oppressed - senate - 1970

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

And whereas the humanitarian needs of these oppressed people require greater assistance from Australia than the above amount allocated in the budget; [More…]
And whereas the humanitarian needs of these oppressed people require greater assistance from Australia than the above amount allocated in the budget; [More…]
The so-called radical people of the Gazelle Peninsula with whom Mr Whitlam had this fantastic meeting, are people who have been oppressed by other people of various nationalities - first by the Germans, then by the Australian planters, and for a time by the Japanese. [More…]
Yet all over the country workers oppressed by the increases in costs are in desperation, going on strike for increased wages. [More…]
This shows the degree to which they feel oppressed by the act. [More…]
I am prepared to concede that nothing is too good for the representatives of the downtrodden and oppressed masses, but a net profit of 5247,000 is really laying it on a little too thick. [More…]
After they got $247,000 a year from the downtrodden and oppressed company with operates 3KZ, Val Morgan and Sons Pty Ltd, they charged $1,000 a year for the rental of their aerial field. [More…]
Protests have been made in the British Parliament on behalf of Frank McManus and civil liberties because of this shameful treatment of a member of Parliament who demonstrated only to win some liberties for an oppressed section of the population of Northern Ireland. [More…]
It is no coincidence that people who could not care less about what happens to native peoples, people who have spent their entire political lives in foreign countries - I am not talking about my friends opposite - while their own people have been suppressed, have suddenly developed a charitable interest in the downtrodden and oppressed masses of South Africa. [More…]
If they are penalised and oppressed they will use their own means to get their way in the end. [More…]
My friend Senator Milliner had occasion also to paint a rather dramatic picture of the poor downtrodden and oppressed worker coming home from his honest day’s toil only to find that prices have gone up. [More…]
If good books can influence human beings in favour of good living and high causes - like the liberation of the oppressed or inter-racial justice- the converse logically applies, that bad books can stimulate the mind and imagination in ways that are socially baleful. [More…]
The downtrodden and oppressed battler pays the same sales tax as the wealthiest member of the community. [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 al] trade to and from Rhodesia, and by seeking the closure of the Rhodesian Information Centre in Sydney. [More…]
The force and terror being used in Rhodesia have been used against the vast majority of the people who are being oppressed by an illegal, racist minority in that country. [More…]
Far from being the representatives of the downtrodden and oppressed the Labor Party became the representatives of wealthy industry. [More…]
Very often those who are producing the works of art are the ones who are doing more to overcome the suffering and to uplift the oppressed than those in whom the honourable senator finds his solace and comfort. [More…]
And whereas the humanitarian needs of these oppressed people require greater assistance from Australia than the above amount allocated in the budget; [More…]
And whereas the humanitarian needs of these oppressed people require greater assistance from Australia than the above amount allocated in the budget; [More…]
And whereas the humanitarian needs of these oppressed people require greater assistance from Australia than the above amount allocated in the budget; [More…]
And whereas the humanitarian needs of these oppressed people require greater assistance from Australia than the above amount allocated in the budget; [More…]
He said that there was developing in the Australian community a section of people who saw a career ‘in championing the cause of the oppressed ‘. [More…]
The Opposition wants the Aborigines of Queensland to decide this vital issue of whether we should play our part in relation to the indigenous people of the oppressed countries of the world. [More…]
Whether I did or did not is no justification why Senator Bonner should keep his people in Queensland oppressed. [More…]
Does it still hold to the view of some of its leading members that the fighting in Vietnam is an uprising of oppressed people? [More…]
There are some women speaking out, but there are thousands upon thousands of women who do not know that they are oppressed, who do not know that life could be better and who do not realise what society is doing to them. [More…]
We are concerned that they should not now be oppressed for their beliefs in this area. [More…]
Finally, if so, what safeguards will the Commonwealth insist upon to protect already oppressed salary earners from savage tax slugs which money-hungry States will be able to impose at will? [More…]
It saddens me that the Government appears to have concluded that those best able to make sacrifices are those with the most experience in bearing hardships- namely, the poor, the sick, the oppressed and the needy. [More…]
I doubt that the Timorese people were any more oppressed than were the people in metropolitan Portugal. [More…]
I made a plea for the Federal Government, which has responsibility for Aboriginal affairs, to do something concrete to see that this matter would not be pigeonholed; that the recommendations would be carried out; that something would be done to ensure that never again, against an oppressed people of Australia, would a Skull Creek incident happen. [More…]
Communist policy is for complete support of Indonesia ‘s claim to West Irian and complete independence for the peoples exploited and oppressed by Australian capitalism. [More…]
Poor women, particularly poor women with large families, are still oppressed and powerless in this society. [More…]
I think it might be useful for this country if the Labor Party, which is supposed to be the friend of the oppressed, came out and supported what is a most substantial reform in favour of 800 000 children in the community who are in relatively poor circumstances in the 300 000 families which are in relatively poor circumstances. [More…]
His unstinting support for TRUE civil liberty and rights for the oppressed, both here and abroad [More…]
I think this question of the oppressed section of the farming community needs to be discussed by me and others. [More…]
Displaced persons, stateless persons, persons seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of national disasters all have been described at some time as refugees. [More…]
These have included displaced and stateless persons, those seeking political asylum, defectors, members of oppressed minorities and victims of natural disasters. [More…]
In consequence of the savage repression suffered by the African, coloured and other oppressed people in South Africa, thousands have been forced to flee across the borders into such neighbouring States as Botswana and Mozambique. [More…]
In consequence of the savage repression suffered by the African, coloured and other oppressed people in South Africa, thousands have been forced to flee across the borders into such neighbouring States as Botswana and Mozambique. [More…]
In consequence of the savage repression suffered by the African, coloured and other oppressed people in South Africa, thousands have been forced to flee across the borders into such neighbouring States as Botswana and Mozambique. [More…]
I made a plea for the Federal Government, which had responsibility for Aboriginal Affairs, to do something concrete to see that this matter would not be pigeonholed; that the recommendations would be carried out; that something would be done to ensure never again, against an oppressed people of Australia, would a Skull Creek incident happen. [More…]
Who would know better than I what it is like to live in a country where one’s people have been oppressed and denigrated? [More…]
The point probably does not need to be laboured that when it was in power the Labor Government’s approach to morality in politics and its concern for oppressed peoples was well demonstrated in the decision to accord de jure recognition to Soviet control over the Baltic States. [More…]
He gave the lie to those who would suggest that the biblical injunction of turning the other cheek, which is important for individuals, means that one is able to lift the head of the oppressed so that the oppressor can beat it again and again. [More…]
The Senate will recall that the liberators of the oppressed had become the oppressors again. [More…]
It is about time that the rights and justices which we so correctly demand for the oppressed in Russia or Chile are no longer denied to our own Aboriginal people. [More…]
I believe that in relation to that child the term ‘right to life’ means that he should not be lonely, oppressed, diseased, underprivileged, hungry, orphaned, battered by drunken parents. [More…]
The whole history of” mankind shows that if people are oppressed, no matter their nationality, their colour or their religion, no matter where or when, eventually they will rise up and throw off their chains. [More…]
I do not believe that we have any right, particularly any moral right, to hide behind a barricade and expect to live in peaceful and stable surroundings while people in, for example, Timor- the example that I have used throughout tonight- are being oppressed, slaughtered, murdered, raped and deprived of everything they have owned by a more powerful and aggressive neighbour apparently just because it is in our interests, as seen by a lot of people high up in this country, not to ruffle Indonesia’s hair. [More…]
But I suggest that in the totality of the matter there is not a great deal of difference between the organisation under which the Soviet people have been oppressed over the years and an organisation such as ASIO which, during the period about which I have spoken, has been allowed free reign and which, as I said earlier, may well have destroyed the lives and opportunities of many decent, honest citizens in this country. [More…]
But I suggest that in the totality of the matter there is not a great deal of difference between the organisation under which the Soviet people have been oppressed over the years and an organisation such as ASIO . [More…]
He acknowledges that the KGB has oppressed the Soviet people and he applies the same sort of principle to ASIO. [More…]
He has never known what it is to be oppressed and deprived. [More…]
But the people who are fleeing those countries know what it means to be oppressed and deprived. [More…]
I have always regarded Senator Bonner as a champion of human rights, of human values, and as a man who will speak up for the oppressed and for the minority groups. [More…]
Aggrieved parties are most frequently Aborigines or members of other oppressed groups. [More…]
The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights being, as it is, the product of consultations between governments and bearing none of the marks of having been generated in a crucible of conflict between the oppressed and a government of totalitarian complexion or the marks which characterise the United States Bill of Rights, for example, which did emerge from people who felt themselves to be oppressed, it is not surprising that the so-called rights said to be secured are, in fact, constantly modified and eaten away by exceptions in favour of government regulation on grounds as vague as public health or morals. [More…]
He has become a symbol to a lot of oppressed peoplepeople who feel oppressed anyway- and ‘ to people who have been discriminated against. [More…]