States, not for the Commonwealth. [More…]
We will be able to exploit the natural advantage which our geographical location gives us through the use of facilities which will be equal to those available anywhere else in the world. [More…]
Petroleum and natural gas discoveries are increasing and at the present time approximately 10% of the petroleum requirements of this country are provided from local fields. [More…]
I paint this picture not because 1 wish to wax poetic or make honourable members jealous but because the great natural beauty of the electorate of Robertson is highly relevant to the case for special treatment that 1 shall he putting before this House. [More…]
These topographic maps are of particular importance as they show the shape of the terrain, the location of all natural features, mountains, streams, lakes, coastlines and all1 man made features such as towns, homesteads, roads, railways, airfields, reservoirs and the like, all in their correct positions. [More…]
Also in November 1968 the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill was passed and a companion Bill on non-living natural resources was promised. [More…]
As a former State member it is only natural that I share in the growing political awareness of the problems of Commonwealth and State relationships. [More…]
Tasmania is the only State with a natural boundary. [More…]
That is natural enough because what discussion there has been has taken place at the State level where there are special interests to preserve. [More…]
I believe that all these people, being natural born Australians, have the inalienable right to come back to this country. [More…]
This occurred in many areas of Australia where the natural environmental production was wool and coarse grains rather than wheat. [More…]
Albany possesses a natural harbour that has been used since the beginnings of Australia’s history and it has had grow up around it a hinterland of great importance to the State. [More…]
1 believe it is a natural corollary of the motion before the House, lt seems totally unreasonable to argue that we should look at all the various causes associated with aircraft noise and possible solutions to these problems yet completely ignore anything to do with the siting of future aerodromes or the resiting of existing aerodromes. [More…]
In this situation there is a very natural inclination, I am afraid, on the part of industry organisations and individual primary producers to grasp at straws. [More…]
There is also a very natural inclination on the part of the Government to offer apparent solutions which may be superficially attractive - for instance, the concept of direct or indirect subsidies - and the producers can be excused if they agree with whoever is advocating such policies. [More…]
Of course, there has been an immediate and pained reaction from the various States but the hard truth is that this Government has only itself to blame because it has ignored the repeated warnings of the Opposition as to what the true legal and constitutional position is, was and always has been, that is, that the Australian national Government has the sole and the sovereign paramount right to decide what is to be done in the way of production of oil and natural gas in particular, the terms under which it is to be produced, the areas which are to be allocated to the producers and, above all, the ultimate price that is to be paid by the consumers. [More…]
Our greatest national asset is undoubtedly those oil and natural gas resources which lie under our off-shore waters, in particular those of Bass Strait. [More…]
Three and a half million to four million motorists and commercial operators have an interest in the ultimate price of the petrol, the diesel fuel and the natural gas which will come from the off-shore oil wells. [More…]
In fact, one might say that it is performing something like Solomon’s judgment because it cannot decide the parentage of a transmission line for natural gas from Bass Strait to Sydney, Newcastle, Wollongong and other major industrial centres in New South Wales. [More…]
On the question of the route, the proposed one is undoubtedly the correct one, but let me remind the House that Melbourne got its first natural gas in 1968. [More…]
Heaven only knows on what date in 1970 natural gas - which is the property of the people of Australia and not of Sir Henry Bolte and his cohorts in Victoria - will come to feed the major industries of the major State of Australia. [More…]
Unless and until there is some decision on the price of the natural gas Sydney and the other major cities of New South Wales will never receive it. [More…]
May I remind the House that in 1967, when natural gas was first discovered, it was discovered on an illegal permit and a lease issued by the Victorian Government with the connivance and the consent of the Commonwealth Government. [More…]
Without burdening the House with the details, I point out that the truth is that in Victoria the wholesale price of natural gas is of the order of 3.6c per therm. [More…]
In Canada the price of natural gas is 1.4c per them. [More…]
In the United States - let it be noted that in that stronghold of private enterprise there is a Federal Power Commission - the price of natural gas is 1.5c per therm. [More…]
Following the discussion we had regarding the disposal inter-State of natural gas from the discoveries of petroleum off the shore of Victoria, I believe we have come to the following understanding. [More…]
We are agreed that Victoria should not be required to approve any transaction for the sale of natural gas inter-State which would have the effect of putting Victoria at a disadvantage in relation to that inter-Slate purchaser, having regard to the following: 1 Adequate reserves are available to meet contractual obligations already entered into. [More…]
In other words, the supply of natural gas for Victoria was to be assured. [More…]
In other words, the position is that a State which never had the constitutional power to do so is still dictating to another sovereign State the price that is to be paid for natural gas. [More…]
That being so all natural gas and crude oil is being produced on Commonwealth territory and it is the Commonwealth alone which has the power to fix at thegate valve - on the drilling platform in Bass Strait - the correct and fair price for natural gas. [More…]
The price structure is this contemptible, illiterate and unintelligible arrangement - a matter of an exchange of letters which has never been ratified by this House and by which Sir Henry Bolte for all time is to decide the price and the terms and conditions on which natural gas flows to New South Wales. [More…]
Undoubtedly the resolution was published which, in its natural meaning, amounted to an incitement to mutiny. [More…]
As 1 said, the Reserve Bank is not dealing with a disastrous situation, but it is taking a very natural and logical course to curb the further movement of inflation. [More…]
In reply to the honourable member’s question, which contained not only a number of imputations but also statements and questions, I would say firstly that naturally I am concerned at the deaths that occurred over the past 2 to 3 weeks as a consequence of encounters with mines. [More…]
As a consequence, regrettably, some of our forces would suffer the fate that I mentioned before and it would be a natural, human reaction for a commander to comment in the manner alleged to him by the honourable member. [More…]
Few lawyers have a natural preference for drafting and it will not ordinarily attract a sufficient number of suitable practitioners from other fields of legal work unless a career in parliamentary drafting is given a status such as will counterbalance what is thought to be its lack of appeal. [More…]
When there is a major problem to be solved there is a natural tendency to look for a panacea, a single solution to a complex problem. [More…]
There has been, in the last few years, a vast upsurge of interest in conservation, in preserving our natural assets and beauties. [More…]
Old enmities and prejudices are forgotten in a desire to lead a natural life free of strain and tension. [More…]
With an increase in their armed forces from 600,000 to over 1 million in a country with a population of 16 million it is only natural that severe strains have been placed on the economy. [More…]
The basic contention of the Labor Party is that Australia’s strategic frontiers are its natural boundaries. [More…]
The basic contention of the Labor Party is that Australia’s strategic frontiers are its natural boundaries. [More…]
In the preliminary statement to the specifications is a statement that the reactor must be capable of being fuelled by natural uranium. [More…]
Natural uranium processed in an atomic reactor is the short cut to plutonium, which in its turn is the base of atomic weapons. [More…]
The last two countries still adhering to the natural uranium type of reactor are Canada and France. [More…]
Canada has substantial supplies and it can afford to take the short cut and use the natural uranium type of reactor. [More…]
Natural uranium ore, when it is charged into a reactor, is uranium 238. [More…]
I have shared the experiences, as apparently the honourable member has, of natural phenomena, and I am not inclined to forget them. [More…]
We do not have the rich natural resources of some other States. [More…]
The committee recommended further research into means for speedy transfer of the cargo from a stranded tanker; methods of firing oil in stranded tankers and on the sea surface; effects of natural factors on the movement, dispersal and destruction of oil at sea; oil sinking, scavenging and gelling agents; more effective but less toxic detergents; detergent spraying and other cleansing equipment; mechanical methods of removing oil both from the sea surface and from beaches; cheap and effective booms, primarily for protecting harbours and inlets; and the effects of pollution on marine life, sea birds and coastal vegetation, and ways of minimising them. [More…]
lt is also interesting to find in the report of the committee in the United Kingdom reference to the effects of natural factors on the movement, dispersal and destruction of oil at sea. [More…]
This stimulus is most necessary if we are to develop our natural resources, justify our occupation of this huge country, have our standard of living improve at a fast rate and put ourselves in a position where we can play our part in world development and affairs-diplomatically, economically and, if necessary, militarily, particularly in South East Asia. [More…]
After all, Australia has nearly 3 million square miles of land and within it are undeniably vast natural resources of every type. [More…]
In summary, there is such a mammoth sum required to meet the opportunities which our natural resources present and our own capacity for investment from savings is so small that we must encourage foreign capital on a reasonably fair basis. [More…]
As the honourable member has said, an enormous expansion is taking place in the development of our natural resources today. [More…]
The adoption of an overall conversion period of about 10 years will allow advantage to be taken in many sectors of natural obsolescence and depreciation. [More…]
Japan is almost completely lacking in fuel and natural resources for its vast industries. [More…]
The provision of financial assistance and relief for those affected by natural disasters such as Cyclone Ada is primarily the responsibility of State Governments. [More…]
Little water will come from its tributaries in New South Wales because in future many of its valleys and rivers from which water now flows into the Darling will have their own dams, weirs or some other form of storage which will eventually dry up the natural flow into the Darling River. [More…]
This is only natural. [More…]
It is not true that this nation, by comparison with other nations in arid zones, has done very much of an impressive nature to exploit the natural water resources of the inland which must be exploited if we are to progress. [More…]
It is only natural in circumstances such as this that tempers can sometimes become frayed and members sometimes become extremely edgy, but at all times I believe that honourable members on both sides of the Parliament should endeavour to conduct themselves with dignity so that the institution of Parliament is not brought into disrepute. [More…]
A number of studies of the prospects for development of central Queensland, including a study by the Department of National Development in conjunction with the State Department of Industrial Development, have pointed to the imposing array of natural resources which exist in the region. [More…]
That is what has been done for Vietnam and that is why the opposition to the war is natural and understandable. [More…]
Opposition to the war in Vietnam and to conscription for it is a normal and natural way of feeling about a situation which is possessed by tens of thousands of normal human beings who need no conspiracies from overseas or anywhere else to explain their conduct. [More…]
Our young people have been led to believe that all these pornographic films and that sort of thing are part of a perfectly natural and acceptable way of life. [More…]
In a world-wide awakening to the need to conserve unique, rare and beautiful areas, the majority of Australians sleep on oblivious of ugly acts of rape in various parts of our country in the interests of stripping natural resources, often by foreign firms for transitory profit gains. [More…]
Previously the parties were willing to claim the credit for the natural development that took place in this country. [More…]
These people now see that the earlier situation arose as a result of a natural course of events that took place under Liberal-Country Party governments, for which they tried to take credit in the early stages, and that the present situation has arisen as a result of a natural course of events. [More…]
In the natural course of events, a meeting took place, as I mentioned in reply to a question from the honourable member for Oxley, on 2nd April of this year. [More…]
The political stability and security of the area depend on their economic progress, know-how, development of natural resources and, in some cases, agriculture. [More…]
Now the higher courts of Papua and New Guinea have declared that Councillor To Rangis was denied natural justice. [More…]
But the Supreme Court of the Territory has said in effect that the courts of law discriminated against the men whom we saw because of their miscarriages of justice and denials of natural justice. [More…]
Throughout the whole history of legislation and negotiation relating to natural gas, oil and the continental shelf generally we have from time to time pointed out the illegality and the unconstitutional nature of the various arrangements which have been made. [More…]
In respect of the continental shelf, it declares and enacts that sovereign rights for the exploration and exploitation of the natural resources of the shelf are vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Modern technological development led, however, to the recognition by international law, in the years that followed World War II, of the exclusive right of a coastal state to control the exploration and exploitation of the natural resources of the seabed and subsoil not only of the territorial sea but of areas beyond it and adjacent to it. [More…]
The .position both under customary international law and in the 1958 convention is expressed in the current rule that the coastal state exercises over the continental shelf sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources’. [More…]
The central idea is that what is generally called the ‘continental shelf is the natural prolongation, into and under the sea, of the land territory of a coastal state. [More…]
What Article 1 says is that, for the purpose of the Articles, the term ‘continental shelf is used as referring to: the seabed and subsoil of the submarine areas adjacent to the coast but outside the area of the territorial sea to a depth of 200 metres or, beyond that limit, to where the depth of the superjacent waters admits of the exploitation of the natural resources of the said areas.’ [More…]
Firstly, in the formula customarily used where an Act is regarded as stating the law as it already exists, as well as possibly making new law, the Bill declares and enacts that the sovereignty in the territorial sea is vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth - this is in clause 5; similarly that the sovereign rights of Australia for the exploration and exploitation of the natural resources of the continental shelf are vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth - this is in clause 10; and that sovereignty in the internal waters of Australia, with the important exception of waters that were internal waters of the States at the time of federation, and still remain such, is likewise vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth - this is in clauses 9 and 11, which must be read together. [More…]
I believe that this is a laudable and a natural feeling. [More…]
As regards the income eligibility test, the use of gross income figures will minimise the effect of abnormal expenditure in times when, for example, drought or other natural disasters may be a problem and it would be of more benefit to a bona fide primary producer who incurs high expenditure in his rural activities. [More…]
I refer to such matters as the extent of discretionary powers and regulation making powers; the provision of appeals in appropriate cases from administrative determinations; the observance of natural justice in administrative proceedings; the conferring of powers of entry, search and arrest; retrospective legislation; departures from the ordinary rules of evidence; and onus of proof. [More…]
To most of us, I would think, it was presumed that this would be a road decently and discreetly set inside Capital Hill in such a way that it would not destroy the natural environment of Canberra. [More…]
We can remember the early days when films like ‘For the Term of His Natural Life’ were produced, the era of the Dad and Dave films which I suppose were entertaining to many Australians, and finally the efforts which culminated in the production of ‘They’re a Weird Mob’, which was a pretty good film. [More…]
The best way to do that is through positive steps for tourist development and positive steps for the development of natural resources keeping in mind all the time the great need for the conservation of the Reef and the contiguous areas. [More…]
Most of us in this Parliament will be very much aware of the nationwide interest in saving the natural beauty and wonders of the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
Some experts blame it on the concrete promenades which were built 30 years ago; others on the high-rise units that have been built on the waters edge during the past decade; while others blame the erosion on the regrettable removal of sand from the natural and once extensive Cronulla sand hills. [More…]
lt is to be hoped that, clawing and clutching for money, we do not become also a byword for the destruction of a great natural wonder and that we can preserve fish and crustaceans inhabiting our coastline. [More…]
My Department is, however, currently engaged in a survey of expenditure on research and development throughout Australia, in both the -natural and social sciences. [More…]
This was natural because this is the body with which the Government has dealt over the years. [More…]
Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Chairman of Trustees of the British Museum of Natural History and Chairman of the Indian Ocean Biological Centre Consultative Committee. [More…]
I know of no important country, other than Australia, where the Government exhibits an indifference as to whether its natural resources or production opportunities are owned in whole or in part by overseas interests. [More…]
The facility will be fashioned and equipped especially to assist projects in export industries, and industries founded on Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
So it was natural that the principle should have been resolved to determine the fees most commonly charged or customarily charged, as the AMA put it, and that the rebates which a patient would receive would be based on that common fee. [More…]
Such a view overlooks the regard that the public still has and will continue to have for the family doctor and the natural desire on the patient’s part to have one doctor treat him for all conditions for which he is competent to treat him. [More…]
Other military incendiary substances are inorganic in nature and do not themselves produce carbon monoxide: however, ignition of natural combustibles resulting from the use of these incendiary substances will produce some carbon monoxide, the amount depending on the conditions of combustion and the nature of the combustible material. [More…]
As I see it, this is only natural. [More…]
In such circumstances it is natural that in the past housing has been regarded as one piece of an economic jigsaw puzzle rather than as something of supreme national importance in itself. [More…]
He had tabled correspondence with the Premier of Victoria concerning natural gas since he had cleared that matter with the Premier. [More…]
In considering the honourable member’s proposal for ‘ the provision of credit a government would have to balance the need to expand and diversify exports as much as possible with the need for importing as much capital as we can get into this country to build up our strength and develop our huge natural resources which we are now trying to develop with our relatively tiny resources of labour and capital. [More…]
Naturally the Australian Labor Party welcomes the Commonwealth’s participation in the provision of electricity in central Queensland, which is an area where power ‘lias been hardest to come by and is the most expensive in Australia. [More…]
that power was the determining factor in the development of the natural resources in the area and the attraction of greater human resources to the area. [More…]
Today, despite actual competition from oil and the potential rivalry of natural gas, discovered in 1965, the Commission expects to stabilise within a few years, at a rate of increase somewhat less than that to which it has been accustomed. [More…]
Central Queensland has a vast area of natural resources which are exciting in their magnitude and variety. [More…]
In raw materials alone it offers coking and non-coking coal, beach sands, salt, pyrites, limestone, copper, nickel, gold, silver, natural gas and several others. [More…]
The integration of the basic natural resources of Queensland and the northern part of Western Australia could result in Queensland’s becoming the most industrialsed State in the Commonwealth within 50 years. [More…]
Australia is very fortunate in having natural deposits of such magnitudelocated close to ports. [More…]
The region contains an imposing array of natural resources; it possesses great scope for agricultural and pastoral expansion; it contains extensive mineral resources, notably large deposits of coal including cheaply available good grade steaming coal; there is potential for large water conservation schemes for industrial development purposes and there are good ports and harbours. [More…]
The Government proposes to build the causeway at this point, thus enclosing to the south and to the east a huge area of water which, I am advised, is one of the few natural deep water ports in the world. [More…]
The Garden Island site is a natural port. [More…]
With the rapid development that is taking place in that area, it is obvious that this natural harbour at Garden Island has the potential for a major shipping port in the years to come. [More…]
Cockburn Sound is a natural harbour. [More…]
There is no other part of the world today that has greater natural resources than does the State of Western Australia. [More…]
The natural resources are there and development is taking place very rapidly. [More…]
I have every confidence that the base is being placed in the right area, lt is being placed in an area that has a natural harbour that affords good protection and in an area which has plenty of room. [More…]
As history shows, our treatment of natural fauna has not been too kind. [More…]
The ibis goes all over Australia and it is a great natural asset because it rids the swamps and other places of various things such as fluke and crickets and minute organisms which harass the primary producer. [More…]
I think on a motion as wide ranging as this is in relation to the protection of our natural fauna, all honourable members in this House will support the motion that has been moved by the honourable member for Henty. [More…]
Future generations will not thank us when they remember that some of the most valuable fauna of this country are now extinct because we were not prepared to accept the responsibility for providing the kind of protection that is necessary to preserve what are, after all, our natural assets. [More…]
I know of no important country, other than Australia, where the Government exhibits an indifference as to whether its natural resources or production opportunities are owned in whole or in part by overseas interests. [More…]
I know of no important country, other than Australia, where the Government exhibits a complete indifference as to whether its natural resources or production opportunities are owned in whole or in part by overseas interests. [More…]
There has been a complete indifference on the part of the Government for 20 years as to whether Australian natural resources and production opportunities are owned in whole or in part by overseas interests. [More…]
The facility will be fashioned and equipped especially to assist projects in export industries, and industries founded on Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
The need in view of the increasing overseas control of commercial undertakings and key industries and the overseas takeover of natural resources, to appoint an all-party Parliamentary Committee to inquire into all aspects of overseas investment in Australia and how best it can be planned. [More…]
I want the House to consider also the hundreds of thousands of people - I am not exaggerating, because it is estimated that at Christmas time 100,000 people come to The Entrance for their holidays - who come to this area for their Christmas holidays, school holidays or weekends in order to take advantage of the natural benefits. [More…]
I rise on a matter in which a citizen of the Commonwealth has been denied natural justice, by a purported legal means. [More…]
All this should take place within certain natural and agreed guidelines that have the national interest as a whole at heart. [More…]
It is only natural that before legislation which affects the States is introduced into this Parliament discussion would take place with the States in connection with it and that discussion would be carried through to its conclusion. [More…]
Further I believe that there should be negotiations which will see an amicable settlement and a firm agreement in this matter and which will help us all to find the best solution to the problems associated with the use of our great natural resources. [More…]
He did not even do the natural thing. [More…]
However, it does have information that the installation of storm chokes or similar devices in all off-shore wells, which produce by natural flow rather than by pumping or other methods of artificial lift, is required by Regulation or Directive in Australia, the United States of America and the United Kingdom. [More…]
This safety valve, when installed, prevents a naturally producing well from flowing out of control or blowing wild should the surface controls fail or become damaged. [More…]
Storm chokes generally are installed in all off-shore wells produced by natural flow so as to provide protection from damage to the platform, and to (he riser between the sea floor and the platform deck. [More…]
In Australia, the installation of storm chokes in off-shore wells, producing by natural flow, is mandatory. [More…]
It was sufficiently large for the Italian Government to utilise its services to purchase the reserves of natural gas that were discovered in Italy and to ensure that those reserves were utilised for the benefit ot the nation. [More…]
The prime object of this Bill is alleged to be to ensure adequate Australian participation in the exploitation of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
Of course, there remain big tasks to be undertaken in developing Australian industry and natural resources. [More…]
Primarily what is being exploited are Australian natural resources. [More…]
The annual report of the ARDB shows that the biggest advances that have been promised are: Something like $65m for bauxite and alumina, something in the region of S40m for nickel, something in the region of $40m for iron ore, $40m for oil and natural gas, $20m for zinc, SI 5m for coal, $10m for pyrites and some $15m for other fields. [More…]
Mr Tsung pointed out that vast sums are involved in developing Aus*tralia’s natural resources. [More…]
lt was astonishing to hear the Minister far Trade and Industry say that he knew of no important country other than Australia where the government exhibits a complete indifference as to whether its natural resources or production opportunities .ire owned in whole or in part by overseas interests. [More…]
This is very natural as we reach up to and beyond the ceiling of employment. [More…]
One feels, as one feels in Asian countries sometimes, that there is a natural embarrassment and a reticence to try to analyse their own feelings. [More…]
The dried fruits industry is more susceptible than any other primary industry to the vagaries of the weather and natural disaster. [More…]
I think it is extraordinary that such an important and successful industry should have been left exposed for so long to the natural disasters which are endemic in the areas in which the industry is situated. [More…]
I hope that, against this background of extraordinarily fine performance, we will be able to note and act accordingly to the needs which are created so regularly as the result of the natural disasters which are endemic in the areas and to the industry itself. [More…]
It should be clearly understood that the engineering view that ocean out-fall in natural waters is the most suitable way to dispose of sewage is just not true today . [More…]
What areas of our continent and its environs are capable of being used and developed and their natural resources husbanded in such a way that they may not be destroyed? [More…]
I have dealt at some length, and I suppose it is natural for a Queenslander to do so, with the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
Does he also agree that such a route would be of inestimable value as a drought relief road which would enable stock from Queensland and New South Wales to bc quickly and economically transported from areas which are subject to prolonged drought to lush irrigated and natural pastures in New South Wales and Victoria? [More…]
Two others I proposed at the 1967 Senate elections, on education and natural disasters, were rejected; another on overseas control of resources was partly debated, and the 2 on poverty and housing have never even been debated. [More…]
A new responsibility- could emerge in representational government.- The emergence of a committee system would thus be a natural development. [More…]
It is extraordinary that water, although most inert in its natural form, immediately becomes a very fiery topic the moment you start putting it into a dam. [More…]
lt would do well for Federal and State government authorities to look closely at the keyline system of irrigation, lt is a very simple process in which natural landscaping and runoff are used. [More…]
While others are going broke around him and are in extreme trouble - and no people are in more trouble than the third generation graziers in that area: people who pioneered the area now look as though they may have to pack their swags and walk off the land - he is buying sheep for next to nothing and fattening them in his feed pens, simply because he has used the natural resources on his land. [More…]
The foreword continued: lt is the one commodity needed to guarantee constant production and without it a rising population cannot enjoy the natural desire to develop a wonderful piece of a great Continent to the full. [More…]
Because of the Commonwealth Government’s acknowledged constitutional authority over minerals and petroleum products beneath the submerged lands of our continental shelf, will the Prime Minister take immediate action to settle the dispute regarding the price of natural gas which is delaying the distribution of this important fuel to New South Wales? [More…]
In regard to the transference of natural gas from Melbourne to Sydney, which I believe is what the honourable member is referring to, this matter is one which should be decided by the State Government of Victoria and the State Government of New South Wales and whatever group of people they get together to build a pipeline when they decide where they want that pipeline to run. [More…]
But, as I say, we have reservations which are only natural in schemes which are so revolutionary and new as this one is. [More…]
It is only natural that people and country towns are going to be hurt . [More…]
The reality of this situation is that Australia with its vast area and natural wealth will be the only Western coun try in Asia. [More…]
Has the Minister considered widening the scope of national service to include matters of civil defence such as natural disaster relief and a coastguard service which would at once constitute a constructive contribution to the national welfare and obviate the protests of those who oppose national service as a means by which they can be involved in a particular war? [More…]
Subsequently Mr Justice Minogue in the Supreme Court of the Territory held that there had been ‘denial of natural justice’ and ‘gross miscarriage of justice’ in cases in connection with the affair which led to their imprisonment. [More…]
Those regions have very little to do with the artificial boundaries arranged by the clerks at Whitehall in the middle of last century but have everything to do with the natural growth of this country over the past century. [More…]
This is the proper business of the State governments, lt is a natural argument for someone who wants to centralise everything in Canberra that local authorities should be financed and no doubt closely directed by the Government in Canberra. [More…]
This is natural. [More…]
This is the way the State Premiers would naturally react. [More…]
But the Labor Government in Queensland after the Second World War made a survey of Queensland’s natural resources and set under way development programmes some of which continue to the present time. [More…]
I mention the construction of the natural gas pipe lines in Victoria and New South Wales as a work which I believe the Corporation could perform but which appears to be beyond its present charter. [More…]
It was only natural that there had to be a tapering off in this Held. [More…]
I think it is to the credit of the Government that it has found not only in Australia but also overseas opportunities for these men to engage their skills and to have some opportunity of carrying forward into the future their great capacity in this important field of conservation and construction, lt is naturally disappointing to them that they do not have something comparable with the Snowy Mountains scheme to which to turn. [More…]
My Department is conducting a survey (Project SCORE) designed to provide accurate information on Australia’s expenditure on research and development in the natural and social sciences, on the sources of supporting funds and on the manpower engaged in research and development activities. [More…]
As the strength of the economy gathers, as it does because of natural growth factors and so on, it will be possible for more and more of these services to be absorbed by the economy and by this scheme. [More…]
There will not be a great deal of difference in the manner of appointing the chairman but when one considers that the Government will contribute much more finance it is natural for it to have more say in the industry. [More…]
This is a blatant case of a denial of natural justice. [More…]
The honourable member started off by saying that this issue was a denial of natural justice. [More…]
It is not merely by way of instinct but also by way of discipline that I warm to any suggestion that there has been any denial of natural justice, that a person has not had the opportunity to be heard. [More…]
The soils, as we know, are amongst the most fertile in their natural state in Australia. [More…]
Nuclear power stations using natural or enriched uranium produce isotopes of plutonium during their operation. [More…]
Can he yet make available the results of the examination of natural disaster relief schemes operated in the United States, Canada and New Zealand (Hansard 26th September 1969, page 2133). [More…]
In view of the wide range of natural disasters that have been experienced in Canada and the United States, the relief schemes operating in those countries involve a number of complex arrangements. [More…]
That is only natural. [More…]
However, I understand that Carlton and United Breweries has said that the research involved an improved process for extraction of resins from natural hops. [More…]
In old fashioned jargon it could be called a denial of natural justice. [More…]
The Government, through its spokesman at that time, contented itself with rather flippant remarks about the apparent inconsistencies between the Labor Party’s long term policy of no additional senators and of abolishing the Senate and its attitude to the pressing need to give some kind of representation somewhere - the Senate being the natural and obvious choice - to the people of the Territories. [More…]
It is natural that they feel a sense of deprivation and injustice when they have tomeet excessive expenses and other inconveniences because conditions of Service life have not been modernised. [More…]
Does the Minister for National Development support the Victor- ian Premier’s persistent attitude that Bass Strait natural gas shall not be sold to New South Wales consumers at prices below those in Victoria? [More…]
Will he speed consideration of the legislation to confirm the Commonwealth’s undoubted rights to the Bass Strait area so that it can exercise its undoubted power to fix the well head price of natural gas? [More…]
This is the direct result of our natural apathy. [More…]
was only natural because no-one would seriously and sincerely believe or accept that a pensioner or a pensioner couple could possibly live in a decent and adequate manner on the amounts I have mentioned. [More…]
This is a natural result of their low economic status, home sickness, yearning for a cultural affinity and identity of their own and a general lack of confidence when commencing such a profound change in their life style. [More…]
It states that while the reactors we are looking at now will use natural uranium, certain countries which have used such reactors have now made a change and will not use natural uranium in their nuclear reactors in the future. [More…]
It is natural that I should take this interest in the welfare of aged people. [More…]
The opportunities opened up by widespread natural resource discoveries, together with the relative stability of the domes tic economy, havegivenadded impetus to the inflow of capitalto Australia. [More…]
It is not to be expected that, in a developing community such as Australia, with 12.5 million people spread over 3 million square miles of country, with 54% of our population living in 6 capital cities, high expenditure on the development of Australia’s natural resources is avoidable. [More…]
In fact, only in Tasmania is significant industrial decentralisation to be found, based on an unusual, for Australia, decentralisation of population, on a partly fortunate distribution of natural resources and also on the greater availability of port access and waterways than is general in the other States. [More…]
On Thursday, 20th August, a request was made to Mr Justice Taylor that the case be heard by the Court of Appeal of New South Wales on the grounds that the men had been denied natural justice and that their actions did not constitute in law contempt of court. [More…]
Mr Justice Taylor held that there could be an arguable complaint about a denial of natural justice and he was concerned whether their conduct constituted contempt of court. [More…]
It is only natural that those people who have lines that do not meet the specifications of the Department will have to wait perhaps up to 8 to 10 years before the Department does something about these lines. [More…]
1 take up the final point that was mentioned by the honourable member for Sturt (Mr Foster) on the question of development because one matter that I feel should be referred to during this debate is the exciting prospect of Australia’s natural resource development, which is contingent in part on the economic climate engendered by this Budget, f must also condemn the Opposition for its irresponsible criticism of the Budget by advocating massive spending under what it terms a responsible economic policy. [More…]
I would now like to give the House an outline of part of the story of Australia’s natural resource development, because it is only by making Australia great and strong in these fields as well that economic prosperity and a high standard of living for a rising population can be achieved and guidelines to economic progress can be laid down with confidence. [More…]
Australia is assessing and developing natural resources at a greater rate than ever before, giving fresh impetus lo national growth and building a sound foundation for the future. [More…]
There has been, on the past of Australian governments, a conscious effort pursued with vigour to seek out, evaluate, and, with the co-operation of private enterprise, develop the nation’s natural resources in minerals, forests, water and the land itself. [More…]
There are 4 principal aspects to the development of Australia’s natural wealth: The rapid expansion of minerals output, the building up and diversification of energy resources to meet the needs of an expanding and increasingly industrialised nation, the enlargement of water storage capacity for industry and domestic needs and for irrigation, and the planting of new forests of softwoods. [More…]
The large minerals expansion that has taken place in the last decade has been in the vanguard of the development of our natural resources, and particularly in the impact of those resources on our national economy, lt has been estimated that investment in the Australian minerals industry in the last decade has exceeded $2, 300m - mainly on iron ore, coal, bauxite, oil and natural gas. [More…]
Some developments in natural resources are inter-related. [More…]
In addition, natural gas, a comparatively new energy source for Australia, is expected to satisfy about 9% of the total primary energy market by 19S0. [More…]
We have achieved a greater sophistication in technology and, above all, we have brought to the development and processing of our natural resources, those skills and techniques that will assure Australia’s place in the comity of economically strong and progressive nations. [More…]
In order to preserve the natural flora and fauna to the greatest possible extent, that Department has been consulted on all aspects of site development. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
The kangaroo is being exploited whilst facts on populations and numbers of kangaroos is unknown - any day the numbers can bc reduced below that level needed for survival of droughts and natural mortality. [More…]
that Canadian nuclear power experts are claiming that the only tender for the nuclear power station at Jervis Bay which can be costed accurately is the tender submitted by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd for a CANDU type reactor using natural uranium? [More…]
Did the invitation to tender specify a reactor using natural uranium? [More…]
Is natural uranium still the fuel which the Government prefers? [More…]
ls the Minister aware that the United Kingdom, West Germany and Sweden have discarded the use of natural uranium for future reactors? [More…]
On the question of Australian fuel, it was not expressed in the tenders that this should be natural uranium. [More…]
This does not mean that the reactor contract will be restricted to the use of natural uranium. [More…]
But there is a condition with which all tenderers will have to comply, and that is that they use Australian uranium in the future, whether it be in the form of natural uranium, partly enriched uranium or enriched uranium. [More…]
It is normal Commonwealth policy in the case of all States to expect the States to bear the costs of natural disaster up to a point which is considered reasonable for their State Budgets to be able to cover. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party and the militant trade unions have combined with natural phenomena, such as drought, to cripple the rural industry. [More…]
It is very natural. [More…]
It is a natural area capable of growing the highest quality juice in this country. [More…]
The planning should be coordinated by a federal economic advisory committee, backed up by a full time, expert staff and drawing on the advice of specialist committees on agriculture, natural resources, small industries, large industries, power, transport and communications, overseas trade and foreign investment, social services, labour, urban development and scientific and technical research. [More…]
Population increases in the urban areas also result from natural increase, and from the movement of native-born persons to urban areas as well as from immigration. [More…]
Most financial assistance provided by the Commonwealth is designed, inter alia, to help State Governments cope with the increasing demand for State services occasioned by the growth in population whether from immigration or natural increase. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
None of the weak attempts by a succession of honourable members on the other side of the House has lessened the natural antagonism of all fair-minded Australians to this gross miscarriage of justice. [More…]
Secondly, of the 10 per cent increase some 3 per cent, or nearly one-third of it, is due to natural population growth. [More…]
In the two preceding Budgets the real value of the pension was increased and I know that there is a natural disappoint ment that this continuing increase in the real value of the pension has not been repeated this time. [More…]
Then there is the technical problem of wool which like other natural fibres, is meeting competition from artificial substitutes. [More…]
The simple fact is that the faster growth of local and semigovernment debt is a natural corollary to the large increases in the borrowing programmes of these authorities approved by the Australian Loan Council each year, which have in turn brought about rapid increases in their capital works programmes. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
I suppose it is natural that people would like to see certain things changed. [More…]
This is only natural. [More…]
In such circumstances it is natural that in the past housing has been regarded as one piece of an economic jigsaw puzzle rather than as something of supreme national importance in itself. [More…]
If the submission made by the Minister for Social Services does nothing else, it does allow more natural time for parliamentary debate and it does allow honourable members more time to concentrate on committe work which can be constantly interrupted if members are required to dash away from a sitting to answer the call of the quorum bells. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
I understand that a measure of protection for farmers who find themselves in financial difficulties due to circumstances beyond their control, such as natural disasters, may be available under some existing State legislation. [More…]
So far as the banking system is concerned, I am informed that the Reserve Bank has been assured on many occasions that the trading banks give sympathetic consideration to requests for assistance from rural clients who because of natural disasters including drought, experience difficulties in meeting repayments on bank loans. [More…]
Did the New South Wales State Planning Authority, in its ‘Sydney Outline Plan’, strongly recommend the release of the LiverpoolHolsworthy military manoeuvre area to facilitate the natural growth of Sydney? [More…]
Would it not be a natural reaction for such a public servant, or anyone for that matter, to draw the conclusion that the Government considers the importance of a back bench member inferior to that of the public servant? [More…]
It is natural that we as Australians should know more of the United States than they would know of us since it is the greatest economic and political power in the world today. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless provision is made for its future. [More…]
The Kangaroo is being exploited whilst facts on populations and numbers of kangaroos are unknown - any day the numbers can be reduced below that level needed for survival of droughts and natural mortality. [More…]
Is it true that the radio active wastes produced from a natural uranium nuclear reactor pose a far greater disposal problem than the waste produced from an enriched uranium reactor? [More…]
Bearing these factors in mind, and also the fact that nuclear wastes must be stored for 1,000 years, why did the tender specifications for the Jervis Bay project express a preference for a reactor type using natural uranium fuel which, of course, loads the specifications in favour of the Canadian tenderer? [More…]
1 turn to the question regarding natural uranium. [More…]
But we did not indicate that it was to be natural uranium or whether it was to be processed to the enrichment stage. [More…]
My understanding is that the charge with natural uranium lasts approximately 2 years and that, in fact certain types of partly enriched and enriched uranium would have about :h same period. [More…]
When it comes to the question of the disposal of waste material, the situation differs between the waste that is produced from enriched uranium and from natural uranium. [More…]
So, the amount of waste from the use of natural uranium and enriched uranium is practically identical. [More…]
Each of these parties does not necessarily have the same identity of interest and it is natural for them to tend to prefer their own particular interests. [More…]
There is another factor which is perhaps worth mentioning in relation to this and that is that this factory is a user of natural gas. [More…]
So not only do we get the benefit of using natural gas in this factory but, because it is a major user, it may even have made it economic to pipe the natural gas from the Roma field down to Brisbane with all the benefits that that brings. [More…]
I believe we should not allow exploration companies to reap the benefits of Australia’s natural resources purely and simply because they have found them. [More…]
The principle should be that Australia’s natural wealth belongs to the people of Australia and not to the shareholders of uranium exploration companies. [More…]
To be fair, I consider we should meet the exploration costs incurred by companies exploring for minerals and then allow them a fair profit on the sale of the natural product for Australia’s own use. [More…]
Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968 [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
Accordingly, the national Government was able effectively and promptly to act to safeguard the natural and the financial resources of Australia. [More…]
Australians are very greatly limited in safeguarding their resources - financial and natural resources - by the fact that we have to go through the cumbersome procedure of amending not only the ordinances of the 2 mainland Territories but also the Acts of the 6 Australian States. [More…]
But at the same time it is recognised that there are occasions when, in the short term, special aid has to be provided in the way of food or other materials of that nature when some natural disaster affects the country concerned. [More…]
It is the natural time for a person to sleep. [More…]
Has the Minister for National Development noticed statistics suggesting the urgent need for natural gas to replace heavy fuel oils and dieselene in industry due to the high gravity of Australian crude oil? [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the work done by Mr Steele Hall, when Premier of South Australia, to bring together parties interested in a supply of natural gas to New South Wales? [More…]
Finally, is it correct that New South Wales and South Australia have reached agreement on a supply of natural gas to New South Wales subject only to a further - feasibility study on supply from the Gidgealpa and possibly the Mereenie fields? [More…]
However, the answer to the question about the replacement of fuel oil by natural gas is very obvious: Natural gas can, under some circumstances and where economically feasible, take the place of heavy fuel oil. [More…]
We hope that there will be an increasing opportunity for the use of natural gas in Australia. [More…]
At the moment I do not know whether South Australia and New South Wales have entered into any agreement in relation to the supply of natural gas from South Australia to New South Wales. [More…]
How does he justify his insistence on the use of natural uranium in an obsolescent process for the proposed nuclear reactor at Jervis Bay and the slanting of specifications accordingly? [More…]
The fourth question was: Were we in some way retarding the progress of technology by suggesting that natural uranium should be used and the answer to that, I believe, is quite simply no. [More…]
Honourable members will acknowledge that it is natural for an Australian team to turn to this nation’s international airline to facilitate transportation. [More…]
The Queensland instructor, who is our team coach, and his wife, both being Japanese born, are accompanying the team and naturally taking advantage of the opportunity to visit their parents in Japan. [More…]
Japan is an off-shore island; it is densely populated; it has limited natural resources; it has an ingenious population which is energetic, strong in national spirit. [More…]
By sponging off the prosperity generated by a generous endowment of natural resources the adversity which would have otherwise been caused by our defective educational policies has become less obtrusive. [More…]
There are something like 70,000 Tolais and they have a natural increase rate nearly 4 times as great as Australia’s and the Mataungan problem is, in part, a manifestation of the growing pressure for land. [More…]
I do not believe that anybody’s rights to natural justice or that anybody’s rights of any kind are infringed by the fact that a photograph is taken of him and if, in fact, at some later stage there should be a question of fact arise I see no reason why that photograph should not be produced to decide what the actual facts were. [More…]
Would it not have been far better, would it not have been the logical and natural thing to do, to have got police photographers to do this? [More…]
If the Prime Minister had wanted to have photographs taken, would it not have been natural for him to ask somebody to get in touch with the Minister for the Interior who is responsible for the News and Information Bureau? [More…]
That is the perfectly natural thing to do. [More…]
His system of natural physical methods, involving breathing exercises and mechanical vibratory stimulation, is based on the discovery of asthma cause and in this sense it is unique. [More…]
When the trees dry off I have no doubt that they will be burned, thus destroying the natural habitat of the bellbird. [More…]
Instead it should be creating a national fund to purchase and retain it in its natural state. [More…]
In many cases the governments are purchasing farms and allowing them to revert to their natural environment. [More…]
An area such as this should be retained in its natural state. [More…]
Apart from the natural increase in population we must cater for those who come from overseas. [More…]
With that great demand it is natural that there will be fluctuations from time to time particularly when it is necessary, for totally different reasons, for the monetary policy to soak up surplus funds and prevent demand building up to unacceptable heights. [More…]
Because of the climate and the natural resources these areas are suitable in the main only for manufacturing beef. [More…]
One shining light which seems to be the possibility for breaking down that natural economic inclination would appear to be the mining industry and the increased mining capacity in the sense - we have some indication of it already - that townships with populations of 10,000 or maybe even 20,000 may be able to proliferate up to the point of some dozens or even scores throughout the 3 million square miles that we possess. [More…]
Sydney and Melbourne, and certainly our smaller centres, begin to experience the diseconomies of scale, of congestion and of traffic problems and that sort of thing which will cause any significant decentralisation of industry in a natural sort of way. [More…]
This is the only thing which will give the Parliament power to protect Australia’s natural resources and guarantee Australian’ cor:porate independence. [More…]
I think it has been fairly well canvassed that the CANDU reactor using natural uranium fuel produces quite an amount of plutonium 239 which is the material used to make a very basic dirty bomb. [More…]
In such discussions it is natural that the Administration will invite-: not only members of the Council and Mataungan Association, but representatives of other interested parties. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
The Kangaroo is being exploited whilst facts on populations and numbers of kangaroos is unknown - any day the numbers can be reduced below that level needed for survival of droughts and natural mortality. [More…]
No doubt they are shared by many other natural regions of Australia. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a statement by the Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand, Mr N. Shelton, on 8 July 1970, that New Zealand had been trying for many years to have the principle accepted in its relations with Australia of no discrimination between natural born and naturalised persons. [More…]
The conditions relating to entry into Australia are the same for persons born in New Zealand and those naturalised there. [More…]
By administrative arrangement New Zealand citizens of European descent, whether natural born or naturalised, may in general come to Australia without prior permission - from New Zealand or elsewhere. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
As his initiative in this case was made possible only because the company concerned was incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory, I ask: Will he adopt a policy to give this Parliament more power over Australia’s natural resources by informing companies searching and mining for minerals, with a view to export, that the Government will not grant them an export licence for their produce unless each company concerned is incorporated in the Australian Capital Territory? [More…]
Will the Minister personally acknowledge the petition which, although not in the regular form required by the Standing Orders, is in respectful terms and shows an admirable concern for Australia’s natural assets on the part of the pupils of this school and which was delivered to me personally in front of the whole school? [More…]
What are the respective (a) advantages and (b) disadvantages to Ausatralia if (i) natural uranium or GO enriched uranium is adopted as the fuel for our nuclear power stations. [More…]
Under Australian conditions, the costs of nuclear power derived from natural uranium and enriched uranium may not be very different. [More…]
Natural uranium power ‘ stations generally have higher capital costs than enriched fuel stations. [More…]
This is offset by the fact that natural uranium fuel is cheaper than enriched uranium fuel, and this effect persists throughout the life of the station. [More…]
Part of the extra cost of natural uranium stations is the cost of heavy water, in the cases where it is used. [More…]
Australia has adequate resources of natural uranium to sustain a nuclear power programme. [More…]
The manufacture of natural uranium fuel could be carried out in Australia and this could constitute significant savings of foreign exhange. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless provision is made for its future. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
He would be aware that the New South Wales Government and a broad section of our community are seeking the restoration of the natural environment of the areas of North, South and Middle Heads and Georges Heights. [More…]
Can he say whether the treatment used by Dr James, consisting of a natural physical system of methods such as breathing exercises and mechanical vibratory stimulation, has achieved a remarkably high incidence of partial relief and complete cure. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
But that is on the basis that we did think that the imprisonment was unjust and contrary to what we could regard as natural justice. [More…]
That is natural enough. [More…]
This Bill is part of an overall review of Commonwealth fishery legislation which has been undertaken in the Department of Primary Industry and which will form the basis of more extensive amendments of the Fisheries Act and Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act during a subsequent session of the Parliament. [More…]
At the same time the tanker owner is given the same general defences, relating largely to acts of war, natural phenomenon and wrongful acts of a third party, as are . [More…]
We object to the reactor also on the grounds that the Government, because of its failure to ratify the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons, will be committed to the use of either natural uranium or slightly enriched uranium - in either case, Australia’s resources of what in the future will be the world’s most valuable element. [More…]
The basic contention of the Labor Party is thai Australia’s strategic frontiers are its natural boundaries. [More…]
I was saying that this is the base upon which the Labor Party operates today - that Australia’s natural boundaries are its strategic frontiers. [More…]
The Government has only agreed to add the President of the Students’ Association to the unknown - any day the numbers can be reduced below that level needed for the survival of droughts and natural mortality. [More…]
The State Planning Authority says that even if those endeavours were proceeded with the natural growth and expansion of Sydney would necessitate more land being made available. [More…]
All kinds of natural questions came to his mind as he called at Australia House. [More…]
There was no special thing that made him different from other Aboriginals except the fact that he lost his natural parents and was adopted by white parents who had the means and the inclination to treat him as their own. [More…]
The provision of the Bill relating to this aspect of the industry is to be applauded because if there is one thing that we want to avoid it is the depletion of our natural resources. [More…]
Experience has shown already in some parts of Australia that our natural resources can be depleted. [More…]
It may well be - 1 do not know - that some States allow some land to be improved which would better be left in its natural state. [More…]
The Opposition completely supports, as it has always supported, legislation dealing with the development of natural resources, particularly with respect to water. [More…]
Of course, this is natural. [More…]
The Eight Mile Creek, to the east of Port MacDonnell carries a permanent natural overflow from the springs of the Ewen Ponds area and discharges 50,000 acre feet a year to the southern ocean. [More…]
I should have liked to have developed my argument against the destruction of our natural environment - the destruction of our wonderlands, our beautiful bushlands - by the creation of more farm lands. [More…]
The right to enjoy plants and animals in their natural habitat - and the duty not’ to eliminate them from the face of this earth. [More…]
But the problem is one of balance because, in fact, we do want and expect the benefits of a modern industrialised society and we cannot have these benefits without some disturbance to the natural environment. [More…]
In the past, the flow of silt down the Nile offset the natural erosion of the land but this silt flow has been stopped by the dam. [More…]
Australian Country Party and Liberal Party enthusiasts back in the 1930s and which has been promoted since that time by Labor and Liberal governments in the States and the Commonwealth to the point where our protection of flora and fauna, as well our care for the conservation of natural resources such as soil and waterways, and the development of good pastures compared with those that, environmentally, would not sustain the natural life of the country, have been achievements to the credit of those who have toiled in this field. [More…]
Part of the reason for these extreme fluctuations in growth is the susceptibility of the Tasmanian economy to natural disasters such as flood and fire. [More…]
Despite the growth of man-made fibres I understand that almost 80 per cent of all the fibres used in the textile industry are natural fibres and that only 20 per cent are synthetic fibres. [More…]
As well as these two cases where assistance has been granted for electricity production as such, mention should also be made of assistance provided by the Commonwealth to South Australia under the Natural Gas Pipeline (South Australia) Agreement Act 1967. [More…]
This is in the natura of bridging financial assistance and is up to a maximum of $15 million to help finance the construction of a natural gas pipeline from GidgealpaMoomba to Adelaide. [More…]
The relevance of this project to electricity generation lies in the fact that the principal initial market for the natural gas is the Torrens Island power station. [More…]
It is only natural that Japan would buy freely at such a cheap price. [More…]
Having studied the production of natural materials in competition with synthetics and substitutes, 1 am certain that wool cannot survive the competition of synthetics. [More…]
Therefore, we should be taking steps immediately to transfer die site to a more remote area so that people will not be inconvenienced or subjected to noise nuisance and so that the natural expansion and development of the city of Melbourne will be allowed to take place. [More…]
It became by a natural process of evolution, not educationally but by nomenclature, the Illinois State College. [More…]
3, It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
The morphological concept is that the continental shelf is the natural prolongation under the sea of the land mass of the coastal state, out to the lower edge of the margin, where it slopes down to and merges in, the deep ocean-floor or abyssal plain. [More…]
The project Cockburn Sound will make use of a natural harbour which has a tremendous capacity. [More…]
The Garden Island section of Cockburn Sound, because of its depth, is a natural harbour. [More…]
I quote from an article written by him on environmental surveys in relation to the natural environment. [More…]
Once the natural environment has been modified it is impossible to reverse the process. [More…]
What natural processes are actively changing that environment. [More…]
What will be the effect of interrupting the natural process. [More…]
Some of the evidence suggested that insufficient investigations had been made for an unequivocal assurance to be given that the proposed work would not have harmful long term effects on the natural environment of Cockburn Sound and Garden Island. [More…]
We have on the one hand the natural disinclination to have anything to do with the national service system and, on the other, if the system is to be altered to include or exclude somebody we want to see the contradictions removed. [More…]
The second group are those who are undertaking a course which has a natural progression to further study or training. [More…]
Can the Minister say whether ‘.the Commission favours a power station using natural or enriched uranium? [More…]
I think that, this having been said, it is fairly obvious even to the uninitiated in these matters that the problem with children is unlikely to be as serious in a continuing sense, lt may be serious initially and thereby provide quite some impedi ment to a rapid or a normal increase in educational advancement, but it is likely to be a situation which will be overcome in the natural course of events merely by virtue of the fact that children are children, they are young, they are receptive and they are mixing with other children at least most of whom certainly speak English. [More…]
On what dates have there been meetings of the interdepartmental committees established to consider (a) northern development, (b) development projects other than projects in northern Australia and (c) natural resources. [More…]
At the present time a nuclear power station would not bc economic in South Australia as electricity can be produced more cheaply from oil or natural gas. [More…]
Will the Government promote an understanding of ecologism in Australia so that all Australians can be taught to live in harmony and balance wilh nature and not continue to destroy the natural ecology that gives us life. [More…]
In the case of natural uranium fuelled reactors the component could exceed 2/ 3 ids of the total cost. [More…]
Has Australia, since 1953, become increasingly aware that its natural water resources are limited and that within the next 30 years the south-east of the continent will face a severe water shortage. [More…]
When we speak about maps we mean principally aerial maps, from which one can read the type of land class as well as the natural resources to be found there. [More…]
The Great Barrier Reef is one of the most complex systems of natural resources in the world. [More…]
There is a need, however, to carry out more concentrated work on this complex natural resource and for the Division of National Mapping to work in close consultation wilh the Commonwealth authorities concerned with geological and hydrological research as well as the university and other authorities concerned with the same sciences and marine biology. [More…]
The essential task of Commonwealth mapping organisations is to determine the latitude, longitude and height in relation to mean sea level of the natural surface of the Australian continent, of man made features located thereon, of the continental shelf offshore and of the seaward aids to navigation. [More…]
Clause (h) under the definition ‘survey’ which refers to the survey of the earth’s natural resources does cover this. [More…]
If so, is there a great need to preserve all existing natural southern coastline and surrounds as national parks. [More…]
Is he able to say whether the only relatively unspoiled piece of natural coastline of any size between Sydney and Eden is the area originally planned as the Murramurrang State Park. [More…]
Having regard to anticipated population growth, there is obvious value in preserving areas in a natural state for the enjoyment of future generations. [More…]
The Government is considering declaring some 11.000 acres of the 16,700 acres contained in the Commonwealth Territory of Jervis Bay as a reserve to preserve the natural environment. [More…]
The duties of field officers include the training of Aborigines so that they can take advantage of opportunities for economic progress by using the natural resources within Aboriginal reserves. [More…]
In tariff policy it is sometimes falsely claimed that there is a natural conflict between the Tariff Board and manufacturing industry. [More…]
There is record foreign ownership of Australian natural resources. [More…]
Let us make more efficiently the things for which we have the natural resources and adequate capital and labour and import those things for which we do not. [More…]
The severe deficit of international trading each year has to be met by the inflow of foreign capital which is progressively buying or exploiting Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
He would also know that in consultation with the State authorities and the Civil Defence organisations the Commonwealth authorities, and particularly the Army, have been co-operating in an endeavour to mitigate the effects of this natural disaster. [More…]
lt is an undisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
This is only natural and proper. [More…]
In talking about sex scenes I am not talking about perversion; I am talking about normal, natural sex scenes which, delicately performed - performed, if you like, almost in an exquisite and skilful way which would do credit to anybody who would like to engage in the sex act. [More…]
It is nothing unnatural. [More…]
Therefore, it is so ridiculous and hypocritical for people to say that there is anything immoral, unnatural or obscene about the normal, natural sex act. [More…]
This provision is in effect a legislative statement of the principles of natural justice, which the Commonwealth Industrial Court requires to be observed in disciplinary proceedings under the rules of organisations registered under the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Act. [More…]
In practice, this natural tendency is accentuated by the increasing complexity of taxation law and practice. [More…]
Their purpose is to see that children who have natural capacities and abilities are given the opportunity to utilise and fully develop those natural capacities and abilities. [More…]
There is something in what he said, lt is- very difficult to get enough skilled people who are qualified, who have the natural intelligence’ and aptitude together with the basic qualifications to become good taxation investigation officers. [More…]
He said that the assistance was being provided only to win the support of the people, ls it not natural that you win the support of the people and even of the Government if you give to them a degree of security and stability? [More…]
In fact, he went to great lengths at question time today to point out to honourable members and to the nation that this great company was not making exorbitant profits, that this additional 52 per cent was not exorbitant and that after all the company had a huge investment in oil and natural gas which was now to pay huge dividends. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
In Australia sound planning for the development, utilisation and conservation of natural resources should be a fundamental objective of all political parties. [More…]
Despite its 21 years of power, the Liberal-Country Party Government has refused to recognise that national investment in natural resources is an essential requirement for the efficient use of those natural resources. [More…]
Water is the only major physical natural resource which has not fallen under the control in some way or other of foreign ownership. [More…]
In a country where drought is endemic it would be playing Russian roulette with the food supplies of a nation to leave them to the vagaries of natural rainfall. [More…]
Some farmers in discussion with me yesterday indicated that at the present time their farms, which were inundated with sand in the 1955 flood, are again inundated with sand, and that where they have not been able to get rid of it there has been a marked difference in the yield from the crop when compared with the yield from crops planted in the natural alluvial soil in the Hunter Valley. [More…]
Because of my natural interest in all these problems and because it is part of the national problem of flood mitigation, flood control and water conservation generally I visited the Nambucca area and I asked the Nambucca Shire Council to indicate to me precisely the present position. [More…]
The result has been the discovery of oil and natural gas. [More…]
Our attitude to economic affairs has always been one of support for a policy of full employment and the development of our natural resources. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
That is a perfectly natural reaction. [More…]
It is only natural that some farmers will have some surplus in a normal year. [More…]
In order to perform this work under environmental conditions which are as near as possible to natural living conditions, tests have been performed in bouses, huts, hospital wards, factories and aircraft. [More…]
To withdraw wool from the cutthroat markets of the world at a time when these markets are exposed to gluts the over-production of all fibres - man made and natural - is playing right into the hands of the synthetics manufacturers, who are quickly filling the vacuum left by the reduction in the supply of wool on the world market. [More…]
I take this opportunity to draw attention to the indifferent and dilatory altitude of either the Department of the Interior or the Department of National Development which is shown by the failure of one or both of those departments - in any case it is a failure of the Government - to examine the question of utilising natural gas in Alice Springs. [More…]
It is a most astounding matter that oil is transported half way across the continent to Alice Springs, a place where undoubted substantial supplies of natural gas are available. [More…]
But that has passed us by already, and the supply of natural gas in Alice Springs is already in the hands of private enterprise. [More…]
That is the size of the known reserves of natural gas in that area, which are said to be completely adequate. [More…]
Alice Springs, and consideration of the utilisation of natural gas was responsible, but the evidence indicated that the principal witness from the Department of Works had the opposite point of view. [More…]
He thought that inadequate consideration was given to the utilisation of natural gas. [More…]
I want to emphasise that not only does this matter have a bearing on the supply of power but the fact is that if natural gas is to be utilised for any other purpose in Alice Springs a prior necessity is to integrate it into the power producing system; that is to say, it will never be utilised for any other purpose in Alice Springs unless it is used for the production of power. [More…]
I think the House is indebted to my colleague the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) for the comments he has made in raising this problem which the Public Works Committee experienced in its investigation of this proposal, namely, whether natural gas or other types of fuel should be used. [More…]
He has stated that if the power station is to be converted to natural gas it might cost up to $260,000. [More…]
The Committee has used the words If natural gas becomes commercially and economically available in sufficient time to be planned for. [More…]
That could mean that natural gas might become commercially available just after the installation of the power house facilities. [More…]
honourable member for Hughes that surely the Department of National Development should have arranged for a feasibility study to be made at least to test whether natural gas could be applied commercially to this project and other projects and to give the Public Works Committee the benefit of the decision arrived at. [More…]
Because in the last 20-odd years we have been supplementing our natural population increase by immigration the expansion of the cities has been accelerated. [More…]
Will it consist of people with critical, evaluative and creative minds, people who are skilled in the natural and social sciences? [More…]
I saw it on government premises and, unfortunately, on mission premises and they were accepted as a natural hazard of the area. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
the natural patriotism of the Australian people but on a predisposition to believe that their government would tell the truth. [More…]
He could be killed in an accident or he could die from natural causes. [More…]
lt is an indisputable fact, that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resources can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resources can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for their future. [More…]
However, no matter how effective these measures may be, there will remain an onus on the public to exercise great caution during extreme storms, bushfires or other natural hazards. [More…]
It has been said also that the original plan for the drainage system of that area of Canberra in the Woden Valley included the provision of retarding ponds because that was a natural water catchment area but that shortage of funds ruled out the retarding ponds and a concrete channel was constructed. [More…]
Each man in spaceship earth produces waste of natural origin, but in addition he adds millions of tons of all sorts of man-made products to the oceans and the atmosphere, which he still regards as cesspools for his waste. [More…]
The philosophy of the Government is to seek the achievement of maximum satisfaction of material and cultural needs consistent with minimum interference with the natural environment. [More…]
1 mean no disrespect to migrants from overseas when I say that the best migrants we can have in this country are the natural born ones. [More…]
I would consider that the greatest potential threat to the Australian cattle industry is not lost markets, a drop in demand or a change in dietary habits to other natural foods but the technological development of substitutes. [More…]
For example, yeast grows as a culture on petroleum products, such as natural gas and heavy natural gas. [More…]
One of the great, selling points with simulated meats is that the scientist has been able to develop a product which has a higher protein content and a lower fat content than natural meats. [More…]
As far as the other comparisons are concerned, in terms of texture the scientist has developed and is developing simulated meat which has approximately the same nutritive value as natural meat. [More…]
It is the natural consequence of their refusal to accept the need for adequate social research as the basis of planning. [More…]
Natural resources are unevenly spread and in many cases barely developed, inferior education, inadequate housing and incomplete health services range in stark contrast alongside the fruits of privileged private schemes. [More…]
It is time that we had an inquiry into all aspects of repatriation because it is only natural that as time goes on a certain number of anomalies will creep into the legislation. [More…]
It is only natural that there may be isolated cases where some person is receiving too much or too little. [More…]
Commonwealth, State, semi-government and corporate power supplies based on coal, water, oil, uranium and natural gas. [More…]
For example, some of the most prosperous areas in Australia, in terms of natural resources, are in northern Australia, yet most of the royalties from coal and bauxite mined in these areas are going out of these areas into other areas of Australia. [More…]
These resources, as I have said, are capital, labour and natural resources but they require also the right attitude on the part of national leadership and the community generally for their successful utilisation. [More…]
It is absolutely and utterly criminal that the previous Liberal Government in South Australia allowed the paper industry to be established in the south eastern sector of the State and kill a natural lake, Lake Bonney, in a few short years because the State Government gave the industry the unfettered right, and in fact went out of its way to encourage it, to channel the dangerous waste of the 2 establishments associated with the paper industry into that lake. [More…]
There is no natural law that endows it with greatness. [More…]
is he now willing lo answer my question on the interdepartmental committees set up to consider (a) northern development, (b) development projects other than projects in northern Australia and (c) natural resources (Hansard, 16th February 1971, page 70); if not, why not. [More…]
The honourable member’s question dealing with interdepartmental committees established to consider (a) northern development, (b) development projects other than projects in northern Australia, and (c) natural resources sought information on the dates on which meetings of these committees had been held. [More…]
Of course, there can never be a guarantee that natural disasters will not claim the lives of citizens in any community. [More…]
Honourable members on the Opposition side of the House may well treat this question lightly, but no honourable member on this side of the House would in fact treat lightly a matter which, as the honourable member for Warringah has mentioned, seriously affects what is one of Australia’s major national tourist attractions and a great natural asset of this country. [More…]
It is a natural campus for agitation and it has been for years. [More…]
They have been hit hard by a series of natural and climatic disasters that have decreased their production and the quality of their produce. [More…]
In addition to the natural and climatic conditions, there has been the threat of rising costs and decreasing returns, and in particular the hazards of uncertain overseas markets which cause little confidence in the future. [More…]
I will describe, firstly, the climatic and natural conditions that have afflicted growers in this area. [More…]
I think the situation reflects adversely on the failure of the Government to produce long term schemes that will cater for natural disasters. [More…]
The growers have suffered large scale losses in production already this year, due to natural conditions. [More…]
Those debts, of course, were the result of the series of difficult economic times, and in particular, of natural disasters. [More…]
The whole field of insurance for primary producers against natural and climatic disasters needs immediate and urgent attention. [More…]
Australia needs a national crop and livestock insurance scheme against natural disasters. [More…]
It is very natural for people sometimes to say things that they do not really mean and would not say if they were in a calmer frame of mind. [More…]
I suppose it could be said that pollution is any change in the primitive or pristine environment - any change from the simplicity of the natural situation. [More…]
Natural laws are being assailed continually by modern man. [More…]
Here we have the situation where there is a saving to the people of New South Wales of the kind of charges on the public purse that, up until recently,, were normal and natural. [More…]
An accused person is entitled and should in all common fairness and natural justice be entitled to full particulars. [More…]
The Government supports a policy of international negotiation and cooperation in the rational utilisation of natural resources. [More…]
Will the Prime Minister now admit to the House that the Government has received reports of 3 discussions, the first at a meeting between the British Charge d’ Affaires in Peking and a director of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Trade and the other two at lunches between representatives of the Australian Wheat Board and officers of the China Natural Resources Commission - lunches specifically sought by the Australian Wheat Board to discuss possible wheat sales? [More…]
Mr Arthur Tunstall, general manager of the Australian team at Edinburgh, has long been one of the leading proponents ot the argument that as ‘official’ representatives of their country, and earning it considerable international kudos, the athletes have a natural claim on public funds. [More…]
The chief natural enemy of these pests is the ibis. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend certain of the machinery provisions of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act to ensure more effective administration of the legislation and, in conjunction with amendments proposed in the Fisheries Act which has just been introduced to bring the principles embodied in the 2 Acts into uniformity. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, the main purpose of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act is to enable the fullest possible protection to be given to the living sedentary resources of the continental shelf of Australia and the external territories, including the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
It is only natural that many of these countries are having growing pains in their early years of self-government. [More…]
Surely at a time of the greatest natural disaster this century the contributions from a rich and prosperous country should not be just a mere token which does little more than indicate a casual interest by the Government and the people of Australia. [More…]
In the last 25 years Japan has spent her time and effort on a remarkable industrial growth, but now some break with the immediate post-war era seems to be beginning, and Japan appears to be looking to ways and means of taking a more leading role in world affairs, and it is only natural that she should. [More…]
That, of course, is natural. [More…]
24 is the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill 1971 which again is a matter of very great importance. [More…]
Briefly, the question whether these growers are carrying on a business of primary production for income tax purposes turns on whether they are engaged in production resulting directly from the maintenance of animals or poultry for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase’. [More…]
I think it is only natural that the independent schools should have a higher percentage of students who commence secondary training and continue until they matriculate because very often those students come from parents who are anxious to see that the students complete their training and who can afford to let them do so. [More…]
This provides us with a potential based on abundant natural resources. [More…]
Many Australian industries face costs higher than those of their overseas competitors for reasons beyond their control arising from the Australian natural and social environment. [More…]
That arms races, in which Australia is involved, have war as their natural conclusion. [More…]
Does the Commonwealth make funds available to New South Wales for relief of drought and other natural disasters? [More…]
The Commonwealth’s attitude has always been that the assistance to persons affected by natural disaster is - primarily a matter for the State governments. [More…]
However, the Commonwealth has accepted that there will be occasions when the expenses of natural disasters are beyond the means of the States and that therefore the Commonwealth should assist in the relief of expenditures and the reconstructions that are necessary following a natural disaster. [More…]
One of the difficulties the Commonwealth has encountered is the fact that it is not possible to know, when one natural disaster strikes a State, whether other natural disasters will follow. [More…]
Equally, it cannot be assessed accurately in advance how much it will cost to meet the natural disaster expenditures, and therefore it has been very difficult to assess whether or not relief from natural disaster is within the means of the States. [More…]
What steps have been taken to secure copies of the photographs which the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration has taken of our continent in order to aid in mapping and appraising Australia’s natural resources? [More…]
It is natural that, as initiatives are made and before they are fully proven, new ministerial and departmental arrangements should not be sought. [More…]
If people want to live in this area for the rest of their natural lives they may do so. [More…]
Thatwonderful harbour has been represented to me as the greatest natural habour in the world, much better than those in Sydney and San Francisco. [More…]
It is the natural wish of many people to continue in a way of life which they know and like and may have followed for many years. [More…]
Is the generating cost of enriched reactors considerably lower than those of natural uranium reactors. [More…]
Will he supply a table showing the comparative generating costs of (a) enriched uranium and (b) natural uranium reactors. [More…]
As explained in the answer to Question 1288 the fuel cost of enriched uranium fuelled reactors is normally higher than that of natural uranium fuelled reactors. [More…]
This difference, however, is roughly counterbalanced by the higher capital costs of natural uranium reactors. [More…]
If, nevertheless, we were to consider costs of two hypothetical reactors to be constructed in Australia on the one site, of identical sizes and having the same interest rates, one being designed for enriched and the other designed for natural uranium fuel, it is thought that the difference in generating costs would not be considerable unless there was a marked difference in the keenness of the competitive attitudes of the tenderers. [More…]
Those measures were the Fisheries Bill and the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill. [More…]
As the honourable member for Moreton mentioned, there are the Fisheries Bill 1971 and the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill 1971, which were introduced on 22nd April. [More…]
These are very basic natural resources for which Australia should be staking a proper claim and for which it can successfully stake a claim only if it sets its own domestic laws in order - if it puts those domestic laws in such a shape that it can negotiate with the other hundred-odd littoral states in the world. [More…]
When we realise that the number of employees has been reduced from about 1,700 to about 450 I think it is time for us to stop and have another look to determine whether a situa tion is being created whereby men are being pushed out of the industry - persuaded to leave the industry - or whether a natural wastage is being allowed to occur to the extent that the work force at that port is far too small in number. [More…]
This single fact is reinforced, of course, by the continual substitution of synthetics for the natural product, and by the many trade barriers that we face to potential profitable markets for our products. [More…]
In some parts of Australia whole communities are dependent upon the prosperity of wool, so it is not only the growers but also the communities, towns and especially those parts of Australia in which alternative means of production through using natural resources are just not available, which will be and are being most heavily hit. [More…]
Many Australian industries face costs higher than those of their overseas competitors for reasons beyond their control arising from the Australian natural and social environment. [More…]
In spite of what the honourable member for Hughes (Mr Les Johnson) said, it is a great step forward because the Aboriginal children will not have to leave their natural environment. [More…]
Clause 4 extends the obligation to comply with the Bill to all natural persons, resident in Australia or not, and to all bodies corporate, whether incorporated or carrying on business in Australia or not. [More…]
I believe that Albany, having a natural harbour and one of the best in Australia, is ideally suited for the centralisation of wool in that State. [More…]
The Treasurer, as a former Minister for Immigration, would know the number of people who do not represent natural increase in our population but who are adding to the population in the States. [More…]
They require many more services than those that would normally accrue to people who make up the natural increase in the community and who find it easier to assimilate into the Community and to satisfy their social needs. [More…]
So we have a situation now where mainland producers are selling 6i lb cans of the bulk apple product at something like $1 to $1.50 per dozen less than the Tasmanian producers who are making their best efforts in perhaps the best apple growing areas in the natural state in Australia. [More…]
This process of replacement of natural sugar for the benefit of diabetes sufferers is applied to a very wide range of foods marketed in Australia. [More…]
I have always apprehended as one of the most fundamental principles of natural justice that we hear the other side. [More…]
Can he say whether New Zealand authorities on nuclear power were of the opinion that the use of natural uranium fuel makes the most economic sense. [More…]
Can he yet say what the estimated cost per kilowatt hour of nuclear generated electricity in Australia will be using (a) natural uranium and (b) enriched uranium. [More…]
It is true that as a result of the assessment of the tenders received for the proposed Jervis Bay nuclear power station we now have a better knowledge of the relative costs of electricity generated from reactors using natural uranium and those using enriched uranium. [More…]
Did the tender documents for the proposed nuclear reactor at Jervis Bay stipulate the use of indigenous natural uranium after 5 years of operation. [More…]
Reactors which could be built today with reasonable confidence in their safety, reliability and performance - although they could not be considered as fully proved - would be Magnox Reactors, Advanced Gas Reactors, Boiling Water Reactors, Pressurised Water Reactors, Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactors and the Canadian Heavy Water Natural Uranium Reactor (CANDU). [More…]
The request from the Senate suggests that there should be a joint committee to consider the establishment of a natural disaster fund. [More…]
I believe that the general question of natural disasters is one that will be with us always. [More…]
Australia is in many areas subject to quite considerable natural disasters. [More…]
There should be some continuing machinery for financial and organisational measures to cope with these periodic natural disasters. [More…]
Can he yet make available the results of the examination of natural disaster relief schemes operated in the United States, Canada and New Zealand? [More…]
In view of the wide range of natural disasters that have been experienced in Canada and the United States, the relief schemes operating in those countries involve a number of complex arrangements. [More…]
What progress has been made with the examination of natural disaster relief schemes operating in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. [More…]
I am certain that it will not be readily appreciated in the future by electors in any of the electorates represented by members of the Liberal Party of Australia or the Australian Country Party if it can be shown from the Hansard record that their members voted against a proposal such as this one, namely, the setting up of a joint parliamentary committee i .instigate schemes to cope with natural disasters. [More…]
Natural events such as cyclones and tornadoes come very suddenly whereas the tragedy of floods takes a little bit longer- perhaps hours or days. [More…]
When this matter was raised in the House on 17th April 1969 the then Prime Minister gave some indication of the practical problems involved in establishing a national disaster fund - I think the term originally used was ‘natural disaster fund’. [More…]
2840, a copy of the answer to which I received about 24th June and which appears in yesterday’s Hansard, I asked the Minister about the generating cost of electricity in Australia using natural uranium and enriched uranium and about supplying a comparative statement showing these costs in relation to electricity generated by conventional plants in Australia. [More…]
The most densely populated south-east area of the continent will soon begin to experience shortages of water from natural catchments. [More…]
To add to this recent insult is the trial of Sheik Mujibur Rahman which I hope all honourable members will agree is a gross outrage and a violation of natural justice. [More…]
Members of the organisation produce 80 per cent of all Australian wool textile products such as tops, yarns, cloths, blankets and rugs as well as major quantities of similar products in which wool is blended with other natural and man-made fibres. [More…]
China would take the natural, sensible attitude that if she wants a product enough she will get it where she can best get it and the two most appropriate sources in quantity, price- and location were Australia and Canada. [More…]
Nevertheless when last year the Chinese were given an option of choosing a friendly country or a hostile country as a supplier they naturally chose the friendly country. [More…]
It is no wonder that Mr Hawke lately has asserted his leadership of the Labor movement over the Leader of the Opposition, for that leadership is a natural consequence of the domination of the unions over the ALP which lasts to this day. [More…]
I suppose it is only natural that public attention should be focused’ on the personalities involved In events like those of last week.’ [More…]
That arms races, in which Australia is involved, have war as their natural conclusion. [More…]
In fact your Committee agrees that if supplies have been satisfactorily provided and there is an abnormal delay in the receipt of a claim for payment, it would not be a distortion on the natural course of events for a supplier to be informed that his claim had not been received. [More…]
We have vast natural resources to help not only ourselves but, given the chance, others as well. [More…]
This was the greatest natural catastrophe this century, and I saw plenty of evidence of this when I was there shortly afterwards. [More…]
It is only natural that, because of political leanings, some people will reject my utterances as being biased, but bias can determine accidental correctness. [More…]
Recent forecasts may need to be reviewed as governments implement programmes designed to reduce the rate of natural increase. [More…]
Every immigration Minister, from the first Minister forward to the present Minister, has indicated that immigration in Australia provides a welcome addition to the natural increase in the Australian work force. [More…]
Having regard to family code policies enunciated at Launceston, according to which the natural addition to the Australian work force following some second-rate left wing overseas intellectual proposition is to be reduced, he desires to increase immigration from non-European sources. [More…]
Let me make the exploitation of our natural resources more plain. [More…]
Yet there is no hint in the Budget of this reckless alienation of natural resources of tremendous value in return for a veritable mess of pottage. [More…]
It is always a case of either too much on the one hand or too little on the other hand, but this criticism is natural. [More…]
But tragically we have upset the balance because population growth is far too fast and we are reaching the stage where rapidly we are producing far more pollution than the natural resources of the world will be able to cope with. [More…]
They are the evils that were a natural corollary of the control of banking whereby the banks have now been reduced to impotency, thereby reducing the Government’s monetary influence and control. [More…]
Although many people who are dissatisfied with the Government’s discharge of its responsibilities, both foreign and domestic, have described Australia mockingly as a quarry surrounded by an oil slick, in reference to the cynical sellout of this country’s natural resources, the recent Australian nation-wide opinion poli seemed to indicate that most people agreed with Mr Donald Home’s description of a few years ago that Australia is the lucky country. [More…]
It has resulted in massive quantities of crude oil and natural gas being found in Australia. [More…]
Can Australia allow the plundering of its natural resources that has been occurring, particularly in the last decade. [More…]
It does not matter if man’s value system - and I even include the Minister for Social Services (Mr Wentworth) who is at the table - is Communist, Fascist, Conservative, Liberal or Socialist, he faces a global crisis based on the fact that his population increase, his squandering of natural resources, his control of food production, his accelerated urbanisation and his release of a wide variety of toxic substances into the environment are directing him on a collision course with disaster. [More…]
To that list we can add the depletion of natural resources and pollution in all its forms. [More…]
Here he has set up what he calls a world system in which he has a computer model which predicts how the levels of population, pollution, natural resources, capital investment and quality of life, will change over the next 130 years. [More…]
Forrester says that to ensure man’s survival as we know him we must immediately, on a global scale, undertake the following steps now: Firstly, a reduction of 30 per cent in the birthrate; secondly, a reduction of 50 per cent in pollution generation; thirdly, a reduction of 75 per cent in our rate of use of natural resources; fourthly, a reduction of 40 per cent in capital investment generation; and fifthly, a reduction of food production by 20 per cent. [More…]
Let us be the leader in moves for a good global environment policy and let us work for population control, pollution control and a rational rate of use of natural resources. [More…]
We should look at our population policy at home and decide on what kind of total population increase, natural and immigrant, our environment can handle over a long period. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resources can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
We cannot run out of natural gas for a while because we have just too much natural gas. [More…]
Australia need not rush into this field because before we get nuclear energy we have to get enrichment of the natural material used in a nuclear power station. [More…]
I am not referring to the supply of natural gas of which some additional deposits recently have been discovered. [More…]
Of course, self-sufficiency in natural gas is a different matter altogether. [More…]
However the increases will certainly not act as an incentive or encouragement to stimulate the natural birth rate, which has been declining steadily over the past few years. [More…]
It is true that we must populate this country, but in doing so we must not close our eyes to the fact that we need to increase the natural birth rate. [More…]
This is happening ‘ in an Australia that has unlimited potential and untapped natural resources. [More…]
The importance of minerals in the Australian economy is firmly established and it is vital that Australia makes optimum use of these natural resources to ensure continued national prosperity. [More…]
In 1970 natural gas production rose sixfold to 53,000 million cubic feet. [More…]
Our future prosperity depends in no small way on the successful exploitation and development of our natural resources. [More…]
Examples of factors concerned here are, for the human being, the use of seat belts or the wearing of crash helmets; for the vehicle, interior design; for the environment, the design of roadside furniture and the properties of natural hazards such as trees. [More…]
We are confronted with these problems in Australia - particularly, of course in Sydney and Melbourne - and they are rapidly being compounded as more and more people, whether from natural increase, immigration or drift from the country areas, come to where job opportunities exist. [More…]
Bearing this in mind I believe the consulting Governments should choose a few growth centres using such criteria as readily available local natural resources like water and timber, good surface transport connections with established trade outlets and the potential within its area of influence for industrial growth and subsequent service industries. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts who is now the focal point of a campaign by all, Australian governments to prevent pollution of the atmosphere and natural amenities, especially by industry and public authorities. [More…]
I say has been accepted’ because the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) in his speech on the Budget with his penchant for trimming his policies to the prevailing fashions of the patio intellectuals, has become an advocate not of control but of laissez-faire in immigration, because this is what natural migration, open migration or sponsored migration is. [More…]
And this essentially is what advocates of natural migration and similar policies would have us do. [More…]
Neither is natural increase and immigration the mutually conflicting possibilities which they are sometimes represented to be. [More…]
In contrast, natural increase imposes an immediate net charge on the community, while its reinforcement of the economy is, of necessity, deferred. [More…]
This does not mean that natural increase is not important to Australia. [More…]
But natural increase and immigration are not mutually conflicting alternatives. [More…]
It is only natural that if the average Australian wants to watch a football match and finds protestors physically trying to prevent him from doing so, violence may break out. [More…]
1 there is a tremendous deposit of natural gas. [More…]
From the point of view of a Budget why is it that we are not promoting Australia’s natural wealth and promoting at least the worker. [More…]
How far can any economy carry these people when all the time a natural increase to offset inflationary trends comes about. [More…]
I realise that Mascot is an area over which it is natural to expect to see low-flying aeroplanes, but the fact remains that the residents of the streets concerned have regarded the matter so seriously as to petition this Parliament to take appropriate action, which might include redirecting aircraft by other routes so that they would not pass over this residential area. [More…]
the 250 MW natural uranium CANDU BLW at Gentilly in Canada. [More…]
In the natural order of things, this is brought about by technological change and by the need for human adjustment. [More…]
Institute indicative planning and programmed budgeting for economic growth and social justice by the Commonwealth, in co-operation with the States, local authorities and organisations of employees and employers; this planning to be consistent with the maintenance of full employment and the conservation of natural resources. [More…]
There isn’t someone who is a natural leader of men who is around mc with the necessary experience and technique.’ [More…]
The natural resources are there and they will be developed. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
If the statement by the honourable member is based on fact I would like to take this opportunity -to refute a number of contentions included in it, firstly, that there is no basic policy in relation to the development of our natural resources and secondly, that we have not had continuous and extensive discussions with the Ministers, the industry and authorities concerned in Japan. [More…]
The people who are directly concerned with the development of our natural resources in Australia and the utilisation of them for processing in Japan. [More…]
I know conservative elements, as well as the establishments that are making huge profits, regard the centralised overgrowth as a natural, unavoidable, international phenomenon. [More…]
That won’t happen ‘naturally’. [More…]
It must buy land for new centres, design competitive attractions in them, build strategic parts of them, launch them with public employments, and offer all the private investors and home buyers some real city life, as well as cheaper, more attractive, more profitable, more various options of betterservice land than the ‘natural’ growth of congested old centres can offer them. [More…]
This is illustrated clearly in the extraordinary tenet of the Labor Party’s defence policy - that Australia’s strategic frontiers are her natural boundaries. [More…]
He said that members of this Party had said that Australia’s frontiers lay at its natural boundaries, that the stationing of defence forces overseas was no longer acceptable and that we would not accept the advice of the chiefs of staff or the senior people in our defence forces. [More…]
Of course, it is realistic to say that Australia’s frontiers are its natural boundaries. [More…]
It would be more than fair to say that if Australia enjoyed a socialistic society whereby all the people had an equitable share of all the wealth and an even stake in the natural riches of this continent people would be less reluctant to defend with arms those things which are theirs. [More…]
If they had a stake in the natural wealth 1 am quite sure there would be no difficulties in encouraging them to defend it. [More…]
But they know, as we know, that the natural wealth of this country is centered in the hands of a very few people. [More…]
What studies have been made of the long range costs and benefits to the Australian community of new metal industries allowing for the escalation of costs and depletion of natural resources, the effects on soil and ocean ecology, and the diseconomies of scale and greater war vulnerability in concentrating populations near existing cities or in scarce recreational areas. [More…]
This increase may have had a natural cause. [More…]
Only further observations will make it possible to determine whether this problem is predominantly man-made or natural. [More…]
Would the loss of Lake Pedder destroy great natural beauty and. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly ‘pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
That arms races, in which Australia is involved, have war as their natural conclusion. [More…]
H is an indisputable fact that no natural resource can withstand bunting on such a concentrated scale, unless provision, is made for its future. [More…]
Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
It is a brutal infliction of pain and suffering on an innocent people, and a criminal destruction of life and natural resources. [More…]
I ask: Would this be the case with the system proposed in the amendment and would it not amount to a virtual denial of natural justice if a man was not enabled to have the witnesses he wanted properly heard in person? [More…]
same statutory rights as other Aboriginal people to freely enter any land in the Territory under pastoral lease and take game and use natural waters on such lands. [More…]
The cost of an installation depends to a significant degree on the earth system requirements, which in turn depend’ very much on the terrain and the natural conductivity of the soil at the site. [More…]
It relates to the alleged Japanese report on Australia’s natural resources policy. [More…]
The study was undertaken on behalf of not only the Foreign Ministry in Japan but also a number of other departments and organisations on the subject of Japan’s policy on natural resources overseas. [More…]
It did refer in one chapter to the development of Australia’s natural resources and their relationship with Japan. [More…]
Honourable members will note that specific purpose capital payments to the States, excluding natural disaster relief payments, are estimated to increase by 12.7 per cent in 1971-72, compared with an increase of 7.8 per cent in 1970-71. [More…]
We know that the protein value of the soya bean, whichever way one measures it, is higher than that of natural meat. [More…]
When these products are mass produced it is obvious that the prices will be significantly lower than those for natural beef. [More…]
The major raw material for synthetic protein produced by this method comes from the fuel industry, from the by-products of oil in particular, lt would seem that the breakthroughs in regard to fungal yeast for example, with respect to by-products of oils, are such that this product could supplement the edible proteins in this manufacturing process to produce a commodity which could be the basic raw material in the future for a substitute for natural meats. [More…]
Evidence to date indicates that from a palatability point of view one cannot distinguish between synthetic or natural meats of this type. [More…]
I have mentioned before that from a nutritional point of view synthetic meat is equal to or if not better than natural meat because the manufacturers can inject and regulate the various proteins they want. [More…]
I have always believed that the beef industry would have the best future because really there is no effective substitute for this product in natural meat, except other types of meat such as lamb, mutton or fish. [More…]
It is obvious that when meat is mass produced by the very large industrial factories around the world the price will be significantly lower than the present price of natural beef. [More…]
Will the history of synthetic fibres relative to natural fibres be repeated? [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resources can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
It is an indisputable fact that no natural resources can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
Growers are leaving their properties, many of them heavily ensnared in debt which has been aggravated, in the case of Harcourt, by a series of natural disasters including hail, frost, wind and . [More…]
While this uncertainty existed and still exists the search for and the exploration and development of natural resources off the coast of Australia is languishing. [More…]
They relate to the conservation of our natural resources off the coast. [More…]
Since that time the concept that Australians should control the destiny and the natural resources of their own nation - I will not say that it has caught fire because I believe that in the hearts of most of our countrymen there has been a feeling that we should retain some semblance of independence - has created a tremendous response across the nation, indicating the desire of ordinary Australians and their children to have a continuing stake in their own country. [More…]
If, despite all efforts to control these pests, substantial damage results, the Commonwealth would be prepared within the context of the present arrangements for natural disaster relief, to consider any reasonable request from the New South Wales Government for assistance with relief expenditures. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray thatthe Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore- humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
It must be perfectly obvious to anyone who has travelled abroad that a country can no longer rely on its natural assets and the hospitality of its people. [More…]
I recommend to members an excellent article in the 29th May issue of the ‘Bulletin’ suggesting governmental initiative for a convict museum, a colonial portrait gallery, a museum of Victorian Australia, an Australian museum of natural history, a Captain Cook museum, of the Pacific people, an Australian Maritime museum, an Aboriginal museum, and various other suggestions that would add greatly to preserving and illustrating our heritage. [More…]
lt is an indisputable fact that no natural resources can withstand hunting on such a concentrated scale, unless some provision is made for its future. [More…]
The advisory committee to the study includes scientists holding professional appointments specialising in natural resources and in ecological studies. [More…]
We seem in our community to have lost the social pattern whereby it was considered right that elderly parents should live in the home of their children, as respected figures, for the term of their natural life. [More…]
We are observing a natural development. [More…]
Population policy, including immigration; natural resource policy, including exports of natural resources; science policy, including research policy; technology policy, including pollution control; educational policy and urban policy will all be influenced by the comprehensive environmental policy. [More…]
Australia is one of the few countries in the world with the opportunity to control pollution and retain its natural beauties, but that chance will not last much longer. [More…]
We need large national parks - large enough to preserve land and water and plant and animal life characteristic of the country, as well as unspoiled examples of its physical features and natural phenomena. [More…]
Clear ministerial responsibility must be established for the planning and use of land and other natural resources and the conservation of nature. [More…]
I am not qualified to express an opinion on this subject one way or the other but I do believe that where the slightest degree of doubt exists proper investigation ought to be carried out before we use a product which may destroy bird life and which while destroying one pest may assist others to multiply because birds - their natural enemies - will be eliminated. [More…]
Secondly, again our image as a people would be greatly enhanced if we could exhibit imagination, intelligence and resolution to prevent the despoilation of our cities and countryside and to preserve our natural heritage for our descendants. [More…]
The Kangaroo is being exploited whilst facts on populations and numbers of kangaroos are unknown - any day the numbers can be reduced below that level needed for survival of droughts and natural mortality. [More…]
Therefore it is natural and indeed very proper that we should in turn want to be very sure that the money provided by this scheme or any other wool assistance scheme is used to the best advantage of the industry as a whole. [More…]
Having studied the production of natural materials in competition with synthetics and substitutes and examined the history, economic history, chemistry and chemical engineering of all such materials, I am certain that wool cannot survive the competition of synthetics. [More…]
Eighty natural dye-stuffs have been replaced by synthetic dyes . [More…]
whilst many natural perfumes and flavourings have been synthetised Polyurethane plastics have largely taken the place of sponges and synthetic camphor has replaced the natural product. [More…]
Since wool growing is at least 10 times more expensive than synthetic fibre manufacture in initial investment, this cost difference must be reflected in the production cost of natural and synthetic fibres. [More…]
But we now have on our hands a political decision which, in its desire to spread the list of excluded types evenly over every State, has lost sight entirely of the need to exclude from the benefits of deficiency support, wool which in its natural state has little or no commercial value. [More…]
That represents 66) per cent natural fibre. [More…]
The natural thing to do is to select the most favourable features of the garments. [More…]
Why in the name of fortune does this other honourable gentleman not follow what is obviously his natural occupation, that of a clown? [More…]
So the Association has recommended that a larger area should be preserved in its natural state, and it recommends the following boundaries for the area: The western boundary, the present shoreline; the northern boundary, the northern boundary already marked off by the Hallett Cove model estate; the eastern boundary, the Port Stanvac railway line; and the southern boundary, the existing road known as Grand Central Drive and a line extended from the end of this road to the shoreline. [More…]
It is most important that students see the points of interest at the Cove in their natural setings. [More…]
The kangaroo is being exploited whilst facts on population and numbers of kangaroos are unknown - any day the numbers can be reduced below that level needed for survival of droughts and natural mortality. [More…]
The Aboriginal women had a natural ability to learn maternal and child welfare. [More…]
There is no doubt about the fact that these people have now moved out of their natural environment in many cases. [More…]
It is increasingly clear that the superb natural environment which this continent provides for human life can no longer be taken for granted. [More…]
If, as I have said, the arts should be deeply integrated into our lives, they too form part of the intellectual and cultural environment within which our lives are lived - offering diversity of experience and lending form and substance to our personal and natural identity. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
These developments, which are a natural accompaniment to economic expansion, have produced considerable overlapping of the areas of financing occupied by banks and non-banks, and the present pattern raises some important policy issues. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
I point out only one thing, and that is that when considering foreign investment in Australia it is very important to draw a distinction between what is national interest and what is natural sentiment, because they are vastly different considerations. [More…]
In the early 1960s there was insufficient consultation and every time the employers introduced a new mechanised method which would have had as its purpose a reduction in the number of men employed in the industry there was a natural labour resentment to this because it was putting them on the scrapheap. [More…]
It would not overcome, for example, the situation I described a moment ago of errors of fact, if they are errors of fact, made by a trial judge where there is no appeal from him to anyone other than the High Court, with its natural and understandable reluctance to interfere. [More…]
Immigration is, at best, only the counterpart of the most important phase of population building, natural increase. [More…]
First, hitherto, migration was always judged to be a necessary and welcome addition to our natural increase. [More…]
They will be in that environment a substitute for our natural increase. [More…]
With respect to a capital demand for houses, schools, transport facilities and so on, his requirements are no greater than those caused by a natural population increase, but he brings with him a capital inflow that a natural increase cannot bring. [More…]
Those people are all involved in some way or another, and it is only natural that the subject of immigration always has been, and for some time at least will continue to be, a very sensitive area of deliberation. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
When the contract is completed there will be, if anything, a strengthening of this cliff area by the natural rock which will be placed in the sea at this point. [More…]
We would otherwise develop the area as a landscaped park with natural vegetation essentially for pedestrian traffic. [More…]
In a country that has so many natural resources surely families can expect something better than this. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
The suggestion that Australian and New Zealand instructors should join with the American instructors seemed to me to be a perfectly reasonable and natural development. [More…]
During that weekend I went to the Botanic Gardens and had a look at the natural flora which has been planted there. [More…]
As an Australian, I am indeed proud of the lovely natural flora which is growing in the botanic gardens in Canberra. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
I refer to the nitrogen fertiliser subsidy of $80 per ton of nitrogen contained in natural sodium nitrate. [More…]
I make the strongest possible plea here today to the Government to do the right thing by this industry and at least to recognise the fact that we ought to encourage the use of our own natural resources. [More…]
But we have come a long way since the early 1950s and now we find that the natural resources of South Australia can be considered to be redundant along with a whole host of human beings. [More…]
The Government will not use the proceeds from the sale of these natural resources or spend a dollar towards doing this. [More…]
However the Government allows other natural resources to be shipped out of this country at substantial loss to the Australian people. [More…]
It is obvious that world supplies of elemental sulphur are increasing because not only are more deposits being found in some of the undeveloped countries but more importantly that technology is engaged in the production by bio-chemical means of synthetic materials of which natural gas is one of the most important parent products. [More…]
But the position has changed quite recently with the discovery of large natural gas deposits in western Canada in recent years. [More…]
The sulphur is recovered in the sweetening process of the indigenous natural gas prior to its delivery to consumers in the home market in Canada and to an increasing extent in the United States. [More…]
Up until now no worthwhile sulphur domes have been discovered in association with natural gas deposits in Australia, and there is every indication that none will be discovered so we will be dependent on imports of sulphur from overseas. [More…]
Surely, in circumstances such as these, we should encourage the development of our natural resources. [More…]
I maintain that as Australians we should develop our own natural resources and not leave it to others. [More…]
I think we should encourage the use of our own natural resources. [More…]
These are well established local industries in South Australia using local natural resources, and their future should not be put in jeopardy now by a report based on out of date statistics. [More…]
This company has now become the victim - and I do not like to use these words as I said a while ago - of double dealing because since 1968 it has supplied pyrites for the manufacture of acid in order to try to keep this country independent in its supplies and it has used natural resources in this field. [More…]
Here is an opportunity for the Government to encourage the use of, and to go on using, natural resources of this country. [More…]
I am sorry to be in this house today and be witness to the action of the Government which intends to sound the death knell on a very very important industry which uses the natural resources of this country. [More…]
regulate the exploration, development, transportation, marketing and use of oil, natural gas, coal, fissionable materials and generative water, [More…]
Not only has this Government failed in this decisive area, but it has completely failed to formulate a balanced evaluation to control our vast, rich, irrecoverable natural resources. [More…]
Beyond doubt Australia in terms of its natural resources is being exploited and depleted at a shocking rate for a disgrace ful return. [More…]
It has no policy at all as to how our natural resources can be effectively and efficiently controlled so that the returns can be maximised. [More…]
This has come about for several reasons: (1) The discovering of substantial quantities of natural gas and significant oil. [More…]
As a matter of fact, the United States will run out of fuel and natural gas in the next 20 years. [More…]
Firstly, the amount of Australian control and ownership of her mineral resources; secondly, the measure of value by adding processing of minerals and forestry products carried out in Australia before export; thirdly, the prices received from foreign, particularly Japanese, buyers; fourthly, a complete evaluation of our royalty payments and the confiscation of economic Tent; fifthly, a complete re-evaluation of our taxation concessions as applied to mineral ventures; sixthly, a policy relating to conservation in this field and above all, seventhly, a balanced evaluation of our natural resources to determine our current needs and our future needs, and equally importantly, what proportion ought to be conserved and what proportion ought to be exported. [More…]
The Labor Party does not agree that the States should have the right to use and sell their natural resources at any price they so decide at the behest of any government or any foreign company. [More…]
I put it on the record so that people cannot say that a Labor government would want to take over every coal, oil and natural gas resource from the various States. [More…]
regulate the exploration, development, transportation, marketing and use of oil, natural gas, coa], fissionable materials and generative water, [More…]
The resources of every State in the Commonwealth will be used and controlled in cooperation with the States for the benefit of all Australians, Labor will not and cannot allow our natural resources to fall into the hands of overseas companies. [More…]
Labor appreciates that the Constitution prevents Commonwealth control of our oil, natural gas, coal, uranium and other natural fuel and energy resources. [More…]
But we do believe that by cooperation with the States and by establishing a combined Federal-State fuel and energy commission to devise and implement an integrated and co-ordinated fuel and energy policy then our natural resources can be used to our advantage here in Australia and can be sold overseas to our advantage. [More…]
We would love to see ourselves with a natural resource of uranium under our control. [More…]
Is it not about time from the point of view of national development that we evaluated the damage we are doing to our natural resources? [More…]
There is no real balance in this situation as to what damage we are doing to our natural resources. [More…]
The Minister also mentioned the 2 categories which would be covered or which would be eligible for consideration and these are the drainage works of the State irrigation authorities, which are basically surface drainage, and works to intercept sub-surface saline drainage from natural ground water sources further downstream. [More…]
The tender specifications called for a reactor using natural uranium, and indicated that an enrichment plant would be established in Australia to supply local enriched fuel. [More…]
I want briefly to make some points in regard to the tremendous national wealth that this country has in its natural resources and minerals. [More…]
If anything things have been deteriorating in regard to our so-called natural resources over the years. [More…]
It is natural that the Governments of those countries have commonly preoccupied themselves with questions affecting their energy economies and have developed more or less well integrated energy policies. [More…]
On the one hand there is the market for automotive energy - 1 mean for road, rail and air transport - which is supplied by petroleum fuels - the energy source which is portable par excellence; and on the other hand there is the market for energy for general purposes, predominantly concerned with the generation and use of electricity, the fuel for which has been mainly coal, but which prospectively will also be natural gas and nuclear fuels. [More…]
Indeed, natural gas is already being used for electricity generation in South Australia. [More…]
With the advent of natural gas and nuclear fuel as major sources of energy in Australia, this de facto separation of State energy economies will be modified in some important ways. [More…]
Interstate supply of natural gas to Sydney from South Australia now seems likely, and in addition to the established gas resources known to exist in the Gippsland offshore basin there is gas in the Northern Territory, not yet fully assessed, but possibly of dimensions that might render supply across State boundaries a feasible project. [More…]
As regards natural gas, the Commonwealth a year ago announced that the export of this material would be controlled by the Commonwealth in the interest of conservation of this resource for Australian needs- -arid we indicated the general lines of the policy that we would follow in this matter. [More…]
Provision through the Bureau of Mineral Resources of my Department of the basic geological and geophysical survey services, on a natural basis, which are needed by the oil search industry to base its own more particular and concentrated exploration for petroleum deposits. [More…]
Let me exemplify these problems by referring to our current situation as regards natural gas. [More…]
As I have already mentioned, the Commonwealth controls the export of natural gas for the purpose of ensuring that adequate reserves are kept for Australian use. [More…]
The same natural gas will be a very valuable and acceptable fuel for our own economy. [More…]
In the United States they followed a policy of cheap supply of natural gas, which encouraged its consumption but did not particularly encourage its development. [More…]
In the result they are now dependent for 33 per cent of their energy on natural gas, but their available gas resources are much less than satisfactory. [More…]
How many years supply of natural gas should we then aim to keep for ourselves before allowing export? [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
The statement by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) that Australia’s strategic boundaries were her natural frontiers must rank very high in the annals of strategic folly, although it would probably have had the sincere support of the late King Ethelred the Unready. [More…]
I want to make the point to this Committee that it is natural for Government supporters to take that view because every speech made by members of the Opposition on foreign affairs has stressed that there are no threats to our security and that there is no potential danger to us. [More…]
The Government has a responsibility to be more realistic than that, so it is natural that when the Opposition claims that it wishes to see built up the defence capacity of this country, Government supporters will say that it is interested only in- [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pi ay that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
1 would have thought that he and his Party would show a very natural interest and concern about matters which are of great interest to a very large number of Australians. [More…]
Because of Whyalla’s natural growth, these facilities will increase. [More…]
If the report of the Finance Editor of the Sydney ‘Sun’ of this afternoon is correct - and I have no reason to doubt that it is - we have a situation of which the Commonwealth should take note now and, as an earnest of its desire to hold some part of our natural resources and our assets, it should immediately call for a report on where the shortfall is likely to be offered in the present situation. [More…]
Development of an airport complex would mean the destruction of hundreds of acres of natural bushland and drive wildlife from the area. [More…]
Sydney is already desperately deficient in natural bush areas and its requirements will increase with foreshadowed population growth. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural site. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
I believe we as a nation should recognise and accept the responsibilities which our position, our natural wealth, and our economic development impose upon us. [More…]
It is natural. [More…]
I congratulate TransAustralia Airlines on making a profit, but in a country where we need to decentralise and where we need to utilise our natural resources - and we will not utilise them if we continue to cut back on the services and amenities provided in outlying areas - the question arises as to who should bear the cost of carrying out these proposals. [More…]
One cannot help wondering whether this may be an attempt by the 2 Ministers concerned, Mr Morton and Senator Cotton, to stampede the committee into a decision on this issue and to achieve that decision before the natural opposition which is now arising in these areas - particularly in the areas of Somersby and Richmond - gathers force. [More…]
We should realise that a natural development will occur in the land triangle formed by Parramatta, Richmond and Camden. [More…]
Consequently the properties in adjacent council areas had the effect of reducing the rateable value of properties, which was natural enough. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
This type of industry is provided with a natural protection. [More…]
It was natural that as the head of a recently formed government I should welcome the opportunity for discussions with the leaders of 2 major powers who are traditionally close friends and allies of this country. [More…]
If the airport is established there will be extensive damage to the ecology of natural bushland over a widespread area. [More…]
Your Petitioners therefor; humbly pray thai the Federal Government lake immediate steps lo act on behalf of all Australian people lo preserve Lake Pedder in its natural stats. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Apart from the natural increase in population there are those people who come from overseas and this places an added burden on the States. [More…]
One is direct investment in Australia by overseas companies and the other is borrowings within Australia from overseas for long-term developmental projects relating very predominantly to the development of our natural resources. [More…]
This, of course, changed the whole social attitude to university education and families such as mine could see that not only people such as the odd one who managed to make the distance for some reason or other - the person who became a teacher and then for professional reasons managed to get into university - received a university education but that a university education became a natural social objective for the whole family. [More…]
I see it as a natural and logical aspiration of people for their children. [More…]
The Commonwealth is anxious that the utilisation of natural resources should be in the national interest and every application for approval to export wood chips is judged on its merit having particular regard to price, provision for further processing in Australia and reforestation. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
I do not believe that Australia has ever been strictly a class society in the real sense but there is a natural order of things which people accepted. [More…]
The other significant thing in an economy is that there should be efficient use of resources and that means not only natural resources, materials and so on; it also means manpower as well. [More…]
It is natural that there will be criticisms of the way in which we respond to economic problems. [More…]
Given this background it was natural that, accompanying the strategy adopted in the last Budget, was an element designed to guard against the future development of excess demand pressures. [More…]
Institute indicative planning and programmed budgeting for economic growth and social justice by the Commonwealth, in co-operation with the States, local authorities and organisations of employees and employers; this planning to be consistent with the maintenance of full employment and the conservation of natural resources. [More…]
The later phase that has occurred is in relation to such things as oil refining, oil exploration, natural gas development, mineral development and so on. [More…]
It is a denial of natural justice, and I repeat that the Government should be ashamed for its obtuseness and its obmutescence. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government lake immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state.’ [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
The position is thai quite often when comparisons are made - I have noted this publicly - they are between the relatively standardised price for natural gas and the variation in the price in distant country areas for liquefied petroleum gas. [More…]
Part of the reason for these fluctuations in growth is the susceptibility of the Tasmanian economy to natural disasters such as flood and fire. [More…]
These people have the assets of living their own lives on an Island of great natural beauty with an abundance of fish and wildlife. [More…]
The Aborigines have got away from their natural foods. [More…]
They have possibly lost some of their natural instincts for hunting, mainly because they rely more on the European type foods and I think to a great extent possibly the wrong type of European type food. [More…]
The Gulf country possibly does not have the natural resources that are present in the highlands. [More…]
The Gulf country is backward but recently has been developed by outside sources, but it has noi made much progress because the inhabitants feel that they do not have natural advantages. [More…]
In that area is one of the greatest reserves of natural gas in the world and some day this must be of tremendous benefit in securing export earnings. [More…]
It’ is only natural that if a person is going to get nothing else he has to vote in favour of it. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedderin its natural state. [More…]
If the airport is established there will be extensive damage to the ecology of natural bushland over a widespread area. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural sta’.e. [More…]
the territorial seas bordering Australia, and the sea bed thereof with all its natural resources, are those of the Commonwealth, not those of any State, and (c) . [More…]
dominion over the sea bed and the natural resources of the whole of the Continental Shelf, commencing at low water mark, and the right to explore and exploit these or permit others to do so, is vested exclusively in the Commonwealth. [More…]
The second reason why action is needed is that there is confusion in this matter which is inhibiting further exploration and development of offshore resources whether they be minerals, natural gas. [More…]
The right to strike is not merely a favour or a privilege but should be a legal right based upon natural justice. [More…]
It is only natural that the prices and the profitability of the company will be taken into account Rigid pricing controls are not necessary for the Tariff Board to be able to determine the level of protection that is needed for an industry. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
If the airport ls established there will be extensive damage to the ecology of natural bushland over a widespread area. [More…]
Psychotropic substance’ means any substance, natural or synthetic, or any natural material listed in Schedule I, 11, III or IV. [More…]
I acknowledge the fact that my Department and I spent a considerable amount of time last year preparing the basis of a document for consideration by the Government in relation to the development of our natural resources. [More…]
Naturally the consideration of development on this scale, affecting as it does policy matters involving quite a number of departments, is a long and complicated process. [More…]
From the sum allocated in each year, how much was spent on (a) food, (b) other aid given as a result of natural disasters and (c) transport costs in each case. [More…]
What progress has been made with the examination of natural disaster relief schemes operating in the United States, Canada and New Zealand. [More…]
Completion of the examination of information relating to natural disaster relief schemes operating in United States, Canada and New Zealand has been delayed by pressure of work and staff shortages in the relevant part of the Treasury. [More…]
Will the Government take appropriate steps for a referendum to be held to increase the powers of the Commonwealth Parliament so that valid laws can be’ enacted to protect the victims of bushfires, floods, droughts and other natural disasters that are exercisable under the defence power in time of war and are described in legal terminology as being due to acts of God. [More…]
The provision of assistance to those adversely affected by natural disasters such as bushfires, floods and droughts is primarily the responsibility of State Governments which are in the best position to assess the need for, and provide, such assistance. [More…]
Commonwealth assistance to the States for this purpose, which amounted to more than $127m in the 6” years ending 30th June 1971, does not normally extend to the ‘ cost - of restoring private assets damaged by natural disasters, it being regarded as the responsibility of the individual to provide against such losses by way of insurance. [More…]
These various developments may be regarded as a natural accompaniment to Australia’s economic expansion paralleling -the increase iri the size and range of our industrial and commercial structure. [More…]
Even in the field of natural sciences, there are serious problems in obtaining sufficient employment opportunities for young people graduating from universities. [More…]
Will the Government arrange for the Division of Fisheries and Oceanography in the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation to investigate the marine ecology of Botany Bay and furnish a report to Parliament dealing in particular with the effects of (a) public works carried out by the Commonwealth and New South Wales Governments, (b) sewage discharge and (c) industrial waste including oil spillage, and to recommend means of preventing further damage and re-establishing the affected natural resources. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
1 also said in that telegram that if increased expenditure was needed to save Lake Pedder the Commonwealth should make Commonwealth grants available to the Tasmanian Government to preserve this unique natural wonderland. [More…]
Their ready acceptance to return must have been motivated by a natural instinct to return to their country of birth. [More…]
It is perhaps natural that these people would want to return to their country of birth and the loved ones they left behind. [More…]
As I have said before, provided the natural resources are there all these rich industrial nations have a policy of self sufficiency with a barrier of high tariffs on imports of primary products. [More…]
We are .now going to import them and the South Australian manufacturers, will make more profit out of exporting the 40 lb Australian natural Cheddars. [More…]
In past years, about half of that increase has been due to migration and the other half of it due to what is described as natural increase, the excess of births over deaths. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
Its natural resources are few, its secondary industry barely developed and much of what had been established was destroyed during the fighting there. [More…]
1 know that Government supporters have been told to vote against ihe establishment of more such committees, for instance the committee which we have proposed should be established to inquire into the overseas control of our natural resources. [More…]
It has been accepted as the natural consequence of Australia’s being, but there are forces coming info the picture which are damaging the situation. [More…]
Surely the future of this country depends upon switching over from products like wool, wheat and sugar into the direction of minerals, oil and natural gas. [More…]
Today, with a government of the same kidney threatened with electoral disaster, it is natural that it is doing the same thing. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the Report on Effects of 2,4,5-T and Related Herbicides on Man and the Environment from the Sub-committee on Energy, Natural resources and the Environment of the Committee on Commerce of the United States Senate, dated 17th and 18th June 1970, which recommends the immediate and publicised removal of this herbicide from the channels of commerce such as its use around the home, on bodies of water and on food. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian - people to preserve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
The notion of natural justice and a natural law is enshrined in constitutions like that of the United States of America. [More…]
Let us see what happens when natural forces are allowed to guide development. [More…]
Here comes the important part of the saga in the process of natural development. [More…]
and higher prices for raw and indigenous materials, which is natural because of the foregoing conditions - then it would be a simple matter to bring these discrepencies up to Australian conditions and I doubt if the Australian manufacturer would require any protection. [More…]
Those industries have a natural protection. [More…]
The main town in the region is the port of Albany which has one of the best natural harbours in Australia. [More…]
Let us take one matter, natural gas, which the Australian public generally speaking has had to finance by aiding the Bureau of Mineral Resources and by tax concessions and so on. [More…]
This is natural because it is apparent that a contract may have been concluded but we have no knowledge of contract* Our knowledge is limited to the physical amount of goods that come in. [More…]
Of course we would all like to see lower interest rates; this is only natural. [More…]
In part this is a professional process; it has been the tradition for teachers to make their natural progress through the ranks by way of rural and industrial-urban schools. [More…]
My personal view is that in the long run we would want to strive for an education system - a multi system - in which this sort of involvement would be the most natural thing. [More…]
The present Minister for Education and Science and his predecessor have both made it clear that inequality is the normal order of things - the natural order - and that we should not interfere. [More…]
We have at stake the natural resources in the great operation of Mineral Securities of Australia Ltd. Whilst I agree with the former Prime Minister, the right honourable member for Higgins (Mr Gorton), and the Minister for National Development (Mr Swartz) that in some respects it was a salvage operation, it seems to me to have turned out to be a rather peculiar salvage operation which has left foreign dominance in this entity much greater than was thought desirable. [More…]
I believe that for the most part a country should control its own natural resources. [More…]
Estimates show that kangaroos alive in their natural habitat as tourist attractions are worth $8200m more to the Australian economy over a period of 9 years, than dead ones exported as pet food or toys over the same period. [More…]
I remind honourable members that my proposition deals with not only industry but also natural resources. [More…]
The Government is now setting the clock back because if persons, whether natural born or naturalised, are now to receive pensions when they live overseas they will under the Government’s Bill have had to live in Australia not just for 10 years, which is sufficient to entitle them to a pension if they continue to live in Australia, but for 20 years. [More…]
The work of these groups has added much to our knowledge of the sea around us but with the immensity of our coastline - over 12,000 miles - ranging as it does from temperate through sub-tropical to tropical zones it is clear that if we are to make the best use of our natural resources our efforts in the field of marine science need to be strengthened. [More…]
It is natural that she should have emotional attachment to her place and that she should wish to live there until the day she dies. [More…]
In the 5-year period covered by the last census in Victoria the total growth of the area outside the Melbourne metropolitan area was .052 per cent, or less than half of one per cent, which is considerably below what would be expected to be the normal, natural increase in population without taking migration into consideration. [More…]
That is probably natural, because one of them is a Labor man and the other is a Liberal - and what a Liberal! [More…]
It is natural to assume, therefore, that from now on all of TNT’s business will be channelled to Ansett Airlines. [More…]
Despite his view that private insurance against natural disasters is working effectively (Question No. [More…]
All aspects of natural disaster assistance schemes operating in these countries, including official insurance schemes, are being examined for their relevance to the Australian situation. [More…]
In addition to these problems with the seasons - the natural difficulties - there is the inflationary problem which is affecting everybody in our country at the present time involving spiralling costs which, of course, have to be borne by the apiarists. [More…]
This is only natural. [More…]
Government can never completely protect every individual from himself or others, and too often man’s natural suspicion fades when what is or appears to be a bargain is dangled before him. [More…]
The broad principle must be applied that if the sponsorship by a Union of a Key Worker strike causes unemployment the Union and its members whether in the same or another industry must accept responsibility for the natural and foreseeable consequences of their sponsorship. [More…]
To withdraw our Army from Malaysia and Singapore, despite the firm conviction of those countries that the presence of these troops has a stabilising effect on the area; to eliminate national service, despite the fact that this would cripple the effectiveness of our Army; to pour scorn on the SEATO Treaty, despite the fact that Thailand and the Philippines regard it as a valuable deterrent to external aggression; to emasculate the ANZUS Treaty-the ultimate guarantee of our security - by converting it from a military treaty to an economic development agreement; and, finally, the claim that Australia’s strategic frontiers are her natural boundaries. [More…]
It puts forward the policy that Australia’s strategic boundaries are our natural frontiers - as if intercontinental ballistic missiles recognised territorial waters! [More…]
I also give notice that contingent on the order of the day for the resumption of the debate on the second reading of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill 1971 being read, I shall move: [More…]
That in view of the close relationship of the legislation, so much of the Standing Orders be suspended as would prevent the debate on the second reading of the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill 1970 being resumed forthwith and the Bill having precedence of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill 1971 until disposed of. [More…]
I do not know of any area in the world - and I have tried to read in this field, as most people have to do when they talk these days about ecology, pollution, conservation, the sensible use of natural resources and so on - which is an advanced society and which has been able to stop its cities growing faster than the rest of the community. [More…]
After 2 centuries of their own energetic efforts, supplemented by the recent fortuitous discovery of valuable natural resources, they deserve a much better way of life than has been accomplished so far. [More…]
The situation arises in relation to this condition of northern subsidy where the southern part of Tasmania is having some, and even perhaps a significant part, of its natural traffic flow being creamed off or taken off through other outlets. [More…]
It is natural to assume that this would be so because, after all. [More…]
The document to which he refers was a confidential document which, at my direction, my Department has prepared - I think, quite rightly so - to make some assessment of the background of the whole, of the situation in relation to our naturalresources and try to make some projections ahead. [More…]
Naturally, a document of this type is not fully useful from a Government point of view unless it deals with a wide variety of policy matters. [More…]
Policy matters, when you get into the field of the produc-tion and marketing of our - natural resources, cover quite a number of Commonwealth departments and also refer to matters within the responsibility of State governments. [More…]
I can assure the Leader of the Opposition that it is my desire as quickly as possible, and bearing in mind the amount of work and the involvement with so many different departments and other governments, to try to produce a document which I think will be a co-ordinated approach to the future of our natural resource development. [More…]
The United States of America also has a similar approach now, to try to co-ordinate their policy in relation to their natural resources. [More…]
must accept responsibility for the natural and foreseeable consequences of their sponsorship. [More…]
The measurements shown are upper limits and correspond to about 0.1 and 2.2 per cent of the average annual background radiation from natural sources. [More…]
This is not sufficient to absorb the natural increase in our population. [More…]
Honourable members will know that the coastal areas of central and northern Queensad contain the ports and facilities for the hinterland and for the great deposits of natural resources such as coal and other minerals and this is where the importance of water conservation lies. [More…]
-I ask the honourable member not to proceed further in relation to the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill, which is Order of the Day No. [More…]
With only 5 Ministers in the Senate it is natural that replies to questions are much shorter. [More…]
Your petitioners therefore humbly pray that the Federal Government take immediate steps to act on behalf of all Australian people to pre serve Lake Pedder in its natural state. [More…]
This Government authority has been responsible for the major part of the development of the oil industry in France and ils colonies to the great benefit of the French nation, in Italy the State owned ENI Corporation which was established in 1953 has played a major part in Italy’s oil and natural gas exploration and production. [More…]
foreign capital is part and parcel of the development of a young nation’s basic natural resources. [More…]
The Federal Government steadfastly refuses io undertake sound planning programmes with respect to the systematic development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
In addition to the figures I have quoted for liquid crude it is necessary to have a full appreciation of the tremendous part natural gas will play not only economically but also industrially in our future. [More…]
Those discoveries and prospective discoveries all indicate that natural gas, in addition to liquid crude, will play a very important part in the future of our petroleum resources. [More…]
In some respects - in certain remote areas - natural gas will play just as important a part as liquid crude will play in the more highly industrialised centres. [More…]
The major consumers of crude petroleum and natural gas in the world today are its greatest economic, industrial and political powers. [More…]
Let us have a look at this question of natural gas and what it means to other countries. [More…]
In the United States today there is a serious depletion of natural gas reserves. [More…]
The Americans are talking in terms of making substitute natural gas - SNG is the term that is used - and they have asked Canada to provide them with additional supplies. [More…]
The point I would Ike to make is that here are 2 of the world’s major industrial powers desperately in need of energy sources, while this Government supinely allows an oil province - an oil principality - and a natural gas province or principality to be given away. [More…]
In that area is one of the world’s greatest untapped resources of natural gas, as well as oil, because where you find one, you will find the other. [More…]
We know that they are there and the coming Labor government will see that for Australia and the Australian people those resources are recovered and restored to our natural heritage. [More…]
Government supporters continually criticise us when we ask for an Australian and government equity in Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
These resources are too precious for us to allow them to be taken over by any overseas company at all, and, if the taxpayers of Australia or the financial institutions of Australia will not produce the money in order to keep an Australian equity in our natural resources, then the government of the day must do it. [More…]
We must be about the only developed country in the world where, wilh respect to natural resources, the overseas company gets a virtually laissez-faire go and the national companies, through the shackles of disincentive taxation policies, a maximum nf impediment. [More…]
The idea and intention of the Opposition in bringing this matter forward today is to get the Government to look ahead, not to look back, if we do not look after our natural resources Australia will be deficient in fuel requirements and such a deficiency can spell disaster for Australia. [More…]
They feel that the whole thing could have been handled ever so much better if the natural wastage had been allowed to occur over the next 5 years. [More…]
As the honourable member for the Northern Territory knows, some reserves of liquid petroleum and natural gas have been discovered at Mereenie, which is about 160 miles west of Alice Springs. [More…]
It is well known in the technological field that the supply of natural rubber, together with increasing amounts of synthetic rubber, will be sufficient to meet the total demand during the next couple of years. [More…]
This was only natural. [More…]
It is a natural food and improves the value to the body of other foods. [More…]
Because it is a natural food people would prefer to eat meat that is free from preservatives or chemicals. [More…]
The local trade expects that Japan will produce a product that will be difficult to distinguish from natural beef and pork cuts within 5 io 10 years. [More…]
Producers are concentrating on beef substitutes because of the shortage of natural beef in Japan and also because of its extremely high price. [More…]
Indications at this stage are that substitute meats are not yet acceptable to consumers due to their flavour but they have a potential in the domestic market when blended on a percentage basis with natural meat. [More…]
It has been said that rising incomes and populations and changing tastes should continue to have a positive influence on the demand for natural meats and this should at least tend to partly offset any substitution effect which may arise from a greater availability of more acceptable simulated meats during the next few years. [More…]
However, sufficient progress has been made in the development of simulated meats to suggest that they are potentially important competitors, particularly in processing uses - an area of major concern for the Australian meat export industry - and that they are a factor which needs to be taken into account when framing research programmes and policies relating to the production and marketing of natural meat. [More…]
Simulated meats do not appear to match natural meats in terms of palatability, despite the considerable advances that have been made in simulating flavour and texture. [More…]
In particular, processors may make greater use of simulated meats by blending them with natural meats. [More…]
Increased competition for natural meats in processing uses would be of special significance to Australia because a high proportion of our beef and mutton exports are used for manufacturing purposes. [More…]
These acids initially are not in the imitation substances as they are in the natural beef product. [More…]
It makes it impossible for this Western Australian to follow what is bis natural career to which he is adopted. [More…]
Introduction of a metric system was widely regarded as a natural consequence of Australia’s earlier conversion to decimal currency. [More…]
It refers to the utilisation of natural resources. [More…]
Equally, I believe that when we come to the development of natural resources, such as iron ore in the case of Western Australian and coal, uranium, copper and so on in the case of Queensland, the States have let off very lightly those who wanted to exploit the development of the minerals. [More…]
Queensland, in particular, perhaps could have demanded a higher charge for the royalties for the development of coal and other natural resources within its boundaries. [More…]
I think that we have sold out too easily to those who want to invest in view of the very real powers that the country which owns the natural resources has by the mere existence of those resources. [More…]
With the advent of natural gas and nuclear energy the whole outlook for coal has changed. [More…]
Natural gas, I hope, will soon be piped from South Australia to Sydney. [More…]
American feasibility projections have shown that America will shortly run out of fuel for energy, such as steaming coal, petroleum and natural gas. [More…]
Australia has an inexhaustible supply of natural gas. [More…]
The Americans now have plans for trying to conserve their fuel resources such as coal, petroleum and natural gas. [More…]
Australia has an inexhaustible supply of natural gas, so we do not have to worry about that. [More…]
It is selling its natural resources at less than a reasonable rate’. [More…]
To me, socialism is the best use of our manpower, brainpower and financial or natural resources in the best interests of the people and the nation. [More…]
Another important aspect is the future role of the Australian Stevedoring Industry Authority, about which its staff has a natural concern. [More…]
The wiser States benefited, in particular South Australia which is the State poorest in natural resources. [More…]
I hope I have highlighted the strains that are put on a government which suddenly comes to power and has to drag the State - the richest in the country, in natural resources - out of socialism, lift it from underdevelopment and bring it to the position of being one of the foremost States in Australia. [More…]
Under the provisions, capital expenditure on natural gas transmission pipelines and roads, railways or pipelines used for the transport of crude oil or other minerals is deductible for taxation purposes over a period of 10 years. [More…]
Accordingly, it proposes that, at the next convenient opportunity, Parliament will be asked to amend the income tax law to permit a taxpayer to claim deductions for capital expenditure on natural gas transmission pipelines, or on other facilities for the transport of minerals which qualify under Division 10a a a, over a period longer than 10 years. [More…]
The protection, preservation and control of our natural resources are far too important for this stop-gap approach. [More…]
State Ministers, academics and industrialists have repeatedly warned of the need for the encouragement and development of our natural gas, oil and mineral resources, as well as calling for the introduction of a national energy and resources policy and greater activity in exploration for minerals. [More…]
It is time the Government looked at this problem more fully and comprehensively and that it decided that our natural resources were things. [More…]
As natural gas seems to be the fuel that is coming into operation in Australia more extensively than other fuels and as it seems to be the fuel that has much more to gain from the measures outlined in the Minister’s statement, let me say a few words about it. [More…]
Natural gas is coming much more into prominence. [More…]
The late Mr Roberts noted that there was a possibility of reducing the capital outlay on new electrical generating equipment if a definite portion of the energy market was allotted to natural gas. [More…]
If we consider natural gas from a national viewpoint, the interstate and Commonwealth wide nature of this new source of energy becomes quite apparent. [More…]
In a paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science dated 9th September 1971, Mr W. W. Pettingell, General Manager of the Australian Gas Light Co. and Mr L. A. Hokin the Technical Sales Manager, put forward the proposition that as industry becomes more and more dependent upon natural gas it will be necessary to add flexibility to the supply system by linking the major capita] cities in a grid pipeline system. [More…]
One little concession is to be given to the exploration industry in Australia, and, more particularly, to the people connected with natural gas at the moment, in order to get them to put in pipelines. [More…]
For heaven’s sake, in the interests of Australia and our resources, I ask the Government to steal another Australian Labor Party policy and introduce, as quickly as possible, a national policy on energy and natural resources. [More…]
This was considered to be the greatest natural disaster of the century as 2 million people lost their lives. [More…]
Yet the contribution from this Government to the greatest natural catastrophe of this century was $425,000. [More…]
No wonder there has been some slow-down in business activity, even in this country with a sound economy and with perhaps more natural advantages than any other. [More…]
I suppose that it is only natural that they would handle the catches from their own vessels first. [More…]
The Government’s own Commonwealth Electoral Bill is in the same category as the Australian Institute of Marine Science Bill, the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill, the Fisheries Bill and the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill which have been on the notice paper for as much as 2 years and more. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the House that the Government will withhold ratification of these farm-out agreements to ensure maximum Australian participation and control over these irreplaceable and valuable natural gas deposits, valued at $16,500,000,000? [More…]
People are apt to become very blase about technological advances which play a significant part in their lives and these become accepted very quickly as being the natural order of things. [More…]
Open wires on poles are clearly vulnerable all along their route to both natural and man made hazards. [More…]
Each relay station is therefore subject to an added risk from natural causes, as well as being highly vulnerable to human interference. [More…]
There is a natural limit imposed by the number of satellite frequencies that are available in the electromagnetic spectrum, and this requires satellite separation to avoid interference between satellite transmission beams. [More…]
I should like to give an example of how the processing of Australia’s natural resources is passing into the control of overseas multi-national organisations or corporations. [More…]
The fact is that organisations right throughout Australian - the latest being the Australian Bank Officials Association - are complaining bitterly about how Australia’s natural resources and the secondary industry engaged in the processing of these resources are steadily moving more and more into the hands of overseas organisations. [More…]
The second factor is the natural predilection of the trading banks to reestablish their liquidity positions from the relatively low levels which prevailed for a large part of 1970 and the first part of 1971. [More…]
The discovery of off-shore oil and natural gas, first in Bass Strait and more recently on the north west shelf have greatly altered our energy situation. [More…]
Consequently the Interim Council concludes that rather than being a wide ranging centre of excellence ‘the research programme of the Townsville Institute should be concentrated in those regions and in those branches of marine science for which Townsville forms a natural geographical centre’. [More…]
It is directly concerned with the mineral, oil and natural gas development around Australia. [More…]
It is only natural that the States themselves would object to this legislation. [More…]
For example, the Commonwealth Government took into account a view expressed 2 years ago by the Past President of the International Court of Justice - that apart from inland waters, sovereign rights over the seabed and natural resources of the continental shelf vested exclusively in the Commonwealth from low water mark outwards. [More…]
In the United States of America this was also allowed with respect to some States having rights to exploit, explore and develop oil and natural gas resources off their own coastlines. [More…]
We reserved matters dealing with the natural resources of the sea-bed and sub-soil of the continental shelf. [More…]
It has been pointed out that the capacity to exploit the mineral resources and other natural resources of the seabed and the sub-soil is expanding and as technology extends the Governor-General under this legislation will have power to make by proclamation such extensions of the boundary as may seem fit to the government of the day. [More…]
There is more money at stake - I hate to intrude this note - in the fate of this measure than there has been in any other measure that has come before this House since Federation because with the continental shelf of H million square miles and with the north-west continental shelf, undoubtedly the greatest undeveloped treasure house of oil and natural gas in the world today, the last thing the Government wants is to upset its financial arrangements. [More…]
The Japanese are scurrying around the landscape trying to make sure that they can get adequate supplies of oil and natural gas. [More…]
The United States and the multi-national companies that spring from it today are using their best endeavours to get alternative supplies of oil and natural gas to those available to it in the Arab states in particular and, to a lesser extent, in Indonesia. [More…]
An estimate has been made of the natural gas resources in the north-west continental shelf. [More…]
There was an exchange of notes, tabled in this House, between Sir Henry Bolte and the former Prime Minister, Mr Harold Holt, in which it was agreed that certain things should be done in relation to natural gas from Bass Strait. [More…]
The first and most important of those agreements was that natural gas would not be supplied to New South Wales on terms less favourable than those operating in Victoria and a notoriously high figure was fixed. [More…]
He recommended that a temporary support value of $512 per tonne be determined for natural resin and $566 per tonne for other polymers and copolymers. [More…]
The generally held view is that Australia is an advancing, sound and sophisticated country with a broadly based economy and huge natural resources. [More…]
Dr Aurelio Peccei, the founder of the Club of Rome expressed ‘environment’ in a systems way which embraces both natural and man-made components. [More…]
The subsystems can be natural or man-made but they interlink anyway. [More…]
This is equally true of the level of a house, a city, a natural region, a nation or a whole earth. [More…]
In 1911 Admiral Henderson reported that Cockburn Sound was the natural site for a naval base. [More…]
Since the Commonwealth was making the gesture of allowing a park of about 1,800 acres to remain on Garden Island it would have been an elegant gesture if it had carried the financial responsibility for the development of the park as some return to the Western Australian community for the loss of what was once a very great natural area of pleasure. [More…]
Of course, one appreciates very much that the staff would have a natural concern about this matter. [More…]
If persons - whether natural born or naturalised - are now to receive pensions when they live overseas they will have to have lived in Australia not just for 10 years, which is sufficient to entitle them to a pension if they continue to live in Australia, but for 20 years. [More…]
In general, those from the southern part of the natural range of the species have performed best here, and about 5 of these have been used commercially. [More…]
I have, too, sent a message of sympathy to his widow, the Duchess of Windsor, who shared all the years after the abdication with him in a spirit of great devotion and with a natural dignity. [More…]
In Melbourne on 7th September 1971, Dr R. F. Dusman, senior ecologist of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, stated: [More…]
Yet it seems slightly mad to see them knocking over the few remaining areas of natural forest to create exotic plantations of pinus radiata and other species. [More…]
A sound environmental policy would tolerate the permanent alteration of natural ecosystems only after much thought about the very great ecological consequences. [More…]
We must know the answers if we arc to plan sound policies for the protection and productivity of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
These grants were broken up into various groups: Food, beverages, tobacco, natural materials, ores and metals, metal manufacturing, mineral fuels, animal, fish and vegetable oils, fats and waxes, chemicals, textiles, buildings and building materials, machinery, transport, electric and electronic apparatus, measuring and controlling apparatus, and miscellaneous. [More…]
Overseas investment in Australia has played an Important role in the development of our natural resources. [More…]
Japan is aware of and accepts our policy for projects to be carried out in association with Australian equity and management and for some of our natural resources to be processed in Australia, where economically feasible, before export. [More…]
After full examination of the circumstances, and of detailed information concerning the damage subsequently supplied to the Commonwealth, I have informed the Premier that the Commonwealth has been unable to accept this damage as coming within the ambit of established Commonwealth arrangements for natural disaster assistance to the States. [More…]
In answer to questions about the report which his Department completed in October 1970 on forward national development planning covering minerals, forests, water and energy, has he said that many of the matters have now been dealt with and public announcements have been made (Hansard, 9th December 1971, page 4383) and that as quickly as possible he would produce a document with a co-ordinated approach to natural resources development (Hansard, 13th April 1971, page 1S83). [More…]
In making this assessment the Committee has, in 2 instances, compared the levels of radiation dose due to fallout with the dose received from natural background to which populations have been exposed since the beginning of life on this earth. [More…]
There are, I understand, many technical difficulties which prevent direct evaluation of any effects of radiation doses on experimental animals at low levels approaching that of natural background radiation and even more so at the still lower levels resulting from fallout in Australia. [More…]
In part of its evaluation of the hazards to health of the 1971 French tests the National Radiation Advisory Committee followed a practice adopted by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation, namely, that of comparing the radiation doses from nuclear weapons tests with the doses inevitably received by the community from natural background radiation. [More…]
The average natural background radiation dose to a person in the Australian communities is about 100 millirad a year. [More…]
However the natural background varies from place to place due to such factors as altitude and the amount of naturally occurring radioactive material in the soil. [More…]
In a given location the annual dose due to natural sources also varies from person to person due to such factors as the materials used in the construction of buildings in which they live and work, and the amount of time they spend indoors and out of doors. [More…]
Taking all these factors into account, the actual radiation dose due to natural background radiation received by persons would vary, one from the other, from the annual average by up to about 10 millirad a year. [More…]
Some of the population living at altitude or in areas of high natural radioactivity would receive annual radiation doses greater than the average by SO per cent or more. [More…]
If the conservative assumption of direct proportionality between dose and biological effects, without a minimum or threshold dose, is applied it follows that this dose would have given rise as a total to less than 1 per cent of the same biological effects in each and every year which are due to the average natural background radiation dose. [More…]
Any biological effects would have been less than those which would result from the variations which occur in natural background radiation from place to place and for individual to individual. [More…]
These bonds have already been sold on a number of markets and Australia is a natural market in which the Bank should be able to operate. [More…]
Is it a fact that 3 Japanese companies, Marubeni Corporation, Okura Shoii and Nipon Kohan and Kaisha (Japan Steel and Tube Corporation) have been negotiating with an Australian company, Magellan Petroleum Australia Ltd, which owns natural gas concession rights in Palm Valley, south-west of Alice Springs, to develop the natural gas resources of the Northern Territory and export natural gas to Japan. [More…]
Have the announced preliminary, surveys shown deposits of between 5 and 10 million cubic feet of natural gas to exist in the area. [More…]
Does the project also provide for the Japanese Companies to receive big orders for steel pipes, gas liquefying plants, liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers and other relevant equipment. [More…]
Can he state the extent to which the Japanese firms will have control over the gas fields and the extent to which those firms will be able to influence availability of the supply of liquefied natural gas to Australia and Australian export territories where that gas is now being used as a substitute for oil and petrol because of its advantages in limiting air pollution. [More…]
Negotiations took place between certain Japanese companies and Magellan Petroleum Australia Ltd, concerning the export of natural gas from the Palm Valley deposit to Japan. [More…]
However Magellan have now announced that they have entered into a contract with Pacific Lighting Corporation of California for the export of natural gas to the United States of America. [More…]
In January 1970, I announced that the export of natural gas from Australia would be subject to Commonwealth Government control. [More…]
As 1 said at that time it was not the Commonwealth’s intention to allow any exports of natural gas but that the Government would stand ready, to review this policy if it were at any stage, to be satisfied that Australia’s own needs were reasonably provided for. [More…]
This will be considered very carefully, taking into account the reserves of natural gas in Australia and the expectations of the quantities required for Australian usage in both the short and long term. [More…]
There is some feeling that perhaps the people of New Guinea have not been getting the best return for their natural resources. [More…]
In 1968 the Australian Minerals Council was established and that is the main forum in which discussions are undertaken in relation to all petroleum matters, including natural gas. [More…]
In addition, in view of certain matters that have arisen recently in relation to the very rapidly developing natural gas industry in Australia, I did take the opportunity, because there will not be another meeting of the Minerals Council for some months, of personally discussing the question of natural gas and policies relating to it with all the State Ministers concerned. [More…]
The common brown carp is actually a goldfish which has reverted to its natural shape and brown colouration. [More…]
In contrast this nation’s most valuable asset is its vast, nonrenewable fuel resources of natural gas and uranium which are conservatively valued at $ 19,000m. [More…]
Dealing with the second part, which related to the industries associated with the production of petroleum gas, often termed natural gas, and uranium, these 2 industries have a tremendous importance to our future economy. [More…]
The position in relation to natural gas is that the deposits which have been discovered so far are being utilised substantially for local domestic purposes. [More…]
There is the long term question of the strong, balanced development of the nation’s human and natural resources. [More…]
What is to be the position with regard to the development of Australia’s world ranking supplies of natural gas? [More…]
Then in relation to economic strength, with our natural reserves and the manufacturing capacity of this nation, the talk in Australia and around the economic world is of the possibility of upgrading the dollar. [More…]
Their growth in numbers by natural increase exceeds that of the white population. [More…]
So it would seem that $20m to provide a proper service in 38 different country areas is absolutely unthinkable while to provide colour television at a cost of $43m to areas already enjoying a good service is just a natural process. [More…]
When the Labor Party is in government it will set up at Townsville a pilot programme which will make the best use of the facilities that Townsville offers in the form of harbours, the natural advantages it would provide for industries in that area, its connection by rail and road systems to other parts of Australia and its connection by sea with all other parts of the world. [More…]
They find here a peace and tranquility, a natural scenic gen tleness, a rural and marine environment that have long since disappeared from Sydney. [More…]
Regularly, the world witnesses major natural disasters that are terrifying in their intensity, rapacious in their destruction and heart-rending in terms of human misery and suffering. [More…]
It should be a highly mobile unit consisting of Hercules transport, helicopters, small watercraft, road and bridge building engineers, fire fighting units, medical teams, communications experts and general rescue expertise for all types of natural disasters. [More…]
It has not sought to utilise Australia’s natural resources for Australia’s benefit in the fields of minerals, oil, gas or even human beings. [More…]
What does the Government do about international raiding of our natural resources so that we receive only the smallest return for them? [More…]
Is it not about time this attitude was dropped and the whole basis of our social services whether for pensioners, the ill, the physically and mentally handicapped, etc., became a matter of providing for the maximum use of our natural resources - in this case, human beings - by a responsible government accepting its responsibilities in an enlightened community and not pushing the responsibility on to voluntary agencies. [More…]
This is quite natural, because of transport and accommodation costs which are involved when the child is obliged to attend a school in the metropolitan area or in some city or town some distance from his real place of residence. [More…]
In my question to the Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) I stated that the Palm Valley natural gas deposits were the most valuable ever proven in Australia. [More…]
The library has been provided to assist students in developing their own abilities and natural aptitudes. [More…]
there is not a natural democratic check, because most people very sensibly do not want to spend their spare time on such chores. [More…]
I venture to say that if it had kept pace with and been attached to wages and the current cost structure, we would have had a natural increase in the size of Australian families. [More…]
This piece of mythology ought by now to have died a natural death. [More…]
My question, which I direct to the Prime Minister, arises from a question asked by the honourable member for Hawker last Tuesday, a question asked yesterday by the honourable member for Cunningham, and the answer given by the Minister for National Development dealing with supplies of natural gas in central Australia. [More…]
I remind the Prime Minister that the Minister for National Development has said several times that it is Government policy not to export natural gas at this time. [More…]
Is the Prime Minister aware of reports that an American corporation which is largely concerned with supplying American needs for natural gas - Pacific Lighting Corporation - has signed with the Palm Valley consortium comprising Magellan Petroleum Australia Ltd and other large American dominated companies a S900m agreement to export natural gas? [More…]
The contract which has been negotiated is subject to Government approval because, as I pointed out yesterday, an export embargo has been placed on liquefied natural gas. [More…]
Liquefied natural gas is found as natural gas and must be liquefied before export. [More…]
Both the companies concerned know the policy of the Government in relation to this matter, namely, that there is a general embargo on the export of liquefied natural gas. [More…]
Secondly, the policy which has been stated by the Government and which is clearly understood by all the State governments, because I have discussed the matter with every State government over the last month or so, recognises the possibility that, in remote areas such as tb~ northwest shelf off Western Australia, it may not be a viable proposition to supply natural gas from that area to some other areas in Australia. [More…]
There are ample natural resources, such as water, and facilities for recreational and cultural activities. [More…]
The citizens themselves should go out and select the industries that they believe the area needs and put up proposals for joint ventures, particularly for joint ventures which will take advantage of the local natural resources. [More…]
The Leader of the Opposition criticised these tax cuts in a way that precludes Labor, if it is ever successful at an election, from taking advantage of the natural growth in tax revenue. [More…]
The next matter I want to refer to concerns the provisions of the Act which relate to what might be deemed the rights of the individual against an injustice which could be perpetrated by a denial of natural justice. [More…]
In this case there has been a denial of natural justice and a decision has been made contrary to the provisions of the Act. [More…]
Foreign control of our vast natural gas deposits is an established fact. [More…]
In terms of gas, the Japanese Energy Council estimates that liquefied natural gas imports will rise from the current level of around 340,000 million cubic feet a day to 2.7 billion cubic feet per day in 1985. [More…]
Our prospects for both uranium and liquefied natural gas exports are excellent. [More…]
Already Australia has entered into contracts to export uranium and discussions have taken place in relation to the export of liquefied natural gas. [More…]
Oil and natural gas together supplies as much as three quarters of the United States energy requirements for all purposes. [More…]
Unless economic circumstances improve to stimulate a much more expanded search for new reserves of domestic natural gas, more than 25 per cent of the market must go unsatisfied. [More…]
Natural gas is likely to double its share of the European energy market to around 15 per cent by 1980. [More…]
Despite large increases in North Sea production, it appears likely that European natural gas imports from the Soviet Union and North Africa will increase and Shell T. and T. Co. estimates that by 1976 imports from these 2 areas will have risen to 2.4 billion cubic feet per day. [More…]
First there is the harsh reality insofar as oil and natural gas is concerned because both have a limited life. [More…]
If we take the static and expotential index in terms of oil and natural gas, in the case of oil it is 31 years and 20 years and in the case of gas it is 38 and 22 years respectively. [More…]
Estimated natural gas deposits are 45 trillion cubic feet - and could be as high as 100 trillion cubic feet. [More…]
The Amadeus Basin is estimated to have natural gas deposits of 8 trillion cubic feet and is valued at $50m. [More…]
Some of the important reasons why this question has to be tackled with competence and foresight in Australia are as follows: Firstly, the country is large and any energy resources are unevenly distributed geographically; secondly, primary energy consumption is increasing at an annual rate of 6 per cent compared with about 3 per cent for the rest of the world; thirdly, electricity consumption is increasing at the rate of about 9.S per cent per annum compared with 5 or 6 per cent for the rest of the world; fourthly, a high rate of industrialisation and development is taking place in Australia; fifthly, a major exporter of energy resources needs to review periodically its resources and pattern of use to ensure that adequate reserves are retained for domestic use; sixthly, State fuel resources and energy consumption can no longer be considered in isolation - for example, natural gas and proposed interstate transmission lines; seventhly, the environmental and pollution aspects of fuel and energy production and utilisation are becoming of much greater concern to governments and communities; and eighthly, economic benefits may accrue to the nation by control of energy usage patterns - for example, incentives to reduce heavy fuel oil imports. [More…]
As a nation we have far to go and we have much to do in areas such as education, health, welfare and the development of human and natural resources. [More…]
Population growth in Canberra is dependent on the number of jobs created here along with a proportionately smaller reliance on natural population increase. [More…]
AlburyWodonga is the natural site for such a city. [More…]
It is a centre with a range of natural resources and above all it is equidistant between Melbourne and Canberra. [More…]
If this country is ever to have another large inland city then Albury-Wodonga is the natural site for it. [More…]
What knowledge did he, his Department or the Government possess of negotiations between Magellan Petroleum (Australia) Ltd and the United States of America based Pacific Lighting Corporation for the development of the Palm Valley natural gas field before the announcement was made of an agreement on a project to supply major quantities of natural gas to Central and Southern California. [More…]
Has the Government sufficient information on our natural gas reserves to allow approval of this agreement and the export of major quantities of natural gas without detriment to Australia’s future requirements. [More…]
My Department and I were aware of negotiations between Magellan Petroleum (Australia) Ltd, and Pacific Lighting Gas Development Co. for the export of natural gas from the Palm Valley fields, conditional upon Commonwealth Government approval, and have had preliminary discussions with both parties. [More…]
Magellan Petroleum (Australia) Ltd, and Pacific Lighting Gas Development Co. have jointly submitted a conditional agreement for the export of natural gas for consideration by the Government. [More…]
The Government will be taking into account all aspects of the supply and demand for natural gas, including the future Australian requirement for this premium fuel, in its consideration of this matter. [More…]
I notice in the plan for the College that there is a natural amphitheatre in the area. [More…]
This is only a natural sequence of events with an election coming on. [More…]
We have attempted in Australia, and I do not disagree with it, an increase in population through both immigration and natural growth which is an alltime record for any part of the world, or at least any part of what we might call the western democracies. [More…]
It must be realised that - and apparently this is the attitude being taken by this Government - in making these decisions and saying: ‘Ali right, we do not consider water and sewerage reticulation to be a top priority matter’, and at the same time allowing the Water Board virtually to determine the planning and release of land for urban development around Sydney you are creating a land shortage, you are creating a spiralling of land costs, you are creating an inflationary situation which in itself brings about a natural demand for higher wage increases which add to cost inflation. [More…]
1 believe it is vital that this approach continue so that industry can be attracted to cities and towns all over Australia where the natural advantages and the facilities provided can make such decentralisation effective and useful. [More…]
I can draw upon my experience in the field of natural resource development and the results over the years of not taking conservation fully into account. [More…]
The State shall ensure that natural forests shall not be cleared for planting softwoods unless the particular proposed clearing has beforehand been the subject of an environmental impact study made by an independent expert on behalf of the Australian Forestry Council and that Council after considering the report of the said study has approved the particular clearing.’ [More…]
I wish to quote to the chamber a comment which was made in Melbourne on 7th September 1971 by Dr R. F. Dusman, senior ecologist of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
Yet it seems slightly mad to see them knocking over the few remaining areas of natural forest to create exotic plantations of pinus radiata and other species. [More…]
I would like to ask the following question of the Minister for National Development: What does the future hold for the natural eucalyptus forests of the Boyd Plateau? [More…]
We know that the destruction of natural Australian eucalypt forests can affect not only other species of flora but also the natural fauna living in the area. [More…]
I believe that the hardwood and natural Australian forests should be allowed to remain. [More…]
But I do not believe that we should destroy the natural hardwood forests. [More…]
The owner gets what he can for it and that is the most natural attitude in the world for him to take. [More…]
The natural leaning of a lawyer is towards giving some right of appeal in such circumstances. [More…]
Potential migrants arc told most families have a car, New South Wales abounds in unspoiled natural beauty, there is plenty of housing- [More…]
I can only repeat that the Government has made its policy in relation to liquefied natural gas. [More…]
Secondly, consideration will be given to granting permits to export liquefied natural gas from reserves which are located in substantial quantities in remote areas where there is little likelihood of it being a viable proposition to market it domestically and where the States concerned recommend export. [More…]
I should, of course, qualify this by saying that our natural resources policy must always be flexible because, at present, we do not know exactly what the final proven reserves will be in relation to Palm Valley, the deposits in South Australia, Bass Strait, the North West shelf or any other area in Australia. [More…]
The provisions covering the operations of the Authority are similar to those contained in the existing Wool Industry Ac* Provision has been made, however, for the functions of the Authority to be extended to allow it to carry out tests on non-wool fibres, whether natural fibres or otherwise, and non-wool textile products as well as jj wool and products made wholly or partly from wool. [More…]
Last year when speaking on the estimates for the Department of Trade and Industry I spoke about the tourist industry and the failure of this Government to institute a programme to maximise the natural attractions of Australia for the benefit of the industry and the hundreds of thousands of people who are directly or indirectly involved. [More…]
In today’s Press in all the capital cities was a statement that Mitsubishi of Japan was to be awarded a contract for the supply and construction of a pipeline for the carriage of natural gas between Gidgealpa and Sydney. [More…]
The time has passed when natural resources can be allocated at the whim of any company, no matter how large it may be. [More…]
A very substantial profit can be made by the export of natural gas. [More…]
The deal already has been made; natural gas will be exported and that will go a considerable part of the way towards liquidating the cost of the pipeline. [More…]
But the time has arrived when the exports of Australian natural resources will be controlled by an Australian national government. [More…]
Already this week in a fully detailed statement on foreign investment in Australia we have stated that the export of Australia’s natural resources will be vetted by a statutory authority. [More…]
But more than that, the glittering prize is not merely the natural gas resources of Mereenie which appear to be about 3 trillion cubic feet. [More…]
Already both the Japanese and the United States interests are manoeuvring frantically to obtain a controlling interest over at least 9 trillion cubic feet of natural gas which is in that area. [More…]
It has said that it is prepared to supply anything up to $900m because there happens to be the little matter of 16 billion dollars worth of natural gas there. [More…]
For example the United States, with 170,000 miles of pipeline, is attempting to upgrade coal gas to raise its calorific contents from 400 British thermal units to about 1,050 British thermal units which is the average content of natural gas. [More…]
The United States’ natural gas supplies are acutely limited. [More…]
It is continuing to do the same with natural gas. [More…]
We can sell natural gas for the benefit of the Australian people and not for the benefit of any company or of the interests which are represented in this case by Sir William Pettingell. [More…]
The Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) in answer to a question asked by the honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi) said that in relation to inaccessible off-shore natural gas resources conceivably the Government would modify its policy. [More…]
I ask the Prime Minister whether he recalls the agreement between the Commonwealth and all the States in October 1967 relating to the exploitation of petroleum resources, including natural gas, and the memorandum of understanding annexed to the agreement, in which Prime Minister Holt and all the Premiers agreed that they would encourage, and would not seek to restrict, trade between the States, and with that view they would confer from time to time as any of them requested. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister, in accordance with this memorandum, requested a conference with the States, or any of them, on natural gas resources in Australia in order to safeguard the overall national interest in developing and reticulating them? [More…]
Will the Minister table in this House for consideration and urgent discussion, firstly, the full details of the contract between the Australian Gas Light Company and the Mitsubishi company and, secondly, all proposals and activities related to this contract by the Australian Gas Light Company and other overseas firms for the sale and export of natural gas either from Gidgealpa or by an extension of the pipeline, from Palm Valley? [More…]
In a letter addressed to me on 11th September 1972 he referred to the unsatisfactory Commonwealth aid arrangement to assist New South Wales in providing drought and other natural disaster relief. [More…]
It is correct that since 1970-71 the Commonwealth has determined that expenditure for this State on natural disaster relief, on a fiscal year basis would be $5m. [More…]
Following further consideration of this matter by the Consultative Committee on Drought, Standing Committee on Agriculture and the Australian Agricultural Council, as a compromise a further letter was written to the Commonwealth on 9th November 1971, proposing a 3-tier financial arrangement for natural disaster aid. [More…]
In his reply of 7th August 1972, the Prime Minister indicated that the Commonwealth was not prepared to vary from its policy in regard to natural disaster aid for this State, that is, the $5m trigger point. [More…]
In the past some of the problems affecting the Harcourt area have included continual frosts, hail storms, bush fires and a whole series of natural disasters. [More…]
This has been one of the great difficulties, I think, for the apple and pear growers in Australia, that the Commonwealth and States have not found any means of providing insurance against natural disasters such as those I have mentioned. [More…]
For many others it is too restrictive because many of them, especially those affected by the series of natural disasters that has hit them, have taken extra employment outside their orchards and this, of course, has disqualified them from receiving assistance under the scheme. [More…]
Commonwealth scholarships have provided assistance to certain students who would not otherwise have been able to take full advantage of their natural abilities. [More…]
Some students have natural abilities which are worthy of being further advanced but which can be advanced only by the receipt of a scholarship. [More…]
The scholarships system enables those students to take advantage of their natural abilities. [More…]
I suppose it is only natural that when they arrive in Australia they wish to take up residence in a city or close to a city. [More…]
I have raised this matter because it appears that the Australian Gas Light Co. in Sydney has given a contract to the Japanese company, Mitsui, for the supply of $44m - or $US54m - worth of steel pipes to carry natural gas from South Australia to Sydney. [More…]
I submit that it involves the future of the natural gas industry in Australia which will be one of the largest in the world. [More…]
It is said there are 3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas at Gidgealpa, 45 trillion cubic feet at Palm Valley and perhaps about 90 to 100 trillion cubic feet in the north west of Australia - probably the largest reserves of natural gas that exist in the world. [More…]
This matter involves the whole future of the natural gas industry. [More…]
Australian steel manufacturers are unable to produce the quality of steel required for natural gas pipelines, the general manager of the Australian Gas Light Co., Sir William Pettingell, said yesterday. [More…]
Firstly, it is a great national question that affects the future fundamentally of 2 vast industries of this country - steel and natural gas. [More…]
Employment and industrial activity will be created by the conversion of the Sydney city supply to natural gas and the conversion of industrial and domestic services to natural gas. [More…]
We consider this to be merely the first round of a battle for the control of Australia’s major natural resources. [More…]
The Government of the Commonwealth has the right to control our natural resources, the right to give by-laws or refrain from giving them and the right and the duty, as far as the Aus tralian Labor Party is concerned, of seeing that our natural resources are used in the best interests of the community as a whole. [More…]
Let me tell the House shortly what the outlook of the Australian Labor Party is towards our natural resources, particularly primary energy resources - natural gas, oil, coal and uranium. [More…]
It is estimated that Australia possesses about 75 trillion cubic feet of natural gas located in Bass Strait, in the Cooper Basin in South Australia, in Palm Valley in the Northern Territory and on the northwest shelf of Western Australia. [More…]
But eventually, as the honourable members for Lalor (Dr J. F. Cairns) and Cunningham said, there will be thousands of miles of pipeline reticulating natural gas throughout the length and breadth of Australia. [More…]
Honourable members might recall that, in the first instance, the Australian Gas Light Co. went to the Esso-BHP Company to see about obtaining natural gas from its sources to service Sydney. [More…]
Not only did the Esso-BHP group hold the Australian Gas Light Co. over a barrel but the group was also helped by the then Premier of Victoria, lt was because of that that AGL went looking elsewhere for a natural gas source. [More…]
What we have here is a dispute over the reticulation of natural gas not only through New South Wales but, perhaps, also through the Palm Valley fields up to the north west shelf, with the laterals leading off serving various other communities. [More…]
Broken Hill Pty Co. Ltd is a partner in the oil and natural gas venture in Bass Strait. [More…]
It has natural advantages and great business ability. [More…]
Taken together, the background paper and the statement I am now making will, in relation to the 4 natural resources with which my portfolio is concerned, set out the up to date situation, outline current [More…]
Even in my last few weeks as Minister, major issues have arisen which it is only natural for me to say I would have liked to have seen decided. [More…]
The effective development of Australia’s natural resources of minerals, forests, water and energy is, I believe, of crucial importance to the welfare of our country. [More…]
Under the Australian Constitution the States are primarily responsible for many of the matters involved in natural resource development. [More…]
But the Commonwealth does have powers and responsibilities - particularly in the fields of external affairs, trade and finance - and in its ability to devote significant effort to the measurement and assessment of our natural resources - which enable it to encourage development and to help in protecting the national interest. [More…]
Labor’s approach to this subject is to establish a Commonwealth body to examine and approve exports of natural resources where it is in the national interest that they be exported. [More…]
One thing that strikes me as very interesting is the changed attitude evident in the document just presented by the Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) entitled ‘Australia’s Natural Resources’ about what is called infrastructure. [More…]
They are belated acknowledgements that problems exist - death bed repentances of a Government that feels that it no longer commands the support of 50 per cent of the Australian people and which is trying desperately in this last couple of months to say that it now recognises it should protect our natural resources. [More…]
What we on this side of the House say is that in future, whatever the difficulties about unravelling what has happened in the past, Australia’s natural resources should be developed for Australia’s national interest. [More…]
The attractions of the major cities must not be underestimated, particularly since their growth has been in essence a natural phenomenon. [More…]
Earlier today we discussed the construction of a natural gas pipeline from central Australia to Sydney. [More…]
Other pipelines that must surely follow will carry natural gas in vast quantities from fields in central Australia, the south west coast of Western Australia and no doubt other centres in a network around Australia. [More…]
But it is only in recent years that we have made discoveries of the enormous potential of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
Over the last 10 or 12 years I have spoken in this House and urged that an authority of this kind be established because it is the only orderly way in which to gather information concerning the development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
One cannot put environmental problems under one bureaucratic roof, for the environment is not a thing but a complex of interconnected natural and man-made items. [More…]
Guidelines which the Department of the Environment can lay down are sets of rules which define environmentally-wise ways of doing anything; of building dams or roads or a new town; cleaning land, managing city air, planting forests, building and siting industries, designing transportation and maintaining natural ecosystems to allow evolution to continue, or managing our arid interior or our precious coastline, or harvesting wood, mining and exporting minerals, generating power or viewing the population policy, and many others. [More…]
The constitutional power Includes the environmental protection of Commonwealth territory, the environmental impact of interstate or international trade particularly the export of natural resources, the regulation of corporations now that quite a few issues have been cleared up by the High Court in the so called concrete pipes case, and certain other areas. [More…]
This is not due to natural causes but because of the detergents that are coming from the sewers into the sea and setting up this reaction on the beach front. [More…]
If the SLSA did not exist, the average Australian would not be able to enjoy that greatest of our natural resources for recreation - the golden surfing beaches for which Australia has justified its world reputation. [More…]
However, if there is not some co-ordinated serious research undertaken into the causes of beach erosion around the continent then we may, in my own electorate for sample, see in the not too distant future the day when there are no natural beaches for the lifesavers to patrol or for the public to enjoy. [More…]
In my own electorate “ there are several organisations which have been formed to protect local areas of natural beauty or to restore them. [More…]
At that time they decided that they would move that all unoccupied land on the Kurnell peninsula be zoned as country open space; that all lands adjacent to the Captain Cook landing place be so zoned and be added to the original reserve; that Towra Point be left in its natural condition for educational, scientific and passive recreational purposes; that the remaining ground zoned as country open space will be available for active recreational purposes; and that the Kurnell Committee present their plan to the Government for approval [More…]
As we take steps to speed scientific and technical progress, we must see to it that it should combine with a rational treatment of natural resources and should not cause dangerous air and water pollution or exhaust the soil. [More…]
I believe that with our natural resources this is an area of which we have to beware. [More…]
The raw material comes from the natural forests and from planted forests. [More…]
Although in the past a number of people have been concerned about the relationship between man and his environment, about the utilisation and conservation of scarce resources, about the preservation of unique natural land forms and the conservation of the earth’s flora and fauna, only recently has this concern become widespread amongst the people of the developed countries of the world. [More…]
The efforts of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation should be considerably expanded in the field of environmental conservation and the Organisation should immediately undertake the national survey of natural resources which was suggested by the National Academy of Science in 1968 and again in 1972. [More…]
I would like to hear the other companies interested in the same uranium deposits state whether they would be prepared to take steps to preserve the flora and fauna, the natural bush and the Aboriginal artifacts which are in this area. [More…]
This awareness gave rise to a deepening public concern for the protection of our natural resources and for the acknowledgement of our social obligations and to an insistence that some action be taken to reverse these, processes of deterioration. [More…]
We naturally think in terms of conserving our flora and fauna. [More…]
In preserving these we also preserve our national heritage, our way of life and the rights of every person in this land to enjoy the beauty of the scenery, the landscape and the natural habitat. [More…]
The ecology of the environment embraces all forms of life and its natural surroundings. [More…]
We will need to develop our natural resources - extract a greater amount of them from the ground. [More…]
When we talk of power we talk of the primary energy resources - coal, uranium, natural gas and oil. [More…]
The provision of natural gas to the community will require the construction of long pipelines. [More…]
Naturally, trees will have to be pulled down and perhaps some of our waterways will be interfered with. [More…]
They have many cultural ideals which are natural to their own way of life and which are in common with ours. [More…]
They are strong natural entities. [More…]
The ocean is rich in natural resources. [More…]
So I make a plea for greater consideration to be given to granting these people control over the resources of the .isa, the only area they have to harvest, an area which contains the only substantial natural resource that is available to them. [More…]
Second, it will be noted from article 4 that the 2 governments mutually acknowledge the sovereign rights of each government in and over tha seabed within the limits established by this agreement and that they will cease to claim or exercise sovereign rights over natural resources beyond the boundaries now established. [More…]
The only bills which are long standing on the notice papr are the Territorial Sea and Continental Shelf Bill, the Fisheries Bill and the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill. [More…]
I have been back to those islands twice since that cyclone, which is now claimed to be, the greatest natural catastrophe this century and there is no doubt about that. [More…]
To the victims of the greatest natural catastrophe this century all we provided was $425,000. [More…]
Has there yet been any resolution of the impasse in relation to the importation of natural gas pipes to Australia by the Australian Gas Light Co.? [More…]
Minister aware that the Standards Association of Australia recently adopted a standard for natural gas pipelines which is considerably below the impossible and arbitrary standards which are still being said to be imposed by the Australian Gas Light Co.? [More…]
The handing over of these powers would follow as a natural progression. [More…]
Also I think it shows that we have less of a structural problem in agriculture than in most other countries of the world, that there is more natural mobility amongst younger people in country areas - and as I live in a country area I can see this - that when they feel that opportunities are not there for them they naturally move out. [More…]
Having regard to the prominence of Black Mountain and the importance of preserving its natural state as far as is possible, the Government has given very careful consideration to the environmental question and has fully considered all of the representations which have been made on this matter. [More…]
When Burley Griffin proposed the plan of Canberra he saw it as a site nestling amongst hills with natural contours. [More…]
I want more detail from the Government on its attitude to making available Commonwealth money for projects which destroy the natural environment, particularly the proposal in regard to the Black Mountain area It is about time that more detail was mad: available to members of this Parliament, [f this is not forthcoming in the future this Government will certainly hear a’ great deal more from members on this side, at least until December. [More…]
The first and foremost reason for my confidence is that people throughout the world now are realising that natural fibres, including wool, have ever so many more advantages and are more acceptable than artificial fibres. [More…]
It is perfectly natural that they should take that stand, but it does not automatically make the present auction system the best way of selling wool. [More…]
If wool prices soar then it is only natural that consumers or users of wool and woollen goods will be hit harder and will start looking for something a bit cheaper to suit their purse and purpose. [More…]
These problems have been aggravated by a series of natural disasters over a considerable period of time. [More…]
This Bill is a natural flow-on from the Native Members of the Forces Benefits Bill 1972. [More…]
Australia is fortunate in having available from its own resources the citrus fruit and other products which are the best natural sources of ascorbic acid. [More…]
Among these differences are those of area, climate, topography, natural resources, size and distribution of population and productive capacity, and levels of income and expenditure. [More…]
The Queensland Government has performed magnificently in developing its natural resources. [More…]
Queensland has natural resources and is endeavouring, with its small population, to develop industries. [More…]
However, it is not correct to say that the petroleum and natural gas reserves in Australia have the limited life that was suggested in the Press report referred to by the honourable member. [More…]
We are just emerging as a producer of natural gas and our reserves are not yet proven, although we believe that will be a major world producer when the reserves are ultimately proven. [More…]
However, there is an aspect of the production equivalent of natural gas from coal on which a lot of work has been done in the United [More…]
In the last decade tremendous emphasis has been placed on the resources of the oceans and the development of oil and natural gas exploration rights. [More…]
Alternatively we could accept what has been described in the International Court of Justice decision in the North Sea continental shelf case as the natural prolongation of the land under the sea to the land to which it is appurtenant. [More…]
That was irrelevant - that sovereign rights in respect of the exploration and exploitation of the natural resources of the Continental Shelf contiguous to the coast of the States are wholly within State authority. [More…]
On the other hand we would appear to have world ranking supplies of natural gas. [More…]
When the original Bass Strait agreement was entered into - it is an unspeakable one - the going price was a matter of 30c per 1,000 units for natural gas. [More…]
The largest remaining unproven oil field and natural gas field is to be found off the north west shelf of Australia - off the shore of Western Australia. [More…]
We will see that Australia’s natural resources are sold in the future at world parity prices. [More…]
In fact, Australia’s growth, prosperity and heritage are tied up with the development of our natural resources. [More…]
The whole of Australia has developed through its natural resources. [More…]
In the field of national development, there are various Commonwealth, State and private organisations working on research and on the evaluation of basic natural resources. [More…]
Countries that we regard as less competent than ourselves, countries less endowed with natural resources, have adopted policies for energy and power which make this country seem to be a backward provincial area. [More…]
This truth has application in all forms of energy - of coal, oil, natural gas, nuclear power and other agencies of power. [More…]
I wish to speak about salinity and the River Murray, but before doing so let me commend the Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) for the most comprehensive statement which he made to the House recently and which was contained in the booklet which we all now have entitled Australia’s Natural Resources - Minerals, Forests, Water and Energy’. [More…]
Victoria is different from the other States in the sense that it has developed its natural water resources to a far greater degree. [More…]
I refer to the following paragraph, on page 86 of the comprehensive statement on Australia’s natural resources: [More…]
I believe that when we are considering the efficient use of our natural resources it is important for us to remember the wildlife habitat that happens to be in an area. [More…]
Recently we had circulated to us a copy of a statement made by the Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) titled ‘Australia’s Natural Resources - Minerals, Forests, Water and Energy’. [More…]
I compliment the Minister on the review of natural resources which he gave us within the last week or two. [More…]
It is well presented and it is comprehensive, but 1 would like to draw attention to the fact that it seems to cover the traditional fields of minerals, forests, water and energy - in other words, our natural resources. [More…]
We are dealing with Australia’s natural resources, as the title on the front of the review indicates. [More…]
Of course, our natural resources are not the only things involved in national development. [More…]
Because neatness and logic tend to commend themselves to me in describing things as accurately as possible, I wonder whether we may give some thought, in view of developments that are taking place on other fronts, to a more apt description such as the Department of Natural Resources or some better title that may be thought of. [More…]
The Department has displayed quite concerted interest in basic and important matters, all of which are in the field of natural resources, whether they are replenishable or whether they are of the diminishing kind. [More…]
1 think it will become increasingly apparent that what in fact the Minister has been so well administering, what the Commonwealth has taken a continuing interest in, and what to some extent we still depend upon in the States for the definition of priorities - sometimes perhaps unfortunately - is in fact the department of natural resources. [More…]
One of the greatest developers of those natural resources has been the Tasmanian Hydro-Electric Commission to which I devoted the greater part of my speech this afternoon. [More…]
In addressing the Australian Gas Association’s 11th annual convention, Mr Bott, the Secretary of the Department, made the comment that the discovery of large reserves of natural gas in various parts of Australia would have a bigger impact on the pattern of energy distribution and use in Australia over the next 20 years or so than any other single factor. [More…]
In a further comment he said that natural gas has been identified as a major factor in the international energy market. [More…]
The question that agitates the mind of every loyal Australian is just to what extent he will reap the benefits of his own national birthright; whether this Government, running true to form, will endeavour to see that the full fruits of it go to private enterprise, or whether a national government is prepared to exercise its undoubted rights to construct a natural gas pipeline to be a common carrier and, more than that, whether it is prepared to assert its authority over the continental shelf and in particular the deposits within the Northern Territory. [More…]
Indeed, there are problems of natural conservation and problems associated with the suggested provision of a service corridor across the Blue Mountains. [More…]
They are perpetuating the feud - the bad blood between themselves and the Australian steel industry which has stemmed from previous abortive attempts to secure agreements for the supply of natural gas from Bass Strait. [More…]
The Australian Gas Light Co’s interests are talking of the export of natural gas. [More…]
Nine graticules were to be drawn in respect of any discovery of either natural gas or crude oil. [More…]
I have entered this debate not only because there are natural resources in the Northern Territory but also because of what the honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) has said. [More…]
I think the Minister knows that Australia would receive far more in terms of export income from enriched uranium than it would from liquefied natural gas. [More…]
The Minister knows that if Australia is to establish a uranium enrichment plant and natural gas is used as fuel, the amount of gas used over 20 years will be about 5 trillion cubic feet. [More…]
The second point that I want to raise deals with the export of natural gas. [More…]
Is it a fact that there is an agreement in existence between the Pacific Lighting Co. and Magellan Petroleum Southern Pty Ltd for the export of 500 million cubic feet of natural gas a day to the western seabord of the United States? [More…]
Another question I want to raise refers to the Minister’s claim that the Govern ment may permit the export of natural gas from remote areas. [More…]
Sir William said that the Cooper Basin pipeline could cope with a loading of one billion cubic feet of natural gas a day which would be supplied at the same time from the Cooper Basin and Palm Valley and that this would make a pipeline very attractive. [More…]
The Minister for National Development, in announcing the Government’s policy on the export of liquefied natural gas, said that it was the Commonwealth’s intention in general not to allow the export of LNG except in certain circumstances in remote areas. [More…]
I would like to know precisely what the Minister means by the export of natural gas from remote areas. [More…]
In regard to the policy on natural gas, 1 do not think I need elaborate on what I said in the Green Paper and which I have explained to the House on a number of occasions except the matter in relation to the contract which has been signed on a provisional basis between Magellan Petroleum Southern Pty Ltd and the Pacific Lighting Co. [More…]
I have already referred to the Green Paper - r will not elaborate on that - which brings together all the policy aspects in relation to natural resource and energy development in Australia. [More…]
Also, export control applies to liquid petroleum and to natural gas. [More…]
The honourable member for Cunningham (Mr Connor) spoke about natural gas policy. [More…]
The honourable member for the Northern Territory (Mr Calder) referred briefly to a matter which is of concern to him, namely, the development of the natural resources - principally natural gas - of the Northern Territory. [More…]
It was explained to me that this is due to a natural wastage of men or a loss of men going to other jobs for various reasons. [More…]
Regularly the world witnesses major natural disasters that are terrifying in their intensity, rapacious in their destruction and heart rending in terms of human misery and suffering. [More…]
It should be a highly mobile unit consisting of Hercules transport, helicopters, small watercraft, road and bridge building engineers, fire fighting units, medical teams, communications experts and general rescue expertise for all types of natural disasters. [More…]
Such frustrations are natural and must build up pressure within the armed forces for action, irrespective of the rights or wrongs of the conflict. [More…]
The policy of the Labor Opposition now is that Australia’s defence frontier is her natural boundaries^ - the coast of Australia. [More…]
Otherwise we would see in the brief of the authority or as components of the Government’s regional development planning essential policies in respect of population, development and conservation of our natural resources, industrial growth, tariffs, rationalisation of transport in Australia and the use of environmental impact assessments as a tool of national planning and government decision making. [More…]
Our natural increase in population during the last 23 years has been 1.1 per cent. [More…]
They will be able to ensure the widest use of the natural resources present and would be accountable for the presentation of environmental impact statements on the departments. [More…]
The department, which will have both technical and research staff, will integrate the activities of such bodies as the Bureau of Transport Economics, the Bureau of Roads, the Departments of Shipping and Transport, Interior, Works, Environment, Natural Resources, Primary and Secondary Industry, Civil Aviation and others insofar as they affect urban development. [More…]
Speaking now of development, what has the Government done in a practical way about our resources, such as natural gas? [More…]
By good fortune great reserves of natural gas are available in the centre of Australia in Palm Valley - Albert Namatjira country. [More…]
They would not be the consequence of the construction of transport corridors; they would not be the consequence of some airy fairy idea about land acquisition; but they would be the consequence of positive investigations related to natural resources and the suitability of particular areas in terms of potential. [More…]
Of course, it does receive a great deal of favourable comment as an area with natural resources such as water, power and location. [More…]
They include population, transport, land use, conservation and natural resources. [More…]
The Cabinet must decide where, in view of the natural resources available, our future cities will be located after, scientific evaluation. [More…]
One agreement for the export of natural gas is under consideration by the Government. [More…]
This agreement relates to the possible export of natural gas from the Palm Valley field in the Northern Territory. [More…]
No agreement for the export of natural gas has been approved. [More…]
The application for approval for the export of natural gas from Palm Valley has been submitted by Pacific Lighting Gas Development Co., of California, and Magellan Petroleum Australia Ltd, Magellan Petroleum (N.T.) [More…]
It is only natural that TNT will divert a considerable quantity of its freight carriage to Ansett Transport Industries. [More…]
Time will take care of this problem because of the natural wastage of people leaving the industry. [More…]
In co-operation with the States the authority would be responsible for: Initiating and sponsoring national and regional surveys of national park requirements and wildlife populations; undertaking research into major problems of conservation which are beyond State resources; establishing guidelines for a co-ordinated approach to conservation, bearing in mind the impact resulting from the usage of natural resources; developing uniform policies towards the commercial exploitation of wildlife; monitoring the status of endangered species; and collating financial requirements of the Commonwealth and the States, and making recommendations to the Commonwealth Government on the optimum levels of financial allocations for conservation. [More…]
actual, name of the Committee was in some sense misleading in that a select committee on wildlife conservation allowed a number of our fellow members, departmental officials and a number of the general public to feel that many things would be pushed aside, when in fact what this committee was dealing with was the relationship of man to his natural environment. [More…]
Not only are we dealing with land use and with man and his relationship to his natural environment but we are dealing also with some of the aesthetic values for tourism, recreation and enjoyment of life. [More…]
The motion before the House concerns the statement made by the Minister for National Development (Sir Reginald Swartz) on Australia’s natural resources - minerals, forests, water and energy. [More…]
It is a valuable statement which supplies much valuable information of a technical and administrative nature and in respect of marketing which will be of interest not only to the Parliament but to people throughout Australia who are concerned with the development of natural resources. [More…]
In many respects the statement reveals some of the shortcomings and some of the future policies of the Government in respect of the development of natural resources. [More…]
It is concerned also with resultant income tax and revenues arising from the development of natural resources. [More…]
This is decentralisation based on the development of natural resources but we should remember that minerals are an exhaustible asset. [More…]
However, we know that a great risk is involved in the exploration and development of natural resources, particularly minerals, fuel and energy. [More…]
In the event of foreign companies wishing to develop a lease on which they have found oil, natural gas or minerals, and in the event of their owning and controlling this lease, they should offer to bona fide Australian institutions, companies and people a share in the partnership, either through the share market or through direct participation. [More…]
The fifth principle is that in no circumstances should a government - and no Labor government would - allow the development of a basic natural Australian resource if it meant that this would not be in the best interests of Australia. [More…]
In addition, as will be stated later by other speakers, a great proportion of the vast deposits of natural gas that we have in Australia is located in the northern half of Australia. [More…]
In conclusion let me say this: I firmly believe that a body along the lines of the Vernon Committee should bc formed in Australia as a special projects committee to analyse progressively various alternatives for the development of natural resources - land, water, minerals, energy, forests, fisheries or whatever they might be - and to report consistently and factually to the ministry of the day, free of politics and free of inerdepartmental committees. [More…]
It should be able to put forward the facts as they appear to a completely independent committee on the development of natural resources in Australia. [More…]
In this way we will achieve planning and an orderly development of natural resources. [More…]
ensure world prices for exports of natural resources, [More…]
Firstly, we should aim to bring into use the natural resources of our country as fully as our powers, energies and abilities permit for the benefit of ali Australians generally; [More…]
The overseas share in discoveries of natural gas on the North West shelf is approximately 85.7 per cent. [More…]
Was it because there exists a bitter division between board members as to the important question of the disclosure to the public of the estimates of the North West shelf natural gas reserves? [More…]
Further I ask the Minister whether the Act will have retrospective power to enable the recovery of Australian control of this major natural gas deposit? [More…]
The United States has something like 20 years supply of indigenous fuel and natural gas. [More…]
But if we take the figure of 60 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, we find that these vast deposits are more than enough to support a major liquefied natural gas or methanol export project and the Pilbara steel mineral development and leave enough for general use elsewhere in Australia. [More…]
ensure world prices for exports of natural resources, [More…]
Therefore, it is essential that the use of our energy resources - coal, oil, natural gas, uranium - be planned. [More…]
It now has a shortage of natural gas and oil supplies. [More…]
An estimate by the Energy Economic Division of the Chase Manhattan Bank indicated that by 1985 the United States will have a deficit in natural gas of 47 billion cubic feet per day. [More…]
On the estimated figures which I have just cited, the requirements of foreign natural gas and oil imports to the United States of America will cost $30 billion per year. [More…]
In Australia petroleum products other than natural gas provide one half of our total energy requirements. [More…]
That means that as half of our energy requirements are provided by petroleum products excluding natural gas, 10 years from now we will be importing, unless new fields are found, 66 per cent of our requirements. [More…]
In 1969-70 the corresponding figures were coal 43.3 per cent, petroleum products 48.9 per cent, wood and bagasse 3.7 per cent, natural gas - appearing for the first time - 1.8 per cent and water power 2 per cent. [More…]
Natural gas - and these are figures cited by the Minister for National Development in his statement - will increase to 10 per cent of the market by 1979-80. [More…]
Our natural resources are immense and we are blessed with reserves of coal, iron and bauxite in great and wonderful supply. [More…]
Looking through the Minister’s report on natural resources and development objectives I would like to say that if these objectives were to be translated into legislative effect and were to become actualities and facts of life, how we could applaud and sing the praises of the Minister. [More…]
We should aim to bring into use natural resources of our country as fully as our powers, energies and abilities permit for the benefit of Australians generally. [More…]
We should aim to ensure that Australians participate effectively both in the equity capital of natural resource projects and in their management. [More…]
We should pursue energetically our endeavours to discover what our natural resources are, and to research into how they can and should best be used. [More…]
of the need of a national energy policy in respect of our enormous supplies of coal, bauxite, water resources and fuel of various kinds and natural gas and oil that can be harnessed by schemes such as the Snowy Mountains scheme. [More…]
Then there were the great discoveries of iron ore, bauxite, nickel, oil and natural gas. [More…]
All the above wastes were slightly contaminated with a mixture of radioisotopes, consisting mainly of fission products, natural uranium and a very small amount of actinide elements. [More…]
The actinide elements have half lives ranging up to 3.8 X 10* years and the radioactivity in natural uranium has a half life of 4.5 X 10” years. [More…]
In relation to the supply of natural gas to Sydney, has the Government given consideration to requesting the New South Wales, Victorian and South Australian Governments or any of them to confer with it pursuant to the Memorandum of Understanding dated 16th October 1967. [More…]
I am advised that as the Memorandum of Understanding relates specifically to offshore reserves it is not applicable to petroleum including natural gas, recovered onshore - as for example from the Cooper Basin for supply to Sydney. [More…]
Moreover, my colleague, the Minister for National Development, has recently had discussions with State Government Ministers in all States in regard to natural gas, and maintains a close liaison with them. [More…]
Under current policy on natural disasters, the Commonwealth stands ready to reimburse a State in full for any expenditures in a financial year on eligible relief and restoration measures which exceed an initial base amount which the State is expected to meet. [More…]
Isolated examples for particular communities based on a fictional figure of 1,000 live births are a misleading and unreliable way of expressing the problems of infant health particularly when the communities include groups living on remote pastoral properties where the natural environment and social hygiene standards are complicating factors. [More…]
The Authority will construct and maintain a natural gas pipeline system throughout Australia to ensure continuity of supplies and uniformity of price. [More…]
I am delighted that the privilege of introducing these historic measures - of rectifying this denial of natural justice - has fallen to me and that it is one of the first legislative acts of this Parliament. [More…]
The lowering of the age for candidature for Northern Territory Legislative Council elections to 18 years is a natural consequence of the adoption of that age for candidature for election as a member of this House. [More…]
A natural succession will mean that we will lose the association that serves our purpose. [More…]
This station can aid in distinguishing between natural and man-made tremours in the Earth’s surface. [More…]
The progressive development of this scientific capability to distinguish nuclear tests from natural seismic occurrences is of course an essential basis to the development of an effective comprehensive test ban treaty. [More…]
Prior to the dinner adjournment I was referring to Australia’s natural resources’ and reminding the House that the programme offered to the Australian people by the Australian Labor Party took the Governor-General 45 minutes to read. [More…]
The Labor Party intends to look at the area of natural resources and energy in a very comprehensive way. [More…]
dance of natural resources, particularly in the form of energy. [More…]
So Australia has to develop an energy policy very quickly if it is to govern the development of its natural resources. [More…]
We intend to govern the areas of nuclear power as well as coal and natural gas. [More…]
I would like to display the negligence of the last Government in the area of natural gas. [More…]
The Australian Gas Light Company at the moment is attempting to build a pipeline between Moomba and Sydney to supply the Sydney metropolitan area with natural gas. [More…]
In fact, Sir William Pettingell, the Chairman of the company, intended to build the line and to pay for it by exporting natural gas. [More…]
This was the position although repeatedly the former Minister for National Development in the last Government said that there would be no exports of Australian natural gas. [More…]
On the other front, on the north-west shelf of Australia, Burmah Woodside, that massive conglomerate, was also negotiating with a Japanese company for the export of natural gas while the Minister stood in this Parliament and said there would be no export. [More…]
This demonstrates the complete contempt- that these companies held for the last Government and the way in which that Government neglectfully allowed these major companies to dominate and sell off our natural resources. [More…]
The Labor Party intends to introduce and build a national pipeline authority which will construct, maintain and service a national pipeline grid which will supply natural gas to the people of Australia at an equal price and will allow the Commonwealth Parliament to exercise sovereignty over these areas of resources so that we can plan the use of this very valuable energy resource. [More…]
If there is to be any export of natural gas it will be only at the behest of the Federal Government after our domestic requirements have been satisfied. [More…]
The Government intends to move into the area of natural gas, and also into other areas of energy. [More…]
This natural fibre is required in many parts of the world. [More…]
It is only natural that an anti-communist nation like Indonesia would have reservations about responding quickly to a proposal from the present Australian Prime Minister. [More…]
The area has the natural resources and its development will proceed. [More…]
Our natural resources will be developed by Australians for Australians. [More…]
Already steps are in motion to establish a national pipeline authority to construct and maintain a natural gas pipeline system throughout Australia to ensure continuity of supply and uniformity of price. [More…]
It appals me to think that when the electorate of McMillan has every natural resource at its disposal this Government talks of developing a whole new complex. [More…]
Many towns in close proximity, with natural resources in abundance and of immense value, want to be involved and recognised. [More…]
We have, as yet unconserved, a plentiful water supply, natural timber and planted pine forests and a variety of minerals. [More…]
All of these - or any one of them individually - are of such significant importance as to create natural growth in the existing towns and in appropriate industries. [More…]
My own council is one of the many shire councils which are showing initiative towards fostering industry and the natural development of such industry as is appropriate to the area. [More…]
Naturally significant amounts of long-term finance could ensure a successful and sensible national and natural development. [More…]
I want water conservation plans updated to ensure the rights of the municipalities and the people within them and a guarantee that there will be no retardation of their natural growth. [More…]
Looking at the causes of the world trade imbalance on a broader canvas and a longer perspective, the resurgence of Europe, particularly West Germany, after World War II, and the spectacular economic progress of Japan, have decisively eroded - relatively speaking, mark you, not absolutely - the dominance of the United States in the supply of goods and services to the world which prevailed at the end of World War II and resulted at that time as its natural concomitant in the era of the ‘almighty dollar’, as most honourable members of this House will recall. [More…]
And entirely naturally therefore, the US dollar became the medium for international buying and selling. [More…]
The Mallee electorate, so named after its natural cover of eucalypt, is the largest electorate in Victoria and takes in almost onequarter of the State’s land mass. [More…]
The whole surrounding countryside and lake were serene and still: solitude reigned, no tree disturbed and no trace of white man’s civilisation … all is in its natural state. [More…]
Blackbutt is a priceless reserve of over 400 acres in the Newcastle end of the electorate, a jewel of a natural reserve in the midst of an industrial city. [More…]
More and more, government at all levels will have to reassess its values on parks, public and natural reserves before it proceeds to carve off sections for the construction of roads and highways. [More…]
One cannot help holding the belief that within government structures there has long been a view that pinching pieces of parks and natural reserves for highway construction is the most economic course for so-called progress. [More…]
This action will have a three-fold effect on all natural resource industries in Australia. [More…]
The inability of the Minister to tell the people now the impact of what was done by his Government displays to the natural resource industry and to the nation the total absence of consideration by the Government of what it was doing before it was done. [More…]
It is quite natural and quite proper that, as this country becomes more affluent, all sections of the community should have some share in this affluence. [More…]
They are the qualities which will be required if we are to capitalise fully on the tremendous natural advantages and opportunities open to us. [More…]
So immense are the continent’s natural resources, and so well geared to their development appear to be the skills and energies of the people, that the next two decades could well be a period of expansion more vigorous than the two that have passed. [More…]
Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule, obloquy. [More…]
I cannot expound on these claims but I am very glad that our Minister is acting quickly in the area of natural gas. [More…]
Being from Tasmania where there are so many natural assets worth preserving, 1 am perhaps more aware than most of the need for conservation. [More…]
If we consider also the cost of bringing migrants to Australia, surely we must recognise the value to this country in the long term of the natural born Australian. [More…]
The seemingly natural human reaction in Australia of conservatism to reform does not prevail today. [More…]
This is an appropriate point for me to say that the present gallup polls which show a majority of young people leaning to the Labor Party, is a temporary aberration which will disappear as they find the doctrine of socialism is neither modern nor a natural companion for young vigour and confidence which they have. [More…]
By contrast, the concrete sleeper is produced from once only limestone and stone quarries which are usually responsible for undesirable scars on our natural features and environment. [More…]
Gone are the times when marriage was a form of sentencing women to the house for the term of their natural life and when vocations were thought to be the preserve of the divorced, the separated or the frustrated. [More…]
The fact that a woman tends to leave her work, marry, stay away and return to it does not make natural progress through the ranks of an organisation very easy, but I think that the lack of progress is due in part to the reluctance to give a woman responsibility or a particular job just because she is a woman. [More…]
I hope that in the future there will be professional social welfare, workers whose services will be an ordinary, natural, normal addition to the services which will be available to people living in a community. [More…]
Another aspect is that many of these young women have a natural motherly instinct and want to keep their children. [More…]
It creates a dilemma as to whether it is proper to encourage the natural mother to keep the child or whether the child should be adopted by another family. [More…]
Families who adopt children are screened by profes sional social welfare workers and in most cases are more adequately equipped for parenthood than the natural mother and father. [More…]
The previous Government was never able to tax those who used natural methods, such as the rhythm method, but were able to tax those who used more reliable methods. [More…]
This means that the study of reproduction should be an essential part of a child’s schooling and should begin at an early age - not just secondary school, not even primary school, but a natural and gradually developing awareness and understanding right from pre-school days. [More…]
The legitimate advertising of contraceptives is a natural and proper extension to removing sales tax on contraceptives if they are to be made more available to the public. [More…]
No matter what any honourable member opposite says, the health policy of the Labor Party is to seek ultimately to control the natural increase of the Australian population. [More…]
This is the philosophy upon which the Labor Party is basing its health policy the control of the natural increase of Australian children. [More…]
So, on the one hand, the Australian Labor Party wishes to control the natural increase of Australian born children while on the other hand allowing the uncontrolled immigration of people into Australia, irrespective of their country of origin and including nonEuropeans, merely on a family basis. [More…]
So, the position is that the protection of the foetus is subject to financial penalty, quite apart from the cost of rearing a child, while prevention of conception and, therefore, prevention of the natural increase of Australian born children is subsidised by the taxpayer. [More…]
The natural result of an expansion of the industry was that the wineries found that it was absolutely essential for them to have greater storage capacities in order to be able to handle the increased acreage and increased gallonage which they would handle. [More…]
There is, and it is quite natural, a feeling among people in the electorates that Aborigines are like the people they see in their own town or their own city. [More…]
The Minister, of course, is aware of the tremendous interest in the distribution of natural gas throughout the nation. [More…]
Now that difficulties apparently have been withdrawn from the establishment of a national pipeline grid and the construction of a pipeline to convey natural gas from Gidgealpa in South Australia to Sydney and certain towns in New South Wales, will the Minister assure me and the House that the work will proceed with the utmost expedition? [More…]
Very often the mother or a woman in the natural situation is absolutely capable of doing this. [More…]
It seems natural for the right honourable member for Lowe to equate shorter working hours with reduced productivity. [More…]
The United States of America is becoming concerned at exhausting its natural gas supplies, at the present time, when the development of Australia’s natural gas supplies is in its infancy. [More…]
Man has been continuously exposed to natural radiation since his appearance on earth and, until less than a century ago, was exposed to natural radiation only. [More…]
Even now despite the widening use of radiation producing devices, the widespread radioactive contamination from nuclear weapon tests and the Increasing applications of nuclear energy and radio isotopes, natural sources are the main contributors to the average radiation exposure of human populations- [More…]
I think it is important to remember this even if only because a large segment of the population knows little or nothing about naturally occurring radiation and has the mistaken idea that radiation occurs only as the result of nuclear explosions. [More…]
It is also important because any discussions about levels of radiation following a nuclear explosion should take place bearing in mind the naturally occurring radiation levels. [More…]
But suffice it to say that natural radiation is of 2 origins - terrestial and extraterrestial. [More…]
These all add up to about 100 millirads a person a year from natural sources of radiation, both terrestial and extraterrestial. [More…]
The Committee concluded that the mean per capita annual doses to be received from strontium 90 and cesium 137, between 1955 and 2000 by the whole world population amount to one thirtieth of those received from natural sources. [More…]
However iodine 131 in milk has been reported in populated areas of Australia, Polynesia, South Africa and South America and other places after the French tests of 1970 and 1971 at levels that may have given doses to infants equivalent to that received from natural sources. [More…]
These correspond to about 1.2 per cent and 2.2 per cent of the average annual background radiation from natural sources. [More…]
Indiscriminate districting, without any regard for political subdivisions or natural or historical boundary lines, may be little more than an open invitation to partisan gerrymandering … [More…]
But I suspect that the United States Supreme Court, if it found that this concern for historic boundaries, this concern for community of interest, this concern for natural boundaries resulted always in electorates which favoured one party it would become extremely suspicious. [More…]
It is an honour also to succeed such a respected Country Party member as C. E. Barnes, a conservative gentleman possessing stability and a natural dignity. [More…]
I now turn to the problem facing rural towns and their natural development. [More…]
However growth by utilisation of natural resources is one way of ensuring success. [More…]
The first step would be to update the planned water storages on our Gippsland rivers to give an equitable distribution of this great natural resource. [More…]
Water is our most precious natural resource, and new water storages would have real and lasting effect and would hasten the wise utilisation of presently unregulated streams. [More…]
I defy any member of this Parliament to get up in the morning and traverse the course of a natural day without, as the result of eating or drinking, sending some profit content out of this country. [More…]
I have here a manual prepared by my Department giving the terms on which off-shore drilling for oil and natural gas is carried out in 50 countries. [More…]
It was necessary, under pressure from the former Department of National Development, for my predecessor in office to write to Woodside-Burmah and inform the company that it was time it made some public statement about its recoverable reserves of natural gas and, reluctantly it did so - very reluctantly indeed. [More…]
This Government has a very shrewd idea of the reserves of this company and it has an equally shrewd idea of the reserves of oil and natural gas in Bass Strait. [More…]
He spoke in terms of crude oil and natural gas. [More…]
We have a mess to clean up and again, it is a mess of the honourable member’s making because it was he who made that celebrated deal when the previous Government, which originally favoured the particular system under which Australia would have received some 40 per cent of the take from proven petroleum and natural gas areas, and sold Australia’s birthright for a mess of pottage. [More…]
It was essential and fundamental for these companies to draw their contracts in United States dollars because they were in the main, financed by the United States banks which have a natural nationalistic tendency to express contracts in their own currency. [More…]
The Minister for Minerals and Energy referred also to the deal concocted by the honourable member for Farrer when he was a Minister in relation to the royalties for oil and natural gas, and to his departure from the graticular system by which the Commonwealth gave up four-ninths of the area to be explored in return for an increase of li per cent in royalties - a fiddling amount in return for 40 per cent of what was found. [More…]
I have just returned from the United States and I found there ready acceptance of what the new Australian Government has done in recent months and a readiness also to accept that we are entitled to protect our natural heritage against the ravages of exchange fluctuations and so on. [More…]
What is at stake here is the development of Australia’s natural resources and to use the term ‘banana republic’, as the former Minister did, is simply to show that in the 1970s, in what is supposed to be the decade of development, honourable members opposite are still living in the age of colonial exploitation, as far as their attitudes are concerned. [More…]
The United States will not be able to exploit the natural resources of other countries with the same ease in the future as it did in the past. [More…]
Above all, the very critical problem facing the United States is a shortage of energy, and Australia is one of the countries fortunately placed at the moment with respect to natural gas. [More…]
They will be able to ensure the widest use of the natural resources present and would be accountable for the presentation of environmental impact statements on the departments. [More…]
In conjunction with the States, because after all the initiative must come from them, the Government is determined to harness water resources for soundly based schemes to supply water not only to towns and cities but also for the progressive development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
There is a new determination amongst the Australian people to make better use of our unique natural advantages. [More…]
Cost comprehends also values for any deterioration of the natural environment, for noise, for the loss of an open space area, for the effects upon rural industries, for the costs of new urbanisation and for many other ‘disbenefits’ which might be imposed upon people. [More…]
The in-depth evaluation of these sites which will involve also a study of offshore and inland concepts, will then go forward embracing, of course, all the technical needs of a new airport, the economic implication of the investment of money and resources needed, the implications in respect of the natural, cultural and social environments, and not least of all, the implications which this very large investment will have for the future development of Australia’s largest city and the welfare of its citizens. [More…]
The broad questions of national development, minerals, natural gas, oil and all the other agencies of power and resources should be considered by this Committee. [More…]
A much better way is open to us whereby we can satisfy the natural yearnings and proper demands of the people who live in a far flung area - the Northern Territory - with all its problems of vastness, which were so properly described by the honourable member for the Northern Territory, and remoteness from the Australian Government in Canberra. [More…]
It is only natural to expect that attitude from supporters of the Rhodesian regime. [More…]
Certainly some of Papua New Guinea’s natural resources have such a potential that their development might best be financed by such an arrangement. [More…]
However, the prime motivating factor is naturally the attitude of the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
This is fairly natural in any country. [More…]
I interpose that in the letter referred to, my predecessor, Sir Reginald Swartz, drew the attention of the WoodsideBurmah interests to the concern of his Department as to the failure of the company to make an adequate disclosure of public information as to the recoverable, reserves of natural gas which it had discovered. [More…]
The question of reserves of natural gas on the North West Shelf was also reported to have been raised. [More…]
We agree we were reluctant last December to make a public statement about recoverable reserves of natural gas. [More…]
If Australia is to become self-sufficient in the near future - by the year 2000, at least - one thing it cannot tolerate is having its oil, natural gas and uranium dominated by the big 7 or the multi-national corporations. [More…]
It is a singularly odd fact that over 18 months ago the previous Minister acknowledged, as I understand it through the Bureau of Mineral Resources, that there were in fact some 45 trillion cubic feet of natural gas reserves on the north-west shelf. [More…]
In particular, we will regulate exploration, development, transportation, marketing and use of oil, natural gas and all related hydrocarbons. [More…]
The world availability of petroleum and natural gas as prime sources of energy after a few decades is questionable. [More…]
Moreover, these figures do not take into account the cost of potential deductions available to those companies which are not yet producing petroleum and natural gas, but will undoubtedly do so. [More…]
In aggregate, the contribution of public revenue to oil and natural gas exploration to date will be $4 19m - approximately 50 per cent - with more yet to be claimed when companies such as WoodsideBurmah Oil NL enter into production. [More…]
With such a huge public contribution, it is staggering to note that no equity has been sought by our predecessors in office in crude oil and natural gas production. [More…]
We said then, and have maintained continuously, that it was wrong in principle and form, and a: sacrifice of the- natural assets of Australia. [More…]
Worse still, natural gas condensate and liquid petroleum gas, capable of being reconstructed into super premium motor spirit, are being exported. [More…]
In return for an exploration expenditure of about $843m, the greater part of which has been and will continue to be, borne by the Commonwealth Government, there has been already discovered by exploration in Australia, on-shore and off-shore, some 45 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, over 2 billion barrels of crude oil, which together with condensate and liquid petroleum gas have a gross value of over $14 billion. [More…]
That is taking natural gas at the on-shore gate valve or well head notional value of 20c per thousand cubic feet - a conservative valuation. [More…]
we will regulate exploration, development, transportation, marketing and use of oil, natural gas and all related hydro-carbons. [More…]
We would not have the oil we have today or the conditions under which we are now able to supply more than 60 per cent of our own requirements from crude oil and to supply 4 of the major cities of the Commonwealth with natural gas. [More…]
The only exports in this area have been of liquefied petroleum gas which has been produced as a result of the drawing off of natural gas. [More…]
The statement of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) clearly sets out the Government’s policy, and I believe that it may be summarised as follows: Firstly, a majority Australian control over both equity and policy of our resources development; secondly, the coordination of a national fuel and energy policy; thirdly, regulated exploration, development, transportation and marketing of oil, natural gas or related hydrocarbons; fourthly, recognition that petroleum is a finite mineral resource; fifthly, the need for a fuel and energy budget; sixthly, recognition that adequate dependable low cost supplies are crucial to this nation’s progress and security; and seventhly, the imperative need to recognise that control of and responsibility for our national fuel and energy resources must be exercised by a national government and not left to the whim of private individuals or companies whose basic motivating force is private profit and gain. [More…]
Let me turn to the question of natural gas. [More…]
This is the company which in fact has signed an agreement with Pacific Lighting Corporation of Los Angeles to supply and export 500 million cubic feet a day to the western seaboard of the United States, subject of course to the Australian Government’s approval to export liquefied natural gas from Palm Valley. [More…]
I am firmly of the opinion that the resignation of Mr Withers, formerly Managing Director of Woodside-Burmah, on 20th October last stemmed directly from a bitter division over the need to disclose the estimated northwest shelf natural gas reserves. [More…]
However, the estimated 60 trillion cubic feet - my guesstimate - of natural gas is valued in national terms at $25 billion, twice the entire national budget. [More…]
It would supply more than enough to support a major liquefied natural gas or methanol export project, presumably the export of methanol to the United States of America and liquefied natural gas to Japan. [More…]
I can recall being scoffed at and ridiculed when I asserted last year that we could get to the stage of exporting liquefied natural gas and rather than getting 16c a thousand cubic feet, which is the gate price paid from Gidgealpa to Adelaide it could rise to as high at $1.25 a thousand cubic feet. [More…]
It has been estimated, however, that, with the growth of energy demand and the exhaustion of domestic natural gas reserves, the United States may require 1,100-1,200 million tons of oil in 1980 and 1,250-1,500 million tons in 1985, and that domestic production is unlikely to exceed 600 million tons in the former year or 720 million tons in the latter. [More…]
environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order to ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
To people who are their natural followers the gamble for the elusive ‘interest-free’ loan by ballot (which, however, may not become available for 15 or 20 years) is no doubt some attraction. [More…]
It is fair enough to assume that a person who, through the natural accretion of his income is able to accrue more morey than he would have had if he had not moved into the rented accommodation will, if he buys a block of land, elect to go ahead and build a home so that he can build up some equity. [More…]
He was essentially natural to every person with whom he had any dealing. [More…]
Such was his complete naturalness. [More…]
It is a very sorry episode for the status of new Australians who have taken unto themselves, with natural born Australians, the responsibility of the rights and privileges of this country. [More…]
This would appear to be a natural consequence of our close Commonwealth relations, of Britain’s major role in the negotiation of the partial nuclear test ban treaty and of its responsibilities, as an administering power, in respect of a number of Pacific territories. [More…]
These Bills represent good moves and, we believe, a continuation and a natural extension of previous Liberal-Country Party governments’ concern for universities and colleges of advanced education. [More…]
Surely it is natural that a young child or a woman would wish to keep this matter secret. [More…]
On 5th April Mr Holding announced the pegging of country natural gas prices to the city level as part of the Labor Party’s program. [More…]
Yet part of the reason for acceptance of a claim made years ago was that man-made development in that area had been subject to natural disasters. [More…]
The pressures on the universities today have become especially intense, pardy because of the natural desire of young people to proceed to higher levels of education in the interests of their own development and partly from a valid conviction that a university degree is a passport to a highly paid occupation and first rate career prospects in the longer term. [More…]
It is only because of the pressure of the Australian Labor Party, which opposed the construction of a natural fueled uranium reactor on the south coast of New South Wales, that there is not available to people like the honourable member, if ever in office again, weapons-grade plutonium. [More…]
I consider that this is a natural course of events, but at this stage the Government does not intend to press that point. [More…]
When will he be able to indicate to the Par.liament the route that the natural gas pipeline will take from Gidgealpa and other centres in the heart of Australia to the eastern coastline? [More…]
Will he in due course make a detailed statement to the Parliament setting out the precise nature of arrangements with regard to the distribution of natural gas and the timetable for the construction of the main features of the pipeline? [More…]
It is fortunate from the point of view of natural born Australians and of people who have sought to come here and adopt this nation as their homeland. [More…]
We want to welcome them here and to give them an opportunity to live in this nation with all the privileges that are available to natural born Australians. [More…]
No possible objection can be made to the proposition that all Australian citizens, whether natural born Australians or immigrants, should be equal before the law. [More…]
To my mind naturalisation is something which accords to the person who is naturalised and who is a newcomer to this country equal status with a natural born Australian. [More…]
Such concern would be to find why people are pressured towards abortion; how unwed mothers might have proper care and hospital attention to give natural birth to their children; the procedures of adoption; the provision of government subsidised day care and after school centres for children of working parents; payment of equal tax rebates for dependants, rather than the present system of concessional deductions; increased welfare benefits for deserted and/ or unmarried mothers; removal of legislative discrimination and positive action to suppress social and commercial discrimination against unwed mothers, de facto wives and illegitimate children. [More…]
What about the child who may be a mother or father one day if allowed to live out the span of her or his natural life? [More…]
The natural resources of seabed areas and their exploitation or potential exploitation have become increasingly important in recent years, and with advancing technology that trend, no doubt, will continue at an accelerated pace. [More…]
Similarly clause 11 makes it clear that the sovereign rights of Australia in respect of the exploration and exploitation of the natural resources of the continental shelf are vested in and exercisable by the Crown in right of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The value of production of minerals recovered from the seabed so far is small when compared with that of oil and natural gas. [More…]
Particular attention will be directed towards ensuring the conservation and preservation of our natural resources and of the marine and associated environments. [More…]
To that end, clause 88 empowers the Minister to cancel any permit or licence if he considers this to be in the interests of the safety of navigation or the conservation of natural resources or otherwise in the public interest. [More…]
Our main aim will continue to be that this legislation shall encourage efficient and adequate exploration and exploitation of our off-shore resources and at the same time control operations in such a way as to ensure the conservation of our natural resources and the preservation of our marine environment to the common good. [More…]
This concept of a national pipeline system also takes account of wider issues - of defence, of decentralisation, of population growth, of national development, of the importance of interconnected supplies to meet increasing long term demands, emergency situations and the exhaustion of particular regional energy sources, and the possible export of liquefied natural gas. [More…]
This Bill seeks to establish the Authority for the transmission of petroleum, natural gas and other hydrocarbons, by interstate ringmain pipeline systems. [More…]
In addition to its role of being a common carrier, the Authority naturally will sell for reticulation to appropriate authorities and corporations. [More…]
The project provides for the linking by a continental pipeline of the city of Sydney with the Gidgealpa natural gas fields in the Cooper Basin in South Australia, with an early extension through Wagga to Albury and Wodonga with later extensions to Melbourne and the Bass Strait reserves. [More…]
The first stage of the project will be from Sydney to Gidgealpa ensuring that there will be no delay in planned supplies of natural gas for Sydney under the long standing city of Sydney gas franchise legislation. [More…]
The total concept will provide a completely interconnected grid system, ensuring back-up supplies in case of interruption by natural calamities or exhaustion of supply from an individual source. [More…]
It is simple and has the clear and definite purpose to set up an authority with adequate powers to construct and operate a major public utility having the responsibility of making one of our greatest natural resources available to the Australian people. [More…]
It is a natural region in terms of any definition for approach to the Commonwealth Grants Commission. [More…]
I have over many years given a great deal of thought to the Dandenongs and other such places of natural beauty in Australia. [More…]
In developing the Albury-Wodonga area, which is on a major transport corridor, the Government will be upgrading the railways and roadways and providing natural gas pipelines. [More…]
We are concerned that the present Government is deliberately hellbent on adopting a positive method of making the position worse in the cities without doing anything positive about improving the quality of life in the country areas, areas with those natural advantages about which the honourable member for [More…]
The sullage water generated by those extra people, the seepage from their septic tanks and, in some cases, their raw sewage finds its way, directly or’ indirectly, into our natural waterways. [More…]
We have seen very clearly what follows natural development, in other words doing nothing and letting events take their course. [More…]
Natural development has reduced Sydney and Melbourne to their present condition and will shortly have Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane in the same predicament. [More…]
There will be sub-standard subdivisions, bulldozing of bush and a further proliferation of polution only if we impose these things on ourselves through our own inaction, or as the honourable member for McMillan (Mr Hewson) might prefer it, through the natural way. [More…]
That is only natural. [More…]
It is replaced by natural down valley flow through the alluvia of the Condamine River and its tributary streams and also to a greater extent from the flow of water in the river itself. [More…]
The Bill seeks to establish an authority for the transmission of petroleum, natural gas and other hydrocarbons by an interstate ring main pipeline system. [More…]
Australia is on the threshold of exciting developments in the field of natural gas. [More…]
We still do not know our reserves of natural gas and probably will not for a long time to come but vast discoveries have been made, particularly in the Gidgealpa, North- West Shelf and Cooper basins. [More…]
Natural gas will change the energy pattern in Australia. [More…]
Not only is natural gas cheap but also it has the great advantage of providing a fuel which requires no expensive anti-pollution control equipment. [More…]
Already Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth are connected to natural gas. [More…]
When Sydney and the industrial areas of Newcastle and Wollongong are connected we can expect to see a steadily increasing percentage of our energy requirements met by natural gas. [More…]
This will be an advantage to the country as it will help to reduce our costs, make us more competitive, increase employment and reduce pollution and the despoliation of our natural flora. [More…]
Arrangements to connect Sydney to the Gidgealpa-Moomba natural gas field were well under way. [More…]
Let me say this about Labor’s proposals: I would have no disagreement - and I stress this - with the Commonwealth’s setting up of a Federal Pipeline Authority to plan, in conjunction with the States, a natural gas pipeline. [More…]
In a capital intensive industry, such as pipeline transportation of natural gas, the capital cost is extremely vital in determining the cost at which oil or gas can be transported. [More…]
It can buy natural gas at the lowest well head price that it can squeeze because it will be the only authority that can purchase gas and therefore it can bankrupt a company if it so desires by offering the product at too low a price. [More…]
It would undermine confidence in the search for and discovery and marketing of natural gas and petroleum in Australia. [More…]
This has happened particularly in the case of natural gas in the United States where the Federal Power Commission set an extremely low price. [More…]
The final result was that the supplies of natural gas in the United States have been running down and down. [More…]
At the present moment we in Australia appear to have good fields of natural gas and adequate fields in many areas for some time to come. [More…]
But this is not an excuse for a nationalised industry, which can be the only buyer, to try to squeeze the price to such an extent that private enterprise is no longer interested in the search for oil, because it is quite vital for us to see that the search for oil’ and natural gas is continued. [More…]
Perth is already receiving natural gas which comes to it from the Dongara field. [More…]
We are asked for an expenditure of an additional $240m, and the only thing that this will do is to give Perth backup supplies in the case of interruption by natural calamities. [More…]
The Moonie field, as his officers should know, is an oil field, not a natural gas field. [More…]
The Roma field is the one which provides Brisbane with natural gas and that field at present has proved reserves of only 10 years. [More…]
In assessing these costs and benefits, due regard should be taken of alternatives, such as supplying the needs of certain areas by liquid petroleum gas or by liquid natural gas. [More…]
As it will be the only authority that can transport natural gas and petroleum, it also . [More…]
As I have mentioned, the Authority could, if necessary, break a company by refusing to pay it an economic price for its natural gas. [More…]
I have also mentioned that because of this system of low pricing of natural gas - not paying an economic price - the [More…]
This to my way of thinking would be a complete abrogation of the agreement which was signed and which was passed through every one of 13 Houses of Parliament when we passed the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act 1967-73.I see that my time is up so may I just say once again that while we are not opposed to the establishment of an authority to transport natural gas we believe, in the words of our amendment, that: this House is of the opinion that the Bill should be withdrawn and redrafted so that the National Pipeline Authority provides for Australians a public utility for the transportation at a fair price of petroleum on behalf of producers, distributors and users but so that the Authority may not be used as an instrument of nationalisation of the petroleum industry thereby inhibiting the search for and development of petroleum by private enterprise. [More…]
The amount of public investment in oil and natural gas exploration has been of the order of $419m, nearly half of all moneys spent. [More…]
Again it seems likely that the previous Government would have allowed the export of much of the natural gas component of this without ever having identified the national interest. [More…]
Of course, oil exports are banned but given enough reserves of gas and given declining international reserves, it may well pay to convert natural gas into petroleum in a very short space of time. [More…]
If we have only 45 trillion cubic feet of natural gas it is necessary to work out just what our requirements are. [More…]
The natural gas industry is commonly divided into 3 functional divisions - production, transmission and distribution. [More…]
In the United States of America the Federal Power Commission has jurisdiction over the interstate transportation of natural gas and over the sale of natural gas in interstate commerce for resale. [More…]
It has been estimated that United States imports of oil and natural gas will be worth of the order of $30 billion in 1985. [More…]
There is a case to say that Australia and Canada cannot be too unwilling or indecisive about supplying natural energy resources because their very lucrative markets may be lost to more agreeable energy resource suppliers, to new energy technology or to energy rationing programs and these markets may be hard to redeem. [More…]
What the previous Government did not do to look after its own natural resources would make the hair of any self-respecting Australian stand on end. [More…]
The mistakes made in the coal industry would have continued to be made in the natural gas industry. [More…]
The Authority will make the best use of the natural resources of Australia and ensure that they are available to all parts of this nation, no matter in which subdivision of the nation they may be discovered. [More…]
The Government believes - and the belief is reflected in the Bill - that the Authority should be able to acquire and sell on a wholesale basis natural gas and petroleum products. [More…]
In the same vein, the proposed Authority will purchase natural gas and will convey it to the city gate, where other secondary reticulation authorities within a metropolitan region, such as the Australian Gas Light Co. in Sydney can take it over. [More…]
Eventually the Australian Gas Light Co. pipeline would have moved right across Australia, giving the company complete control of natural gas within the Commonwealth. [More…]
The initiatives of the Minister in respect of transportation and acquisition of natural gas have ensured that Australia’s natural gas will be fairly and adequately distributed. [More…]
In the United States there are about 170,000 miles of natural gas pipeline to serve a population of about 205 million people. [More…]
On the basis of the ratio of pipeline to population as in the United States, Australia should have between 11,000 and 12,000 miles of natural gas pipeline, whereas only about 3,000 miles of pipeline is to be laid. [More…]
Taking all the laterals into account, about 5,500 miles of natural gas pipeline is to be laid. [More…]
So, the people understood completely what the Labor Party had in mind in the area of natural gas and petroleum. [More…]
We intend to see that our natural resources are not plundered and raped by private enterprise in this country and are not exploited for their own purposes. [More…]
But the company established a subsidiary company to construct and operate its natural gas pipeline from Gidgealpa to Sydney. [More…]
The company also priced the construction of this pipeline on an export potential, which it had no authority to do because the former Minister for National Development in the last Government, Sir Reginald Swartz, had stated on a number of occasions that no export of natural gas would be permitted until the reserves had been proven. [More…]
Similarly, the authority proposed under this Bill will be able to supply natural gas at a uniform price throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Bill, if it is passed, means the nationalisation of the natural gas industry which to date has been developed by companies with the aid of citizens who had faith in the development of the natural resources of their country. [More…]
The Government, through the Minister responsible for this Bill in particular, is adopting an intervening attitude and a slapdash approach towards natural resource development under the pseudonym of newfound nationalism. [More…]
Of course it is necessary that we understand and control the future development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
This move, backed by the very significant financial resources of a public authority, could lead to the Authority becoming the owner of all Australia’s natural gas companies. [More…]
There is, of course, a capacity within government and a necessary requirement of government to supervise the intrusion of a pipeline into the natural environment. [More…]
I think that it is possible by our amendment to achieve what I think every honourable member on this side of the House sees as a valid objective, to ensure the regulation of our natural resources and the application of energy to the long term benefit of the Australian nation and the individual customer. [More…]
The natural gas of Australia is the birthright of every loyal Australian. [More…]
Why on earth should it be left in the hands of some private shareholders and their management - at their whim - when the energy represented by this natural gas is so important for the future development of Australia and for the future standard of living of the people of our country? [More…]
Australia needs this pipeline as a common carrier of natural gas. [More…]
I am referring to the Natural Gas Pipelines Authority of South Australia, set up in 1967 with the complete and splendid support of the business community in my State. [More…]
The Natural Gas Pipelines Authority of South Australia distributes gas at one of the lowest costs in the world. [More…]
South Australian Labor Government has put on the South Australian Natural Gas Pipeline Authority. [More…]
We shall have men who are looking to the future far beyond when natural gas itself is available in Australia. [More…]
We shall have people on the board of this authority running it efficiently, running it in the interests of the Australian people, making sure that when one well of natural gas dries up it will be possible to plug into the grid another available source of natural gas, available in the interests of all Australians whether they live on the eastern seaboard or the western seaboard. [More…]
Listening to the honourable members opposite, one would think that the companies involved in exploration, development and use of petroleum and natural gas in Australia simply know nothing about their industry, that they have no expertise, either local or introduced from overseas, and that therefore the Government in the form of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) comes te Australia as a new John the Baptist. [More…]
If there is a 30-year supply of natural gas from those fields, what is the purpose of putting a pipeline from Palm Valley to Dampier or from Palm Valley to Perth? [More…]
Why do this when that gas and oil can be the basis for an immense industry in its own right, for example, a petroleum industry or a liquefied natural gas export industry? [More…]
The Commonwealth should be very concerned with natural resources and works that: (1) Are important for defence; (2) involve land acquisition on a large scale; (3) involve (potentially) harm to the environment; (4) are situated in areas remote from seats of State Government; (5) involve a large capital investment; (6) play a potentially large role in the maintenance of balance of payments; (7) involve the seabed around Australia; (8) are national in scope but are subject to conflicting State laws; (9) are situated on Federal territory; (10) are required by citizens in Federal territory; and (11) promote decentralisation. [More…]
Its failure to do so has put the United States in a position where today its natural gas and particularly its crude oil reserves have reached crisis proportions. [More…]
The United States may have valued its natural gas too cheaply as compared with other fuels. [More…]
Natural gas may be cheap to supply, but it is not cheap to replace when the wells give out. [More…]
If solar energy becomes economically viable it can be converted to liquid hydrogen which can be pumped throughout Australia by duplicating or utilising the national grid that is set up for natural gas. [More…]
The national Pipeline Authority should have a policy not only with respect to natural gas but also for the possible alternative energy source - solar energy. [More…]
Solar energy and nuclear power must not be forgotten simply because Australia is late in developing its natural gas. [More…]
They discovered a great supply of natural gas at Palm Valley. [More…]
Intrusion into the private investment area is foreshadowed, especially in respect of natural gas. [More…]
Honourable members will know that natural gas was first discovered in Bass Strait. [More…]
The pipelines are to carry natural gas, petroleum and other hydrocarbons to the places where they are required. [More…]
This Bill is designed to nationalise the natural gas industry in Australia; every facet of the Bill points in this direction. [More…]
There have been some fine petroleum and natural gas discoveries in this country. [More…]
The clauses contained in the Bill will give the proposed authority practically unlimited scope in all sorts of fields, quite apart from the provision of a pipeline transporting natural gas from Gidgealpa into the eastern States of Australia and, indeed, right across the entire country. [More…]
Such a course will be followed not only in the field of natural gas but also in many other spheres. [More…]
The Federal Government has won the major battle in its fight to take control of the proposed (160 million natural gas pipeline from South Australia to Sydney. [More…]
Natural gas is a very important source of power. [More…]
I have no doubt that overseas countries will desire to purchase natural gas from Australia because world supplies of natural gas, as has been pointed out by previous speakers, are diminishing. [More…]
In Canada and in the United States of America, as well as in other overseas fields, natural gas supplies are diminishing. [More…]
We in Australia have a very fine supply of natural gas and consequently will have many overseas buyers for it. [More…]
We should give very careful consideration to how we handle the sale of our natural gas. [More…]
I have noted with interest that Japan is providing the pipes for the natural gas pipeline from Gidgealpa. [More…]
He said that money is being wasted on the natural gas pipeline. [More…]
Federal Government plans to link New South Wales and Victorian natural gas pipelines were a ‘sheer waste of money’, Sir William Pettingell said last night. [More…]
He was commenting on an announcement that the Federal Government had agreed to build a 20-inch pipeline connecting Wagga, Cootamundra and Albury with the Sydney-Moomba natural gas link. [More…]
Whilst we support the establishment of a natural gas pipeline system in this country I - and most other members on this side of the House agree with me - believe that it should be done by private enterprise. [More…]
Let me stress that the Australian Labor Party’s policy clearly provides, and has for the past 3 years, that it will provide natural gas by a ring main system throughout Australia, at an equal price and with certainty and continuity of supply. [More…]
With regard to the other qualms that have been expressed, how else could the problem of the distribution of natural gas have been tackled in Australia? [More…]
We will be wholesaling natural gas. [More…]
Natural gas will be provided in cities such as Dubbo, Tarn worth, Armidale, Orange of course and Lithgow and Bathurst. [More…]
The natural scope for the Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission and the central role of the Australian Council of Trade Unions within the union movement tend to accelerate the rate at which money wage increases in industries achieving rapid improvements in productivity spread to industries achieving more modest gains. [More…]
The task force is needed because increasing numbers of Australians are concerned to preserve for the enjoyment of future generations the best buildings of our past and the best features of our natural environment. [More…]
In fact, only my natural courtesy prevented me from sending the appropriate answer in the envelope that was enclosed. [More…]
The Newcastle City Council voted to allow the construction of a 6-lane highway through the Blackbutt Reserve - a beautiful reserve of natural bushland occupying more than 400 acres close to the inner area of Newcastle. [More…]
At the present moment, State boundaries are determined by closing off harbours by a closing line drawn across the natural entrance points. [More…]
Only recently has it been apparent that the United’ Kingdom has made far from optimum arrangements with respect to royalties for natural gas. [More…]
This concerns all Queenslanders and all Australians, because Australians regard the Great Barrier Reef as one of our greatest natural tourist attractions and one of the greatest wonders certainly of the South Pacific if not of the world. [More…]
In the mid-1960s Esso-BHP was able to locate considerable reserves of petroleum products - oil and natural gas - in Bass Strait on the continental shelf. [More…]
That city, which is in close proximity to where the oil and natural gas have been found, has been unable to get natural gas up to this stage because of the man ner in which that resource has been handled. [More…]
Sir William Pettingell, the energetic and capable administrator and executive of the Australian Gas Light Co., tried to negotiate a deal to get natural gas from Bass Strait for New South Wales. [More…]
Consequently, he had to become involved in oil and gas searches in the distant parts of New South Wales and eventually he had to make an arrangement to buy natural gas from Gidgealpa in South Australia. [More…]
But I am sure that he would agree with me that the project would provide a natural development for the town of Warragul and the towns within a 40-mile radius. [More…]
This project would take out of the metropolitan area approximately 1,000 employees and their families into a pollutant-free environment and provide a wonderful opportunity for the economic use of many natural resources within the Central Gippsland region. [More…]
He sees the economic utilisation of the natural resources, not only by that industry and region but also by the ancillary industries and the existing industrial development that is already taking place. [More…]
It is natural that with a change of government every group in the industry wishes to consult the Minister and ask for a definitive statement. [More…]
Wool is a product which, fortunately, through its own inherent or natural properties, has been able to regain its primacy as a textile fibre. [More…]
The Government should be concerned with how wool might in future be able to offset all the difficulties of transformation from subjective measurement to objective measurement, all the difficulties of competitive promotion against synthetics and all the difficulties concerned with its general competition not only with other synthetic woollen substitutes but also with cotton and other natural fibres. [More…]
Members of this House may be unaware that the honourable member for Wimmera has released a Press statement in Eden-Monaro which has given me the opportunity to point to the evils of Yennora, to this insidious Dalgety-inspired Australian Wool Board nightmare which, of course, is the main thing attacking the only natural wool handling centre in Australia - Goulburn. [More…]
I ask him whether he can name one rural research project of major complexity which could be funded and completed successfully in one year without some contingency planning for natural setbacks or the need for the research program to be undertaken for a longer period than one year. [More…]
(i) and (ii) Four of the six cannons from Captain Cook’s ship ‘Endeavour’ were located and recovered by an expedition organised by the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, U.S.A. [More…]
We have the view that all Australian citizens, whether bom in Australia or coming here and becoming naturalised, should be treated in an evenhanded and equal way by the law. [More…]
We do not agree with the distinction which it seems in the 1920s was desired to be drawn between those who are naturalised and those who are natural born citizens. [More…]
Whether they are natural born or naturalised, they ought not to be deported for any crimes against Australian law. [More…]
Whilst I support this legislation for what it will do for the children of fatherless families, I do urge the Government to look into the establishment of a far more comprehensive family benefits scheme whereby young mothers with very young children can, in effect, be paid to be at home providing the care that they wish to give to their children so that, instead of the community having to pay for substitute mothers, the natural mother of the child can provide care at home, certainly during the infant and pre-school days. [More…]
In determining the regional groupings I believe the following criteria could well be taken into consideration: The philosophy of common regions for all government administration, community of interest, population distribution, the pattern of communications, topography and climate including river valleys, the distribution of natural resources, the pattern of industrial and commercial development, existing government administrative divisions, capacity to sustain a regional centre and to develop a regional identity, conformity with local government boundaries and accordance with statistical divisions. [More…]
There are 4 natural regions in my electorate - but the word ‘natural’ should be avoided in any definition of a region. [More…]
It is an instrument for Federal Government control of natural gas and oil in Australia. [More…]
For example, the inner areas of our larger cities with an almost static population growth do not enjoy a natural increase in rate revenue, from a growing number of rate payers, but have entered a phase characterised by diseconomies of congestion, that is, the costs of providing local services rise more than proportionally to the increase in population. [More…]
The ANZUS Treaty reflects a natural relationship between these countries of the Pacific. [More…]
It is only natural that we should have concentrated our initial efforts on establishing the bases for understanding and co-operation in our own geographical region, but it has no way been our wish or intention to underestimate or neglect the importance of our ties with the rest of the world. [More…]
It is the area of natural resources. [More…]
Similar trends are evident in Western Europe, while Japan has long been a heavy importer as she lacks natural resources of her own. [More…]
We have taken numerous steps with a view to securing greater Australian and government control and supervision of the use of our natural resources. [More…]
Australia has asserted her sovereign rights to explore and exploit the natural resources of its continental shelf out to the outer shelf of the continental margin. [More…]
I did this by outlining the causes of radiation, both natural and man made. [More…]
I would like to point out again that natural background radiation which every Australian is exposed to is of the order of 100 millirads a year whereas the total man made radiation which he is exposed to is in the order of between 2 and 4 millirads per year. [More…]
The risk of death from lung cancer in any year in Australia is 1 in 4,000; from car accidents it is 1 in 5,000; from leukaemia due to natural causes it is 1 in 15,000; from drowning it is 1 in 23,000 from murder it is 1 in 100,000; from leukaemia due to the fall-out from all tests carried out so far it is 1 in 45 million; from .leukaemia due to the fall-out from the French tests it is 1 in 500 million. [More…]
Unless this situation is rectified it will as a natural consequence denigrate the status of the Parliament itself. [More…]
Has the Minister any plans which will enable this once beautiful river to be brought back to its natural state? [More…]
I have in mind the number of farms to be serviced and the natural environmental and agricultural conditions. [More…]
These areas have a low natural rainfall, high evaporation rates and high annual consumption. [More…]
Currie Harbour is the only natural harbour on the island that has been used in the past. [More…]
environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order lo ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources; and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
Possibly he died from natural causes. [More…]
Special provisions apply also, in certain circumstances, which enable the continuing ownership test to have regard to the indirect rights in the loss company of natural persons who are shareholders in companies interposed between those persons and the loss company. [More…]
The amendments in this Bill will, firstly, increase the 40 per cent continuing ownership test to require a more than 50 per cent continuity of capital, dividend and voting rights in the loss company; secondly, remedy certain deficiencies in the safeguarding provisions relating to arrangements intended to defeat the purpose of the continuing ownership test; thirdly, remedy deficiencies in the existing tracing provisions to enable continuing interests in the loss company to be traced to natural persons through companies, trustees and partnerships interposed between the loss company and those natural persons; fourthly, enable the loss deduction to be denied in certain circumstances where the benefit of tax loss deduction is to be derived by ‘outsiders’ or where it is clear that the continuing shareholders in the loss company are not intended to receive the full monetary benefits of their apparent continuing interest in the company; and, fifthly, repeal the special provision relating to newlyincorporated companies. [More…]
These matters had been brought to its attention by the Taxation Office - which, of course, is natural, necessary and right - and it was in the process of drafting legislation along similar lines. [More…]
As the law stands at present, section 77d provides for an income tax deduction for Australian resident shareholders who subscribe capital to companies engaged in mining or exploring for petroleum - including oil and natural gas - or minerals. [More…]
to ensure continuity of supplies of natural gas, that is free from impurities; [More…]
to ensure that natural gas supplied by the Authority is available at a gate-valve delivery price that is, at all times, uniform throughout Australia, after making due allowances for differences in the calorific values of natural gas obtained from different sources; (0 to ensure that condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas are retained and processed in Australia in order that they may be available to augment supplies of motor spirit and similar fuels obtained from indigenous sources; and [More…]
The policy of the Government, as established by its Party conference in 1971 is for the ‘transmission of natural gas by an interstate ring main to ensure continuity of supplies and uniformity of price’. [More…]
Honourable members may not realise that there is considerable disparity in the calorific value of natural gas, and also the percentage of impurities which it may contain. [More…]
The BTU - British thermal unit - content of natural gas ranges from 1050 to 1320 per cubic foot in the major producing areas which will be linked by the pipeline grid. [More…]
To permit, without regulation at the well head gate valve, the entry of natural gas with any of its undesirable associated gases such as carbon dioxide and nitrogen would produce chaos in the system. [More…]
Another feature unknown to honourable members is the quantities of liquid condensate and petroleum gas and other similar derivatives of hydrocarbons which need to be separated from natural gas, and again vary vastly as between producing centres. [More…]
Also implicit in the common carrier concept is the right to consign natural gas to export points without regard to Australia’s proven reserves and long term needs. [More…]
There could be a grave, danger of the rape of north-west shelf natural gas by unlimited production and exploration under the terms of the current Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act. [More…]
I also draw honourable members’ attention to the failure of the Victorian natural gas producers to penetrate adequately the Victorian fuel market. [More…]
If, within that period, Australia’s natural gas reserves are exhausted, synthetic natural gas, of high calorific value, can be fed back from these deposits into the pipeline to meet our national needs almost without future limits on availability. [More…]
Of course, we are debating these amendments against a background of delays that have already been caused by the Minister in bringing natural gas to Sydney from Gidgealpa. [More…]
We know that the managing director of Santos recently informed the Australian Gas Light Co. Ltd that because Of the actions of the Minister there will be a delay of at least 6 months in bringing natural gas to Sydney from Gidgealpa. [More…]
Firstly, the Authority will ‘ensure continuity of supplies of natural gas, that is free from impurities’. [More…]
For some years now, Australia has had supplies of natural gas. [More…]
It now has natural gas at Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. [More…]
To ensure that natural gas supplied by the Authority is available at a gate-valve delivery price that is, at all times, uniform throughout Australia, after making due allowances for differences in the calorific values of natural gas obtained from different sources’. [More…]
If there is to be a standard price for natural gas in Australia it certainly would react adversely to Alice Springs. [More…]
to ensure that condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas are retained and processed in Australia in order that they may be available to augment supplies of motor spirit and similar fuels obtained from indigenous sources; and [More…]
To ensure that sufficient quantities of condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas are retained. [More…]
to ensure continuity of supplies of natural gas, that is free from impurities; [More…]
to ensure that natural gas supplied by the Authority is available at a gate-valve delivery price that is, at all times, uniform throughout Australia . [More…]
to ensure that condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas are retained and processed in Australia . [More…]
It is the aim of the Government to make sure that this pipeline is not just a common carrier but a public utility to serve the nation, to provide natural gas at a uniform price throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth. [More…]
People will have natural gas supplied to them at a uniform price whether they be in areas in the middle of New South Wales or South Australia or in the capital cities of Melbourne, Sydney or Brisbane. [More…]
So, thanks to the previous Government’s efforts in the past, the Victorian people are being sold down the drain, day in day out, while they use natural gas. [More…]
But under proposed paragraph (f) the extended powers would allow the Authority to control condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas in [More…]
There will be a big shift in the petro-chemical industry, whose main base is in the United States, and that shift will come about because the supplies of feed stock - natural gas - in the United States are rapidly dwindling and will shortly diminish significantly. [More…]
I am right with the Government in its desire to maintain for Australia adequate supplies of natural gas. [More…]
Will the people of that State be able to use the natural resource which is so close to their shores as cheaply as the energy is available to them? [More…]
It is stated that the Authority will have a function to ensure the retention and procession in Australia of natural gas reserves. [More…]
The Government has ample power to preserve in the national interest whatever natural resources we have. [More…]
In the United States of America there are 170,000 miles of natural gas mains to serve 210 million people. [More…]
Firstly I think I should point out that if there was ever an example of the fact that we have rushed into this matter wilh great speed, it is the prepared speech of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), which has been just circulated to me, in which it is stated that in the United States of America there are 170,000 miles of natural gas mains to serve 210,000 million people. [More…]
We know that Perth already has a supply of natural gas and that the cost of this additional back-up would be some $240m. [More…]
The concept of the Bill is, as the Australian Labor Party said in its policy speech and as is contained in its platform, to provide for the transmission of natural gas by an interstate ring main to ensure continuity of supplies and uniformity pf price. [More…]
The whole concept of the buying and selling of gas is that we would operate as the New South Wales Electricity Commission operates; in other words, we would wholesale the natural gas in the same way as it wholesales electricity, and we would sell to every reticulation authority throughout the length and breadth of the Commonwealth gas at an equal price. [More…]
There are special provisions in the Bill for the Australian Gas Light Co. Ltd in relation to Gidgealpa-Sydney, because of the complexities of the situation, nevertheless the meaning of the provision and the totality of the concept of the Pipeline Authority requires it to acquire, transmit and sell natural gas at a uniform price. [More…]
They are paying a price for the natural gas, but the producers in Victoria can offer to New South Wales consumers gas at two-thirds of that price. [More…]
The natural advantage that Alice Springs, for instance, would have will disappear because the price will be the same in Sydney. [More…]
Gas should be cheaper at Alice Springs because Alice Springs will have a natural advantage but under this proposal it will be the same price in Sydney as it is in Alice Springs. [More…]
Obviously the natural economic place to establish a plant to use the gas will then be Sydney. [More…]
The South Australian Premier has suggested the establishment of a petro-chemical plant at Port Augusta where there is a natural advantage, but this advantage will disappear and a!l the economic pressures will be for it to be located in Adelaide. [More…]
If the pipeline passes close to Bathurst the natural advantage that Bathurst would have will disappear because the price of gas will be the same in Sydney as in Bathurst. [More…]
The Australian Gas Light Company has entered into a Letter of Agreement, operative from October 1972, with a consortium of natural gas producing companies at Gidgealpa in the Cooper Basin of South Australia to purchase supplies for its use under its statutory franchise at Sydney. [More…]
To permit of the construction of the first stage of its national pipeline project, and to also supply to Australian Gas Light Company its natural gas from the Gidgealpa consortium, the Commonwealth of Australia is acquiring the shares of East Aust. [More…]
The Senate amendment, imposing the obligation on the Authority to accept petroleum at any point on Its pipelines, for delivery to any other point on such pipelines, would completely frustrate operation of the pipeline by the Pipeline Authority, and in particular its powers under Clause 13 to buy and sell natural gas on its own account. [More…]
The objective of the Government is to establish a national pipeline grid for the transmission of natural gas at a uniform price, and ensuring continuity of supply. [More…]
Each Australian producer of natural gas claiming its rights from the Pipeline Authority as a common carrier could set up a rival and excessive pricing structure, according to its whim and belief as to what maximum return it could obtain. [More…]
In its conduct of the pipeline, the Authority would need to regulate most carefully the British thermal content of the natural gas which varies greatly from the different Australian production basins. [More…]
The entry of natural gas into the pipeline without power to enforce the removal of undesirable associated gases would also produce chaos in the system. [More…]
With the unregulated commingling of natural gas on a common carrier basis, rival producers would seek to pass through the pipeline gas with such a wide variety of impurities that it would be impossible to ascertain and enforce a common pricing structure, and uniformity of quality for consumers. [More…]
It is, of course, true that a country must make a careful and continuing assessment of its natural resources and its own needs now and for the future. [More…]
But apart from his overlooking of the historical facts insofar as they might be favourable to the previous Government - after all, I suppose this is politics - the Prime Minister advanced as a new idea the use of natural resources as a weapon of international political influence. [More…]
A leading Japanese trade negotiator has referred to the Government’s ‘all too hasty’ policy actions in relation to export prices, shipping and natural resources. [More…]
We should be the natural leaders of the South Pacific. [More…]
Who are we to assert that we are anybody’s natural leader? [More…]
Albany is a beautiful, natural and safe port on the south coast of Western Australia. [More…]
In its present natural state it has a depth of 34 feet. [More…]
There is a safe big outer harbour which has a natural depth of 70 feet. [More…]
In addition, dividends paid out of those categories of exempt income and dividends, up to the level of deductible capital expenditures, paid out of profits from the sale of oil and natural gas, are exempt. [More…]
It is regrettable that there seems to be a higher resignation rate in the Army during peace time owing to a somewhat natural decline in job satisfaction, particularly among professional positions in the Army. [More…]
The proposed amendment of section 25 (2) (b) is a natural corollary to the amendment of section 19 (1) reducing the margin of allowance from the quota to 10 per cent. [More…]
Australia has been very fortunately blessed with natural resources for water sports. [More…]
We must not denigrate, we must not underestimate the natural resources we have in this country for sport and. [More…]
When the proposed legislation comes into effect about 95 per cent of soft drinks produced will not contain fruit juice as a natural food. [More…]
It does not require much imagination to realise that they will turn away from a natural foodstuff to some form of artificial colouring, flavouring and so on. [More…]
being the only conspicuous internal eminence that has a skyline visible from practically every portion of the city, lends itself to an architectural treatment that need comprise little more than the necessary ramps, stairs and terraces for outlook to make it by its natural bulk the dominating architectural feature. [More…]
I know that the Press is inadequately housed and there is a natural resentment on the part of members of the Press for the lack of facilities which they endure. [More…]
Whilst this is the first time in Australian history that direct budgetary allocations have been made to a cities program it is an inevitable natural flowon from the action taken last year by the Liberal-Country Party Government to establish the National Urban and Regional Development Authority under the chairmanship of Sir John Overall. [More…]
The Committee has had in mind the convenience of the motorist, the need to damp down irritations, natural resentments against fees and controls, the practical aspects of situations, the necessity for adequate communication of policies, and the need at all times for good public relations and public image. [More…]
I have an undertaking from the Minister - it was reported in the Press - that he will buy back all the developed area in the Dandenong Ranges and return it to its natural state. [More…]
It will take a long time to build by natural growth a complex with a population of 300,000. [More…]
Has Mr Giese been given the opportunity to rebut any insinuations against him in accordance with the requirements of natural justice. [More…]
It is estimated that, taking into account the natural past growth rate in the assessable revenue for licence fee purposes of broadcasting stations, the revised scale is expected to raise additional revenue of some $120,000 in 1973- 74. [More…]
The Government has announced a new assistance scheme to the tourist industry, in order to develop our natural and historical attractions and to promote a greater volume of travel within Australia. [More…]
Social imbalance is the natural offspring of persistent inflation. [More…]
The area is within a stone’s throw of where they live, but because of the colonial boundaries drawn in the last century by clerks in another country who were not too well up on what they were doing, these girls are precluded from going to their natural centres for tertiary education. [More…]
As the Budget represents the planned business activity of the nation for the next 12 months it is only natural that there will be some areas that will need adjustment and other areas that will need1 compensating assistance However, in my opinion the strategy of the Budget is far superior to any propositions put forward by the prophets of doom from the other side of the House who have spoken in this debate. [More…]
I am told that often a lot of natural wealth is left behind in the ground. [More…]
Big companies as well as smaller companies must be made to realise that in the management of our mineral resources the mining industry and the national Government have a common responsibility as custodians of much of our natural wealth to ensure that the resources are managed in the interests of the whole nation, not only for the present but also for future generations. [More…]
Another advantage would be the connection that the highway would have with the proposed natural gas pipeline. [More…]
The areas is very close to the Black Mountain reserve and is very well provided with natural open space. [More…]
We look to all Australians to take this opportunity to preserve in Australian hands their great natural heritage and the industries established by the initiative and labour of their fathers. [More…]
The premises for such a policy also include: That get big or get out is inadequate as a policy for all farmers; that there is no once and for all size of farm business likely to ensure all time viability; that drought, flood and other natural disasters should attract realistic, not confused, financial assistance; that the welfare needs of rural communities and towns must be accurately perceived in social terms separate from handouts; that society, through government, has the responsibility to ensure employment opportunities for every man to earn or to have a minimum income but not to guarantee every man security in the occupation of his choice. [More…]
It was only natural that people would expect the Minister for Northern Development to have something to do with beef roads, but that responsibility was taken away from him. [More…]
It was only natural that people would expect him to have something to do with primary industry in the northern areas, but that responsibility was taken away from him. [More…]
So the increase in educational expenditure would be a natural follow-on from that. [More…]
I suppose, when one considers that these metropolitan areas supported the Labor Party to an extent sufficient to put them in government, it is perhaps only natural that they should receive priority consideration. [More…]
They have had a severe rural recession, have periodically had to compete with the elements, floods, droughts and other natural disasters. [More…]
Over the years many private businesses have developed employment opportunities under natural growth conditions to the benefit of this nation. [More…]
Government supporters talk of grandiose schemes of artificial control and growth but they are not even prepared to support existing communities with the conditions ideally suited to spontaneous natural growth. [More…]
It is only natural that if we belt into the man who is producing these commodities - it does not matter whether he is producing rice, wheat or meat in Australia or any other country - the simple ABC of the thing is that before long there will be nothing for him if he continues to produce that product and he will reduce his production further. [More…]
We should also remember that the tertiary sector employs about 53 per cent of the total labour force and enjoys a large degree of natural protection from any competition from other countries. [More…]
In my electorate we have some of the best beaches in the world, but this great natural resource is becoming polluted because of inadequate sewerage treatment. [More…]
It is discrimination against them and a positive discrimination in favour of the preservation of some of our natural areas. [More…]
They are a natural part of the market mechanism, enabling resources to be used where they are most efficient. [More…]
At the same time I was informed by my Department that a critical situation was developing because of the demands of her natural father for the child to go back. [More…]
She is in the custody of her natural parents and as far as I can determine we as the Government have a moral duty to see that the ordinary services of the Australian community are available to them but we have no legal right to intervene between the parents and the child. [More…]
She is now back with her natural parents. [More…]
Nola is one of many Aboriginal children who, because there were no essential medical, educational or other facilities available at their parents’ normal place of residence, have been taken from their natural parents and reared in missions, orphanages, hospitals, institutions or private foster homes. [More…]
At its meeting today, the Snowy Mountains Council decided to set down operation guidelines which will have the effect of curtailing power production from the Tumut stations so as to prevent flooding in the Tumut River below the Blowering Dam, except in situations where natural inflows by rainfall in the Blowering valley cannot be fully controlled by the water storages of the system. [More…]
At its meeting today, the Council set down operational guidelines which will have the effect of curtailing power production from the Tumut stations, so as to prevent flooding from the Tumut River below Blowering Reservoir except in situations where natural inflows cannot be fully controlled by the water storages of the system. [More…]
What a wonderful natural resource for Australia it has proved to be and will continue to be. [More…]
The first scheme became a reality in 1956 with the Morwell Lurgi plant which in the years preceding the introduction of natural gas in 1969 played a vital role in supplying gas to Melbourne. [More…]
Recently I attended a fuel symposium in Canberra where I heard the Secretary of the Department of National Development, Mr L. F. Bott, talk of the abundance of natural gas in Australia, where he said the need is to encourage the search for oil. [More…]
Mr Bott mentioned the coming shortage of natural gas in the United States and their $120m 4-year program of coal gasification research. [More…]
By the millions of dollars that we are now spending, we are discovering unlimited quantities of natural gas but insufficient quantities of crude oil. [More…]
Therefore the natural result, one would hope, would be discovery of much greater quantities. [More…]
There has been a considerable slackening of economic activity within the honourable member’s electorate since the introduction of natural gas at exorbitantly high prices, thanks to the machinations of former Premier Bolte. [More…]
Victoria now has the worst of both worlds with the cessation of the production of coal gas under the Lurgi process and the alternative choice of natural gas at exorbitant prices. [More…]
I also note from the latest statistics available from the Joint Coal Board of New South Wales that natural gas has made only a 9 per cent impact on the total Victorian fuel market when it ought reasonably to have been between 20 per cent and 30 per cent. [More…]
For that reason we will maximise the use of natural gas as a furnace fuel and considerably reduce imports. [More…]
For the future, we will be very pleased to co-operate with the Victorian Government in our planning for the transcontinental natural gas pipeline. [More…]
We know that in the ultimate and when the point comes when Australia’s reserves of natural gas are finally depleted, it will be to the brown coal gasification of the Latrobe Valley and the black coal gasification of the Hunter Valley that Australia will look for its ultimate means of industrial subsistence. [More…]
We are following very closely the developments overseas in research into synthetic natural gas. [More…]
The United States of America in particular has been forced to seek an alternative to its seriously depleted natural gas reserves and is seeking to obtain by hydrogenation synthetic natural gas which will be of approximately 800 to 850 British thermal units to the cubic foot as compared with 450 for ordinary coal gas and 1,050 or 1,100 for natural gas. [More…]
In his book published in 1969 he emphasised the need for a co-ordinated energy policy, which took into account all major energy sources - coal, oil, natural gas and uranium. [More…]
We have sufficient natural gas to take us well into the first half of the next century and probably beyond. [More…]
The multi-million dollar technique is known as hydrogenation - adding hydrogen to the coal to bring it to the hydrogen-carbon mix of the oil and natural gas hydrocarbons instead of having coal’s preponderance of carbon. [More…]
One of the cheapest sources of hydrogen for hydrogenation is methane, the main component of natural gas, and in present conditions this gives an extra advantage to the Gippsland and the Latrobe Valley area - about which the honourable member for McMillan spoke so eloquently - with its proximity to the Bass Strait fields. [More…]
The turnover tax, increased charges, the dumping of heating oil resources and the co-operation that the State Government gave to Esso-BHP in producing natural gas in competition with the briquette industry all amounted to sabotage and tantamount destruction of the brown coal industry. [More…]
Under the impact of education conducted in the English language and their natural desire to join in the social life of the school by speaking English as quickly and as often as possible, their language of origin quickly deteriorates into ‘kitchen’ Italian or Greek or whatever their natural language is. [More…]
Generally, the target that was sought was based upon a one per cent addition to the population, the rate of growth from natural means also being assessed at one per cent. [More…]
House were deliberately intended to hoodwink the people of New South Wales and of Australia into believing that he in no way intervened in restricting the availability of power supplies to the people of New South Wales, lt is therefore essential that, this document be tabled in order that the Parliament may consider the circumstances of the denial of natural justice- [More…]
It is, of course, natural that co-ordinators should feel that all the wisdom is in their court, that they know everything. [More…]
This is a natural human failing. [More…]
Private industry was willing and able to carry out this project and, in fact, has started the program of installing the necessary pipes for the distribution of natural gas. [More…]
What is the Government’s policy in respect of natural resources development. [More…]
Is it a fact that in order to bring the Woodside-Burmah gas fields to the position of being able to sell liquefied natural gas overseas, the following approximate costs would have to be incurred: Firstly, production and separation platforms, approximately SI, 000m; secondly, a pipeline of 80 miles to bring the gas on shore, between SI 00m and SI 50m; thirdly, liquefied natural gas plant, S250m; fourthly, 10 tankers at SI 00m each, $ 1,000m; and finally, if required, a pipeline to Perth, $200m. [More…]
The honourable member is incorrect in his calculations of the cost of bringing natural gas ashore. [More…]
Will the Minister inform the House of his attitude towards Japanese involvement in the Pilbara proposals, which provide for the use of the natural gas that the Government intends to acquire from the north-west shelf? [More…]
That can be best done by the restructuring of the liquids that are derivable from natural gas - in the case of the north-west shelf, in the order of about 40 barrels per million cubic feet. [More…]
Have any feasibility or cost benefit analysis studies been made, or are any now being made, of the development of a national pipeline grid and further exploitation and exploration of the north-west natural gas reserves? [More…]
In the case of Adelaide, unfortunately a very heavy commitment has been made to the use of natural gas for the generation of electricity. [More…]
Natural gas is a high premium fuel and we have to face the situation as it is. [More…]
The Minister for the Northern Territory (Mr Enderby) in a debate on the estimates earlier this afternoon mentioned a number of Aborigines who were in gaol for drunkenness and he said - 1 felt some sympathy with what he said - that perhaps the recourse to drink was a natural reaction by people who felt that their dignity had been taken from them. [More…]
Most cities have grown because they are placed in a strategic position and they are the natural point through which traffic passes. [More…]
This natural tendency has of course been exacerbated by the fact that in the past roads have been built towards the city centre, but the pure facts of geography, quite apart from the roads that have been built, sometimes reinforce this. [More…]
Above all, we must recognise the very limits of the natural systems, the air sheds and water sheds which we are using to our advantage. [More…]
Firstly a farmout by Abrolhos Oil NL and BP Petroleum Australia Pty Ltd in off-shore Dongara, Dongara being the place from which onshore natural gas for the supply of Perth comes. [More…]
In the first case he said that my claim was that the cost of bringing natural gas to shore from the North West Shelf fields would be between $2 10m and $212m. [More…]
I have here, and I will table it if the shadow Minister of the Opposition will agree, an estimate of the costs of bringing natural gas ashore. [More…]
Australia’s economic growth will continue for some time to be based more substantially upon its natural resources and on the conversion of these resources to processed materials and finished goods. [More…]
The Australian Government recognises the value of foreign investment and technology in assisting development, but it would wish to see a higher level of Australian ownership, both by Australian companies and the Australian public, and by the Australian Government through the Australian Industry Development Corporation, especially in uranium, oil, natural gas and coal. [More…]
Not only that, the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor), in a statement on 10 August, admitted that all foreign investment in Australia’s natural resources will be required to be directed through the AIDC. [More…]
An assessment of various statements made by both the Minister for Overseas Trade and the Minister for Minerals and Energy indicates that the provisions of clause 7 will be used in the following principal areas - oil and natural gas development, uranium mining and enrichment, the national pipeline grid, and the manufacture of government cars by the Government Aircraft Factories. [More…]
Speaking to the second reading of the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill 1973, I said of the Government’s decision to establish a natural gas pipeline grid throughout Australia: [More…]
all oil, natural gas and other hydrocarbons] produced in the Woodside-Burmah area of the north-west fields. [More…]
to facilitate and encourage the establishment, development and advancement of Australian industries concerned with the manufacture, processing, treatment, transportation or distribution of goods, or the development or use of natural resources (including the recovery of minerals), . [More…]
These functions cover a very wide range, are well-nigh comprehensive and now include the natural gas and oil industries and transport. [More…]
The answer is because they control in effect 84 per cent of all refining capacity in the United States, 72 per cent of natural gas resources, 20 per cent of coal and 50 per cent of uranium. [More…]
External control of the Canadian mineral industry had reached 65 per cent for the petroleum and natural gas industry it is 74 per cent. [More…]
As Italy is very poor in natural resources it was open to extortion by the multinational corporations who controlled the supply of those resources. [More…]
ENI was able to negotiate natural gas supplies from Russia and Holland and it is having a transmission pipeline built to both countries. [More…]
At least the Italians had some sense of responsibility in realising that their natural resources ought to be protected. [More…]
AIDC is one instrument by which this country can preserve its natural resources and ensure that they are exploited constructively in the best interests of the nation as a whole. [More…]
Australia has 36-40 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. [More…]
Its planning does not provide for production of natural gas before early 1978. [More…]
It is the natural gas, from the northwest shelf, which will provide a simple and easily adaptable replacement fuel for such imported furnace oil. [More…]
Australian natural gas is also very ‘wet’ and the liquids derived from natural gas on the north-west shelf are about 40 barrels per million cubic feet. [More…]
For these reasons, it is vital that full acquisition of natural gas and associated liquids be made by the Australian Government. [More…]
We plan a major refinery at Dampier to strip the liquids from natural gas and in turn, from the liquids, to strip ethane, as a feedstock for a major petro-chemical plant which will be world-ranking in capacity. [More…]
- Another immediate application will be the use of natural gas for pelletising iron ore. [More…]
When the disclosures were made early in our advent to office of a possible 20 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, they were based on a highly conservative recovery factor of 55 per cent. [More…]
I interviewed Messrs Donaldson and Wilson of Woodside-Burmah in February 1973 and indicated to them then that it was the intention of the Government to legislate to establish a pipeline authority, to construct a transcontinental pipeline and to be ready to take delivery of all natural gas at the end of 1977, which was then their target date. [More…]
I also told them that I deprecated the constant propaganda suggesting that it was only by exporting natural gas overseas that the allegedly huge sums for development of this field could be obtained. [More…]
Without export- controls this company, to secure the maximum cash return, planned within this period to rip out the natural gas and other resources of the north-west shelf. [More…]
For these reasons, it is vital that full acquisition of natural gas and associated liquids be made by the Australian Government. [More…]
One then must have the liquefied natural gas plant at a cost of $250m. [More…]
Without export controls this company planned within this period of 21 years to rip out and rape the natural gas. [More…]
I conclude by saying that the Liberal Party believes that co-operation between private enterprise and government is the only way to ensure the orderly and progressive development of Australia’s natural resources and energy. [More…]
We are trying to see that our other alternative sources of heating energy - natural gas - is at least conserved to the point where we have adequate domestic reserves. [More…]
The Japanese are here all the time trying to get natural gas for Japan. [More…]
There is $6,000m worth of natural gas at the 20c per 1,000 cubic feet Tate; that means that there is about a 5,000 per cent profit on export at a 90c rate. [More…]
As the Minister said, there is about 8 to 12 years supply of natural gas at Gidgealpa. [More…]
The fuel used has to be natural gas, and the only place it can be obtained is on the north west shelf. [More…]
The Commonwealth will get a handsome return on its investment, but that return will go to all the people in Australia ad infinitum- or for as long as we have natural gas supplies. [More…]
He laid on the table documents which purported to show that the cost of bringing the natural gas to shore from the north-west shelf fields would be between $2 10m and $2 12m. [More…]
This Government is now taking the logical and natural steps to put it right. [More…]
by inserting in sub-section (1), after the definition of ‘Director’, the following definition: - “minerals” includes petroleum and natural gas;’. [More…]
Section 4 of the Principal Act is amended by inserting in sub-section (1), after the definition of “Director”, the following definitions: - “‘full-time Director’ means a Director referred to in paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of section 11 who was appointed as a full-time Director; minerals’ includes petroleum and natural gas; part-time Director’ means a Director referred :o in paragraph (c) of sub-section (1) of section II who was appointed as a part-time Director;”. [More…]
by inserting in sub-section (1), after the definition of ‘Director’, the following definition: - “minerals” includes petroleum and natural gas;’. [More…]
to facilitate and encourage the establishment, development and advancement of Australian industries concerned with the manufacture, processing, treatment, transportation or distribution of goods, or the development or use of natural resources (including the recovery of minerals), by - <i) providing, or assisting in the provision of, the financial resources required by Australian companies engaging, or proposing to engage, in any, such industries or in activities that are connected with, or incidental to, those industries; and [More…]
It refers to manufacture, processing, treatment, transportation or distribution of goods, or the development or use of natural resources. [More…]
The functions are now to include a requirement - if the Bill ever becomes law - to facilitate and encourage the establishment, development and advancement of Australian industries concerned with the manufacture, processing, treatment, transportation or distribution of goods, or the development or use of natural resources. [More…]
It is for that reason that I included within the Pipline Authority Bill special provision for the retention of all liquids from natural gas. [More…]
As I pointed out to the House on Tuesday night, in particular we also will ensure that natural gas will be used to replace heavy furnace crude wherever possible. [More…]
All these things add to the Australian cost structure and place a burden on the primary industries which are much higher than they would be if natural economic forces were left to work themselves out. [More…]
If resources flowed naturally without interference by governments to the most economic and the most productive sectors of the economy, I have no doubt that - if that theoretical situation applied the primary industries in Australia would have no difficulty whatever in standing on their own feet without assistance at all from governments. [More…]
As I said, primary industries have natural advantages and resources would flow to them if a free market applied; and as I also said, if this were the case they would not need assistance. [More…]
Naturally, it is the Government’s intention that the departments would offer as much informaion as possible in their areas of expertise, in the way in which the honourable member for Berowra (Mr Edwards) described it. [More…]
That would be only natural and proper. [More…]
In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living, and, in particular, to the desire of the Australian Government to - [More…]
That is what it wants to delete - conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living - [More…]
The Government proposes that the Commission also shall have regard to the conservation of the natural environment. [More…]
One often reads of the conservation problems in the coastal areas, and one often reads about Lake Peddar, but one does not observe even passing reference to the most insidious of all rape of natural resources - soil erosion. [More…]
Unlike the big city oriented Labor Government, it realises that droughts and natural disasters, combined with rapidly rising costs and low prices, have not allowed farmers in recent years to spend capital on these various essential conservation measures. [More…]
These building blocks wreak havoc on natural weather patterns. [More…]
Dr Landsberg, who is described as one of the nation’s leading authorities on city induced weather, explains that this added heat load becomes particularly burdensome during natural hot spells and is reflected in higher mortality figures for city dwellers. [More…]
Public alarm throughout the nation to my mind in the last decade has reached an all-time high on the question of pollution and the interest in the natural environment. [More…]
But in my view it needs to go a lot higher to truly awaken the Australian community as a whole as to the need to stir governments, both State and Federal, and the need to protect the natural environment for future generations. [More…]
I believe that it is a pity that we never had a government, State or Federal, with the interest in conservation and preservation of the natural environment that my Government has shown in this very important subject. [More…]
Because we have not protected the natural environment. [More…]
The fatness of people’s purses became more important to them than the preservation of the natural environment. [More…]
The present Minister for the Environment and Conservation (Dr Cass) and the Whitlam Administration are taking the most positive determined steps by the creation of the very ministry which the distinguished Minister holds to arouse even more the Australian people’s need to support the Government and the Department which is determined to protect the natural environment. [More…]
In my electorate of Hunter, of course, our greatest problem with the natural environment is coal dust from inferior coal that burns in chitter dumps for years and years once a fire is started by spontaneous combustion. [More…]
This awakened the minds of people and they went on to think about the destruction of the natural environment of man. [More…]
This is attributed sometimes to over fishing and to pollution of natural waters by industry. [More…]
There will later be created a National Disaster Organisation in accociation with it to cope, in co-operation with other civil authorities in Australia, with the effects of natural disasters.’ [More…]
We saw the fact that the Commonwealth’s participation already in that area, as well as its situation between the national capital and Melbourne, made it the natural site for another inland city. [More…]
Australia’s natural resource industries, of course, have suffered a series of severe shocks at the hands of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor). [More…]
We told them that we would stand in their shoes with respect to the transmission of natural gas from Gidgealpa. [More…]
The policy of our Party is that there should be at least a 51 per cent Australian ownership and, more than that, we will ensure that every gallon of motor spirit that can be extracted from the Gidgealpa natural gas will be extracted and used for Australia. [More…]
He actually had the audacity to attack the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) for what he is doing to preserve the natural heritage of the Australian people. [More…]
The Minister for Minerals and Energy is refusing the export of natural gas from the North West Shelf. [More…]
It opens vast and natural markets for Australia in Asia. [More…]
The sphere of our influence during the last quarter of a century has been so subservient to powerful friends and allies and therefore so predictable that the emergence of an Australian upon the international stage courageous enough and confident enough to represent a young nation rich in natural resources and equally rich in the talents, energies and abilities of its people has, not unexpectedly, taken them by surprise. [More…]
Griffin’s design of the parliamentary triangle used Camp Hill as the natural and functional climax to the parliamentary group of buildings. [More…]
What the actions of the Opposition amount to is its total gutlessness born of an arrogance perpetuating its view that it alone has a natural and divine right to govern. [More…]
This naturally has led some idealistic young Australian couples to look to countries which have been ravaged by war, where thousands of babies, if they are lucky, lie often three or four to a dirty cot in crowded nurseries and orphanages. [More…]
In effect, the supply is unlimited and young Australians who are balanced and sensible as well as idealistic young people find it the most natural thing in the world to look at this stage to this source, particularly because of the fact that in the case of Vietnam, we have been involved in the war there. [More…]
This area of country requires constant attention, otherwise it reverts back to its natural foliage. [More…]
Not only am I promoting the plight of the resident, but I am also hoping to preserve one of our most natural beauty areas in Gippsland. [More…]
Dividends paid out of the kinds of profits I have mentioned, if declared after Budget day, are also to become taxable as are dividends paid out of income from profits from the sale of oil or natural gas or their products. [More…]
We have seen this Government take control of the oil and natural gas on the north west shelf. [More…]
We are dealing with human beings who, under natural law, have a right to live a meaningful and purposeful existence. [More…]
To that extent what the Government is doing, or seeking to do, in this area is a natural and logical consequence of the increased student assistance which I hope the Minister will recognise was provided by the previous Government during its last 4 or 5 years of office. [More…]
Mr Speaker, the solution of the Minister for Minerals and Energy to the prospective energy problems rests, apparently, on natural gas. [More…]
This natural gas will be processed - using a stabilisation plant presumably near Dampier or Broome - into LPG or liquid gas, with a dry methane gas residue. [More…]
The Minister for Minerals and Energy proposes to transfer massive quantities of natural gas from the North-West Shelf through a pipeline of unknown dimensions, capacity and cost to supply the already, adequately-supplied market at an unknown price and unknown cost to the taxpayer. [More…]
The Australian Petroleum Exploration Association has estimated that over the 1980 to 1990 decade, 32 trillion cubic feet of natural gas would need to be produced to provide sufficient gas liquids to meet our motor spirit shortfall. [More…]
Even if the natural gas was available, it could not be produced quickly enough to meet the necessary timetable. [More…]
To attempt to use our natural gas reserves so quickly would be, to use the Minister’s own words, a ‘rape of the North-West Shelf. [More…]
I speak in terms of the aggregate availability of hydrocarbons, because crude oil, natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, black coal and brown coal are chemical cousins and they can be converted from one form into another. [More…]
We have introduced the Pipeline Authority Act and for the first time we have made sure that Australia will have first right to the use of its own natural gas. [More…]
We have insisted that the liquids be stripped from natural gas. [More…]
We propose to replace with natural gas the furnace fuel which at the present time has to be imported from the Persian Gulf to the extent of onethird of the refinery throughput. [More…]
Japan is even considering the use of ordinary coal gas and a synthetic natural gas. [More…]
Natural gas was first discovered in Alberta in the early 1920s. [More…]
In 1947 significant discoveries of oil were made at the Luduc and Redwater field and by 1952 the then known reserves of oil in Alberta were about 1,500 million barrels of crude oil and 5 trillion cubit feet of natural gas - about the same amount of crude oil as we have in Australia today. [More…]
Finally, the Liberal Party favours the establishment of natural gas and oil pipelines in Australia under government supervision. [More…]
They talk about a prospective shortage of fuel in Australia, yet 2 weeks ago the Leader of the Country Party (Mr Anthony) who proposed this matter for debate today was whinging and whining because the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) intended to acquire Australian natural gas at the well head off the north west shelf of Australia. [More…]
What the Leader of the Country Party was saying was that the companies should be able to export the natural gas and it was like the Minister’s hide to want to acquire it for Australia and keep it for Australian domestic consumption. [More…]
When we talk about his intention to export natural gas we should remember that the last Government, of which he and the honourable member for Farrer were members, allowed the export from Australia of 8i million barrels per annum of liquefied petroleum gas. [More…]
We have also taken steps to conserve the gas on the North West Shelf by making sure that our domestic requirements are met before any natural gas is exported. [More…]
But the honourable member for Farrer and the Leader of the Country Party see their role as to the Woodside-Burmah consortium to make sure that it gets the right to export to the Japanese and the west coast of the United States natural gas markets. [More…]
So in every respect in terms of energy in Australia - with hydrocarbons in the aggregate, not just oil and natural gas and in other forms - we intend to make sure that Australia’s domestic requirements are supplied before anything else. [More…]
The Opposition is squealing about sections 77a, 77b, 77c and 78 of the Income Tax Assessment Act as they will apply to natural gas. [More…]
That is assuming that the natural gas is valued on the basis of 20 cents per 1000 cubic feet. [More…]
The natural resources of this country today are a national resource. [More…]
This Government has tried to enunciate in the very brief period it has been in office a national fuel and energy policy through the Seas and Submerged Lands Bill, which the Opposition has frustrated, the Petroleum and Minerals Authority Bill and the attempt to the maximum of our powers to conserve the oil and natural gas deposits on the north west shelf. [More…]
The question that ought to be answered, and I have yet to hear anybody from the Opposition answer it, is: Why is it that this nation can recruit from its own internal resources 89 per cent of its direct investment, yet not control its natural resources? [More…]
Countries throughout the world for the first time have come to realise that no nation can afford to have its natural resources - in particular its minerals, fuels and energy - come within the purview of overseas corporations or companies. [More…]
Secondly, we are fully conscious of the fact that we will be heavily dependent on fossil fuel, particularly crude oil and natural gas, for the rest of this century. [More…]
It is true that the natural ebb and flow of the economic climate in regard to the building industry has been artifcally influenced and affected by government attitudes. [More…]
Life itself is an equation in hydrocarbons, and whether we derive our energy from crude oil, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas or from coal we are more than ever dependent upon the efforts of chemical engineers. [More…]
Of course, there are tremendous resources of land and water and other natural resources. [More…]
In the absence of the discovery of new oil basins, coal remains the most natural alternative. [More…]
He has shown a determination to use Australian natural resources in the best interests of Australian people. [More…]
Natural gas to Sydney has been delayed. [More…]
The study shows that for this process a plant would be necessary with access to coal, 138 kv electricity, river water and natural gas. [More…]
I find it difficult to reconcile this conclusion with the proposals of the Minister for Minerals and Energy in respect of natural gas. [More…]
I cannot see why the Minister is so intent on converting natural gas at Dampier and Redcliffs beyond the liquid petroleum gas stage into motor spirit. [More…]
Dr Herwig states that Australia can be a major exporter of energy by storing the excess solar energy which falls on Australia in the form of liquid hydrogen and exporting it as natural gas is exported. [More…]
Let me refer him to recent comments made by the United States Director of Fuel Resources who particularly categorised the liquids available from natural gas and their conversion as being one of the more readily available forms of motor spirit. [More…]
But, knowing where extra motor spirit can be obtained, naturally I want to get it. [More…]
Because of the convenience, liquid petroleum and natural gas have supplied a share of the world’s energy market disproportionate to their relative position in overall energy reserves. [More…]
But today the industrial nations of the world are facing a period of rising prices for both liquid petroleum and natural gas. [More…]
It is generally forgotten that oil, natural gas and coal are chemical cousins. [More…]
The natural consequence of the growing scarcity of oil and its depletion is that prices will continue to rise. [More…]
That is our greatest national asset, combined with the natural gas which we can derive from our off-shore fields. [More…]
Natural gas, particularly from the northwest shelf, is a wet gas. [More…]
The commission will regulate the exploration, development, transportation, pricing and marketing and use of oil, natural gas, coal, fissionable materials and hydro-electricity. [More…]
One of the key utilities for the use of this commission will be the trans-continental pipeline for the distribution of natural gas by the inter-connection of Australia’s resources in Bass Strait, Gidgealpa-Moomba, Palm Valley and the north west shelf. [More…]
At a later stage - I stress that it will be considerably later - when depletion of our resources ultimately occurs the same concept of a pipeline will be available for the transmission of synthesised natural gas from black and brown coal or, in the even remoter future, hydrogen gas associated with the utilisation of solar energy. [More…]
It also should be said that there is an urgent need for the city of Sydney to get its supplies of natural gas. [More…]
I also want to stress that even with the known recoverable reserves of natural gas at Gidgealpa, and having regard to the known needs or the dedicated needs of Adelaide for natural gas and of the proposed petro-chemical project at Redcliffs, as well as of Sydney itself, there is still a shortfall of, I would say, between 0.8 and 0.9 of a trillion cubic feet. [More…]
From time to time members of the public and conservation groups protest about proposals to mine, clear or otherwise alter important natural areas but the real conflict is that, with the demand for productive use of resources being now so widespread, it is affecting some of the last natural areas. [More…]
Applying these growth rates to the large recreation areas close to Melbourne, we can expect a fifteen-fold increase in the use of the Dandenong Ranges, the Mornington Peninsula and the Eildon Weir at the end of 30 years, everything else being equal in regard to access and availability of these natural resources. [More…]
The need is most acute in the metropolitan regions but the challenge also exists, in a more tractable form, in the non-metropolitan areas that are achieving an industrialisation built on major concentrations of natural resources. [More…]
I address a question to the Minister for Minerals and Energy and I refer to a statement on natural gas by the honourable gentleman in this House on 16 October when he said: [More…]
We plan a major refinery at Dampier to strip the liquids from natural gas and in turn, from the liquids, to strip ethane . [More…]
Honourable members will find that there was only a IS per cent Australian equity in the natural gas of the North West Shelf. [More…]
The ports of Fremantle and Geraldton, which have a natural and undeniable freight advantage to all the major markets for Australian wheat, are the outlets for the wheat of the Moore division. [More…]
natural terminal port, there still would not be any need for this Bill because, quite obviously, as I have already shown, it does not commence to operate until growers have received the guaranteed return plus 5c per bushel. [More…]
By being denied natural justice the community have been subsidised by the wheatgrowers. [More…]
Australia’s natural resource industries have suffered a series of severe shocks at the hands of the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor). [More…]
It was a speech which dealt in a purposeful and unembroidered manner with Commonwealth finance and the utilisation of Australia’s manpower, capital and natural resources. [More…]
I support the efforts which my colleague the Minister for Minerals and Energy is making to Australianisa the search for and development of Australia’s natural resources, particularly in the energy field. [More…]
As citrus fruits are one of the best natural sources of vitamin C, why are citrus fruits not grown in this area? [More…]
We who have spent our whole natural life living, working and playing with Aboriginal people, know that they must do the sort of work to which they are adapted. [More…]
I pay full tribute to a second group - I do not like to hear people talk about the city slicker type of Aborigines - who live in the cities, who have come out of their natural environment and who have obtained university degrees. [More…]
On occasions when money is being spread over a wide area, as it is in the case of the Aboriginal people, it is only natural that somewhere along the line something will go wrong. [More…]
Has the Minister for Defence received any approaches or had any reports from any source advocating the provision of a free defence force for Australia by selling Australia’s natural resources to overseas interests and so attracting various foreign armed forces to Australia to defend those foreign owned resources? [More…]
Thus, while Australia’s reserves of coal, natural gas and uranium are sufficient for our reasonable requirements for some considerable time to come, the urgent need is to step up dramatically the search for oil. [More…]
The Federal Government’s ‘foolish’ attitudes on natural gas policies probably will prove a temporary phenomenon . [More…]
A strongly worded attack on the Federal Government’s attitude to natural resources was made yesterday in the Chairman’s address of Abrolhos Oil NL. [More…]
said that at a time when the discovery of oil and natural gas was so vital to the future of Australia, the directors were gravely concerned and puzzled at the Government’s lack of ground rules and its removal of incentives. [More…]
As a matter of fact, today in Australia natural gas supplies only 5.6 per cent of the total black coal equivalent in the energy market. [More…]
I remind the House that section 13 of the Pipeline Authority Act states specifically that all - I emphasise ‘all’ - liquids associated with natural gas will be retained in Australia and restructured into motor spirit. [More…]
Australia today is stuck with that deal, under which only 5.6 per cent of the Australian fuel market is supplied by natural gas when it ought to be 20 per cent. [More…]
We need to conserve oil and to conserve natural gas. [More…]
There is also a real need for industries which at present are using imported fuel oil for their boilers and heat treatments to move over to natural gas where it is available. [More…]
Not only that but the self-appointed industry advocate - the Leader of the Country Party - and his cohort, the honourable member for Farrer, came into this chamber a couple of weeks ago and badgered the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) because the Government wanted to acquire natural gas and condensate at the well head. [More…]
But for this Government, the future of every motorist in Australia, of every person who enjoys heating in his home and of every industry that enjoys the use of fuel oil, natural gas and so on would be in jeopardy. [More…]
The most telling point that the Minister made was that because of the administration by the honourable member for Farrer of the National Development portfolio in the days of the previous Government, through the deals the honourable member for Farrer made with the Victorian Government, the consumption of natural gas in Australia is limited to only 5.6 per cent of Australia’s energy requirements, whereas in every other comparable country in the world it is 20.7 per cent. [More…]
If we were supplementing our intake or our usage of petroleum with natural gas to the ratio that most other countries are supplementing their intake or usage we would not be facing these problems. [More…]
There is absolutely no reason why commercial enterprise in the city of Melbourne and the State of Victoria for the moment cannot switch across their furnaces from the firing of petroleum to the firing of natural gas. [More…]
If we were not worried about the question of furnace fuel and the need for the importation of heavy crude from the Middle East and if the honourable member for Farrer and the previous Government had encouraged industry in Australia to use natural gas for the firing of furnaces, we would not be needing Middle East crude at all. [More…]
So we are dependent on the Middle East for only 18 per cent of our oil requirements and this Government is going to encourage industry to move into natural gas for firing furnaces and boilers. [More…]
My concern over this whole operation is for the fact that we have to try to keep in full production what is undoubtedly the finest and largest natural irrigation system in the world. [More…]
So, in a sense, rural reconstruction is a natural and continuing process. [More…]
When all those things happen at the same time the normal processes of reconstruction, such as I mentioned a moment ago, are unable to cope; in other words, the factors which lead to the need for reconstruction proceed at a faster rate than natural change can cope with them. [More…]
Initially, in the very difficult economic circumstances in which the original scheme was introduced, it was natural that the great demand for the funds available should be by way of debt consolidation and I am informed that between September 1971 and October 1973 approximately two-thirds of all funds made available went into debt consolidation. [More…]
I have long marvelled that in our sophisticated society justice has not been extended to the area of unemployment benefits being paid to rural producers in drought or natural disaster areas. [More…]
Social service unemployment benefits should be paid when the farmer has no income through natural catastrophe. [More…]
This Bill was introduced early as a key piece in the jigsaw puzzle of the Government’s policy of seeking to obtain Commonwealth control of the natural resources of Australia. [More…]
This Bill was presented to this Parliament by the Minister as a fundamental plank in the Government’s platform and in its policy to control the natural resources of Australia. [More…]
In that clause is a declara tion that the sovereign rights of Australia as a coastal State in respect of the continental shelf for the purpose of exploring it and exploiting its natural resources are vested in and exercisable by the crown in the right of the Commonwealth. [More…]
Some natural choice has been manifested by the citizens of this country in coming to the major conurbations. [More…]
That natural choice needs assistance. [More…]
We must see that there is a better standard of life on the circumference and that there is the opportunity for people to find what they would naturally select outside the urban areas. [More…]
Yet this beauty is becoming increasingly obscured by lack of care of the buildings and the houses and by the intrusion into naturally beautiful residential areas of other types of residences or groups of residences which do not have the same charm. [More…]
Those who have been to London and Paris recently will have noticed the tremendous change that has occurred in both those cities by taking the grime off the natural beauty of buildings. [More…]
A natural diplomacy is implicit in the fact that each State has at least one of these centres. [More…]
All that appears to have happened so far is a stopping of the natural growth. [More…]
The Albury-Wodonga area, of course, is a natural for a growth complex. [More…]
Many people naturally are associating themselves with the concept or with having thought of the concept of developing Albury-Wodonga in a population and economic sense in order to diminish the growth of Melbourne and Sydney. [More…]
This is not unreasonable; in fact it is only natural, as I have already pointed out. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Minerals and Energy whether Australia has considerable natural areas available for the production of solar energy. [More…]
The natural effect is to discourage companies from getting involved in basic items, and to restrict the capacity of larger companies for new investment. [More…]
The scheme is also designed to encourage the greater development of Australia’s natural and human resources. [More…]
The functions of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority will be to explore for and develop our petroleum and mineral resources and to assist in implementing the Government’s policy of promoting Australian ownership and control of our natural resources and resource industries. [More…]
The world energy crisis highlights major world reliance on oil and natural gas for its energy needs. [More…]
Mr G. A. Wagner, Senior Managing Director of the Royal Dutch/ Shell Group of Companies, says that 70 per cent of this should come from oil and natural gas. [More…]
Oil and natural gas currently provide about 50 per cent of Australia’s energy needs, and there is every indication that this figure will increase. [More…]
Our recoverable reserves of natural gas are 38 trillion cubic feet. [More…]
Assuming its ready availability throughout the country, this would be sufficient to meet the demands for natural gas for about 30 years. [More…]
With complacent reliance on unlimited oil supplies, nations have ignored research and development of alternative energy sources, such as natural gas, coal and, ultimately, uranium and solar energy. [More…]
Oil and natural gas will, however, remain major energy sources. [More…]
Energy is, of course, derived from other minerals than oil and natural gas. [More…]
There are other provisions in the Bill designed specifically to promote Australian ownership and control of our natural resources by requiring the Authority to assist mining undertakings to get off the ground and thereby help them to remain Australian and save them from falling into foreign hands. [More…]
We also regard this as a desirable objective in oil, natural gas and black coal. [More…]
This concept is that the continental shelf is the natural prolongation under the sea of the land mass of the coastal state, out to the lower edges of the margin, where it slopes down to and merges in the deep ocean floor or abyssal plain. [More…]
These companies would normally look to a larger operating company for the necessary help, but local Australian companies have a limited capacity to take on new ventures of this type and, therefore, they find themselves turning to overseas companies which thereby secure an interest in our natural resources. [More…]
Safeguarding for future generations, the great natural resources represented by the whale stocks’ by means of ‘a system of international regulations for the whale fisheries to ensure proper an effective conservation of whale stocks - and thus make possible the orderly development of the whaling industry.’ [More…]
I urge very strongly that the Public Works Committee examine that proposal with a view to recommending the use of natural gas to power the station’s motors. [More…]
The only other matter I want to mention is that of course, due regard will be given and has been given to what the honourable gentleman put about the possible utilisation of natural gas for the generation of power in the Northern Territory. [More…]
In addition, there is the secondary but still very important factor that natural gas is available in the north off the North-West Shelf and in the vicinity of Alice Springs at the Palm Valley fields. [More…]
It is only natural that it will take some time for the necessary support staff to be assembled to enable the Commission to do the first class job which we expect it to be able to do in respect of primary industries - a field in which it has not had to deal before to any extent. [More…]
The Government proposes to deny the freedom of consumer choice by saying that if consumer choice is developed through promotion and marketing of a particular type of product - say for orange juice as distinct from milk - the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) has the power to prevent this natural consumer choice from having effect. [More…]
Anthems have emerged in a natural fashion. [More…]
(In promoting the studies referred to in (i) and (ii), special attention shall be given to areas where rapid changes are taking place in the natural environment, and to remote unstudied areas.) [More…]
I watched the debate on television and, allowing for my natural bias in this matter, I would say that the Prime Minister won hands down. [More…]
I said then that the Premier of Queensland had not taken the usual action which Premiers have to take to initiate Commonwealth co-operation in alleviating the consequences of natural disasters. [More…]
When natural disasters of a major kind occur the Australian Government, upon request, normally joins with the State in which the disaster has taken place in financing schemes for the relief of personal hardship and distress, usually on a $1 for $1 basis. [More…]
Such relief does not normally cover the cost of restoration of private assets damaged by natural disasters, it being regarded as the individual’s responsibility to provide against such losses by way of insurance. [More…]
At the moment oil and natural gas account for 50 per cent of Australia’s energy consumption while coal and hydro-electric power and other types of power account for the rest, but we are not sitting back and saying that we are well off. [More…]
What matters is what is being drilled in terms of oil, natural gas and energy resources. [More…]
So the real search is for energy - oil and natural gas. [More…]
Last year on off-shore exploration for natural gas and oil in the area of the young sediments, where it can be found, $79m was expended. [More…]
The former Government would have let Woodside-Burmah export natural gas from the North.West Shelf of Australia. [More…]
The Opposition criticises us, but when it was in Government it would have allowed the export of natural gas, putting this country at risk. [More…]
One is the morphological concept that the continental shelf is the area of the natural prolongation of the land mass to the edges of the continental margin. [More…]
It was inevitable because the Australian people expect their growing sense of national identity to be expressed in the increased control and ownership of their natural resources. [More…]
These figures do not take into account the cost of potential deductions available to those companies which are not yet producing petroleum or natural gas, but will undoubtedly do so. [More…]
In aggregate, the contribution of public revenue to oil and natural gas exploration to the end of 1971 is, I repeat, $4 19m or approximately 50 per cent of the total amount expended on oil exploration in Australia. [More…]
It is ridiculous for leaders of the Country Party or spokesmen for the Liberal Party, like the honourable member for Farrer (Mr Fairbairn), to come into this House and merely throw emotional words such as ‘socialism’ around the place without looking at the real purpose of this legislation - the Australian purpose of this Bill - which seeks to ensure that Australians will benefit from Australia’s natural resources.- I contrast this objective with the squandering of $4 19m by past Liberal and Country Party governments. [More…]
regulate the exploration, development, transportation, marketing and the use of oil, natural gas, coal, fissionable materials and generative water, [More…]
If we are to trade with Japan, we must look at the international role of oil, natural gas and coal as trading commodities; we must look at the importance of that role to Australia. [More…]
As governments have sought greater control over the natural resources of their countries, there has emerged a . [More…]
The total known recoverable reserves of oil are 1,560 million barrels; of natural gas liquids, 800 million barrels; of hydro-carbon liquids, 2,350 million barrels; and of natural gas, 38 trillion cubic feet. [More…]
The recent report by the Australian Academy of Science titled ‘Solar Energy Research in Australia’ on the question of oil and natural gas said: [More…]
Our natural gas reserves, while large, cannot satisfy all our energy demands, particularly for transportation. [More…]
It is also likely that natural gas prices will rise because of the world shortage. [More…]
We find that 84 per cent of the United States refinery capacity, 72 per cent of its natural gas capacity, 20 per cent of its coal production and 50 per cent of its uranium reserves are controlled by multinational corporations in the United States. [More…]
What has happened in the United States when faced with a world energy crisis particularly in petroleum and natural gas, and when that country may be forced to convert to coal is that many if its mines have run down. [More…]
At the moment the world consumption of natural gas is about 38 trillion cubic feet. [More…]
The non-renewable resources of Australia consist of natural materials and energy sources which have been created by nature and which cannot be replaced within the lifespan of the human species on earth. [More…]
Until proven sources of perfect substitutes for these non-renewable resources have been discovered in natural form or through technical synthesis, they should be husbanded as if they were irreplaceable and essential to man during his lifetime on earth. [More…]
Land in its natural state is of great value for the perpetuation of the millions of species from which man continues to learn so much about the earth. [More…]
Many scientific and technical discoveries have been made by man through his study of species in their natural habitat. [More…]
The benefits of short-term policies should never be allowed to obscure the real value of irreplaceable natural vegetation and the species that live in it. [More…]
Once the natural gas, iron ore or bauxite has gone to fuel the economies of others, does anyone think that our erstwhile friends will give us a second thought? [More…]
Let us consider this point: Would it not be the most natural thing in the world for the great mass of Australians to support a Bill which was alleged to control prices? [More…]
If this country is self-sufficient in natural resources at the moment, it is purely a temporary situation and it is due to the work of the previous Government. [More…]
What is more, it is a natural energy. [More…]
However, he did not tell the House of the exorbitant profits made by the multi-national organisations that owned and controlled the mines in Chile, and of the events that caused the people of Chile, during the term of the late Mr Allende, to take control of the natural resources of the country so that those downtrodden people who had been shockingly exploited over the years in working virtually for peanuts for the benefit of Uncle Sam would receive justice. [More…]
We protect our forests, and we should protect our natural resources in the same way. [More…]
The same situation should exist with our natural resources, and it will exist under a Labor administration and under the control of the Minister now at the table. [More…]
It has never been said in this House yet but I take the risk of saying - it is my own personal view - that if I thought something serious would happen to the Australian nation as a result of these people with the know-how - the multi-national corporations which are well equipped to search for oil - leaving us out in the cold in the search for oil, I would urge my Party to confer with the Soviet Union with a view to using its geologists, its equipment and its know-how to search for petroleum products and natural gas on the Australian land mass or in the offshore regions of the Australian continent. [More…]
Not many Australians today are aware of the fact that although we have spent more than $400m on the search for petroleum we have not got one share in the natural resources which have been discovered. [More…]
I hope that natural gas and petroleum products will keep Australia going for many years without having to resort to the use of nuclear power because I can see problems in the disposal of nuclear waste. [More…]
When the people control the important natural resources of their nations I believe there is little possibility of those nations being involved in world blood baths. [More…]
He said that we should not export our natural gas; that we should conserve it and keep it for the energy needs of this nation. [More…]
Former governments exported our natural gas. [More…]
When one pauses for a moment to find out how such companies obtain these resources - how great graticular blocks were made available to them to search for flow oil and natural gas in Bass Strait - it is no wonder that legislation of the kind contained in the Petroleum and Minerals Authority Bill 1973 which we are debating at present should be brought forward. [More…]
This amount was expended by the exploration companies in the search for oil and natural gas. [More…]
This Bureau has indeed made a tremendous contribution to the assistance given in a variety of ways to finding natural gas. [More…]
This tremendous effort by a country which is devoid or short of all natural resources ought to be a lesson to us in what we ought to be doing. [More…]
When Esso and Shell were able to find great fields of natural gas in the North Sea in areas adjacent to the Netherlands, the Dutch Government very promptly came in and said: ‘Very well. [More…]
By retaining 10 per cent equity in the venture the Dutch Government was able to provide natural gas to depressed areas and to make it available for the development of industry and the stimulation of production. [More…]
Yet we, with these great reserves of natural gas, with oil to be found and with the minerals available in our country, are hesitant and are not proceeding as we should. [More…]
A Bill substantially the same as this was introduced into the Parliament by the previous Government in April 1971, along with a Bill to amend the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968. [More…]
Cancellation of a licence for contravention of a condition, or if the holder has been convicted of an offence against this Act, the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act or a State or Territory fisheries law, is provided for in clause 7. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend certain of the machinery provisions of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act to ensure more effective administration of the legislation and, in conjunction with amendments proposed in the Fisheries Bill which I have just introduced, to bring the principles embodied in the two Acts into uniformity. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, the main purpose of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act is to enable the fullest possible protection to be given to the living resources of the continental shelf of Australia including the Great Barrier Reef and the external territories. [More…]
When I was making my second reading speech on the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill, it crossed my mind that the reference to the Minister of State for External Territories was incorrect. [More…]
By way of explanation, at the time when the Bill was introduced into the Parliament there was a Minister for External Territories, and the reference in the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Bill to the Minister for External Territories has already been adjusted by the necessary order of the Governor-General under section 19b of the Acts Interpretation Act. [More…]
The present Administrative Arrangements Order provides that the Special Minister of State shall administer the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act with respect to the external territories of Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island and that the Minister for Foreign Affairs will administer the Act so far as it relates to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He has gone on to study at night school and has reached a high level of clerical ability through examination and through his own natural ability, yet he is not able to return to the Public Service. [More…]
Firstly I sent him a copy of Hansard dated 28 September 1972 when Sir Reginald Swartz, then the Minister for National Development, asked leave to make a ministerial statement on Australia’s natural resources of minerals, forest, water and energy. [More…]
We expect this change to occur in natural reaction to the Government’s 80 per cent Civil Aviation Cost Recovery Programme which was announced at the time of presenting the 1973 Budget. [More…]
What proportion of Australia’s energy requirements is met by (a) petrol, (b) natural gas, (c) diesel oil, (d) coal, (e) hydro-electric power and (f) other sources. [More…]
Natural Gas and Petroleum Products (QuestionNo.1424) [More…]
What has been the cost to Australia of importing (a) oil, (b) natural gas and (c) refined petroleum products in each of the years 1963 to 1973 inclusive. [More…]
What revenue has been gained by Australia from the export of (a) oil, (b) natural gas and (c) refined petroleum products in each of the same years. [More…]
and (2) There have been no commercial imports into, or exports of natural gas from Australia. [More…]
It is reviewing the whole national approach to the handling of natural disasters. [More…]
The recently-established Pipeline Authority is closely co-operating with the companies concerned in the planned early development of natural gas discoveries on the North West Continental Shelf. [More…]
Viewed as a whole, the assistance that has been and is being provided by the Australian Government is far more extensive and far more liberal than on any previous occasion and we are of course also taking other important steps to help to mitigate the effects of future natural disasters. [More…]
This is the greatest natural disaster ever to hit northern Queensland, which is the most important breeding area of Australia. [More…]
Did the grants include money for the State Government, local councils, the National Trust and the Esperance Bay Historical Society to preserve buildings and valuable natural areas? [More…]
So there is a natural cleavage here between one school that thinks there should be fiscal honesty and that money and funds for paying for these things should be collected - in other words, the purchasing power should be destroyed to make room for the Government - and the other school that says: ‘Do not worry about all this: Just leave taxation where it is and hope for the best.’ [More…]
It- that is, the Government- is reviewing the whole national approach to the handling of natural disasters. [More…]
The Queen indicated in her Speech that the Government was reviewing the whole national approach to the handling of natural disasters. [More…]
I agree with my colleagues opposite that the national Government is the only government that can handle the type of insurance that is necessary to safeguard people against natural disasters such as cyclones, hurricanes or even times of drought. [More…]
It is amazing that people can see as the only answer to natural disasters a form of insurance controlled by the national government when in the field of health they do not recognise the need for a national scheme controlled by the national government. [More…]
The Government is pushing ahead with the establishment of the National Pipeline Authority so that no advantage will be taken by individual companies, many of which are overseas owned, in the sale of fuel - particularly natural gas - to industries and individual users throughout Australia. [More…]
That started in 1972 and was a result of natural circumstances. [More…]
It has also commissioned 5 in-depth studies of various problems that must be solved if the vast increase in population is to be absorbed smoothly with minimal dislocation of the natural beauty and present communities. [More…]
It is difficult, as the Constitution stands at the moment, for the Australian Government to play a direct, immediate role in the organisation of natural disaster relief. [More…]
Also, in actual practice, of course, the Australian Government must pick up all but the first million dollars or so - I think it is $5m in the case of New South Wales and $2m in the case of Queensland - of the expenditure on natural disaster relief in any one financial year. [More…]
I know it is a matter which naturally concerns him because he represents so large a part of the Queensland coastline which is regularly subjected to storms and consequent erosion. [More…]
The Minister is making the arrangements for this natural disaster organisation to be on a contemporary basis largely to provide that what used to be the Civil Defence Organisation should be concerned not primarily or solely with the possible consequences of nuclear attack but also the certain consequences of recurrent natural disasters. [More…]
Perhaps I might add on this matter that in answer to the question by the honourable member for Moreton I mentioned that I would place in the Library the material which the Treasury had collected on natural disaster relief schemes or funds over the last 6i years since I first raised the matter. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that in addition to the measures that I have mentioned the present Government has also successfully and effectively established the Prices Justification Tribunal which everybody acknowledges and concedes has some regulatory and slowing down effect in the natural trend to inflation. [More…]
Incidentally, what happened to his proposal about a natural resources cartel of the world - a restrictive trade practice which could only beget a reaction from the user countries? [More…]
I believe that that is a natural conclusion that many of us must draw from the product of the journeys of the Prime Minister - that he is taking us away from what was an involvement in a region to an area which was a more complete commitment in Australia as far as our whole economic, social and defence policies are concerned. [More…]
We have a well developed industrial base, abundant natural resources and a highly educated population. [More…]
The parents wanted their son with them, particularly the mother, and this was very natural. [More…]
Will the Minister for Minerals and Energy confirm a recent report in the ‘West Australian’ that he has agreed that natural gas from the north-west shelf will not now be piped to the Palm Valley gas field in the Northern Territory but to the southwest and goldfields of Western Australia? [More…]
Should we curtail expenditure on the national estate which is designed to overcome the problems caused by the bulldozer mentality of the past which permitted historic buildings and areas of great natural beauty to be destroyed? [More…]
How easy it is for the woolly thinking involved in this report to become so confused that it ends up in a single paragraph contradicting itself in this way on this fundamental issue: Should we preserve our natural resources for the benefit of this nation, or should we sell them willy-nilly through companies owned by overseas interests to overseas countries? [More…]
The Queen also mentioned the plans of the Government to set up a pipeline authority which will ensure that Australia’s natural resources, including natural gas, will be utilised to the best of Australia’s ability. [More…]
So immense are the continent’s natural resources, and so well geared to their development appear to be the skills and energies of the people, that the next 2 decades could well be a period of expansion more vigorous than the two that have passed. [More…]
A country with the great natural resources that Australia has should be able to give a lead to the world in how to control inflation, at least insofar as domestic policy is concerned. [More…]
We support the expansion of international trade because international trade allows us to make the most of our natural advantages in the areas of mining and rural products as well as in secondary industry and primary industry. [More…]
It is only natural that the primary production situation will be better when good rains fall, but that has nothing to do with the actions of the Government. [More…]
I tried to point out in this House the consequence and cost of that action to the roads and drainage of Kilcoy Shire, the tremendous and natural concern of the people of Kilcoy and surrounding areas, and the possibility of a huge magnification of the disaster if that gamble - it was a gamble - had not paid off. [More…]
For the purposes of this study, Western Tasmania is being used as a natural laboratory in which detailed comparisons will be made of the geological information obtained from ERTS and that provided by conventional field mapping techniques. [More…]
Were any of the following measures of the present Government introduced in order to encourage private exploration for petroleum products:(a) the termination of the oil-search subsidy, (b) the removal of taxation deductions for subscriptions to the shares of companies engaged in oil search, (c) the ban on farm-ins by overseas companies, (d) the imposition of the requirement to deposit, firstly, 25 per cent and, subsequently, 331/3 per cent of overseas funds entering the country with the Reserve Bank, (e) the decision to acquire natural gas at the wellhead and resell it at uniform prices throughout Australia and (f) the ending of tax-free status for dividends paid from income derived from the sale of petroleum products. [More…]
The future of business under a Labor Government lies in the direction of more efficient production, more rational allocation of resources, concentration on our natural advantages and increasing our competitiveness vis-a-vis overseas producers. [More…]
Yet this Government seems to treat inflation as though it does not matter, as though it is a natural phenomenon with which we have to live and as though it is endemic all over the world. [More…]
Our view, of course, is one of deep psychological difference with the socialists on the treasury bench - we realise that the greatest safeguard against any ‘ism’ in this country is to have a high percentage of home ownership which develops as a natural pride in one’s own little bit of Australia. [More…]
I hope that the standard of the debate will be maintained notwithstanding the natural interjections from those who have been hurt by recent events. [More…]
These include $9m for pre-school and child care centres; $1.7m for health services, of which $0.5m is for blood transfusion services and $0.7m for the school dental scheme; $lm for grants to the apple and pear and canning fruit industries; and $l.lm for assistance in relation to natural disasters in previous years. [More…]
The establishment of an institute seems to be a natural progression from the establishment of the Office of Parliamentary Counsel for which the former Attorney-General, Tom Hughes, was responsible. [More…]
Tourism does not deplete natural resources and, properly administered, can reinforce the desirability and importance of conservation in Australia. [More…]
Phillip Island is also a nesting place for tens of thousands of shearwaters, a natural habitat for koalas, a breeding ground for seals and an attractive resort area with magnificent beaches. [More…]
I say that purely on the basis of the many geographical and therefore natural beauties of the continent, the bustle of the cities, the wide expanses of the finest beaches in the world, the unique flora and fauna, the deserts and semi-arid areas and for contrast the wonderland of the coastal areas with the ever-changing panorama of bays, coves, rivers and cliffs. [More…]
Relying on my own experience, having seen coral reefs in other parts of the world and having seen parts of the Great Barrier Reef, I can assure the honourable members of this House that no attraction anywhere in the world is as fine, as attractive or as natural as the Australian Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
It is a situation that should not be allowed to continue by those of us who believe in the greatness of the Australian continent, who believe in the attractions of the natural climate and the endearments of Australia. [More…]
We have the natural resources and the beaches and I have no fears for the tourist industry there. [More…]
We could put forward an argument for Tasmania on the ground that probably the greatest asset it has is its scenery, its attractions and its natural beauty. [More…]
But people who have been there and to whom I have spoken have informed me that Hawaii does not compare with the natural attractions in Australia. [More…]
My point is that if proper tourist facilities and good accommodation are provided, Australia has the natural scenery to attract tourists. [More…]
There is an increasing pre-occupation with what I describe as participatory tourism - a genuine interest in other life styles, a concern not only to see but also to understand and to appreciate different peoples, different places and natural phenomena. [More…]
The difficulties that have emerged have come out of the very natural desire that Papua New Guinea has had to see its fishing responsibilities extended into a viable commercial arena. [More…]
I think it is important that we recognise that a great deal needs to be done for a country like Papua New Guinea, as for Australia, to ensure that there is adequate knowledge of what the fish, sea and ocean resources might be before the full advantages of this other form of natural resource can be exploited. [More…]
There has been a withdrawal of any subsidy, of any encouragement to people to take this high risk adventure in exploring for natural resources. [More…]
We would restore private enterprise as the driving force to develop Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
We do not want to pursue the course by which Australia will inevitably be converted into a socialist country, finding its natural allies in the uncommitted third world of socialist countries. [More…]
We will tell the people that we cannot, as a nation, continue our maltreatment of the natural environment; that in damaging the environment we are damaging our capacity to keep a kind of living that we believe the Australian people deserve. [More…]
We know the figures for the vital energy resources of Australia - oil and natural gas - which resulted from the Opposition’s deliberate policies which were designed to achieve, in the end, overseas control of them. [More…]
Laboratory testing and evaluation of natural or processed building materials, building components or methods of construction; [More…]
The proposed boundary is the most natural geographical basis for the division and will produce almost no confusion on the part of the people of Canberra as to which division they belong in. [More…]
The functions of the Petroleum and Minerals Authority will be to explore for and develop our petroleum and mineral resources and to assist in implementing the Government’s policy of promoting Australian owner ship and control of our natural resources and resource industries. [More…]
My information is that the major resource on the continental shelf is natural gas. [More…]
It can be argued that Clause 9 of the Bill limits the performance of the authority’s functions to various specified places and matters, e.g., in a territory; in relation to the natural resources of the submarine areas of the Australian land mass; for purposes facilitating territorial, interstate and overseas trade; for the purposes of defence; and finally, any associated areas. [More…]
The Authority can go to the north-west shelf in my own State and put down production wells on all those natural gas fields which have been discovered by Woodside-Burmah. [More…]
As the Minister for Minerals and Energy (Mr Connor) has said, the main purpose of the Bill is to explore for and develop our petroleum and mineral resources and to assist in implementing the Government’s policy of promoting Australian ownership and control of our natural resources and resource industries. [More…]
We have no intention of leaving the exploitation of Australia’s rich natural resources and energy alone to a handful of giant private corporations. [More…]
The Government welcomed offers from insurance organisations to discuss the inclusion of cover for natural disasters in housing insurance policies. [More…]
Officers of my Department will take up with representatives of the banks, insurance companies and other financial corporations that provide finance for housing the question of their lending policies and insurance cover in relation to houses constructed in areas affected by natural disasters. [More…]
An examination will also be made of questions relating to insurance of crops and livestock against natural disasters. [More…]
The natural market forces would drive inflation under this Government to 18 per cent a year. [More…]
This urgency matter arose in the most innocent and natural way last week when people who had been involved in meetings with the Minister’s advisers in recent days were listening over the air to the proceedings of this House and happened to hear the Minister say certain things. [More…]
Mr Deputy Speaker, it was a most natural slip, and I apologise. [More…]
Offers from insurance companies to discuss the inclusion of cover for natural disasters is most welcome - indeed, overdue. [More…]
It is very natural that during the emotionalism of the tragedy that followed, the most difficult thing for anybody to do, particularly those affected, was to sit down and discuss the essential question of how we can avoid or lessen future devastations of this kind. [More…]
As honourable members know, the Australian Government, in conjunction with State governments, is in the process of setting up a natural disaster organisation to rethink our entire operations in times of such emergencies. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development and Minister for the Northern Territory correctly made the point that this is the most generous program of assistance that has ever been given to the relief of a natural disaster in the history of Australia. [More…]
The floods of 1974 will leave for many years to come a trail of loss, heartbreak, devastation and, I believe, a reminder to governments, present and in the future, of their responsibilities to do more to meet the problems of natural disaster. [More…]
I do not think it can be envisaged that complete compensation could be provided for natural disasters of any kind, but some reasonable cover should be provided to ensure that losses do not affect too greatly the viability of individuals or enterprises. [More…]
The Government is continuing to develop, in co-operation with the State Governments, an organisation to deal with natural disasters. [More…]
Under the direction of the Minister for Defence, my Government is creating the most effective, mobile and professional defence force in Australia’s peace-time history: The Services are also being equipped to play a greater role in case of emergencies and natural disasters within Australia. [More…]
The functions of this Authority will be to explore for and develop our petroleum and mineral resources, and to assist in implementing the Government’s policy of promoting maximum Australian ownership and control of our natural resources and resource industries. [More…]
Honourable members will realise the significance of the role of the Australian transcontinental natural gas pipeline which can raise Australia’s usage of natural gas as a fuel, in substitution for this imported crude oil, from 6 per cent to the industrialised world average of 21 per cent. [More…]
Throughout the world today the major nations, and above all the multinational oil companies, are realising the inter-relationship of crude oil, black and brown coal, natural gas and its hydrocarbon liquids. [More…]
With this expose of world energy pricing, honourable members will clearly understand the implacable resolve of the first truly independent Australian national Government to promote and protect Australian ownership and control of our natural energy and mineral resources. [More…]
It is a disgrace that the natural resources of this nation are substantially controlled by overseas interests. [More…]
The Opposition parties, when they were in government, facilitated in every way the opportunities for foreign interests to dominate the exploration for and the exploitation of our natural resources, without serious thought of any obligation on their part to preserve the national identity. [More…]
The project has been developed with careful consideration for the protection and enhancement of the natural environment. [More…]
Measures designed to protect the natural environment will include a soil conservation program to reduce erosion in the catchment area and sediment deposit in Lake Burley Griffin; the preservation of permanent geological features including the London Bridge; a natural limestone bridge over Burra Creek which is a geological feature with tourist potential; and the undergrounding of pipelines. [More…]
Can the Minister tell us whether it is the Government’s intention to extend a spur line to bring natural gas to the Australian Capital Territory from the proposed pipeline which will pass very near the Australian Capital Territory in the vicinity of Gunning? [More…]
In the AIDC they provide an organisation which can do no more than co-ordinate large private investment projects or encourage smaller ones to influence them in the direction of Australian ownership and to assist manufacture, processing treatment, transportation or distribution of goods, or the development or use of natural resources or technology. [More…]
The maximum penalty the court will be able to determine will be $250,000 in the case of a corporation and $50,000 in the case of a natural person. [More…]
We need the Government involved in alleviating or circumventing the effects of natural disasters and growers’ unstable incomes. [More…]
Whether brought about by deliberate acts of government or as a consequence of natural processes of adjustment, the economic forces which mould our country’s development and are essential for its long term prosperity may, in the short run, dislocate the working lives of Australians. [More…]
The location siting and architectural treatment of both the pumping station and treat ment works are such that, while still being compatible with engineering requirements, they will blend into the natural surroundings of the area and with careful landscaping are expected to be suitably unobtrusive. [More…]
The program I have outlined represents the Australian Government’s contribution aimed at encouraging natural adjustment already under way within the industry. [More…]
environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order to ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources, and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
As I mentioned, the high level of industrial friction that we are trying to avoid has been exacerbated by dissension over wage increases as a natural response to crippling inflation and taxation, largely brought about by the incompetent economic policies of this Government and its inability to handle them. [More…]
It is no good the Minister for Labor and Immigration saying, as he did in a speech in June, that industrial conflict is a natural consequence of our economic system. [More…]
It may be a natural consequence of the economic policies of the Government. [More…]
It is vital, if we are not to lose some of our accessible natural assets in Port Phillip Bay and its beaches, that sewerage and environmental conservation programs continue to receive substantial financial assistance from the Australian Government. [More…]
Because of their remoteness from this area honourable members may be unaware of the impact of a timber milling industry in an otherwise natural environment. [More…]
The Seas and Submerged Lands Act 1973 is the subject of challenge in the High Court and if the Commonwealth’s position is upheld it would be a natural and logical consequence to provide the means to carry out this new responsibility effectively. [More…]
Obviously as such it would have little immediate applicability to resources in the off-shore areas which in the Australian circumstances are largely confined to natural gas and petroleum. [More…]
Although a broadening of the range of financial intermediaries is no doubt largely a consequence of natural development, the exercise of direct control over some part of the financial system obviously encourages, after a time, a shift towards areas not subject to direct control. [More…]
I suppose the opposition of the Liberal Party at the time was the natural human fear of change. [More…]
Now in such a state of affairs, it would appear natural to endeavour to establish the Courts of justice as independent organs which were neither Commonwealth nor State. [More…]
There is a natural question mark upon a person who previously worked at the Brisbane Trades Hall and later became a private and confidential secretary to an ALP Federal member of Parliament. [More…]
They would enable investment in goods transport and distribution and also would promote the develop ment and use of natural resources and technology. [More…]
In my opinion, although this legislation is only part of it, the Bill is necessary to enable us to organise our resources so that we do not always have to look to foreign risk capital to encourage the development of our own natural resources or to assist in other development projects where money may be scarce. [More…]
The function of that Bank was to mobilise funds in order to enable Australians and Australian business to develop large scale Australian natural resources and Australian industry. [More…]
To facilitate and encourage the establishment, development and advancement of Australian industries concerned with the manufacture, processing, treatment, transportation or distribution of goods, or the development or use of natural resources . [More…]
Australia’s energy requirements are met to the extent of only 6 per cent by the use of natural gas. [More…]
If we increase the consumption of natural gas as we propose by IS per cent, in terms of our total fuel requirements we will save $200m a year. [More…]
It is required specifically to take into account the following factors: The situation in countries to which Australia is linked through migration, trade, political affairs or geography; contemporary population theories and their economic, social and ecological implications; the natural growth potential of Australia’s population, variations in rates and patterns betwen different parts of the Commonwealth, and the influence of internal and external migration. [More…]
As we all know, Australia is an extremely large continent with great natural resources, a high standard of living and a small population. [More…]
Some of the countries in these areas are not very large, have not great natural resources, and in many cases have standards of living considerably below ours and in some cases have considerable problems of population pressure. [More…]
What I have continually stated, both in writing and in speech, is that over the past 23 years Australia’s growth in population has been 1.9 per cent - that is, 1.1 per cent natural growth and 0.8 per- cent growth from immigration. [More…]
I have advocated that we should work towards a 1 per cent increase in population which will include both immigration and natural growth. [More…]
A system of prices justification has important implications for the allocation of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
Naturally, resource allocation policy covers a much wider range than merely prices justification or trade practices policy. [More…]
At the present time we are examining a project by which we can arrange for its transportation by rail tanker, because it will be a considerable time - at least 2 years - before natural gas will be available in New South Wales. [More…]
1 am sorry if I caused you any anxiety, Mr Speaker, but I think that mine was the natural reaction of any honourable member who was being deliberately provoked by dishonest statements. [More…]
I present, pursuant to an undertaking given by me to the honourable member for Bradfield (Mr Connolly), the minutes, dated 30 June 1972, from Dr W. T. McFadyen of my Department, of an interview with Sir William Pettingell relative to Palm Valley natural gas. [More…]
He would insist on very careful scrutiny of any proposal which could result in the destruction of communities, and areas of natural beauty, when considering road construction under any new agreement. [More…]
The process in the past, I suspect, was initiated by the natural tendency for every person to accept his own judgment first. [More…]
-There are enough natural feathered galahs in the Northern Territory without you adding to their number; members opposite do not need to add to their number. [More…]
Thirdly, and perhaps most importantly, the blanket condemnation of the scheme produced- as a reasonably natural reaction- a blanket defence of it. [More…]
The problems we have seen in so many other places are natural human problems that exist when there is no restraint on the use that is made of the services which people demand because they pay 1.35, 2 or 10 per cent, or whatever percentage of their taxable income is needed. [More…]
This legislation proposes the creation of a Petroleum and Minerals Authority whose functions will be to explore for, and to develop, Australia’s petroleum and mineral resources, and to assist in implementing the Government’s policies of promoting Australian ownership and control of our natural resources and resource industries. [More…]
In today’s world, the ever growing energy crisis highlights the world reliance on oil and natural gas for energy needs. [More…]
It is in no small measure due to the quadrupling of oil prices that a threat is posed to the economic viability and foreign exchange reserves of some of the world’s major industrial powers, which have complacently relied on unlimited cheap oil imports, and have ignored research and development of alternative energy sources, such as natural gas, coal, and ultimately uranium and solar energy. [More…]
Energy can, of course, be derived from sources other than oil and natural gas. [More…]
Petroleum equivalent derivatives can be obtained from the hydrogenation of coal, from natural gas and its liquids. [More…]
Other provisions in the Bill are designed specifically to promote Australian ownership and control of our natural resources, by requiring the Authority to assist weaker mining undertakings to get off the ground, and achieve cash-flow, thereby helping them to remain Australian, and saving them from falling into foreign hands. [More…]
The specific cases are uranium, crude oil, natural gas and black coal. [More…]
In the case of crude oil and natural gas it well exceeds 70 per cent. [More…]
There is only IS per cent Australian equity in the consortium holding off-shore exploration rights on the North West Continental Shelf of Western Australia, where 142,000 square miles of one of the world ‘s largest potential natural gas areas are held by it- an area beyond the full capacity of even the largest company to intensively explore. [More…]
The normal pattern operating in so many comparable countries will be observed by a partnership between the national Government providing natural resources and experienced explorers providing the risk capital, technology and expertise. [More…]
It is a matter for serious national concern that we are confronted with a situation such as now exists in relation to Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
The Australian Government and the State governments already have complete control and complete ownership of the natural resources of this country. [More…]
This is natural and inevitable and government authorities have to treat with the companies in the same terms. [More…]
Firstly, it will expand the search for, and facilitate the development of the nation’s resources of hydrocarbons, especially crude oil, and natural gas and the integration of the use of the hydrocarbons including coal. [More…]
This Bill which has raised so much opposition from the Liberal and Country Parties is designed so that we may explore and develop the petroleum and mineral resources in Australia and to permit the maximum ownership and control of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
In the case of natural gas we have instituted since we have been in office a national pipeline grid which will supply people across the nation. [More…]
Our natural resources are not the exclusive preserve of State governments whose responsibility is limited by geographical boundaries which were fixed by imperial legislators 2 centuries ago. [More…]
Therefore they find themselves turning to overseas companies, which thereby secure an interest in our natural resources. [More…]
The essential issue is what return are the Australian people going to obtain from the exploitation of the country’s own natural resources? [More…]
This country has oil and natural gas which provides approximately SO per cent of our energy. [More…]
In addition to this we have natural oil which supplies some 70 per cent of our needs. [More…]
At the current rate of consumption our natural gas resources will probably last for the next 30 years plus. [More…]
Those countries are not worried about government participation in natural gas and oil projects but members opposite fear it because they believe it will take profits away from their friends. [More…]
All natural resources are the gift of God; private ownership of them is against natural and public interest. [More…]
A new defence is provided in clause 85 for a natural person- but not for a corporationwhere the person acted honestly and reasonably and in the court’s view ought fairly to be excused. [More…]
We accept that progress must come, but there is no reason why progress must be ugly and must obstruct the natural advantage and development of Australian people. [More…]
) I ha ve responded to the Shire along the lines indicated above, referring also to the arrangements for providing financial assistance in the event of natural disasters such as the recent floods in Victoria. [More…]
It made him the natural and respected spokesman of the emerging community of Pacific potions- a community whose needs and aspirations, he understood better than any other leader in the world. [More…]
It looks as though there is plenty of natural gas for the foreseeable future. [More…]
-I had such a close attraction to them in my former days that it is a natural human reaction. [More…]
The National Estate report not only recognises the need for the preservation of historic buildings and things like the Chinese joss house that was mentioned in the Minister’s speech, but also the natural environment. [More…]
To protect and conserve the natural environment requires conservation to be part of the normal planning and development process. [More…]
We recommend: that the Australian Government seek to ensure as far as possible that land-uses are planned and decided in harmony with natural forces and conditions and not against them. [More…]
We are one of the last developed nations to have a large part of our environment left virtually in its natural state and it is up to all men and women, not just the socialists, to preserve as much of it as is economically and socially possible. [More…]
The Department of Manufacturing Industry keeps, as is natural, an extremely close watch on developments in this ever-changing world, particularly where international trade, the patterns that emerge on textile and apparel imports, and the impact of imports in Australian industry are concerned. [More…]
In determining the procedures to be adopted to cope with these contingencies Departments have expert technical advice available to them on request from the Australian Fire Board in respect of fire protection and prevention and from the Natural Disasters Organisation in respect of civil emergencies whether arising from fire, earthquake, flood, building collapse or other hazard. [More…]
The Australian Government has taken a leading role in preparedness for civil emergencies by the establishment of a Natural Disasters Organisation which will provide an adequate organisation to deal with natural disasters at a national level and, in consultation with the States, will assist in the strengthening of their capacity to cope with emergencies. [More…]
It was natural that the dismantling of the antenna should cause concern. [More…]
The form and level of Australian Government assistance in the event of future natural disasters will be determined in the light of the circumstances that obtain at the time of any disaster. [More…]
Requests for Australian Government assistance will be co-ordinated by the recently established Natural Disasters Organisation through its National Emergency Operations Centre. [More…]
It is also a by-product of the process of refining natural gas. [More…]
At present, the level of market demands for major petroleum products determines the volume of natural gas production and the composition of refinery output. [More…]
If it cannot be exported and it cannot be held in bulk storage, I imagine that the only alternative would be to pump the excess back into the natural reservoirs. [More…]
Urbanisation causes another important change in the natural condition of creeks. [More…]
If the trends continue, in less than 20 years the number of houses in the Dandenongs will have trebled and impossible demand will be placed upon natural waterways. [More…]
If we provide services in the Dandenongs and if we provide sewerage facilities of a fullscale nature, it is only natural that the people who are seeking the full services of the quality of urban life will gravitate to the Dandenongs and we will see over- urbanisation to the consequent damage of the unique character of that area. [More…]
1 ) Following reports of extensive flooding in Victoria, including Seymour, I reiterated in a telex to the Premier of Victoria on 16 May last my Government’s offer of financial assistance in the event of natural disasters as I had outlined in a letter to all State Premiers on 27 February 1974. [More…]
Under the natural disaster relief arrangements, the Australian Government also meets the entire cost to the State Government of approved rehabilitation and restoration measures for natural disasters in Victoria above a base annual cost of $3. [More…]
What is the relative heating value of appliances using LPG and natural gas respectively. [More…]
The answer to the right honourable member’s question is as follows: ( 1 ), (2) and (3 ) The method of distribution of natural gas in the Australian Capital Territory and the areas to be served have not yet been determined. [More…]
The heating capacity of appliances converted from the use of LPG to the use of natural gas would generally be unchanged even though the heat output of a given volume of LPG is greater than the same volume of natural gas. [More…]
Now that the period of demand inflation has passed and cost push inflation has arrived as a natural aftermath, we are prepared to be flexible and vary our policies and, where necessary, reverse them. [More…]
Conflict might be natural and healthy, but in the interests of the entire community it must be resolved in a way and for a duration which produces stability without stagnation. [More…]
That is a natural thing with the media. [More…]
Bass Strait, in spite of its oil and natural gas supplies, really is the Achilles heel of our State and has proved to be so through the years. [More…]
Australia at present is dependent to the extent of only about 7 per cent on natural gas as an energy source. [More…]
More recently, as a natural consequence of the advance and the development of modern techniques, a great impetus has been given to the breeding capacity, the efficiency and the general growth of the cattle industry in the Gulf and near Gulf areas. [More…]
Also they would give access to land which could be used for reafforestation, and goodness knows we have neglected this aspect of our natural resources long enough. [More…]
It is only natural that the wealth of that State will decline if there is no incentive or encouragement for people to invest in the development of those industries. [More…]
The second is the limited natural resources of that State. [More…]
In addition, Tasmania enjoys high quality timber resources, good natural harvests and a stable work force. [More…]
There are many natural resources. [More…]
He forbids exports of natural gas. [More…]
The Minister talked earlier of meeting an increased percentage of our energy demands from natural gas. [More…]
What about his proposals for converting natural gas into hydrocarbon liquids? [More…]
Off the Northwest Shelf the Woodside-Burmah consortium waits and waits for a decision on its natural gas. [More…]
Honourable members will be aware of worldwide concern for the conservation of wildlife and of places of natural, scenic, scientific and recreational significance. [More…]
Everywhere the natural systems which evolved with man and of which he is part are under threat. [More…]
Over 100 nations have taken action for the permanent reservation of natural areas to represent the range of landscapes and ecosystems within their boundaries, and to protect thenunique wildlife resources. [More…]
In conclusion I would like to say that this action accords with the sentiments of the Australian Labor Party platform where it is recognised that ‘man lives within and depends upon a complex natural system which must be protected and managed as a whole’. [More…]
The advance of agricultural pursuits and the expansion of cities and their industries have been the cause of much of the natural habitat of Australia’s native flora and fauna being severely reduced and in some cases lost completely. [More…]
Our natural heritage should be fostered and our natural landscapes protected for the sake of social, cultural, educational and scientific purposes as well as for Australia ‘s future tourist potential. [More…]
By offering all of those groups sufficient information and, even enticement, to make them discover their own country, I feel there is a place within tourism for those who do not want to be run off their feet, who do not want to get in a Pioneer bus- that is not a plug for them- but who just want to sit down and enjoy the natural beauty which this country possesses. [More…]
He spoke of the great scenic attractions and the natural geographic attractions. [More…]
There will also need to be provided one-week and 2-week trips such as to the Centre, to the Great Barrier Reef and to the other internationally known natural and geographic features. [More…]
We need to escape to our more primordial surroundings, our environment, and to imbibe something more natural than the artificial life we have created in the cities and the suburbs. [More…]
I turn now to payments for natural disasters. [More…]
It will destroy their dignity, their hopes, their aspirations and their natural desires for the social justice about which this Labor Government preaches but which in effect it denies. [More…]
We have high productivity, vast natural resources and a great capacity to expand. [More…]
I would start with the natural gas pipeline. [More…]
It would seem to me from an examination of the nitrogenous fertiliser situation in Australia that there is plenty of capacity to produce nitrogen here because the main basis of nitrogenous fertiliser is ammonia which is manufactured from reforming natural gas naphtha, or refinery gases.. [More…]
Firstly, during May storms lashed the east coast of Australia, causing many hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of damage to all sorts of facilities, both natural and man-made. [More…]
Workers ‘ Compensation insurance poses special problems for the insurance industry due to the natural desire of governments to increase compensation rates in response to increasing community wage levels. [More…]
The history of natural gas on the northwest shelf is one of frustration and delay caused by the Minister’s inability to come forward with a firm policy. [More…]
We would seek to encourage the development of our natural resources for the nation’s benefit within the federal framework rather than resorting to the Government’s tactics of trying to destroy that framework. [More…]
He said that in addition to quite substantial reserves of crude oil there were major reserves of natural gas, even greater reserves of coal and of course uranium in abundance. [More…]
In oil research and exploration our policy should seek to reduce waste through a conservation program and to stimulate the development of domestic energy resources, accelerating the development of oil and natural gas and the boosting of coal production. [More…]
The conversion of the liquids associated with natural gas are of the utmost importance to Australia’s future supplies of motor spirit and other petroleum derivatives. [More…]
The natural question which arises from that set of circumstances is: Why should that happen? [More…]
Has the Minister noted the comments made in Melbourne earlier this week by the President of the International Gas Union, Mr Clark, to the effect that using natural gas to fuel power stations, as is proposed by the Victorian Government for the projected Newport power house, is a wasteful practice and justifiable only in the early years of development of a natural gas field? [More…]
If so, can the Minister say whether the Australian Government is able to take any action to prevent the Victorian Government fuelling any future power stations with natural gas? [More…]
Quite frankly, natural gas is a high premium fuel. [More…]
It is a matter for regret that in a State such as Victoria, where an outstanding job is being done in the utilisation of its brown coal reserves- mark you, that utilisation was carried out under the auspices of a State government without the intervention of private enterprisethe State should, for some reason best known to itself, turn to the use on a major scale of natural gas for the generation of electricity. [More…]
While I am speaking I shall digress to make reference also the grandiose schemes for the reduction of iron ore in Western Australia by the utilisation of natural gas. [More…]
Natural gas has its use- a very real one- not only for domestic purposes but for general industry as well. [More…]
In Australia, where our imports of crude oil will have risen in cost to between $680m and $750m this year, it is essential that natural gas should be utilised very carefully and specifically for the purpose of improving our energy usage by from 7 per cent to 21 per cent. [More…]
Does the Minister agree that weather forecasts broadcast from radio stations and those issued for aircraft and marine operations play a most valuable role in preserving life and property in times of natural disaster and in the safety of the day to day air and sea operations over and around Australia? [More…]
I find that this is not altogether a watertight argument because if one followed it to its natural conclusion one would say that a widower without dependent children should be eligible in the same way as a widow without dependent children. [More…]
This was a natural brake on the activities of our Government when we were in power and it should have been a natural brake on the activities of this new Government in its early months of office. [More…]
I hold the view that our natural highways should be utilised to the maximum extent practicable and would not therefore wish to see Sydney’s ferry services wither away as has happened to so many public transport services. [More…]
We want the people to say what type of seating they want; whether or not they prefer air conditioning or natural ventilation; whether they want more seats per train or more standing room. [More…]
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Question No. [More…]
Has Australia joined the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
Yes, Australia is a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. [More…]
IUCN ‘s aims are to promote international co-operation in applying ecological concepts to the conservation and management of nature and natural resources, and in preserving from disappearance all kinds of animals and plants, their habitats and other natural features of land and landscape. [More…]
It does this with the intention of paying direct attention to the ethical, aesthetic, scientific, educational and economic values of these natural resources and by facilitating the understanding of ecological principles, land capability and biological productivity which is essential for their conservation. [More…]
History will record that at that time the economy was sound and we were firmly established on the threshold of tremendous development in the fields of manufacturing and oil and natural gas fields which would have kept the economy of our nation invigorated for many years. [More…]
Firstly, they could carry certain diseases which could infect our own natural and domestic animals and birds. [More…]
I am not too much of a cynic, but I wonder why those priorities were changed at the expense of the quadruplication of the northern railway line, one which is serving the growth area of Gosford-Wyong, as against any growth area that I am aware of west of Sydney other than an area of natural growth. [More…]
It could be simply a natural response by conscientious citizens to what I might term blind bloody-mindedness. [More…]
It would be a wise man indeed who would assign at the present time a value to natural gas to be produced on the North West Shelf. [More…]
As for the ultimate determination of what will be the price of natural gas which will not be produced until 1978, at the proper time and by proper methods we will give the necessary indications. [More…]
In my second reading speech on the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Bill I drew the attention of honourable members to world-wide concern for the conservation of wildlife and of places of natural, scenic, scientific and recreational significance. [More…]
This Government accepts its responsibilities for the conservation of our natural resources. [More…]
Australia is now a member of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and subscribes to the principles laid down by that Union for the conservation of wild fauna and flora. [More…]
We all share a responsibility to conserve for future generations as much of our natural heritage as possible- in terms of both area and diversity. [More…]
It enables the National Government- for the first time- to make a major financial commitment so that future generations will have the chance to see, understand and enjoy the special natural qualities of Australia. [More…]
In short, I regard this Bill as a very significant part of this Government’s response to the growing public awareness of our precious but dwindling natural heritage. [More…]
The building will be constructed of reinforced concrete clad with precast concrete units with glazed panels in positions where natural lighting is required. [More…]
In this regard, we have an obligation not only to Australia, but also to the rest of the world, to see that the natural beauty of the Island and its unique wildlife are preserved for future generations. [More…]
An affirmative answer to that last question seems to have been the natural direction which the common law development itself has been taking and which this Bill seeks to embody by statute. [More…]
For the Government to chide members of the Opposition and to say that members of the Opposition are being obstructionist towards a matter of social significance, and yet in the next breath to allow a totally farcical period of time for a Committee debate on such an important piece of legislation, I think lends weight to the argument that was put forward by my colleague, the honourable member for Mackellar (Mr Wentworth), that indeed the Government is using natural sympathy in the community for the sick and injured as a stalking horse for its Senate plans. [More…]
The Japanese want to buy our natural resources. [More…]
Australian primary industry and the tremendous impetus it gives to our economic life and the great contribution it makes to employment and to the development of our natural resources. [More…]
In my view our agricultural policy should have 3 aims: Firstly, to provide food and natural fibres for Australians; secondly, to provide agricultural commodities for the rest of the world, especially for the underprivileged two-thirds of the world; and thirdly, to provide foreign exchange at minimal cost. [More…]
I feel that much of the planning of the north of Australia- not the sort of planning that results from a minerals discovery or that is the natural corollary of the beef cattle industry- should involve a probing into the quality of life which should produce certain action by this Government. [More…]
It is well recognised that there is a complementarity between the great Bowen basin- one of the largest black coal areas in the world- and the Pilbara region which, of course, has tremendous reserves of natural gas, iron ore, solar salt and other minerals. [More…]
It is quite clear that the future of the Pilbara will depend upon the stripping of natural gas and the establishment of a petro-chemical refinery works. [More…]
There should be a realisation of the natural wealth which exists in Australia and we should not take for example, one particular project and either support or knock it. [More…]
More and more of these properties of the natural gas from the Cooper Basin will be available as the producer companies, mainly Santos Ltd and Delhi Oil Corporation Ltd, in that area move to what I, as a layman, would call wetter wells. [More…]
I also stress the urgency of ensuring that the partiesthe ICI consortium on the one hand, and the producers on the other hand- quickly come to terms on the prices of these products to come from the Cooper Basin natural gas. [More…]
He said his policy is to allow the export of enriched uranium only because this will be worth 5 times as much as natural uranium. [More…]
Australia owes a debt of gratitude to the Minister for Minerals and Energy who succeeded in obtaining increased prices for natural resources exported to Japan. [More…]
In one way this will be a good thing because it seems to be the only possibility for any development of the off-shore natural gas supplies of the North West [More…]
For instance, he did not mention that the present Government is the first Government to pass legislation which will effectively guarantee the sovereignty over the offshore areas of Australia that the Seas and Submerged Lands Act will give to the Australian Parliament if the challenge in the High Court of Australia is rejected as we believe it will be; that the Government introduced the National Pipeline Authority Act, which provides for the setting up of an inter-connected grid to supply all the east coast cities and regional centres of Australia with natural gas from the west of Australia and the north west shelf; that since the Government took office the Minister for Minerals and Energy has improved the price of Australian exports to our major trading partner, Japan; that the Minister for Minerals and Energy secured a 20-odd per cent differential from the major Japanese steel firms when our currency was revalued and that he has since secured by negotiation further price increases in iron ore; that the price of coal to Australian exporters to Japan has increased by 50 per cent in that period; and that the manner in which Australian coal producers were straggling to Japan one after another and being picked off by the Japanese companies and MITT- the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry has ended and that, in short, he has brought rationalisation and common sense to the fastest growing industry in Australia. [More…]
The future of natural gas exports has been grossly complicated by the Minister’s failure to honour his promise to produce an energy budget which would define the extent of any future natural gas exports. [More…]
In respect of hydrocarbons generally and in respect of the North- West Shelf the situation is that a responsible Minister of the Crown, Sir Reginald Swartz, wrote to the WoodsideBurmah company and entreated it at least to disclose the reserves of natural gas it had discovered because he was afraid that even the then 15 per cent Australian equity would be further diluted and the investors of Australia would not know the true position. [More…]
We are certainly not interested in depriving them of royalties; we are not interested in their fisheries rights; we are not interested in the off-shore operations of their civil and criminal codes; but we are very much interested in making sure that, for the first time, there will be really intensive drilling on the North- West Shelf which covers 142,000 square miles and is one of the best and richest resources of natural gas in the world today. [More…]
By the same tokenthis, of course, is conveniently ignored by the Opposition- the yield of liquids, of condensate and liquid petroleum gas from the natural gas which will come from the North- West Shelf will, after proper treatment in a major petro-chemical plant, provide at least half of Australia’s motor spirit and other petroleum derivative requirements. [More…]
He might have added to that also the availability of liquids, particularly of condensate and liquefied petroleum gas associated with natural gas. [More…]
He also made very strong reference to the availability of natural gas in Australia. [More…]
I know that my colleague the honourable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett) has on many occasions in this place fought for unemployment benefits to be granted to farmers who, as a result of natural disasters such as drought and flood, are not receiving any income. [More…]
1) 1974-75 of $475,000 to such bodies as the River Murray Commission for water resources research, the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Service, the United Nations convention and forum for the protection of the world cultural and natural heritage, the Australian Environmental Council and so on. [More…]
One sees in the appropriations for the Department mention made of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources and the contribution to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation ‘s Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage. [More…]
They had the capacity to help to an even greater extent than they did, but it was obvious that the training and equipment that they had was such that they were well capable of playing a part in a natural disaster of that proportion. [More…]
Some coking coal may also be required from Australia, but natural gas and steaming coal from Indonesia’s vast resources could be expected to figure prominently in the fuelling plans. [More…]
Have discussions occurred between officers of his Department and the Department of Minerals and Energy on the availability of natural gas from the North West Shelf gas deposits for industrial use in the Pilbara region; if so, what was the outcome of those discussions. [More…]
The floods of January 1974 created an urgent situation by damaging some levee banks and greatly eroding an existing natural floodwater ‘break-out’, with the result that flooding caused considerable damage to property and crops. [More…]
It is natural that when the Australian Government does take an active interest in the solution of these problems it should take some hand in determining what policies should be developed and should make sure that funds are adequately expended. [More…]
We on this side appreciate the importance of development of our natural resources. [More…]
States like mine are heavily dependent upon the development of natural resources in remote areas like the Pilbara. [More…]
When the Government is prepared to acknowledge that it will see that the greatest economic growth in the shortest time will come from the rapid development of the natural resources with which Western Australia is so well endowed. [More…]
A great deal of attention has been given to separating the perhaps inhospitable paved areas used for car parking from the rather natural, bushlike area surrounding the site at the moment. [More…]
A natural extension of the service is, of course, the provision of a visiting facility which, whilst providing a pleasant interlude for the house-bound patient, would also provide a home inspection to ensure that all was well in other aspects such as linen washing, personal problems and general home maintenance. [More…]
This is natural enough in view of the fact that it has to go through various authorities within its own organisation. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister for Minerals and Energy been drawn to a statement by the Western Australian Government that Perth could face a crisis with its natural gas supplies by 1980? [More…]
I had advice a few weeks ago from the Burmah company, which is the operator of the project, that what oil was there- it is subsidiary only to the natural gas- would not be produced by Burmah. [More…]
As a Government faced with disbursing $640m to import 30 per cent of its oil requirements from overseas I would say we will have at least an equal interest with the Western Australian Government in ensuring that there is the promptest possible supply of natural gas from Dampier to Perth. [More…]
It is unfortunate that it has been named the ‘natural’ rate of unemployment, as it is anything but natural and influenced by all kinds of policies and institutions. [More…]
Today there appeared in the newspapers an advertisement which proudly proclaimed to the whole world that unemployment has been a natural consequence of the attack by the Labor Government on inflation. [More…]
How does the radio-active strength compare in each case with (a) natural background, (b) chest X-rays, (c) teeth X-rays and (d) increased radiation to travellers in aircraft flying at the usual height of approximately 30,000 feet. [More…]
The Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living . [More…]
As a matter of fact, on 9 December a deputation will be coming to Australia from Japan as a natural follow up to the arrangements which we made with the Japanese Prime Minister, Mr Tanaka. [More…]
Certainly the law has discriminated against ex-nuptial children, particularly in areas such as the right to participate in the estate of its natural father or to establish as a right the identity of its father. [More…]
To facilitate a positive attitude on the part of the ex-nuptial child towards his or her natural parents. [More…]
Many suggestions have been made of alternative terms that could be used, terms such as ex-nuptual child, natural child and child of a single mother. [More…]
This is an appropriate time for the Parliament to debate and to pass this motion because there is a growing incidence of natural children who for a variety of reasons are born out of marriage. [More…]
My Leader mentioned the disadvantages that are suffered by children born out of marriage- the Commonwealth Superannuation Act, the property inheritance where ex-nuptial children have to sue and fight to contest their natural rights; the embarrassment that one has to go through in paternity tests; and the housing difficulties encountered by single mothers with children. [More…]
Resistance to change and fear of change are natural attitudes when people cannot see the effects of change on themselves. [More…]
The completion of the works provided for in this Bill will reduce the likelihood of such natural disasters causing the amount of damage that they have caused in the past and will reduce their effect. [More…]
The Government needs to recognise that any efforts which will reduce the severity of natural disasters affect all Australians to some degree, and a reduction of flood frequencies along the Proserpine River through this program deserves a commitment in the national interest. [More…]
Not to allow the State Government to consult with the Commonwealth is to heighten the risk of coming to an ill advised and ill informed decision which could lead to the squandering of public funds and the misuse of our natural resources. [More…]
So it is natural that people should try to find a system of taxing which is fairer. [More…]
Restricting consideration to permanent lakes, the only extensive natural lake land in Australia is that or the Tasmanian central plateau. [More…]
Research in land use and water use should be against the following backgrounds: Firstly, the acceptance of the interaction of the multi-purpose uses of water and land; secondly, the population distribution; and thirdly, regional considerations often determined by river valleys and the natural forces of the terrain, and not State boundaries. [More…]
As the Prime Minister pointed out in his earlier reply, the Australian Government has already given a lead in this area when it established a Natural Disaster Organisation to cope with emergency situations on a national level and to assist the States in maintaining their capacity to cope with local emergencies. [More…]
I am pleased that in many States legislation is being introduced to preserve buildings of value and to enable land to be preserved in its natural, undeveloped state. [More…]
But the natural growth will carry it even further, although the estimate of 5 million people in the city of Melbourne has now been revised. [More…]
The Australian Government is seeking to protect those natural resources upon which the nation’s well-being is founded, in the interests of present and future generations. [More…]
With the completion of this essential first program, the government will then assess its responsibilities in the implementation of a national plan to protect and restore Australia’s soil resources- which is perhaps, along with water, the most vital of all our natural resources. [More…]
We have been able to make some progress in meeting the natural expectations of the farmers involved. [More…]
The LAC report- it has never been challenged in this regard- pointed out that the least protected industries in Australia, the industries which make the more efficient use of Australia’s people and Australia’s natural resources, can afford to pay the higher wages. [More…]
I only hope that the State Government will acknowledge the report, study it and seek cooperation with the Federal Government in finalising a by-pass road which will leave this area of Blackbutt safe as a natural parkland area for the city of Newcastle. [More…]
There is not a shadow of doubt that his natural motivation, shared by most other officers, would lead him to continue to serve his country in the career to which he has devoted his life if he felt that any good purpose would be served, if he felt that the Government believed that defence mattered, if he felt that the Government gave defence any sort of priority and if he felt the Government had the slightest interest in instilling a sense of purpose in national defence. [More…]
It is also reported that there is some increase in meat in cold storage and it is only natural that while overseas buyers can see such huge quantities of livestock coming onto the market they are going to offer a price in accordance with these conditions. [More…]
In addition, there is an obvious need for a requirement that the products found, whether they be natural gas or crude oil, be first made available to the Australian nation. [More…]
If, in our time, we are to conserve the great cultural and natural resources of this Nation, it will demand the combined efforts of Federal, State, and local governments, citizens’ organizations, and individuals. [More…]
The demand for it does not spring from this Government or its platform; it is, I believe, the will of all our people and reflects the growing awareness of all Australians that unless we intervene our technology and material greed will inevitably, although at times imperceptibly, destroy our natural assets. [More…]
This action is needed to protect and develop properly our environment and our natural resources, minimise the pollution of our air, land and water, conserve our flora and fauna, preserve our historic buildings and sites and preserve and create urban and rural landscapes of beauty. [More…]
In a speech such as this one is tempted to be emotive and to express gratification that at last the national Parliament is taking steps towards the preservation of our natural resources. [More…]
The Bill should be seen as a measure of the Government ‘s sincerity and determination to halt the destruction and the disturbance of the natural environment which has taken billions of years to build up. [More…]
A further important feature of the Bill is the extent to which it will safeguard the special needs of Aboriginals whose natural environment has been ruthlessly exploited and destroyed with drastic effects on their culture and security. [More…]
Accordingly the 3 components of the cultural and natural environment forming the National Estate are those which are: [More…]
Traditionally, historically, right across the world there can be no doubt that the national estate of any country includes things of national importance and beauty whether they be man made or natural. [More…]
This Bill simply indicates our areas of concern and what we would like to do in relation to the preservation of our natural resources. [More…]
Subject to sub-section (3), the Director may assist and co-operate with Aboriginals in managing land to which this section applies for the purpose of the protection and conservation of wildlife in that land and the protection of the natural features of that land. [More…]
the Director may assist and co-operate with Aboriginals in managing land to which this section applies for the purpose of the protection and conservation of wildlife in that land and the protection of the natural features of that land. [More…]
We are not wishing to take anything away from them or deprive them of anything: … in managing land to which this section applies for the purpose of the protection and conservation of wildlife in that /and and the protection of the natural features of that land. [More…]
In the Sydney region, Botany Bay would still have most of its own natural qualities if environmental assessments had been carried out before industries and port developments were commenced. [More…]
The Bill before the House, in my opinion, gives tangible expression to the importance that the Government places upon the preservation of our natural resources and shows a willingness to give the lead that is necessary. [More…]
In the past 2 days this House has been debating legislation designed to protect our natural resources. [More…]
The fertility of our soils is perhaps our most valuable natural resource and the best way to protect it is to make sure that the fertility is maintained and wherever possible improved. [More…]
The recommendations will have the effect of: 1. reinforcing the existing voluntary deposit scheme; 2. encouraging the use of returnable, refillable containers; 3. acting as a stimulus for the development of recycling technology; 4. reducing the drain on Australia’s finite natural resources; and 5. providing finance for research programs, for solid waste disposal and for anti-litter education programs. [More…]
If you are going to accept the responsibility for protecting companies that have made mistakes then you create a natural kind of encouragement for people to make mistakes. [More…]
If I were acting upon my natural principles I would vote against it. [More…]
1 ) An examination is being made of questions relating to insurance of crops and livestock against natural disasters. [More…]
Although the activities of these Divisions are basically directed towards acquiring a better understanding of the natural environment, much of their work has indirect commercial consequences. [More…]
In view of the timely action taken by this Government to set up a natural disasters organisation, it is now crucial that we take steps to implement a natural disasters insurance scheme. [More…]
Is it a fact that a committee comprising experts in this field of insurance has forwarded to the Government, at the Prime Minister’s request, a feasibility study into the introduction of a natural disasters insurance scheme? [More…]
Finally, does the Treasurer agree that the implementation of a natural disasters insurance scheme for Australia is a matter of urgency? [More…]
It has been apparent for quite a number of years that the significance of natural disasters in a country like Australia is great enough to mean that a comprehensive national scheme to provide for these disasters is a matter of great importance. [More…]
The Government set up last year for the first time a natural disasters organisation. [More…]
It was entitled ‘Feasibility Study into the Introduction of a Natural Disasters Insurance Scheme’. [More…]
I took immediate action to fly from North Queensland to Darwin and on Christmas night, accompanied by Major-General Stretton, head of the Natural Disasters Organisation, and with a team of specialised medical people landed at the smashed Darwin Airport. [More…]
On Boxing Day morning I met with the Emergency Committee in Darwin and explained the role of Major-General Stretton and the Natural Disasters Organisation. [More…]
The successful handling of the Darwin emergency over the ensuing few days was due to the unqualified backing which Major-General Stretton and the Natural [More…]
In Canberra the Natural Disasters Organisation, in the first instance, co-ordinated the requests for assistance and the movement of goods and personnel at the headquarters of the Natural Disasters Organisation in Northbourne House. [More…]
We in America have no quarrel with this natural phenomenon and indeed we see it as potentially strengthening our relations with Australia. [More…]
In 1904 it was natural that unions looked to the Court of Conciliation and Arbitration for protection. [More…]
In expressing thanks to these people I would like to single out for special mention the Natural Disasters Organisation and its Director, Major-General Stretton. [More…]
Natural disasters, as has been pointed out, are things which apparently this country will experience in the future just as much as it has in the past. [More…]
In the last 6 years I personally have been associated with 4 natural disasters- 3 cyclones and one disastrous flood. [More…]
What cyclone Tracy has revealed is that Australia must always be prepared for natural disasters. [More…]
As I said in my second reading speech, the way in which the various committees and the Natural Disasters Organisation were able to function in Darwin as soon as was humanly possible must in itself have saved many lives. [More…]
In the history of philosophy one of the most discussed matters has been whether marriage is a human institution to be regulated solely by custom and civil law, or a contract under the sanctions of natural law, or a religious sacrament signifying and imparting God’s grace or a combination of the last 2 concepts. [More…]
The Bill states that the family is the natural and fundamental unit of society. [More…]
The statement that the family is the natural and fundamental unit of society seems to me nothing more than a truism, and it is therefore necessary to examine what this sentence is supposed to convey. [More…]
But when the Prime Minister gets up to chicanery in trying to stack the High Court when there are a number of State issues before it, it is only natural . [More…]
This includes information on natural population densities, rates of dispersal, mating and egglaying habits, and the influence of heat, moisture and other environmental factors on the formation and development of each stage in the life cycle. [More…]
the supply of defleecing compounds from natural sources and by organic synthesis. [More…]
A readily-available natural source of mimosine has been identified and a method of extracting mimosine developed. [More…]
I see nothing wrong with that and I should be very surprised if any member of this House were engaged in that sort of activity, but it is possible for members to be caught on the leash, as it were, to become the victims of the puppeteers who will seek to influence events in Australia as it grows in natural wealth and importance. [More…]
Naturally it gives us its financial support. [More…]
It is natural that, apart from a few misguided people, the bulk of private enterprise support will come to those who intend to implement private enterprise policies and to provide a higher standard of living for Australians through that system. [More…]
This Bill represents a natural culmination of a long and paranoic campaign and obsession on the part of the Australian Labor Party about business contributions to the Liberal Party and the Australian Country Party. [More…]
They are the ones who continuously tell us what is and what is not natural but they do not believe that people will behave naturally unless the weight of the law forces them to do so. [More…]
To those people who have not got very much faith in what is natural I say that I would be interested to hear what is the definition of natural’ if they believe that people normally behave in an unnatural fashion. [More…]
By what basic law of natural justice or common sense should the Australian people be required to elect half the Senate from time to time but at times different from the times when they elect the House of Representatives. [More…]
As far as CommonwealthState matters are concerned, I think this matter needs to be seen in the light of the recent appointment of Mr Justice Murphy and in the light of the continued suspicion- a natural and justified suspicion- by the States of the abuse and exercise of centralised power by this Government. [More…]
If we look at those industries we might say that the natural thing for a thinking government to do would be to try to see what we can do in a period when we are told that there is a short term expectancy of better returns in order to take advantage of those short term better returns. [More…]
However, the cost to Australia of obtaining these questionable benefits was the loss of control over the exploration and exploitation of our natural resources resulting from a small number of multinational mining companies having a very strong control over pricing and the sale of raw materials. [More…]
Secondly, peoples and governments are challenging the right of large corporations, particularly in the United States of America, to control and manipulate resources, particularly natural resources, upon which their standard of living depends and to which their economy is extremely sensitive or vulnerable. [More…]
Thirdly, governments over the past 3 years, particularly since the OPEC price hike, have been forced to reevaluate their natural resources management, based upon and because of the need to gauge international supply and demand factors. [More…]
Finally, no nation can stand aside and permit either private capital or restricted and selfish State interest to plunder and pillage natural resources whose depletion can reduce it to economic destitution. [More…]
Naturally, the National Disasters Organisation has been in direct contact with the State Emergency Service centre in Western Australia and the Department of Defence, as in the case of Darwin with cyclone Tracy. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation has indicated that whatever assistance is required from the defence forces will be made available. [More…]
I think the situation is most unsatisfactory because we seem to be having almost each year natural disasters with hundreds of appeals taking place all over Australia on behalf of the unfortunate victims and it is extremely difficult to find out what happens to the money that is collected. [More…]
Governments and even this Government from an Australian Government point of view may have to consider introducing legislation in respect of the collection of money following natural disasters. [More…]
For cultural, ethnic and historical reasons an integration of the territory into Indonesia would represent valid decolonisation and the most natural source to that end. [More…]
We believe that there is time and opportunity for a political solution to be found which will meet the proper aspirations of the people of the Territory and also the natural interests of Indonesia. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation and the Defence Force, the Departments of the Northern Territory, Housing and Construction, Social Security, Manufacturing Industry, and elements of other departments all contributed to the relief operations. [More…]
2) 1974-75 to assist New South Wales and Victoria in meeting the cost of agreed natural disaster relief and restoration measures. [More…]
What I invite the House to do in this situation is to say that it does not accept for one minute that there is any need to postpone the commencement of this debate any longer, and the reason for that is that when one looks at the role of the Opposition parties- the Country Party and the Liberal Party- ever since they went into Opposition and the Labor Party came into office, one can draw the natural conclusion that their intention is to delay and frustrate all the time. [More…]
The Commission has to abide by rules of natural justice. [More…]
In a situation of conflict of that sort, with its obvious breach of natural justice, the prerogative writs obviously would be applicable. [More…]
As I read the language of clauses 40, 41, 42 and 43, a situation is being created that is consistent with the best principles of natural justice. [More…]
It is not true that individuals possess a prescriptive ‘ natural liberty’ in their. [More…]
It would appear to be the natural corollary if this Bill becomes law that Commonwealth activity would increase and State activity decrease. [More…]
Our natural instincts would lead us to believe that a statutory body- the baby of the Minister for Housing and Construction- would impinge on the areas of responsibilities of the State authorities and when the showdown came the Commonwealth could be expected to favour its own creation. [More…]
The family is a natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and by the State. [More…]
Time changes people, people can grow apart, and marriage can die a natural death. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependant children; [More…]
Sub-clause (b) provides for the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
The honourable member for Gippsland (Mr Nixon) seems to have developed a very highly intelligent form of interjection which is to look natural and yawn, and he is doing it again now. [More…]
What is the Minister’s reply to the widely reported and repeated criticisms of natural gas development by the New South Wales Minister for Mines and Fuel, Mr Freudenstein? [More…]
Nevertheless natural gas is still a bargain. [More…]
Natural gas has a heat value Vh times that of coal gas. [More…]
I might add also in rebuttal of another of Mr Freudenstein ‘s innuendoes in respect of decentralisation that if he were to take the trouble to read the terms of the Pipeline Authority Act he would find that there is provision in it for natural gas to be supplied at an even price to whatever the corporation or other authority may be that is receiving it. [More…]
It so happens that some of the export industries that have declined most and some of those States which have declined most in terms of employment opportunities are the ones which, in terms of their own natural industrial structures, are paying the biggest price for the reversion to protectionism in this nation. [More…]
How far can we go in terms of disasters of any nature- natural disasters emanating from some phenomenon of nature, disasters from pure chance on the highways in motor vehicles, disasters emanating from individual judgments on matters such as whether to marry, whether to take heed or advice in a matter or whether to go in strong mind and strong will in defiance of all reasons to the contrary? [More…]
I am not prepared to vote for a perpetuation of the cruelty and conflict created in the minds of children who are placed under great pressure quite often to choose between two parents as a part of the legal process in establishing fault in one parent which is often quite contrary to and in conflict with their natural affection for hoth parents. [More…]
While no doubt there is room for divorce reform, this is only natural. [More…]
South Australia is not endowed with the natural resources of most other States of this country but it has one great advantage, and that is the quality and stability of its people. [More…]
The natural gas which is being extracted from the Cooper Basin in the north of South Australia by a group of producer companies led by Santos and Delhi can be divided roughly speaking into 4 components- methane, ethane, propane and butane. [More…]
At the moment natural gas is being extracted only from the drier wells, so it is mainly methane which is being produced, and this is all that we are geared to use in South Australia for domestic and industrial purposes. [More…]
Has the Minister for Minerals and Energy seen a report on alleged construction costs and natural gas prices in this morning’s issue of the ‘Australian’ newspaper? [More…]
The article mentioned a natural gas price of $1 per 1000 cubic feet, but in fact the negotiated price of the gas being supplied to South Australia is 30c per thousand cubic feet. [More…]
An appropriation of $ 10m is sought under the Department of the Treasury for natural disaster relief and for payments to Tasmania in respect of the Tasman Bridge disaster. [More…]
Because of the natural enemies of man, the family groupings enlarged into a tribe or tribes for selfpreservation. [More…]
If so, is this caused by the knowledge that the operations of Consolidated Fertilizers, Gibson Island (Brisbane) Plant are jeopardised because existing supplies of natural gas in the Roma Gas Field could be exhausted within 10 years. [More…]
and (4) The Pipeline Authority is consulting Queensland authorities concerning future supplies of natural gas to Brisbane with a view to reaching basic supply decisions this year and is in touch with the Queensland Government Gas Engineer and Chief Gas Examiner with a view to the early establishment of an authoritative assessment of probable long-term market demands so that the most economical solution can be found. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
I do not want in any sense to open up the debate on the merits or otherwise of the establishment of a Superior Court, but given the attitude of the Opposition to the establishment of that Court it follows as a natural consequence that the conferring of interim jurisdiction on the Australian Industrial Court pending the establishment of the Superior Court, that our opposition is a logical consequence of our attitude to the establishment of the Superior Court. [More…]
The story of this battle has been told and I think it shows the splendid natural characteristics of the Australians when in battle- of his mateship, his comradeship and his valour. [More…]
If we in any way interfere with that natural democratic process I do not think we will be eliminating confusion; I think we will be creating it. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that there will be a natural bias in the system towards people not extending their preference beyond No. [More…]
The experience includes environmentally relevant work relating to water, sewerage, soil conservation, transport, industrial wastes, air pollution, biological ecosystems, urban planning, mathematical modelling, welfare economics, health physics, radio-activity, agriculture, forestry, fishing, plant pathology and natural history. [More…]
Rapid spectroscopic methods for trace element investigations in natural waters. [More…]
Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. [More…]
The remaining two Conventions imply the protection of Australian waterfowl and fauna in general which can be regarded as being part of this country’s natural heritage. [More…]
To reassure the honourable member I would say that he need have no qualms as to receiving natural gas in the fair city of Wagga. [More…]
Some months ago I approached my Victorian counterpart and suggested to him that in the national interest it might be appropriate if we were to consider a real interconnection of the proposed national natural gas grid, and for that purpose that we might construct a 20-inch line from Young down through Wagga and Albury to Melbourne. [More…]
I have received criticism from some of the honourable member’s colleagues in regard to the cost of natural gas. [More…]
The requirement that natural gas shall be sold at a uniform price throughout Australia has been in the legislation since it passed through both Houses of this Parliament. [More…]
It is natural that the return from some of these industries- I refer mainly to wheat and, to a lesser degree, dairying -are reasonable. [More…]
People have a very natural and proper reluctance to the public exhibition of their private affairs. [More…]
These collectors will mainly come from the neighbourhood in which they live, as is natural, and they will see the forms. [More…]
It is a formal area of great natural beauty which has been supplemented by careful landscaping. [More…]
They can be contrived in a way that is artificial with buildings and landscaping at odds with perspective and the natural environment. [More…]
In conclusion let me say that the Opposition Parties acknowledge that northern Australia is a great treasure house of natural resources. [More…]
We see magnificent scope for unique cultural activities and great natural attributes. [More…]
It is an island which could be classified, under the convention for the protection of the world’s cultural and natural heritage adopted by the United Nations Economic Scientific and Cultural Organisation in 1974, as an area of international significance. [More…]
If the unhappy day ever arrives when we have a government led by the present proud, rich and privileged Leader of the Opposition, then we can expect rising unemployment, rising interest rates, wage reductions, as well as the abolition of Medibank, lower pensions, lower unemployment benefits, increased industrial unrest and a sell out of Australia’s natural and industrial resources to foreigners, and if ever there is another war like Vietnam, Australia W111 be thrust into it again. [More…]
Our payments to the States and for natural disaster relief are up $224m on the Budget estimate. [More…]
It is not too high a quality of school, it is not too high a quality of health care services, it is not too high a quality of public transport, it is not even too much attention to salvaging what is left of our natural heritage which Australians demand, but a house which is finished and furnished too quickly, a car which is replaced too frequently, or literally thousands of products for which no need would ever have been recognised if it had not been invented. [More…]
I have had a table prepared by the Parliamentary Library which shows that in 1954-55 a taxpayer on the then average earnings of $ 1,799 per annum paid 5c in the dollar in tax and that today the same man doing the same job is now, just through a natural increase in wages, in receipt of $7,500 a year and paying 16.8 per cent of it in tax. [More…]
The reason for this increase is that no encouragement has been given to people to get out and explore the natural gas wells whose products form the main ingredient in the production of fertilisers. [More…]
The natural primary responsibility of any government is one that, in Australia’s long history of particpanon in military operations around the world, has until now received comparatively little attention. [More…]
In this role the AGIO will facilitate the provision of natural disasters coverage for all Australians. [More…]
At the same time, the AGIO can open the way to the provision of more widespread insurance coverage against livestock and crop losses arising out of natural disasters. [More…]
No State office currently provides adequate coverage for natural disasters such as floods or earthquakes. [More…]
The governments of New Zealand, India, Israel and the United States of America, to name but a few, are already involved to varying degrees in providing insurance to their citizens, including natural disaster insurance. [More…]
It was natural that poor and miserly pay and abhorrent and dangerous working conditions should attract the attention of courageous and intelligent people who encouraged their fellowworkers to fight. [More…]
The honourable member also drew attention to the other element that must not be forgotten, and the Government certainly does not forget it, namely, the element of what lawyers call natural justice. [More…]
Consistent with the maintenance of confidentiality, one has to make known or to publish representations so that, as I said earlier, the principle of natural justice can be followed. [More…]
The Government sought from the committee for the first time in Australian history an inventory of our natural and man-made heritage. [More…]
For a number of reasons their development has destroyed the natural features of the Australian landscape without substituting any of the gentler features of urban life. [More…]
This feature of great natural beauty is clearly visible in much of the western part of Sydney. [More…]
There is no other feature of natural or manmade beauty of the same quality in this vast part of the Sydney metropolitan area. [More…]
Within the Attorney-General’s Department there has been developed a natural bias towards the legal nature and the legal operations of government. [More…]
In the view of the Opposition, it seems to be the natural function of the Attorney-General to have control of the mechanics of law making. [More…]
It is natural enough for a Minister always to fear something from the Opposition. [More…]
I suppose that it is only natural that some of the reservations that will be expressed from both sides of the House have common ground as the sources of information are common. [More…]
When replying to my question on 18 April about the natural gas spur line to Wagga did the Minister say: [More…]
Some months ago I approached my Victorian counterpart and suggested to mm that in the national interest it might be appropriate if we were to consider a real interconnection of the proposed national natural gas grid, and for that purpose that we might construct a 20-inch line from Young down through Wagga and Albury to Melbourne. [More…]
What a lot of nonsense it is to say that we would refuse insurance for natural disasters. [More…]
Of course we would not refuse insurance for natural disasters. [More…]
The problems associated with natural disaster insurance have been clearly recognised by the industry. [More…]
In order to lay greater stress on the importance of cover against such contingencies it recently took the initiative following the Brisbane floods and, with the agreement of the Prime Minister, examined the whole area of natural disasters in consultation with Government representatives. [More…]
So it is completely wrong for the Government to say that the industry has taken no steps towards combating the problem of natural disasters. [More…]
Although we are prone to natural disasters, which will continue to devastate this country, we have a situation in which many people and businesses are unable to obtain adequate insurance cover. [More…]
This is a serious situation, especially if one adds to it the insurance cover that cannot be obtained for natural disasters which affect crops or livestock, or for damage caused by land slip or flood. [More…]
It has been involved in life insurance since 1869, in general insurance since 1905 and in natural disaster insurance since 1944. [More…]
We believe that a natural disasters fund can be established and should be established using the existing private and State government insurance offices, instead of setting up yet another Federal Government organisation. [More…]
Occasionally we have to meet a national disaster or a natural disaster- sometimes the terms are interchanged. [More…]
First of all I record my support also for the notion of natural disaster compensation. [More…]
It ill behoves this Government with its record of economic mismanagement to talk about the way in which its instrumentality will run in competition with the private sector which, as we have already heard, is so highly competitive and which is suffering so much from inflation, taxation and pay outs for natural disasters that it is in serious trouble. [More…]
It is feeling the effects of recent natural disasters. [More…]
One important reason for establishing the Australian Government Insurance Corporation is this Government’s firm belief that the occasion of the introduction of new forms of insurance activity such as crop insurance and natural disaster insurance - [More…]
In addition, Japan, Norway, New Zealand, Spain and the United States provide insurance against property damage arising from natural disasters. [More…]
Government members cannot see why this country should do less for its farmers whose livelihoods are constantly at the mercy of the elements, or for householders in areas endangered by potential natural disasters than all these other nations which are certainly no more affluent than our own. [More…]
It is a commentary on the misuse of influence that the National Country Party should have allied itself with forces resisting the provision of natural disaster insurance through an Australian Government insurance office. [More…]
I also well remember making a speech in this House on 27 November 1968 in which I said that the Government at that time had decided to take a totally different approach to the damage caused by natural disasters. [More…]
I give an illustration of some of the foolish arguments that have been put to us about whether or not there has been any failure by the private companies in regard to natural disasters. [More…]
Speaking before the suspension of the sitting for dinner in opposition to my Government’s Bill to establish the Australian Government Insurance Corporation, the right honourable member for Lowe (Mr McMahon) directed attention to natural disasters. [More…]
Nevertheless, in response to a question by me later in that year a project was commenced by the Treasury to acquire information and undertake research on natural disaster relief schemes overseas. [More…]
The provision of assistance to those adversely affected by natural disasters such as bushfires, floods and droughts is primarily the responsibility of State governments which are in the best position to assess the need for, and provide, such assistance … the Commonwealth has always been prepared to assist, on humanitarian grounds, in financing expenditure on emergency relief of personal hardship and distress . [More…]
does not normally extend to the cost of restoring private assets damaged by natural disasters, it being regarded as the responsibility of the individual to provide against such losses by way of insurance. [More…]
What does it matter if there is another natural disaster in the meantime? [More…]
I invite honourable members to consider just 3 examples of recent natural disasters in the electorates of National Country Party members who were shown to be in league with the insurance interests which hitherto had neglected the interests of country people. [More…]
Has he forgotten that there were serious floods in his electorate in October 1974 and bushfires in December, which required the intervention of the Natural Disasters Organisation? [More…]
The Government has already taken substantial steps to assist those stricken by natural disasters. [More…]
In addition to this operational support, the Government has given substantial financial support to States to aid the victims of natural disasters. [More…]
This financial year the Parliament has had to appropriate $ 127.6m for natural disasters. [More…]
It can be seen how much the private citizen has had to bear because there is no insurance to cover his personal losses and governments have not yet undertaken to cover all personal losses in such natural disasters. [More…]
Only 20 years ago, in 1954-55, the amount which the Federal Parliament appropriated for natural disasters was $1,206,000. [More…]
I emphasise that the decision to establish the Australian Government Insurance Corporation was not simply a response to the natural disasters of 1974, though these events hastened our action. [More…]
The Prime Minister spoke of natural disasters. [More…]
Of course we need to have some improvement in the capacity to cope with natural disasters in Australia, but has any consideration been given by the Government to discussions with the industry? [More…]
When we talk about natural disasters I can think of nothing greater than the disaster of this Government having nominees on public companies throughout Australia. [More…]
Matters for consultation include implications for industry of the proposed national compensation scheme, AGIO, natural disaster insurance. [More…]
They are a departure from previous Australian Government initiatives in response to natural disasters. [More…]
There will probably be a minor expansion of the market for fresh mushrooms for processing as a result of the imposition of duties on dehydrated mushrooms, but the effects of this will be slight in comparison with the expected continued natural growth of the market for flats for incorporation in a sliced in butter sauce pack. [More…]
There is consultation at the national level, and on a continuing basis between the Natural Disasters Organisation and the Federal Secretariat of the Royal Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Australia to ensure cooperation at all times. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
It refers to ‘the need to preserve and protect the institution of marriage’, ‘the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’, the responsibility for the care and education of dependent children, ‘the need to protect the rights of children and to promote their welfare’, and ‘the means available for assisting parties to a marriage to consider reconciliation or the improvement of their relationship to each other and to the children of the marriage ‘. [More…]
Any relationship specified in sub-section (3) includes a relationship traced through, or to, a person who is or was an adopted child, and, for that purpose, the relationship between an adopted child and his adoptive parent, or each of his adoptive parents, shall be deemed to be or to have been the natural relationship of child and parent. [More…]
(i) any relationship specified in paragraph (a) of this sub-section includes a relationship traced through, or to, a person who is or was an adopted child, and, for that purpose, the relationship between an adopted child and his adoptive parent, or each of his adoptive parents, shall be deemed to be or to have been the natural relationship of child and parent; and [More…]
Has his attention also been drawn to indexed item 5- Department of National Development blueprint for natural resources. [More…]
Following careful analysis of the situation, your Distribution Commissioners could find no reason to amend their original proposals in this area, which made use of natural boundaries such as rivers and streams, and are in full accord with all the criteria outlined in Section 19 of the Commonwealth Electoral Act. [More…]
The commissioners had different criteria to examine, particularly the use of natural boundaries, which they have done. [More…]
It is a simplified description using natural boundaries which divide communities. [More…]
Natural river boundaries are the most logical boundaries. [More…]
Clause 14 clearly covers natural disaster situations. [More…]
We have made it clear that we favour a form of compensation for natural disasters. [More…]
One would have thought that that would narrow it down to the natural disaster situation. [More…]
Another problem on which the Minister may care to comment is whether it is possible- it does seem possible- for the AGIC to combine natural disaster policies, for earthquakes, floods and cyclones, with commercial policies in the one package. [More…]
If the AGIC can offer comparable rates on commercial policies but make the package look more attractive it has an advantage over other companies which simply cannot offer the natural disaster fund because it is not in accordance with sensible commercial provisions. [More…]
It is simply impossible to talk about sound commercial principles and then to relate that to a concept of national interest which by definition under many circumstances, especially in relation to natural disasters, is not an economic proposition. [More…]
I think the point that is being missed is that those who participate in the benefit ought to be sharing in the cost of providing the cover that is needed or of providing the benefit that is to be derived in the unfortunate occurrence of a natural disaster. [More…]
As I said, the insurance industry has submitted to the Government its proposals on property damage resulting from natural disaster. [More…]
Nonetheless, I do remember the history of procedures and policies associated with natural disasters. [More…]
When we came into office, so far as natural disasters were concerned our predecessors had done nothing. [More…]
We decided then- I cannot understand why the Treasury officials would be giving advice in an entirely different way today- that when the disaster occurred we would handle it in that way: We should let the House know and, through the House, the public know what we were doing and that the Liberal Party then and now would take the major share of responsibility in natural disasters. [More…]
Natural disaster needs could be effectively and more economically made available through the existing insurance framework. [More…]
This interpretation problem is coupled with taxation, inflation and natural disasters. [More…]
The Minister, if I may say so parenthetically, has quoted a number of figures relating to payment by the Australian taxpayers for natural disasters. [More…]
This equates with the going price in respect of natural gas from the Cooper Basin consortium. [More…]
There is no doubt that there have always been problems with market changes, price fluctuations, good seasons and bad seasons, droughts, floods, fires- the range of natural disasters. [More…]
Mention was made of natural disasters. [More…]
This Government’s record in natural disaster is good. [More…]
The Minister for Northern Development (Dr Patterson) summed up the position very well when he spoke about the Government’s wonderful record in natural disaster. [More…]
But at the same time we are getting various calls not only in the matter of social welfare but also in relation to education, primary producers, secondary industry, the promoting of exports, the building of houses and in the alleviating of problems of those people who suffer from natural disasters. [More…]
These historic Acts represented the first, firm evidence by an Australian Government of a co-ordinated approach to the protection and management of this nation’s natural resources. [More…]
I am sure this Bill will receive the support of all Australians who are concerned that our magnificent natural heritage should be preserved. [More…]
Electorates could be determined in accordance with those natural links that have been created with the passage of time. [More…]
This is a natural by-product of the population surge to the cities that has taken place since Federation- a surge which, incidentally, has many obvious undesirable aspects. [More…]
The redistribution proposal is, quite obviously, completely unnatural. [More…]
It is a natural region in every sense of the word and this is obvious from the activities of the people in the Wimmera. [More…]
Their lives, from farming to commerce to sport, are woven together into a regional fabric because the natural components of the region blend automatically. [More…]
But Labor wants to destroy this natural fabric of human interest and activity, and replace it with an isolation that belongs to the horse and buggy days. [More…]
Objections raised by the Liberal Party that Cooks River provides a natural barrier evidently did not apply to the New South Wales State Liberal Party redistribution where Arncliffe is linked with Tempe in the Rockdale electorate. [More…]
When it came to the electorate of Cook the Liberals wanted to follow natural boundaries so they jumped across an 8-lane highway and went down a gully to try to get in a certain area. [More…]
Goulburn has a natural affinity with EdenMonaro. [More…]
1 ) What were the names of the staff of the Natural Disasters Organisation in Canberra on 24 December 1974, and what were their functions. [More…]
When did the Department of the Northern Territory assume the responsibility, from that purportedly exercised by the Natural Disasters Organisation, for the processing of applications to enter Darwin. [More…]
It is not true to claim that the name of the natural mother of the children appeared on the Medibank cards. [More…]
Mr Whitlam went on to say that in a letter to all Premiers dated February 27th he had outlined the arrangements for financial assistance from the Australian Government to the States in the event of natural disasters. [More…]
I suppose it is natural that there should be considerable debate about the principle of setting up a Purchasing Commission. [More…]
The Bill states: the national estate consists of those places, being components of the natural environment of Australia or the cultural environment of Australia, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the present community. [More…]
However, it is an irresponsible, sweeping statement which gives the impression that none of the States have cared about the natural beauty, the landscape, the historic buildings or this land and its heritage. [More…]
The main significance is this: The coal resources of Australia are over 160 times as important in energy content as the total known and recoverable reserves of natural gas and crude oil. [More…]
In broad terms, the Government has quadrupled the rate of inflation and more than doubled the rate of unemployment since coming to power- and this in a country with perhaps more natural advantages than any other in the world, a country largely insulated from the inflationary effects of the rise in oil prices, a country rich in resources with a well-educated and skilled work force. [More…]
I hope that the Government sees the wisdom, and I hope that it sees that it is a matter of natural human justice that some provision of this type should be placed in the legislation to protect an individual. [More…]
The argument is used that people using the telephone should not help to provide these postal services but the point that we should not forget is that a government of this country has the responsibility of seeing that there is a full utilisation of the natural resources of this country. [More…]
Superannuation for Government employees has been amended a number of times since it was instituted in 1922, and it is natural that from time to dme modifications and up-dating will be necessary. [More…]
I can assure honourable members that the philosophy of the LiberalCountry Party Government was at that time that there was a natural right of every person- and a proper expectation- to be able to enjoy an effective and fairly generous superannuation scheme after he retired from his occupation in the civil service or in private enterprise. [More…]
I preface my question by reminding him that he said in this House this week that adopted children who received Medibank cards in the name given by their natural mother and not their present name did so because of neglect to advise the Department of Social Security of the correct name. [More…]
I therefore ask him: Why would a child adopted 4 years ago, whose present name was advised to the Department of Social Security 4 years ago, whose endowment has been paid in that name for 4 years- this is verified by checking- and who is recorded by the Department of Social Security in that name, still this week get his Medibank card in the christian names given by his natural mother, causing very considerable distress? [More…]
We all know of the fact that if some particularly inflammatory statement is sought on some public issue there is a natural tendency to go to strategists of a generation ago who now hold senior office in the State branches of the RSL. [More…]
It will cover the great range of natural disasters. [More…]
Minerals and Energy is to bring about full Australian ownership of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
The policy of Australian ownership of energy resources also has meant that Japan’s future requirements of natural gas have not been met from Australia. [More…]
If the Minister had not been so belligerent 18 months ago in saying that we did not need any Japanese involvement m the north west we could well have had our natural gas and allied industries well under way by now. [More…]
Indeed, apart from the obvious question- where else does such a highly developed and industrialised market exist for Australia to export her natural resources- there are many advantages to be gained by Australia as a result of a closer relationship with Japan. [More…]
The future development of Australia’s natural resources will depend on large amounts of over-‘ seas capital, and the Opposition believes the trading relationship which exists between Australia and Japan should be developed further into an economic relationship which is broadly based. [More…]
We have seen the effect of what the Government has done with its interference in the trade in iron ore and in coal, in denying to the Japanese the opportunity to import Australian natural gas and in its interference with the making of contracts for the sale of uranium. [More…]
So when we look at the actions of this Minister in relation to the pricing of iron ore exports, of coal exports, in the denial of vital energy sources such as natural gas and in inhibiting the export of uranium to Japan, we wonder whether in the pursuit of the attitude expressed by him in 1 970 he is seeking to inhibit seriously Japan’s ability to trade with the world. [More…]
When is a flood a natural disaster and when does it involve something which should be regarded as normal expenditure by way of provision in the establishment of that urban area? [More…]
However, the proposed Australian Government Insurance Corporation will be undertaking natural disaster insurance, possibly in the near future, and there is no doubt that we need natural disaster insurance cover in this great country of ours. [More…]
There is a need to provide across-the-board protection for people who are likely to be the victims of floods and of other natural occurrences over which man has no control. [More…]
Itwould seem natural and proper that main trunk routes be handed over to the Australian Railways Commission and be operated by it. [More…]
The natural corollary of this, therefore, is that it is the obvious area to cut back- and that capital building programs should be the first to go. [More…]
Destroy the people’s faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule and . [More…]
A large proportion of the real profits that we should obtain from the export of natural resources is lost to this country because of the costs involved in shipping. [More…]
That is the method of stock valuation for animals based on natural increase that is curently applied. [More…]
New Zealand has certain natural advantages and certain government advantages that we do not have here. [More…]
I commend that as a thought in the gradual, natural evolution of this legislation. [More…]
Onshore, under the auspices of the then Western Australian Labor Government, we have carried out a feasibility study for an appropriate sized natural gas pipeline from Dampier to Perth. [More…]
Next year the amount will be higher just because of the natural and unavoidable- not that we want to avoid it- demand that comes from movement in indices in the economy. [More…]
The reason I rise on this matter is merely to highlight the fact that that situation exists and that the draftsman might give attention to this most difficult problem- first of all the situation as to foreign vessels vis-a-vis our own vessels, and secondly the extent of power under the continental shelf convention, which relates to exploitation and conservation of natural resources. [More…]
Coral, of course, is a living thing and therefore it is part of the natural resources of the seabed and therefore should fall within the relevant article of the convention on the continental shelf. [More…]
We began the year in the aftermath of the Darwin cyclone- the greatest natural disaster Australia has known. [More…]
I know that all honourable members will join me in a tribute to the natural disaster organisation for its handling of the Darwin crisis, and to the Darwin people themselves for their fortitude and undaunted spirit. [More…]
This system of remission will also be applied in cases where a grower can demonstrate that he has suffered significant crop damage in a particular year through natural disaster. [More…]
The nation, every State and Territory would benefit from the development of our uranium, our natural gas, our coalour immense natural resources of energy. [More…]
We are determined to exploit Western Australia’s enormous natural gas potentialthe North-West shelf belonging to Australiarather than selling off this vital part of Australia’s farm. [More…]
In order to tap the natural gas resources in South Australia, New South Wales and off Western Australia, we have under consideration proposals costing over $400m for pipelines. [More…]
I point out that $A450 million of our import bill can be replaced with the full availability of natural gas throughout Australia in substitution for imported crude. [More…]
Apart from the completion of the natural gas pipeline from Cooper Basin - Palm Valley - Dampier - Perth, provision was made for the 84 miles of submarine pipeline from Dampier to the North Rankin production platform. [More…]
Provision was made in my calculations for the necessary petrochemical plant at Dampier, to extract the natural gas liquids for conversion into motor spirit and other derivatives. [More…]
The cost of 3 uranium mining and milling plants in the Northern Territory and assistance to the Cooper Basin natural gas consortium, in which the Australian Government is now a partner, was included, and also the cost of the plans to economise in diesel fuel consumption by electrification of the heavy freight rail areas in New South Wales and Victoria. [More…]
I was the one who discovered Mr Karidis and if it had not been for me finding Mr Karidis the Government would never have got near the point of being able to raise enough money to give Australia ownership of its own natural gas, ownership of its own uranium enrichment plants, the right to own its petrochemical industry and the right to put a pipeline from west to east across this continent. [More…]
In this country we have to decide whether we will allow the ownership of our natural resources to be controlled by the Australian people or whether we will hand it over to foreign enterprise and foreign investors. [More…]
I am sick and tired, and so is every other Australian, of seeing our natural resources golloped up by foreign investors so that we, the people of Australia, then lose control of our own assets. [More…]
There is no criticism of the amount of money because nobody can deny that $4,000m is needed if we are to set up our own petro-chemical industries, instal a trans-continental gas pipeline, have an uranium enrichment plant or exploit our natural resources as we ought to do. [More…]
The State Government intends to begin direct negotiations with the Woodside-Burmah consortium to bring the NorthWest shelf natural gas discoveries into production. [More…]
The Government is not prepared to hand over our natural resources to foreign controllers whereas the Opposition is prepared to do so. [More…]
However, I did indicate- as I am indicating now, and as I have indicated everywhere for years; and I did it again then- in Mr Khemlani ‘s presence that I fully supported Mr Connor’s aim of trying to gain maximum Australian ownership of Australian mineral and energy reserves and to stop any further foreign ownership and control of our natural resources. [More…]
There has been a continued and deliberate intent to hide from the States an opportunity to know the whole of the circumstances of how and in what way we are going to be nationalised in relation to the exploitation of our natural resources. [More…]
1 ) Has the Australian Broadcasting Commission received complaints that a film used in its schools program presents a biased view against natural feeding of babies? [More…]
Other ABC television programs for schools include sequences on the natural feeding of babies. [More…]
in respect of the natural resources of the sea-bed and sub-soil of that continental shelf, including the products of sedentary fisheries; or [More…]
I ask: What stage has been reached in the construction of the lateral natural gas pipelines to Lithgow, Bathurst, Orange and Wagga? [More…]
In point of fact there is provision in the Budget of $9m for the first stage of the laterals to be constructed from the main natural gas pipeline, from Young to Lithgow, Orange and Bathurst and from Young to Wagga. [More…]
The propaganda which has appeared in the Press- in the Sydney Morning Herald in particular- has been tendentious and designed to soften up the price resistance of buyers of natural gas in Sydney. [More…]
The true position is that natural gas can be landed at the Wilton gate valve for the metropolitan area- and this includes the cost of the laterals- at 4.6c per therm. [More…]
That was done without any sell-out or takeover of the kind that prejudiced the development of Australia or the utilisation of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
If we take the growth factor that occurred in the post-war period it could be sustained only by the development of our natural resources. [More…]
We were in great need of funds to develop the natural resources of Australia but, of course, we insisted upon the implementation of the guidelines which prevented takeovers, which prevented a sell-out and which required investment to be done on orthodox and legitimate grounds. [More…]
In supporting this legislation it again cements that very firm conviction, but with the provisos which are so vital that where there is need for participation on a joint venture basis or participation on the basis that Australian capital is not available to undertake some major project or other, or where the development of natural resources cannot proceed without the assistance of overseas capital then it is right and proper that through this legislation, the previous legislation and the guidelines that preceded that, this kind of development should take place. [More…]
All of this relates, of course, to important considerations, not just of this legislation in isolation but of the overall financial policy of the Government, its export policy, its export earning policy in particular, its policy on natural resources and especially its policy in relation to minerals. [More…]
I believe that there was an opportunity to tell Australia and the world what we really plan to do to restore confidence and to again see a resurgence in the development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
In fact, many of our vast natural resources would probably never have been discovered and certainly not utilised but for foreign investment and risk capital. [More…]
In this Parliament on 27 September 1973 I proposed by way of a private member’s motion, which was carried, that the Australian Government and the Victorian Government get together to plan the use of our natural resources of brown coal. [More…]
The National Estate Program does make nonrepayable grants available to non-government bodies to provide assistance to preserve important parts of the cultural and natural heritage of Australia. [More…]
Consequently the Committee was concerned to preserve as much of the natural environment as possible. [More…]
These catchment waters flow across a natural floodplain and eventually into the Murrumbidgee River. [More…]
This is a natural question one can ask if it is argued that the doctor is over-prescribing because of the cost factor. [More…]
This great national service to this country, which will provide natural gas to some of the country areas that honourable members opposite represent, would never be provided if private enterprise were to run the system and pay for it. [More…]
Among other matters, he had something to say about natural gas. [More…]
I can say in passing that from his subsequent performance there is no shortage of natural gas in this chamber, especially on the Government side. [More…]
Because of the shortage of time I will not be able to itemise the complete list, but I point out that the Australian Government assists in meeting debt charges and in the fields of State emergency services, universities, colleges of advanced education, technical and further education, schools, pre-schools, child migrant educational research, Medibank, public hospitals, running community health services, television control, school dental health, health education, home dialysis, blood transfusion services, health planning agencies, housekeeping services, home care services, senior citizen’s assistance, assistance to deserted wives, employment grants, regional employment development schemes, social planning units, Aboriginal advancement, housing, area improvement, sewerage, local government, regional organisations, leisure and recreation tourism and, in Perth, the underground railway study and matters of that nature, going right through to the natural disaster area. [More…]
The utilisation of our natural resources in rural areas is dependent upon the teamwork of businessmen and primary producers. [More…]
It does not matter whether people in the eastern States of Australia get cheap natural gas; that is not the point. [More…]
The natural corollary of all this is that business needs direct evidence of the Government providing the conditions under which the ventures of business can be profitable. [More…]
The change would have been quite natural to the present Prime Minister. [More…]
If we follow this destruction to its natural conclusion, the Press and the Press barons can bring about the destruction of this society in which we live. [More…]
The National Estate is defined widely as those sites of historic, scientific and cultural importance and include both the natural environment and the urban and built environment. [More…]
The Department of Urban and Regional Development administers the National Estate policy jointly with the Department of Environment on the general basis that Urban and Regional Development is concerned primarily with the urban and built environment while the Department of Environment is concerned with the natural environment. [More…]
However, if one assumes a natural growth in the available . [More…]
Earlier today we heard the honourable member for Paterson (Mr O’Keefe) the sole member of the Opposition who put the view in the last session that the proposals of the Australian Government Insurance Corporation in respect of natural disasters ought to be implemented as soon as possible. [More…]
Furthermore, the saving of $150m which the Leader of the Opposition says he would make through zero Public Service growth and abolition of the Department of the Media, the Prices Justification Tribunal, the Legal Aid Office and the Australia Police is, on the Treasury’s estimates, about double the saving that would in fact result Another major expenditure saving in the Opposition’s plan would be to cease work on the Moomba-Sydney natural gas pipeline and to sell the pipeline to private enterprise. [More…]
Without the Australian Legal Aid Office they would be at the mercy of the huge and often multinational companies which so frequently threaten our natural environment. [More…]
Selling off the natural gas pipeline is another one of the economy measures of the Leader of the Oppositon He also proposes disposing of the Department of the Media. [More…]
What could be more natural than that a government with such aims should set about to get rid of them? [More…]
The people of this nation have a right to demand the maximum return from the exploration or exploitation of their vast non-renewable natural resources. [More…]
I conclude by extrapolating the long term returns to these large corporations and showing why we have a right to capitalise and to maximise our people’s share of the natural resources. [More…]
While we in Australia have quite a substantial amount of natural gas it is coal which is and which will continue to be the sheet anchor. [More…]
It is not as readily available as the crude oil because it is associated with the production of natural gas. [More…]
It has to come out and be used in proportion to the natural gas. [More…]
Fortunately, on the North- West Shelf there is a very wet type of natural gas with between 45 and 65 barrels of liquids which are chemical cousins of motor spirit. [More…]
I cite the case of Western Australia where between the years 1965 and 1975 only about 12 natural gas producing wells were discovered. [More…]
In our case, with what we can do by way of improvising with the liquids associated with natural gas, we would appear to have about 14 years supply. [More…]
For the rest of our energy requirements we will have to turn to alternative fuel forms, the most obvious one being natural gas. [More…]
Natural gas now meets only 6 per cent of our energy requirements. [More…]
Comparable countries in the Western Worldthe advanced industrial countries- use natural gas for about 22 per cent of their energy requirements. [More…]
The provision of capital is, of course, bedevilled by the issues of foreign ownership and control of our natural resources. [More…]
It is natural and understandable that at a time of rapid inflation there would be an exacerbation of industrial disputes related to wages because wage earners, like everyone else, are hurt by inflation. [More…]
It is only natural that Government supporters have taken this opportunity in debating the parliamentary estimates to talk about the events which have occurred in another place in respect of the filling of a casual vacancy. [More…]
Only a small part of expenditures out of the Advance to the Treasurer has been related to natural disasters or emergency relief. [More…]
In 1972-73 Victoria was granted $40,000 for natural disasters, and $17,279 was voted for Colombo Plan disaster relief. [More…]
In 1974-75 Darwin relief and reconstruction, natural disaster payments and Vietnam assistance totalled $ 14.5m out of total expenditures of $89. [More…]
Like all Aus.tralians let me make this perfectly clear, as I have made it clear from the day I offered myself for election in Kennedy- I want to see as much Australian ownership of our natural resources as possible. [More…]
The role of the Government is to define national policies and to draw up laws for the orderly development of Australia ‘s natural resources. [More…]
The 1970s in Australia is a lost decade due to 3 years of gross mismanagement of the nation’s natural endowment. [More…]
We can see it quite dramatically in respect of the natural gas on the north-west shelf of Western Australia. [More…]
The unique proximity of those natural gas fields to the iron ore fields in Western Australia presents this country with an unequalled opportunity to build a foundation for greater development of my State, Western Australia, and of Australia as a whole through the development of those north-west shelf gas fields. [More…]
We have seen a virtual collapse of drilling in the search for and development of oil and natural gas. [More…]
Of course, in the near future we have to rely mainly on the conventional fuels that we have at present- coal, natural gas, hydro-electricity and petroleum. [More…]
The situation is even more disastrous when one considers the search for oil and natural gas. [More…]
In 1969 322 wells were drilled, either for exploration or development of oil and natural gas. [More…]
It has an enormous amount of drilling going on every day and is discovering new wells, both for oil and natural gas, on shore. [More…]
Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than the attitudes of the Opposition and the State governments to the policy on the export of natural gas from the North-West Shelf. [More…]
Several spokesmen from the Opposition and from the Liberal State governments have been advocating, in line with the Woodside-Burmah consortium, the export of natural gas. [More…]
I believe there should be controlled export of natural gas at least in the initial stages. [More…]
Of course Woodside-Burmah is interested in export because the prices which prevail on the world market are higher than the prices which it would receive for the natural gas in Australia That is because the Minister is concerned to see that the people of Australia are not exploited in terms of the development of the resources which they fundamentally own. [More…]
Such a remission system would substantially meet the problems of individual orchardists in all States whose income from leviable area is affected because of low yields or seriously affected by natural disaster or by difficulties in marketing production. [More…]
In the instance of a very severe natural disaster where the remission as proposed may be insufficient, applications for remission by levy payers in those circumstances will be looked at on the basis of the case put forward. [More…]
Of course Australia, with its great natural wealth, is not on a plateau of development but on a rising plane. [More…]
The first group to which I shall refer are those amendments which deal with vessels and other structures engaged in the off-shore industry, in activities associated with exploring or exploiting the natural resources of the continental shelf of Australia, or the sea bed of the Australian coastal sea. [More…]
Australia is blessed with a natural scenery which is capable of much more exploitation for the benefit of those who just want to sit, rest and meditate. [More…]
But the significance of it is that the proposed highway is to be constructed through coastal sand dune country and, in particular, through the Army land which is unique because of the fragility of the coastal sand dunes in that area and also because it is one of the last natural areas of sand dune country in metropolitan Perth. [More…]
This area of the Swanbourne Army land represents the last significant part of the near metropolitan area of Perth where the sand dune country is in its natural state. [More…]
The pressure on our coasts, particularly near the major cities, is quite intense and it has reached the stage where I think we are quite lucky to have left any coast in any sort of natural form. [More…]
Rapid spectroscopic methods for trace element investigations in natural waters. [More…]
The royal commission’s findings that the Minister was deceived is based on ‘natural inferences’ drawn from a report of a telephone conversation between the Minister and Mr Souter, from departmental files, and from the terms of the Minister’s letter dated 26 June 1975 approving the ACTU deal. [More…]
To control, and where possible, prohibit the advertising of products which represent a danger to human health, or which release into the environment toxic or indestructible materials, or which make unreasonable use of scarce natural resources, or which have other significant detrimental environmental impact; [More…]
In view of the Senate’s rejection of the Australian Government Insurance Corporation Bill and particularly the national interest provision which would extend insurance cover to people in those areas subject to the devastation of natural disasters, I ask the Minister: Can he indicate what action the Government now intends to take to set up a natural disaster insurance commission or scheme? [More…]
The first is that there was an unscientific and undue reliance upon pesticides which had the effect of destroying the natural predators of the harmful insects and therefore ultimately multiplying the insects and the damage they did. [More…]
The people about whom I have talked live in areas where there is a need for Australia as a nation to exploit the natural resources. [More…]
Proper planning with due regard to all human factors and environmental factors will result in sensible balanced development; efficient utilisation of our natural resources; gradual creation of a better life style; preservation of the desirable features of our natural environment; and the restoration and preservation of our national heritage. [More…]
But the possibility of black bans on workers or on factories was a natural deterrent to employees worried about the increasing unemployment situation. [More…]
As my colleague the Minister for Science is aware, mustard gas spilt on the ground is rendered harmless by natural processes in a matter of days. [More…]
Like all Australians I have said this from the moment I became a member of this House- I want to see as much complete Australian ownership of our natural resources as possible, but we must recognise that Australia needs the experience of the overseas experts, and that the benefits from overseas investment far outweigh the disadvantages. [More…]
The role of the Government is to define national policies and to draw up laws for the orderly development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
All the Northwest Shelf under 200 to 300 feet of water contains predominately only natural gas with some liquid hydrocarbons. [More…]
The editorial mentions nuclear energy and virtually says, as that publication has said constantly, that there was no management of Australia’s natural resources by the LiberalCountry Party governments. [More…]
In describing the problems of the Petroleum and Minerals Co. of Australia he said that company was created by the Authority in February of this year to deal with the problems created by the Bjelke-Petersen Government in attempting to frustrate the purchase of an interest in the Delhi International Oil Corporation natural gas operation in South Australia and Queensland. [More…]
We regard ordinary, natural persons as being entitled to determine their own relationships when they want to. [More…]
The BUI will attempt to further those aims by the charges laid on the Office in such clauses as clause 29 in which the Office is encouraged to provide assistance in cases where it is in the public interest that a decision be made, and that proceedings be instituted where the natural and cultural heritage of Australia is at stake. [More…]
The Governments of Papua New Guinea, Australia and Queensland to agree to the establishment of an environmentally protected zone or marine park controlled so as to ensure the preservation of the total environment of the Torres Strait- the Islands, reefs and cays, the sea and seabed, and the air above it including the natural wild life and marine creatures as the basis for the traditional way of life of the Islanders and the coastal people of Papua New Guinea bordering on the Straits. [More…]
I was hoping that he would be able to come into the House and say that he had been able to get a loan of $4,000m because I can think of a lot of projects that we could very usefully spend that sort of money on instead of allowing foreign investors to come in and rip off the cream of our natural resources- our mineral resources and our energy resources. [More…]
I am very disappointed that the Minister for Minerals and Energy was not able to come into the House with $4,000m to make it possible for us to develop our own natural resources in minerals and energy. [More…]
Despite this development the Bay has generally retained its natural appearance, and its white sand beaches, clear waters, and spectacular headlands form an embayment of outstanding scenic amenity only 70 minutes drive from Wollongong and 2Vi hours from Sydney. [More…]
They will not come from natural increase, and the Government’s policy has effectively turned ofT the immigration tap. [More…]
Our normal population growth is 1.9 per cent- 1.1 per cent being natural growth and 0.8 per cent representing immigration growth. [More…]
It is a natural adjunct to taking over primary and secondary education that provision should now be made for technical education. [More…]
The exploration of the continental shelf and the exploitation of its natural resources must not result in any unjustifiable interference with navigation . [More…]
The Coastal State is entitled to construct and maintain or operate on the continental shelf installations and other devices necessary for its exploration and the exploitation of its natural resources. [More…]
It was poked there by the Minister to be left there for the term of its natural life. [More…]
It is plainly because if the High Court should uphold the validity of the Seas and Submerged Lands Act this Government would want to take unto itself complete control over all exploration and exploitation of natural resources off-shore from Australia- not only oil and gas but also other minerals that may be obtained from the sea bed. [More…]
Naturally enough the States are concerned at the impact of these proposed provisions on their powers and authority under the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act. [More…]
Naturally they would have preferred the Minister to consult them. [More…]
I am sure that the States would be prepared to co-operate fully with the Minister to see that a sensible code applies to off-shore operations in the exploration and exploitation of natural resources. [More…]
It is very important to the efficient and effective continuance of off-shore operations with respect to the exploration and exploitation of natural resources. [More…]
The GovernorGeneral had just been appointed so it was quite natural that this should sneak through, but the Prime Minister would not have been unaware of it. [More…]
The Governor-General was not even at that Executive Council meeting but when the Prime Minister, the Deputy Prime Minister, the Treasurer, the Minister for Minerals and Energy and the Attorney-General all signed the documents it was pretty natural that when the matter came before the Governor-General at a later date he would have thought it had been thoroughly examined and researched and that he would have signed it. [More…]
the institution of proceedings relating to the protection, maintenance and preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia (including those places, being components of that environment, that have aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the community). [More…]
the protection, maintenance or preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia (including any place, being a component of that environment, that has aesthetic, historic, scientific or social significance or other special value for future generations as well as for the community) if the provision of legal assistance under this Act to a person is not authorised by the preceding sub-sections of this section, legal assistance may nevertheless be provided to the person under this Act in such circumstances as are specified in, or ascertained in accordance with, the regulations. [More…]
The honourable member for Bennelong (Mr Howard) has pointed this up very well in referring to the proposed amendment to sub-clause (4) of clause 29 which relates to matters of public importance and matters affecting the protection, maintenance or preservation of the natural or cultural environment of Australia. [More…]
However, that may be gauged by the day, according to circumstances or events at the time, or in matters of natural or cultural environment. [More…]
They refused to disclose their donors because they are financed by foreign owned corporations which cannot wait to get their grubby, avaricious hands on Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
The work of the natural disasters organisation will cease- one would think that honourable members from Queensland would pay some attention to this- as the cyclone season in northern Australia will be reaching its peak. [More…]
Neither should we assume that the natural state of Australian politics must always be one of stability. [More…]
That sounds very natural and very understandable at first glance, but in Part VI of the Bill a wide power of public inquiry is conferred upon the Authority. [More…]
Where a licensed travel agent, being a natural person, dies and the Board does not grant a permit authorising a person to carry on the business formerly carried on by that agent on behalf of the legal personal representative of that agent, that legal personal representative- [More…]
In fact it is a perfectly natural procedure which is adopted in many professional organisations today. [More…]
For perfectly natural reasons the Minister for Tourism and [More…]
if the applicant is a natural person- that the applicant is a person of business integrity; [More…]
in respect of each member of the partnership (if any) who is a natural person- that he is a person of business integrity; and [More…]
Between 8 August 1975, when the Variable Deposit Ratio was reduced from 25 per cent to 5 per cent, and 30 September 1975, the latest date for which information is available, applications approved under exchange control to bring in funds from abroad specifically to finance exploration programs for oil (including natural gas) totalled $2 1.8m. [More…]
Moreover, floodwaters have been prevented by the levee banks from flowing into extensive natural pondages. [More…]
The problems have been compounded by low natural river capacity downstream from the town of Proserpine. [More…]
That statement adopts the Government’s policy of maximum control and ownership of our natural resources. [More…]
It proposes to require of foreign interests investing in oil, natural gas and mineral development and production an Australian equity of not less than 50 per cent of the proposed venture though it is not clear to the Government whether this extends into the exploration for and the initial development of our natural resources. [More…]
Maximum Australian control and ownership of our natural resources and associated industries is now common ground between us. [More…]
It certainly was effluent, and it certainly ruined the natural environment in that area. [More…]
We had regions that did not take account of the natural communication avenues such as roads and rivers. [More…]
But there are no requirements of a procedural nature even to ensure basic natural justice in the implementation of inquiries by the Aboriginal Land Commissioner. [More…]
They are groups and clans working and living together and they will be able to operate in a natural way- natural in the real sense- for Aboriginal people. [More…]
It is completely without any requirement of natural justice. [More…]
We find in these 2 clauses no basic guarantee of land rights; no basic guarantee of natural justice to those who may require some sort of a hearing; and no independent body set up in order to determine matters. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation is operating smoothly. [More…]
This Government will certainly act, in concert with State governments and other authorities, to protect the Australian environment, whether it is man-made or natural, if it is deemed to be desirable in the interests of future generations. [More…]
It was quite natural that in looking at the extravagances of the previous Government any particular program would be examined. [More…]
He said that he would not retrench public servants but would rely on natural wastage to reduce numbers. [More…]
This is natural and is to be expected. [More…]
He said also that the Natural Disasters Organisation was working smoothly. [More…]
In fact this is the third natural disaster in my electorate in 2 years. [More…]
It was very gratifying to read the Governor-General’s statement and indeed to learn that the Natural Disasters Organisation was working smoothly. [More…]
It is very gratifying to learn not only from the Governor-General’s Speech but also from the people in that area that the Natural Disasters Organisation is working smoothly. [More…]
It is gratifying to know that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) and the head of the Natural Disasters Organisation visited these parts of my electorate. [More…]
It was quite natural that in looking at the extravagances of the previous Government any particular program would be examined. [More…]
The honourable gentleman should well understand that matters which affect the individual in his environment, whether it is the natural environment or the physical environment and matters which affect community development all round Australia have been brought within one department. [More…]
When we attempted to bring into this Parliament legislation such as the Australian Government Insurance Corporation Bill which had as its main thrust, its main nub, that there would be cover for natural disasters, such as the Darwin cyclone, we were defeated by those who now occupy the Government benches. [More…]
The legislation would provide a real benefit for those people who are not covered by insurance or who have insurance that will not cover them for the damage they have sustained in a natural disaster. [More…]
The natural courtesy would have been to have had the matter put to them. [More…]
Yet I believe in effect the election was about the loans affair; it was about Labor’s bid to gain public equity of a substantial degree in Australia’s resources; it was about the world’s biggest supply of natural gas worth thousands of millions of dollars lying off the North- West Shelf of Australia of which people were demanding delivery. [More…]
Disillusioned as the people of Australia must be now, the facts are that all the time this election was about the intention of a Labor Government to gain control over the equity in Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
The present Government’s specific objectives in this area include the use of foreign capital, especially capital accompanied by technology and expertise as an integral component of Australia’s economic development, and maximum Australian ownership and control of natural resources with 50 per cent Australian equity participation in new projects and ventures. [More…]
These are policies which will assure the people of Australia control and ownership of our natural resources and at the same time provide for capital and expertise from overseas which are so necessary in the development of our mineral and petroleum resources. [More…]
Already the Minister for National Resources, the Deputy Prime Minister of this country, Mr Anthony, has pushed forward the development of North- West Shelf natural gas by a few more notches, but much more negotiation will be needed before the $ 1,000m scheme takes definite shape. [More…]
Mr Anthony said recently in his speech to the Japan-Australia Society in Tokyo that the Australian Government would allow the export of reasonable quantities of liquefied natural gas on a commercial basis. [More…]
Our natural resources are almost unique, and they have been outlined here today. [More…]
It was not my intention to negotiate on specific issues, such as access to the Japanese market for particular agricultural products, or the terms of the contracts on which supplies of Australia’s natural resources will be made available to Japan. [More…]
Discussions on minerals covered a wide range of subjects including coking coal and steaming coal, iron ore, uranium, liquid natural gas, liquid petroleum gas, salt and bauxite- alumina. [More…]
They desire and are entitled to proper assistance from governments and from the generosity and charity of people who are not caught up in the debris of a natural disaster. [More…]
After all, governments usually do not make natural disasters- except, of course, the Whitlam Administration- and neither do people or insurance companies. [More…]
But the results of a determined, practical approach to solve the financial, - emotional and personal trauma resulting from natural disasters will herald the solution to one of our great present problems. [More…]
I hope that over the life of this Thirtieth Parliament, under the leadership that will be given by the Government, we can do something meaningful to overcome the problems that inevitably will flow from natural disasters. [More…]
We are a rich country with huge natural resources which are the envy of the world and we aim to keep these resources under our control. [More…]
One notes in the opening remarks of the Governor-General’s Address the reference to the recent suffering and hardship that was inflicted on many people in this country because of the devastation caused by natural disasters. [More…]
Might I say that what the people need is not sympathy but a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
But I firmly believe that one of the basic reasons for our dismissal was that large corporation and large financial institutions, whether national or international, sought our oblivion to pave the way for the plundering of our vast natural resources- the people’s wealth. [More…]
The demand for liquefied natural gas, with which this country seems to be extremely well endowed, will increase at least 10 times in the next 10 years’. [More…]
- The demand from Japan for this resource alone-will increase by approximately 800 per cent:- The regrettable fact is that neither natural gas’ nor oil is conveniently located in the Western world. [More…]
The Western world consumes 70 per cent of all natural gas but holds only 32 per cent of the known reserves. [More…]
If this Government grants to the Consortium on the North West Shelf a licence, to export liquefied natural gas we will be involved: in contracts for shipping overseas approximately 700 million cubic feet a day, for a period of - about 20 years. [More…]
Regrettably, when a Government abdicates its responsibility in the resource area and fails to face up to its responsibilities, it is not only a natural disaster but a national disaster. [More…]
I am speaking now of natural harbours and not artificial ones. [More…]
Numerous emotive arguments can be advanced against the application of the user pays principle to Australian aviation and it is natural to expect that those with investments at stake in Australian aviation would argue and even distort issues, as they have done. [More…]
Again it is natural that vested interests in the community will lobby for political solutions. [More…]
Yet the Cockburn Sound industrial area and the Pilbara natural resource reserves are not purely Western Australian concerns. [More…]
An adequate energy supply is available in big deposits of natural gas on the North West Shelf, a fact mentioned by the Governor-General. [More…]
The region has available to it the basic resources of iron ore, salt and natural gas- an exceptionally generous spread of raw materials on which to base a vast industrial complex. [More…]
Therefore, any concern that West Australians have about their economic and military security in terms of the State’s natural resources should be shared fully and equally by the rest of Australia. [More…]
While we have a range of small manufacturing industries and the natural climate and environment have attracted a significant tourist income, the present and future viability of north west Victoria fluctuates continually with the fortunes of farm production in many diverse rural industries. [More…]
I would not do so either, although my natural inclination as a socialist would be to let them have a go. [More…]
Meat inspection is a part of the production process and it is natural to expect the industry to meet this cost. [More…]
I point out to the House that it is the larger, more populous States which in fact are living on the natural resources of the smaller States. [More…]
All we are asking for is to get our own money back from our own natural resources so that we can develop our own State. [More…]
Look at the electorate of Kalgoorlie, which would contain some of the vast natural resources of the State of Western Australia and which must be injecting massive amounts of money into the Australian economy. [More…]
It is this: In modern countries opportunities are for all citizens, opportunities for a complete education, opportunities for dignity in retirement, opportunities for proper medical treatment, opportunities to share in the nation’s wealth and resources, the opportunities for decent housing, the opportunities for civilized conditions in our cities and in our towns and the opportunities to preserve and promote the natural beauty of the land. [More…]
In a country with such natural potential as ours- we are always talking about this- that amounts to almost criminal negligence. [More…]
Like so many famous tourist attractions of our nation much needs to be done to preserve its natural beauty and inherent attraction. [More…]
I wish to develop the point about natural disasters and to request the Government to consider setting up a natural disaster fund. [More…]
I believe that now is the time to consider setting up a natural disaster fund because there has been a series of serious natural disasters and people are attuned to helping in a desperate situation. [More…]
In the State of Queensland, after the State Government has spent $2m in repairing damage caused by natural disasters any disaster which occurs and which causes damage totalling 10 per cent of that base figure of $2m is recognised as a major disaster and consequently attracts a payment from the Commonwealth Government to help the State repair government and semi-government buildings. [More…]
In many instances a natural disaster can cause great damage to the property of private individuals, to businesses, to public utilities such as sporting areas, to homes, to Salvation Army homes and to nursing homes, but these institutions do not receive assistance from the Commonwealth or the State. [More…]
a) environmental aspects of legislative and administrative measures which ought to be taken in order to ensure the wise and effective management of the Australian environment and of Australia’s natural resources, and [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
The Foundation will promote mutual visits by selected persons and also research and comparative studies in depth of a diverse range of topics embracing but not limited to the social institutions of the two countries, the social and natural sciences, industrial and creative arts and the humanities. [More…]
The first is natural gas from Australia’s North West Shelf. [More…]
When I go to Japan and read the English language Press there I hang my head in shame as an Australian to see the standard of literacy of the Japanese, their economic competence, their breadth of economic analysis, the sheer patriotism of those people, their efficiency, their ability to lift themselves up literally by their economic bootstraps- because in natural resources they have very little. [More…]
But there was a slightly different attitude towards the honourable member for Cunningham, because in the first instance he went to Japan not to make any sharp deals or anything like that but to look after the interests of our Australian heritage, our natural resources. [More…]
He had seen enough of previous governments trading away the natural resources of Australia at bargain basement prices and was determined to redress that situation. [More…]
I found the Japanese people to be remarkable, considering the work they have done in their islands and the fact that Japan has no real natural resources. [More…]
I think the development of the natural resources of this country is a matter for the Government of this country. [More…]
These are circumstances in which we, with the greatest per capita natural wealth in the world, are still unable to pay our way. [More…]
Surely we can find from our own natural resources the exports or the substitutes for imports which will enable us to keep our international account in balance. [More…]
In one way that is not a criticism; I believe it is just a natural corollary to the life which they live and the associations which they have. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation is operating smoothly. [More…]
We saw on our television screens in Australia a newsreel showing Soviet ships unloading Soviet material with outside assistance, and we saw outside forces engaged in what was said by these left-wing thinkers to be a natural uprising. [More…]
I represent the second biggest city in Victoria, one which has and has had for a long time a natural growth factor greater than that of any other centre of any size in that State and certainly greater in percentage than the Melbourne urban area. [More…]
The most plausible assumption set out in the Borrie Committee report is that the net immigration intake will be approximately 50 000 a year and that the replacement rate of natural population will be approximately one. [More…]
If such numbers were killed or injured in earthquakes, cyclones or some other form of natural disaster it would be a matter for an urgent relief program. [More…]
Income dealt with in this manner in the agreement includes income from real property, including income from the exploitation of natural resources, and income derived by public entertainers. [More…]
It is natural that more and more countries which have increasing economic relationships with Australia should want to enter into double tax agreements with our country. [More…]
No doubt many honourable members have journeyed to Fraser Island and viewed the natural beauty of that island and also realised the great wealth that lies in its mineral sands. [More…]
I take issue with the hard line conservationists, many of whom I believe, had they arrived in this country when it was in its natural state, would have us all today living in bark huts. [More…]
It is true that many people would not have us touch a tree, mine any of our natural resources or indeed till the soil for food. [More…]
I realise that there has been considerable despoilment of our natural environment and that man has interfered with and endangered many species of plant, bird and animal life. [More…]
-The concept that the Australian Gas Light Co. had back in the early part of the 1970s was to provide the metropolitan area of Sydney, Wollongong and Newcastle, as well as a number of regional centres, with cheap, reliable supplies of natural gas. [More…]
If we cannot compete with other countries on our standard of living, if we cannot compete on the basis of our natural resources, which are fairly extensive, if we cannot compete by adopting the latest technology and innovation, then we should restructure. [More…]
I believe that in this situation structural change will take place in a natural sequence of events as the profit margin is squeezed out. [More…]
So I think there will be a more natural movement out of the industry. [More…]
So it is only natural that the labour component should be taken into consideration. [More…]
Is it not natural for views concerning the funding of the ABC to be expressed? [More…]
New areas of advanced technology with astronomically high costs, the requirement of preserving and improving the natural environment, the constant erosion of balance sheets by inflation are some of the causes which clearly reveal that the risks to private industry are growing even faster than the need for capital. [More…]
It seems that whilst the main competitor to wool is the artificial fibres and that one of the main problems for the manufacturer using the natural wool fibre is the fluctuating cost, maybe it is time we considered long term contracts, say between the Corporation and the manufacturer direct, just as we do with our minerals. [More…]
Natural gas, refined gas and naptha are used in the production of urea, sulphate of ammonia and aqua ammonia in an industry which exclusively caters for the horticultural industries. [More…]
It is one of the natural advantages which I believe will play a significant part in the future of the Australian farmer. [More…]
When Batman arrived in the area where Melbourne now stands and when McMillan walked over the mountains into Gippsland, and the pioneers went into the hinterland they found natural pasture growing. [More…]
It is the rather topical issue of natural disasters and an insurance scheme to offset the damage and mischief that results from these disasters. [More…]
There seems to be popular acceptance of the notion that people who suffer an injury or loss in what might be described as a declared natural disaster area are entitled to public charity or to the public purse, through the established government. [More…]
There is a supposition that in the establishment of such an insurance scheme, regardless of where people live or regardless of the natural risks that they may be subject to, the taxpayers of Australia will be required to subsidise it. [More…]
To put it in a nutshell, I suggest to the House that there is no greater disaster or hardship than that which befalls an individual, such as Farmer Brown or Shire Clerk Smith, who finds himself the sole victim of some meteorological or natural phenomenon. [More…]
In Queensland we have the various forms of nitrogen being produced basically from the natural gas fields at Roma and the refinery off-gas from the Ampol Petroleum Ltd refinery. [More…]
There is a long term contract for the supply of natural gas from Roma, the contract specifying a constant price for the whole period of the contract. [More…]
Unfortunately, because of the negative attitudes of the Labor Government during the past 3 years, with no encouragement being given to people to get out and take the risks in exploring the field for greater finds of natural gas, the supplies of this gas have been limited. [More…]
I hope that the present Government will give positive encouragement to people to get out and explore for natural gas which, in Queensland, is one of the basic ingredients in the manufacture of nitrogen. [More…]
I am a total supporter of the superphosphate bounty because I believe it encourages us to preserve the value of our greatest natural resource, the soil. [More…]
In other words, what I am suggesting is not that we have gone too far by restoring a bounty which in my view, frankly, is too small in view of the price rises in recent times but that we have not gone far enough in encouraging the preservation of a major natural resource. [More…]
No wonder the rural sector could not afford to maintain its natural and main resource- the land. [More…]
It must be doubtful whether there would be acceptable and feasible means whereby an Australian Government could seek to increase fertility even if it were the community view that our natural population growth rate was too low. [More…]
The agreed policy was that Australia’s population should increase by an average of 2 per cent per annum, approximately 1 per cent resulting from natural increase and the balance from immigration. [More…]
There are groups who see our standard of living rising by upgrading the skills of our work force and developing our natural resources without the assistance of further immigration or even population growth. [More…]
There is no doubt, therefore, that Australia has the natural resources, as well as the technological capacity and the political, economic and social structures to enable population increases during the rest of this century of at least the levels of the post-war period. [More…]
The constraints on our potential for population growth are not so much those of our natural resources as of the need to ensure a continuing improvement in living and working standards, the avoidance of short-term pressures on our infra-structures, the preservation of the environment, the avoidance of pockets of disadvantaged persons and groups, the need to ensure the retention of a cohesive Australian community with scope for cultural, ethnic and individual diversity and the availability of the sorts of migrants the Australian community requires and wants. [More…]
If this survey is satisfactory the Ithica, Enoggera, Breakfast and Kedron Brook Creeks will be dredged and deepened and the run-off of flood waters through this natural drainage system around Brisbane will be accelerated. [More…]
In my humble opinion the prevention of major natural disasters to our towns and cities wherever possible should be of the highest priority in our deliberations as parliamentarians. [More…]
The previous Liberal Government introduced export controls on an ad hoc basis, namely with a view to preserving what it considered to be Australia’s inadequate reserves of iron ore, uranium, natural gas and mineral sands, because, basically, the controls at that time were a conservation mechanism. [More…]
The point that seems to have excited people is my belief that our great natural riches will be coveted by other nations who lack such resources and who are going to need them. [More…]
We are a little short of crude oil but in respect of natural gas, uranium and, above all, coal we have enormous quantities. [More…]
The family is the natural and fundamental group-unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [More…]
Our policy will offer Australians maximum opportunity to participate as fully and effectively as practicable in the ownership and control of our natural resources and industries- and, thereby, in decisions having an important influence on our economic and social development. [More…]
He meant that with natural wastage and retirements induced by the finalisation of this superannuation scheme the Public Service could be diminished by 17 000 because these people would not be replaced. [More…]
However, the natural growth in those sectors of the industry which are expected to remain, will, over the same period, result in the creation of about 13 000 new jobs. [More…]
Eighthly, South Australia is comparatively deficient in natural resources and is not well located on major trading and transport routes. [More…]
Despite a lack of natural resources the State was able to import resources, manufacture them and export them to other States, and still undersell local products on interstate markets. [More…]
When they take Australian citizenship they receive all the entitlements of natural born Australians and they should be designated as Australians of European origin, British origin or whatever. [More…]
The natural temptation for a person in my situation is to join issue with the honourable gentleman and to canvass the merits of that case and of the allegation that he makes. [More…]
The fact is that the Government has agreed in principle with the implementation of a natural disaster insurance program. [More…]
Honourable members will realise from what I have said that the Government obviously recognises the disabilities which are inherent in the present position, particularly in the context of recent natural disasters which have highlighted those deficiencies. [More…]
But honourable members must understand both the restraints imposed upon us by Mr Martins himself and the natural human instincts we felt bound to follow on the receipt of certain letters from some of the next of kin. [More…]
It is natural therefore that business will not invest and the people will not go out and buy. [More…]
In, as the Treasurer would put it, the totality of the Australian Labor Government’s approach to problems of developing Australia’s vast natural resources, due recognition was made of the problems of raising domestic capital on the scale required. [More…]
These are international companies, a natural product of the growing specialisation in this increasingly small world. [More…]
-The question of foreign investment in the development of Australia’s natural resources is more basic to the future prosperity of the people of Australia than almost any other issue. [More…]
Firstly, recognising that multi-national corporations cannot be relied upon to develop Australia’s natural resources in the national interest, how is Australian ownership and control of new development projects to be achieved? [More…]
Secondly, recognising the enormous potential future strategic and economic importance of access to natural resources, what is the role of the national Government in the field of natural resources management, particularly in relation to two basic questions- a resources availability and scarcity? [More…]
That investment is required from a society where the total amount of annual savings is between $ 14,000m and $ 15,000m and clearly points to the need for foreign capital to assist in the development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
Rather the question is on what terms should foreign investors be allowed to participate in the development of our natural resources. [More…]
Between 1964 and 1970 82.5 per cent of funds invested in the development of - Australian natural resources was employed by foreignowned companies but, according to the 1974 survey by Professor McKern 25.7 per cent of the total funds invested, that is about $ 1,100m, was provided by the Australian capital market. [More…]
The fact that the companies which development Australia’s natural resources are mostly foreign controlled means that Australia thereby loses the development of Australian-controlled corporate organisations. [More…]
That might be called the ‘lost opportunity’ cost of the present pattern of mining of Australian natural resources. [More…]
I want to conclude with some remarks on the need for the use of Australian natural resources to be based on a national minerals and energy policy. [More…]
An article which appeared in the New York Times Weekly Review last January pointed out that 20 big oil companies control 94 per cent of United States oil reserves; the 18 largest oil companies produce 60 per cent of the natural gas supply; sixteen of the eighteen own oil shale interests; eleven possess huge coal reserves; sixteen have bought into uranium; three own solar energy companiesand the only geothermal lands in production in the United States are owned by one oil company. [More…]
We need 2 basic elements in a policy for foreign investment in Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
Today on the North West Shelf there is an admitted 18 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. [More…]
I would be the last man in this House to deny the right, for example, of Western Australia to the development of natural gas for its own purposes. [More…]
No matter what the extent of our natural resources, it is no use priding ourselves on them if they are to stay in the ground. [More…]
There is no need for any AustraIian to feel embarrassment that we should have some sense of national aspiration when it comes to the development of our natural resources and our industrial development. [More…]
This situation has been reached by the natural process- by resignations, retirements, natural wastage- and not by sackings in any sense, shape or form. [More…]
I accept that in the context of debate on legislation of this nature and because it involves a consideration of business and consumer interests it is natural that the Opposition will take the opportunity to make a few political points about alleged conflicts that exist between the consumer interest and business interest aspects of my portfolio. [More…]
That is a perfectly natural thing for the Commission to do. [More…]
So to that extent it is not fair to look at the House of Commons and say that it has found need for an expenditure committee and therefore it is natural and goes without saying that there would be such a need in the Australian Parliament. [More…]
No duty is payable on imported wool packs manufactured of either natural or synthetic material. [More…]
What Alderman Ryan did, and he has been given the lie today by no less a person than the Mayor of Kogarah, was to take a simple statement by Sir Eric Willis, the Premier, who said that the planes would bank left or right, which is quite natural, and make up a completely new flight path, moving the east-west flight path two miles down to the south- not 200 metres but 2 miles- and then adding it to the end of the northsouth runway. [More…]
It is pointless for the Commission in report after report to suggest that natural wastage will prevent retrenchments. [More…]
Natural wastage simply creates a pool of unemployment in districts where no further staff is being taken on. [More…]
The effect of that large devaluation would be like the effect of tariffs - the price of imports would be higher and thus a large sector of manufacturing industry would be protected as it is now, but by the ‘natural’ means of the lower exchange rate. [More…]
It must cease washing its hands by saying that natural wastage will avoid retrenchments and, therefore, unemployment. [More…]
In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living . [More…]
The Western Region of Adelaide can very well be seen as a natural community which does not consider itself imposed by the Canberra government. [More…]
This is intended to ensure that the Commonwealth Government does not become involved in numerous small natural disaster assistance schemes which the States are considered able to finance from their own resources. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government does not normally carry out any detailed investigation of its own to determine whether or not financial assistance for natural disaster relief in the States is required, as this is considered to be a State Government responsibility. [More…]
Any requests by the State Government are examined by the Commonwealth Government together with any relevant meteorological reports, press reports or information from the Natural Disasters Organisation, before the Commonwealth decides whether to provide assistance and if so on what basis and for what purpose. [More…]
A State which receives assistance under the natural disaster arrangments provides an audited statement of expenditures incurred to the Commonwealth Treasury as soon as practicable after the end of the relevant financial year. [More…]
On page 36 of the Budget document ‘Payments to or for the States and Local Government Authorities 1975-76’ it is stated that, under a program of assistance for State Emergency Services, the Natural Disasters Organisation may make grants to the States to subsidise certain forms of disaster protection works, including levee banks. [More…]
I think that honourable gentlemen now understand that the Government hopes that, through the process of natural selection and choice, an Australian national song which is preferred will emerge. [More…]
As productivity increases in our country it is only natural that the aged benefit in some respects. [More…]
I ask: Has the Government had the New Zealand natural disaster insurance scheme checked out? [More…]
I am aware of the scheme to which the honourable gentleman referred- the New Zealand natural disaster program- which has led to the results to which he has adverted being achieved in New Zealand. [More…]
I remind the honourable gentleman of what I said recently in response to a question posed to me by the honourable member for Balaclava, that is, that the Government has accepted in principle the need for a natural disaster program in Australia because of the obvious deficiencies in the existing facilities which certainly have been brought home by recent natural disasters. [More…]
That working party is naturally taking the opportunity to view in all countries in the Western world which have a value for the purposes of comparison and research- and that will include New Zealand- comparable programs which may have a capacity for implementation here. [More…]
There are the natural growth centres, the places where people are going of their own free choice, such as GosfordWyong area, the Blue Mountains and Campbelltown and there are those that have to be stimulated by forms of incentive, such as the Albury-Wodonga and Bathurst-Orange areas. [More…]
There is a natural growth factor in the increasing population of the areas I have mentioned, but a lot of people want to get out of the metropolitan areas and we need to provide them with the planned communities so that they can do just that. [More…]
That, in the opinion of this House, the Government should implement forthwith a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
Regrettably, Australia has been and will continue to be devastated by one type of natural disaster or another, each with varying degrees of intensity and devastation. [More…]
Natural disasters will strike whenever or wherever they will. [More…]
The most important is the implementation of a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
Sections of the insurance industry have alleviated much of the hardship associated with natural catastrophes. [More…]
Cyclone Tracy highlighted the need for a better system of natural disaster insurance. [More…]
I seek leave to incorporate in Hansard a table setting out the major natural disasters which occurred between 1939 and 1976. [More…]
A natural disaster insurance scheme would remove this uncertainty. [More…]
At this point we should consider the stark assessment in the report of the Insurance Committee on Natural Disaster Insurance on cyclone Tracy, I quote: [More…]
Although this raises serious questions about Darwin’s propensity for survival, having regard to its location, we must look at the existing provisions for natural disaster insurance. [More…]
The existing provisions for natural disaster insurance are totally inadequate. [More…]
Preoccupation with their own survival means that insurers are in no position to cater for natural disaster insurance at a reasonable rate. [More…]
A natural disaster insurance fund, built up over the years and drawing premiums from all over Australia to spread the cover, would alleviate the many shortcomings in the present scheme, or more correctly the lack of such a scheme. [More…]
Firstly, natural disaster insurance should be available to all Australians at reasonable cost. [More…]
Do we mean a fund created to extend cover to and created from the whole nation to help in a natural disaster? [More…]
Stock and farm losses in the region of $50m in northern New South Wales and Queensland in the February 1976 floods are a reminder of the high cost of natural disasters to rural industry. [More…]
Returning to the question of property cover, a natural disaster insurance scheme which Australia could well emulate is the New Zealand model introduced in that country during the last war. [More…]
While cyclones and storms in the tropics have dominated natural disaster headlines in this country over the past few years, our southern cities are by no means immune from flood. [More…]
In conclusion, I should like to say that a natural disaster insurance scheme should form part of a wider commitment to disaster control and relief. [More…]
A natural disaster organisation was set up by the former Labor Government to encourage greater disaster preparedness and to provide assistance and relief in the event of a disaster. [More…]
Another step which should be taken by the Government is the setting up of a disaster research unit, interlocked with the Bureau of Meteorology for climatic forecasting, to study ways of reducing the damage and suffering from natural disasters. [More…]
Such safeguards would have the effect of mitigating as far as possible the effects of natural disasters and the devastation which is frequently caused. [More…]
The devastation caused by natural disasters resulting in hardship, suffering, anxiety and loss of life is an ‘humiliation’ by which regrettably this nation will continue to be ravaged. [More…]
While governments cannot compensate for human suffering, they can, by the implementation of a natural disaster insurance scheme ensure that the financial hardship suffered by people unfortunate enough to be the victims of natural disasters will at least be minimised. [More…]
I suggest that a natural disaster insurance scheme is an issue which ought to commend itself to a bi-partisan approach. [More…]
Australia is natural disaster prone. [More…]
We all know from the bitter experience of so many floods, fires and wild elemental disturbances how costly these natural disasters can be and how severe they can be in terms of personal and social stress on the Australian community. [More…]
Of course, Australia is particularly prone to natural disasters. [More…]
I believe that the daunting difficulties in many ways of trying to work out a practicable system of natural disaster insurance are such that we ought to get together to try to work out the best scheme possible for this country. [More…]
Certainly this has been true on the occasion of major natural disasters in this country when understandably there is a high pitch of emotion, sometimes not terribly helped by the media. [More…]
I remember, when I was Treasurer, discussing the problems of natural disaster insurance cover by private insurance companies and the experiences we had had with the Insurance Commissioner within the Australian Public Service. [More…]
It is quite clear that because of the sudden upsurge in the regularity with which these disasters are occurring and the extent of these natural disasters measured in all sorts of dimensions, Australian insurance companies have been finding extreme financial difficulty in maintaining their position. [More…]
The costliness of natural disaster insurance was summed up very neatly and dramatically by the honourable member. [More…]
-The honourable member for Hawker (Mr Jacobi), like myself, has had a deep interest in this subject of natural disaster insurance for a long time. [More…]
The people of Australia are interested in this subject of natural disaster insurance. [More…]
That has nothing to do with the question of natural disaster insurance. [More…]
Because of the noise in the chamber I was not able to hear all that the honourable member for Hawker said, but underlying his comments there seemed to be a misapprehension about the role of reinsurance and some condemnation of the Australian insurance companies on the basis that most of the reinsurance was done overseas and therefore most of the money paid in respect of natural disasters came from overseas. [More…]
The motion calls as a matter of general principle for the introduction of a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
As the honourable member for Hawker acknowledged, the Government is firmly committed to the introduction of a natural disaster insurance scheme and it will do so as soon as it is practicable. [More…]
In fact the need for improvements in the arrangements for protecting the community against losses to property arising from natural disasters was highlighted in January 1974 by the floods in the Brisbane River valley. [More…]
Following the Brisbane floods the Labor Government accepted the offer by the general insurance industry to examine ways of extending natural disaster insurance. [More…]
Another piece of legislation was introduced called the Australian Government Insurance Corporation Bill which was purporting to cure the problem of natural disaster insurance. [More…]
It used the term ‘national interest’ but it never used the term ‘natural disaster’. [More…]
Let me say by way of slight digression that one of the things the Labor Government said in making a plaything of this natural disaster cover was that the only people who were properly covered were those in defence forces homes or homes which were subject to war service loans. [More…]
The insurance industry was and remains deeply concerned that further natural disasters of the magnitude of Cyclone Tracy could endanger the solvency of individual companies and of the industry as a whole. [More…]
I am in agreement with the honourable member for Hawker and the honourable member for Oxley who said that Australia could well be prone to further natural disasters. [More…]
That is the reason for the Government treating this question of natural disaster insurance as being of top priority. [More…]
Amongst those that they could not continue to write would be for catastrophe cover for structures in natural disaster prone areas. [More…]
In reports to the Labor Government by the Insurance Conference Committee, a very widely representative group of insurance companies, proposals were made for the introduction of a natural disaster insurance scheme in Australia to compensate for the loss of or damage to private property by flood, earthquake and tropical cyclones. [More…]
These recommendations stemmed from the industry’s belief that it was capable of providing suitable insurance cover for property losses arising from other types of natural disaster. [More…]
The industry believes that the natural disaster fund could cope with those 3 items I have mentioned and that the industry itself could cope with the other forms of natural disaster. [More…]
It is necessary to examine in detail the various natural disaster schemes which are operating overseas, particularly in the United States of America and Switzerland. [More…]
While these overseas schemes are of considerable assistance in identifying the problems of any scheme which may be introduced in Australia, it is necessary that we remember in this House that we have to devise an Australian scheme which is designed for the types of natural disasters which we are likely to have in Australia. [More…]
The object of tailoring overseas experience to Australian conditions in our own natural disaster insurance scheme is of paramount importance to this Government. [More…]
The present Government recognised the urgent need for improved natural disaster insurance arrangements. [More…]
The Government has therefore agreed in principle to the introduction of natural disaster insurance in Australia and it has approved that the working party bring in proposals as soon as possible. [More…]
The Government considers that any natural disaster insurance scheme must be placed on a stable and viable footing. [More…]
At the time of the announcement of the Government’s decision it was evident that a great deal of analysis and consultation remained to be carried out before a viable and workable natural disaster insurance scheme could be brought into operation. [More…]
The States have always had a responsibility for alleviating the stress and the hardship which arises from natural disasters. [More…]
I think it is worth stressing that in the past natural disasters have been dealt with by Federal and State governments in a rather ad hoc way and it is now desirable to formulate a systematic federalist approach to this serious problem. [More…]
A significant lesson emerging from studies made to date by the working party is that there are many pitfalls which must be avoided in developing a successful natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
So from the outset we want a sound, workable, efficient scheme which will not create false expectations but which will take account of the likely calamities arising from future natural disasters which may strike our country. [More…]
At the same time, the Government believes that the scheme should make full use of existing and potential insurance services, facilitate implementation of policies for mitigation of risks arising from natural disasters and encourage people to protect their own interests as far as possible. [More…]
For these reasons it would be irresponsible, if not nigh impossible, for the Government to introduce a natural disaster scheme forthwith. [More…]
For this reason great caution must be exercised in the formulation of a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
An inadequate scheme would not alleviate the hardships caused by natural disasters but would squander taxpayers’ money, and this Government is determined not to do that. [More…]
If that amendment is accepted the motion as passed will represent a unanimous view of this House about the need for a responsible natural disaster scheme as soon as practicable. [More…]
It means that there must be, by a natural order of things, flowing from that appreciable increases available to the Government because the costs which had to be met in the Budget were addressed in terms of a certain rate of increase necessary to meet those costs. [More…]
For instance, they are using helicopter or service flights to cover natural disasters such as floods or bushfires and charter flights to flood-bound airstrips or remote locations not serviced by regular airlines. [More…]
I ) and (2) In a statement on 4 March 1 976 I announced that the Government had decided in principle to introduce a natural disaster insurance scheme and had approved the establishment of a working party of officials to formulate a scheme in consultation with the insurance industry. [More…]
The working party’s terms of reference do not extend to consideration of the question of insurance of grain and horticultural crop losses against natural hazards. [More…]
As pan of this separate examination of crop insurance, the insurance industry, through its Insurance Conference Committee, is examining the feasibility of establishing an insurance pool for the purpose of increasing the availability of natural disaster crop insurance. [More…]
In addition, the Industries Assistance Commission is conducting an inquiry into rural income fluctuations, and its findings should be relevant to natural disaster insurance for agricultural products. [More…]
Any Government decision on the question of natural disaster insurance for agricultural products would be made in the light of the reports of the Insurance Conference Committee and the Industries Assistance Commission. [More…]
I should like to say a few words now about natural disasters because they occur from time to time. [More…]
Therefore I suggest that there should be consultation between the States to arrive at a system of operation through our natural disaster organisation which will enable all the States to get not only equitable treatment but also treatment which has the same timetable and also to ensure that there is no dissatisfaction between the States, which there should not be. [More…]
I should like to see the intercrossing of States in times of natural disaster. [More…]
I hope that these views will be collated and that the fullest possible advantage will be taken of methods of dealing with those natural disasters and that the splendid organisation that we have will be even more efficient in the future. [More…]
For example, in my State there was a recent discovery of more natural gas. [More…]
The only other comment that I would like to make is that when a new system comes into operation in an area like this no matter how much warning has been given of it, no matter how much opportunity has been provided for comments and for submissions from interested parties, there is always a natural disposition to put off until fairly near to the operative date an application of the mind to the provisions of the new legislation. [More…]
Is he able to (a) guarantee that the Government has the capacity to respond speedily and generously to natural disasters such as the Guatemalan earthquake, (b) assure the House that the development assistance administered by the Bureau of Overseas Aid will be free from political considerations of foreign policy and (c) give an assurance that there will be a substantial increase in the proportion of Gross National Product devoted to overseas development aid in the 1976-77 Budget. [More…]
The Government has the administrative capacity to respond speedily and generously to natural disasters. [More…]
It was a natural reaction. [More…]
With its known natural resources guaranteeing it a secure economic base, allied with the strength, resourcefulness and initiative of its people and under the guiding hand of the Territory’s own fully elected legislature, the future of the Territory must surely be bright. [More…]
We have to instil in the hearts and minds of Australian people a natural love of and caring for the land. [More…]
The widespread use of broadcasting translator stations will also be necessary in respect of frequency modulation services as they are developed in order to fill in gaps in coverage caused by natural and manmade obstructions- for example hills, tall buildings, etc. [More…]
I refer to the decision that, in the case of custody of children, the Act was valid only to the extent that it applied to proceeding between the parties to a marriage for the custody of the natural or adopted children of both of them. [More…]
The expression ‘child of a marriage’ has been limited to the natural or adopted children of both parties to the marriage, although the existing, wider meaning has been retained for the purposes of section 63, which prevents a divorce becoming absolute unless the court is satisfied as to the welfare of children of the marriage. [More…]
The National Pipeline Authority will not enter into any commitment with respect to the country laterals of the Moomba-Sydney natural gas pipeline until the Government has reviewed the matter in the context of the 1976-77 Budget. [More…]
But of course in the late 1960s and early 1970s we were aware of the world recession taking place and great oil price rises, and it was natural that Australia would have an increase in inflation because of the pressures. [More…]
For AlburyWodonga the most successful and creative experiment in co-operative federalism- the Government is providing $9m to meet its legal commitments compared with $45 m sought by the Department to maintain the program at its natural rate of development. [More…]
We should allow for natural forces acting within private companies, the managements and shareholders, to disgorge some of these things in the normal way. [More…]
As the guardian of immigrant children, the Federal Minister for Social Security has the same rights, powers, duties, obligations and liabilities as a natural guardian. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Natural Resources. [More…]
In view of the excessive cost of feed stocks for gas making, has the Government given any consideration to ways of relieving the financial burden being placed on gas authorities and consumers in centres where natural gas is not available? [More…]
I put as a natural extension of the federalist philosophy which I adopt the argument that, in my opinion at any rate, if the collegiate system is taken away the smaller States can say goodbye to any chance of having an effective role to play in the election of federal office bearers of their unions. [More…]
-Has the Minister for National Resources seen reports that the Federal Government is refusing to honour commitments to construct natural gas pipeline laterals from Young to Wagga and Lithgow? [More…]
-There does seem to be some misunderstanding of the guidelines which have been laid down by the Treasurer in relation to the development of our natural resources, whether they be oil, natural gas or other minerals. [More…]
It is my opinion that this Government not only does not have any commitment to the preservation and improvement of the natural and built environment but also does not even understand the most important environmental Act it has to administer. [More…]
The purpose of that definition was to ensure that the use of the Act was not to be confined to matters affecting the physical or natural environment only. [More…]
They have a natural aptitude and sheer ability. [More…]
Australian tuition is largely at the theoretical level, with junior officers making watch-keeping decisions that are based on their natural aptitude. [More…]
We have made it perfectly clear throughout the statement that the Government’s intention, of course, is to provide the maximum opportunity for Australians to participate in the development of our own natural resources, but at the same time - [More…]
There is a lot of natural gas, but the oil is beyond. [More…]
Proserpine has a very productive sugar industry and the flood mitigation works should enable the industry to exploit more fully the natural advantages of the region. [More…]
For too long in our history environmental issues were ignored and many of our greatest man made and natural assets have been destroyed. [More…]
People are now fighting against the wanton destruction and pollution of the environment, and fighting for the preservation of natural assets and beauty spots. [More…]
They are, of course, natural gas and solar energy. [More…]
Unfortunately, natural gas reserves are not situated near the Australian Capital Territory, and it would appear that a spur line from the Moomba-Sydney gas pipeline is now unlikely to be built. [More…]
If reserves are doubled in the near future there may still be a possibility of piping natural gas to Canberra. [More…]
Less than 2 years ago this small, friendly country was drawing people from all over the world, not only because of its natural attractions which contrasted the ancient with the ultra modern- the ruins of Ba’albek with downtown Beirut. [More…]
If we do not, the natural processes of the Services wanting the best equipment will mean that every ship, every aircraft and every other bit of military equipment will escalate to the best in the world. [More…]
Kevin Johnson- Natural Friends and Music- hour weekly. [More…]
Some of the alternatives under study involve reinstatement of the natural levee banks of the river to increase its carrying capacity, upgrading the existing regulators, improved drainage works and selected de-snagging. [More…]
It should be noted that the Australian wheat industry is on a very much larger scale than New Zealand’s and the fluctuations in yield from one natural cause or another are very much greater. [More…]
The Government has already expressed its interest in natural disasters insurance schemes. [More…]
The Insurance Industry Conference has been asked to report on the feasibility of introducing a crop and livestock insurance scheme and in addition a study is currently being undertaken into the possibility of introducing a more widely based natural disasters insurance scheme covering the major natural hazards such as earthquake, tropical cyclones, floods and bushfires. [More…]
The Labor Government sought from the Committee for the first time in Australian history an inventory of our natural and man-made heritage. [More…]
Do honourable members know that it was the responsibility of the land commissions to protect and to buy areas such as the escarpment of the Blue Mountains and many other places of natural beauty such as the foreshores of the Port Phillip Bay peninsula and many other areas? [More…]
November 1972 saw the general conference of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation- I remind honourable members that this was in 1972 and not 23 years ago- adopting the Convention for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural National Heritage. [More…]
The preamble of that convention emphasised the threat to the cultural or natural heritage of all nations of the world. [More…]
That deterioration or disappearance of any item of the cultural or natural heritage constitutes a harmful impoverishment of the heritage of all the nations of the world, that protection of this heritage at the national level often remains incomplete because of the scale of the resources which it requires and of the insufficient economic, scientific, and technical resources of the country where the property to be protected is situated. [More…]
If any commitment of the natural environment which would form part of the National Estate and appear on the register in accordance with the terms of the Act is in danger of destruction, despoliation or is in any way adversely affected, the Government must take immediate and urgent steps, on the advice of the Commission, to preserve or maintain that component. [More…]
Many honourable members will recall examples from their electorates of prehistorical archaeological sites, Aboriginal sites, historical archaeological sites, individual historic buildings, historic structures, and other natural features and areas which must under no circumstances whatsoever be destroyed or in any way damaged by the hand of man. [More…]
Is this a natural reaction in a society such as the one we live in? [More…]
During that period many of our beautiful natural sandstone buildings in Sydney were destroyed. [More…]
Even though the Commissioners are all good people and I have been advised by people who should know their backgrounds and their disciplines, I understand that most of the Commissioners have disciplines in the man-made environment and not so much in the natural environment. [More…]
Moreover, floodwaters have been prevented by the levee banks from flowing into extensive natural pondages. [More…]
The problems have been compounded by low natural river capacity downstream from the town of Proserpine. [More…]
1 respect the Minister for Natural Resources (Mr Anthony) for persevering with this assistance which has been brought to successful fruition in this Bill. [More…]
The deportee had had what the law calls a fair hearing under the rules of natural justice. [More…]
I am at the moment considering proposals for judicial review of administrative decisions which will simplify the procedures, but may I say that as part of that proposal there will be an administrative procedure part of the relevant Act which would be designed to apply basic rules of natural justice to all administrative tribunals so as to ensure that all Commonwealth tribunals see that people are treated fairly, that they get the opportunity to be heard, and so on. [More…]
And they are most likely to be industries based on our natural resources. [More…]
The Treasurer’s recent statements have all been to do with the need for a fillip to business and with the natural corollary that everyone else must tighten his belt. [More…]
As was the case in the 1920s, the Treasurer should be addressing himself to questions such as: Why should a community possessed of abundant natural resources, which urgently needs commodities to satisfy the necessities of life, allow willing workers to become unemployed, to remain unemployed and to suffer all the horrors of privation, disease, degradation and human despair and death? [More…]
My question to the Treasurer relates to the crucial need for a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
More importantly, when will the legislation enabling a natural disaster insurance scheme to be established be presented in this House? [More…]
The facts are these: In March of this year I indicated that the Government accepted in principle the need for a natural disaster insurance program because of the glaring inadequacy of existing insurance arrangements in relation to natural disasters. [More…]
There is a great natural temptation to hit the ground for safety, and once down it is very hard to get up again and continue to advance. [More…]
They are exported in their natural state and therefore provide employment for people in other countries, certainly not in Australia. [More…]
We are now introducing an income equalisation deposits scheme which will enable primary producers better to withstand natural disasters and years of unusually poor returns. [More…]
We have made provision for drought relief for affected areas under the natural disaster assistance arrangements with the States. [More…]
In the United States of America, Lake Michigan reached the stage where the water was poisonous because it was being used as a natural cheap sewer. [More…]
A lot of Australia’s natural resources and environment are in danger from overexploitation without proper care. [More…]
Firstly, in relation to the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act, the Bill places the statutory powers conferred by the Act in the hands of the Minister for Primary Industry and the Secretary to his Department, rather than in that Minister and the Minister having responsibility for external Territories, as in the past. [More…]
Having been involved in local government for more than 30 years both as a servant and an alderman it is natural that to me one of the many highlights of this Budget is the recognition by our Government of the needs of local government in the new federalism policy. [More…]
Let me quote some of the cuts: Aboriginal programs $33m; growth centres $39m; land councils $28m; sewerage $63m; migrant education $llm; Medibank hospital benefits $118m; unemployment benefits $34m; Regional Employment Development scheme $153m; area improvement $15m; shipping $46m; uranium exploration $9m; shipbuilding $16m; export incentives $5 5m; and natural disaster payments $37m. [More…]
And they are most likely to be industries based on our natural resources. [More…]
The world scramble for rapidly dwindling natural resources is one area which no government can afford to ignore. [More…]
From the national viewpoint maximum benefit is achieved through processing natural resources to the maximum extent. [More…]
I simply ask the Government: Must our resource situation reach crisis point before we learn the lesson that natural resources require national management if we are to achieve maximum national benefit? [More…]
In my case it enabled the GovernorGeneral to dispense with the principles of natural justice and to dismiss me without a reason and without giving me an opportunity to be heard. [More…]
We were greatly impressed on that tour by the mining companies’ acknowledgment of their responsibilities to restore the land to its natural condition after the minerals had been removed. [More…]
They are responsible people who are restoring the earth to its natural state. [More…]
The justification for such measures lies in the fact that the effect will be a greatly increased cash flow for companies undertaking the development of our natural resourcesprojects for which vast sums of capital are required. [More…]
Australia has given 9 tonnes of milk biscuits worth $20,000 (including freight) to the Philippines and 6 tonnes of milk biscuits worth $13,000 (including freight) to Indonesia during this financial year for use in natural disaster situations. [More…]
He will also be aware that under the joint natural disaster arrangements New South Wales has to spend something like $5m to $6m before the Commonwealth is required to assist with natural disaster payments. [More…]
Is any avenue open to the Federal Government to encourage the New South Wales Government to fulfil its responsibilities under the natural disaster arrangements and to allocate its contribution to drought relief? [More…]
The continuing mismanagement by the Government of Australia ‘s natural resources and their marketing. [More…]
-The Opposition has chosen as a matter of public importance the question of the continuing mismanagement by the Government of Australia’s natural resources and their marketing. [More…]
His speech was really a confession of the Australian Labor Party’s failure in the management of the natural resources of this country. [More…]
The present Government already has a fairly impressive record in the administration of the natural resources of this country in the course of this year. [More…]
As to the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968, the Bill substitutes a definition of ‘Australia’ which does not include Norfolk Island and the Coral Sea Islands Territory and substitutes a definition of the ‘Australian continental shelf which does not include the continental shelves adjacent to Norfolk Island and the Coral Sea Islands Territory. [More…]
In short, we must urgently address ourselves to the question of what sort of country we wish Australia to be- whether with a national spirit we set out to develop and manage our great natural resources, both men and material, so that all Australians will get a fair share or persist in our folly of funding our extravagance from capital instead of from earnings. [More…]
This country is unbelievably fortunate in the extent of its natural wealth in primary industry and minerals. [More…]
I refer to the petroleum industry, and believe quite firmly that certain recommendations of the Royal Commission on Petroleum, particularly in the area of marketing and pricing, should be the subject of close and careful scrutiny by this Parliament and should not be treated like some previous commissions recommendations have been treated- pidgeon-holed for the term of their natural life. [More…]
The most general result of alienation is mutual loss of contact between people, the replacement of natural human relationships by artificial, formalistic, meaningless contacts like those which most of us have with each other in this Parliament and with most other people. [More…]
The individual person, unable to satisfy these natural needs, takes up needs or wants that are artificial and are created for him by others. [More…]
I might say that the successful resolution of this case within the confines of the union movement supports the advice that I have been giving to other union members in a similar situation to those involved in this case, that is, to exercise fully their right to natural justice within the rules of the organisation to which they belong without in any way inhibiting their ultimate right to seek remedy in the Industrial Court. [More…]
It was because of some concern that Victoria’s support for the natural disaster, the drought, was not going to get to $3.Sm in this instance, and therefore that it would not be gaining funds from the Commonwealth in this instance on the agreed measures, that we came to the decision to offer the States an alternative form of finance, namely marching with the States dollar for dollar from the first dollar spent on the agreed measures. [More…]
The guidelines had been acceptable in the past in relation to natural disasters. [More…]
This natural disaster - [More…]
In what respects are they receiving preference over applicants from areas which have not suffered natural disasters? [More…]
Another area in which I have a vital interest as a member and want to be effective is that of insurance lawwhether it is general insurance, life insurance, natural disaster insurance or brokers’ legislation. [More…]
the Australian code provides that alcohol advertisements should do no more than reflect people drinking responsibly in natural situations. [More…]
That is only natural that they are not moving all the time with industry, and it is very difficult for the people involved to get the feel and the knowledge and the understanding of the trends and developments in industry and commerce outside. [More…]
I rise to speak in the estimates for the Department of the Treasury on the subject of natural disasters and the relief that is available to assist with natural disasters. [More…]
-With respect, Mr Deputy Chairman, I think the Treasurer is responsible for payments under natural disaster arrangements and I am speaking about that. [More…]
The Commonwealth is faced with a complicated position in this area because of the traditional arrangements which operate with State governments in the field of natural disasters. [More…]
Most honourable members would know that the arrangement with the New South Wales Government is that that Government has to spend $5m from its own resources and that after that sum has been expended the Commonwealth Government picks up the tab for any further expenditure that may be incurred under the natural disasters scheme in a 12-months period. [More…]
If there is one thing that must be understood in regard to this question of drought and of natural disaster payments it is that the New [More…]
The average growth rate for those 23 years of Liberal-National Country Party Government was something like 1.1 per cent in natural population and 0.8 per cent in immigration population. [More…]
He not only supports a proposition for an increased immigration program but also he supports a program of increased natural birth. [More…]
If one looks at the Borrie report one sees the rational proposition that by natural growth alone the population of Australia would be 16 million by the year 2000. [More…]
Australia has the natural resources as well as the technological capacity, and the political, economic and social structures, to enable population increases during the rest of this century of at least the levels of the postwar period. [More…]
The Minister has admitted in his statement to this House that we can expect little population growth from natural increase and that we must look to migrants for the long-term increase in our population. [More…]
Canberra is also a living monument to a dream that has recurred regularly in this century; that people should be able to fashion for themselves living quarters that suitably complement the natural setting. [More…]
Each time our natural resources industries take a step forward, new development in Australia takes a leap forward. [More…]
Let us aU get behind this great surge forward in our natural resources area which will carry Australia through to the 1 980s. [More…]
When we speak of national resources, of course, we are dealing with a very wide field, because it includes not only our mineral deposits and our other natural resources but also, of course, the very large human resources that we have in this country. [More…]
Generally when we start thinking of our natural resources our minds turn to our mineral deposits. [More…]
The fact of the matter is that if this country is to develop in the way in which most of us- certainly all of us on this side of the chamber -would like to see it develop then there must of necessity be a planned development of the natural resources of this country. [More…]
It is not good enough for the honourable member for Kalgoorlie or others to say that in order to develop our natural oil deposits it is necessary to give a bonus of $2 a barrel on new discoveries of oil. [More…]
The Government apparently is going to allow those people to develop the natural resources of Australia. [More…]
So I cannot understand why those people who sit on the Government benches now want to turn over to private individuals the development of the natural resources of this country which are not the property of those private individuals; they are, in fact, the property of the Australian people who are denied the opportunity of ownership of any of them because these people claim ownership of those resources. [More…]
As a Western Australian I am extremely conscious of the fact that the future economic prosperity of my State and, of course, of the whole nation is dependent on the large scale development of our natural resources. [More…]
They can even turn into giants of the natural resources industry and I cite Western Mining Corporation as an excellent example. [More…]
-The history of this Government’s management of natural resources is scarred by uncontrolled exploitation. [More…]
Of course, if the development at Botany Bay does not go ahead- it is the natural place from which to export the major increase in coal production that will be available in my electorate- I put to the House that these consequences will follow. [More…]
But I have also seen, as I have watched over my 26 years in Parliament, the gradual dissipation of Australia’s real wealth, its natural wealth. [More…]
In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living- [More…]
Interest subsidies of the first type are not under consideration by the Commonwealth Government but the Commonwealth has accepted, as eligible for the purposes of natural disaster relief made available in the drought affected States, carry on loans at concessional interest rates with a repayment holiday of up to two years to farmers who are unable to obtain credit from other sources. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has advised the State Governments that it is prepared to accept these measures as being eligible for Commonwealth assistance under the normal terms and conditions associated with natural disasters relief and that it will give prompt and sympathetic consideration to any further proposals put forward by the States. [More…]
They would achieve this by spreading the vast natural wealth of this country over all individuals, irrespective of their economic status by sharing more equitably the productive assets of the nation. [More…]
What does one do about the thousands of children from overseas- the Turkish, Yugoslav and Lebanese children and the children whose natural language is Greek or Italian? [More…]
Details of the arrangements under which the Commonwealth assists the States with expenditures on natural disaster relief and restoration measures are set out in pages 95-7 of Budget Paper No. [More…]
However, it is usual practice for a State to advise the Commonwealth before introduction of any particular measure for which it is to seek Commonwealth support under the natural disaster assistance arrangements. [More…]
Requests for Commonwealth support, under the natural disaster assistance arrangements, of expenditures on various relief measures in respect of the current drought have been received from Victoria dated 28 April, 21 May, 2 August and 7 September 1976. [More…]
1 ) and (4) Under the Federal system of Government in Australia, the State Governments play a leading role in planning to cope with natural disasters and in disaster relief operations. [More…]
The Natural Disasters Organisation (an established Division within the Department of Defence) is responsible for co-ordination of Commonwealth Government assistance in natural disasters or civil emergency situations. [More…]
It develops plans to cope with natural disasters in Commonwealth Territories and special areas; and provides assistance to the States (through relevant State organisations) in strengthening their capacity to cope with natural disasters. [More…]
It would be inappropriate in view of the effectiveness of these arrangements, and the Government’s commitment to federalism, to attempt to centralise the responsibility for natural disasters in one Commonwealth agency. [More…]
This was not merely a Minister performing the duties of his portfolio but also a man with a great love for the environment and the natural beauty of Australia. [More…]
( 1 ) In the performance of its functions, the Commission shall have regard to the desire of the Australian Government, in pursuing the general objectives of national economic and social policy and urban and regional development, to improve and promote the well-being of the people of Australia, with full employment, stability in the general level of prices, viability in external economic relations, conservation of the natural environment and rising and generally enjoyed standards of living, and, in particular, to the desire of the Australian Government to- [More…]
It is natural that they should do that because Damascus is the closest large centre of population outside Lebanon and it costs much less to walk or catch a bus to Damascus than it does to fly or sail into Cyprus. [More…]
He is the natural heir to the economic principles of the 1930s- Australia’s Herbert Hoover of the 1970s. [More…]
Equally, the Government has made it clear that it accepts a role and responsibility for the conservation of our National Estate, whether it be of the natural environment or of the built environment. [More…]
Where land has been subdivided for many years we have considerable problems in areas which are steep, for instance, where drainage is a problem, or where natural timber abounds and makes the area of great scenic interest. [More…]
In an area of great natural scenic quality, consideration should be given to the way houses are located on blocks, the minimum permitted size of the house, and in some instances even the minimum room size that is permitted. [More…]
This is only natural because with the diminishing supply of petroleum they have to look for other sources of supply and one of them is the procurement of coal for liquefaction and also for energy. [More…]
Abolition of the coal duty can mean only one thing, that is, that this Government believes that Australia’s natural resources exist for the benefit of a few wealthy magnates in New York, London or Bermuda and there is no better illustration of the need for a coal levy and the weakness of the argument of those who oppose it than Utah. [More…]
The Alberta royalty scheme is a backlash from the increased awareness of the value of nonrenewable natural resources and the duty of governments to understand that the mining of these resources is in the best interests of the community. [More…]
With the rapid escalation in the depletion of the level of our natural resources, the reality which must be faced is that we will progressively be forced to derive many minerals from nonconventional sources or from very low grade deposits or, in the case of oil, from either secondary or tertiary recovery levels. [More…]
To put the future of our natural resources further in the hands of corporations motivated only to maximise profits wherever they are found throughout the world and to minimise their payouts in terms of royalty payments is a total abrogation of government responsibility. [More…]
1 ) Have studies conducted by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation, on behalf of the Pipeline Authority, to collate information on the likely growth in Australia for natural gas and the sources of supply to meet this demand, as reported in the fifth annual report of the Corporation, been completed. [More…]
I think that, before one jumps to too many conclusions as to who is right and who is wrong in this area, it ought to be borne in mind that it is very difficult in an industry such as the petroleum industry to accommodate completely in the one stroke the interests of consumers, the interests of the small dealers and also the natural desire of large companies with heavy capital investment to secure their points of distribution. [More…]
The natural environment certainly does need preservation. [More…]
In many parts of the world it has been polluted and destroyed because people have not looked with sufficient concern at the damage that members of the human species can do if they are allowed to run wild in certain parts of the natural environment. [More…]
Using the Minister’s figures and assuming 5 per cent real growth each year, which I think is a particularly generous assumption about the Government’s success in stimulating economic growth given the sorts of economic problems at the moment which I expect to persist for some few years yet, this means that some $632m of additional expenditure will be covered above the sort of expenditure which would be covered by natural growth of revenue available assuming that the government maintains public expenditure at the same level of total expenditure as it now stands. [More…]
Natural growth in revenue will be between $650m and $700m. [More…]
The States were able to discharge their responsibilities before the war because the capital cities were smaller and the new provincial centres based on natural resources- Mt Isa, Gladstone, Wollongong, Whyalla, Port Hedland- had barely developed. [More…]
But surely this Bill is warranted in view of the inflation that was caused over the last 3 years by the Government supported by the honourable member for Shortland and also the natural increase in inflation that has occurred over the last 16 years. [More…]
It could be used to ease the strain on existing infrastructure services and to improve the urban environment, both built and natural. [More…]
It was drawn to my attention recently that one of the last natural habitats of the ground parrot, one of these endangered species, in the Cooloola National Park in Queensland had been severely damaged. [More…]
The recommendations in its report contained a suggestion that a national policy should be established to acquire land for national parks and reserves to preserve flora and fauna in their natural state. [More…]
This Government is genuine in its approach towards the protection of our natural environment and towards the uplifting of our built or social environment. [More…]
So little is known of some of the natural species in this country. [More…]
I venture to say that if we were able to count up the countless thousands of hectares that have been cleared for farming- that is, the complete destruction of the natural environment- and to add to that the countless thousands of hectares of partly cleared land that is used for grazing purposes and were to compare that land with the area that has been despoiled by the mining companies we would all be in for a shock. [More…]
I was fortunate recently to visit east Africa, where I enjoyed looking at the magnificent animal parks and seeing thousands of animals just grazing around in their natural habitat quite oblivious to onlookers. [More…]
I hope that we will get to the stage in Australia- particularly in Canberra, where we are about to set aside an area for the Gudgenby National Park- where we will be able to drive into certain areas and see such beautiful animals as the Australian dingo in their natural habitat in company with the other animals with which they would normally be in company. [More…]
I hope we get to the stage where these animals are not destroyed wholesale on a false premise and that we get the opportunity at some future time of being able to go into these parks and see dingoes in their natural habitat. [More…]
Over the past decade, debate and concern about environmental and conservation matters have been widespread, particularly as they relate to our natural environment. [More…]
It is a natural tendency at our stage of developmenta transition from pioneering in both the agricultural and industrial stages into rationalisation and stabilisation- that issues of conservation and protection of our environment become prominent. [More…]
They are significant as breeding grounds and as a natural resource. [More…]
Perhaps the most viable and effective groups in my area in relation to the conservation of our unique fauna and wildlife are our field and game naturalist groups. [More…]
It is my view that waterfowl conservation is justified, both because of its value as a game species and as a natural resource. [More…]
I believe the Bill will provide in the future the vehicle by which environmental protection and conservation of our natural resources can all be achieved in balance with our needs for productivity and for the nation’s economic welfare. [More…]
On more than one occasion I have referred to the difficulty involved in coming to a decision about this matter because there are legitimate interests in the conservation of the natural environment of Fraser Island. [More…]
The Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development will consult with the Queensland Government seeking joint Commonwealth-State action to develop an agreed management plan for Fraser Island, having in mind the preservation of the Island ‘s natural features and the oversight of Island activity. [More…]
The natural environment of Fraser Island is of great significance, complexity and fragility. [More…]
But the inevitable highlighting of the presence and importance of these individual features of its natural environment should not be allowed to obscure the links and interdependency of its many fragile elements, while, overall, an impression of wilderness gives unity to the broad spectrum of the particular natural features of the Island. [More…]
The first set of costs will be borne by the nation as a whole, and this is appropriate as we are seeking to preserve a unique aspect of our natural environment for all Australians. [More…]
In relation to the provision of assistance to industry, I recall that when the Australian Labor Party was in office there was the SANMA- the Special Assistance to Non-Metropolitan Areasscheme, which has died a natural death since we went out of office. [More…]
He is completely unaware that, due to the natural forces which occur from time to time, cyclones and wind blows hit the island. [More…]
In March 1976 the Government approved the establishment of a working party of Commonwealth officials to formulate a natural disaster insurance scheme in consultation with the insurance industry. [More…]
While no representatives of industry or State Government insurance offices or commissions were appointed to the working party, invitations were extended to all State Governments to make written submissions on the subject of a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
Will the Government seek to have the whole of Fraser Island classified as a world heritage area under the International Convention for the Protection of the World’s Cultural and Natural Heritage? [More…]
These changes now threaten the very existence of those substantial natural native forest areas that remain. [More…]
This is a conflict which comes to a head in all the forestry proposals which destroy our native forest and the natural habitat of our wildlife. [More…]
We have a duty to ensure that clear-felling of parts of our native forests is rationalised and that enough areas of native forest are left to preserve our natural environment. [More…]
We must do it to preserve our natural forests, to protect our flora and fauna and to protect our forest ecosystems. [More…]
If one walks through a pinus radiata forest, one notices that there is no natural undergrowth at all and that native flora and fauna cannot exist in these northern exotic forests. [More…]
It is better to ensure that we preserve our natural forests. [More…]
I believe that though the growth of native forests might, in many cases, be slower, we should be looking at our own natural timbers. [More…]
Many of my colleagues on this side of the House have stated that we should be looking, at the use of our natural cypress for purposes for which pinus radiata has been used. [More…]
We should study more and more our own natural habitat to ensure that we use the best of Australia for Australians. [More…]
We are dealing with our own natural environment and the more we study our environment the more we understand it, whether it be in our gardens, whether it be in our forests or whether it be the people themselves. [More…]
It would like to see some understanding and pride in what is Australian so that we can develop our own natural being, whether in our forests or in ourselves. [More…]
Eucalypts are growing very well because of the lack of their natural predators. [More…]
We examined not only the principles being used in the growth, actual farming and harvesting of the crops but also what measures were taken to ensure protection for the natural environment and the natural flora and fauna. [More…]
It is a matter for caution because of the involved nature of forestry, and because of the difficulty in divorcing from a consideration of softwood forests consideration of hardwood forests, the preservation of native forest and many natural features of our environment. [More…]
The last few years have seen many natural disasters in Australia, particularly floods and droughts, making it obvious that there is a high variable factor in Australia’s weather and rainfall; and therefore in the flow of its rivers. [More…]
Investigations, public meetings, written submissions, and a study of the implications of the works on the natural and social environment during the phases of construction, inundation and operation have been completed. [More…]
Certain matters already existing, such as, for example, the Bass Strait oil and the natural gas offshore from Victoria, I think would now come under federal jurisdiction. [More…]
I am quite certain that the Premier of Victoria would not pursue an activity or a State enterprise such as the construction of a power station if it were contrary to the broader interests of the natural environment. [More…]
The unions that control the production of coal and the coal fired power stations at Yallourn will have less political power in Victoria once a natural gas station is built. [More…]
He justified not placing that power station in the Latrobe Valley of Victoria, where there are adequate supplies of brown coal- a natural fuel. [More…]
He is seeking to use a declining and valuable resource, in natural gas, for that station in order to arrive at an environmental decision. [More…]
Since the environmental impact study was conducted it has been disclosed that the power station will be changed over to other forms of fuel if natural gas becomes in short supply, and that it will be a continuing rather than a peak load station. [More…]
The rights are to the unrestricted use of its natural products; the duties are . [More…]
In circumstances where Aboriginal land is used to exploit natural resources the Aborigines receive continuing and realistic royalties, together with funding for housing, job and vocational training, employment, social development and cultural opportunities. [More…]
Recently the National Miner of 1 November claimed that natural resource diplomacy was emerging as a major factor in shaping Australia ‘s policy towards Indonesia. [More…]
The Bill removes the need for this by providing that a new company will have in the furtherance of its objects all the powers of a natural person. [More…]
The trend in other countries is to require all directors to be natural persons. [More…]
Despite this about-face and despite its natural commitment to the principles of indexation, the Commission went along with the. [More…]
Natural gas has similar limitations. [More…]
As a result of this report this risk can now be compared to other technological and natural hazards with which society must deal and will always be confronted. [More…]
Wastes will be stored in massive concrete casks which can withstand all natural phenomena such as earthquakes and floods as well as man-made forces such as fire, sabotage and aeroplane crashes. [More…]
These may nevertheless be quite natural concern that there may be a risk to health from releases of radioactivity in the course of those activities or after they have ceased. [More…]
The Fox report points out that continued use of fossil fuels- coal, oil and natural gas- may influence the world’s climate. [More…]
The report concludes that world resources of oil and natural gas may be depleted substantially by the end of this century and that renewable energy sources, such as solar energy, may not be of great significance in the next decade. [More…]
We have available great reserves of coal and supplies of natural gas so that at the present we have no need for nuclear energy ourselves. [More…]
It would be anticipated that such wheat would be drawn from that area adjacent to Portland, having a natural freight advantage. [More…]
New capital expenditures on facilities for the transport of minerals, including oil and natural gas, that are now deductible over 20 years will, at the option of the taxpayer, be deductible over either 10 years or 20 years. [More…]
As honourable members are aware, Major-General Stretton, the Director-General of the Natural Disasters Organisation within the Department of Defence, has recently published a book on the first 7 days of relief operations in Darwin following cyclone Tracy in 1974. [More…]
This factual report described the way in which the people of Darwin, the Natural Disasters Organisation, the defence forces, various Commonwealth and State authorities, and indeed the nation as a whole reacted to provide immediate and generous assistance following the worst natural disaster in our history. [More…]
As will be clear from the submission dated 14 April which I have just tabled, action on MajorGeneral Stretton ‘s recommendations involved, firstly, the Natural Disasters Organisation itself and, beyond that, a large number of other Commonwealth and State departments and instrumentalities, and, as well, organisations outside the Government altogether. [More…]
It is here that I observe that the Natural Disasters Organisation has a general co-ordinating function. [More…]
In conclusion, I am concerned to ensure that the Natural Disasters Organisation- which can be directed adequately only if it enjoys the confidence of, and an atmosphere of co-operation with, State and Territory administrationsshould get down to the work of disaster relief planning which is waiting to be done without the distractions that have lately been imposed upon that Organisation. [More…]
A deed of grant under this section shall be expressed to be subject to the reservation that the right to all minerals existing in their natural condition, or in a deposit of waste material obtained from any underground or surface working, on or below the surface of the land remains with the Crown. [More…]
In many cases the site referred to is not an artifact, a painting on a wall or anything like that; it is simply a natural feature. [More…]
The fact that this natural feature is sacred and is a site of significance means that it has to be concealed from everybody except the traditional people who are entitled to that knowledge. [More…]
to take and use the natural waters of the land; and [More…]
“(3) Where there are no convenient natural waters on land referred to in sub-section ( 1 ), an Aboriginal is entitled to use bore waters on the land for drinking, cooking, washing or watering horses. [More…]
To maintain the standard of the breeding herd it is intended to use a balance between natural service and artificial insemination using semen from top progeny tested bulls in Australia. [More…]
Achievement of the above with due regard to the natural and social environment of Australia. [More…]
The second Convention accords sovereign rights for the purpose of exploring and exploiting natural resources to each country over a continental shelf to a depth of 200 metres or to where the superjacent waters admit of the exploitation of natural resources. [More…]
It was therefore decided that the rural adjustment scheme should include a standing faculty to enable loans to be made for essential carry-on purposes in times of severe market downturn or similar situation, but excluding circumstances covered by natural disaster arrangements, in those rural industries where the Commonwealth and States agree from time to time that it is necessary. [More…]
It is, of course, true that as far as natural disaster arrangements are concerned, there is a separate facility available to the States to provide the specific help needed. [More…]
That is to say, sorting and stacking rates, as a kind of natural protection, represent a greater barrier to importing window glass than the Government intended by way of tariff protection. [More…]
It was only natural that there would be doubt during that period of time. [More…]
It was only natural that there would be a period of doubt, a period during which the future of the Tribunal would be in the grey area, but that doubt has now been removed. [More…]
Acknowledging that it has been a natural target for criticism, it said on page 121: [More…]
It will examine matters not considered by the previous Newport inquiry- land use, resource use, the economics of electricity generation by natural gas, decentralisation and aesthetics. [More…]
Because it would pollute Melbourne and deplete the natural gas resources of the State its construction was banned by the trade unions. [More…]
The Newport power station represents a wantonly wasteful use of the ndeniably scarce resource of natural gas. [More…]
In fact, it must come as a surprise to many people that you need to use natural gas to run an intermediate electric power generating plant such as that proposed for Newport. [More…]
We recognised that housing policy was an integral part of our policies concerned with the quality of both the natural environment and the built environment. [More…]
(a) Based on the 1971 Census figures and allowing for subsequent arrivals and natural increase as a result of birth of children in Australia it is estimated that there were about 53 000 people of Lebanese descent in this country as at 30 January 1976. [More…]
It is therefore natural that a lot of them, as they will not be able to obtain unemployment benefits, are not registering. [More…]
Special risk factors involved in petroleum mining exploration and the need for development of our natural resources are sufficient grounds for the Opposition not to oppose these concessions. [More…]
The only disturbing aspect of the events of late, particularly devaluation, is that the Government is determined not to allow any natural structural adjustment between the major sectors of Australian industry. [More…]
One is talking about big undertakings, mostly foreign owned, if I may say so regretfully, which are taking, at terms very advantageous to themselves, Australia’s natural resources and exporting them to another country. [More…]
It is rather a revelation to hear now, towards the end of 1976, what the Opposition spokesman on natural resources says about the mining industry. [More…]
These factors, of course, include the mobility of some rural capital, the limited availability of jobs in rural areas off the farm, and a natural reluctance and, in some cases, inability to relocate. [More…]
to a conservation group to obtain counsel’s opinion on whether a local authority was exceeding its powers in its dredging activities associated with a creek, preparatory to piping the creek, through a scarce remaining pocket of natural vegetation in the Mornington Peninsula; [More…]
Every State has the right to exercise full and permanent sovereignty over its wealth, natural resources and economic activities, adopting the necessary measures for the planning and management of its resources, providing for the protection, preservation and enhancement of the environment. [More…]
The highest priority should be placed on the rehabilitation of expelled and homeless people who have been displaced by natural or man-made catastrophes, and especially by the act of foreign aggression. [More…]
The demographic, natural and economic characteristics of many countries, require policies on growth and distribution of population, land tenure and localisation of productive activities to ensure orderly processes of urbanisation and arrange for rational occupation of rural space. [More…]
It should be noted that the studies already undertaken indicate that much planning and testing remain to be carried out before a scheme can be devised that will effectively meet the community’s need for adequate protection against losses resulting from natural hazards. [More…]
-by leave-The subject of natural disaster insurance has been before this House now for more than 10 years. [More…]
1 am indebted to the honourable gentleman’s prodigious memory for drawing to my attention the way in which this important subject of insuring and providing proper compensation for the victims of natural disasters has gone on and on in this House. [More…]
They were responsible when we were in office between 1972 and 1975 for stopping legislation relating to the Australian Government Insurance Corporation which contained specific proposals to cover the victims of natural disasters. [More…]
So we can lay at the feet of the Liberal and National Country parties the fact that inadequate cover is still given to many victims of natural disasters in this country who suffer losses as a result of these terrible events. [More…]
In my view there is no question at all that the area of natural disaster insurance is a very technical one. [More…]
It is socially desirable that farmers be assured of income when either markets collapse, natural disasters occur, or other matters beyond thencontrol intervene to provide them with a basic income to sustain a lifestyle in rural Australia. [More…]
The only industries that will perhaps have a long term future are those industries which have natural protection or perhaps can be built up as an industry exporting to those regions to the north of us. [More…]
Perhaps in due course it will be further realised that the most vulnerable place in Australia is the Pilbara which has enough basic services to sustain an occupation army, quite beside its wealth in natural resources. [More…]
The commentator did express an opinion that, by the decision, “natural justice has been offended in the matter of a man’s liberty”. [More…]
In a business of primary production, or other business in which livestock is held as trading stock, the adjustment will be calculated generally by reference to the cost values adopted for income tax purposes so that where a standard cost has been ascribed to natural increase the adjustment will be a proportion of that figure. [More…]
The first I want to deal with is the deletion of amendments relating to vessels and other structures engaged in offshore industry and activities associated with it, such as exploring or exploiting the natural resources of the continental shelf of Australia or the seabed off the Australian coast I am referring to those fixed structures and mobile units used in industry of this kind. [More…]
This section applies to off-shore industry mobile units that are used or intended for use in, or in any operations or activities associated with or incidental to, exploring, or exploiting the natural resources of, either or both- [More…]
What is the cost of the semen to the farmer in each of the States (a) for a batch of three and (b) for single service for (i) AB proven, (ii) natural proven and (iii) progeny test. [More…]
1 ) What meteorological installations located on or off the north-west coast of Australia were damaged by other than natural causes since 1 July 1975. [More…]
Eric L. Robinson), tabled in this House a discussion paper outlining proposals for a scheme for natural disaster insurance and related issues and inviting public comment. [More…]
Research into the ecological relationships of Australian ecosystems has and is being encouraged by Commonwealth financial assistance to State agencies and consultants under the NEIS (Natural Environmental Investigations and Surveys) program and the Australian National Parks and Wildlife Research and Survey Program (4.2.3.2). [More…]
What navigational installations located on or off the North- West coast of Australia were damaged by other than natural causes since 1 July 1975. [More…]
We have to understand that the Bill has been prepared by public servants and it is natural that they will look after their own interests when drafting Bills. [More…]
Has the Prime Minister read the trans-continental natural gas pipeline feasibility study prepared by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation? [More…]
Has the Prime Minister approved of the Government’s negotiating with the Australian Gas Light Corporation for the sale of the Gidgealpa-Sydney natural gas line presently owned and operated by the Pipeline Authority? [More…]
In view of the growing importance of natural gas to the Australian economy, how does the Prime Minister justify the Government’s jettisoning this natural asset in the interests of the commercial enterprise? [More…]
What has happened is that the natural processes of moving from wheelbarrows to trucks, about which the honourable gentleman spoke in his normally eloquent way, were given a tremendous boost in the 3 Labor years, not only by tariff reductions but more particularly by other policies that promoted the vast inflation and, at the same time, by policies that promoted enormous increases in wages. [More…]
One can envisage that the degree of self-sufficiency depends on the size of the economy, and a small economy must have a low degree of it Of course there are special natural advantages in every country, and naturally a country would want to exploit those advantages to the extent that the world market can absorb the product. [More…]
Because the world market simply will not absorb increasing quantities of beef or wheat or even iron ore, there will be natural limitations and there will not be the external market. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of the potential for disaster to Australia’s natural forests inherent in this disease? [More…]
The simplest way of explaining it is to say that under preferential voting, where the choice is wide, the scaling of priorities among candidates by citizens is a most natural selection, like everything else we do. [More…]
1 ) The Government has the question of natural disaster crop insurance under consideration, in conjunction with the Insurance Conference Committee (a widely representative group of general insurers). [More…]
As regards the impact of natural disasters on livestock, after examining the availability of assistance under various existing arrangements, the Government has concluded that no special action to increase the availability of insurance cover is necessary at this time. [More…]
The electrical stimulation speeds up rigor mortis whilst the carcass is still warm so that the ‘softness’ of the natural muscle is largely preserved. [More…]
1 ) What was the allocation for Natural Disaster Organisations in each State in 1974-75, 1975-76, and 1976-77. [More…]
Is he satisfied that the allocation to South Australia is adequate to support an organisation which can effectively cope with any natural disaster, especially earthquake, which South Australia might face. [More…]
1 ) There are no Natural Disaster Organisations in each State. [More…]
Establishment and support of an adequate organisation to effectively cope with a natural disaster in South Australia is a State responsibility. [More…]
I make it clear that any request which comes from Queensland will be dealt with quickly and sympathetically within the framework of the established natural disaster procedures. [More…]
With its first class fishing areas available, a beautiful coastline and its natural attractions, there is a great potential. [More…]
There was no discussion of natural gas exports and there was no resolution of Japan’s interest in the natural gas question, which I thought was one of the prime considerations. [More…]
This is the achievement of the born economic managers, the natural rulers, the responsible economists of the Liberal Party! [More…]
He was asked that question and he said: ‘We will finance our programs out of the natural increase of the Commonwealth revenue.’ [More…]
On 8 December 1976 the Minister for Post and Telecommunications and Minister Assisting the Treasurer (Mr Eric Robinson) tabled in this House a discussion paper entitled A Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme for Australia. [More…]
I note that the discussion paper tabled on 8 December does not attempt to discuss the question of natural disaster crop insurance which is under separate consideration. [More…]
Perhaps our experience of the Brisbane floods, the Darwin Cyclone, Cyclone Ted on 20 December last year which destroyed so much of Burketown and Mornington Island in my electorate, the terrible fires in Victoria last month and now the floods in North Queensland will impel the Government to move very quickly on the matter of a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
Professor Talbot’s article implies that future logging on the island may destroy its natural environment. [More…]
To some extent, these benefits derive from our vast range of natural resources. [More…]
Australia clearly enunciated its goal to achieve through immigration an annual population growth of 1 per cent to supplement natural increase which was also expected to be about 1 per cent. [More…]
Australia’s record in providing a place of refuge to those who are displaced by war, natural catastrophe or civil disruption, has been a notable one. [More…]
Australia’s natural resources are truly superabundant. [More…]
The present Government axed the activities of the Commission on the grounds of economy before it could report on 2 crucial issues- natural gas and transfer pricing. [More…]
Put simply, we have bountiful coal, uranium and natural gas resources but quite inadequate oil reserves. [More…]
Our coal reserves are on the east coast and our natural gas reserves are predominantly on the north-west shelf while our uranium is predominantly in the Northern Territory. [More…]
People say that the rural sector has lots of natural resources and how splendid it is at shouldering these kinds of burdens. [More…]
The report went on to state ‘that whatever happens in terms of fertility changes at the moment, rising inputs to the labour force are assured from natural increase alone until at least 1990’. [More…]
Having been denied these justifications for a high rate of immigration, the Minister returned to the empty continent syndrome and implied that we must utilise our superabundant natural resources or have them taken from us. [More…]
If forecasts made by energy experts are anywhere near correct, by 1985 Australia will be using two to three times its current annual consumption of petroleum, one and a half to two times the present consumption of coal and more than five times the present annual consumption of natural gas. [More…]
Even if Australia enjoyed unlimited natural resources as the Minister claims, there are very real environmental constraints on the development of our rural and urban cities. [More…]
We must remember that many of our services have been geared up to that great thrust of population increase, both by natural causes and by migration, that occurred after the war. [More…]
It caused serious social disruptions and disruptions among individuals because they lacked the normal, natural situation under which any human society operates. [More…]
The Minister, in his preface to the report, referred to current trends and raised the question whether a country of the size of Australia, with a small population and a wealth of natural resources, should adopt a policy of zero population growth. [More…]
There are two: natural increase, that is, the excess of births over deaths, and the net overseas movement of which migration is a part. [More…]
That is to say, within perhaps ten or twleve years from now our natural rate of increase will be not just zero; it will be negative. [More…]
1 per cent natural growth and 0.8 per cent immigration. [More…]
Using the Borrie yardstick we can expect a population of approximately 16 million people by the end of the century if we rely only on natural growth and exclude immigration. [More…]
Quite clearly acceptance only of natural growth puts much less strain on resource allocation. [More…]
Natural population growth, as predicted by the Borrie report, would account for more than half of the population growth required. [More…]
That 1.1 per cent would include both natural growth and immigration. [More…]
The natural growth would need to be supplemented by a modest immigration program. [More…]
Let me mention that the population trend in Australia is very serious in that we have had a decline from the stand point of both natural and immigration population growth. [More…]
There was a drop in the natural increase, and the migration gain fell to an 8000 loss situation in 1975. [More…]
This price war led to the industrialised nations becoming dependent on oil and natural gas. [More…]
Action must be taken to expand the indigenous energy supply, particularly the conventional sources of oil, natural gas and coal, to consider the use of nuclear energy, to realise greater energy savings through more effective conservation measures and to build stockpiles to buffer the effect of any deliberate supply reductions. [More…]
In just over one year the new Government has: Given permission for the development of Nebo, Hail Creek and Norwich Park coal deposits; approved in principle the export of limited quantities of natural gas so as to facilitate the development of the North West Shelf gas fields; introduced a deduction for taxation purposes of an additional 40 per cent of capital invested after 1 January 1976 against income; established the Australian Minerals and Energy Council made up of State and Federal mines and energy Ministers and the Minister for the Northern Territory to replace the former Australian Minerals Council; and, what is more important, this body has met and will continue to meet regularly. [More…]
It will first be necessary to establish just what natural energy resources Australia has in terms of quantity, quality, accessibility and transportability to markets. [More…]
However, where an excess of any energy resource exists, such as coal, uranium and natural gas, these could be exported to balance the costs of our imports. [More…]
If the U.S., Australia, Canada and other likeminded countries collaborate on policies for the supply of natural uranium, we can play a vital role in reducing the threat of proliferation. [More…]
This process must be based on participative industrial democracy and the acknowledgment of the current and developing comparative advantages of Australia against its international competitors- in potential scales of production, the selective application of limited research facilities to the greatest effect, the natural endowments of physical resources and the educational level and social structure of our work force. [More…]
We have bountiful supplies of natural resources. [More…]
We have the facility for becoming the natural granary of the Asian region. [More…]
The rate of natural population increase in 1975 was only 0.85 per cent. [More…]
Former Liberal and Country Party governments had set a goal of at least a 2 per cent annual population growth rate- 1 per cent through natural birth and 1 per cent through immigration. [More…]
It has been shown that violence and other forms of anti-social behaviour do not occur when children are born, brought up and educated in a friendly, supportive atmosphere in which their natural needs can be satisfied in a balanced and an easy manner. [More…]
Assuming that the values of community, friendship and mutuality are indigenous to the natural needs of the human being- I believe they aresociety will change. [More…]
It is therefore natural and entirely to be expected that the International Covenant refers to the rights of a person in this circumstance. [More…]
The Government’s devaluation decision led to an investment in the area of natural resources. [More…]
By comparison, the Moomba-Sydney natural gas pipeline cost $232m from start to finish and spans a distance of 1300 kilometres. [More…]
Investment in the Hume will ultimately be many times larger than the investment in the natural gas pipeline which is generally regarded as being a major national project in terms of scope and investment. [More…]
Young turtles in their natural state feed on a multitude of very small animals. [More…]
There is some shortage of sea grass in the area because last year- I do not know whether or not this will be repeated- the dugongs were so plentiful in the area that they exhausted the natural resources of sea grass. [More…]
It was natural that in our first period of government we set about restoring women’s rights, and removing discrimination in all its social, economic or legal forms. [More…]
On previous occasions people were often asked for additional power for the Commonwealth Parliament, and the natural reaction of Australian voters to politicians who ask for more power for themselves is to say no. [More…]
That this House takes note of the Australian Antarctic Acceptance Bill introduced into the House of Representatives by the then Attorney-General (Mr Latham) on 26 May 1933 and subsequently passed by the Parliament; the Australian Antarctic Territory Acceptance Act of 1936; the Heard Island and McDonald Islands Act 19S3; the Australian Antarctic Territory Act 19S4 (as amended in 1963); the Antarctic Treaty signed on 1 December 1959; the Antarctic Treaty Act 1960; the Australian Government’s establishment of bases at Macquarie Island, Heard Island, Mawson, Davis and Casey; the Australian National Antarctic Research Expeditions and the Antarctic Division’s work with respect to upper atmosphere physics, cosmic ray physics, glaciology, biology, medical science, geography and sub-glacial exploration for minerals and natural resources. [More…]
All I am trying to say is that if an area of natural beauty has been created, whether by foresight or accident, in the form of a very rare open space area in the centre of the city, proper town planning methods should be used to protect the interests of the people who will use that open space area. [More…]
When Australia has a far stronger economic base because of its vast array of natural resources our present Government baulks on making the public investment that is essential to develop our highways and to tackle the problems of urban congestion. [More…]
During wet weather it becomes flooded, and its location interferes with natural drainage. [More…]
Dr Frisch is a Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, England. [More…]
It is also important to note that our natural birth rate is declining. [More…]
If there is one thing about the Government’s policy that gives me concern it is the pessimistic approach to the natural birth rate. [More…]
But it is vitally important that we try to regenerate our own natural birth rate. [More…]
It is proper that we should take people on humanitarian bases, but it is also absolutely vital that we increase our own natural birth rate to provide the vitality of Australia that will once again help to build it into the great country it has always been. [More…]
It all adds up to the fact that we face the prospect of an Australia with little or no natural increase in population and only a very small net gain from immigration. [More…]
Having said that, I do think that government has a responsibility to try to do something about the rate of natural growth. [More…]
But there is no question in my mind that, on balance, in a country richly endowed with natural resources and where, in the long term, there is a relative shortage of human capital, an increasing population, to a point, is essential to provide increasing living standards. [More…]
These pressures include the demand for our natural resources by these countries and our capacity to produce food surpluses for the vast, over populated and poorer nations of Asia. [More…]
Therefore, in view of the predicted decline in the rate of natural growth to Australia’s population, on balance I support the view that higher immigration rates are required for the future. [More…]
We should recognise that governments are not able, nor should they be willing, to influence greatly the natural increase. [More…]
If immigration was stopped, population growth in Australia would be determined by natural increase (i.e. [More…]
The change consists of a pronounced slowing of natural increase and low net and gross immigration rates. [More…]
Recent trends in natural increase confirm that the NPI projections outlined in the Green Paper will be sustained. [More…]
I do not think that we should forget the international implications for Australia which is a country magnificently endowed with natural resources and which also has a sparse population in a region where population pressures will become even more acute in the future. [More…]
Is the entire coastal area from Angelsea to Geelong endangered by land developers seeking to destroy regional planning in order to subdivide beach and natural forest areas. [More…]
1 ) Within the Department of Construction staff ceilings are being achieved by reductions through natural wastage; this is occurring in professional, clerical/administrative and direct labour areas. [More…]
1 ) It is a long-standing arrangement with the States that the Natural Disasters Organisation or the Defence Force do not become involved in disaster situations in the States, except at the request of the appropriate State authorities. [More…]
1 ) Has consideration been given to establishing a Natural Disasters Insurance Scheme to cover such natural disasters as floods and cyclones; if so, by what process has the proposal been considered, and what results have accrued. [More…]
) Has attention been given to the considerable incidence of disaster caused by ‘landslip’ in respect of which many people have suffered serious financial loss because of uninsurable eventualities; if so, is it intended to facilitate protection of property owners against ‘landslip’ by (a) instituting a public insurance scheme, (b) instituting a private insurance scheme or (c) extending natural disaster assistance to such cases. [More…]
In March 1976 1 announced that the Government had agreed in principle to introduce a natural disaster insurance scheme and had approved the establishment of a working party of officials to formulate proposals for a scheme in consultation with the insurance industry. [More…]
Under the scheme outlined in the discussion paper, protection against losses resulting from landslip and other natural hazards coming within the scheme would be provided to the property owner upon payment of a premium to a pool of general insurers with the Commonwealth providing reinsurance to the pool within specified limits. [More…]
When natural disasters causing damage and destruction occur in a State, the State Government concerned examines the situation to determine whether Government assistance is required and, if so, in what form. [More…]
There is also the grandeur and the natural and naked beauty of the Gold Coast and on occasions the naked and colourful beauty of inland areas. [More…]
It is only natural that people would view this Government with suspicion. [More…]
4m for the growth centres of AlburyWodonga, Bathurst-Orange and Macarthur; $10m to meet Commonwealth commitments in respect of recent natural disasters including floods in New South Wales and Queensland, bushfires in Victoria and a cyclone in Queensland; $2. [More…]
In terms of servicing, availability of spare parts and certainly in some technical aspects of our local product we score some pretty handsome pluses, which is natural. [More…]
Such polarisation will do little to resolve the problem which Australia faces by virtue of its large natural uranium endowments. [More…]
This consumption is basically provided by oil and coal and, coming on line now, natural gas. [More…]
Australia’s supplies for the forthcoming years are, for black coal, 400 years; for brown coal, 444 years, for oil only 14 years and for natural gas about 170 years. [More…]
But in the post war years it was overtaken by clean natural gas which was priced cheaply so that everyone simply squandered it. [More…]
According to Erlich, if we assume 5 times the known resources of each mineral, and consumption even at low constant rates of increase, the year of depletion of each key mineral is: aluminium, 48 years from now; copper, 41 years from now; iron, 66 years from now; lead, 51 years from now; manganese, 87 years from now; mercury, 34 years from now; nickel, 89 years from now; tungsten, 65 years from now; zinc, 43 years from now; petroleum, 43 years from now; natural gas, 42 years from now. [More…]
They are the statement of a challenge- the challenge fully to revise what is involved in mankind’s insatiable consumption of natural resources and its alienation from nature and from itself. [More…]
In 1975 oil supplied 45 per cent of the world’s primary en ergy (including that used to generate electricity), coal 30 per cent and natural gas 1 8 per cent, nuclear energy contributed only 1 . [More…]
If the consumption of coal, oil and natural gas continues at the same rate as in 1975 present recoverable reserves of coal will be exhausted in 206 years, all oil reserves will be exhausted in only 39 years and natural gas reserves in only 55 years. [More…]
Uranium is a harmless mineral in its natural state. [More…]
The environment is restored to its natural state. [More…]
Oil and natural gas will already be in short supply by 1 990 and the use of coal will have to be expanded to near feasible limits. [More…]
This is hardly a natural outcome for proponents of the free market economy, but I will return to insurance. [More…]
For example, there is the question of a scheme of natural disaster insurance. [More…]
I am not referring to particularly great natural disasters, which I put aside and which are to be considered in a separate way. [More…]
When we talk about natural or national disasters, we must remember that is what they are. [More…]
I think that what we have to bear in mind and what we have to be very sensible about is the proposition that the insurance industry is perhaps the best vehicle we can use to come to a solution in regard to natural disaster insurance. [More…]
I believe that we cannot find a suitable natural disaster scheme complex and difficult as it will be to find, without the full and continuing co-operation of the insurance industry itself. [More…]
These funds contribute to natural resources development in industries such as iron ore, steel, pastoral, petroleum, natural gas, aluminium, fertilisers, chemicals, timber, mining and quarrying. [More…]
I have spoken on many previous occasions in this House about the continuing serious situation existing in the textile industry affecting as it does both natural and man-made fibres, and many thousands of people in country areas. [More…]
The Appropriation Bills also deal with funds for natural disasters. [More…]
Between 1975 and 1976 the total payments to the States for natural disasters were $224m, of which $110m or 45 per cent, were drought related. [More…]
It is probable that losses due to natural disasters will increase through time. [More…]
All persons in Australia should be insured with natural disaster cover at reasonable rates, with the Government acting as a refinance institution and making the best use of insurance industry resources. [More…]
I instance one, the Australian Assistance Plan, which is about to die a natural death. [More…]
The only question for the Court will be whether the action is lawful, in the sense that it is within the power conferred on the relevant Minister or official or body that prescribed procedures have been followed and that general rules of law, such as conformity to the principles of natural justice, have been observed. [More…]
The Appropriation Bills now before the House will allow the Government to continue the successful progress upon which it has embarked, ultimately to get the economy of the country back on a sound basis, to the benefit of every Australian- a benefit which a country having the natural resources that we have should be enjoying. [More…]
That is all very well when the natural party of government is in power. [More…]
Studies of the mass of a building show that a balance can be achieved between the lines of a building while retaining the natural beauty of the site. [More…]
The Government has repeatedly indicated that its policy is to allow the export of reasonable quantities of natural gas to make the North West Shelf project viable and to encourage further exploration. [More…]
Amongst other things the proposed level of exports is being examined against reasonable expectations of Australia’s future requirements of natural gas. [More…]
The Department of National Resources has on its staff a wide range of expertise relating to all aspects of energy, including natural gas. [More…]
The Mathews recommendation was based largely on the fact that natural increase livestock are favoured with a concessional valuation for tax purposes. [More…]
Firstly, not all the livestock of a primary producer are the result of natural increase. [More…]
The other point I would make is that, to the extent that natural increase is brought to account for tax purposes at a low notional cost, the trading stock valuation adjustment deduction will be based on that low value. [More…]
Likewise, rail systems are called on by governments to provide concessional rates particularly in times of natural disasters, whether drought, cyclone or famine. [More…]
Alternatively where a natural disaster is of such an order that the States feel that joint funding of relief is preferable that option has been provided to the States. [More…]
Because of the natural reluctance of foreign companies to manufacture Austalian cars with Australian inventiveness such as that shown by Pritchard, Everingham and Sarich, will the Prime Minister consider the Government exploring the opportunity to form an international consortium with Australian, Japanese, United States and German interests whereby there could be a world wide motor car produced using the talents of Australians on the basis that the work force in Australia would at least be able to be employed manufacturing part of a car, thereby guaranteeing the utilisation of Australian talent as well as the utilisation of a world market? [More…]
1) (a) The working party, established to formulate proposals for a natural disaster insurance scheme in consultation with the insurance industry, is chaired by a representative of the Department of the Treasury and includes representatives of the Insurance Commissioner, the Australian Government Actuary, the Departments of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, Finance, Environment, Housing and Community Development and Primary Industry. [More…]
The question of disaster mitigation obviously involves a number of complex issues and careful planning and research is necessary to identify the expertise required from within government and elsewhere to provide advice on this subject in so far as it is of relevance to the development of a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
In the past year we have seen the force of natural disasters and their effects for people with associations with Australia. [More…]
Departments and authorities are expected to reach their revised staff ceilings by processes of natural wastage such as retirements and resignations. [More…]
In terms of the future growth of manufacturing industry, Australia’s endowment in capital, labour, skills, natural resources and market opportunities would seem to indicate that the best prospects for manufacturing industry development in Australia in the long term lie in activities which are based on Australia ‘s natural resources; which are innovative in terms of skill or design; which meet specialised local needs; or which have a high degree of natural protection. [More…]
If the houses are affected by natural disaster then often payments are made by government authorities. [More…]
My question which is directed to the Minister for National Resources concerns the development of the huge natural gas fields in the North-West Shelf. [More…]
We are currently running a trade surplus in energy of about $500m and in the years ahead we can look forward to considerable expansion in coal and natural gas exports. [More…]
It is natural in a statement of this nature to concentrate on aspects made topical, by recent events. [More…]
In terms of natural wealth per capita, we are one of the richest nations in the world. [More…]
There are many nations which have stagnated despite vast natural resources. [More…]
Trade is the catalyst to convert this natural and acquired domestic wealth into goods and services not easily available from our own resources. [More…]
The review of relativities would be a natural extension of the work now undertaken by the Commission. [More…]
The criteria the Commission has evolved in the interpretation of the legislation involves reference to such factors as whether the practice will result in higher or lower prices, increases or decreases in the availability of goods, changes in the structure and long term efficiency of the industry in question, incentives for innovation, waste in the allocation of natural resources and so on. [More…]
The responsibility to be given to the Grants Commission is, as the Minister said in his second reading speech, a natural extension of the work that is now undertaken by the Commission. [More…]
Among these differences are those of area, climate, topography, natural resources, size and distribution of population and productive capacity and levels of income and expenditure. [More…]
With the output of the industry greatly expanded and the greatly increased proportion of beef and sheep meat being exported, it was only natural that a review of the Meat Board’s functions was justified. [More…]
Once the Parliament passed the Defence Service Homes Amendment Bill 1976 abolishing the Australian Housing Corporation last December action such as this became a natural flow-on to clear up the administrative machinery involved. [More…]
These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]
Of course, as the White Paper indicates, in the long term there must be greater emphasis on those industries which can operate effectively with lower levels of protection, those industries which by reason of the natural protection that they enjoy can operate and compete effectively. [More…]
The Jews, because they are Jews, have never been able to take the right to live as a natural right. [More…]
When we talk about re-export and reprocessing, we should stop to realise and to appreciate one particular fact: That if we are not going to export natural uranium we are going to stimulate the production of plutonium and other enrichment processes which will create a great hazard. [More…]
It is natural and proper that Parliament should crystalise and provide a focus for the general public debate which is now taking place and which will continue on this issue. [More…]
These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]
The continuing reduction in staff has been confined to ‘natural wastage’, without further termination of services by the Commission. [More…]
These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]
1 ) Did Mr Justice Gibbs in the case of Salemi v Minister for Immigration hold that the Immigration Act did not require the Minister to act in accordance with the rules of natural justice. [More…]
Did Article 3 of this agreement refer to the possibility of a further delimitation agreement or agreements being concluded between governments exercising sovereign rights with respect to the exploration of the seabed and the exploitation of its natural resources in the area of the Timor Sea, which might necessitate adjustment of the boundary lines agreed to on 9 October 1972. [More…]
In the event of any further delimitation agreement or agreements being concluded between governments exercising sovereign rights with respect to the exploration of the seabed and the exploitation of its natural resources in the area of the Timor Sea, the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Indonesia shall consult each other with a view to agreeing on such adjustment or adjustments, if any, as may be necessary in those portions of the boundary lines between points Al 5 and A 1 6, and between points A 1 7 and A 1 8 “. [More…]
Under this Convention Australia has jurisdiction for the purpose of exploration and exploitation of the natural resources (including petroleum) of the seabed to the outer edge of its continental margin. [More…]
I hope that the Minister will not exercise his discretion in the way he did when dealing with the representations of an Italian worker, Mr Salemi who is still under threat of deportation, notwithstanding that three High Court judges indicated that there had been a denial of natural justice and that the other three High Court judges were of the opinion that Mr Salemi had been treated unfairly and that the concept of natural justice did not apply in the administration of the Minister’s decision under the Immigration Act. [More…]
All sections of the community must work together to harness our abundant natural and human resources, if we are to restore vigour and purpose to our national development. [More…]
If we go the Middle East and say that we are willing to sell beef, wool and other products from the great natural resources that we have but that we are not greatly interested in any of its products, obviously trade arrangements between our countries will not work. [More…]
Are we to take it to the level where only those industries which have natural protection are to survive or is the Government going to make decisions that give what it calls the greatest certainty on economic prospects essential for investment and employment in this country? [More…]
There is no such thing as natural justice. [More…]
The old principle of natural justice, the proud pillar of British justice and British common law, has been trampled on. [More…]
The Royal Commission suggested with regard to both LPG and natural gas that a major objective of policy should aim to ensure the maximum usable consumption of the resources for the benefit of Australian industry, using exports as an initial base load and gradually trading off exports against domestic consumption as internal demand builds up. [More…]
These materials are being designed to create in students a greater awareness and understanding of Australia’s natural and built environments and the way in which decision making influences the nature of the environment in which we live. [More…]
In his later years these ideals were expressed in a fierce crusade for Australian ownership of our natural resources. [More…]
He saw that Wollongong would prosper by developing its great natural resource- coal; its great human resource- a skilled and educated work force; and its great natural feature- an excellent harbour. [More…]
His policies on off-shore resources, on a national pipeline grid and on the development of our natural gas reserves, his insistence on Australian equity in our mineral and energy resources- all these will be enduring legacies. [More…]
Australia had a Federal Minister who was responsible for the long term development and conservation of our natural resources; for the first time we had a Minister who was determined to keep those resources in Australian hands; for the first time we had a Minister who was pledged and determined to co-ordinate our policies across the whole range of energy. [More…]
As a result of his work no government, Federal or State, and no corporation, Australian or foreign, now or in the future will ever again downgrade or disregard the future security and importance of our natural resources or Australia’s stake in their development. [More…]
He was a man of vision whose paramount aim was that Australia’s natural endowments should be developed for the benefit of Australians under the control of Australians so that Australia itself could control its destiny. [More…]
He wanted to see Australia- that is, the Australian people- build, own and control a pipeline from our western seaboard to our eastern seaboard, to convey the enormous quantities of natural gas which he believed were obtainable from the North West Shelf. [More…]
Had the people of Australia known what his program was and had they understood the reason why he wanted Australia to own Australia’s natural resources, what he did in order to try to obtain overseas loans would have been applauded instead of being condemned by those who out of ignorance did not understand what it was all about. [More…]
At the same time, negotiations would be set in train in respect of the long term contracts for the sale of liquefied natural gas, LNG, to overseas markets. [More…]
The second proposal is to amend the petroleum mining provisions of the income tax law to include within the range of allowable capital expenditures of a petroleum mining company the cost of a liquefaction plant for use in processing natural gas. [More…]
It is the first official indication from the Government that it supports the concept of large scale natural gas exports. [More…]
Labor will allow exports of natural gas from the North West Shelf sufficient to justify development expenditure but not more than should be allowed in the national interest, having regard to Australia’s domestic demand for hydrocarbons. [More…]
Firstly, the infrastructure established by an export market can supplement Western Australia’s vital energy needs with natural gas in the coming decades. [More…]
While the Opposition agrees with the export of natural gas it is vitally concerned to see that adequate reserves are maintained for Australia’s future domestic requirements. [More…]
It firmly believes that natural gas will provide an energy foundation block for Australia’s industrial development between now and the end of the century. [More…]
ASEAN is the most natural and wholesome of all the regional arrangements in this area. [More…]
New Zealand and Japan are Australia’s natural associates in promoting the development of the ASEAN nations. [More…]
The things which we are good at and the things with which we have a natural advantage are things like iron and steel. [More…]
We have a natural advantage in respect of iron and steel. [More…]
The textile industry in Japan had the natural advantage of lower rates of wages. [More…]
Things happened in a natural manner. [More…]
They have a natural hesitation to trade with us. [More…]
The opportunities are boundless for us to sell to the ASEAN countries the things that they do not grow which we have a natural advantage in producing well. [More…]
We have an advantage in that the ASEAN countries need the kind of things we produce naturally. [More…]
How wrong it is that in a country such as ours, rich in natural resources and in need of so much development, we are paying people because we cannot provide them with work. [More…]
We have set up a regime so that whenever there are natural disasters there is a capacity and a flexibility to assist State governments and to provide directly to local governments, where needed, financial help to assist those who are seriously disadvantaged. [More…]
Many of our trading partners, both developed and less developed, have little in the way of natural resources. [More…]
Naturally, they see resource rich countries like Australia as vital to their own economic future and stability. [More…]
Our action reflects the concern and dedication of this Government to protect Australia’s unique natural heritage, not only for Australians but in the interests of international conservation. [More…]
The area is important in relation to obligations and responsibilities deriving from Australia’s commitment to international agreements especially with regard to migratory birds, wetlands, endangered species and the protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage. [More…]
Representations from eminent international conservation bodies such as the World Wildlife Fund and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources have stressed the global significance of the Park. [More…]
The second element recommended by the Ranger Inquiry was the development of specific arrangements to protect the natural and historic features of the Alligator Rivers environment, to protect the Aboriginal people who have lived there for centuries and to protect the mine workers and their families who will take up residence there. [More…]
The Ranger Inquiry recommended that the total level of activity in the Region should be limited to minimise the impact of both the natural environment and on the lifestyle of the Aboriginal residents. [More…]
With regard to environmental aspects, I and members of the Government committee on natural resources went to Arnhem Land and the Alligator River province last year and looked at the projects. [More…]
I feel that, given the enormity of the crisis, the complexities of the ingredients of the crisis and the daunting challenges which the crisis presents for the future, we should have had a debate on oil last week, on natural gas last night and a debate on uranium today with the promise of a debate on energy policy later, probably slightly after the arrival of Godot. [More…]
This conflicts with the accepted bench mark for the natural growth of the work force of 2 per cent. [More…]
It is the natural concern of every Australian that any uranium leaving our shores should never be used in the weapons system of another country. [More…]
Let me go back to the Flowers report to the United Kingdom Parliament in September 1976 which said that this is the greatest danger which the world faces; yet if a country is short of power it should by all means maximise the production to 60 per cent instead of achieving the normal low usage from natural uranium. [More…]
It reminds me of the story about how valuable our natural gas is and what a boon it will be for mankind. [More…]
We must be sure that oil and natural gas are not wasted by industries and utilities that could use coal instead. [More…]
It is not certain that such methods and disposal sites will entirely prevent radioactive releases following disturbances caused by natural processes or human activity. [More…]
We in Australia owe our high standard of living largely to the fact that we have extensive resources of cheap fuel- coal, natural gas and limited quantities of petroleum- to produce our power and energy needs. [More…]
He shows a lack of understanding of ordinary principles of fair play, correct conduct and natural justice. [More…]
Three judges were of the opinion that Mr Salemi had been denied natural justice; the other three judges said that he had been unfairly treated but that the concept of natural justice did not apply in the administration of the Minister’s decision under the Migration Act. [More…]
In that case the Chief Justice said he expressed the view in the case of Mr Salemi that the power to order deportation under section 18 is not qualified by the necessity to afford a prohibited immigrant natural justice. [More…]
If a Minister has a power that does not have to be exercised subject to considerations of natural justice it is a particularly grave power. [More…]
It is rather tragic and rather sad to think that the Government has not promulgated that Act because under section 5 of that Act a breach of the rules of natural justice can be the subject of reviewing a decision. [More…]
In this case there has been a breach of the rules of natural justice. [More…]
Why has Salemi been put in the position of receiving the benefit of the Ombudsman’s review and still being denied the opportunity to obtain a judicial review which could virtually reverse the Minister’s decision on the basis of natural justice? [More…]
So we have this outrageous situation: The Chief Justice has held that the Minister did not have to follow established principles of natural justice, and the law passed with the approval of both Houses of the Parliament has not been promulgated. [More…]
The law says that if natural justice has not been followed we can review the Minister’s decision. [More…]
The High Court did not question this, the principal question before the High Court was whether I had an obligation to observe the principles of natural justice. [More…]
The decision of the court was that I did not have such an obligation but nonetheless I believe I have treated Mr Salemi ‘s case in great detail and given it full consideration, and given him in every instance the right to be heard in respect of matters at issue in accordance with the recognised rules of natural justice. [More…]
We have great natural resources, our rate of development is minimal; our population growth is tapering off- and still we cannot pay our way. [More…]
That is quite natural. [More…]
Though breeding, rearing and sale of the fish became illegal in Victoria in 1961, the damage had been done and there is evidence of illicit as well as natural spread since that time. [More…]
Once natural gas, iron ore and bauxite are gone to fuel the economies of others, does anyone think that our erstwhile friends will give us a second thought? [More…]
If that position does now pertain within South Australia and those funds have been spent in this financial year then of course, in accordance with the prevailing arrangements for assistance for natural disasters, the Federal Government will be prepared to pick up the range of assistance proposals which are agreed to between the States and the Commonwealth. [More…]
In the instance of unemployment relief, at this stage the Government does not see that such relief should necessarily come within aid provided for natural disasters. [More…]
In those circumstances, a specific financial allocation to natural disaster relief does not seem practical or desirable. [More…]
A saying I nave remembered for many years is that it is against the natural law of God that we should waste that which he has given us. [More…]
The energy situation today within Australia and throughout the world is evidence that we are wasting what has been naturally given to us by our creator. [More…]
If this engine can use such alternatives as derivatives of sugar cane, the plant cassava or even natural gas- an item which we export in great quantities at the moment but which we do not make use of in this country where we have an oil shortage- I am amazed that we are not getting behind this project more thoroughly. [More…]
It demands that unless we become greater producers of other natural assets we as a Government and as a people will have to transfer financial resources from some of our priority areas- these could well be in the welfare sectors- towards greater costs of the basic fuel research and development of and providing for alternatives. [More…]
The Chief Justice went against him on the issue of law and not on the merits of natural justice. [More…]
I suppose it is only natural that this Government has no wish to hurt the main contributors to its party funds and its wealthy friends and supporters. [More…]
The French plant presently operating had produced by 1973 12 tonnes of glass corresponding to the reprocessing of 800 tonnes of natural uranium gas reactor fuel. [More…]
In the 1976 elections the major interest group contributors and their contributions were as follows: American Medical profession, $ 1.79m; dairy committees, $ 1.36m; labour unions, $lm; maritime-related unions, $900,000; auto workers, $800,000; coal, oil and natural gas interests, $800,000; National Association of Realtors, $600,000; financial institutions, $500,000; and American dental associations, $400,000. [More…]
There was payment of $32m to the States in 1 976-77 to help finance relief measures for primary producers affected by drought, flood and bush fire with a firm assurance to those currently affected by drought or other natural disaster, and to those under risk of being affected, of further federal assistance in a wide range of recognised relief programs. [More…]
Already Queensland is having difficulties with natural gas supplies, New South Wales and South Australia could also experience natural gas shortfalls in the late 1980s if no further reserves are discovered in the Cooper Basin. [More…]
I think it has been fairly well canvassed that the CANDU reactor using natural uranium fuel produces quite an amount of plutonium 239 which is the material used to make a very basic dirty bomb. [More…]
I see no particular danger in any sort of natural production, in anything at all that is not manifested through mankind. [More…]
Their life experience is the result of the impact of external social pressures upon the natural needs of each individual person from the moment of birth or even conception. [More…]
The result of this impact of social pressures upon the natural needs of the individual produces alienation in the individual. [More…]
I say to the honourable member for Lilley (Mr Kevin Cairns) that one of the most pressing issues that face this country at a national level is the crucial need to evaluate the national control, the rate of exploitation and the volume of export of perhaps the two most important hydrocarbons- coal and natural gas. [More…]
I think the exploitation of both coal and natural gas, in particular, on the North West Shelf ought to be the subject of an inquiry by a joint parliamentary committee. [More…]
Unless the Austraiian Government quickly comes to the realisation that our coal reserves are among the world’s significant energy sources and unless it prepares a national policy for Australia’s domestic energy requirements, the wealth of our natural resources will be of little consequence to this country’s needs both at a national and international level. [More…]
Eighteen of the largest oil companies produce 60 per cent of the natural gas. [More…]
This Government’s policy, this action and this commitment to eliminate a levy which is one mechanism by which people can at least capitalise on the exploitation of what is, in fact, their asset can only escalate and strengthen the already high degree of foreign monopoly over this most important national and natural resource. [More…]
I warn the Government now that it should take action urgently on two crucial issues- the level of control of coal reserves and the control of exploitation of natural gas deposits. [More…]
It is inevitable that this legislation will be passed this evening, but Australians of every political persuasion will be calling on future governments to examine processes whereby in the future some reasonable returns will be given to the Australian people as a result of the exploitation of this very great Australian natural resource. [More…]
The Federal Government in the normal course provides assistance for natural disasters, and of course it would consider sympathetically any approach which might be made by a relevant State government in respect of this disaster. [More…]
-I am grateful to the honourable gentleman for the question because the Federal Government has always expressed an attitude of support, both directly and indirectly, for those who are affected by natural disasters. [More…]
Indeed very significant sums of money, amounting to approximately $34m, have been spent bythe Federal Government over the last two years in helping the States relieve the financial plight of producers in various centres throughout Australia where natural disasters have affected them. [More…]
So, on that basis, the States obviously have found it financially to their advantage to maintain a system whereby they accept within their budgets the first part of payments made in respect of natural disaster relief. [More…]
Australia is well endowed with two magnificent resources, natural and human, and it is about time we co-ordinated them in the interests of Australia. [More…]
Between 1975 and 1976 the total Commonwealth payments to the States for natural disasters were $224m, of which $110m, or 49 per cent, was drought related. [More…]
I submit that we need to consider two schemes to compensate for damage caused by natural disasters: Firstly, a scheme to cover capital losses; and, secondly, a program to compensate for income losses. [More…]
That is not a criticism; it is a natural thing to happen. [More…]
This raises a conflict between the natural right of the parent to bring up a child and the child’s rights. [More…]
We are endeavouring to promote the idea that Aboriginal children should not be taken away from their natural parents unnecessarily and that in general circumstances Aboriginal children should be fostered with Aboriginal parents, accepting, however, that in appropriate circumstances white parents may provide a suitable home for Aboriginal children. [More…]
To provide the maximum opportunity for Australians to participate as fully and effectively as practicable in the ownership and control of this country’s industries and natural resources. [More…]
These trends add up to the fact that we face the prospect of an Australia with little or no natural increase in population and only a very small net gain from immigration. [More…]
The advantage to companies of about $40 per tonne from making inland sales rather than CIF sales means that they are reluctant to move fuel out of metropolitan sales where strong competition exists, especially for natural gas, into CIF sales where the demand is met entirely by imported products. [More…]
What we know is that under the three years of the Labor regime there was no possible chance of these huge fields being developed because of Labor’s foreign investment policies and because of its general opposition to the export of natural gas from Australia. [More…]
We believe in more public ownership of our God-given natural resources. [More…]
This is why I could never agree with the thinking of members on the Government side that our natural resources should be allowed to be mined, developed, sold and exploited by private enterprise when one knows what private enterprise has done to our coal deposits. [More…]
I imagine that the whole of the Australian people will applaud the principle involved in curbing the exploitation of God-given natural resources by private enterprise, whether those resources be coal, uranium, iron ore, zinc, lead, tin, silver copper or whatever. [More…]
At the same time it is accepted that Tasmania is an unusual area endowed with certain natural advantages which provide a special life style appealing to a significant number of people. [More…]
Is this the best use of our great natural resources in this nation? [More…]
Is this the best way to export our great natural resources? [More…]
It is necessary for long term restructuring to make best use of our unique natural resources plus our skilled and intelligent work force. [More…]
1 also advise the honourable gentleman that in addition the Commonwealth will be providing, out of the Natural Disasters Relief Fund, the sum of $3,454,500, covering both centres. [More…]
While all these things are happening, it is unfortunate that the growers are receiving no assistance and no encouragement to provide self-help schemes to cover natural disasters. [More…]
The reason that we have this trouble now is that when wage indexation was first introduced we did not adjust the wages of the metal trades group to the natural or historical nexus that always existed between fitters and carpenters. [More…]
If we are to proceed with the mining and export of uranium, it is only natural that there should be further upgrading so that we receive the maximum benefit. [More…]
There will be more and more foreign takeovers of Australia’s industries and natural resources and a further drastic cutback in funds for education. [More…]
The natural reaction of people who have been in dispute, as the honourable member for Hotham said, is to be enraged at the treatment they receive. [More…]
This Bill deals with a number of matters associated with the new standard rate system of personal income tax, with the Budget proposal to increase the Australian tax on film royalties being paid overseas and with two of the measures announced in the general statement dealing with the North West Shelf natural gas project. [More…]
The Government recently announced its decision to give taxation concessions which would be of benefit to the North West Shelf natural gas project. [More…]
The other measure includes within the range of allowable capital expenditures of a petroleum mining company the cost of a liquefaction plant for use in the processing of natural gas. [More…]
If a skilled reserve of manpower were established it could be available to deal with natural disasters. [More…]
The natural association with the conscription mentality would have to be overcome. [More…]
-The fundamental principles of natural justice are indeed one of the most vital cornerstones of any society which operates under a system of parliamentary democracy and the rule of law. [More…]
Very recently, the High Court of Australia reaffirmed that the principles of natural justice are applicable to administrative tribunals and not in fact restricted to the courts of the land. [More…]
I have a brief for the principles of natural justice in this country. [More…]
The Government’s decision was based on its recognition of the important contribution which Landsat technology could make to the task of monitoring and managing our natural resources. [More…]
There were dramatic dashes across the continent at the taxpayers’ expense, not in VIP aircraft but in aircraft specially chartered with, of course, government warrants, all converging on the western district of Victoria, a natural habitat. [More…]
The Commonwealth has always accepted a contingent commitment in respect of flood disasters, and this particular program has without any doubt considerably reduced the destructive effects of these recurring natural hazards. [More…]
Others were asked: ‘Are you a natural born Australian?’ [More…]
When talking about economic and social interests, the right honourable member for Lowe put in aid that the Hume Highway marked a natural boundary. [More…]
While the Government refuses to accept its responsibilities in ensuring that a more reasonable amount of the massive profits reaped from this country’s natural resources are being redistributed, to the advantage of this community, I think it not surprising that industrial organisations like the Seamen’s Union will react and will seek to claim that at least their members should enjoy some of that profit which they believe rightfully belongs not only to this country but also to posterity. [More…]
The proposals to develop the North West Shelf natural gas resources are also entering the project definition stage. [More…]
That is a natural inclusion in the Bill. [More…]
Deductions are to be allowed for capital expenditure on natural gas liquefaction plant. [More…]
A project where the Commonwealth has been able to provide substantial assistance is the natural resources survey now being undertaken jointly by the Commonwealth and the State of Tasmania in the south-west area of that State. [More…]
First of aU, the living standards in Queensland are not as good as they ought to be, in spite of the remarkable natural wealth of that State. [More…]
The performance of the economy in that State, despite all its clear natural wealth, is not as good as it ought to be. [More…]
That is so, because Queensland has tremendous natural resources and the bonanza of open-cut coal has fallen into its lap. [More…]
It is a State where, as I have been reminded by Queenslanders a few moments ago, there are tremendous natural advantages. [More…]
I believe that Queensland has rather mishandled its opportunities but its opportunities in natural resources are so great that even though Queensland has mishandled them, there is still a great deal left. [More…]
It has tremendous natural resources and advantages. [More…]
I understand his natural interest in maintaining the number of commuters using his building but I think he ought to be intellectually honest in putting his case before the commuter operators. [More…]
In the performance of its functions under this Part, the Tribunal shall act fairly and impartially and shall observe the rules of natural justice. [More…]
1 find it hard to believe that if one is to set up a tribunal one is going to presume that it will not act fairly and impartially and will not observe whatever are supposed to be the rules of natural justice. [More…]
I would have thought that the words ‘fairly’ and ‘impartially’ at least had connotations of the rules of natural justice. [More…]
My mind sometimes boggles a bit when I find written into statutes what are called the rules of natural justice? [More…]
When the Minister is speaking on the amendment he might like to indicate what are the rules of natural justice. [More…]
Why is it not in the clause with which we are now dealing if the Government thinks that it is necessary that, in the performance of aU its functions, the Tribunal shall act fairly and impartially and shall observe the rules of natural justice, whatever they may be? [More…]
When we come to clause 181 shall be moving an amendment As to the question of debating what, is natural justice, may I defer that to a more appropriate time? [More…]
) Arrangements made or contemplated for management by the States of the Commonwealth’s natural resources of off-shore oil. [More…]
1 ) Is the transcontinental natural gas pipeline proposal a viable option to the development of the North West Shelf gas field on an export basis. [More…]
Does the pipeline proposal better serve Australia’s interest in terms of the projected shortfall of natural gas in the eastern States around 1 990, than does the export option. [More…]
The main policy initiatives we as a Government have taken in the field of energy policy over the last couple of years have been in the areas of mining taxation incentives, energy pricing, the administration of export controls, foreign investment guidelines, decisions on the development of uranium and natural gas resources, assistance to energy research and development, and the formation of energy consultative and advisory bodies. [More…]
I now turn to the matter of natural gas. [More…]
Indigenous natural gas can supply up to 20 per cent of Australia’s energy requirements. [More…]
the maintenance of animals or poultry for the purpose of selling them or their bodily produce, including natural increase; [More…]
In the case of the Cooper Basin natural gas project which also has interests in petroleum exploration licence areas in South Australia, over a period of discussion with the South Australian Government we have been able to make arrangements to divest the Commonwealth’s interest in this. [More…]
The natural result of this amendment is that, if a consumer buys an appliance which he says he wants for a specified purpose and it fails to do the job and he suffers consequential damages, he may not be able to recover because conditions presently required by the Act may be excluded from the contract. [More…]
Naturally seamen are looking to the contracting employment opportunities in Australia which have been projected from all arts of the economic spectrum and the possibility that employment will reduce rather than increase in the coming years. [More…]
It is perfectly natural to expect people employed in an industry to look for job security and for an increasing opportunity for employment in the future. [More…]
But, after all, is it not reasonable and natural that Australians would want a greater share in the wealth which is derived from Australian resources? [More…]
It has been said that arrangements have been entered into between State governments and overseas concerns in respect of the wood chip industry, but we know that this Government has certain powers under the Customs Act which enable it to restrict the devastation which is being caused to our forests and protect the natural areas that are being raped in Australia today. [More…]
The sad situation of course is that just as people are raping our natural mineral resources today, our forest lands were raped in the past and of course this is still going on. [More…]
If one can be critical of the previous era, one has to say that much of the development by the early settlers in this country was carried out without any significance being attached to the environment and the preservation of our great natural resources for the use of the generations that would follow. [More…]
145 (Hansard, 5 May 1977, page 1675) can he say what progress has been made on the matter of natural disaster mitigation and the establishment of a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the symposium on natural hazards held in Canberra from 26 to 29 May 1976, at which the most authoritative papers on this subject were considered and discussed. [More…]
145 that careful planning and research is necessary to identify the expertise required from within government and elsewhere to provide advice on the subject of disaster mitigation, in so far as it is of relevance to the development of a natural disaster insurance scheme, did the symposium fail to provide sufficient expertise. [More…]
Did the volume Report on Cyclone Tracy- Effect on Buildings by G. R. Walker to the then Department of Housing and Construction in December 1974, provide sufficient technical information for the Government to relate cyclone mitigation to a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
8 ) If so, will he take steps perhaps through the Australian Water Resources Council as suggested in the paper, to produce flood plain maps, as a preliminary measure to the establishment of effective natural disaster mitigation measures. [More…]
When will he table the Government’s proposed natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
The arrangements for the establishment of a mitigation committee, which will be bringing together and assessing material on mitigation measures with regard to their implications for a natural disaster insurance scheme, are well advanced and it is hoped that the committee will be providing advice to the working party in the near future. [More…]
What decisions have the 13 members of the Antarctica Treaty Organisation made on the exploitation and/or conservation of the natural resources in the Antarctic, particularly in respect of oil exploration and the harvesting of krill. [More…]
The recommendations adopted at this meeting include the most important decisions made by the Consultative Parties on exploitation and conservation questions in relation to Antarctica’s natural resources. [More…]
His willingness to accept new responsibilities and to do his homework to fit himself for that new task, his mental ability and agility and his natural dignity will, I believe, after a short apprenticeship, make him a worthy successor to the honourable member for Lyne as Chairman of Committees. [More…]
Nonetheless, let me say that the electorate of Mackellar is one of stunning natural beauty. [More…]
We have to accept that as being a natural outflow not necessarily of more successful education but of more plentifully available education programs. [More…]
The Commonwealth has always accepted a contingent commitment in respect of flooding disasters, and this particular program has without any doubt considerably reduced the destructive effects of these recurrent natural hazards. [More…]
Honourable members on the Government side will recall that recently the Government Parties Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee produced a report on the use of the Army reserve in limited circumstances particularly natural disasters and, one would envisage, terrorist situations. [More…]
Obviously there might be occasions when reserve units would be required in circumstances such as a natural disaster. [More…]
Furthermore I have some areas which I believe show a natural growth potential. [More…]
As the New Hebrides is one of our closest Pacific neighbours and is a territory with which Australia has long-standing and quite diverse links it is only natural that we should be concerned about the direction taken by recent events there. [More…]
We are probably below a long-term replacement level in terms of natural fertility in Australia. [More…]
We saw an end to ad hockery and the beginning of a rational and national approach to so many problems- the problems of urban life, manufacturing industry and education, the immense problems faced by Aboriginal people, the inadequacies of childhood services and health care delivery services, the conservation of our natural and built environment, the development of our natural resources and the upgrading and bringing into the twentieth century of our international relations. [More…]
The massive use of energy- and it is interesting to note that within advanced Western countries the responsibility for the production of energy largely rests with governments- the development of multinational corporations and their role in the large-scale exploitation of natural resources will produce tremendous problems for Australian society in the 1980s. [More…]
Wages, taxation, education, employment, social security and many other policies are and should be used, in the words of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ‘to protect the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society’. [More…]
They are non-renewable energy resources that were created from 250 million years of natural development. [More…]
This conference was one of a series of international conferences concerned with the problems which mankind will face in the use of the world’s natural resources. [More…]
It was decided to refer follow-up action to the Economic and Social Council, the Committee on Natural Resources and the regional commissions for inter-government co-operation which, in this area, would include the Economic and Social Council for Asia and the Pacific. [More…]
They allow one of their natural resources, the water that falls on the land, to be wasted. [More…]
We have bountiful supplies of natural resources. [More…]
We have the facility to become the natural granary of the Asian region. [More…]
Let me say this quite seriously: If we do not use the natural resources of this country for the benefit of all mankind, we do not deserve to keep the country. [More…]
That is only natural because they want their children to get a good education. [More…]
The long term appeared to come down solidly on the side of the need to accept change and to encourage resources to move into areas where Australia has natural advantages. [More…]
Our national assets in the way of natural resources are unlimited to back up such an investment. [More…]
The mountains and valleys offer superb walking and climbing in a natural environment. [More…]
I think it has been probably spelt out clearly and unequivocally in documentation that has been presented time and time again that Canberra is the only Australian city- it is one of the few cities in the world- which is not founded for some reason of natural commercial advantage. [More…]
The community is small and the Territory has limited natural resources for future commercial exploitation. [More…]
A number of natural disasters during recent years have meant that crops planted by farmers have been destroyed well before harvest. [More…]
They relate to viscose cotton, including polynosic cotton threads, polyester cotton and PVA natural fibres. [More…]
Bradmill originally requested that this by-law be amended to exclude natural yarns for knitting, but subsequently withdrew this request. [More…]
They could not produce a yarn that competed successfully with yarn that was produced overseas, both natural fibre in the form of cotton and synthetic fibre in the form of polyester. [More…]
Most enlightened zoological garden administrations seek to exhibit their collections in surroundings which resemble the natural habitat; sometimes surroundings are a very real duplication of the natural habitat. [More…]
Exhibits should be included also if they are so designed that they present fauna in a natural habitat- real or simulated- in which they are normally found. [More…]
Compounding the social and economic costs of declining job opportunities and rising unemployment is the natural growth of the work force. [More…]
The Liberals are supported very much because of what they are or what they are perceived to be, that is, ‘economic managers’, ‘responsible people’, ‘natural leaders’, ‘people who are high on the social hierarchy’, or what they stand for generally, that is to say, prosperity, growth and capital appreciation rather than for what they promise specifically at elections, which is usually not much. [More…]
The same malaise in government thinking exists in respect of natural gas. [More…]
Natural gas represents for Australia a great opportunity as an alternative fuel. [More…]
Yet there has not been one glimmer of hope, not a mention from the Government side as to a natural gas policy as a complement to a total energy policy. [More…]
The Government thinks all it has to do is approve the export of liquid natural gas from the North West Shelf venture in Western Australia and that will amount to the totality of its gas policy. [More…]
There has been no real assessment of natural gas demand in Australia, of how the usage of natural gas should be encouraged or of where it should be encouraged. [More…]
There has been no discussion and no policy on the pricing relationships between natural gas and oil. [More…]
There should have been an attempt by the Commonwealth to sit down with the States and hammer out a proper fuel policy, particularly with respect to natural gas. [More…]
I refer in particular to the natural gas now entering the Sydney market- the largest potential market in Australiafrom the gas fields in Moomba, South Australia. [More…]
Instead, we find this ludicrous position where the oil companies are still discounting fuel oil to try to keep natural gas out of the Sydney market and to limit its penetration. [More…]
From memory, natural gas accounts for about 8 per cent of Australia’s energy utilisation. [More…]
Not one potential on-shore user of North West Shelf gas would have any clue as to the Government’s thinking on a natural gas pricing policy. [More…]
There is no clarity of thinking on the part of the Government in respect of natural gas pricing. [More…]
There should be an encouragement to upgrade natural gas exploration. [More…]
But everybody forgets about natural gas exploration. [More…]
Natural gas would seem to be a good prospect for Australia. [More…]
If exploration companies are to be believed, the North West Shelf has mature stratas that could be explored successfully for natural gas. [More…]
Natural gas exploration is something that ought to be encouraged. [More…]
The lack of a recognisable energy policy has resulted in the Bass Strait fields being administered as to natural gas and LPG, substantially as a local or Victorian resource. [More…]
For natural gas it has meant that the Victorian-Sydney pipeline has not been built and at a greatly increased cost very much much more expensive natural gas has been brought to New South Wales . [More…]
Secondly, the honourable member made a point about natural gas. [More…]
Again, I am staggered that he should come into this place and talk about natural gas and what the Government is doing. [More…]
That operation offered the best chance for the development of natural gas in Australia. [More…]
Our policies include a proper decision on the North West Shelf which allows the consortium involved an investment environment where it knows it has markets for its natural gas. [More…]
The project is going ahead and the Government is confident that by 1 984 natural gas will be flowing to the shores of Australia where it will be used both nationally and internationally. [More…]
We have encouraged natural gas exploration and development within Australia both on land and under water. [More…]
Encouragement of the North-West Shelf development and other natural resources projects will continue. [More…]
Of course, major international companies were here in Australia and their contribution has been of enormous significance within the Australian industries dealing with the mining of all minerals and the exploration for deposits of oil and natural gas. [More…]
The Commonwealth could be held liable for any damages which may have been caused to my constituent as a result of this incident and the continuing stress and anguish which, of course, is natural in a woman of her age being so brutally and callously treated upon arrival back in her own country. [More…]
Again, in the area of natural gas there has been a malaise in government thinking. [More…]
The Government thinks it is sufficient to give the goahead to the North West Shelf project when it ought to be an objective of government policy to raise the utilisation of natural gas in Australia to reasonable levels. [More…]
This seems a sensible policy as it looks as though Australia will have sufficient quantities of natural gas for the foreseeable future. [More…]
So natural gas can provide a real substitute. [More…]
Yet there is no direction of government policy towards upgrading natural gas exploration. [More…]
As expenditure is continuing to soar the Commissioner notes that there is growing disillusionment with the system of natural controls. [More…]
We believe that any clearing of hardwood forests for the purpose of replanting would not be in the best interests of the long-term future of the natural environment or of the nation. [More…]
Given the limited amount of natural forest, especially in South Australia, the previous Acts have been important to the development of this industry. [More…]
-There are standing arrangements for support in relation to natural disasters, and during the time of the severe problems in New South Wales I was in touch with the New South Wales Premier concerning the programs and standing arrangements that the Commonwealth has with the States. [More…]
In the last financial year the Commonwealth provided nearly $ 1 3m to New South Wales for natural disaster relief, and it appears from the estimates for this year that the amount will be again over $ 12m for the State as a whole. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to the Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme for Australia discussion paper and particularly to paragraph 22 of the paper which states that the potential risks of earthquake in Australia are significant. [More…]
1 ) Yes, the Minister for Science has seen the Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme for Australia discussion paper including the paragraph referred to in the honourable member’s question. [More…]
On the question of land usage, should we be clear-felling vast tracts of our natural forest or should we be using the marginal land that is available to grow this crop of softwoods? [More…]
Listening to the tenor of his speech, I was not clear that he understood that the reference there was not only to softwood timber and the planting of exotics but also to Australia’s resources of hardwoods and natural forests. [More…]
One of the things I should emphasise when referring to the recommendations of the Committee is that this Parliament in its program should not concentrate only on softwood programs but should be willing to consider a similar program for the regeneration of our natural hardwood areas in a way that would ensure the maintenance of forest diversity and a number of other environmental values. [More…]
Each State has differing needs for softwood planting based upon the extent of their own natural resources and their proximity to outside suppliers. [More…]
One should also remember how poorly endowed is the dry continent with natural timber forests, particularly commercial forests. [More…]
Environmentally or otherwise I see no difference between a tree planted in a forestry project or natural timber. [More…]
Australia’s population will increase from natural migration and natural births by the year 2000. [More…]
That seems to offend against the principle of natural justice. [More…]
It beggars imagination that three miles from the demographic centre of Sydney, Australia ‘s largest city, people drowned as the result of a natural calamity accentuated by government neglect. [More…]
A request has been received from the Victorian Government and that request, in conjunction with other requests for modifications to the present natural disaster assistance arrangements, is presently under scrutiny. [More…]
Two of these, the general extension by two years of the 20 per cent phase of the investment allowance and the inclusion in allowable capital expenditure of the cost of natural gas liquefaction plant, have already been carried into legislation. [More…]
It also includes travel undertaken by Natural Disasters Organisation personnel and students attending the Australian Counter Disasters College at Mt Macedon Victoria, and Defence Science and Technology personnel. [More…]
1 ) What formal procedures must be adopted to enable Regular forces to be called out in cases of (a) aid to the civil community for anti-terrorist activities and (b) natural disasters. [More…]
Where the likelihood of the Defence Force members being involved in the use of force does not exist, for example, to deal with a natural disaster, or to carry out a bomb disposal task under such circumstances, there is no requirement for call out. [More…]
Apples and pears are two of the most natural and pleasant ways of providing fibre. [More…]
The natural habitats contain a wealth of flora and fauna of great potential interest not only to [More…]
Aboriginals, with their long involvement with and concern for the natural environment, have a key role to play in park management. [More…]
Under the provisions of clause 6 of the Bill, a conservation zone will be established over this stage to ensure that the wildlife and natural features of the area are adequately protected and conserved pending its incorporation in the national park. [More…]
The establishment of Kakadu National Park is indicative of this Government’s concern for the natural environment and Aboriginal interests. [More…]
Australian uranium industry; a nuclear scientist; a medical practitioner or health physicist; an environmentalist with experience in natural resource development; an economist with experience in natural resource development; and an expert in national and international affairs or law. [More…]
As indicated by the Minister for Environment, Housing and Community Development (Mr Groom), provision is being made in the Bill to amend the National Parks and Wildlife Conservation Act to protect wildlife and natural features in the stage 2 area. [More…]
If one goes through the list one sees mentioned the Australian religious community, the Aboriginal community, a national voluntary environmental organisation, the Northern Territory community, the Australian Council of Trade Unions, a person with experience in energy matters, the Australian uranium industry, a nuclear scientist, a medical practitioner or health physicist, an environmentalist with experience in natural resource development, an economist with experience in natural resource development, an expert in national and international affairs or law. [More…]
What I am saying is that there is that natural contact with the local community and, indeed, there is reliance on the local community to provide it with information and news that it can publish. [More…]
The social and economic costs of unemployment are being compounded by the natural growth, of about 2 per cent a year, of the workforce. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968. [More…]
The other amendment is of a machinery nature only and results from certain amendments to the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Amendment Bill 1973 which were moved and accepted in the Senate. [More…]
As to the principal amendment, section 15 of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968 creates certain offences relating to the taking of sedentary organisms from the Australian continental shelf by unlicensed persons or vessels. [More…]
Safety is an automatic and natural component. [More…]
The other point about decentralisation and offering incentives is that it is more often than not the case that natural economic advantage and the energies of the local promotion attract industry. [More…]
What decisions have the 1 3 members of the Antarctica Treaty Organisation made on the exploitation and /or conservation of the natural resources in the Antarctic, particularly in respect of oil exploration and the harvesting of krill. [More…]
Last September, the United States General Accounting Office reported that it had found: gaps in Federal laws and regulations governing the storage and disposal of nuclear waste; geological uncertainties and natural resources trade-offs encountered when selecting ‘ permanent ‘ disposal locations; overly optimistic schedules for demonstrating the safety of . [More…]
Just three weeks ago, the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the costs of nuclear power. [More…]
The annual natural radiation on a person in Australia is 100 millirads. [More…]
In 1966. the Commission’s main research program was changed to cover research and development programs in heavy water moderated, natural uranium-fuelled reactor systems. [More…]
They are not to be given prior dominion over the land and its natural assets. [More…]
I have examined the possibility of propelling the Broken Hill City Council into court for denying natural justice to a trade unionist and an ex-member of the merchant marines who, on anyone’s say so, has done nothing wrong and has given long, loyal and valuable service to the Council. [More…]
In January-February 1977 Mr D. W. Kerr of the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics visited the National Geophysical Research Institute, Hyderabad, the Oil and Natural Gas Commission, Dehra Dun, and other Indian agencies for lectures and discussions on the magnetotelluric method of geological investigation. [More…]
On page 66 in referring to the fate of natural contaminants, it states: [More…]
If the present fate of natural contaminants in the Magela system were known, it would be easier to assess the impact of additional contamination from the proposed Ranger and Jabiluka operations. [More…]
The Bill requires consultation with Aborigines- that is fine and it is only natural- but nowhere does it recognise the existence of the proposed new Northern Territory Government, even though the national park is nominally within the boundaries of the Territory. [More…]
A reading of the letters from these people leads one to understand quite clearly that they are part of the natural constituency of the Liberal Party of Australia. [More…]
Take the North West Shelf natural gas development and exploration plan. [More…]
I oppose this plan as it now stands mainly because I believe that it is against the national interest to export some 60 per cent of the total yield of the North West gas fields when there are clear indications that Australian oil and natural gas reserves will be severely diminished within the next 50 to 60 years. [More…]
The building will be designed to harmonise with the natural bushland surroundings and an appropriately landscaped car park will be provided. [More…]
I think that the cause of putting as many limits as are practicable on the discretionary powers contained in tax legislation and the concern to keep those discretionary powers at a minimum are legitimate and natural for people who espouse a Liberal Party philosophy. [More…]
Surely by now he has learnt that reducing inflation is the only way to achieve a sustainable and natural return to acceptable levels of economic activity and employment. [More…]
When the basic imbalances between real wages and productivity and internal and external balance are corrected there will be no barrier to the automatic and natural increase in the level of economic activity and employment in Australia. [More…]
In general discussions with Chinese leaders I emphasised that apart from Australia’s natural resources we have technologies and equipment which are well suited to China’s needs. [More…]
In the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Europe, Press, television and radio are natural enemies. [More…]
Of course as a result of this it is only natural that the expansion that has taken place over many years in the higher tertiary areas- in the universities and the colleges of advanced education- will come under some pressure, particularly in the area of capital facilities. [More…]
Even in Australia, with abundant natural wealth, we pursue a grim, grey economic policy which, like so many others, could well continue to lead us through still more grim, grey years. [More…]
Fretilin is thought to be willing to consider licensed exploitation by Indonesia of its natural resources, including offshore oil reserves. [More…]
Probably this was only natural but it was not realistic as the circumstances have since proved. [More…]
The Federal Court found that the charge for the offence under the rules was not determined in accordance with the rules and amounted to a denial of natural justice. [More…]
I do not think that that sort of natural check and balance in the system is to be decried. [More…]
This is a cognate debate involving three measures- the Fisheries Amendment Bill, the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Amendment Bill and the Whaling Amendment Bill. [More…]
Also, we do not intend to oppose the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Amendment Bill. [More…]
The second matter, which is of no real contention, is the amendment to the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act. [More…]
Maximum sustainable yield is related to the number of young males and females which may be taken without preventing the natural increase in the numbers of the species. [More…]
It is my belief that whales are a valuable natural resource, to be studied, respected and responsibly harvested for the benefit of mankind. [More…]
It is a move which has been taken already by other nations and it could lead to the eventual declaration of a full resource zone giving Australia control of off-shore oil and natural gas reserves. [More…]
-I speak tonight in support of the legislation before the House, namely, the Fisheries Amendment Bill, the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Amendment Bill and the Whaling [More…]
Perhaps in the fullness of time amendments to other legislation Will be necessary, such as the Seas and Submerged Lands Act, the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act and the Whaling Act, for which an amending Bill is before us tonight, as is an amending BUI to the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act. [More…]
It is very natural for people who suddenly find that their whole way of life and their financial security is threatened to resent bitterly the actions of those whom they see as being responsible for their predicament. [More…]
As one of the founders of ANZUS and the South East Asia Treaty Organisation, he was fully aware of the need to consolidate Australia’s natural bonds with its neighbours. [More…]
I thought he was consciously or naturally aristocratic and it surprised me to find out he had an ability to know what the average man felt. [More…]
I don’t know how he did this, but I would say he had a good deal of natural flair for it. [More…]
In view of the fact that a Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme has been under intensive examination since February 1974, when can Australia expect concrete proposals relating to a viable Natural Disaster Insurance Scheme to be tabled in the Parliament. [More…]
A Mitigation Committee has also been established to provide advice on appropriate mitigation policies directed at improving natural hazard risks. [More…]
In agreements between the Indian and Sri Lankan Governments signed in 1964 and 1974 it was agreed that of these 975,000 Sri Lanka would grant citizenship to 375,000 (plus their natural increase) and India would agree to the repatriation to India and grant Indian citizenship to 600,000 (with their natural increase). [More…]
The best way to do something that has a lasting effect is in a controlled and natural way by the private sector. [More…]
If any single accumulation of liquid hydrocarbons or natural gas, or if any other mineral deposit beneath the seabed, extends across a boundary line so as to come within the jurisdiction of both countries, and the pan of such accumulation or deposit that is situated on one side of the line is recoverable in fluid form wholly or in pan from the other side of the line, the two Governments will seek to reach agreement on the manner in which the accumulation or deposit shall be most effectively exploited and on the equitable sharing of the benefits arising from such exploitation. [More…]
Of necessity, it had to assess the limits of its territory and territorial jurisdiction, the rights of freedom of movement of its people, their freedom of access for the purposes of trade and commerce, its requirements for defence, both national and international, and its freedom of access to the seas adjacent to its mainland for the purpose of exploiting the natural resources on or beneath the seabed. [More…]
I believe that that requirement is rather significant and stands as a very serious reminder to those people who have a somewhat insular attitude towards the development of Australia ‘s natural resources, both in the sea and on the land mass. [More…]
It may also be possible at certain times of the year to arrange for tourists to see the whales in their natural surroundings. [More…]
New scientific developments can assist in promoting better information on the natural environment and its conservation, and informed health care. [More…]
Science and technology are major components of social change, natural resource use, education and the changing nature of work- to give just some examples. [More…]
In the first place departments claim that the ceiling given them does not take cognisance of the thrust of their expected programs, and this would be a natural complaint levied by all government agencies against all central controlling organs of government. [More…]
Naturally enough the Public Service Board is not able to adjust any department’s ceiling without the authority of its own minister (virtually the Prime Minister in all cases). [More…]
1 ) What cost/benefit studies have been made of (a) the proposal for railway links between north-west Queensland, the Northern Territory and the natural gas and ore reserves of Western Australia, and (b) the electrification of main railway links in Australia. [More…]
In ordinary equity, it is only natural that a section such as this one should be included in the Income Tax Assessment Act. [More…]
Alongside a reasonable consular concern and natural sense of compassion for those convicted and punished overseas, there must, however, also be a balanced view of the significance of many of these drug offences. [More…]
Many migrants who are naturalised Australians, or in some cases their children who are natural born Australians, may be regarded by their country of birth, or their parents birth, still to be citizens of those countries. [More…]
This assistance includes: Inquiries relating to the welfare and whereabouts of Australians; repatriation and financial relief of distressed Australians in the form of a repayable loan as already mentioned; welfare visits to persons in gaol, hospital or in an asylum; assistance in natural disasters or emergencies; and making available to Australian citizens who have been arrested a list of local lawyers who may be able to assist them. [More…]
There is in fact something of a natural tendency for those overseas not to seek private assistance, for example the advice of a local lawyer, and to appeal instead for official help. [More…]
They use the land as a natural resource and, as I have indicated, as a spiritual centre. [More…]
The traditional flow of store catde turnoff to other States has been disrupted by movement restrictions and a natural reluctance by traditional purchasers to take cattle from bluetongue control areas. [More…]
It was natural for experience to show that amendments to the original Bill were both necessary and desirable. [More…]
We argued strenuously that we should aim at a population growth, as a result of both natural increase and immigration, of some 1.1 per cent. [More…]
The figure of 1.9 per cent comprised 1.1 per cent from natural causes, and 0,8 per cent from immigration. [More…]
Our immediate approach to energy has to be to try to identify more reserves and, at the same time, look specifically for natural gas. [More…]
It will encourage industry to tura away maybe from oil furnaces and look at the probability and the costs of using coal, natural gas or something else. [More…]
The amount of natural pigmentation in the skin determines how vulnerable we may be to the damaging effects of sunlight. [More…]
The scheme was originally set up with these high sounding ideals: ( 1 ) preserving the natural resource; (2) providing useful employment for Aborigines; and (3) conserving the soil, water and wildlife. [More…]
One of the answers to the sub-committee’s questionnaire suggested that surveyed areas of natural timber on Melville Island totalled 695,000 hectares, but the total area of Melville Island is under 570,000 hectares, so I assume they were going to plant trees in the seamangrove forests perhaps. [More…]
The very real problems of the natural hazards of this harsh area were disregarded. [More…]
27 February 1978-North West Shelf Natural Gas Development, Western Australia (Woodside Petroleum Developments Pty Ltd ). [More…]
I stress to the House again that when inflation is falling it is only natural that indexation benefits or indexation compensation must fall at the same time, because to argue otherwise is to argue that at a time of zero inflation one should have indexation compensation, and that is a palpable nonsense. [More…]
As a result of that report I immediately sent a telex to the Premier of Victoria assuring him that we would undertake to give assistance under our natural disaster arrangements. [More…]
Last year we provided $3.2m to Victoria to help with natural disasters and this financial year we have already provided about $ 1.8m. [More…]
I suppose that is a very natural thing for an Opposition speaker to do in a debate such as this. [More…]
These principles can be summed up in the following way: The primary aim of disciplinary provisions should be to facilitate efficient administration and public confidence in the integrity of the administration; there should be no unnecessary concern with the private lives of staff members; provisions should be seen as a complement to other management processes of supervision, leadership and staff counselling, with disciplinary action generally being a last resort; the disciplinary process should continue to be essentially administrative rather than judicial, but the principles of natural justice and fairness should be observed. [More…]
I am quite sure that these rather pitiful attempts by the Opposition to look back upon my speeches with respect to the development of Australia’s great natural resources will fall on barren ground. [More…]
to take and use the natural waters of the land; and [More…]
‘(3) Where there are no convenient natural waters on land referred to in sub-section ( 1 ), an Aboriginal is entitled to use bore waters on the land for drinking, cooking, washing or watering horses. ‘ [More…]
It involves people, and this is important because it is the human factor that decentralises, that becomes the pioneer, that has the capacity to take up a challenge and exploit it to its fullest potential, or suffers the reversal of fortunes which is a natural consequence in broadening our industrial and rural and mining horizons. [More…]
1 ) In view of the recent forecast by the National Energy Advisory Committee that natural gas usage in Australia is expected to increase from 8 to 1 6 per cent of Australia ‘s total energy requirements by 198S, will he take positive action to ensure that the Mereenie oil and gas field in the Northern Territory is fully explored in the national interest. [More…]
The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State. [More…]
Our objective of a strengthened and more export oriented manufacturing sector geared to our abundant natural resources depends on the availability of a growing world market, particularly in Asia. [More…]
The Chinese Government has made clear the value it sees in these exchanges and has also, in a direct way, informed me of its requirement for natural resources from Australia in addition to technology and plant equipment. [More…]
We do not want the natural features which are left and the very nice bit of suburbia which is the St George area and the Sutherland Shire around Botany Bay to be destroyed. [More…]
Has the Government considered the adoption of an automotive propane specification such as the United States Natural Gas Processors Association Specification HD 5; if not, will it do so. [More…]
I think it is just as well that not only this House but also the people of Australia should be reminded from time to time of the natural inclinations which are carried through from past Leaders of the Opposition to this particular Leader of the Opposition. [More…]
In relation to each of the following Western Australian mining projects, (a) Agnew Mining (Teutonic Bore coppernickel mine), (b) Alcoa (Wagerup alumina refinery), (c) Alumax (Mitchell Plateau bauxite mining and alumina refinery, (d) Alwest (Worsley alumina refinery), (e) Amax and Partners (Forrestania nickel project), (f) Anglo American (Sally Malay copper-nickel prospect), (g) Aquitaine (Sorby Hills zinc prospect), (h) BHP (Deepdale iron ore), (i) EZ Industries (Golden Grove copper prospect), (j) Goldsworthy Mining (Area C iron ore), (k) Kimberley Ventures (Koongie Park copper deposits), (1) Hamersley Iron (Expansion program), (m) Mt Newman Mining (Expansion program), (n) NW Shelf Developments (Natural gas), (o) Robe River (Expansion program ), ( p) Texasgulf-Hanwright (Marandoo iron ore), (q) Western Titanium (GabbinKoorda (kaolin deposits and Capel ilmenite), (r) Western Mining (Yeelirrie uranium), (s) Minefields Exploration (Mt Mulgine wolfram prospect) and (t) Agnew-Clough (Coates Siding vanadium deposits), (i) when is development expected to commence, (ii) what is the estimated investment involved, (iii) what will be the size of the construction workforce and (iv) what will be the size of the permanent operational workforce. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the United States report on Nuclear Power Costs prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress House Government Operations Committee which stated that radioactive waste is a significant and growing problem, that at least 3,000 metric tonnes of spent nuclear fuel are now being stored at commercial reactor sites with an additional 1 7,000 metric tonnes expected to accumulate in the next decade and yet there is still no demonstrated technology for permanently and safely disposing of this waste. [More…]
Natural Disasters [More…]
The comforting isolation of our island position and the natural barriers of time and distance have become less relevant as transport has become speedier and more flexible, and trade and travel have increased, particularly from areas where many exotic diseases are well established. [More…]
Of course also we state that we must ensure growth of new industries in our community based on our research and development, on the upvaluing of our minerals and on areas where we have a natural protection, such as perhaps high transport costs to this country. [More…]
1 ) In January 1 978 the Premier of Queensland sought the Prime Minister’s agreement to widening and varying the drought relief measures which the Commonwealth had already agreed to support (in November 1977) under the natural disaster assistance arrangements. [More…]
Department of Finance records of advances for natural disaster assistance to the States are based on financial years. [More…]
A further complication which tends to prevent indentification of Commonwealth assistance in terms of particular disasters is the requirement that each State must meet from its own resources a pre-determined ‘base’ amount of expenditure on natural disasters for a financial year before Commonwealth assistance becomes payable. [More…]
The following table shows estimated total Commonwealth payments to Queensland in respect of natural disaster assistance in 1977-78. [More…]
Our intuitive judgment would tell us that, as a country which, in large part, is based on rural production has a lot of ability to apply research and development in a mechanical area such as this and has such a large market for rural production to the north, and as a tractor is heavy to transport and therefore would have a natural protection, perhaps the manufacture of tractors is an area into which we should be applying resources and seeing that employment is created. [More…]
This would not only absorb the natural increase in the workforce- about 110,000: We could expect to see unemployment reduced by 50,000. [More…]
I had done a business management course in my previous occupation and I had thought that basic things like business planning, cash flows and this type of thing would have been a natural to many small businessmen. [More…]
Will he initiate in the context of a national energy policy a study of the relative benefits of developing natural gas from the Mereenie fields as against the refinery proposal. [More…]
It was very natural, since the allegations that had been made at that time and for some weeks related to the Minister for Finance and to the electoral commissioners, that Ministers’ minds should be focused on that particular matter. [More…]
Section 43 (b) refers to the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society. [More…]
the need to give the widest possible protection and assistance to the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society, particularly while it is responsible for the care and education of dependent children; [More…]
It would provide large sums that could be used for oil exploration, coal liquefaction, the development of natural gas fields and ultimately the development of resources under public ownership. [More…]
Instead of imposing a resources rent tax on the usage and export of our precious natural resources, the Government timidly proposed an extra branch profit tax of 5 per cent of taxable income on companies with overseas parents. [More…]
1 ) No such specific instruction peculiar to ANR has been issued, but in line with general Government policy there have been gradual staff reductions imposed in recent years which have been achieved by natural wastage without retrenchments. [More…]
Now Labor Party members are again trying to recreate the fettered environment which is their natural habitat, where any innocent act can be distorted by slur and by baseless innuendo and deceit into a grotesque caricature of what really happened. [More…]
Australia has resources of four main fossil fuelspetroleum, natural gas, black coal and brown coal. [More…]
Whilst our resources of black and brown coal are virtually proven and we are certain that Australia possesses vast reserves of natural gas, it is most doubtful whether adequate reserves of crude oil will be discovered to service Australia’s long term petroleum needs. [More…]
Perhaps there could be an argument even for this action if the Government expanded its expenditure on job creation projects such as housing construction by State housing commissions or regeneration of industries such as shipbuilding to ease the burden of the drain on the balance of payments or to develop an Australian petrochemicals industry to produce petrochemicals such as methanol and ultimately petrol from natural gas. [More…]
It should apply to oil, coal and natural gas. [More…]
Australia is one of the few countries which allow their natural energy assets to be ripped ofT so completely by private exploitation. [More…]
The British National Oil Corporation currently participates in the development of five oil wells in the North Sea and in the Viking natural gas field. [More…]
There is a possibility that new production techniques will enable the production from natural gas of a substance called methanol which may ultimately satisfy 15 per cent to 25 per cent of Australia’s petroleum needs, either as an additive to petrol refined from crude oil or by ultimate conversion from natural gas to methanol and then to petrol. [More…]
In regard to natural gas, coal and oil resources, there is really no shortage of money for capital development purposes. [More…]
With the present rates of natural population growth and the likely net intake of migrants, the labour force could be expected to grow by at least 1 Vi per cent and possibly as much as 2 percent over the course of 1978-79. [More…]
Speaking of the automobile industry, they felt that with our vast array of natural resources, iron ore in particular, we should concentrate on processing those resources and on manufacturing those parts of the automobile that use substantial amounts of steel. [More…]
I have been aware of the problems that production of artificial opal could cause the natural opal industry. [More…]
Australia is the country of opportunity, of natural wealth, of enterprise. [More…]
Natural gas consumption, at 9 per cent, is more in Une with its share of reserves at 4 per cent. [More…]
Also we have seen less use of natural gas than should be expected as we have burnt off our valuable crude oil. [More…]
Gaga died in Transkei on 7 May1965 (natural causes) [More…]
Hoye died in Transkei on 8 May1965 (natural causes) [More…]
Cuthsela died in undisclosed prison on 2 1 January 1971 (natural causes) [More…]
Malinga died in Maritzburg on 22 February 1977 (natural causes) [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the 4th Annual Report of the Pipeline Authority which states that, on all evidence available at present, a transcontinental natural gas pipeline will become necessary and would be economic and further that the decision for commitment to the construction of the first stage of a transcontinental link will need to be made in about 1982, unless the need for a decision is deferred or rendered unnecessary in the meantime by substantial new discoveries in central Australia or the eastern States. [More…]
Will the Government take action to markedly increase exploration for natural gas concurrently with that for crude oil, as both have a role to play in meeting Australia ‘s increasing liquid fuel requirements and in reducing Australia’s balance of payments problems. [More…]
1 ) Has his attention been drawn to the report on Nuclear Power Costs prepared by the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-Committee of the United States House Government Operations Committee which stated that radio-active waste is a significant and growing problem with at least 3,000 metric tonnes of spent nuclear fuel now being stored at commercial reactor sites and an additional 17,000 metric tonnes expected to accumulate in the next decade, and that there is still no demonstrated technology for permanently and safely disposing of this waste. [More…]
It is of course natural that this Government would desire to stimulate the economy to reduce unemployment. [More…]
I believe that it is time the Opposition stopped trying to ferret around in its natural habitat. [More…]
The virus identified in Australia has not, in natural circumstances, generated disease in any animals anywhere in Australia. [More…]
Its natural physical environment is less desirable than many other parts of the country. [More…]
Another example of this parochial attitude was the time when the natural gas pipeline grid was passing very close to Canberra- it went to Gunning which is just a few miles out- and we were endeavouring to have an extension of the line into Canberra. [More…]
A natural turf surface can only be used for approximately three hours a week before it begins to deteriorate badly. [More…]
Quite frankly, in terms of procedure in the House, the constant assertions by inference of the honourable gentleman and some of his colleagues, as on this occasion, leave no recourse at all to natural justice. [More…]
With the tropical rain forests of the north, the intriguing Channel Country of the outback, the sunny decadence of the Gold Coast, the big game fishing off Cairns and, of course, the natural splendours of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland like a magnet draws tourists from all corners of the globe. [More…]
But these natural resources and the industry developed around them are no more independent of reliance on government policy and support than the manufacturing industry, the mining industry or the rural industry. [More…]
The Government must take note how the asphalt jungle at Surfers Paradise has destroyed the natural phenomenon of the once great Gold Coast of Queensland. [More…]
We have good weather in Australia for free, but we are not prepared to get out and sell something that is free, the greatest natural benefitsunny days, clear blue skies and starry nights. [More…]
I reckon we have more natural attractions than most other countries. [More…]
It is a natural extension of this policy to prohibit smoking in public places where the Federal Government has control, such as in air transportation or even in our own car transport pool. [More…]
The Reef is, I think, our greatest natural asset. [More…]
The Act was designed to ensure the control, care and development of the Great Barrier Reef as a resource to be enjoyed and utilised by this generation and maintained, with a minimum of disturbance to its natural state, for the enjoyment and utilisation of future generations. [More…]
We have, lying off the coast of Queensland, over one million hectares of natural miracle. [More…]
Who’s Who for 1977 shows that Dr McMichael has been vice-president of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources since 1975, secretary of the Department of Environment from 1973 to 1975, president of the River Murray Commission for the same period and director of the Australian Conservation Foundation from 1967 to 1968. [More…]
This is the type of aspect that the group must look at to make sure that the balance of nature is left and so that we can develop and exploit the reef- I do not use the word ‘exploit’ from the point of view of trying to take everything out of the Reef- in harmony with that natural balance. [More…]
There are disciplines that have to be imposed in order to preserve the natural balance of nature. [More…]
I believe that the tourist promoters, whether they be large companies or family companies, have sought to build tourist attractions around the natural attractions They have sought to protect these attractions as much as possible and I believe that they have been successful in this endeavour. [More…]
What we must do, if we look, for instance, at the Iwasaki project, is make sure that, if Iwasaki commences development because the laws of Queensland and the laws of the Commonwealth are such that he can now start development, that development conforms not only to the laws of local government, the State government and the national government but also to the laws of nature, and that if the development is there it is only to enhance the natural aspects of the area and certainly not to destroy them. [More…]
My own belief is that if Iwasaki develops- I think this aspect is there; the ball is now in his corner- he must make sure that the natural aspect and the lay of the land is preserved. [More…]
It is bad enough that they poach and take the fish which would naturally be an Australian product but the vandalism that they inflict on the Reef is greater than any inflicted by the crown of thorns starfish. [More…]
The vandalism from that particular aspect is greater than any other in the natural environment of the Reef. [More…]
Over a period nature will balance these natural disadvantages but there is nothing to balance the vandalism that is caused by human intruders. [More…]
There is absolutely no natural market force which encourages the economy to a point of equilibrium which also coincides with full employment. [More…]
Also, immigration can help to provide a balance to the work force component of the population which would grow only at diminishing rates with the present and projected combination of a declining natural population growth rate and an aging of that population. [More…]
Examples of more specific areas of interest, covered by the above broad guidelines are: increase in effectiveness of the methods and techniques for exploration and for the assessment of reserves of petroleum, coal and other fossil fuels; improvements in production, processing, transportation, storage and utilisation of Australian coals; the production of liquid fuels including methanolfrom coals, natural gas and oil shale and production of ethanol from agricultural materials; methods to conserve energy in transportation, in industry and in the design of buildings; utilisation of the various forms of renewable energy, particularly solar energy; relevant aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear fuels; research into solar electricity, magneto hydrodynamics, and other advanced energy technologies; environmental aspects of energy production and use. [More…]
Some of the natural areas in Canberra which are uncared for and still in a semi-bush setting ought to be left that way because they are part of the city’s attractions. [More…]
I am very concerned about the failure of this Government to get on with the job of providing a natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
How many years does the Government want in which to do something about the people who have been so grievously affected by natural disasters as to lose their homes? [More…]
In March 1976 the Government announced that it had agreed in principle to introduce this natural disaster insurance scheme. [More…]
In that statement the then Minister said that the Government’s aim was to see a natural disaster scheme introduced at the earliest practical date. [More…]
The discussion paper indicated that the natural hazards covered by the scheme would enable earthquakes, floods, tropical cyclones and related hazards such as landslip and storm surge to be covered. [More…]
The areas in New South Wales which were mentioned and which are affected by this one form of natural disaster are: Illawarra, Wollongong, Stanwell Park and Gerringong area; the Picton, Camden and Moss Vale area behind the Illawarra escarpment where there are geological faults; the Warringah Shire area- that is, the northern beaches of Sydney; and the Gosford and Wyong Shires. [More…]
A pool of general insurers would be established to offer natural disaster cover against selected natural hazards and for specified kinds of property. [More…]
The natural hazards covered by the scheme would initially be restricted to earthquakes, floods, tropical cyclones and related hazards such as landslide and storm surge. [More…]
Special arrangements would be considered for assistance to be provided to those who, subject to a strict means test, cannot afford to take out natural disaster insurance cover. [More…]
There is and there should be a certain concern about natural disasters. [More…]
It indicates that land rights are an urgent issue of natural justice. [More…]
The Bill was hailed by both sides of the House, including members of the present Government, as spelling the end of many years of neglect and disregard by governments for the natural and urban environment of this country. [More…]
The assessment of exposure to the population shows doses resulting from fallout are very small compared with natural background. [More…]
These are in accordance with international recommendations and exclude natural background radiation and radiation received from medical procedures. [More…]
These arrangements include the provision of extended loan programs for farmers, emergency compensation payments for crops affected by natural hazards or where plantings are prevented or yields reduced as a result of hazards, and the provision of crop insurance through the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation. [More…]
He reported ‘that no trace of radioactivity in excess of natural background radiation was detectable on or near the dump ‘. [More…]
The Government is selling to the world the natural oxide from which plutonium is created, from which nuclear wastes are created. [More…]
On getting that kind of recommendation it would have been a very natural consequence to ask why. [More…]
But it needs to be understood that the stimulus that will come from natural causes, from a stable economic base, from low inflation and lower interest rates, will do much more for an economy than a government induced stimulus launched before the major fight against inflation and before the ills and imbalances of the past have been completely overcome. [More…]
But, of course, the very necessary principles of natural justice and fairness should be observed in any new scheme. [More…]
Joint ventures and natural resources development are often regarded as synonymous. [More…]
For this reason, it is a pity that the Swanson Committee’s recommendationsthis is our view; naturally we will be glad to hear the Minister in reply on this subject- were not followed since the allowance for authorisation would have enabled the Trade Practices Commission to balance the public benefits associated with improved international competitiveness against the possible anti-competitive detriments associated with including price in the joint venture agreement. [More…]
As a matter of natural justice the common law normally requires that a product which is bought should meet the purpose for which it is specified. [More…]
If it were part of a total energy policy as the Government argues, why was something not done about natural gas pricing? [More…]
There was nothing about natural gas pricing. [More…]
If it wants to look at opportunity cost pricing it should do so not only for crude oil but also for natural gas and other energy commodities in Australia. [More…]
We are all aware that many of the problems of the system today are the predictable consequences of controlling natural hydrological processes. [More…]
That is why we should be husbanding our existing oil and natural gas reserves. [More…]
It is little profit ibr us to say that we will purchase imported oil with proceeds from natural gas and coal sales if no oil is left in the world for us to buy. [More…]
Let me examine the proposal by the multinational consortium to develop the North West Shelf natural gas reserves on the Rankin Trend. [More…]
In addition there are other possibilities for use in an oil hungry country, such as converting natural gas, which is predominantly methane, to methanol and ultimately to petrol. [More…]
It could be that instead of exporting 53 per cent of North West Shelf gas to Japan we should produce methanol from natural gas and, hopefully, eventually petrol from methanol. [More…]
I might add that methanol can be produced from coal also, but it is easier and much cheaper to use natural gas. [More…]
It is proposed to export 53 per cent of those reserves; that is, 6.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas a year, or 250,000 million cubic metres. [More…]
The continual natural presence in the creek system of sulphate ions had been established. [More…]
Provided we concentrate on the things we can do best, on our natural assets and on the skills and energy of our highly educated population, we can transform our industries and capture world markets. [More…]
The policy aims to encourage energy conservation, to enable alternatives or substitutes such as natural gas to compete with fuel derived from our valuable crude oil; to remove the distortions in the domestic marketing of some petroleum products- namely, imported furnace and diesel oil- and to increase the prospects for discovery and development of new oilfields. [More…]
It is one of the greatest users of the natural resources of the country and it is one of the major industries of the country. [More…]
However there will be no redundancy because of the natural wastage and limited redevelopment that will occur. [More…]
It is anticipated that most of the currently known North West Shelf gas reserves will be committed to meeting domestic Western Australian requirements and for export as liquid natural gas. [More…]
In regard to the general possibility of conversion of natural gas to methanol, there are a number of technical and economic aspects which would require detailed examination. [More…]
The Committee concludes that proper interpretive facilities are an important tool in the education of tourists and in the management and control of tourism in natural areas. [More…]
I have always been concerned that when people go to a large number of Australian tourist areas, such as the Great Barrier Reef, some of our national parks or Ayers Rock, they see the natural scenery or The Rock or the Barrier Reef but they do not really comprehend what is going on. [More…]
When one remembers that approximately 25 per cent of all major oil spills are caused by bottoming, it can be seen that close to what is perhaps the most important natural asset that exists in Australia we could have a major disaster. [More…]
I have already dealt with the destruction of Australia’s finest natural wilderness area in the debate on the uranium Bills introduced in the autumn session of Parliament . [More…]
One of those cases could well be in supporting the Premier of Western Australia in his successful attempts yesterday at the Loan Council meeting to get the permission of that Council to borrow funds from overseas for a natural gas pipeline from the Pilbara to Perth. [More…]
No feasibility study has been done but I think there could well be a good case made out for Penh, which needs that energy and which has the homes and the people ready for the jobs that are to be created to get that natural gas. [More…]
He should remember the issue of the natural gas pipeline to Perth and what happened with the Ord River scheme and he should remember that all of these cases following our interventionist approach must be pursued with a sense of balance and a sense of justifying this particular case because of the expected increase in copper prices. [More…]
to protect the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society. [More…]
The role of the parents in getting to know the adopted child is equally as important as that of natural parents. [More…]
There can be natural reluctance on the part of women to insist upon the application of equal pay for equal work. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to assertions in that document that (a) the economic downturn has been used to justify the cutting of expenditure and the breaking of election promises, (b) land rights are an urgent issue of national justice, (c) mining in Arnhem Land could be as destructive of societies and produce the same long-term effects as the dispossession in the rest of the continent, (d) even more threatened are communities in Western Australia and Queensland who have neither land rights nor the Northern Territory Act’s protection, (e) if contracting parties are too unequal, consent does not guarantee justice and the rule of free agreement remains subservient to natural law, (f) traditional owners are opposed to Ranger mining but feel oppositon is futile, (g) many government institutions apply assimilationist pressures, and (h) predators grant liquor licences against the objections of community leaders and Councils. [More…]
It has not been necessary to date to retrench staff to meet staff reduction requirements, and efforts will be continued to achieve staff ceilings by natural wastage or redeployment. [More…]
We are entering into arrangements for supplying the natural ore. [More…]
I believe that there also ought to be a resources tax implemented on the profits made from the extraction of our nonrenewable energy resources, particularly on overseas exports and I of course include coal and natural gas as logical areas for a Labor Government’s resources rent tax. [More…]
immediately after the relevant time, there was no natural person, and there were no natural persons, who beneficially owned shares in the company carrying between them the right to exercise more than onehalf of the voting power in the company who, immediately before the relevant time, held shares in the company carrying between them the right to exercise more than one-half of the voting power in the company; [More…]
immediately after the relevant time there was no natural person, and there were no natural persons, who beneficially owned shares in the company carrying between them the right to receive more than onehalf of any dividend that might be paid by the company who, immediately before the relevant time, held shares in the company carrying between them the right to receive more than one-half of any dividend that might be paid by the company; [More…]
immediately after the relevant time there was no natural person, and there were no natural persons, who beneficially owned shares in the company carrying between them the right to receive more than onehalf of any distribution of capital of the company who, immediately before the relevanttime,held shares in the company carrying between them the right to receive more than one-half of any distribution of capital of the company; [More…]
at the relevant time, the voting power in the company was controlled, or became capable of being controlled, either directly or through one or more interposed companies, trustees or partnerships, by a natural person or natural persons who did not control the voting power in the company and was not or were not, as the case may be, capable of controlling the voting power in the company, either directly or through one or more interposed companies, trustees or partnerships, at any time before the relevant time, being a time during the year of income, and that natural person or those natural persons acquired the control of that voting power for the purpose, or for purposes that included the purpose, of receiving any benefit or obtaining any advantage in relation to the application of this Act or securing that another person or other persons would receive such a benefit or obtain such an advantage; [More…]
at the relevant time, the affairs or business operations of the company were managed or conducted without proper regard to the rights, powers or interests of a natural person who was, or natural persons who were, at the relevant time, capable of controlling the voting power in the company, either directly or through one or more interposed companies, trustees or partnerships. [More…]
“(3) Paragraph (e) of sub-section (1) applies notwithstanding that the income referred to in that paragraph was derived by the company in the course of ordinary family or commercial dealing, but that paragraph does not apply in a case where the natural person or natural persons who had shareholding interests in the company immediately before, and immediately after, the time when the income was derived will benefit from the derivation of the income to an extent that the Commissioner considers to be fair and reasonable having regard to voting, dividend or capital rights attached to the shares in respect of which that person or those persons had shareholding interests in the company immediately after the time when the income was derived. [More…]
“(4) Paragraph (f) of sub-section (1) applies notwithstanding that the loss or outgoing referred to in that paragraph was incurred by the company in the course of ordinary family or commerical dealing, but that paragraph does not apply in a case where the natural person or natural persons who had shareholding interests in the company immediately before, and immediately after, the time when the loss or outgoing was incurred will benefit from any profit or advantage that has, or might, arise, directly or indirectly, from the incurring of the loss or outgoing to an extent that the Commissioner considers to be fair and reasonable having regard to voting, dividend or capital rights attached to the shares in respect of which that person or those persons had shareholding interests in the company immediately after the time when the loss or outgoing was incurred. [More…]
In clause 9, in proposed section 50H(l)(d), omit “natural person or natural persons”, first occurring, substitute “person or persons”. [More…]
( 1) (d), omit “natural person or those natural persons acquired the control of that voting power”, substitute “person or those persons acquired the control of that voting power or became capable of acquiring the control of that voting power, as the case may be,”. [More…]
In clause 9, in proposed section 50H(l)(h), omit “natural person who was or natural persons who were, at the relevant time, capable of controlling the voting power in the company”, substitute “natural person or natural persons who controlled the voting power in the company at the relevant time or who was or were, as the case may be, capable of controlling the voting power in the company at the relevant time”. [More…]
In fact, while we were in Japan earlier this year they regarded Japan and Australia as being natural partners. [More…]
They spoke in terms quite consistently of Australia being natural partners not only with Japan, but also with the whole South East Asian region and South Pacific region. [More…]
These areas have a natural quality of soil which produces a very high protein content wheat that is necessary to turn out a nicely rounded beautiful loaf of bread. [More…]
These dedicated people who have harnessed the resources of science and their own natural ability to develop top class wheats have come up with wheats such as Oxley, which has as its parents, Mexican dwarf wheats. [More…]
This consolidation is partly the result of the quota system which the States have instigated and partly due to natural economic trends. [More…]
Research is overcoming the problems of disease which has a natural culling effect on flock sizes and also improving the quality and quantity of egg production for each hen. [More…]
Naturally the Bill receives the support of the Opposition. [More…]
It is a pity that the Government’s determination to do so is restricted to only an interest in standards for natural quantities, as it is with this legislation. [More…]
Having regard to the fact that over the last several months there have been attempts by State Ministers to gain additional funds and there has been criticism of the Commonwealth policy, I find it very natural and reasonable that the Minister, at the end of his participation in the conference, should issue a statement setting out the Commonwealth’s position so that it could be known and understood. [More…]
The Government’s argument that the world desperately needs our uranium has been totally discredited by Herman Kahn, a natural, normal ally of this Government. [More…]
Last week he told a parliamentary group of which I was a member that there is no world energy crisis; that the world has extensive natural gas reserves. [More…]
In the same month, the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Sub-committee of the United States Congress published its findings on the costs of nuclear power. [More…]
Therefore it is natural that if people have a keen eye for business they would be looking towards the area which I am privileged to represent in this Parliament. [More…]
It rejected the initiatives of the Gas and Fuel Corporation of Victoria in exploring for natural gas in Bass Strait and told it to sell its exploration interests to private enterprise. [More…]
Why has the AMA considered that it should dictate to society that private practice is the natural and desirable order of things? [More…]
That is perhaps a surprising fact to learn given what one hears about Queensland and what we know about its natural advantages. [More…]
The figures indicate broadly that this State which has many natural advantages nevertheless has the lowest figures of all the States in respect of income and, therefore, has a diminished taxable capacity compared with the other States. [More…]
Is it just our natural resources? [More…]
It is the development of those natural resources. [More…]
The diversity of the States in size, population, natural resources and state of development; [More…]
I accept the criticism because I can understand that for a committee that has put as much work into its report as this Committee has put there is a natural disappointment when all of its recommendations are not adopted. [More…]
He has put it on trial this morning because out of his mouth has come such a cataract of confession that forever we will ignore the rules of natural justice. [More…]
But the rules of natural justice are there. [More…]
They bind us all in everything we do in this world, whether we like it or not, and the whole body of natural justice must revolt against this proceeding. [More…]
It is as fundamental to natural justice as anything else that I can conceive that evidence which has not been cross-examined is not worth very much. [More…]
Public servants exercising discretionary powers are, of course, bound to exercise those powers in accordance with any applicable statutory and common law rules, including principles of natural justice. [More…]
1 ) Is he able to say what is the mass of (a) spent oxide nuclear fuel derived from electricity producing light water reactors and (b) spent natural uranium metal fuel derived from electricity producing gas graphite reactors, which was or is expected to be (i) reprocessed and (ii) vitrified during (A) 1976, (B) 1977, (C) 1978 and (D) 1979 at the Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing plant at (AA) Marcoule, France and (BB) La Hague, France. [More…]
What is the mass of (a) spent oxide nuclear fuel derived from electricity producing light water reactors and (b) spent natural uranium metal fuel derived from electricity producing gas graphite reactors which was or is expected to be produced in France during (i) 1976, (ii) 1977, (iii) 1978 and(iv) 1979. [More…]
What is the average activity of radioactive decay of (a) spent oxide nuclear fuel derived from electricity producing light water reactors and (b) spent natural uranium metal fuel derived from electricity producing gas graphite reactors. [More…]
How many natural uranium gas graphite nuclear power stations are under construction, planned or on order in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States of America and Japan. [More…]
If these cuts will occur by a process of natural wastage, what means will be used to ensure that they occur in areas appropriate to the Government’s policy priorities. [More…]
Would new discoveries of oil and natural gas in this basin be of immense importance if they can be commercially developed. [More…]
It is said that that is the prime strategy; we have to get inflation down and once we have done that there will be some spontaneous natural revival of the economy. [More…]
What evidence does he have that in other countries a reduction in the level of inflation has brought about a situation in which there has been a spontaneous natural growth of the economy? [More…]
There is some sort of natural trade cycle. [More…]
This amendment was described in the legislation committee as a natural justice provision, and I am in sympathy with the thought that lay behind it. [More…]
In descending order of importance they were: Access to friends and families, access to education, natural environment, social and recreational facilities, cultural facilities, community facilities, suitable housing and the big city atmosphere. [More…]
such other matters relating to the environment and conservation and the management of Australia’s natural resources as are referred to it by- [More…]
In fact, the thing he should be doing most is trying to sell liquid natural gas so that the feasibility study on the North West Shelf can be completed. [More…]
There is natural gas and oil in the North West Shelf in Western Australia. [More…]
Regeneration cannot make up for this enormous loss and the Reef loses in the clam a natural purifier of its waters. [More…]
As the honourable member well knows, in Sydney right now the problem of distributing natural gas to the city was inhibited by the fact that diesel fuel and other fuel oils were priced at silly prices. [More…]
The reason why prices are now moving upwards and allowing natural gas to have some penetration is that the cost of fuel oil, diesel and all the rest, is gradually - [More…]
I am not saying that it has happened overnight but I am saying that, right at this very moment, natural gas is achieving a penetration in the Sydney market because gradually and surely the cost of fuel oil is responding to the Government’s decision to price the crude oil product at parity price. [More…]
Failure to act on this problem will now place one of the country’s most priceless natural assets at an intolerable risk, jeopardise the economy of South Australia and of the River Murray basin and face future governments with an enormous bill to pay for a problem that is worsening every day. [More…]
The Rural Finance Commission makes loans solely in accordance with its own judgments and in accordance with guidelines determined by the Commission itself and in the case of natural disasters on guidelines determined by public agreement between governments. [More…]
We are the most richly endowed with minerals and other natural wealth. [More…]
It is the natural flow on from that case. [More…]
There is no doubt at all that Canberra is an area of very high savings, an area of the highest average earnings in the nation, an area of a high standard of education, beautiful and expensive community facilities, beautiful natural resources and apparent prosperity. [More…]
People suffering from bushfires- indeed, any natural disaster- are eligible to receive assistance subject to the State government concerned declaring the area to have been so affected and the arrangements provided being within the general embrace of the facilities offered by the Commonwealth. [More…]
The Rural Finance Commission makes loans solely in accordance with its own judgments and in accordance with guidelines determined by the Commission itself and in the case of natural disasters on guidelines determined by public agreement between governments. [More…]
In the past, it has been possible to argue that the low cost of extracting Australian uranium gave it a natural price advantage. [More…]
The Rural Finance Commission makes loans solely in accordance with its own judgments and in accordance with guidelines determined by the Commission itself and in the case of natural disasters on guidelines determined by public agreement between governments. [More…]
As to the other two categories, the first relates to assisting those who through a natural disaster of one kind or another are eligible to receive assistance under the general criteria laid down by agreement between the Commonwealth and the State. [More…]
Let me explain to the chamber that those loans and funds advanced as natural disaster relief are essentially within a broad embrace, the categories of which are determined by agreement between the Commonwealth and the State. [More…]
At the point when the minimal amount required to be spent by the State has been fully spent, the Commonwealth comes in and supplements that by whatever additional amount might be required by the State to cover natural disasters which have been designated as such by the State government and for which expenditure is included within the specific categories laid down in the agreement. [More…]
At the point at which the money is actually advanced, it is far more likely to have been State money than Commonwealth money because the Commonwealth money comes in only in accordance with the broad categories that are identical around the States for natural disasters, be they fire, as in this instance, flood, cyclone, hurricane, or whatever. [More…]
The second point I make is that, as I understand it, the Labor Party is suggesting really that the Federal Government is probably being excessively generous in the provision of funds for natural disasters. [More…]
The honourable gentleman does not realise that we are talking about natural disaster funds, and no limit has been placed by this Government on the amount of money that will be provided for approved assistance in accordance with the agreement between the Commonwealth and a State for natural disaster purposes. [More…]
You should not worry about people who have been burned out, flooded out or hurt in some other way by these sorts of natural disasters’. [More…]
Whatever might be the position with respect to funds advanced within the natural disasters category, there can be no suggestion that this House is in any way responsible for funds that are advanced in that category. [More…]
So far as I am concerned there can be no more demeaning an exercise of political power than to seek to abuse a man who is retired or people who have been affected by a natural disaster and who have been validly assisted under legislation that has been laid down not just by this Parliament but by the State Parliament as well. [More…]
It embraces agreements between the States and the Commonwealth in respect of natural disasters. [More…]
I believe that we have been badly mistaken in confusing our natural and proper abhorrence of the policy of racial apartheid as practised in so many countries under a great variety of names with official disinterest and forgetting to observe very objectively the issue of international power politics, to quote the Minister, which have become of fundamental importance, particularly in the areas of southern Africa and Indo-China. [More…]
The issues in defence in peacetime centre on preparedness and a need for public awareness to overcome the natural apathy on the matter. [More…]
In addition to completing the natural armoury of offences in this area, the inclusion of this particular offence will significantly improve the investigatory powers relating to narcotics offences. [More…]
Involvement in the IEA’s long-term cooperation activities concerning energy conservation- including the forthcoming major IEA conservation campaign- the development of alternative energy sources, for example, steaming coal and liquefied natural gas, and joint research and development projects; [More…]
The development of North West Shelf natural gas will facilitate the displacement of fuel oil presently used in large industrial markets in Western Australia. [More…]
We will be exporting 6 trillion cubic feet of liquid natural gas. [More…]
What does not come from coal, nuclear power and natural gas or whatever exotic forms of energy that emerge must come from oil or it will not come at all. [More…]
There could be a natural disaster, an accident or a terrorist strike in the oilfields or in the narrow straits leading to the Persian Gulf. [More…]
On top of that, you have natural disasters. [More…]
Australia is perceived as being a very large country, with very great natural resources, and a small population- a population enjoying a very high standard of living. [More…]
Perhaps he finds it more natural to try to spread doom and gloom, and now he has jumped back to an earlier stance. [More…]
It should be able to enter into long term arrangements for the sale of liquefied natural gas. [More…]
But that was not a natural market and there was no way it could be maintained. [More…]
Broadly, its functions are to promote the identification and understanding of the factors affecting marital and family stability in Australia, with the promotion and protection of the family as the natural and fundamental unit in society, and to advise the Attorney-General in relation to the making of grants for purposes related to the functions of the Institute and the supervising of the employment of the grants so made. [More…]
It is a natural resource; the Department only has to reticulate it. [More…]
I hope that the New South Wales Government will listen to the honourable gentleman’s request and, as it has the responsibility, pick up the challenge and invest the necessary funds to ensure that the port is developed in a way that its natural facilities permit. [More…]
But there is also now wide acceptance that authorities involved in urban planning and development have a responsibility to preserve important elements of the natural environment not only for their own sake but also as an essential element in the future urban environment for a variety of recreational and educational purposes. [More…]
In that report Professor Seddon noted inequities in the distribution of natural resources for recreation within the Australian Capital Territory and made particular reference to the lack of recreation areas in Belconnen. [More…]
This should ensure there is no undue intrusion of housing development on the natural areas of the creek in this area. [More…]
The Committee is conscious of the lack of natural recreational areas in Belconnen when compared with other parts of Canberra, and its recommendations are intended to assist in overcoming this imbalance. [More…]
The 1 97 1 figure of natural increase was 165,712 and the 1977 figure of natural increase was 117,501, representing a fall of 29. [More…]
It is a disturbing fact of life that in this country, due to abortion and other forms of contraception, the natural increase in this great country of ours is falling. [More…]
It is true that they will not come on to the labour market, but the natural increase in population needs to be serviced with housing, schools, hospitals and consumer goods. [More…]
This also has been reflected to a very large extent by the great decline in the natural increase of the Australian population. [More…]
In the five years between 1971 and 1976 our natural population growth suffered a 30 per cent drop. [More…]
Once born, no matter how prematurely, I accept that the individual has all the rights most or all of us assume it has, even though a new born baby, and particularly a premature baby, in a practical sense is totally dependent on another person or other people, not necessarily its natural mother. [More…]
Naturally, it is the mother who has the opportunity and primary natural responsibility during the pre-natal period to offer protection of that life. [More…]
Therefore I state my conviction that each human is innately equal and should have the opportunity of continued life subject only to the natural human right of self-defence. [More…]
It is not true that included in the figures for abortions are those which occur by natural miscarriage. [More…]
The honourable member for Tangney (Mr Shack) gave an example illustrating how the use of language can be strained beyond its natural limits. [More…]
It encompasses natural resources, economics, employment, flora, fauna and the use of exotics, and there are aesthetic and other factors. [More…]
There is also considerable concern that this development is proceeding apace without adequate safeguards being taken and without proper research into the long term effects of it, especially those which impinge on soil and water resources, both being natural assets with which this country is not well endowed. [More…]
Whilst the monoculture of eucalypts has more commercial appeal because it is easier, with reafforestation programs we should try for a natural forest diversity which I think would have much greater beneficial effects. [More…]
Man’s control over ecosystems and thus over evolution is increasingly taking the place of natural selection. [More…]
Over long periods of evolutionary time, a subtle balance has been achieved between the environment and the producers, consumers, and decomposers in these natural ecosystems . [More…]
As a practical observer, might I tell the honourable member for Scullin and you, Mr Deputy Speaker, that I have been terribly impressed in recent years to see what a close association there is between- if I might use the term- unnatural softwoods, in other words, imported species planted for softwood production and natural hardwoods in many areas of Australia. [More…]
We recognise that as our economy is geared more and more towards exploiting the wealth of our limited natural resources it is not unreasonable that a resource rent tax ought to be paid on some of the excessive profits. [More…]
Many of our trading partners- and I am talking about those that are developed and those that are less developed- have little in the way of natural resources. [More…]
Naturally they see resource rich countries such as Australia as being vital to their economic future and stability. [More…]
Even the Commonwealth Minister for Transport recognises that despite the natural advantages that rail systems have, especially in the carriage of bulk freight, the situation in Australia is not satisfactory. [More…]
There is a natural community concern about an activity which threatens the extinction of any species, particularly when it is directed against a species as special and intelligent as the whale and where there is a fear that the continued existence of these special forms of wildlife are threatened by continued exploitation. [More…]
Australia possesses at least two of the great natural wonders of the world. [More…]
I believe that the Government should make no move which would disadvantage the natural environment of the reef. [More…]
It should certainly remain accessible as a great natural and national asset. [More…]
The reef offer Australians the opportunity to get out of a city environment and into the natural Australia. [More…]
That is why the reef is regarded as one of Australia’s national assets; it is still in its natural state. [More…]
Any development in the Great Barrier Reef area has been conditioned to the needs of the natural environment and kept under the control of governments. [More…]
All that we can do in our lifetime is to preserve our natural assets so that they may be maintained for future generations. [More…]
The Minister says that ‘naturally’ he would be guided by his State colleagues but I say that in intergovernment relations nothing is natural and therefore nothing can be assumed. [More…]
So much of the argument has been irrationally protectionist rather than seeking the management of a natural resource in a responsible manner. [More…]
I would like to say in conclusion that the Government may do what it will and, according to the Prime Minister’s statement, have a total commitment to protect the whale so that present and future generations of Australians can have the opportunity of seeing these wonderful mammals in their natural habitat. [More…]
I just wonder how many people have seen them in their natural habitat up to date. [More…]
Certainly a start has been made by changing fleets of motor vehicles over to the use of natural and petroleum gas. [More…]
Resources and of Kashmir Affairs, April 1960-62; and of Industries and Natural Resources, 1962-63; for Foreign Affairs and Atomic Energy, 1963-66; resigned from Govt, June 1966, returned to legal profession; imprisoned, Sept. 1968; released Feb. 1969; elected Mem., Nat. [More…]
Reconstruction and Information Jan. 60-62, of Fuel, Power and Natural Resources, and Kashmir Affairs April 60-62, of Industries and Natural Resources 62-65, of Foreign Affairs 63-66; formed Pakistan People’s Party Dec. 67, elected leader 70; led popular movement against Pres. [More…]
It’s natural to feel you are neglecting an ailment unless you are taking something for it. [More…]
Natural but not necessarily correct. [More…]
The natural gas supply grid is being extended further into country areas, providing cheaper energy and creating many more jobs. [More…]
Australia is an energy rich country, with major reserves of coal and uranium and substantial reserves of natural gas. [More…]
Firstly, it encourages conservation of scarce resources and helps correct unsatisfactory usage patterns which result from the maintenance of artificially low prices for petroleum products; secondly, it promotes the usage of competitive energy sources, mainly natural gas and coalbased electricity; thirdly, the relative economics of alternative energy projects such as coal liquefaction, shale oil, and solar power can be seen in an accurate perspective which allows more realistic decisions to be made about financing their development; and fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, realistic pricing acts as a major incentive to increase oil exploration activity and to maximise the exploitation of existing fields. [More…]
The world oil situation in the context of Australia; Australia’s broad energy position; the changing usage patterns in Australian energy; the liquid fuel problem; exploration; the distinctions between old oil and new oil; windfall gains and tax treatments of existing low cost fields; fuel substitution; conservation; direct policy initiatives for conservation; what other countries are doing; natural gas; what we have and what we will need; gas prices and pricing; gas usage; gas exports; pipelines; liquid petroleum gas and all the issues surrounding it; exports; domestic; transport substitution; methanol from gas; gas to petrol; ethanol- all these subjects were in the Labor paper. [More…]
I now deal with the question of natural gas. [More…]
By the end of this year natural gas will have displaced 600,000 tonnes of fuel oil in the Sydney area. [More…]
Earlier he said that the natural gas penetration: [More…]
There is no wonder natural gas is displacing fuel oil. [More…]
So, all the fuel oil being displaced by natural gas, which was once being discounted to keep gas out ofthe Sydney market, is in tanks and containment vessels all around Sydney and Melbourne. [More…]
So much for what the Government has done in regard to a natural gas policy. [More…]
There should be a realisation that this country has great fundamental natural resources and human resources and that the elected representatives of the people, rather the people who get into the act of manipulating those resources, ought to be paramount. [More…]
His natural gifts compensated superbly for a lack of formal economic training. [More…]
With respect to losses incurred generally because of Cyclone Hazel, the Western Australian Government has sought and obtained the Commonwealth ‘s agreement to the implementation of certain core measures in accordance with the natural disaster financial assistance arrangements. [More…]
I assure the people of Western Australia of the full support of the Commonwealth as provided under the natural disaster financial assistance arrangements. [More…]
If the South Australian Government is concerned about the price of natural gas in South Australia, if it is concerned about some aspects of that particular and at this stage potential development in South Australia, there are other weapons available. [More…]
It has been an arena in which clowns and prima donnas have participated to savage this country’s natural resources. [More…]
Whilst new job opportunities will certainly emerge and these may be large and rewarding, it would be rash to suppose that the rate of new job creation will be a complete match to the rate of job extinction, that there would be a natural compatability (in terms of skills, temperament or location) between the new jobs and the old ones, nor indeed that the new opportunities would exist in the same country as the ones that are being lost. [More…]
A situation where the new triumphs over the old by natural extinction is to be preferred to the deliberate policies of fossilisation which have been pursued by governments over many years. [More…]
I note in one of the Appropriation Bills that a sum of money has been made available for natural disaster relief. [More…]
We have debated and discussed a system of insurance for natural disasters. [More…]
I hope that the Treasurer (Mr Howard) will soon bring into this Parliament his policy information paper on natural disasters which he indicated on 19 January he would be tabling in the Parliament. [More…]
Natural disaster relief is a responsibility for all of us. [More…]
It is only appropriate that they make a meaningful contribution to the area of funding for natural disasters relief. [More…]
The Australian people are always open to a natural disaster, be it fire, flood or the droughts which occur with monotonous regularity in the Australian rural industry. [More…]
I want to draw the attention of the Parliament to the natural disaster insurance system that operates in countries which compete with us for overseas trade. [More…]
All this indicates that our overseas competitors are safeguarded by a sympathetic government against the problems of natural disasters. [More…]
-The honourable member for Darling Downs (Mr McVeigh), who preceded me in this debate, spent some time talking on the issue of natural disasters. [More…]
While he was speaking I looked through some papers and found that the allocations for natural disasters were as follows: In 1974-75 $113m; in 1975-76 $58m; in 1976-77 $27m; and in 1977-78 $53m. [More…]
In 1978-79 $ 12.6m was allocated to meet the outstanding commitments in respect of past natural disasters- drought and things of that kind that had already occurred. [More…]
made in the 1978-79 Budget estimates- none at all for payments in respect of natural disasters which may occur in 1 978-79. [More…]
The funding of assistance in respect of natural disasters also changed. [More…]
There is the question of natural disasters but there is also the matter of the broken promise about the natural disasters insurance scheme. [More…]
Does the honourable member for Darling Downs remember the promise made in March 1976 by the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) in an unambiguous and unequivocal way that a natural disasters insurance scheme would be introduced for those people whose property and the like was not insurable under the ordinary insurance schemes. [More…]
This Government undertook to introduce a natural disasters insurance scheme. [More…]
How does the Minister reconcile this statement of principle with the breakdown of the public participation process at the recent Sydney licence hearings, the expulsion of public witnesses from the hearings by Commonwealth Police, and the resignation of a member of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal, Janet Strickland, after stating that the hearings were a denial of natural justice? [More…]
With the passage of the Bill, the Authority will no longer have unlimited power to buy and sell petroleum nor will it be required to ensure: Continuity of supplies of natural gas that is free from impurities; uniform gate-valve delivery prices throughout Australia; the retention and processing in Australia of condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas; and the control of petroleum reserves. [More…]
But let us not be stampeded into tilting this balance by the natural aversion we all have for drug traffickers. [More…]
But even more important than his concrete achievements which are there for the record, he will be remembered as a natural political leader who acquired by his own example and standards the respect and affection of his colleagues. [More…]
He did not have to command respect because of his position; he simply received it naturally because of the kind of person he was. [More…]
Raymond Alvin Archer, 29, who sold produce and is the founder of the Theocratic Commune Natural Health Service, was charged last summer with manslaughter after the bodies of his 1 -year-old son and 3-year-old daughter were found buried in the commune’s yard on Detroit’s East Side. [More…]
Australia has a particular interest in securing access to the United States market for natural gas. [More…]
I was able to impress upon Dr Schlesinger and other senior United States officials Australia’s potential as a stable supplier of liquefied natural gas and have suggested further detailed discussions at official levels aimed at enhancing Australia’s opportunity to supply natural gas to the West Coast of the United States. [More…]
Australia has a major role to play in this area and I believe that the future oil supply and price situation will strengthen Australia’s ability to win a share of the United States market for natural gas. [More…]
A person knowing nothing of the subject might think the United States had agreed to buy Australian natural gas and that that sale was critical to the international economy. [More…]
The prospects of our selling liquid natural gas to the United States are very remote. [More…]
It is no good just talking about beef, cheese and pious hopes and about what we are going to do with natural gas when we have not been able to convince the United States of what it is all about. [More…]
As the House of Representatives Select Committee on Tourism has indicated throughout this report, Australia abounds in natural scenic resources which, if properly developed, maintained and promoted, would make it a five-star class tourist area. [More…]
The northern holiday could concentrate on Australia’s two greatest natural wonders. [More…]
If an appeal to consider the reef’s natural beauty and assets falls on deaf ears, then I should reassert that the Great Barrier Reef is Australia’s greatest tourist attraction. [More…]
The Minister has nothing to be proud of in terms of national pride and a commitment to encourage natural cultural development in the field of the arts. [More…]
It was to be a unit of 500 megawatts which the Electricity Commission of New South Wales did not want feeding into its grid and which in the original days was to be fuelled by a natural uranium reactor. [More…]
The natural uranium reactor was chosen because of the high by-product of plutonium which was produced from such a reactor. [More…]
On top of that we have natural gas. [More…]
We could have a debate about whether we should burn natural gas in a power station but that is another issue. [More…]
However, natural gas is available in this country. [More…]
Redcliff would also employ more people during and after its construction as well as enabling the Cooper Basin natural gas fields to be completely exploited. [More…]
Vietnam has also to contend with the natural calamities that have occurred in that country since 1975. [More…]
So here we are hours later, still debating a matter which would have been completed at about 8.30 p.m. had it been allowed to run its natural course, with three or four Opposition members speaking to it for 20 minutes. [More…]
to ensure continuity of supply of natural gas, that is free from impurities; [More…]
That is again an objective, but I suppose that anybody who supplied natural gas would like to think that it was free of impurity. [More…]
to ensure that natural gas supplied by the Authority is available at a gate-valve delivery price that is, at all times, uniform throughout Australia, after making due allowances for differences in the calorific values of natural gas obtained from different sources. [More…]
to ensure that condensate, petroleum gas and other substances derived from natural gas are retained and processed in Australia in order that they may be available to augment supplies of motor spirit and similar fuels obtained from indigenous sources; and [More…]
Instead of that we moved rationally, at a stage when the first major long-distance pipelines was built to have a Commonwealth authority to do the thing properly and to develop engineering competence so that the Australian public could be the beneficiaries of a sensible scheme to bring this premium fuel of natural gas to their homes and to industry in the factories. [More…]
It is just unbelievable that the Government would act in this way in respect of a pipeline to supply natural gas to our cities. [More…]
The construction and operation of the natural gas pipeline between Moomba in South Australia and Sydney was carried out under the Act. [More…]
It took nearly three years to construct this major project, which pumped natural gas from Moomba through 1,300 kilometres to Wilton, a gateway to Sydney. [More…]
This was to be done over 30 contract years of the agreement, subject to the carriage of 1.1412 x 10” cubic metres of natural gas during that period. [More…]
Each day about 2 million cubic metres of natural gas passes through the pipeline. [More…]
Total Australian natural gas reserves, both currently proven and theoretically recoverable, are 878,000 million cubic metres. [More…]
In 1977 South Australian natural gas consumption was 1,900 million cubic metres and 478 million cubic metres only were transported by the Pipeline Authority to the Australian Gas Light Co. for use in New South Wales. [More…]
Given the certain increase in natural gas consumption in New South Wales, a 5 per cent growth estimate is very conservative. [More…]
The North West Shelf project involves exporting each year 53 per cent of production, or 6.5 million tonnes of liquid natural gas, to Japan and perhaps to the United States. [More…]
It is amazing how the Federal Government and the States are supplying finance for research into coal liquefaction but are ignoring the proven technology of producing methanol from natural gas. [More…]
Tiny New Zealand is proceeding with a methanol plant which will utilise 65 per cent of its major Naui natural gas field. [More…]
There will be no point in the Government’s arguing that huge earnings from export of coal, uranium, natural gas or anything else will pay for oil imports in this situation. [More…]
Money will not purchase a gallon of natural crude oil if it no longer exists. [More…]
A case can be argued for the price of natural gas being equal to that of other fuels- for example, imported fuel oil- or for export parity pricing. [More…]
The late Rex Connor, in a moment of sweet familiarity with the muses, once quoted a few lines from Banjo Paterson in relation to his vision of the natural gas pipeline which would service this great continent- the vision which the Government is now trying to destroy. [More…]
Honourable members should ask the householders who switched over to natural gas the Christmas before last whether they think that Connor was doing the right thing. [More…]
He tries to have us believe that because the company makes large profits and because we have not imposed all the taxes that he would like us to impose, it follows as a natural consequence that that company is getting away absolutely scot-free. [More…]
The Government has imposed staff ceilings on departments, many times arbitrarily, and claimed that these levels can be reached by natural resignations and retirements. [More…]
But obviously the rate of natural resignation and retirement has not been enough for the squire of Nareen and the other wealthy gentlemen opposite. [More…]
The balance is being met from the Natural Disasters Relief funds. [More…]
I should have thought that it would be abundantly clear to the Committee that, in a situation of excessive numbers, if an individual staff member is affected by an appeal brought by another staff member natural justice requires that the staff member affected should have the right of audience before the appeal tribunal. [More…]
This Bill denies fundamentals of natural justice. [More…]
It is an abuse of natural justice. [More…]
The Queensland Ministers are more concerned with their reputations with overseas mining companies rather than with the damage they can cause to one of the greatest natural wonders of the world. [More…]
It is proceeding through obfuscation, deceit, dishonesty, trickery and every other means at its disposal to place Australia’s greatest natural asset at risk. [More…]
We recognise it as probably the greatest natural asset we have in Australia. [More…]
I remind honourable members of the actions we have taken which reflect our concern for this great natural treasure. [More…]
These countries, and they are the major countries of first refuge, are all characterised by low per capita incomes, over-population, a lack of space, and a relative scarcity of natural resources. [More…]
We are shipping out our coal, we are shipping out our natural gas, we are shipping out bauxite which is very largely energy and we are shipping them out at enormous profits for companies in a situation which we do not control. [More…]
Last week the tide of public opinion finally reached the courts, where in my opinion Taiwanese fishermen have in the past got off lightly for their continued breaches of either the Fisheries Act or the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act. [More…]
Our natural gas is already transported from the most energy poor State, South Australia, to New South Wales which has large coal reserves. [More…]
It is likely in the future that natural gas from the North West Shelf will be required for the eastern State markets, particularly if the Government continues to downgrade exploration for gas. [More…]
However, such a practice is natural because we know that the Prime Minister (Mr Malcolm Fraser) has done the same thing for the purpose of tax avoidance and for the avoidance of estate duty. [More…]
It is not that they have access to valuable natural resources. [More…]
That situation could not be hidden from the wheat grower and it could not be hidden from the nation because there was a natural delay in the payment of the first advance. [More…]
They were taking the real developer’s point of viewthe real politician’s point of view- and that is that our natural heritage did not need to be conserved but rather that it was more important to concede to the pressures of the Queensland Government, acting as an agent for an overseas oil corporation. [More…]
It goes to the whole question of the right of the citizen in this country in absolute privacy to obtain advice on matters which might affect his or her liberty for many years or for the rest of his or her natural life. [More…]
They argue that training and retraining is a natural supplement to public sector job creation. [More…]
He suggests that there should be a new Australian basic certificate to test the basic skills of school children in four areas: Basic arithmetical and computational skills; elementary natural science; English expression and comprehension; and clear thinking. [More…]
We would also need an industrial promotion organisation made up of the private sector, unions and government with a charter to develop and offer incentives to enhance some natural advantages enjoyed by Canberra. [More…]
Well, for God’s sake, the conservation of an important part of our natural heritage swings in the balance on the whim of a foreign multinational corporation. [More…]
Some of the Treaty’s provisions, including arrangements for the sharing of the area’s natural resources, will be the subject of continuing negotiations and co-operation between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The purpose of the first part of this Bill is to legislate for an increase in the excise on naturally occurring liquid petroleum gas from $12.60 to $ 13 a kilolitre, which is an increase that has been in effect since December last year. [More…]
The Opposition is not opposed to this excise increase as it is designed to offset windfall revenues accruing to the producers of naturally occurring LPG. [More…]
Prior to December last year the price of refinery LPG was $83 a tonne while at the same time the price of naturally occurring LPG was only $67 a tonne. [More…]
This price differential had resulted in a shifting of demand to natural supplies with quantities of LPG produced in refineries consequently being flared. [More…]
That resulted in this $ 1 3 increase in the price of the natural gas in order to bring it in line with the cost of the gas from the refinery so that there would no longer be a gas flare. [More…]
Because of this situation, in November last year the price of natural LPG was removed from the control of the Prices Justification Tribunal. [More…]
The most important thing I have learnt about it from Government discussions and discussions with people outside is that the liquefied petroleum gas produced in the refineries in this country was being flared off- it was not being used- and the natural gas from Bass Strait was being diverted to home consumption and escaping the excise which the Government quite rightly should receive. [More…]
It has many natural, wonderful beauties, not the least of them being the Moonie oil field. [More…]
A third alternative would be to get seriously into the production of methanol from natural gas. [More…]
I suggest that we should consider the construction of a methanol plant in Western Australia as a viable alternative to continuing proposed exports of natural gas. [More…]
One notes that the Minister is showing some interest in the production of methanol from natural gas. [More…]
He should admit that this would involve a complete ban on further natural gas exports over and above those envisaged for the current North West Shelf project, so that we will retain adequate reserves for methanol production. [More…]
It is natural, I would suggest to the honourable member, that there will be some increases in total pay-as-you-earn tax collections when in fact there are more people at work. [More…]
The scheme was originally set up with three high-sounding ideals; preserving the natural resource, providing youthful employment for Aborigines and conserving the soil, water and wildlife. [More…]
One of the answers to one of the sub-committee ‘s questionnaires suggested that surveyed areas of natural timber on Melville Island totalled 695,000 hectares. [More…]
In answer to a question in the Northern Territory Assembly only a matter of days ago, Mr Everingham made a number of quite incorrect comments regarding the nature of our inquiry, the extent of natural resources in the Northern Territory, the viability of plantation growth rates, and the export potential of seedlings of pinus caribaea [More…]
The report of the Queensland foresters seriously understates the natural hazards of forestry in the Northern Territory. [More…]
If there had been a margin between the cost of LPG and the cost of natural gas, needless to say, natural gas would have been used and the LPG would have been flared. [More…]
At the time that the domestic price was $27 a tonne less than the export price, the Bass Strait producers of natural LPG had no economic incentive to sell on the Australian market. [More…]
We believe that the mining of uranium in the area will lead to the raping and destruction of many of the beautiful aspects of the park, including its natural points of beauty which have existed for thousands of years. [More…]
the director may assist and co-operate with Aboriginals in managing land to which this section applies for the purpose of the protection and conservation of wildlife in that land and the protection of the natural features of that land. [More…]
The average population growth between 1950 and 1970 was 1.9 percent, achieved as to 1.1 per cent by natural growth and 0.8 per cent by migration. [More…]
We wanted to work towards an objective of l.l per cent increase or thereabouts from natural growth of population and immigration intake. [More…]
In view of the Government’s policy information paper Natural Disaster Insurance, dated May 1 979 which indicates that Government’s and Government Authorities should, to the maximum extent possible, seek to avoid intervention in matters that can be left to the private sector, which private sector insurance companies operating in Australia offer insurance cover for losses caused, related to, or arising from, landslip. [More…]
The taking of clams in Australian waters is prohibited under the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968. [More…]
One would have thought that natural justice would require that while that inquiry is in train the matter should not be prejudiced by debate in this Parliament or any other place. [More…]
Hong Kong does not have a natural source of domestic oil. [More…]
That in turn is being used as a weapon by those who wish to exploit the natural resources of this country, including its people for their own benefit. [More…]
Turning to the exemptions relating to the Government’s energy policy, these sales tax measures are aimed at assisting the fulfilment of the objective of encouraging conservation of scarce sources of energy- in particular, liquid fuels other than liquefied petroleum gas- and promoting the use of alternative energy such as natural gas, LPG, coal-based electricity and solar energy. [More…]
The provisions in the amending Bill which will give effect to that policy in the sales tax area will exempt goods for use in the conversion of internal combustion engines to liquefied petroleum gas or natural gas operation, non-oil burning domestic space heating appliances and various solar energy appliances. [More…]
As compressed natural gas is emerging as an alternative motor vehicle fuel, it is proposed that the exemption for engine conversion kits apply to goods for use in conversions to natural gas as well as to conversions to LPG. [More…]
CSIRO is closely in touch with developments in biological control of weeds in other countries, but is unaware of any natural enemy of Bathurst burr discovered overseas likely to be both effective in adequately controlling the weed in Australia and safe to release. [More…]
These areas are subject to exclusions that will be specified in a Conservation Notice issued in pursuance of the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968 that will soon be published in the Commonwealth Gazette. [More…]
Ayers Rock is an outstanding natural attraction of national and international significance. [More…]
Needless to say the Territory will have to consider whether at some stage it should not, through the ACT Electricity Authority or some other authority, seek to link up to the natural gas line that is not far removed from this city. [More…]
The Summers Commission of Inquiry into the Maritime Industry stressed that the Navigation Act is a corner post in the whole structure of maritime operations, concluding that the natural course of the industry’s development would be impeded if the existing legislation were not revised. [More…]
The present legislation if not revised can impede the natural course of the industry’s development. [More…]
I would also remind honourable members that in the Budget announcements compressed natural gas was included as part of this package. [More…]
-I will not delay the House, but I think that the interjection of the honourable member for Blaxland demonstrates the Opposition’s natural sensitivity to a question - [More…]
My colleague the Minister for National Development has already mentioned this morning the assistance being given by way of tax measures to encourage people to use liquefied petroleum gas and compressed natural gas in motor cars. [More…]
Demographers can only explain about half of urban expansion in the Third World in terms of ‘natural population growth ‘. [More…]
The position is that the full intensity of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards does not apply until the uranium is in a form suitable for fuel fabrication or enrichment, that is, in the form of UF6, uranium hexafluoride, U02 uranium dioxide or, for certain reactors, natural uranium metal. [More…]
Mr LIONEL BOWEN (KingsfordSmith) by leave- The statement that the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) has made relates to safeguards agreements with the United Kingdom and the United States of America on the supply by Australia of natural uranium. [More…]
He is saying: ‘We will sell natural uranium because we need to sell it. [More…]
It is very significant that other governments in the world can move into this country and acquire natural yellowcake on that basis. [More…]
Queensland has more coastline than any other State except Western Austrtalia But more importantly, Queensland has Australia’s greatest natural wonder- the Great Barrier Reef. [More…]
The decisions that people are making, for example, to go to four cylinder motor cars, the decisions that the aviation industry is making to reschedule the way in which it operates its aircraft to save fuel and the decisions that have been made in the Sydney market for industrialists to convert to natural gas rather than use oil products show very clearly that people are taking decisions to help the conservation of petroleum products. [More…]
The explosives and petrochemical industries in Australia, which really have their headquarters in my electorate, have increased output by about 60 per cent in the last decade while employment has fallen due to natural wastage. [More…]
The statements and promises of Labor spokesmen are directed at the natural desire of the people to pay a smaller proportion of their income in tax. [More…]
He spoke about Australia’s natural resources and its human resources and what could develop from them. [More…]
Investment in the Hume will ultimately be many times larger than the investment in that natural gas pipeline, which is generally regarded as being a major national project in terms of scope and investment. [More…]
Natural migration, planned or malicious introduction as well as shipping activities including ballast water discharge have all been suggested as possible sources of new species in Australian waters. [More…]
The massive North West Shelf project will produce massive work force numbers, with a peak construction force of 7,000 for the liquid natural gas on-shore and off-shore work, with an 800 permanent operational work force. [More…]
New taxation concessions introduced in the Budget will encourage and facilitate the conversion and replacement of oil-fired industrial equipment with non-oil fuel equipment mainly coal, electricity, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas and solar equipment. [More…]
There is a big job potential in the Shelf development and the associated construction of the liquefied natural gas plant and gas pipeline to the south-west of Western Australia. [More…]
Most of this Budget’s allocation for CRAFT- if it is in fact spent- will be soaked up in higher rates and natural increases rather than flowing on to increases in the number of apprentices. [More…]
As a belated measure, the Government has decided that it will convert 500 cars of the Government fleet to natural gas. [More…]
At present the Cooper Basin is being exploited for natural gas only. [More…]
The supply of natural gas to Adelaide and Sydney comes from that particular field. [More…]
This means that very little material has to be flared off into the atmosphere at Moomba before the natural gas goes on to Sydney and Adelaide. [More…]
It means the substitution of alternative fuels that this country has- fuels such as coal, natural gas and electricity. [More…]
Is the Minister for the Capital Territory aware of articles which have appeared in the Canberra Times speculating that the Australian Gas Light Co. would offer to invest up to $30m in Canberra and Queanbeyan to reticulate natural gas in this area? [More…]
The fact is that the question of linking Canberra to the main natural gas pipeline has been under study. [More…]
I am pleased to be able to advise him from the information I have that it is true that there has been renewed interest by possible buyers around the world of our liquid natural gas. [More…]
In fact, I am informed that the Japanese will require an extra 10 million tonnes a year of liquid natural gas. [More…]
They include: The ‘Energy Crisis’; The Problem of Liquid Fuels- Exploration, Windfall Gains, Fuel Substitution, Conservation; A Natural Gas Policy For Australia- Demand and Supply, Gas Pricing, End Use Allocation of Gas; The Contribution of Coal- Reserves, Coal Uses; and The Australian Mineral Industry. [More…]
Examples are natural gas and coal. [More…]
The honourable member for Blaxland knows that in the very Sydney metropolitan area in which he lives the demand for natural gas has risen by 80 per cent this year. [More…]
On the question of standards, I specifically asked whether the Government would consider the adoption of propane specifications along the lines of the United States Natural Gas Processors Association specification HD5. [More…]
We learnt today that the Fraser Government is going to impose on South Australia and the rest of Australia import parity pricing for natural gas. [More…]
If there is to be one disastrous act by the Government in South Australia, whether it be the Corcoran Government or a Tonkin government, it will be an increase in the price of natural gas. [More…]
There are excellent prospects for the development of natural resources as has already been mentioned in this place. [More…]
This nation has just too many natural resources in demand by a world, possibly facing food and mineral shortages. [More…]
They know that Australia is a nation rich in natural resources and that our people are talented, dedicated and want a fair opportunity to share in the wealth and benefits of this nation. [More…]
Associated with this greatly improved situation has been a widespread restoration in grower confidence and a natural reduction in the call made upon the Government for financial support. [More…]
I have been advised by the Australian Uranium Export Office that the demand for natural uranium is expected to increase from 37,000 short tons U308 this year to about 100,000 short tons U3Os in 1990. [More…]
Secondly, the deficit is the natural result of a substantial recession. [More…]
But there is no natural identification of that with increased unemployment in other countries. [More…]
Quite clearly no logical argument has been developed on the basis that real wage increases naturally mean increased unemployment. [More…]
It is natural that growers should be discouraged and concerned. [More…]
On a technical level, it confuses liquid natural gas with liquid petroleum gas. [More…]
The Government has been concerned in this area as in other important areas of potential redistribution, such as education, health and welfare, on the one hand to reduce the total volume of funds available and on the other to seek to ensure that the money that is spent is spent basically on behalf of its natural constituency, that is, on behalf of the better off, the more affluent or, if you like, the middle class. [More…]
Is it a fact that country people are paying import parity for their gas under the Government’s oil price policy, that is, at an oil equivalent of $ 18 a barrel in contrast to the $3 a barrel oil equivalent for gas being paid by the majority of consumers connected to natural gas pipelines? [More…]
Will the Minister consider reducing duty on motor vehicles entering Australia which are designed to use LPG, diesel fuel or compressed natural gas as a method of conserving petroleum supplies, reducing pollution and overcoming the shortage of this type of vehicle in Australia? [More…]
One of them is our relatively lower energy costs due to our abundant supplies of coal and natural gas. [More…]
This amounted to an export of about 6lA million tonnes of liquefied natural gas per year. [More…]
I will refer to that option; it is the option of a lower rate of extraction for export- and indicate whether an additional block of natural gas can be dedicated for Western Australia in harmony with an export project- [More…]
Indeed, no political party can afford to play roulette with Western Australia’s natural gas supplies. [More…]
When I responded to the Deputy Prime Minister on the afternoon on which he made his speech on natural gas in August 1977,I said that it was for the Federal Government to demonstrate that the level of exports was appropriate. [More…]
It is clear that we would and it is in the speech- but build the liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant on a two trains basis instead of three trains as planned. [More…]
Australia has supplies of natural gas and an abundance of coal. [More…]
Similarly, the expansion of the scope of the developing country preference scheme is a natural and sensible evolutionary step. [More…]
I say to my honourable friend, the honourable member for Melbourne Ports (Mr Holding), without any hostility from one to the other that surely we have not forgotten the great principles of natural justice? [More…]
Mr Finnane has despised two of the great principles of natural justice, and nobody seems to care. [More…]
I would have thought that the natural instinct for indignation when unfairness came into light would say no. [More…]
There would have to be virtually a bottomless pit of subsidies to keep the price of LPG in some kind of loose equality with the price of natural gas coming out of pipelines. [More…]
It will give Australians some benefit from their natural resources, one of which happens to be our natural oil and gas fields. [More…]
Our export industries can remain competitive only if we in Australia have a manufacturing cost factor which allows us to sell competitively on overseas markets those natural goods which we can produce in great abundance. [More…]
It would seem, therefore, that the process of conciliation and arbitration contemplated by the Constitution involves the application of the principles of natural justice. [More…]
In normal circumstances, natural justice requires that he who decides must also hear. [More…]
However, the requirements of natural justice are not fixed but vary according to all the circumstances. [More…]
Whether the principles of natural justice which apply in respect of the Conciliation and Arbitration Commission are offended by the requirement to consult as proposed in new section 22A will require determination by the High Court. [More…]
A marine park differs substantially from a national park, which typically protects the natural landscape and allows only limited human use. [More…]
Few Australians who are alive now will live to see Australia’s greatest natural asset and possibly the world’s greatest natural asset free from the forces that now ravage and threaten its very survival. [More…]
I would have thought that the lesson of natural justice and the lessons of the rule of law that were taught last week in this House by the Minister for Defence (Mr Killen) would have registered. [More…]
I would have thought that natural justice and the rule of law which honourable members heard about from the lips of the Minister for Defence would have made them understand that in this legislation the Full Bench makes the decision, not the Minister. [More…]
The warning is that there exists no natural control over this screw worm fly. [More…]
Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, [More…]
The Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage came into force on 19 December 1975. [More…]
Countries which are parties to the Convention are required to take appropriate legal measures towards the identification, protection, conservation, presentation and rehabilitation of their cultural and natural heritage. [More…]
Apart from its being an obvious insult to the commissioners the question of natural justice is involved. [More…]
If a presidential member is to make a decision not on the merits of the case but on questions of general policy, I put it to the Committee that that is contrary to natural justice. [More…]
The whole traditional concept of natural justice meant that the parties had an opportunity to be heard, to present evidence and to rebut it before the person making the judgment. [More…]
But if the ultimate judgment is to be part of a consultative process in which A who has heard the evidence is forced to justify himself before B who has not heard the evidence there will be a complete upsetting of the tradition of natural justice. [More…]
Finally, there have been allegations by the honourable member for Burke (Mr Keith Johnson) that the requirement was offensive, and by the honourable member for Lalor (Mr Barry Jones) that it would infringe natural justice. [More…]
If there were so obvious a breach of the rules of natural justice, the matter might be challenged. [More…]
This then raises the question of natural justice. [More…]
That is very far removed from the concept of natural justice that we were talking about earlier. [More…]
This involvement is natural because local government is close to people. [More…]
Briefly, I indicated at that time that many migrants who are naturalised Australians, or in some cases their children who are natural born Australians, may be regarded by their countries of birth, or of their parents’ birth, still to be citizens of those countries. [More…]
I ask the Government to give further consideration to this road and to remember that it is of great benefit to Australia’s tourism, beef roads, agriculture, natural gas line servicing, et cetera. [More…]
1 ) Is it a fact that Alcoa alumina refineries at Pinjarra and Kwinana in Western Australia use 60 per cent of all natural gas produced in Western Australia; if not, what was the consumption of natural gas by these refineries during (a) 1977 and (b) 1978. [More…]
Is the proposed alumina refinery at Wagerup in Western Australia projected to use natural gas from the northwest shelf fields when a pipeline is constructed. [More…]
What is the projected percentage consumption of natural gas by alumina refineries out of the total volume of gas supplied by pipeline to southern Western Australia. [More…]
Paragraph 133 of the Committee’s report refers to the development of petro-chemical complexes, aluminium smelters and natural gas projects. [More…]
I urge the Government to take full consideration of this report and the implications if any major decisions that would not result in the effective management of Australia ‘s natural resources or of our environment were implemented. [More…]
Those people who have had experience of natural or man-made disasters will, I am sure, be in no doubt that one of the greatest assets to have in such an emergency is the facility quickly to re-establish broken communication links. [More…]
However, the honourable member for St George (Mr Neil) not only traversed issues which by their very nature are sub judice but also, in so doing, was concerned to attack the Attorney-General of New South Wales and Mr Finnane- he agrees with that- as part of an ongoing campaign which suggests that company investigations which have been carried out in that State have been unique in as much as they have involved bias, prejudice and procedures which were completely at variance with any principle of natural justice. [More…]
Government members are the people concerned to raise these great matters of natural justice. [More…]
The communique included statements regarding other sources of energy, viz coal, oil, natural gas and nonconventional energy technologies. [More…]
What are the reserves of (a) natural gas and (b) oil located in Australia. [More…]
What are the names of the companies exploiting the areas in which (a) natural gas and (b) oil, have been discovered, [More…]
With those two matters both coming forward in the December quarter, it is only natural that the CPI should peak during that quarter. [More…]
He referred to the eight-year program which relates to such facilities as coal loaders at Balmain and Port Kembla, the Loy Yang power project in Victoria, the world trade centre, which one would not have thought was much of a priority, a coal loader at Hay Point in Queensland, the petrochemical project at Redcliff in South Australia, $568m for Western Australia for a natural gas pipeline between Dampier and Perth, the integration of power supplies in the Pilbara region, the Worsley alumina project and $100m for Tasmania for hydro-electric power development. [More…]
Whilst vandalism remains a considerable problem in some areas possibly the most vexatious problems are associated with the natural weathering process at art sites. [More…]
The action of wind, water, plants and animals, including man, touching or rubbing the surface of both paintings and engraving sites means that in many instances we can expect only a photographic record of a large number of sites within twenty years, simply by natural forces. [More…]
If we consult the annual report of the Heritage Commission we will see that there are merely two people to deal with all these proposals, all the objections and all other matters relating to the natural environment for the whole of Australia. [More…]
I can say to the honourable gentleman that the favourable conditions which have existed in recent years, following a period of adverse conditions up to 1976 and 1977 which imposed certain strains on the industry, particularly in the light of the number of natural disasters that occurred during that period, have contributed to a very considerable strengthening of the reserve position of Australian insurance companies. [More…]
In this respect I refer the honourable gentleman to pages 31 to 34 of the report of the Insurance Commissioner which was tabled recently in this Parliament and which would give to the honourable gentleman some further background to the stability of the industry and the capacity of the industry to respond in the event of the occurrence of further natural disasters. [More…]
I would like to raise a couple of matters tonight which were raised in the Estimates Committee in respect of natural gas policy in Australia, and of the North West Shelf in particular, to which the Government gave, to say the least, very inadequate replies. [More…]
If there is one thread running through the Opposition’s policy on energy in this country it is the belief that Australia could maximise its energy opportunities through natural gas. [More…]
If we maximise our opportunities in respect of natural gas, we could find that all of our major industrial cities have what is, by world standards, a luxurious supply of energy for at least 25 to 30 years on a moving index basis. [More…]
When one looks at Australia’s natural gas position, one finds that New South Wales has a contract for 30 years to the year 2005 for gas supplies from the Cooper Basin in South Australia. [More…]
I shall read from the Australian Natural Gas Utilisation and Transportation Study which was prepared for the Pipeline Authority in October 1976 by the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation and the Societe Francaise d ‘Etudes et de Realisations d’Equipements Gaziers, the French SOFREGAZ group. [More…]
That is, liquefied natural gas- export were considered to examine the first effect. [More…]
A highlevel contract of 6.3 trillion cubic feet of exports over 20 years requiring 7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas feed to the LNG plant, was studied in Case 2. [More…]
There should be a reexamination of the export level to 4.4 million tonnes of liquefied natural gas a year, instead of the estimated 6.5 million tonnes. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill before the House is to authorise the Pipeline Authority to construct a natural gas pipeline from Young on the main Moomba to Sydney pipeline to Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga. [More…]
When completed the pipeline will be operated and maintained by the Pipeline Authority, carrying natural gas from the Cooper Basin gas fields in South Australia. [More…]
Introduction of natural gas to Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga will aid the Government ‘s liquid fuel conservation program by providing further opportunities for significant fuel substitution. [More…]
Employment opportunities in Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga will be improved as a result of the stimulus provided to local industry and commerce by a natural gas supply. [More…]
That extension would connect the Cooper Basin and Bass Strait gas fields with the major cities and establish an east coast natural gas pipeline grid. [More…]
Construction of the pipeline is expected to commence early in 1980-81 and natural gas is expected to be reticulated in Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga in mid 1981. [More…]
This callous destruction has raped us of our natural heritage and has had a soul destroying effect on our lifestyles and values. [More…]
They are not units because they are not unified by natural factors. [More…]
France’s position relating to energy and discussions which were held with the European Atomic Energy Community indicated the difficulties which confront a country or an area which is totally devoid of natural energy resources. [More…]
The feed for that plant is about 18,000 tons per annum of natural uranium which assays at about 0.7 per cent. [More…]
The remaining provisions in the Bill give effect to the sales tax area of that policy by exempting from sales tax goods used in the conversion of internal combustion engines to liquified petroleum gas or natural gas operation to non-oil burning domestic space heating appliances and to various solar energy appliances. [More…]
Yet this Bill extends this exemption, happily, also to compressed natural gas coversion kits and to conversion kits for all internal combustion engines. [More…]
The Australian Institution of Engineers believes that energy consumption in the manufacturing sector can be reduced by between 15 per cent and 25 per cent without loss of output, and that between 30 per cent and 50 per cent of oil presently used in industry can be replaced by coal and natural gas by 1990. [More…]
When he suggests that we should reduce the price of oil he is suggesting that the movement for people to substitute natural gas, coal and electricity for oil be put back even further. [More…]
Most people living in the major metropolitan cities of Australia have access to very cheap natural gas. [More…]
For example, as of September the gate price of natural gas in Melbourne was of the order of 3.6c per therm. [More…]
The price of LPG in Brisbane was 33.7c per therm, which was almost ten times the price of natural gas in Melbourne, and the price in Townsville was 48.5c per therm. [More…]
Let us not forget also that coal used in electricity generation and also natural gas are not subject to excise duty as is LPG. [More…]
However, I am advocating a wider distribution of natural gas, and it is pleasing to note that the Minister has introduced a Bill to provide for the extension of the main Moomba to Sydney pipeline from Young to Cootamundra and Wagga at a cost of $ 1 7.5m. [More…]
While I am on the subject of natural gas and pipelines, I think it is also fair to say that it is extremely difficult for local government councils to see their way clear to embark on these gas projects because they have no clear, definitive estimates of the cost. [More…]
In closing, I would like to make a plea to the Government to consider sympathetically the plight of those gas consumers and undertakings that will not have access to natural gas. [More…]
In the conduct of these trials the Soviet Government ignored its commitments in the 1977 Constitution as well as natural justice. [More…]
That is Mr Finnane- had not given Mr Sinclair and the other directors and their respective lawyers, the unprecedented degree of opportunity to place submissions and propositions before him that he did afford them, he would have been pilloried as an enemy of natural justice. [More…]
We need to get across to people the impression that we want them, in their communities, to make the best contribution they can to the wider Australian community, by bringing in all of those elements which are desirable, by educating natural born Australians and people who come from other countries in their cultural tradtion, but also we want them to leave behind the enmities from which they have tried to escape in many cases. [More…]
It follows that this means that changes by the withdrawal of structures, removal of physical features or natural phenomena and other alterations can be made providing nothing new is intended. [More…]
All alterations to the Parliamentary Triangle- whether they be removals of physical or natural things or erections- should be subject to agreement by the Parliament. [More…]
Their role- the Prime Minister’s role and the role of his party- should be the maximisation of the national benefit from the development of Australia’s natural resources. [More…]
But there is no hint that our natural advantages impose obligations to be careful, rigorous and forceful in ensuring that our natural heritage and wealth are not simply frittered away. [More…]
It should be noted that the cost of electricity produced by the Snowy Mountains scheme is extremely low by any standards and is much lower than the cost of power produced elsewhere in the world from natural gas and coal. [More…]
This was natural enough because they were not paid sufficiently for them to devote their attention to wheat instead of wool, which was selling at high prices at the same time. [More…]
The ability and willingness of the Austraiian capital market and Australian companies to provide risk capital to take up equity in new natural resource development projects will influence the levels of Australian and foreign ownership in these projects. [More…]
3 ) Australia ‘s endowment of natural resources places it in a favourable position vis-a-vis many other countries. [More…]
It should be noted that a number of the larger life companies have been making substantial investments in major natural resources projects in recent years. [More…]
Dr Webb of the University of New South Wales writing in the July 1978 Bank of New South Wales Review’ documented both natural disabilities and self-induced disabilities affecting Australian transport. [More…]
Dr Webb, whom I mentioned earlier, argues that the high proportion of gross domestic product devoted to transport and communication costs in Australia is partly explained by such natural disabilities as the vast size of the country, the relatively small and unevenly distributed population and the lack of low cost inland-water transport. [More…]
I understand that only a few weeks ago a new natural disasters agreement was signed between the State and Federal governments under which a State is responsible for the first $3m in disaster relief and then the Commonwealth comes in to support the State. [More…]
Surely it is a simple matter of natural justice that the child and the mother should be entitled to the same rights as a civilian widow with a child on a social security pension, without having to accept the penalty that she must surrender her entitlements as a war widow. [More…]
If a natural person or corporation wishes to acquire control of a company by making a general offer to acquire all the shares, or a proportion sufficient to enable him to exercise voting control, limitations should be placed on his freedom of action so far as is necessary to ensure: [More…]
The Treasury is arguing for world prices to apply not just to crude oil but also to natural gas and to coal used in the manufacture of electricity, thereby feeding in further inflationary prices in this country if that becomes Government policy. [More…]
-This Bill is to authorise the Pipeline Authority to construct a natural gas pipeline in New South Wales from Young, on the main Moomba-to-Sydney pipeline, to Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga in the south. [More…]
The supply of natural gas to these towns will make a further contribution to the conservation of Australia ‘s liquid fuels because of the opportunity which will be made available for fuel substitution. [More…]
These two towns, plus others in the region, have been waiting a considerable time for the supply of natural gas. [More…]
This was to enable the Australian Gas Light Co. to meet its obligations to the New South Wales Government to supply natural gas to these towns. [More…]
This will not only provide further opportunities for fuel substitution but also provide valuable employment opportunities during the construction phase and after reticulation begins because of the attraction to industry which is offered by a supply of natural gas. [More…]
As well as replacing fuel oil, natural gas also will replace liquefied petroleum gas, which is currently reticulated in both Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga. [More…]
Consumers connected to natural gas pipelines are now getting their gas at considerably lower costs- I think about a quarter or one-fifth of the price that people are paying for LPG- because LPG is produced synthetically in refineries and whilst it is produced as naturally occurring the naturally occurring LPG is supplied only when there is a shortfall in the refinery produced LPG. [More…]
So the consumers in large towns which will not be connected to the natural gas pipeline, such as Bathurst, Lithgow, Orange and Cowra which are in New South Wales, will continue to pay through the nose for liquefied petroleum gas under this Government’s import parity pricing because the LPG - [More…]
As well as replacing fuel oil, natural gas will replace LPG also. [More…]
As the Minister pointed out in his statement on 25 October, it is intended that this line be extended to Albury thus connecting the Bass Strait and Cooper Basin gas fields, establishing an east coast natural gas pipeline grid. [More…]
It is heartening to see that the present Government at least has come to realise the contribution that natural gas can make to Australia’s energy independence and also the importance of having a well-planned gas grid connecting the major demand and supply centres of Australia. [More…]
The Opposition believes that if natural gas is to make a significant contribution to Australia’s energy independence- and we believe this to be so- a well-planned, co-ordinated approach to development must be adopted. [More…]
The central theme of the Green Paper which the Opposition produced in March 1979 was the utilisation of natural gas in Australia. [More…]
The Authority has always been conscious of the need for planned development, including careful and detailed assessment of the short and long term markets for natural gas and the likely available supplies, and a technical and economic evaluation of the various possible solutions available in order to ensure that, in the longer term, say 25 years or more, Australia’s valuable gas reserves are developed and used in the best interests of the nation. [More…]
This is a view which the Government must also adopt if maximum benefit is to be gained from our natural gas resources. [More…]
Australia needs a natural gas policy. [More…]
About 10 per cent of our primary energy needs are currently met by natural gas. [More…]
At the moment, of course, Western Australia will not have a 25-year gas supply with the current projected level of liquefied natural gas exports on the North West Shelf. [More…]
Consumers are paying about $19 a barrel oil equivalent for liquefied petroleum gas in Orange and in other cities and towns in his electorate, whereas if they were connected to a natural gas pipeline they would be paying $3 a barrel. [More…]
It is the Government’s import parity pricing policy which lifts the price of refined LPG not naturally occurring. [More…]
In the meantime, it is hoped that the decision to provide a lateral line to Cootamundra and Wagga Wagga will be closely followed by an announcement to the effect that the other towns in New South Wales waiting for natural gas supplies will also be provided with lateral lines. [More…]
He announced that the Young to Wagga Wagga natural gas pipeline would become the subject of an environmental impact statement and that once this was available public comment would be invited on the draft. [More…]
It is estimated that in 1 98 1 when the gas from this pipeline will be available the cost of natural gas will be 25c a therm. [More…]
The benefit to Cootamundra will be not so much in cheaper energy but in the fact that once natural gas becomes available the enormous price rises that have been occurring will cease and energy costs will stabilise. [More…]
There is another reason why it is very important to link the Cooper Basin and the Bass Strait natural gas field. [More…]
Australia’s natural gas reserves currently are about 885,000 million cubic metres. [More…]
Natural gas is very important to South Australia. [More…]
It is impossible to envisage any government of South Australia with 35 per cent of its energy supplies coming from natural gas, presiding over a shortfall gas supply in its home State, whilst another State is provided with contracts covering another 18 years from within its home State. [More…]
The export and fuel for the liquid natural gas plant would be 31,000 million cubic metres. [More…]
If honourable members want to use the early cash flow argument, they should understand that at least twothirds of the capital expenditure is going to be provided to buy ships to export the gas and for a liquefied natural gas plant to freeze it. [More…]
There does seem every reason to cater for increased Western Australian demand for natural gas above 10,000 million cubic metres a day. [More…]
It is argued that natural gas is a prime energy resource and ought not to be used for power generation. [More…]
The pricing policy of natural gas is in a shambles. [More…]
Why should the Australian firms, which are trying to upgrade iron ore to increase their export level, have to pay such an enormous price for natural gas- seven times the Victorian price- when they are the closest people to the North West Shelf? [More…]
If nothing is done about Redcliff in South Australia it is virtually certain that these valuable energy and plastics reserves will simply stay in the natural gas pipeline and be consumed in Sydney and Adelaide. [More…]
The Pipeline Construction (Young to Wagga Wagga) Bill 1979 seeks to authorise the Pipeline Authority to construct a natural gas pipeline from Young on the main Moomba to Sydney pipeline, to Cootamundra and Wagga. [More…]
When completed the pipeline will carry natural gas from the Cooper Basin gas fields in South Australia. [More…]
Such a policy is obviously lacking in relation to natural gas, which is the only concern of this Bill. [More…]
Natural gas policy lies in the hands of the State governments which have been known in the past to make decisions which were more beneficial to themselves than to the nation as a whole. [More…]
Largely because of this lack of a co-ordinated national policy, little has been done by the Federal Government to encourage exploration for natural gas. [More…]
Yet natural gas has the potential to play a significant role in lessening [More…]
Natural gas has been used for household and commercial purposes for some time as a substitute for coal and oil. [More…]
Natural gas can be used also as a feedstock for the manufacture of fertilisers and methanol. [More…]
New techniques have been developed by which natural gas can be converted to gasolene and gasolene substitutes. [More…]
Natural gas can also be used to provide heat for furnaces and to generate electricity, given sufficient reserves. [More…]
Whilst current known reserves are estimated to meet domestic demand until about the year 2000, it is generally believed that the prospects for new discoveries are high and that the potential contribution of natural gas to Australia’s energy requirements is considerable. [More…]
In 1975-76 natural gas was used for some 8 per cent of Australia’s energy needs. [More…]
I refer anybody listening to this oration on natural gas to the speech made by our shadow Minister for minerals and energy, the honourable member for Blaxland (Mr Keating), before the suspension of the sitting for dinner. [More…]
It contains much very useful information and his very prescient forecast of what Australia’s policy on natural gas should be. [More…]
Australia is so well equipped with reserves of natural gas that it is in front of the rest of the world. [More…]
In order fully to utilise our reserves of natural gas, the Government must act effectively to coordinate policy. [More…]
The Government must also give greater attention to encouraging exploration for new natural gas deposits, especially in the south-east of Australia where known deposits are relatively scarce, and where the mass of our population lives. [More…]
In addition, attention needs to be given to the best use of our natural gas reserves; for example, whether Australia would gain more from exporting our surplus supplies to offset the cost of our oil imports or from converting natural gas to methanol. [More…]
All these factors must be taken into account if Australia is to take maximum advantage of its natural gas deposits. [More…]
The vision of Rex Connor which led to the formation of the Pipeline Authority and the construction of the continental pipeline in the first place, taken to its full and logical conclusion as envisaged by Connor, would see a grid covering the whole of Australia, giving all of Australia and particularly the remote areas of the country access to our great supplies of natural gas. [More…]
We live in the best country in the world, rich in human and natural resources. [More…]
-I will take it as the natural course of events. [More…]
The developments are also a natural consequence of the findings of the Committee of Inquiry into Education and Training. [More…]
For an open pit, the circumstances when radon daughters occur at significant levels are those occasions when there is poor natural ventilation. [More…]
What is the expected capital infrastructure cost of developing the north West Shelf natural gas project [More…]
Imprisonment remains a penalty under the Continental Shelf (Living Natural Resources) Act 1968 that applies to the taking of sedentary species. [More…]
Who are the members of (a) the working party on natural disaster insurance and (b) the technical committee which is providing advice to the working party, and which companies, organisations or Government departments do they represent. [More…]
Have consultations with State Ministers regarding disaster mitigation taken place, as was recommended in the discussion paper on natural disaster insurance. [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to the concern being expressed by miners and others involved in the opal industry at the threat posed by this material to the natural opal mining industry. [More…]