papua new guinea - senate - 1970

Contexts in which the phrase papua new guinea was used in the Senate during the 1970s

A statement by the Minister for External Territories dated 27th April 1971 relating to Papua New Guinea Constitutional Development [More…]
When a Bill of this character comes before this chamber we should register our continuing and persistent interest in and identification with Papua New Guinea and the contribution that Australia is making to the development of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I know that we are charged sometimes regarding our contributions to the development of underdeveloped countries, but our contribution is high, particularly when we take into account our contribution to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Government has accepted the Committee’s report, as endorsed by the House of Assembly, as reflecting the views of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What companies hold petroleum prospecting licences (a) onshore; and (b) offshore in the Papua New Guinea region? [More…]
How many petroleum prospective basins have been identified in the Papua New Guinea region: and of these, in respect of how many have (a) prospecting licences already been granted: and (b) applications been called for? [More…]
What are the locations and acreages of national parks and wildlife sanctuaries in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I also inform the Senate that the Minister for External Territories, Mr Barnes, will be in Papua New Guinea this week. [More…]
Will the Territory of Papua New Guinea security and intelligence service maintain surveillance of elected members of the Territory House of Assembly and of members of the Mataungan Association. [More…]
The first is a statement by the Minister for External Territories (Mr Peacock) on the sale of the Commonwealth equity in Commonwealth-New Guinea Timbers Ltd, and the second is a statement by the Minister for External Territories on recent events in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I wish to draw the attention of honourable senators to the fact that Mr Perry Kwan, the Speaker of the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea, is present in the President’s gallery at my invitation. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the report to the General Assembly of the United Nations on the administration of Papua New Guinea for the year ended 30th June 1971. [More…]
This one is the Papua New Guinea Bill 1972 and the second one is the New Guinea Timber Agreement Act (Repeal) Bill 1972. [More…]
There is no opposition to this Papua New Guinea Bill which deals with the removal of the limitation on the number of offices of ministers of the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea which can be created by the Minister for External Territories (Mr Peacock). [More…]
However in these times of growing development in Papua New Guinea obviously the current base of 17 members is much too low. [More…]
The Australian Government has for many years adopted the attitude that no obstacle should be placed in the way of a smooth and orderly transition to self government in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A lot of restrictions have been placed on the House of Assembly in Papua New Guinea by the current Government. [More…]
Now as Papua New Guinea stands on the threshold of independence this Bill is right and proper. [More…]
I believe that the long term result of the removal of this limitation and the fulfilling of the desire of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly to expand its ministry must react in the favour of Australia. [More…]
Democracy at long last will have a free go in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I remind Senator wheat-growing Young, who is trying to interject, that another Bill dealing with Papua New Guinea will come before the Senate immediately after this Bill is passed. [More…]
It has a great deal to do with your sell-out of products to your Australian friends in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories: Has any approach been made by Japan to set up a consulate in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I am without information as to the availability of eggs and egg products in Papua New Guinea at the present time, but I will most willingly refer the honourable senator’s suggestion to the attention of the Minister for External Territories so that consideration can be given to the inclusion of these foods in any further shipment. [More…]
My question, which is directed to the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories, arises from the answer he has just given to the Senate concerning emergency food supplies for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In view of the over production of eggs in Australia, why were eggs and egg products not included in the supplies which were sent to Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Will he give an undertaking to give some consideration to the forwarding of eggs and egg products to Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate: In view of the serious drought prevailing in the highland area of New Guinea and coinciding with the delicate negotiations for independence, will the Minister indicate what measures are being taken by the Australian Government to assist the Government of Papua New Guinea in alleviating this most unfortunate situation? [More…]
Australia has protested to the Government of the Republic of China on a number of occasions, the latest being a protest over the recent incursions of Taiwanese fishing vessels into the fishing zones of Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
you recognise that we are Australians and do not wish to become citizens of Papua New Guinea; [More…]
Was the statement made by the Minister on the establishment of a para-military force of 3,500 persons to maintain the security of the Territory of Papua New Guinea in the immediate future issued as a result of a Cabinet decision; if not, why was the statement made and has it now been countermanded. [More…]
I have not issued a statement on the establishment of a para-military force of 3,500 persons to maintain the security of the Territory of Papua New Guinea in the immediate future. [More…]
Has the Commonwealth Government approved a relaxation of quarantine regulations to permit the admission of cats and dogs from Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Hawaii and Fiji. [More…]
Is rabies endemic in Indonesia; if so, is there a strong likelihood of the spread of this disease from animals in West Irian to Papua New Guinea and what added precautions have been taken by the Departments concerned to ensure positive safeguards against the introduction of this disease into Australia. [More…]
The quarantine regulations have been amended to permit the admission of cats and dogs from Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Hawaii and Fiji under certain conditions. [More…]
Rabies is endemic in parts of Indonesia but is not reported to be present in the provinces east of Java, including West Irian, so it is not considered that there is a strong likelihood of the introduction of rabies into Papua New Guinea from West Irian. [More…]
The conditions for importation of dogs and cats from Papua New Guinea (and Norfolk Island, Hawaii and Fiji) include a quarantine period in Australia of nine months. [More…]
We recognise that in a developing country such as Papua New Guinea the transport of goods is an essential priority and that it is of prime importance to acquire sufficient finance to construct roads. [More…]
However, I am quite confident that, with the passage of time, not withstanding the events which we know will be forthcoming shortly, the Australian Government will not abrogate its responsibility towards Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In his closing remarks Senator Byrne made the comment that Australia shared a sense of responsibility with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As Senator Young, has said, the Minister has given us no information at all about the future of consultation on this matter, not only between Australia and Papua New Guinea but also between the Commonwealth and the Australian State governments which have a vital interest in this matter. [More…]
My question is in regard to the judges of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 presume that these Bills have no particular application to the position of the judges of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea, but they no doubt must have some of the same concern that public servants have in regard to independence and to what their position will be after independence. [More…]
I ask the Attorney-General (Senator Murphy) when replying to the debate to define certain points for me in relation to the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the report on the administration of Papua New Guinea for the year ended 30 June 1972. [More…]
The Commonwealth Banks Act is the third of the Australian Acts relating to banking which extend to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Act is being amended to provide that at a date to be determined, Papua New Guinea would be excluded from the operation of the Act. [More…]
This Bill is related to the agreement outlined in the joint ministerial Press statement in April 1973 that subject to further consideration of particular aspects, the greater part of the Papua New Guinea business of the Commonwealth Banking Corporation be transferred to a new Papua New Guinea Government commercial bank which is to be established. [More…]
As the Treasurer (Mr Crean) indicated in the paper ‘Australia’s External Aid 1973-74’ which he presented on the occasion of his 1 973-74 Budget Speech, a payment of $ 1 5m will be made to the Papua New Guinea Government in 1973-74 to facilitate the establishment of this proposed government commercial bank. [More…]
I am advised that it is the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill which is No. [More…]
It is intended that all the Bills relating to Papua New Guinea be debated cognately at the second reading stage. [More…]
I wish to move an amendment which has been circulated to add a new clause 32a after clause 32 of the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to an article entitled “Commandos train for Papua New Guinea ‘extraction’ operation” in the ‘Australian Financial Review’ of 22 October 1 973, in which it was stated that use of the Special Air Service Regiment ofthe Australian Army is part of a contingency plan which has been drawn up in case of trouble in the post-independence era in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Parliament and the people ‘ that Australia will not be a party to furnishing any military aid in an internal security situation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
W. L. Morrison, Minister Assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs, concerning Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What assistance, if any, is the Department of the Media providing to help the independent Papua New Guinea broadcasting service establish itself effectively? [More…]
-Is the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation aware that the Papua New Guinea branch of the Returned Services League is asking that war pensions be provided for Papuans and New Guineans injured during World War II and their relatives? [More…]
-Mr Temporary Chairman, are we dealing with the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Bill or the Papua New Guinea Bill first? [More…]
I have received messages Nos 66 and 67 from the House of Representatives transmitting the Papua New Guinea Bill 1974 and the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Bill 1 974 for concurrence by the Senate. [More…]
The Bill contains a general proposal for the underwriting of the development of Papua New Guinea’s resources which began in the time of our government and is being continued in the time of this Government. [More…]
Will Australian Servicemen be with the armed forces of Papua New Guinea after it achieves independence on 1 December, 1 974: if so, [More…]
Excellent liaison does exist between Customs officers in Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This was reinforced earlier this year when a senior officer from the Department in Canberra went to Papua New Guinea for discussions on problems involving the policing of fauna imports and exports. [More…]
Has any liaison been developed between the Department of Customs and Excise and the Papua New Guinea Government authorities to curb the illegal export of birds of paradise from that country to Australia. [More…]
What arrangements has the Government made to replace two patrol vessels that have been given to Indonesia, and a further five patrol vessels should such a number be given to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, may I suggest that it may suit the convenience of the Senate to hold a joint debate on the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
Elections in Papua New Guinea are intended to be held every 4 years. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Senate whether there is any truth in the allegations made recently by Mr Peacock, M.H.R., that an independent Papua New Guinea might turn to other countries such as Russia or China for aid? [More…]
I present the twentieth and twentyfirst reports of the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Board for 1970-71 and 1971-72 respectively. [More…]
Since then I have been overseas on a mission to Europe from 14 to 27 December 1974 and from 30 December 1974 to 21 January 1975, for another Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting from 23 April to 11 May 1975 and overnight in Singapore on 9 August 1975.I have been invited to the Papua New Guinea Independence Celebrations from 14 to 17 September 1 975. [More…]
Australian Government officials have had several informal meetings with Papua New Guinea officials on the Torres Strait border question. [More…]
There has also been recent correspondence between Ministers of the Government of Papua New Guinea and of the Australian Government. [More…]
The Australian Government is concerned to see an early settlement of the Torres Strait issue and hopes to be in a position to resume substantive negotiations with the Government of Papua New Guinea in the near future. [More…]
Have any discussions been held between the Australian Government, the Papua New Guinea Government and Torres Strait Islanders on the current border dispute. [More…]
What percentage of Australian coffee demands are met by (a) Papua New Guinea and (b) Australian mainland production. [More…]
1 ) Payments under Petroleum Search Subsidy Acts (excluding Papua New Guinea)* [More…]
-The Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Termination Bill is largely a machinery Bill. [More…]
It is complementary to legislation of the Australian Labor Party Government establishing the Australian Staffing Assistance Group, which was provided for under the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973. [More…]
The Group came into being on 1 December 1973, which coincides with the date on which responsibility for the Papua New Guinea Public Service was transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the text of a statement by the Minister for Construction entitled ‘Withdrawal from Papua New Guinea of Australian Government Construction Agency’. [More…]
I am speaking from memory, but I think it was negotiated by the Public Service Board prior to the granting of independence to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is the Papua New Guinea Government or the Indonesian Government informing the Australian Government of what is happening. [More…]
In February this year, following talks between the Australian and Papua New Guinea Foreign Ministers, the two Governments agreed that negotiations on the Torres Strait would be resumed in the near future. [More…]
Did the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare, state on 9 October 1 977 that the border issue had not been shelved, and that further talks would take place. [More…]
Kingsford Dibela, M.P., Speaker of the National Parliament of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Speaker of the National Parliament of Papua New Guinea desires to retire from the chamber. [More…]
Group B (Allowance of $1,050 per annum); Algiers, Colombo, Kingston, Nauru, Ankara, Damascus, Jakarta, Manama, Papua New Guinea, Baghdad, Karachi, Moscow, Tripoli, Beirut. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I lay on the table the report of the Ninth Conference of Presiding Officers and Clerks of the Parliaments of Australia, Cook Islands, Fiji, Nauru, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tuvulu and Western Samoa, held at Parliament House, Adelaide, from 13 June to 15 June 1978. [More…]
I made no mention of, let alone cast any reflection upon, the national aspirations of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 ) Did the Minister state, as reported in the Courier Mail, 10 August 1978, that hewill go to Torres Strait to tell the Islanders of the planned border treaty between Australia and Papua New Guinea ‘. [More…]
Pursuant to regulation 8A(2) of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) (Superannuation) Regulations made on 30 May 1977 under the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973 I present the report on the operations of the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Board and the [More…]
Contract Officers (Papua New Guinea) Retirement Benefits Board for the year ended 30 June 1975. [More…]
The spread of frequencies that would result from different arrangements would depend upon a number of factors; including the number of Australian domestic airlines that Papua New Guinea authorities would be prepared to let operate to Port Moresby and the number of services per week that each would be allowed to mount, and whether or not there was parallel scheduling of services by airlines operating between Port Moresby and South East Australia. [More…]
To analyse Commonwealth civil aviation costs in Australia and Papua New Guinea with a view to showing these costs applicable to different categories of airports and facilities. [More…]
To analyse Commonwealth civil aviation costs in Australia and Papua New Guinea with a view to showing these costs applicable to different categories of airports and facilities. [More…]
I refer to the ministerial statement on Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Honourable senators’ on this side of the chamber WiN want to debate the ministerial- statement about independence, that finally will’ be granted to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is the Minister for External Territories aware that thedesiccated coconut industry in the Territory of Papua New Guinea employs about 700 persons and makes a highly, significant contribution to the Territory’s economy? [More…]
Are the 3 major sources of desiccated coconut for Australian use Papua New Guinea, Ceylon and the Philippines? [More…]
5m for rents; $0.5m for consultants and architects fees; and $2.3m for increased allowances and other benefits for overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service as a result of the flow-on of recent salary increases in the Commonwealth Public Service. [More…]
Finally, there is the prospect that Papua New Guinea will benefit from this replenishment of IDA’s resources. [More…]
To date, Papua New Guinea has received credits and loans totalling more than $US22m from IDA and the World Bank. [More…]
Provision has also been made for further advances up to $5m to the Papua New Guinea Administration for construction of the township at Arawa in connection with the Bougainville copper project. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the guarantee by the Commonwealth of a$US23.2m ($A20.7m) borrowing by the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories whether the Papua New Guinea Administration has cleared the way for public servants to buy shares in Bougainville Mining Ltd? [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to certain recommendations made by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly Select Committee on Constitutional Development and agreed to by that House. [More…]
During its 1971 tour of Papua New Guinea the Committee met with an overwhelming request for increased representation in the 1972-1976 House of Assembly. [More…]
It based its recommendations on one regional member for each of the 18 districts in Papua New Guinea and one open member to approximately 30,000 people. [More…]
The Bill provides in clause 3 for the recommended increases in the number of open and regional members of the House, clause 4 adjusts the quorum figure for the House and clause 5 provides that the amendments are to apply from the date of completion of the next general election in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Under the Papua New Guinea Electoral Ordinance a redistribution Committee must redistribute boundaries following a change in the composition of the House. [More…]
The Government is anxious that the amendments to the Papua and New Guinea Act contained in this Bill are made as soon as possible so that sufficient time will be available for the necessary redistribution action to be completed and in operation for the 1972 House of Assembly elections in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr Deputy President, as the title to the Bill indicates, this is a Bill for an Act ‘to approve the guarantee by the Commonwealth of the discharge of the obligations of the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea under a loan agreement made with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and for purposes connected therewith’. [More…]
Frankly, if we opposed the Bill we would be criticised for trying to hold up the development of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, but this would not be so. [More…]
In normal circumstances, when borrowings are made by the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea they automatically carry a Commonwealth guarantee by virtue of the operation of section 75a of the Papua and New Guinea Act 1949- 68, but with loans from the International Bank a formal guarantee agreement is required from the Commonwealth and this must be authorised by specific legislation. [More…]
In another pi aca, during the discussion on this Bill one of my colleagues made the point that the loan made for postal services in the Territory of Papua New Guinea has been difficult to maintain and repay, so that today the Territory has the highest postage rates of probably anywhere in the Asian area. [More…]
The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development has offered this loan to the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
-Can the Minister for Civil Aviation inform the Parliament whether the Department of Civil Aviation has restricted landings of large passenger carrying planes on the aerodrome at Port Moresby in the Territory of Papua New Guinea because the main runways are showing signs of serious deterioration?. [More…]
They should apply not only to the indigenous people of Australia but also to those who come under our control as a result of our having the trusteeship of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, and to those Australian citizens who live in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
These arrangements were made with the full concurrence of the Papua New Guinea Adminisitrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
On 9th March, 1971 in reply to a question without notice by the Honourable Leader of the Opposition in the House of Representatives I said that legislation had been introduced into the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea to increase the minimum wage payable in the Territory to $5.90 per week as recommended by the Board of Inquiry on rural minimum wages under the Chairmanship of Professor D. Cochrane (Hansard, page 699). [More…]
Otherwise Australians with skills in short supply in the Territory will not be attracted to go to Papua New Guinea to take part in the development of the country and to train indigenes. [More…]
Does Australia’s aid to Papua New Guinea account for about 80 per cent of Australia’s total foreign aid? [More…]
New Guinea Bill is to increase the number of elected members of the House of Assembly for the Territory of Papua New Guinea and to enact certain consequential provisions. [More…]
- These are the savings of indigenes and expatriates with each trading bank in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There is an official of the Country Party operating in Papua New Guinea at the moment trying to build up a party called the Compass Party as a conservative organisation. [More…]
There is no child endowment payable in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Government is about to carry out a great social innovation by increasing the number of people in the House of Assembly in Papua New Guinea Is not one of the responsibilities of ‘ the House of Assembly to see that all these standards are maintained. [More…]
There is no pension payable in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As a member of the Opposition I believe that we are the only real voice that the people of Papua New Guinea have. [More…]
I again appeal to the Minister who has now left the chamber that when he is discussing these matters with the Minister for External Territories they look at some of the social questions, that this be part of the overall campaign of the Territory, and that the Government does not continue, as it has done for years, to sweep these problems under the carpet because the people of Papua New Guinea are black and therefore can safely be classified as second class citizens. [More…]
The near tragedy in Bass Strait today is a prime example of what could quite easily happen in waters adjacent to Papua New Guinea if drilling operations were carried on there, or off Norfolk Island or Christmas Island or any other territories subject to Commonwealth law. [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Sir Alexander Downer, the Australian High Commissioner in London, also made a lengthy statement on Papua New Guinea in which he said that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community would eliminate the primary industry export markets for Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I ask the Minister: Can he inform the Parliament whether, in fact, the export market of Papua New Guinea for primary products will be lost in the event of Britain joining the European Economic Community? [More…]
In the past it has been common practice for ordinances of the Australian Capital Territory, the Northern Territory and Papua New Guinea to be related largely to the Commonwealth Employees’ Compensation Act. [More…]
Those assessments in turn may necessitate certain additional airport requirements at a selection of the major airports throughout Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The following companies hold petroleum prospecting licences in Papua New Guinea and adjacent territorial waters. [More…]
The following companies have applied for but have not yet been granted petroleum prospecting permits in Papua New Guinea: [More…]
There are 4 sedimentary basins which could be considered as prospective for petroleum exploration in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Has the Papua New Guinea Administration cleared the way for public servants to buy shares in Bougainville Mining Ltd? [More…]
Is the Minister aware that Sir Alexander Downer, the Australian High Commissioner in London, also made a lengthy statement on Papua New Guinea in which he said that Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community would eliminate the primary industry export markets for [More…]
Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I ask the Minister: Can he inform the Parliament whether, in fact, the export market of Papua New Guinea for primary products will be lost in the event of Britain joining the European Economic Community? [More…]
I am aware that Sir Alexander Downer, when opening a Papua New Guinea exhibition in London on 18th May 1971, emphasised that Papua New Guinea’s economy would be dealt a serious blow if Britain entered the Common Market without some safeguards for the Territory. [More…]
Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community without appropriate arrangements for Papua New Guinea, would mean the loss of preferences in the United Kingdom market and in some cases would erect Community Tariff barriers in their place. [More…]
about a quarter of Papua New Guinea’s export trade would be at risk. [More…]
Because of the highly competitive nature of markets for tropical agricultural commodities, Papua New Guinea has only limited scope for diverting exports from its traditional market in Britain. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has sought at every appropriate opportunity to direct the attention of the authorities in Britain and of member Governments of the EEC to the serious damage to Papua New Guinea’s trade likely to result from enlargement of the Community unless appropriate provisions are made to accommodate that trade. [More…]
Following high level discussions by the Deputy Prime Minister with the United Kingdom and Common Market Governments earlier in 1970 the Commonwealth Government arranged for a special Papua New Guinea Delegation to visit London and the capitals of the EEC. [More…]
The special delegation led by Mr Bilas, Papua New Guinea’s Ministerial Member for Trade and Industry and advised by a senior officer of my Department, visited Europe during October and November 1970 to inform the Governments concerned in detail about the unique position of Papua New Guinea and problems the country would face if Britain entered the EEC without some special provision for Papua New Guinea’s trade. [More…]
Mr Rippon, the British Minister in Charge of negotiations with the Community subsequently stressed the unique nature of the Papua New Guinea case in addressing the Council of Ministers in Brussels during February’ 1971. [More…]
Following this meeting Australia presented a further comprehensive statement of the Papua New Guinea case to the member Governments of the Six and to the British authorities. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea issue was again raised by the Deputy Prime Minister in the course of his visit to Britain and the capitals of the Six during June this year and was further discussed in detail with senior Government officials in London, Brussels and Paris by a small team of officers including Papua New Guinea’s Director of Trade and Industry. [More…]
We have some indication that the European Commission and the member Governments of the Six now fully understand the unique nature of the Papua New Guinea case and the gravity of the damage that could be inflicted on Papua New Guinea’s trade in the absence of appropriate arrangements. [More…]
Papua New Guinea’s case is still being considered by the EEC. [More…]
We are continuing with our efforts and are hopeful that it will prove possible to obtain provisions which will go some way towards safeguarding Papua New Guinea’s future trade. [More…]
What companies have (a) mineral production leases, and (b) authorities to prospect for minerals, in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What royalty rates are payable on minerals which are being extracted or may be extracted in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Mines in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
(a) The following companies hold mineral production leases in Papua New Guinea: [More…]
The following companies hold authorities to prospect in Papua New Guinea [More…]
Royalty at the rate of1 per cent is payable on the value of gold or other minerals (other than coal or petroleum) mined in Papua New Guinea by the holder of a mining tenement. [More…]
In my discussions overseas about Britain and the EEC I also reiterated the point previously made that measures should be adopted to ensure that exports from the Territory of Papua New Guinea are not placed at a disadvantage relative to imports into the enlarged Communities from other developing countries receiving special treatment. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories aware that many local officers in the Territory of Papua New Guinea Public Service who have given long years of service will shortly be retiring? [More…]
Were Commonwealth Government officials or other persons directed by the Government to go to the Territory of Papua New Guinea to supervise and/or organise the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to the Territory; if so, what was the cost involved? [More…]
Nine Commonwealth officials visited Papua New Guinea in connection with the visit. [More…]
I have been informed that the question of the application of the Refugee Seamen’s Agreement to the Territory of Papua New Guinea is being considered and the Administrator’s Executive Council approves extension to Papua New Guinea, subject to certain provisions which require further investigation by the Commonwealth. [More…]
How many prisoners currently held in gaols in Papua New Guinea are (a) respectively 17, 16, 15, 14, 13 , 12, 11, 10 and 9 years of age, (b) in the age group 18 to 20 years and (c) above 20 years of age? [More…]
The matter is one which falls within the authority of the Assistant Ministerial Member for Corrective Institutions in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The numbers of prisoners in various age groups held in gaols in Papua New Guinea on 15th May 1971 were - [More…]
I would like again to mention just briefly the question of the boundary between Queensland and the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Premier of Queensland replied to this suggestion by saying (hat, although he did not believe that Mr Whitlam had ever been to the islands concerned in the Torres Strait, he was advocating that we should give away half of our Torres Strait islands to a future independent territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Prior to the suspension of the sitting for dinner I was referring to the Torres Strait Islands and the suggestion of the Leader of the Opposition in another place that some of them should be ceded to a possible future independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He strongly criticised the Federal Opposition Leader for his statements during his Papua New Guinea visit that the proximity of Queensland’s border to the Territory was likely to cause future quarrels between future governments. [More…]
The people living on these islands are good Queenslanders and good Australians and do not want in any circumstances to be pari of a possible independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 refer to the report of the Papua New Guinea Public Service Board with regard to accelerated localisation and training which outlines many measures that will be instituted to increase training opportunities for local officers of the Public Service. [More…]
I ask the Minister: Have any special courses for particular needs of the Public Service of Papua New Guinea been designed at universities and colleges of advanced education in Australia when comparable courses of study are not yet available in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, and especially of Senator Guilfoyle, I present a paper dealing with accelerated localisation and training issued under the authority of the Papua New Guinea Public Service Board on 30th August 1971, and a paper dealing with the future security of permanent overseas officers of the Public Service issued under the authority of the Minister on 30th August 1971. [More…]
These papers were presented to the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly on 30th August 1971. [More…]
7 refers to the expenditure on Territories, excluding Papua New Guinea, and shows an increase of $40m. [More…]
The Department of External Territories has looked at a number of aspects of the employment of local officers recently and has produced certain findings which are not to the advantage of anybody, expatriate or otherwise, employed in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They have been instigated by the attitude of this Government through the inefficiency of the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes) and the actions of the landed gentry in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One of the great tragedies of Papua New Guinea is the death of Jack Emanuel, the friend of the Tolais. [More…]
If we are not prepared to face up to the realities of the situation there will be a blood bath in Papua New Guinea in the immediate future. [More…]
Before leaving the subject of Papua New Guinea I wish to refer to a letter published in one of the reputable daily newspapers. [More…]
It was signed by Mr Gagen Principal of St Paul’s Teachers College, and the principals of the other 11 teachers colleges in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The 2 airlines operating scheduled flights In the Territory of Papua New Guinea . [More…]
This situation has been brought about by a government which claims to be guiding Papua New Guinea towards .independence and democracy. [More…]
Despite what is happening in Papua New Guinea at the moment we find that there is a full time Country Party organiser stirring up trouble among the indigenous people there in the hope that there will be riots, and the Government allows in a political organisation in Papua New Guinea a person who, according to very good local evidence, is associated with the United States Central Intelligence Agency. [More…]
But the Government will not interfere with the type of party that it wants to see in Papua New Guinea: AH this comes back to- Australian politics. [More…]
The activities of the Opposition in relation to the Vietnam Moratorium were well known and the motion relating to Papua New Guinea followed a visit by the Leader of the Opposition (Mr Whitlam) to that area. [More…]
Not more than 100 local officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service would be eligible to retire because of age before 31st December 1971. [More…]
1146 by Senator Willesee, gave figures for the number of juveniles of various age groups held in Papua New Guinea gaols on 15th May 1971. [More…]
There were no prisoners of that age in Papua New Guinea gaols at that date. [More…]
We have debated before in this chamber the lack of television facilities for the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The next proposition 1 wish to pui before the Senate is that the Bill seeks to apply its terms to all territories including Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Any honourable senator is invited to correct me if he has more recent information, but my latest advice is that the declared will of the local representative assembly of Papua New Guinea adheres strongly to the retention of the death penalty. [More…]
I remind this chamber that had the PKI succeeded on 30th September 1965 Australia, in Papua New Guinea, would have had a common border with Peking Communism. [More…]
Was $1,800,000 spent on the anti-malaria campaign in the Territory of Papua New Guinea in 1970-71. [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Public Health in the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A total of $1,626,131 was spent on the antimalaria campaign in Papua New Guinea during the financial year 1970-71. [More…]
Following a request from the Papua New Guinea Administration for expert advice, the United Nations Development Programme arranged through the World Health Organization for two consultants (a Malariologist and an Economist) to visit Papua New Guinea to report and make recommendations on the anti-malaria campaign. [More…]
The consultants visited Papua New Guinea in November 1970. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea House of Assembly has accepted the report in principle and steps are being taken to implement its recommendations including the recruitment, with the assistance of international agencies, of key professional staff. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is a market which is close by. [More…]
The Department has recently joined with the airlines in reviewing the major airport developments throughout the Commonwealth and Papua New Guinea on which planning should start within the next, say. [More…]
Difficulties arise because of the necessary exchange of communications between us and the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We would not wish to take any action without the agreement of the Administrator’s Executive Council in Papua New Guinea or until the difficulties have been finally hammered out. [More…]
I do not wish to detail the matters that are under discussion between us and Papua New Guinea, but with that assurance I am sure that we both will be calm in the interval until the matter is mentioned again. [More…]
In addressing my question to the Minister for Works, 1 have no doubt that he will be well aware that an adequacy of trained personnel will be of great importance to the future development and stability of Papua New Guinea, particularly after it has been granted independence. [More…]
I am grateful to the honourable senator for raising a matter to which the Director-General of Works and I gave quite considerable attention in our recent tour of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I direct to the Minister for Works a question following upon his answer about the training of indigenous personnel in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is known to everybody that there is a wage level that the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly, supporting the Government there, is most careful to preserve lest the diseconomies of extravagant wage rises imperil the future advancement of true prosperity in the Territory. [More…]
If, as he states, the rates for plant operators in Papua New Guinea are so well known, will he kindly give that information to the Senate, as I asked in my previous question? [More…]
I take this opportunity to place on record a number of questions which have come to my mind concerning the situation which has arisen in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 wish to deal with the position since the tragic and unfortunate death of Mr J. Emmanuel, a district commissioner in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
However, there is considerable evidence that the Administration in Papua New Guinea has over-reacted to the situation and, instead of correcting the unfortunate position in which the people find themselves in Papua New Guinea, may add considerably to the problems. [More…]
Did the patronage of the member for Kokopo of the Mataungan Association, a known opponent of the Administration’s intended political solution for the Territory of Papua New Guinea, in any way influence the Secretary’s decision so to intimidate the member for Kokopo? [More…]
The Administrator was reported in the Australian’ of 9th February 1971 as announcing the upgrading and reorganisation of the Territory of Papua New Guinea security and intelligence services and as saying: [More…]
The Minister many times has given the platitudinous assurance that the people of the Territory of Papua New Guinea will be allowed to choose their own society and their own political structure. [More…]
Does the Minister intend the people of the Territory of Papua New Guinea to be kept in ignorance of a social system adopted in whole or in part by a majority of the citizens of the world? [More…]
Is not the sin of the Mataungan Association that it rejects as unsuitable for the Territory of Papua New Guinea the capitalist free enterpise system which the Administration is endeavouring to transplant and entrench before the people there discover the total inadequacy of such a system in a newly emerging nation? [More…]
PORT MORESBY, Thursday- Legal action may bc taken against a member of Papua New Guinea’s House of Assembly for claiming police were collecting taxes at gunpoint on the Gazelle Peninsula, the Secretary for Law, Mr L. J. Curtis, said today. [More…]
PORT MORESBY, Thursday- Papua New Guinea’s embryo Cabinet has rejected principal recommendation from Canadian anthropologist Professor Richard Salisbury on the Gazelle Peninsula of East New Britain. [More…]
PORT MORESBY, Sunday.- Papua New Guinea’s Administration will be urged tomorrow to transfer senior Tolai public servants working outside the Gazelle Peninsula back to their homes. [More…]
My question, directed to the Minister for Works, follows upon an answer he gave about the employment of plant operators in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The level of wage rates paid to indigenous employees is a matter of strict policy adopted by the elected representatives in the House of Assembly in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is it true that the recent delegation to Canberra of Papuan politicians, headed by Mr Oala OalaRarua, the Assistant Ministerial Member for Treasury, requested a system of regional assemblies or parliaments m Papua New Guinea? [More…]
People who are familiar with Papua New Guinea would understand that some people might think that that is a good idea. [More…]
I ask the Minister for External Territories: Has the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly carried a resolution urging the early establishment of a national broadcasting authority of the Territory? [More…]
I refer above all to Papua New Guinea and West Irian, a vast expanse of territory the mineral wealth of which is unknown to the world at present. [More…]
The Territory of Papua New Guinea today is the reseponsibility of Australia. [More…]
Australia may be the next country to be expelled from the United Nations because, at the request of the people of Papua New Guinea, we may be prepared to stay for longer than the United Nations, for the political reasons of some of the nations which sit there, thinks we should. [More…]
We should remember the responsibilities that this nation has accepted towards the Territory of Papua New Guinea and the enormous amount of economic aid that as a prime responsibility we have thrown into that area over the last 15 to 20 years The Territory is only just beginning to modestly develop some copper resources - copper being a mineral that would be of absolute necessity in time of war anywhere in the world. [More…]
It is also likely that Papua New Guinea will benefit from the third replenishment of IDA’s resources. [More…]
So far, Papua New Guinea has received loans and credits totalling $US45m from the World Bank group. [More…]
As such it will have a key role in preparing Papua New Guinea for selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
These decision will also enable the Papua New Guinea Public Service Board to carry forward its recently announced plans to accelerate training for localisation of the Papua New Guinea Public Service. [More…]
The basic decision is that the Australian School of Pacific Administration - ASOPA - should supplement training and undertake specially structured training which cannot be better or more conveniently provided in Papua New Guinea or elsewhere in Australia. [More…]
New Guinean public servants for accelerated advancement within the Papua New Guinea Public Service. [More…]
It will work very closely with the Papua New Guinea Administrative College. [More…]
It will provide supporting segments of middle and advanced management training courses conducted by the Administrative College, additional sessions of the Papua New Guinea executive development scheme to qualify local officers for advancement to and within the Second Division of the Papua New Guinea Public Service - equivalent to Commonwealth Third Division - and specialised ad hoc courses. [More…]
To enable the School to take on its new role oi training Papuans and New Guineans, most of t<ic existing training activities for both Papua New Guinea and the Northern Territory will be relocated as soon as practicable or phased out. [More…]
In recent years the main role of the School has been in training teachers for service in Papua New Guinea and the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Government will be making arrangements to continue the teacher training of Australians for service in Papua New Guinea and the Northern Territory now undertaken at ASOPA. [More…]
Arrangements are now in hand for new teacher trainees for Papua New Guinea to commence their training at the Canberra College of Advanced Education. [More…]
The Principal of the Administrative College of Papua New Guinea has been added to the Council. [More…]
Dr S. S. Richardson, C.B.E., Principal of the Canberra College of Advanced Education, and Mr A. Tololo, Papua New Guinea Teaching Service Commissioner, have agreed to the bc appointed to the reconstituted Council. [More…]
ASOPA was established in 1946 and is constituted under the Papua and New Guinea Act and has had a long and creditable history in the training of Australians for government service in Papua New Guinea and, of more recent years, for the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Government’s decision to use the resources of ASOPA to supplement training which can be provided in Papua New Guinea is one which I am sure will commend itself to honourable senators. [More…]
Over the years the School has built up experience and specialisation in the affairs of Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific and I am sure that it will readily adapt to its new role. [More…]
It was told that it could develop it on condition that it made available 20 per cent of its holding to the Administration of Papua New Guinea at par. [More…]
In last year’s Budget we loaned the Administration of Papua New Guinea the money to take up that 20 per cent interest. [More…]
The group had raised the question of regional authorities for Papua New Guinea which it felt would help to protect minority groups and through which local government could make its demands known to the central government. [More…]
Also on 20th May, 1971, the Administrator of Papua New Guinea, Mr L. W. Johnson, made on my authority, a statement on National Unity. [More…]
The Local Government (Authorities) Ordinance 1971 provides for the setting up of area authorities in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for the Environment, Aborigines and the Arts and MinisterinCharge of Tourist Activities inform the Parliament why his Government recognises - even if only partially - land rights for some persons in Papua New Guinea but consistently refuses the same recognition of tribal land rights to Australian Aborigines and islanders? [More…]
I urged upon British Ministers the need for the EEC to adopt measures to ensure that the exports of tropical produce from Papua New Guinea are in a no less favourable position than those from other developing countries which are to receive special treatment. [More…]
Notwithstanding that Papua New Guinea is still a trust territory, the British are hopeful for early progress towards agreement on this matter. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to give effect to certain recommendations made by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly Select Committee on Constitutional Development and agreed to by that House. [More…]
The Select Committee on Constitutional Development was set up by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly on 24th June 1969. [More…]
Its task was to draft a set of constitutional proposals as a guide for future constitutional development in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Territory would be then known as Papua New Guinea’. [More…]
Clause 5 of the Bill provides thai the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea shall be together described in the Act, and in other laws and instruments, as ‘Papua New Guinea’ rather than the ‘Territory of Papua and New Guinea’ and other amendments also effect this change of name. [More…]
The inclusion of non-elected nominated members in the House is a new concept in Papua New Guinea but there is a widespread feeling in Papua New Guinea of the need to provide a means for the representation of special groups, for example, women, or persons having a special expertise, in the legislature. [More…]
To qualify for appointment as a nominated member, a person must have lived in Papua New Guinea for not less than 5 years. [More…]
On 18th June 1971, the House of Assembly made the National Identity Ordinance 1971 which provides, among other things, for the name of the administrative union of the Territory of Papua and the Territory of New Guinea to be known as Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Likewise publication of notices in the Papua New Guinea Government Gazette could be ineffective. [More…]
The amendments contained in this Bill give legislative effect to the request by the House of Assembly for changes in the constitutional framework for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Professor Salisbury was a consultant to the Administration of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If so, does the Minister agree that it is the responsibility of an elected member of the Territory of Papua New Guinea House of Assembly to make known matters of this nature. [More…]
An elected member of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly should make known matters of this nature but in making statements of this kind he should exercise the degree of responsibility expected of an elected representative of the people. [More…]
and (4) following extensive consultation with interested departments and authorities, the Government authorisedthe tabling in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly of a White Paper on broadcasting. [More…]
Professor Salisbury’s report has been made public by its tabling inthe Papua New Guinea House of Assembly on 8th November, 1971. [More…]
When was the Co-ordinating Committee on Broadcasting in the Territory of Papua New Guinea established. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Administration [More…]
In September, 1970 the House of Assembly passed a motion calling for the establishment of a single broadcasting authority for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This led to detailed consideration of future arrangements for broadcasting in Papua New Guinea and the tabling in the House of Assembly of a White Paper on broadcasting. [More…]
This Bill arises out of the inquiries that have been conducted in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Its task was to draft a set of constitutional proposals as a guide for future constitutional development in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua and New Guinea, as we have known it over the years, is now to be known as Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This measure provides for the Minister for External Territories (Mr Barnes), after certain consultations in Papua New Guinea, to appoint 9 Ministers of the House of Assembly to become part of the Cabinet. [More…]
As the Government and the Opposition want to see self-government in Papua New Guinea we feel that it is better to hand over the responsibilities and the forms of the Papua New Guinea Parliament, which seem very much like those of the Australian Parliament. [More…]
The verbiage used in the Papua New Guinea Parliament is obviously borrowed from Australia. [More…]
Minister’s saying ‘You shall have these people to do these things’, we believe it is preferable to have the Ministry itself choose the Council and have its decision ratified by the Papua New Guinea Parliament. [More…]
This is a sensible way of moving towards selfgovernment and of getting the people of Papua New Guinea used to making their own appointments. [More…]
I consider that it is appropriate that this same general practice apply in respect of the Papua New Guinea security and intelligence organisation and, in line with this, that information should not be given as to who will or will not be under surveillance. [More…]
What public political education has the Minister directed to be implemented in the Territory of Papua New Guinea in order to enable the people of the Territory to choose, intelligently, their own political structure. [More…]
Does the Mataungan Association reject the capitalist, free enterprise system as unsuitable for the emerging nation of Papua New Guinea; if so. [More…]
and (2) The political education programme which is being undertaken in Papua New Guinea togetherwith the current affairs content of school syllabuses and the less formal political education given through institutions such as the House of Assembly and Local Government Councils and through the work of such bodies as Select Committees on. [More…]
Constitutional Development, provide to the people of Papua New Guinea information concerning the nature of government and the systems prevailing throughout the world.It is aimed at helping them to come to their own conclusions as to the form of government they wish to choose for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Administration has never taken any action against the Mataungan Association or its members on the grounds of the Association’s political views. [More…]
It therefore has the duly to apprehend and bring before the courts any persons who breakthe laws of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for Labour and National Service: Are any national servicemen currently serving in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
This has included short visits to Papua New Guinea for this purpose by these office bearers. [More…]
Two major parties in Papua New Guinea - Pangu and United - both have indigenous secretaries and both include a number of expatriates among their membership. [More…]
As far as the Government and the Administration is aware no money from organisations external to Papua New Guinea has been offered or is available to any of the political parties in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A satellite could be used over such places as Papua New Guinea and over Indonesia where a very modern telephone system is being put in under the auspices of the Australian Post Office. [More…]
I draw attention to a statement made in Adelaide yesterday at a writers’ week occasion by Vicent Eri, who is described as being the first indigenous novelist of Papua New Guinea, and who is reported as having said that anti-white attitudes and anti-white writings served a useful purpose for encouraging nationalism. [More…]
Was the recommendation for the granting posthumously of the George Cross award to the late Errol John Emanuel, previously District Commissioner for the East New Britain District of Papua New Guinea, and the release by the Prime Minister of a Press statement on 17th January 1972 on the granting of the award for the fine courageous life of the deceased, a proper action in view of the fact that 18 New Guinea natives were facing trial for having murdered that person? [More…]
Proposed sub-clause (3) provides in effect that the Territory of Papua New Guinea be allowed to do what it thinks should be done in regard to its own laws. [More…]
The Committee referred to the effect of the proposed law on existing and future law of various Territories of the Commonwealth and made special reference to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As regards Papua New Guinea, the amendments would apply the Act to offences under Commonwealth Acts and Imperial Acts extending to the Territories but not to offences under local laws of the Territories. [More…]
Do they need an express provision excluding Papua New Guinea? [More…]
House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would be accused of taking up time if I were to attempt to read the great number of offences in the various territories which the Standing Committee has cited - not only Papua New Guinea but also Cocos Island and, I think, Norfolk Island. [More…]
The effect of the proposed law on existing and future laws of the various Territories of the Commonwealth, including the Territory of Papua New Guinea, is this: As regards Papua New Guinea the amendment will apply the Act to offences under the Commonwealth Acts and Imperial Acts extending to the Territories but not to offences under local laws of the Territory. [More…]
He had an abiding interest in the future of Papua New Guinea on which he was particularly well-informed and to which he directed his attention and the attention of the Senate on many occasions. [More…]
Are any National Servicemen currently serving in the Territory of Papua New Guinea; if not, have any National Servicemen been told they will tec service in the Territory before long; if so, for what specific reason are they to be sent. [More…]
As at 26th January 1972 the numbers of National Servicemen serving in Papua New Guinea were as follows: [More…]
It is expected that National Servicemen will continue to serve in Papua New Guinea as they are likely to do in other areas where Army units of which they form part are normally stationed. [More…]
Some National Servicemen at present servingin Australia may therefore have been told that they may be posted to Papua New Guinea as replacements for those currently serving there. [More…]
I wish to say something of Australia’s defence obligations in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Our hope is that Papua New Guinea will advance in security and stability through the pre-independence period and through all the years which follow independence. [More…]
The Government’s view is that this and future governments must be provided with the means to act militarily in support of the Papua New Guinea Government if the need should arise. [More…]
Thus, the Bill will make it possible, for a number of the highly qualified and experienced Australian teachers in Papua New Guinea, to join the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
In a few moments I will set out, in greater detail, how this Bill will apply in relation to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It enables membership of the Commonwealth Teaching Service, not only by teachers in Commonwealth schools in the mainland Territories, but also by certain teachers employed in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The application of the Bill to such teachers in Papua New Guinea is provided for in clause 16. [More…]
I should like to describe how the Government sees the Commonwealth Teaching Service operating in respect of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We believe that the Commonwealth Teaching Service can make a valuable contribution to education in Papua New Guinea, both in the immediate future and beyond the time when Papua New Guinea is self-governing and independent. [More…]
It is clear that Papua New Guinea will want to draw on Australia, for some time, in order to maintain the pace of educational development and meet the needs for highly experienced and specialised staff. [More…]
In order to assist Papua New Guinea, the Commonwealth Teaching Service will include a complement of teachers who will be made available on secondment to the Papua New Guinea Teaching Service. [More…]
The arrangement will allow their career status in the Commonwealth Teaching Service to be preserved while they are in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Commonwealth Teaching Service will thus operate as a base to which the teachers can return, for service elsewhere, when they have completed their service in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The arrangement is intended to help Papua New Guinea to obtain key teaching personnel and to encourage such teachers to remain as long as they are needed. [More…]
Papua New Guinea to encourage them to remain, so that their accumulated expertise is not lost to the country. [More…]
The Commissioner will consult with my colleague, the Minister for External Territories (Mr Peacock), in the first instance as to the terms, including those of service and conditions, under which members of the Commonwealth Teaching Service will work in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It could also arise when a member of the service returns from Papua New Guinea or overseas. [More…]
From 1968 to 1970 inclusive, of the 43 Technicians-in-training, 7 were indigenous trainees in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Cadets, ABC Education Department - Papua New Guinea [More…]
They comprise a full-time 3-year Arts course at the University of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Commonwealth and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Cadets, Education Department - Papua New Guinea. [More…]
for the active encouragement of recruitment and training of teaching staff, not only for Papua New Guinea should it desire this assistance, but for other islands of the Pacific the governments of which seek such aid; [More…]
There have been teachers in Papua New Guinea also, but not constituted in the manner which is envisaged by this Bill which provides for the establishment of a national teaching service to be known as the Commonwealth Teaching Service. [More…]
The existence of a Commonwealth Teaching Service will enable the Commonwealth to provide teachers in Papua New Guinea until such time as that Territory achieves its independence. [More…]
Indeed, we hope that after Papua New Guinea has achieved its independence this Commonwealth Teaching Service will be able, if the people of Papua New Guinea desire it, to assist in the establishment of their school system and their education department. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party welcomes the proposition that the Commonwealth Teaching Service should provide teachers for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This country has a very great responsibility to the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is essential that when Papua New Guinea obtains self government, or indeed, while it is on the road to self government, it have people who are competent and properly qualified to administer the many complex tasks which must be undertaken in a developing country. [More…]
For that reason we feel that the Commonwealth Teaching Service should recruit teaching staff not only for service in Papua New Guinea but also for service in the other islands of the Pacific when the governments of those islands seek our aid. [More…]
It has a responsibility, first of all, in the Northern Territory for its community schools and Aboriginal schools; it has a responsibility in the Australian Capital Territory for its government schools; and it has other quite significant responsibilities for teachers, some of whom have been appointed already - the number is growing - both in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere. [More…]
There would be the Northern Territory system; there would be the Australian Capital Territory system; there would be the Papua New Guinea system; and perhaps there would be other island territory systems. [More…]
The third paragraph of the Labor Party’s amendment states that the Bill should provide: for the active encouragement of recruitment and training of teaching staff, not only for Papua New Guinea should it desire this assistance, but for other islands of the Pacific the Governments of which seek such aid; [More…]
It foresees not only that the Commonwealth Teaching Service might be asked in the future to provide special teachers with special qualities for the Territory of Papua New Guinea or elsewhere; it foresees that the very existence of the Service should enable a continuity of service by high quality teachers in those Territories. [More…]
Whereas a high quality teacher might not be willing to go to the insecurity of the Territories after they gain independence, the existence of this Service and the fact that a teacher can be seconded gives the teacher the kind of security which will enable a high quality indeed to emerge inside Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The third paragraph deals with the provision for the recruitment and training of staff, not only for Papua New Guinea but also other Pacific islands if they seek our aid. [More…]
If 1 recall correctly, early in the Minister’s speech he referred, amongst other things, to the provision of highly qualified teachers within the Papua New Guinea area. [More…]
If honourable senators refer to that speech they will see that he said thai in order to assist Papua New Guinea the Service will include a complement of teachers who will be made available on secondment to the Papua New Guinea teaching service. [More…]
The Minister pointed out that this arrangement will allow their career status in the Commonwealth Teaching Service to be preserved while they are in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I also applaud the acceptance by the Commonwealth of a continuing responsibility to do something about supplying a pool of teachers for the needs of Papua New Guinea which is in the process of emerging into a new status but which obviously will need some continuing assistance from the Commonwealth in the early days of getting on its feet. [More…]
The Government further has faced up to its responsibility in the Pacific region by accepting the responsibility of supplying teachers to territories other than those under its direct control or Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In addition we have in the Bill recognition of our responsibilities, both present and anticipated to continue even after self-government and independence have been attained by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
for the active encouragement of recruitment and training of leaching staff, not only for Papua New Guinea should il desire this assistance, but fur other islands of the Pacific . [More…]
What is the extent of foreign ownership and foreign control of the cultured pearl industry in Australia and the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There are currently 8 companies engaged in the pearl culture industry in Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is he aware of an application by Ansett-Airlines of Australia Ltd to become the sole airline operator in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Can the Senate be assured that the Australian Government will not support such a proposition and that the rights of Trans-Australia Airlines to entry and operation in Papua New Guinea will be protected? [More…]
It may be that we even could give the Papua New Guinea Administration 4 or 5 of these aircraft as an example of the type of production that we have in this country. [More…]
Has the attention of the Minister been drawn to articles recently issued by the Public Service Association in Papua New Guinea expressing concern of expatriate public servants regarding their future with the advent of self-government for the Territory? [More…]
Will the Government take such action as would ensure to expatriate public servants, first, the maintenance of salary scales and promotion opportunities for those remaining in Papua New Guinea and, secondly, the continuation of superannuation rights to ensure the security of those who remain in Papua New Guinea after self-government is granted? [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of a guarantee by the Commonwealth to a $US4.5m - $A3.8m - borrowing by the Administration of Papua New Guinea from the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
The proceeds of the loan are for re-lending by the Administration to the Papua New Guinea Development Bank and will meet the foreign currency component of a number of development projects financed by that bank in Papua New Guinea over the next 3 years. [More…]
The loan is the first which the Asian Development Bank has made to the Aministration since the admission of Papua New Guinea to membership of the Bank in April 1971. [More…]
The loan documents, which are shown as schedules to the Bill, were settled recently during negotiations in Port Moresby which were attended by representatives of the Asian Development Bank, the Administration, the Commonwealth Government and the Papua New Guinea Development Bank. [More…]
The principal purpose of the Papua New Guinea Development Bank, which is a statutory authority and commenced operations in . [More…]
Borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Administration automatically carry a Commonwealth guarantee by virtue of the operation of section 75a of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1971. [More…]
However, the letter of assurances shown as the first schedule to the Bill, which is required from the Commonwealth as a pre-condition of the loan, must be authorised by specific legislation.I would mention that at the time of Papua New Guinea’s admission to the Asian Development Bank Australia gave an undertaking to the Bank in accordance with article 3.3 of the agreement establishing the Bank that, until Papua New Guinea itself assumes responsibility for its own international relations, Australia would be responsible for all obligations that may be incurred by Papua New Guinea by reason of admission to membership in the Bank and enjoyment of the benefits of such membership. [More…]
Department of Agriculture, Stock & Fisheries, Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 do not think it would have been developed without overseas investments, but I am very mindful of the fact that when the Commonwealth Government on behalf of the Administration of Papua New Guinea allowed Conzinc Riotinto of Australia Ltd to develop the Bougainville copper industry, it insisted that 20 per cent of the shareholding be made available to the Administration at par. [More…]
In a wider sense it will cause untold damage to the results of many years of endeavour in aspects of work which I regard as of great importance to me, to certain Australian national institutions and to the Australian national interest, as well as to the interest of the people of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This article has caused me harm in my political life in both Slate and national political circles and in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
While my recent trip to Papua New Guinea was officially to represent the Commonwealth at Anzac services held in the Territory, the main purpose for me personally was to pursue matters associated with the expansion of establishment and developmental work for the National Young Men’s Christian Association of Australia. [More…]
YMCA officials wrote the whole of the physical education programme accepted by the Administration of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
All these areas of philanthropic interest are for continued encouragment of the indigenous youth of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Committee which I have the honour to chair has taken part in encouraging overseas interest in the Papua New Guinea project. [More…]
We heard from Senator Webster that he has done some most valuable work in trying to assist the young indigenous people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It was suggested of Senator Webster that, although he may be a commonplace individual, he will not sit next to an indigenous person from Papua New Guinea in an aeroplane. [More…]
In the very near future it will have to take responsibility for the delineation of boundaries between the Commonwealth and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of a guarantee by the Commonwealth to a$US4.5m - $A3.8m - borrowing by the Administration of Papua New Guinea from the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
Papua New Guinea was admitted to membership of the Asian Development Bank in April last year. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party consistently has said in previous debates of this nature that borrowings for Papua New Guinea ought to be made available from areas other than Australia. [More…]
Whilst we may have been vocal in our criticism from time to time of the interest rates attached to some loan borrowings which have come from various sources for developmental projects in Papua New Guinea, there was a time when the Government was very strongly opposed to money coming from other countries or, if it was not strongly opposed, it certainly never gave any encouragement to that course being followed. [More…]
We have a bunch of pretty good public servants in Papua New Guinea who want to know where they are going in the future. [More…]
I am sure that the government that will replace this Government later this year will make a far greater contribution, financial and otherwise, to the Territory of Papua New Guinea than we have seen over the last 20 years. [More…]
The Democratic Labor Party supports the Papua New Guinea Loan (Asian Development Bank) Bill. [More…]
Obviously the steps of the people of Papua New Guinea towards independence will require development, and for development capital must be available. [More…]
I would like to express gratification for this Bill which will provide a guarantee for a loan to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 am very proud to note what has been achieved in Papua New Guinea by Australia and its governments through the years. [More…]
I think that we have a record of achievement in Papua New Guinea which is a source of gratification and pride. [More…]
I think that great benefit has accrued to the local peoples from the investments that have been made in Papua New Guinea Certainly, there could be individual instances and situations which could be regarded as untoward and unfortunate. [More…]
I hope that for many generations ahead we shall have close and happy associations with Papua New Guinea, as we have had in the past. [More…]
The Opposition supports the Papua New Guinea Loan (Asian Development Bank) Bill 1972. [More…]
I rise to say a few words on our relationship with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If elected in the forthcoming elections as the government of Australia, the Australian Labor Party will take steps to ensure the orderly and secure transfer of Papua New Guinea to self-government and independence in its first term of office. [More…]
At the moment, the currency of Papua New Guinea is the Australian currency. [More…]
Facilities of the Australian Government are operating in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I do not propose to enter into any question or to accept any statement from the honourable senator as to what might be the policy of the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The problems which will confront Papua New Guinea will be many. [More…]
We may have our observations on affairs in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
For example, I think that there is a great deal of force in the reflections of the economist who recently doubted the policy of the development of a cash crop economy in the way it is being done in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One of those is the question of the army in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am aware that on this subject matter in the new nation, through its Chief Minister and, as I understand it from my discussions on my recent trip to Papua New Guinea, through the representatives of the other parties, there is a concordance that they do not want a third battalion in the armed services of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Indeed, it may be necessary that the negotiations on some matters should await independence in order that they be between equals and that there be fair dealing between the nations of Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is curious that Australia is going through the process, which might seem legally impossible, of seeing that there emerges a Papua New Guinea which is free and independent, and independent to a higher degree than Australia is. [More…]
It is contemplated that the new Papua New Guinea will be truly independent. [More…]
There will be a free and independent Papua New Guinea, yet Australia will remain with a degree of dependence upon Great Britain. [More…]
That astonishing result will be reached when Australia helps to bring about a free and independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
attempted to state the policy of the Australian Labor Party in relation to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He was unable to state the present policy of the Opposition in relation to independence for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Over the years in which Australia has had control of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, the time limit on when that country should become independent and on when there should be a peaceful move towards independence probably has been a significant question which has exercised the minds of Ministers in this country. [More…]
I believe that to some extent the enormous problems that face Papua New Guinea were prompted by the comments of leaders of political parties in the Territory, particularly those of Mr Michael Somare. [More…]
I believe that this was the policy on which it purported to go to the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The leading intelligent individuals in the Papua New Guinea Parliament - Mr Michael Somare is one - have stated that they do not want the Australian Administration to press Papua New Guinea into independence before it is ready. [More…]
It does not wish to force independence on the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I certainly do not have such a knowledge of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This is a most wonderful contribution at the grass roots level of assistance for the well-being of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It refers to the encouragement which an association with which I am most familiar has received, firstly, from a Vancouver association which in turn encouraged one of the Canadian grant authorities to provide money to the YMCA in Australia so that that money might be used in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
At the present time, that money is paid directly to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A great deal is being done in Papua New Guinea by a number of organisations. [More…]
Senator COTTON (New South WalesMinister for Civil Aviation) (4.571 - in reply - The purpose of this Bill is specifically to provide a guarantee by the Commonwealth to the Asian Development Bank in respect of a loan of money to the Papua New Guinea Development Bank. [More…]
Senator Keeffe made the comment that Australia had exploited Papua New Guinea without mercy. [More…]
The good work that Australia has done in Papua New Guinea for so many years, both under Liberal-Country Party governments and under Labor governments, deserves something better than that, as do the men who have served that country in its Public Service over many years and equally in the area of developing its economy. [More…]
The observation was made that the need existed to have some security of tenure for Australian public servants who serve and work in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is working on the situation with the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Senator Webster commented that the people of Papua New Guinea are both astute and practical. [More…]
I would think that we would all have great goodwill towards the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There is great association and great friendship between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The thought is not new that some development will take place leading towards increased activity, through time, by the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Senator Murphy also made the observation that the need could arise for a separate currency for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The note issue problems which may need to be contemplated in an economy such as that of Papua New Guinea may well be ones on which we could continue to provide help. [More…]
I have not been to Papua New Guinea very often, but I have been there. [More…]
That is the aim that I would hope we would do everything that we could to assist Papua New Guinea to achieve. [More…]
Those honourable senators who interest themselves in the problems of Papua New Guinea will know that the Australian National University has had for quite a long time a very good New Guinea research unit which studies in detail many of the problems in Papua New Guinea and seeks to help. [More…]
I he loan are for relending to the Papua New Guinea Development Bank and will meet foreign currency expenditure on development projects financed by :he Development Bank in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bank itself in Papua New Guinea is a statutory authority. [More…]
This is the first loan that the Asian Development Bunk has made to the Administration and it follows the admission of the Papua New Guinea Development Bank to the Asian Development Bank last year. [More…]
So, this is the first occasion on which this Parliament has been asked to approve a guarantee by the Commonwealth of a loan to the Papua New Guinea Administration. [More…]
I think that people would regard those facts as some evidence, and continuing evidence, of the willingness of the Australian Government and people to do what they can to help Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Development Bank is required to use the proceeds of the loan, relent to it, exclusively for making loans for the purpose of projects. [More…]
It is, as 1 said when I began, specifically to approve the Commonwealth guarantee of a loan of $US4.5m to be appropriated to the Papua New Guinea Development Bank. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Parliament of the reasons for galloping inflation in Papua New Guinea, particularly in view of the fact that the Australian Government still has almost complete control over the economy of the Territory? [More…]
It worked successfully in Vietnam and a joint force Commander has now been appointed for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
3m for increased allowances and other benefits for overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service as a result of the flow-on of salary increases in the Commonwealth Public Service; $0.6m for the Commonwealth Taxation Office; and $0.5m for the Department of Works. [More…]
Of the $3 1.3m now sought, the major requirements are $1.7m for an additional repayable advance to the Papua New Guinea Administration towards the construction of a township at Arawa; $5m for loans under the War Service Homes Act to meet the increased loan limit and to eliminate delays in meeting applications; $lm for loans to co-operative building societies in the Australian Capital Territory - this is offset by a reduction of $lm in advances to the Australian Capital Territory Housing Trust Account; $lm for the National Capital Development Commission to cover rise and fall variations to contracts because of wage increases; $15m for payment to the Post Office Trust Account to meet an expected short fall in postal revenue, increased liability for superannuation payments and additional funds required for expenditure on works to sustain employment in accordance with government policy. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of a guarantee by the Commonwealth to a $US10m ($A8.4m) borrowing by the Administration of Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. [More…]
The proceeds of the loan will assist in financing a telecommunications development project in Papua New Guinea planned for execution during the period 1972-75. [More…]
The Administration will on-lend the funds to the Papua New Guinea Harbours Board for a term of 25 years, including a 4 year grace period, at an interest rate of 7.25 per cent per annum. [More…]
As a result of that appraisal the Bank offered to assist by providing a loan and the loan documents were settled recently during negotiations in Washington which were attended by representatives of the International Bank, the Commonwealth and the Administration of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Administration automatically carry a Commonwealth guarantee by virtue of the operation of section 75a of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1971. [More…]
The present loan, which was sought by the Government of Papua New Guinea, will carry an interest rate of 7.25 per cent per annum and will be for a period of 20 years, with repayments commencing after 4 years. [More…]
The cost of air travel by employees of the Papua New Guinea Administration and members of the Defence Forces is not included. [More…]
I ask the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories whether his attention has been drawn to recent Press reports that the United Nations Trusteeship Council mission to Papua New Guinea has reported that elections in the Trust Territory in February were comprehensive, thorough and fair and has complimented the Australian authorities on the pain they took to ensure that everyone was given an opportunity to vote. [More…]
It extends almost from the coast of Papua New Guinea to midway between Mackay and Rockhampton. [More…]
This is a Bill which seeks the approval of Parliament for the Commonwealth to guarantee borrowings by Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. [More…]
The first one was a guarantee by the Commonwealth of $8.4m which would be borrowed by the Administration of Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the second was a guarantee of a credit that would be given to Papua New Guinea by the International Development Association which is an affiliate of the International Bank. [More…]
I refer now to the Papua New Guinea report for 1970-71. [More…]
If we look at the present Bill we see that, although the Government has not very much say about what Papua New Guinea is doing, it is installing a very sophisticated communication system in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am not saying that there are not qualified people in Papua New Guinea who could maintain the equipment, but the installation of equipment of the type that is envisaged at present will require quite a lot of trained personnel. [More…]
At page 122 of the Papua New Guinea report the number of trainee enrolments as at 30th June 1971 are set out. [More…]
Roads were being constructed in Papua New Guinea then. [More…]
I think that the low interest rate for what is just a holding credit is very satisfactory, Then there will be a rate of about 7 per cent to pay when the money is used if called upon by the administration of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Telecommunications, both rapid and reliable are quite essential in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Honourable senators who have been to Papua New Guinea understand the remoteness of the Territory and its inaccessibility. [More…]
I think that his observation is adequately answered by the comment that the credit will be guaranteed by the Commonwealth under section 75a of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-71. [More…]
The form of guarantee required from the Commonwealth by the International Development Association for credit to Papua New Guinea does not require specific legislation. [More…]
The big works programmes that are to be carried out are extremely important to the development of the Northern Territory, in particular, and, to a lesser extent, to the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Committee will be travelling many thousands of miles around Australia, and in this recess into Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I draw attention to a statement made in Adelaide yesterday at a writers’ week occasion by Vincent Eri, who is described as being the first indigenous novelist of Papua New Guinea, and who is reported as having said that anti-white attitudes and anti-white writings served a useful purpose for encouraging nationalism. [More…]
Since early 1970 the Literature Bureau of the Papua New Guinea Department of Information and Extension Services has been most active in encouraging Papuan and New Guinean writers. [More…]
The efforts of government officers and missionaries as well as other expatriates who have lived and are living in Papua New Guinea have been principal forces impacting village life and traditional values in recent times. [More…]
The Australian Government clearly recognises the need to promote in Papua New Guinea the development of a positive national sentiment. [More…]
In my address to the University of Papua New Guinea last March, I praised the students for their efforts to create a distinctive nationwide cultural identity which blended the strength and vitality of former traditions with new perceptions and skills. [More…]
It is interesting to note that at a stage when we are talking about stabilising our forest resources Papua New Guinea is on the threshold of independence. [More…]
Undoubtedly we hope that an economic understanding will be developed between the new country and the older country, and I have no doubt that timber will be one of the exports to Australia that will be vital to the Papua New Guinea economy. [More…]
Has the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories seen a report in this morning’s Australian’ newspaper of a statement attributed to the Indonesion Army commander in West Irian that the Australian Government will assist in the celebration of Indonesia’s Proclamation Day by deporting to West Irian 8 West Irianese refugees at present in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
The Minister for External Territories has not yet received a record of the statement attributed to the general but as the honourable senator would know, the statement does not represent the policy of the Government of Australia or of the Papua New Guinea Ministry. [More…]
We have no intention of deporting to Indonesia people who have been granted permission to reside in Papua New Guinea on grounds that they fear persecution in Indonesia. [More…]
About 500 such people are living in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
However, in accordance with policies that have been followed for some years, 8 persons who had applied for permissive residence in Papua New Guinea are to be returned to Indonesia today. [More…]
I emphasise that these applications have been considered and rejected by the Administrator’s Executive Council in Papua New Guinea and that the decision to return these persons is the decision of that Council and not of the Australian Government. [More…]
It had its interest in the Australian Capital Territory, it made some attempt to influence development in the Territory of Papua New Guinea and it has had fairly limited resources in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The Commonwealth takes an active part through its interest in the Australian Capital Territory, the education programme of the Australian National University, the Territory of Papua New Guinea and through the Department of the Interior timber and forestry programme in the Northern Territory. [More…]
The matter referred to is one which falls within the authority of the Ministerial Member for Internal Finance in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
These recent increases in bus fares and bread prices have had only a small effect on the ‘cost of living’ in Port Moresby to the extent that it is measured by changes in the Papua New Guinea retail price index. [More…]
To the extent that it is measured by changes in the Papua New Guinea retail price index, inflation occurred at the rate of 8.2 per cent during the 12 months from 1st April 1971. [More…]
The Minister for External Territories also remarks that, in view of the substantial powers now exercised by Ministers of the House of Assembly, including those of internal finance, it is not correct to say that the Australian Government still has almost complete control of the economy of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
How close are Australia and Indonesia to finalising the prolonged land and sea surveys to define the boundaries between West Irian and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The survey to which the honourable senator refers was ecompleted in 1966 and 1967 and was confined to the land border between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. [More…]
The land and seabed boundaries between Indonesia and Australia and Papua New Guinea are being negotiated progressively. [More…]
Has the Minister seen the statement made yesterday by Brigadier Eldridge, the retiring Joint Force Commander in Papua New Guinea, in which he called for the handing over of control of the armed forces before the granting of independence to the Territory; if so, can the Minister inform the Senate whether the Government has determined any timetable for the handing over of control of the Territory’s armed forces to the Papua New Guinea authorities. [More…]
Further to my reply to the honourable senator to his similar question without notice on 13th April 1972, the Minister for External Territories has advised that the matters referred to by the retiring Joint Force Commander in Papua New Guinea on 11th April are under examination in the Department of Defence in conjunction with other departments. [More…]
As stated in the recent Australian Defence Review, studies are proceeding on a number of important matters as a basis for future consideration in Australia and in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Did this company give an undertaking when granted mining rights at Bougainville that a smelter would be established in the Territory of Papua New Guinea, and [More…]
However, in the Second Reading Speech in the House of Assembly it was announced that the company undertook to keep the matter of smelting in Papua New Guinea under objective review so that if it became feasible to establish smelting or refining operations in Papua New Guinea the matter would be properly considered. [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories, Is it true that at present there is no law in Papua New Guinea making telephone tapping illegal? [More…]
Membership of the Bank now totals 37 countries, 23 of which, including Australia and Papua New Guinea, are from the Asian region. [More…]
Included in the latter figures is a loan of $US4.5m which the Bank recently approved for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This very straightforward Bill provides for a further step in Government’s progressive transfer of powers to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Thus the responsibility for decision-making is going over to Papua New Guinea, but assistance in whatever area and in whatever measure the Territory desires will continue. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to remove the limitation on the number of offices of Minister of the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea which can be created by the Minister for External Territories. [More…]
Section 24 (1) of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1971 provides for such number, being not more than 17, of offices of Minister of the House of Assembly as the Minister for External Territories from time to time determines. [More…]
A formal request has now been received from the Papua New Guinea Government asking the Australian Government to amend the Papua New Guinea Act 1949- 1971 so as to permit the creation of additional offices of Minister of the House of Assembly. [More…]
The Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Michael Somare, requested the change to permit him to give effect to certain proposals for the enlargement of the Papua New Guinea Ministry. [More…]
The Australian Government has for many years adopted the attitude that no obstacle should be placed in the way of a smooth and orderly transition to self government in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The purpose of the Bill is to give effect to this request by the Papua New Guinea Government to remove the limit on the number of Ministers of the House of Assembly which can be created. [More…]
The Bill is a simple one, but it represents another step forward in Papua New Guinea’s movement to self government and independence, on terms determined by the people of Papua New Guinea themselves. [More…]
In May 1972 it was announced that the Commonwealth Government had approved the sale of the Commonwealth’s 50 per cent shareholding in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd to the Investment Corporation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A condition of the sale of the Commonwealth’s interest in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd was that upon transfer of the shares to the Investment Corporation the other major shareholder in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd - Placer Development Ltd - would arrange an amalgamation of all other wholly owned Placer assets in Papua New Guinea with those of Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd. To this end an amalgamation agreement with Placer Development Ltd has been endorsed by the board of Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers, with the result that the respective shareholdings in the consolidated company, which will still be known as Common- wealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd, will be held 65 per cent by Placer and 35 per cent by the Investment Corporation. [More…]
It is the Government’s policy in the long term interests of Papua New Guinea that overseas companies operating in Papua New Guinea should provide opportunities for Papua New Guineans to participate in their ventures at all levels. [More…]
In line with this policy it is the intention of the Investment Corporation through equity acquisitions such as Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd. to afford the people of Papua New Guinea an opportunity to share in the ownership and control of major enterprises largely financed from outside Papua New Guinea. [More…]
For this purpose the Investment Corporation is concentrating on building up a diversified portfolio of investments in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As a result the people of Papua New Guinea will, possibly in 1973, be given an opportunity to participate directly in these investments through unit trusts or similar arrangements. [More…]
Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd can be expected to continue to make a substantial contribution to the economic growth of Papua New Guinea in the field of plywood manufacture, and now also in cattle production and mineral development. [More…]
This in turn will provide further opportunities for Papua New Guineans to obtain employment and training in these important activities. [More…]
In this regard it is interesting to note the degree of progress which has been achieved by Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd over the past decade in the training of Papua New Guineans to accept positions within the company which demand considerable skill and ability. [More…]
Throughout the past 10 years the level of employment of Papua New Guineans in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd has averaged approximately 500. [More…]
At present there are 13 cadets undergoing training for the more advanced levels of management and the company is confident that Papua New Guineans will become more and more involved as opportunities occur. [More…]
We have accepted a major responsibility n Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Membership of the bank now totals some 37 countries, 23 of which, including Australia and Papua New Guinea, are from the Asian region. [More…]
We praise ourselves for contributing 1 per cent of our gross national product to aid projects today but that sum includes the enormous and very creditable aomunt of money that we are spending in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We hope that it will give some consideration to what has been expounded by the Australian Democratic Labor Party for at least 10 years; that is that much of the aid which allegedly we have been granting abroad has been going into the specific responsibility that we have for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But the Democratic Labor Party would like to see the percentage of the gross national product going into international development in our area to be exclusive of the personal responsibility - if one could call it that in referring to a nation - which we in Australia feel towards Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Its purpose is to transfer power over lighthouses in Papua New Guinea to the Government of the Territory. [More…]
We view it as a further step towards self government and the eventual independence of the Territory of Papua New Guinea and its people. [More…]
We believe that it is of paramount importance that Australia do everything possible to ensure that on achieving independence Papua New Guinea is a friendly neighbour. [More…]
I pay tribute to the Commonwealth Department of Shipping and Transport for the very high standards that it has achieved and maintained through ‘he years in the marine navigation installations in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This should be of great assistance to the Administration of Papua New Guinea as it will enable the training of technicians and facilitate a smooth change-over of responsibility. [More…]
The Bill will remove all reference to the Territory of Papua New Guinea from the Lighthouses Act but it is my view that the friendly light to guide the mariner will continue to send out its beam as usual, despite the historic administrative changes taking place in this area. [More…]
As Senator O’Byrne said, it provides for a simple transfer of part of the Commonwealth Government’s powers to the Administration of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It has carried out its duties in relation to the coastline of Papua New Guinea and in the maritime area in the manner required of it in servicing Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Government’s departmental operations and all its facilities must constantly be available to Papua New Guinea for the training of personnel and for making available navigational aids and all the new and developing scientific trends and developments. [More…]
The responsibility for decision making in relation to maritime navigation and lighthouses is now being transferred to Papua New Guinea, but it is true to observe that the Australian authorities will continue to maintain a close and watchful interest. [More…]
I suppose this is symbolic of the transfer to ultimate independence of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has a special place not only in our Australian context but also in our international relations. [More…]
Papua New Guinea may look to the Asian area as it emerges into independence but also it will look to Australia. [More…]
We did quite a deal of seminar work in Papua New Guinea on this matter where the incidence of accidents had become higher than we cared for. [More…]
Australia ranks near the lowest rung in the world in respect of external aid if we deduct from the amount that we provide the contribution that we make to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is of no use saying that this year we will provide a total of $220m to be spent on official economic aid to developing countries because in the next line of the Budget Speech we are informed that $145m of that sum is to go to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Look, we are taking it into consideration but surely to goodness we ought to give more than that to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There is no reason why we should innate our official figures by including our contribution to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Papua New Guinea Bill is a simple Bill. [More…]
But the fact that it is a simple Bill that does not mean that perhaps we should not take the opportunity to say a few words about the development of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
While I have expressed and still express some doubts whether Papua New Guinea is ready for independence, nevertheless we must face the fact that events make it inevitable. [More…]
I have always believed that Australia should never be behind but always one move ahead of, if possible, the demands from, the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As we all know from the events of recent times, it has brought tragedy to many countries in Africa which had far more opportunities to develop a civil service and to learn lessons than perhaps Papua New Guinea has had. [More…]
I have said before, and I think it should be repeated, that today there is no great sense of national unity in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is certainly a challenge to the Government of Papua New Guinea to ensure that these people do not fear that they ave going to be left out. [More…]
However, I believe that with wise and moderate attitudes which will gain the trust and confidence of the people, particularly of the highlands, and to a great degree the people of the islands, we can have at least a degree of confidence that the future of Papua New Guinea will be secure. [More…]
I noted the other day a report which Mr Hayden of the Australian Labor Party had prepared on his visit to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 do not mention the report in order to criticise what Mr Hayden has said because I believe it is to the good that people are visiting Papua New Guinea, expressing opinions and putting forward their thoughts on Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Despite some comments that have been made here and elsewhere, these men have rendered magnificent service in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They are the men to whom much credit will be due when Papua New Guinea finally gains its independence. [More…]
I think that we have to take that view about the transformation of the situation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
People can witness what we are actually doing in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It has taken the people of Papua New Guinea - the little tribal groups - longer than that to develop their way of life. [More…]
During the past 25 years I have been to Papua New Guinea and met some of these wonderful [More…]
Papua New Guinea Bill types of men who were part of the Administration. [More…]
We are discussing the Papua New Guinea Bill 1972. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Bill 441 [More…]
In conclusion, I say this: We are taking part in a new phase of the history of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Firstly, may I say that the Papua New Guinea Bill 1972 increases the Ministry in the Papua New Guinea Parliament from 17 members. [More…]
Tonight Senator O’Byrne has ranged very widely over many areas including, if I could say so without giving offence to him, areas slightly beyond both Papua New Guinea and the Bill. [More…]
Nevertheless, I frankly feel that this is a good step forward for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
At the same time, he also emphasised the point that as they move towards self-government they would be still relying upon much of the administration and other areas of expatriate activities that have made such a great contribution to the development of Papua New Guinea in the past. [More…]
If we go back over the years, particularly the postwar years, and look at the contribution made by people who acted as patrol officers and district commissioners, we in Australia, as well as the people of Papua New Guinea, can pay a great deal of gratitude to these men who have spent their lifetime in some cases and many years of their lives in other cases to assist in the development of this country. [More…]
For many of these men, this work has become their lives and in so many ways, Papua New Guinea has become their land. [More…]
There are men in Papua New Guinea who have virtually amassed a fortune in real estate there. [More…]
On the contrary, I would extend to them praise for what they have contributed to the development of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Although Senator O’Byrne does not like the word ‘tolerance’ I will go further and say that tolerance, patience, respect and, as I said earlier, wisdom will be foremost and that many of these men will be retained in Papua New Guinea when eventually it attains self-government because they can continue to make a great contribution to the further development of the country. [More…]
My hope is that tragedy will not befall Papua New Guinea, because the people of the Territory are wonderful people who, given the opportunity, will develop a very great country which will play its part in South East Asia. [More…]
Now that criticism has turned into almost universal acclaim for the performance which Australia has demonstrated in developing, guiding and assisting the people of Papua New Guinea towards the opportunities of the contemporaneous world. [More…]
It may be satisfying for Senator Sim if I put on record that the Government has already developed a scheme for those expatriate officers who are not acceptable to or who cannot be accommodated by the independent government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Bill deals with the removal of the limitation on the number of ministers who may be appointed by the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But at least there are people in Papua New Guinea who will get a far better deal as a result of the appointment of a more viable, more widely spread and democratic ministry in the House of Assembly than they would receive through the administration of the Australian Government. [More…]
In particular I refer to the expatriates who have served Ions and faithfully in the service of the Administration of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Today no plan exists for compensation of expatriates whose employment is terminated in Papua New Guinea as a result of their replacement by local people. [More…]
This is a much more involved Bill relating to the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Ltd - Placer Developments Ltd - would arrange an amalgamation of all other wholly owned Placer assets in Papua New Guinea with those of Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd. To this end an amalgamation agreement with Placer Development Ltd has been endorsed bythe board of Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers, with the result that the respective shareholdings in the consolidated company, which will still be known as Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd will be held– [More…]
The Commonwealth is selling out its shares and passing them over to the Investment Corporation of Papua New Guinea, which is an instrumentality of the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But to this new company will come other interests of Placer Development Ltd so that the Government of Papua New Guinea will have a 35 per cent shareholding and the. [More…]
I have quoted from the second reading speech of the Minister for Works to show that the Government is giving away to its expatriate friends 65 per cent of an asset in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But the Government is a little scared at the moment because there is a possibility that Papua New Guinea will in the future, although certainly not while the present Government is in office, become an independent country. [More…]
The Minister for Works fears that if his Government gets another term of office there will be ructions with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Surely to goodness it would be possible for further consultations to be held with representatives of the House of Assembly in Papua New Guinea in order to make sure that they and we know that nobody will be touching them. [More…]
The Minister knows that Japan and other countries have been operating in Papua New Guinea for a long time. [More…]
He also knows that a large proportion of the Australian businessmen in Papua New Guinea are raping the country. [More…]
I suggest that it is in the interests of the people of Papua New Guinea and the interests of the Government to postpone the second reading of this Bill for long enough to permit an examination of it to make sure that the Government is not just following the old colonial pattern of selling out everything that belongs to people who are black. [More…]
After all it is purely a measure to give effect to an announcement by the Commonwealth Government that it would transfer its 50 per cent shareholding in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd to the Investment Corporation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I wish to say, briefly, thatI believe that every thinking person in this country is more than satisfied with what the Australian Government has done to bring Papua New Guinea to nationhood. [More…]
Senator Keeffe complained about the fact that following the transfer the Investment Corporation of Papua New Guinea will not have a 50 per cent interest in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd. What has actually happened is the Commonwealth Government has transferred its 50 per cent interest in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd to the Investment Corporation of Papua New Guinea on the condition that upon the transfer of its shares to the Investment Corporation of Papua New Guinea the other major shareholder in Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd - Placer Development Ltd will arrange an amalgamation of all the other wholly owned Placer assets in Papua New Guinea with those of Commonwealth New Guinea Timbers Ltd. [More…]
The same situation applies to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is most important that the capital resources which Papua New Guinea needs should not be supplied by other nations. [More…]
The resources should be supplied by Australia and not by another country which may have interests in mind other than the interests of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We have to assist Papua New Guinea to develop its resources and this Bill is a way to do that. [More…]
The more that we and Australian companies can assist Papua New Guinea the better. [More…]
It is giving to the people of Papua New Guinea the shares which the Australian Government hold. [More…]
The reason is, according to the Opposition, to look after the interests of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But this is very important for the future development of Papua New Guinea in which Australian companies and investment can assist. [More…]
Let us face it, it is better for Australians to help Papua New Guinea to develop its resources than for countries with doubtful intentions to come in. [More…]
As Papua New Guinea moved towards independence the Australian Government, for the assistance and protection of the investment interests and benefit of the indigenes, created an investment corporation in New Guinea. [More…]
The Investment Corporation of Papua New Guinea has entered into an agreement with Placer so that instead of Placer having various interests in the country it will bring the timber interests and its other interests together as one consolidated company. [More…]
In face of this we have the fatuous, prejudiced nonsense expressed by the speaker for the Australian Labor Party in this Senate when he moved that the Bill be withdrawn so that consideration might be given to it by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
Is the Minister in a position to give any information about the sad news that a Royal Australian Air Force Caribou has crashed in Papua New Guinea killing 25 school cadets? [More…]
1 think the honourable senator will agree that all of us are very much saddened by the accident in Papua New Guinea and by the other accident to which he referred at the Army training centre. [More…]
The accident in Papua New Guinea involves 30 people, a large number of whom are cadets, on a Caribou aircraft which is missing on a flight between Lae and Port Moresby. [More…]
This is the special position of aviation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
More than half a million passengers and almost 20,000 tons of freight and mail were carried by airline operators in Papua New Guinea in 1971-72. [More…]
Air transport and the aeroplane obviously have a vital role in almost every phase of Papua New Guinea’s development. [More…]
This extensive, safe and efficient aviation industry which now exists in Papua New Guinea is soundly based on the network of aviation facilities and supporting services developed and maintained by the Department of Civil Aviation over many years. [More…]
It is pleasing to note, therefore, that a Select Transport Committee of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly has acknowledged that, when Papua New Guinea becomes independent, it will inherit a more advanced and efficient aviation system than probably any emerging country in the same position. [More…]
The Government has encouraged the move of Papua New Guinea to self government and eventual independence. [More…]
I am confident that we can work out with the Chief Minister and his colleagues a programme for the acceptance by the local authorities of responsibility for civil aviation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When I came in from Papua New Guinea fairly late last night I naturally sought some information on this matter. [More…]
I ask the Minister for Civil Aviation a question and I refer to the recent joint statement by the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, the Minister for Civil Aviation and the Minister for External Territories with regard to the future civil aviation policy in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It was stated that it is proposed to offer shareholdings in a single national airline in Papua New Guinea to Ansett Airlines of Papua New Guinea, Trans-Australia Airlines and Qantas Airways Ltd. Is the involvement of Papua New Guinea in the new airline to be totally a government contribution or are shareholdings also to be offered for private investment? [More…]
Papua New Guinea would share in the operation through the Government of their country taking a responsible portion of it. [More…]
The Australian Labor Party firmly believes that we ought to do in this country what has been done in the United States of America and the United Kingdom and allow our people to vote at 18 years of age as the citizens of Papua New Guinea voted at 18 in the election held earlier this year. [More…]
Similarly, ordinances made in the Northern Territory, in Papua New Guinea and in other Territories of the Commonwealth over varying periods of years may be inoperative. [More…]
I present the report of the fifth conference of the Presiding Officers and Clerks of the Parliaments of Australia, Fiji, Nauru, Papua New Guinea and Western Samoa held in Parliament House, Perth from 16th to 18th May 1972. [More…]
by leave - Honourable senators will recall that, during a statement to the Senate on 29th August outlining recent Government decisions on civil aviation policy, I said that, in the light of early self government and independence, I proposed to visit Papua New Guinea to discuss a programme for the transfer of civil aviation responsibility to the local authorities. [More…]
Those discussions between myself and the Chief Minister for Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare, were held in Port Moresby on 3rd, 4th and 5th September and I believe it would be appropriate if I outlined the results to the Senate. [More…]
A major point to emerge was the strong desire of the Papua New Guinea Government to establish a single national airline as soon as possible. [More…]
Such an airline would become a symbol of the development of national unity within Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government expressed appreciation for the past and present services of the Department of Civil Aviation and the Australian airlines in providing a first class aviation system within and through Papua New Guinea and indicated that it wanted to utilise their accumulated expertise, experience and many skilled personnel. [More…]
Mr Somare said his Government, in addition to its own substantial investment on behalf of its people, wished to offer shareholdings in the new national airline to Trans-Australis Airlines, Ansett Airlines of Papua New Guinea and Qantas Airways Ltd. [More…]
Discussions will have to be held in the months ahead between the Australian airlines and the Papua New Guinea Government on the ways this proposal can be implemented. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government also is obviously mindful of Qantas’s record in providing senior managerial staff in the past in Fiji, Singapore, Malaysia and the New Hebrides. [More…]
It was agreed that the timetable for the establishment of the new airline initially was a matter for the Papua New Guinea Government and that, although Australia agreed in principle with the proposal, there was no financial commitment by the Australian Government. [More…]
The new national airline also will operate services between Papua New Guinea and Australia when it is able to do so. [More…]
After Papua New Guinea becomes independent, Qantas will be the Australian designated international carrier under the air services arrangements which will need to be made between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government indicated also that it wants Qantas to continue to provide international air services on its behalf until its own national airline is able to assume this role as well. [More…]
The second major area covered in my discussions with Mr Somare involved the transfer of the civil aviation functions in Papua New Guinea that are now performed by the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. [More…]
However, as the Papua New Guinea Minister for Transport Mr B. R. Jephcott had explained earlier, the local Department of Transport has neither the staff, finance, nor expertise nec essary to consider any large scale involvement in DCA operations in the foreseeable future. [More…]
Under these circumstances it was agreed that the Australian Department of Civil Aviation will continue to carry out the entire range of civil aviation functions, but that the appropriate local authorities will be fully and continuously consulted on aviation policy matters as they affect Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Consideration will be given in the meantime to the machinery which would allow the Department of Civil Aviation to provide, beyond the commencement of full internal self-government, functions of a specialist and operational nature on an agency basis for the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government indicated it would wish the Department to do this. [More…]
To assist the consultative processes the Papua New Guinea Government has decided to appoint a civil aviation adviser, who will be directly responsible to the appropriate Papua New Guinea Minister. [More…]
Dr Bradfield will be under contract to the Papua New Guinea Government, and will provide Papua New Guinea with its own specialist aviation expertise. [More…]
He is there to be used in the consultative processes between the Papua New Guinea authorities and the Australian authorities. [More…]
He will also, immediately upon taking up duty, be advising the Papua New Guinea Government on all policy aspects. [More…]
One of his first tasks will be to build up the competence and expertise in the Papua New Guinea Public Service to enable it ultimately to take over full responsibility for civil aviation. [More…]
The Department of Civil Aviation does have, and will continue to have, programmes for training Papua New Guineans in various technical and operational functions. [More…]
In fact the total staff of 1,710 in Papua New Guinea includes 1,160 local officers. [More…]
Since the early 1960s more than 400 Papua New Guineans have received some formal training provided by the Department - for example, as airport firemen, airways operations officers, administrative staff, artisans and apprentices of various trades. [More…]
Accordingly, the Department is sponsoring trainees in professional and sub-professional courses at the Papua New Guinea Institute of Technology at Lae. [More…]
Trainees have also been sponsored in the preliminary year of the University of Papua New Guinea preparatory to airways operations training. [More…]
Therefore it was my very great pleasure while in Papua New Guinea to open a $665,000 civil aviation training college at Taldora, near the Port Moresby airport. [More…]
The Department has also renewed an offer to train in Australia 2 or 3 selected Papua New Guineans in policy and management functions. [More…]
However, I believe that the Papua New Guinea Ministers whom I met were completely satisfied about the intentions of the Australian Government in respect of transfer of responsibility for civil aviation and the positive steps which we have proposed and which I have just outlined. [More…]
I was also able to tell the Papua New Guinea Ministers about plans to develop the Papua New Guinea airways and ground facilities system. [More…]
In addition to the decisions I had announced during the previous week to construct a new runway for Port Moresby airport and to develop a new airport for Lae at Nadzab, night flying facilities will be established on selected Papua New Guinea air routes at a cost of $300,000’. [More…]
The introduction of night flying facilities will allow greater flexibility in scheduling and provide additional utilisation for aircraft in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In my view the visit I paid to Papua New Guinea was most fruitful. [More…]
My meetings with the Papua New Guinea Chief Minister and other Ministers were constructive and cordial. [More…]
I had too, the benefit of the advice and help of senior officers from the Department of Civil Aviation, External Territories and the Papua New Guinea Administration and for this I am truly appreciative also. [More…]
The only exceptions will be where preferences are accorded on a range of specified items to those Commonwealth countries, such as Canada and New Zealand, with which Australia has bilateral preferential agreements, or where preferences are given to Papua New Guinea or, on a limited range of items, to former or existing dependencies of the United Kingdom. [More…]
We are already discussing with New Zealand and Canada the question of the future of the preferences they enjoy in Australia, The importance of the preferences accorded to Papua New Guinea and the former or existing British territories is also fully recognised and if, after examination, it appears to the Australian Government that some action is necessary in relation to those preferences, discussions will be held with the particular territories concerned. [More…]
I ask: Was the statement by Sir Reginald Ansett last Friday correct when he claimed that a factor in the purchase of additional 700 series Boeings by both Ansett Airlines of Australia and Trans-Australia Airlines would be for their operation between Australia and Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Did the Department of Civil Aviation enter into discussions at the same level with Ansett and TAA as it did with Qantas on proposals to operate the Papua New Guinea service after independence? [More…]
A part of it would be flying to and from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If the honourable senator were to read carefully the statement which was issued by the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea and myself, and which was later amplified on in this Parliament, he would find what is proposed for Papua New Guinea is a joining together for the service of the people of Papua New Guinea of the Ansett activities, the Australian National Airlines Commission activities and the Qantas activities. [More…]
I ask: ls it a fact that a dispute exists between Australia and Papua New Guinea over the fixing of a border between the 2 countries? [More…]
There have been consultations with regard to the delineation of the boundaries between Australia and Papua New Guinea, especially having regard to the rather extraordinary boundary that was marked out in former days. [More…]
My question is directed to either the Minister representing the Minister for External Territories or the Attorney-General, whoever is the more appropriate, or to both of them in their respective capacities, lt concerns the public outcry in Papua New Guinea about telephone tapping and eavesdropping by public officials in connection with the administration of justice and the reports that even the conversations of lawyers with their clients have been telephone tapped, to use the ordinary expression, and that there seems to be no law to prevent this or, if there is, that it is not being enforced. [More…]
Could either or both of the Ministers inform the Senate of the practice in Papua New Guinea with regard to eavesdropping by public officials or the interception of telephone conversations? [More…]
Whether or not such tapping is consistent with the law of the Territory of Papua New Guinea I am unable to say. [More…]
All I can say is that the Telephonic Communications (Interception) Act which we have in force in Australia does not apply in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Are Australian citizens resident in the Territory of Papua New Guinea, who are members of recognised medical and hospital funds, precluded from receiving Commonwealth benefits on claims made on the funds; if so, will the Acting Minister take whatever action is necessary to ensure that this anomalous situation is rectified. [More…]
Under the National Health Act, Commonwealth benefits are payable for medical and hospital expenses incurred during the temporary absence in Papua New Guinea of an Australian resident who is a member of a registered medical or hospital benefits organisation. [More…]
Papua New Guinea; if so, has a reply been sent and what was the nature of the reply. [More…]
To date, no formal request has been made by the Japanese Government to establish a consulate in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As announced by the Papua New Guinea Chief Minister on 31st August 1972 it has been agreed between Australia and Papua New Guinea Ministers that all proposals for the establishment of consulates in Papua New Guinea would be referred to the Administrator’s Executive Council for endorsement before being approved by the Australian Government. [More…]
All these supplies are additional to the normal store requirements of the Papua New Guinea Administration. [More…]
I remind the Minister that reports are consistently coming from the Territory of Papua New Guinea indicating that the Territory wishes to start its own airline. [More…]
Other reports indicate that the Australian Government made the decision to set up the consortium for the Territory airline without consulting the Government of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I ask the Minister whether he will undertake to table in the Senate all documents associated with the Territory of Papua New Guinea airline deal, such documents to include complete reports of any discussions held between officials and Ministers of the 2 governments, in an effort to eliminate the bad feeling now obviously existing in the Territory. [More…]
I made an accurate and positive statement to this Parliament about the situation in Papua New Guinea indicating quite clearly what had taken place and following the line of discussion I had had up there. [More…]
You may be quite sure that I and the Government of Papua New Guinea, represented by Mr Somare and Mr Jephcott, had a series of discussions about this. [More…]
In accordance with the provisions of the Pub lic Works Committee Act 1969-1972, I present the reports relating to the following proposed works: 14l/32R Runway and associated airport works at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea; [More…]
Development of Nadzab Airport, Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Commonwealth Offices at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I ask the Leader of the Government in the Senate whether he is aware that donations to the Papua New Guinea famine appeal are still well below the target of $2m. [More…]
It is surprising because it would not be imagined that that situation would be reached in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bill will apply to proposals for foreign take-overs of trading or financial corporations formed within the Commonwealth and also of bodies incorporated in a Territory of the Commonwealth other than Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He formed the first trade union in Papua New Guinea for private employees. [More…]
Is it a fact that there is at present no law in the Territory of Papua New Guinea making telephone tapping illegal; if so, what Regulations govern police ‘phone tapping activities in the Territory and what is the current frequency of police ‘phone tapping? [More…]
The suggested transfer of islands in Torres Strait from the sovereignty of the State of Queensland and/or the Commonwealth of Australia to the emerging independent nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
to this question of the proposed transfer of the sovereignty of part of Queensland, part of the Commonwealth of Australia, to the emerging nation of Papua New Guinea, to lay down certain propositions and particularly that the people of the Torres Strait islands, the area concerned, must be consulted. [More…]
We are dealing with a group of islands that lie between Cape York Peninsula and Papua, which is part of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The original proposal by the Commonwealth Government was that the boundary should be realigned and that 3 of those islands - Saibai, Boigu and Dauan - should be transferred to the Territory of Papua New Guinea which will soon be an independent nation quite foreign to Australia. [More…]
Then there was a transposition of that original proposal which said that the line should even be dropped further south of the 10th parallel, that that should be the demarcation line and that all the islands north of that should pass from the sovereignty of the State of Queensland and/ or the sovereignty of the Commonwealth of Australia to the sovereignty of the emerging nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If the truncation were to take place merely to separate these 3 islands to which I have referred and to put them in Papua New Guinea that would be bad, but to drop the demarcation line down to the 10th parallel and take probably 4,000 or 5,000 of the Torres Strait islanders out of the sovereignty of Australia and Queensland and transfer them to the sovereignty of Papua New Guinea is virtually the complete destruction of a nation. [More…]
It is a monstrous suggestion, and it would be even more monstrous to permit this total ethnic group - virtually this , total nation - to be cut in 2, severed, and part of it willy-nilly transferred to the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I do not know - and nobody knows - how the new emerging nation of Papua New Guinea will operate. [More…]
There is a position which opens the possibility, looking at the matter in the constitutional framework, that the Commonwealth Parliament with Her Majesty in Council - whether that would be Her Majesty in the Executive Council of Australia or in the Privy Council in England - could unilaterally and without consulting anybody whatsoever transfer these territories to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In a joint statement issued by the Prime Minister and Mr Somare, the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, on 17th January last this appears: [More…]
There is the obvious and proclaimed intention and attitude of the Prime Minister in conjunction with that of the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea that they think the boundary should be relocated. [More…]
They have said: Well, when Papua New Guinea emerges into independence we want to have good relations with that country’. [More…]
The only substantial sea passage around the northern tip of Australia lies through the great north east passage between some of these islands and the shoreline of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If the border is brought down to the tenth parallel, 14 islands will be transferred to the emerging nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There has been merely the vague statement that this course would make for good relations for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I say this to Papua New Guinea: The people of the Torres Strait Islands belong to a different ethnic group. [More…]
Action could be taken then to exclude them from Papua New Guinea and put them somewhere else but these people cannot lightly be dispersed. [More…]
They could not be placed in some place in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Senator Byrne handled the whole of this debate as though the Australian Government wanted to excise some islands on which certain people lived and to give those islands to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He did not say that the border was several miles out to sea from Queensland and but one mile from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But he, above all, knows perfectly well that in a very short time this will not be a matter of States but a matter of a border between an independent, sovereign country - that is Papua New Guinea on the one hand and Australia on the other. [More…]
The preamble to the motion appears to assert that the issues involved in negotiations concerning the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea are matters for the Queensland Parliament. [More…]
The motion implies that the matter of the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea affects the Torres Strait islanders alone. [More…]
The fact is that all citizens of Australia are affected by the border problem with a neighbouring country and the interests of the people of Australia and Papua New Guinea as a whole must be considered in any settlement which is reached. [More…]
The first and most fundamental desire for this settlement is that the Government is anxious to remove a source of possible friction between an independent Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
Secondly, the maintenance of an Australian border within a few hundred metres of the Papua New Guinea shoreline would be quite untenable internationally. [More…]
It was set while Australia was still a British colony and was made, of course, without consultation of the Australian people as a whole or, indeed, the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I take this opportunity to point out to honourable senators that the wishes and rights of the people inhabiting these islands have been at the forefront of consideration of this matter by this Government and the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
I quote the following passage from a communique issued by the Prime Minister (Mr Whitiam) and the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea on 17th January this year as evidence of this attitude. [More…]
The Australian Government would facilitate contact between the Papua New Guinea Government and the islanders if the Papua New Guinea Government wishes. [More…]
The Prime Minister and the Chief Minister agreed that Australian officials should engage in early discussions with Papua New Guinea officials with a view to seeking provisional agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea on issues other than that of territorial sovereignty of the islands. [More…]
An interdepartmental committee of interested Commonwealth departments at this moment is giving consideration to attitudes to be taken by the Commonwealth in the proposed discussions with Papua New Guinea officials. [More…]
The attitude of the Papua New Guinea Government was expressed in another way by Mr Ebia Olewale, who is Minister for Education, in a statement reported on 3rd May 1972 in which he said that it was unreasonable to ask Papua New Guinea to put up with a situation which Queensland would not tolerate should the positions be reversed. [More…]
The crux of the matter is that the Commonwealth Government has recognised that the present border between Papua New Guinea and Australia is in need of adjustment, and having recognised that fact the Government is anxious to arrange a settlement which is in the best interests of all the parties concerned. [More…]
On the other hand Mr Bjelke-Petersen apparently believes that the border should not be changed under any circumstances and that it represents a perfectly acceptable situation for the present border to run so close to the coast of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I believe that Mr Olewale’s comment is relevant here and that Mr Bjelke-Petersen should try to place himself in the New Guineans’ position in order to see that Papua New Guinea has a reasonable case for requesting a variation of the present border. [More…]
Given this assurance, I underline the point that if this motion is carried and Senator Byrne’s view, as wrong as it is, is given credence, it could only inhibit future negotiations between 2 sovereign nations - Papua New Guinea on the one hand and Australia on the other. [More…]
We have said that we appreciate the situation that Papua New Guinea places before us. [More…]
Papua New Guinea becomes independent. [More…]
It has been stated time and time again that whatever negotiations take place the people will count with the Australian and the Papua New Guinean governments. [More…]
Finally, I repeat that the issue is not a question of what the situation is tonight because in a very short space of time the Queensland Government will not have responsibility for this matter; it will be the responsibility of a properly elected government of Australia dealing with an independent Papua New Guinea which will be relying on us in all sorts of ways. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has a right to expect that the country which has been a colonial power over these years - quite unwillingly on our part - should be looking towards it to help it to great nationhood. [More…]
We are co-operating with Papua New Guinea on a wide variety of fronts, such as allowing it into international conferences to speak in its own right, by making special considerations for it, setting up organisations for it, discussing where we can help in the field of foreign relations, where we can represent it and where it should represent itself. [More…]
I ask the members of the Senate tonight to think very carefully about the vote they are about to make because the result could very easily inhibit a future government in Australia, whatever its political colour and whatever might be the situation in Papua New Guinea at that time. [More…]
It reads: 1 am writing to you because one of my constituents has asked me to support the transfer of your island to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I do not believe that Papua New Guinea has any right to your land but I wouldlike to hear from you about it. [More…]
I am writing to you now because when I received the letter setting out the claim to your wishes 1 realised that some people in Papua New Guinea have started a campaign which may be difficult to stop unless the people of the islands speak now with the help of their friends on the Australian mainland. [More…]
With all their movements around the islands, the film crew could not find one person who wanted to give those islands to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I should like to quote also from an article in the November 1972-January 1973 issue of Australia’s Neighbours’ entitled ‘The Boundary Between Australia and Papua New Guinea’. [More…]
the present boundary is a’ perfectly proper boundary in the terms of the existing Convention, unless some historic title or other special circumstances can be demonstrated by the Government of Papua New Guinea and accepted by Australia. [More…]
If we’re going to be given away to Papua New Guinea, our race will die out,’ Mr Getano Lui said in Brisbane yesterday. [More…]
What has happened in the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly on this question? [More…]
If the boundary is moved then Papua New Guinea, having independence, would have no hesitation in drilling for oil in the Torres Strait. [More…]
the border dispute arose from a claim by Mr Somare, Papua New Guinea Chief Minister, that because the islands were close to Papua New Guinea they should belong to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr Somare also said Papua New Guinea wanted fishing rights. [More…]
I also criticise Senator Bonner for saying: If you take these 3 islands out and put them into the Territory of Papua New Guinea you will take away unemployment benefits.’ [More…]
They hope that they will divide the people of Queensland and the island people and cause trouble between the people of the Territory of Papua New Guinea and the people who live on the islands in Torres Strait. [More…]
Probably under the guidance and leadership of the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Michael Somare, our own representatives and the people in the areas concerned, an agreement will be hammered out which will be acceptable to all. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party seem to be quite happy to hand over to Papua New Guinea 3 islands in the Torres Strait. [More…]
The issue has been discussed between the chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare, and the Prime Minister, Mr Whitlam. [More…]
Now there is a possibility that they will become Papua New Guineans because someone down here is to say: ‘You are not going to be. [More…]
We are going to give away your nationality and give you to Papua New Guinea.’ [More…]
You are, because if you give these islands to Papua New Guinea the islanders will not remain there. [More…]
J ask that they be given an opportunity to say to the Government or to the representatives of the Government whether they want to be Papua New Guineans. [More…]
1 have heard many silly arguments here tonight about the islands being too close to the Papua New Guinea border. [More…]
What about the bolder between West Irian and Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Some people say that because the islands are too close to Papua New Guinea we should give them to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What difference does it make if the islands are a mile or 2 yards away from Papua New Guinea? [More…]
So because we want to save the people of Papua New Guinea, bless them, from going an extra mile, it is suggested that we should give 570-odd people to Papua New Guinea when they do not want to become part of that country. [More…]
I say that we should not give part of Queensland to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
May I remind Senator Bonner of his brothers and sisters in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
For some reason he seemed to separate them from his brothers and sisters - he used the term - in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 would like to remind him that Papua New Guinea is an emerging nation with a tremendous potential for growth, commercially and otherwise, and it will not be long before the interests of the Torres Strait islanders will be better served by the nations to the north of them than by the State to the south of them. [More…]
He had the temerity to use the word genocide’ because it has been suggested that these 3 islands should become part of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
That is what can be termed genocide, not the relocation, by arrangement and discussion, of a boundary between Papua New Guinea and Queensland. [More…]
That boundary is accepted generally today by the politicians of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
By bringing the border further south, Papua New Guinea takes in the 3 islands concerned. [More…]
As far as the negotiations have gone, at the present time the politicians of Papua New Guinea are prepared to accept this boundary which will bring within their territory the 3 islands under discussion. [More…]
But under the pressure of Mr Bjelke-Petersen, the Democratic Labor Party and misguided senators here tonight, this problem will not be resolved until Papua New Guinea takes it to the International Court of Justice. [More…]
If it were not for the social services which the Commonwealth provides, those people would be as destitute as the people who live on the mainland of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It should not be forgotten that the whole area of Papua New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands and West Irian, which, incidentally, was created because of the ineptitude of the previous government, which was prepared to concede to Indonesia certain benefits which it ought to have resisted conceding and which has moved the autonomy of that area further away, is the cradle of a new emergent nation and we should not do anything that is likely to stir or to create division. [More…]
All we are suggesting is that careful and unemotional negotiations should be conducted with the people of Papua New Guinea to reconcile the matter. [More…]
The people of these islands are of entirely different character, racial background and culture from that of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What will happen to the culture of the Torres Strait islanders if the border is changed and these islands come under the jurisdiction of Papua New Guinea? [More…]
The position in Papua New Guinea is such at present that nobody in this chamber will be prepared to guarantee the safety of any section of the people of Papua New Guinea when that country receives self-determination Nobody can guarantee th at there will not be some day one of the greatest blood baths in the world in that country. [More…]
These Torres Strait islanders have no ti;s with the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They just happen to live adjacent to the coastline of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is a country which has nothing to do with them. [More…]
It has been said that people travelling from one part of Papua New Guinea to another might have to sail through Australian waters. [More…]
Is there any reason why the lands and homes of the Torres Strait islanders should be ceded to Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Have the people of Papua New Guinea ever suffered any inconvenience? [More…]
fs the honourable senator endeavouring to prove that BjelkePetersen has sufficient influence over Gough Whitlam and that now that Mr Whitlam is the Prime Minister the leases will be granted to Bjelke-Petersen’s company, and that that is the reason why the Government is giving away the Torres Strait islands to Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I do not believe that Papua New Guineans feel strongly about the Torres Strait islands. [More…]
But Papua New Guinea is being told bythe present Government: ‘You will be independent whether you like it or not’. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has made no real aggressive claims to these islands. [More…]
Does he know the circumstances in Papua New Guinea, outside those in a very few isolated areas that are under some sort of proper control and some sort of proper jurisdiction? [More…]
The tribes in Papua New Guinea will have an enormous task in adjusting to each other. [More…]
Yet they say that the Torres Strait islanders can take their chances with Papua New Guinea or they can move to other islands where they will have to re-adapt their way of life. [More…]
Fulton) have said elsewhere that there should be no transfer of the people of the Torres Strait islands to the jurisdiction of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
believe that this is a very complex question which relates to the future of the islands off the shore of Papua New Guinea which at present are under Australian jurisdiction. [More…]
We believe that what is being done by the Australian Democratic Labor Party in presenting this motion tonight is leading to a situation which will only cause strain and tension between this country and Papua New Guinea which is shortly to obtain its independence. [More…]
With the impending independence of Papua New Guinea the primary goal of all of us must be peaceful and friendly relations between our 2 countries. [More…]
I believe it would be tragic if this Senate were to adopt a motion such as the one which is before it tonight so that before Papua New Guinea obtained its independence it would be faced with a declaration from the Australian people that we were adamant that we would not transfer these islands to Papua New Guinea even though they are only a few miles from the mainland of Papua New Guinea, even though they are part of the continental shelf surrounding Papua New Guinea, and recognised by international law as being the waters of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Listening to Senator Bonner one would think that Papua New Guinea was inhabited by whites and that Australia was inhabited by blacks because Senator Bonner was saying how shocking it is that the people of the Torres Strait islands should be placed under the jurisdiction of the white man. [More…]
They are now under the jurisdiction of the white man and if they were shifted to the jurisdiction o Papua New Guinea they would be leaving that terrible condition of thraldom about which Senator Bonner has told us at such length tonight. [More…]
A purely accidental borderline of demarcation was drawn between the colony of Queensland and what subsequently became Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The only thing that has been suggested by the Government is that there ought to be negotiations with Papua New Guinea as to the future of these islands. [More…]
The tribes were divided purely to suit the convenience of the occupying power, and this is what happened with regard to the relationship between the Torres Strait islands and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I believe that it would be quite absurd at this stage for this Parliament to make declarations on a matter which is still subject to negotiation between our Government and the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In the same way, [ believe, it would be quite improper for the Parliament of Papua New Guinea to pass a resolution with regard to the future occupation of these islands. [More…]
If as a result of an agreement between our 2 countries some decision is made which alters the present status of the Torres Strait islands, then will be the time to debate the matter instead of this whipping up of racist frenzy that we have heard tonight from Senator Little when he talked about barbarism in Papua New Guinea and only a few areas being under proper control. [More…]
This is the type of thing to which the Australian Labor Party is opposed and this is why we say that we will not be bound by jingoistic resolutions, that we will negotiate this matter on a sensible, rational basis as sensible, civilised people with a sensible, civilised government in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
All we heard from the 2 Western Australian senators is what has been acknowledged between the centralist Government in Canberra and the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
All we hear from Senator Wheeldon is that these people in Papua New Guinea have a right to decide the future of the people in the Torres Strait islands. [More…]
Senator Wheeldon said that the Australian Government and the Papua New Guinea Government can negotiate a line. [More…]
It is all right to say that we have an emerging nation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Those ships go very close to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
After it has negotiated with Papua New Guinea and after it has come to an arrangement then it will consider these people. [More…]
You can either become part of Papua New Guinea or become part of Australia. [More…]
In all the debates that I can find in the Papua New Guinea Parliament, on no occasion has there been any great support for a change in boundaries. [More…]
T defy any honourable senator to identify one debate in the last few years in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea in which Oliwale has received major support. [More…]
Now he is stirring up the people of Papua New Guinea who are close to these islands. [More…]
It would be interesting to take a census of some of those people to find out whether they want a change made because many of them do not have a lot in common with the other people in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Why go and drag up the matter before it is raised in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
More particularly, it has interested me since publicity has been given to statements made by the present Prime Minister of Australia (Mr Whitlam) suggesting that the border between Queensland and Papua New Guinea should be lowered which would have the effect of handing over certain Torres Strait islands to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I congratulate him on the case that he put forward in support of those who say that there should not be any interference with the border between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, principally because of the effect it would have on the people who are resident on the islands to be affected. [More…]
Today it would appear there is a strategy to hand over the Torres Strait Islands north of the Whitlam Line to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The effect of clause 5 of the Bill is to substitute a penalty of life imprisonment in any case where, under a federal Act or the law of a Territory other than Papua New Guinea, a person would be liable to the punishment of death. [More…]
The Bill will apply, as I have already indicated, to all federal law and to the laws of all Territories other than Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bill now before the House does not apply to Papua New Guinea laws, lt is appropriate that the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly should itself decide whether the death penalty should be abolished in laws over which that House has jurisdiction. [More…]
The drafting of regulations and of ordinances for the Territories - including the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory but not including the Territory of Papua New Guinea, which has its own drafting establishment - will be performed by lawyers in the Attorney-General’s Department. [More…]
I suppose the honourable senator is referring to the Prime Minister’s visit to Papua New Guinea and Indonesia recently. [More…]
Can the Minister representing the Minister for Health say whether it is a fact that the Commonwealth Government has approved the relaxation of quarantine regulations to permit the admission of cats and dogs from Papua New Guinea, Norfolk Island, Hawaii and Fiji into this country? [More…]
Is it a fact that rabies is endemic to Indonesia and that there is a strong likelihood of a spread of this disease from animals in West Irian to Papua New Guinea? [More…]
It is a dangerous practice to single out any individual country or delegate for special mention but I trust I will be forgiven for mentioning the representative from Papua New Guinea, Miss Abaijah. [More…]
Cocoa is, of course, a very important commodity to a number of developing countries’, particularly ‘ African countries, and also to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea’s position as a producer and exporter of significant tonnages of cocoa has, of course, been a paramount consideration in Australia’s participation in the negotiation of this Agreement. [More…]
Cocoa accounts for about 20 per cent of Papua New Guinea’s exports and it is its third most important export commodity. [More…]
Papua New Guinea exported some 30,000 tonnes of raw cocoa in the 1971-72 cocoa year, which represented about 2 per cent of world exports. [More…]
The future of the cocoa industry is of major importance to Papua New Guinea and, indeed, on the basis of the country’s overall development program, it could well become an increasingly important agricultural export commodity within the short space of a few years. [More…]
Hence Papua New Guinea has a very real interest in obtaining stable and remunerative prices for its cocoa while at the same time having the opportunity to plan ahead its production program on a sound and predictable basis. [More…]
In this connection, it was possible to negotiate export control provisions which in effect mean that Papua New Guinea’s aspirations should be adequately accommodated within the Agreement, lt was determined that some 75 per cent of Papua New Guinea’s exports is of a type of cocoa which is exempted from export controls, while the remaining 25 per cent will not be subject to controls at present because of the small quantity involved. [More…]
Following discussions with the Papua New Guinea Government and the Minister for External Territories, it has been agreed that, pending independence, Papua New Guinea will join with Australia in joint exporter membership of the Agreement. [More…]
Following independence, the Papua New Guinea Government will need to consider the question of separate membership in the Agreement. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea cocoa industry was represented and consulted at all stages of the negotiations and I would like to take this opportunity to thank publicly Mr Poe, the Minister for Trade and Industry, who led the Papua New Guinea representatives at the final Geneva conference. [More…]
We are satisfied that it provides an acceptable basis for Australia’s and Papua New Guinea’s participation and it represents a further important step towards international cooperation in stabilising world commodity markets. [More…]
It is a comprehensive Bill designed to abolish the death penalty for all purposes under Commonwealth law and under the law of all Territories other than Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of a guarantee by the Commonwealth for a borrowing in various currencies equivalent to$US9.8m -$A6.9m - by the Administration of Papua New Guinea from the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
The proceeds of the loan will assist in financing a highways project in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Highlands Highway between Lae and Goroka was completed as a gravel surfaced road in 1965 and is the only access road to the Highlands area which contains almost half the total population of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The loan is the second which the Asian Development Bank has made to the Administration since the admission of Papua New Guinea to membership of the Bank in April 1971. [More…]
The first loan of$US4.5m was for relending to the Papua New Guinea Development Bank and the Commonwealth guarantee for that loan was approved by the Papau New Guinea Loan (Asian Development Bank) Act 1972. [More…]
Borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Administration automatically carry a Commonwealth guarantee by virtue of the operation of section 75a of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1971. [More…]
In practice, however, this provision is usually supplemented in some way for borrowings other than those in Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would mention that at the time of Papua New Guinea’s admission to the Asian Development Bank Australia gave an undertaking to the Bank in accordance with Article 3.3 of the agreement establishing the Bank that, until Papua New Guinea itself assumes responsibility for its own international relations, Australia would be responsible for all obligations that may be incurred by Papua New Guinea by reason of its admission to membership in the Bank and enjoyment of the benefits of such membership. [More…]
In addition to guaranteeing the repayment of principal and payment of interest and other charges on the loan until such time as Papua New Guinea assumes responsibility for its own international relations, the letter gives certain other customary assurances required by the Bank. [More…]
Because these assurances go further than the statutory guarantee already provided under section 75a of the Papua New Guinea Act it is necessary for specific Commonwealth legislation to be passed in order for the assurances to constitute valid and binding obligations of the Commonwealth as required by the Bank. [More…]
2), the Excise Bill and the Papua New Guinea Loan (Asian Development Bank) Bill in that order. [More…]
Perhaps the greatest single need in the Territory of Papua New Guinea, the emerging nation which is now is a state of self-government and which will be coming into full nationhood not very far from now, is communications, and roads would stand pre-eminent in that regard. [More…]
In my time as Minister for Civil Aviation I visited Papua New Guinea on 3 occasions. [More…]
The loan is guaranteed by the Commonwealth for borrowing in various currencies to an amount of $A6,900,000, to be obtained by the Government of Papua New Guinea from the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
Under the guidance of the previous Government Papua New Guinea was encouraged, first of all, -to become a member of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East and, subsequently, to become a member in its own right of the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
Until such time as Papua New Guinea assumes responsibility for its own international relations. [More…]
One could construe from that that the guarantee holds good only until such time as Papua New Guinea assumes its own international status. [More…]
It would be useful for Australia to know whether the guarantee given now holds good for the full term of the loan or whether in any way it is to be set to one side, altered or compromised when the self-governing territory of Papua New Guinea becomes an independent nation in its own right. [More…]
If Papua New Guinea should achieve independence while any part of the loan is outstanding, Australia will use its best endeavours to ensure the continuing security of the loan and the smooth devolution of responsibility with respect thereto. [More…]
I believe we have done a good job, and that Australians should be proud of the activities of their fellow Australians in Papua New Guinea, both in war and peace, irrespective of the governments involved because it has gone on in the period of Liberal governments, Labor governments, and again Liberal governments, and I am sure it will continue during the period of the current Government. [More…]
We have encouraged moves by Papua New Guinea towards self government and independence. [More…]
One could read into that - I do not think this is intended - that if Papua New Guinea were to develop a separate currency system from that of Australia - and this has been mentioned in the past as a possibility - then the reading of that paragraph would make it appear as if it is excluded from consideration of the total debt position. [More…]
We have, as 1 have said, every confidence in the future of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Next, I should like to quote an interesting comment by Mr Julius Chan, the Minister for Finance in Papua New Guinea - a fine man whose friendshipI enjoy - in which he mentions that the kind of financial economic situation that one can look at in Papua New Guinea in the emerging future is to be found in the post-colonial developments in the monetary financial sense of Malaysia and Singapore. [More…]
The general proposition as outlined in Mr Chan’s comments is that Papua New Guinea will be a responsible country in the economic and financial sense and will encourage investment of capital in that country for sensible purposes. [More…]
I would mention that at the time of Papua New Guinea’s admission to the Asian Development Bank Australia gave an undertaking to the Bank in accordance with Article 3.3 of the agreement establishing the Bank that, until Papua New Guinea itself assumes responsibility for its own international relations, Australia would be responsible for all obligations that may be incurred by Papua New Guinea by reason of its admission to membership in the Bank and enjoyment of the benefits of such membership. [More…]
That statement predicates the contemplated situation that when Papua New Guinea assumes political independence a new relationship will develop between Australia and that country in which that country will e considered to be on its own and free from the solicitude, regard and attention that are now being devoted to it by Australia. [More…]
While Papua New Guinea may well achieve political independence very quickly, it will by -no means have achieved economic independence or even complete economic viability. [More…]
Therefore, the Government of this country should still contemplate the fact that, if Papua New Guinea in its present position of what we may call dependence receives guarantees from Australia for the Asian Development Bank to support its loan indebtedness, no vastly different position should be allowed to obtain merely with its emergence into independence. [More…]
Then the position of Papua New Guinea politically, socially and economically could be really bad. [More…]
We trust that this support, which in this case will improve transportation in one of the areas of the world in which transportation at a high level can be of the very greatest significance, will help to build a transport system through the whole of Papua New Guinea so that, with that as a base, economic improvement and expansion can come all the more quickly, readily and effectively to the emerging independent nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would like to take some small part in the debate on the Papua New Guinea Loan (Asian Development Bank) Bill in order to support it and the remarks made by Senator Cotton. [More…]
The details of the measure have been outlined and referred to already, lt is well known that its purpose is to finance a highway project that is designed to serve a region that contains approximately half the population of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As honourable senators probably know, the initiation of projects for international loan proposals falls within the authority of the responsible Minister in the Papua New Guinea Government, and the Commonwealth Government formally guarantees such loans from international agencies. [More…]
Papua New Guinea became a member of the Asian Development Bank in 1971. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is, of course, of vital importance not only to its future economic and social development but also in assisting to bring about a greater sense of what I will call political unity. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is a country of considerable ethnic diversity, and any serious obstacles to communication will be a hindrance to the development of independence. [More…]
I am interested in the speech made by the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare, during the visit of the Australian Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) earlier this year. [More…]
I think that Mr Somare was acknowledging in those words the interdependence that countries such as Australia and Papua New Guinea have in the total area of the international aid program. [More…]
This is the case with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is true to say that we have a special responsibility as independence approaches in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I think that after Papua New Guinea attains independence Australia will assume with it an aid relationship which is similar to those which Australia has at present with other countries. [More…]
In the current financial year our estimated expenditure on external aid amounts to $220m, of which S145m or almost two-thirds goes in various forms of aid to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I do not want to take the discussion on international aid any further than that at this stage because the Bill deals primarily with the activities of the Asian Development Bank, of which Australia is a member and through which it extends assistance to a large number of countries, in particular Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bill gives us a relationship to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Emphasis is placed on our role through the Bank and on the important field of assistance to Papua New Guinea to enable it to become not only a worthy nation in the family of nations but also a very friendly and acceptable neighbour. [More…]
I appreciate the speedy passage of the Bill and the sympathetic remarks which were made by Senator Cotton, Senator Drake-Brockman, Senator Byrne and Senator Davidson about the great problems confronting the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In his speech the Governor-General referred to the creation of an independent united Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Since 2nd December and, more particularly, since the appointment of the Minister for External Territories, there has been a continuing process of giving to Papua New Guinea the indepen dence for which it so bravely worked over so many years. [More…]
By the end of this year there will be very little control by the Australian Government over the affairs of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What was the cost of the aircraft chartered by the Australian Government to take the Prime Minister and his party to the Territory of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia and return. [More…]
The net cost to the Australian Government in respect of the aircraft chartered to take the Prime Minister and his party to Papua New Guinea and Indonesiais expected to be $18,300. [More…]
There is constant communication between all who are interested in the new boundaries between Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
In view of the fact that the Prime Minister has seen fit to confer with the Chief Minister for Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare, on the Torres Strait Islands border issue, and considering the statement attributed to the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs recently in the Press, has the Prime Minister taken any steps to confer with -the leaders of the Torres Strait Islands people and the Queensland Government on a matter which is of great importance in the lives of many Australian citizens? [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to abolish the death penalty from the laws under the jurisdiction of the Australian Parliament, except those of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr President, I would like to present a statement on the constitutional development of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Its aim is to abolish the death penalty from all Commonwealth law except that applicable to the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As a nation Papua New Guinea will need large injections of overseas investments, and the Japanese have plenty of them. [More…]
The fact of their taking an interest - I have not seen it but I accept that a report has been made - would not surprise me because it would be in line with the general attitude of their investment in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It creates news for the media when somebody in Papua New Guinea says: ‘We are not ready, we are being forced into it’ and so on. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of a contractual guarantee by the Australian Government for an overseas borrowing by Papua New Guinea in foreign currencies not exceeding the equivalent of $US20m or $A14.3m. [More…]
Legislation to authorise the borrowing, to be used by the Government of Papua New Guinea to finance public works and services, has already been passed by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly and it is expected that arrangements for the borrowing for which this Bill provides a guarantee will be concluded before the end of this financial year. [More…]
The borrowing will be the first loan raised by Papua New Guinea on international capital markets, although this is not the first time Parliament has been asked to approve the provision of contractual guarantees for overseas borrowings by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Parliament has on several previous occasions approved such guarantees by the Australian Government in respect of loans to Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
All borrowings by Papua New Guinea internally or on the Australian market, or course, carry a statutory guarantee by the Australian Government by virtue of section 75a of the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
One of the loan possibilities currently being investigated by the Papua New Guinea Government is a public bond issue denominated in deutschemarks underwritten by an international syndicate of banking and financial institutions, which makes it necessary to seek parliamentary approval for the provision of the guarantee in advance of the time the issue is actually negotiated. [More…]
There would, therefore, be insufficient time to seek parliamentary approval for the guarantee after the loan agreement has been signed, as has been the normal practice with guarantees for loans to Papua New Guinea by the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
The form of guarantee that is customarily required in international capital markets is similar to those that have been given to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and to the Asian Development Bank in respect of borrowings by Papua New Guinea from those institutions. [More…]
The Bill is purposely couched in general terms in respect of the currency and the precise form of the proposed borrowing so as not to restrict Papua New Guinea’s choice as to the particular overseas market in which it finally decided to arrange the loan. [More…]
In present circumstances, it seems probable that the cost of an overseas borrowing by Papua New Guinea will not differ greatly from the cost of a borrowing for a comparable term from institutional sources in Australia. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government wishes to undertake an overseas borrowing as soon as possible to establish a favourable standing in international capital markets before it becomes independent, as this could enhance its borrowing prospects thereafter. [More…]
A contractual guarantee by the Australian Government for such a borrowing should ensure the success of this first issue and will materially assist Papua New Guinea in furthering this longer term objective. [More…]
The 1971 agreement, which was signed on 18th May 1971, delimits the seabed between Australia and Indonesia in the Arafura Sea and between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia off the southern and northern coasts of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The boundaries relating to Papua New Guinea were approved in 1971 by the Administrator’s Executive Council. [More…]
The 1973 agreement, which was signed on 12th February 1973 by the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare, one behalf of the Australian Government, deals with the land boundary of Papua New Guinea, and with the seabed boundary immediately south of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The 1973 agreement provides in addition that the seabed boundary lines shall also serve, so rar as necessary, as the lateral boundaries of the territorial seas and exclusive fishing zones of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. [More…]
The 1973 agreement has been approved by the Administrator’s Executive Council of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
ment expressly envisages that the approval of the agreement by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly is to be obtained before Australian ratification of the agreement takes place. [More…]
The seabed boundaries set out in the 3 agreements differ in some respects from the limits of Australian and Papua New Guinea adjacent areas’ described in the Schedules to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act. [More…]
In the case of Papua NewGuinea, there is a net gain to Papua New Guinea in the seabed area to the south, while in the north some re-adjustment in favour of Indonesia is required. [More…]
Passage of this amending legislation will allow the Government to ratify the 1971 and 1972 agreements with Indonesia and ratification of the third agreement will follow, subject to the approval of that agreement by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
We now have a boundary which extends from an area north of Papua New Guinea through the Arafura and Timor seas to a point north-west of Aus tralia, incomplete only in the area opposite Portuguese Timor. [More…]
Fifth, Australia has a very special responsibility for Papua New Guinea which will soon be self-governing and independent. [More…]
It is important, therefore, that Australia should leave Papua New Guinea with industrial laws which accord with international standards. [More…]
There are several conventions of particular significance for Papua New Guinea which can only be extended lo Papua New Guinea and our other non-metropolitan territories when they have been ratified in respect of Australia itself. [More…]
The ratification of a number of ILO conventions was discussed with the States - at Ministerial level at the meeting of Commonwealth and State Labour Ministers in February and at Permanent Head level at the meeting of the Departments of Labour Advisory Committee held in Papua New Guinea in April. [More…]
Thus the Government is consulting with the Government of Papua New Guinea to clear up outstanding action required in respect of ILO conventions ratified by Australia. [More…]
For the first time a tripartite observer delegation from Papua New Guinea will be attending this year’s session of the International Labour Conference and the Minister for Labour anticipates that in company with the Minister for Labour of Papua New Guinea and the other members of the Papua New Guinea delegation he will be able to register with the Director-General of the ILO a considerable number of declarations on ILO conventions for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to provide a contractual guarantee by the Australian Government for an overseas borrowing by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government, in its emergent state, proposes to undertake an overseas borrowing, whereas in previous years it has depended upon the resources being provided to it either by what I might call grants in aid, revenue grants or subsistence in loan form from the Australian Government which, for a period of time, has been its guardian or trustee. [More…]
I think that the Australian people, through a variety of governments and a variety of political philosophies, have a great deal to be proud of for the the record which they have achieved in connection with the emergent nation of Papua New Guinea under trusteeship, under guardianship or under custodianship - call it what you will. [More…]
What is happening in Papua New Guinea is this: The overseas borrowing is being contracted by the emergent nation under a kind of custodianship by the Australian Government and it will be successful not because of the reputation of the emergent nation but because of the reputation of the parent, custodian or guardian and because of the guarantee by that guardian. [More…]
The proceeds of the loan will be made available to finance public works and services in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The legislation to authorise the borrowing has already been passed by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
It will be the first loan raised by Papua New Guinea on the international capital market, but it is not the first time that we, as a parliament, have been asked to approve borrowings by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
To the Treasurer (Mr Crean) I must pay a personal compliment and say that he responded to ray queries about the currency situation when the Senate was debating the Papua New Guinea Loan (Asian Development Bank) Bill. [More…]
He sent me an explanation of the relative positions of the currency of Papua New Guinea as it is now and what it might be in the future that was quite satisfactory to me. [More…]
Borrowings by Papua New Guinea internally or on the Australian market carry a statutory guarantee. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is investigating the possibility of raising its loan in deutsche marks. [More…]
One would understand that perhaps the thing to be considered here is that Papua New Guinea needs to have implicit in its negotiations the understanding that Australia will underwrite it. [More…]
Therefore I think the Senate is properly entitled, in accordance with past practice, to give Papua New Guinea that implicit understanding as it proceeds towards finalising the negotiations, particularly on an overseas market in a part of the world which is .new to it. [More…]
The comment has been made that the Bill is purposely couched in general terms in respect of the currency and the precise format of the proposed borrowing, that it- is done so as not to restrict the choice of Papua New Guinea in borrowing on a particular overseas capital market from which it may finally decide to arrange its loan. [More…]
The comment was that in present circumstances it seems probable that the cost of overseas borrowing by Papua New Guinea will not differ greatly from the cost of borrowing a comparable term loan from an institutional source in Australia. [More…]
1 am delighted to hear that Papua New Guinea will not have to pay more interest on the money that it borrows than it would have to pay if the money were borrowed from a normal Australian source which may have some bond with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If that is the case, I think that to some extent it is probably due to the fact that Papua New Guinea has an Australian guarantee and an Australian underwriting. [More…]
One would wish Papua New Guinea to have that guarantee and underwriting so that it can obtain the lowest effective rate of interest possible in the international capital markets. [More…]
The point has been made - I think it is a good point - that Papua New Guinea needs to establish its standing as a borrower in the international capital market. [More…]
That view seems to me to be quite sensible and I believe that Papua New Guinea should be supported in that respect. [More…]
In establishing itself as a borrower Papua New Guinea will depend upon the quality of its guarantor. [More…]
Legislation authorising that has already been passed by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
It is likely that by the end of this financial year Papua New Guinea will receive a deutsche mark loan on which the interest rate is not higher than the rate at which a loan would be available from an Australian source. [More…]
could regard the Australian capital situation today as being of such magnitude, due to the wise and efficient operations of the economy by the previous Government, that the Government could permit a capital loan to be made to the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But Papua New Guinea has alternative ways of obtaining money. [More…]
For the reasons I have mentioned Papua New Guinea needs to establish itself internationally as a borrower. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is a nation which is emerging towards not only political independence but also, to a large measure, economic and social independence. [More…]
This measure will provide ongoing finance to Papua New Guinea in its present state and the contractual implications will continue with the new Papua New Guinea in its independent situation. [More…]
Also I would be interested to know what will be the future policy of Australia in relation to further finance being made available to the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would like to know whether this Bill is to be the first of a series of ongoing financial provisions of a particular kind so that Australia may persist in its solicitude for Papua New Guinea, or whether it will be the last provision of this character to be made available, after which Papua New Guinea will be internationally a nation that can go on to the world market and secure its own loans. [More…]
When 1 speak of Papua New Guinea having political, financial and economic independence I do so in a theoretical sense. [More…]
Will Australia still act in some condition of patrimony towards Papua New Guinea? [More…]
It is important for Papua New Guinea to know the answers to those questions and for this Parliament to know them. [More…]
For that reason I would be obliged if the Minister, in his reply, will indicate what is to be the future financial relationship between the emerging nation of Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
The purpose of this legislation is to give effect to a series of decisions reached jointly with the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
These are to transfer responsibility for the Public Service and for auditing the accounts of Papua New Guinea to local executive authority, to implement the recommendations of a report on the future of overseas officers in the Public Service and to make minor amendments to the description of Papua New Guinea in conformity with the terms of the border agreement between Australia and Indonesia signed in February 1973. [More…]
One is to amend the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
Firstly, they will remove the power of the Minister for External Territories under section 30 to appoint officers and engage persons on contract for the Public Service, thus enabling Papua New Guinea to legislate to develop its own national public service - an essential authority for a country approaching full selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
This section will be superfluous with the passage of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill, to which I will refer later. [More…]
Thirdly, the amendments provide for the cessation of Australian responsibility for auditing the accounts of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This will retain authority for the Australian Auditor-General to complete his final audit, and enable the Papua New Guinea Auditor to commence his responsibilities at the beginning of an appropriate financial period. [More…]
The amendments to the descriptions of the Territories of Papua and of New Guinea are in accordance with the Agreement, concluded with the concurrence of the Papua New Guinea Administrator’s Executive Council and signed on behalf of Australia by the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I now turn to the Bill entitled the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill. [More…]
This Bill is complementary to the proposed amendments to the Papua New Guinea Act and is designed, to come into operation on the date on which responsibility for the Public Service is transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
At the present time there are some 5,000 permanent and contract overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service and the Police Force who were appointed as permanent officers or engaged on contract by the Minister for External Territories. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government has indicated that it wants to retain the services of many of these officers and that it sees a continuing need for staff from Australia for some years beyond independence. [More…]
The Aus tralian Government has given an undertaking to Papua New Guinea that the help of Australians will be available for as long as that help is needed and desired. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill provides the framework under which this may be accomplished and gives effect to the recommendations of a report on the future employment security of overseas officers in the Public Service. [More…]
His report was accepted in principle by both the Australian, and Papua New Guinea Governments and was published. [More…]
Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance). [More…]
Bill, in giving effect to the Simpson recommendations, reflects a decision taken jointly by Papua New Guinea and the former Australian Government and endorsed by the present .Government. [More…]
Its provisions will result in major changes to the: existing framework under which the Australian Government provides staff for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Under the Bill permanent and contract overseas officers and temporary overseas employee superannuation fund contributors in the Public Service and the Police Force, and staff of the Electricity Commission of Papua New Guinea who are superannuation contributors, will be separated from their respective Papua New Guinea services and will become part of an Australian staffing assistance group. [More…]
The persons in this group will not be members of the national Public Service of Papua New Guinea and they will not compete with local officers for promotion within that Service. [More…]
They will however be made available to occupy and carry out the duties of established positions in the Papua New Guinea national public service and in other areas of public employment until there are Papua New Guineans available to fill these positions and their services are no longer required. [More…]
Papua New Guinea and for the period of that service they will form part of the Australian staffing assistance group. [More…]
Similarly, staff seconded from other areas of Australian public employment will also serve in the group in line with Australia’s undertaking to provide continued staffing assistance to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Removal of these matters from Papua New Guinea legislation and their prescription under Australian legislation will meet the assurances given to these officers by the Australian Government that their terms and conditions of service would not be altered without the consent of the Australian Government. [More…]
A scheme of compensation for premature termination of contracts of employment made by the Minister under the Papua New Guinea Act will also be introduced. [More…]
Pending the introduction of regulations prescribing terms and conditions of employment it provides for the continuation of the relevant provisions of appropriate Papua New Guinea ordinances and the regulations and determinations made thereunder. [More…]
Insofar as superannuation, retirement and employment security benefits are concerned the Bill continues certain provisions in the existing Papua New Guinea law and preserves the continuity of pensions and the rights of contributors. [More…]
It is essential that the provisions of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill and the necessary regulations to be made thereunder become operative on the date on which responsibility for the Public Service is transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government is proceeding with complementary Papua New Guinea legislation to establish a national public service and the object is that both the Australian and Papua New Guinea legislation will commence concurrently. [More…]
In this matter we are working with our neighbours in Indonesia, in Papua New Guinea and, to a lesser extent, in Portuguese Timor. [More…]
It is proposed that formal ratification of the agreement negotiated in February 1973 should not take place before the agreement is expressed by the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Had there been consultations also with the emerging nation of Papua New Guinea? [More…]
We had taken particular trouble to put him in what I would call the top position to do that because we, had been at great pains to ensure that the representatives of Papua New Guinea were kept closely involved in this matter at all stages. [More…]
I imagine that Senator Wriedt will be able to assure us that the practice of putting Papua New Guinea, for its own interests, in the responsible position of doing the signing will remain in the future if we are so involved at any later stage. [More…]
I suppose that the principal point which emerges from the overall view that we have of this legislation, following its passage without opposition in the other place, is to ensure that contact with Papua New Guinea is kept at a high level and that the authorities of Papua New Guinea are not ignored. [More…]
I mention in passing that in recent matters, particularly in the area of civil aviation with which I was involved, I had the impression that the authorities in Papua New Guinea had been ignored and that they were being pressured. [More…]
I shall leave to others to refer to particular areas of interest in regard to Queensland and Papua New Guinea should they feel disposed to do so. [More…]
There is apparently agreement between Indonesia and Australia on this proposal and also between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. [More…]
The 1973 agreement, however, was made between the Australian Government and Mr Michael Somare, the Chief Minister of the Territory of Papua New Guinea, lt is a new agreement and, unfortunately, honourable senators have not been provided with maps of the proposed areas. [More…]
However, before I agree to the demarcation line between Australia - principally Queensland - and the Territory of Papua New Guinea I should like to see those maps. [More…]
Before I could go along with any suggestion of a demarcation line on the seabed between Queensland and Papua New Guinea I would want to be assured that all the Torres Strait islands are included in the Australian section. [More…]
I would like to make it clear that no maps are available of the boundary between Australia and the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In view of the Minister’s assurance that there has been no change whatever in the continental shelf seabed boundary between Australia and the Territory of Papua New Guinea - I ask him to confirm that when he replies at the close of this debate - I am happy to go along with the Bill on the basis of his assurance that all the Torres Strait Islands and their, surrounding, areas will remain as part of Australia under the agreement that is now being ratified between Australia and Mr Somare, on behalf of the Territory of Papua New. [More…]
I hope that the delineation of our agreed boundaries on the seabed, will be of lasting benefit to Australia, to our neighbour Indonesia and to the future independent country of Papua New Guinea.I, hope that we can now go ahead with prospecting for and trying to win any riches ; and resources that that seabed may contain. [More…]
I hope that this will be of lasting benefit to the 2 existing nations and to the future independent country of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The final agreement was signed on 12 February this year; it concerned certain boundaries between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. [More…]
After the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) made his second reading speech, maps were made available to honourable senators which show that the boundary extends from the area north of Papua New Guinea through the Arafura and Timor Seas to a point at which the boundary is incomplete. [More…]
I can understand the concern of Senator, Lawrie about the boundary lines between Queensland and Papua New Guinea, but I hope that the same goodwill, the same tolerance and the same width of vision that have been shown in this piece of legislation will be extended into that area and that everyone will benefit and no one will lose by any future arrangements that are made concerning the boundaries of our territorial rights and the sea bed generally. [More…]
1 am interested in the 2 north-south lines on the map of the main continent of Papua New Guinea and West Irian. [More…]
I would like to know from the Minister for Primary Industry (Senator Wriedt) whether the line with the words ‘1973 Agreement’ written along it indicates the existing agreed land border between West Irian and Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Our civil aid and defence policies will have a particular bearing on Australia’s future relationship with Papua New Guinea, whose independence will be achieved, I confidently expect, in the closest consultation with the Government and House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea by 1975. [More…]
Though the constitutional link has not yet been severed, we shall increasingly consider our policies towards Papua New Guinea not in any nostalgic colonial sense, but as though we were already dealing with a fully independent state. [More…]
In the period before independence the Government will do everything possible to meet Australia’s obligations under the Trusteeship Agreement and to ensure the smooth and amicable transfers of power to the Government of a united Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We very well know how important this period is for the foundation of Australia’s future relationship with the independent nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea will occupy a special position on Australia’s network of relationships, but we do not seek an exclusive relationship with . [More…]
Papua New Guinea which will want to find its own place in the international community; As Papua New Guinea’s foreign service develops and as its range of international interests grow, we shall be ready to help where we can and as we are asked. [More…]
Papua New Guinea will have the first call on our foreign aid program and we shall work closely with the Central Government of Papua New Guinea through a specific and guaranteed economic program. [More…]
We shall, however, place no inhibitions whatsoever on the Government of Papua New Guinea in seeking aid or investment from any country she may choose to invite to take part in her development. [More…]
We are also anxious that outstanding questions relating to Papua New Guinea’s borders should be settled at an early date so that, when independence is attained, Papua New Guinea’s relations with its near neighbours will not be plagued by the kind of territorial disputes which in other parts of the world have done so much to hinder the development of fruitful and mutually beneficial 1 clarions between close neighbours. [More…]
We welcome the successful delineation of the Papua New Guinea-Indonesia border and attach considerable importance to the early negotiation of administrative arrangements between AustraliaPapua New Guinea and Indonesia to avoid potential sources of friction on the Papua New Guinea-Indonesian border. [More…]
I regret that despite my Government’s best endeavours early progress towards agreement on the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea seems unlikely and final agreement may have to await Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
As well as the close personal, official and political links that have grown between Australia and Papua New Guinea, there are several strong common interests which we share. [More…]
Similarly in the other area of close interest to both of us, the South Pacific, we should, in the future, seek with Papua New Guinea and our other friends in the Pacific to build on progress so far achieved in developing regional co-operation, friendship and partnership. [More…]
Forum attended by both Papua New Guinea and Australia was a useful step in this direction. [More…]
This year’s overseas missions to ‘ New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the South Pacific Forum, Britain, the Vatican. [More…]
National Airlines Commission, aerial work and charter operations, and operations in Papua New Guinea after independence. [More…]
In addition, it provides for the other activities on which there is agreement that TAA should have full powers, namely: (a) aerial work operations; (b) the operation of hotels and other forms of accommodation; (c) joint operations with other carriers; (d) air transport operations in Papua New Guinea, after that country becomes independent, under arrangements which are agreed between the Commonwealth and the Government of that country; and (e) engineering services for outside organisations. [More…]
6m for the Department of Education of which $5m has been provided for Commonwealth scholarship schemes to cover increases in university fees and the extension of the Aboriginal Secondary Grants Scheme to all children of Aboriginal descent attending secondary schools and classes from the beginning of 1973; $2.5m for education services in the Australian Capital Territory and $700,000 for educational ser vices in the Northern Territory; $3m for the Department of External Territories to cover special assistance to facilitate the transfer of functions to the Papua New Guinea Administration, emergency assistance to alleviate food shortages in the Papua New Guinea highlands and salary increases for overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service; $5. [More…]
A consequential and sensible amount of money is appropriated to cover food aid in the recent difficulties in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The scheme for servicemen is based on and is compatible with the superannuation scheme for the Papua New Guinea Public Service and police force that came into operation on 1 January, 1972, which will also be the commencing date for the servicemen’s scheme. [More…]
Between 1959 and 1963, Ansett acquired Butler Airways in New South Wales, Queensland Airlines, Guinea Airways in South Australia, Mandated Airlines in Papua New Guinea and a controlling interest in Macrobertson Miller Airlines in Western Australia. [More…]
The other major route award was from ‘Port Moresby to Bougainville in Papua New Guinea, where TAA was carrying a large volume of traffic associated with the development of copper mining operations on its monopoly air routes. [More…]
TAA also asked for the right to operate in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
An apparent technical deficiency in the provisions governing the taxing of dividends is being remedied by the Bill so that an exempting provision clearly applies in respect of dividends out of profits from gold mining, but not other types of mining, in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Section 77d of the Income Tax Assessment Act makes deductions available to residents of Australia for capital subscribed directly, or through interposed companies, to companies engaged in mining or prospecting for oil or other minerals in Australia or Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Under section 77c, and provisions which preceded it, deductions are allowable to residents and non-residents alike for one-third of amounts paid as calls to companies engaged in prospecting for minerals in Australia or Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He says that half an hour will be provided for the Papua New Guinea Bill and the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill. [More…]
Schedule 3 contains the amendment adopted in July 1964 which provides for strengthened obligations on the part of ILO member States with responsibility for non-metropolitan territories like Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There are 2 Bills which have 3 broad purposes which may be stated as follows: The first is to transfer responsibility for the Public Service and for the auditing of the accounts of Papua New Guinea to the local executive authority; the second is to implement the recommendations of a report on the future of overseas officers who are in the Papua New Guinea Public Service; and the third is to make minor amendments to the description of Papua New Guinea in conformity with the terms of the border agreement entered into between Australia and Indonesia signed in February 1973. [More…]
I think it is fair to say that the first 2 objectives, that is, the transferring of responsibility for the Public Service and the Auditor-General to the Papua New Guinea Administration and for making arrangements whereby the Australian personnel in the new Papua New Guinea Public Service may have their future provided for when independence arrives, are matters which were determined upon and resolved by the previous Government before the present Government took office. [More…]
He had only 2 predecessors as Ministers responsible for Papua New Guinea over the last 20 years of the LiberalCountry Party Government. [More…]
What has been achieved by Australia in the gradual evolution to a stage where self government has virtually been reached by the people of Papua New Guinea is nothing short of remarkable and must rate as one of the great achievements in bringing to a state of selfgovernment peoples who are generally regarded as colonial peoples. [More…]
I ask those who wish to knock the former Liberal-Country Party Government, to denigrate it and refer to it as a government which was not acting in accordance with the thinking of the times, to consider what has been done in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The nation is conscious of the fact that self government in and the independence of Papua New Guinea are being proceeded with expeditiously. [More…]
When in Opposition, we on this side of the Senate today were highly critical of the performance of the then Government with respect o Papua New Guinea for a lengthy period. [More…]
I will agree that the nation owes a debt of gratitude to Mr Peacock for his work in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
All in all we have agreed, as has been stated by the Administration in Papua New Guinea - Mr Somare and others - that a truly remarkable performance in the interests of both countries was made by Mr Peacock. [More…]
Mr Peacock’s admirable work has been furthered by the present Minister for External Territories (Mr Morrison) who is proceeding efficiently in the same spirit to carry out our national objectives and the desire of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Nationwide Air Services Pty Ltd of Sydney has been appointed distributor for the Nomad aircraft in Australia, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Fiji and adjacent Pacific island territories. [More…]
Agreement between Australia and Indonesia concerning Certain Boundaries between Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, signed at Djakarta on 12 February 1973. [More…]
The Government has already said that it will continue to honour existing financial guarantees to Papua New Guinea after independence. [More…]
But does it also intend to assist the financial needs of Papua New Guinea after independence by providing guarantees for new Papua New Guinea government borrowings on the Australian or overseas markets? [More…]
What was the total amount of money appropriated to Papua New Guinea in 1972-73. [More…]
What proportion of the Papua New Guinea budget is the above amount. [More…]
What proportion of the amount appropriated to Papua New Guinea was for activities associated with civil aviation. [More…]
Is any of the amount referred to in (3) used for payment of Australian Department of Civil Aviation personnel serving in Papua New Guinea; if so, how much. [More…]
The votes for several Departments in 1972-73 provide for expenditures in or on behalf of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is not therefore possible to say precisely how much was appropriated for Papua New Guinea in 1972-73. [More…]
However, itis currently estimated that a total of more than $171,000,000 will be expended in or on behalf of Papua New Guinea by the Australian Government in 1972-73. [More…]
The remainder reflects direct expenditures in Papua New Guinea by various Australian Departments like Civil Aviation, Works and Defence which have been performing certain functions of government in that country. [More…]
The responsibility for most of these functions is now in the process of being transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
However, of the amount mentioned in (1) above, only $78,300,000 or 35 per cent will actually pass through the Papua New Guinea budget. [More…]
How many indigenous persons are employed in clerical positions by the Department of Civil Aviation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
What training of indigenous personnel is being undertaken to fill policy positions in Civil Aviation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
How many indigenous persons have been trained in Australia to undertake matters associated with aviation policy after Papua New Guinea becomes an independent nation. [More…]
The reason is that no appropriately qualified persons with the required potential have been made available by the Papua New Guinea Administration. [More…]
The Department has been pressing the Papua New Guinea Administration for some time now for suitable personnel to be made available for specialised training in the Central Office of the Department in Melbourne. [More…]
The Department will commence this training immediately the Papua New Guinea Administration makes available suitable personnel. [More…]
As indicated above, no persons are being specifically trained in Australia to occupy senior civil aviation policy positions in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The College is residential and there are at present 106 students in residence including 35 trade apprentices and three trainees undertaking studies at the University of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In Papua New Guinea there is now a clear movement towards final independence and we are closely involved with the Government there in discussions about the development of their defence force. [More…]
The process of localisation is proceeding effectively and at an increasing pace, although Papua New Guinea is likely to continue to require assistance from Australia for some time to come. [More…]
No threat of external military attack against Papua New Guinea is foreseen and we see no major risk to Australia’s security arising there. [More…]
Regarding internal security, honourable members will have noted the important statement on 20 August by the Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations in the Papua New Guinea Government, Mr Kiki. [More…]
The present maritime force is centred around 11 effective destroyers; one aircraft carrier backed by 19 fixed- wing attack aircraft and 15 fixed and 21 rotary-wing anti-submarine aircraft; 2 RAAF long range maritime patrol aircraft squadrons totalling 22 aircraft; 15 patrol boats (an additional 5 operate in the Papua New Guinea Division); and 4 submarines. [More…]
Part of the Teaching Service may in future form the expatriate teaching service in Papua New Guinea, carrying responsibility for secondary and technical education there. [More…]
Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators, I present the report of the Committee on Banking in Papua New Guinea, dated November 1972. [More…]
I present also a copy of the statement issued on 10 April this year entitled Banking Arrangements in Papua New Guinea’. [More…]
The Tuesday following Easter was an authorised holiday for Australian Public Servants in the Australian Capital Territory, Queensland and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In view of the fact that Papua New Guinea soon will receive independence, has the Australian Government made any attempts to make that country better known abroad? [More…]
Will the Australian Government be taking any steps to help Papua New Guinea publicise its coming independence? [More…]
Recently after it was shown in New York at the Museum of Modern Art, there was considerable publicity for Papua New Guinea throughout the United States of America. [More…]
I can tell the honourable senator also that a new information post has been established by my Department in Papua New Guinea and it is expected that an officer will be appointed there in the near future. [More…]
Shortly after the close of the last financial year the Public Service Board approved of the establishment of an information office in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Photographers were also attached to the Prime Minister’s party for visits to Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and India, and to various Ministers for official tours within Australia. [More…]
Papua New Guinea. [More…]
No decision has yet been taken on the question of whether or not the Australian Government should continue to guarantee borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government on the Australian and overseas capital markets after that country becomes independent. [More…]
It would be most unusual for one sovereign government to guarantee the external borrowings of another sovereign government but this matter will be considered when the detailed arrangements for independence are drawn up after Papua New Guinea becomes self-governing later this year. [More…]
As stated by the honourable senator, the Australian Government will continue in the post independence period to honour the guarantees we will have provided for borrowings entered into by the Papua New Guinea Government before that time. [More…]
At the present time borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government which have been guaranteed by the Australian Government amount to more than $300m, including principal and interest. [More…]
Its purpose is to bring about formal self-government in Papua New Guinea by amending the Papua New Guinea Act and by providing the means by which other Australian legislation may be discontinued in its application to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This legislation marks a significant step towards nationhood for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In addition there are 2 Bills which amend specific Australian Acts in their application to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
These amendments result from agreements reached between Australia and Papua New Guinea for the transfer of the function of the Bureau of Meteorology to Papua New Guinea and the exclusion of that country from the operation of the Wireless Telegraphy Act. [More…]
The amendments proposed to the Papua New Guinea Act are certainly historic, but the changes brought about are more symbolic than substantive. [More…]
In practice Papua New Guinea is virtually self-governing now. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Ministers are at present exercising full responsibilities for most of the functions of internal selfgovernment. [More…]
Each action taken by the Australian Government in moving to self-government in Papua New Guinea has been a deliberate one in a continuing process of transferring responsibility to where it rightly belongs- with the elected representatives of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Australia has involved the Papua New Guinea Government progressively in the full spectrum of government activities- not just in those areas over which final authority has passed. [More…]
Turning first to the Bill to amend the Papua New Guinea Act, the amendments contained in this Bill are designed to bring about a formal state of self-government in Papua New Guinea and for the most part will be brought into effect on the agreed date for self-government. [More…]
The previous Australian Government accepted the wishes of Papua New Guinea that the date for self-government be 1 December or as soon as possible thereafter. [More…]
The first is that the legislation we are considering concerns the structure of government in Papua New Guinea, another country, which has a character and an identity of its own. [More…]
Secondly, the amending Bill in the main merely enacts in formal legislative form the de facto situation which has already come about with constitutional development in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This situation has come about, of course, by agreement with the previous Government as well as this one that there should be a progressive transfer of power from Australia to Papua New Guinea Ministers. [More…]
The Bill provides that the Administration will be known as the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Clause 5 also provides that the Papua New Guinea Government is a corporate entity which is able to sue and be sued, and make contracts and agreements by that name. [More…]
The title of the Administrator of Papua New Guinea will be changed to that of the High Commissioner. [More…]
The Bill provides in Clause 8 that subject to the Act the Government shall be administered by the High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
During the self-governing period, the High Commissioner will have 2 functions- those of embryo ‘Head of State’ for Papua New Guinea and those of the Australian Representative. [More…]
This accords with the normal constitutional position of Papua New Guinea as a selfgoverning territory of Australia. [More…]
This broadening of its authority reflects current practice agreed by the previous government and this government that when independence comes there will be no area of government in which Papua New Guinea will be unfamiliar or lack experience. [More…]
Clause 1 1 reflects changes requested by Papua New Guinea in the composition of the Executive. [More…]
By agreement with Papua New Guinea, defence and foreign relations will remain reserved to Australia until independence. [More…]
However, again in accordance with agreements reached with Papua New Guinea, provision has been made for the proclamation at self-government of other functions which it may be necessary to reserve pending completion of any legislative and administrative steps both in Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
Such functions will be proclaimed only after agreement with Papua New Guinea and as soon as the administrative and legislative details have been completed these functions will be transferred to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The High Commissioner’s role in the reserved areas will be similar to the Administrator’s present role in the government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As such he will be responsible within Papua New Guinea for these functions on behalf of Australia and will be subject to the directions of the Australian Government. [More…]
Nevertheless, in accordance with the policies of the previous government and this Government, Papua New Guinea Ministers will be closely and fully involved in the reserved functions. [More…]
The creation of this portfolio and the appointment to it of a Papua New Guinea Minister will ensure that Papua New Guinea will have first hand involvement and experience in these key reserved areas, well before independence. [More…]
In the light of these changes and in response to a request by the Papua New Guinea Government, the Bill by clause 23 amends the Papua New Guinea Act to make provision for the laws of the House of Assembly to be called Acts’ rather than ‘Ordinances’ if the House decides to adopt this nomenclature. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government has requested that the qualifications of persons who may be appointed as judges of the Supreme Court be extended. [More…]
Amendments under clause 28 will allow lawyers with at least 5 years standing, and judges of courts of unlimited jurisdiction within any legal system similar to that of Papua New Guinea to be apointed Clause 26 provides forjudges to be appointed on contract for a fixed term. [More…]
Such provisions will allow Papua New Guinea to call on overseas expertise for as long as it takes its own legal profession to provide a sufficient number of judges. [More…]
At present all loans raised by the Papua New Guinea Government are guaranteed by Australia by virtue of the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
I now turn to the second Bill we are consideringthe Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Bill. [More…]
Honourable senators will be aware that there are a number of Acts of the Australian Parliament which have application in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Some of these Acts apply because the Australian Parliament has expressly extended them to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Other Acts have application insofar as some sections of them apply to people, things or situations in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
All these Acts form part of the internal law of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
During self-government Papua New Guinea should be entitled to have the final say on what laws apply within its boundaries, except of course laws in the reserved areas. [More…]
Thus the application of those Australian Acts which would be inconsistent with the status of a self-governing Papua New Guinea should, so far as practicable, be discontinued. [More…]
The only practicable solution is to permit the making of regulations effectively to cease the application to Papua New Guinea of Australian Acts. [More…]
It is proposed by this Bill that the GovernorGeneral be empowered to make regulations ceasing the operation of Australian Acts in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Acts to be dealt with are only those which form part of the internal law of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
To avoid the situation whereby the cessation of an Australian Act would leave a vacuum in the law of Papua New Guinea, it is proposed that the application of an Australian Act, particularly for which there is no Papua New Guinea counterpart, will in general not be discontinued until and unless that cessation has been approved by the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
When any Act ceases to apply to Papua New Guinea by regulation, the Act will still apply to Australia. [More…]
It may be that some aspects of that Act, as part of Australian law, but no longer as part of Papua New Guinea law, will require amendment to protect the rights under Australian law of persons, matters or things connected with Papua New Guinea, or to make provision for the occurrence of matters in Papua New Guinea affecting Australia but not Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr President, I now turn to the 2 other Bills which affect Papua New Guinea- the Wireless Telegraphy Bill and the Meteorology Bill. [More…]
Briefly both Bills have been drafted to allow for the exclusion of Papua New Guinea from the provisions of the respective Acts by notice in the Gazette. [More…]
Papua New Guinea and Australia have agreed that both Acts should be discontinued in their application to Papua New Guinea at a mutually agreed time. [More…]
The reasons for this are the enactment by Papua New Guinea of a radiocommunications ordinance dealing with matters covered by the Wireless Telegraphy Act and the transfer to Papua New Guinea of meteorological functions formerly carried out by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. [More…]
The amendment to the Meteorology Act provides for the Bureau to continue co-operation with the Papua New Guinea meteorological services. [More…]
Mr President, the Papua New Guinea Bill and the other Bills I have detailed form the first of the 2 stages which will bring formal self-government to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The second stage which will culminate in May or June next year will be the consideration and adoption by the House of Assembly of a Constitution prepared by the Constitutional Planning Committee and the subsequent amendment by this Parliament of the Papua New Guinea Act to make the Act consistent with that Constitution. [More…]
These Bills, the adoption of the Constitution, subsequent amendment of the Papua New Guinea Act next year, and the final step of independence, are all integral stages in the continuous development of Papua New Guinea from dependency to nationhood. [More…]
The June 1 973 meeting of the United Nations Trusteeship Council endorsed the views of the Papua New Guinea and Australian Governments on the role of the House of Assembly in important constitutional decisions. [More…]
The Council noted the agreement between the Governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea that resolutions in the House of Assembly on important constitutional issues will be by a recorded vote and by a substantial majority representative of the nation as a whole. [More…]
On the timing of independence, the Council noted Australia’s view that there are 2 elements involved in the determination of the question of independence: The view of Australia, and the views of the people of Papua New Guinea as expressed through their elected representatives in the House of Assembly. [More…]
The Council noted that Australia expects independence to come by 1975, and that it should be achieved in the closest consultation with the Government and the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I remind honourable senators that the United Nations General Assembly in 1972 asked Australia to fix a timetable for independence in consultation with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr President, the Bills now before the Senate detail the legislative steps that Australia has to take to enable Papua New Guinea to be formally self-governing before the end of this year. [More…]
These measures are in accordance with requests by the Papua New Guinea Government and the House of Assembly, and have been accepted by the previous Australian Government. [More…]
The amendment of the Papua New Guinea Act will formalise the self-governing status of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of contractual guarantees by the Australian Government for overseas borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government in foreign currencies not exceeding the equivalent of $A24 million in 1973-74. [More…]
The proceeds of the loans will be used by the Papua New Guinea Government to finance public works and services. [More…]
Legislation to authorise the borrowings has already been passed by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
Last financial year the Papua New Guinea Government made its first overseas borrowing on the international capital market. [More…]
The Parliament has also on a number of previous occasions approved similar contractual guarantees by the Australian Government in respect of loans to Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
All borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government, of course, carry a statutory guarantee by the Australian Government by virtue of section 75A of the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
Several loan possibilities on overseas markets are currently being investigated by the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
The form of guarantee that is customarily required in international capital markets is similar to those that have been given to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and to the Asian Development Bank in respect of borrowings by Papua New Guinea from those institutions. [More…]
The Bill is purposely couched in general terms in respect of the currencies and the precise forms of the proposed borrowings so as not to restrict the Papua New Guinea Government’s choice as to the particular overseas market or markets in which it finally decides to arrange the loans. [More…]
In present circumstances, it is expected that the overall cost of the borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government will be somewhat less than the cost of borrowings for comparable periods form institutional sources in Australia. [More…]
The provision of contractual guarantees by the Australian Government will materially assist Papua New Guinea in negotiating favourable terms for the borrowings as well as enhancing its status as a borrower on overseas capital markets after it becomes independent. [More…]
This Banking Bill is one of four Australian bills required to transfer the responsibility for the control and supervision of banking in Papua New Guinea to the Papua New Guinea Government and its authorities and to pave the way for the establishment of a separate Papua New Guinea banking system and central bank. [More…]
At present the Australian Government’s legislation, namely, the Reserve Bank Act, the Banking Act and the Commonwealth Banks Act, extends to Papua New Guinea and, accordingly, the responsibility for control and supervision of banking in that country rests with the Australian Government and, in particular, with the Reserve Bank of Australia. [More…]
The effect of these Bills will be to withdraw the application of this Australian legislation to Papua New Guinea at a date to be agreed with the Papua New Guinea Government and to facilitate the transfer of responsibilities. [More…]
It will also open the way for the development of a banking and financial system appropriate to the particular needs and circumstances of Papua New Guinea and will ensure control by Papua New Guineans in the planning of future developments in these areas. [More…]
The development of a separate banking system for Papua New Guinea was the subject of a detailed examination by a committee of Australian and Papua New Guinea government officials established by the previous Australian Government. [More…]
The report of that committee, which was tabled in the Australian Parliament on 29 August 1973, was accepted in principle by the Papua New Guinea Government as a suitable basis for action to establish a separate banking system in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The principles on which the Papua New Guinea banking system is to be established were set out in a joint Press statement which was issued by the Treasurer (Mr Crean), the Minister for External Territories (Mr Morrison) and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Finance in April 1973. [More…]
Those principles include: That responsibility for control of banks and financial institutions operating in Papua New Guinea be vested in the Papua New Guinea authorities as soon as practicable; that a central bank be established in Papua New Guinea on the basis of the Port Moresby office of the Reserve Bank of Australia and be endowed with a full range of powers to act as a central monetary authority for a separate banking system, even though some of these powers could not be used in the immediate future; that a national banking institution be established in Papua New Guinea through the setting up of a new Papua New Guinea Government Commercial Bank; and that except where certain accounts give rise to special contractual or financial problems the Papua New Guinea business of the Commonwealth Banking Corporation be transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government Commercial Bank. [More…]
These principles are embodied in two ordinances relating to banking which have recently been passed by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
The first of these ordinances is the Central Banking Ordinance which authorises the establishment of Papua New Guinea’s own central bank to be called the Bank of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The bank will take over the role at present carried out in Papua New Guinea by the Reserve Bank of Australia. [More…]
The Australian Government included in its grant to Papua New Guinea this financial year financial assistance to help in the establishment of this new central bank. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government has indicated its intentions, if possible, to bring these two ordinances into force on 1 November 1973. [More…]
Since the Australian banking legislation extends at present to Papua New Guinea, the Papua New Guinea Government can bring these ordinances into operation only when the application of the Australian banking legislation to that country is withdrawn. [More…]
Papua New Guinea, and the other associated Bills which I am introducing concurrently to facilitate the establishment of a separate banking system in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Bill provides for the withdrawal of the application of the Reserve Bank Act to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As I indicated in introducing the Banking Bill, this Bill is to facilitate the establishment of a separate banking system in Papua New Guinea subject to local control and with its own central bank. [More…]
This Bill allows for the transfer of certain assets and liabilities from the Reserve Bank of Australia to the Bank of Papua New Guinea, the country’s proposed new central bank. [More…]
It also provides for the transfer of certain assets and liabilities from the Commonwealth Banking Corporation to the proposed new Papua New Guinea Government-owned commercial bank. [More…]
The provision relating to the Reserve Bank comes in force from the date that the Reserve Bank Act ceases to apply to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The provision relating to the Commonwealth Banking Corporation will come into force on the date the Commonwealth Banks Act ceases to apply to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bill provides for certain business of the Commonwealth Trading Bank and the Commonwealth Savings Bank in Papua New Guinea to be transferred to the proposed new Papua New Guinea Government commercial bank with any necessary settlement to be effected on terms agreed between the two governments. [More…]
Certain accounts of the Commonwealth Trading Bank giving rise to special contractual or financial problems will not be transferred to the Papua New Guinea Bank and this business will be conducted at a special branch of the Commonwealth Trading Bank which will be opened for that purpose and which will be excluded from the transfer. [More…]
2) 1973, Reserve Bank Bill 1973, Papua New Guinea (Transfer of Banking Business) Bill 1973, Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
2) 1973, Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Bill 1973, Wireless Telegraphy Bill 1973, Meterology Bill 1973 and Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill 1973. [More…]
It would be discourteous of the Opposition just to agree to this legislation without any comment because new conditions will result from the independence and self government of Papua New Guinea which we all have watched with interest and have been involved in. [More…]
The Banking Bill is a Bill to amend the Banking Act 1959-1967 and is one of the 4 Bills that are required to transfer the responsibility for the control and supervision of banking in Papua New Guinea to the Government of that country and its authorities. [More…]
This legislation also will pave the way for the setting up of a separate Papua New Guinea banking system and a central bank in that country. [More…]
At present all of these activities take place under the Australian Government’s legislation- the Reserve Bank Act, the Banking Act and the Commonwealth Bank Act- as they extend to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This move will open up the way for the development of a financial and banking system appropriate to the needs of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They are that the responsibility for the control of banks and financial institutions operating in Papua New Guinea will take place as soon as practicable and that a central bank be established that will have a full range of power to act as a central monetary authority for a separate banking system. [More…]
But the Papua New Guinea banking system certainly in due course will become the central monetary authority in the independent country of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Some of these powers may not need to be used in Papua New Guinea immediately but they will be necessary in due course. [More…]
The other operation is that where certain accounts give rise to special contractual or financial problems the Papua New Guinea business of the Commonwealth Banking Corporation will be transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government Commercial Bank under certain appropriate arrangements. [More…]
These principles provide a continuity of finance and of operation not only between the governments of the 2 countries but also for those people who are dependent upon that financial support in Papua New Guinea and who may well have entered into some arrangements upon which the continuance of financial support will depend. [More…]
The first of the ordinances that embodies in effect these particular banking activities is the Central Banking Ordinance which authorises the establishment of Papua New Guinea ‘s own central bank to be called the Bank of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Government of Australia has made financial assistance provisions to Papua New Guinea in this financial year to provide for the establishment of that new central bank. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government wishes to have these 2 ordinances, if possible, in force on 1 November 1973. [More…]
We cannot in effect let Papua New Guinea have separate operation until we pass the legislation here. [More…]
This is the third of the Australian Acts relating to banking which extend to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Act is being amended to provide that, at a date to be determined, Papua New Guinea will be excluded from the operation of the Australian Act. [More…]
Once again, it follows the general line of policy which was developed with the Government of Papua New Guinea by the previous Government and to which, as I have observed, we take no objection. [More…]
The greater part of the Papua New Guinea business of the Commonwealth Banking Corporation is to be transferred to a Papua New Guinea Government commercial bank. [More…]
In the paper entitled Australia’s External Aid 1973-74’, which was presented with the Budget Speech, it will be noted that a payment of $ 15m is to be made to the Papua New Guinea Government in 1973-74 to facilitate the establishment of this proposed Government commercial bank; in effect, this payment will help to fund the bank. [More…]
Because of the creation of the new Reserve Bank in Papua New Guinea, the situation concerning the Australian Reserve Bank needs to be altered so that the Australian Reserve Bank no longer operates, in an Australian sense, in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
To me, the financing of cooperative activities- either individual cooperatives or associations of co-operatives- is a very important matter in an emerging country such as Papua New Guinea where a strong agrarian, fishery type, small trader activity is building up. [More…]
The financing of a great range of small traders through co-operatives is an area that has some hazards for bankers, and I think that the people of this emerging country of Papua New Guinea are entitled to have the expertise of Australian bankers in this field carried on with them and not detached from them too early. [More…]
The next Bill is the Papua New Guinea (Transfer of Banking Business) Bill, which is order of the day No. [More…]
This Bill allows for the transfer of assets and liabilities in certain areas from the Reserve Bank of Australia to the Bank of Papua New Guinea, which is that country’s new central bank. [More…]
It also provides for the transfer of certain assets and liabilities from the Commonwealth Banking Corporation to the proposed new Papua New Guinea Government-owned commercial bank. [More…]
The provision comes into force on the date on which the Reserve Bank Act ceases to apply to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
No estimate is given of the amount of money involved on the Papua New Guinea Bank’s assumption of assets and liabilities and on the Papua New Guinea Government-owned commercial bank’s assumption of assets and liabilities. [More…]
But certain accounts of the Commonwealth Trading Bank giving rise to special contractual or financial problems will not be transferred to the Papua New Guinea Bank, and this business will be conducted at a special branch of the Commonwealth Trading Bank which will be opened for that purpose and which will be excluded from the transfer. [More…]
The Commonwealth Trading Bank will be operating in Papua New Guinea as a banker within its own right. [More…]
I imagine that it will be the first such bank to operate in the style of a foreign bank in Papua New Guinea as an independent country. [More…]
What restrictions will be placed on the Commonwealth Trading Bank in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
To what extent will it be doing business in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Is the bank ‘s presence in Papua New Guinea limited in time or limited in the amount of money available to it? [More…]
The continued presence of the Commonwealth Trading Bank in Papua New Guinea is the first stage of Australia, as a nation, engaging in foreign banking. [More…]
Having got to that point, I pass from the banking situation to deal with the Bills which provide for the internal self government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I refer to the Papua New Guinea Bill, the Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Bill, the Wireless Telegraphy Bill and the Meteorology Bill. [More…]
We do not want to hold up the Senate, but I think that those of us who are interested in this matter at least have a responsibility to pay a great tribute to past governments of this country and to past officers of the services of this country, both in the civil sense and in the armed sense, who have contributed so much towards the development of Papua New Guinea in such a peaceful and progressive style. [More…]
I am sure it is not perfect, but set against other examples of administration of countries by overseas powers in what might be called a colonial style- I never cared for it but, never mind, we had a kind of guardianship situation in Papua New Guinea- I believe that the Australian people performed the function well, they discharged it with dignity, they dug fairly deeply into their own pockets to fund the development of Papua New Guinea, and I think that it stands to our credit both with the people of Papua New Guinea and with ourselves, and it certainly stands to our credit with the United Nations and those observers who have been to Papua New Guinea from time to time to witness the progress of that country. [More…]
What we have here is a formal Bill to bring about the formal process of self-government in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They transfer the functions of the Bureau of Meteorology and they exclude Papua New Guinea from the operation of the Wireless Telegraphy Act. [More…]
It is perfectly true, as the second reading speech states, that Papua New Guinea is virtually self-governing now. [More…]
But no Australian would want other than that Papua New Guinea should progress to independence as fast as is desirable and sensible. [More…]
Because of independence there is a consquential change in the title of the Administrator of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
when independence comes there will be no area of government in which Papua New Guinea will be unfamiliar or lack experience. [More…]
Clause 1 1 reflects the changes in the Executive as wished by the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But agreement has been reached with Papua New Guinea that, on the proclamation of self-government, functions will be taken up which will bring these things under a situation of knowledge and control. [More…]
At the moment in Papua New Guinea there is a portfolio of Defence and Foreign Relations. [More…]
I have some interest in the matter of the loans raised by the Papua New Guinea Government because they are guaranteed by Australia by virtue of the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
1 think that that is a tribute to the willingness of Australia to underwrite the future of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A number of Acts of the Australian Parliament have application in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They are drafted to allow for the exclusion of Papua New Guinea from the provisions of the respective Acts by notice in the Gazette. [More…]
The reasons for this are the enactment by Papua New Guinea of a radio communications ordinance dealing with matters of wireless telegraphy and the transfer to that country of the meteorological functions formerly carried out by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. [More…]
These Bills bring about the first of 2 stages towards the formation of selfgovernment for Papua New Guinea, as mentioned before. [More…]
The final step of independence is the integral stage in the continuous development of Papua New Guinea from dependency to nationhood. [More…]
The June 1973 meeting of the United Nations Trusteeship Council endorsed the views of the Papua New Guinea and Australian Governments on the role of the House of Assembly in important constitutional decisions. [More…]
As mentioned in the second reading speech 2 elements are involved, the view of Australia and the view of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill is not a very difficult one. [More…]
It is a Bill to provide for the giving of guarantees by Australia with respect to loans to be raised overseas by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It seeks the approval- it is the last Bill of Parliament- to the provision of contractual guarantees by the Australian Government for overseas borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government in foreign currencies not exceeding the equivalent of $24m in 1973-74. [More…]
The Government will have a certain amount tied up which it has guaranteed, and on any future occasion should the Government of Papua New Guinea want to be an overseas borrower in its right and seek the guarantee of the Australian Government, I would expect that a similar Bill would come forward into the Australian Parliament by which the Government would seek the approval of the members of the House of Representatives and of the Senate to give that guarantee. [More…]
In effect, the Government is pledging Australia’s credit to a new and independent State, and it is a mark of the Australian people’s confidence and willingness to stay in the game of Papua New Guinea that they will give such guarantees. [More…]
It is a further mark in my mind to the credit of the Australian people in all their relations with the emerging independent nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I think that the parliamentary draftsmen who in this somewhat unusual situation have, by their drafting, put into legislative form the ideas and sentiments of the Australian nation and the ideas and sentiments of the new nation of Papua New Guinea, also are deserving of our compliments and appreciation. [More…]
It is important that we should advert at this stage to the fact that a nation like Papua New Guinea emerging on to the modern world stage cannot do so without continued assistance. [More…]
In the areas which are canvassed in these Bills it becomes apparent that the continued interest and identification of Australia with Papua New Guinea is of very great importance and will be essential to the proper development and expansion of this new nation and to the emergence of this new country into its proper position in world affairs. [More…]
It is, of course, very much more than that because Papua New Guinea will have inherited the system of law which we follow, to which we are dedicated and of which we are so extremely proud. [More…]
Therefore the immediate application of our laws within the indigenous and separate Papua New Guinea context will be of very great importance. [More…]
Therefore we could expect that, allowing for changes that inevitably will take place in any system of law in a different country, substantially the system of the English common law will persist there as it has persisted in the United States, and that the guidance, legal knowledge and expertise of Australia will continue to be available to that country, whether in a general sense or through particular practitioners who will move from our jurisdiction to take their places in judicial and professional positions in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 should be concerned if I thought that on the economic front Papua New Guinea was merely to be allowed to run adrift, because that could pose tremendous problems not only for that country but also for us. [More…]
Therefore the creation of a central banking system and monetary control disciplines is essential for the economic viability of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The expertise of the banking institutions of Australia- certainly the public banking institutions and no doubt the private institutions- has been made available and will continue to be made available to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 have not had the opportunity of reading the statement that was made and tabled in August by the Minister as to the consultation between the Commonwealth Bank and the banking authorities in Papua New Guinea on the emergence of the new banking structure, and I should be obliged if the Minister would be kind enough in his reply to indicate the extent to which there will be continuing consultation between the Australian banking institutions- the banking system- and the new banking system of Papua New Guinea so that the most modern banking techniques will continue to be made available. [More…]
If by any chance, due to a lack of knowledge, a lack of ability, a lack of experience, the emerging economy of Papua New Guinea should find itself in a position of economic collapse that would be a tragedy for that nation. [More…]
Therefore, quite apart from our solicitude for Papua New Guinea, and particularly at this point of time, we have a certain national vested interest that Papua New Guinea, as it emerges, should be a nation in the full sense of the term economically strong and founded on a proper application of the necessary modern techniques in every area of life to enable it to operate and function efficiently in the interests of its people and to take its place in world affairs, and more particularly to take its place in this area of the world where both it and we have such a common and enduring interest. [More…]
Australia, of course, is one of the most highly developed countries, technically, in the world in all areas of life and perhaps it is therefore fortunate for Papua New Guinea that this body of knowledge will continue to be made available. [More…]
I have little doubt that it will continue to be made available generously and at all times and continually and that it will be a repository of wisdom, experience and knowledge on which Papua New Guinea will draw. [More…]
For those reasons I think that at this stage the Senate should register its warm appreciation of the fact that the emergence of Papua New Guinea is moving into the condition where very practical steps are being taken, where the actual organs of government are being created and where with a nice display of prudence and gradualism the institutions are being created. [More…]
I know that there has been criticism in international bodies and throughout the world as to the Australian performance in relation to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Coincident with that we helped to develop Papua New Guinea to the point it is at today. [More…]
But I think that it is a matter for tremendous pride that in that time, with those setbacks, we created a nation of our own, one of the wealthiest nations of its size in the world and in the process helped to establish the nation of Papua New Guinea to which independence is now coming with the aid and support that we have been able to give it. [More…]
But they centre around one major Bill, namely, the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
2) 1973 to provide for the internal selfgovernment of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
My purpose in speaking in this debate this evening is to make a few general comments concerning the transfer to self-government of Papua New Guinea on 1 December this year. [More…]
I do so primarily because I had the privilege of being the only senator who was a member of a delegation from the Australian Parliament to visit Papua New Guinea in June of this year. [More…]
Although it is a fact that many honourable senators have visited Papua New Guinea from time to time and many members of the House of Representatives have done so, this delegation of which I was a member was the first official delegation of the Australian Parliament to visit Papua New Guinea. [More…]
That is the date which I and my fellow members of the delegation found that the people in Papua New Guinea were particularly concentrating upon and, of course, about which they were particularly concerned. [More…]
Dealing with the main Bill before us, the Papua New Guinea Bill, the one to effect internal self-government on 1 December, I note that it provides very broadly and we have been all led to understand that after 1 December there will be full internal self-government. [More…]
Apart from that, one would assume that all other powers will be within the competence of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly and the Papua New Guinea Government under its Chief Minister. [More…]
I notice that in the debate on this Bill in another place Mr Andrew Peacock, the former Minister for External Territories under the previous Government, raised the question of whether internal self-government meant that the Papua New Guinea Government would be entirely responsible for internal security. [More…]
I would have imagined that if Papua New Guinea had internal self-government, then that Government would be the one entirely responsible for internal security. [More…]
But I raise this problem also because I notice in the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
I wonder what will be the relationship between the GovernorGeneral and the Government of Papua New Guinea in relation to the recommendation for such appointments. [More…]
As I said, I would assume that certainly the recommendations would come from the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Senator Byrne seemed to feel that Papua New Guinea would maintain a common law system and that the law, as we know it here, will pertain substantially in future in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
From the experience which I gained on my visits to Papua New Guinea and from the discussions which I have had from time to time with people who have lived there, it seems to me that there has been a very real criticism in Papua New Guinea of the administration of our legal system and of the way in which the Supreme Court operates in our legal system. [More…]
It seems to be fairly broadly accepted that the application of the common law and its technical rules has not been particularly successful in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I believe that the system needs to be watched carefully because the establishment of a village court system, which would apply, as Senator Byrne said, local customs in the solution of many problems, may lead to a great fragmentation of the legal system rather than to the provision of a national law which should be the ideal of a new and emerging nation such as Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am not saying that that is proposed in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I rose because I was a member of a quite recent parliamentary delegation to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We had a remarkable opportunity to meet diverse elements of the Papua New Guinea community. [More…]
I think that local councils have been among the great achievements of the Australian administration of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It was from our discussions with them that we, I think, were able to appreciate some of the major concerns which face the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea as they move towards self government. [More…]
The people of Papua New Guinea are quite satisfied and quite content with the notion of” self government. [More…]
I am not saying that it is not our obligation to endeavour to hasten along the processes of independence, but I think it is my duty to express in the national Parliament, having had this opportunity to visit Papua New Guinea, the concern that so many people there feel about this matter. [More…]
Nevertheless I think it is our responsibility to keep emphasising this matter to Papua New Guinea at every opportunity we have because undoubtedly there was this feeling that once we handed over to Papua New Guinea we, as a nation, would tend to reduce financial assistance or eliminate it entirely. [More…]
This has particular personification in the localisation of positions in the various elements of the public service in Papua New Guinea and will be related to the time for which Australians- expatriates as they are known- continue to remain and work in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They are very conscious of the importance of the participation of Australians and other expatriates, now and for many years to come, in providing expert services in so many fields of government in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Among them are men and women who went there at an early age and who have devoted their lives to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Guinea but also in Australia, among those who take an interest in Papua New Guinea as to what is the Australian Government’s policy in relation to independence. [More…]
So in this respect there is great confusion, not only in Papua New Guinea but also in Australia. [More…]
We as a Party have taken the view that independence should not be thrust upon Papua New Guinea, that there should be a request to us by a representative body of Papua New Guinea which says: ‘We are now ready for independence. [More…]
Not only is there concern about independence but also a number of local movements, even secessionist movements, are starting to arise in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
These matters have to be resolved primarily, of course, by the Papua New Guineans themselves, and the decisions have to be made by the only representative body of Papua New Guinea, namely, the House of Assembly. [More…]
Members of the Labor Party who have this conscience problem about this matter want to unburden Papua New Guinea as quickly as possible. [More…]
We cannot just throw independence at Papua New Guinea before these matters are resolved in some way or other because if we do we will only be leaving the country with a Government which will then be racked by internal civil war. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Select Committee on Constitutional Development which is already sitting and working in Papua New Guinea is, I believe, likely to come forward with some proposals in this regard. [More…]
I believe that there will have to be many more of this sort of development before Papua New Guinea is fully fit for independence. [More…]
Because after 1 December we as a national parliament will still have responsibility for Papua New Guinea’s foreign affairs and defence and, I think, for a general oversight of the affairs of that nation, we ourselves will have to shoulder some considerable responsibility in determining this vital question of independence. [More…]
I would like to add my dissident voice to the rush towards independence in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When I first took an interest in Papua New Guinea I was of the opinion that it needed its independence, but the more I studied the country and the more I went up there the more I realised that it was not yet time for independence. [More…]
It is all very well to say that we have to give independence to Papua New Guinea as fast as possible, but when one looks around the country one can see that the people are not ready for it and many do not want it. [More…]
They want us to rush into giving independence to Papua New Guinea because they will be the heads of government in the country. [More…]
I cannot understand why we have to impose our system of democracy on Papua New Guinea. [More…]
-Oh, yes, but it is not so good that the people of Papua New Guinea have to conform to our way of doing things and must have a parliament which is totally different in type from that which they are used to. [More…]
We are insisting on imposing our morality on the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We are insisting on Papua New Guinea adopting our education system, and probably our education system is better. [More…]
For years we have been trying to impose our laws on the people of Papua New Guinea, but are our laws any better than theirs? [More…]
-The army will not be dissolved by then because it will be the only means of maintaining law and order in Papua New Guinea, and that will be the most powerful arm in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would also like to make a plea for those people who have given so much of their lives to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Certainly they may have made a profit from living there, but without them Papua New Guinea would not be where is is today. [More…]
The other problem is that once Papua New Guinea attains independence it will be a greater financial burden around our necks than it has been in the past because if we do not give assistance to that country the Japanese will. [More…]
A problem will arise because our foreign relations with Papua New Guinea will be affected because other countries will be willing to assist it. [More…]
What the Japanese could not achieve during the war they will certainly achieve economically in the next few years if we do not be firm in our relations with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Giving Papua New Guinea independence does not seem to me to be the answer, but it seems the ‘in’ thing nowadays is that every nation must have its independence whether or not it is ready, and it seems that we have to assist Papua New Guinea towards independence. [More…]
We gave Papua New Guinea a university when all it wanted was schools to train apprentices. [More…]
Because one of the Administrators wanted a job for himself there he decided that a university was needed, so we rushed ahead and founded that university, and the standard was lowered because no one in Papua New Guinea could reach matriculation level. [More…]
That is all right if that is the way that the people of Papua New Guinea want it, but I do not think that they really wanted a university. [More…]
Why provide the people of Papua New Guinea with second-rate doctors? [More…]
I think we have failed the people of Papua New Guinea in education and in medicine, and I think we are going to fail them altogether when we hand over independence to them. [More…]
I feel sorry for the Australian expatriates who have been there for years and have sweated blood for the benefit of Papua New Guinea as well as for their own benefit. [More…]
The Government worries about its public servants but it does not worry about the people in private enterprise who have done so much for Papua New Guinea and who deserve a lot of credit. [More…]
I hope that my prognostication that there will be a blood bath in a few years does not come true but that is how I see the position in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
He also asked about the amounts of finance to be provided by Australia for the establishment of Papua New Guinea banking institutions. [More…]
There is an advance of $ 1 5m to the Government of Papua New Guinea for the establishment of the Papua New Guinea Banking Corporation and a grant of $2m for the establishment of the Bank of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The other question asked by Senator Cotton related to future operations of the Commonwealth banking organisation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I think we could link those questions with Senator Byrne’s request for information on continued consultation between the Commonwealth Bank and the Papua New Guinea Reserve Bank. [More…]
In the report of the Committee on Banking in Papua New Guinea in November last year it is proposed that legislation for this purpose be enacted in Papua New Guinea; and that the Reserve Bank of Australia be asked to provide appropriate technical assistance for the new central bank for as long as may be necessary in order to maintain efficient operations following transfer. [More…]
In regard to the Commonwealth Banking Corporation it is proposed that the Papua New Guinea business of the Corporation be transferred as soon as practicable to Papua New Guinea Government ownership; that the Corporation should not compete for banking business with the Government Commercial Bank following the transfer as such competition at that time would prejudice the success of the transfer; that the Corporation be asked to provide appropriate managerial and technical assistance to the Government’s Commercial Bank for as long as may be necessary to maintain efficient operations following the transfer; that the extent to which, consistent with the above information, the Corporation should be permitted to continue to engage in banking business in Papua New Guinea, particularly in cases where there may be special contractual or financial problems involved in the transfer of accounts, should be a matter for further detailed consideration by the appropriate authorities. [More…]
I think that the short answer is that the Commonwealth Bank will have an influence on and give guidance to the Papua New Guinea bank for as long as is necessary. [More…]
-The report of the Committee on Banking in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I believe that the Leader of the Government in the Senate (Senator Murphy) wants to move an amendment to the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
We assume- we would appreciate the confirmation- that this is a recommendation which comes from the House of Assembly in Papua New Guinea, as did many of the other proposals which are contained in these measures. [More…]
Although I acknowledge the Minister’s possible difficulties in this area, we would like to know whether there will be any form of oath or affirmation of allegiance which it is contemplated will be adopted by Papua New Guinea when it secures independence. [More…]
We appreciate that if the Territory of Papua New Guinea, approaching independence, wishes to change the form of the oath, we will accord with its wishes. [More…]
-I wish to speak to the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill. [More…]
The Minister has moved an amendment to the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
There has been no suggestion from this Parliament that after Papua New Guinea ‘s independence we will have the slightest control of or influence on this new independency. [More…]
Any payment of a guarantee under the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill, I submit, would be more appropriately reviewed on the ordinary annual appropriation. [More…]
I rely on what the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill says. [More…]
We are deciding now that we will guarantee a loan to Papua New Guinea and if it does not meet the loan we undertake to pay accordingly. [More…]
-(Senator Brown)- The question is: ‘That the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
Incursion and extraction’ are military terms being used to describe an exercise to take place in Papua New Guinea next February in which the elite of the Australian Army, the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR), will put the final touches on a contingency plan drawn up in case of trouble in the post independence era. [More…]
Hypothetical exercises based on a threat to the ‘stability’ of Papua New Guinea have been held in Australia in recent months but the SASR has not been previously mentioned as pan of any contingency plan. [More…]
Will the Minister assure the Parliament and the people that our nation will not be a party to furnishing any military aid in an internal security situation in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
There was a useful exchange of views on developments in Papua New Guinea in which that country’s Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations, Mr Maori Kiki, participated. [More…]
He was DirectorGeneral of Education in Papua New Guinea from 1966 to 1973, is 42 years of age and has a great past and a promising future in education. [More…]
as defined, to delegate all of his powers under the Act to a Minister of the Papua New Guinea Government, who is further empowered by this clause to exercise those powers independently. [More…]
It also takes a further step in the transfer of power to Papua New Guinea by enabling the Minister for External Territories to delegate his powers under this Act to the appropriate Minister in the Papua New Guinea Government who may exercise those powers independently. [More…]
Senator James McClelland, in drawing attention to the Committee, said that the present Committee has as its Chairman, Dr Kenneth McKinnon who was Director-General of Education in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In other words, he is a leading educator in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Katherine and Tennant Creek- Eight months Papua New Guinea- One year. [More…]
In the Department of External Territories it is for special assistance to facilitate the transfer of functions to the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
Part I also provides, in relation to the application of the legislation, that the Act is to bind Australia and each State and is to extend to every external Territory, except Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The view has been taken that, in view of the steps being taken by Papua New Guinea towards independence, it will properly be a matter for that country to make a decision on accession to the Covenant. [More…]
Part I provides, in relation to the application of the legislation, that the Act is to bind Australia and each State and is to extend to every external Territory, except Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Again the view has been taken that, in view of the steps being taken by Papua New Guinea towards independence, it will probably be a matter for that country to make a decision on accession to the Convention. [More…]
He was Director of Education in Papua New Guinea from 1960 to 1973 and has held various other highly responsible jobs. [More…]
There were some problems because of the unavailability of the ballot boxes in the first week but with the co-operation of Papua New Guinea and the electoral office there and State electoral offices sufficient ballot boxes have since been obtained. [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Media whether Papua New Guinea will be served from the existing Radio Australia station at Darwin and not from a new Radio Australia installation on Cape York Peninsula as was proposed earlier this year. [More…]
It is a fact that Radio Australia broadcasts to Papua New Guinea from the short wave transmitter at Darwin. [More…]
The Act applies to all Territories, including Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is under review in consultation with the Papua New Guinea Government, so far as it applies to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I turn now to a part of the Bill that is concerned with tax haven resort to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Recent tightening of the law to uphold that principle has led to a situation where some private company groups have been paying dividends to so-called ‘repository’ companies in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea does not tax the dividends and arrangements have been made in the past with the objective that no Australian tax would be paid on them either. [More…]
The dividends received by the repository company in Papua New Guinea would in due course be used in ways that would benefit the Australian shareholders without exposing them to liability to tax at the later time. [More…]
I interpolate here that the proposal in a subsequent Bill to levy a withholding tax of 15 per cent on dividends paid from Australia to Papua New Guinea will result in there being some Australian tax on dividends paid in furture to respository companies in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
To correct the situation, the Bill proposes basically that where dividends were, or are, paid after 19 July 1972 by a private company in Australia to another private company in Papua New Guinea, they will not be taken into account in determining whether the paying company has made a distribution of profits sufficient to avoid payment of undistributed profits tax. [More…]
This is the basic provision but there are measures to the effect that it is to apply to dividends that are held in Papua New Guinea on behalf of Australian individual shareholders. [More…]
The Bill will also extend the withholding tax provisions of the income tax law to dividends and interest flowing from Australia to Papua New Guinea which have, up to now, been taxed on an assessment basis. [More…]
The rate on dividends paid to residents of Papua New Guinea will be 1 5 per cent, the same rate as is imposed by Papua New Guinea on dividends flowing to Australia. [More…]
The withholding tax will be payable on dividends and interest paid to residents of Papua New Guinea, including companies, after 25 October last. [More…]
This income will no longer be included in assessable income and the rebate on inter-company dividends will no longer be available to Papua New Guinea companies. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has withdrawn a corresponding rebate from Australian companies. [More…]
4) 1973 are designed to frustrate tax avoidance through the payment of dividends by Australian private companies to so-called repository companies owned by Australians but set up in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Further investigations have shown that repository companies in other contries, and especially in tax havens, would be used for the purpose of avoiding Australian tax if the new rules were applied only to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We face a very important national problem to the north of Australia in the new proposed independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am certain that the Queenslanders were very glad of the protection of the Australian Military Forces when in the 1939-1945 period the Japanese were a little distance across the sea in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is it a fact that postal rates to Papua New Guinea have been increased from 7c to 10c a letter due to the fact that the PostmasterGeneral has now classified Papua New Guinea as a foreign country? [More…]
Is it correct also that the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs in Papua New Guinea has announced similar increases on mail addressed to Australia to stay in line with the Australian policy? [More…]
I did read a report that the postal rate on letters from Australia to Papua New Guinea and from Papua New Guinea to Australia has been increased from 7c to 10c. [More…]
I assume it was taken after consultation between the Australian PostmasterGeneral and the Postmaster-General of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Using the basis of calculation proposed by the working group, the costs attributable to the maintenance and operation of civil aviation airports and airways facilities in Australia and Papua New Guinea during 1972-73 exceeded the relevant revenues by some $69m. [More…]
any other laws, including laws of the Territories, that the Parliament has power to amend or repeal; “ member “ means the Chairman or another member of the Commission; “proceedings “, in relation to a hearing, includes the evidence taken at the hearing; “ reference “ means a reference by the Attorney-General to the Commission under this Act; “ Territory “does not include Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government has agreed to this exercise, which is to take place in Papua New Guinea in February 1974. [More…]
The exercise will involve one squadron of the Special Air Service Regiment (SASR) and elements of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force. [More…]
Exercise TAM TULU is one of a regular series of exercises conducted by the Australian Military Forces in Papua New Guinea over the years. [More…]
It was originally scheduled for October/November 1972 but was postponed because of the heavy involvement of elements of the Australian Services in famine relief operations in Papua New Guinea at the time. [More…]
The minister for Defence said: “… Honourable members will have noted the important statement on 20 August by the Minister for Defence and Foreign Relations in the Papua New Guinea Government, Mr Kiki. [More…]
The Minister said that ‘Papua New Guinea was determined to look after its own security problems in the future ‘, and that ‘no country can lightly contemplate either the despatch of their own forces or the acceptance of foreign forces to deal with an essentially domestic situation’. [More…]
Papua New Guinea and Australian Ministers have constantly stated that primary responsibility for the maintenance of internal security in Papua New Guinea rests with the Papua New Guinea Police Force. [More…]
other than a Minister of the House of Assembly for Papua New Guinea, is, in the exercise of his powers and the performance of his functions under this Act, subject to the directions of the Minister . [More…]
Is it a fact that postal rates to Papua New Guinea have been increased from 7c to 10c a letter due to the fact that the Postmaster-General has now classified Papua New Guinea as a foreign country. [More…]
Is it correct also that the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs in Papua New Guinea has announced similar increases on mail addressed to Australia to stay in line with the Australian policy. [More…]
It is true that international rates of postage now apply between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Postal Administration of Papua New Guinea sought to have the old conditions changed because no allowance was made for their extra costs in handling the larger mail volumes going to Papua New Guinea from Australia than in the reverse direction. [More…]
The Australian Post Office has complied with this request and now treats Papua New Guinea as an overseas country for postal purposes. [More…]
Under this arrangement, Australia pays Papua New Guinea for the delivery costs of Australian parcels and makes payments for other surface mail in excess of traffic from Papua New Guinea to Australia. [More…]
In essense, the Australian Post Office has recognised the coming independence of Papua New Guinea, and the rates and conditions are consistent with those applied for other nearby countries. [More…]
I am not fully informed on what statements have been made by the Minister for Posts and Telegraphs in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
However, I am informed that Papua New Guinea did increase rates to Australia on IS November 1973 and that their minimum charge for an airmail letter to Australia is 10c. [More…]
1 ) Of the $127,600,000 expenditure on civil aviation facilities, what proportion was expended in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Of the $58,650,000 revenue derived from civil aviation activities in the form of air navigation charges, what proportion is derived in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
and (2) Expenditure and revenue attributable to civil aviation facilities in Papua New Guinea in 1972-73 was as follows: [More…]
That leave be given to introduce a Bill for an Act relating to fishing boats associated with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Part of that itinerary was her visit to New Zealand and then her visit to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When the Queen delivered her speech to this Parliament last week she made reference to the fact that she had just come from Papua New Guinea where she had seen at first hand the progress being made there in this period of self-government. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that on 27 September last year Senator Cavanagh, representing the then Minister for External Territories introduced the Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Bill in the Senate. [More…]
It enabled a smooth transfer of powers to Papua New Guinea which was self-governing from 1 December, 1973. [More…]
Some powers, other than defence and foreign affairs, have not been transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government as the Application of Laws Act alone is not the appropriate vehicle. [More…]
The Bill now before the Senate will enable Papua New Guinea to administer its own fisheries legislation and, I am informed, the Papua New Guinea Government wishes to do this as soon as possible. [More…]
Without this amendment, during the period between self-government and independence, Papua New Guinea boats would continue to be subject to Australian jurisdiction while in Australian proclaimed waters. [More…]
This is unacceptable to Papua New Guinea which wishes its fishing vessels to be treated in the same manner as other foreign boats. [More…]
Subclause 2( 1 ) will provide the immediate transfer of powers desired by Papua New Guinea and sub-clause 2(2) will provide the permanent amendment to the Principal Act when amendments passed in 1973 are brought into operation. [More…]
-The vessel ‘Nathaniel Wilson’ has been fishing in the Gulf of Carpentaria for the past 4 years under a licence issued by Papua New Guinea and not by the Australian authorities. [More…]
Much of this lending has gone to developing countries of interest to Australia in the Asian and Pacific regions, including Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Opposition raises no objection to the proposals in the Fisheries (Papua New Guinea Boats) Bill 1974. [More…]
It follows legislation, which received royal assent on 30 October last year, enabling a smooth transfer of powers to Papua New Guinea which became self governing the following day. [More…]
The Bill before us will enable Papua New Guinea to administer its own fisheries legislation and the Government of Papua New Guinea wishes to do this as soon as possible. [More…]
It is the desire of the Government of Papua New Guinea that its boats be in the register of that country. [More…]
As I understand it, the Bill simply ensures that the definition of Australian boats will not comprehend Papua New Guinea boats. [More…]
If there are Papua New Guinea boats in Australian waters and they are fishing in Australian waters, then to the extent that the Australian legislation is to apply to them it will apply to them as foreign vessels. [More…]
I would imagine that if Papua New Guinea is to exercise a power over fisheries it will do so either because of a delegation of power under the existing Fisheries Act or by virtue of the Papua New Guinea (Application of Laws) Act which was passed by this Parliament last year as part of the steps by which we granted self government as a preliminary to the granting of independence. [More…]
I imagine that the exercise of either of those powers would be sufficient to give to the Papua New Guinea legislature the opportunity to introduce legislation. [More…]
I wonder whether the Minister would indicate what is being done to determine the limits of the fishing areas between Papua New Guinea and Queensland in respect of which Australia regards itself as empowered to pass legislation respecting Australian fisheries and which it concedes the prospective government of Papua New Guinea will be able to pass laws with regard to fisheries. [More…]
Are efforts being made- if so, what is the nature of those efforts and in what area- to ensure that our relations with Papua New Guinea will not be affected in the future by unresolved conflicts about boundaries and the extent of fishing jurisdiction? [More…]
lt is true that legal matters of some very great complexity between the Australian and the Papua New Guinea governments have to be settled. [More…]
An interdepartmental committee comprised of representatives of several departments is negotiating with the Papua New Guinea Government and is currently looking into this question. [More…]
The existing situation is a de facto one and it is important that we reach a proper understanding with the Papua New Guinea authorities on the use of fishing boats in these areas. [More…]
However, discussions between officials of both governments are now taking place to reach an agreement on the question of the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea after independence. [More…]
The only other matter which I feel might be relevant concerns the operation of Papua New Guinea vessels engaged in the prawning industry in the Gulf of Carpentaria. [More…]
The Senate will recall that last year the Australian Government entered into an agreement with the Papua New Guinea Government to allow Papua New Guinea registered vessels to operate in the Gulf. [More…]
In his discussions with officials of Papua New Guinea regarding the allocation of fishing rights to Papua New Guinea vessels in the Gulf of Carpentaria will he make a distinction in the allocation of rights between Papua New Guinea registered vessels which are owned by Middle East interests, notably Kuwait, and vessels which are owned by indigenous Papua New Guineans? [More…]
On the previous occasion when an agreement was reached between the Australian and Papua New Guinea Governments in respect of licensed vessels fishing in the Gulf of Carpentaria, the matter of some of those vessels not being registered in Papua New Guinea was fully discussed. [More…]
It is my understanding that in conjunction with the Department of Foreign Affairs it was agreed that the vessels which may not have been owned in Papua New Guinea would be included as vessels permitted to fish in the Gulf of Carpentaria. [More…]
The Minister for Science and Minister Assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs in Papua New Guinea matters, the honourable W. Morrison, is attending a conference of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East in Colombo. [More…]
In accordance with normal courtesy that the Senate from time to time extends to visitors to this Parliament, I wish to advise honourable senators of the fact that sitting in the President’s Gallery is Mr Maori Kiki who is the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Defence in the new nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Last week we received in Canberra distinguished guests from both New Zealand and Papua New Guinea- the New Zealand Minister for Defence and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade. [More…]
With Papua New Guinea, the talks last week with Mr Kiki provided valuable guidance for the defence relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea after Papua New Guinea becomes independent, and what contribution will be welcome and useful from us. [More…]
He was a member of the delegation that attended the first meeting of the Legislative Council of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
My goodness, they were very articulate when they urged Papua New Guinea on to a state of nationhood and independence- very much so. [More…]
Much of this lending has gone to developing countries of interest to Australia in the Asian and Pacific regions, including Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I can recall the controversy that arose about a case in Papua New Guinea, I think- not in Australia- which reached the High Court of Australia and in which there had been an interpretation of an interpretation. [More…]
They are in Asia in particular and in the Pacific region, including Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In addition, a substantial amount of IBRD money has been borrowed by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As honourable senators know from previous debate in this chamber, we have guaranteed the indebtedness of Papua New Guinea at the point of its obtaining independence and for some stage unascertained but implicit beyond that point of time. [More…]
So we for our own part and on behalf of Papua New Guinea have a fairly substantial capital debt that we might think about relieving if we find ourselves not quite so flush. [More…]
Will Australian servicemen be with the armed forces of Papua New Guinea after that nation achieves independence on 1 December next? [More…]
As the Senate knows, over a long period of time we have been allowing Papua New Guinea to do everything that it can do itself. [More…]
In his speech at the opening of Parliament, the Governor-General pointed out that we were now treating Papua New Guinea, to the fullest extent possible, as an independent country. [More…]
When Papua New Guinea declares its independence it will be more or less a formal declaration. [More…]
He may be interested to know that there are several Territories for which the Australian Parliament and people are responsible- the Australian Antarctic Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos Keeling Island, the Coral Sea islands, Heard Island, Macdonald Island, the New Guinea Trust Territory, Norfolk Island, Ashmore and Carrier Islands, and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
From Press reports I have learnt that 2 representatives of the Papua New Guinea branch of the Returned Services League are at present in Australia. [More…]
It has been reported that they have come here to seek benefits for death and injury suffered by indigenous inhabitants of Papua New Guinea who served with the Australian armed forces during the Second World War. [More…]
However, at no stage has the national office of the League in any way indicated to me that these people from the Papua New Guinea branch are in Australia. [More…]
The War Cabinet during the Second World War made provision for the payment of compensation to Papua New Guinea servicemen or their dependants in the case of injury or death. [More…]
Following the war the repatriation benefits generally were extended to indigenous inhabitants of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Provision is being made under existing legislation for the continuation of the payment of these repatriation benefits after Papua New Guinea obtains independence. [More…]
Can the Minister for Repatriation and Compensation inform the Senate about arrangements for the provision of repatriation benefits for Australian ex-servicemen and their dependants who will continue to reside in Papua New Guinea after independence? [More…]
Upon the attainment of independence by Papua New Guinea there will be no difference in the situation of people who fall into those categories. [More…]
If nothing were to be done about this matter, upon the attainment of independence by Papua New Guinea a number of people who are at present living there would lose that benefit because Papua New Guinea would cease to be a Territory. [More…]
However, the Government recently considered the matter and decided that any person who received these latter benefits and who was living in Papua New Guinea at the date of independence would be deemed to continue to be a resident of Australia or of one of its Territories and would continue to receive the benefits. [More…]
However, if somebody was not a resident of Papua New Guinea at the date of independence and subsequently went to live there, he would fall into the same category as persons who have moved out of Australia and its Territories to a foreign country and would not be in receipt of the latter type of benefit. [More…]
He was a member of the delegation representing the Australian Parliament at die inauguration of the Legislative Council for Papua New Guinea in November 1951. [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the report on the Administration of Papua New Guinea for the year ended 30 June 1973. [More…]
-These 2 Bills which have been taken together relate to the exercise by the self governing legislature of the Territory of Papua New Guinea of certain powers with respect to offshore mining. [More…]
The Opposition recognises that the Bills clarify a matter of some doubt in one respect and acknowledge the rights of the Territory of Papua New Guinea at this stage, and certainly when it becomes independent, to exercise full and plenary powers over exploration for mining in its off-shore areas. [More…]
The present position in relation to the power to make laws with regard to off-shore mining is that the provisions of the Papua New Guinea Act have been exercised in the manner in which, prior to self government last December, the power to make laws was transferred from the Australian Government to the legislature of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Accepting that when the Territory of Papua New Guinea becomes independent it should have all the powers of a sovereign nation with regard to its off-shore areas, it is appropriate that there be no doubt that Papua New Guinea on independence will have that power. [More…]
I understand that that is the sole purpose of the amendment to the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
The amendment to the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act is designed to carry forward logically and, one might suppose, is a matter of realisation of what was contemplated some 7 years ago, that some day the Territory of Papua New Guinea would exercise for itself powers with regard to petroleum exploration and exploitation in its off-shore waters. [More…]
It will mean that the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act passed by this Parliament hereafter will contain no reference to Papua New Guinea and impliedly will divest all Australian authorities of power to make laws with regard to exploration for and exploitation of petroleum in the off-shore waters. [More…]
In the negotiations which took place prior to that agreement and in the terms of the agreement the Australian Government acted on behalf of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is my recollection that the Minister for Foreign Affairs has been the Designated Authority in regard to the Territory of Papua New Guinea, he having succeeded the Minister for External Territories. [More…]
The territorial division of the submerged lands area between Queensland and the Territory of Papua New Guinea was a fundamental part of the arrangement so that the area over which the Commonwealth Government, representing the Territory of Papua New Guinea, would exercise authority could be differentiated from the area over which the Designated Authority for the State of Queensland would exercise authority. [More…]
I understand, having had some discussions with Mr Peacock who represents the Opposition in this matter in the House of Representatives, that the boundary which was drawn in 1967 has undergone some inevitable changes over the years, so that what is now produced in the legislation which is currently before us is a boundary which includes part of the land mass of the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As I have indicated these 2 Bills are part of the ongoing process, with which the Opposition concurs, for the transference of power to Papua New Guinea so that when it assumes independence it will be a full independence in which the co-operation of the Australian Government at all times has been evident. [More…]
The Australian Country Party will support the Papua New Guinea Bill and the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Bill. [More…]
However, the boundary between Queensland and Papua New Guinea has received a great deal of attention in the past. [More…]
Honourable senators will appreciate, of course, that I am deputising in the carriage of the Papua New Guinea Bill and the Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Bill on behalf of my colleague, the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Senator Willesee). [More…]
I am told that the Bill does not extend to the Queensland adjacent area but that it extends to the Papua New Guinea area and does not affect in any way the economics of the matter. [More…]
The Bill provides for Australia to accede to the Convention with a declaration that it is to extend to all our external Territories except Papua New Guinea. [More…]
With regard to our development assistance to Papua New Guinea, we endorse the objectives of the Papua New Guinea Government’s 1973-74 Improvement Plan to achieve a more equitable distribution of the benefits of development, and will keep under continual review the question of how our development assistance can best support this objective. [More…]
8m-A$7.3m- borrowing by the Government of Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development. [More…]
The proceeds of the loan will assist in financing the development and expansion of the operations of the Papua New Guinea Electricity Commission during the period 1974-79. [More…]
This loan follows a loan for US$23.2m-$A15.6m-to the Electricity Commission in 1971 to assist in financing a major hydro-electric project on the Upper Ramu River in the highlands of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The loan documents were signed by authorised representatives of the Australian Government on 12 June following negotiations in Washington which were attended by representatves of the International Bank, Australia, the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Electricity Commission. [More…]
The Government of Papua New Guinea will onlend the proceeds of the loan to the Electricity Commission which, under an associated project agreement between the Commission and the Bank, is responsible for the project. [More…]
Borrowings by the Government of Papua New Guinea automatically carry an Australian Government guarantee by virtue of the operation of section 75 A of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1973. [More…]
The guarantee agreement for this loan, which is shown as the First Schedule to the Bill, follows the form of the 4 guarantee agreements previously approved by Parliament in connection with a telecommunications loan made by the International Bank to Papua New Guinea in 1968, a highways loan made in 1970, the first hydro-electric project loan in 1971 and a second telecommunications project loan in 1 972. [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the provision of contractual guarantees by the Australian Government for overseas borrowings by the Papua New Guinea Government in foreign currencies not exceeding the equivalent of $A20m prior to achievement of independence in 1974-75. [More…]
The proceeds of the loans will be used by the Papua New Guinea Government to finance public works and services. [More…]
In the 1 972-73 financial year the Papua New Guinea Government made its first overseas borrowing on the international capital market. [More…]
Under the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Act 1973 guarantee for loans of 5 billion yen and 50 million Swiss francs have also been given. [More…]
Parliament has also, on a number of previous occasions, approved similar contractual guarantees by the Australian Government in respect of loans to Papua New Guinea from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
Loan possibilities on overseas markets are currently being investigated by the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
The form of guarantee that is customarily required in international capital markets is similar to those that have been given to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and to the Asian Development Bank in respect of borrowings by Papua New Guinea from those institutions. [More…]
The Bill is purposely couched in general terms in respect of the currencies and the precise forms of the proposed borrowings so as not to restrict the Papua New Guinea Government’s choice as to the particular overseas markets in which it finally decides to arrange the loans. [More…]
The provision of contractual guarantees by the Australian Government will materially assist Papua New Guinea in negotiating favourable terms for the borrowings as well as enhancing its status as a borrower on overseas capital markets. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill is a straightforward measure. [More…]
It is mentioned in the second reading speech that Papua New Guinea engaged in its first overseas borrowing in the year 1972-73. [More…]
This is a guarantee arrangement to cover Papua New Guinea as it passes towards independence. [More…]
This Bill gives Papua New Guinea a more favourable opportunity in the international money market. [More…]
It allows Papua New Guinea to achieve a more effective interest rate. [More…]
It is couched in general terms, as is expressed in the second reading speech, so that the currencies in which Papua New Guinea may wish to negotiate are open for it to judge. [More…]
This Bill allows us to give Papua New Guinea a guarantee by underwriting loans. [More…]
Because of the inadequacy of past arrangements, also recognised by the Joint Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Committee’s 1972 inquiry into Australia’s foreign aid, the Prime Minister, in March last year, commissioned a task force ‘to examine all the options for a unified aid administration to administer all aid including multilateral aid, all bilateral aid and aid to an independent Papua New Guinea’. [More…]
Mr L. W. Johnson, former Administrator and High Commissioner to Papua New Guinea, was appointed on 8th April this year as its DirectorGeneral. [More…]
This is a combined Bill which will authorise changes to the Repatriation Act, the Interim Forces Benefits Act, the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act, the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act, the Native Members of the Forces Benefits Act to be retitled the ‘Papua New Guinea (Members of the Forces Benefits) Act’, and the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act. [More…]
Retention of eligibility for repatriation benefits which are available only to residents in Australia and its Territories will be proposed in respect of Australian veterans and their dependants who are resident in Papua New Guinea prior to that country gaining independence, and who continue to reside there. [More…]
Australians Resident in Papua New Guinea after Independence [More…]
Many of these people have spent many years in Papua New Guinea and have established their means of livelihood there, and it would seem unjust to deprive them of benefits because of changed circumstances beyond their control. [More…]
The Government proposes to allow persons resident in Papua New Guinea prior to that country gaining its independence, and who continue to reside there after independence, to be then considered still resident in Australia or its Territories for repatriation purposes. [More…]
I think it will be agreed by most members of the Senate that this particular Bill is more extensive than many we have debated because it brings under the principal Act, the Repatriation Act 1920-1973, the following Bills to which it will authorise changes: The Interim Forces Benefits Act, the Repatriation (Far East Strategic Reserve) Act, the Repatriation (Special Overseas Service) Act, the Native Members of the Forces Benefits Act to be retitled the Papua New Guinea (Members of the Forces Benefits) Act, and the Seamen’s War Pensions and Allowances Act. [More…]
It may interest honourable senators who have not studied the Bill- if there are any- to know that the independence of Papua New Guinea is acknowledged and the effect on ex-servicemen resident in that emerging country is covered by this Bill. [More…]
In other words, those who are entitled to repatriation benefits, service pensions and the like who are going to remain living in Papua New Guinea will, under this Bill, be able to draw their Australian entitlements. [More…]
Since 1 May 1973, he has been Assistant Secretary in charge of the Pacific Branch which covers both Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific. [More…]
Clearly we have a responsibility to Papua New Guinea and our present level of assistance there must continue for some time. [More…]
Although I admit that I was delighted that the Agency has the new responsibility of Papua New Guinea added to the responsibilities of the former aid office, I find it hard to justify this very significant increase in staff. [More…]
We must do all we can to help Papua New Guinea become a mature nation. [More…]
At certain periods of the year the Fly River, which runs out of Papua New Guinea into the Bay of Papua, brings down enormous quantities of rubbish including big logs. [More…]
The five patrol boats transferred to the Papua New Guinea Defence Force were built in the late 1960’s specifically to undertake tasks in Papua New Guinea waters. [More…]
Since these tasks will now be performed by the Papua New Guinea Defence Force, the five patrol boats need not be replaced. [More…]
In addition, as the scheme now stands, investments in Papua New Guinea are specifically excluded from the scope of the scheme. [More…]
Also, in recognition of Papua New Guinea’s expressed desire for increased Australian investment to further its social and economic development plans, it is proposed to extend the scope of the overseas investment insurance scheme to cover new eligible investments in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In addition, IDA has lent a total of US$25.2m to Papua New Guinea to date. [More…]
The Bill also proposes some technical amendments concerned with the allowance in tax assessments of our residents of a credit for Papua New Guinea tax on income derived there. [More…]
The amendments, which were foreshadowed in an announcement made by the Treasurer last year, are consequential upon the introduction of a dividend withholding tax by Papua New Guinea in August 1 972 and will ensure that appropriate credit is allowed for that tax. [More…]
In particular, the purpose here is to assist Papua New Guinea with its development and to assist and encourage Australian private investment in Papua New Guinea after that country gets its independence. [More…]
Previously Papua New Guinea was excluded from the provisions of the overseas investment insurance scheme which was administered by the Export Payments Insurance Corporation, but now that Papua New Guinea is about to become independent- it is in fact self-governing- and because of Australia’s great interest in the economic development of Papua New Guinea, we are particularly interested in and welcome the provisions which expand this insurance scheme to cover Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The reason behind this was that there were people from, say, Papua New Guinea and other places who might want to come here, study for their course and be admitted. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1974 to enable Australia to transfer to Papua New Guinea responsibility for those matters which at present remain reserved to Australia, as soon as their transfer is requested by the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
This is in line with Australia’s policy of ensuring that Papua New Guinea exercises final responsibility in all matters of government before assuming full independence. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
2) amends section 5 (1a) of the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Act (No. [More…]
The matters so specified are: the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea and all other courts established by Papua New Guinea enactment; authority in relation to legal aid; responsibility for instituting prosecutions; House of Assembly and electoral policy matters. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that authority over those matters was reserved to Australia at self-government at the specific request of the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill provides for the omission of paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-section 5 ( 1a) of the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
When Papua New Guinea requests the transfer of authority over these two matters the repeal of those paragraphs will in effect be proclaimed. [More…]
The reservation of the remaining matters can also be brought to an end by proclamation on request by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has already introduced its defence legislation in the House of Assembly and when this has been enacted Australian defence legislation will need to be amended to enable the completion of the transfer of authority. [More…]
The exercise of responsibility by the Government of Papua New Guinea in the areas of defence and foreign relations until formal independence must be subject to Australia’s treaty obligations and responsibilities in international law and to the United Nations under the Charter and the Trusteeship Agreement. [More…]
However the transfer of final control to Papua New Guinea within this framework will allow Papua New Guinea to give effect to its own policies and priorities in these matters, policies and priorities which in fact it is already formulating. [More…]
As I have said, Australian policy is to enable Papua New Guinea to exercise authority in all matters of government before the formal step to independence, and these amendments are designed to give effect to this. [More…]
Clauses 4 to 9 of the Bill relate to Part VI of the Papua New Guinea Act- the judicial system. [More…]
Part VI of the Act is amended by the Bill to provide for the functions now assigned to and powers held by the Governor-General under sections 58 to 61 of the Act to be conferred on and exercised by the High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In line with these amendments the Governor-General ‘s instructions to the High Commissioner will require him to act on the advice of the Papua New Guinea Government in exercising his functions under Part VI of the Act. [More…]
Sub-section 62a (6) of the Papua New Guinea Act at present authorises the Governor-General to disallow rules of court. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government has requested that when the transfer of authority over judicial matters takes place section 64 of the Act should be repealed. [More…]
Section 64 of the Act provides that the Australian High Court has jurisdiction to hear and determine appeals from all judgments, decrees, orders and sentences of a Full Court of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Clause 10 of the Bill amends section 73 (2) of the Act to empower the High Commissioner to grant pardon, remission, commutation or respite of sentence to an offender sentenced to death by a court exercising criminal jurisdiction in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Judges’ Pensions Act 1968-1973 to provide for the payment of pensions to persons who are or have been judges of the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea (Papua New Guinea Judges) and to their dependants. [More…]
The Bill has been prepared after consultation with the Papua New Guinea judges. [More…]
I introduce this Bill at the same time as the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
Amendments of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1974 to be made by the Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
2) 1974, that has just been introduced, will amongst other things transfer to the Papua New Guinea Government control over appointments of judges to the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Supreme Court will continue to exist by virtue of Part VI of the Papua New Guinea Act, but appointments of judges made by the Governor-General under section 59 of that Act will cease to have effect on and after 1 December 1974. [More…]
At present, pensions are payable to those judges and to former judges and their dependants by virtue of the Judges’ Pensions Act- formerly Ordinance- 1969 of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The effect of the Bill will be to bring those of the present Judges who were appointed before 1 December 1973, the date on which Papua New Guinea achieved selfGovernment, under the Australian Judges’ Pensions Act, so that their pension rights are guaranteed by Australian legislation. [More…]
Existing pensioners under the Papua New Guinea Judges’ Pensions Act will also be brought under the Australian legislation. [More…]
Clause 4 provides that a Papua New Guinea judge appointed before 1 December 1973 who has attained the age of 55 years and who retires after serving as a judge for not less than 10 years will be entitled to a full pension at a rate equal to 60 per centum of the ‘appropriate current judicial salary’. [More…]
Such a judge who not being otherwise entitled to a full pension, ceases to hold office as a judge because his services are no longer required by the Papua New Guinea Government will receive a full pension irrespective of his length of service. [More…]
It applies the Bill to Papua New Guinea Judges who may have retired or died before the commencement of the clause, so that they or their dependants will receive pensions under the Bill. [More…]
It provides for increased tax liabilities for the mining industry, the imposition of taxation on certain forms of fringe benefits, specific allowance of deductions for depreciation on child care facilities, a reduction of the limit on deductions for educational expenses, the deductibility of mortgage interest payments, a reduced level of the special deduction allowable to life assurance companies, a rebate of dependants’ allowances for low income families, technical amendments of the principal Act with respect to dividends payable from Papua New Guinea and the relief for taxpayers in cases of hardship arising out of provisional tax for 1974-75. [More…]
The recent report of Professor Specht and his associates, entitled ‘Conservation of Major Plant Communities in Australia and Papua New Guinea’, drew attention to the fact that only about half of the distinct plant communities in this country are protected in national parks and reserves. [More…]
I remind the Senate that this Bill is a complex Bill covering such matters as increased tax liabilities for the mining industry, the imposition of taxation on fringe benefits, special allowance of deductions for depreciation of child care facilities, reduction of the limit on deduction for education expenses, the deductibility of mortgage interest payments, a reduced level of the special deduction allowable to life assurance companies, a rebate of dependants’ allowances for low income families, technical amendments of the principal Act with respect to dividends payable from Papua New Guinea, the relief of taxpayers in cases of hardship and provisional tax for 1974-75. [More…]
There is a proposal in respect of hardship on taxpayers and dividends in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Malaysia, Malta, Netherlands, Papua New Guinea. [More…]
With legislation for certain borrowings from the United States Export-Import Bank and with guarantees to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for borrowings by Papua New Guinea, it has been possible to schedule to the legislation the agreements for the loans. [More…]
The Australian Teachers Federation, which has its headquarters at Federation House, 300 Sussex Street, Sydney, has as its affiliates the New South Wales Teachers Federation, the Victorian Teaching Union, the Technical Teachers’ Association of Victoria, the Queensland Teachers Union, the South Australian Institute of Teachers, the Tasmanian Teachers Federation, the State School Teachers Union of Western Australia, the Australian Capital Territory Commonwealth Teachers Federation, the Northern Territory Commonwealth Teachers Federation and the Papua New Guinea Teachers Association. [More…]
Papua New Guinea has had a US$25. [More…]
2m capital loan for various activities and it is said that more will be approved for Papua New Guinea ‘s purposes. [More…]
I am not in the Treasury of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
But it should be said that these Bills are being treated with a contumely both by the House of Representatives and by the Senate which belies the importance which they have to the future of Papua New Guinea and does little to acknowledge the contribution which Australia has made towards the development of independence in that Territory. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
2) 1974 is probably the second last Bill which will come into the Parliament relating to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A Bill which has that effect is a Bill which indicates that Australia’s role with regard to Papua New Guinea is determining. [More…]
We, for our part, feel that there are too many matters which have been left unresolved by this Government, a government which really does not care about Papua New Guinea just as it does not care about the people of Australia and the state of this nation. [More…]
I would hope that Australia would accept the responsibility for the defence of Papua New Guinea when it becomes independent. [More…]
We are being given absolutely no information by this Government, and yet it must be apparent that at some time in the early or middle part of 1 975 it is to be expected that complete independence for Papua New Guinea will be asserted by that country and accepted by Australia. [More…]
The Parliament of Australia needs better, deserves better than what has been done, and I believe that in the final discharge of our obligations to the people of Papua New Guinea under the trusteeship agreement we ourselves should do something about ensuring that their independence will be a real and guaranteed independence. [More…]
The second matter to which I refer relates to the boundaries of Papua New Guinea when it secures its complete independence. [More…]
This is another area where this Government has been absolutely neglectful in terms of what are to be the boundaries of an independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Constitution is ignored and the rights of the people of Queensland, the rights of the people of Papua New Guinea and the rights of the Torres Strait Islanders are just not taken account of in the assertions that our present Prime Minister (Mr Whitlam) makes about what should be the independence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There must be adjustments to the boundaries of Queensland if there is to be any recognition or acknowledgement of what the House of Assembly of Papua New Guinea is asserting about what should be the ultimate boundaries of an independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is a Bill which is designed to ensure the pension rights of the judges of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One of the most significant advances that Australia has made in its trusteeship of Papua New Guinea has been the development of the rule of law. [More…]
I am not sure whether in the space of some 20 years to 25 years the rule of law has been grounded in Papua New Guinea in a way in which it will survive independence. [More…]
But, realistically, one must wonder whether the imposition of a common law tradition upon customary law in Papua New Guinea is so grounded that it will survive. [More…]
It is only proper that, when independence comes, we should evolve a system under which the judges whom Australia has appointed to the Supreme Court of Papua New Guinea should be protected in their pension rights and in their futures if they decide to leave Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The High Commissioner, as he will be, will operate or act with regard to the judges in accordance with the general practices and directions which are to be laid down by Papua New Guinea and that generally is the form under which the selfgovernment will become ultimately independent. [More…]
I think it ought to be acknowledged at a time like this, and I wish it had been done more generously- I withdraw the word ‘generously’, for I am sure that it is not intended otherwise by the Government- or rather it had been acknowledged that the role of these persons who have been judges in Papua New Guinea has been a marvellous contribution by Australians to the development of law in that country. [More…]
Sir Alan Mann gave the best years of his life as the Chief Justice of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This Bill simply ensures that those judges who are still in Papua New Guinea will be protected under Australian law in their pension entitlements if they should cease to be judges. [More…]
But I do not believe that just because Government senators want to get home they should not take cognisance of, or should fall to recognise that there are, some omissions in the contribution which the Government is making to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I negotiated what appeared to be an almost insoluble problem with respect to the pensions of judges in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I would hope that, while the Deputy Leader of the Opposition said a great deal about what the judges had done and what had happened about the orders, he would realise the enormous effort that was undertaken, before these Bills were introduced, by Ministers, members of the Public Service and others to produce a result which was acceptable to the Australian Government and to the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Bill 1 974 [More…]
Papua New Guinea Bill (No. [More…]
Papua New Guinea Loan (International Bank) Bill 1974 [More…]
Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill 1 974 [More…]
Limited training in respect of aid to the civil power is conducted by elements of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force (which at this time remains part of the Australian Defence Force). [More…]
It will be recalled that the Papua New Guinea Government has announced that one of the responsibilities of the Papua New Guinea Defence Force after independence will be ‘to be able to assist the police in the maintenance of public order and security as a last resort if the police cannot reasonably be expected to cope. ‘ [More…]
Papua New Guinea now enjoys full fishery powers and does not issue Australian licences. [More…]
Has the Minister’s attention been drawn to a reported decision of the Government of Papua New Guinea to postpone the scheduled 1976 election for one year, which in effect would postpone Independence Day? [More…]
Does the Government of Papua New Guinea have the power to unilaterally change the year of an election, or would this require amending an Australian Act of Parliament? [More…]
The Chief Minister, Mr Somare, spoke against the motion, which is not binding on the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
That Papua New Guinea do move to independent nation status as soon as practicable after a constitution has been enacted by this House and that any proposed date for independence is to be endorsed by this House. [More…]
The current legislation governing the holding of elections in Papua New Guinea is the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1974. [More…]
This provides for the High Commissioner of Papua New Guinea to direct at any time the holding of a general election but that general elections shall be held at intervals not exceeding four years. [More…]
After independence, the Papua New Guinea Act will not apply and elections will be held in accordance with the provisions of the Papua New Guinea Constitution, the terms of which are currently being debated by the House of Assembly. [More…]
We are seeing instability in Timor and instability threatens in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Of this, $70m is for payment to Papua New Guinea to facilitate the purchase from Australia of defence assets associated with the transfer of the responsibility for the defence function to that Government. [More…]
There is an amount of $152m for defence, $70m of which is to be paid to Papua New Guinea to purchase from Australia the defence assets that are there. [More…]
The Bill proposes other amendments to the principal Act, the most important of which concern the acceptability of savings held in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Unless appropriate amendments are made, changes to the banking system in Papua New Guinea associated with the granting of self-government may prejudice the possible eligibility of some Australians temporarily working and saving in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Furthermore, under the terms of the present Act, savings held with any bank in Papua New Guinea would cease to be acceptable for purposes of the Home Savings Grant Scheme on and after the date of independence. [More…]
To overcome these problems, the Bill proposes amendments that will ensure that savings held with any bank in Papua New Guinea in similar forms to those acceptable in the case of banks in Australia will continue to be acceptable until 31 December 1976, that is, until the last day on which savings held in Australia will be acceptable. [More…]
Fights between races have taken place in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The other concern that the Queensland Premier expressed was that he did not want to see the islands occupied by Torres Strait Islanders given over to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Also, more funds for emergency relief and development might be required because of unpredictable events; Service Housing- a possible carry over into 1975-76 of building projects would mean that Supply funds would be inadequate; Defence Financial Assistance Papua New Guinea- because of unknown factors at the time of preparation of Supply Bill (No. [More…]
1 ) In this Act, unless the contrary intention appears- approved bank’ means a bank approved by the Treasurer for the purposes of the provision in which the expression occurs; prescribed external Territory’ means an external Territory other than Papua New Guinea; [More…]
In sub-clause (1), leave out ‘prescribed external Territory’ means an external Territory other than Papua New Guinea; [More…]
-I ask the Minister for the Media: Can he inform the Senate whether the Australian Broadcasting Commission is to continue to co-operate with the National Broadcasting Commission of Papua New Guinea after that country achieves independence? [More…]
-The Australian Broadcasting Commission has informed me that it will be continuing to supply Papua New Guinea after its independence radio programs free of charge until the date of the nation’s formal declaration of independence. [More…]
From that date the ABC will supply its radio programs as they are requested by the National Broadcasting Commission of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Broadcasting [More…]
The following precautions are taken by the Government to prevent the introduction of rabies into Australia: Dogs and cats may be imported only from certain rabies free countries, namely, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Hawaii and Norfolk Island. [More…]
Clause 25 empowers the Tribunal to sit at any place in Australia or in an external Territory other than Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One purpose of this Bill is to amend the Australian income tax law so that when Papua New Guinea becomes independent it will be treated as a separate country for Australian tax purposes. [More…]
Our income tax law contains a number of special provisions relating to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Some relate to an administrative position that came about in 1959 when a separate income tax was imposed in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In broad terms, those provisions that provide special treatment for certain categories of income or expenditure related to activities conducted in either Australia or Papua New Guinea, but not in other countries, will be made inapplicable by the Bill so far as concerns income and expenditure related to activities conducted in an independent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Subject to some exceptions, income derived from a source in Papua New Guinea by Australian residents will be treated in the same way for Australian Tax purposes as income from a source in other places outside Australia. [More…]
Residents of Papua New Guinea will be taxed like other nonresidents on income from sources in Australia. [More…]
A tax credit system at present applies in respect of Papua New Guinea income of Australian residents and in the converse case. [More…]
It is proposed to retain this system in Australia after independence but, as the Treasurer (Dr J. F. Cairns) announced recently, the salary or wages of Australians working in Papua New Guinea will be exempted from Australian tax where Papua New Guinea taxes the income. [More…]
The rate of withholding tax on dividends paid to Papua New Guinea residents is half the general rate of 30 per cent. [More…]
We propose however to continue it in Papua New Guinea’s case after independence. [More…]
The Bill generally requires the changes I have described to be synchronised with Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
In this connection I mention that we will be giving sympathetic consideration to a request that the Papua New Guinea Government has recently foreshadowed it will make for some extension of these transitional arrangements in relation to mineral exploration expenditure by Australian companies in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bill also contains some other measures related to Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
One of these is that, on a basis of reciprocity, people in receipt of pensions from Australia or Papua New Guinea are to be taxed only in whichever of the 2 countries they reside. [More…]
Another will confer an exemption from Australian tax on compensation and allowances paid under the employment security scheme now authorised by the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973. [More…]
These amounts are paid to members of the Australian Staffing Assistance Group and other former expatriate officers of the Public Service of Papua New Guinea on termination of their services there. [More…]
It seeks to amend the tax law so that after independence Papua New Guinea will be treated as a separate country for Australian tax purposes. [More…]
The Bill ends the operation of special provisions applying to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Income that is derived from Papua New Guinea by Australian residents will be treated as income from a source outside Australia. [More…]
Salary or wages of Australians working in Papua New Guinea under various attachments or contracts to that Government will be exempt from Australian tax where the Papua New Guinea Government taxes the income. [More…]
The rate of withholding tax on dividends paid to Papua New Guinea residents will remain at half the general rate of 30 per cent, despite the fact that there is no comprehensive double tax agreement with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The changes are to be synchronised with the independence of Papua New Guinea, whenever that comes about. [More…]
People in receipt of pensions from Australia or Papua New Guinea will be taxed only in the country of residence. [More…]
Exemptions from Australian tax on compensation and allowances paid under the employment security scheme are only to the extent that the amount is of a kind prescribed by the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) (Termination of Employment) Regulations. [More…]
They are the amounts which are paid to expatriate officers of the Public Service of Papua New Guinea at the end of their service there. [More…]
I found, of course, what I ought to have known, that the benefits were tied up in this major Bill affecting the situation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The answer is that the Soviet Ambassador has issued a statement saying that the question of Soviet financial aid to Papua New Guinea was not specifically raised in the talks that he had in Port Moresby. [More…]
According to Press reports, Sir Maori Kiki has stated that he regarded the Ambassador’s remarks at the Press conference about the possibility of some Soviet aid being made available to Papua New Guinea as just an offer and that there were no plans to discuss the matter further. [More…]
Sir Maori is also reported as saying that his talks with the Soviet Ambassador came before and had no relationship to the Australian decision on aid to Papua New Guinea this year. [More…]
The Australian Government would be happy to see more countries grant aid to Papua New Guinea on terms acceptable to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I have often said that myself and have tried to encourage other countries to do just that, to help in contributing to the development of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It is a sorry but hardly surprising state of affairs to find Mr Peacock looking backwards to the bogeys of the cold war rather than looking forward to the realities of the future in the various suggestions that he has made about Russian aid to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The fact is that he still has a colonialist’s view of Papua New Guinea and believes that even when independent it should still remain effectively an appendage of [More…]
Papua New Guinea [More…]
I direct a question to the Minister for Foreign Affairs which refers to the stated intention of the dissident group on Bougainville to declare independence from Papua New Guinea on 1 September. [More…]
-I would invite the honourable senator’s attention to the statement issued by the Prime Minister on 1 1 August 1975 following discussions with the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Michael Somare. [More…]
I will not read the whole of that statement, but the Prime Minister made the following points: It remains Australia’s firm policy that Papua New Guinea come to independence as one country in accordance with the wishes of the overwhelming majority of Papua New Guinea’s elected representatives. [More…]
The Australian Government will give no sympathy, aid or support in any form to any group in Papua New Guinea working to undermine their country’s unity. [More…]
A unilateral declaration of independence, if given effect, would be an illegal act which could not itself alter in terms of the law of Papua New Guinea, the authority of the Government of Papua New Guinea over the whole of the territory of Papua New Guinea, or detract from Australia’s international rights and duties under the trusteeship agreement. [More…]
Any move for Bougainville to become independent before 16 September would require not only the assent of the Government of Papua New Guinea but also that of the Australian Government and the United Nations. [More…]
The Prime Minister had given Mr Somare renewed assurances of Australian support and had every confidence that the move to independence on 16 September of a united Papua New Guinea would proceed smoothly. [More…]
Mr Somare has sent a message to the Secretary-General of the United Nations stating that the Government of Papua New Guinea has no intention of agreeing to the separation of any part of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I noted that there were plans for further discussions between the Papua New Guinea Government and Bougainvillean representatives and I expressed the hope that these might provide opportunity for movement towards an accommodation between the central government and the Bougainvilleans. [More…]
We have no national obligations or interest in getting rein.volved in colonial or post colonial affairs in Portuguese Timor at the very time when Papua New Guinea’s imminent independence is leading to the ending of our colonial role there. [More…]
I refer to clause 16 which expressly applies the Act on an extra-territorial basis so that it operates both within and outside Australia and extends to every external territory other than Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The legislation which I now introduce is historic -for Papua New Guinea, for Australia, and for the European civilisation from which we Australians spring. [More…]
Australia was never truly free until Papua New Guinea became truly free. [More…]
The purpose of this legislation is to enable Papua New Guinea to become independent on 16 September 1975, the date nominated by the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly. [More…]
The legislation includes four Bills which are associated in various ways with Papua New Guinea’s move to independence. [More…]
This Bill gives effect to an announcement the then Minister Assisting the Minister for Foreign Affairs in matters relating to Papua New Guinea made on 1 6 September 1 974 that Australia would hand over to Papua New Guinea the administration of the Pocklington Reef Islands. [More…]
These islands are a small uninhabited group 130 kilometres east of the southeastern tip of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bill provides for the islands to be brought within the territorial scope of Papua New Guinea, so that at independence that country will exercise full sovereignty over the islands. [More…]
The Bill also gives Papua New Guinea authority to enact off-shore legislation in the area around the islands. [More…]
Papua New Guinea already has authority to enact legislation dealing with its off-shore adjacent areas as denned in the Australian Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act, but these adjacent areas do not include Pocklington Reef Islands. [More…]
Clause 4 of the Bill amends the present authorisation and enables Papua New Guinea to enact legislation dealing with off-shore areas other than those to which the Australian Petroleum (Submerged Lands) Act applies. [More…]
It also had responsibility for war graves generally in Australia and in external territories- Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands- and for the Ambon war cemetery in Indonesia. [More…]
I advised him that it was the Government’s desire, because of the legislative timetable, to pass the Papua New Guinea Bill 1975, the Papua New Guinea Independence Bill 1975, the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill 1975, the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill 1975, and the Social Services Bill (No. [More…]
I reiterated to Senator Withers and pointed out to Senator Guilfoyle that it was the Government’s desire to have these 5 Papua New Guinea Bills passed before the Senate rose today. [More…]
The presentation of these Bills to the Senate marks the formal end of Australia’s responsibilities for the Territories of Papua and New Guinea and the commencement of the formal responsibility of the Government of the newly independent country of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I use the word ‘formal’ advisedly because over the past 12 years there has been an emerging responsibility by the local inhabitants of Papua New Guinea for the control of their own affairs. [More…]
I think it is significant that these Bills should be appropriately marked by the recognition which is to be given to those many people who have contributed to the emergence of Papua New Guinea as a nation in circumstances which have not been marked by violent pressures on the part of the newly emerging country or in any way by resistance to the claims of nationhood by the country which had the responsibility in law for its government. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Independence Bill is, of course, the major Bill because it formally constitutes the act by Australia under which we acknowledge we no longer possess sovereignty and it is the measure by which the new nation finds itself on its own with a constitution of its own creation. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Independence Bill is a Bill which marks the end of Australia’s responsibility. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Bill is a Bill which ensures that the uninhabited islands to the east of Papua New Guinea are formally within the sovereignty and control of Papua New Guinea, at least insofar as an Act of the Australian Parliament can make them. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill is a Bill which conveniently transfers to Australia the responsibility which has been existing for the past 2 years and under which Australian citizens in Papua New Guinea have been working within the control and under the direction of the local Government. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill is a Bill which simply transfers Australia’s guarantee for the moneys raised by the earlier Government of Papua New Guinea to the new nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I consider it appropriate to refer to the preamble to the Bill, which is described as a Bill for an Act relating to the attainment of independence by Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I stop there to indicate that part of the eastern half of that island which we know as Papua New Guinea was always part of Australia. [More…]
I think it is consistent with the wishes of both the Territory of Papua New Guinea and the Government of Australia that the action which is being taken by these Bills should be taken. [More…]
One cannot foretell the future of the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A second resolution was passed in 1969 by the House of Assembly which asserted that the time of selfgovernment and independence was for the people of Papua New Guinea to decide. [More…]
I think the third resolution, in 1970, was that questions relating to changes in the Papua New Guinea Act or changes in the constitutional structure of Papua New Guinea were for the members of the House of Assembly to determine. [More…]
I would have thought, in what was generally a completely bipartisan approach by the parties which have alternated in government in Australia towards the question of independence for Papua New Guinea, there was only one area in which there might have been any fluctuation or difference. [More…]
I refer to the events which occurred in 1 970 as to whether or not the target which was being set for the people of Papua New Guinea was the target date which they would have set if they had been left to make a decision without targets being put before them. [More…]
AND WHEREAS by virtue of the Papua New Guinea Act 1971, the Territories governed in the Administrative union became together known as Papua New Guinea: [More…]
He was but one of a host of dedicated young people, some of whom spent short periods, others longer periods, in the Territory of Papua New Guinea doing a job which I hope would be regarded as one which reflected great credit on the governments of Australia. [More…]
There were various seminars and conferences which were arranged in Papua New Guinea in the late 1960s at which the people of Australia, including the present Governor-General, interested themselves intensely in the form which the ultimate independence of Papua New Guinea would take. [More…]
There was a growth and extension of the role of civil authority and the acceptance of law throughout the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I think it ought to be acknowledged that until approximately 4 years ago there were no indigenous lawyers in the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Australian lawyers and Australian judges extended the rule of law throughout parts of Papua New Guinea which in some cases had not seen a white face prior to the early 1 950s. [More…]
These events are part of the process by which the development of Papua New Guinea took place. [More…]
From that stage onwards, both by statute in Australia and by steps which were gradually assumed by the people in Papua New Guinea, government was devolving increasingly upon the local people. [More…]
AND WHEREAS on 9 July 1974 the House of Assembly resolved that Papua New Guinea move to independent nation status: [More…]
AND WHEREAS the General Assembly of the United Nations on 13 December 1974 noted that resolution and resolved that, on the date on which Papua New Guinea became independent, the Trusteeship Agreement would cease to be in force: [More…]
AND WHEREAS on 18 June 1975 the House of Assembly nominated 16 September 1975 as the date on which Papua New Guinea is to become independent: [More…]
AND WHEREAS on 16 September 1975 Papua New Guinea is to become an independent sovereign state by the name of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, having a constitution established, adopted and given to themselves by the people of Papua New Guinea acting through their Constituent Assembly: [More…]
That is the procedure under which Papua New Guinea will acquire its independence. [More…]
But in the course of the discharging of that obligation I think Australia has been well served, as I believe the people of Papua New Guinea have been well served, by the persons who have contributed to the result which is about to emerge on 16 September. [More…]
When one considers the Administrators of Papua New Guinea going back before the present Administrator- Sir Hubert Murray, Sir Donald Cleland, Mr David Hay and Mr Les Johnson- one acknowledges that the persons who assumed that position were persons who gave tremendous dedication to that Territory. [More…]
There was a whole host of dedicated Australians, some of whom I have mentioned, and a whole host of dedicated people in the departments, in particular in the Department of the Interior and the Department of External Territories, who gave an enormous amount of their energy and skills to the emerging of selfgovernment in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Of course, there was a host of Australians, some of whom still remain there today, who played their part in the passing scene of an earlier Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There is no doubt that because of the size of Papua New Guinea and its geographical situation in relation to Australia, it is of great importance to us. [More…]
There is no doubt that the new nation of Papua New Guinea will have great problems. [More…]
I believe that even after 16 September when independence is granted to Papua New Guinea, Australia will still have a part to play- maybe in an advisory role- to assist Papua New Guinea to be able to continue and prosper as a new nation. [More…]
I believe also that Australia has a role to play on the financial side in assisting the new nation of Papua New Guinea to attain its aspirations. [More…]
I believe that anything that we may do in Papua New Guinea will be a very good investment for the future. [More…]
It would be a tragedy if a nation with doubtful intentions towards peaceful coexistence in South-East Asia- I refer particularly to some of the communist regimes to the northwere to make Papua New Guinea financially dependent on it. [More…]
Australia was never truly free until Papua New Guinea became truly free. [More…]
I am one who would hate to see the situation in which Papua New Guinea became financially or otherwise dependent on some other nation that may threaten that particular independence. [More…]
That is why I believe that whatever government is in power in Canberra, it has a responsibility to ensure that the new nation of Papua New Guinea does not become dependent on some other power. [More…]
It is our responsibility, in the main, to ensure that Papua New Guinea is assisted in every possible way. [More…]
Of course, north Queensland, which is the area from which I come, has a particular interest in this regard because parts of the Queensland territory extend within a few hundred yards of the Papua New Guinea mainland. [More…]
This is what he said in relation to the Papua New Guinea Bill 1975: [More…]
The legislation which I now introduce is historic- for Papua New Guinea, for Australia, and for the European civilisation from which we Australians spring. [More…]
Australia was never truly free until Papua New Guinea became truly free. [More…]
In referring to the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill 1975 he said: [More…]
This Bill seeks the approval of Parliament to the continuation of the Australian Government guarantee, provided for in section 75a of the Papua New Guinea Act 1949-1975, in respect of loans raised by the Papua New Guinea Government from Australia and P.N.G. [More…]
I would mention that loans Papua New Guinea has raised from overseas sources are guaranteed until final maturity under separate legislation. [More…]
The guarantees to be continued by this legislation and those provided in respect of overseas borrowings have assisted Papua New Guinea in undertaking its borrowing programs. [More…]
Then in referring to the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill 1975 he said: [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is … to introduce the new staffing aid arrangements which have recently been agreed between the Australian Government and the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
No doubt the Territory will become known after 16 September, which is less than 2 weeks away, as Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One of the main worries with which this country will have to contend is not the communist countries to the north but the tentacles of the financial octopus of Japan and other countries, none of which is associated with communism, which have spread throughout Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 think that would need to be the subject of consultation between the Government of Papua New Guinea and the Government of Australia. [More…]
If there is a change of government in this country in the next 20 years, I hope that the role of friendship will continue to be played insofar as the people of Papua New Guinea are concerned. [More…]
I am very proud to be associated with the passage of these Bills, having been one of those persons who have visited the Territory frequently over a period of 30 years, and who has many good friends not only within the Pangu Party but also in other political organisations in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am absolutely delighted to see that at long last that country is coming to nationhood, but I again emphasise the warning I have given that the people of Papua New Guinea need our friendship and our assistance. [More…]
Regardless of what may be our station in life in Australia, there is a very big responsibility resting upon the people of this nation to ensure that Papua New Guinea goes forward in a spirit of progress and of friendship with this country. [More…]
The people of Papua New Guinea have been subjected to a rip-off by some unscrupulous business firms and by some unscrupulous countries including this country in days gone by, for almost 100 years. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is a grown-up nation. [More…]
If we continue our spirit of friendship and mutual co-operation and assistance, Papua New Guinea will go on to be a very proud country in the almost immediate future. [More…]
A great number of florid speeches have been made about this tremendously important occasion on which the people of Papua New Guinea are to have power transferred to them that will enable them to become independent. [More…]
There has been a forced draught process of trying to bring Papua New Guinea to a state of independence as a result of pressures from the United Nations. [More…]
Under this forced draught system of pressure from the United Nations the people of Papua New Guinea have the best independence that money can buy for them. [More…]
There is very little left in terms of what might be called a social infrastructure in Papua New Guinea as distinct from a material infrastructure in the form of ports, harbours, jetties, bridges and roads. [More…]
I made the forecast that 1974 would be the last year in which Australia could beneficially affect the people of Papua New Guinea and that from 1974 onwards the problem presented by Papua New Guinea to Australia would be of an infinitely greater dimension than the problem it had presented in the past 10 years. [More…]
I make this forecast, regretfully and with no pleasure: In the next 10 years Papua New Guinea will present greater problems to Australia than it has presented under the forced draught system by which we have brought it to independence. [More…]
The basic problem is that Papua New Guinea is not an entity. [More…]
In other words, the new nation of Papua New Guinea which we are ushering into independence in the next fortnight is what I describe as a centrifugal nation. [More…]
The people of Bougainville, for example, are not Papua New Guineans in the sense that we understand the term. [More…]
I do not think that the new nation of Papua New Guinea and its present Ministry realise the seriousness of the situation that is now developing in Bougainville. [More…]
Members of my Party in the other place complained that Australia was behaving in a mean way towards the people of Papua New Guinea by making sure that the amount required under one of these Bills which relates to the golden handshake, as it is sometimes called, to be given to all the people who served that country for a long time honestly, with great courage and under enormous hardship will be part of the aid program. [More…]
One was that the departure of Australians from Papua New Guinea should carry with it the responsibility of the new nation at least to maintain the pensions of the people who had served that country. [More…]
The only other option open- there are many illustrations of this- was for Australia itself to ensure that the expatriates who had worked in Papua New Guinea all their lives, some of them having been third generation people, had their pension rights protected. [More…]
What happened, in essence, was that Australia said that Papua New Guinea otherwise would have to pay so many millions of dollars a year towards the pensions of these expatriates; so Australia would pay the pensions and would carry out this obligation which in ethical, commercial and industrial terms Papua New Guinea should accept. [More…]
So it is of no good the Chief Minister of Papua New Guinea- I assume he will be the Prime Minister on 17 September- complaining that he has been unfairly treated. [More…]
I think the Government has been perfectly correct in making the Ministry of Papua New Guinea realise that it has an obligation to accept some of the responsibilities of independence; that is, they will have to learn to stand on their own feet and not become a mendicant society. [More…]
I refer honourable senators to the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill. [More…]
That Bill relates to the guarantee of loans that have been raised by the future nation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Bill will provide for a statutory guarantee by Australia in respect of repayment, on and after the date on which Papua New Guinea attains independence. [More…]
I wish the people of Papua New Guinea good fortune. [More…]
Senator Greenwood gave me very generous mention in his remarks on the various Bills relating to Papua New Guinea that are before the Senate. [More…]
It is because of my very brief contact with the Territory, a period of some 2 years in the mid-1960s, that I wish to make at least some expression of goodwill to Papua New Guinea as it moves into independence. [More…]
I rise merely because of my previous very close association with the people of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It would be foolish for us today, when considering this rather momentous legislation, to ignore the problems that face the people and Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In the early days of the 1 920s and 1930s they endured great hardship and showed tremendous courage in bringing some semblance of law and order in opening up the Territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
However, there is little we can do now as the responsibility rests with the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One hopes and trusts that self-government and independence in Papua New Guinea will be successful. [More…]
If it is, then to a great measure it will be due to those Australians in all walks of life, in the Public Service and elsewhere who served the Territory of Papua New Guinea and the tremendous work they did there. [More…]
This point is the culmination of many years of effort not only by this Government but also by our predecessors in working steadily and purposefully towards self-government for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Even with all the assistance that has been given and all the goodwill in the world Papua New Guinea must find problems ahead which will be very difficult. [More…]
This is a matter which will remain the responsibility of the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am sure that the Australian Government, no matter of what political colour, will give every assistance in the form of advice to the Government of Papua New Guinea in order to overcome problems of that nature which inevitably will arise. [More…]
Senator Maunsell referred to other countries moving into Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am quite sure that it is the responsibility and the right of the Government of Papua New Guinea to decide what countries will invest there or provide aid programs for it. [More…]
He made it quite clear that Papua New Guinea can count on continuing to receive substantial amounts of aid from Australia over the next 3 years to underpin its new improvement program and to assist Papua New Guinea in the early years after independence. [More…]
On the basis of present indications a united Papua New Guinea can proceed on the assumption that Australia will provide a total of at least $500m for expenditure on economic and social aid in one form or another over the 3-year period commencing 1 974-75. [More…]
1 think it is quite clear that we as a nation are committed to continuing those aid programs to Papua New Guinea which will be essential to the continued economic and social development of the country. [More…]
Of course this matter is the substance of the Papua New Guinea Loans Guarantee Bill. [More…]
It guarantees loans which have been raised either in Papua New Guinea or Australia over the years. [More…]
Both journeys were to have been made on scheduled flights but a more urgent requirement for freight for Papua New Guinea resulted in a changed arrangement to transport the South Australian and Victorian players. [More…]
Can the Minister advise the Senate whether any progress has been made in negotiations with the Papua New Guinea Government over the future of the Torres Strait? [More…]
We remain committed to negotiation with Papua New Guinea on the distribution of resources and the division of jurisdiction in the Torres Strait. [More…]
In so doing, we seek to accommodate the interests of all the parties affected- Papua New Guinea, Queensland, Australia and, of course, the Torres Strait Islanders themselves. [More…]
Now that Papua New Guinea has become independent it will be for Papua New Guinea and Australia to negotiate a treaty embodying the new regime. [More…]
On the Papua New Guinea side, the Prime Minister of that country, in his Press conference of 16 September, expressed his confidence that the Queensland Government and the Federal Government would come to some common agreement with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Australian Government is keen to reach agreement with Papua New Guinea and has every expectation of progress towards the resolution of this issue as soon as the constitutional problems are overcome. [More…]
Can the Minister for Foreign Affairs inform the Senate what effects the Opposition’s action in delaying the passage of the Appropriation Bills will have on Australia’s aid commitment to Papua New Guinea and on Papua New Guinea’s own development program? [More…]
-I do not think that any member of the Opposition, in undertaking to block the Budget, has considered the serious implications of that action on our aid commitments to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Nearly half of Papua New Guinea’s budget comes from Australian aid funds under Appropriation Bill (No. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government is already experiencing a constrained financial situation. [More…]
In the short term the effects of blocking aid to Papua New Guinea will be an inability to pay the salaries of Australian expatriates working in the Papua New Guinea Administration and problems with proceeding with large scale Australian funded projects. [More…]
In the longer term any sustained delay in the provision of aid funds to Papua New Guinea could place its Government in a position of extreme difficulty in its administration. [More…]
Will it be in Papua New Guinea or to the north? [More…]
Apart from Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is Australia’s closest neighbour. [More…]
It attacks a wide variety of fruits and vegetables throughout Asia and eastwards through Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I was fairly fortunate in the postings I had in the Army reserve in that I was able to train and actually carry out some work for the Armed Services in four of the States of Australia and in Papua New Guinea as well. [More…]
The other provisions in the Bill are of a minor nature, mainly concerned with the deletion of provisions covering flights to and from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There will be no reductions in aid to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Minor aspects of the Bill relate to the deletion of provisions in respect to flights to and from Papua New Guinea which are now covered by provisions applicable to other international flights. [More…]
teachers in other schools, such as a number of teachers in Papua New Guinea and preschool teachers from the Australian Capital Territory and the Northern Territory. [More…]
We make a large contribution to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I cannot answer the honourable senator’s question as to whether the Minister of Justice of Papua New Guinea is a permanent member of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General. [More…]
1 ) Did the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea pay an official visit to Australia from 3 to 6 March. [More…]
and (3) The Commonwealth Government invited the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea and Mrs Somare to be its guests and will meet the costs of the visit within Australia. [More…]
Excluding Papua New Guinea, Indonesia is Australia’s closest neighbour. [More…]
Indonesia is now the second largest recipient of Australian aid after Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Did the delegation’s mission include ascertaining from the Australian Government the level of financial and other aid Australia intends providing to Papua New Guinea this year; if so, what information was the delegation given. [More…]
1 ) A World Bank mission visited Papua New Guinea in January and February 1976 to evaluate Papua New Guinea’s economic situation and to assess its creditworthiness for World Bank loans. [More…]
After leaving Papua New Guinea, the leader of the mission, Mr Baldwyn, and Miss Galenson, a World Bank Country Economist, visited Canberra on 16 February. [More…]
Discussions between the visitors and Australian Government officials dealt with Australia’s relations with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr Baldwyn was informed that the Australian Government had still to take decisions on its longterm aid arrangements, but that Papua New Guinea should continue to have the highest priority in our aid program. [More…]
He was also told that in financial year 1975-76 the budget provided for Papua New Guinea to receive $21 lm in aid out of a total allocation of $385m, but that the said figure for financial year 1976-77 had not, at that stage, been decided. [More…]
1 ) Has Dr Coombs met with any representatives of the Torres Strait Islanders in relation to the border dispute between Australia and Papua New Guinea; if so, when and where did the meetings take place, and with whom. [More…]
It is related to reports of a meeting held in Brisbane last week between the Queensland Premier, Mr Bjelke-Petersen, and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr Taureka. [More…]
Can the Minister inform the Senate whether the Australian Government has been officially informed that subsequent to this meeting the Queensland Government announced that it offered a technical aid scheme to Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Finally, has the Australian Government had any indication from the Government of Papua New Guinea whether it shall accept the aid which the Queensland Government offered? [More…]
-Has the Minister representing the Prime Minister seen a report in the Canberra Times to the effect that the Government of Papua New Guinea wishes to extend its border with Queensland 1 10 kilometres south to within 16 kilometres of Cape York? [More…]
I think there is a great possibility of coming to a proper arrangement, but no arrangement with Papua New Guinea will be reached if statements are made which create a situation in which people are not prepared to sit around a table and talk sensibly about this proposition. [More…]
If that is the best sort of information with which he comes into this place his sole object must be to cause mischief between the Australian Government and the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
1 ) Has the Minister seen reports of a meeting in Brisbane last week between the Queensland Premier, Mr BjelkePetersen, and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Dr Taureka [More…]
Has the Australian Government been officially informed that, subsequent to this meeting, the Queensland Government announced that it offered a technical aid scheme to Papua New Guinea; if so, when did the Australian Government receive that advice, and from whom. [More…]
Has the Australian Government had any indication from the Government of Papua New Guinea whether it will accept the aid which the Queensland Government offered. [More…]
The Commonwealth Government has been informed by Queensland Government officials that, contrary to media reports, the question of an offer of aid to Papua New Guinea by Queensland was not discussed with Dr Taureka during his visit to Brisbane. [More…]
As indicated in the reply to point 2 of the question, the Queensland Government did not make any offer of aid to Dr Taureka and the question of acceptance by the Government of Papua New Guinea does not therefore arise. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1 973- 1 97 5 to wind up the Australian Staffing Assistance Group arrangements in Papua New Guinea on 30 June 1976. [More…]
The Australian Staffing Assistance Group was established under the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973 and came into being on 1 December 1973, the date on which responsibility for the Papua New Guinea Public Service was transferred to the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
At that time there were some 4500 overseas officers of the Papua New Guinea Public Service and the Papua New Guinea Police Force who had been appointed as permanent officers or engaged as contract officers by former Ministers for External Territories under the former Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
Under the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973 these officers, together with a small number of temporary employees of the Papua New Guinea Public Service and staff of the Electricity Commission who where contributors to the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Fund, were separated from their respective Papua New Guinea services and became the Australian Staffing Assistance Group, or ASAG, as it has become known. [More…]
The purpose of the Group was to make personnel available to occupy and carry out the duties of established positions in the Papua New Guinea Public Service and other areas of public employment until Papua New Guineans became available to fill these positions, and the services of the ASAG personnel were no longer required. [More…]
The only personnel who have been added to the Australian Staffing Assistance Group since its establishment in 1973 have been those officers of the Australian and State Governments who have been seconded to ASAG for service in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In June last year the former Australian Prime Minister and the then Chief Minister- now Prime Minister- of Papua and New Guinea announced jointly that, following a review of staffing assistance arrangements, it has been agreed between the two Governments that the direct employment by Australia of the 2900 or so personnel who were then in ASAG- many occupying senior and influential positions in the Papua New Guinea Public Service- was not in the immediate or long term interests of either [More…]
In the meantime, new arrangements would be introduced to encourage those personnel in the Group whose services were still required, to transfer to direct contract employment with the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
On Australia’s part, the arrangements took the form of special conditions under which personnel could voluntarily terminate their employment in the Australian Staffing Assistance Group in order to accept contract employment with the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
These conditions were settled after full consultation with the staff association representing ASAG employees, and included leave pay concessions, deferment or preservation of certain existing entitlements, accelerated payment of compensation instalments according to the period of contract service with Papua New Guinea, and certain superannuation and retirement benefits concessions. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973 was amended in September 1975 to facilitate the introduction of these special conditions, the detailed provision of which will be made by regulations under the Act. [More…]
On Papua New Guinea’s part, the new arrangements involved negotiation with the staff association of terms and conditions of contract employment broadly equivalent to those which applied to personnel of the Australian Staffing Assistance Group. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Termination Bill 1976, which is now before the Senate, consists of 34 clauses, most of which are of a machinery or ‘savings’ nature to preserve the residual entitlements of personnel when the Australian Staffing Assistance Group is wound up on 30 June 1 976. [More…]
To this end, the Bill provides that personnel of the Group who have not voluntarily terminated their employment by 30 June 1976, either to accept contract employment with the Papua New Guinea Government or to return to Australia, will have their employment terminated on that date. [More…]
This is resulting in serious liquidity problems for both the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Fund and the Contract Officers’ Benefits Fund. [More…]
The Bill provides for the operation and administration of the Papua New Guinea schemes and two pre-war schemes- the Papua Superannuation Fund account and the New Guinea Superannuation Fund- to become, from 1 July 1976, the responsibility of the Commissioner for Superannuation, a position that will come into being under the Superannuation Act 1976 on that date. [More…]
Regulations are being prepared to enable those contributors to the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Scheme, who so elect, to continue to contribute until the expiration of their first contract with the Papua New Guinea Government or until 30 June 1978, whichever occurs first. [More…]
This, however, is a consequence of the speed with which events have moved in Papua New Guinea’s attainment of independence. [More…]
The Australian Staffing Assistance Group was devised as a mechanism to provide the Papua New Guinea Government with the professional, technical and high level administrative expertise which it needed, particularly in the period between selfgovernment and independence. [More…]
The new arrangements under which personnel of the Australian Staffing Assistance Group are encouraged to transfer to direct contract employment with the Papua New Guinea Government will, however, enable Papua New Guinea to retain most of that expertise. [More…]
The Government has, however, made public statements of its intentions regarding future aid to Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, and of our prospective contributions to a number of international funds. [More…]
The forthcoming negotiations with Papua New Guinea will aim at establishing a permanent and stable arrangement which will be accepted internationally and by all parties concerned. [More…]
The Chief Collector of Taxes for Papua New Guinea: information is exchanged between the Commissioner of Taxation and the Chief Collector on a reciprocal basis in connection with the application of the laws of the two countries. [More…]
Among those present was the Minister of Justice for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
My question is: Is the Minister of Papua New Guinea a permanent member of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General? [More…]
Will the Minister explain to the Senate, in any case, what the Minister of Justice of Papua New Guinea was doing at the meeting of the Standing Committee of Attorneys-General? [More…]
The Minister for Justice of Papua New Guinea attended the meeting of the Standing Committee of AttorneysGeneral on 5 March 1976 pursuant to an invitation extended to him by the Standing Committee and conveyed by mc on its behalf. [More…]
was the Government of Papua New Guinea informed in advance that the survey was to take place. [More…]
The Royal Australian Navy Surveying Ship, HMAS Flinders is currently undertaking a hydrographic survey in Dampier Strait in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Flinders arrived in Papua New Guinea waters from Cairns in late April and returned to Cairns in early July having visited Port Moresby, Rabaul, Kavieng and Lae for fuel and stores during her deployment. [More…]
This survey is a continuation of the hydrographic surveying programme, commenced in the early 1960s, to survey all the poorly charted areas in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Has Ansett Airlines of Australia made application to be allowed to expand to a regional role by offering charter services operating on routes from Australia to New Zealand, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji and Norfolk Island? [More…]
The company has not made application to operate passenger international charter flights from Australia to New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji, nor from Australia to Norfolk Island which is a domestic route. [More…]
Have pension increases been given recently to Papua New Guinea service personnel who receive repatriation pensions as a result of service with the Australian forces? [More…]
There have to be some discussions with the Papua New Guinea Government before the matter is finalised. [More…]
From memory, that was a decision which related in particular to Papua New Guinea, but it still applies to the Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory and, one assumes, the 3 island Territories of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island and Cocos Island. [More…]
I thought that Senator Sir Magnus Cormack illustrated quite well the fact that a precedent has been set with respect to the Arawa plantation in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am pleased to say that of that significant amount of $400m by far the greatest recipient is our close neighbour and friend, Papua New Guinea, which received no less than $228m in overseas aid from the Australian Government in this current financial year. [More…]
He has been recognised overseas, for example, and in Papua New Guinea was the Chancellor - [More…]
I hope, Mr Deputy President, that the people of Papua New Guinea consider it a joke that they should be laughed and sneered at in this way. [More…]
Can the Minister confirm whether 2 French nationals on smuggling charges in Papua New Guinea, where their passports were confiscated, entered Australia via Darwin under what might be deemed a very easy visa system? [More…]
Will the Minister also explain the possible slight to Papua New Guinea in view of the nature of the offences alleged against these white collar crime operators? [More…]
It is understood that these 2 persons surrendered their passports to the Papua New Guinea authorities. [More…]
The Government has not received any information from the Papua New Guinea Government about any possible charges being laid against these 2 persons. [More…]
Extraneous references to the Territory of Papua New Guinea have also been removed from some provisions. [More…]
It is as follows: The Papua New Guinea authorities have not indicated that they regard the incident as a slight. [More…]
Could the Minister inform the Senate whether the Papua New Guinea Government sought a rearrangement of the Australian shareholdings in Air Niugini that would enable the Ansett organisation to increase its shareholding to 25 per cent of the total shareholding, to the exclusion of Trans-Australia Airlines and Qantas Airways Ltd? [More…]
5- Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea- 1 . [More…]
7- Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea- 3. [More…]
1 ) International flights at Brisbane airport are expected to grow somewhat faster than domestic services, with flights to major overseas destinations projected to grow at a little over 5 per cent per annum, and services to Papua New Guinea at around 4 per cent. [More…]
He has also held the position of Chairman of the Melbourne Stock Exchange and Director of the Papua New Guinea Development Bank. [More…]
The Government was fortunate in securing the services of Mr Hay who has a distinguished record as a diplomat and as Administrator of the Territory of Papua New Guinea from 1967 to 1973. [More…]
I believe this is not the total list, but the countries include Peru, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Dubai, Singapore, the Philippines, New Caledonia, Panama, Mozambique, Indonesia, the Khmer Republic, Japan- which I suppose is a country which is generally described in the commercial world as one of the most developed countries- Hong Kong, Malaysia, India and Iran. [More…]
The Government has also demonstrated its concern for Papua New Guinea veterans by providing substantial increases in their pensions as from November. [More…]
These increases have been effected by regulations under the Papua New Guinea (Members of the Forces Benefits) Act. [More…]
In what way does the Transkei differ from Papua New Guinea in relation to Australia? [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of reports that Indonesia has threatened military intervention in Papua New Guinea in order to suppress allegedly communist political movements? [More…]
Is the Minister further aware that the Commander of the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces, Brigadier-General Ted Diro, was informed by Indonesian authorities in Jakarta that they considered both the Bougainville Secessionist Movement and the Papua Independence Movement to be communist influenced? [More…]
Is the Minister prepared, in the light of these developments, to state that Australia will always act to protect the political and territorial integrity of Papua New Guinea from external threats of aggression ? [More…]
We give money to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Millions of dollars are given to the Papua New Guineans. [More…]
The status has been retained for a transitional period of 3 years following independence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
That fact has been highlighted during the controversy of the change of our border with Papua New Guinea in the Torres Strait. [More…]
The Acting Minister for Overseas Trade visited Port Moresby from 6 to 8 November to sign the Papua New Guinea- Australia Trade and Commercial Relations Agreement on behalf of the Government of Australia. [More…]
Sir Maori Kiki signed on behalf of the Government of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Agreement will come into force when notes are exchanged between the Government of Australia and the Government of Papua New Guinea notifying compliance with their respective legal requirements. [More…]
Trade between Papua New Guinea and Australia has always been an important feature of the special relationship which exists between the 2 countries. [More…]
Since 1926 Australia has accorded special duty free entry to Papua New Guinea products. [More…]
In 1950 Australia obtained waivers from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to accord extensive duty free treatment to Papua New Guinea primary and processed primary products. [More…]
At the present time 95 per cent of Australian imports from Papua New Guinea enter free of duty. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is an important market for Australian exports. [More…]
In 1975-76 Australian producers exported approximately $170m worth of goods to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This represented 49 per cent of Papua New Guinea’s total imports. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is Australia’s eleventh largest market for all exports and the third largest market for manufactured goods. [More…]
Until the Agreement just signed comes into force trade relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea will continue to be governed by the Memorandum of Understanding relating to interim trade and commercial arrangements. [More…]
The Memorandum, which was signed in December 1973, was intended to cover trade relations between Australia and Papua New Guinea in the period between self-government and independence. [More…]
Most of the trade between Papua New Guinea and Australia has traditionally been free of duties and other restrictions. [More…]
The Agreement was drawn up on the basis of the following 3 aims: To continue and extend the duty free and concessional conditions of access for Papua New Guinea exports into Australia; to allow the Papua New Guinea Government to develop new industries and to protect them from import competition; and to enable the Papua New Guinea Government to pursue its social and economic objectives through the encouragement of capital inflow consistent with its investment guidelines. [More…]
It was recognised by both countries that Australia, in entering into this Agreement, should retain the right to protect its industries where it is considered that they are threatened with serious injury by imports from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Accordingly the Agreement provides that a free trade area is established consisting of Papua New Guinea and Australia and that subject to certain exceptions specified in the Agreement trade between the member states should be free of duties and other restrictive regulations of commerce. [More…]
He then became Commissioner of Police in the Territory of Papua New Guinea, before that Territory became an independent nation. [More…]
Following his appointment as Commissioner of Police in Papua New Guinea he became Commissioner of Police in Queensland in 1 970. [More…]
This is more so when one considers how Papua New Guinea must view our marshmallow reactions to the Generals. [More…]
Only recently the Indonesians informed General Diro from Papua New Guinea that if Indonesia felt that its socalled national interests were threatened by internal Papua New Guinea politics- there has been some expression of this in the Press- they would then be forced to act. [More…]
In other words, the Indonesians were prepared to intimidate the internal political movement in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Let us remember that these threats are now being made against Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The purpose of this Bill is to amend the Customs Act 1901 to give effect to revised Rules of Origin, made under the Agreement on Trade and Commercial Relations between the Government of Australia and the Government of Papua New Guinea, and to omit the word ‘sativa’ from the definition of ‘Cannabis plant’ in the Act. [More…]
This is the second of the measures required to give effect to the obligations Australia will have under the Agreement on Trade and Commercial Relations with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Agreement requires that the incidence of sales tax on goods produced in Papua New Guinea should be no greater than that on like Australian products. [More…]
The Bill will provide for a corresponding exemption for juice products produced in Papua New Guinea from juices of that country. [More…]
This will also ensure that works of art produced in Papua New Guinea will be exempt as required by the Agreement. [More…]
What are the total increases in aid to developing countries in 1976-77 excluding aid to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I also believe that Ansett should never be allowed to encroach upon Qantas’ traditional markets in Papua New Guinea, New Zealand and Indonesia. [More…]
Second, has the Government drawn up contingency plans to protect the Torres Strait Islanders’ interests in the event of a unilateral declaration of sovereignty and sovereign rights by Papua New Guinea in certain areas of the Torres Strait, as Papua New Guinea has suggested during negotiations it might do? [More…]
With regard to the Customs Amendment Bill, the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs (Senator Durack) has pointed out that this Bill will introduce flexibility in relation to the one-half rule as it operates in the free trade area established by this Government and the Government of Papua New Guinea in the Agreement on Trade and Commercial Relations. [More…]
Since the introduction of the Bill last year, Papua New Guinea has become independent. [More…]
This Bill protects the long service leave rights of persons who were in public employment in Papua New Guinea prior to independence, who worked for the Independent State of Papua New Guinea after independence and who then entered, or in the future enter, Commonwealth employment. [More…]
Clause 3 of the Bill amends Section 47E of the Public Service Act to protect the sick leave rights of persons who were in public employment in Papua New Guinea prior to independence, remain there after independence and then enter Commonwealth employment. [More…]
Mineral exploration expenditure in Papua New Guinea is another subject dealt with by the Bill. [More…]
We have since agreed, as had the previous Government, to a request by Papua New Guinea that the life of the transitional provisions be extended. [More…]
The extension will permit deductions for exploration expenditure incurred up to 30 June 1978 in pursuance of exploration rights held at the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
In May of this year the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence decided to investigate the boundary between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
A sub-committee was appointed to carry out this investigation which to some degree was restricted as the question is already the subject of negotiations between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Since that date this line has commonly been regarded as marking the boundary between Queensland and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The new move gives us no problems, in our view, bilaterally with Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, although we will have to continue to work very closely together. [More…]
Has the Minister ‘s attention been drawn to an article in the Brisbane Telegraph dated 24 November 1976, in which the Queensland Premier is quoted as stating that he was not surprised at allegations being made about Queensland undermining attempts by the Federal Government to negotiate a new sea-bed line between Australia and Papua New Guinea because (a) ‘the allegations emanated from Mr George Mye’, and (b) ‘only 3 weeks ago Mr Mye and 2 associates were taken down to Canberra’. [More…]
In September, a group of Commonwealth officials visited the Torres Strait to listen to Islander views, and to explain the negotiations with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
On 3 November (Hansard, page 2214) Senator Sir Magnus Cormack asked me, as Minister representing the Prime Minister, a question without notice concerning the report of the Auditor-General of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The report of the Auditor-General of Papua New Guinea has been brought to my attention. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is now an independent country and it is not for the Australian Government to take any action on the issues raised by the report other than at the request of the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
However, I have directed that the Australian Development Assistance Agency make it known to the Papua New Guinea Government that scope exists for a training program to meet the needs mentioned by the Auditor-General, if requested. [More…]
With regard to the honourable senator’s suggestion that Australian administrative specialists be sent to assist the Papua New Guinea AuditorGeneral, it continues to be the policy of the Australian Government to make available to Papua New Guinea qualified officers to staff specialist Governmental agencies such as the Auditor-General ‘s office. [More…]
The other area with which the White Paper has failed to deal adequately is the South Pacific, the region in which Australia is strong in natural geographic interests along with New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Fiji. [More…]
However, because of our vast coastline and our commitment to the trade routes traversing the Indian and Pacific Oceans and the sea surrounding Papua New Guinea, it may be necessary eventually to replace that vessel with something of a later style, such as a helicopter carrier. [More…]
The White Paper goes on about the Indonesian archipelago and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
-Precisely; I mean the island of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
If they can claim that former Portuguese East Timor ought to be incorporated into the Republic of Indonesia, why cannot the Indonesians also claim that Papua New Guinea should be incorporated into Indonesia? [More…]
I believe we should have a sufficiently large strike force to be able to come to the assistance of the inhabitants of Papua New Guinea, for example, were they to be attacked. [More…]
We have seen Papua New Guinea come to nationhood without the bloodshed that was promised by some members of the present Government and we have seen it do so with considerable international goodwill. [More…]
I certainly support Senator Wheeldon ‘s remarks when he said that in this White Paper there is no talk about the threats that could arise to Papua New Guinea from Indonesia. [More…]
As the Minister in response favoured regional action and in view of the fact that he has already had a conference on this matter with New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and Indonesia, how much further are we advanced in weeding out those flag tankers which are noted for their high proportion of maritime mishaps? [More…]
Will the Leader of the Government bring to the attention of the Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs the concern being expressed in north Queensland about an increasing number of citizens of Papua New Guinea illegally entering that area and staying on? [More…]
For the information of honourable senators I present the following documents relating to defence arrangements between Australia and Papua New Guinea: [More…]
A joint statement by the Australian Prime Minister and the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea; [More…]
Two separate exchanges of letters between the Australian Minister for Defence and the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence, Foreign Relations and Trade, concerning consultations regarding the use of Australian loan personnel in politically sensitive situations and an arrangement for the supply support of the Papua New Guinea Department of Defence by the Department of Defence, Australia. [More…]
Honourable senators will recall that the Right Honourable the Prime Minister of Australia and the Right Honourable Michael Somare issued a joint statement in Port Moresby on 1 1 February which made mention of defence arrangements formally negotiated and agreed between Sir Maori Kiki and the Minister for Defence of the governments of Papua New Guinea and Australia respectively. [More…]
The agreements then reached fulfil the Government’s intention, as set out in the White Paper on Australian Defence that I presented to the Senate in November last year, to formalise defence arrangements with Papua New Guinea in the near future. [More…]
Honourable senators will note that they closely follow the arrangements in force during the interim period since Papua New Guinea independence, as set out in documents tabled by my predecessor in the previous Government on 9 October 1975. [More…]
They demonstrate, in a practical way, the importance Australia and Papua New Guinea attach to a continuing and close relationship in the defence field. [More…]
The agreement between the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments to sustain their close co-operation in defence matters and the joint affirmation of their intention to consult at the request of either about matters affecting their common security is not the less historic because so readily agreed, nor the less significant- for each and for others- because their friendship is already so firmly and so openly established. [More…]
This Senate may look with pleasure and with no little pride upon the fact that in this new era of Papua New Guinea’s independence and national sovereignty, it has joined with Australia to re-affirm a clear and mutual interest in close co-operation and consultation in defence matters. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government continues to seek by direct negotiation between the 2 countries continuing support and co-operation in defence matters with Australia, not by any formal defence treaty but by mutually acceptable arrangements between the 2 governments and by frequent consultations. [More…]
Honourable senators will note that under the arrangements, Australia will continue to assist in the development of the Papua New Guinea defence force through the defence co-operation program. [More…]
This program, to which the Government has allocated some $12m this financial year, will be planned in close consultation with the Papua New Guinea Government and will be responsive to Papua New Guinea priorities. [More…]
I commend the Australia-Papua New Guinea defence arrangements to the Senate. [More…]
It will certainly not be reassuring to Indonesia’s other neighbours, especially Papua New Guinea and Singapore. [More…]
I note that recently the Government of Papua New Guinea has expressed some interest in a zone of peace in the Pacific Ocean. [More…]
I briefly mention Papua New Guinea which is now a very close neighbour. [More…]
For so long Papua New Guinea was dependent upon Australia and today is an independent nation. [More…]
Since being in Parliament I have spent quite a bit of time visiting Papua New Guinea. [More…]
One hopes that we as a nation will continue to give support to Papua New Guinea because, as an emerging nation, it will have many troubles and traumas. [More…]
I hope that we will continue to give assistance to Papua New Guinea because, as far as I am concerned, such assistance is well worth giving and it will show rewards in times to come when Papua New Guinea will emerge with its potential and with the kinds of people it has, into a good and great little nation. [More…]
Has Australia refused to take any positive stand in the negotiations, thereby incurring the criticism of a number of our neighbouring countries, particularly the Philippines, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea? [More…]
I notice that a number of Pacific countries already are in receipt of loans from the Bank- Tonga, Fiji, Western Samoa, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and the Gilbert Islands, to name merely a few. [More…]
Unfortunately the then shadow Minister informed that person that it was not possible because he was involved with the coming of independence to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Problems on the border between Papua New Guinea and West Irian have been settled in a very cordial way, and Australia has developed a program of long-term military and civil aid in Indonesia. [More…]
This has meant that the greater proportion of our aid, around 85 per cent, has gone directly as bilateral aid mainly to Papua New Guinea, the Association of South East Asian Nations, and the South Pacific countries. [More…]
The pledges to Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the South Pacific announced last year are evidence of our commitment and demonstrate the acceptance of our responsibility to assist developing countries. [More…]
The pledge of at least $930m in untied grant aid over 5 years to Papua New Guinea was welcomed by that country as were our commitments of $86m over 3 years to Indonesia and at least $60m to the island nations of the South Pacific over the same period. [More…]
Over the next 5 years Australia has guaranteed to provide $930m in untied grants to Papua New Guinea, $60m over 3 years to countries of the South Pacific and $86m over 3 years to Indonesia. [More…]
Similar comments have been made by government leaders in Papua New Guinea, the South Pacific and South East Asia. [More…]
I emphasise ‘ untied ‘- grant aid over 5 years to Papua New Guinea was welcomed by that country as were our commitments of $86m over 3 years to Indonesia and at least $60m to the island nations of the South Pacific over the same period. [More…]
Papua New Guinea and other Asian areas and to some of the Pacific countries. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is probably our special care and it is to this country that the great bulk of our overseas aid goes. [More…]
We owe Papua New Guinea a great debt because had it not been for the people of Papua New Guinea in World War II Australian would have been in a state of crisis with a very large part almost certainly under the countrol of invaders. [More…]
But it was the people of Papua New Guinea who stuck to Australia during the troubled years from 7 December 1941 until the termination of hostilities. [More…]
The current Government has given great encouragementwhether it has done this in an overt way does not matter because it has certainly done it- to multinational organisations from Japan or other countries to move into Papua New Guinea wherever possible. [More…]
If an assessment is to be made of what the Government has done or whether this type of administration is appropriate, I point out that the Government has pledged some $930m over a 5-year period to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
That proposal has been held up as an example to other prospective donors by the Papua New Guinea Minister for Finance. [More…]
He commented in an international forum that Australia’s program of development assistance to Papua New Guinea was a model for all other countries to follow. [More…]
We see an increase of $14m in aid to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Other additional provisions include: $2m for payment of termination benefits to former employers of the Australian Staffing Assistance Group in Papua New Guinea and pension payments to former employees of previous administrations in Papua New Guinea; $6.6m for the Australian Broadcasting Commission; $3m for Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation; $5.5m to meet an unforeseen increase in the cost of providing pharmaceutical services to repatriation beneficiaries; $6.9m for maintenance of repatriation patients in non-departmental institutions. [More…]
I should like to deal with subdivision 3 which relates to bilateral aid for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I query it, though, just the same, because in short it amounts to the fact that until June 1976 the Australian Government provided Australians to work in the Papua New Guinea Public Service. [More…]
It was agreed by the Australian and Papua New Guinea Governments last year that that arrangement would cease. [More…]
That is, the officers- and the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
The situation arose where officers working in Papua New Guinea under an Australian Act of Parliament but for the Papua New Guinea Publice Service cut off their employment under the Australian Act and transferred to employment under the Papua New Guinea Act. [More…]
Until June 1976 the Australian Government provided Australians to work in the Papua New Guinea Public Service. [More…]
It was agreed by the Australian and Papua New Guinea governments last year - [More…]
What information has the Government received concerning the intrusion of Indonesian armed forces into Papua New Guinea and the reported death of a Papua New Guinean citizen? [More…]
Does the Minister agree that such disturbances are of vital concern not only to Papua New Guinea but also to Australia? [More…]
Mr Bjelke-Petersen said he was not surprised at allegations being made about Queensland under-mining attempts by the Federal Government to negotiate a new seabed line between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In one part Mr Bjelke-Petersen was reported as also attacking the Papua New Guinea [More…]
This Division is responsible for providing advice on matters relating to external financial and economic matters including developments in the international economy, the international monetary system, movements in exchange rates and Australia’s balance of payments position, exchange rate policy, policy on capital flows to and from Australia and the disposition of Australia’s international reserves; relations with the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and its affiliates and the Asian Development Bank; the economic and development policy aspects of Australia’s membership of various other international organizations including the UN and OECD and economic and commercial relations with other countries; economic policy aspects of overseas aid and development matters; and Treasury interest and responsibilities in regard to Australia’s external territories and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
With reference to the Defence Report 1976 in which it is stated that the ‘main areas’ in which Australian Defence Force elements have been deployed overseas during the year are Malaysia, Singapore and Papua New Guinea (a) what units and numbers were involved in each of these 3 cases and for what period and (b) in which other areas overseas were elements of the Australian Defence Force deployed during 1976. [More…]
-I understand that Papua New Guinea is an independent country and Australians are there at the invitation of that Government. [More…]
I do not think that anybody would assert other than that the Australian forces are in Papua New Guinea at the request and invitation of that independent government. [More…]
IDA has also lent relatively large amounts to Papua New Guinea and that country is expected to receive further credits in future. [More…]
For a Superannuation Bill, 30 minutes was allotted; for an International Labour Organisation Bill, 30 minutes; for a Papua New Guinea Bill and a Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Bill, 30 minutes; for a Wool Industry Bill and for five Wool Tax Bills, 30 minutes; for a Social Services Bill and two related Bills, 15 minutes; for two insurance Bills, one hour; for a Public Service Bill, 30 minutes; for two Bills relating to evidence, 30 minutes. [More…]
I remind the Minister of a question I asked of him on 1 8 August relative to the crash of an Australian Iroquois helicopter in West Irian and his reply in which he promised to have the matter checked, despite the fact that in his answer he spoke of Papua New Guinea rather than West Irian. [More…]
of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Superannuation Regulations made on 30 May 1977 under the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973, I present the report by the Commissioner for Superannuation on the operations of the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Board during the year ended 30 June 1973. [More…]
Is the Minister aware of reports both in Papua New Guinea and Australia claiming that this Australian Army helicopter which crashed in Irian Jaya was shot down by independent forces? [More…]
Is the Papua New Guinea Government or the Indonesian Government informing the Australian Government of what is happening? [More…]
The statement goes on to say that experts will be invited to participate in the task force and that some of those experts will be from Papua New Guinea and from New Zealand. [More…]
In the next breath it is stated that the task force will be given six months to report- six months to report, presumably on the material which it has put before it by all those government departments and the experts from New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There are also grave problems inherent in the reply of Mr G. K. Price, the Acting First Assistant Secretary of the South East Asia and Papua New Guinea Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs to a telegram addressed to the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) on 21 June. [More…]
Will it be in Papua New Guinea? [More…]
The letter is headed: Republic of West Papua New Guinea- Department of Information and Political Affairs’ and is dated 14 September 1977. [More…]
Once again, I thank you on behalf of the Provisional Revolutionary Government of West Papua New Guinea. [More…]
From material which I have been able to read recently, there is no doubt that a great deal of grassroots support exists in Papua New Guinea for their cultural brothers, as they are referred to, across the border in West Irian. [More…]
We know from recent events in Papua New Guinea that Brigadier-General Diro is reported to have been reprimanded by the Papua New Guinea Cabinet for having engaged in talks with West Irianese leaders. [More…]
We have seen also Press reports of the same indignation expressed at a local level by citizens of Papua New Guinea over Indonesian action which has forced refugees across the border into Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As I have said, there is an extreme amount of support in Papua New Guinea for their [More…]
Such support in Papua New Guinea is making it extremely difficult for the government of Mr Somare, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It places him in a terrible situation in that while he is trying to put himself in a standback position with his Indonesian neighbours, the Indonesians are murdering his blood brothers across the border and chasing them into Papua New Guinea thereby causing him embarrassment which makes life for him extremely difficult. [More…]
Is the Papua New Guinea Government or the Indonesian Government informing the Australian Government what is happening. [More…]
West Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
On 22 September the Acting Secretary of Papua New Guinea’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade issued a statement in which he said that the news report concerning the crossing of 1,200 to 1,500 West Irianese into Papua New Guinea during the past few weeks ‘was totally false and misleading’. [More…]
For example, I do not see the Indonesians one day making a statement on an attack by Papua New Guinea on Australia, saying that they will come to our aid. [More…]
It has been a constant critic of Australia’s administration of Papua New Guinea, including the Trustee Council, the No. [More…]
I refer to the visit to this place today of a parliamentary delegation from Papua New Guinea and to Australia’s gift of a national library to Papua New Guinea on its attainment of independence. [More…]
I hope that this matter is receiving attention as this very important resource centre in Port Moresby could strengthen the already important links between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
-At the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence in 1975 the then Australian Government announced that Australia’s independence gift to that country would be a national library building and associated books, files and equipment at a cost of up to $A2m. [More…]
I understand further that the authorities in Papua New Guinea are giving consideration to having an official opening of the library either late in June or early in July of this year. [More…]
I draw the attention of honourable senators to the presence in the gallery of a delegation from the national Parliament of Papua New Guinea, led by Mr Angmai Bilas. [More…]
If Australia does declare a 200-mile exclusive economic zone- we have heard that the Australian Government intends to declare such a zone, although according to the Canberra Times this morning the declaration has just been deferred- what arrangements will be necessary to cover the Torres Strait area where our zones might overlap with the zones of Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Indonesia put up some specious claim that it had inherited the rights from the Dutch to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When a person works in this area, as I have, he meets some remarkable Australians who are known in their own country and who have served in both Papua New Guinea and the Pacific with remarkable distinction and with a very great capacity. [More…]
But our zone of substantial interest and influence is Papua New Guinea, [More…]
Another matter of great importance that is being developed is the interdisciplinary movement that can take place and ought to be encouraged between the University of the South Pacific at Laucala Bay in Fiji, the University of Papua New Guinea, and James Cook University at Townsville in north Queensland. [More…]
I hope that information will increasingly be made available to the University of the South Pacific and indeed to the University of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
When one considers the developments mentioned above and one other factor, because of the Australia-Papua New Guinea- Japan relationship and the Australia-New Zealand-South Pacific relationship, there is a substantial and increasing interest in what is going on in the North Pacific- the Carolines, the Marshalls and the Marianas. [More…]
I expect in time to see much more movement of people from the north down through the north Pacific States, such as North America, through Papua New Guinea into Australia and out to New Zealand and the Pacific. [More…]
As a result of last week’s meeting between the Minister for Foreign Affairs and his Papua New Guinea counterpart, have the two governments been able to resolve the issue of the border between Australia and Papua New Guinea? [More…]
However, I can answer the former pan as follows: The Foreign Minister conferred with Mr Olewale, the Papua New Guinea Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, from 26 to 29 April to resume negotiations on maritime boundaries between the two countries and on other issues relating to the Torres Strait. [More…]
In the forward program onward testing will look at overseas brands of cigarettes and in particular at cigarettes from Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. [More…]
We also suggest that the Federal Government being unable to reach a satisfactory agreement with the Aboriginal people of Australia on the question of land rights and self-management bring indigenous experts from Papua New Guinea or American Indian Community to act as mediator between the Government and Aboriginal people of Australia on the question of land rights compensation and self-management. [More…]
by leave- I present a statement relating to Australia and Papua New Guinea, negotiations on maritime boundaries, and on other matters relating to the Torres Strait. [More…]
I wish to inform honourable members that, in my discussions in Port Moresby last week with the Papua New Guinea Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Olewale, we agreed upon the principal basic elements which are to be included in the treaty to be concluded on maritime boundaries between our two countries and on other matters relating to the Torres Strait. [More…]
Because the Papua New Guinea Parliament is at present in recess, I have agreed with Mr Olewale that we shall each present to our respective parliaments in two weeks ‘ time a fuller outline of the principal basic elements to be included in the treaty. [More…]
Honourable members will know that Australia and Papua New Guinea have been engaged in these negotiations over a period of years, beginning before Papua New Guinea moved to independence in 1975. [More…]
There could be no such lines until Papua New Guinea became independent. [More…]
The Australian and Papua New Guinea governments have approached the negotiations with great care and concern in order to arrive at a solution which is equitable in human terms and lasting and beneficial in its consequences. [More…]
In a statement on 3 1 March 1978 I said that research had shown that the small uninhabited islands of Kawa, Mata Kawa and Kussa, which lie very close to the Papua New Guinea mainland but which have often been shown on maps as part of Queensland, were not among the Torres Strait islands annexed to Queensland in the last century. [More…]
I added that the Australian Government had accordingly informed the Government of Papua New Guinea that, in the eventual treaty, Australia would recognise them as part of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
After the Second World War that Territory was administered in union with the Territory of New Guinea and, as the Third Schedule to the Papua New Guinea Act 1 949, as amended up to the time of Papua New Guinea’s independence, makes clear, islands within the Torres Strait that were not part of the State of Queensland continued to be within the bounds of Papua New Guinea immediately prior to Papua New Guinea’s independence. [More…]
It will be clear from what I have said about the status of the Kawa and Kussa Islands that no question arises about any transfer of Australian territory to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea sovereignty over those islands will be recognised in the treaty. [More…]
There will be a delimitation of the territorial seas between Boigu, Dauan and Saibai and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In my statement to Parliament on 11 May 1978 I informed honourable members that in recent negotiations with the Papua New Guinea Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Mr Ebia Olewale, we agreed upon the principal basic elements which are to be included in the treaty to be concluded on maritime boundaries between our two countries and on other matters relating to Torres Strait. [More…]
In this statement I wish to present to honourable senators an account of the principal basic elements which the Australian and Papua New Guinea Foreign Ministers have agreed will be included in the treaty. [More…]
The Foreign Minister of Papua New Guinea is presenting a similar account to his Parliament. [More…]
Before proceeding to speak about the treaty elements, I wish to recall that Australia and Papua New Guinea have been engaged in these negotiations over a period of years, beginning before Papua New Guinea moved to independence. [More…]
Secondly, the package of elements which is now emerging provides for a fair and equitable division of sea and seabed resources between Papua New Guinea and Australia across the whole area traversed by the proposed lines of delimitation. [More…]
Fourthly, arrangements will be established in the Torres Strait area which are designed to meet fully the particular needs of the people of the area, including the people of the adjacent coastal area of Papua New Guinea, with regard to traditional movements and traditional fishing. [More…]
In the treaty, Australia will recognise Papua New Guinea sovereignty over the islands of Kawa, Mata Kawa and Kussa; Papua New Guinea will recognise Australian sovereignty over all the Australian islands in the Torres Strait shown on map II as lying north of the seabed line. [More…]
As shown on the maps, the territorial seas of the Australian islands north of the seabed line, and of Papua New Guinea in the area between Boigu and Dauan, will be a maximum of three nautical miles, and a territorial sea boundary will be delimited between Boigu, Dauan and Saibai and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The licensing arrangements will have regard to the desirability of promoting economic development and employment opportunities in the Torres Strait area including the adjacent coastal area of Papua New Guinea, and the people of the area will be consulted about these arrangements. [More…]
Subject to the phasing arrangements specified in the paper I have tabled, the sharing of the commercial Protected Zone fisheries will be on the basis that Australia will have an overall share of 25 per cent of the commercial fisheries in waters under Papua New Guinea jurisdiction; Papua New Guinea will have an overall share of 25 per cent of the commercial fisheries in waters under Australian jurisdiction. [More…]
The share in the territorial seas of the Australian uninhabited islands north of the seabed line other than Turnagain, however, will be on a 50/50 basis and Papua New Guinea will have 100 per cent of the commercial barramundi fishery near the Papua New Guinea coast, excluding the territorial seas of Saibai, Dauan and Boigu. [More…]
Third state operators will not normally be licensed to exploit those fisheries unless agreed by Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Outline of principal basic elements agreed upon on S May, 1978 between the Foreign Ministers of Australia and Papua New Guinea to be included in the treaty to be concluded on maritime boundaries between their two countries and on other matters relating to Torres Strait. [More…]
Australia will recognise Papua New Guinea sovereignty over the islands of Kawa, Mata Kawa and Kussa and the smaller islands appurtenant to those islands and over their territorial seas, subject to delimitation as necessary to be specified in the treaty. [More…]
Papua New Guinea will recognise Australian sovereignty over the inhabitated islands of Boigu, Dauan and Saibai and the smaller islands appurtenant to these islands, including Aubusi, Moimi and Kaumag and over the nine Australian uninhabited islands lying north of the seabed delimitation line, that is Turu Cay, Kerr Islet, Deliverance Island, Turnagain Island, Pearce Cay, Black Rocks, Bramble Cay, Anchor Cay and East Cay, and over the three-mile territorial seas or those islands, subject to an agreed description of the delimitation thereof which will appear in the treaty. [More…]
The territorial seas of Australia and Papua New Guinea between Boigu and Papua New Guinea, and between Dauan and Saibai and Papua New Guinea, will be delimited along two agreed lines as broadly indicated on the maps. [More…]
The breadth of the territorial sea of Papua New Guinea along its southern coastline between the meridians 142 03’ 30” East and 142 5 1’ 00” East will bea maximum of three miles and will not extend south of the two territorial sea delimitation lines or the straight line linking them as indicated on the maps. [More…]
The extent of Papua New Guinea territorial sea, which will not in any event extend into the area south of the agreed seabed line, agreed areas of Australian territorial sea to the north of the seabed line, or the agreed area of Australian fisheries jurisdiction north of the seabed line, will depend on the base lines or archipelagic lines adopted by Papua New Guinea in accordance with international law. [More…]
Australia and Papua New Guinea will not in future extend their territorial seas across the seabed delimitation line. [More…]
The treaty will provide for equitable arrangements to be made by Papua New Guinea in respect of the holders of the Australian petroleum permit Q/10P in those parts of the permit area that will fall on the Papua New Guinea side of the seabed delimitation line. [More…]
In the administrative process of issuing licences, the relevant authorities of the two countries will have regard to the desirability of promoting economic development in the Torres Strait area including the adjacent coastal area of Papua New Guinea and employment opportunities for the people of the area. [More…]
Provided these levels remain within the optimum sustainable yield of the fishery concerned, they will not be reduced for five years from the date of entry into force of the treaty but, over the subsequent five years, levels of ‘take’ may be adjusted progressively so that Papua New Guinea will have an overall share of 25 per cent of the ‘take’ of the commercial Protected Zone fisheries in waters under Australian jurisdiction and Australia will have an overall share of 25 per cent of the ‘take’ of the commercial Protected Zone fisheries in waters under Papua New Guinea jurisdiction, subject to the following: [More…]
In the territorial seas of the Australian uninhabited islands north of the seabed line, other than Turnagain, the ‘sharing-of-take’ formula will be 50 per cent Australia/50 per cent Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea will have 100 percent of the take’ in the commercial barramundi fishery near the Papua New Guinea coast: excluding the territorial seas of Saibai, Dauan and Boigu, and this ‘take’ will not be included in calculating the overall percentage share of’ take’in the commercial protected Zone fisheries under the agreed sharing-of-take ‘ formula mentioned above. [More…]
Australia and Papua New Guinea: Negotiations on maritime boundaries and on other matters relating to Torres Strait- Ministerial Statement, 25 May 1978. and move: [More…]
The Opposition welcomes the statement which has just been put down by the Minister for Administrative Services (Senator Withers) on behalf of the Minister for Foreign Affairs (Mr Peacock) and which sets out the details of negotiations of new boundaries between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This will be an extremely difficult concept to translate into action and, unless the whole issue is handled very sensitively- not only at the treaty stage but also on an on-going basis- it could lead to friction between the people of the Torres Strait and ultimately between ourselves and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In substance, the treaty appears to be a very satisfactory one from the Australian point of view and also from the Papua New Guinea point of view. [More…]
In concluding my remarks I indicate that the Opposition generally would be sympathetic to the basic proposal that has been put down in the Parliament and we trust that the Government will exercise every discretion and precaution in the exercise of this treaty for the benefit of not only the Torres Strait Islanders but also for the people of Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
Eighty per cent comes from countries such as Zaire, Zambia, Chile, Peru and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Termination Act 1976-Sub-section23 (1). [More…]
Pursuant to section 21 (2) of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Termination Act 1976 1 present the report on the general administration and operation of the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Scheme and the Contract Officers Retirement Benefits Scheme for the year ended 30 June 1977. [More…]
Pursuant to regulation 8a (2) of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) (Superannuation) Regulations made on 30 May 1977 under the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act 1973 I present the report on the operations of the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Board and the Contract Officers (Papua New Guinea) Retirement Benefits Board for the year ended 30 June 1 974. [More…]
In 1970 a meeting in Canberra by a Select Committee of the Papua New Guinea House of Assembly was reported by the Staff. [More…]
Finally it is proposed by the Bill to give servicemen of Papua New Guinea, and certain civilians accompanying them, limited sales tax concessions for importation of personal effects, furniture, household goods and motor vehicles. [More…]
The concessions, which are a little more liberal than those available to ordinary passengers arriving in Australia, are required in fulfilment of Australia’s obligations under the status of forces agreement between the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Discussions were held in 1977 with both WHO and Papua New Guinea to co-ordinate inter-country malaria control measures. [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs to two statements made by Mr Michael Somare, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The first statement was made in the Papua New Guinea Parliament by Mr Somare on 8 August. [More…]
The second statement was made by Mr Somare the next day, 9 August, also in the Papua New Guinea Parliament. [More…]
In reply to a question from Mr John Noel, who asked whether or not Papua New Guinea should seek to enter into a defence treaty relationship with Australia before it is too late, Mr Somare said that he would rather not have Papua New Guinea enter into a treaty relationship with Australia, given the special understanding between the two nations. [More…]
What would be the present Government’s attitude if the Government of Papua New Guinea approached Australia with the request for a formal defence pact? [More…]
In saying that I would set aside Papua New Guinea which, as a Melanesian nation, has its own special relationship with Australia. [More…]
While Australia has responsibilities towards Papua New Guinea this does not relegate other countries to a secondary position in our considerations. [More…]
The theme is supportive even allowing for our special relationship with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As honourable senators may very well know, for two years it was my privilege to be what was called the Australasian representative on the executive of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association, and within my area were not only the parliaments of the Commonwealth of Australia and New Zealand, but also the parliaments or legislatures of Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, the Gilbert Islands, Tuvalu, Fiji, Niue, Tonga and the Cook Islands. [More…]
Already we have had a visit from the Speaker and the Clerk of the Parliament of Papua New Guinea who spent some time here in this building and in this Parliament. [More…]
There has also been a visit by members of the Public Accounts Committee of the Parliament of Papua New Guinea who have conferred with our own Public Accounts Committee and have taken note of the style, the practice and the procedure of the operations of the Public Accounts Committee in this Parliament. [More…]
In these days, Papua New Guinea, with which we have a special connection and interest, has embraced its own Independence and as a gift for its Independence, the Parliament of New Zealand has given to the Parliament of Papua New Guinea a parliamentary library. [More…]
Australia’s gift to Papua New Guinea for its Independence, as we have, heard in the Senate before, is a national library. [More…]
The National Library of Australia has been very much involved in setting up that library, both in its construction and in its collection and, indeed, in the programs which will provide an information resource centre for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We detected a sensitivity in our relations with Papua New Guinea which might have been regarded by some of the states as being rather predominant. [More…]
Papua New Guinea is one of the largest states. [More…]
There is a sensitivity by the smaller states towards Papua New Guinea. [More…]
They think Papua New Guinea as a major state in the South Pacific might try to dominate. [More…]
We should not indicate that we have a closer relationship with Papua New Guinea despite the historical and other relations which we have. [More…]
-Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of claims made in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea by the Papua New Guinea Deputy Opposition Leader, Sir John Guise, that the Queensland Government is directly involved in the blackbirding of Papua New Guineans for cheap labour, and that ships operated by the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement in the Torres Strait are luring Papua New Guineans on board with promises of wages and conditions which do not materialise? [More…]
Fourthly, the Bill aims to give servicemen from Papua New Guinea limited sales tax concessions for importation of certain personal items. [More…]
Iran, Japan, West Malaysia (slaughter cattle only), Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak. [More…]
The only recent change is by the Republic of Korea which has lifted its total ban on the importation of ruminants, and by Papua New Guinea which lifted its total ban on ruminants. [More…]
Queensland Government: Blackbirding in Papua New Guinea (Question No. [More…]
Government noted the comments by Papua New Guinea ‘s former Governor-General, Sir John Guise, concerning blackbirding’; if so, have any investigations been carried out concerning the allegation that illegal immigrants from Papua New Guinea are entering Australia in search of better pay and conditions. [More…]
The comments of Sir John Guise, made in the Papua New Guinea Parliament on 7 August 1978 in a question to the Papua New Guinea Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the Hon. [More…]
E. Ebia Olewale, and in a statement on 1 5 August 1978, were noted as was the statement in reply made in the Papua New Guinea Parliament by Mr Olewale on 1 5 August 1978. [More…]
I refer the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs to two statements made by Mr Michael Somare, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The first statement was made in the Papua New Guinea Parliament by Mr Somare on 8 August. [More…]
The second statement was made by Mr Somare the next day, 9 August, also in the Papua New Guinea Parliament. [More…]
In reply to a question from Mr John Noel, who asked whether or not Papua New Guinea should seek to enter into a defence treaty relationship with Australia before it is too late, Mr Somare said that he would rather not have Papua New Guinea enter into a treaty relationship with Australia, given the special understanding between the two nations. [More…]
What would be the present Government’s attitude if the Government of Papua New Guinea approached Australia with the request for a formal defence pact? [More…]
The Prime Ministers of Australia and Papua New Guinea made a joint statement on defence in Port Moresby on 1 1 February 1977. [More…]
There has been no request to Australia from the Government of Papua New Guinea for a formal defence pact and it would be inappropriate for me to comment on the hypothetical question concerning this matter which has been put. [More…]
Queensland Government: Blackbirding in Papua New Guinea [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware of claims made in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea by the Papua New Guinea Deputy Opposition Leader, Sir John Guise, that the Queensland Government is directly involved in the blackbirding of Papua New Guineans for cheap labour, and that ships operated by the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islanders Advancement in the Torres Strait are luring Papua New Guineans on board with promises of wages and conditions which do not materialise? [More…]
The comments of Sir John Guise made in the Papua New Guinea Parliament on 7 August 1978 in a question to the Papua New Guinea Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Honourable E. Ebia Olewale, and in a statement on 1 5 August 1978 were noted as was the statement in reply made in the Papua New Guinea Parliament by Mr Olewale on 15 August 1978. [More…]
How many residents of Papua New Guinea engaged by Torres Strait Island trawler and lugger owners have applied for work permits in Australia in the last 12 months? [More…]
Are the Papua New Guinea citizens returned to their homeland at the expiration of that permit? [More…]
I am not aware ofthe number of residents of Papua New Guinea who have been engaged in the activities mentioned by Senator Maunsell but I am aware that Papua New Guinean citizens employed temporarily on a seasonal basis on Australian pearling and other vessels in the Torres Strait have not applied in the past to Australian immigration authorities for permission to engage in such employment. [More…]
From information made available to me by the Minister for Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, I understand that on average the pearling season in the Torres Strait extends over nine months and that at the conclusion of the season it is customary for pearling vessel operators to return those Papua New Guineans employed on their vessels to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The task force formed in the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to inquire into the movement of Papua New Guineans in the Torres Strait area and in mainland Australia has examined the matter of Papua New Guineans employed temporarily on Australian pearling vessels in the Torres Strait, and policy considerations involved in regularising the situation from an immigration point of view are currently under review by that task force. [More…]
In conjunction with this program, the Division of Animal Health has also been co-ordinating the regular bloodsampling in 5 1 cattle herds scattered around Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mauritius, Papua New Guinea, Taiwan, Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak. [More…]
The only recent change is by the Republic of Korea which has lifted its total ban on the importation of ruminants, and by Papua New Guinea which lifted its total ban on ruminants. [More…]
This gives it a link with not only Papua New Guinea and New Zealand but a whole range of Pacific Island states about which from time to time I have spoken in the Senate. [More…]
Mindful of the rightful protest that we made to the French Government over atomic tests in the Pacific, I ask: Are we now making a protest to the United States Government about its proposal to utilise islands to the north of Papua New Guinea to dump atomic waste? [More…]
As the EEC has sold 3,000 tons of sugar to Papua New Guinea, out of an annual market of approximately 20,000 tons formerly supplied from Australia, would the Minister consider advising the Papua New Guinea Government that in view of the high level of Australian financial aid to Papua New Guinea, running at $233. [More…]
He must have smiled, as I did, when another new senator, Senator MacGibbon, questioned the effect of Papua New Guinea’s sugar production on Queensland’s sugar production. [More…]
Senator MacGibbon will now tell us about the fears of Papua New Guinea in relation to its national aspirations. [More…]
I ) Were claims made in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea by the Deputy Opposition Leader (Sir John Guise) that the Queensland Government is directly involved in blackbirding’ Papua New Guineans for cheap labour, and that ships operated by the Queensland Department of Aboriginal and Islander Advancement in the Torres Strait are luring Papua New Guineans on board with promises of wages and conditions which do not materialise. [More…]
1 ) Sir John Guise did make statements concerning Papua New Guineans in the Torres Strait and in Australia, in the course of putting questions to the Papua New Guinea Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Honourable E. Ebia Olewale in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea on 7 August, 1978 and on 15 August, 1978. [More…]
I understand from available information that in his statement of 7 August 1978 Sir John Guise sought, inter alia, an assurance from Mr Olewale that joint action by Papua New Guinea and Australian authorities would be taken to stamp out an activity which, he said, in many cases resembled the evils of ‘blackbirding’. [More…]
I am informed also that in his statement in the Papua New Guinea Parliament on 15 August 1978, Sir John Guise mentioned, inter alia, the term ‘blackbirding’ and said that it was being conducted on pearling luggers owned ‘ by the Queensland Government by the Department of Aboriginal and Island Affairs’. [More…]
Sir John Guise further said on 1 5 August that he would not reveal any information on these matters coming to him, in his capacity as an elected member, from anyone from Australia or Papua New Guinea. [More…]
My question, which is addressed to the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs, relates to the reported arrest, rapid trial and imprisonment of Mr Jacob Prai in Papua New Guinea this morning and, further, the reported request to the Papua New Guinea Government from Indonesia to have Mr Prai extradited to Indonesia. [More…]
What would be the Australian Government’s attitude should Indonesia apply pressure to Papua New Guinea for Mr Prai’s extradition? [More…]
-Taking out the fruity melodrama of the latter part of Senator Primmer ‘s question, the advice I have is that the Australian High Commission in Port Moresby has confirmed that two senior members of the OPM- the Organisasi Papua Merdeka- the Irianese dissident group which is seeking independence for Irian Jaya from Indonesia, were arrested by Papua New Guinea authorities in Vanimo in the region of the Papua New Guinea-Indonesia border on 29 September. [More…]
This is, of course, a matter for the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
Yesterday, in relation to the two members of the Irianese dissident movement imprisoned in Papua New Guinea- Mr Prai and Mr Ondawame- Senator Primmer asked whether, if Mr Prai should apply for political asylum in this country, the Australian Government would give consideration to any application for residence here. [More…]
He also asked what the Australian Government’s attitude would be should Indonesia, in his words, apply pressure to Papua New Guinea for Mr Prai’s extradition, and whether Australia would oppose any such move. [More…]
I note, however, that in a statement on 27 September Mr Somare said that if the two Organisasi Papua Merdeka dissidents decided to seek political asylum in Papua New Guinea after the termination of their gaol sentences the normal legal procedures would be followed. [More…]
The specified categories are children under the age of 1 8 years; crew members; diplomats; persons who arrive in Australia but are deemed under the Migration Act 1958 not to have entered Australia, that is persons who remain at the airport and persons who do not disembark from a ship; persons covered by the Status of Forces Agreements with the United States of America and Papua New Guinea; and persons being deported or extradited from Australia. [More…]
I should like to make it clear that there is no border conflict between Indonesia and Papua New Guinea as stated in the honourable senator’s question. [More…]
I refer to the Australian aid program for the South Pacific region and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
In 1976 this Government announced the present long term commitment of economic and social aid to Papua New Guinea, thereby both raising the level of aid and establishing it on a five-year basis. [More…]
Subject to normal parliamentary procedures of appropriation, Australia guaranteed to provide a minimum of $180m in social and economic aid to Papua New Guinea for each of the five years beginning on 1 July 1976 with annual supplements in the light of circumstances. [More…]
The agreement put to an end the previous arrangements under which Australia had been involved in Papua New Guinea’s budget making. [More…]
This aid relationship reflects Papua New Guinea’s independent status and has provided a firm basis for that country’s long term forward planning. [More…]
The Minister for Foreign Affairs has appointed Sir John Crawford to advise him on means by which the aid arrangements with Papua New Guinea can be developed further. [More…]
As to the South Pacific, during the first year of office of this Government the decision was taken to introduce innovations in the aid program for the South Pacific, other than Papua New Guinea, to meet its particular requirements. [More…]
Perhaps with the Senate’s approval, I could incorporate in Hansard the figures of aid to Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific which are pertinent to the answer. [More…]
In establishing the Agency, the Government will be in a position to learn from the experience gained by the operations of the Papua New Guinea Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank. [More…]
Papua New Guinea figures are included with the figures for Queensland. [More…]
The fact that Papua New Guinea figures are shown as part of the Queensland figures makes the whole philosophy of charging separate premiums for Queensland somewhat suspect. [More…]
There is no question that in the future we will see oil rigs at the top end of the Great Barrier Reef, particularly near Papua New Guinea, even if they are only oil rigs allowed there by the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
I think that Senator Maunsell raised an important point when he indicated that we would have little control over what happens in those areas where our waters join with those of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
It was in these capacities that during the recess I visited Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea on the occasion of the presentation and opening of the new Papua New Guinea National Library. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea National Library was Australia’s independence gift and was officially presented by the Australian Prime Minister, Mr Malcolm Fraser, and opened by the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, Mr Somare. [More…]
The establishment of a national library was approved by the Papua New Guinea Government in January 1975. [More…]
A task force of Australian officials from the National Library and from the Department of Foreign Affairs has been in New Guinea and has been in touch with Papua New Guinea officials, and, in particular, with Sir John Yocklunn, the National Librarian of the Papua New Guinea National Library. [More…]
I would add that it is the Library itself that will be of most value to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The contribution from the Australian people will give the National Library of Australia a continuing connection with Papua New Guinea, a continuing interest in its library services and, indeed, a continuing involvement in all the benefits that a library brings to any community. [More…]
In the early days of the development of the Papua New Guinea Library, Mr Arthur Ellis of the National Library here in Canberra, spent considerable time in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The film collection, which is of considerable value, has some 6,000 titles and will be of the greatest assistance in the development of library services to the community of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The guidelines for this and for other related matters concerning the Library were laid down by the National Librarian of Papua New Guinea, Sir John Yocklunn. [More…]
We are indebted, I think, to the Royal Australian Air Force transport unit for its assistance in the transportation of materials from Australia to Papua New Guinea prior to the opening of its National Library. [More…]
This took its place alongside the local collection of what is called, I believe, Papua New Guineana, which is now housed in a special and carefully preserved area. [More…]
I am indeed very well pleased with it and I am sure it will be a great asset to the community of Papua New Guinea and form a worthy independence gift. [More…]
There is a series of lending services and these lending services extend to all libraries throughout Papua New Guinea- the provincial libraries, the community libraries and indeed to school libraries. [More…]
There was a ceremonial arrival by both the Papua New Guinea Prime Minister and the Australian Prime Minister as well as the contribution made by the Police Band playing the Australian national anthem. [More…]
The National Librarian invited the Papua New Guinea Parliamentary Secretary for Education, Science and Culture, Mr Kore Maor, to speak and he invited Mr Fraser to present the National Library. [More…]
OPENING OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA NATIONAL LIBRARY [More…]
It’s a privilege to be here today to hand over Australia’s independence gift to your nation- the new National Library of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Today’s ceremony is a real and tangible symbol of the special relationship that links Australia with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
As you can see, Mr Prime Minister, inside Australia our esteem for the people of Papua New Guinea transcends any passing political differences we may have amongst ourselves from time to time. [More…]
From its concept to its design and to its construction this Library stands as a fitting monument- and a reminder- of Papua New Guinea’s search and desire for knowledge and education. [More…]
Mr Prime Minister, I am sure that the people of Papua New Guinea will find this National Library an invaluable part of the life of the community. [More…]
Papua New Guinea’s selection of a library for an independence gift was a most significant choice. [More…]
It says something special about the way the people of Papua New Guinea want to live their lives. [More…]
The Library will grow and develop with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Ladies and Gentlemen, I have great pleasure in now officially handing over Australia’s independence gift- the National Library of Papua New Guinea- to stand as a permanent reminder of the deep and enduring fellowship between our two countries. [More…]
The Prime Minister of Australia also indicated that he would arrange for an examination of material at present in Australia which in his words might very properly belong to Papua New Guinea; he would arrange for an examination to take place so that materials with Papua New Guinea significance would be obtained and sent to Papua New Guinea for the purpose of being housed in the National Library. [More…]
One of the interesting events relating to the opening of this National Library was the presentation of a series of bibles in various languages and dialects of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
For many years the Society has had a strong organisation within Papua New Guinea and there has been a close association between the societies in Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
Having some involvement in the organisation myself I inquired whether it would be a very suitable idea for certain translations and certain volumes and copies to be presented on this occasion for permanent housing in the National Library of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I am very glad to say that this has been done and will be a useful ingredient within the total resources of the National Library of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Arrangements are also being made for staff of the Papua New Guinea National Library to come to Canberra and elsewhere in Australia to receive appropriate and adequate training in relation to the new facilities and amenities that are available in the new establishment in Port Moresby. [More…]
The Director-General of the National Library of Australia, Dr Chandler, was in Port Moresby for the opening ceremonies to which I have referred and has stayed on for some days to make ongoing arrangements so that we can have a continuous and continuing relationship at the training and professional level to aid the effectiveness of the National Library within the Papua New Guinea society. [More…]
The opening of the library is, I believe, a significant event in the relationship between Papua New Guinea and Australia. [More…]
Papua New Guinea: Sugar Imports from European Economic Community (Question No. [More…]
1 ) How much white sugar was exported by the European Economic Community to Papua New Guinea during the period 1 October 1977 to 30 September 1978. [More…]
1 ) Statistics for the period requested are not available, However EEC exports of sugar to Papua New Guinea in 977 totalled 2,6 1 9 tonnes and 1 ,500 tonnes were shipped in he first eight months of 1 978. [More…]
Incidental changes, contained in the Schedule to the Bill, are merely those designed to bring the Act up to date in the light of changed circumstances since the original Act was passed, such as the independence of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
South Africa, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Israel. [More…]
From houses which have cost the Commonwealth $74,000 each on Darnley and Murray Islands, to the components of a complete house being simply left on the beach for over three years at Stephen Island and still no work being done on them, to an uncompleted (and totally unnecessary) airstrip terminal on Yorke Island (all, I might add, monitored by the Depanment of Construction), to a sea wall on Saibai Island which has already crumbled within a year of being completed, to a water system on Boigu Island which necessitates each householder having to travel to Papua New Guinea twice a week between August and October to draw drinking water and wash clothing, the performance of the Commonwealth has not been impressive. [More…]
Currently the Corporation is engaged in road construction projects in eight Asian and Pacific countries, namely, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Western Samoa. [More…]
It is important that Australia should continually review the quality as well as the quantity of its aid commitments and it may be necessary to act on the example of Papua New Guinea in encouraging smaller local industries which do not stretch the overall resources of the recipient country. [More…]
I refer to reports in the Australian Press that Jacob Prai and Otto Ondawame two refugees from West Irian who have been imprisoned in Papua New Guinea, may seek politicial asylum in Australia. [More…]
I recall that in answer to a question in the Senate on 27 September I confirmed that the two Organisasi Papua Merdeka dissidents to whom Senator Missen refers- Jacob Prai, the self-styled de facto president of West Papua, and Otto Ondawame his so-called minister for defence- were arrested by the Papua New Guinean authorities on 27 September and were sentenced to two months’ imprisonment as illegal immigrants. [More…]
I understand that the Papua New Guinean Government and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees have been consulting on this question. [More…]
I also noted that on 27 September Mr Somare said that if the two Organisasi Papua Merdeka dissidents decided to seek political asylum in Papua New Guinea after the termination of their gaol sentences, the normal legal procedures would be followed. [More…]
1 ) Which members of the Federal Parliament attended a discussion in the Papua New Guinea- Australia border region during the week ending Saturday 4 November 1978. [More…]
I refer, for instance, to the text of Australia’s Model Bilateral Nuclear Safeguards Agreement, and to the statement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs entitled ‘Australia and Papua New Guinea: Negotiations on Maritime Boundaries and on Other Matters Relating to Torres Strait. [More…]
Australia and Papua New Guinea: Negotiations on Maritime Boundaries and on Other Matters Relating to Torres Strait. [More…]
Pursuant to section 21 of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Termination Act 1976 I present the report on the general administration and operation of the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Scheme and the Contract Officers Retirement Benefits Scheme for the year ended 30 June 1 978. [More…]
What conditions must be fulfilled by residents of Papua New Guinea to enable their entry to Australian islands in the Torres Strait. [More…]
The provisions of the Migration Act 19S8 apply to Papua New Guineans entering Australia as they do to other overseas nationals. [More…]
However over a long period there has been movement of Papua New Guineans and Torres Strait Islanders between some of the islands in the Torres Strait and the adjacent coastal areas of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guineans and Torres Strait Islanders moving in that limited area for such traditional purposes have not always held passports or visas. [More…]
In fact, Australia and the British Isles, Japan, Papua New Guinea, New Zealand, Ireland and possibly Denmark are about the only countries that are in fact free of this disease. [More…]
This has been happening for a long time, even when we were responsible for the postal administration in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I add this: If we do not stand up against aggressors in our own immediate region, if we simply and weakly acquiesce to other acts of Indonesian aggression and acquisition, how stupid we would look, how puerile we would look, in five years, 10 years or 20 years time if Indonesia decided to turn its predatory side to Papua New Guinea and we appealed to the United Nations to assist us in that territory. [More…]
In view of its concern to see that the interests of regional neighbours were not adversely affected by Australia’s joining the IEA, the Government has confirmed that, consistent with its obligations under the Emergency Oil Sharing System, Australia would be able to continue its normal exports of petroleum products to Papua New Guinea, Fiji and other Pacific and Indian Ocean countries and territories in accordance with its historical oil trade patterns. [More…]
Some $226m, rather more than half our aid in that year, went to Papua New Guinea, and the’ Australian Democrats agree that we ought to fulfil absolutely our obligation to assist Papua New Guinea to prosperous nationhood. [More…]
I ask the Government to increase our aid, if only modestly, to the Third World while at the same time maintaining our commitments to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
We need a defence force with capabilities affording the Government of the day the option of giving defence help to regional friends with whom we have common security interests, should they wish this- whether this be the south-west Pacific, Papua New Guinea, or other countries to our immediate north. [More…]
Their use in survey programs in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia has been invaluable. [More…]
The pest is established in South East Asia and Papua New Guinea but has not been detected in any of the Torres Strait islands. [More…]
The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation over recent years has undertaken extensive research into the pest in Papua New Guinea and this research will continue. [More…]
The plan is to trial this technique which has proved successful in North America and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
visits to Papua New Guinea and New Zealand have not been taken into consideration. [More…]
Thirdly, visits to Papua New Guinea and New Zealand have not been taken into consideration. [More…]
A comparison between the three years of the former Government and the first three years of this Government shows the following: The number of Ministers who travelled overseas, excluding Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, between 1973 and 1975 totalled 130 and, between 1976 and 1978, totalled 109. [More…]
The total number of days absent between 1973 and 1975, excluding visits to Papua New Guinea and New Zealand, was 2,109, compared with 1,578 between 1976 and 1978. [More…]
New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Fiji. [More…]
Co-ordination and agreement between Australia and New Zealand and Papua New Guinea is sought prior to a detailed submission to the International Frequency Registration Board, which is an organ of the ITU. [More…]
Wildlife Papua New Guinea (4 eps. [More…]
Wildlife Papua New Guinea ( 1ep)- Norway [More…]
Wildlife Papua New Guinea- France [More…]
Wildlife Papua New Guinea (4 eps. [More…]
The Melbourne Age today reports that the President of the Returned Services League in Papua New Guinea claims that the Australian Government has not paid some 3,000 war service pensions which had been promised at the end of the Second World War. [More…]
The Department of Veterans’ Affairs has refuted the claim, indicating that last year a government team to Papua New Guinea found that only a small number of eligible persons were not receiving pensions. [More…]
But the Minister for Veterans’ Affairs strongly refutes the suggestions by the Returned Services League in Papua New Guinea that the Australian Government was evading its responsibility for providing pensions for Papua New Guinea ex-servicemen who served in Australian forces during the 1939-45 War. [More…]
Statements such as these lead to unreasonable expectations on the part of some residents of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Mr Adermann will say in his statement that the correct position is that the Papua New Guinea veterans who are suffering disabilities as a result of their service with the Australian forces are eligible for pensions in respect of any incapacity arising from those disabilities. [More…]
A special Commonwealth Act has been in existence for many years to provide pensions to eligible Papua New Guineans and this is being administered sympathetically by the Department of Veterans’ Affairs. [More…]
On a number of occasions the Australian Government has sent teams of officers from the Department of Veterans’ Affairs to Papua New Guinea to seek out and advise those eligible for such benefits and to receive claims from them. [More…]
Suggestions have been made that a special grant or pension in addition to disability pensions should be made by the Australian Government to all Papua New Guinea veterans irrespective of their age or financial circumstances. [More…]
One such suggestion was put by the Papua New Guinea Minister for Defence in 1978, the honourable Louis Mona, at a cost of approximately $3m. [More…]
However, the Papua New Guinea Government has decided not to ask Australia to provide funds and has decided that any such special pension or grant would be met from its own funds. [More…]
His Department will be assisting the Papua New Guinea Administration in identifying Papua New Guinea ex-service personnel who may qualify for any special benefits that the Papua New Guinea Government has in mind. [More…]
Papua New Guinea or with the incident involving Mr Peter Coleman. [More…]
1 preface it by referring to the considerable risk to the Australian livestock industry posed by the presence in Papua New Guinea and Irian Jaya of the screw worm fly. [More…]
Because of the possibility of the fly becoming established in Australia, because of the potential threat to the livestock industry and because of the considerable difficulty and expense of eradication, particularly in the sometimes inaccessible parts of northern Australia where the first outbreak is likely to occur, will the Government consider negotiating with the governments of Papua New Guinea and Indonesia with a view to assisting those governments to eradicate the screw worm fly in their countries? [More…]
I am aware of the very significant potential threat that the screw worm fly in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia poses to livestock in Australia. [More…]
Australia welcomes Indonesia’s current efforts to strengthen its relationship with Papua New Guinea. [More…]
People who live in remote parts of Australia, particularly in areas such as in Cape York Peninsula or in the Gulf Country in my State of Queensland, receive their only radio communication from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
No doubt, comment will be made about the additional that Zorn included for protection of the environment, which brings the 4Vi per cent to a higher level; but, compared with the 1 5 per cent royalty that is paid to Indians in the United States and the royalty that is paid by the Bougainville copper mine in Papua New Guinea, it is certainly a pitiful amount. [More…]
At the recent annual meeting of the Council of Social Welfare Ministers of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, the Ministers and I agreed to move towards a common definition of child abuse to enable a national assessment of the serious problem to be made. [More…]
It stretches from the north near the mouth of the Fly River in Papua New Guinea to Lady Elliott Island. [More…]
If I am not supposed to talk about suppressed economic conditions in Vietnam because it happens to be a communist-socialist country and that places it completely out of the realms of consideration, let me talk about Fiji and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is it a fact that the Prime Minister failed to pay the $ 10 departure tax due prior to his leaving for the opening of the Papua New Guinea Parliament several months ago? [More…]
-by leave-When the report of the Joint Committee on Foreign Affairs and Defence on the Torres Strait boundary was presented in December 1976 it was stated that there would be many further developments in the area in the near future, for, at that time, Australia and Papua New Guinea were still continuing their negotiations on the question of a boundary- or border- between the two countries. [More…]
These activities were formalised as a reference: To monitor current developments on the issue of territorial borders between Australia and Papua New Guinea’. [More…]
The treaty will probably not become fully effective until late in 1 979 or 1 980, since ratification cannot take place until legislation has been enacted by Australia, Papua New Guinea and Queensland. [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 cooperation between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Retention of Australian sovereignty over all the islands with the exception of Kawa, Mata Kawa and Kussa- three uninhabited islands lying close to the coast of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Delimitation of the seabed resources between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Two of the Committee’s recommendations are not related specifically to matters covered by the treaty, but to two quite serious problems which are beginning to affect the Torres Strait area and its community, namely, exotic animal and plant diseases and illegal immigration from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The problem of animal and plant diseases passing to Australia through the Torres Strait from Papua New Guinea is at present only potential, but in view of the prevalence of certain very serious animal pests in Papua New Guinea such as the screw worm fly, the Committee recommends that quarantine procedures in the area should be strengthened considerably. [More…]
Illegal immigration from Papua New Guinea to the Torres Strait Islands and eventually to mainland Australia is a well-known practice and one which poses a major risk of disease entering Australia through animals brought into Australian territory by Papua New Guineans. [More…]
Since the Committee heard evidence from the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs on this question last August, the Department has taken measures to identify Papua New Guineans living in Australia. [More…]
As a result, almost 200 returned voluntarily to Papua New Guinea, and five were deported. [More…]
There arc other international exercises with the defence forces of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and others in which the R.A.A.F. [More…]
Exceptions will include goods of New Zealand, Papua New Guinea or developing country origin and goods covered by rates bound under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that Sir John Crawford is currently conducting an investigation into the nature and extent of aid to Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Because of the close ties between the two countries, the importance of this assistance to the Papua New Guinea national Budget and the need to assist in the development of parliamentary democracy, and for strategic reasons, will the Minister assure this House that there will be no reduction in the overall quantum of assistance to Australia’s nearest neighbour? [More…]
I am aware of the investigation in question; I am aware of the very close ties between the two countries, of the importance of the maintenance of Australia’s ties with Papua New Guinea and of significant commitments. [More…]
This contrasts very much with my recent experience in Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Will the expression include persons awarded university post-graduate awards and external students from Papua New Guinea? [More…]
What about external students, particularly students from Papua New Guinea who are enrolled in Queensland universities? [More…]
Of course, this commitment has to be balanced in any political party by a desire for Australia to pull its weight in the development of less developed countries, particularly the South East Asian countries and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is the Minister representing the Minister for Foreign Affairs aware that Sir John Crawford is currently conducting an investigation into the nature and extent of aid to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Because of the close ties between the two countries, the importance of this assistance to the Papua New Guinea national budget and the need to assist in the development of parliamentary democracy, and for strategic purposes, will the Minister assure this House that there will be no reduction in the overall quantum of assistance to Australia’s nearest neighbour? [More…]
In March 1976 as the result of an agreement between the Australian and Papua New Guinea Governments, Australia undertook to provide Papua New Guinea with a minimum annual grant of $A 180m for each of the five years commencing 1 July 1976. [More…]
The agreement also provided for the payment of annual supplements to take some account of inflationary and other factors, while in the longer term lessening Papua New Guinea’s dependence on Australian aid appropriations. [More…]
The purpose of Sir John ‘s current investigation is to advise Australian Ministers on the aid arrangements which might apply between Australia and Papua New Guinea after June 1 98 1 . [More…]
However, the honourable Senator may care to know that it is the stated objective of the Papua New Guinea Government to reduce its dependence on Australian aid in order to achieve its goal of self reliance. [More…]
Except in the case of Papua New Guinea, to which I shall refer separately, the Government has decided that, pending conclusion of delimitation negotiations with these countries, median lines in accord with Australia’s maximum legal entitlement should be used for the interim delimitation of the AFZ in areas between Australia and its neighbours. [More…]
By agreement with Papua New Guinea pending the entry into force of the Torres Strait Treaty, in the area between Australia and Papua New Guinea the Australian fishing zone will extend to the fisheries jurisdiction line described in the Treaty, except in the protected zone where existing areas of jurisdiction south of the line will be maintained. [More…]
Following on Senator Rae’s theme about seeking information, I recall that in the past year, when we had several other oil tanker mishaps, the Minister for Transport, Mr Nixon, indicated to us that we had a sort of loose federation comprising Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia, Australia and New Zealand. [More…]
I was surprised about that because our nearest big spillage, the Oceanic Grandeur spillage, created an oil slick in Cape York which veered towards the territory of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
Is the Government aware that the former Governor-General of Papua New Guinea, Sir John Guise, M.P., has recently spoken out against Indonesia’s expansionist designs towards Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Is the Government aware of reports that the Papua New Guinea Opposition politician, Miss Josephine Abaijah has suggested the integration of Papua New Guinea with a Federation of Greater Indonesia? [More…]
Has the Government any knowledge of the Indonesian plan called ‘Operation Bird of Paradise’ which aims to prepare the ground for the eventual absorption of Papua New Guinea into Indonesia, a plan which sets a timetable for this development from 1979 to 1984? [More…]
Does the Government unequivocally support the absolute integrity and independence of Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Has the Government taken any special steps, either financially or militarily, to provide extra support for the independence of Papua New Guinea, particularly in view of the degree of political instability in Indonesia? [More…]
Those 18 countries are Ghana, Greece, Brazil, Philippines, Bangladesh, Tanzania, Vietnam, Pakistan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Soviet Union, Botswana, Burma, Sweden, Iran, Austria and the United States of America. [More…]
They included Ghana, Greece, Brazil, the Philipines Bangladesh, Tanzania, Vietnam, Pakistan, Jamaica, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Union of Soviet Social Republics, Botswana, Burma, Sweden, Iran, Austria and the United States of America. [More…]
Queensland Premier, in that he did his best to frustrate and to delay its introduction and to incite- although perhaps ‘excite ‘is a more polite word to use- the people in the area to oppose what is a reasonable arrangement between two governments which have been very close; namely, the new Government of Papua New Guinea and the Australian Government. [More…]
They were all difficulties which had to be faced in the relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea. [More…]
I think it is to our credit and to the credit of the Government of Papua New Guinea that, for some considerable time, we have shared an harmonious relationship, unlike many other countries which have been given independence and after a short time that independence has been lost. [More…]
I think it must be a matter of satisfaction to many of us that, in spite of some difficulties which have recently emerged in Papua New Guinea, its Government and people have done particularly well in adjusting to the democratic forms of government which we have assisted them to adopt. [More…]
Unfortunately, the Premier of Queensland did stir in the minds of the Torres Strait Islanders resistance to the just claim of the Papua New Guinea Government to some offshore sovereigntyperhaps that is a word which we can use in this regard; even a republican can get away with using the word from time to time- over the waters. [More…]
The Papua New Guinea Government felt that it should have some claim to the benefits which flow from the waters surrounding the shores of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
This treaty establishes a zone which enables the Torres Strait island people to maintain their own independence and at the same time not be isolated from the peoples of Papua New Guinea with whom they have a very close relationship. [More…]
I am trying to say that the report seems to have arrived at the only solution for the area- recognition of the rights of Papua New Guinea and the protection of the peoples and the environment. [More…]
At present they have their own radio communication, and they have access to communication from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There has also been a trend for Papua New Guineans to come into the Torres Strait, and some of them have been exploited, not only by white interests but also by black interests. [More…]
Some leaders of the islanders have exploited their own people and the people from Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Papua New Guineans have been using the islands as a bridge to Australia, and there has been increased activity by the Department of Immigration and Ethnic Affairs to prevent that. [More…]
Whilst I believe that in some way we must maintain immigration control in the area, nevertheless we ought not to be so stupid as to try to stop every little gap and loophole to prevent a Papua New Guinean coming into the Torres Strait Islands, staying there with friends for six months, taking a new name and becoming a relative of a Torres Strait islander. [More…]
There are many people from Papua New Guinea who have come into Australia over the last half century and are recognised here as Torres Strait islanders. [More…]
Government sponsored overseas students who have come here since World War II have been incorporated into a great number of programs, including the Colombo Plan, the Australia Papua New Guinea Education and Training Scheme, the Australian International Awards Scheme, the Special Commonwealth African Assistance Plan, the Commonwealth Co-operation in Education Scheme, the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan, the South Pacific Aid Program and the Australian-Asian Universities Co-operation Scheme. [More…]
Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance) Act, Section 54- Decisions of the Commissioner for Superannuation. [More…]
This country has a commitment to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
There are other international exercises with the defence forces of the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Malaysia and others in which the RAAF B707s could be used for personnel movement. [More…]
I would like to know whether a conference has been held with the Papua New Guinea Government and mining interests about the recruitment of expatriate workers. [More…]
I am interested to know whether the Department of Foreign Affairs is engaged in negotiations with private employers and the Papua New Guinea Government. [More…]
I say briefly that we have set a minimum target of $84m over the next three years for our aid to the South Pacific islands as a group, not including Papua New Guinea, and the New Hebrides can expect to continue being a beneficiary under this program. [More…]
However, we would expect the British and French governments, as the administrating authorities and, in the future, as the former metropolitan powers, to meet the major aid requirements of the New Hebrides, just as we have provided the major aid needs of Papua New Guinea since its independence. [More…]
Pursuant to sub-regulation 8a (2) of the Papua New Guinea (Staffing Assistance Superannuation) Regulations I present the report by the Commissioner for Superannuation on the operations of the Papua New Guinea Superannuation Board and the Contract Officers (Papua New Guinea) Retirement Benefits Board 1976. [More…]
1 ) Is the Government aware that the former GovernorGeneral of Papua New Guinea, Sir John Guise, Member of Parliament, has recently spoken out against Indonesia’s expansionist designs ‘ towards Papua New Guinea? [More…]
Has a member of the Papua New Guinea Opposition, Miss Josephine Abaijah, suggested the integration of Papua New Guinea with the Federation of Greater Indonesia? [More…]
Has the Government any knowledge of an Indonesian plan called Operation Bird of Paradise, which aims to prepare the grounds for the eventual absorption of Papua New Guinea into Indonesia and sets a timetable for this development from 1979 to 1984? [More…]
Has the Government taken any special steps, financially or militarily, to provide extra support for the independence of Papua New Guinea, particularly in view of the degree of political instability in Indonesia? [More…]
My information is that in a statement in Papua New Guinea National Parliament, Miss Abaijah mentioned the possibility of ‘Federation with a Greater Indonesia’ as one of three alternatives for Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Government is aware of press reports of an alleged Indonesian plan for the destabilisation of Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The long-term defence relationship between Australia and Papua New Guinea was formalised in a Joint Statement issued by both Prime Ministers on 1 1 February 1977. [More…]
Under this Australia provides defence assistance on an on-going basis to Papua New Guinea. [More…]
The Minister for Defence visited Papua New Guinea from 7- 1 0 August this year at the invitation of his counterpart, Mr Duwabane. [More…]
Papua New Guinea and expressing the Minister’s satisfaction with the content and direction of the defence cooperation program. [More…]
Can he inform the Parliament whether the Commonwealth committee inquiring into localisation and the retention of permanent overseas officers has reached any decision to date in relation to the Public Service of Papua New Guinea? [More…]
If a decision has not been reached, when is it likely to be reached and when will the public in Australia and Papua New Guinea be advised of the findings? [More…]
Has his attention been drawn to a reported decision of the Papua New Guinea Government to postpone a scheduled 1976 election for one year, which in effect would postpone Independence Day? [More…]
Has the Papua New Guinea Government the power to change unilaterally the year of an election or would this require amending legislation by an Australian Act of Parliament? [More…]
I read a report in one of yesterday’s newspapers, I think it was, purporting to say what Senator O ‘Byrne has suggested; that is, that Mr Somare, the Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea, had made such a statement. [More…]