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

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

• A clear call has been made to ordinary persons to regard themselves as the oppressed, to sharpen the class struggle, to ferment other grievances, thus leading people into a violent revolution. [More…]

• That development is impossible without a series of military reverses and defeates of governments that receive blows from their own oppressed classes. [More…]

• My reaction was that the wickedness lay not in these captives but in their captors, the prison governors, with one honourable exception, and the masters of the whole system which oppressed them. [More…]

• It forgets, of course, that really there were only political slogans in the Dark Ages when the people were oppressed by the unfettered exploitation of laissez-faire capitalism. [More…]

• As we all know, violence begets violence, and when it becomes institutionalised as a way of life the oppressed regard it as the only means of political change. [More…]

• The Chinese side stated that it firmly supports the struggles of all oppressed people and nations for freedom and liberation . [More…]

• They want independence movements for countries and for peoples, as we do, who feel that they are being oppressed by the USSR or by the Socialist Republic of Yugoslavia but they do not support independence movements in other countries. [More…]

• This country has never come to the brink of a revolution as has happened in the countries of Latin America where the trade union movement was oppressed and practically wiped out. [More…]

• I had the privilege of visiting the Latin American countries in 1962 when they were on the fringe of a revolution because the trade union movement was oppressed and not allowed to function. [More…]

• One feels oppressed as one moves about and sees so many of these homes, as I mentioned earlier, often totally unsuitable buildings, but even more importantly, providing nothing more than minimal nursing services and a bed, providing no stimulation and no occupational challenges for the people in these homes so that they become institutionalised. [More…]

• Socialism is a philosophy founded quite reasonably by oppressed classes in another century, modified certainly to some extent. [More…]

• The most oppressed people in the country are those who are represented by members of the Country Party. [More…]

• Women who are aware of social issues like the abortion issue and who know that this issue and other issues that fundamentally concern them are going to be decided in this House of men do feel oppressed. [More…]

• Women who are aware of social issues and who like to think that they should be treated with full civilian rights and have opportunities available to them in much the same way as you gentlemen have opportunities available to you feel oppressed and discriminated against. [More…]

• What a changed situation it would be if as a result of that naked aggression, without any attack from New Zealand on the Soviet Navy, the Soviet Union plastered every New Zealand city almost to the stage where they were rubble for years to come, dropped the greatest bomb load in the history of the world and oppressed a small nation which is much less than it in size. [More…]

• Having dismissed to the best of my limited ability the rather innocuous remarks made by the honourable member for Macquarie, 1 will now proceed to make out a case in support of the magnificent contribution given in this debate by my colleague from Queensland, the honorable member for Maranoa (Mr Corbett), who, if he has not proved it to this Parliament before, certainly proved’ to it tonight that he is not afraid to stand up and fight for the principles, aims and objectives of a State which is being oppressed by a government deliberately bent on a policy of centralism. [More…]

• We have demonstrated our active concern for the rights of peoples oppressed in Rhodesia and South Africa by voting in favour of the last 2 United Nations General Assembly resolutions on Rhodesia, which we had not previously supported, terminating all trade to and from Rhodesia, and by seeking the closure of the Rhodesia Information Centre in Sydney. [More…]

• As he says that he is a friend of all oppressed people, I suggest to him that he ask his good and trusted friend, the Chairman of the People’s Republic of China, to arrange for a deputation from this Parliament to visit Tibet. [More…]

• All honourable members no doubt are aware that many men feel that they are being unduly oppressed by many features of the existing legislation in relation to the payment of maintenance. [More…]

• To achieve peace in our time may be a gigantic task, but this year it is hoped that men and women will join forces against repression and work towards the liberation of all oppressed groups throughout the world. [More…]

• The Bill, in its philosophy, should be concerned with protecting individuals who are in some way in an oppressed or prejudiced minority; not with creating conflicts between cultural or ethnic societies or urging ideological or social confrontation, but with affording those individuals in the community who have for so long been denied any sort of recourse the opportunity to preserve the idea of equality of opportunity that has for so long been lauded but only sometimes practised. [More…]

• I say this to those gentlemen who talk about a democratic society: Ask the oppressed peoples who sometimes have to survive in a democratic society; ask the Aborigines about a democratic society; ask those who are getting angry at being denied their rights. [More…]

• Some artists who have been oppressed and still are oppressed are expressing their attitude to freedom. [More…]

• Most were looking to Australia, as a nation of long established compassion, to provide the sanctuary it has so often given to other oppressed peoples, regardless of political persuasion. [More…]

• I do not think it is fair to any sector of the community, even though it comprises the weak and allegedly oppressed, that a government for a short period of time should offer them the world and do this for them and that for them and give them this and give them that in a quite irresponsible fashion when it is perfectly obvious that such a situation cannot last and that the next government will have the task of saying: ‘We are terribly sorry but this just cannot be continued’. [More…]

• When he starts to speak for the people of the world who are being oppressed, irrespective of whether they are near to home or far away and regardless of who is doing it, we will have some respect for his arguments. [More…]

• We are trying to stimulate, to increase the activities of the private sector so that from their taxes, what they contribute to society, we can afford to pay more to the poor, the oppressed and the unfairly dealt with. [More…]

• The policies of honourable gentlemen directly opposite which aimed at destroying the wealth- it is not a dirty word- of the nation would have continually reduced the power of this nation to feed, to pay for, to clothe, and to look after, in the medical and every other sense, the oppressed people of this nation. [More…]

• Incidentally, these are all groups which the previous Labor Government of compassion and concern, to use its own well-known phraseology, ignored and oppressed even further because of inflation of its own making and because of its construction of a welfare bureaucracy which ensured that the minimum of money, in fact, reached those most in need. [More…]

• I met the oppressed in that tragic country. [More…]

• I visited good, courageous people- white, black and coloured- who had been house arrested, banned and oppressed. [More…]

• I do not believe that in Australia people generally feel oppressed by the normal State or Commonwealth rules that govern and determine our behaviour. [More…]

• In Africa, in Asia and in all like countries, those who have been oppressed for centuries will rise up. [More…]

• The all-embracing nature of the Bill would also make it an offence for Australians to send messages of support to oppressed people who were retaliating against tyrants. [More…]

• Mercenaries actually contributed to the installation of the fascist regime in Spain which oppressed those people for so long. [More…]

• These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]

• Where laws are framed to protect the self-interest of a small privileged group, there is no reason why the dispossessed, the disenfranchised and the oppressed should feel bound by these laws. [More…]

• I believe that the children of Australia have been the most legally oppressed minority in this country. [More…]

• These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]

• These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]

• I am interested in their case because I have in the past shown support for students oppressed by leftwing university authorities. [More…]

• I think also that the Government should realise that amending legislation to gain a short term relief in our balance of payments crisis or for any of the other purposes which have been brought forward during the debate, such as to promote the accelerated processing, mining and export of uranium, should not take precedence over justice to our oppressed indigenous people, which is the theme which the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs very rightly has stressed from the outset of his accepting the Aboriginal Affairs Ministry. [More…]

• We know how their people are oppressed. [More…]

• For two years this industry has been oppressed. [More…]

• The ALP has chosen to support the old line of supporting the strikers, with all the irrelevant rhetoric that it can muster about the poor oppressed workers who have never been better off than they are now. [More…]

• Bible, a family photograph and camera which she hid behind a log and recovered later; (i) the Manager and or Sergeant refused Mrs Ray, who had travelled all night from Townsville for the funeral, a lift into Woorbinda ‘to hear the singing for her brother’ but offered to hold up the funeral until another vehicle picked her up; (j ) the funeral service in fact finished before she arrived; (k) a crowd gathered outside the office to demonstrate their anger, causing the Sergeant to send for police reinforcements; (1) the Manager requested a number of Woorabinda people, Mr Ray and a Department of Aboriginal and Islander Affairs liaison officer, who has since left the settlement, to sign a statement exonerating him; (m) Mr Dooley signed such a statement which he did not fully understand; (n) others signed and some refused to sign these statements; (o) the Woorabinda community is so oppressed by the Queensland laws and settlement regulations, which have been condemned by the Commissioner for Community Relations as contrary to international human rights, that they fear for their homes, jobs and safety to the extent that they are unwilling to testify to the oppression while the Sergeant remains in authority there, and (p) several complaints have been made to police, to the Aboriginal and Islander Legal Service and to Mr N. Blair, National Aboriginal Congress representative, about Sergeant O’Shea exploiting financially, intimidating, illtreating and procuring wrongful convictions of Woorabinda residents. [More…]

• Those members who are trading as protectors of the oppressed either are being duped by their own party and have no say or are themselves trying to dupe the Australian public. [More…]

• opposes the Soviet Union instead of uniting with it, opposes the People’s democracies instead of uniting with them, opposes the Communists, the proletariat and the People’s forces in all countries instead of uniting with them, opposes the national liberation movements, instead of uniting with them and all the oppressed nations . [More…]

• These are the women who are most heavily oppressed by sexism, by fear and by guilt that this society loads on them. [More…]

• It represents acceptance of maintaining an advantage for the advantaged and continual denial for the oppressed. [More…]

• Many people do not like spending money on the weak, the poor and the oppressed. [More…]

• It is interesting to note that the Federation of Catholic Parents and Friends Associations is also concerned at the denial of support for the weak and oppressed, to which I have referred. [More…]

• Also, the Vietnamese Ambassador to Australia has been on record recently as stating that Vietnam will provide troops and weapons, if necessary, to assist liberation forces in other parts of the world to relieve the burden of what he calls oppressed people. [More…]

• The reason why comparatively small numbers of Arabs were able to conquer so much of the Near East in the seventh century relates to the fact that the populations of the provinces had been so oppressed by Byzantine taxation that foreign conquest became preferable. [More…]